Alwaght-ISIS terrorist group earns more than $3 million per day just from oil sales, while also gaining huge sums from human trafficking and extortion and so on. Apart from such criminal sources of income that has made them wealthier than any other terrorist group in history, they are also funded by America and its western and regional allies.
The ISIS terrorist group which has occupied territories in Iraq and Syria, is now controlling eleven oil fields in both countries. They are selling oil and other products via old established networks under the noses of Kurdish, Turkish and Jordanian authorities.
According to the reports, the illegal oil is usually transported in tanker trucks. ISIS terrorists get for their smuggled oil about $25 to $60 per barrel. Normally the same amount of oil costs about $100. However the total profit of them exceeds $3 million a day.
The terrorist group also exports illegally the antiquities out of Iraq to Turkey and thus gets hundreds of millions of dollars. Millions more come from human trafficking as the militants are selling women and children as sex slaves. Other sources of income include extortion payments, ransom from kidnapped hostages, and any kind of theft from the occupied areas. They are making money through intimidation and violence.
According to US officials, the militants started imposing taxes on all kinds of economic activity in the city of Mosul, northern Iraq, even before it was seized by them in June. They threatened death penalties to those who were reluctant to pay.
According to analysts, from Mosul alone, ISIS terrorist group was reaping $8 million a month from extortion. When the terrorist group occupied the city, it grabbed millions of dollars in cash from banks.
America and its allies have recently managed to form a so-called coalition to fight ISIS terrorist group. They are talking of ground attack and airstrikes to defeat terrorists, but before any military action, they should answer some questions. Who has armed ISIS terrorist group in Syria? How did too many terrorist enter into Syria and Iraq? Who has trained these brutal killer machines? Where they were trained? Who has paid for it? Who is buying their illegal oils? and so many other questions which should be responded by those who claim they are leader of the world.
If one answers the above mentioned questions, he/she can also answer this question: Isn't ISIS terrorist group a handmade pretext for America's re-return to Iraq's soil?
