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December 10, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Terrorism%20Judge%20Militant%20Money

ATMs Help Finance Islamic Radicals in Europe

(AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer) Radical Islamic cells in Europe are financing terror networks by withdrawing hundreds of thousands of dollars a month from cash machines with fake credit cards, according to France's top anti-terrorism judge, Jean-Louis Bruguiere. The judge said two years ago investigators uncovered one such financing cell in France. Ten suspected Islamic militants were withdrawing more than $100,000 a month from cash-machines in other European countries. "The (Islamic) European networks finance themselves primarily through microfinancing systems - criminal activity that is very profitable," he said Wednesday.

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