In this talk—which has the same title as a recently published book of his, Blood from Stones—Washington Post reporter Douglas Farah exposes the financial network that stretches from the diamond fields of West Africa and commodities markets in Europe and the Middle East to terrorist-front charities based in U.S. cities. Farah argues that al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations have long followed a financial diversification strategy that has rendered almost useless the crackdown by the U.S. government and other governments.
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