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James Traficant: “while everyone is choosing their words very carefully, news reports continue to link the Taliban government with China.…”

On the recordOctober 24, 2001
while everyone is choosing their words very carefully, news reports continue to link the Taliban government with China. On Tuesday, September 11, we all know that the Taliban attacked America with one hand; on the same day with the other hand, the Taliban signed a memorandum of understanding cooperative agreement with China. Something stinks here. Bin Laden is in the headlines, but we better be very careful that China is not popping up in the details and fine print. To boot, we are financing the biggest war machine in world history with U.S. dollars in China. Beam me up. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the fact that Congress better keep an eye on the dragon, and the dragon can reach New York and Washington a lot quicker and easier than the Taliban did.
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James Traficant
Ohio
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Discussing the relationship between the Taliban and China following the September 11 attacks.

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