Yesterday I read a CNN report on the financing of the radical group called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). It described the ways by which the group operated in getting money to fund their activities. You can read the report on: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/02/19/world/how-isis-makes-money/
The photos and the video showed well armed individuals wearing bright new uniforms. They also had a fleet of new vehicles (all of the same make and color. That's incredible! Had they got them in a sales promotion ? ), on which they transported prisoners in cages. All prisoners also standardized in orange overalls. I was impressed with the organization of this so called ISIS.
The report stated that the financial resources came from the oil well sales in areas controlled by the group, as well as by private and public properties looting and theft. What ? How a group formed in a short time, whose main activity is to wage war and combat, managed to mount financial and administrative structure to exploit natural resources and products arising from forced expropriation in a region where people's income is low and uncertain ? CNN do not explain!
The report tell us little.
The truth is that the financial resources used by ISIS come from foreign(s) government(s), delivered on a silver platter to the leaders of the radical group. Or does anyone think ISIS have time to mount efficient tax collection structure to assemble a small army ? States have difficulty doing so, imagine a bunch of individuals gathered for war and plunder!
The report mystifies the fact that foreign governments, who support ISIS are located in the Arabian Peninsula, mainly the one called Saudi Arabia. CNN cannot say it. So, it prefers to create an absurd story that an armed band (financed by a country allied with the United States) operates based on the resources of a devastated territory.
The Guardian follows the same misinterpretation. In a report made last year, the newspaper stated:
"Over the past year, foreign intelligence officials had learned that Isis secured massive cashflows from the oilfields of eastern Syria, which it had commandeered in late 2012, and some of which it had sold back to the Syrian regime." (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/15/iraq-isis-arrest-jihadists-wealth-power)
What (again) ? So, the Syrian regime, who fights the radicals, agreed to send them money if they turned the oilfield back ?
For me, this is the old tactic of demonize two enemies in one fell swoop, as if they were the only bad guys in the story (it doesn't matter that in fact they hate each other to the point they are enemies of one another).
Extracted from http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/15/iraq-isis-arrest-jihadists-wealth-power
The West does not want to take responsibility for their present and past mistakes.
Supporting Orthodox monarchical regimes , like Saudi Arabia, and lend full support to Zionism has been the keynote of the foreign policy of Western countries, especially the US.
It is difficult for governments of these countries recognize that they spend billions of dollars and euros to support countries that give them problems and that, ultimately, put its own citizens at risk.