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The terror group President Barack Obama threatened to strike in Iraq Thursday evening is itself threatening to strike the American homeland. Read more: dailycaller.com...
“I say to America that the Islamic Caliphate has been established,” Abu Mosa, a spokesman for the terror group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), told VICE Media in a video interview posted online Thursday. “Don’t be cowards and attack us with drones. Instead send your soldiers, the ones we humiliated in Iraq.” Read more: dailycaller.com...
IEDs were used extensively against US-led Coalition forces and by the end of 2007 they had become responsible for approximately 63% of Coalition deaths in Iraq.[1]
In a letter to Ayman al-Zawahiri in July 2005, al-Zarqawi outlined a four-stage plan to expand the Iraq War, which included expelling US forces from Iraq, establishing an Islamic authority—a caliphate—spreading the conflict to Iraq's secular neighbors, and engaging in the Arab–Israeli conflict.
That fringe 'right' wing element in this instance called ISIS is a political war. It is also a religious war.
Last night my husband and I were discussing ISIS and what if scenarios.
Come on, you know better than that. This is all US sponsored. ISIS has the gear, the money and the backing they need.
A study of 200 documents—personal letters, expense reports and membership rosters—captured from Al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Islamic State of Iraq was carried out by the RAND Corporation in 2014. It found that from 2005 until 2010, outside donations amounted to only 5% of the group’s operating budgets, with the rest being raised within Iraq. In the time-period studied, cells were required to send up to 20% of the income generated from kidnapping, extortion rackets and other activities to the next level of the group's leadership. Higher-ranking commanders would then redistribute the funds to provincial or local cells that were in difficulties or needed money to conduct attacks. The records show that the Islamic State of Iraq was dependent on members from Mosul for cash, which the leadership used to provide additional funds to struggling militants in Diyala, Salahuddin and Baghdad.[126]
n mid-2014, Iraqi intelligence extracted information from an ISIS operative which revealed that the organization had assets worth US$2 billion,[127] making it the richest jihadist group in the world.[128] About three quarters of this sum is said to be represented by assets seized after the group captured Mosul in June 2014; this includes possibly up to US$429 million looted from Mosul's central bank, along with additional millions and a large quantity of gold bullion stolen from a number of other banks in Mosul.[129][130] However, doubt was later cast on whether ISIS was able to retrieve anywhere near that sum from the central bank,[131] and even on whether the bank robberies had actually occurred
SIS has routinely practised extortion, by demanding money from truck drivers and threatening to blow up businesses, for example. Robbing banks and gold shops has been another source of income.[56] The group is widely reported as receiving funding from private donors in the Gulf states,[133] and both Iran and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki have accused Saudi Arabia and Qatar of funding ISIS,[134][135][136][137] although there is reportedly no evidence that this is the case.[137][138][139][140]
The group is also believed to receive considerable funds from its operations in Eastern Syria, where it has commandeered oilfields and engages in smuggling out raw materials and archaeological artifacts.[141][142] ISIS also generates revenue from producing crude oil and selling electric power in northern Syria. Some of this electricity is reportedly sold back to the Syrian government.[143]
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
I was just reading some link on this talking about a mega-terror event. Wonder if they have the ability to bring anything of that sort to US soil. Guessing they have been sending people in and recruiting a lot with the southern US border being wide open and all.
However, doubt was later cast on whether ISIS was able to retrieve anywhere near that sum from the central bank,[131] and even on whether the bank robberies had actually occurred
originally posted by: egoli
America is a war mongering nation creating their own terrorists whilst they are the terrorists themselves.