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Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks
Seven Stories Press
May 2005
336 pages ISBN: 1583226737 Trade Size
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Political
In Terror Incorporated, Loretta Napoleoni maps out
the arteries of an international economic system that feeds
armed groups the world over. Chasing terror money, she takes
the reader from CIA headquarters to the smuggling routes of
the far East, from the back rooms of Wall Street to hawala
exchanges in the Middle East. Napoleoni describes the
"New Economy of Terror," "a fast-growing international
economic system with a turnover of about $1.5 trillion
[that] is challenging Western hegemony." It is made up of
illegal businesses such as arms and narcotics trading and
oil and diamond smuggling, as well as charitable donations
and legal profits. Napoleoni reveals the interdependency
between economies run by armed groups and Western economies.
"As in the Crusades, religion is simply a recruitment tool;
the real driving force is economics." A pioneering
examination of the system and methods by which international
terrorism is financed, Terror Incorporated is
"penetrating, lucid and essential" (Harry Porter, author of
Empire State).
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