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News: ISIS makes enough money to fund its war 'for 3 more years'
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ISIS makes enough money to fund its war 'for 3 more years'
Documents reveal ISIS has annual revenues of £600 million from selling oil, taxes and looting and has enough cash to fund its war ‘for three years’
- ISIS makes nearly £600million-a-year from oil, taxes and spoils of war
- Of the annual revenue, ISIS spends £400 on army, report finds
- Civilians treated like 'second class citizens' compared to ISIS fighters
- As for ISIS's soldiers, foreigners get paid more than local fighters
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ISIS makes nearly £600million per year from oil revenue, taxes and looting, and have enough cash to fund years of war, an investigation has found.
The militant group spend around two thirds of their annual revenue on its army, reportedly paying foreigners who join their jihad in Iraq and Syria more than twice that of local fighters.
And despite demanding taxes from citizens in areas of occupation and boasting of an 'NHS-style' health care, civilians claim hospitals and public services are falling apart.
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Priorities: ISIS makes nearly £600million per year from oil revenue, taxes and looting, two-thirds of which is spent on its jihad army
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The investigation, published by the Financial Times, found that of the annual income of £600m ($900m), ISIS spends £400m ($600m) on its army, with £133m-£167m ($200m-$250m) going to its core fighters.
ISIS has enough funds and predicted income keep its military operations running at its current level for another three years, an intelligence official told the FT.
The investigation is based on documents and interviews with former ISIS commanders, civilians, anti ISIS coalition diplomats, and officials in territories controlled by the group.
It reveals huge differences in treatment of civilians, local fighters and foreigners who have joined ISIS's jihad.
A Syrian woman from occupied Mosul told of how civilian avoid the public hospitals, despite ISIS boasting of having a British-style National Health Service, funded by the state.
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ISIS salary: A local fighter who has pledged allegiance to the group makes £133-£200 a month, while a foreign fighter gets £400, and can earn 'up to £666 a month, including special allowances'
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ISIS officials have also been imposing strict taxes on its citizens, including flat-rate taxes on electricity, 'hygiene services' and use of the telephone network, as well as customs on imported and exported goods.
The militant terrorist organisation also makes money from selling oil, electricity and gas from dams and fields in Syria controlled by the militants.
Earlier this year, a report by Syrian activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently claimed a majority of this revenue came from secret deals with the Assad regime.
And even though ISIS applies strict sharia law, they appear to have no qualms about growing and selling illegal drugs to others, with cannabis being grown on the outskirts of Raqqa to be sold on to Turkey.
Another interesting source of income is Internet cafes, which RBSS calls 'one of the most profitable trades for ISIS'.
The number of internet cafes in Raqqa had increased from 20 to 500 since ISIS came to power, fuelled by the large number of foreign fighters joining the group.
Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently also lists fines on breaking sharia law by smoking or being late to prayer, looting and selling historical artefacts and confiscating private land from locals who disagree with the ways of the caliphate and selling it at public auction.
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3uVana9tV
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Taxes??? Which government is funding ISIS 
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Originally posted by Miley Cyrus
Taxes??? Which government is funding ISIS |
USATurkey, Saudi Arabia ?
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Who buys stolen oil from them? 
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mehh why do they have to do this.
go live your life happily. you only get to live once.
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Originally posted by Miley Cyrus
Taxes??? Which government is funding ISIS |
No, ISIS collects tax from people that live in areas occupied by ISIS
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Eh, they won't be going away anywhere soon anyway.
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Originally posted by Miley Cyrus
Taxes??? Which government is funding ISIS |
Not sure if there is any specific government that supports them, but some of the Saudi's and some rich businessmen in the Middle East who love oil certainly contribute to their bank balance.
xox
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Originally posted by Abyssy
Not sure if there is any specific government that supports them, but some of the Saudi's and some rich businessmen in the Middle East who love oil certainly contribute to their bank balance.
xox
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Receipts?
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Obama is doing a great job
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Congress hasn't even voted on Obama's war proposal that Obama sent to congress a year an some months ago. Stop asking him to violate the constitution.
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Originally posted by Shawn Mendes
Thanks, Obama.
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I hope you're trolling ISIS is 1000% Bush's fault.
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ISIS salary: A local fighter who has pledged allegiance to the group makes £133-£200 a month, while a foreign fighter gets £400, and can earn 'up to £666 a month, including special allowances'
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Russia will still defeat them
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Isn't this a WW record for highest tour gross? I mean they have promo literally everywhere, they're all around the world and they gave a fantastic show in Le Bataclan (Eagles of Death Metal opened for them).
I'm just kidding, but give me those lashes girls, I deserve it.
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Originally posted by heckinglovato
I hope you're trolling ISIS is 1000% Bush's fault. |
I'd probably say a combination of the two. Bush getting involved in the first place was obviously a massive disaster that should never have happened, but my understanding is that the WAY Obama exited also gave Isis a strong opportunity to grow (as shown by them taking center stage after several years of Obama. And not, like, the day after)
Either way, this isn't good
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Lol at their monthly salaries. You can't even afford an apartment in NY or SF for that much. Do they get paid sick leave? Paid overtime? Health insurance?
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