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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!

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

    Oil is Fungible.

  3. 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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  4. 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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