Financing Terrorism
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781402011528
Subjects: Banking law; Crime & criminology; Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle; True Crime / Espionage; Political Freedom & Security - Terrorism; General; Political Science; Sociology; Transnational crime; Politics/International Relations; Terrorism; Criminology; International; Law-International; Social Science / Criminology; Social Science-Criminology; True Crime / General; Finance; Economic aspects; International finance
First sentence: When the terrorists trained by Osama bin Laden destroyed the two World Trade Center towers, their actions revealed both the globalization of terrorist finance, and the potentially Herculean task facing governments seeking to combat both it and other serious trans-border problems involving flows of money from illicit sources or for illicit purposes.