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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
Iraq is bankrolling ISIL
And that’s just one of the country’s economic mistakes. By HOWARD J. SHATZ 25/5/15, 12:18 PM CET Updated 25/5/15, 2:14 PM CET Last week ISIL took control of the Iraqi city Ramadi and the Syrian city Palmyra, advances that the Iraqi government perversely subsidized. Iraq continues to fund ISIL by continuing salaries to the many Iraqi government employees who live in ISIL-controlled territory. That fact is a reminder of how poorly the country has been governed. ISIL skims the money Iraq continues to pay public employees who live in areas captured and ruled by ISIL. One official estimate holds that it reaps hundreds of millions of dollars each year from this source. That’s money that helps ISIL create hundreds of thousands of refugees, behead or crucify scores if not hundreds of people, murder thousands, create sex-slave markets, destroy irreplaceable archaeological and cultural sites, steal property based on religious affiliation or ethnicity of the owner, use and train child soldiers and otherwise make life miserable for millions of people. Read more: http://www.politico.eu/article/iraq-is-bankrolling-isil/ System going well eh.
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