‘Follow the money.’ That was George W. Bush’s directive to the US Treasury after 9/11. Choking off al-Qaida’s finances proved complicated — but what happened next went far beyond that. A small team of Treasury bureaucrats weaponised the global economic system itself, and built a financial nuclear bomb.
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Archive in this episode:
‘Indictment of Islamic Charity Leader’/C-Span
‘UN declares famine in southern Somalia’/AFP News Agency
‘September 11 Commission Report’/C-Span
‘Book Discussion: Treasury’s War with author Juan Zarate’/Center for Strategic & International Studies
‘Juan Zarate: Treasury’s War’/Politics and Prose
‘Horn of Africa Crisis: Somalia's Famine’/Fault Lines/Al Jazeera
‘Former Afghan president slams unjust U.S. plan for frozen assets, urges return’/CGTN
‘Trump: BRICS was setup to degenerate our dollar’/CNBC
‘Obama Lauds N.Korea Sanctions’/CBS News
