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Islamic State Militants Now World's Richest
AFP via Yahoo News ^
| October 23, 2014
| Staff
Posted on 10/23/2014 12:53:29 PM PDT by lbryce
The Islamic State has become the world's wealthiest terror group, generating tens of millions of dollars a month from black market oil sales, ransoms and extortion, officials said Thursday.
It earns $1 million a day alone by selling crude oil from fields captured when the group swept across Iraq and Syria earlier this year, said David Cohen, Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.
Because the group, also known as ISIL, has "amassed wealth at an unprecedented pace" from different sources than most terror groups, it presents a particular challenge to the US and its allies working to choke off money flows.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: isis; richestterrorists
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And they don't have a $17T debt to worry about.
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posted on
10/23/2014 12:53:29 PM PDT
by
lbryce
To: lbryce
I knew there was a reason McCain loved them so much, as does the Hildabeast.
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posted on
10/23/2014 12:56:11 PM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: lbryce
And they don't have a $17T debt to worry about. Can't we just figure out ways to steal the money from them?
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posted on
10/23/2014 12:58:39 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(MAs & PAs Broke busted, disgusted, liberals can't be trusted, throw the bastards into the sea)
To: lbryce
Not bad for the “Junior-Varsity Team”!
These guys make Al-Qaeda look like the Micky Mouse Club....
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posted on
10/23/2014 12:59:10 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: lbryce
We cannot intercept, by land or by sea, $1 million/day of oil? Why not? Maybe we don’t want to?
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posted on
10/23/2014 12:59:15 PM PDT
by
ryan71
(The Partisans)
To: lbryce
The more who get kilt, the wealthier they will be per capita.
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posted on
10/23/2014 12:59:29 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: lbryce
18 trillion before Christmas.
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posted on
10/23/2014 1:00:29 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens. KILL THE BILL!)
To: lbryce
Yeah, they’re more economically solvent than WE ARE!
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posted on
10/23/2014 1:00:52 PM PDT
by
ryan71
(The Partisans)
To: ryan71
Well, they don’t have our overhead...
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posted on
10/23/2014 1:02:55 PM PDT
by
W.
(Joe Biden is Tourette's Guy from Youtube? Well, that explains it!)
To: lbryce
Where are the sanctions against ISIS? Against the countries who buy all that oil?
To: lbryce
It earns $1 million a day alone by selling crude oil from fields captured Still?
OK.. so when we were all told airstrikes had hit those facilities, they really didn't. I take it we don't go back to reengage them if we didn't hit the target?
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posted on
10/23/2014 1:05:21 PM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(We either destroy ISIS there... or fight them here. Pick one, America.)
To: lbryce
Take back the oil fields, and rename them Orson Wells. That way we could sell no refine before its time.
Otherwise, blow ‘em up; make the enemy choke to death on unusable oil.
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posted on
10/23/2014 1:09:54 PM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: lbryce
Islamic State Militants Now World's Richest...? That could be changed in 2 seconds if we did not have a No Balls President.
To: lbryce
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posted on
10/23/2014 1:15:35 PM PDT
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
My favorite H-Bomb
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posted on
10/23/2014 1:28:35 PM PDT
by
lbryce
(Barack Obama:Misbegotten, Bastard Offspring of Satan and Medusa.)
To: lbryce
This ought to do wonders for the petro dollars /sarc
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posted on
10/23/2014 1:30:36 PM PDT
by
khelus
To: USMCPOP
Oil Campaign of World War II
There has been fighting over oil in that region since WW I when the Brits and Frogs changed their fleets from coal to oil.
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posted on
10/23/2014 1:31:37 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: lbryce
If the JV lops off Saudi heads prices might come down. Roll out the barrels.
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posted on
10/23/2014 1:37:58 PM PDT
by
PGalt
To: lbryce
Other than our panty waist girly-man homosexual limp wristed muslim of a President, what is stopping us from bombing their oil fields? If they can’t pump the oil they can’t sell it.
Who cares if their environmentalists get all wee wee’d up? I sure as heck don’t.
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posted on
10/23/2014 2:14:10 PM PDT
by
rfreedom4u
(Texas isn't just a state. It's a state of mind!)
To: rfreedom4u
they have to transport it....We could shut it down in one day
Without blowing up anything.
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