February 19, 2015 | Quote

ISIS’ Sources of Revenue Unclear, But Group Well Financed


According to Foreign Policy magazine, before the onset of U.S. airstrikes last summer, ISIS was estimated to be producing more than 80,000 barrels a day and selling it on the black market for about $1 million to $3 million a day.

“ISIS is selling anything they can get their hands on,” Dr. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News.

While ISIS is receiving donations from “charities” in the region, Gartenstein-Ross says most of the “charities [supporting radical Islam] in the Gulf are aligned with al-Qaida, not ISIS.”

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Al Qaeda