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Severing the Taliban Lifeline (2010-07-09) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld BIGPEACE.COM General David Petraeus' new command over the war in Afghanistan should be accompanied by a drastic change in U.S. policies that have turned this failed state into the world's leading source of opium and Hashish . |
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Deterring Terrorists: What Israel Has Learned (2010-06-01) Shmuel Bar Policy Review “Only when not a single breach is visible in the iron wall, only then do extreme groups lose their sway, and influence transfers to moderate groups. Only then would these moderate groups come to us with proposals for mutual concessions.” — Ze’ev Jabotinsky, “The Iron Wall,” November 4, 1923 (First published by Policy Review, June & July 2008, No. 149) More >> |
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Defund the Taliban (2010-05-06) Rachel Ehrenfeld Huffington Post Drug money is funding the Taliban's increasingly numerous and bolder attacks in Afghanistan. Yet, the United States has shifted its policy from eradicating poppy fields - the source of the high-grade cheap heroin that feeds at least 93% of the world's opiate addiction - to interdiction. The U.S. now targets about 50 known Afghan drug traffickers with Taliban ties. According to Pentagon spokesman More >> |
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Turning the battle against drugs (2010-04-27) Rachel Ehrenfeld and Aylana Meisel The Washington Times On his recent surprise visit to Afghanistan, President Obama properly criticized the government for ignoring corruption and mismanagement. At the same time, the United States' current policy allows Afghan opium production, the major funding source for the Taliban. It is the drug trade, which permeates every corner of government and Afghan society, that fosters corruption, dysfunction and More >> |
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Jihad Jane's allies in the courts (2010-03-15) Rachel Ehrenfeld NY Daily News |
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If We Want to Protect America's Airports, We Must Profile (2010-03-08) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Huffington Post The Christmas Day attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 brought our minds sharply back to the threat our nation faces on a daily basis from terrorist organizations and financiers. In 2003, then-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, commenting on new Al-Qaeda threats to conduct a series of homicide hijackings of U.S. airplanes, remarked that airline passengers were much more More >> |
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Hamas' Line of Defence to Goldstone Report (2010-02-02) Jonathan Dahohah Halvei Shalom Life Israel has recently delivered to the United Nations Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon its official response to the UN’s fact finding mission to Operation Cast Lead, headed by Judge Richard Goldstone. Hamas’ government is also preparing to submit its official response before the grace period of six months set to the parties by the Goldstone committee is over. In sharp contrast to the genuine fears More >> |
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U.S. Authorities Claim Al-Qaeda has Financial Difficulties (2009-10-13) Chris Dade Digital Journal A senior official at the U.S. Treasury is claiming that al-Qaeda has encountered financial difficulties and during the course of the year has made more than one appeal for funds. Rachel Ehrenfeld said... "They call themselves the Taliban, they call themselves Al Qaeda, they call themselves many names, all kind of Jihadist organizations. At the same time they are training together and they More >> |
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Brazil Threatens Americans' Free Speech (2009-09-30) Rachel Ehrenfeld Townhall.com Americans writers' free expression is under attack by foreign courts. In the most recent assault, a Brazilian widow is suing an American reporter in a Brazilian court for allegedly defaming the entire nation of Brazil. She claims Joseph M. Sharkey, a New Jersey - based freelance travel columnist for the New York Times, offended the "dignity" of Brazil by criticizing its incompetent air-traffic More >> |
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Winning the War in Afghanistan (2009-09-30) Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com While the Obama administration is debating whether to escalate the war in Afghanistan, there may be a better solution for stabilizing the country. No one expects Afghanistan to become a peaceful, self-sustaining democracy overnight. However, without an effective strategy to turn the situation around, the surge is likely to result in the unnecessary loss of human lives and billions of dollars, More >> |
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The End of Libel Tourism? (2009-09-14) Rachel Ehrenfeld Index on Censorship Libel tourist Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz has left an unexpected legacy, says Rachel Ehrenfeld. US reporters will soon be free from the threat of English libel laws Sheikh Khalid bin Mahfouz, who made “libel tourism” infamous, died in Jeddah on August 15. The Saudi royal family’s banker, bin Mahfouz, was a regular on the Forbes billionaires list. Even so, it took the New York Times two More >> |
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Ahmadinejad -- the Economic Reformer (2009-09-03) Rachel Ehrenfeld The Huffington Post On September 9, Iran will stage one of its biggest economic shams, seemingly selling fifty percent of its telecommunication company, Iran Telecom (TCI), to private investors. The well-advertised "privatization" of the company, described as "the biggest of its kind in the history of Tehran Stock Exchange," is expected to fill Iran's depleted coffers with $7.9 billion. In addition, Iran plans to More >> |
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Death of a Libel Tourist (2009-08-25) Rachel Ehrenfeld & Millard Burr FrontPageMagazine.com Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz died in Jeddah last Saturday. The 60-year-old former owner of the Saudi National Commercial Bank and banker for the Royal family also owned a charity, the Muwafaq (blessed relief) Foundation that funded al-Qaeda and Hamas, to name but a few. He should be remembered not only because of his involvement with the shady Bank for Commerce and Credit International More >> |
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Libyan Oil Is Thicker Than American Blood (2009-08-21) Rachel Ehrenfeld The Huffington Post In a chillingly cynical excuse Scotland released the former Libyan intelligence agent Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi who blew up Pan Am flight 103 in December 1988 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The pretext "compassion" for the allegedly terminally ill Libyan, barely disguised the real reason -- oil buried deep in the Libyan sand. The murder of 189 dead American, and 81 other nationals including 11 More >> |
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ObamaCare's Medical Marijuana (2009-08-14) Rachel Ehrenfeld Forbes Magazine George Soros must be thrilled. Two hundred days into the Obama administration, and 16 years after Soros began his advocacy for drug legalization and promoting "medical marijuana," the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is venturing into the marijuana cigarettes production and distribution. According to the Aug. 5 solicitation for proposals, the selected organizations will be controlled by More >> |
