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	Central Bank Bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Central Bank Bombing was one of the most devastating terrorist bombings of the 1990s, and was the deadliest attack in the long civil war in Sri Lanka between the government and the Tamil Tigers.
		As gunmen traded fire with security guards, the suicide bomber in the truck detonated the massive bomb, which tore through the bank and damaged eight other buildings nearby.
		The bombing was the most deadly terrorist attack of 1996, and produced the most deaths of any single attack in the Sri Lankan conflict.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Central_Bank_Bombing (255 words)

	Central Banking Publications - Newsmakers - 21 October 2002
		But as an independent body, the bank is barred from entering into political debate, and tells me it is not taking a public position on this: "The media is looking for a public confrontation between the central bank and a group of politicians, so in these cases it is better to be cautious." Very sensible.
		The bank said: "It is our policy to stand ready to intervene in the domestic foreign exchange market, mostly by selling US dollars against rupiah to prevent it from depreciating rapidly." Also there has not been any run on the banks on the scale of the crisis experienced a few years ago.
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	www.centralbanking.co.uk /newsmakers/archive/2002/oct21.htm (1910 words)

	Central Banking Publications - Newsmakers - 04 November 2002
		At present, half of the directors at the bank are previous employees at the bank, and if they are not invited to remain, they will have to relinquish their positions.
		Yugoslavia’s central bank governor, Mladjan Dinkic, seems to be lumbered with the irritating task of having to set things to right every time his economically ham-fisted prime minister blurts out inappropriate statements.
		Nearly seven years after the catastrophic bombing of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in January 1996 when nearly 100 people were killed and over 1,000 injured, the perpetrators of this ghastly crime have received their comeuppance.
	www.centralbanking.co.uk /newsmakers/archive/2002/nov04.htm (2341 words)

	Terror Attack History
		The Wall Street bombing was a deadly terrorist incident that occurred on September 16, 1920 in the Financial District of New York City.
		The 1983 Rangoon bombing was a devastating act of terrorism by North Korea and an attempt to kill the South Korean President, Chun Doo Hwan.
		The Grand Hotel, Brighton, 2004 The Brighton hotel bombing was the bombing by the Provisional IRA of the Grand Hotel in Brighton in the early morning of October 12, 1984.
	www.members.tripod.com /antenna_conspiracy0/terror_attack_history.htm (11194 words)

	Sri Lankan regime to try LTTE leaders for Central Bank bomb attack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		That said, the bombing of the Central Bank was a heinous crime, most of whose victims were Sinhalese workers.
		The bombing strengthened reaction by casting the Tamil struggle against national oppression as a communo-ethnic conflict and thus assisted the efforts of the Sinhalese chauvinists to drive a wedge between the working class and the Tamils.
		In the case of the Central Bank workers, the state used the bombing to launch an attack on their working conditions, then obtained an interim injunction to prevent the CBEU from launching industrial action on the grounds that such action would assist the LTTE's efforts to disrupt the functioning of the bank.
	www.wsws.org /news/1998/dec1998/sri-d16.shtml (821 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Saddam 'seized $1bn from central bank'
		Saddam Hussein ordered Iraq's central bank to hand over $1 billion (£640 million) two days before the US bombing began and told his youngest son, Qusay, to oversee the removal of the cash which was loaded on to three lorries, bank officials said yesterday.
		According to bank officials and a security guard who witnessed the removal, Qusay and the senior aide to the president were present during the five-hour operation, which began at 7pm on March 18 and ended at midnight.
		A bomb destroyed much of the central bank's interior, while the other two buildings are still scattered with broken glass and scattered papers.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/05/07/wirq07.xml (607 words)

	Central Bank Insider -- November 2002 News
		According to the law governing the central bank, which was laid down five years ago when the bank began operations, the governor for the first six years must be a foreigner; and after that, a Bosnian citizen.
		However, each of the central bank's vice-governors represents one of the country's three population groups: Kemal Kozaric for the Bosniaks, Ljubisa Vladisic for the Serbs and Dragan Kovacevic for the Croats.
		The bank is also accused of being difficult by refusing to sign a memorandum on its dealings with commercial banks, and Stelmakh himself apparently failed to show up at key meetings with the government.
	www.usagold.com /centralbank/CBNovember2002.html (4473 words)

