‘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

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