Posted on 02/16/2016 2:44:58 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Faced with a cash shortage in its self-declared caliphate, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has slashed salaries, asked Raqqa residents to pay utility bills in black market American dollars, and is now releasing detainees for a price of $500 a person. The extremists who once bragged about minting their own currency are having a hard time meeting expenses, thanks to coalition airstrikes and other measures that have eroded millions from their finances since last fall. Having built up loyalty among militants with good salaries and honeymoon and baby bonuses, the group has stopped providing even the smaller perks: free energy drinks and Snickers bars.
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Yep. It has been pointed out numerous times here on FR, that bombing the trucks hauling the crude oil from ISIS controlled production would end the money flow. They have been selling oil produced from captured wells and hauling it by truck.
Last year with higher oil prices ISIS was making lots of money selling oil to Sunni Turkey and some others. ISIS was flush with cash and riding high. Lots of beheading videos, Islamic style snuff videos and buying fleets of new Toyota trucks to mount 50 caliber guns on.
RUSSIAN BOMBINGS stopped this on nearly their first day by bombing the oil tanker trucks being used to transport the oil and by products from the Northern Iraq refineries ISIS gad captured.
Vlad Putin ruined ISIS
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