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To: Ben Mugged
"If you believe these farmers and miners are trading missiles and WMDs with terrorists for profit..."

As a general rule, Syrians simply extract a fee for *whatever* passes through their lands. They are more like a toll booth than a trader.

39 posted on 07/18/2006 3:32:29 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

The mafia does the same thing in America. Does that make them harmless traders?


41 posted on 07/18/2006 3:36:20 PM PDT by Ben Mugged
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