Fighters from Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) hold their weapons as they stand on confiscated cigarettes before setting them on fire in the city of Raqqa. (File photo: Reuters)
Iraq Arrest That Exposed Wealth And Power Of Isis Jihadists -- The Guardian
The story of Isis, the band of militants that came from nowhere with nothing to having $2bn and two cities.
Two days before Mosul fell to the Islamic insurgent group Isis (the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant), Iraqi commanders stood eyeballing its most trusted messenger. The man, known within the extremist group as Abu Hajjar, had finally cracked after a fortnight of interrogation and given up the head of Isis's military council.
"He said to us, 'you don't realise what you have done'," an intelligence official recalled. "Then he said: 'Mosul will be an inferno this week'.'
Several hours later, the man he had served as a courier and been attempting to protect, Abdulrahman al-Bilawi, lay dead in his hideout near Mosul. From the home of the dead man and the captive, Iraqi forces hoovered up more than 160 computer flash sticks which contained the most detailed information yet known about the terror group.
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Update: America's Allies Are Funding ISIS -- Josh Rogin, Daily Beast
My Comment: How many weapons of mass destruction can $2 billion buy?
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