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The Islamic State “retained a global finance network,” could soon mount “devastating” comeback

Jun 28, 2019 7:23 am By Robert Spencer

The Islamic State’s global finance network should be targeted and dismantled. Why isn’t that being done?

“‘Devastating’ Islamic State Comeback Within Sight, Report Warns,” by Jeff Seldin, VOA News, June 26, 2019 (thanks to Phil):

WASHINGTON – The Islamic State terror group has set conditions for a comeback that “could be faster and even more devastating” than when it first burst onto the world stage, according to a new report out Wednesday.

ISIS’s Second Comeback: Assessing the Next ISIS Insurgency, by the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW), also warns the terror group, often referred to as IS or ISIS, is likely to reclaim territory both in Syria and in Iraq, where it is already seizing control.

“ISIS has systematically eliminated village leaders and civilians who cooperated with anti-ISIS forces,” the report says. “It has re-imposed taxes on local populations in its historical support zones, displacing civilians and de facto controlling small pockets of terrain in Iraq.”

In Syria, IS faces a more daunting task, where it is still battling the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al Assad, and Hay’at Tharir al-Sham, al Qaida’s Syrian affiliate.

Still, the report’s authors believe IS is well-prepared for the fight, having taken advantage of the slow and methodical U.S.-backed campaign to roll back the terror group’s self-declared caliphate.

“ISIS deliberately withdrew and relocated many of its fighters and their families,” the reports states.

“ISIS’s forces are now dispersed across both countries and are waging a capable insurgency,” it says. “ISIS retained a global finance network that funded its transition back to an insurgency and managed to preserve sufficient weapons and other supplies in tunnel systems and other support zones in order to equip its regenerated insurgent force.”…

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  1. No Muzzies Here says

    Jun 28, 2019 at 8:35 am

    The violent, coercive ideology that inspired Islamic State has not been eliminated, so naturally, IS will spring back into existence.

  2. Mac-101 says

    Jun 28, 2019 at 8:46 am

    Odessa was real as well as François Genoud. ISIS is real. Follow da Money. Takes you right back to the SAME Globalist Handlers!

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 28, 2019 at 1:01 pm

    The deadly disasters of ISIS jihad terrorism had ,for a time , appeared to have had subsided , much to the credit of the power and might the US armed forces which cause the Islamic “state” to lost much of the land it had obtained by its brutal ,cruel and murderous Islamic terrorism .

    Nevertheless, ISIS might have a comeback, just like resurgence of a plague of aa deadly infectious disease.

    Therefor there some people who might stop and think and wonder then asked the question a very good question .Which is “Since ISIS had lost so much territory ,why haven’t the jihadist who make up ISIS just given up in their mad Islamic quest against the West and for the advancement of Islam ?

    The answer to that question was provided in a speech by the ISIS spokesman, Abu Muhammad al Adnani, now dead, in this speech he had declared “True defeat is a loss of willpower and desire to fight…” he further explained “We would be defeated and you victorious only if you are able to remove the Quran from Muslim hearts.” All this leads to a very important question: “Is the Qu ‘ran the Word of God or is it a fabrication of a man. Thus, is the Qu ‘ran the truth or a fiction and a hoax ?” The jihadists, as those of ISIS use many verses from the Qu ‘ran as the main source of justification for their violence, mayhem and murders. As found in For example, 2:191.. 4:47 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4 The answer is clearly given on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Quran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Quran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Quran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.”

    Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Qu ‘ran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Qu ‘ran. Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Qu ‘ran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” Nevertheless, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet and Eethi Caner has shown that the Qur ‘an was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.”

    In conclusion, the Qu ‘ran, which is the foundation for ISIS, is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.

    • Nick Blaine says

      Jul 1, 2019 at 2:34 pm

  4. Angemon says

    Jun 28, 2019 at 4:53 pm

    “ISIS has systematically eliminated village leaders and civilians who cooperated with anti-ISIS forces,” the report says.

    Much like Vietnamese with pro-American civilians.

  5. Eric Jones says

    Jun 28, 2019 at 7:48 pm

    It occurs to me that the Vatican Bank may be part of the financial network to help ISIS to come back. I am sure that Francis would look the other way on this. ISIS fighters who return to European countries or the USA should be shot or imprisoned as active combatants. They are just dispersed troops wanting to be called back into action.

    Eric

  6. Timothy says

    Jun 28, 2019 at 8:50 pm

    I wonder how much of this halal food or sharia compliant financing wends its way into the hands of militants. The greater Jihad is the foundation of the ‘lesser jihad’, the violent extremism.
    To fight “violent extremism” rather than political islam in its entirety is a failing strategy. That’s why the Muslim Brotherhood promotes it so consistently.

    • IanB says

      Jun 29, 2019 at 1:53 am

      “ISIS retained a global finance network … ” Yes, it’s called the Ummah.

  7. gravenimage says

    Jun 28, 2019 at 9:52 pm

    The Islamic State “retained a global finance network,” could soon mount “devastating” comeback
    ……………………….

    Shut it all down.

  8. John says

    Jun 29, 2019 at 6:33 am

    Ban islam from all Civilisations.

  9. William A Carr says

    Jun 29, 2019 at 10:36 am

    Exactly the tactics used successfully by the N Vietnamese who were of course backed by USSR and China

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