Suffocating jihad

U.S. Has Crimped Al-Qaeda Funds -Peter Grier

Tackling the financial front of the struggle against terrorism appears to be successful, say experts. [E]ven foreign banks generally do not want the taint of dealing with named terrorists. Thus, the world's formal financial system is now generally closed to al-Qaeda and other well-known terrorist groups.

[A] monograph on the subject issued by the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College concluded: "What is important is that the global effort against terrorist financing has made it more expensive and more difficult to raise and move funds."

(Christian Science Monitor)