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

[Fiona Shnapple]

An index of financial secrecy
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2013/11/index-financial-secrecy

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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|pkw|furby|pmt|e|pdv|c
>
> 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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