ISIS brought in an estimated billion dollars of revenue in 2014 to finance its global horror show, most of it by looting Iraqi banks and oil resources. Yet international finance remains a neglected front on the global war against terrorism. With Israel's Harpoon program, that tide is turning. Created by legendary Mossad boss Meir Dagan in 1997, Harpoon was comprised of representatives from all of Israel's famed intelligence and security forces: Mossad, Shin Bet, A'man, the Israeli military intelligence service, the Israel Defense Force, the National Police, the customs service, and even Israel's version of the IRS. The mission of this task force--which answered solely to the Prime Minister and the Director of Mossad--was to combat terror financing around the world. In the field, Harpoon worked alongside arms of the U.S. government--primarily the Department of the Treasury and the Drug Enforcement Administration--to disrupt and destroy global criminal enterprises, including Hamas, Hezbollah, Al Qaeda, and ISIS, that have developed and now rely upon lavish sources of revenue to plan and conduct a war of terror against civilian targets in the West, from Israel to Europe to the shores of the U.S. itself. The financial institutions that supported this bloody money-laundering were a multi-billion dollar worldwide enterprise. Written by one of the lawyers involved in the effort and a bestselling author/journalist, HARPOON will tell the story of these innovative espionage operations to bankrupt the moneymen who pay for the worldwide slaughter of innocents. With Dagan's cooperation, the authors will reveal in a compulsively readable narrative the intricate maze of money channels that sustain Islamic terrorist groups throughout the world and bring to light the wide-ranging and daring operations to disrupt them.
- ISBN10 0316399019
- ISBN13 9780316399012
- Publish Date 29 November 2018 (first published 28 December 2017)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 29 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Hachette Books
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 352
- Language English