MONROVIA, Oct. 12 -- For four months, Liberians have treated this year's two great cocaine seizures as one story. The airport bust came first, the record haul followed six weeks later, and officials spoke of a single network that had burrowed into the state for more than six years.

By Rodney D. Sieh

Investigators now say that picture is wrong.

"We haven't identified yet any connection between 19M and 317M," investigators told FrontPageAfrica this week. "Leroy Harris doesn't have connections to [the] 317M [case]."

If that holds, Liberia is not fighting one cartel. It is fighting two, with different suppliers, different routes, different customers and different methods. It also helps explain one of the stranger features of the State's c...