Sales of counterfeit T-shirts may have helped finance the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, according to the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition. “Profits from counterfeiting are one of the three main sources of income supporting international terrorism,” said Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at the University of St. Andrews, in Scotland.
(Terror's Purse Strings - NYTimes)
(Emphasis mine)
So it's not just saggy pants then (see below). It's T-shirts too. In fact, it's - yikes! - just about everything.
At least 11 percent of the world’s clothing is fake, according to 2000 figures from the Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group in Paris.
I don't know what the other two "main sources of income supporting international terrorism" are but I'm guessing illicit copies of Windows and pirated CDs.
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