Pittsburgh Escorts: The fast-growing “New Economy of Terror”
September 6, 2010
iv. Prostitution rings and people trafficking;
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However, notwithstanding the clear importance from a counterterrorism policy perspective of this first category of linkage (viz., terrorism and crime), it is the thesis of this paper that it is the second category of linkage (viz., terrorism and apparently legitimate business, charitable and financial structures and mechanisms) which is the most critical to understand if we are to be able to effectively shut down the ‘New Economy of Terror’. This is so because the first category of linkage represents the overt and observable side of the ‘terror-crime nexus’ (eg., drugs smuggling, arms dealing, people trafficking, prostitution and credit card fraud) and is therefore well-known, capable of being identified, and relatively susceptible to well executed surveillance and enforcement measures. In contrast, the second category of linkage represents what is effectively the opaque and arcane ‘invisible hand’ of the ‘terror-crime nexus’ (eg., front companies and businesses, Islamic banks and religious charities, mosques and Islamic centres, international trade and commodities dealing, and offshore banking), and as such is muc …
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