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Why Terror Financing is So Tough to Track Down

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the follow-the-money dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After a recent Slashdot story detailing the errant investigation into a credit card holder's dept payment, comes this article from the Christian Science Monitor discussing the commoditization of terrorism, its relationship to crime, and the difficulties encountered when trying to track "bad" money."

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  1. Why is it so hard to track down? by rob1980 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just keep an eye out for the people who pay down the entire balance of their store credit card. Those people are obviously the terrorists!

    1. Re:Why is it so hard to track down? by theonetruekeebler · · Score: 3, Funny
      keep an eye out for the people who pay down the entire balance of their store credit card

      ...and then max it back out again at a nearby strip club. If I'm gonna die on Thursday, I'm gonna spend Wednesday night exploring the finer things in life---and tucking $20 bills in their G-strings.

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  2. Oil is Fungible by HeelToe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oil is Fungible.

  3. Re:Do you drive? Then you're financing terrorists. by binarybum · · Score: 2, Funny

    oh come now, since when are the Canadians not questionable characters?

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  4. simple terrorist trap, works every time... by x2A · · Score: 2, Funny

    Terrorist says what...

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  5. Re:There are other reasons too... by Fred_A · · Score: 4, Funny
    They are right of course. Other much poorer countries manage to provide basic health care for their citizens (even if it's not ideal) and we still don't.

    Ah, but they're evil socialists. You wouldn't want any of that in the US now would you ?
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  6. I don't get it... by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Funny

    They still haven't found out that Microsoft has been funding SCO?

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  7. Re:"interestingly"? by online-shopper · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hanging out at christian science meetings is like having sex with a fat chick. a bit of fun 'till your friends catch you.

    Seriously, would *YOU* admit to going?

  8. Simple Solutions by nurb432 · · Score: 2, Funny

    1 - Ban all 'cash' transactions for anything. All transactions must use 'digital currency' and go thru the federal government along the way. Even for a burger or stick of gum.

    2 - Just take all funds away from the people, make it a true socialist society.

    3 - Anyone caught bartering for any reason goes to prison for life.

    This was a joke.

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