Algerian Defence Ministry in a wrap-up of 2015 counter-terrorism operations Sunday indicated that a total of 109 terrorists have been killed and 39 arrested by the national army. The ministry put at 109 the number of terrorists killed in 2015 while the number of captives is 39.
The ministry also announced that the army during the same period seized a significant number of weapons among which 105 Kalachnikov, 21 automatic guns, 237 rifles, 8 rocket launchers, 8 traditional rocket launchers, sizeable quantity of ammunitions as well as 182 artisanal bombs, 132 mines and a presumed shutter gun five rockets.
The army summary report also indicated that up to 57,168.2 kg of Kif have been seized as part of the anti-drogue campaign. The ministry also reported the seizure of 977 metal detector equipments, 1,321.7 grams of gold and 1,079,787 of fuel as part of the fight against illegal trafficking.
All these quoted statistics makes me wonder if the Algerian Defense Ministry has been taking lessons from the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam...
Algeria has also beefed up its security level at borders with Libya in an attempt to push back incursions of jihadist militants planning terrorist attacks on the Algerian soil.
Algeria according to experts is eyed as the next IS conquest due its oil installations.
And because it has its fair share of jihadi wannabes and eye-rolling imams...
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[ALMANAR.LB] The Islamic Movement will stick to the peaceful choices in face of the bloody aggressions launched by the Nigerian army, Ibrahim Moussa, the head of the movement, told Al-Akhbar newspaper. In an interview with the Lebanese paper, Moussa blamed the Saudis for stirring the sedition between the Nigerian government and the Islamic Movement, expecting an imminent escalation in this concern.
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OWG Co-Superpower IRAN now claims interest in Central Africa, + before that the Horn.
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Like the Left calling the National Socialist Workers Party right wing conservatives. Can't accept the fundamental relationship between themselves and something so ugly and evil.
Sounds ominous
Informed sources in Yemen yesterday confirmed that the problem of political prisoners held captive by the rebels will be solved soon, after the relative progress made by the Yemeni consultations in Switzerland earlier this month.
The sources believe that the Houthis will next week release those who are “alive” amongst the four main figures detained by them, the most important of whom is the Yemeni Defense Minister Major- General Mahmoud Salem Subaihi. The sources added that the Houthis will submit to Operation Decisive Storm and begin the implementation of the UN resolution 2216 as part of an operation to “build confidence” according to the term used by the UN’s Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed in the agenda of the consultations.
In a related matter, Arab coalition forces hastened to support legitimacy in Yemen by destroying a rocket launcher in the centre of Sana’a after intercepting a “Scud” missile fired by the rebels from this launcher. The missile then landed in a citizen’s farm in the city of Najran in southern Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi citizen, Hasan bin Mani’ Al-Yaami, told Asharq Al-Awsat that he was on the farm with friends, and after they heard a noise, they went out to see what had happened and saw the missile that had fallen on the farm, 100m away from where they had been sitting. He added that he immediately informed the security authorities so that they could take necessary action. Al-Yaami confirmed that the rocket did not damage the farm in any way and that agricultural activity continues to take place as usual.
[Wash Times] The British government has issued a blistering report on the secretive Muslim Brotherhood, with findings that contradict some favorable U.S. views -- including the Obama administration's -- of the Islamic fundamentalist fraternity.
The investigative paper says the Brotherhood promotes (and sometimes takes a role in) violence; seeks world domination of Shariah, or Islamic, law; and views other religions as illegitimate. Its senior leaders "routinely use virulent anti-Semitic language" and have justified the killings of American and other coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
To this day, Brotherhood leaders say the U.S. government fabricated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that the war on groups such as al Qaeda "is a pretext to attack Muslims," the British report says.
The report, simply titled the "Muslim Brotherhood Review," appears to be unprecedented in these politically correct times in that a Western government is confronting a Muslim group that is an ideological organizing force but not overtly a transnational terrorist organization.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said the investigation was conducted to determine whether the Brotherhood is contributing to violence in his country and elsewhere by creating an environment for extremists to act.
"The movement is deliberately opaque and habitually secretive," Mr. Cameron said.
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How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
-- Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 [London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899]).