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When America's Enemies Experience Domestic Unrest (2009-06-22) Leslie S. Lebl The American Thinker In 1980, following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a joke circulated in Warsaw: "What's the difference between Afghanistan and Poland? Answer: Afghanistan begins with an "A" and Poland with a "P". In other words, Poland might be Western and more prosperous but, in the end, it was just as vulnerable as Afghanistan to Soviet coercion. That joke, however, has resonance today. The summer More >> |
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U.S. Bails Out Palestinian Terrorism…Again (2009-06-01) Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com The Obama administration militarizes the Palestinians. The May 28 meeting between President Barak Obama and Palestinian Authority leader, Mahmoud Abbas, confirms that this Administration, like its predecessors, refuses to learn from the past. In yet another déjà-vu, the U.S. unconditional support to the Palestinians is persisting despite the fact that the Palestinians have never upheld More >> |
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Does Iran Harbor Osama bin Laden? (2009-04-02) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Huffington Post Posted April 2, 2009 | 01:40 PM (EST) Osama Bin Laden is in Iran, asserts Alan Howell Parrot, the director of The Union for the Conservation of Raptors (UCR - www.savethefalcons.org). In fact, he has been stating this, offering evidence of Bin Laden’s sighting in Iran, since November 2004 to a great number of U.S. government officials at the Department of Defense, the FBI, Senators, and even More >> |
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Defeating Narco-Terrorism (2009-03-17) Rachel Ehrenfeld Huffington Post Narco-terrorists and the international criminal organizations that thrive on the illegal drug trade now threaten the national security of many nations. The nexus between transnational criminal organizations and terrorist groups does not end with illegal drug trafficking. Their partnerships are complex, linking illegal drugs, money, geography and politics. Yet, U.S. and international 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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Stop The Afghan Drug Trade, Stop Terrorism (2009-02-26) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Forbes.com "The fight against drugs is actually the fight for Afghanistan," said Afghan President Hamid Karzai when he took office in 2002. Judging by the current situation, Afghanistan is losing. To win, the link between narcotics and terrorism must be severed. That is the necessary condition for a successful strategy to undermine the growing influence of al-Qaida, the Taliban and radical Muslim groups More >> |
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Libel Tourism Testimony in Congress (2009-02-12) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Libel Tourism before The Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law Committee on the House Judiciary Committee Oral and Written Statement By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Oral Statement: Thank you Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, for holding this hearing on libel tourism, which affects me personally. Special thanks to Mr. Cohen for inviting me. Sitting at my desk More >> |
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US Foreign Policy in the Middle East: Thoughts for Change (2009-01-02) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and B. Wayne Quist The Huffington Post The perfect storm that the U.S. and the world faces today stems in part from failed Middle East and energy policies over many decades. Throughout this period, the U.S. has traded national security and massive wealth for a steady flow of oil. Saudi Arabia, in return, has used billions of petrodollars to fund the expansion of its repressive Wahhabi-Salafist doctrine throughout the world and funded More >> |
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EHRENFELD/ABADY: Islamic banking - Is Treasury complicit? (2008-12-11) Rachel Ehrenfeld and Samuel A. Abady The Washington Times If "cash is king," then Middle East coffers are irresistibly enticing. During a recent tour of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt applauded the "growing role" of Arab banks in the U.S. economy. Treasury is seeking buyers for its newly acquired bailout assets because more than $1 trillion in cash is urgently needed to rescue the largest U.S. More >> |
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Putin's Growing Appetite (2008-09-29) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld www.humanevents.com President George W. Bush meeting today (Monday Sept. 29) with Ukraine’s President, aims at strengthening Viktor Yushchenko’s stand against the Kremlin. On the agenda is Russia’s growing threats against and meddling in Ukraine’s domestic politics in effort to derail its pending integration into NATO. This meeting, as Bush’s condemnation of the Kremlin’s aggression towards its neighbors, and More >> |
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EHRENFELD/LAPPEN: No more appeals, Palestine must pay terror victims (2008-07-15) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen The Washington Times OP-ED: The Palestinian Authority (PA) recently asked U.S. federal courts to reopen cases it lost after refusing to defend itself against terror-funding charges. Judgments would come from U.S. and international aid, the PA argues. In both cases, Palestinian terrorists murdered American citizens. In New York, Aharon Ellis' widow sued the PA for the lethal 2002 shooting of her husband and More >> |
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America for Sale (2008-04-01) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen HUMAN EVENTS As the U.S. and Western markets plummet and the U.S. dollar continues its free fall, sovereign wealth funds (SWF) gobble up prime financial institutions, industries and real estate in the U.S. and the West. Given concerns regarding the political influence of such wealth, the U.S. Treasury, together with Abu Dhabi and Singapore, on March 20 signed an _"Agreement on Principles for Sovereign Wealth More >> |
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US Rewarding Arab Terrorism (2008-03-25) Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen NATIV The Bush Administration’s search for partners to promote “peace” and “democracy” within the Palestinian Authority (PA) resembles Lord Charles Bowen’s “blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat – which isn’t there”. For the first time, the Bush Administration plans to give $150 million in cash directly to the Palestinian Authority (PA) Treasury, as part of a $496.5 million “aid” package, More >> |
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Burning the candle at both ends (2008-03-22) Rachel Ehrenfeld & Alyssa A. Lappen THE WASHINGTON TIMES With the U.S. economy “obviously going through a tough time,” America should welcome capital investments even from foreign sovereign wealth funds, President George W. Bush asserted on March 14, 2008 at New York's Economic Club. “It's our money to begin with,” he added, referring to roughly $95 trillion in OPEC holdings of U.S. dollars and investments accumulated largely through oil sales. More >> |
