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I can't believe I'm letting myself get bogged down in this discussion. This is why I usually just ignore these type of posts. Neither side will usually concede to the other so it ends up being mostly a waste of time. I do appreciate your taking the time to post the links. I can't believe it would've been that time consuming or inconvienient to link to your original post when you made the one in this thread.

I will point out why I think you should have linked to begin with.

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According to press reports after David Carruthers was arrested, U.S. authorities used an anti-terror agreement with the EU that provides airline manifests that can be screened for potential terrorists to identify Mr. Carruthers as a passenger on a U.S. bound flight.

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but the article you linked above states

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Concerns are also growing that an anti-terror agreement by Europe to hand passenger flight lists to the US may have been used by FBI and tax agents to swoop on David Carruthers, the BetOnSports chief executive.

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Those statements are not quite the same.

You also said

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The prosecutor in the Carruthers case also said that she believed the large unregulated amount of cash flowing out of the U.S. to gaming sites was being used by terrorists to plan attacks on the U.S.


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The article you link says

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In an interview with the Guardian, Ms Hanaway said BetonSports' practice of taking American bets from its base in Costa Rica caused an unacceptable outflow of money from the US. "This is a very large amount of money flowing on an unregulated basis out of the US. Any time that much money's flowing outside the US, there are concerns about its destination. Under US laws, legitimate large flows of money are required to be subject to suspicious activity reports."
Although the government had made no specific allegations about the destination of the $125m (£65m) of US bets taken annually by BetonSports, it was essential for the American authorities to keep tabs on such cash. "We need to check it is not being used for money laundering, drug financing or terrorism. Because it's flowing out of the country in an unregulated way, we simply don't know the ultimate destination."



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again, not quite the same.

That's my two cents worth. I do not question your integrity or your convictions. I just like being able to see both sides of the story and making up my own mind. (I am not saying I disagree with you as relates to this case.)