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khyber
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 Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject: RCMP commissioner says organized crime and terrorists workin |
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/08052006/2/national-rcmp-commissioner-says-organized-crime-terrorists-working-closely.html i'm sorry here but I think this may be a bit of a stretch.
This seems like a kind of scare tactic really. I mean, do you REALLY think that H.A. are gonna be sendin money over to al-sadr?
some odd things in the article
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That includes hashish baggies being peddled on street corners, cocaine trafficking, prostitution, pick-pocketing, knock-off designer items and credit card fraud.
Zaccardelli wasn't quite that specific during his appearance before a Senate committee Monday. But he said the evidence is clear, and continually mounting.
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hm...then I have to wonder why you're saying that.
Also have to wonder what you mean by evidence?
ALSO have to wonder what you mean by "organized crime"? Which groups? And which groups are sending what money to where?
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"Hashish from the Middle East, heroin from. . .Afghanistan and Pakistan, cocaine, it all at some point goes through the hands of terrorists on its way down to the street. All of it," Thompson said.
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wow...That's amazing! The homegrown that my buddy grew in his basement; my stolen license plate from 1999....it TOTALLY makes sense now!
And just when you thought your world was gonna collapse!!!
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An RCMP spokesman sought to clarify Zaccardelli's remarks late Monday.
Sgt. Paul Marsh said the commissioner meant to say that terrorists use organized crime "methods" to raise money.
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igotthisguitar
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 7:01 am Post subject: |
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Anyone figure out what the difference is between injuring & wounding? Puzzling.
From the article:
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| The bombers who blew up Madrid's rail system in 2004, injuring 192 people and wounded 2,050, financed their operation by selling hashish. |
In browsing the article i couldn't help but wonder how much profit ORGANIZED CRIME / "TERRORISTS" etc.
would manage to generate from HASH sales if it weren't "ill-LEGAL"?
Criminals indeed ... |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 7:30 am Post subject: |
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I suspect the link between organized crime and terrorism is something along the lines of "some of the guys who donated money to terrorist groups were involved in selling hashish and running massage parlors".
Using the same logic, you could probably prove a link between falaffel shops and terrorism.
Yeah, this seems like an attempt by the RCMP to stigmatize small-time law-breakers as being complicit in international terrorism. The American drug czar tried a similar tactic a few years back, and even some right-wing pundits were saying how ridiculous it was. |
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canuckistan
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 7:42 am Post subject: |
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| It's known M.E. terrorists have been running drugs to finance ops in Afghanistan--heroin to Europe is a biggie. That NA organized crime groups would end up involved somewhere down the supply chain is no surprise. But of course it's not an explicit agreement-- there are probably so many middlemen in between from so many different countries, any key initial participants are well-obscured from each other. |
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On the other hand
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| Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 7:47 am Post subject: |
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| It's known M.E. terrorists have been running drugs to finance ops in Afghanistan--heroin to Europe is a biggie. |
Yeah, but didn't the heroin trade in Afghanistan made a comeback AFTER the supposedly pro-terrorist Taliban was turfed from power by the Americans? You could probably point to just as many pro-western, anti-terrorist groups who are mixed up in organized crime in one way or another. |
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igotthisguitar
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| Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, but didn't the heroin trade in Afghanistan made a comeback AFTER the supposedly pro-terrorist Taliban was turfed from power by the Americans? You could probably point to just as many pro-western, anti-terrorist groups who are mixed up in organized crime in one way or another. |
Yep, probably.
PLENTIFUL POPPY: Increasingly, Afghanistan is called a 'narco-state.'
AHMAD MASOOD/REUTERS
Inside the Afghan drug trade
In a northern province, four law-enforcement officials describe life built around trafficking.
By Scott Baldauf | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN � The Afghan police chief doesn't realize his voice is being taped. So pardon him if he brags about his life as a drug trafficker.
In a friendly conversation recorded in his home last summer, he tells of his quarrels with another drug-dealing police commander in the country's northern Takhar Province; about driving through a rival's police checkpoint with 500 kilos of heroin in his car; and his adventures in rescuing three heroin-smuggling friends from the clutches of Tajik policemen. It's just another part of the job, he says.
In the Monitor
Friday, 06/23/06
"If my adventure were filmed, it would be a very exciting movie," chuckles the commander, referred to hereafter as "Ahmed Noor." On the tape, he laughs.
"The UN should give me an award."
But on one point the former mujahideen commander is certain: "Even if all the world were to come to Afghanistan, they will not be able to stop smuggling."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0613/p01s04-wosc.html |
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