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UN says Islamic State pays recruiters $10,000 per jihadi

Oct 17, 2015 2:16 pm By Robert Spencer

Where does the Islamic State get all its money? From black market sales of oil, and from well-heeled donors worldwide who agree with its views of Islam.

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“Islamic State Pays Recruiters $10,000 Per Person: UN,” Agence France-Presse, October 17, 2015:

Brussels: The Islamic State group is paying supporters up to $10,000 for each person that they recruit to wage jihad in Syria and Iraq, UN experts said Friday after a visit to Belgium, one of the main countries of origin for so-called foreign fighters.

Elzbieta Karska, who chairs a UN group studying the issue, said IS is using social media and informal networks of friends and family, with many of them in Syria, to recruit new jihadists in Belgium.

The UN experts learned from Belgian contacts that 500 foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria originated in Belgium, the highest per capita of any EU country, she added.

“We have heard… about situations where recruiters were paid from two, three thousand to 10,000 dollars depending on… who was recruited,” Karska told a press conference in Brussels, adding the findings were preliminary.

“If somebody was well educated like computer specialists or doctors, they were paid more,” the Polish human rights lawyer added.

Her colleague Patricia Arias, a Chilean lawyer, added “they are paid by Daesh,” the Arabic acronym for Islamic State.

The Belgian-based extremist group Sharia4Belgium enlisted the first wave of recruits for Syria in 2010, according to Karska’s UN body, which was set up by the Geneva-based UN Commission on Human Rights.

With Sharia4Belgium now broken up and many of its members jailed, recruiting has changed.

In the last year, “the key method of recruitment is reportedly through informal networks of friends and family, and through social media,” Karska said….

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  1. Joseph says

    Oct 17, 2015 at 3:47 pm

    Think about it….this is a lot cheaper than what the USA paid to train them.

    • Angemon says

      Oct 17, 2015 at 4:17 pm

      It can very well end up being paid with American money, considering the stuff they “looted” from the US-sponsored “moderate” Syrians.

  2. Peter Hyatt says

    Oct 17, 2015 at 4:22 pm

    As well as mosques, throughout the world, in every state in the US and in every country, raising money…

    this with any “charity”, and any business that fronts for terror money.

    Iran will now have new found wealth to invest in the same.

    http://www.analysistomorrow.blogstpot.com See the coming WWIII scenario in which all those who have demanded Israel give up sovereign territory to Islamists will put their “money where their mouth is” and cede land in Europe to Islamist supremacist, who will then be funded by Iran.

    It is an opinion and a guess, in which I hope, with all my heart, to be wrong.

    Here is the specific link to the speculation: http://www.analysistomorrow.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-third-european-world-war.html

  3. mortimer says

    Oct 17, 2015 at 11:08 pm

    All those WEALTHY MISUNDERSTANDERS of Islam who give MILLIONS of dollars to recruit killers.

    How can they be SO WRONG about Islam…the Libtards believe that all jihadists are SICK, rather than DEVOUT MUSLIMS.

    The money trail doesn’t lie. WEALTHY MUSLIMS who run BIG COMPANIES AND CORPORATIONS are funding jihad.

    Jihadists are NOT down-and-out or mentally ill or confused about what Islam teaches.

  4. andrew sapia says

    Oct 18, 2015 at 9:48 am

    Imagine if the west got smart and started paybg Jihadis currently living in their countries 10,000 dollars to go and fight in Iraq and Syria. This would assure that the most radical of the radicals would depart from the west and almopst certainly over time be killed there. It’s brilliant.

  5. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Oct 18, 2015 at 1:11 pm

    $10,000 for each Mujahidin recruit. Wow, tha’ts rich, real rich. And it makes a big difference, too; it helps the expansion of the New Caliphate very much, even a 22 yr old with murder in his heart needs money to live.

    And the money is coming from the fat cash rolling in from the Mosul oil transshipped over Turkey soil to the market. Turkey is the only Moslem country in NATO. So our one Moslem ally is directly profiting from aiding and abetting our putative enemy, the New Caliphate. Something is phony here, ever bit as phony as having tens of thousands of soldiers and marines in Afghan but somehow not destroying the opium growing and processing infrastructure that feeds heroin export money to our allies there, money that will soon revert to the Taliban once they retake power there

    These obvious factual realities are, of course, left totally unreported and ignored by the news entertainment industry, including our “friends” at the two Fox RINO channels. Also, nobody in the Pentagon or Justice Dept talk about these things. It’s almost as if there is a… conspiracy of silence.

    Prez Barack Hussein, by his natural inclinations, is also silent.

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