NYT - Editorial - Finances of Terror - 9-24-2001

The New York Times ^ | September 24, 2001 | New York Times Editorial

[steveyp]

The New York Times

September 24, 2001 Monday Late Edition - Final SECTION: Section A; Column 1; Editorial Desk; Pg. 30 LENGTH: 545 words HEADLINE: Finances of Terror

Organizing the hijacking of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon took significant sums of money. [snip] Washington and its allies must also disable the financial networks used by terrorists.

[snip]

Much more is needed, including stricter regulations, the recruitment of specialized investigators and greater cooperation with foreign banking authorities. There must also must be closer coordination among America's law enforcement, national security and financial regulatory agencies.

[snip]

Though some smaller financial transactions are likely to slip through undetected even after new rules are in place, much of the financing needed for major attacks could dry up.

[snip]

If America is going to wage a new kind of war against terrorism, it must act on all fronts, including the financial one.

[pushforbush]

bump

[MizSterious]

Wow, thanks for this ping--what a bunch of hypocrites!! (Well, we knew that, but this is proof, if any is needed...)

[Grampa Dave]

steveyp, congratulations. Your post is now in full on Powerline.


http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/007321.php

Enchante, thanks for the ping and the link.

With these hits and publicity the big talk show hosts will be all over this.

Sean will discover it by himself on Friday and take credit for it as new news, he has found. Bless him!

[Grampa Dave]

Good I will recheck mine.

I had none when I first posted these links a few months ago. However, we have sold a several mutual funds and bought more since then. I checked when I bought them, and the data was based on holdings as per march. None of them had NY Slimes holdings.

[Grampa Dave]

"Time Magazine has/had a journalist embedded/undercover with the "insurgents". He was with them when Saddam was captured. He travelled into AQ seized towns."

What is the name of this agent of al Qaeda posing as a journalist?

[Tolik]

Nailed It!

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[Cementjungle]

The NYT and others also used to run long pieces on Sadaam's WMDs and support for terrorists.

[rightinthemiddle]

JUST GOT A REPLY BACK FROM BRIT HUME:

on 6/27/06 11:48 AM, Hume, Brit at Brit.Hume@foxnews.com wrote:

> Thanks for the tip. We are looking up the editorial.
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> Brit Hume
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:02 PM
> To: Show -Special; Hume, Brit
> Subject: NY Times called for financial monitoring in Sept. 24, 2001
> editorial
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> http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F6071EFF3F5E0C778EDDA00894D9
> 404482
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> (personal information deleted)

[maica]

The accusation that the Bush Administration "did not connect the dots" keeps reverberating in my brain. Bill Keller and his gang must not have any memory that goes back 5 years.

[CharlieOK1]

nice job FRiend!

[jazusamo]

Thanks for the post and ping, good piece.

[Marine_Uncle]

"So 3 weeks after 9/11, with the ruins still smoldering and many of our dead not even accounted for, the brave editorialists of the NY Times could see the great and urgent need for an all-out assault on the financial networks utilized by terrorists."
Should we be the least bit surprised. Nothing new in any of the actions taken by a number of key L/MSM world wide. This has been the standard operenda mode for many many years as some of us have come to realize. The far left establishment has it's agendas. I maintain nothing leaves their editorial desks without carefull scruntiny within established time frames to have a given effect.
They are prepared to take hits as required. The end results is what they seek. If they get caught on an issue, so be it, they move on. Their mass is sufficient to continue their agendas without self destructing.

[MattinNJ]

Wow-great find

[weegee]

I don't know his name, there was a Frontline episode titled something like The Insurgency. He was featured in that.

I think I've seen some other threads about one or more terrorist embedded journalists at Time.

[Enchante]

Go, Brit - nail those lying, hypocritical, treasonous scumbags!!!!!!!

