War on Terror

War on terror! Really just how serious are we in this effort? Has anyone really take this as serious as it should be? For years now these terrorist groups have openly said and express thru the media, that they were out to kill anyone that didn't follow their ideas and way of life. Wake up world, these groups are not in anyway but the lowest form of criminals. They are not following and idea religious goals or any for of freedom fighters. They are just as the word means " Terrorist" and that should be all you need to know. Their whole goal is to strike fear and terror in all who don't see their way. No limits or boundarys of politics or religion play any part of this. They are no more than out and out criminals, no different from murders, drug dealers and theives. The news media and politicians would have you beleive that otherwise but fact of the matter is everyone of these groups are funded largely from corrupt governments and drug money.

Have a lok at :

HR 3162 RDS

107th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 3162IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

October 24, 2001

http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.html

TITLE III--INTERNATIONAL MONEY LAUNDERING ABATEMENT AND ANTI-TERRORIST FINANCING ACT OF 2001

This was suspose to help, it seems only part is actually even used to curb terrorist activities.

read this article: post one year after 9/11:

U.S. Bank Laws Fund Terrorists

By Lucy Komisar, Pacific News Service. Posted September 21, 2001.

For years the banking laws of the United States and its allies have protected money laundering, allowing terrorists to move money quickly and secretly.

The United States needs to get behind efforts by the globe's main industrial economies, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the G-7 to crack down on enclaves of bank and corporate secrecy. Washington should not be letting these financial institutions off the hook, as the OECD did this year in response to U.S. pressures.

Statement of Richard Shelby U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs"The 9/11 Commission and Efforts to Identify and Combat Terrorist Financing "September, 29 2004

Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, the Committee looked at the role money service businesses and casinos play in the effort to combat money laundering and abuse of financial institutions by criminals and terrorist organizations. Today, we will focus specifically on the analysis and findings of two reports: the Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, or the 9-11 Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations Update on the Global Campaign Against Terrorist Financing. While the 9-11 Commission's report itself offers little by way of findings and recommendations specific to terrorist financing, the history of events leading up to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 the report is replete with vital information on the methods the hijackers and their logistical supporters used to finance the operation. Of considerable value, though, is the separate monograph on terrorist financing produced by the Commission and released last month.

The Real Deal: 9-11 Profiteering

Monday, 22 March 2004, 4:52 pm

Column: www.UnansweredQuestions.org

originally published by Global Research at http://www.globalresearch.ca/ ** 22 March 2004 ** The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/FIT403A.html

Banks and the USA PATRIOT Act

John J. Byrne http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/ites/0904/ijee/byrne.htm

Banks get drafted into the war on terrorismBy Jay MacDonald • Bankrate.com

http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/bank/20020507a.asp

All these artices clearly point to the moves made to control the flow and access to money. Strange as it may seem only real thing that has happened it more requirements on U.S. Banks and U.S. banking customers. No real effort to curb dealing with other countries or forgein banks.

The Treasury Department and Federal Reserve does control every part of U.S. courrency from printing, distribution, exchange rates, interest rates, taxes and so on.

The FED has total control over our dollar. They do have control and can enforce who get what. But lets face it reall boils down to the profieering. The investement and banking industry have not interest in stopping the flow of dollars after all since 9/11 Wall Street, the Oil Industry and investment industry have made more since 9/11 than ever in history. And there is no way Washington will rock this boat. Only the tax payers and citizens can change this but voting out these folks and putting pressure on some real folks that will get in there and do what should have been done long ago.

Wall Street Fights Back

From Dustin Woodard,

U.S. financial institutes are ordered to freeze terrorist accounts

This article was written on September 23rd, 2001

Despite the World Trade Center being reduced to rubble and thousands of financial professionals losing their lives, Wall Street was able to get back on it's feet and fight back. The U.S. government decided to hit the terrorist where it will hurt most: Their Pocketbooks!

It took the U.S. exchanges almost a week to open the equity markets after the attack, but when the market did open it was able to handle enormous trading volumes. Investors bailed out of the market all week, but the following Monday the Dow shot up 4.5%, the S&P 500 rose 3.8% and the Nasdaq Composite jumped up 5.4%. "Money is the lifeblood of terrorist operations. Today, we're asking the world to stop payment,'' President Bush Sept. 24th, 2001

On Sept. 24th, Bush made an announcement of his intentions to use the financial industry as an unconventional way of stopping terrorism. He ordered a freezing of U.S. assets of Bin Laden and to known terrorist related groups, plus he asked the U.S. treasury department to freeze assets of foreign banks that don't cooperate in shutting down terrorist accounts. You can bet the U.S. will go a step further and trace the financial paper trail of these accounts to help track down those responsible for the terrorist attack.

Terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden has an estimated $300 million in assets. Much of it was inherited, but known businesses include: construction, trucking, currency exchange, agriculture and exports. It is also known that some organizations set up as charitable agencies are a cover for supporting Bin Laden's work.

According to the Washington Post, Osama's money network includes members who commit petty crimes or legitimate jobs. The money is transferred to Bin Laden through informal bankers or moved as cash in suitcases.

If foreign banks and regulatory agencies follow the U.S., much of the terrorist money will be locked up. I imagine foreign governments will make announcements soon concerning this subject and expect most, if not all, countries will agree to work with U.S. agencies.

The impact of the financial attack on Osama may be just as powerful as a military attack. Without money, Bin Laden will find it difficult to purchase weapons, obtain intelligence, persuade governments and keep the loyalty of his men.

this was a good place to start back in 2001, but seems it got lost in media and government some place. Why aren't we doing more to cut the flow of funding off.