U.S. Treasury Secretary: we have succeeded in drying the sources of funding for al-Qaeda

U.S. Treasury Secretary: we have succeeded in drying the sources of funding for al-Qaeda

Assistant Obama: Saudi Arabia, UAE Two models Pioneers in cooperation with the U.S. to combat terrorism

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Witnessed a seminar combating the financing of terrorism, which was hosted by the U.S. Treasury Department focused on the methods of terrorist organizations in the search for new sources of funding, through kidnapping tourists for ransom and bank robberies, drug trafficking and human beings. The seminar focused on the political aspects of the organizations to cut off funding for the United States considers a terrorist, such as Hamas and Hezbollah, which are funded by Iran. The participants said that the change of the political system in Iran and the fall of the current regime is the only way to cut off funding for Hamas and Hezbollah.

While participants praised the cooperation between the United States and Saudi Arabia in the field of control of funds and the establishment of a committee to monitor the Zakat funds and cut the road for the arrival of charitable donations in the hands of terrorists, the participants commended the efforts of Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, in this area, pointing out that both Saudi Arabia and the UAE was a model a pioneer in the field of financial transparency and cutting sources of funding for terrorist organizations in the field of rehabilitation of the radicals, while calling for both Kuwait and Qatar to issue laws and legislation to criminalize the granting of funds to terrorist organizations.

The U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that the attacks of 11 September 2001, there was a brutal, sophisticated and well-funded, and «That's what made us understand the complexity of the (Al-Qaeda) and other terrorist organizations, and to combat terrorism more effectively, because it is different from traditional military threats, and so by disrupting terrorists' ability to fund their operations ». The strategy of the Office of obstruction financing networks of terrorist organizations in his ministry, which was established after the attacks of September atheist, saying: «It depends on four basic things which intelligence work and the imposition of sanctions and cooperation with partners and international allies and the involvement of the private sector in order to identify donors, financiers and brokers involved in supporting terrorist organizations, in order to disable their ability to fund these organizations ».

Geithner said that the team led by David Cohen and Danny Glaser and Leslie Ireland and Adam Szubin and Jim Freeze develop a comprehensive strategy to combat terrorism and disrupt networks financing terrorism, and restrict the activities of those who finance terrorism and to impose sanctions on them, have succeeded these sanctions to deter donors of terrorism all over the world. Geithner and used the proverb Thusaidayds Greek historian, who said: «The war is not about weapons as they relate to money», stressing the importance of discussing how draining sources of funding for terrorist organizations. He pointed out that a senior al Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan, has said that without the money stops «jihad». The Geithner effectiveness of international cooperation and the provision of intelligence from allies and partners in the fight against terrorism, and said: «The international cooperation enhances the effectiveness of this work in addition to cooperation with multilateral institutions, including the Group of Twenty, to focus on combating the financing of terrorism; either through the adoption of new standards or through popular support for increased financial transparency ».

He focused U.S. Treasury Secretary on the importance of the role played by the private sector in combating the financing of terrorism as a partner of the national governments, and said: «The vigilance of financial institutions to identify and block money for terrorist activities enhances our ability to eliminate terrorism».

Geithner stressed that «thanks to the implementation of this strategy over the past ten years, the entities that finance terrorism have become restricted in movement and to facilitate the financing of terrorism, and it has become difficult to get away with it, and the funds are destined for terrorism is shrinking». He pointed out that «However, the al-Qaida struggles to secure stable funding, and will continue to look for ways to gain access to funding, and we will continue to develop innovative and effective strategies to stop them and search for the best ways to defeat them. Have demonstrated our efforts over the past decade the value of a strong focus on finance, and became the Treasury Department is an integral part of the structure of U.S. national security, and expanded the options available to the president to respond to threats ».

The adviser said the U.S. President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan that «after the killing of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda leader, has organized many of the pimp, was arrested on a number of leaders, and filtering units of the organization, but that will not stop the threats (base) and attempts to do attacks in the Middle East, Africa and Asia through other independent terrorist groups, but they follow the agenda (base) ».

He Brennan that the activities of these terrorist groups tended to kidnap tourists, and doing criminal activities, such as drug smuggling and trafficking in human beings in order to obtain sources of funding, and «may we issued in June last year, a strategy the Obama administration to combat terrorism in order to defeat (the base ), and one of our means to cut off funding for the organization and impose sanctions on organizations that are involved in the provision of funding, and cooperation with other countries and international organizations and bodies to put pressure on the (base), There is no doubt that we made it difficult for al Qaeda to get up and move and brings money to try to attack the U.S. United », he stressed:« (Al-Qaeda) have become financially weak ». The Brennan to successful cooperation with a number of partners in the Arab region, he said, «was our cooperation fruitful with both Saudi Arabia and the UAE in the drying sources of financing al-Qaeda, but unfortunately, not all governments in the region with the same commitment, and we are with these governments to do Adapted decisively against the financing of terrorist organizations ».

Brennan pointed to discussions by President Obama with a number of heads of states on the terrorist networks with the kidnapping and drug trafficking to obtain the means to finance the fiscal.

The Deputy Secretary of the Treasury for the fight against terrorism and financial intelligence David Cohen: «The Office of Financial Intelligence (TFI), succeeded in denying al-Qaeda and terrorists all over the world from the financial capabilities to work, by working with the international banking community».

He said Cohen that al-Qaeda and faced the worst financial crisis in 2010, and became a financial position to «Al-Qaeda» unstable, affecting the ability of the organization to work, and emphasizes the intelligence that al-Qaeda is dedicated attention and a great effort to raise funds and management of the budget and the costs of running the organization in terms of weapons and fuel and salaries ».

He explained Cohen that «the picture provided by the intelligence to al-Qaida, including news, good and bad, is that the global efforts to disrupt the financing of al-Qaeda began to bear fruit, but the enemy has the ability to adapt and innovate, and are beginning to see sought by terrorist groups to raise funds through kidnapping for ransom» and confirmed Deputy Secretary of the Treasury in the United States continues to put pressure on al-Qaeda organization and disable networks and track down and kill senior leaders, such as Abu Yahya al-Libi, who was killed last month, and Younis Mauritanian who was arrested by Pakistani authorities a few days ago.

Cohen stressed that «the strategy is also meant the main line of financial funding for al-Qaeda, which runs from Kuwait and Qatar through Iran to Pakistan, and is based on an agreement between al-Qaeda and the Iranian government to allow this network to operate within the borders of Iran».

He accused Cohen, Kuwait, Qatar, they have become a permissive environment with the collection of donations to fund extremism, and said: «Although Qatar enacted a law to combat the financing of terrorism a year ago, it lagged behind the implementation, while Kuwait remains the only country in the Gulf, which did not criminalize the financing of terrorism, and this approach by Kuwait and Qatar, poses a threat to them and all of us, and we will continue to work with Kuwait and Qatar to take the necessary steps ».

Cohen stressed increased efforts in the fight against financial support networks of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and the youth movement in Africa. And control their use of the increasing kidnapping and ransom, and soon became the source of funding for important al-Qaeda and its branches, said: «We have information that al-Qaeda got tens of millions of dollars since 2008 through kidnappings and ransom in operations in Africa.