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A useful reminder of what the Muslim Brotherhood has done -- kudos to the Washington Times reporter for that. But I see no mention of what Prime Minister Cameron plans to do about those dreadful people.
[AnNahar] China has legalized overseas counter-terror operations by its military, details of a controversial new law showed, as it tries to tie violence linked to mainly Muslim Xinjiang into global concerns about extremism.
Under the counter-terrorism legislation passed at the weekend Beijing "may send personnel outside the border to carry out anti-terror activities" when the "relevant country" agrees, according to the text published by the official Xinhua news agency.
The measure applies to the People's Liberation Army, the People's Armed Police and employees of the country's public security organs, Xinhua said.
In recent years the People's Republic has increasingly moved away from Deng Xiaoping's dictum of "keeping a low profile" in foreign and military affairs.
It is expanding the reach of its armed forces far around the world, seeking to build a "blue water" navy capable of operating in distant seas and commissioning its first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, in 2012.
In November Beijing announced it would build a logistics hub in the African nation of Djibouti to support its units on United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... and anti-piracy missions in the region.
China is a top contributor of peacekeepers to the continent and has helped patrol the waters off the lawless Somali coast.
Beijing has long proclaimed its belief in non-interference in other countries' domestic affairs, but two years ago a top public security official said it had considered a drone strike against a drug lord in Myanmar linked to the murders of 13 Chinese sailors.
The new legislation could apply to similar actions in the face of situations such as the November murder of a Chinese citizen by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group.
The law establishes a co-ordinating body to "direct national counter-terrorism work", the text published overnight read.
Within China, the government has tightened social controls both online and on the ground, and the counter-terrorism bill could further reduce space for dissent.
Critics say the new rules give authorities wide scope for interpretation over what is harmful to state security.
The law is "terrible news for peaceful govt critics, the rule of law, ISPs (Internet service providers), businesses and many others in China", Sophie Richardson, China director for overseas campaign group Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... , said on Twitter.
The measure compels companies to cooperate with requests from the government to hand over data or communications related to terror investigations, fining or jailing anyone who does not comply.
But provisions in earlier drafts that would have obliged them to install "back doors" in products or turn over encryption keys to Beijing -- over which U.S. President Barack Obama It’s very rare that I come to an event where I’m like the fifth- or sixth-most interesting person.... raised concerns -- did not appear in the final version.
Beijing has tightened social controls as it seeks to silence critics of its policies in Xinjiang, particularly those who say violence by ethnic minority Uighurs is a reaction to government discrimination and to controls over their culture and religion.
Last week a court imposed a three-year suspended prison sentence on civil rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, for offenses including having "incited ethnic hatred" between Uighurs and the Han majority.
The accusation related to posts on his social media account suggesting Beijing was partly to blame for inter-ethnic violence.
Days later Beijing declined to renew the visa of French journalist Ursula Gauthier after she refused to apologize for writing an article expressing similar sentiments.
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I say again that the US Govt-DOD has to be extremely careful about how they respond to Beijing's actions + policies, e.g. SOUTH + EAST CHINA SEAS + TAIWAN, IOR.
China wants its various "strategic access" for the PLA + its Geopol ambitions as a "US-style/par" OWG Co-Superpower. As China has at times = Russia + Iran in blaming the US as the unilateral cause of terror, THIS LAW CAN BE USED OR CONVOLUTED BY CHINA TO "JUSTIFY" OR VALIDATE CHINESE MILACTIONS AGZ THE ALLEGED "TERRORIST USA'S" REGIONAL + GLOBAL INTERESTS.
On the surface, this new law looks overtly "prim-n-proper", but as the saying goes "THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WID GOOD INTENTIONS".
* BIGNEWSNETWORK, GLOBAL TIMES > 78% OF CHINESE BELIEVE WEST [read, US] IS TRYING TO CONTAIN THEM.
* BLOOMBERG > CHINA SENDS JAPAN A "DON'T MEDDLE [Don't Interfere, or Else!]" MESSAGE VIA [armed] EX-NAVY SHIP [Ex-PLAN now Coast Guard].
Beijing would like to take this EOY 2015 holiday season opportunity to again remind Japan that CHINA HAS NUKES, + JAPAN DOESN'T.
PLUS ANTI-US US POTUS OBAMA IS STILL IN THE WH FOR 2016.
