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ISIS: Surprisingly Sophisticated, Extremely Well-Funded

Among other things, the Islamic State has a shocking amount of money — $2 BILLION dollars — four times as much as the Taliban. And their wealth is growing, with $3 million dollars a day in oil and gas revenue from captured facilities. (If you’re wondering who is buying, it’s all black market.)

And they have other sources of income besides:

ISIS infograph

The statistics go on, and they’re surprising. 80,000 fighters control 470,000 square miles and 6,000,000 people.

And of course, they have vowed to conquer Rome, the seat of global Christianity by means of the Catholic Church.

If you want a better sense of the growing threat posed by the Islamic State, and the way they’re using social media amplification to increase their message and expand their reach, the whole thing is worth a read.

6 thoughts on “ISIS: Surprisingly Sophisticated, Extremely Well-Funded”

  1. They’ve been extremely well-funded (and trained, and organized) from their beginning, by the USA and Israel who want to destroy Syria as a gateway to the destruction of Iran. So ISIS was created by them to attack Assad as a softening-up exercise before the bombings would begin. When the USA-Israel little murder raid on Syria (and Syria’s Christians) was foiled by the Pope’s day of fasting, and Vladimir Putin’s intervention, they were quite furious and made no bones about it. So now that their little ISIS army is back not only in Iraq but also in Syria, the USA (as of yesterday’s headlines) want to go back to Syria and bomb (of course) not only ISIS stronghold’s but the Assad forces as well (this is the same Assad, by the way, who has been protecting his Christians from radical Islamists all along). So the USA will apparently at last get its way and will use the ISIS problem as an excuse to bomb more Christians in Syria, just as they bombed many Christians in Iraq – who were also being protected by Saddam Hussein. David Stockman shows us the madness: http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/bombs-away-washington-has-gone-stark-raving-mad/

    And the winner in all this? Israel, of course, first and foremost, and the lunatic imperialists in Washington.

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