Re: How Terrorists Send Money

Eh. If terrorists were really sending a lot of money around we'd see stuff blowing up in New York all the time, because a few cops 100 feet away from the mid-town tunnel entrace ain't going to be able to do much about a guy in a loaded van with a dead-man switch. In other words, when potential terrorists get to the States, that Hawala is probably used to funnel untaxed money into actual businesses. MwG always want to depict the terrorists as everywhere and themselves as just barely holding back a tide of destruction. -TD

From: Jay Mailinglists To: Eugen Leitl CC: cypherpunks@jfet.org Subject: Re: How Terrorists Send Money Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:58:02 +0700

Hawala networks already use some form of steganography...manipulating invoices of goods to hide the transfer of money.

http://www.interpol.int/Public/FinancialCrime/MoneyLaundering/hawala/default...

"...many hawala transactions (legitimate and illegitimate) are conducted in the context of import/export businesses, the manipulation of invoices, as discussed above, is a very common means of settling accounts after the transactions have been made."

Eugen Leitl wrote:

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On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 05:38:41PM +0700, Jay Mailinglists wrote:

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This is not quite the case of terrorists using mobile payments.

I thought terrorists were using Hawala. (And, since it's increasingly using faxes and email, the NSA has a field day with it. Somebody educate them about cryptography and steganography).

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