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DHL management under attack!
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October 27, 2008
Drugs Theory In DHL Deaths
By Jon Boone, Afghanistan Correspondent
Investigators examining the mysterious killing of two foreign DHL executives by one of their own guards in Kabul on Saturday are considering a possible link to heroin smugglers.
Jason Bresler, the South African country director of DHL, and his UK deputy David Giles, were killed after their car arrived outside the their office in central Kabul.
Security officials say it is possible that the killings were linked to traffickers angry at Mr Bresler's efforts to prevent DHL being used as a conduit for a portion of Afghanistan's heroin output.
Mr Bresler had personally overseen the disposal of nearly three kilograms of heroin that had been sewn into a quilt and put in parcel.
He had also ordered a new set of sniffer dogs be sent to Afghanistan after the previous pack had failed to detect drugs concealed in parcels.
In another attempt to evade DHL's security procedures, traffickers had concealed heroin inside cricket pads that they hoped to ship out of the country.
Afghanistan's narco-traffickers are part of a $3bn (EUR2.4bn, £1.8bn) a year business and are some of the most dangerous people in the country.
DHL said in a statement it was fully co-operating with authorities and that in order not to hinder the investigation no further information could yet be released.
The interior ministry confirmed that one of the guards employed by Saladin, a local security company, had shot the men before shooting himself, with "one bullet under his chin", according to the ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary. "No one knows if this person was recruited [to carry out the killing] or there was infiltration of the enemy," Mr Bashary said.
The interior ministry said the guard responsible for the deaths had been recruited only a month previously.
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Worldguy

This is relevant to "airline pilot central" how? Does not seem very aviation related.

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Well...I thought DHL was a Cargo company and this cargo company just had two of its executives murdered in Afghanistan when they were finding drugs being smuggled out of the country on its aircraft?

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AirTrucker

Cargo is cargo...Sometimes I talk about my expedite company (trucks)...it works allot with air cargo companies and is effected by changes with in the air cargo branch of the freight industry. Back to the subject I do see it as an interesting issue that DHL would have two executives killed over drugs, must be easy to ship it out of Afghanistan. I don’t think security would be to tight there but depending on the country its being shipped to then security might be an issue.