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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (134594)5/28/2004 3:21:52 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
<Terrorist networks don't come cheap! You find a big one, you will also find either a state sponsor or a massive extortion or drug smuggling operation to pay for it.>

Tim McVeigh did it on a shoestring. He didn't even need to buy a truck. It doesn't really cost much to buy some box-cutters and a one-way ticket.

But some large scale insurrections do cost real money and for that, you need something like the cash flow that Americans provided to the terrorist IRA who enjoyed blowing people up for a couple of decades. Especially if they also have pretensions to political power, which Tim didn't have.

American money funded blowing up the Margaret Thatcher government at Brighton.

BTW, who funded the Jewish terrorists in Palestine against the British and Palestinians? That must have taken serious money. I suppose it was Americans again.

Saddam was funding bus-bombing in Israel, and I dare say a lot more besides, so that's one source of terrorist funding which has dried up. We need more drying up at source. It's an ill wind that blows nobody good. At least since the 911 attack, Americans aren't supposed to fund terrorist actions and they realize that being on the receiving end of terrorism isn't all fun.

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