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REWARDING PALESTINIAN TERRORISM (2008-02-16) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen pajamasmedia.com Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen argue that a Palestinian security plan backed by Washington calls into question President Bush’s commitment to secure Israel’s safety. by By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen Unwavering U.S. determination to fund, train, and arm more than 50,000 Palestinian “soldiers” raises serious doubts about the repeated promises More >> |
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U.S. AID for Terror (2008-02-08) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com The Bush Administration's search for partners to promote “peace” and “democracy” within the Palestinian Authority (PA) resembles Lord Charles Bowen’s “blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat -- which isn’t there.” For the first time, the Bush Administration plans to give $150 million in cash directly to the Palestinian Authority (PA) More >> |
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The Securities Bazaar: Destabilizing the U.S. Markets? (2008-01-23) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen humanevents.com All presidential candidates promise to fix our economy, but no one discusses the need to better safeguard our financial markets. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS), approved Bourse Dubai’s purchase of 20% of the America's largest electronic exchange, New York-based Nasdaq, on Dec. 31, 2007. This may soon give Dubai access to the troubled Boston Stock Exchange 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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Russia’s New 'State Oligarchy' (2007-12-17) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Human Events The landslide victory of President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party in December’s parliamentary election and Putin's nomination of Dmitry Medvedev to succeed him cements Putin's position as Russia's Leader. Now, he can freely accelerate the state’s takeover and consolidation of Russia's remaining heavy industries. Putin relies on a handful of carefully selected former More >> |
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Tithing for Terrorists (2007-10-12) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld & Alyssa A. Lappen National Review Online “Governments have political considerations,”“ said senior N.Y. Senator Charles Schumer, upon learning in September that Bourse Dubai intends to buy 20 percent of NASDAQ. Republican Senator Bob Bennett of Utah countered, saying, “Dubai is making a purchase on the open market of an asset that’s for sale. What’s wrong with that?” Senator Bennett is correct — buying portions or all of NASDAQ is More >> |
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The Camel in the Tent (2007-10-08) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen Washington Times Objections to Borse Dubai's proposed acquisition of 20 percent of Nasdaq last week prompted Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank to quip, "In the ports deal, the concern was smuggling something or someone dangerous... What Adinare we talking about here ˜ smuggling someone onto a stock exchange?" It is not "who" Dubai will smuggle into the stock exchange we should worry about. It's the arrival More >> |
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The Hamas PR Machine in America (2007-09-26) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen inFocus On August 8, the U.S. Treasury Department designated the al-Salah Society as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), calling it "one of the largest and best funded Hamas charities." Treasury revealed that Hamas had used al-Salah, "to finance its terrorist agenda." The designation was one of many actions taken against Hamas front groups dating back to 1995, when Washington first designated More >> |
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Russia's Artful Dodger (2007-09-18) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen Human Events Alcoa Inc.'s shares may have fallen 30% since their July 2007 peak, but that only makes the world's second largest aluminum producer a more tempting takeover target. A few foreign companies have expressed interest, including United Company Rusal (UCR, registered "offshore" in Jersey), now the world's largest aluminum conglomerate. Rusal's owner, a close personal friend of the Russian More >> |
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Terror Criminal Links Growing (2007-09-13) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMag.com Al Qaeda’s sophisticated new media campaign clearly demonstrates that the group does not lack funding. Contrary to popular belief, organizing, maintaining, training, and operating terrorist groups require large and liquid sums. Most terrorist organizations circumvent funding prohibitions by creating “political” and “charitable” wings, a ruse that enables their More >> |
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Web of terror (2007-08-16) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen The Washington Times On Aug. 8, the Treasury Department finally listed the Al-Salah Society as "one of the largest and best-funded Hamas charities." The director of the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), Adam Szubin, said, "Today's action alerts the word to the true nature of Al-Salah and cuts it off from the U.S. financial system." An Aug. 1 report by the Gelilot, Israel-based More >> |
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Uprooting Jihad (2007-07-11) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Washington Times In his letter "The roots of terror" (Monday), Chuck Woolery claims that we misrepresented the "root" causes for Muslim suffering. Yet, "[t]he repression, suffering and death of hundreds of millions of Muslims" does not result from Western or Israeli policies or actions, but from totalitarian, corrupt Arab and Muslim regimes and clerics who confine them to the Dark Ages. The current Sunni and More >> |
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Business...Russian Style (2007-06-27) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen Human Events The Transparency International 2007 global report released on May 24 documents widespread Russian corruption and lack of independence in Russia's legal system, and its courts in particular. This, according to the report, is due to the government’s growing political interference. Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s best-known opposition newspaper, claims that corruption in Russia is the rule, and 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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Moderate and Radical Muslims: the Confused PBS View (2007-05-07) Alyssa A. Lappen American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/05/moderate_and_radical_muslims_t.html The Public Broadcasting Service |
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What Ails Mainstream Journalism (2007-03-22) Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27499 Why do otherwise thorough reporters lose their professional skepticism when covering the Middle East and Islam? This peculiar journalistic phenomenon has puzzled me since I began covering the Middle East and Islam, in lieu of the investigative financial reporting work I had done for most of my career. Indeed, it largely motivated my 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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Can you tell a Terrorist from a (2007-01-21) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld The Terror Finance Blog http://www.terrorfinance.typepad.com/the_terror_finance_blog/ While most terrorist organizations have circumvented funding prohibitions by creating “political” and “charitable” wings - a ruse that enables their individual and state supporters to contribute “clean” money to criminal/terrorist activities – most terrorist organizations also widely engage in “common” crimes to generate funds. This More >> |
