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Commodities May Be Conduit for Terrorist Funds

Authorities say terrorist supporters have started using the global commodity trade to funnel money to local terrorist groups. The technique, called trade-based money laundering, was pioneered by Latin American drug cartels in the 1990s. Benoit Faucon of The Wall Street Journal talks with Madeleine Brand.

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