Western intelligence assessment shows that the bombing of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) of the oil infrastructure will not be enough to weaken the financial sources of the war machine war machine. The size and complexity of the ISIS economy is becoming clear.
Led by the United States, led by the United States and the United States led last week killed ISIS chief financial officer Abu Salah (Salah Abu). U.S. President Barack Obama (Barack Obama) 14 praised killed Salah action and call it as part of the collaborative efforts of the collaborative effort to is "than previous any time are harder to combat the jihadist group and its leader layer.
But in the investigation of the British "Financial Times" of Isis fiscal expansion, a number of senior intelligence officials and diplomats said in has no intention of getting involved in ground combat, it is very difficult to stop Isis transportation funds to its core operations, and to constitute the subjects of military force of more than 3 million masterpiece war staff pay.
A coalition intelligence official said, according to estimates, Isis has enough reserves and reliable source of income, in the current level to maintain three years of military action. The official acknowledged that when the Allied forces began bombing in October 2014, the assessment was that ISIS would begin to feel the financial strain within 12 months.
According to Iraqi and Syrian officials within the file and log ten former commander of Isis, Isis site, and allied diplomats of the interview, the British "Financial Times" on the Isis the assets and liabilities of the table made their own assessment.
The survey found that in the past year, the jihadist terrorist organization from plunder, confiscated (often forced religious rhetoric as an excuse) tax and the fiscal revenue, almost and oil (the main source of funds) as much. Before the Allied forces began air strikes on ISIS wells in the air last month, the group estimated that it earned up to $.
The FT's analysis shows that ISIS's gross income is close to $900 million a year, of which about 2/3 are invested in its war machine.
But the core fighting force, mainly by the Caliph foreign call composition - each year only cost $2 billion to 2.5 billion U. s.dollars, highlighting the jihadist terrorists can bear a heavy blow on the fiscal revenue.
ISIS to pay about $20 million per month to the core operations personnel, but also to the local combat personnel and auxiliary personnel to pay 15 million to 20 million U.S. dollars. Allied intelligence officials estimate the different, but most agree that at least 30 thousand of the number of core forces, there are a total of 50 thousand to 70 thousand of the local members, auxiliary staff and part-time.
According to the analysis of American and European intelligence officials, by plundering and looting them in Iraq and Syria captured towns, jihadists accumulated more than $10 billion in reserves.
In recent months, a large part of the revenue from the coalition is difficult to avoid civilian casualties and even humanitarian disasters in the case of damage to the source.
ISIS's foreign combat personnel receive up to $150 a month in basic pay, plus a variety of benefits -- from $200 a month to immigrant bonuses, trophies, and the wife and slave women's allowance.
According to ISIS sites on the operational personnel, on average, this is equivalent to about $800 per month income.
ISIS's other priority spending areas include its internal security machine, the main moral police hisba and the secret police amniyat. British "Financial Times" survey, ISIS in the internal security on the monthly expenditure of up to $15 million.
Other government functions, such as health care and education, receive less than $10 million a month in total.