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| Qaeda awash in funds despite meltdown |
| 2008-10-17 |
| The meltdown in the global financial system may spare Al Qaeda. It is thought to have access to strong potential funding sources - and thus might dodge fallout from the global crunch devastating others. One principal reason the groups may avoid fallout now is because they have been forced to pull away from banks, relying instead on less-efficient ways to move money. The methods, including hand-carrying money and using informal money-transfer networks called hawalas - likely will shield extremists from the current banking system turmoil. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 ION COUNTERRORISM BLOG > REPORT: PARIS SUSPECTS RUSSIA IS ARMING HIZBOLLAH [via Syria]. Bulgarian INTEL found suspected Hizb-destined Russ arms aboard a cargo ship headed for SYRIA??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-10-17 23:31 |
| #7 See WAFF.com > MUSLIMS PRPEPARE TO TAKE OVER EUROPE FROM WITHIN; + NEPAL's MAOISTS: PURISTS OR PRAGMATISTS. More popularly known as "Iff You can't kill 'em, join 'em" [or marry them, then kill 'em]. Iff Fascists = Limited Communists, Capitalists = Limited Socialists, etc. IS THE TALIBAN = "MTV" AL QAEDA??? Lest we fergit, "ASSASSIN'S MACE" + ANTI-US "LOCAL/WAR ZONE" STRATEGEMS > GREATEST FOCII = MEDIUM FOR VICTORY REMAINS EMPHASIS ON SUBJECTIVE OR SURREAL POLITICAL AND INFORMATION WARFARE, NOT COMBAT OR EVEN HI-TECHNOLOGIES, ETC. E.g. TOPIX/IRNA/OTHER > WORLD IS SEEING THE RISE/ADVENT OF NEW REGIONAL POWERS, as due in part to [anti-US/Western?]Local Nationalism, Ethnicism, Regionalism, etc. Just sayin'. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-10-17 23:27 |
| #6 #5: If they are so rich, why were they begging Al Qaeda in Iraq for money not so long ago? Why spend your own money, if you can get some sucker to buy it for you? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-10-17 15:22 |
| #5 If they are so rich, why were they begging Al Qaeda in Iraq for money not so long ago? The opium trade belongs to the Taliban; what odds they'd give over the loot they worked so hard for to a bunch of free-loading Arabs? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-10-17 12:22 |
| #4 Maybe the Saudi oil barons have their own version of a bailout for jihadist underway. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2008-10-17 09:34 |
| #3 Hummm... : gold + diamonds + opium + local fingers in various traffiking (from drugs to counterfeiting, to arabian wild honey or arabic gum)... plus of course, the never-ending money from muslim charities, and generous arab millionaires, and probably monnies from various intelligence (iran, pakistan???). Looks realistical? |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-10-17 09:31 |
| #2 Pelosi find some room for them in the bailout? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-10-17 09:25 |
| #1 thay also may have invested in gold |
| Posted by: chris 2008-10-17 07:56 |