Doughty federal agents raided over seventy jewelry stores recently, contemptuous of the dangers posed by brooch and tiara. They weren't there to burgle the baubles, but to cop the computers and purloin the paperwork. The jewelers thus assaulted were mainly Pakistanis, and the concern was that they were funneling money to Osama bin Laden, or al Qaeda. Most of the raids have been in the east, in Philadelphia, Atlanta, New York, and Florida, but stores in Texas, California, Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina have been invaded as well. Federal officials declared that the authority to conduct the raids was "under … Continue reading Wrecking Businesses