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Showing Original Post only (View all)ISIS "tremendously well-funded". By whom? ...and why aren't we choking the funds off and prosecuting [View all]
the funders?
The ISIS money has to hit the banks at some point, in this day and age tracking hundreds of millions should not be all that difficult (considering the NSA knows what porn you watch http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/11/nsa-sexint-abuse-you%E2%80%99ve-all-been-waiting).
This would be a far more cost effective method of fighting them than wasting more blood and treasure in the desert (which, of course, will never work as the war has been going on there since antiquity)
Follow the money.... why is this so difficult? Perhaps because at least some of it leads back to Mcain, Graham, and Prince Bandar (http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/isis-saudi-arabia-iraq-syria-bandar/373181/)
special operations forces under the Joint Special Operations Command and U.S. Special Operations Command keep close tabs on the military evolution of ISIS and both its combat and terrorism -- called "asymmetric" -- capabilities, officials told ABC News. A primary reason is in anticipation of possibly fighting them, which a full squadron of special mission unit operators did in the Independence Day raid on an ISIS camp in Raqqah, Syria.
"They're incredible fighters. ISIS teams in many places use special operations TTPs," said the second official, who has considerable combat experience, using the military term for "tactics, techniques and procedures."
In sobering press conference Friday, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said ISIS has shown that it is as sophisticated and well-funded as any group that we have seen.
Theyre beyond just a terrorist group. They marry ideology, a sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess. They are tremendously well-funded, he said. This is beyond anything that weve seen.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/isis-incredible-fighting-force-us-special-ops-sources/story?id=25116463
"They're incredible fighters. ISIS teams in many places use special operations TTPs," said the second official, who has considerable combat experience, using the military term for "tactics, techniques and procedures."
In sobering press conference Friday, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said ISIS has shown that it is as sophisticated and well-funded as any group that we have seen.
Theyre beyond just a terrorist group. They marry ideology, a sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess. They are tremendously well-funded, he said. This is beyond anything that weve seen.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/isis-incredible-fighting-force-us-special-ops-sources/story?id=25116463
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ISIS "tremendously well-funded". By whom? ...and why aren't we choking the funds off and prosecuting [View all]
grahamhgreen
Aug 2014
OP
Need you ask. The friend of my enemy is sometimes my friend...especially if has lots of $$$$.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Aug 2014
#1
Apparently not "all" of it from Qatar as I assumed. Oil sales, ransoms, black mrket transactions.
pinto
Aug 2014
#4
How about those pallet loads of American 100 dollar bills that "disappeared" in Iraq
Clyde Tenson
Aug 2014
#33
My guess is those billions, or whatever, are in Swiss bank accounts under Iraqi or dummy accounts.
pinto
Aug 2014
#38
Yes, they never 'found' the 9 billion 'lost' by Bremer. But our very wealthy 'allies' in Saudi
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#45
2/3 of their current on-hand cash, plus a butt-load of gold bullion was stolen from northern Iraq du
LanternWaste
Aug 2014
#16
Why? because with the Iraq war over (that was the big money maker) the poor weapons
Javaman
Aug 2014
#17
See that sign on the corner? Says $3.71 a gallon? If instead it showed a graph of where that
jtuck004
Aug 2014
#18
By ransom-paying countries. They killed our journalist because we wouldn't pay up.
pnwmom
Aug 2014
#21
The $60 trillion ensconced in tax haven banks gets put to use in any/all dark economies.
ancianita
Aug 2014
#22
I think they didn't invent this game, though. I think we're too quick to foreground others' games
ancianita
Aug 2014
#43
I've been preaching this on three boards. It's not being explored by government
ballyhoo
Aug 2014
#23
So, whatever came of that $9 billion cash that Bush misplaced somewhere in Iraq?
world wide wally
Aug 2014
#28
We should follow the money - it's hard to launder those kinds of sums without help from banksters,
grahamhgreen
Aug 2014
#37
If the NSA and other world intels weren't working with them, we'd probably be able to find out.
ancianita
Aug 2014
#44
And how do they do that? Running oil fields is a legitimate business, money has to go through
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#48
Those oil fields were under the control of major Global Oil Corporations. The agreement that held up
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#67
I wondered where they got all those flags, hollywood style 'uniforms' and the boots:
sabrina 1
Aug 2014
#49
No, you can't. At some point the monies enter the system. Not to mention hiding an oil tanker in
grahamhgreen
Aug 2014
#61
Why is those who fund these terrorist not the first and main question at news conferences?
gordianot
Aug 2014
#56
Great questions! If we could only get you on MTP:) I'm sure Chuck will get ur back!
grahamhgreen
Aug 2014
#60