Originally Posted by thenewnoise

1. Correct. In other words, they wanted to make sure when the story was leaked, it would not be published.

2. It has been published all over that the US was taking aggressive steps toward monitoring and freezing terrorist assets. If you want to claim that they were not aware of it, that must mean they don't read the newspaper. If that is the case, they probably didn't read the NYT article. But of course, they do read and knew since 9/11 that the US was doing this type of thing, which is why many of them have started using other modes of exchanging money. Can you tell me specifically how this hurt the war effort in a unique way?

Originally Posted by alias

I know this may be hard to believe, but I really don't think a lot of terrorists know how we track their dealings. They aren't too smart.

Originally Posted by thenewnoise

That is foolishness, many of them are highly educated and probably more intelligent than you or I. Their minds might be clouded with fanatical religion, but that does not mean they can't figure out that when the president says he intends to aggressively monitor and freeze their financial assets, he means just that.

Originally Posted by alias

I know this may be hard to believe, but I really don't think a lot of terrorists know how we track their dealings. They aren't too smart.