Biometric Identity In Bank Accounts Policy to Counter Terrorism

Immediately after every major terror attack there comes the outburst of public anger and grief the leaders condemnation and the assurances among other things to bring the culprits to justice!

There is absolutely no doubt that some powerful terror groups behind the Mumbai terror attack. The news reports Laskar-e- Toiba is the main suspect its main evidence comes from the captured terrorist’s (Ajmal Kasam) reported confession! However the “confessions” can not be considered enough or genuine evidence that satisfy the international standards to arrest and expatriate the alleged person unless there is some concrete collaborative evidence to place it before the impartial (international) court of Justice!

So the main question is; do the intelligence agencies have any other concrete evidence in the form of record document signed by any of those known (or unknown) terror leaders ordering this attack? Perhaps it is unwise to expect such recorded documents of terror attacks. However believe it or not, there remain a possibility of a concrete recorded evidence of money transaction documents having the sign or the fingerprints (biometric identity) that can mistakably identify people who financed or supplied weapons an other logistical supports for this terrorist attack! Today there are two extraordinary IT anticorruption/antiterrorism technologies widely available that can record every money transactions along with the biological identity of the persons who conducting these money transaction WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT!

Let me present the two extraordinary anticorruption/antiterrorism IT solutions available today that in my opinion can enable the Governments to concretely or physically track down, identify and capture the main culprits behind the terrorist finance. The first one is ‘to Make Biometric Identity (mainly fingerprint) Mandatory or Compulsory In All Bank Accounts’. I name it as; Mandatory Biometric Identity (MBID). The second one is to ‘conduct all money transaction above a given amount only by the electronic money transaction through ones bank to the others bank account named Mandatory Electronic Money Transaction (MEMT). For more details search “IT To Root-Out Corruption”.

Among the two, the first “MBID in all bank account” is primarily important. It also very much feasible, more easier and less expensive compared to many other antiterrorism measures that exists or being proposed today. Under the MBID in all bank account policy, no large sums of cash money or assets allowed to get transported, transfered or handed over to one to another except it is done through ones bank to the others bank account. This monetary regulation said be already in place in many countries. What’s more in the MBID policy is buying of important security matters like credit cards, phones its SIM cards and the recharge, drugs, weapons, explosives etc, should be also included it. The MBID in all bank account policy alone can significantly prevent the money laundering which is the main source of terrorist finance and the logistics intricately linked with it! If the MBID gets implemented first then the MEMT will inevitably follow sooner or latter.

The terrorist leaders, its top brass, organizations, at one stage or the other stage of their money transaction needs to have one or several bank accounts to deposit/withdraw its money, to send it to different terror locations buy weapons and other logistic to support the terror attack. We know today with the help of the available advance IT technologies the law enforcement agencies able to track down, identify and find from where also from which device the terror email had been sent or the phone number from which the anonymous terror call had been made and its other details. Similarly the MBID technology placed in all bank accounts can enable the law enforcement to detect, identify and track down every one involved in these terror finance and logistics with the individuals undeniable biometric identity fingerprint on it. It can be produced before the court of justice as the undeniable evidence to arrest and convict the main terror culprits. This will undoubtedly stifle down most of the terrorist finance along with it the organized acts of terrorism.
I have given some more details on this matter in my post http://i-opinion-about.blogspot.com/2008/10/terrorist-strike-marriot-it-to-root-out.html.

Above all terrorism today is a Global phenomenon. So much so when it comes to international “money laundering” the main source of terrorist finance. Among others the illegal drug trade known to have close links with all of it. Therefore it is mainly the responsibility of worlds leading nations First of all to implement the MBID in all bank accounts in their respective countries to prevent this global terrorism and the rest of the world will follow the lead. What really needed is the “political will” to get it done.

I hope this information would at least add to our knowledge about this entirely new kind approach of combating terrorism in our future perspectives.
Valerian Texeira.

http://www.anticorruption-it.info
http://i-opinion-about.blogspot.com