Sunday 17 July 2011

Jihad enablers in our own backyard... funding terrorism from the China motherland....

Justice Kapnick.  NYLJ/Rick Kopstein
Good on Justice Barbara Kapnick for allowing the case against the Bank of China to go ahead in the United States.  The nub of it is:
"Victims of terrorist attacks against Israel by Hamas and the Palestine Islamic Jihad can proceed with a lawsuit accusing Bank of China Ltd. of knowingly allowing money transfers that funded the terror groups, a state judge in Manhattan has ruled."
Mind, knowing the Bank of China, as I do as occasional customer, I'd be more inclined to believe the old saying: "don't assume conspiracy, when simple incompetence can explain it."
Accepting that the Bank of China were informed of the Hamas link for the money they were transferring:  but did that get through to the right people? In time? In clear enough a manner (remember it's called "Chinese whispers"!)  Their systems are antediluvian, I assure you.

N.Y. Judge Allows Exploration of Bank of China's Alleged Role in Terrorism, from Law.com, July 18.