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	<title>Security Debrief &#187; Terror Finance</title>
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		<title>Terrorists Embrace Internet Fraud to Fund Operations</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2011/11/29/a-evolution-in-terrorism-financing-as-terrorists-embrace-internet-fraud-to-fund-operations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rob Strayer
It is an unfortunate modern reality that cyber attacks are commonly used to steal money from businesses and individuals. Cyber attacks that disrupt or destroy physical assets, on the other hand, have been rare up to this time. The news over the weekend that a terrorist organization was able to finance its activities by hacking AT&#038;T business customers’ telecommunications accounts represents a new and disturbing development in the use of cyber attacks by terrorists. ]]></description>
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		<title>The drugs and terror nexus</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2011/10/15/the-drugs-and-terror-nexus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Media Watch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drugs and Terror Mix in Case &#8211; WSJ.com The informant at the center of an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador marks the latest example of how the U.S. government&#8217;s war on drugs has expanded into the war on terrorism. &#160;Asa Hutchinson, former DEA head, said there was &#8220;a significant amount of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers call for designation Mexican drug cartels as terrorist</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2011/05/03/lawmakers-call-for-designation-mexican-drug-cartels-as-terrorist/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.com/2011/05/03/lawmakers-call-for-designation-mexican-drug-cartels-as-terrorist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 12:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Media Watch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawmakers call for designation Mexican drug cartels as terrorist - Homeland Security Newswire
Leading U.S. lawmakers called on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to support labeling Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups and craft a strategy to help Mexico defeat them.]]></description>
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		<title>Justice Department Sends the Wrong Message in Holy Land Foundation Case</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2011/04/22/justice-department-sends-the-wrong-message-in-holy-land-foundation-case/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.com/2011/04/22/justice-department-sends-the-wrong-message-in-holy-land-foundation-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marty Ficke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The decision of the Justice Department not to prosecute the Council on American Islamic Relations and other unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation case is discouraging and very troubling. 246 individuals and organizations were designated as unindicted co-conspirators in the Hamas terror finance case, the United States v. Holy Land Foundation. The failure to further prosecute this case clearly sends the wrong message.]]></description>
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		<title>The Value of Aspen</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2010/07/09/the-value-of-aspen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Cooper</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we continue to swelter in the ongoing summer heat wave, it is easy for me to reminisce about my recent visit to Aspen, Colo. Tucked amongst the Rockies with its clean air, fervent green and majestic views, a town known primarily for its skiing with the rich and famous was home to what was, simply put, the best conference program I have ever attended. The first annual Aspen Security Forum put forward a program that I can only describe as pleasant, informational waterboarding. By the time each of the presenters and panelists were done, my hand was dead from writing so much and my head hurt from being given the firehouse treatment of a candor and content  overload. Here's a rundown of some of the sessions.]]></description>
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		<title>A Victory in the War on Terrorism</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2010/06/24/a-victory-in-the-war-on-terrorism/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.com/2010/06/24/a-victory-in-the-war-on-terrorism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marty Ficke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court decision this week defining and clarifying "material support" as it relates to aid to designated terrorist organizations is a huge victory in this continuing war.  In a 6 to 3 decision, the Court rejected a First Amendment challenge from humanitarian aid groups claiming the support is intended to move the terrorist groups toward peaceful and legal activities.  The Court ruled that such support was illegal even if its intention was to support "non-violent" elements within such terrorist organizations.]]></description>
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		<title>Erroll Southers: Who&#8217;s Learning Faster, Al Qaeda or Us?</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2010/06/17/erroll-southers-who%e2%80%99s-learning-faster-al-qaeda-or-us/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.com/2010/06/17/erroll-southers-who%e2%80%99s-learning-faster-al-qaeda-or-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Media Watch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who’s Learning Faster, Al Qaeda or Us? &#8211; Homeland Security Today There are a growing number of Americans who, despite enjoying the benefits of freedom and rule of law, choose to become terrorists, bent on killing their countrymen, destroying property, and if necessary, dying in the process. They pose a unique danger because impressionable and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terrorists Use the Internet But Not How You Might Think</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2010/03/16/terrorists-use-the-internet-but-not-how-you-might-think/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.com/2010/03/16/terrorists-use-the-internet-but-not-how-you-might-think/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Bucci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit that in the past I have been guilty of a sin of omission that has plagued many commentators in the cyber arena. I have spoken and written many times about the terrorist threats I see as strong and dangerous possibilities. I have always mentioned the present terrorist use of the internet as an aside, and so much a lesser issue as to be unworthy of too much worry. I will stand up and admit that I have been WRONG.  Yes, the terrorists have not used the cyber world for an attack as we might envision, but the threat presented by what they do now is real and chilling.]]></description>
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		<title>DEA Agents Killed in Afghanistan: Another Tragic Reminder</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2009/10/30/dea-agents-killed-in-afghanistan-another-tragic-reminder/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.com/2009/10/30/dea-agents-killed-in-afghanistan-another-tragic-reminder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marty Ficke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent death of three DEA Special Agents in Afghanistan is a tragic reminder that the war on narcotics and terrorism cannot be separated in that part of the world. I doubt many heroin dealers and addicts in the U.S. make the connection between the two.]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Counternarcotics Strategy in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2009/10/22/us-counternarcotics-strategy-in-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.com/2009/10/22/us-counternarcotics-strategy-in-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Security Debrief</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Braun, former Chief of Operations for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, testified before the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control regarding the Taliban’s involvement in drug production and trafficking.]]></description>
