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Sent 1: The second major point on which the principals had agreed on March 10 was the need to crack down on terrorist organizations and curtail their fund-raising.
Sent 2: The embassy bombings of 1998 had focused attention on al Qaeda's finances.
Sent 3: One result had been the creation of an NSC-led interagency committee on terrorist financing.
Sent 4: On its recommendation, the President had designated Bin Laden and al Qaeda as subject to sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Sent 5: This gave theTreasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) the ability to search for and freeze any Bin Laden or al Qaeda assets that reached the U.S. financial system.
Sent 6: But since OFAC had little information to go on, few funds were frozen.
Sent 7: In July 1999, the President applied the same designation to the Taliban for harboring Bin Laden.
Sent 8: Here, OFAC had more success.
Sent 9: It blocked more than $34 million in Taliban assets held in U.S. banks.
Sent 10: Another $215 million in gold and $2 million in demand deposits, all belonging to the Afghan central bank and held by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, were also frozen.
Sent 11: After October 1999, when the State Department formally designated al Qaeda a "foreign terrorist organization," it became the duty of U.S. banks to block its transactions and seize its funds.
Sent 12: Neither this designation nor UN sanctions had much additional practical effect; the sanctions were easily circumvented, and there were no multilateral mechanisms to ensure that other countries' financial systems were not used as conduits for terrorist funding.
Sent 13: Attacking the funds of an institution, even the Taliban, was easier than finding and seizing the funds of a clandestine worldwide organization like al Qaeda.
Sent 14: Although the CIA's Bin Laden unit had originally been inspired by the idea of studying terrorist financial links, few personnel assigned to it had any experience in financial investigations.
Sent 15: Any terrorist-financing intelligence appeared to have been collected collaterally, as a consequence of gathering other intelligence.
Sent 16: This attitude may have stemmed in large part from the chief of this unit, who did not believe that simply following the money from point A to point B revealed much about the terrorists' plans and intentions.
Sent 17: As a result, the CIA placed little emphasis on terrorist financing.
Sent 18: Nevertheless, the CIA obtained a general understanding of how al Qaeda raised money.

Question: Who recommended that the President designate Bin Laden and al Qaeda as subject to sanctions under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act? (false/0)

Question: Why did most of the intelligence about terrorist funding come from gathering other intelligence? (true/1)

Students
Because other organs of their system were not capable enough
Because transactions themselves don't simply reveal the details of their plans

Question: How much money was frozen after the President applied the same designation to the Taliban? (true/2)

$34 million in Taliban assets in U.S. banks, another $215 million in gold and $2 million in demand deposits
$215 million
Less than $34 million
$2 million
$251 million
$500 million
It blocked $34 million of Taliban assets, $215 million in gold and $2 million in demand deposits

Question: What was the result of following terrorist money flowing from point A to point B? (true/3)

Full freezing of al Qaeda funds
The CIA was able to track the countries helping to fun al Qaeda
CIA found it was hard to attack funds of Al Qaeda
Knowledge of how al Qaeda raised money
CIA placed little emphasis on terrorist financing
Little emphasis was placed on terrorist financing

Question: Why did the CIA place little emphasis on investigating terrorist funding? (true/4)

Friend of Binalshibh
Because Taliban doesn't have much financial activities
Because Taliban doesn't use much of the world financial system

Question: Why did the OFAC have little information about the financing of al Qaeda? (true/5)

Because their intelligence is not as strong as a Qaeda
Al Qaeda was a clandestine worldwide organization

Question: One of the results of March 10th meeting was? (false/6)

Crack down on terrrorist organizations
The creation of an NSC-led interagency committee on terrorist financing
Finding the location of bin Laden
Air strikes on terrorist training camps

Question: Who blocked more than $34 million in Taliban assets held in U.S. banks, and froze $215 million in gold and $2 million in demand deposits belonging to the Afghan central bank? (true/7)

Question: How much of the Taliban assets held in the U.S. were frozen in 1999? (true/8)

$215 million
$36 million
$2 million
$34 million

Question: Practical effects of designating al Qaeda a "foreign terrorist organization," resulted in small achievement after what date? (true/9)

March 10
October 1999
March 1999
July 1999

Question: Why was it easier to attack the funds of an institution, even the Taliban, than to find and seize the funds of a clandestine worldwide organization like al Qaeda? (true/10)

Because the CIA's Bin Laden Unit had very little if any experience in financial investigations
It was too expensive to track funds
The CIA didn't want to put in time to track it

Question: The OFAC tried to freeze which terrorist organizations funding? (false/11)

Hamas
ISIS
Al Qaeda
Taliban

Question: What are the main United States offices and committees involved in the following of terrorist funds include Qaeda and Taliban in the late 1990's? (true/12)

Question: What are two reasons the CIA placed little emphasis on terrorist financing? (true/13)

CIA already had a general understanding of their plans
The chief of the CIA's Bin Laden unit did not believe that tracing money from point A to point B revealed much about the terrorists' plans and intentions, and few personnel assigned to the unit had any experience in financial investigations
Simply following the transactions would not reveal much about their plans

Question: What gave the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) the ability to search for and freeze any Bin Laden or al Qaeda assets that reached the U.S. financial system? (true/14)

Sanctioning Bin Laden
Sanctioning Taliban
Sanctioning the U.S. financial system

Question: Why was it difficult for U.S. banks to block the transactions of and seize the funds of al Qaeda despite it being designated a "foreign terrorist organization"? (false/15)

There were no multilateral mechanisms to prevent other countries' financial systems from being used to circumvent the sanctions
Because al Qaeda kept its details hidden
Because their technology was not strong enough to track Taliban's financial activities

Question: In 1999 the president decided to apply the same designations of freezing assets of the Taliban held in the United States and it resulted in how much money being frozen? (true/16)

$215 million
$2 million
215 million
34 millions

Question: What gave the OFAC the ability to search for and freeze any Al Qaeda assets that reached the U.S. financial system? (true/17)

The State Department
Seizing the funds of a clandestine worldwide organization like al Qaeda
The NSC-led interagency committee on terrorist financing
International Emergency Economic Powers Act
Financial systems were not used as conduits for terrorist funding
The Embassy bombings of 1998

Question: What was a result of the Embassy bombings of 1998? (true/18)

It focused attention Al-Qaeda's finances
The President's designation of Bin Laden and al Qaeda as subject to sanctions
The creation of al Qaeda
The designation of al Qaeda a "domestic terrorist organization"
Gathering other intelligence
Foreign terrorist organization

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