Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Three Out Of Three Is Bad

The three primary reasons the U.S. calls North Korea a "criminal regime" are arms sales, drug trafficking and currency forgery.

How about this one then? (Hat tip - Kirkrrt)
NEW DELHI (XFN-ASIA) - A Pakistani government printing press in the city of Quetta is churning out large quantities of counterfeit Indian currency, The Times of India reported, citing a Central Bureau of Intelligence note to Indian security agencies and the finance ministry.

The rupee notes are then smuggled into India as 'part of Pakistan's agenda of destabilising (the) Indian economy through fake currency,' the daily said.

The notes are 'supplied by the Pakistan government press (at Quetta) free of cost to Dubai-based counterfeiters who, in turn, smuggle it into India using various means,' the report said.

Pakistan's intelligence agency, Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) is alleged to play an active role in the scam.

The notes 'are pushed into India by ISI through all possible channels using smugglers, underworld gangs, terrorists and general air/rail passengers', the report said.
We already have a nation which has knowingly exported nuclear weapons technology and know-how to various shady regimes. There have even been reports by the Indian government and others that Pakistan's intelligence agency is still heavily involved in heroin trafficking and the furtherance of an Islamic Caliphate based upon Pakistan (after being helped into the trade by the CIA).

Even the U.S. reluctantly admits as much. Here's a congressional transcript from 2003 of a conversation between Rep. Rohrabacher and Wendy Chamberlin, former US ambassador to Pakistan and at that time director of USAID:
Mr. ROHRABACHER. My question is, how would you characterize the ISI, the Pakistani intelligence organization's, involvement in the drug trade over the last 6 years? I am not asking for a history to eat up all of the time for my questions.

Ms. CHAMBERLIN. Over the last 6 years, very little opium has been produced inside Pakistan. If your question is on trade——

Mr. ROHRABACHER. Ma'am, will you answer the question? You have heard the question very specifically. How would you characterize the Pakistani ISI involvement in the opium business on the Afghan-Pakistan border over the last 6 years? Do I have to repeat this four times for you?

Ms. CHAMBERLIN. Over the last 5——

Mr. ROHRABACHER. Six years.

Ms. CHAMBERLIN. Substantial.

Mr. ROHRABACHER. Substantial. All right. So to get it from you, we had to get this far, that the Pakistanis' intelligence service had substantial involvement in the opium business along the Afghan-Pakistan border for the last 6 years.

Ms. CHAMBERLIN. Over the last 6 years, substantial.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and sh*ts like a duck...

Sell it F-16s and Harpoon missiles?

That's what I call being "tough on terror"...NOT!

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