Download or read book Terrorist Financing On Deterring Terrorist Operations in the U S written by U. S. General Accounting Office and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting off terrorists' funding is essential to deterring terrorist operations. The USA PATRIOT Act expanded the ability of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to access and share financial information regarding terrorist investigations, but terrorists may have adjusted their activities by increasing use of alternative financial mechanisms.- Why GAO Did This Study, Terrorist FinancingThis report originally issued by the U.S. General Accounting Office finds that terrorists use many alternative-financing mechanisms to earn, move, and store assets. They earn assets by selling contraband cigarettes and illicit drugs, by misusing charitable organizations that collect large donations, and by other means.Topics in TERRORIST FINANCING include: .Terrorists use of various alternative financing mechanisms and the extent of use.Key U.S. government entities responsible for deterring terrorist financing.Challenges that impede U.S. monitoring of terrorists' use of financing mechanisms.U.S. Agency comments and evaluations, including conclusions and recommendations for U.S. Executive ActionIn conducting this review, the General Accounting Office examined and interviewed officials from U.S. agencies, including the Departments of Justice, the Treasury, Homeland Security, State, and Defense, as well as form the intelligence community. Also information was assessed information provided from various non-governmental organizations, industry and charitable associations, researchers in the field, and the United Nations.
Download or read book Terrorist Financing written by Nathan Brooks and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stopping the ability of terrorists to finance their operations is a key component of the U.S. counter-terrorism strategy. To accomplish this, the Bush Administration implemented a three-tiered approach based on: (1) intelligence and domestic legal and regulatory efforts; (2) technical assistance to provide capacity-building programs for U.S. allies; and (3) global efforts to create international norms and guidelines. Effective implementation of this strategy requires the participation of, and coordination among, several elements of the U.S. Government. This report provides an agency-by-agency survey of U.S. efforts as of August 2005. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Download or read book Terrorist Financing written by Loren Yager and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2004-03-03 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting off terrorists' funding is essential to deterring terrorist operations. The USA PATRIOT Act expanded the ability of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to access and share financial information regarding terrorist investigations, but terrorists may have adjusted their activities by increasing use of alternative financing mechanisms (AFM). This report assesses: (1) the nature of terrorists' use of key AFM for earning, moving, and storing terrorists' assets; (2) what is known about the extent of terrorists' use of AFM; and (3) challenges that the U.S. government faces in monitoring terrorists' use of AFM. This report examines these issues and also makes recommendations for the Dir. of the FBI, the Sec. of the Treasury, and the IRS Commissioner. Tables.
Download or read book The 9 11 Commission Report written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Terrorist Financing written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cutting off terrorists' funding is essential to deterring terrorist operations. The USA PATRIOT Act expanded the ability of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to access and share financial information regarding terrorist investigations, but terrorists may have adjusted their activities by increasing use of alternative financing mechanisms. GAO was asked to assess (1) the nature of terrorists' use of key alternative financing mechanisms for earning, moving, and storing terrorists' assets; (2) what is known about the extent of terrorists' use of alternative financing mechanisms; and (3) challenges that the U.S. government faces in monitoring terrorists' use of alternative financing mechanisms.
Download or read book Unfunding Terror written by Jimmy Gurulé and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimmy Gurulé knows how to bankrupt terrorists like few others do. As Undersecretary of the Treasury for Enforcement, he spearheaded the fight against al-Qaeda s global bank accounts, helping to earn the highest grade awarded on the 9/11 Commissioners report card. As an author, he performs once again. Unfunding Terror provides policymakers and laymen alike a clear roadmap on how to keep terrorists out of the global financial system. Timothy J. Roemer, Center for National Policy, former US Congressman and member of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission) Jimmy Gurulé has given us a superbly comprehensive and well-written assessment of why, regarding terrorism, Deep Throat s principle is bang on: follow the money. R. James Woolsey, venture partner, VantagePoint, and former Director of Central Intelligence, US A detailed study by a true scholar-practitioner, Unfunding Terror explains the legal response to terror finance in language accessible to both the expert and layman. Required reading. Matthew Levitt, Director, Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Intelligence and Analysis, US Professor Gurulé is comprehensive: he describes the problem (terrorist funding by those in the free world), analyzes the legal responses (make it a crime, freeze terrorist assets, impose regulations on financial institutions), critiques the administration s and international community s efforts to unfund terrorists (political rhetoric, not in fact backed up with effective strategies or implementation), and outlines concrete legal and administrative remedies. Would that they to whom the recommendations are addressed act on them quickly. Too much is at stake to let terrorists, who condemn the West as corrupt, get their funding to attack the US and its allies from the West itself. That would be a form of social suicide. G. Robert Blakey, Notre Dame Law School, US The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of 2,973 innocent civilians required as much as $500,000 to stage. At the time, al Qaeda was operating on an annual budget of between $30 and $50 million. However, despite the obvious fact that terrorists need money to terrorize, preventing the financing of terrorism was not a priority for the United States or the international community prior to 9/11. Jimmy Gurulé, former Under Secretary for Enforcement in the US Department of the Treasury, provides the first book-length, comprehensive analysis of the legal