From: Abettor@treason,org   
      
   Tuesday, June 27, 2006 3:57 p.m. EDT   
   Reminder to the N.Y. Times: We Are At War   
      
      
   "If America is going to wage a new kind of war against terrorism, it must   
   act on all fronts, including the financial one," a newspaper editorialized   
   on September 24, 2001 - just 13 days after the terrorist strikes of 9/11.   
      
   That same newspaper has now betrayed the very operation it was then urging   
   on the Bush administration. That newspaper, of course, is the New York   
   Times, now rapidly taking on the role of Osama bin Laden's reliable   
   informant.   
      
   "Osama bin Laden originally rose to prominence because his inherited fortune   
   allowed him to bankroll Arab volunteers fighting Soviet forces in   
   Afghanistan," the Times wrote. "Since then, he has acquired funds from a   
   panoply of Islamic charities and illegal and legal businesses, including   
   export-import and commodity trading firms, and is estimated to have as much   
   as $300 million at his disposal.   
      
   The newspaper continued with a breakdown of bin Laden's influence in that   
   2001 editorial.   
      
      
   "Some of these businesses move funds through major commercial banks that   
   lack the procedures to monitor such transactions properly," it reads.   
   "Locally, terrorists can utilize tiny unregulated storefront financial   
   centers, including what are known as hawala banks, which people in South   
   Asian immigrant communities in the United States and other Western countries   
   use to transfer money abroad. Though some smaller financial transactions are   
   likely to slip through undetected even after new rules are in place, much of   
   the financing needed for major attacks could dry up."   
      
   Recognizing that the organization of the hijacking of the planes that   
   crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon took significant sums   
   of money, the Times wrote the "cost of these plots suggests that putting   
   Osama bin Laden and other international terrorists out of business will   
   require more than diplomatic coalitions and military action. Washington and   
   its allies must also disable the financial networks used by terrorists."   
      
   Which is exactly what the Bush administration did, the details of which the   
   Times has now told Osama bin Laden and his terrorists all about.   
      
   Back then, the Times explained they knew the Bush administration was   
   preparing new laws to help track terrorists through their money-laundering   
   activity and was readying the preparation of an executive order that would   
   freeze the assets of known terrorists.   
      
   That was O.K. with the N.Y. Times editors nearly five years ago.   
      
      
   For the then belligerent Times, even that wasn't enough. Much more, was   
   needed, according to the editorial, "including stricter regulations, the   
   recruitment of specialized investigators and greater cooperation with   
   foreign banking authorities." The paper added there "must also be closer   
   coordination among America's law enforcement, national security and   
   financial regulatory agencies."   
      
   All that happened as part of the ongoing war on terrorism encouraged by the   
   Bush administration, but instead of looking back with satisfaction on this   
   effort, the Times has now once again exposed a vital covert operation that   
   aids and comforts the enemy. The N.Y. Times alerted terrorists - and their   
   worldwide network of willing accomplices - that their terrorist fund-raising   
   efforts are being monitored by the United States to help win the war against   
   terrorism.   
      
      
   The administration acted as the Times had suggested and helped prevent more   
   9/11-style terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. The Times has now made more such   
   attacks possible.   
      
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