Progress in the War on Terrorist Financing - $136.7 million frozen

[tk149]

From the U.S. Treasury Department 9-11-03.

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Excerpts:
"1439 accounts, containing more than $136.7 million in assets, frozen worldwide - including $36.6 million in the U.S."
"An unprecedented 209 of the 219 countries in the world have expressed support for the global effort to fight terrorist financing."
"173 countries have issued blocking orders freezing terrorist assets."
"100 countries have passed new laws, strengthening their safeguards against terrorist financing."

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Thoughts?

 

[burnedout]

Sounds like relatively good progress is being made. Hope we keep it going.

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

It's my understanding that much of this activity happened during the first year or so after 9/11. Accordingly, I would say progress has been greatly curtailed if not entirely stalled.

 

[tk149]

Originally posted by: BaliBabyDoc
It's my understanding that much of this activity happened during the first year or so after 9/11. Accordingly, I would say progress has been greatly curtailed if not entirely stalled.

Well, to be fair to the governments...

If you are correct in saying that progress has slowed, the easy explanation is that we got all of the obvious funds already, and we are now looking for the hidden funds. Obviously, we'll have a harder time finding those funds, and therefore freeze less money.

You do bring up a good point - I wonder what the progress report for 9-11-02 said?