From T-Shirts to Terrorism: Roslyn Mazur, former Clinton DOJ appointee, links traffic in counterfeit CDs, movies, computer software (but, also, counterfeit Nike swoosh teeshirts!) to terrorist funding in this Washington Post op-ed piece.

While serving in the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice from 1998 to 2001, I helped catalogue disturbing trends in this area. With cooperation from our copyright and trademark industries — theproducers of software, music, film, books, apparel, pharmaceuticals and other highly sought-after American products — we documented the links between intellectual property (IP) crimes and the even more nefarious crimes they pay for. We found that the post-Cold War landscape of open borders has combined with the anonymity and speed of the Internet, as well as modern telecommunications and the lure of huge, risk-free profits, to give rise to some startling developments.