	Informed Comment
		Guerrillas detonated a bomb outside Iraq's central bank in Baghdad on Sunday, wounding 2 employees and a guard.
		Bombs not only throw off shrapnel themselves, they create lots of deadly flying debris, including flying glass from broken windows, that can kill and maim.
		You can't go around bombing residential buildings and killing women and children if you are to retain any respect whatsoever from the local population or, indeed, the world community.
	www.juancole.com /2004/06/3-wounded-by-bomb-at-central-bank-22_20.html (676 words)

	1996 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		January 31 - An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
		February 18 - An IRA briefcase bomb in a London bus kills the bomber and injures 9 in London's West End.
		Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1996 (4101 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > In Iraq -- Nearly $1 billion taken from Iraqi Central Bank shortly before war began
		The New York Times reported that Saddan Hussein ordered the money be taken from the Central Bank and sent his son Qusai to grab the cash in the middle of the night.
		The Iraqi official, however, felt the money found in the palace did not come from that Central Bank raid but belonged to Saddam's oldest son Odai, whom he said was known for hoarding large sums of cash.
		The newspaper said the nearly billion dollars taken by Saddam was nearly twice the amount looted by Iraqis from the bank after the April 9 collapse of Saddam's regime.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/iraq/20030506-0616-iraq-centralbank.html (409 words)

	World Bank/IMF/EBRD Agenda
		The Bank is offering to guarantee a part of the borrowed amount in support of agreed structural, institutional, and social policies and reforms.
		Romania’s deputy central bank governor, Cristian Popa, expressed hope that $315 million will be available this year and that the first tranche—worth more than $100 million—can be drawn after an IMF board meeting in June.
		A report prepared by the bank’s economists before the outbreak of war in Yugoslavia points out that the region’s GDP fell 1.3 percent last year and is forecast to decline another 1 percent this year.
	www.worldbank.org /html/prddr/trans/marapr99/pgs29-31.htm (1672 words)

	Central Bank Insider -- October 2002 News
		The Bank of England has published a report in its latest Quarterly Bulletin, which apparently casts doubt on the extent to which the current level of scrutiny that exists in the UK is necessary.
		He congratulates Norges Bank on its first-class practice of inflation targeting, although the bank's legal framework leaves quite a lot to be desired, being "among the weakest in the world".
		He resigned from the central bank having accepted a job as CEO of VIS Ltd. In his place, the prime minister has appointed Ingimundur Fridriksson for an indefinite period, not to exceed one year, beginning from October 1.
	www.usagold.com /centralbank/CBOctober2002.html (4039 words)

	LancasterOnline.com: Bank of Japan Leaves Rates Unchanged (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The board's unanimous decision to keep the bank's short-term benchmark rate, the unsecured overnight call loan rate, at 0.25 percent was in line with market expectations.
		In July, the Bank of Japan ended its zero interest rate policy with the first rate hike since August 2000 amid signs that Japan's economy, stuck in the doldrums for more than a decade, is gaining strength.
		The Bank of Japan's "tankan" corporate sentiment survey, a key gauge for the economy, is expected Oct. 2.
	ap.lancasteronline.com /4/japan_central_bank (346 words)

	$900 Million Missing from Iraq's Central Bank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Iraq's central bank is missing $900 million and the us thinks Saddam Hussein's younger son and assistant, Odai, took the money the night before bombing began.
		However, Iraqi bank officials say the money probably belonged to Saddam's son, who was known for hoarding large sums of cash.
		George Mullinax, US Treasury Advisor says, "Central bank has records of serial numbers and we expect to attempt to match serial numbers of central bank and serial numbers on currency that was found.
	www.emjournal.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /may03055.html (126 words)

	Lebanon wants Brazil to hold onto banker - Boston.com
		A fugitive bank executive wanted for questioning in the U.N. probe of the assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri was charged with bribery but her lawyer says she denied any wrongdoing.
		She quickly became the center of the bank scandal shortly after it broke in July 2003.
		She faces a suit by the owners of the bank, accusing her of issuing a bad check for US$3 million and of forging bank documents with the aim of embezzling.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/03/15/lebanon_wants_brazil_to_hold_onto_banker (585 words)

