Few outside the financial industry are aware that America alone has at least 20 federal agencies addressing terror financing.
Banks are increasingly terminating or restricting business relationships to avoid money laundering and terror financing.
Saudi Arabia, in particular, remains the primary source of radical Islamic Sunni terror financing.
Officials deny that Cyprus has had any problems with cigarette smuggling, terror finance or the arms trade.
Attempts to trace terrorist financing, a crucial part of the anti-terror campaign, have run into obstacles, with seizures slowing markedly.
"I had a tip that cops in anti-terror training in Brooklyn were shown a film called The Third Jihad, financed by a right-wing propaganda organization," Rayman said.
In addition, the package would seek to wrap up some other Congressional business, including a one-year extension of the anti-terror Patriot Act, and provisions related to flood insurance, small business loans and disaster financing for Arkansas and Mississippi.
He asked again for things the Legislature had rejected, like an initiative and referendum system, mayoral control of big-city schools, campaign finance reform, easing of the Rockefeller-era drug laws, and anti-terror laws.
Not just anti-terror, but pro-democracy.
The same applies to anti-terror legislation.
So the anti-terror courts will be a hard sell.
