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Review of Douglas Farah book
In the 10 February 2005 edition of the
New York Review of Books, Patrick Radden Keefe reviews Douglas Farah's
Blood from Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror (Broadway Books, 2004)
ISBN 0767915623, and provides an interesting overview of, among other things, Farah's attempts to pursuade the
CIA of the function of hawala, and the agency's resistence to investigating the network. --
SilasM 02:58, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
the origin of the word
the word is of an Arabic origin
the word "HAWALA" (n) originated from the verb (most arabic words originates from verbs) "HAWWALA" (v); which means "transfer" or "divert" and thus "Hawala" means "transfer " (n)--
Rawand 14:37, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)