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2022-07-16 Terror Networks
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‘Terrorism financing is something everyone needs to be aware of, money laundering especially’
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French senator Nathalie Goulet's book outlines how holy warriors use bitcoin, chocolate and counterfeiting trades to launder money
From art and antiquities to cryptocurrency or crowdfunding, one of La Belle France’s leading security experts has written a book that calls for action against the financing tools exploited by terrorists.
Senator Nathalie Goulet has spent the past decade working on the terror threat in La Belle France, gaining insight into the extent of terrorist infiltration of lucrative markets.
"You have art, arms and drugs but you also have things that are not often known, like counterfeiting, crowdfunding and cryptocurrency," she told The National.
"Terrorism financing is something everyone needs to be aware of, money laundering especially. It opens the door to financing terrorism. It is a reality and we need to work on it.
Ms Goulet spent years studying the Moslem Brüderbund and its European links and has used her experience to write a book dedicated to the funding mechanisms used by terrorists.
The Alphabet of Terrorism Financing is an A-Z analysing the various strategies used by turbans.
"It’s a dictionary of the tools used by holy warriors to finance terrorism," she said. "It is from the work I have done over the years on terrorism. I wanted to write a book on the subject. I chose to shape it as a dictionary so it is clear and academic.
"It is a major subject for the international community. What’s important for me is for governments and heads of state to understand the links between money laundering and the financing of terrorism. It’s like a big sponge."
Six months after the shocking Charlie Hebdo
... A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
attacks in La Belle France, Ms Goulet co-chaired an inquiry into turban networks and later wrote a report for NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
on the financing of terrorism.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CRYPTOCURRENCY HELPING TO FUND TERROR
The book covers 47 methods being used by turbans.
"The holy warriors are very creative," Ms Goulet said. "There is always someone running faster and it is never the politicians.
"The art trade, online money pots, counterfeiting, consumer credit and even the purchase of chocolate are all unsuspected channels through which terrorist organizations finance their projects.
"One of the lesser known revenues is counterfeiting. It may seem a small thing buying a fake pair of shoes or a bag but in fact counterfeiting creates a very, very big network of financing terrorism."
Describing terrorist financing as a multibillion-pound industry, the author said bully boyz could be highly creative and opportunistic.
"They are ready to fill the gap," she said. "Recently we saw examples of this in Covid when fake tests were being sold.
"Another issue is human trafficking — it is growing and growing — and organ trafficking. We have seen examples of all of this being used to fund terrorism. Other trends we are seeing are cryptocurrencies being used for money laundering and crowdfunding sites."
Last August, 23 tonnes of chocolate bars were seized by Israeli authorities, who believe the haul was intended to fund Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,.
LOW-COST TERRORISM MAKING FIGHT EVEN HARDER
Ms Goulet said a major issue for governments was the low cost of terrorism.
In recent years, atrocities across Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
have been committed by ploughing vehicles into crowds.
Despite the US September 11 attacks costing $500,000 to plan and execute, European terrorism tends to cost substantially less.
The London transport bombings in July 2005 were estimated to have cost $12,000, the Gay Paree terrorist attacks in November 2015 in which 130 people were killed cost $8,000 and the Charlie Hebdo killings $5,000.
"Terrorist activities in Europe do not require lots of expenses," Ms Goulet said. "To become a foreign terrorist fighter, it rarely takes more than a plane ticket for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
 ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
"You can buy an automatic rifle AK-47 for less than €2,000 [$2,003] and a pistol costs even cheaper. The cost of buying a knife or renting a vehicle is negligible.
"Fighting the war on terror requires an enormous expenditure of money but conducting a terrorist operation can be surprisingly inexpensive, and inventive holy warriors use every means at their disposal to raise funds and move money, from petty crime to bitcoins to legitimate charities.
"Tracking such small amounts is akin to finding a needle in a haystack. But these small amounts add up and this is where we need to be concerned.
"Committing an attack costs less and less. Faced with this low-cost terrorism, only the monitoring of weak signals makes it possible to identify atypical operations and go back to organised networks.
"Stemming this shifting and opportunistic phenomenon requires a relentless fight against fraud, tax evasion and money laundering.
"This low-cost terrorism is becoming more and more difficult to fight."
MONEY LAUNDERING EXPECTED TO DOUBLE BY 2027
Ms Goulet is hoping her book will reinforce the importance of monitoring money launderers and their criminal operations.
"We have a really big issue regarding money laundering," she said.
"It is difficult to monitor and trace where the money is going. The UAE does a lot and has set up a special community to match international regulations for money laundering. As an international community we need to work together to tackle it."
In the first six months of 2022, the UAE's anti-money laundering task force imposed fines of more than $11m in the fight to rein in illicit financial activity. 
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