Hamas Verdicts and New Methods
By Douglas Farah
As Matt Levitt wrote of yesteray's verdict in the Hamas trial: "The case highlights the difficulty of prosecuting individuals for their support to terrorist groups when that support is conducted under the cover of humanitarian or political activity."
This is why new methods of tracing potential terrorist finance activity is so crucial. The Justice Department and IRS are finally breaking new ground in this type of investigation, as shown by the Overland-DMI case now before a grand jury.
It is almost always impossible to prove that one action (fund raising, hate preaching etc.) leads directly to another (bus bombs, suicide bombs, airplane hijackings). _Jihadi_ internet sites praise these actions, call for the death of Muslim British soldiers and urge the killing of infidels. But can you prove that one specific message on a website led one person to carry out a suicide bombing or plot the assassination of British soldiers?
Very difficult, if not impossible. My full blog is here.
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