Frågan är hur mycket extern finansiering behöver ISIS (Eller IS nu).
Läste den här artikeln:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/aqi.htm
Citat:
In their fight the Syrian government, they took over some Syrian oil facilities, potentially a huge source of revenue. But they could only find one customer - Syria. By June 2013 ISIS had been selling smuggled Syrian oil in Turkey worth $800 million, according to Ali Ediboglu, a lawmaker for the border province of Hatay from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP). It also secured revenue by selling electricity to the Syrian government from captured power plants. The militants set their sights on Iraq’s Beiji oil facility, potentially providing another source of revenue to further expand their operations.
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Citat:
The sources of ISIL’s funding and power remains unclear. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office on 17 June 2014 issued a statement accusing Saudi Arabia of giving ISIL "financial and moral support." State funding by Saudi Arabia is complicated to prove but private giving is not. There are many private donations coming out of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states. In more recent times, ISIL had its own source of funding controlling gas and oil fields in the east of Syria that gave it a revenue stream. And having overrun Mosul and other Iraqi cities, it acquired a lot of cash and gold bullion and military hardware.
Men frågan är om de blivit självförsörjande nu desto mer av oljefälten de kontrollerar?
Sen, har jag som tidigare talare svårt att se IS som något långvarigt, det känns som att sånt styre förr eller senare kommer implodera i form av interna stridigheter och även iom att de förr eller senare kommer bli indragna i krig mot flera nationer samtidigt.
Ovan + faktumet att de inte har så extremt många soldater gör nog det svårt för dem att kontrollera ett allt för stort område.