Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England this month approved a new Pentagon policy governing military efforts to disrupt terrorist groups' funding streams. The Dec. 2 "counterthreat finance" (CTF) policy targets the financing methods of "illicit trafficking networks" -- including drugs, weapons, persons or weapons of mass destruction smugglers -- as well as "terrorist revenue and logistics." Weeks after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush issued an executive order that included a broadened Treasury Department authority to freeze the...
