Well Lox.....I think you have hit the nail on the head as far as the the paramilitary leaders wanting and having the control of the drugs.....even though they will as you say, hand out their own punishments to others making profit not going to them! As for 'same sources' for the drugs it is very likely as the leaders of these organisations who do nothing to get their own hands dirty.....just sending out young men to do the dirty work for them. These same men are also involved in 'protection rackets' extorting money from shops, which incidentally I read about in a report in a Belfast paper where paramilitaries from both sides of the divide were asking for exactly the same amount of money from one shopkeeper on the same day!!!! Collusion or what?? Also as you say, religious enmity is blamed by the various communities but wrongly so, as realistically there's a lot of money to be made from the 'troubles' leading to the continued suffering of the innocent. All credit to you Lox....you're on the ball!!!