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Podcast: Critical Line Item with Tom Ravlic
Episode: How bad actors get money to do bad things
Description: Terrorist organsations need to resource their operations and history shows us that they use varying methods to get their hands on money to aid them in planning and executing acts of extreme political violence. Terrorism financing expert Jodi Viittori helps us decipher the world of shady financing used by the practitioners of political violence. Her 2011 book, Terrorist Financing and Resourcing, remains one of the landmark texts in the area of terrorism financing, This podcast covers the simplest and most complex methods that bad actors use to get money for their violent activities. Why did groups such as Al Qaeda have...