1.   Judges are bribed or threatened into making Decisions favorable to drug traffickers.

2.   In the week before polling day Kaunda released a report complied five years earlier on drug traffickers in which leading figures in the MMD were implicated.

3.   As a result, they can be legally imported, then resold on the sly to drug traffickers for huge profits.

4.   According to two officials, the testing, supervised by the Justice Department, focused in part on whether senior investigators had passed information to drug traffickers.

5.   Both groups earn millions of dollars annually by taxing and providing protection to drug traffickers.

6.   Colombia is grappling with increasingly violent rebels who have formed alliances to drug traffickers across the country, especially in the south.

7.   Government authorities are blaming everyone from peasant farmers to drug traffickers to careless cigarette-pitching motorists for contributing to the fires.

8.   He says he does not produce heroin himself but only taxes drug traffickers who cross through his area of control.

9.   Last year, a man under arrest and accused of being a drug dealer publicly accused Montesinos of having accepted bribes from drug traffickers.

10.   Last year, as justice officials uncovered more evidence tying Samper and other prominent politicians to drug traffickers, Colombia entered its worst period of political instability in decades.