[meteorite-list] NWA paying for terrorism?

From: SaharaTeam_at_aol.com <SaharaTeam_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Dec 21 02:27:28 2005
Message-ID: <df.2270beda.30da5ddb_at_aol.com>

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:38:05 -0500, "Gary K. Foote" <gary_at_webbers.com> wrote:

>Does anybody lend any credence to this theory?
>
>http://www.saharamet.com/meteorite/data/Sahara/Nwa.html


Two facts:

1) NWA meteorites are for 95%, contraband items, coming from Algeria and the
whole Sahara (9 million square kilometers). These rocks are centralized in
one point (South Morocco, Erfoud). 25 Algerian policemen have been especially
trained to stop this contraband.
See two links (you can use Google language tools to translate from French) :
http://www.elwatan.com/print.php3?id_article=15125
http://www.algerie-dz.com/article1665.html

2) Trans Saharan Counterterrorism Initiative.
Saharan contraband is well organized and linked with army groups. That's the
reason why a budget of $ 500 millions will be allocated by the US
government to stop it. Ten sub-Saharan countries are associated to the project. Half
of the budget will be allocated for helping the population to develop their
economy, the other is dedicated to the fight against army groups and the
contraband controlled by them. See this link:
http://www.defense.gov/news/May2005/20050516_1126.html

And also for an external point of view:
http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/caocl/Africa/Pan-Sahel/Readings/Islamist%20Terrorism
%20in%20the%20Sahel--Fact%20or%20Fiction.pdf


Richard & Roland Pelisson
http://www.SaharaMet.com
Received on Wed 21 Dec 2005 02:27:23 AM PST