ISIS: $3 million/day from Oil smuggling, Extortion, Theft, Human trafficking - when's the HBO series?

Entrepreneurial, ain't they?

Human trafficking -  isn't that slavery?

Where, where, anywhere in the world, are there protests in the streets?  PB
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From CNBC.com:

Islamic State militants, who once relied on wealthy Persian Gulf donors for money, have become a self-sustaining financial juggernaut, earning more than $3 million a day from oil smuggling, human trafficking, theft and extortion, according to U.S. intelligence officials and private experts.

The extremist group's resources exceed that "of any other terrorist group in history," said a U.S. intelligence official...

The Islamic State group has taken over large sections of Syria and Iraq, and controls as many as 11 oil fields in both countries, analysts say.

It is selling oil and other goods through generations-old smuggling networks under the noses of some of the same governments it is fighting: Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, Turkey and Jordan...

The group also has earned hundreds of millions of dollars from smuggling antiquities out of Iraq to be sold in Turkey, al-Khatteeb said, and millions more from human trafficking by selling women and children as sex slaves...
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Link:http://www.cnbc.com/id/101998730?