Organized Crime Ring Investigated for Possible Terror Ties

truthatallcost · May 29, 2017

Forty-three people have been indicted for bank fraud, cigarette trafficking and money laundering in Virginia.
The suspects were charged with more than 740 crimes in Henrico County, and the investigation included more than 600,000 cartons with an estimated value of more than $30 million, police said.

Robberies, shootings, carjackings and burglaries were related to cigarette trafficking, police said.

All of the suspects are from the North African nation Mauritania. Investigators want to track the money and find out if any of it was sent to terrorists.
"When money is being laundered in the U.S. and we don't know where it's going, obviously, that's one of the things we're going to look into: Terrorism,' Harrington said.
Not all of the suspects are in custody, but police are confident they will capture them

43 People Indicted for Bank Fraud, $30M in Cigarette Trafficking in Virginia | NBC4 Washington

Isis has been known to raise funds for terrorism by running counterfeit goods operations, drug rings, and other illegal activity in the USA. There's been no official confirmation on whether this gang was tied to Isis, but they are all foreign criminals exploiting the USA.

Thoughts?

reinoe · May 29, 2017

truthatallcost said:
Isis has been known to raise funds for terrorism by running counterfeit goods operations, drug rings, and other illegal activity in the USA. There's been no official confirmation on whether this gang was tied to Isis, but they are all foreign criminals exploiting the USA.

Thoughts?

I don't see a single "John Smith" up there...

All of the suspects are from the North African nation Mauritania.

Hopefully our immigration policies can be reeled in now that Trump is in office.

truthatallcost · May 29, 2017

reinoe said:
I don't see a single "John Smith" up there...

No surprise there. Hopefully our immigration policies can be reeled in now that Trump is in office.

That would be the hope of some 66 million Americans. The DNC/Media complex is standing in the way of that progress being realized, currently.

Tigerace117 · May 29, 2017

truthatallcost said:
Isis has been known to raise funds for terrorism by running counterfeit goods operations, drug rings, and other illegal activity in the USA. There's been no official confirmation on whether this gang was tied to Isis, but they are all foreign criminals exploiting the USA.

Thoughts?

Didn't the Irish Mob do the same thing for the PIRA back in the day? Terrorists and criminals work together.

Tigerace117 · May 29, 2017

reinoe said:
I don't see a single "John Smith" up there...

Hopefully our immigration policies can be reeled in now that Trump is in office.

Gee, you don't see any Mauritanians named John Smith? Huh. Who woulda thunk it.

Mauritania wasn't on either one of the proposed "bans".

truthatallcost · May 30, 2017

Tigerace117 said:
Didn't the Irish Mob do the same thing for the PIRA back in the day? Terrorists and criminals work together.

Not to the degree that you're probably going to claim they did. They received more money from Libya than from supposed Irish gangsters in the US.

And regardless of where PIRA got it's funds, when are you going stop using them as an excuse for what's going on in America circa 2017? PIRA never killed 3000 Americans in a single day, or any Americans for that matter.

Tigerace117 · May 30, 2017

truthatallcost said:
Not to the degree that you're probably going to claim they did. They received more money from Libya than from supposed Irish gangsters in the US.

And regardless of where PIRA got it's funds, when are you going stop using them as an excuse for what's going on in America circa 2017? PIRA never killed 3000 Americans in a single day, or any Americans for that matter.

So that makes the fact that they were terrorists a-okay then, right?

The Irish mob donated several tons of arms. IRA agents in the US acquired many more weapons in previous years; everything up to and including M60 machine guns. And they did manage to get their hands on American .50 sniper rifles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army_arms_importation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Armagh_Sniper_(1990–97)

Sorry bud. Terrorism is terrorism. The FBI agrees with me on that.

truthatallcost · May 30, 2017

Tigerace117 said:
So that makes the fact that they were terrorists a-okay then, right?

The Irish mob donated several tons of arms. IRA agents in the US acquired many more weapons in previous years; everything up to and including M60 machine guns. And they did manage to get their hands on American .50 sniper rifles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army_arms_importation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Armagh_Sniper_(1990–97)

Sorry bud. Terrorism is terrorism. The FBI agrees with me on that.

What's the point of you deflecting stories about modern terrorism around the world back to the IRA? Do you think you're winning some argument with that?

'Terrorisms is terrorisms', but you conveniently forgot that Islamic terrorism is directed at Americans. The IRA never committed organized crime in the USA for the purpose of raising funds to kill Americans.

What if DHS had your attitude of 'oh well, the IRA existed 30 years ago, so terrorism is normal'? Absurd.

Tigerace117 · May 30, 2017

truthatallcost said:
What's the point of you deflecting stories about modern terrorism around the world back to the IRA? Do you think you're winning some argument with that?

'Terrorisms is terrorisms', but you conveniently forgot that Islamic terrorism is directed at Americans. The IRA never committed organized crime in the USA for the purpose of raising funds to kill Americans.

What if DHS had your attitude of 'oh well, the IRA existed 30 years ago, so terrorism is normal'? Absurd.

What's the point of you making a thread about organized crime and ties to terrorism if you don't want to hear about organized crime and ties to terrorism?

So that makes their terrorism okay? They were raising funds and buying arms to kill the soldiers of a very close ally of the US.

Imagine if the DHS had your "ignore all terrorism that wasn't committed by Muslims" attitude. Things would be a.....mess.

truthatallcost · May 30, 2017

Tigerace117 said:
What's the point of you making a thread about organized crime and ties to terrorism if you don't want to hear about organized crime and ties to terrorism?

Can you keep your false equivalencies to this century at least? Every time any thread about terrorism is started, we get the same posters telling us that it's all irrelevant because of some group of Irish knuckleheads from the ye olden days.

So that makes their terrorism okay? They were raising funds and buying arms to kill the soldiers of a very close ally of the US.

You don't seem to understand that the IRA is not comparable to the 100 or so Islamic terror organizations that exist presently. You're just fixated on the IRA for some reason, and I've no idea why.

Imagine if the DHS had your "ignore all terrorism that wasn't committed by Muslims" attitude. Things would be a.....mess.

Obama tried that idea, it didn't go over very well.

Tigerace117 · May 30, 2017

truthatallcost said:
Can you keep your false equivalencies to this century at least? Every time any thread about terrorism is started, we get the same posters telling us that it's all irrelevant because of some group of Irish knuckleheads from the ye olden days.

You don't seem to understand that the IRA is not comparable to the 100 or so Islamic terror organizations that exist presently. You're just fixated on the IRA for some reason, and I've no idea why.

Obama tried that idea, it didn't go over very well.

You made a thread about organized crime and ties to terrorism. If you didn't want to discuss the subject matter, you shouldn't have brought it up.

Because it's a prime example that despite your fixation, terrorism is not just limited to Muslims.

Obama ignored all non AQ or ISIS terrorism?

truthatallcost · May 30, 2017

Tigerace117 said:
You made a thread about organized crime and ties to terrorism. If you didn't want to discuss the subject matter, you shouldn't have brought it up.

Because it's a prime example that despite your fixation, terrorism is not just limited to Muslims.

The majority of active terrorists group in the world today committing murder appear to consist of Muslims.

Make sure to click on 'Organizations currently officially designated as terrorist by various governments'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_groups

Obama ignored all non AQ or ISIS terrorism?

His first choice to head DHS was a left wing wacko. She put out a press release saying that American military personnel needed to be watched, because she suspected them of being McVeigh types.

She's where she belongs now, UC Berkeley, with the other loons.