| | Making Sense of Jihad: SWIFT CODES |
 | | According to the Treasury and Justice Department sources, the reporters and editors appeared to have been told that the SWIFT financial monitoring was somehow being undertaken without warrants and without legal supervision. |
 | | When the NY Times broke the story, they were reporting it to their readership, but they were also reporting it to the educated, multi-lingual, world-traveled, and very smart men who launder money from the Western banks to the terrorists’ hands. |
 | | Even by mentioning that the government had made a deal with SWIFT immediately gave these men specific knowledge (through their own familiarity with SWIFT) of what kind of information was being collected and analyzed, and where and what money could be have been exposed to US investigators. |
| www.makingsenseofjihad.com /2006/07/swift_codes.html (1259 words) |