Following the Money: Examining Current Terrorist Financing Trends and the Threat to the Homeland
May 13, 2016
Dr. Louise Shelley
Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Endowed Chair
Director,Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC)
University Professor, School of Policy, Government and International Affairs
Inaugural Andrew Carnegie Fellow 2015-17
George Mason University
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Recommendations:
1) Attach more attention to the analysis and policing of illicit trade as this remains an under policed area of criminal activity. This is important for the different agencies of Homeland Security that have such great jurisdictional authority over trade entering and exiting the United States.
2) Focus on new emergent forms of illicit trade such as organ trade, illicit pesticide trade and natural resources. Continue to focus on underpoliced areas of criminal activity that continue to contribute significantly to terrorism such as counterfeiting, antiquities and illicit cigarette trade and trade-based money laundering. . . .
