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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 Gurule, 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 security officials, policy makers, academics and all
those interested in the global war on terror.
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 Gurule, 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 security officials, policy makers, academics and all
those interested in the global war on terror.
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