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Egypt’s role in the destabilization of the Middle (2007-01-04) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld The Terror Finance Blog http://www.terrorfinance.org/the_terror_finance_blog/2007/01/mubaraks_willfu.html At the time the international community imposes economic sanctions against the terrorist government of Hamas, Egypt facilitates the transfer of millions of dollars in cash to support and sustain it. "We don't allow money carried by Palestinians to be smuggled, but Egyptian law allows the passage of money as More >> |
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With Friends like the Brits, the U.S. does not need Enemies. (2007-01-01) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld The Terror Finance Blog http://www.terrorfinance.org/the_terror_finance_blog/2007/01/with_friends_li.html According to the London Times, “Kim Jong Il, the North Korean dictator, is planning to use the London gold market to circumvent financial sanctions imposed by the international community.” In October, 2007, after North Korea detonated a nuclear device, the UN passed a unanimous resolution imposing financial More >> |
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Carter's Arab financiers (2006-12-21) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Washington Times http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20061220-092736-3365r.htm To understand what feeds former president Jimmy Carter's anti-Israeli frenzy, look at his early links to Arab business. Between 1976-1977, the Carter family peanut business received a bailout in the form of a $4.6 million, "poorly managed" and highly irregular loan from the National Bank of Georgia (NBG). According to a July 29, More >> |
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The ISG's Dereliction of Duty (2006-12-11) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen americanthinker.com http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/12/the_isgs_dereliction_of_duty_o.html On Veterans' Day, November 11, 2005, President George W. Bush, described the determination of Islamic terrorists, who "want to end American and Western influence in the broader Middle East, because we stand for democracy and peace, and stand in the way of their ambitions....The tactics of al Qaeda and other 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 (2006-04-21) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld 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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Protecting U.S. Strategic Assets (2006-03-24) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21778 While different port security bills have been proposed after the Dubai’s retreat from the U.S. deal, few, if any tackle the issue of foreign ownership. Yet, as U.S. Rep Christopher Shays noted, “We should want to pay particular attention to this because after 9/11 we're not just fighting terrorism we are fighting radical Islamic More >> |
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WND Exclusive Commentary Embarrassing questions for Bush (2006-02-27) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen World Net Daily http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49019 Something strange is going on in our nation's capital. The lack of transparency with which the U.S. administration has handled the ports sale to Dubai Ports World is just the latest in a series of troubling incidents in which the administration tried to force its will on the public, policy and lawmakers. In the second week of More >> |
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Welcoming Terror to U.S. Ports (2006-02-24) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21413 President George W. Bush justifies the sale of the private British company that manages six U.S. ports to the government owned Dubai Ports World, saying that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a close ally of the U.S. in the war on terror. Indeed, the Jebel Ali terminal in Dubai transports at least 40% of US supplies to the troops in More >> |
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Terror's Missing Link (2006-02-13) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21263 President George W. Bush’s most recent reminder that the U.S. needs to fight the worldwide terrorism of the Islamists, ignored a major target and victim of this terrorism – Israel. In a February 9 speech at the National Guard Memorial Building, in Washington DC, the President noted many of the countries that have been the victims More >> |
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Saudi Interest in America (2006-01-17) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Washington Times http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20927 Many are aware of widespread Saudi investments in the United States, but few know how potentially harmful they are. Moreover, U.S. policy-makers remain unaware of this grave danger. On Sept. 28, 2001, after the attacks on the United States, Osama bin Laden called for financial jihad against the United States, and on Dec. 27, More >> |
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Inviting Enemies and Rejecting Friends (2006-01-11) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20850 While welcoming outspoken Islamists like Moroccan Mustafa El Khalfi and Malaysian Former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim into the U.S. on “fellowships” and as “visiting scholars,” the State Department has repeatedly denied visas to an Israeli billionaire philanthropist and ally in the U.S. War on Terror. The State Department More >> |
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Saudi Accountability? (2005-11-14) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20150 Responding to last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Saudi Arabia’s role in the war on terror, entitled “Saudi Arabia: Friend or Foe in the War on Terror?”, Riyadh’s ambassador to the U.S., Prince Turki al-Faisal, charged the committee members with ignorance. "Judging by the statements made at the hearing, it appears that More >> |
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Caving in to Palestinian Pressure (2005-09-23) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19578 Nothing seems to disrupt the momentum towards the creation of a Palestinian state that supports martyrdom, not even repeated, clear statements by Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. “[Martyrs] receive their reward in the Garden of Eden,” he told a group of students returning to school in Gaza on September 4. Those More >> |
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Funding Palestinian terror (2005-09-21) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Paul Vallely Washington Times 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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Britain’s Ostrich Mentality (2005-09-16) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19505 Not even the July attacks in London have stopped the UK legal and political systems, media and academia from serving the Islamist terror agenda. Although new anti- terrorism laws were hastily adopted after the July bombings, if the past is any guidance, the implementation of the new anti-terrorism laws will be as ineffective as the More >> |
