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Article

20 Jul 2007

Author:
Lelie Anne Jones, Anchorage Daily News [USA]

Suspected 'blood diamonds' seized in Alaska [USA]

U.S. customs officials have seized more than $400,000 of smuggled diamonds in Anchorage over the last two months, and say they may be so-called "blood" or "conflict" diamonds -- stones mined in war zones and sold to finance insurgents and armed conflict in Africa... Federal law sets standards for transporting rough diamonds in tamper-resistant containers and requires certificates of origin that the stones are from areas free of conflict.