The investigation into Council of Europe allegations that the Albanian KLA extracted and traded human organs began amid hopes for justice to be served, but many Serbs are doubtful. The EU Task Force — led by US prosecutor Clint Williamson — launched its investigation last week into allegations made by CoE rapporteur Dick Marty’s report … BALKANS: ORGAN TRAFFICKING INVESTIGATION BEGINS AMID MIXED EXPECTATIONS

All courtesy of Monty, including the following codicil to the website linked above The instructive case of the MV Blida The case of the recently released MV Blida has caused a fair bit of fallout among pirates, and according to our publisher Robert Young Pelton, it once again shows the business model of the pirates … WEEKLY PIRACY REPORT

ECDDA Report published later this week. UK still biggest cocaine user, but levels not increasing. May need reading in association with the criticisms for the Statistics Agency of recent imaginative presentation of figures by the Home Office!

Very high rate of drug siezures in City of London….

That’s handy. Here is the criticism of the presentation of the statistics, by the Chair of the UK Statistics Authority Lies, damn lies and statistics, eh??

Oops…your blogger had the figure all along and knew that seizures were 5% down year on year….but he hadnt opened the email Mea Culpa maxima!

Take away the “violent profit”, even if that means legalising…and think about the environmental impact of your drug consumption.

Reactions in Germany to the discovery of the “slow-motion” terrorist group

Article includes summary of activities of far-right German terrorist group

I suppose the major question is “why havent they done it before”?