International Terrorism and Transnational Crime: Threats, Policy, and Considerations for Congress

CRS

A 56-page US report provides a primer on the confluence of transnational terrorist and criminal groups and related activities abroad. It evaluates possible motivations and disincentives for cooperation between terrorist and criminal organizations, variations in the scope of crime-terrorism links, and the types of criminal activities—fundraising, material and logistics support, and exploitation of corruption and gaps in the rule of law—used by terrorist organizations to sustain operations

John Rollins et al.

Defence, Terrorism & Security , Crime, Law & Order Posted: 2010-01-22