What to do with unemployed paramilitaries? Part II

Jim Cusack reports that former (and who knows, maybe present?) members of various paramilitary organizations are heavily involved in smuggling drugs and tobacco in both the Republic and Northern Ireland. Many of these characters are "on the run" and spend most of their time on the Costa del Sol in Spain (not a bad place to be on the lam). Here's the kicker: Cusack contends that the smuggling networks include not only RIRA and INLA operators and their "ordinary" criminal colleagues, but also their bitter enemies in the UDA.

Cusack also notes that all of the players try to avoid violence, which would certainly attract the attention of the Spanish authorities, and perhaps ruin a profitable enterprise.

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