Gambling crackdown linked to terror fight

UIGEA's connection with the Safe Port Act may not be as spurious as it seemed when the legislation sneaked onto President Bush's desk last October. The Las Vegas Business Press reports that the US Department of Justice is conducting its campaign against online gambling in large part to prevent funds from ending up in the hands of terrorist groups. Supporting this view, the attorney heading the DOJ online gambling crackdown, prosecutor David Litternick of the southern District of New York, is an expert on terrorism who previously handled cases involving the first World Trade Center bombing and U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam.