Number: RL31658
Title: Terrorist Financing: The U.S. and International Response
Authors: Rensselaer Lee, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division 
Abstract: The al Qaeda network increasingly is shifting to non-bank methods of moving and storing value and is relying on a decentralized structure of largely self-financing cells; moreover, Middle Eastern donors apparently continue to provide funds to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. In addition, the campaign has aroused controversy on various political, religious and humanitarian grounds and is viewed in some quarters as broadly anti-Islamic. How the crackdown on terror finance should be prioritized and integrated with a comprehensive global struggle against terrorism thus becomes an issue of considerable significance for U.S. policymakers and for Congress.
Pages: 25
Date: Updated December 6, 2002