I’m sorry. That name is on the blacklist.

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Last week several newspapers revealed the fact that the U.S. has been monitoring worldwide money transfers as part of its anti-terror measures:

Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records from a vast international database and examined banking transactions involving thousands of Americans and others in the United States, according to government and industry officials…

The program is limited, government officials say, to tracing transactions of people suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda by reviewing records from the nerve center of the global banking industry, a Belgian cooperative that routes about $6 trillion daily between banks, brokerages, stock exchanges and other institutions. The records mostly involve wire transfers and other methods of moving money overseas and into and out of the United States. Most routine financial transactions confined to this country are not in the database. [Link]

Well okay. I guess looking at how money gets transferred isn’t as bad as listening to our conversations on the telephone. This seems like a pretty good idea. What could go wrong?

Money transfer agencies like Western Union have delayed or blocked thousands of cash deliveries on suspicion of terrorist connections simply because senders or recipients have names like Mohammed or Ahmed, company officials said.

In one example, an Indian driver here [in Dubai] said Western Union prevented him from sending US$120 to a friend at home this month because the recipient’s name was Mohammed.

“Western Union told me that if I send money to Sahir Mohammed, the money will be blocked because of his name,” said 36-year-old Abdul Rahman Maruthayil, who later sent the money through UAE Exchange, a Dubai-based money transfer service.

In a similar case, Pakistani Qadir Khan said Western Union blocked his attempt this month to wire money to his brother, Mohammed, for a cataract operation.

“Every Mohammed is a terrorist now?” Khan asked.

Western Union Financial Services, Inc., an American company based in Colorado, said its clerks simply are following US Treasury Department guidelines that aim to scrutinize cash flows for terrorist links. Most of the flagged transactions are delayed a few hours. Some are blocked entirely. [Link]
The U.S. Treasury Department had a reasonable response to this unfortunate situation:
In Washington, US Treasury spokeswoman Molly Millerwise said foreign banks have used the department’s list of terrorist names to freeze US$150 million in assets since it was released after Sept. 11. Millerwise didn’t know the value of money transfers blocked using the list, but she said frustrations endured by those with certain names were regrettable but necessary.

“We have an obligation to do all we can to keep money out of the hands of terrorists,” Millerwise said…

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p>At another Western Union office, an executive who deals with security measures said about 1 percent of the store’s 30,000 daily money transfers – about 300 a day – are delayed or blocked because of suspected terrorist links. Thus far, all have proven false, the executive said on condition of anonymity, because she wasn’t permitted to speak to the press. [Link]

Yeah…ummmm….you know, if your name is Mohammed then you should be willing to accept frustration and just be a team player. I predict that worldwide financial transactions will come to a halt if there is ever a terrorist attack by someone named Smith.

62 thoughts on “I’m sorry. That name is on the blacklist.”

  1. It is so tedious to see these monomaniacs waging their campaign and abusing what is an open and useful facility on SM.

    We are in the process of overhauling the News Tab and it will help take care of this problem.

  2. Does anyone know what happens to these millions of $$ that they block or seize? The government must have piled up quite a bit of dough since 9/11. What is it doing with the money?

  3. Jane…

    You nailed it. Where in the world is Carmen.. er.. the money they’ve been ‘freezing’. Does it still earn interest?

  4. I believe Bush asked 3 dems to call the NYTimes:Lee Hamilton, Tome Keen, and Jack Murtha

    Kean is actually a republican. It still does not change the substance of your argument. His son is running as a republican in NJ .

  5. Here’s what I consider a more impact of this story than the alleged national security benefits, regardless of what American politicians are saying or who thinks what:

    Remittances are the largest source of external financing in many developing countries. According to official statistics, in 2005 remittance flows—defined as the sum of workers’ remittances, compensation of employees, and migrant transfers in the balance-of-payments statistics collected by the International Monetary Fund—are estimated to have exceeded $233 billion worldwide, of which developing countries received $167 billion. Unrecorded flows moving through informal channels push the total far higher, as they are conservatively estimated to amount to at least 50 percent of the recorded flows. Remittances bring substantial benefits to developing countries: • Household survey evidence, confirmed by crosscountry analyses, indicates that remittances can have a significant impact on reducing poverty. • Remittances are associated with increased household investment in education, entrepreneurship, and health—all of which have a high social return under most circumstances. • Remittances tend to be countercyclical and thus support economic activity in the face of adverse shocks. • By generating a steady stream of foreign exchange, remittances can improve a country’s creditworthiness and enhance its access to international capital markets.

    From the World Bank’s 2006 Global Development Finance report, page 3 (pdf).

  6. What if your first name is Timothy or Ariel or George or Dick or Tony or Ehud or Terry or Winston or Carl or Scooter or Jack? Shouldnt your money be blocked or rather “reviewed” if you have one of the these names. Some people that happen to have these first names have caused more death and terror than anyone named Muhammad ever has, im just saying

  7. My favorite part of that article:

    “Mohammed and Ahmed have become problematic names because they are so common on the list of terrorists,” said Nixon Baby, who runs a Western Union franchise in Bur Dubai, a neighborhood packed with South Asian businesses.

    Nixon Baby is his / her name? I’ll bet that name never ends up on the terrorism lists 🙂

  8. It is a very BAD IDEA by blocking payment sent via WESTERN UNION,for Christ sake!!! 1)WESTERN UNION WILL LOOSE A LOT OF CUSTOMERS! (2)NO ONE IS READY TO CHANGE HIS OR HER NAME ,simply because it’s similar to the one on the BLACKLIST… PLEASE LET WESTERN UNION REASON ABOUT THIS… someone that sent payment through western union knows the reason why he/she is sending payment,western union is not in the right position to dictate to a customer who or not to send payment to..

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