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RANSOM DEMAND ‘BALONEY': EXPERT
New York Post ^ | 10/23/02 | TODD VENEZIA

Posted on 10/23/2002 12:20:28 AM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:09:45 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

October 23, 2002 -- The sniper's bizarre demand for $10 million may not be a genuine bid to fill his pockets - just another way to torment cops, an expert said.

"It sounds ludicrous to ask for $10 million. There's no way he's going to get that; that's why I think it may be baloney," said Dr. N.G. Berrill, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.


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To: Rye
"If this is indeed Islaloterrorism (and I'm fairly certain that it is), and we start giving in to their demands (whether it be the releasing of prisoners, cash payments, or whatever), then we're completely doomed."

And we become France...

21 posted on 10/23/2002 1:18:45 PM PDT by monkeywrench
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To: js1138
As an afterthought to your comment, I wonder how the many cells here stateside are doing for cash? I wonder if banks/other caches of currency are in their plans if they are running low and cutoff from their normal sources? The biggest problem, as I see it, are all of their sympathizers laundering their money through our financial markets/institutions FOR them.
22 posted on 10/23/2002 1:21:29 PM PDT by ApesForEvolution
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To: js1138
Al Quaeda is hurting for cash. The Saudi bankrollers are being watched, and American diplomats are in Switzerland trying to freeze their accounts.

There seems to be all kinds of interconnected Islamic financial networks here at home and hooked up overseas.

Dispensing the cash does not seem a big problem at present.

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To: sharktrager; js1138

You need to remember that what they can do, is limited by the potential results. Were the funds frozen, the sniper simply returns to his killing.

. . . All anyone would have to do is get the funds out of the final account as soon as they arrived.

There are banks who would accomodate this. Once the funds are out, the chase becomes much harder.

There is also the fact that the $10 million would not have to be transferred all at once to the same account. If he were to have set-up an intricate web of accounts he would increase the work needed to complete the trace, and could abandon any accounts he felt were compromised.

Excellent points here.

If this terrorist action isn't hooked up with the Muslim terrorist network, it's just a matter of time before a real one comes along.

The setup is in place and plenty of real-world research material is now unfolding in Maryland and Virginia.

Here's an article that provokes some thought in the current situation:


U.S. Gets Help in Finding and Freezing bin Laden's Funds

Monday November 05, 2001

By JEFF GERTH and JUDITH MILLER The New York Times

WASHINGTON-4 Nov.--For years American officials have suspected that Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network were taking advantage of the free-wheeling financial system of the United Arab Emirates, a tiny Persian Gulf nation that boasts of 47 banks and 105 money changers for its three million people.

After the Sept. 11 attacks, American concerns turned out to be well founded as federal investigators traced nearly half the estimated $500,000 that paid for the hijackings back to the Emirates.

Until now, the United States has been largely unsuccessful in enlisting the Emirates, one of three nations that had diplomatic ties to the Taliban-led government of Afghanistan, as a full partner in its financial war against terrorism. That appears to be changing. Last month [October 2001], dozens of Emirates and United States officials met for more than 10 hours at the Emirates Central Bank to discuss the arcane art of detecting and deterring the movement of money by militant networks.

Among other things, they have agreed to begin discussing how to keep track of "hawalas," the informal banking networks that terrorists have also used to move money.

COMPLETE HAWALA ARTICLE


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23 posted on 10/23/2002 1:43:09 PM PDT by henbane
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To: Cindy
"They don't shoot, shoot, shoot, and eventually ask for money

How do we know this whole shooting spree wasn't preceded by a blackmail demand? It is possible that this could have started with blackmail demand and when he/they didn't get what they wanted, the shooting started.

24 posted on 10/23/2002 1:50:09 PM PDT by aeronca
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To: aeronca
Very good point.


25 posted on 10/23/2002 2:43:07 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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