Hunting Assets Under the Pillow

America has frozen terrorists' assets. But there is a problem due to banking secrecy.

September 16, 2003

THE US has been hunting terrorists all over the world for over two years now. Hundreds of people have been arrested and the ruling regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq have been toppled. But the hunt is not over yet. A week before the commemoration of the September 11, 2001 anniversary, the US Government announced that it had frozen the assets of 10 members of Jamaah Islamiyah (JI), a group that the United Nations has labeled a Southeast Asian ter

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