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As the U.S. stands on high terrorism alert ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, including in Boston, Friday’s deadly terror attack in Kuwait served as a wake-up call to leaders in that country to better heed U.S. demands to stamp out terror funding within their borders, U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch told the Herald in a phone interview from the region.
The deadline in the Iran nuclear negotiations has just been extended. But if an agreement is ultimately reached, Tehran is expected to receive a substantial financial windfall. Critics have argued that an influx of funds will permit Iran to expand its destabilizing regional activities. The Obama administration has argued that Iran will use the funds primarily for domestic needs.
Iran secretly passed to the White House beginning in late 2009 the names of prisoners it wanted released from U.S. custody, part of a wish list to test President Barack Obama’s commitment to improving ties and a move that set off years of clandestine dispatches that helped open the door to nuclear negotiations.
Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally in the Middle East, had high-level contacts with America’s most deadly adversary in Afghanistan, the Haqqani network, according to purported Saudi diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.
For years, Washington has warned Kuwait and other Gulf monarchies that they weren’t doing enough to stop their own citizens from supporting extremist groups.
Situations where financial institutions terminate or restrict business relationships with categories of customer (so-called “de-risking”) is a complex issue that goes far beyond anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CFT).
The World Bank has uncovered new evidence of large-scale corruption and tax evasion by firms owned by the family of the former Tunisian president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali during his dictatorship, and also warned that graft has intensified since the revolution that ousted him four years ago, officials said Wednesday.
Early in 2012, worried that suicide bombers might pass through airline security undetected, American counterterrorism officials ordered a drone strike in
Congress should pass legislation requiring businesses that incorporate and open bank accounts to specify who is the venture's "beneficial owner," witnesses said in a hearing Wednesday.
As the deadline for a nuclear agreement with Iran approaches, it is vital to recognize what the agreement doesn’t address: the Islamic Republic’s continuing support of terrorism.