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Devastating bomb attacks on civilians are
inexpensive to mount for militant groups, An Insight
• Individuals
need to cover
whose main cost is simply keeping their day-to-day
networks running between operations, expenses and
according to an international anti-money perhaps also those of dependants. A cell will also need to
laundering body.
communicate with its members and perhaps a parent network.
A February 2008 report by the 34-nation
group, the Financial Action Task Force, cited
the following direct operational costs of big
attacks.
• Training, travel, and logistics
• Training is required in terms of ideological indoctrination and
practical skills, and this often requires travel and procurement of false
documents.
• Shared funding
Attack Direct Costs
• Where a cell is part of a network or shares a common goal or
Event Date Estimated cost:
ideological or religious background with another cell or network, it
may be called on or feel compelled to provide financial support.
• London transport system attacks Jul 05 • Broad organisational needs
8,000 £
• Madrid train bombings Mar 04 $10,000
• Istanbul truck bomb attacks Nov 03
$40,000
• Jakarta JW Marriot Hotel bombs Aug 03
$30,000
• Maintaining a network or a specific cell to provide for
recruitment, planning and procurement between attacks
represents the most significant drain on resources. Beyond
funds needed to finance attacks and provide direct
operational support, organisations need money to
develop a supporting infrastructure, recruit members
• Bali bombings Oct 02 $50,000 and promote their ideology.
• USS Cole attack Oct 00 $10,000
• E. Africa embassy bombs Aug 98 $50,000
• Militant networks often use compromised or
complicit charities and businesses to
Such costs -- purchases of vehicles, support their objectives.
improvised bomb-making components, • There is often a public relations and
maps, surveillance material -- "are often very media operations arm that sustains a
low relative to the damage they can yield". militant ideology. Groups such as
Cost Of 9/11
al-Qaeda are prolific
producers of videos and
According to the U.S. 9/11 Commission other messages
Report of 2004, the 2001 attacks on the distributed on
United States cost somewhere between
$400,000 and $500,000 to execute.
t h e
Indirect Costs
"Maintaining a terrorist network ... between
attacks represents a significant drain on
resources."
These costs are:
• Salaries/subsistence and communications
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