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Just thought I'd give a plug for this stunning book,
Loretta Napoleoni,
Modern Jihad; Tracing the dollars behind the terror networks
From the Forward, by Cooley: "Central to her arguments in the Third part, "The New Economy of Terror," is her discussion of such groups as al Qaeda, which, as a consequence of the wars in Afghanistand and their blowback, has become a global terror network in every sense of the word.
These are not only driven by real economic forces in the Third World... but also by accomplices and complicities in the heart of the West.
...Wall Street, the City of London; Hong Kong moguls of finance, as well as into the shadowy world of the hawala in Saudi Arabia and South Asia."
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On the interaction of 'the New Economy of Terror" and Western economies:
Napoleoni: "Their degree of interdependency is astonishingly high. The West is the primary consumer of narcotics, and the major seller of arms-- the largest revenue and expenditure items, respectively, in the balance of payments of armed organisations. Western financial institutions recycle the bulk of the money generated by the world's illegal ecomony, about 1.5 trillion a year.
Loretta Napoleoni,
Modern Jihad; Tracing the dollars behind the terror networks
From the Forward, by Cooley: "Central to her arguments in the Third part, "The New Economy of Terror," is her discussion of such groups as al Qaeda, which, as a consequence of the wars in Afghanistand and their blowback, has become a global terror network in every sense of the word.
These are not only driven by real economic forces in the Third World... but also by accomplices and complicities in the heart of the West.
...Wall Street, the City of London; Hong Kong moguls of finance, as well as into the shadowy world of the hawala in Saudi Arabia and South Asia."
----
On the interaction of 'the New Economy of Terror" and Western economies:
Napoleoni: "Their degree of interdependency is astonishingly high. The West is the primary consumer of narcotics, and the major seller of arms-- the largest revenue and expenditure items, respectively, in the balance of payments of armed organisations. Western financial institutions recycle the bulk of the money generated by the world's illegal ecomony, about 1.5 trillion a year.
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