Money Laundering and Terror Financing Issues in the Middle East: Hearing Before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, First Session ... July 13, 2005, Volume 4 |
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... LAUNDERING AND TERROR FINANCING ISSUES IN THE MIDDLE EAST , FOCUSING ON THE FINANCIAL ACTION TASK FORCE , THE USE OF CHARITIES TO FUND TERRORISM , AND THE PRESIDENTIAL EXEC- UTIVE ORDER ( 13224 ) WHICH ALLOWS THE UNITED STATES TO FREEZE ...
... LAUNDERING AND TERROR FINANCING ISSUES IN THE MIDDLE EAST , FOCUSING ON THE FINANCIAL ACTION TASK FORCE , THE USE OF CHARITIES TO FUND TERRORISM , AND THE PRESIDENTIAL EXEC- UTIVE ORDER ( 13224 ) WHICH ALLOWS THE UNITED STATES TO FREEZE ...
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... Laundering Corporate Risk International , Fairfax , Virginia 21 Prepared statement 55 Steven Emerson , Executive Director , The Investigative Project on Terrorism ( ITP ) ... LAUNDERING AND TERROR FINANCING ISSUES IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
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... LAUNDERING AND TERROR FINANCING ISSUES IN THE MIDDLE EAST WEDNESDAY , JULY 13 , 2005 U.S. SENATE , COMMITTEE ON BANKING , HOUSING , AND URBAN AFFAIRS , Washington , DC . The Committee met at 10:02 a.m. , in room SD - 538 , Dirksen Sen ...
... LAUNDERING AND TERROR FINANCING ISSUES IN THE MIDDLE EAST WEDNESDAY , JULY 13 , 2005 U.S. SENATE , COMMITTEE ON BANKING , HOUSING , AND URBAN AFFAIRS , Washington , DC . The Committee met at 10:02 a.m. , in room SD - 538 , Dirksen Sen ...
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... terrorist activities for , in addition to the obvious threat to innocent ... Terrorism is extremely cost - effective . How many more deaths would have ... terrorism . And , while the struggle against terror financing is but one com ...
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Page 92 - ... Prohibit their nationals or any persons and entities within their territories from making any funds, financial assets or economic resources or financial or other related services available, directly or indirectly, for the benefit of persons who commit or attempt to commit or facilitate or participate in the commission of terrorist acts, of entities owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by such persons and of persons and entities acting on behalf of or at the direction of such persons;...
Page 92 - Freeze without delay funds and other financial assets or economic resources of persons who commit, or attempt to commit, terrorist acts or participate in or facilitate the commission of terrorist acts; of entities owned or controlled directly or indirectly by such persons; and of persons and entities acting on behalf of, or at the direction of such persons and entities, including funds derived or generated from property owned or controlled directly or indirectly by such persons and associated persons...
Page 44 - Justice collectively pursuing an understanding of the system of financial backers, facilitators, and intermediaries that play a role in this shadowy financial world. It involves the Treasury Department, coordinating the policy process by which we examine actions to disrupt these financial networks. It involves the Department of Justice leading the investigation and prosecution in a seamless, coordinated campaign against terrorist sources of financing.
Page 85 - Chairman and members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to speak to you today about the work of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States, which I chair.
Page 46 - Since 9/11, at least 87 countries in every region of the world have either adopted new laws and regulations to fight terrorist financing or are in the process of doing so.
Page 55 - It may also be its Achilles' heel. It can leave a signature, an audit trail, which, once discovered, might well prove the best single means of identification and capture of terrorists and pinpointing their donors. Financial records are literally the diaries of terror. Stopping the flow of money to terrorists may be one of the very best ways we have of stopping terror altogether. That is a dramatic statement, but it is not possible to overstate the importance of the campaign against terrorist financing....
Page 45 - Following September 11, the UNSC stepped up its counter-terrorism efforts by adopting Resolutions 1373 and 1390. Resolution 1373 requires all States to prevent and suppress the financing of terrorist acts and to freeze the assets of terrorists and their supporters. It also imposes bans on travel and arms sales to these individuals. Resolution 1390...
Page 53 - Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee, thank you for affording me the opportunity to appear before you today on behalf of Commissioner Walter E.
Page 41 - ... agenda. Even today, we believe that Saudi donors may still be a significant source of terrorist financing, including for the insurgency in Iraq.5 [Emphasis added.] Iran. If Saudi Arabia is the financial engine of radical Sunni Islam, its Persian Gulf neighbor, Iran, is the powerhouse behind the proliferation of a no less intolerant and violent version of Shi'ite Islam. Iran is OPEC's second-largest oil producer, holding 10 percent of...
Page 3 - Testimony of Stuart Levey, Under Secretary Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence US Department of the Treasury Before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and the House International Relations Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation...