The Treasury Department agency entrusted with
blocking the financial resources of terrorists has assigned five times
as many agents to investigate Cuban embargo violations as it has to
track Osama bin Laden's and Saddam Hussein's money, documents show.
In addition, the Office of Foreign Assets Control said that between
1990 and 2003 it opened just 93 enforcement investigations related to
terrorism. Since 1994 it has collected just $9,425 in fines for
terrorism financing violations.
In contrast, OFAC opened 10,683 enforcement investigations since 1990
for possible violations of the long-standing economic embargo against
Fidel Castro's regime, and collected more than $8 million in fines
since 1994, mostly from people who sent money to, did business with or
traveled to Cuba without permission.