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Possible ties to murky finance system examined (2010-05-15) Bryan Bender Boston Globe WASHINGTON — An informal money-exchange network known as “hawala’’ — a centuries-old system that operates outside conventional banking networks — is at the center of the investigation into three Pakistanis arrested Thursday in Massachusetts and Maine with alleged ties to the suspect in the failed Times Square bomb plot, law enforcement officials said yesterday. The men, who were detained on More >> |
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A Recession In Terrorism Finance? (2009-05-29) Rachel Ehrenfeld inFocus - Summer 2009 The economic downturn and instability of the financial markets in the West has battered global economies. Despite the accompanying drop in oil prices, the current financial crisis has actually presented opportunities to expedite the influence and extend the global reach of Islamism in ways Sunni imams and Shiite mullahs could have only fantasized about before. Saudi & Gulf More >> |
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Where Is Saudi Support For Taliban Victims? (2009-05-12) Rachel Ehrenfeld Forbes Magazine A conspicuous lack of aid shows where the Kingdom stands. Conspicuously, neither Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz nor the rulers of any Arab or Muslim state are holding special national telethons to help raise funds for some 400,000 new Pakistani refugees. Many fled their homes after the Taliban took over the Swat valley, and others were forced to leave amid the fierce More >> |
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Misery Pays (2009-03-09) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld The Huffington Post Giving $5.2 billion to the Palestinian Authority (PA) will do little to bring real change in the condition of the Palestinian refugees or security in the Middle East. Instead of rebuilding the "shelters" in the refugee camps as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has done for decades, this huge sum of money should go to build new communities, More >> |
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Where Hamas Gets Its Money (2009-01-16) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Forbes.com Amid international condemnation of Israel, one would never guess that humanitarian aid and even cash is flowing into Hamas coffers, while its rockets continue to hit Israel. It is important to alleviate the suffering of innocent Palestinians. However, since Gaza is under Hamas control, we have to ask: Will aid reach the suffering populace? If the past is any indication, most funds and supplies More >> |
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Clinton's Iranian Connection (2009-01-02) Rachel Ehrenfeld Forbes.com On Dec. 19, 2008. at 2 p.m., the New York-based Alavi Foundation, which supports Iranian causes, contributed between $25,000 and $50,000 to the William J. Clinton Foundation. This can be best described as the ultimate chutzpah, for on the very same day, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York indicted the president of the Alavi Foundation, Farshid Jahedi, "on a charge of More >> |
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EHRENFELD: Israel's suicidal choice (2008-08-22) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld The Washington Times Shortly after the citizens of the Israeli town of Sderot suffered another rocket attack from Hamas-controlled Gaza, Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered all border crossings between Israel and Gaza closed. At the same time, also on Mr. Barak's orders, a Brink's armored car carrying NIS 72 million in cash ($20 million), delivered its load at the Erez crossing to a similarly secure vehicle of a More >> |
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Terror's financiers (2008-01-17) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen Washington Times The antiquated Securities and Exchange Commission's computer system prevents investigators from safeguarding U.S. market integrity. "It's like working with one hand tied behind their backs," Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley commented about the Dec. 17 release of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report he'd initiated — "SEC: Opportunities Exist to Improve Oversight of Self-Regulatory More >> |
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There are Better Ways to Stop Funds for Terror (2007-05-24) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld The Terror Finance Blog In retaliation to the intensifying Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza, the IDF conducted aerial attacks on businesses involved in transferring funds to terror organizations. According to the IDF's spokesperson, "The IDF carried out aerial attacks against money changers' offices and businesses in the Gaza Strip which have been transferring funds from Iran, Syria and Lebanon for the More >> |
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Terror, crime go digital (2007-05-23) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and John Wood UPI NEW YORK, May 23 (UPI) -- Emerging digital technologies to move money instantaneously and anonymously open up new possibilities for criminals and terrorists, while regulatory and law-enforcement agencies are limping far behind. On May 3, at the release of the 2007 Money Laundering Strategy, the U.S. Treasury spokesperson was pleased to note: "Focusing on well-established money laundering More >> |
