ABSTRACT
Terrorist funding is an organized, diversifi ed, and sometimes complex dimension of groups’ operations. The subject was usually ignored by academics, news periodicals,1 and policy makers before the World Trade Center thundered into dust one day in September 2001. Since that attack, the importance of terrorist fi nancing and economics has been apparent. That said, it will always remain far less important than the loss of almost 3,000 souls from Mexico, Ivory Coast, Japan, Israel, Portugal, Britain, Colombia, the Philippines, the United States, and several dozen other countries.
