TOBACCO TERRORISM
July 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALL
COUNTERFEIT cigarettes are helping to raise money for terror groups, Interpol secretary general Ronald K Noble has warned. In documents sent to the US House of Representatives committee on international relations, he said the problem might become more serious and called for industry-police cooperation. The documents said Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Chechen separatists, Kosovan extremists and Northern Ireland paramilitaries have profited from counterfeit cigarette production or sale.
COUNTERFEIT cigarettes are helping to raise money for terror groups, Interpol secretary general Ronald K Noble has warned. In documents sent to the US House of Representatives committee on international relations, he said the problem might become more serious and called for industry-police cooperation. The documents said Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Chechen separatists, Kosovan extremists and Northern Ireland paramilitaries have profited from counterfeit cigarette production or sale.
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.