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...join a global crackdown on criminal and terrorist money havens earlier this year. Thirty industrial nations were ready to tighten the screws on offshore financial centers like Liechtenstein and Antigua, whose banks have the potential to hide and often help launder billions of dollars for drug cartels, global crime syndicates--and groups like Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization. Then the Bush Administration took office...
...AFTER NATIONS THAT FAIL TO DO THEIR PART TO HELP IN THE CRACKDOWN. Charles Intriago, publisher of Money Laundering Alert and a former federal prosecutor, argues that just as the Bush Administration has threatened to go to war not just on terrorists but on the nations that sponsor them, the U.S. may need to go after countries that permit their banks to safeguard money for terrorists. Given the centrality of the U.S. financial system in the world economy, no nation could easily survive being told that it could not clear its transactions in American banks. "We can eliminate them from...
...western Xinjiang autonomous region. The Uighurs are predominantly Muslim, do not speak Chinese and have little cultural affiliation with China. A Uighur separatist movement has used bombings and assassinations to pursue its ends, and some of the separatists were trained in Afghanistan. However, China’s current crackdown has led to harsh punishments for peaceful expressions of dissent, including preaching Islam or teaching others its tenets outside of government control. Amnesty International reports that a new effort to suppress “terrorist and separatist” movements in the Xinjiang region has in fact taken its greatest toll?...
...ignited their anger. King Fahd's agreement to act as host to U.S. troops, bin Laden charged, revealed the al Sauds' inability to defend the kingdom and its unholy dependence on infidels. Al Saud fundamentalism was not correct enough for bin Laden, who decried the government's corruption and crackdown on dissident clerics. "The core of our disagreement with you," bin Laden wrote Fahd in 1995, "is your abandonment of the duties to the religion of the One True God." By then, bin Laden had fled the kingdom and been stripped of his Saudi nationality...
Another facet of the British crackdown is to speed up the extradition process, where lengthy appeals procedures have often frustrated other governments. French authorities are still awaiting the extradition of Rachid Ramda, an Algerian arrested in Britain in 1995 for his alleged role in the Paris Métro bombings of that year. And the U.S. currently wants five terrorism suspects in British custody, including Lotfi Raissi, who has been accused by prosecutors of training four of the Sept. 11 suicide pilots. Khalid al-Fawwaz, wanted in the U.S. for his alleged role in the 1998 American embassy bombings...