Counterterrorist Financing, Still a Work in Progress 20 Years After 9/11, Now a Lower Priority

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In retrospect, the 9/11 hijackers’ expenditures after they arrived in the U.S. in early 2000 until they crashed commercial jets into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and rural Pennsylvania on the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, 20 years ago this Saturday, still appear “unremarkable,” as congressional investigators described afterwards.

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On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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