NP? multinational corporate support for terrorism

[Doug Millison]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=96943

"Campaigns waged by terrorist organisations are being
partly financed through protection rackets that extort
money from respected large corporations across the
world, it was claimed yesterday.  Oil companies in
South America and Middle Eastern airlines are among
those paying to prevent their businesses being
damaged, according to the magazine Forbes Global. It
claimed timber companies in South-east Asia have also
made protection payments and until recently, a
Jewish-owned bank was paying off the Lebanese Islamist
group Hizbollah.  An executive in the financial
division of a state-owned oil company in southern
Europe claimed that donating money to Islamic groups
was a cost of doing business in the Middle East.
[...]"


...whatever's necessary to keep the profits rolling
in, I guess.

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