Diamonds Are for Terror?

US Intelligence has confirmed that the Al-Qaeda network has spread to 50 countries, including Indonesia. But things are difficult to prove on the ground.

November 6, 2001

The news came from Sierra Leone, a faraway African nation. The intelligence agencies of America and several European nations had discovered that for the last three years, Osama bin Laden—the individual suspected by the US of being behind the destruction of the World Trade Center (WTC) on September 11—has been active in the illicit diamond trade. As reported by the US media last Friday, bin Laden has been working together with an arm

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