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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. Re:There are other reasons too... by undeadly · · Score: 1, Troll

    There are other reasons as to why terror funding is hard to fight. One of them is our (USA) incompetence. We simply do not get it. You still hear folks wondering why an individual would offer himself as a sacrifice in suicide bombing.


    When someone has lost their home and family, they want to get even. Couple that with vare bad living conditions, and you have some desperate people with nothing to loose but thirsty for revenge. Many of these desperate people are the result of US actions in Middle-East and elsewhere for decades. I think most Americans would be revolted if they understood what their government is really doing abroad.

  2. Re:There are other reasons too... by Travoltus · · Score: 0, Troll
    I think it comes down to a confusion of responsibility. Decades ago, people would have known that the hurricane was coming and that it would be big. They would have taken the personal responsibility to get the hell out of dodge. Boat, plane, train, hitchhike, hike, swim . . . ANYTHING, just to get the hell out. But it's the new millennium, and people are used to being coddled by their government, which has been arrogating more and more power to itself so that people think it's omnipotent.

    Then on the other hand, you turn right around a few months after Hurricane Katrina, and lo and behold you see the example of all the

    yeehaw
    ride 'em cowboy
    well to do
    hard working
    self sufficient
    ah don't need no steenkin eeevil Gub'mint
    cuz ah pull mahself up by mah bootstraps
    NON BLACK Texans

    driving out of Houston in their shiny new cow horns adorned cars, only to be stuck in massive traffic jams that left them right smack dab in the path of Hurricane Rita.

    Fortunately the Texans didn't get hit while stuck on those roads.

    I guess that means all those poor black people in New Orleans just deserved to die because they had no cars to drive out in...

    God, I just love the arrogance of the oh so Christian right wing...
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  3. Re:perhaps not by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: 1, Troll

    The 9/11 commission was a whitewash, coverup, disinfo-psyop for the stooges.

    Christ, did you think after the Warren commission that there'd be a chance in hell that this thing would be other than a stage show? "Official Version"

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  4. Re:Stupid Terrorists. by jcr · · Score: 0, Troll

    Really, how hard is it to blow up a building?

    Ask the perps who failed in their attempt to destroy the WTC the first time.

    -jcr

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  5. ...and some terrorists by x2A · · Score: 1, Troll

    ...are animal freedom fighters! (ALF, supporters including PETA, USE TERROR TACTICS to fight for their cause... they're not labeled 'terrorists' because they're domestic not foreign?)

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  6. Re:because we're in a war, but don't act that way by Vellmont · · Score: 0, Troll


    The peace deal seems to have worked by buying off key figures with promises of power, and sidelining hardliners. We've corrupted the IRA leadership. They're too comfortable now, in their influential political positions. Too respectable. Can't be associated with semi-literate hardmen any more, oh no..


    Strange, I thought the peace process worked because the Irish economy is booming. Who wants to be a terrorist when you've got a well paying job? Leadership can't make people do things they don't want to do.

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  7. Re:Read more carefully... by arminw · · Score: 0, Troll

    ......the freedom to practise religion.....

    Yes, its freedom to practice the Islamic religion, and only a particular brand of it. Religion of all kinds has been used as a means to control the many by the few. Jesus challenged this in His time and was executed by the state at the behest of the religious powers whose feathers he ruffled severely. Whenever any particular religious group gets too powerful, they tend to oppress those who believe differently. This is not confined to groups based on religion, but can be any political or philosophical ideology. There are people who want power over others and use whatever means is available to get it.

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  8. Re:Read more carefully... by arminw · · Score: 0, Troll

    .....The Jews had no hand in killing Jesus. If they had, they would have done it themselves and not gotten the romans to do it. ....

    I can see that you have read neither the Bible nor history. The Jews did not have the right to execute anyone because they were under occupation by the Romans. That's why they brought Jesus before Pilate who was a political coward and gave in to their cries 'crucify'. Jesus was accused of blasphemy by the RELIGIOUS leaders of the Jews. The Romans had no laws against blasphemy against the Jews' God and that's why Pilot wanted to let Jesus go.

    If you make announcements to the world, base them on what is correct not wishful thinking.

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