News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Pompeo Hints at Huawei Ultimatum to Countries Buying Equipment. Parent comment

Re:Pompeo Hints at Huawei Ultimatum to Countries Buying Equi... by lamarpye on Monday February 11, 2019 @07:11PM (#19139802)
Interesting. Are you a domain expert in this area? Did you do some research before posting?

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/22/world/fg-cocainering...

From Wikipedia: "There are small but influential Muslim, Buddhist, and Jewish communities. The Muslim community of more than 100,000 is concentrated among persons of Lebanese and Syrian descent living in Nueva Esparta State, Punto Fijo and the Caracas area."

Is it hard to imagine a terrorist organization would expand it's operations into drug smuggling?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Pompeo Hints at Huawei Ultimatum to Countries Buying Equi... by drawnwren on Monday February 11, 2019 @07:14PM (#19139823)
Fwiw, any vet will tell you the craziest firefights in Afghanistan were always when we went for the opium. Terrorism has been in bed with drug smuggling since the beginning.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Pompeo Hints at Huawei Ultimatum to Countries Buying Equi... by endofcapital on Thursday February 14, 2019 @11:39AM (#19163227)
The world isn't nearly as dangerous as you've been lead to believe. Not even like within an order of magnitude.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Pompeo Hints at Huawei Ultimatum to Countries Buying Equi... by SampleBourgeois on Monday February 11, 2019 @09:42PM (#19140540)
There's a lot of Lebanese immigrants in Venezuela. Do you think they're all members of Hezbollah?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Pompeo Hints at Huawei Ultimatum to Countries Buying Equi... by lamarpye on Monday February 11, 2019 @10:53PM (#19140897)
Yes. That is what I was implying. Every single one.

Or I was providing context, showing that Hezbollah connections to Venezuela are not implausible in this particular reality

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Pompeo Hints at Huawei Ultimatum to Countries Buying Equi... by zaphirplane on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @02:00AM (#19141605)
That is a horrible racist argument. to imply that it’s arguable that 3,4,5 generation muslims living in South America are terrorist just because they are.

A quick look at your comments says you are not thou. The statement is missguided

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Pompeo Hints at Huawei Ultimatum to Countries Buying Equi... by lamarpye on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @02:21PM (#19146575)
I get the sense that detecting sarcasm isn't your strong suit.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Pompeo Hints at Huawei Ultimatum to Countries Buying Equi... by zaphirplane on Friday February 15, 2019 @05:41AM (#19169864)
I realise the 1st paragraph is sarcastic, the original post and the 2nd paragraph is what I’m replying to
[ Parent | on HN ]