> some sensible money-laundering controls put in place
> in a couple of key financial centres, there are an awful
> lot more extremely unpleasant people who could also
> be caught.
Is that a direction we really want to go? Don't we all have our unpleasant days?
(Just playing devil's advocate. But what's "sensible" - ?)
> Interestingly, of course, if ObL is as devout a Muslim as he is portrayed, his
> money will only be held in non-usurious sharia-compliant banks. Or, more
> likely, in gold bullion.
Maybe he has an e-Gold account <http://www.e-gold.com>
By the way, notwithstanding my earlier posts referring to bin Laden, I myself have yet to leap on the bandwagon that seems to have fixated on him as the guilty party.
I just heard from a friend today who worked in one of the buildings at "ground zero." She said she'd taken the day off (last Tuesday) owing to a headache.
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/ dave /