blood money on tap
Sat, Jun 1, 2002 at 12:04:56 pm PDT
Here’s a quite disturbing story at the National Post about the millions of dollars funneled through Canada every year to terrorist groups throughout the world: Blood money on tap.
Since the days of Lester B. Pearson, Canadians have liked to think of themselves as international peacekeepers, the heroes in the blue berets. In Sri Lanka, and in countries such as Israel and even the United States, Canada is seen increasingly as a war financier, supplying the cash and other support that sustains political and religious violence, keeping self-styled freedom fighters outfitted with weaponry and ensuring a continued surfeit of misery for civilians and the soldiers alike.
Through negligence and indifference, the Canadian government has permitted virtually every major terrorist organization in the world to operate within its borders. Canada's failure to disrupt the terrorists on its soil has resulted in major security problems for Canada's neighbours and some of its closest allies.
Canadian-based terrorists have been arrested in the United States, Britain, France, Jordan, Algeria, Pakistan, Azerbaijan and other nations.
Canada's failure has also caused severe troubles within Canada's refugee communities, where militants have hijacked cultural organizations and religious institutions for their own ends. And it has helped create an international climate in which global terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda have thrived.
(Via Banana Counting Monkey.)
