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In reply to the discussion: Everyone hates ISIS....So what do you want to do about it ? [View all]JonLP24
(29,322 posts)the funding or stopping the funding?
There are mountains of evidence referring to the funding. The funding has never been stopped, at-best the US strong arms Saudi Arabia in publicly opposing terrorism & develop red flags in their banking systems as well as anti-terrorism legislation (which they use to sentence activists to long prison terms, also indefinite detain civilians, all in a grossly unfair legal system.
How does ISIS fund its Terror
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Royal Donors in the Gulf
Grossing as much as $40 million or more over the past two years, ISIS has accepted funding from government or private sources in the oil-rich nations of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwaitand a large network of private donors, including Persian Gulf royalty, businessmen and wealthy families.
Until recently, all three countries had openly given hefty sums to rebels fighting Bashar Assads Syrian regime, among them ISIS. Only after widespread criticism from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the international community did Saudi Arabia pass legislation in 2013 criminalizing financial support of terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra and ISIS.
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A couple of factors are frustrating attempts to dam these rivers of cash. First, the relatively open banking systems of Qatar and Kuwait are being skillfully exploited by ISIS, since, unlike Saudi banks, they do not automatically raise red flags when money is siphoned to Islamist causes.
Second, Qatar and Kuwait are loath to limit the activities of highly influential ISIS donors due to the political fallout such intervention may cause. In Kuwait, a family of parliamentariansincluding Kuwaiti member of parliament Mohammed Hayef al-Mutairihas raised funds for jihadist groups with direct ties to ISIS. Cracking down on some ISIS financiers is politically complicated for these countries leaderships, Boghardt says.
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/11/14/how-does-isis-fund-its-reign-terror-282607.html
There article also mentions charity fronts which is interesting....
Internal Treasury Department documents obtained by the lawyers under the Freedom of Information Act, for instance, said that a prominent Saudi charity, the International Islamic Relief Organization, heavily supported by members of the Saudi royal family, showed support for terrorist organizations at least through 2006.
A self-described Qaeda operative in Bosnia said in an interview with lawyers in the lawsuit that another charity largely controlled by members of the royal family, the Saudi High Commission for Aid to Bosnia, provided money and supplies to the terrorist group in the 1990s and hired militant operatives like himself.
Another witness in Afghanistan said in a sworn statement that in 1998 he had witnessed an emissary for a leading Saudi prince, Turki al-Faisal, hand a check for one billion Saudi riyals (now worth about $267 million) to a top Taliban leader.
And a confidential German intelligence report gave a line-by-line description of tens of millions of dollars in bank transfers, with dates and dollar amounts, made in the early 1990s by Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz and other members of the Saudi royal family to another charity that was suspected of financing militants activities in Pakistan and Bosnia.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/world/middleeast/24saudi.html
Follow the money.