The price of fear : the truth behind the financial war on terror / Ibrahim Warde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warde, Ibrahim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qaida (Organization).

Terrorism--Finance--Government policy--United States.

Terrorism.

Qaida (Organization)--Finance.

Finance.

Terrorism--Finance.

Government policy.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxv, 262 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]

Summary:

When the State Department claims to have struck a blow at the heart of the international terrorist finance network, even the most hardened of commentators takes the statement at face value. But as Ibrahim Warde argues in this myth-shattering book, the post-9/11 series of financial crackdowns initiated by the U.S. government have had virtually no impact on terrorism. This is because, as he demonstrates, these actions are based on a fundamental misconception of how terrorism works. Warde shows how operations such as the 9/11 attacks were actually financed, and he brilliantly juxtaposes the reality of shoestring budgets and envelopes of cash against the prevailing fantasy of a buzzing transnational network of seamless electronic transfers. "Copub: I.B.Tauris Books"

Contents:

Introduction: the fog of financial war

The mythology of terrorist financing

Fantasy, fiction, and terrorist financing

Rules of financial engagement

Framing the guilty: the financial terrain

The flawed money laundering template

Narrative and dynamics

Money and the war on terror narrative

The usual suspects

Dynamics of the financial war

War and consequences

Targets and collateral damage

"Gated finance" and other contradictions of the financial war

The question of Islamic charities

Assessments and recommendations

"Catastrophic successes": assessing the financial war

Rethinking money and terror.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-252) and index.

ISBN:

9780520253704

0520253701

OCLC:

122291354

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