[weegee]

PBS - Frontline - The Insurgency (you can watch it online)

"The Insurgency" also includes compelling personal video from Australian journalist Michael Ware, Baghdad bureau chief for Time magazine and one of the reporters with the most in-depth access to insurgent leaders.

Ware is unique among Western journalists for his extensive contacts within the insurgency. He is TIME Magazine's Baghdad bureau chief and has covered the war from the very beginning, entering Iraq before the invasion. Throughout his time there, he kept a personal video record of his travels. In this interview, he talks about the evolving nature of the insurgency and the tensions and growing conflict between the Baathist/nationalist Iraqi insurgents and foreign jihadis, particularly Zarqawi's Al Qaeda in Iraq forces. He also talks about the Iranian connection, why Fallujah was a turning point for the insurgency and the extraordinary risks that he has had to take in his reporting. This is an edited transcript of an interview conducted over several days in the fall of 2005.

TAKING RISKS

Editor's Note: In September 2004, Michael Ware heard that Zarqawi's people were trying to take control of the insurgency in Baghdad. Ware was determined to verify Zarqawi's takeover, but, as he recounts here, it nearly cost him his life.

... There was a point in September 2004 where this quietly growing presence of Zarqawi's fighters [in the Haifa Street area of Baghdad] peaked, and Zarqawi's organization had supplanted the local Baathists' authority in Haifa Street. ...

... One of the Baathists came to me and said, "The takeover is complete," basically. So suddenly Zarqawi's flags -- black banners with the golden orb in the center -- were fluttering and waving from the buildings and trees that lined this major thoroughfare. This was a declaration of ownership, of arrival, of defiance. So I needed to verify this and record it, and that's when I went down there, and I was grabbed by Zarqawi's people.

They pulled you out of a car and put a gun at the back of your head and were going to pull the trigger.

Yeah. And they have live grenades, and they pulled the pins, and they were holding them to me, and they had me under one of those banners, and they were in the throes of getting ready to execute me. They were preparing to execute me. ...

What was happening in your head at the time?

I thought that it was over. I had a lot of dealings with Zarqawi's organization directly. There was no room for any doubt in my mind. I know what happens to foreigners once they're in the hands of Zarqawi's people, and some of the men there, by their accents, were clearly identified as Syrian, not Iraqi. I felt, personally, that I was at the opening of a tunnel.

But it was a very senior Baathist commander who comes from one of the main strains of the Baathists, who eventually said, "Do you really want to start this war between us over this?" And this heated debate went on for -- whilst it was only perhaps 10 or 15 minutes, to me it felt like a lifetime. My life was in the balance.

[It was] very heated. There was screaming in faces, and I could watch the crowd of low-level foot soldiers who were there from either side. I could see them sway from one side to the other, and it wasn't until the very end that through gritted teeth, after saying, "You bring a Westerner here, and you expect us to let him leave alive?," that the Zarqawi people, gritting their teeth, said: "Fine, you can have him. Take him. Get out." And I got out that way.

That was very hard to recover from. Nonetheless, the point remains, [that] day you saw the subsuming of a local indigenous Iraqi fight, with very different agendas, by a foreign-inspired, foreign-led, foreign-funded global holy war. Now later, again, that was reversed, and right before the January 30, 2005, election in Iraq, the nationalist insurgents had reclaimed power in that area. ...

[BJClinton]

Awesome catch FRiend! From here:
The Treasury Department also needs new domestic legal weapons to crack down on money laundering by terrorists. The new laws should mandate the identification of all account owners, prohibit transactions with "shell banks" that have no physical premises and require closer monitoring of accounts coming from countries with lax banking laws.

[IGOTMINE]

Savor the irony.

Excellent post.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Well done, Sir! I would call this an "inconvenient truth" for the NYT. No wonder their stock price has been plummeting for the past few years.

[steveyp]

I am enjoying the irony and the awesome power of the "rightwing noise machine".

Heh.

All I really wanted was Michelle to read this:

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005447.htm

Yeah!