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Insight Intelligence Updates

June 2022

Jessica Davis
Jun 30, 2022
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the many new subscribers to this newsletter! Our community is now well over 1500 strong and growing every day. Thank you all so much for your support — it means a lot, and helps make this project sustainable. It’s been a really long time since I did an update newsletter, summarizing all the things the team and I have been up to over the last few months. So here’s everything you might have missed over the last little while, or if you’re new around here. Remember: if you have a paid subscription, you can access the over 200 articles in the archive.

A brief note on methods

Some of you might have noticed that I tend to create mini profiles of groups / attacks. This is part of the research methodology that I used for Illicit Money: Financing Terrorism in the 21st Century. Some of these profiles were created for the book (I’m still working my way through all my archival research!), while others have been created since Illicit Money went to press. I keep my basic descriptive statistics up to date with this information, so it allows me to track trends over time and bring you the most up-to-date analysis, backed by evidence. So if you’re ever looking for ‘proof’ for one of my assertions, odds are good it can be found in these short case studies.

New Group Profiles

The group profiles outline known methods that terrorist and extremist groups exploit to raise, use, move, store, manage, and obscure their funds. These profiles create a body of knowledge from which we can measure changes.

Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan

The Taliban’s Evolving Finances

Lashkar-e-Taiba Financing

ISIL-KP Financing (updated)

New Attack Profiles

The attack profiles illustrate how individual attacks were financed. They generally include an analysis of the cost involved, which allows me to keep a running tally of the cost of terrorism over time.

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The cost of terrorism
One of the most common critiques of counter-terrorism financing policies and practices is that countering the financing of terrorism makes little sense in an age of “cheap” terrorism. How valid is this critique? Let’s explore. First of all: is terrorism really cheap…
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2 years ago · 1 like · Jessica Davis

Air India Flight 182: The Transactions leading to Terrorism

Buffalo shooting: financing terrorism

Hisham Chaudhary: Financing Terrorism Using Bitcoin

New Commentary

Canada is shirking its responsibility to Afghans by hiding behind counterterrorism financing laws

A missed opportunity: Canada's Cullen Commission

Democracy Under Siege

Mass murder in Nova Scotia: conspiracy theories and financial intelligence

Senate committee testimony: IMVE

Trends Analysis

This report type outlines changes in trends, or anything new that I’m seeing in any of my areas of research. In this case, I focused on the adoption of the tactic of suicide bombings by the BLA.

The Balochistan Liberation Army's Female Suicide Bombers

News Roundups

Disrupting female terrorism in Syria, Pakistan, and elsewhere

Corporate Complicity in Terrorist Financing

Women in Terrorism News Roundup (April 2022)

Convoy Finance

As the ‘Freedom Convoy’ and associated individuals roll back into Ottawa this week for more protests, I took a look at the new corporate entities that several have established. Spoiler: they’re making use of not-for-profit corporations in Canada to potential avoid paying taxes, to create a veneer of legitimacy, and more. Here’s the full series, with the latest at the bottom:

  1. Convoy Finance: Funding Protest

  2. Convoy Finance: Sharing the Wealth

  3. Convoy Finance: Digging in and diversifying away from GoFundMe

  4. Convoy Finance: Creating Corporate Structures

  5. Convoy Finance: Foreign Funding and Influence

  6. Convoy Finance: Countering the Financing of Mischief

  7. Convoy Finance: Emergencies Act Edition

  8. Convoy Finance: Timeline

  9. Convoy Finance: Getting Real About Money

  10. Convoy Finance: Assessing Effectiveness and Learning Lessons

  11. Canada Day Convoy: Unpacking Support Structures

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    Canada Day Convoy: Unpacking support structures
    Next week, “Freedom Convoy” protesters have promised to come back to Ottawa for a Canada Day Convoy and a summer of protests. The protests are happening in conjunction with James Topp’s arrival in Ottawa (he has been walking across Canada in protest against ‘forced vaccine mandates’). This article takes a look at the support structures and potential financing and organizational mechanisms for this event, focusing specifically on the establishment of not-for-profit entities associated with the groups and individuals involved in these protests, and what they mean for the future of the movement (and protests…
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    7 months ago · Jessica Davis

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