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2003-12-29 Terror Networks

al-Qaeda using drug cash to buy radioactive material

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Posted by Dan Darling 2003-12-29 2:53:38 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Opportunity to develop some plant virus that kills opium poppies here surely?

Posted by Tony (UK) 2003-12-29 4:09:57 AM|| 2003-12-29 4:09:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I think it's time to legalize drugs. It's the surest way to take the trade out of the hands of criminals, and would elimitate the massive profit potential a black market creates. Plus, the tax revenue governments could collect would be huge.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2003-12-29 8:18:42 AM|| 2003-12-29 8:18:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 So drug trafficking is allowed, but only if the money is used to kill people. What a lovely f*cking religion.

Posted by BH 2003-12-29 10:16:19 AM|| 2003-12-29 10:16:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Going after the smuglers is a major step in this war. I like that privateer thing though, I think. Something dashing about that. Might really spark the imagination of a new generation of Iraqi's.

Posted by Lucky 2003-12-29 1:06:34 PM|| 2003-12-29 1:06:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Here is a link to a privateer that one would not like to sign on to...heh heh....great song!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-12-29 1:17:25 PM|| 2003-12-29 1:17:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm still waiting for the USPO to deliver the Letter of Marque that I requested back in '82. This is what happens when you a Democrat as a Congressman... piss poor constituent service I'd say.

Posted by Shipman 2003-12-29 2:16:59 PM|| 2003-12-29 2:16:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Arrrrrr.

Posted by Pete Stanley 2003-12-29 3:47:11 PM|| 2003-12-29 3:47:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Keep in mind that privateers sailing under Letters of Marque traditionally had to supply their own equipment and personnel. Edward Teach, who later became widely known as "Blackbeard", started out as a Brit privateer, but couldn't make it pay without taking the occasional British-flagged ship and adding it to his "fleet". The crown got all huffy about these "requisitions" and called him a pirate then. Same deal applied for whats-his-name in the Indian Ocean.

Posted by mojo 2003-12-29 4:22:29 PM|| 2003-12-29 4:22:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Screw it.. I'm gonna get a Letre of Reprisal from the Governor.

Posted by Shipman 2003-12-29 6:16:05 PM|| 2003-12-29 6:16:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Mojo - Plenty of naval gear left over from the 60's and 70's, and I'd suspect that you'd only need light ordinance. A good PT boat with, say, a light recoilless rifle replacing the torpedoes, a pair of .50 cal machine guns, and a pair of 40mm auto-grenade launchers.

Something like a destroyer escort, only smaller yet.

Ed.

Posted by Ed Becerra 2003-12-29 7:26:29 PM|| 2003-12-29 7:26:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Something more M-shipish, I think. Fat and plodding, with pop-up Bofors guns fore and aft...

Posted by mojo 2003-12-29 10:15:58 PM|| 2003-12-29 10:15:58 PM|| Front Page Top

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