Posted on 09/11/2014 8:01:22 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Sources tell CBS News that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is now bringing in $1 million every day in oil revenue from one Syrian province alone.
CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrew reports that since ISIS -- also known as ISIL and which now calls itself simply the "Islamic State" -- expanded into northern Iraq, its earnings from selling oil and gas on the black market for cash are believed to total roughly $3 million per day.
Former U.S. intelligence analyst Lori Plotkin Boghardt says those energy profits give ISIS its edge.
"ISIS is worth hundreds of millions of dollars," Boghardt says, making it easily the wealthiest terrorist group ever.
Photos taken from an ISIS fighter's social media page claim to show some of that cash. One reads, "Drown in your envy, hypocrites," in Russian. "The Caliphate is getting richer!"
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
If Hussein does not destroy those oil field -- the world will know he is not serious about defeating ISIS.
They also rob banks.
ISIS is funded by 1.2B Muslims in the same sect. The oil is a drop in a bucket.
“The love of money is the root of all sorts of evil.”
Cut off the money, the evil will die from the root upwards.
Think how rich THIS country would be if we’d held onto some of that oil revenue!
Finishing Keystone (like a Manhattan Project) would be a significant economic strike against the nascent Caliphate.
Someone must be mitaken...didn’t the Bush, Cheney, Rice cabal steal all this oil....libtards have been telling us this for years...
Back then they were just "Syrian rebels" seeking to oust Assad.
You know, I can’t ever remember thighness saying ISIL, ISIS, IS or any combination thereof. These guys must have just got started right after she resigned, what a coincidence.
Qatar.
http://moneyjihad.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/5-qataris-who-fund-al-qaeda/
Abd al-Rahman al-Nuaymi
The U.S. Treasury Department describes al-Nuaymi as “a Qatar-based terrorist financier and facilitator who has provided money and material support and conveyed communications to al-Qa’ida and its affiliates in Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Yemen for more than a decade. He was considered among the most prominent Qatar-based supporters of Iraqi Sunni extremists.” Al-Nuaymi transferred $600K to Al Qaeda in Syria in 2013, and sent $2 million monthly to Al Qaeda in Iraq for an undisclosed period of time. He is also described as an interlocutor between Qatari nationals and Al Qaeda in Iraq leaders.
Salim Hasan Khalifa Rashid al-Kuwari
Treasury says al-Kuwari “provides financial and logistical support to al-Qa’ida, primarily through al-Qa’ida facilitators in Iran. Based in Qatar, Kuwari has provided hundreds of thousands of dollars in financial support to al-Qa’ida and has provided funding for al-Qa’ida operations, as well as to secure the release of al-Qa’ida detainees in Iran and elsewhere.”
Abdallah Ghanim Mafuz Muslim al-Khawar
According to U.S. officials, “Al-Khawar has worked with Kuwari to deliver money, messages and other material support to al-Qa’ida elements in Iran. Like Kuwari, Khawar is based in Qatar and has helped to facilitate travel for extremists interested in traveling to Afghanistan for jihad.
Khalifa Muhammad Turki al-Subaiy
The UN describes al-Subaiy as “a Qatar-based terrorist financier and facilitator who has provided financial support to, and acted on behalf of, the senior leadership of Al-Qaida (QE.A.4.01). He provided assistance to senior Al-Qaida leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed prior to Sheikh Mohammed’s capture in March 2003. Since that time, he has provided financial support to Al-Qaida senior leadership in South Asia.” Al-Subaiy served a brief prison sentence in 2008 before being released by Qatar.
Yusuf Qaradawi
The Egyptian-born, Qatar-based spiritual father of the international Muslim Brotherhood sits atop a massive terrorist funding network including the “Union of Good” umbrella network of charities that funds Hamas. Qaradawi was also a sharia adviser for Al Taqwa which provided banking services to Al Qaeda.
German minister accuses Qatar of funding Islamic State fighters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/20/us-iraq-security-germany-qatar-idUSKBN0GK1I720140820
ISIS Fighter Claims Turkey Funds the Jihadist Group
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/07/30/ISIS-Fighter-Claims-Turkey-Funds-the-Jihadist-Group
America’s Allies Are Funding ISIS
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now threatening Baghdad, was funded for years by wealthy donors in Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, three U.S. allies that have dual agendas in the war on terror.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/14/america-s-allies-are-funding-isis.html
did the billions of dollars of unaccounted for stimulus money find its way to ISIS?
It is true that some wealthy individuals from the Gulf have funded extremist groups in Syria, many taking bags of cash to Turkey and simply handing over millions of dollars at a time.
This was an extremely common practice in 2012 and 201
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29004253
Qatar is also the (financial) prime mover for the desired oil/gas pipelines through Syria and Turkey to service Western Europe so they can buy oil and gas from Islamic terrorist states rather than the meanie Russians.
Keystone is close to completion.
It originally started as a pipeline to carry Canadian oil. Barry blocked that.
But, as time has gone by, more and more oil is coming out of North Dakota. That’s domestic - Barry can’t stop that (well not as easily anyway). Really not much is left to be built - maybe finished by 2016.
But its not the answer to all our oil needs - and actually could facilitate sending more domestic oil to international markets.
“There has also been a long-standing flow of donations from sympathetic private individuals in the Gulf, especially in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait, to the organization, which the U.N. Security Council Resolution of Aug. 15 (adding six individuals to the al-Qaida sanctions list) tried to address.”
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/how-is-islamic-state-funded/
Our 2 biggest problems now are oil producers in the middle east, and Russia, the leading gas producer in the region. We have the ability to marginalize both of them if we would just bring our products to ,market and snatch the run out from under their prices.
But our leaders refuse to do this as it might make some rich guys in the US richer still. So, instead, we prop up the profits for our enemies.
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