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hack89

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10. If you read the indictment, it is part of a much bigger sting operation
Tue Apr 9, 2013, 03:09 PM
Apr 2013

that involved organizations that also smuggled drugs into America. It also involve weapons smuggling to a terrorist organization.

I view this the way the British viewed anti-slavery efforts. The British Navy stopped and seized slaving ships on the high seas when ever they found them - they viewed slavery as a crime against humanity and refused to allow slavers the sanctuary of the high seas. Same for drugs cartels and terrorists - they should have no sanctuary anywhere in the world and it is the moral obligation of all nations to arrest them whenever possible.

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