Osama bin Laden's financial support for this still be one of the assets of Al-Qaeda. Osama is one of the richest family of Saudi Arabia who started terrorism by becoming an advocate funding for an action he called holy war.
Osama's death almost a week ago as it would be a boon for short-term fundraising for terror groups that traditionally are dependent on donations. In fact, the condition is thought to promote the efforts of Al-Qaeda in raising funds in the coming weeks.
However, in the long run, the absence would deprive Osama Al-Qaeda to finance their operations.
"Usually, the contributor of this fund will deliver funds to the Al-Qaeda's inner circle and this circle will use the funds. But, why are they doing this now?" said Matthew Levitt, who worked at the U.S. Treasury of terrorism and financial intelligence unit and now a senior fellow at the Institute of Washington, as quoted VIVAnews.com from the pages of Forbes, Wednesday, May 4, 2011.
Levitt estimates that, currently the contributor of this fund can only be associated with a party whose location may not be far away from them. "Contributors do not need these funds directly to Al-Qaeda's inner circle," he said.
Al-Qaeda so far actually are in poor financial condition. This terrorist network is also struggling to maintain its position in the Arab world in the midst of demonstrations and overthrow the power of a dictator by the angry residents.
Amid these conditions, al-Qaeda still require financial resources not only to finance the attack, but a number of other requirements such as operating costs, bribing officials, travel, and finance needs shelter for U.S. $ 1 million for the leaders in the region of Pakistan.
Currently, Al-Qaeda terrorist network has changed its business model after the government of the United States and its allies stop outsiders efforts to inject funds for al-Qaeda through the financial system. Additionally, allied forces also have killed several al-Qaeda's sources of funds such as Mustafa Al Yazid and Abdul Gani.
Al-Qaeda is now only able to use a centralized financial system by relying on a number of affiliates around the world to raise their own funds, conduct their own operations, even returned the money to the headquarters of Al-Qaeda.
'Franchises' of al-Qaeda as there are in Yemen and northern Africa, which is now organized crime such as kidnapping, has now run its own. Network and operating partner of Al-Qaeda is operating in a country that stability is uncertain, which had previously been the location for recruiting new members and funding.
Maybe Al-Qaeda network is what has been the largest among its leaders gathering funds to be hiding in Pakistan.
Some of the 'franchise' is now in a relationship with a number of famous criminals like Daud Ibrahim who has been widely recognized as part of a major crime syndicate that has long worked with Warren Al Taiba, an organization that carried out attacks in Mumbai, India in 2008.
Donations and contributions from various parties who wish to assist terrorist activity is still ongoing. Currently, no single country that tries to prevent terrorist acts disbursements made via cash, said David Cohan, an official who has been nominated as Assistant Minister of Finance in the field of terrorism and financial crimes, in a hearing the U.S. Senate Committee on the new- This new.
"The government does not focus on the prevention of terrorist financing that occurred in other countries," he said.
Osama Dead, How Al-Qaeda Find a Fund?