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Katrina and the War on Terrorism (2005-09-13) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19457 The failure of governments to assist the disenfranchised citizens in Egypt, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories should be a lesson to the U.S. during the fallout from the disastrous hurricane Katrina. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Gaza, succeeded mainly because they provided the social, 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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Yes – Don't consider political correctness (2005-08-19) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld signonsandiego.com http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050819/news_1e19ehren1.html As long as political correctness trumps common sense in security matters, the American public will remain at risk. Despite the recent terror attacks in London and the discovery of more Islamist terrorist links in Europe and elsewhere, the American public continues to be misled by the misconception that "profiling" equals More >> |
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Rewarding Terror (2005-08-02) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Paul E. Vallely FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18961 The latest terror attacks in London found the West “shocked” to realize that Islamist terrorists have established a worldwide support system. This, however, should not have surprised any student of terrorism. Israel, which since the first Hamas attack on April 13, 1994, has suffered hundreds of suicide bombings in which more than More >> |
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Business as Usual in the UK (2005-07-20) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18830 While Prime Minister Tony Blair is condemning the “evil ideology” that produced last week’s bombings in London, and acknowledges that, “The extremist propaganda is cleverly aimed at their target audience,” the British allow Islamist publications, such as HAMAS’ Filisteen Almuslima (Muslim Palestine), to be published and distributed More >> |
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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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Kofi's Other Blind Spot (2005-05-22) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17795 The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) released a report on March 2, 2005, expressing its concern regarding “the increasingly sophisticated trade of opiates from Afghanistan.” Yet, Secretary-General Kofi Annan failed to even mention illegal drug trafficking as a global threat in his March 21st plan to improve international More >> |
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Dollars of Terror (2005-05-18) 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 into our More >> |
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Stop Gambling With Passengers' Lives, Install Antimissile Devices Now (2005-03-14) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Aviation Week http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications84.htm A well-tested and proven technology is available to protect America's 6,800 commercial airliners from shoulder-fired missiles. Yet, a recent RAND study, "Protecting Commercial Aviation Against the Shoulder-Fired Missile Threat," concludes that "a decision to install such systems aboard commercial airliners should be postponed until More >> |
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Jihad on the American Mind (2005-03-14) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17329 The religious and philosophical justifications for promoting Jihad –which means holy war - around the world, is found in the Quran, says Dr. Hussein Shehata, a professor at al-Azhar University in Cairo. According to Dr. Shehata, the following terms in the Quran combine to justify the spreading of Jihad: in Arabic- Al-Jihad More >> |
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The Saudi Buck Stops Here (2005-03-03) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17215 [The State Department sharply criticized Saudi Arabia for its human rights abuses in its annual report published last week. Nothing, however, is being said about Saudi Arabia's continuous funding of the spread of Wahhabism around the world. Wahhabism remains the major source of Islamist ideology and Saudi Arabia has never stopped More >> |
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Financing Osama (2005-02-25) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17135 “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). Not everybody, however, More >> |
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Sowing terror (2005-02-09) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld jpost.com http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer&cid=1107864140109&p=1006953079865 President George W. Bush is unlikely to achieve his goals of "eliminating the conditions that feed radicalism and ideologies of murder" and settling the Arab-Israeli conflict so long as his administration does not recognize the role Saudi Arabia's "charities" have had in feeding More >> |
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Business Before Safety (2005-02-07) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=16897 "It is currently not cost-effective to spend billions of dollars equipping America's 6800 commercial airliners with systems to guard against attacks from shoulder-fired missiles," concludes the latest RAND study "Protecting Commercial Aviation Against the Shoulder-Fired Missile Threat" published last week. "Cost-effective"? What is more More >> |
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Confronting the Enemies of Freedom (2005-01-24) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=579 The incoming Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice made an unsettling statement during her confirmation hearing on January 18th, saying: "We didn't understand the role of non-governmental organizations [that were] carrying out or funding terrorist activities. Others didn't understand that, in the Muslim world, like the Saudis." But More >> |
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US Ostrich Policy and the Internet (2005-01-20) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=16693 "America and the free world are once again engaged in a long-term struggle against an ideology of hatred and tyranny and terror and hopelessness. And we must confront these challenges with .vision . courage and .boldness, " stated Condoleezza Rice at her confirmation hearing today. Yet, the Iranian sponsored Hizballah is allowed to More >> |
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The Next Arafat (2005-01-05) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=16538 It is deja-vu all over again. A decade of Palestinian terror and corruption seems to be wiped clean from the memory of both the American and the European governments. Apparently, merely having an election following Yasser Arafat's death inspires instant confidence in the corrupt Palestinian leadership. As Assistant Secretary of More >> |
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Osama: The Heroin Pusher (2005-01-03) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=16510 Afghanistan no longer serves as al-Qaeda's home base. Yet, it remains the source of another great evil -- the biggest heroin supply in the world. Since its liberation, Afghanistan's heroin production has gone from 640 tons to 5,000, an increase of almost 800%. Afghanistan now supplies 87% of the world's heroin market, and at least 90% More >> |
