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  Funding (Islamic) Terrorism: Sources and Methods
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Narcoterrorism is defined as the use of illicit drugs to advance political purposes and to fund terrorist activities. Greed, corruption, hypocrisy, and willful blindness among bankers, financial institutions, and to some extent lawmakers and law enforcement officials all over the world have made drug money and other illicit funds easy to launder and hide. The evidence is clear that the drug/terrorism axis is a worldwide problem and is not limited to the Taliban and bin Laden. It includes organizations like Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the PLO and the Hizballah and Syria in the Middle East. To confront global terrorism, especially Radical Muslim organizations, we need to cut off their money. Thus, we must also fight their support systems: criminal organizations, money launderers, and illegal drug producers and traffickers. By Rachel Ehrenfeld; Edited by Rajan Gupta and Mario R. Perez. [Workshop held at Los Alamos National Laboratory March 25-29, 2002]

  The Role of Islamic Charities in International Terrorist Recruitment and Financing
» 82.8 KB - 3,467 hits - 2 June 2010
The roots of the contemporary radicalisation and support to terrorism can be traced back two decades to the organisational lessons of the Soviet-Afghan war. At the time a number of sympathetic NGOs provided various kind of assistance which proved to be invaluable in the longterm struggle. By clothing their militant activity with charitable ideals, radical militants discovered that they were able to maintain their level of efficiency while working with very few restrictions on an international level. The practice of radical and militant involvement with NGOs and charitable organisations continues today, and an understanding of the linkages between radicalisation and the NGO community is necessary when considering development interventions. Prominent among the coalition organizations participating in the Gaza flotilla for the Gaza Strip is the Turkish IHH (Insani Yardim Vakfi, IHH, “humanitarian relief fund”). It is a radical Islamic organization, established in 1992 by a member of the Turkish Refah Party and formally registered in Istanbul in 1995 and has been linked to al-Qaeda. See page 14-18 and 21. [By Evan F. Kohlmann - Danish Institute for International Studies, DIIS]

  The Union of Good: A Global Muslim Brotherhood Hamas Fundraising Network
» 716.7 KB - 1,518 hits - 17 July 2010
The Union of Good is a coalition of Islamic charities that provides financial support to both the Hamas “social” infrastructure, as well as its terrorist activities. It is headed by global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi, and most of the trustees and member organizations are associated with the global Muslim Brotherhood. The Union of Good was banned by Israel in 2002 and was recently designated a terrorist entity by the United States, although neither Youssef Qaradawi nor any of the Trustees were similarly designated. Despite the fact that action has been taken against some of its member organizations in Europe, many of its other European member organizations continue to operate. Further, the Union of Good itself does not appear to be under investigation in Europe. [A NEFA Foundation Report, By Steve Merley, Jan. 2009]

  Global Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing Threat Assessment, July 2010
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A view of how and why criminals and terrorists abuse finances, the effect of this abuse and the steps to mitigate these threats. The Global Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Threat Assessment (GTA) report provides an assessment of the global systemic ML/TF threats. The document is aimed at raising the level of understanding of these threats and their negative impact, and help governments to take decisive action to minimise the harms they can cause. The report is based on the in-depth typologies studies and the FATF's Strategic Surveillance Initiative. This report was prepared by a team of experts from across the globe. Published July 2010. (The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an independent inter-governmental body that develops and promotes policies to protect the global financial system against money laundering and terrorist financing. The FATF Recommendations are recognised as the global anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CFT) standard. For more information about the FATF, please visit the website: www.FATF-GAFI.org)

  The Nazi Roots of Palestinian Nationalism and Islamic Jihad
» 194.0 KB - 791 hits - 20 June 2010
From the introduction: The Muslim groups [al-Qaeda, Taliban, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood] which today threaten the West with terrorism, subversion and insurgency, and which, in their own words, seek to bring about a global totalitarian empire are not only fascist in the broad sociological sense, but can trace their literal historical origins to Nazism and its genocidal ambitions. [A publication of the David Horowitz Freedom Center; copyright ©2007; By David Meir-Levi]

  Behavioral Problems and Disorders among Radical Islamists in Dutch Police Files
» 228.8 KB - 624 hits - 13 July 2017
From the abstract: "In this article we explore to what extent behavioral problems and disorders can be found in a sample of radical Islamists that are known to the police in the Netherlands as actual or potential ‘jihadists’. Our aims are, first, to assess whether the consensus in terrorism studies that terrorists are ‘surprisingly normal’ is justified when it comes to these subjects; second, we try to establish whether behavioral histories offer clues to the police on how to approach them." (by Anton W. Weenink, Senior Researcher in the Central Unit of the National Police of the Netherlands; Perspectives on Terrorism, Volume 9, Issue 2, April 2015)