What Archipelago contains an archipelagic state in which a financial institution was accused by the United States of having links to Islamist terror organizations?
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Al Taqwa Bank The Al Taqwa Bank (occasionally Bank al Taqwa or simply Al Taqwa) is a financial institution incorporated in 1988. It is based out of The Bahamas, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. Al Taqwa Bank was accused by the United States of having links to Islamist terror organizations, and that it was a major source of funds for the operations of Osama bin Laden and his associates, the banks Manager Mr Nada was put on the "special definition GLOBAL terrorist". On August 2, 2010, the bank was removed from a list of entities and individuals associated with Al Qaeda that is maintained by the UN Security Council.
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The Bahamas The Bahamas ( ), known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic state within the Lucayan Archipelago. It consists of more than 700 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean and is located north of Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic); northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands; southeast of the US state of Florida and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The designation of "the Bahamas" can refer either to the country or to the larger island chain that it shares with the Turks and Caicos Islands. As stated in the mandate/manifesto of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, the Bahamas territory encompasses 180000 sqmi of ocean space.
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Glorioso Islands The Glorieuses or Glorioso Islands (French: "Îles Glorieuses" or officially also "Archipel des Glorieuses") are a group of French islands and rocks totalling 5 km2 , at , in the Indian Ocean, about 160 km northwest of Madagascar. In 2012, France founded "parc naturel marin des Glorieuses", a marine protected area, to preserve the endangered flora and fauna of the islands. The Glorieuses have an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of 48350 km2 . There are anchorages offshore, and Grande Glorieuse has a 1300 m long airstrip.
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Thrift institution A thrift institution is a financial institution that obtains the majority of its funds from the savings of the public. The term can include several cooperative banking models;
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Chiloé Archipelago The Chiloé Archipelago (Spanish: "Archipiélago de Chiloé" ; ] ) is a group of islands lying off the coast of Chile, in the Los Lagos Region. It is separated from mainland Chile by Chacao Channel in the north, the Sea of Chiloé in the east and Gulf of Corcovado to the southeast. The archipelago forms the province of Chiloé (except for the Desertores Islands in the east, which are part of Palena Province). The main island is Chiloé Island ("Isla Grande de Chiloé").
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First Hawaiian Bank First Hawaiian, Inc. (NASDAQ: FHB) is a bank holding company headquartered in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Its principal subsidiary, First Hawaiian Bank founded in 1858, is Hawai'is oldest and largest financial institution headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the First Hawaiian Center. The bank has 57 branches throughout Hawai'i, three in Guam and two in Saipan. It offers a diversified range of banking services to consumer and commercial customers, including deposit products, lending services and wealth management, insurance, private banking and trust services. First Hawaiian was listed on the NASDAQ on August 4, 2016 and made its debut at number 12 in January 2017 publication of Forbes' American's 100 Largest Banks with $20 billion in total assets.
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Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge (often shortened to Alaska Maritime or AMNWR) is a United States National Wildlife Refuge comprising 2,400 islands, headlands, rocks, islets, spires and reefs in Alaska, with a total area of 4.9 e6acre , of which 2.64 e6acre is wilderness. The refuge stretches from Cape Lisburne on the Chukchi Sea to the tip of the Aleutian Islands in the west and Forrester Island in the southern Alaska Panhandle region in the east. The refuge has diverse landforms and terrains, including tundra, rainforest, cliffs, volcanoes, beaches, lakes, and streams.
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Atlantic Bank Group Atlantic Bank Group, commonly known by its French name Groupe Banque Atlantique, is a West African financial services conglomerate, headquartered in Lome, Togo. The Group consisting of banks and other financial services companies in Cote d'Ivoire, Benin, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Togo, Senegal and Cameroon.
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Paleontology in Alaska Paleontology in Alaska refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Alaska. During the Late Precambrian, Alaska was covered by a shallow sea that was home to stromatolite-forming bacteria. Alaska remained submerged into the Paleozoic era and the sea came to be home to creatures including ammonites, brachiopods, and reef-forming corals. An island chain formed in the eastern part of the state. Alaska remained covered in seawater during the Triassic and Jurassic. Local wildlife included ammonites, belemnites, bony fish and ichthyosaurs. Alaska was a more terrestrial environment during the Cretaceous, with a rich flora and dinosaur fauna.
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Zombie bank A zombie bank is a financial institution that has an economic net worth less than zero but continues to operate because its ability to repay its debts is shored up by implicit or explicit government credit support. The term was first used by Edward Kane in 1987 to explain the dangers of tolerating a large number of insolvent savings and loan associations and applied to the emerging Japanese crisis in 1993. A zombie can continue to operate and even to grow as long as creditors remain confident in the relevant government's ability to extract the funds needed to back up its promises from current or future taxpayers. But when this ability seems doubtful, zombie institutions face runs by uninsured depositors and margin calls from counterparties in derivatives transactions.
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Archipelago Books Archipelago Books is an American "not-for-profit publisher dedicated to promoting cross-cultural exchange through international literature in translation." Located in Brooklyn, New York, it publishes small to mid-size runs of international fiction, poetry, and literary essays. The press was founded in 2003 by Jill Schoolman. On marking its 10th anniversary, Archipelago had published one hundred books, translated from more than twenty-six languages into English. It is distributed by Penguin Random House.