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Afghanistan and Heroin (2005-01-03) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld New York Sun http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=7093 The liberation of Afghanistan may have ended one evil, but unless it is stopped, it is creating a bigger evil - an 800% increase in heroin production, which not only funds the Islamist terrorists, but also kills and destroys the lives of hundred of thousands around the world. In 2005, America can help stop this scourge. Afghanistan no longer serves as Al More >> |
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Blair's Palestinian Problem (2004-12-23) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=579 President Bush is clearly determined to bring peace to the Middle East. However, the pressure put on Israel by the British premier Tony Blair and World Bank President James Wolfenson will only assist in the creation of an independent terrorist Palestine. Arafat’s replacement, Mahmoud Abbas, is widely perceived as being more pragmatic than More >> |
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Ukraine's Opposition Fraud (2004-12-22) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=16387 The Election in Ukraine suffered not only from government fraud, as has been widely reported. I know because I was a member of a group of 62 U.S. and foreign observers sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Eastern Europe, a nonpartisan think-tank based in Israel. We More >> |
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Where Corruption Rules. The U.N. is thoroughly tainted. (2004-12-14) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld public-integrity.org http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications68.htm Had the U.S not gone ahead with its plan to liberate Iraq, we would have never discovered the extent of the corruption in the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food program. But while Oil-for-Food is the biggest, scope-wise, of any known corruption in an international organization, it is merely the culmination of years of corrupt U.N. practices. It More >> |
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Block the money, stop the killing (2004-12-13) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld 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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How Terrorist Propaganda Kills (2004-12-10) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=16275 Tony Blair and the Europeans are focusing their attention on the creation of a Palestinian state as the magic formula for peace in the Middle East. At the same time, they are turning a blind eye to the growing propaganda and fundraising campaign on websites and TV stations in their own countries. The Europeans’ behavior is not More >> |
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A Premature Peace (2004-11-16) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld public-integrity.org http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ehrenfeld200411160858.asp President Bush is right: Yasser Arafat's death presents the ideal opportunity for the Bush administration to help establish a democratic, viable Palestinian state. This opening has a chance to succeed only when the Palestinian leadership no longer calls for the destruction of Israel, and when the U.S. no longer attempts to appease More >> |
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The Man Who Would Be Kingmaker, Part II (2004-10-29) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15736 Democrats looking to George Soros as a moral compass may want to check to see which direction the needle is pointing. The billionaire might actually be able to help them out on that count: In the mid-1990s he posited that there was “something both phony and pompous about a financial speculator inveighing against the moral More >> |
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The Man Who Would be Kingmaker, Part I (2004-10-28) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Shawn Macomber FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15710 “If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble,” Soros once wrote. When asked to elaborate on that passage by The Independent, Soros said, “It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of God, the More >> |
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Shutting Down Cyber-Terror (2004-10-21) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld public-integrity.org http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15605 In the War on Terrorism, the terrorists may have an unusual ally: American internet service providers (ISPs). U.S.-based ISPs provide web-hosting for terrorists ranging from Hamas and Hizbullah to Palestinian Jihad. This cyber-fifth column is illegal, can be prosecuted, and must be shut down if we hope to stop Islamic More >> |
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The Soros-Kerry Nexus (2004-10-19) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Shawn Macomber FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15575 While George Soros and John Kerry were vacationing in neighboring mansions in Sun Valley, Idaho, the two men chatted on the phone but avoided a personal meeting, “because,” as Soros told USA Today, “of how it would be interpreted.” For Soros, who has put down at least $18 million to defeat Bush this year, keeping up More >> |
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George Soros: The 'God' Who Carries Around Some Dangerous Demons (2004-10-04) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Shawn Macomber LA Times http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ehrenfeld4oct04,1,2451653.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions "Frankly, I don't think I'll need to do a lot more," Democratic philanthropist George Soros bragged to USA Today just a few months ago. "I now take the defeat of Bush more or less for granted." Unfortunately for him, that defeat no longer seems so certain, so the billionaire, 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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Mending the Net (2004-09-13) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld New York Sun http://www.nysun.com/article/1614 Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda, as well as other terrorist and criminal groups, are using our communications infrastructure and our democratic belief in freedom of speech to advance their cause - spreading hate and incitement to commit terrorist acts. Terrorist groups are using Web sites to recruit, build morale, contact one another, More >> |
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The Saudi Connection: Their oil is thicker than our blood. (2004-06-01) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ehrenfeld200406010834.asp "Forum shopping" is the latest tactic employed by wealthy Saudis seeking to skirt American justice. First, the Saudis funded the World Trade Center terrorist attack that cost the lives of 3,000 Americans. Now the same Saudis are funding a cynical campaign using English libel law to attack Americans' First Amendment rights by suing More >> |
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Bursting the Taittinger's Bubble (2003-12-31) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld New York Sun http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications47.htm Ms. Ehrenfeld is the author of "Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed - and How to Stop It" (2003), and is the director of the New York-based American Center for Democracy. It took 50 years after the war ended for President Chirac to issue an apology for France's actions against the Jews during the Vichy government and the More >> |
