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| 'Terrorism relies on financing resources not on poverty' |
| 2008-04-23 |
| According to a U.S expert specialized in security issues, said Governments should proceed by stopping the financial resources the terrorists rely on, through the stepping up of control on the financial operations, at the aim of facing Al Qaeda Branch in North Africa, while increasing control on commercial activities as they represent the main source of the terrorist’s activities. During a video conference held yesterday by a U.S expert specialized in the criminal law, terrorism finances, and money laundering, at the U.S embassy headquarters in Algiers. In its intervention the U.S expert said persons or states concerned with the terrorist phenomenon, are wrong when thinking that poverty is the principal cause of terrorism, he justified his idea citing the example of the 19 terrorists perpetuating the 11/9 attacks, “the majority of the 19 terrorists were not poor, but they were with a high education level, some of them have studied in the U.S.A, the terrorist chief named Mohamed Atta, was a university student,” he said. “Osama Bin Laden is a millionaire, while the spiritual leader of terrorists named Said Qutb, has studied in U.S.A, too, these examples illustrate that terrorism is not linked only to poverty,” he added. In this regard, the expert the U.S intelligence services, CIA, relies on its analysis, has called on the North African countries standing up against terrorism by strengthening their capacities to bar the way against the financing resources the terrorist organizations are taking advantage from in North Africa, and worldwide. He indicated that he held a position at the U.S State Department, after the 11/9 attacks, “I confirmed that the war waged against the financing resources, is as important as the war targeting the terrorists networks. |
| Posted by:Fred |