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...perform due-diligence reviews to see if the money they are handling is linked to drugs or terrorism. Making matters worse, the banks taking out correspondent accounts are, in some cases, doing so for other banks that they know little about. The upshot: it might not be hard for bin Laden, who controls a Sudanese bank, to wire money to a friendly neighborhood bank branch in any U.S. city. Or for members of terrorist cells to make withdrawals...
Long before the Sept. 11 attacks, the U.S. government tried to declare war on tax havens and dirty money. After the 1998 attacks on two U.S. embassies in Africa--attacks blamed on bin Laden's network--the Clinton Administration began drafting legislation designed to "strategically change the environment that allowed the money of criminals and terrorists to flow freely," says William Wechsler, a special adviser to Clinton Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. And the Administration began sounding out the banking industry...
...public-service announcement ever could. Just as it would be harder to hijack a plane today than it was a month or so ago, it's now going to be a lot harder to take Americans by surprise with envelopes full of powder. If this really was another bin Laden-inspired attack, America may be safer than we think...
OSAMA & BERT? American culture is so powerful it permeates even anti-American protests. Last week Pakistani demonstrators carried posters of Osama bin Laden seated next to grouchy Sesame Street straight man Bert. The pictures were apparently downloaded from one of many websites publishing parody images of the Muppets in compromising positions. Sesame Street executives were none too pleased. You can find the images on the Web by searching for "Bert bin Laden...
...DIARY Like it or not, says TIME Asia correspondent Tim McGirk, Pakistan is a place where young girls moon over Osama bin Laden as if he were a rock star. Read about Tim's negotiations with protesters and religious taxi drivers in his weekly dispatches from the front. time.com/mcgirk...