Sierra Club Alleges Denver Mining Firm Paid Off Terrorists

Environment News Service, April, 2004

WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — The Sierra Club alleges that a Denver mining company secretly paid millions of dollars to terrorists linked to Al-Qaeda under the auspices of "international security."

In an article that will appear in the May/June issue of "Sierra," the organization's official magazine, author Marilyn Berlin Snell says the Bush administration's Homeland Security and Justice Departments "turned a blind eye" when first informed that Echo Bay Mining Co. paid terrorists for protection of its Philippine gold mining operations

The international terrorist group Abu Sayaff and other terror groups in the Philippines received the protection payoff, Snell writes.

Shortly before the "Sierra" investigation was reported on the April 15 edition of ABC's World News...

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