International Terrorism Financing

Abstract

This paper posits that understanding international terrorist funding processes, specifically by looking at intergovernmental orders and relations under the structure of the global economic system, will help determine a method of early prevention of terrorist attacks. Through the assessment of the process terrorists use to acquire money for reaching their aims, it can be surmised that it is difficult to track international funding channels that may be a pathway for terrorist funding. The Al Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center will function as the platform for looking at how the terrorists used the global economic system to execute the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately, the goal of this research is to suggest that law enforcement agencies who investigate international terrorism can succeed by reaching out to international money organizations to track fiscal terrorist activities; thus, by doing so, these agencies can enforce early-detection and prevent terrorist attacks.