illegal cigarettes. this means that legal manufacturers and retailers are losing sales while governments and taxpayers are being robbed forty to fifty billion dollars in money they could be funding important public services and helping local communities. by working together legal industry law enforcement government sensible society. staff feel closer. to gather we can stop illegal cigarettes. if philip morris was to be believed stamping out cigarette smuggling could do wonderful things for our communities and our children. so why then did the world health organization see red when this partnership was announced to the point of refusing interpol observer status at their conference on tobacco control. over the course of the last fifteen years the tobacco
a presentation of the contract with ron noble blood test said this wonderful sentence that i find very revealing. all who knows this might become the intelligence wing afifa. ron noble the future intelligence chief was sitting right beside him and said nothing. much. speculation was rife it appeared that an international police organization had gotten into bed with . in another private partnership philip morris international contributed fifteen million euros in two thousand and twelve to fight cigarette smuggling what motivated the joint tobacco manufacturer tobacco trafficking cut into its profits anough so that it put out major ad campaigns attacking it. back oh traffickers are the third largest global cigarette suppliers trading around six hundred billion
industry has managed to convince governments around the world international agencies like interpol even though last attention like that rather than being as pariahs supplier and the product actually it s a victim of the illicit macca trade and part of the solution but nothing could be further from the truth interpol how could it in our poll and it secretary general have signed an agreement with philip morris knowing that going back to nine hundred eighty nine there are eighty million documents that testify to all the misdeeds of the tobacco industry we believe they show that the industry hasn t respected the law and that it has knowingly collaborated with criminal organizations is known for us that raises many questions as well as in the course of halakhah. the partnership between interpol and the tobacco industry certainly was eyebrow raising. the tobacco industry stood accused of participating in cigarette smuggling
have realized all along is these terror cells plan and finance their act with small crime, credit card fraud, cigarette smuggling. when you have someone doing small crimes you can t afford to wait and see what they are doing because they may do it before you figure it out. we have a situation with the german police. they detained the wrong guy and 24 hours later they found amri s identification in the truck. there seems to be a lot of criticism that they bungled this. this astounds me. the germans are so meticulous but this may have been a case where they were too meticulous. they may have started at one end of the truck and gone through inch by inch. i get that. that is what you do for a prgss. but when you have something
i disagree they didn t have enough to arrest amri. they arrested him at one point for burglary. they had information he was trying to buy a gun. there s a philosophical problem within counterterrorism groups right now, where half of the counterterrorism groups are looking for the big crime. they re looking to solve it right before it goes out. but really what you see is low-level crimes, cigarette smuggling, credit card fraud, to mind on a microlevel these little cells that aren t getting hu huge amounts of money from isis. the day before 9/11, what would you have got them on, possession of box cutters? good point. so there s been a lot of criticism of the german police. first they arrested the wrong guy, then 24 hours later, they find amri s i.d. papers in the truck? that s hard for me to wrap my mind around. that to me smacks of being too