Let's hope this analysis is right on the button.
Islamic State lacks funds to keep control of Iraqi, Syrian territory-experts
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:09 GMT
Author: Thomson Reuters Foundation
A man makes his way through rubble at a site hit by what activists said were airstrikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Raqqa, eastern Syria, which is controlled by the Islamic State November 27, 2014. REUTERS/Nour Fourat
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By Alex Whiting
LONDON, Nov 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Islamic State (IS) militants may ultimately lose the war in Iraq and Syria because they do not have enough money to run the territory under their control, despite holding assets worth more than $2 trillion, international terrorism experts said.
The cost of running an entire administration - paying civil servants and the military, maintaining roads, schools, hospitals, electricity and water networks - is far beyond the reach of Islamic State, said Jean-Charles Brisard, an expert on terrorist financing and a consultant on business intelligence.
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Islamic State lacks funds to keep control of Iraqi Syrian territory-experts
Islamic State lacks funds to keep control of Iraqi, Syrian territory-experts
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Fri, 28 Nov 2014 15:09 GMT
Author: Thomson Reuters Foundation
A man makes his way through rubble at a site hit by what activists said were airstrikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Raqqa, eastern Syria, which is controlled by the Islamic State November 27, 2014. REUTERS/Nour Fourat
(Refiles with full name, paragraph 2)
By Alex Whiting
LONDON, Nov 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Islamic State (IS) militants may ultimately lose the war in Iraq and Syria because they do not have enough money to run the territory under their control, despite holding assets worth more than $2 trillion, international terrorism experts said.
The cost of running an entire administration - paying civil servants and the military, maintaining roads, schools, hospitals, electricity and water networks - is far beyond the reach of Islamic State, said Jean-Charles Brisard, an expert on terrorist financing and a consultant on business intelligence.
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Islamic State lacks funds to keep control of Iraqi Syrian territory-experts
