BEER Ch. 8, 80,82: "You know what a hawala is?"

[Robin Landseadel]

Reg is sure he's being followed. He's certain that his apartment has  
been breached, maybe his computer too. "Truther" material clearly  
emerges in the text before us:

Hawala or Hewala (Arabic: حِوالة‎, meaning transfer), also  
known as hundi, is an informal value transfer system based on the  
performance and honour of a huge network of money brokers, primarily  
located in theMiddle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the  
Indian subcontinent, operating outside of, or parallel to, traditional  
banking, financial channels, and remittance systems. . . .

. . .The unique feature of the system is that no promissory  
instruments are exchanged between the hawala brokers; the transaction  
takes place entirely on the honour system. As the system does not  
depend on the legal enforceability of claims, it can operate even in  
the absence of a legal and juridical environment. Trust and extensive  
use of connections, such as family relations and regional  
affiliations, are the components that distinguish it from other  
remittance systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala

Thus becoming as trackless as the rear view in DeepArcher.

"SWIFT numbers"

http://www.theswiftcodes.com/

Furby:

http://www.hasbro.com/furby/en_US/shop/furby-boom.cfm?mkwid=T2nbnKdx&pcrid=31609031832 
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Nagra 4—Nagra is world famous for their super-hi tech analog tape  
recorders, the audio recorder of choice for video production even at  
the turn of the millennium.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Nagra_IV-S_(AES_124).jpg

Dubai & BIG money:

Indeed, since 9/11 a huge investigative literature has explored  
Dubai’s role as ‘the financial hub for Islamic militant groups’,  
especially al-Qaeda and the Taliban: ‘all roads lead to Dubai when it  
comes to [terrorist] money’, claims a former high-ranking US Treasury  
official. Bin Laden reportedly transferred large sums through the  
government-owned Dubai Islamic Bank, while the Taliban used the  
city’s unregulated gold markets to transform their opium taxes, paid  
in gold bullion, into laundered dollars. [21] In his best-selling  
Ghost Wars, Steve Coll claims that after the catastrophic al-Qaeda  
bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, a CIAscheme  
to target bin Laden with cruise missiles while he was falcon hunting  
in southern Afghanistan had to be aborted because he was in the  
company of unnamed Emirati royalty. Coll adds that the CIA ‘also  
suspected that C-130s flying out of Dubai carried weapons to the  
Taliban’.[22]

http://newleftreview.org/II/41/mike-davis-fear-and-money-in-dubai

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