Abstract

Scholars have argued that the 9/11 attack exposed the presence of a previously unknown global menace and its funding structure.[1] However, the reality is that national and international terrorists have caused casualties over the years, through access to various conduits of financial or asset transfers. The bombing of three sites in a five-week period in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1975, the Egypt archaeology site bombing in 1997 and the 1998 US Embassy bombing in Tanzania were all acts of terrorism that could not have been implemented without access to funding channels.[2]