Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It is a book written by counterterrorism researcher Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, the director of the American Center for Democracy and the Center for the Study of Corruption & the Rule of Law. It was published by Bonus Books of Los Angeles, California in August 2003.
Ehrenfeld argues in the book that a clandestine international network is used by Islamic terrorist groups to finance terrorist activi...
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Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It is a book written by counterterrorism researcher Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, the director of the American Center for Democracy and the Center for the Study of Corruption & the Rule of Law. It was published by Bonus Books of Los Angeles, California in August 2003.
Ehrenfeld argues in the book that a clandestine international network is used by Islamic terrorist groups to finance terrorist activity worldwide. She describes the activities of religious-based charities, drug networks, money-laundering schemes and bribed officials, accusing specific groups, organizations and individuals of being involved. The involvement of Al Qaeda in the heroin trade in Afghanistan is given particular attention, with Ehrenfeld asserting that "it was bin Laden who managed the drug profits for the Taliban and arranged money-laundering operations with the Russian Mafia." Ehrenfeld goes on to argue that the international community should take stronger...
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