Thursday, April 28, 2011

Guns, Money and Cell Phones

cell phones and computer chips is helping fuel a bloody civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The offer turned up a few weeks ago on an Internet bulletin board called the Embassy Network. Among the postings about Dutch work visas and Italian pen pals lurked a surprisingly blunt proposal: "How much do you want to offer per kilogram? Please find me at least 100,000 U.S. dollars and I will deliver immediately."

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