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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsISIS memory drives recovered reveal their net worth as of 2 weeks ago is $875,000,000
This is before their entering Mosul where they broke into banks. Money is mostly from oil fields they now control as well as looting priceless archeological artifacts.
Memory drives also show 1000 coded names of ISIS members who have penetrated the Iraqi govt.
This is according to the Guardian reporter who has been covering this who I have been listening to on CBC Radio's As It Happens.
This is not good.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)heard that earlier today.....THAT is of big concern....
in fact its quite fucked up....
G_j
(40,372 posts)and it's way beyond that now
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10899995/ISIS-half-a-billion-dollar-bank-heist-makes-it-worlds-richest-terror-group.html
ISIS' half-a-billion-dollar bank heist makes it world's richest terror group
The al-Qaeda splinter grouping made off with £256 million in cash and a large amount of gold bullion from Mosul's central bank during its takeover of the city
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)grasswire
(50,130 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)Journeyman
(15,043 posts)I have yet to see anything to dissuade me from this opinion.
moondust
(20,019 posts)Some of them former U.S. bases.
(According to NBC reporter Ayman Mohyeldin in Iraq a little while ago.)