TERRORISM Terrorism means the use or threat of action if this action may influence the
government or intimidate the public or a section of the public for political,
religious or ideological reasons. Terrorism usually involves serious violence
against a person or serious damage to property, endangers a person’s life,
other than that of the person committing the action, and creates a serious risk
to the health or safety of the public. Terrorists often use firearms or
explosives for their purposes. Terrorists may have plans to interfere with or
seriously disrupt an electronic system. An organization is concerned in
terrorism if it commits or participates in acts of terrorism, prepares for
terrorism, promotes or encourages terrorism. Everybody sees the need for
fight against terrorism and its financing. Governments of different countries
take measures to adapt domestic legislation and international conventions to
new technological and other developments of terrorists as well as to their
growing sophistication. It is also necessary to intensify cooperation between
national administration and judicial, police, financial and other authorities
for the purpose of successfully tracing the origin and the routing of funds
intended for terrorists. Peoples of the world see the need for intensified
international cooperation to identify and neutralize funds for terrorist
purposes. Such an undertaking is possible only with a high degree of
cooperation at the normative, operative and implementation levels. While
such an effort may not ensure the prevention of all terrorist acts, it can
contribute significantly to weakening terrorist infrastructures. This is so
especially if measures can neutralize terrorism’s legal sources of financing,
which in certain cases operate under the cover of humanitarian, non- profit
or even charitable organizations. It is also necessary to prevent general
criminal activities that often serve to finance terrorism such as trafficking
drugs and weapons in human beings. The systems and measures developed
over the last few years to prevent the laundering of proceeds from crime can,
if conscientiously applied, play a significant role in the detection, freezing
and confiscation of terrorist funds.
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