MONROVIA, Oct. 2 -- For many Liberian and Sierra Leonean families, the SN Brussels flight is more than a ticket. Brussels Airlines, still called "SN" by most travelers here after the carrier it succeeded in 2007, is the plane that brings a mother home for Christmas, carries a student to a European campus and returns a trader with goods for a Waterside shop.

By Rodney D. Sieh, rodney.sieh@frontpageafricaonline.com

It is also, investigators in Monrovia and Brussels now say, a route drug networks have tried to exploit.

Caught at the carousel

On July 31, Belgian customs officers were checking passengers off a Brussels Airlines flight from Freetown when they stopped a 22-year-old woman from Anderlecht, according to the Halle-Vilvoorde pros...