* WORLD NEWS > [Sputnik News] BEIJING WANTS PHILIPPINE TROOPS OUT OF DISPUTED SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLANDS.
See above - ditto China to the PH, VN, + ASEAN as for Japan.
* SAME > JAPAN LAUNCHES HUGE MILITARY PROJECT ALONG 200 SOUTH CHINA SEA ISLANDS [1400-kms].
See, Beijing, its NOT the US = Obama thats trying to contain or isolate China - ITS US ALLY JAPAN!
* GLOBALNATION.PH > US SHIFTS FROM DETENTE' [wid China] TO DETERRENCE IN SOUTH CHINA SEA.
Where "Deterrence" = roundabout, SSSSHHH ...PCCCCCCC indirect or informal way of saying that the US = POTUS Obama recognizes China's claims + island improvement activities in the South China Sea as legitimate, WHICH IS WHY SSSHHH ...PCCCCC AGAIN CHINA IS NOW UNILATERALLY AGGRESSIVELY ASSERTING ITSELF + ITS RIGHTS AGZ US ALLIES JAPAN, SOKOR, + TAIWAN.
* WORLD NEWS > [Asahi Shimbun] CHINA EYED SOUTH KOREAN ISLAND [back in 2013] TO PUSH "STRING OF PEARLS" LINE EAST [closer] TOWARD JAPAN.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The mother of the youngest of the Gay Paree attackers, who went kaboom! outside La Belle France's national stadium, said she was "proud" that her son killed no one but himself, and hopes to reclaim his remains for burial in Morocco.
The woman identified as Fatima Hadfi late Sunday called Maghreb TV, a Belgian network with wide viewership among the country's Moroccan community. On air, she said she had no idea her 20-year-old son, Bilal, was radicalized until he called earlier this year from Syria -- instead of from Morocco, where he had told her he was going to vacation.
She did not call authorities to report his disappearance. But they found out anyway, she said, and soon after police broke down their door and handcuffed her and her older son, forcing them to the floor of their home in Belgium with guns trained on her. Nine months later, she learned he was among three jacket wallahs near the Stade de La Belle France.
Bilal Hadfi, who French authorities say was nearly continuously on the phone with the suspected criminal mastermind for 40 minutes before the first detonation on Nov. 13, went kaboom! a short distance from the stadium. He was the only person killed in the kaboom.
"What is the hardest, I think, is that for nine months we didn't see him, for four months we had no news of him, and he went kaboom! outside my door. Because Gay Paree is far and near at the same time. I wonder all the time if he suffered. I am proud that he had no victims," she told Maghreb TV.
She said Islamic faceless myrmidons took advantage of her son after he grew disaffected by discrimination in Belgium and insisted that she had no warning that he had fallen in with Islamic Death Eaters. When he gave up smoking pot and drinking, she thought at the time it was a good thing. A short time later, he left home.
After the Gay Paree attacks, which left 130 dead and hundreds injured, she said she visited the site near the stadium where her son detonated a boom jacket.
"I was enormously painful but I needed to do it. I had to see for myself what happened to my son," she said.
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[ARA] The Turkish authorities have excluded the main Kurdish party in the country from talks on a new constitution.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu refused to hold any talks with members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) over the new constitution, accusing the party's leadership of taking a 'disrespectful' attitude towards the government.
"It is not appropriate to accept them (HDP) as negotiators after their disrespectful and provocative comments," he told a presser during an official visit to Serbia on Monday.
Davutoglu's statement comes after the Turkish authorities accused the HDP leader Selahattin Demirtas of 'treason' for visiting Moscow last week and considering The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's downing of a Russian warplane over Syria as "a wrong decision".
In the meantime, the Turkish army forces continued on Monday its fierce military operations against the Kurdish-populated towns of Cizre and Silopi in the southeastern province of Sirnak under the pretext of pursuing rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
"I can discuss the constitution with anyone, but the unity of Turkey is not a matter of discussion," Davutoglu said, considering Kurds as separatists.
The Turkish official stance towards the HPD comes one day after the Kurdish political coalition of the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) released a statement demanding the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... to stop the ongoing military campaign against the Kurdish region southeast Turkey and to respect the rights of the Kurdish people.