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EuroCash What does the Palestinian Authority do with European money? (2003-12-10) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ehrenfeld200312100915.asp When the international donors' conference convenes in Rome next week to consider a new contribution of $1 billion to the Palestinian Authority, it is likely to continue to ignore the PA's ongoing funding of terrorist activities. According to Hannes Swoboda, a member of the European parliament's ad hoc working group on aid to More >> |
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Arafat's Seat Power, money, and terror. (2003-11-17) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ehrenfeld200311170858.asp In an interesting coincidence, both CBS and the BBC carried "exposes" earlier this month of Yasser Arafat's use and abuse of the Palestinian Authority's monies. Among the "revelations" were the payments of $50,000 per month as "living expenses" to members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the terrorist wing of Arafat's Fatah More >> |
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Paying for Terrorism (2003-10-23) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld The Wall Street Journal Europe http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1035323843647433831.djm,00.html Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority has systemically diverted funds donated for the development of the Palestinian state to fund terrorism. "Where is the Money Going?" an independent study by the New York- based Center for the Study of Corruption and the Rule of Law, to be released in Brussels today by B'nai Brith More >> |
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Peace Against Truth: When Peace Movements Reinforce Evil (2003-10-12) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld public-integrity.org http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications39.htm It was not that long ago that the word "peace" was identified as a Stalinist word. In fact, the Soviets used Peace Movements and co-opted them, as part of their doctrine to undermine the West. They used Western intelligencia, academicians and the media to propagate "peace" messages that supported the communist and socialist agenda. More >> |
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Turning Off the Tap of Terrorist Funding (2003-09-19) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld meforum.org http://www.meforum.org/article/572 Rachel Ehrenfeld, PhD, director of the New York-based American Center for Democracy, is an expert on transnational organized crime, international terrorism, drug trafficking, and corruption. She has served as a research scholar at New York University School of Law, a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Institute of War and Peace Studies, and a More >> |
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U.S. vs. Arafat (2003-09-13) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications38.htm If "failure is not an option" in the war on terror, and if we are determined to win this war "to make our kids and grandkids and our nation safer," as Vice President Dick Cheney stated on Face the Nation last Sunday, then the U.S. should support Israel in her quest to remove Arafat. Now that President Bush has clearly declared that More >> |
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Security Failure (2003-08-26) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications36.htm l Qaeda's new threats to conduct a series of homicide hijackings should have encouraged the Department of Homeland Security to establish procedures that would provide the highest degree of security possible to the flying public in a cost-effective manner. Instead, during NBC's Meet the Press, on August 3, Homeland Security Secretary More >> |
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Too Early To Trust (2003-07-31) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld New York Sun http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications34.htm 'If you're interested in peace in the Middle East, then all of us must work together to dismantle terrorist organizations, to cut off money to terrorist organizations," President Bush said during this week's press conference with Prime Minister Sharon. The president's statement, however, is belied by the administration's decision last More >> |
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Viewpoint (2003-06-06) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld AviationNow.com http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications35.htm During NBC 's "Meet the Press "on Aug.3, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, commenting on new Al-Qaeda threats to conduct a series of homicide hijackings of U.S.airplanes, remarked that airline passengers are much more secure today than they were before Sept.11,2001.However, he conceded that "it will be several years until we get More >> |
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Punishing and Rewarding Terrorism (2003-04-09) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld The New York Sun http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications32.htm While America is fighting to liberate the Iraqi people and rid the world of one terrorist regime, it is about to legitimize another by rewarding it with statehood. Going forward with the socalled "Road Map" for Israeli- Palestinian peace now, before real changes take place in the Palestinian Authority, will send a clear signal that More >> |
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Banking on terror (2003-02-27) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld JERUSALEM POST http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/PrinterFull&cid=1046324599172 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 More >> |
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The European Union and the Palestinian Authority (2003-02-21) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld EUobserver http://www.euobserver.com./index.phtml?sid=9&aid=9440 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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EU & the PA Money Trail What happens to aid money (2003-01-27) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld & Sarah Zebaida World Net Daily http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-ehrenfeld-zebaida012703.asp 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. British MEP Charles Tannock initiated a petition six months ago to investigate how 540 million Euros given to the PA More >> |
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Arafat¹s Legacy A case study in terror funding (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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Where Does the Money Go? (2002-08-01) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld New York City http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/money.doc The study reported in this document was commissioned by B’nai B’rith Europe. The author, Rachel Ehrenfeld, PhD, is director of the American Center for Democracy (ACD) (previously the Center for the Study of Corruption and the Rule of Law). She is an acknowledged expert on corruption, money laundering, transnational organized crime, More >> |
