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Maintain its start as the world s most affluent terrorist organization. I. S. I. L. s got a ready source of revenue that does not depend as much on a donor network, does not depend on countries that give you money through the back door. Theyve got a bit of a business going. Slu absolutely. They have always been that way. Right now their revenue portfolio includes oil as you said and then also ex tors and extortion and taxation much as a state would do. Ransom, a major part of their revenue . Ran...

Shatz is a senior economist at the think tank rand, studied organizational structure ever i. S. I. L. When it was still known as al qaeda in iraq. Why its able to maintain its start as the world s most affluent terrorist organization. I. S. I. L. s got a ready source of revenue that does not depend as much on a donor network, does not depend on countries that give you money through the back door. Theyve got a bit of a business going. Slu absolutely. They have always been that way. Right now thei...

With respect to safe zones, we have thought about that. Ive thought about that a great deal. Ill begin and describe the concept of a safe zone would be to create a patch of syria that wearing people who are inclined to go there could go there and be protected. They would need to be protected because you can foresee that at least isil and other radical groups, and quite possibly elements of the assad regime would undertake to prove that it wasnt safe. And so it would have to be made safe and that...

Lets start with iraq. Some of the ways that our different with metrics with one example henry work with the Iraqi Government and they know the support meeting certain conditions. But just to recapture what we spoke about today special Operations Forces the expeditionary target is in a different way that foreign fighter initiative taking place over the past couple of weeks with the state department and department of defense hohmann security and fbi is the different way to approach that challenge....

To do that . Congressman, again, i dont know what the thought process was six or eight months ago. I do know we have a much better appreciation for the resources of isil. In august i went around to all the regions, i was in transition, to get a better sense of isil. At that time there wasnt a clear understanding of how isis i will was generating revenue. Even in the weeks subsequent to august, we started to have a much better appreciation for the source of isil revenue. We started to go after th...

Of course we have these capabilities, but the most important answer to the question why us is even more fundamental. It is this. We should not be content standing aside. We have a fundamental question. Act now with our friend has been struck in this way, then the allies of the world can be forgiven for asking, if not now, when. That leads to the next question, why now. Wasfirst answer to that because of the grave danger that they pose to our security. There are additional reasons why action now ...

So we need to do the same thing in syria. Mr. Speaker, another reason for action now is that success in iraq in squeezing the caliphate is put at risk by our failure to act in syria. This border is not recognized by isil and we tamper our efforts if we stop acting when we reach the border. When we come to the question, why now, we have to ask ourselves whether the risks of inaction are greater than the risks of taking action . Every day we failed to act is a day when isil can grow stronger and m...

Among the victims of the bataclan theater, many have become professional musicians. This is the music that the. Errorists could not stand it was that harmony that they wanted to break. It is a joy that they wanted to kill with their bombs. Well, they will not stop that. The best way to respond is we more, calledn concerts and shows, continue to st. O our stadiums and in denis, we will participate in all major sports events. Emotions. Are the same it is beyond our differences, our different color...

For the nikkei in japan. Half a percent loss in honk song. The biggest move in oil. Crude died almost a buck a barrel. We will head to the cme to find out what is driving the trade. New concerns over nsa spying could not impact our relationship with israel. The washington journal of reporting agency targeted israeli theaters even after president obama announced he would cut back on monitoring friendly heads of state. Also reporting surveillance picked up private communications with u. S. Lawmake...

Now the emts had to rush odom to a las vegas hospital where he was hooked up it a ventilator and in critical condition. And once again, almost arodom words. Thats the very latest live in the newsroom, susan tran, 7 news. Anchor were following breaking news out of arlington where police are searching for a bank robber. Workers say the man in the surveillance photographs walked into the Winchester Savings Bank with a gun and demanded money. It all happened around 1 30 this afternoon. Schools in th...