"The rightful resistance waged by our people against the policies that undermine the Kurdish problem, is essentially a demand and struggle for local self-governance and local democracy," DTK said.
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[Daily Caller] A Kansas City mosque owned by an Islamic umbrella organization with deep ties to the U.S. arm of the Muslim Brotherhood has received millions of dollars in federal grants over the past several years, according to a federal spending database.
The Islamic Center of Greater Kansas City has received $2,739,891 from the Department of Agriculture since 2010, a Daily Caller analysis has found. The money largely went to the mosque's Crescent Clinic to provide services through the Women, Infant and Children nutrition program, known as WIC.
The most recent federal payment -- in the amount of $327,436 -- was handed out Oct. 1.
Property records show the mosque is owned by the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), which acts as a financial holding company for Islamic organizations. It offers sharia-compliant financial products to Muslim investors, operates Islamic schools and owns more than 300 other mosques throughout the U.S.
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The same Muslim Brothers who founded the Muslim Student Association in the USA and Canada founded the the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) in 1971." NAIT holds title to the majority of U.S. mosques and traditionally has managed bank accounts for them in accordance with Islamic banking principles.
[RUDAW.NET] Iraq's Vice President Nouri al-Maliki ... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014... congratulated the armed forces and the people of Iraq on the liberation of Ramadi from Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) Lion of Islams, making no reference to the US-led coalition air support.
In a statement the former prime minister said that the army, anti-terrorism squad and the Iraqi air force inflicted a fatal blow to ISIS in Ramadi.
"We salute our heroes that returned the trust of their people and proved the power of success when the forces are united," said Maliki.
He, in particular, praised the Shiite militia forces for their role in the liberation of Ramadi.
Maliki's remarks contradicted earlier reports that the Shiite militia known as the popular mobilization forces (PMF) did not have a part in the offensive for the Sunni city.
His statement made no mention of the aerial support that was an integral part of the offensive for Ramadi.
Steve Warren, the spokesperson for the coalition forces in Iraq said on Sunday that they have conducted more than 600 air strikes against ISIS in support of the Iraqi army since July.
The army reported on Monday that it had reached the city center and was in control of the government complex.
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[ALMANAR.LB] Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi vowed Monday to free the whole country from the ISIL terrorist group in 2016, speaking after security forces retook the city of Ramadi.
"If 2015 was a year of liberation, 2016 will be the year of great victories, terminating the presence of ISIL in Iraq and Mesopotamia," he said in a televised address.
"We are coming to liberate djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , which will be the fatal blow to ISIL," he said.
Abadi did not make it clear whether Mosul would be the next battle or whether Iraqi forces would seek to retake other towns and cities first.
The prime minister congratulated the security forces on their recapture late Sunday of Ramadi, which they had lost in May following a devastating terrorist onslaught.
The Iraqi army liberated the city of Ramadi in the context of its successive victories against the ISIL holy warrior group.
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[Ynet] In interview with Saudi-owned website, Dore Gold says IDF stopped Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles from arriving to Leb. This is the first official Israeli confirmation of the military operations the IAF holds in Syria.
Foreign Ministry Director-General Dore Gold confirmed to a Saudi-owned website on Monday that the IDF thwarted attempts to transfer advanced anti-aircraft missiles to Hezbollah. This is the first time an Israeli official makes such a statement not under the cover of anonymity.
Speaking to the London-based Saudi-owned website Elaph, Gold said Israel managed to foil an attempt to transfer Russian-made SA-22 missiles to Leb.
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They've got to put all those French and Ukrainian immigrants somewhere...
Israel is working to revive and extend plans for new Jewish settler homes in the contentious area of the occupied West Bank known as E1, settler watchdog Peace Now said on Monday. In a report it said was based on government data obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request, the group said the housing ministry was seeking to build 55,548 units in the West Bank - including two new settlements - of which more than 8,300 homes would be in E1.
E1 and the adjacent Maaleh Adumim settlement form an Israeli buffer east of Jerusalem that the Palestinians say would divide the West Bank and badly hurt the possibility of a contiguous Palestinian state.
"The area of Maale Adumim and E1 is one of the most sensitive areas in terms of the chances for two state solution," Peace Now wrote. "For these reasons, whenever an Israeli leader tries to promote the plans in E1, the international community strongly condemns them."
