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| Support For Islamic State? In Indonesia, There’s An App For That |
| 2017-11-09 |
| [SCMP] Robbing banks, dealing drugs, stealing cycle of violences ‐ these are the kind of activities popularly associated with the world of terrorist group funding. But to the modern jihadi they’re all a little passé. ATM smash and grabs, thefts and laundering money from front charities may have been all the rage as recently as 2014, but since 2015 online donations have been the avenue of choice for Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... supporting groups hoping to finance attacks in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Moslem-majority nation. That’s according to a new joint study by the country’s National Counterterrorism Agency, State Intelligence Agency, and Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK), which examined the banking transactions involved in terror cases between 2014 and August 2017. "Terror groups now call for donations through social media [and messaging platforms] such as WhatsApp groups or Twitter," said Kiagus Ahmad Badarudin, chairman of the PPATK. "Bitcoin and PayPal are also used to move their money." |
| Posted by:Fred |