	Archives - World Bank Group Historical Chronology 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Bank security staff member Geoff Beaumont went to a Baghdad hospital and two IMF staff members were moved to a Kuwait hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
		The World Bank Board of Executive Directors held a preliminary discussion on a recommendation by management that a possible range of financial support to be provided by the Bank for reconstruction in Iraq could total $3.4 billion to $4 billion during the Bank’s next five fiscal years.
		In addition, she leads the formulation of the Bank's policies on health and education, and is in charge of integrating, monitoring, and evaluating progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.
	web.worldbank.org /WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/EXTARCHIVES/0,,contentMDK:20653381~menuPK:1689523~pagePK:36726~piPK:437378~theSitePK:29506,00.html (8805 words)

	CNN.com - U.S.: $1 billion taken by Saddam - May. 6, 2003
		About $1 billion was taken from Iraq's Central Bank by Saddam Hussein and his family, just hours before the United States began bombing Iraq, the U.S. State Department said Tuesday.
		Residents of the area around the Central Bank in Baghdad told CNN they saw three or four trucks backed up to the bank at that time and that people appeared to be loading money onto the trucks.
		Citing an unnamed bank official with knowledge of the removal, The Times reported that Qusay and Abid al-Hamid Mahmood, Saddam's personal assistant, were involved in the withdrawal from the Central Bank.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/meast/05/06/sprj.nilaw.bank (389 words)

	Terrorist attacks carried out by LTTE - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		21.04.87 Central Bus Stand, Pettah Terrorists exploded a bomb, killing 110 civilians, 2 policemen and a soldier; 298 others were injured[6].
		Sri Lankan President Ranasingha Premadasa killed in LTTE suicide bomb attack[10].
		31.01.96 : An attack by the LTTE on the Colombo Central Bank killed 90 and injured a further 1,400 people, damaging other buildings in the process[15].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Terrorist_attacks_carried_out_by_LTTE (716 words)

	USATODAY.com - Saddam took nearly $1 billion from bank before U.S. attack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly $1 billion was taken from Iraq's Central Bank by Saddam Hussein and his family shortly before the United States began bombing Baghdad, the State Department said Tuesday.
		Treasury Department officials, earlier in the day, said that roughly $900 million in U.S. currency was taken from the central bank at the onset of the war.
		U.S. Treasury official George Mullinax, who is assigned to help rebuild Iraq's banking system, told the newspaper it was possible that much of the money had already been recovered.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-05-06-iraq-central-bank_x.htm (518 words)

	central bank gold property
		Bank lending in Britain is increasing at 11.2% per year.
		All around the world, the supply of paper assets is increasing at breathtaking rates.
		"The bombing run on Dresden was ordered by Churchill when Harris had stood down that night's raid on Berlin because of cloud cover.
	www.dailyreckoning.co.uk /article/centralbankgoldproperty.html (1494 words)

	Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		We may recall the Central Bank bombing in 1997, when more than a hundred persons were killed, and several hundreds more injured or maimed for life, some blinded by flying glass.
		Global news hounds were on the spot without delay, and were quick to report that there was chaos among the civilian population, and that the authorities were not showing the necessary preparedness to deal with the situation, unprecedented though it was, on that scale.
		Within hours of the Central Bank bombing atrocity, in Colombo, the British High Commissioner made a statement that the attack was probably planned against the Naval headquarters nearby, implying that it was not intended to be an attack on a civilian target, a vital national economic one at that, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka.
	www.dailynews.lk /2005/07/19/fea06.htm (2011 words)

