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" Islamic terrorist financing and the PATRIOT Act "
Colleen Maher
E. Deschenes
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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52559
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TL22513
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1437919
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Colleen Maher
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Islamic terrorist financing and the PATRIOT Act\ Colleen Maher
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California State University, Long Beach
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2006
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M.S.
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2006
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67
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This project report provides a literature review and analysis on the United States' laws and regulations designed to combat terrorist financing, including the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act). Such laws were created to stop and/or reduce Islamic terrorist financing. The methodology used for this study was a review of archival documents, including scholarly journals, government reports and publications, and books. The literature supports that Islamic terrorist groups typically have substantial budgets to fund operations, training, personnel, communications, and travel. Several techniques of financing Islamic terrorist groups are examined, including the following: criminal activities, personal financiers, Islamic charities and mosques, front companies, off-shore and correspondent bank accounts, informal value transfer systems, and personal couriers. This research provides an assessment of the United States' policy for investigating terrorist financing, as well as supplying recommendations to strengthen it.
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Social sciences; Criminology; 0627:Criminology
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E. Deschenes
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California State University, Long Beach
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