Terrorist front organization
- Terrorist front organization
A terrorist front organization is created to conceal activities or provide logistical or financial support to the illegal activities. "Import-export" companies are favorite front organizations for terrorist groups.
This is an incomplete list of groups that have been accused by some government agencies of being terrorist fronts:
* Al Barakaat, an international money wiring organization accused of funding Al-Qaida
* Benevolence International Foundation, a charity that U.S. authorities accuse of diverting funds to terrorist activities, including those of Al-Qaida
* Direct Action Against Drugs - An organization said to be a front for the Provisional IRA
* Global Relief Foundation, accused of funding Islamist terrorists
* Konsojaya Trading Company, accused of providing financial assistance to local Jemaah Islamiyah plots and Al-Qaida plots in Southeast Asia
ee also
* Hawala, an informal value transfer system useful to terrorists (and criminals) for transmission of money outside of regulated channels.
Sources
* [http://www.amazon.de/dp/3865506569 Hawala. An Informal Payment System and Its Use to Finance Terrorism by Sebastian R. Müller (Dec. 2006), ISBN: ISBN-10: 3865506569, ISBN-13: 978-3865506566]
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