Broadway Books (New York)
Douglas Farah
27 July 2004
book listing
Blood From Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror, Douglas Farah. Broadway Books. ©2004. $24.95, cloth. A division of Random House, New York. Website:www.randomhouse.com/broadway.
Doug Farah is a veteran investigative reporter who has written a powerful exposé of the subterranean financial network that funds terrorism. He found indisputable evidence that terrorist groups were laundering money through the blood diamonds of Sierra Leone and Liberia. From diamonds in West Africa to commodities markets in Europe, from cigarette and arms smuggling to charities in U.S. cities, Farah reveals how the network move funds and create opportunities for terrorist action.
Al Qaeda and Hezbollah, along with many other terrorist organizations, diversify funding opportunities and take advantage of financial deregulation that has been part of the globalization of business. Farah has followed the money, showing the failures of the intelligence community to identify and close down the financial links. These failures illustrate why the CIA's ability to gather reliable intelligence should be questioned; Farah has single-handedly exposed what the entire intelligence community could not find.
Blood from Stones is the first book to uncover, through on-the-ground reporting, the interlocking web of commodities, underground transfer systems, charities, and sympathetic bankers that support terrorist activities throughout the world. David Aufhauser, former General Counsel, U.S. Department of the Treasury, says, "The book does us all a great service." Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey (Ret.), Professor of National Security Studies, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, says the book is "A brilliant analysis of the complex world of terrorist financing."
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Summary by Susan Stephen, AllAfrica.com.
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