REMEMBER THE IMPORTANCE OF THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORIST FINANCING ON THIS DATE

                     

The passage of time may have healed some of the wounds America suffered on 9/11, but the existential threat of terrorist financing remains a clear and present danger in 2023. Funding of Hezbollah, Hamas, a weakened Al-Qaeda, and all the other designated global terrorist organizations goes on each day, without sufficient CTF countermeasures to interdict and suppress all those millions of dollars that support them. While compliance officers focus on money laundering, they must not forget that the more difficult to uncover terrorist financing operations are still a challenge that they need to meet and overcome each and every day.

On a personal level, I still think of my friend, Port Authority Police Director of Public Safety Fred Morrone leaving his office in New Jersey, and going into the Towers to save those people. May his memory be a blessing.