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- Title
Financial Counterintelligence: Fractioning the Lifeblood of Asymmetrical Warfare.
- Authors
Godlewski, R. J.
- Abstract
Despite the fact that most terrorist attacks, including those undertaken on September 11, 2001, represent relatively low-cost endeavors, the price for maintaining a global terror network runs in the billions of dollars annually. These funds are required for recruitment, operating training bases and camps, providing food and housing, purchasing explosives and weapons, forging identity papers and travel documents, gathering intelligence, communications, bribery, and maintaining the daily expenses of operatives awaiting their assignments. Because of these great expenses, a global terrorism operation must fund itself through illicit activities (narcotics, vice crimes, etc.), state support, and various legitimate businesses. Stopping this funding requires not only aggressive counterterrorism actions, but infringing upon the legitimate practices of front corporations which may or may not understand their role in global destruction and death.
- Subjects
UNITED States; INTELLIGENCE service; SEPTEMBER 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; FINANCING of counterterrorism; COUNTERTERRORISM policy; COUNTERTERRORISM laws; MILITARY intelligence
- Publication
American Intelligence Journal, 2011, Vol 29, Issue 2, p24
- ISSN
0883-072X
- Publication type
Article