The Price of Fear by Ibrahim Warde
Finance has taken centre stage since 9/11 and the waging of the "War on Terror". But despite extensive media coverage, the war on this financial front remains little understood. This book traces the origins of the well-tried money laundering template and dicusses the laws, rules and regulations designed to combat its effectiveness. In the process, he reveals the faulty assumption which has formed the basis of the financial war on terror: that Al-Qaeda and other related terrorist groups were comparable to drug lords and other international gangsters, and that the methods derived from the war on drugs could be uncritically transposed to the fight against terror. Warde shows that the tracking of clean money being "soiled" for illicit purposes requires fundamentally different intelligence and law enforcement approaches from monitoring dirty money that is being laundered.
"A pleasure to read..remarkably informative about a subject that the press seems to have mangled. This ought to have a big impact" - Chalmers Johnson, Professor Emeritus of the University of California and author of Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire "Ibrahim Warde exposes the Bush administration's much ballyhooed, but often duplicitous "war on terrorist finances" which has nabbed few bad guys, ruined many innocents, frozen little hot money and vastly complicated worldwide banking for the greater glory of a burgeoning American bureaucracy" - Jon Randal, author of 'Osama' "A witty, irreverent analysis of the financial "war on terror"... A "must read" for anyone interested in the Middle East and the global economy-- Clement M. Henry, Professor of Government, The University of Texas at Austin
Ibrahim Warde has worked as a researcher at the Massachussets Institute of Technology and Harvard University. He is now Adjunct Professor at Tufts University and a writer for Le Monde Diplomatique.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781850434245 |
| ISBN 10 | 1850434247 |
| Title | The Price of Fear |
| Author | Ibrahim Warde |
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| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2007-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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