Financiering van terrorisme
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De amerikaanse CIA heeft voor de strijd tegen het terrorisme toegang gevraagd en gekregen tot de SWIFT database. In die database staan alle internationale financiële transacties. Wat stond er eigenlijk over financiering in het "911 commission report"?
Een belangrijk deel van het rapport wordt besteed aan het onderdeel financiering. De belangrijkste aanbeveling is de volgende (pagina 400):
Recommendation: Vigorous efforts to track terrorist financing must remain front and center in U.S. counterterrorism efforts.The government has recognized that information about terrorist money helps us to understand their networks, search them out, and disrupt their operations. Intelligence and law enforcement have targeted the relatively small number of financial facilitators—individuals al Qaeda relied on for their ability to raise and deliver money—at the core of al Qaeda’s revenue stream.These efforts have worked. The death or capture of several important facilitators has decreased the amount of money available to al Qaeda and has increased its costs and difficulty in raising and moving that money. Captures have additionally provided a windfall of intelligence that can be used to continue the cycle of disruption.
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The U.S. financial community and some international financial institutions have generally provided law enforcement and intelligence agencies with extraordinary cooperation, particularly in supplying information to support quickly developing investigations. Obvious vulnerabilities in the U.S. financial system have been corrected.
De vraag dient zich aan welke internationale instituties nog meer inzage hebben gegeven in hun gegevens.
