Terrorist financing: foxes run to ground

Reviews the progress of the measures against terrorism, a task hugely accelerated since the attacks of September 11. Outlines the US President’s power as expressed in the Executive Order on 24 September 2001; this was global in scope, and was targeted at terrorist financing and all associated with them, including even those like financial intermediaries who should have known better what was going on. Regards the creation of knowledgeable gatekeepers by the Patriot Act as crucial in the campaign for information flow in order to control the flow of funds between national borders, and explains the main provisions of the Act. Shows how the USA is building an international coalition of countries committed to the principles in the President’s Order.