Posted on 06/15/2004 10:56:35 PM PDT by cyborg
A small handful of diamonds is worth a suitcase full of cash, is easier to smuggle, and cannot be traced in the same way as traditional money.
For these reasons, according to a new book by American author Doug Farah, senior named al-Qaeda operatives bought millions of dollars worth of Sierra Leonean diamonds after they had been smuggled into neighbouring Liberia
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
The plot thickens!
The verification systems in place for these type of things were all installed by easily bribed, extremely corrupt international bureaucrats.
Just because there's some diktat from the Secretary General of the UN does not mean that the particular issue in question has been resolved.
"Oil for fraud" anyone?
I never believed that either, but oh well. That Iman ad campaign in London looked pretty good!
However, you have to realize one thing.
She has consorted with LEZZ-BI-AHHNS!
Then again, she did marry David Bowie.
What exactly does that make her anyway?
They've reproduced themselves... and awwwww the little girl is so cute! Bowie is strange and unusual.
David Bowie is definitely odd enough to call for two descriptors.
I would like to add a third.
Bizzare!
Either produce the pictures or stop teasing. Some of us have no clue who you're talking about, and I thought Bowie was gay.
I think the word is bi-sexual.
That's just another way of saying that he's a gay dude who doesn't want to be known as "gay."
Record sales and all.
Thank you for satisfying my curiosity.
I guess this will be news because it's linked to Al Queda but it's not as if diamond smuggling and the like is new.
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