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."

Comments

Re:There are other reasons too...

[undeadly]

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.

Re:perhaps not

[Philip K Dickhead]

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"

...and some terrorists

[x2A]

...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?)