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From Zero Hedge:
- Captured Isis Fighter Says, “as Long As The Coalition Attacks Our Caliphate In Syria And Iraq, We’ll Carry Out Attacks In Europe.”
“Mistakes Were Made” — Interview With A Captured ISIS Fighter In Syria RMELAN — “The [U.S.-led coalition’s] airstrikes have weakened ISIS. We can no longer make any progress. Our oil fields and refineries have been hit.” Ahmad Derwish,...
- Isis Executes 19 Girls For Not Having Sex With Them
From the Daily Mail: ISIS fanatics have executed 19 women for refusing to have sex with its fighters, a Kurdish official has said. He claimed the women were being held hostage in Islamic State’s stronghold of Mosul, Iraq, which the terror group seized...
- Iraqi Security Forces Had 10 To 1 Advantage Over Isis, Fled Ramahdi Without Putting Up A Fight
We will not begin to win this war, until we realize THIS: Al Jazeera Polls Shows 80% of Muslims Support ISIS Has something to do with THIS: Iraqi security forces don't have the stomach to fight ISIS Iraqi security forces fled Ramadi without...
- Islamic State Price List Shows Group Selling Young Christian And Yazidi Girls As Sex Slaves For $172
From International Business Times: In a rather shocking revelation, it has been found that Islamic State militants have been selling Yazidi and Christian girls as young as one to nine years of age for a price of $172 in Iraq. Activists working ‘secretly’...
- Hmmm. It's Almost As If He's Giving Them Subtle Encouragement.
But naw, that couldn't be. From PCMD GazetteThis is Why Obama Changed the name ISIS to ISIL ISIS is the “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria”. ISIS is an Islamic jihadist group in the Middle East. In its self-proclaimed status as...
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Why Not Bomb ISIS' OIl Fields?
From Zero Hedge:
According to the Iraq Energy Institute, an independent, nonprofit policy organization focused on Iraq’s energy sector, the army of radical Islamists controls production of 30,000 barrels of oil a day in Iraq and 50,000 barrels in Syria.
By selling the oil on the black market at a discounted price of $40 per barrel (compared to about $93 per barrel in the free market), ISIS takes in $3.2 million a day.
The oil revenue, which amounts to nearly $100 million each month, allows ISIS to fund its military and terrorist attacks — and to attract more recruits from around the world, including America. Most importantly, we added that to be successful in counterterrorism efforts, "the U.S. and its allies must “push the Islamic State out of the oil fields it has captured and disrupt its ability to smuggle the oil to foreign markets.
None of this was surprising to anyone, but what was quite surprising is that it took the allied forces over a year to take the oil revenue threat seriously and begin targeting the Islamic State's oil infrastructure in earnest.
Today, in an article titled "Why US Efforts to Cut Off Islamic State's Funds Have Failed" Bloomberg tries to explain just how it is that despite a more than a year long campaign, ISIS funding remains as strong as ever, and notes that "the latest round of airstrikes are directly related to the administration’s new math.
“You have to go after the oil, and you have to do it in a serious way, and we’ve just begun to do that now,” citing Benjamin Bahney, an international policy analyst at the Rand Corp., a U.S. Department of Defense-funded think tank.
- Captured Isis Fighter Says, “as Long As The Coalition Attacks Our Caliphate In Syria And Iraq, We’ll Carry Out Attacks In Europe.”
“Mistakes Were Made” — Interview With A Captured ISIS Fighter In Syria RMELAN — “The [U.S.-led coalition’s] airstrikes have weakened ISIS. We can no longer make any progress. Our oil fields and refineries have been hit.” Ahmad Derwish,...
- Isis Executes 19 Girls For Not Having Sex With Them
From the Daily Mail: ISIS fanatics have executed 19 women for refusing to have sex with its fighters, a Kurdish official has said. He claimed the women were being held hostage in Islamic State’s stronghold of Mosul, Iraq, which the terror group seized...
- Iraqi Security Forces Had 10 To 1 Advantage Over Isis, Fled Ramahdi Without Putting Up A Fight
We will not begin to win this war, until we realize THIS: Al Jazeera Polls Shows 80% of Muslims Support ISIS Has something to do with THIS: Iraqi security forces don't have the stomach to fight ISIS Iraqi security forces fled Ramadi without...
- Islamic State Price List Shows Group Selling Young Christian And Yazidi Girls As Sex Slaves For $172
From International Business Times: In a rather shocking revelation, it has been found that Islamic State militants have been selling Yazidi and Christian girls as young as one to nine years of age for a price of $172 in Iraq. Activists working ‘secretly’...
- Hmmm. It's Almost As If He's Giving Them Subtle Encouragement.
But naw, that couldn't be. From PCMD GazetteThis is Why Obama Changed the name ISIS to ISIL ISIS is the “Islamic State of Iraq and Syria”. ISIS is an Islamic jihadist group in the Middle East. In its self-proclaimed status as...