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Article: Major drugs bust by HMS Iron Duke.
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- July 2, 2008
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M2 PRESSWIRE-2 July 2008-UK Government: Major drugs bust by HMS Iron Duke(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Cocaine with a minimum street value of GBP40 million has been seized by a Royal Navy warship in the North Atlantic in a major drug bust operation.
In a joint operation with the US Coast Guard on Saturday (28 June), the frigate HMS Iron Duke intercepted an ocean-going speedboat at 1712 BST (1212 local) some hundreds of miles north-east of Barbados in a location which suggested the boat had been en route to Europe or West Africa. The Serious Organised Crime Agency, in association with the British-led Maritime Analysis and ...