>After the September 11, the American government suspected that some hawala brokers may have helped terrorist organizations [...] since confirmed that the bulk

>After the September 11, the American government suspected that some hawala brokers may have helped terrorist organizations [...] since confirmed that the bulk of the funds used to finance the assault were not sent through the hawala system, but rather by an official inter-bank wire transfer to a SunTrust Bank in Florida, where two of the conspirators had opened a personal account. >However as a result of intense pressure from the U.S. authorities, widespread efforts are currently being made to introduce systematic anti-money laundering initiatives on a global scale, to better curb the activities of the financiers of terrorism and those engaged in laundering the profits of drug smuggling. The interesting thing about this line of logical failure is the possibility that a Hawala wouldn't work to transfer funds to terrorists, they had to use a de-personalized banking system that doesn't really care what they're doing with the money, unlike the Hawala system where the agents have to consider the impact of their actions on their network/family. Of course, such a logical failure that just happens to further secure the power of established banks against other systems, "logical failure" is a generous judgement of what was going on.