Excerpt from the op-ed by Roslyn Mazer, associate deputy attorney general and criminal division special counsel for intellectual property under Clinton: > Recent developments suggest that many of the governments suspected of > supporting al Qaeda are also promoting, being corrupted by, or at the > very least ignoring highly lucrative trafficking in counterfeit and > pirated products capable of generating huge money flows to terrorists and > other organized criminal groups. >While serving in the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice from >1998 to 2001, I helped catalogue disturbing trends in this area. With >cooperation from our copyright and trademark industries -- the producers >of software, music, film, books, apparel, pharmaceuticals and other highly >sought-after American products -- we documented the links between >intellectual property (IP) crimes and the even more nefarious crimes they >pay for. ********* From: Roslynmazerat_private Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 08:41:47 EDT Subject: Terrorism and Counterfeiting To: declanat_private Declan, Your readers may be interested in this article from yesterday's Washington Post. Regards from a grateful subscriber, Roslyn http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43957-2001Sep29.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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