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Black Market Billions: How Organized Retail Crime Funds Global Terrorists ReviewHitha Prabhakar is an excellent author and acknowledged expert of the fashion industry. I would like to assume that this book has good solid facts on how organized crime rips billions of dollars off the retail industry and tracks some of that money to named organizations.
However, from my own studying, following and putting out analysis on terrorism, prior to and following 911, I found myself too troubled by some assertions made early in this book.
For example, take the assertion: "These terrorist groups are hell bent on destroying the American economy, its people, and its way of life, but also the lives of people with their own countries who don't stand with them." This statement dangerously misleads the public.
First, one cannot throw all named organizations into one group. Second, their individual prime objectives differ, but both prior to and since 911 have been primarily focused on either over-throwing their own governments, which they considered oppressive, and / or getting all foreign troops out of their countries or region, or in the case of the Palestinians to gain back their homes or gain relief from Israel's occupation and blockades. Our "way of life" means zip to them. For example, the explicit objectives of the often referenced 1989 mis-named bin Laden fatwah (he was one of five signers) were explicit, i.e., 1) Free al-Aqsa Mosque, 2) Free Mecca, 3) Remove U.S. troops from Saudi Arabia. Nothing about "way of life," etc.
One should not confuse the Taliban and Afghanistan / Pakistan border chiefs with al Qaeda, The Taliban were unequivocal anti-terrorist, known to be "extreme" in their law enforcement, and considered themselves US allies up until our attack. Although not the US official perspective, they and the border tribes are in fact fighting an occupation force, which action is legal by international law i.e., UN Charter Article 51 (and thereby US Constitution Article VI, item 2) as well as UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/33/24.
As for the Taliban raising the cocaine trade, it was the Taliban which totally shut down the opium production in Afghanistan, and that production did not begin again until after our invasion and overthrow of the Taliban government. Such details, in this work excluded, are relevant if one wants to look beyond political agendas.
Relevant also is that Bin Laden was not released from his 2000 mandated vocal and written Islamic vow to Taliban commander Mullah Omar to remain out of international involvement, under threat of expulsion from guest status in Afghanistan, by Omar until after the US attack on the Taliban following 911.
The Taliban in Latin America? Come on. One has to wonder about some of these sources.
How does anyone, as claimed, address an audience of 30,000 in a room? And if the 30,000 is supposed to refer to al Qaeda, then it is fictitious.
If ORC (Organized Retail Crime) costs retailers nearly $30 billion / year, then how could Ohio alone reported losing $61 billion in sales taxes alone? Even if the entire $30 billion lost were in Ohio, it could not have lost more than $2.4 billion in sales tax annually, assuming 8% sales tax.
Due to my own previous studies of US and International Organized Crime I am in complete sympathy with the premise of this book, the enormous hundreds of billions of dollars extracted from world economies by organized crime, and connections to organizations, not only terrorist, but including political, judicial, law enforcement, and corporate. Hence, I looked forward to reading this book. But, unfortunately, in trying to review this book I ran aground on too many early assertions which I found questionable and misleading. Hence, I lost confidence in the book's credibility of assertions made by the author's sources.
Terrorism is real. But misrepresentations, although innocently passed on, are not helpful, for it misleads people, mis-directs their attention, and can cause them to ultimately be caught by surprise for not realizing the directions, i.e., causes, from which threats can come.
Understand this: These people have causes in which they believe with their lives, regardless of what we may think. These causes have nothing to do with whether we go to movies, party, shop at Walmart, or whatever. Their causes are focused upon what is happening in their own countries and regions. That is the intersection of their hatred and our actions.
This book should focus on the financial trail and minimize tangential assertions.
My apologies for the length of this review.
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