Article: CRACKDOWN INDICATES THE SCOPE OF COLOMBIAN DRUG TRAFFICKERS.(MAIN)

Byline: DOUGLAS FARAH Washington Post

CALI, Colombia An intelligence officer paused from directing his troops during a raid in one of this city's most luxurious neighborhoods, where suspected cocaine traffickers live, and pointed to clusters of high-rent apartment complexes that dot the hillsides.

``That building belongs to the drug traffickers, and that one and that one,'' he said, picking out just about every block. ``Most of the apartments are empty, waiting to be used once or twice when the bosses are on the run. Finding one of them is like finding a needle in a haystack.''

For the first time since a group of obscure, middle-class ...

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