1.   Cutting off the financial networks that help fund terrorism is part of a multifront war launched in response to the attacks on America.

2.   Rachel Ehrenfeld, director of the Center for the Study of Corruption, has done extensive research on the way drug trafficking funds international terrorism.

3.   Benevolence International Foundation of Palos Hills, Illinois, strongly denies that it funds terrorism.

4.   Ashcroft said drug trafficking often funds terrorism and US consumers wind up financing drug trafficking.