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Why is the Treasury Department listed in the War & Military pages? Counterfeits & Trafficking.

United States Secret Service: Know Your Money - Counterfeit Awareness The public has a role in maintaining the integrity of our currency. You can help guard against the threat from counterfeiters by becoming more familiar with United States currency. Look at the money you receive. Compare a suspect note with a genuine note of the same denomination and series, paying attention to the quality of printing and paper characteristics. Look for differences, not similarities.

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - Money Curriculum Unit - Counterfeit Protection Whether altering the design of ancient coins or making photocopies of bills with high-tech machines, counterfeiters have made illegal money throughout history. The Secret Service, an agency of the U.S. Treasury, has investigated suspected counterfeit operations since 1865. Over the past decade, the Secret Service has seized approximately 90 percent of all known counterfeit currency printed before it reached circulation. In the printing process, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing uses complicated techniques to stifle counterfeiters. Beginning with the $100 bill in 1996, currency will be redesigned to include more security features. The following pictures explain how the Bureau protects your money.

Terrorist Financing Increasingly Cash-Based, U.S. Official Says Counterfeiting operation in North Korea under investigation, Levey adds... Terrorist networks are increasingly turning to cash smuggling to finance their activities, a top U.S. Treasury official says.

How did all that U.S. cash get to Iraq? Investigators trying to track $100 bills Investigators are trying to figure out how piles of U.S. currency ended up in Iraq despite economic sanctions against the country since 1990, and whether the greenbacks are in fact genuine. Hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of new $100 bills were recently found in Iraq. The $100 bill is the most counterfeited U.S. note outside the United States.

Treasury Department blocks assets of men accused of supporting al-Qaeda The Bush administration moved Tuesday to block the assets of two Saudi men accused of providing support to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror network, Adel Batterjee and Saad al-Faqih.

JS-1106: Treasury to Announce Joint Action with Saudi Arabia in the Financial War on Terror

America's War on Terror -- Treasury rejects senators' request for terrorist ... The Treasury Department rejected a request from senators Tuesday and refused to release a classified list of Saudi individuals or organizations suspected of financing terrorist groups.

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY IRS’s Special Agents are experts at gathering and analyzing complex financial information from numerous sources and applying the evidence to tax, money laundering, and Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) violations. They apply their training, skills, and expertise to support the national effort to combat terrorism and participate in the Joint Terrorism Task Forces and similar interagency efforts focused on disrupting and dismantling terrorist financing.

US Dept of State - New U.S. Treasury Office to Focus on Terrorist Money Flow In a March 8 news release, Treasury said that its Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) will lead the department's efforts to cut the lines of financial support to international terrorists, a critical component of the Bush administration's overall effort to keep the United States safe from terrorist plots.

Paying for Terror - Newsweek National News A Bahamian bank controlled by a controversial Islamic financier in Switzerland set up a highly secretive line of credit for a top associate of Osama bin Laden as part of an elaborate scheme to finance attacks by Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations, according to a newly disclosed U.S. Treasury document.

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