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Îles Tuamotu-Gambier The Îles Tuamotu-Gambier (French: "Îles Tuamotu-Gambier" or "Archipels des Tuamotu et des Gambier" or "Archipel des Tuamotu-Gambier" or "Tuamotu-Gambier" or officially "subdivision administrative des (Îles) Tuamotu-Gambier") geographically consist of the Tuamotus and the Gambier Islands which are geographically located closely together.
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State's Direct Financial Interest State's Direct Financial Interest (SDFI) (Norwegian: Statens direkte økonomiske engasjement (SDØE)) is a portfolio of the Norwegian government's directly owned exploration and production licenses for petroleum and natural gas on the Norwegian continental shelf. The Norwegian government-owned company Petoro has managed the SDFI portfolio since 2001.
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Portrayal of ISIL in American media The portrayal of ISIL in American media has largely been negative. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has been linked in the American media to several atrocities throughout the Middle East. Most recently U.S. coverage has linked ISIL members to burning alive of Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh, beheadings of journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, and most recently, because the perpetrator of the June 2016 Orlando mass shooting- America's deadliest- reportedly pledged allegiance to ISIL and its leader in a phone call to 911 operators just before the incident. The American public was introduced to ISIL with these actions. This contrasts with the renewed prominence of al-Qaeda after the September 11 attacks in the media. That coverage focused on the United States’ response to the attacks, while the coverage of ISIL started with the organization itself and evolved to cover America’s potential strategy.
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Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula ( or تنظيم قاعدة الجهاد في جزيرة العرب‎ , "Tanẓīm Qā‘idat al-Jihād fī Jazīrat al-‘Arab", "Organization of Jihad's Base in the Arabian Peninsula"), or AQAP, also known as Ansar al-Sharia in Yemen (Arabic: جماعة أنصار الشريعة‎ ‎ , "Jamā‘at Anṣār ash-Sharī‘ah", "Group of the Helpers of the Sharia"), is a militant Islamist organization, primarily active in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. It was named for al-Qaeda, and states it is subordinate to that group and its now-deceased leader Osama bin Laden, a Saudi citizen of Yemeni heritage. It is considered the most active of al-Qaeda's branches, or "franchises," that emerged due to weakening central leadership. The U.S government believes AQAP to be the most dangerous al-Qaeda branch. The group established an Emirate during the 2011 Yemeni Revolution.
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Aleutian Arc The Aleutian Arc is a large volcanic arc in the U.S. state of Alaska. It consists of a number of active and dormant volcanoes that have formed as a result of subduction along the Aleutian Trench. Although taking its name from the Aleutian Islands, this term is a geologic grouping rather than a geographic one, and the Aleutian Arc extends through the Alaska Peninsula following the Aleutian Range to the Aleutian Islands.
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Terror-Free Oil Initiative The Terror-Free Oil Initiative was a group based in Coral Springs, Florida, dedicated to encouraging Americans to buy only gasoline that originated in countries that do not export or finance terrorism or are otherwise unfriendly towards the United States.
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Malay Archipelago The Malay Archipelago (Malaysian & Indonesian: "Kepulauan Melayu/Nusantara", Filipino: "Kapuluang Malay", Visayan: "Kapupud-ang Malay") is the archipelago between mainland Indochina and Australia. It has also been called the Malay World, Indo-Australian Archipelago, East Indies, Nusantara, Spices Archipelago, and other names over time. The name was taken from the 19th-century European concept of a Malay race, later based on the distribution of Austronesian languages.
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Habele The Habele Outer Island Education Fund (or simply Habele) is a South Carolina–based charitable organization serving K-12 aged students in Micronesia. Habele's initial geographic focus was the so-called "Outer Islands" of Yap State as well as lagoon and outer islands in neighboring Chuuk State in the Federated States of Micronesia. It now serves students of all backgrounds throughout the Freely Associated States.
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Riau Archipelago The Riau Archipelago is a "geographic" term (as opposed to administrative region) for the core group of islands within the Riau Islands Province in Indonesia, and located south of Singapore. Before the province of Riau Islands was formed, there was no ambiguity in term; however, in Indonesian language, both the archipelago and administrative province are referred to as simply "Kepulauan Riau". The province may have the word "Provinsi" preceding it for clarity. Additionally the term BBK for "Batam Bintan Karimun" may refer to the archipelago.
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Offshore bank An offshore bank is a bank located in a jurisdiction different from that where its depositors reside. Countries that have a history and reputation as a haven for offshore banks can be referred to as offshore financial centres. An account held in a foreign offshore bank, especially in a tax haven jurisdiction, is often described as an offshore account. Typically, an individual or company will maintain an offshore account in a low-tax jurisdiction (or tax haven) for the financial and legal advantages it provides, including:
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Custodian bank A custodian bank, or simply custodian, is a specialized financial institution responsible for safeguarding a firm's or individual's financial assets and is not engaged in "traditional" commercial or consumer/retail banking such as mortgage or personal lending, branch banking, personal accounts, automated teller machines (ATMs) and so forth. The role of a custodian in such a case would be to: