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Arab countries draw up strategy against terrorist financing

Jun 26, 2009, 11:48 GMT

Tunis/Paris - Representatives of Arab nations meeting in the Tunisian capital Tunis said Friday they have adopted a 'strategy against money laundering and the financing of (Islamic) terrorism.' The plan calls for means to halt the transfer of funds over the internet and to control gifts and donations to charitable organizations 'to prevent them from being used by terrorist groups,' the secretary general of the Council of Arab Interior Ministers said in a statement issued after their three-day meeting in Tunis. The statement also said that Arab security authorities called for 'more profound studies of the terrorist personality (in Arab countries)' in order to develop what it called 'methods of treatment.' Representatives of the international police agency Interpol also took part at the Tunis meeting.

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