FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   September 19, 2002  DEA Public Affairs: 202-307-797

Attorney General John Ashcroft today joined DEA Administrator Asa Hutchinson to unveil an unprecedented takedown of Internet-based drug-trafficking operations. Operation Webslinger, a multi-jurisdictional investigation, targeted the illegal internet trafficking of "date rape" drugs such as GHB and its derivatives, GBL and 1,4 Butanediol (1,4 BD).

The Drug Enforcement Administration, together with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, U.S. Customs Service, Internal Revenue Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the Ontario Police Department, announced the arrest of 115 individuals in 84 cities across the United States and Canada. 

This article is a textbook example of the chemical-warfare aspect of illegal drugs, Notice the meeting place and forged documents also the drug is power, the kind that would dissolve in drinks so victims would be unaware, it reeks of conspiracy which is a crisis today.”