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Why Terror Financing is So Tough to Track Down
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."
The other key is to name the enemy. So long as the media uses euphemisms like "sectarianism" instead of calling them what they are, terrorists, people will remain confused because it sounds like some theoretical, unimportant issue. But terrorism is the issue, and it must be fought on all fronts.
Most people have already heard about the NCU Chapel Hill incident where a Muslim student drove a vehicle into a crowd. His reason was to avenge the way Americans are treating Muslims. Here is a guy who was raised here for the most part, using all of our freedoms and education, and in the future would have had a lucrative career in his chosen field. And due to his religious beliefs, he threw it all away to gain whatever it is he thought he was getting by attacking innocent people.
This is the state of mind most Liberals and much of our government does not understand yet. Most liberals tend towards the atheistic side and have little understanding of religious matters to begin with. Most politicians in my thinking have already sold their souls for power and money and until religious actions affect their positions and assets, they will not understand either.
What the government and media have not yet grasped is the ideology that continually drives violence within Islam. They are in a frame of mind that will choose Islam over all things. Like the Borg in the Star Trek series, they walk in one mind, and in one agenda with the end result being that all others will be assimilated and eventually the entire universe will become as they are. Consuming all technology and resources until the final conquest of all civilizations. But there is one distinct difference here. Even in Star Trek, the Borg were easily identified, and never used the media or organizations to slip in among their enemies and use propaganda to sway public opinion before striking. They were up front and honest with their intentions.
With Islam it is not so easy, due to the organized way they try to show the world they are peaceful and desire to live in peace with all men. They are taught from Mohammed himself to lie if need be in order to create a false sense of security before they kill or subdue innocent targets.
They walk in our midst for years, as did this student with smiles on their faces and talking to people over the years about the peaceful ways of Islam. They eat with us, accept our hospitality, play with our children, and live a fairly normal life. Until the day they decide to attack, we see them as normal citizens happy to be living free of the Islamic laws that oppressed them or their parents before they moved. And a day comes when something that is said or done triggers the impulse in them as a memory can trigger an ex-soldier, and the results are almost always deadly. And even if the results are not, the intentions most certainly are. Like soldiers in combat, Muslims have a trigger that can be tripped by various reasons. They are taught in the Koran and Hadiths that Islam and Mohammed are to be protected and thrust upon humanity at all costs. Life means nothing if it is a non-Muslim life in their thinking.
The Muslims who claim these ideologies are spread through the mass poverty and oppression of Muslims never seem to take into account that most terrorists are college educated, and many in Western institutions. Many come from wealthy families as Bin Laden, and some were doctors such as Ayman al-Zawahiri. The young Muslim who rammed his vehicle into a crowd had a degree in Psychology. He had the means to go to college, and he had the higher education to plan his attack. So I do not buy into this Muslim theory that these people attack due to poverty or ignorance.
And here we are in America , living next door to people who have shown the ability and will to attack at any time for whatever reason they deem necessary. How can we continue to trust a mindset that has shown time and again their intention to destroy what we have? I see CAIR always trying to show how we in America discriminate against Muslims, and that only a few of them act like this. Even if CAIR is correct, and I disagree with them, it takes only a few to cause massive damage as seen in NYC on 9-11, and even now in this incident. We saw a Muslim soldier throw a grenade into a tent in Iraq because he was trying to protect Muslims. H
No wonder we have to ask a company, owned by a foreign government, that had links to Bin Laden to run our ports.
This begs the question:
Doesn't the USA have any competent manpower to run these ports? This kind of action by the Bush administration simply confirms incompetence.
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.
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
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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...
--- Grow a pair, liberals... stop letting the Republicans bully you!
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"
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
Its trivial to find the main source of terror financing - it's listed under "federal tax deductions" on your pay stubs.
Far more people are terrorised and killed by b52s etc than by OBL and his cronies. Shit, even in the US, you're far more likely to be killed by government than by terrorists.
Yes, its flamebait, but its also true.
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
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
...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?)
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
Our coalition soldiers are stealing the cash finds in Iraq and Afghanistan, if they're involved in a raid where they come across a large sum of money, it is shared out between the troop involved in the operation, without the big cheeses ever finding out about it, and goes behind the bar to pay for the drinking tab the same evening.
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.
AccountKiller
......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.
All theory is gray
.....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.
All theory is gray