Combating international crimes in Iraqi legislation

Abstract

The terrorist financing activities are considered one of the most important threats that facing the security and
safety of people of society in all its forms, as their danger increases by adopting a pattern of transnational
organized crime. There is no longer planning, managing and implementing them is done within the territory
of one country, but its lines are woven across multiple countries to conduct them in the targeted country
with the crime. Iraq comes in the forefront of countries that suffered from terrorism and the violent crimes,in
order to strike stability in it, also to sow discord and sectarian fighting for this, the Iraqi state must confront
the terrorism in general, as well as the terrorist financing activities in particular, reducing its seriousness and
punish the perpetrators, so, the Anti-Terrorism Law No. 13 of 2005, and the Anti-Money Laundering and
Terrorist Financing Law No. 39 of 2015, was issued, as it was issued in implementation of Article 22 of
the Money Laundering Law that was mentioned previously,this leads to the question about the adequacy of
these legal texts to address the crime of financing terrorism, whether the Iraqi legislator succeeded in putting
in place the necessary mechanisms with the appropriate part to prevent these funds for reaching to the hands
of terrorist organizations.