“sales trip”
We’ve been all over China, South America, Russia and Eastern Europe pushing our wood products.
Actually our new business (wine imports from So. America) is really doing great). In this economy, people are not building new homes nor buying kitchen cabinets. But, they are still drinking. Sad, but true.
If I can handle those places, (and we’ve had some scares in each one of those) I can deal with the MidEast. (extreme sarcasm.....we’re not about to sell wood to make bombs!)
Did I ever tell you about the Burqa(sp) clad women I saw in South America?
No you didn't, but I'd wager it'd be interesting to hear.
1999 article - very interesting: Islam under wraps
Listed here:Muslim organizations in Latin America
Hezbollah builds a Western base
An investigation by Telemundo and NBC News has uncovered details of an extensive smuggling network run by Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim group founded in Lebanon in 1982 that the United States has labeled an international terrorist organization. The operation funnels large sums of money to militia leaders in the Middle East and finances training camps, propaganda operations and bomb attacks in South America, according to U.S. and South American officials.
U.S. officials fear that poorly patrolled borders and rampant corruption in the Tri-border region could make it easy for Hezbollah terrorists to infiltrate the southern U.S. border. From the largely lawless region, it is easy for potential terrorists, without detection, to book passage to the United States through Brazil and then Mexico simply by posing as tourists.