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How Terrorists Send Money (2007-05-01) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and John Wood UPI http://www.upi.com/International_Intelligence/Analysis/2007/05/01/outside_view_how_terrorists_send_money/ WASHINGTON, May 1 (UPI) -- Advanced mobile technology, cooperation between international mobile communications providers and international financial institutions and the lack of regulations make for a swift, cheap, mostly untraceable money transfer -- known as "m-payments" -- anywhere, More >> |
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Terrorist Funding in Real Time (2007-04-11) Rachel Ehrenfeld and John Wood American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/04/terrorist_funding_in_real_time.html Migrant workers, terrorists, criminals, and anyone holding a mobile telephone are rejoicing. Already many are able to transfer money (m-payments) anywhere anytime, efficiently and inexpensively. Technological advances and cooperation between international mobile communications providers and major international financial More >> |
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Funding terror (2007-03-15) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and John Wood Washington Times http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20070314-095356-2914r.htm We are on the cusp of a new era of terror financing, that of mobile payments or "m-payments." An m-payment system is being developed by members of the GSM Association to enable migrant workers and the poor who do not have bank accounts to transfer money internationally, efficiently and inexpensively. According to the World Bank, 175 More >> |
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The World Bank continuing Aid to Palestinian Terrorism (2007-03-07) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld The Terror Finance Blog http://terrorfinance.typepad.com/the_terror_finance_blog/ The World Bank released on March 7 its report on the Palestinian Authority. While critical pf the PA¹s lack of transparency and inability and/or unwillingness to account for the hundreds of millions it received from donors, including $100 million in tax revenues given by Israel directly to PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas, the Bank also urges More >> |
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Propagating terror (2007-02-21) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Washington Times http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20070220-091154-3785r.htm Six years after al Qaeda attacked the United States, many policy-makers and "terrorism experts" retain the misconception that terrorism does not require large amounts of money. This myth was strengthened first with the September 11 Commission's report in 2003 and later reinforced by its October 2005 Progress Report, giving the More >> |
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Saudi Charity Begins ... Nowhere (2006-07-07) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23261 Upon hearing Warren Buffett’s announcement on June 25, 2006, of giving $37 billion to charitable foundations, mostly to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the director of the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Nihad Awad, declared that Muslim organizations “are lagging behind,” only because of intimidation by the West. More >> |
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Dollars For Terror with Alyssa A. Lappen (2006-04-21) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22143 Humanitarian aid is universally understood to provide “assistance to victims of natural disasters, war situations or other catastrophic events.” However, now this definition is expanding to include aiding a terrorist regime. Under the guise of “humanitarian aid,” money is beginning to flow to the HAMAS government. To date, Saudi More >> |
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Funding Terror (2006-04-07) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21944 Some $125 million of “humanitarian aid” made the U.S. the single largest contributor to the Taliban in May of 2001. Soon after, following 9/11, the U.S. declared war on this terrorist regime. Today, the U.S. is also the largest donor of “humanitarian aid” to the Palestinians, despite their democratic choice More >> |
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Testimony of Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, Director (2005-10-26) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Canadian Parliment http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications102605.htm Testimony of Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, Director American Center for Democracy www.public-integrity.org before the SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND NATIONAL SECURITY OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS, PUBLIC SAFETY AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA I thank the Committee for More >> |
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Saudi Dollars and Jihad (2005-10-24) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19938 Earlier this month, President George W. Bush finally declared that our war is with Radical Islam. He said: “In pursuit of their goals, Islamic Radicals are empowered by helpers and enablers…They are strengthened by front operations – such as corrupted charities – and those who aggressively fund the spread of More >> |
