Bizarre Online Gambling Movie-Plot Threat This article argues that online gambling is a strategic national threat because terrorists could use it to launder money.
The Harper demonstration showed the technology and techniques that terror and crime organizations could use to operate untraceable money laundering built on a highly liquid legalized online poker industry -- just the environment that will result from the spread of poker online.
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A single poker game takes just a few hours to transfer $5 million as was recently demonstrated -- legally -- by American player Brian Hastings with his Swedish competitor half a world away. An established al-Qaida poker network could extract from the United States enough untraceable money in six days to fund an operation like the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center.
I'm impressed with the massive fear resonating in this essay.