regime that evolved following the terrorist attacks. The book begins with a discussion of how shutting down the pipelines of funding is as important as dismantling the terrorist cells themselves. Next, the book covers the various means and methods used by terrorist groups to raise money, and examines how money is transferred globally to finance their lethal activities. The principal components of the legal strategy to disrupt the financing of terrorism are then discussed and evaluated. Unfortunately, the author concludes that the legal regime has met with mixed results, and finds that the sense of urgency to deprive terrorists of funding that existed following 9/11 has since dissipated. As a result, international efforts to freeze terrorist assets have dramatically declined. Moreover, the US Department of Justice has suffered several embarrassing and disappointing legal defeats in prosecuting major terrorist financiers. The author provides numerous recommendations to Congress, the Executive Branch, and the UN Security Council for strengthening the legal regime to deny terrorists the money needed to wage global jihad, acquire weapons of mass destruction, and launch another terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11. Unfunding Terror fills an important gap in the literature and will be essential reading for counter-terrorism experts, law enforcement and national se
Download or read book Counterterror Initiatives in the Terror Finance Program written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Terrorism Inc written by Colin P. Clarke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This in-depth, historical analysis of terrorism investigates the major funding streams of terrorists, insurgents, guerrillas, warlords, militias, and criminal organizations throughout the world as well as the efforts of the international community to thwart their efforts. Terrorist financing is an ongoing game of creating, concealing, and surreptitiously utilizing funds. This intriguing book considers every facet of guerrilla funding—from how activities are financed, to what insurgents do with the revenue they generate, to the range of countermeasures in place for deterring their moneymaking activities. Case studies prompt an analysis of past government responses and inform recommendations for countering irregular warfare worldwide. Author Colin P. Clarke presents the business side of terrorism, taking a look at the cash-producing ventures he labels "gray activities" such as diaspora support, charities, fraudulent businesses, front companies, and money laundering as well as "dark activities" including kidnapping for ransom, robbery, smuggling, trafficking, and extortion. He considers the transnational efforts to stop terrorist activities—from wiretaps and electronic surveillance to financial sanctions and the freezing of funds and accounts—and points to the emergence of interagency task forces for detaining and destroying the operations of major criminal organizations across the globe.
Download or read book The Global War on Terrorist Finance written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Terrorist Financing written by Loren Yager and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrorist groups need significant amounts of money to organize, recruit, train, & equip adherents. U.S. disruption of terrorist financing can raise the costs & risks & impede their success. This report: (1) provides an overview of U.S. gov't. efforts to combat terrorist financing abroad; & (2) examines U.S. gov't. efforts to coordinate training & technical assistance. It also examines specific accountability issues the Dept. of the Treasury faces in its efforts to block terrorists' assets held under U.S. jurisdiction. Includes recommendations.
Download or read book Terrorist Financing written by Loren Yager and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Terrorism Financing written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financing Terrorism written by Dr Michael Freeman and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without money, terrorists cannot function as organizations and cannot conduct attacks. Yet the questions remain, how vulnerable are terrorists to financial disruptions? Can governments put pressure on their finances in meaningful ways or are they too resilient and adaptive to be affected by state actions? These and other questions about terrorism financing are vigorously debated by scholars and policymakers, particularly since the attacks of September 11th 2001 . While there is a growing literature on policy issues, strategies, and countermeasures, states must first understand their enemies before developing strategies to defeat them. So, instead of focusing on the state response, this book asks a more foundational question: How do different terrorist groups actually raise money? What are their budgets? What do their portfolios look like? How have they changed over time? What are the advantages and disadvantages of different sources of financing? The book includes case studies of 11 different terrorist groups or sets of groups within a country. It is clear that each group has a different portfolio tailored to their needs and their environment and this makes countering terrorist financing more challenging for the state. This topical book will be required reading for all students and scholars interested in terrorism financing as well as those working in government agencies tasked with combating terrorist groups and their financial resources.
Download or read book Terrorist financing better strategic planning needed to coordinate U S efforts to deliver counterterrorism financing training and technical assistance abroad report to congressional requesters written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Terrorist Financing written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Terrorist financing U S agencies should systematically assess terrorists use of alternative financing mechanisms written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disrupting Threat Finances written by Wesley J. L. Anderson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the ways the U.S. gov¿t. can effectively fight terrorist org. beyond simply trying to deny terrorist access to financing. The U.S. gov¿t. can use financial info. as the ¿string¿ that leads to all aspects of terrorist oper. By disrupting access to financial resources and, more importantly, following its trail, the U.S. gov¿t. through coordinated intelligence, investigations, prosecutions, sanctions, and diplomacy within the Interagency, private sector, allies, and partner nations, can enhance U.S. security, disrupt terrorist operations and mitigate terrorist effects on U.S. strategic interests. The disruption of terrorist financing is an effective way to enhance U.S. security, disrupt terrorist operations, and mitigate terrorist effects on U.S. strategic interests. Illustrations.