	USATODAY.com - Officials tell Arab Bank to stop wire transfers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Arab Bank's New York branch office was implicated Friday by U.S. regulators in a money-laundering investigation into "suspicious" transfers of substantial sums of money by the Middle Eastern bank involving "high risk" customers.
		The Treasury's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ordered Arab Bank, which is based in Jordan, to immediately halt wire transfers from its Madison Avenue office, preserve its records, including documents related to its Grand Cayman Island branch, and to begin an "orderly winding down" of all bank operations in this country.
		Earlier this month, the bank told its chief regulator, Jordan's central bank, that it planned to withdraw from the U.S. market.
	www.usatoday.com /money/industries/banking/2005-02-28-arab-bank-usat_x.htm (460 words)

	England Bombs Gold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		As bullion bomb after bullion bomb found its mark, the resulting destruction in the gold market was spectacular, and the dangerous gold rally was shredded by the state-of-the-art munitions.
		The Bank of England, on May 7, 1999, announced “a restructuring of the UK’s reserve holdings to achieve a better balance in the portfolio by increasing the proportion held in currency.
		As the Bank of England is acting as a fiduciary for Her Majesty’s Treasury, which is presumably holding the public gold collectively owned by the citizens of Great Britain, one would expect the BoE to MAXIMIZE the sales price for the gold it was commissioned to sell.
	www.zealllc.com /commentary/boebomb.htm (4118 words)

	Saddam took $1 bil from Iraq's central bank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		WASHINGTON — Roughly $1 billion was taken from Iraq's central bank by Saddam Hussein and his family shortly before the United States began bombing Baghdad, the State Department said Tuesday.
		"We do know from Treasury Department officials in Baghdad that approximately $1 billion was taken from the Iraqi central bank by Saddam Hussein and his family just prior to the start of combat operations," Boucher said.
		The New York Times reported that Saddam Hussein ordered the money taken from the Central Bank and sent his son Qusai in the middle of the night.
	www.emjournal.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /may03057.html (433 words)

	Boston.com / Rebuilding Iraq
		WASHINGTON -- Roughly $900 million in U.S. currency was taken from Iraq's Central Bank shortly before the United States began bombing Baghdad, U.S. government officials confirmed Tuesday.
		The New York Times reported that Saddam Hussein ordered the money be taken from the Central Bank and sent his son Qusai to grab the cash in the middle of the night.
		The amount of money -- $900 million in U.S. $100 bills and $100 million in euros -- was so large it had to be taken from the bank in three tractor trailers, The New York Times reported.
	www.boston.com /news/daily/06/iraq_bank.htm (487 words)

	Blue's News: Edit Message
		* 1993 July 5 the IRA detonate a 1500lb car bomb (the largest used in Northern Ireland) in the centre of Newtownards in Northern Ireland, no one is killed but massive property damage is caused to the town centre.
		* 1993 Mumbai car bombings in India * 1993 IRA bomb in Warrington kills two children (Warrington Bomb Attacks) * 1993 IRA detonate a huge truck bomb in the City of London at Bishopsgate, killing two and causing approximately £350m of damage.
		Authorities found out that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb to test it for his planned terrorist attack.
	www.bluesnews.com /cgi-bin/edit.pl?id=220174&start=0 (1006 words)

	Bus bombing in central Jerusalem
		One of the suspects, a 16-year-old from the West Bank town of Tulkarm, said that he was chosen by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to carry out an attack in Netanya on behalf of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
		Within 45 minutes of the Jerusalem bus bombing, Israel had apparently executed at least a part of its response to the attack.
		At 18:15, it was reported that Israeli helicopters had fired two missiles at a car in Gaza City, killing senior Hamas members Tito Masa`ud and Soffil Abu Nahez as well as several bystanders.
	www.ict.org.il /spotlight/det.cfm?id=907 (396 words)

	The Hindu : Murder cases unresolved in Sri Lanka
		An explosive and violent end for the victim, poignant tales of blood and tears for the relatives, chronicles of killings for analysts and unresolved cases for the investigators has been the norm in nearly all the cases of murders.
		Barring suicide bombings, which have gained the signature of the LTTE after Indian investigators unravelled the assassination of former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, the other killings carried out through the bullet or the bomb have remained unprobed.
		Among the acts of urban terrorism, barring the Central Bank bombing in 1996, where the LTTE was named in the courts and its leader Prabhakaran listed as an accused, not much of follow- up has been made.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/01/10/stories/03100002.htm (635 words)

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