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		<title>Administration Quietly Campaigning for Patriot Act Renewal</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2009/10/14/administration-quietly-campaigning-for-patriot-act-renewal/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.com/2009/10/14/administration-quietly-campaigning-for-patriot-act-renewal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Media Watch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Administration Quietly Campaigning for Anti-Terrorism Provisions: CQ Homeland Security The Obama administration is pressuring lawmakers, both publicly and privately, to renew expiring provisions of the anti- terrorism law known as the Patriot Act with as few changes as possible. The Justice Department has nodded to civil libertarians’ concerns about the law’s broad reach with vague [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corruption &#8211; Why Cartels and Terrorists Succeed</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2009/09/22/corruption-why-cartels-and-terrorists-succeed/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.com/2009/09/22/corruption-why-cartels-and-terrorists-succeed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Braun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) conducted a survey of its top performing confidential sources a couple years ago, and asked them to list in order of importance the factors that allow global drug trafficking cartels [and terrorist organizations] to succeed.  At the very top of the list for every respondent was the single word— ‘CORRUPTION.’  ]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. anti-drug and border violence aid to Mexico reaches $214 million</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2009/09/02/u-s-anti-drug-and-border-violence-aid-to-mexico-reaches-214-million/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.com/2009/09/02/u-s-anti-drug-and-border-violence-aid-to-mexico-reaches-214-million/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Media Watch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. anti-drug aid to Mexico reaches $214 million &#124; Reuters The United States has written checks for $214 million of the $1.4 billion promised to Mexico in 2007 to help fight the country&#8217;s powerful drug cartels, Washington&#8217;s top anti-drug diplomat said on Tuesday. The amount is a fraction of $1.12 billion authorized by the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican drug cartels now smuggling oil to US</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2009/08/11/mexican-drug-cartels-now-smuggling-oil-to-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Media Watch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press: AP NewsBreak: Mexican cartels smuggle oil to US U.S. Justice Department officials say U.S. refineries are buying stolen oil siphoned from Mexican government pipelines and smuggled across the border — in some cases by drug cartels.]]></description>
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		<title>The bloody drug violence on our border will get worse before it gets better</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2009/07/21/the-bloody-drug-violence-on-our-border-will-get-worse-before-it-gets-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Braun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mexico must follow Colombia’s lead and not fold under the pressure of the wrath playing out on her streets today. Drug cartels, just like terrorist organizations, work very, very hard to destabilize governments around the globe.  They rely on corruption, intimidation and violence, the hallmarks of organized crime, to create permissive environments where they can grow and thrive; areas where they can literally get away with mass murder.If Mexico loses the will to continue this fight, then life in Mexico and the United States will change as we know it.]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Now: The United States&#8217; Next Move?</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2009/07/21/iran-now-us-next-move/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.com/2009/07/21/iran-now-us-next-move/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Akram Elias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The presidential elections of June have brought to the surface, like never before, the deep rifts that exist within Iranian society and its power structure.  What is really happening there? And more importantly, what should the United States do about it?  The delicate and serious nature of the current situation in Iran requires a very wise approach by the Obama Administration.  The stakes are very high and the opportunity is unique.]]></description>
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		<title>Targeting Taliban&#8217;s Bankroll</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2009/06/25/targeting-talibans-bankroll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Braun</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just recently, the DEA put more agents on the ground in war zones to crack down on the funneling of drug money to key terrorist operatives. ]]></description>
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		<title>Long sentences for Holy Land Foundation terror finance operators</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2009/05/28/long-sentences-for-holy-land-foundation-terror-finance-operators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 23:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Media Watch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Counterterrorism Blog: HLF Judge Imposes Long Sentences A federal judge imposed what could amount to life sentences on three former leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) on Wednesday for illegally routing more than $12 million to Hamas. &#8220;The purpose of creating the Holy Land Foundation was as a fundraising arm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where is Saudi Aid to Victims of the Taliban?</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2009/05/14/where-is-saudi-aid-to-victims-of-the-taliban/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 13:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Media Watch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Terror Finance Blog: Where is Saudi Aid to Victims of the Taliban? Conspicuously neither Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz nor the rulers of any Arab or Muslim state are holding special national telethons to help raise funds for some 400,000 new Pakistani refugees. Many fled their homes after the Taliban took over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican Drug Cartel Threatening to Take on U.S. Law Enforcement</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.com/2009/05/06/mexican-drug-cartel-threatening-to-take-on-us-law-enforcement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 15:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Media Watch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tickle The Wire » Mexican Drug Cartel Threatening to Take on U.S. Law Enforcement As if we needed more evidence of the threat the Mexican cartels pose to the United States, here’s the latest. Don’t be surprised to see more DEA agents in Mexico and possibly other U.S. personnel from other agencies– and even the [...]]]></description>
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