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- catalog abstract ""Warde shows how operations such as the 9/11 World Trade Centre attacks were actually financed, and juxtaposes the reality of shoestring budgets and envelopes of cash with the buzzing transnational network of transfers depicted by the finance warriors. He shows how the media's predisposition to stereotypes about 'Arabs and their money' allowed unsubstantiated rumours - such as Bin Laden's alleged personal fortune of $300 million - to become established as fact. He exposes the extent to which Washington policymakers simply transposed the template for the war on drugs to the war on terrorism, despite the fact that terrorism is not a profit-driven enterprise. Warde argues that the real purpose of the financial war is to create at least one front on which there can be unscrutinised 'victories', and where power can be seen to be exercised. He details the collateral damage inflicted on organisations such as Al-Barakaat, the Somali remittance network wrongly accused of channeling Saudi funds to terrorists, or Interpal, the UK-based charity wrongly accused of being a conduit for Hamas, and argues that such arbitrary asset freezes are counterproductive because of the damage they do to America's image in the Muslim world. Warde's book brings to our attention for the first time the absurdities of a phoney war."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13222877.
- catalog created "2007.".
- catalog date "2007".
- catalog date "2007.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2007.".
- catalog description ""Warde shows how operations such as the 9/11 World Trade Centre attacks were actually financed, and juxtaposes the reality of shoestring budgets and envelopes of cash with the buzzing transnational network of transfers depicted by the finance warriors. He shows how the media's predisposition to stereotypes about 'Arabs and their money' allowed unsubstantiated rumours - such as Bin Laden's alleged personal fortune of $300 million - to become established as fact. He exposes the extent to which Washington policymakers simply transposed the template for the war on drugs to the war on terrorism, despite the fact that terrorism is not a profit-driven enterprise. Warde argues that the real purpose of the financial war is to create at least one front on which there can be unscrutinised 'victories', and where power can be seen to be exercised. He details the collateral damage inflicted on organisations such as Al-Barakaat, the Somali remittance network wrongly accused of channeling Saudi funds to terrorists, or Interpal, the UK-based charity wrongly accused of being a conduit for Hamas, and argues that such arbitrary asset freezes are counterproductive because of the damage they do to America's image in the Muslim world. Warde's book brings to our attention for the first time the absurdities of a phoney war."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: the fog of financial war -- The mythology of terrorist financing -- Fantasy, fiction, and terrorist financing -- Rules of financial engagement -- Framing the guilty: the financial terrain -- The flawed money laundering template -- Narrative and dynamics -- Money and the war on terror narrative -- The usual suspects -- Dynamics of the financial war -- War and consequences -- Targets and collateral damage -- "Gated finance" and other contradictions of the financial war -- The question of Islamic charities -- Assessments and recommendations -- "Catastrophic successes": assessing the financial war -- Rethinking money and terror.".
- catalog extent "xxv, 262 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Price of fear.".
- catalog identifier "1850434247".
- catalog identifier "9781850434245".
- catalog isFormatOf "Price of fear.".
- catalog issued "2007".
- catalog issued "2007.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : I.B. Tauris,".
- catalog relation "Price of fear.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "303.625 21".
- catalog subject "HV6432 .W377 2007b".
- catalog subject "Qaida (Organization) Finance.".
- catalog subject "Terrorism Finance Government policy United States.".
- catalog subject "Terrorism Finance.".
- catalog subject "Terrorism Prevention.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: the fog of financial war -- The mythology of terrorist financing -- Fantasy, fiction, and terrorist financing -- Rules of financial engagement -- Framing the guilty: the financial terrain -- The flawed money laundering template -- Narrative and dynamics -- Money and the war on terror narrative -- The usual suspects -- Dynamics of the financial war -- War and consequences -- Targets and collateral damage -- "Gated finance" and other contradictions of the financial war -- The question of Islamic charities -- Assessments and recommendations -- "Catastrophic successes": assessing the financial war -- Rethinking money and terror.".
- catalog title "The price of fear : al-Qaeda and the truth behind the financial war on terror / Ibrahim Warde.".
- catalog type "text".