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To Spot Terror Funding, Look More at Local Crime: Analyst
printAmong the many challenges of identifying terrorist funds is the fact that they can be hidden in plain sight, according to Colin P. Clarke, an associate political scientist at the RAND Corporation who studies the subject. Not only are the monetary amounts tied to terror acts relatively small, but they may also be linked to seemingly unrelated crimes perpetrated locally, according to Clarke. Funds raised by members of Islamic State, also known as ISIS, ahead of last month's shootings in Paris stemmed in part from fraud schemes and other financial crimes, he said. Clarke, who authored the recently published Terrorism,...
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