The Price of Fear: The Truth behind the Financial War on Terror

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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 has 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