Enough in Congressional Quarterly

Don't forget about the diamonds and uranium. During my time in East Africa these were also products that were routinely offered in the marketplace out of the Congo. For some reason it seems that every time that there is death and misery in an African country, the word diamonds is associated. While gold, tantalum, niobium and the others are political firecrackers right now, one of the underlying things are diamonds. Smuggled out of areas in flux and turmoil such as Eastern Congo, cut by children (who go blind by the age of 18 (they become uneducated and blind)) in the cutting shops of the sub-continent and then marketed as something that is "forever" in the U.S., don't be mistaken that this is not an issue just because the politicians have another agenda. The dead of Angola and Sierra Leone testify to this along with the innocents now in the Congo.