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ISIS IS MASSIVELY WEALTHY, DESPITE OBAMA’S CONTENTION POVERTY THE CAUSE OF TERRORISM
Breitbart ^ | February 21, 2015 | By Wynton Hall

Posted on 02/21/2015 7:07:35 PM PST by Jim Robinson

Last week, President Barack Obama sparked outrage when he declared that the root cause of Islamic State (ISIS) terrorism is not radical Islam but poverty.

“We have to address grievances terrorists exploit, including economic grievances,” said Obama.

However, as terrorism experts explain, a vast percentage of Islamic terrorists come from middle-class backgrounds, wealthy families, or have impressive educational pedigrees. CNN’s national security analyst Peter Bergen says many of the world’s most notorious terrorists came from affluence and education:

Osama bin Laden: son of a Saudi construction magnate who attended Saudi Arabia’s top high school and best university.

Mohamed Atta: ringleader of the 9-11 terrorist attacks and the son of an Egyptian lawyer. Atta worked on his doctorate at a German university.

Ayman al Zawahiri: Present leader of al Qaeda and a “surgeon who comes from a leading Egyptian family that counts ambassadors, politicians and prominent clerics amongst its ranks.”

Nidal Hasan: the Fort Hood terrorist who “was not only an officer in the U.S. Army and a psychiatrist, but is also from a comfortably middle-class family in Virginia.”

~snip~~

Numerous studies have found similar trends. One study of 172 al Qaeda terrorists conducted by former CIA case officer Marc Sagemann found that “just under half were professionals; two-thirds were either middle or upper class and had gone to college; indeed, several had doctorates.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: caliphate; daesh; dhimmitude; harf; isis; islamicterrorism; jobs; jobsprograms; marieharf; obama; obamamuslim; obamataqiyyah; poverty; rop; terrorfunding; traitor; treason; usefulidiot
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1 posted on 02/21/2015 7:07:36 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson

Obama is a liar and a dissembler. What else would one expect from him?


2 posted on 02/21/2015 7:09:02 PM PST by anton
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To: Jim Robinson

Much like everything else, he has no bleeping clue.


3 posted on 02/21/2015 7:11:09 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Plea$e $upport Free Republic!)
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To: Jim Robinson

They aren’t poor. They are aspiring for a greater goal and they are just plain mean and evil.


4 posted on 02/21/2015 7:13:27 PM PST by berdie
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To: Jim Robinson

This story is right out of the PLO line that kept the USA throwing $$$ at Yasser Arafat for decades.
Palestinians were poor so we had to help them.
Every dime of it went right into Yasser Arafat’s pocket.


5 posted on 02/21/2015 7:14:12 PM PST by Zathras
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It is poverty in a sense. All those people with seemingly boundless and unexhaustable unearned wealth, and even with all that advantage are still incapable of delivering anything of any value to the world, while the evil jews rack up nobel prize after nobel prize


6 posted on 02/21/2015 7:15:25 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%ij)
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To: Jim Robinson

There is that $500M or so that they looted from a bank in Iraq.


7 posted on 02/21/2015 7:15:49 PM PST by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: Jim Robinson
Obama the Undocumented Chronic, Enabled, Liar lies,
and Liar is gonna lie, lie, lie,
and the Faker is gonna Fake, Fake, fake.


8 posted on 02/21/2015 7:17:21 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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Captain Obvious weeps. Such a thing was common knowledge, and the admin’s toadies blather about jobs programs.


9 posted on 02/21/2015 7:22:52 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Jim Robinson
Never met a proggie yet who didn't think (1) the status quo is oppressive, and (2) revolution therefore is always justified because even if it isn't the oppressed who are doing it, it's being done on their behalf. That is precisely how 0bama and half the superannuated student radicals stinking up the administration view the world. It doesn't matter if the perpetrators are monsters, their "root cause" is always something laudable.

This is fine for high school debate teams, but these people think they can run the country on that precept. And they've steadily purged from government anyone who tries to tell them otherwise. I hope we survive the next two years.

10 posted on 02/21/2015 7:24:58 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Inspire of the lies we are being told ( have to write in bold to shout out the message to the masses ) PROVERTY AND MISERY FOLLOWS RADICAL ISLAM WERE EVER IT GOES !.
PROVERTY AND MISERY IS NOT ! IS NOT ! IS NOT ! THE RESULT OF HOW THESE DEVILS ARE TREATED OR NO JOBS ! HELL NO ! PROVERY ! MISERY IS THE RESULT OF RADICAL ISLAM WERE EVER IT GOES !
ALSO ? These devils are NOT acting out of the result of PROVERTY or misery, they are possesed by demons and devils.
Occultic practices require violent and the shedding of innocent blood to bring forth, to summons Satan.
What they are doing consciencely or unconscientiously by being possessed if to give Satan power, that is what is at the heart of the matter, not PROVERTY or misery.


11 posted on 02/21/2015 7:25:11 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (The Keystone Pipeline Project : build it already Congress !)
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ISIS controlled areas have NO water , No electricity and No garbage collection ,only total terror


12 posted on 02/21/2015 7:25:12 PM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Ray76

Recent evidence on dead bodies shows ISIS/ISIL/IS have been harvesting organs from their captives.

Sadly, organ harvesting is a lucrative business.

==

Most of the social advocate organizations seem quiet regarding the things ISIS/ISIL/IS are doing.


13 posted on 02/21/2015 7:29:08 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: molson209

Proverty, mayhem, death, poor, misery follows where ever Radical Islam goes.


14 posted on 02/21/2015 7:33:15 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (The Keystone Pipeline Project : build it already Congress !)
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To: Jim Robinson

Saw on various sites that the local savages who murder for ISIS are paid $150 or $400 a month depending on where you look, and foreigners joining the savages are paid $1,000 a month. But, who knows? Look like they have paying jobs. Does Ms. Harf think they aren’t paid enough.


15 posted on 02/21/2015 7:36:24 PM PST by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: TomGuy

Because they sercetry approve of it, they are either under the influence or working for the devil himself.
The bible says, that the devil, or Satan will or can transform his self into or as a angel of light.
I am sticking to my words just like Rudy Juliani is.


16 posted on 02/21/2015 7:36:39 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (The Keystone Pipeline Project : build it already Congress !)
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To: Jim Robinson

Terrorists, revolutionaries, radicals, whatever you want to call them, are never the poor.

They come from middle classes, and are slightly well off to being rich. This has been true from the Jacobins to Lenin to Bin Laden.

Think about it, do the impoverished masses have time to be militant and think about ideals? No, they’re too busy trying to survive.


17 posted on 02/21/2015 7:38:33 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: Jim Robinson

Not to forget about Bill Ayers, Obama’s terrorist friend and spoiled rich boy.


18 posted on 02/21/2015 7:41:39 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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Bet they have a boatload of US tax dollars.


19 posted on 02/21/2015 7:42:14 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Jim Robinson

Since ISIS are 1 percenters, will Obama go after them and demand they pay their “Fare share”


20 posted on 02/21/2015 7:42:35 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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