Terrorist front organization

Definitions

Religious
Anarchist Communist Conservative Left-wing Narcotics-driven Nationalist Right-wing
Buddhist Christian (Mormon) Hindu Islamic Jewish Sikh
Special-interest / Single-issue
Anti-abortion Environmental
Related topics
Ethnic violence Militia movement Resistance movement

Structure

Terrorist groups

Adherents

State terrorism
Violent non-state actors
Kazakhstan Soviet Union Sri Lanka United States Uzbekistan
State-sponsored terrorism
Iran Israel Pakistan Qatar Russia (Soviet Union) Saudi Arabia Syria United Arab Emirates United States

Response to terrorism

A terrorist front organization is created to conceal activities or provide logistical or financial support to the illegal activities.

See also

Hawala, an informal value transfer system useful to terrorists (and criminals) for transmission of money outside of regulated channels.
List of charities accused of ties to terrorism

Sources

Hawala. An Informal Payment System and Its Use to Finance Terrorism by Sebastian R. Müller (Dec. 2006) ISBN 3-86550-656-9 ISBN 978-3-86550-656-6

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