ABSTRACT
In the immediate aftermath of the attacks of 11 September 2001, the Bush Administration told the American public that it would not mount a traditional effort in its “war on terrorism.” The campaign would be a protracted affair, invoking non-traditional methods, institutions, and resources, including an effort to suppress both the raising and the movement of funds that could be used to support the acts of global terrorists. As President George W. Bush declared on 24 September 2001:
We will direct every resource at our command to win the war against terrorists, every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence. We will starve the terrorists of funding, turn them against each other, rout them out of their safe hiding places, and bring them to justice.1
