Summary
One of the most difficult challenges faced by U.S. policy-makers is how to get the United Nations to play a constructive role in choking off funds to terrorist organizations - most prominently al Qaeda.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Washington's efforts to involve the United Nations in opposing state-supported terrorism made little progress. But that began to change following the August 1998 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. When Afghanistan's Taliban rulers defied U.N. Security Council demands to shut down al Qaeda terrorist training camps and extradite Osama bin Laden, sanctions were imposed against the regime and against al Qaeda.See the full content of this document
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Another U.N. Problem
Following the September 11 attacks, the Security Council passed additional resolutions requiring all countries to make ...
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