Deck 11: Terrorist Financing

Question 1

Congress at President Bush's urging created an office whose purpose was to ensure our intelligence efforts were coordinated:

A) Intelligence Czar.
B) Treasury Department.
C) Terrorist Financing Section.
D) Counterterrorism Office.

Answer 1

Intelligence Czar.

Question 2

Which of the following has substantially hindered our efforts to reduce terrorist financing?

A) Illegal enterprises.
B) Globalization.
C) Money laundering.
D) Illegal financing.

Answer 2

Globalization.

Question 3

About one-fifth of all charitable organizations in the world are:

A) Islamic.
B) right wing.
C) left wing.
D) Muslim.

Answer 3

Islamic.

Question 4

Documents seized show that al Qaeda spent $175,000 in a four month period, documents were seized by:

A) FBI.
B) Department of State.
C) military.
D) Afghan forces.

Question 5

Which federal agency began to give more attention to narco-terrorism since terrorist organizations are extensively involved in drug trafficking to raise money:

A) FBI.
B) DEA.
C) DOD.
D) Customs.

Question 6

Which of the following agency attempts to place pressure on nonmember nations to accept measures to reduce terrorist financing and money laundering?

A) FINCEN
B) IRS
C) U.S. Treasury
D) FATF

Question 7

Which type of criminal activity represents an important business for terrorist organizations?

A) Vice crimes.
B) Jewels.
C) Counterfeiting.
D) Narcotics trade.

Question 8

The term "Breeder Document" covers the following:

A) Social Security Card.
B) passport or birth certificate.
C) driver's license.
D) all of the above.

Question 9

Terrorist financing consists of how many distinct operations?

A) 3
B) 4
C) 5
D) 2

Question 10

America's closest ally in the Middle East:

A) Dubai.
B) Saudi Arabia.
C) Kuwait.
D) Yemen.

Question 11

Even though terrorist financing and money laundering represent two entirely different activities, they sometimes are:

A) interconnected.
B) equal income.
C) unequal.
D) separated.

Question 12

The U.S.A. Patriot Act is associated with:

A) paper trail investigation.
B) record keeping.
C) privacy.
D) crime.

Question 13

Civil libertarians are opposed to national requirements; they see driver's license as a form of:

A) waste
B) constitutional violation
C) national ID card
D) government intrusion

Question 14

Terrorists must move funds from one country to another to facilitate their global:

A) reach.
B) network.
C) activities.
D) attacks.

Question 15

Identity theft and fraud are criminal activities that are closely linked to terrorist:

A) attacks.
B) networks.
C) financing.
D) methods.

Question 16

Terrorist organizations wealth or access to money is demonstrable of their relative power.

Question 17

It is not known how much al Qaeda receives from donors or from mosques, but it is said to be in the $30 million dollar range.

Question 18

The DEA has maintained that the al Qaeda network annually receives millions of dollars from the opium trade in Asia and East Africa.

Question 19

Saudi Arabia and the U.S. are close, but a significant portion of funding in the Middle East for extremism and terrorist come from the Arabian Peninsula.

Question 20

In most cases, identity theft is used to commit identity fraud, but in some cases, it is used by criminals and terrorists to establish false identities and escape detention.

Question 21

A standardized biometrically readable driver's license will reduce identification theft and fraud.

Question 22

Terrorists groups have tremendous expenditures requiring a significant cash flow.

Question 23

It is likely that terrorist financing can be stopped, it requires a collaborative response from a number of countries which is likely.

Question 24

If terrorist access to money is cut, it can lead to their organizational instability and it may have strategic implications.

Question 25

The Achilles heel of terrorism financiers is not at the fundraising end, but rather at the choke points critical to laundering and transferring funds..

Question 26

One good thing now is that our evaluation of different countries shows that a number of them are taking the actions required to halt terrorist's money laundering transfers.

Question 27

The Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 required banks and other financial institutions to practice due diligence.

Question 28

Charities have been successful in providing terrorist groups with a substantial amount of traceable resources.

Question 29

The money being transferred for the 9/11 attacks essentially arrived under the radar.

Question 30

The FBI was charged with investigating Islamic charities, a primary source of income to terrorist organizations.

Question 31

The Achilles heel of terrorism financiers is not at the fundraising end but rather at the ____________________ critical to laundering and transferring funds.

Question 32

Terrorist organizations funding comes primarily from charities, benefactors and transnational ____________________ activities.

Question 33

It is estimated that individual wealthy donors provide the al Qaeda organization with approximately ____________________ million annually.

Question 34

The FBI has maintained that the al Qaeda network annually receives millions of dollars from the opium trade in Asia and ____________________.

Question 35

Charities help raise money for terrorist, about one-fifth of all charitable organizations are ____________________.

Question 36

The best known effort to counter identity fraud and theft is the ____________________Act, which establishes national standards for driver's licenses.

Question 37

Once the breeder document has been obtained, other breeder documents can be ____________________.

Question 38

To some extent, terrorist funding includes a variety of tactics and strategies at the ____________________ and ____________________ levels.

Question 39

Terrorists engage in identity theft to provide ____________________ cover.

Question 40

The terrorists and their supporters use the world's enormous global financial system to mask their ____________________.

Question 41

Terrorists are raising money on American soil, money that sometimes is used to attack ____________________.

Question 42

In 2002, federal agents broke up a methamphetamine ring in a dozen U.S. cities that funneled proceeds to ____________________.

Question 43

Describe how terrorists were able to finance the 9/11 attacks.

Question 44

List and explain the major tools that U.S. has to reduce terrorist money management.

Question 45

Explain how charities are used to help finance terrorists.

Question 46

List and explain why it would be difficult to stop terrorist groups from receiving money from unknown sources through the world.

Question 47

What one element would you highlight as the main tool to reduce terrorist financing?