TERRORISM TODAY: OW IT IS FINANCED

Abstract

The globalizing world is encountering non-traditional forms of conflict with increasing frequency. These forms of conflict are often char-acterized by “the power of the weak,” that is, by the ability of the aggressive minority to terrorize the “big” countries and call the shots. Terrorism is be-coming an active way for various political forces to fight for power and influence. “Terrorism is the way people choose to fight who do not have and do not see the possibility of having a legitimate and legal way of declaring their interests and defending them.
n this sense terrorism is eternal and the struggle against it, or to be more precise, the efforts to pre-vent it, should be concentrated primarily in the socioeconomic sphere. We need to recognize the pro-found crisis in which contemporary civilization finds itself and to search for new ways to structure and develop it.”

Whereas until recently international terrorism was understood as a various transborder organizational phenomena, frequently not interlinked, but interactive at the international level, at present, as it becomes increasingly in tune with the meaning of its name, it is turning into an organization with a single control center. In October 2003, six terrorist groups announced they were joining to form the Qa‘eda al-Jihad (Jihad Base) organization and declared war on “Zionism and crusaders.” This terrorist “international” comprises al-Qa‘eda, the Egyp-tian Jihad, the Yemen Jihad, the Aden-Abyan Army, the Saudi Ahfad Alsahaba and the Algerian al-Jama’a al-Salafiya al-Daawa. Al-Muatazz Al-Ya-mani was elected the leader of the new alliance.2
 Terrorists today have drawn conclusions from the bitter lessons of the past, whereby their depend-ence on sources of financing, primarily on sponsor states, was their most vulnerable spot. For a variety of reasons, these states soon stopped protecting terrorists, curtailed their financing, and even surrendered them to other countries. So terrorist organizations began looking for ways to become independent and finance themselves.