The United States, the United Nations and the European Union oppose all Israeli settlement building but have voiced particular concern about plans for E1.
In 2013, faced with international pressure, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vetoed construction of some 1,200 homes there but Peace Now said the housing ministry has hired architects to prepare fresh blueprints.
"This planning, which contradicts any possible commitment to a two-state solution, continues," said Monday's report, although it added that the plans could be years from fruition.
Years? And only possibly? Golly.
"They must be approved by the minister of defence and then go through the approval process of the planning authority," the English-language report said.
"The continued settlement growth raises honest questions about Israel's long-term intentions and will only make separating from the Palestinians much more difficult," US Secretary of State John Kerry said in a speech in Washington on December 6.
Israel seized the West Bank and east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War. It later annexed east Jerusalem in a move never recognised by the international community. Today, some 380,000 Israelis live in 135 West Bank settlements, with another 200,000 in east Jerusalem.
Sucks to lose a bunch of wars. Your 'country' ends up being a lot smaller. Ask the Germans...
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Turkey is demanding unrestricted or unconditional access to GAZA as a condition of final peace wid Israel, ostensib in order to help the Paleos.
* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS . [Hurriyet Daily News] TURKEY WANTS "UNRESTRICTED" ACCESS TO GAZA FROM ISRAEL.
Dare IRAN + ISIS "CALIPHATE" in Syraq [Syria-Iraq] to follow from the other side of israel???
Russia has completed withdrawing enriched uranium from Iran as part of an agreement between Tehran and the world’s six powers on the Iranian nuclear issue, a Russian diplomatic source familiar with the agreement’s implementation told TASS Dec. 28.
“This procedure has been completed,” the source said.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said earlier that there were plans to complete the withdrawal of enriched uranium from Iran until the end of the year. He said the withdrawal volume amounted to "over 8.5 tons" of uranium low-enriched material.
In exchange, Tehran is expected to receive natural uranium. As Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said earlier, Iran will get 140 tons of uranium ore from Russia in exchange for enriched uranium.
Head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi has said “the Islamic Republic of Iran will get 137 tons of the so-called yellow cake [uranium concentrate as the original raw material for enrichment].”
“Meanwhile, nine tons of enriched uranium will be withdrawn into Russia,” he said.
[Ynet] A ship carrying more than 25,000 pounds (11,000 kg) of low-enriched uranium materials left Iran for Russia on Monday in a major Iranian step toward fulfilling its commitments in the July 14 nuclear deal with major powers, US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said.
"The shipment included the removal of all of Iran's nuclear material enriched to 20 percent that was not already in the form of fabricated fuel plates for the Tehran Research Reactor," he said in a statement. "This removal of all this enriched material out of Iran is a significant step toward Iran meeting its commitment to have no more than 300 kg of low-enriched uranium."
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[ARA] The myrmidon group of Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) has recruited thousands of workers with experience in the oil industry to help the group keep crude pumping from the wells of the ISIS-held oil fields in Syria and Iraq.
The 'Iraq Oil Report' on Monday published a new report providing details on the ISIS oil operations in the region, saying that documents captured in a recent U.S. raid confirmed that the radical group has employed more than 2,000 workers to pump crude from at least 200 wellheads in Syria and Iraq.
ISIS has reportedly offered competitive salaries to its oil workers in order to keep its crude flowing and to maintain its oil revenue despite the Arclight airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition.
The majority of the workers came from foreign countries, the report said.
According to the records released by the U.S. government, the intensive Arclight airstrikes against ISIS's oil fields and tactical units could not prevent the group from keeping its crude oil flowing.
Experts recruited by ISIS have repeatedly fixed facilities just a few days after being hit by the coalition's Arclight airstrikes. Some of the wells continued producing despite the damage.
The radical group's revenue from oil production reaches $40 million per month. According to 'Iraq Oil Report', ISIS produces about 70,000 barrels per day.
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It would seem that those wells are fairly static targets. Why are they still in operation?
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[Daily Caller] A Kansas City mosque owned by an Islamic umbrella organization with deep ties to the U.S. arm of the Muslim Brotherhood has received millions of dollars in federal grants over the past several years, according to a federal spending database.
Nouri al-Maliki
