The Political Economy of Islamic Charities and Terrorist Financing
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Looney, Robert
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2005-11-29
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A commonly held view of terrorist financing that has emerged since
September 11, 2001, is that of a global formal and informal financial system
that terrorists can manipulate with ease. Diverse and dispersed sources of
funding and methods of transferring funds are exploited by equally
decentralized and flexible terrorist networks that can easily shift from one
means to another in response to efforts to thwart their activities. Terrorists are
also believed to rely on a variety of increasingly self-contained mechanisms like
independent criminal ventures, diversion of funds from charities, and licit
business ventures.
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Paper Prepared for the CENTRA Conference on Terrorism Financing
Arlington, VA November 29, 2005
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National Security Affairs
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CENTRA Conference on Terrorism Financing
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.