{"id":597,"date":"2011-07-28T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centives.wordpress.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2011-07-28T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T13:00:11","slug":"the-economics-of-al-qaeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/the-economics-of-al-qaeda\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics of Al Qaeda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/072011_2057_theeconomic1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Renny McPherson was part of a team that analysed Al Qaeda documents to understand the financial underpinnings of the shadowy terror network. In an article posted in <em>Boston<\/em>, he wrote about some of his findings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Al Qaeda is run as a &#8220;well-organized franchise structure&#8221; where existing local terror groups from around the world take on the Al Qaeda name (with Al Qaeda&#8217;s permission), and are given the flexibility to adapt Al Qaeda&#8217;s goals to local conditions. Unlike a traditional franchise though, there were no payment transfers between the &#8216;parent&#8217; organization and its subsidiary.<\/li>\n<li>Al Qaeda in Iraq was not reliant on international donors. In fact, its local fund raising infrastructure was so strong that they were able to send funds to other terrorist organizations.<\/li>\n<li>Launching a terrorist attack has several costs associated with it including: salaries, safe houses, transportation, weapons, and even life insurance for those who would be carrying out the attack.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are several other fascinating points of information from a man who has had a long career studying this issue. Read more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2011\/07\/17\/inside_al_qaedas_hard_drives\/?page=full\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2011\/07\/17\/inside_al_qaedas_hard_drives\/?page=full\"><em>Boston<\/em><\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2011\/07\/the-economics-of-al-qaeda.html\"><em>Marginal Revolution<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renny McPherson was part of a team that analysed Al Qaeda documents to understand the financial underpinnings of the shadowy terror network. In an article posted in Boston, he wrote about some of his findings: Al Qaeda is run as a &#8220;well-organized franchise structure&#8221; where existing local terror groups from around the world take on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}