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Reminder to the N.Y. Times: We Are At War
"If America is going to wage a new kind of war against terrorism, it must act on all fronts, including the financial one," a newspaper editorialized on September 24, 2001 - just 13 days after the terrorist strikes of 9/11. That same newspaper has now betrayed the very operation it was then urging on the Bush administration. That newspaper, of course, is the New York Times, now rapidly taking on the role of Osama bin Laden's reliable informant. "Osama bin Laden originally rose to prominence because his inherited fortune allowed him to bankroll Arab volunteers fighting Soviet forces in Afghanistan," the Times wrote. "Since then, he has acquired funds from a panoply of Islamic charities and illegal and legal businesses, including export-import and commodity trading firms, and is estimated to have as much as $300 million at his disposal. The newspaper continued with a breakdown of bin Laden's influence in that 2001 editorial.
Story Continues Below "Some of these businesses move funds through major commercial banks that lack the procedures to monitor such transactions properly," it reads. "Locally, terrorists can utilize tiny unregulated storefront financial centers, including what are known as hawala banks, which people in South Asian immigrant communities in the United States and other Western countries use to transfer money abroad. Though some smaller financial transactions are likely to slip through undetected even after new rules are in place, much of the financing needed for major attacks could dry up." Recognizing that the organization of the hijacking of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon took significant sums of money, the Times wrote the "cost of these plots suggests that putting Osama bin Laden and other international terrorists out of business will require more than diplomatic coalitions and military action. Washington and its allies must also disable the financial networks used by terrorists." Which is exactly what the Bush administration did, the details of which the Times has now told Osama bin Laden and his terrorists all about. Back then, the Times explained they knew the Bush administration was preparing new laws to help track terrorists through their money-laundering activity and was readying the preparation of an executive order that would freeze the assets of known terrorists. That was O.K. with the N.Y. Times editors nearly five years ago.
For the then belligerent Times, even that wasn't enough. Much more, was needed, according to the editorial, "including stricter regulations, the recruitment of specialized investigators and greater cooperation with foreign banking authorities." The paper added there "must also be closer coordination among America's law enforcement, national security and financial regulatory agencies." All that happened as part of the ongoing war on terrorism encouraged by the Bush administration, but instead of looking back with satisfaction on this effort, the Times has now once again exposed a vital covert operation that aids and comforts the enemy. The N.Y. Times alerted terrorists - and their worldwide network of willing accomplices - that their terrorist fund-raising efforts are being monitored by the United States to help win the war against terrorism.
The administration acted as the Times had suggested and helped prevent more 9/11-style terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. The Times has now made more such attacks possible.
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