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S-E Asia urged to crack down on terrorist financing
Asia-Pacific officials meeting yesterday near the site of a deadly bombing on Indonesia's Bali island urged the region to bolster efforts to cut off the sources of terrorist financing to prevent further attacks. 'The region needs to do more to combat money laundering by passing legislation and to give law enforcement agencies additional powers and improving coordination between financial institutions and governments,' said Australian Justice Minister Chris Ellison.I'd call that a statement of the obvious. The Indon parliament would call it an imperialist plot. The Malays will probably consider it a matter for debate. Singapore probably just beats them when they catch them and forgets about it. The Philippines sends the army into the jungle to track down the bankers and somebody blows up a bus in Zamboanga for revenge, then kidnaps the bus driver's grandmother and cuts her head off. The delegates were expected to release a statement today expressing their intent to increase cooperation to track terrorist money in the region. Yes. Maybe we can all find some middle ground... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-12-18 |
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