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Motorola admits it goofed (2002-01-29) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld World Net Daily http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications14.htm In the wake of a WorldNetDaily report that Motorola had recognized the non-existent state of Palestine in consumer product brochures while failing to mention Israel, a top official at Motorola is apologizing for what he characterized as an "error." Mark Durrant, director of communications and public affairs for the high-tech More >> |
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Motorola declares state of Palestine (2002-01-28) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld World Net Daily http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications13.htm Customers in Europe and Israel who recently purchased Motorola cellphones, were surprised to discover that Israel is not listed on Motorola's customer services manual. The list excludes Israel but includes the non-existent state of "Palestine," and Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, is listed as a Palestinian city. Motorola's More >> |
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Funding Terrorism:A Speech given at Aviation Week' (2001-12-27) 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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Synopsis of Rachel Ehrenfield's Evil Money (2001-11-29) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld public-integrity.org http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications12.htm To Prevention and Law Enforcement: Wev Shea, former U.S. Attorney for Alaska, recently reread the book Evil Money written in 1992 by Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld on the topic of Money Laundering and Narco-Terrorism. Shea was astonished at the accuracy of predictions made by Dr. Ehrenfeld and felt compelled to do an extensive overview of More >> |
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U.S. ignored money trail: Bush is doomed to fail if he doesn't cut off financing of terrorists (2001-09-30) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld The Detroit News http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications10.htm Moving the money 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 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 terroristswho destroyed the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan and damaged thePentagon, delivered a very clear and sobering message yesterday: The leaderof the free world is vulnerable. Blame and responsibilityfor the most devastating terrorist attack in American history must be layedsquarely at the feet of those More >> |
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Corruption Lives (2001-06-05) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld nypress.com http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications6.htm Corruption Lives The Principality of Monaco, a French protectorate, lives mainly off its financial industry, which like other tax havens has its share of dirty money. Despite Monaco's claim that things are under control, it is under pressure from France to clean up its act and stop the "dirty money" and "money laundering," as the Irish More >> |
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Don't bank on corruption (2000-12-29) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Washington Times http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications4.htm Four years after the war on corruption was launched by James D. Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, and after many international conventions, multilateral and international agreements against bribery and corruption, corruption still appears to be on the rise. Understandably, Horst Kohler, managing director or of the International More >> |
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Cleanup in Indonesia (2000-11-10) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Washington Times http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications3.htm It is impossible to overestimate the sheer magnitude and complexity of Indonesia's economic and political problems. These include the rise of radical Islam, nationalism, and the old habits of cronyism that hinder serious steps towards democracy. As radical Islamists, nationalists, and friends of the former dictator Soeharto work to More >> |
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Blind to Narco-terrorism: US Fails to Confront a Growing Threat (2000-06-29) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld public-integrity.org http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications1.htm Blind to Narco-terrorism: US Fails to Confront a Growing Threat"Since Narco-terrorism has not been recognized as one the of the leading killers of American citizens in the last two decades- in the form of Cocaine and Heroin. And since the Narco-terrorist organization has not been identified as the driving force behind the real on - More >> |
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Fighting International Graft (1999-09-29) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Washington Times http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications2.htm It was James D. Wolfensohn, the president of the World Bank, who on October 1996 suggested a "war" against corruption, warning that: "the international community simply must deal with the cancer of corruption, because it is a major barrier to sustainable and equitable development." His statement led the international lending agencies More >> |
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Selling Syringes: The Swiss Experiment (1995-09-06) Rachel Ehrenfeld The Wall Street Journal ZURICH -- As U.S. communities continue to experiment with programs to cut drug addiction and HIV infection spread by drug users, some have cited European experiments with the decriminalization of drug use. But before venturing further in this direction, policy makers should acquaint themselves with an elaborate new "scientific" program set in motion in 1992 in Switzerland, which has the highest More >> |
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Don't Be Fooled by Syria's Sheep's Clothing (1994-01-14) Rachel Ehrenfeld and Yossef Bodansky The Wall Street Journal On Jan. 10, in Geneva, Clinton Administration National Security Adviser Anthony Lake denied vehemently suggestions that the United States will proceed with Secretary of State Warren Christopher's reported plan to remove Syria from the official State Department list of state sponsors of terrorism. Let's hope that Mr. Lake is correct. When Mr. Clinton sets out to meet with Syrian President Hafez More >> |
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Bookshelf: Just Saying No Isn't Enough (1990-12-20) Lawrence Coughlin The Wall Street Journal In her important new book, "Narcoterrorism" (Basic Books, 272 pages, $19.95), Rachel Ehrenfeld explores the connections between drugs and political power in a changing world. She documents the unholy alliance, prior to the end of the Cold War, between Soviet-supported Marxist states and drug traffickers. And she describes the threat posed to the West by the More >> |
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The Drug War in the Halls of Justice (1990-04-09) Rachel Ehrenfeld The Wall Street Journal When President Bush decides to deliver another "War on Drugs" speech to the nation, it may not be necessary for the Drug Enforcement Agency to stage a drug buy at Lafayette Park. Perhaps all the president has to do is phone Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and ask him to step outside his office and into the halls of the Justice Department. Late last month, on a trip to Washington, I found More >> |
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