Vanity: Who is funding ISIS?

[ConservativeMan55]

Question for all you Freepers out there?

I don't believe for one second this rag tag bunch of Muslim losers could pull this off without some SERIOUS financial help.

We're talking another nation has to be behind this.

Who is pulling the strings?

Is is the Saudi's? Obama? Iran? Soros?

Someone is putting some serious financial backing to these guys. For them to be able to easily overrun towns, take them over and move on to the next town.

[353FMG]

>For them to be able to easily overrun towns, take them over and move on to the next town.<

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I heard that many of the Iraqi Sunnis deserted and joined ISIS and that the Shia were slaughtered?

These acts of terror only weakened the resistance in subsequent towns until it became a rout for the Iraqi army.

It is expected that, now that ISIS has reached Shia area, the latter will put up a more serious fight especially now that they will receive help from Iran. They will have to put up resistance in order to survive.

There is no room in ISIS for the Shiites.

[grania]

When ISIS first did their maniac rogue terrorist thing, they already had a power base in Syria and some members had training, equipment, and financing from Obama and McCain doing their thing identifying the freedom fighters who promised to fight our battles. There were some reports that they're very wealthy now, with oil revenus from some drilling operations they took over, the $400 million or so they took from a Mosul bank and possibly funding from our friends the Saudis.

The whole thing is frightening. It's disturbing that every country that considers itself to be civilized hasn't dropped their differences for awhile and worked together to annihilate them. Take out a map. If they get access to the Med, there's no stopping ISIS.

[Ray76]

Obama, McCain, et al.

[ConservativeMan55]

Yep!

It’s very frightening!

[SkyDancer]

What will Iran do with oil? They export oil and import gasoline and diesel fuel, they have no refineries. Iraq has some though. Maybe that’s why Iran wants to take over Iraq.

[ConservativeMan55]

They are going to try and take Baghdad.

[allendale]

Let’s see. ISIL is an international Sunni fighting force trying to establish an Arabic speaking Sunni confederation composed of large parts of Syria and Iraq to counter Iran. Hugely expensive endeavor to recruit, train, equip, deploy and pay all those fighters. If they were successful the prime beneficiary would be the Saudis. The Saudis fear Iran. It may sound silly to most Americans but when the mullahs preach that the Saudi royals are decadent and not fit custodians of the Muslim sacred sites, it really frightens them. This is the same Saudi Arabia that 15 of the 9/11 terrorists called home and the same Saudi government that funds the Wahhabi. Fairly obvious the Saudis are funding ISIL.
Amusing that you have the insight to pose this important question on a forum like FR. Funny that our crack White House and State Department journalists don’t ask.

[ConservativeMan55]

1700 Shia were slaughtered at least.

[Paladin2]

Turkey. Other muzzie Broz pegs.

[Vendome]

[fso301]

Turkey? You think so?

Look at the map. Where else could they have gotten the equipment before their recent push into Iraq?

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27838034

[ConservativeMan55]

One thing I noticed.

These ISIS fighters went and located the Judge who sentenced Saddam to death and killed him.

He was on their list. The ISIS militants said they sentenced him to death for killing Saddam, who was a Sunni.

That’s another thing.

These ISIS militants had a LIST of people they wanted to kill in Iraq.

[LucianOfSamasota]

Satan’s other minions.

[pallmallman]

That old corrupt, crazy fool.

[grania]

They are going to try and take Badhdad

(this whole thing is so weird. It's like a board game I used to play about 20 years ago that involved monopolizing the worlds resources, only it's happening in the real world.)

ISIS seems well-trained and savvy about running publicity in the West. Their Achilles Heel might be arrogance, that the leaders really believe their crazy rhetoric. I don't understand why everyone hasn't blown them up already, before they get more powerful and the cancer spreads. Attacking Baghdad might be THE mistake that would stop the world powers from playing their stupid power games and work together to blow ISIS off the map.

God, I hope so. This group is pure evil, and when they have success, other crazies will emulate their tactics. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say success by ISIS would be the end of global civilization.

[cld51860]

“Now they’re charging taxes.”

Well, that is the patriotic thing to do, after all.

[x]

My first impulse too.

Thanks for getting it out of everyone's system.

[Drago]

As mentioned above they recently “acquired” $430 million from Iraqi banks, also speculation that money is coming in from “Gulf States” (Saudi Arabia). They also get $$ from oil sales (Syria) and extortion. See: http://www.dw.de/who-finances-isis/a-17720149

[Mister Da]

I can't tell you who the money man is, but the reason the Iraqi town were so easy to overrun is that they are Sunni towns full of ex-Saddam henchmen. These towns provided little resistance to ISIS, which is also Sunni.

As a pundit said today, this fight between Sunni & Shia has been going on for over 1000 years.

This is not our fight. Let them kill each other. Let them lose their lives & their treasure. If the end result is unsatisfying to us, we can invade & kill those that are left.

[Iscool]

Isn’t it funny how they can go thru a city, leave the city and now the city is theirs??? And they are going to take over Baghdad??? How long did it take the U.S. military to take over Baghdad, and did they really take over all of it???

This is a realignment game being played by the ‘Big Boys’ of the world and we are just the pawns...