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"Terrorists may be financed by VAT carousel fraud"
1 August 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "BERLIN - German federal auditors have warned that Islamist terrorist groups are financing themselves with a scam unique to the European Union known as VAT carousel fraud, according to the newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung on Sunday.
The secret warning said that the German state was practically powerless to stop the swindlers, and needed to set up a national tax squad to pursue them. Germany's taxes are collected locally by the 16 states."
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"Moscow Fumes Over Interview With Terrorist"
By Sergei Blagov
CNSNews.com Correspondent
August 01, 2005
Moscow (CNSNews.com) -
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Since Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov was killed in March, Basayev has become the most wanted man in Russia, with a $10 million bounty on his head.
The terrorist leader is held responsible for some of the deadliest attacks the country has known.
During an ABC Nightline interview broadcast Thursday, Basayev admitted responsibility for a September 2004 raid on a school in Beslan, in which more than 340 people were killed, at least 172 of them children.
Basayev was interviewed by a Russian journalist at a hideout, apparently in Chechnya.
Chechen President Alu Alkhanov on Friday lashed out at "certain Western countries and their media," saying they adopted "double standards" on international terrorism.
The Foreign Ministry also summoned the U.S. charge d'affaires, Daniel Russell, to express indignation over the interview, arguing that airing it ran contrary to a U.N. Security Council resolution.
"The international community acknowledges Basayev as a terrorist, and he is included in the U.N. Security Council's list of terrorists, at the initiative of several countries including the U.S.," the ministry said in a statement.
It said a 2001 UNSC resolution, 1379, called on member states to "refrain from providing support in any form, active or passive, to organizations or individuals involved in acts of terrorism."
The State Department reaffirmed its stand that Basayev was a terrorist but said the television network had the constitutional right to carry an interview with him.
The U.S. government had no authority to prevent the network from carrying the interview, said spokesman Sean McCormack.
"We condemn in the strongest possible terms any act of terrorism, and we have said before, specifically with regard to the issue of Chechnya, that no cause can justify actions that take the lives, or risk the lives, of innocent civilians," he said."