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Ties to Terror!, United Arab Emirates (UAE)

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), with its permissive business environment, has emerged as an important locus of criminal activity. It’s also becoming a more important transit avenue for drug shipments from Southwest Asia on their way to Turkey, Europe, and Africa.
 
Drug traffickers, terrorist groups, and organized crime groups have established their criminal and money-laundering networks in the UAE and conduct major financial transactions. The UAE is also a major center for underground banking hawala networks and drug trafficking tied to India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

There is extensive smuggling of contraband through Dubai, into whose ports more than half of the containers shipped to and through the UAE arrive.

According to the international shipping industry, UAE seaports are handling nearly 5 million containers per year, 2.8 million in Dubai alone. More than 70 percent of containers arriving in UAE ports are in transit and are not inspected by customs officials, making them an attractive shipping option for criminals trafficking contraband through the region.

Dubai is believed to have been one of the most important conduits for Iran’s nuclear technology acquisition program, according to U.S. court cases and interviews with experts in the field.
According to sanctions experts and numerous U.S. court and regulatory cases, Iranian front companies uses Dubai to evade U.S. economic sanctions on Iran and other Middle Eastern countries. The UAE doesn’t recognize those sanctions.
Osama bin Laden’s operatives still use Dubai, United Arab Emirates as a logistical hub. The recent arrest of an alleged top al-Qaeda combat coach is the latest sign that suspected members of the terrorist organization are among those who take advantage of travel rules that allow easy entry.

In 2004, Qari Saifullah Akhtar, a Pakistani suspected of training thousands of al-Qaida fighters, was arrested in the UAE and turned over to officials in his homeland.
The father of Pakistan’s nuclear program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, has acknowledged heading a clandestine group that, with the help of a Dubai company, supplied Pakistani nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and
North Korea.

UN officials have accused Victor Bout (A Russian Smuggler Victor Vassilyevich Bout) of using the United Arab Emirates as a permanent base using many “flags of convenience” and sub-contracting arrangements for his aircraft to facilitate illegal arms and diamond smuggling activities.
UAE has many ties to 9/11. About half the $250,000 spent on the Sept. 11 attacks was wired to al-Qaida terrorists in the United States from Dubai banks, authorities said. Al-Qaida money in Dubai banks also has been linked to the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
Half of all applications to buy U.S. military equipment from Dubai are from bogus front companies, officials say. “Iran,” adds one U.S. official, “is building a bomb through Dubai.”
Although the UAE was aware that terrorists and other international criminals had laundered money through the UAE, and that it was the center for terrorist operations, it did little to address the problem despite, providing material support to Al-Qaida, Hamas and other designated terrorist organizations.

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