Who IS funding ISIS? Is it really just the Saudi’s?
“Who IS funding ISIS? Is it really just the Saudi’s?”
I thought it was all the usual guys, Quatar, Turkey, CAIR ...
George Soros. He wants us destroyed really bad.
The question isn’t who is funding them now because in the here and now they have taken territory, oil fields, food supplies and raided banks. There provide vast ongoing sources of funds.
The real question, and one the media should be diving into in great depth is who or what funded them INITIALLY. Remember when they came seemingly out of thin air? Rampaging like a blitzkrieg from the Syrian border regions into Iraq?
One day, there was nothing. The next, POOF! Here is this well trained fighting force of THOUSANDS with good weapons and battle hardened soldiers with a command structure.
I’ve heard a lot of theories, but what is the TRUTH about where they came from?
Saufis. Apostrophes can be your friends. They can also make you look unlettered.
They are self-funded as well - $2 mil a day from oil. Also they got $400 Mil from Iraqi banks = net worth over $2 billion ...
They bootstrapped with robberies and kidnappings. They asked for $135 Million for the American they just executed. I’m sure they were getting several million each for various Europeans they were holding. Unlike the USA, European governments do pay ransom.
And now they are largely self-funding. The supposedly got 1/2 a billion in gold and cash when they took over the city of Mousel, which included a regional Central Bank of Iraq.
They also sell over $1 million a day in oil, from the wells they control. Much of it is sold to Assad of Syria, who they are fighting with. The Arab world is odd.
The other journalist Peter Theo Curtis was released when his family directly asked Qatar to help. Now why would Qatar have that much influence with Islamic State (IS)?http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/11055049/Did-Qatar-pay-ransom-for-release-of-US-journalist-Peter-Curtis.html and again http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/24/us-denies-ransom-qatar-peter-theo-curtis-syria