Terrorist front organization

Terrorism
Definitions History Incidents
By ideology Anarchist Communist Conservative Left-wing Narcotics-driven Nationalist Right-wing Religious Buddhist Christian (Mormon) Hindu Islamic Jewish Sikh Special-interest / Single-issue Anti-abortion Environmental Related topics Ethnic violence Militia movement Resistance movement
Structure Financing Fronting Training camp Death squad Clandestine cell system Leaderless resistance
Methods Tactics Agro-terrorism Aircraft hijacking (list) Animal-borne bomb attacks Beheading Bioterrorism Car bombing (list) Cyberterrorism Dirty bomb Dry run Explosive Hostage-taking Improvised explosive device (IED) Individual terror Insurgency Kidnapping Letter bomb Lone wolf Nuclear Paper terrorism Piracy Price tag attacks Propaganda of the deed Proxy bomb School shooting Suicide attack (list) Rockets and mortars
Terrorist groups Designated terrorist groups Charities accused of ties to terrorism
Adherents Violent non-state actors State terrorism Kazakhstan Soviet Union Sri Lanka Syria United States Uzbekistan State-sponsored terrorism Iran Pakistan Russia Saudi Arabia Sri Lanka United States
Fighting terrorism Counter-terrorism International conventions Anti-terrorism legislation Terrorism insurance

A terrorist front organization is created to conceal activities or provide logistical or financial support to the illegal activities.

See also

• Hawala, an informal value transfer system useful to terrorists (and criminals) for transmission of money outside of regulated channels.
• List of charities accused of ties to terrorism

Sources

• Hawala. An Informal Payment System and Its Use to Finance Terrorism by Sebastian R. Müller (Dec. 2006), ISBN ISBN 3-86550-656-9, ISBN 978-3-86550-656-6