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2008-07-28 India-Pakistan

'Timber mafia' funding militancy in FATA: minister

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Posted by Fred 2008-07-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 You know, if insurgencies in the frontier agencies and parts of the Philippines (I seem to remember Richard Fernandez going on about Marco-era Communists living off of timber poaching) are financing with pirated lumber, then doesn't that some of the air out of the narco-guerilla "we've gotta legalize the drug trade" panic?

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-07-28 11:15|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-07-28 11:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Financing terrorism with timber has another downside. Lumber ships have large open cargo holds that can easily conceal missiles, too. Read it in a Clive Cussler novel so it must be true;)

Posted by Danielle 2008-07-28 11:53|| 2008-07-28 11:53|| Front Page Top

#3 Send the Sierra Club over there to put them in their place.

Posted by Jirt Prince of the Lichtensteiners4128 2008-07-28 11:54|| 2008-07-28 11:54|| Front Page Top

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