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2014-12-22 Southeast Asia

Malaysian ISIS fighters take bank loans to finance trip to Iraq and Syria

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-22 04:08|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 The bank either believes that they have a good chance of coming back and paying the note, or they got real good collateral.
Or the banks are using guidelines from the US from oh, say, 15 years ago.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-12-22 07:30|| 2014-12-22 07:30|| Front Page Top

#2 It's not like they're getting the money from selling untaxed cigarettes, welfare, or money transfers from "Auntie Fatima" in Dearborn...

Posted by Pappy 2014-12-22 10:28|| 2014-12-22 10:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Pappy, you should have given a trigger warning. I can't breathe!

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-12-22 12:10|| 2014-12-22 12:10|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe I should stop smoking all those untaxed cigarettes.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-12-22 12:10|| 2014-12-22 12:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Trigger Warning LOL first use by a legendary creature at Rantburg, 22 December, 2014.

Posted by Shipman 2014-12-22 14:08|| 2014-12-22 14:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Doesn't Radical Islam typically or routinely pay the airfare for Jihadi wannabes???

Perhaps the real story here is that the ISIS/ISIL at present doesn't have the $$$ to do the above as they ordinarily would have, an indicator but one of how much pressure they are under vee the Kurds, Iraqi Army, + US-led Coalition, etc. in general???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-12-22 20:42|| 2014-12-22 20:42|| Front Page Top

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