Islamic State Militants Now World's Richest

AFP via Yahoo News ^ | October 23, 2014 | Staff

[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.

[lbryce]

And they don't have a $17T debt to worry about.

[blackdog]

I knew there was a reason McCain loved them so much, as does the Hildabeast.

[Mark17]

And they don't have a $17T debt to worry about.

Can't we just figure out ways to steal the money from them?

[KoRn]

Not bad for the “Junior-Varsity Team”!

These guys make Al-Qaeda look like the Micky Mouse Club....

[ryan71]

We cannot intercept, by land or by sea, $1 million/day of oil? Why not? Maybe we don’t want to?

[Vigilanteman]

The more who get kilt, the wealthier they will be per capita.

[stephenjohnbanker]

18 trillion before Christmas.

[ryan71]

Yeah, they’re more economically solvent than WE ARE!

[W.]

Well, they don’t have our overhead...

[shalom aleichem]

Where are the sanctions against ISIS? Against the countries who buy all that oil?

[ScottinVA]

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?

[chajin]

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.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Islamic State Militants Now World's Richest...? That could be changed in 2 seconds if we did not have a No Balls President.

[USMCPOP]

Oil Campaign of World War II

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_Campaign_of_World_War_II

[lbryce]

My favorite H-Bomb

[khelus]

This ought to do wonders for the petro dollars /sarc

[Don Corleone]

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.

[PGalt]

If the JV lops off Saudi heads prices might come down. Roll out the barrels.

[rfreedom4u]

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.

[therapsida]

they have to transport it....We could shut it down in one day
Without blowing up anything.