EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

•Describes the goals, purpose, leadership, area of operations, activities, and funding of eight specific groups or individuals defined as irregular forces:

            1. Al Shabaab
            2. Al-Qaeda
            3. Hezbollah
            4. Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)
            5. Naxalites
            6. Albanian Organized Crime
            7. Sinaloa Drug Cartel
            8. Lone Wolf Bomber Anders Behring Breivik

•Provides two vignettes for detailed understanding of how the funding process works for two extremes of the irregular forces spectrum of actors: the Lone Wolf Bomber’s activities and an example of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel’s money laundering activities.