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Funding Palestinian terror with Gen. Paul Vallely (2005-09-21) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Paul Vallely FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20050920-100501-4682r.htm The U.S. government has exempted itself — and gone against its established policy on terror, again — from requirements to stop terror financing by giving $50 million to the Palestinian Authority, which continues to incite and support terrorism and provide sanctuary for known and established terrorist organizations (Hamas, Islamic Jihad, More >> |
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Tax Dollars for Terror (2005-09-09) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19429 Thanks to U.S. generosity, the Palestinian Authority will now have $50 million with which to ensure that terrorism against Israel continues. According to Palestinian Minister for Prisoner Affairs, Sufayan Abu Zayda, his office receives $4 million a month from the PA to support Palestinian terrorists held in Israeli prisons. On More >> |
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Funding Terrorism (2005-08-09) Video Lou Dobbs, CNN http://www.intelligencesummit.org/news/RachelEhrenfeld/RE080905.php |
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The Business of Terror (2005-06-17) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18450 On May 11, 2005, Muhamed Mubayyid was arrested and charged in Boston’s District Court for filing false tax returns on behalf of Care International, for which he acted as treasurer.[1] Mubayyid was also the Customer Services manager of the company known as Ptech, a privately owned technology company based in Quincy, Massachusetts.[2] More >> |
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Dollars of Terror (2005-04-18) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17730 When referring to the enemy’s money we are usually concerned with how the terrorists collect the funds they need. As we know, the government efforts to stop terrorists financing have not been very successful thus far. However, equally, if not more disturbing is the possibility that terrorists may be using their money to buy More >> |
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Block the money, stop the killing (2004-12-13) Ruthie Blum THE JERUSALEM POST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1102907977474 The biggest problem for the Palestinians now is not the money that's gone," says Rachel Ehrenfeld, "but how the billions in new aid that will be given to them is handled." Petite and stylish, Ehrenfeld cuts an unlikely figure for someone dedicated to exposing the financial corruption that feeds More >> |
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Terror Financing: Myth and Reality (2004-11-27) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Jerusalem Summit “The terrorists aren’t waiting for us to get our enforcement act together. While we struggle over how to restructure our agencies, they’re squirreling away money to fund their attacks. Shutting down terrorism financing must be an urgent and high priority,” warned Senator Chuck Grassley in March 2004.1 However, not everybody shared his logic. Both the 9/11 Commission and More >> |
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Doing Business with Terrorists (2004-09-21) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15167 On September 10th, a day after Al Haramain designation, its website (www.alharamain.org), which is registered and run by Al-Buthe, disingenuously stated that America's financial war on terror is doomed to failure because it is "smearing anyone who attempted to understand the root causes of anti-American terrorism," and that in the More >> |
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Show Me The Money: The 9/11 Commission and Saudi Arabia. (2004-08-17) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ehrenfeld200408170825.asp The final report of the 9/11 Commission contains many useful recommendations, but on at least one score it is critically deficient. In its study, the Commission fails to identify the major sources of financing for the al Qaeda organization Instead, the report claims that "there is no convincing evidence that any government More >> |
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Dollars For Terror (2004-08-12) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications58.htm Nevertheless, the U.S. government seems to be dragging its feet on indicting those who finance Islamist terrorists - based, in large part, on their identity. What else could explain the conspicuous lack of an indictment against the Amman-based Arab Bank, which has been instrumental in transferring donations from the Holy Land More >> |
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Ashcroft slow to prosecute Muslim charities who fund terror groups (2004-08-11) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld jewishworldreview.com http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications59.htm Whenever the Attorney General's office announces a score in the War on Terror, it does so with great fanfare - and then too often drags its feet. What gives? To emerge victorious in the war on terror, the United States and it allies need to quickly identify the direst threats and eliminate them with rapid, pinpoint responses. On More >> |
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Arafat's Billions (2004-07-23) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld The New York Sun http://daily.nysun.com/Default/Client.asp?Enter=true&skin=NYSun&Daily= NYS&GZ=T&AW=1090571233562 Ms. Ehrenfeld is the author of "Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It" and is the director of the American Center for Democracy. The news about Yasser Arafat's demise still proves to be premature. As long as the official Palestinian Authority daily Al Hayat Al Jadida calls More >> |
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Arafat's Pilfered Profits (2004-07-22) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=14339 The news about Arafat's demise proved yet again to be premature. He is continuing to demonstrate that despite tottering under the failure of the Intifada against the Israelis, the Bush Administration's disgust, the UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen's reprimand, and even the growing resentment of a large portion of the Palestinian population, More >> |
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Familiar Scene (2004-04-14) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ehrenfeld200404140848.asp "I am the beating arm for Hezbollah and Hamas here in Iraq," declared Muqtada al-Sadr last week. Yet, despite President's Bush's statement Tuesday night that "The violence we are seeing in Iraq is familiar, " the U.S. fails to directly acknowledge that there is no difference between the Shiite and Sunni militias in Iraq and More >> |
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Funding Evil (2004-01-15) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=11760 Frontpage Interview has the pleasure to have Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, the author of the new book Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It, as its guest today. Dr. Ehrenfeld is the director of the New York-based American Center for Democracy, and the Center for the Study of Corruption & the Rule of Law. She is the More >> |
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Palestinian aid audit (2003-12-13) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20031212-075000-3125r This week, the International donor community has been gathered in Rome to approve another contribution of $1.2 billion to the Palestinian Authority for the 2004 budget. The United States, Japan, the European Union and Norway, are the biggest contributors, joined by the Arab League countries and the More >> |
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Aid Donors Turn a Blind Eye to Palestinian Terror (2003-12-11) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld The Wall Street Journal Europe http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ehrenfeld200312100915.asp Donors convening next week in Rome for an international conference on funding the Palestinian Authority's budget are likely to fork over a further $1 billion, ignoring the PA's ongoing use of aid to pay for terrorism. If testimony given to the European Parliament just last month is any guide, supporters of giving aid are More >> |
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The Corruption of the Palestinian Authority (2003-11-19) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld public-integrity.org http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications42.htm "War is a dream, peace is a nightmare." This statement was made by the chairman of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Yasser Arafat, on June 6, 2001 in an interview with Radio Palestine. It vividly explains both the Intefada that followed, and the continuing bloodshed in the Middle East. It also illustrates Mr. Arafat's vision for the More >> |
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Trail of Funds (2003-09-16) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications37.htm Like everyone else, I was relieved to hear that the blackout last month in Manhattan, where I live, was not caused by terrorists. Yet, I cannot forget how vulnerable and unprepared many of us were for even a blackout. Despite U.S. successes in the war on terrorism, the new laws that are meant to protect us, and some changes in More >> |
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Banking on terror (2003-02-27) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Jerusalem Post http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications30.htm A rumor that the European Parliament had passed legislation to begin an investigation into the Palestinian Authority's use of EU funds, is just that. Francois Zimeray, a MEP (Socialist Party, France) was quoted in Haaretz on February 24 as saying to the World Jewish Congress that such an investigation is underway. He either mis-spoke More >> |
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The European Union and the Palestinian Authority (2003-01-28) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld EUobserver http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications29.htm RACHEL EHRENFELD -"Instead of coming clean, the EU Commission headed by Patten, and the Conference of Presidents thought it was better to sweep the investigation under the carpet." (Photo: Rachel Ehrenfeld)EUOBSERVER / DEBATE - The European Union's inability to join the US in its war on terrorist regimes is nothing new - it has More >> |
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Why Does The Commission Fear a PA Probe? (2003-01-28) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Sarah Zebaida The Wall Street Journal Europe http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications28.htm Don't Europeans have a right to know how a terrorist spends their money? The European Union has given Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority 540 Million euros since 2000, and the PA has yet to produce a comprehensive account of what it's done with the funds. And yet the European Parliament has still not gathered the signatures More >> |
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EU funds for PA terror (2003-01-24) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Sarah Zebaida World Net Daily http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30653 Time is running out for the European members of Parliament to launch a probe into the longstanding claim that the Palestinian Authority has misused European taxpayers' money to finance terrorist attacks. The British MEP Charles Tannock initiated a petition six months ago to investigate how 540 million euros of aid given to the PA More >> |
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Understanding Terrorist Financing (2002-09-24) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Washington Forum http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications23.htm Mr. Chairman, members, and distinguished guests, it is my honor to contribute to these discussions on the subject of terrorist financing. I'm here to shed light on the past, with the hope that this prologue of terrorist funding can be used as a tool to hasten its epilogue. Terrorism is about gaining power through violence, and More >> |
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Arafat¹s Purse: What it funds (2002-09-13) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications22.htm Palestinians deserve a government that serves their interests and listens to their voices," said President George W. Bush in his address to the U.N. Thursday. But Palestinian reform, thus far, is a case of déjà vu all over again. Arafat is still running the place, and no major changes have occurred in the Palestinian Authority. More >> |
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Arafat¹s Legacy (2002-08-31) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-ehrenfeld103102.asp The U.S. approach to curtail money flow to terrorists is inadequate," an Independent Task Force on Terrorist Financing, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, concluded earlier this month. The verdict came on the heels of Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus's statement: "I'm getting the feeling that we really More >> |
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Arafat¹s Stash (2002-08-15) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-ehrenfeld081502.asp Yesterday's news that Yasser Arafat has a $1.3 billion personal slush fund is no surprise. The information disclosed by Israel's military- intelligence chief emphasized that the stash was not skimmed from aid intended for the Palestinian people (donated by the likes of USAID and the EU), but he refrained from identifying the More >> |
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Where Does the Money Go? A Study of the Palestinian Authority (2002-08-01) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld public-integrity.org Contents The Palestinian Authority: Where Does the Money Go? 3 The PLO 3 The PA 4 Funding to the PA from International Donors 5 Funding to the PA from Crime and corruption 6 Major Sources of the PA’s Illegal Revenues 7 International Aid Directed to Terror 11 Arafat’s Personal Involvement in Funding Terrorism 14 Additional Unacceptable Activities Funded by the More >> |
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And a Thief, Too: Yasser Arafat takes what he likes (2002-07-29) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications18.htm President Bush's call to change the Palestinian leadership and to bring reform, accountability, and transparency to the Palestinian Authority should focus attention on the financial corruption of Arafat's regime. Before Bush's speech, Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, accurately summed up the situation in the San Jose More >> |
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Funding Terrorism:A Speech given at Aviation Week' (2001-11-27) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld public-integrity.org http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications11.htm The terrorists who killed thousands of innocent people while destroying the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan and damaging the Pentagon, delivered a very clear and sobering message: The country that leads the free world is vulnerable. Indeed, watching the World Trade Center disappear in flames and smoke from the window of my More >> |
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U.S. ignored money trail: Bush is doomed to fail if he doesn't cut off financing of terrorists (2001-09-12) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld public-integrity.org http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications10.htm In the welter of events following the bombing of the World Trade Center in Feb. 26, 1993, few noticed that the first man arrested, Mohammed Salameh -- the poor, unemployed illegal immigrant -- offered $5 million for bail. Where could he get this kind of money? The judge refused bail. But was the source of Salameh's offer the same More >> |
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Evil's Unwitting Helper (2001-09-12) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld public-integrity.org http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications9.htm The murderous terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan and damaged the Pentagon, delivered a very clear and sobering message yesterday: The leader of the free world is vulnerable. Blame and responsibility for the most devastating terrorist attack in American history must be la yedesterday's mayhem. The More >> |
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