News headlines, The Islamic state have near $ 1.2 billion for the conduct of protracted war

News headlines, The Islamic state have near $ 1.2 billion for the conduct of protracted war

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The organization has independent sources of finance, said the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur

Latest world news headlines, PARIS, September 18. Terrorist group the Islamic State (IG) has at its disposal from one to two billion dollars to finance a protracted war with the United States and its allies. This was reported by the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur, analyzing the financial condition of the armed.

Fighting in Syria, fundamentalists, recalls the Paris edition, “received generous support from private and public donors from the Persian Gulf monarchies.” Now the organization has independent sources of funding. According to the magazine, only one capture the second most important city of Mosul Iraqi terrorists provided at least $ 400 million that had been confiscated from a local bank. The organization is also engaged in racketeering and collects a “revolutionary tax” in the occupied territories in Syria and Iraq. Important source of income is and hostage-taking. Islamists have established business ties with mafia groups interested in oil resources, which are at their disposal. According to the newspaper, the Islamic State revenues from oil account for one million dollars a day.

According to Le Nouvel Observateur, all at the disposal of the militants are now at least $ 1.2 billion for military operations. The publication notes that terrorist groups are becoming “more professional.” It fundamentalists “sophisticated software and graduates who were educated in the United States, Great Britain or Germany.” French edition reminds us that the terrorist group of Osama bin Laden, “Al-Qaeda” took “only about a million dollars to prepare attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001″. With a military budget of $ 2.1 billion the Islamic state is now “out of competition for wealth and power of terrorist groups.” “In the case of” Al-Qaeda “we were dealing with an organization whose sole purpose was to sow terror, making a point attacks that was not particularly expensive,” – said in an interview with a researcher of international terrorism Andrew Lipman. “As for the Islamic State, his surgery – the occupation and the content of the whole territory, and this requires a lot of money”, – the expert said.

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