Who is funding ISIS?

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This issue is really confounding me. ISIS is not a guerilla group existing on self-funding and minimalist living style; it takes a lot of money to do what they are doing. The funding is not coming from Al Quaeda (who kicked them out of their organisation). If you are au fait with international politics and the politics of the current situation in Iraq, what are your considered thoughts on this? There are no obvious candidates so far as I can see.

Please give reasons in support of your answers, thanks in advance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_St ... t#Finances

http://www.businessinsider.com/isis-fun ... ies-2014-6
http://www.globalresearch.ca/isis-made- ... on/5387475
http://www.benswann.com/why-are-america ... is-in-iraq
http://www.rt.com/op-edge/168064-isis-t ... sa-cia-war

Thank you both for these links. They have very usefully expanded my knowledge of the situation, which is obviously even worse than I thought previously..

So from the links the experts all agree that ISIS relies on local extortion rackets for its revenue flow.

But then its all contraversy: ISIS either does, or does not, get funding from private individuals (oil tycoons in the Gulf), and either does, or does not, get secret state funding from the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia themselves.


Presumably the Saudies, and the Gulf emirs, are afraid of the expanding influence of Iran, and its Shiite allies. So theyre funding ISIS in response. Or not. Take your pick.

It wouldn't be the first time that wealthy parties (governments and their controllers) have financed petty operators with more money than they would ever see without such assistance (see Nathan Meyer Rothschild https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Ma ... d#Business and the Battle of Waterloo as well as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqn0bm4E9yw http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/09/ ... o-911.html and U.S. financing of the Mujahideen, Taliban, al Qaeda (and now ISIS) since the 1980s). And, if a financier can finance both sides of a battle or endless war, couldn't several financiers do the same? Just because a petty operator gets high-level financing, doesn't mean that there is no benefit to all involved pretending that the operator also gets financed from small-time crime like extortion.

Looks like they have glossy brochures to show to prospective investors...
http://rt.com/news/166920-isis-iraq-offensive-report/

Do you think Isis will achieve its goal of making Iraq a totally Islamist state in accordance with their particular version of that? They have expanded territory under their control to a substantial level already..

I think a lot of their funding has come from bounty/spoils of war, and maybe sales of things we have left behind. But, I think in some roundabout, unproven way, they are funded by us, the CIA. The CIA (us) are notorious for funding our own enemies.

I believe Germany recently accused Qatar of funding them.

Eventually they will fail, because they won't get international recognition. Everyone hates them and wants them gone, but at this moment no one wants to get involved themselves.

haven't they made $100 million this year alone, in ransom?

ISIS was funded indirectly by America and the UK when they sent weapons to the rebels fighting the Assad regime in Syria. Many of those rebels were terrorists. Still are, as a matter of fact. ISIS and it's affiliates were active in Syria. This is how they got big.

INFOWARS.COM: "Gen. McInerney: 'We Helped Build ISIS'" (September 3, 2014)
http://www.infowars.com/gen-mcinerney-w ... build-isis

INFOWARS.COM: "Slip-Up? McCain Says 'National Security Team Recommended Arming ISIS'" (September 4, 2014)
http://www.infowars.com/slip-up-mccain- ... rming-isis

I'm kind of surprised McCain had done the President a solid by recalling how he had rejected the idea of arming ISIS.