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October 22, 2004
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Terror fakes
Interpol is warning that buying fake bags/clothes/watches may channel money to terrorists. Except the officials didn't name specific groups. And despite many of the fakes being manufactured in places like China, where terror groups aren't a factor. Talk about drawing a long bow. If that's the best these companies can do to protect their products from fakes then they should just give up. posted by Simon on 10.22.04 at 10:51 AM in the
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TrackBack URL for this entry: http://blog.mu.nu/cgi/trackback.cgi/51040 Send a manual trackback ping to this post. Interpol: If you buy faux Gucci bags, the terrorists have already won! Excerpt: Via Simon, this Reuters story. You can't make this stuff up:"When you buy for example a counterfeit watch, the money is channelled into the pockets of Mafia groups, terrorist groups," said Jean-Michel Louboutin, executive director of police services at... Weblog: The Jawa Report Tracked: October 26, 2004 03:24 AM
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just a scare tactic given today's unstable climate globalwide, and they can't be really specific can they? especially the "may" bit. posted by: the letter b on 10.22.04 at 02:34 PM [permalink]Right, yeah. I did some looking into pirate CDs etc a while back and found almost no conections between terror and pirate goods. I did find problems of drugs gangs running out of places like eastern Europe using funny fags and booze to raise money for drug deals, but nothing about terrorists. The truth is that your bogus san migel is nore likely to fuel somebody's crack deal than Al quida. Still if you want to bring down America, you're better off using music sharing networks to hit its industry in the bank rather using RPGs to hit its airports in the props. As you said, a lot of pirate goods come out of Hong Kong and Taiwan, which have no real terrorist connections. The rest seems to be comming from eastern Europe, and that is fueling the drugs trade not terrorism. However, terrorists are using drugs to make money, so next time you get high, you might be paying for the dirty bomb that blows up Washington. Moral, listen to fake abba CDs and don't take drugs. posted by: ACB on 10.25.04 at 05:26 PM [permalink] |
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