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  1. 1.

    Office of the Director of National Intelligence, ‘Bin Laden’s Bookshelf’ <www.dni.gov/index.php/features/bin-laden-s-bookshelf> accessed 12 June 2017.

  2. 2.

    See especially Frank Furedi, Invitation to Terror (Continuum 2007).

  3. 3.

    HM Government, National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015: A Secure and Prosperous United Kingdom (Cm 9161, 2015) Annex A, 87.

  4. 4.

    See Thomas Baumert and Mikel Buesa, ‘Dismantling Terrorist Economics: The Spanish Experience’ in Colin King and Clive Walker (eds), Dirty Assets: Emerging Issues in the Regulation of Criminal and Terrorist Assets (Ashgate Publishing 2014).

  5. 5.

    UNGA International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (adopted 9 December 1999, opened for signature 10 January 2000) (2000) 39 ILM 270.

  6. 6.

    Colin King and Clive Walker, ‘Counter Terrorism Financing: A Redundant Fragmentation?’ (2015) 6(3) New Journal of European Criminal Law 372. See further Tamara Makarenko, ‘The Crime-Terror Continuum: Tracing the Interplay between Transnational Organised Crime and Terrorism’ (2004) 6(1) Global Crime 129.

  7. 7.

    See Home Office, Serious and Organised Crime Strategy (Cm 8715, 2013) para 1.5. The strategy derives from Home Office, Countering International Terrorism: The United Kingdom’s Strategy (Cm 6888, 2006).

  8. 8.

    See Nicola Hurley, ‘First Pictures of Fake Suicide Belts Worn by London Bridge Attackers’ Daily Telegraph (London, 10 June 2017) <www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/10/first-pictures-fake-suicide-belts-worn-london-bridge-attackers/> accessed 13 June 2017.

  9. 9.

    Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC, 93/105/EC and 2000/21/EC (Text with EEA relevance) [2006] OJ L396/1; Regulation (EU) No 98/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2013 on the marketing and use of explosives precursors Text with EEA relevance [2013] OJ L39/1.

  10. 10.

    William Balsamo and George Carpozi Jr., Crime Incorporated or Under the Clock: The Inside Story of the Mafia’s First Hundred Years (New Horizons Press 1999).

  11. 11.

    Ronald Kessler, The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI (St Martin’s Press 2003); Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, The FBI: A History (Yale University Press 2008); Tim Weiner, Enemies: A History of the FBI (Penguin 2013).

  12. 12.

    Authorization for the Use of Military Force of 18 September 2001 (Public Law 107–40 [SJ RES 23]), s 2a.

  13. 13.

    See Johan Steyn, ‘Guantanamo Bay: The Legal Black Hole’ (2004) 53(1) International and Comparative Legal Quarterly 1; Helen Duffy, The ‘War on Terror’ and the Framework of International Law (CUP 2005); Benjamin Wittes (ed), Legislating the War on Terror: An Agenda for Reform (Brookings Institution Press 2009); Geoffrey S Corn, The War on Terror and the Laws of War: A Military Perspective (2nd edn, OUP 2015).

  14. 14.

    President Barack Obama, ‘The Future of Our Fight Against Terrorism’ (National Defense University 2013) <https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/23/remarks-president-barack-obama> accessed 12 June 2017.

  15. 15.

    See Bureau of Investigative Journalism, ‘Drone Wars: The Full Data’ <www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-01-01/drone-wars-the-full-data> accessed 12 June 2017.

  16. 16.

    18 USC, ss 1961–1968. See Dylan Bensinger and others, ‘Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations’ [2016] American Criminal Law Review 1673.

  17. 17.

    An interesting official assessment along those lines is the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy paper, Cutting Red Tape: Review of the UK’s Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Financing of Terrorism Regime (2017).

  18. 18.

    See Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, Pt I; Serious Crime Act 2007, s 74.

  19. 19.

    See Crime and Courts Act 2013, Pt I. The Economic Crime Command leads the NCA’s activities. In addition, the Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce (JMLIT) was established in 2015 in partnership with the banking financial sector to tackle high-end money laundering.

  20. 20.

    See Katja F. Aas, Globalisation and Crime (Sage 2007); Angela Veng Mei Leong, The Disruption of International Organised Crime: An Analysis of Legal and Non-Legal Strategies (Ashgate Publishing 2007); Peter Andreas and Ethan Nadelmann, Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations (OUP 2008); Neil Boister, An Introduction to Transnational Criminal Law (OUP 2012); Ben Bowling and James Sheptycki, Global Policing (Sage 2012); Saskia Hufnagel, Policing Cooperation Across Borders (Ashgate Publishing 2013).

  21. 21.

    Grant Ref AH/L014920/1.

  22. 22.

    Colin King and Clive Walker (eds), Dirty Assets: Emerging Issues in the Regulation of Criminal and Terrorist Assets (Ashgate Publishing 2014).

  23. 23.

    For details of these events, see ‘Dirty Assets: Experiences, Reflections, and Lessons Learnt from a Decade of Legislation on Criminal Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing’ <www.law.leeds.ac.uk/research/projects/dirty-assets> accessed 2 June 2017. The events in London and Notre Dame were generously hosted by Professor Jimmy Gurulé and Notre Dame Law School.

  24. 24.

    See Staff writer, ‘Arab Countries Release List of Terrorist Financiers Supported by Qatar’ Al Arabiya (Dubai, 9 June 2017) <http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2017/06/09/Arab-countries-release-list-of-terrorist-financiers-supported-by-Qatar.html> accessed 13 June 2017.

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Walker, C., King, C., Gurulé, J. (2018). Criminal and Terrorism Financing Law: An Introduction. In: King, C., Walker, C., Gurulé, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Criminal and Terrorism Financing Law. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64498-1_1

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