Corruption Causes Terrorism: Biometrics To Eliminate It

CORRUPTION is the root-cause of Terrorism. Corruption leads to social injustice, unrest that gives birth to extremism and the terrorism. Ironically it is the same corruption that gave birth to terrorism also basically facilitates the terrorist attack. In this regard, its Money-Laundering arm, which mainly provides basic sustenance,(cash, credit card for food, shelter etc) logistics (training and other facilities, communication, cell-phone SIM card, transport vehicles etc) arms and ammunitions (guns explosives etc) for the terrorist attack.

Above all it is the corruption that basically enables the terrorist leaders to leave no concrete evidence that links them to the crime. Almost all those who have been suspected as its leaders or top brass, ordering or supplying finance and logistics to it nevertheless by corruption they are able to leave no concrete evidences behind, which otherwise would have undeniably linked them to it. The captured terrorist confessions or their satellite phone call tracing from one to the other country would not meet the international standards as the undeniable evidence, unless some other concrete corroborative evidences to prove it. Therefore, even if the Governments law enforcement arrest them mainly on the basis of the captured terrorists confession (public, international pressure of course!) it won’t stand as enough or credible evidence in the court of justice under the rules of law. So the courts eventually let them go free due to the lack of some undeniable or concrete evidence of their involvement in the attack. Mumbai terror attack and its aftermath show us its glaring example.

However there are technologies available and very much used in the IT field today can absolutely record the irrefutable evidence or proof of the terrorist leaders or its top officials, their concrete fingerprints (literally) in the finance and logistics used in the terror attack. Believe it or not the government can easily (comparative) accomplish this task simply by bringing in Mandatory Biometric Identity (MBID) in all bank accounts thereby making the buying and selling (money transaction) of things of important security (financial, social, communication national) matters, most importantly cell phones, SIM, guns, explosives etc, also the credit cards and large sums of money (say above 10,000 RS. Or 1000 dollars), only directly through ones bank to the others bank accounts. First of all it is impossible to any one to fake and produce forge Biometric Identify (BID). Which when combined into the persons bank account can absolutely record the concrete electronic money transaction trail in the bank accounts records of the terrorist leaders (or their officials) who supplied the finance and the logistics for the terror attack. The BID can absolutely find out all the bank accounts credit cards they have in every other banks and all the others bank accounts that transacted with it along with all those account details. It will provide more than enough undeniable evidences to arrest and convict the entire terror network thereby to root out terrorism. What really needed is the political will to get it done.

Valerian Texeira.
St. Joseph Nagar
Mangalore – 575002
India

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