ABSTRACT
Introduction Since the attacks of 11 September 2001, a global regime has emerged to counter the financing of terrorism. It was one of the few areas in which the Bush administration actively supported, participated in, and led the construction of a global multilateral effort – albeit one in which it provided the core leadership and the intelligence information that propelled it. In a striking departure from its initial (summer of 2001) opposition to multilateral efforts to strengthen targeted financial sanctions and the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF ) global anti moneylaundering regime, the Bush administration turned completely around on the issue, making anti terrorist financing measures (CFT) an important part of its metaphorical global “war” on terrorism.
