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The Department of Justice and FBI claim three Iranian citizens conducted a global cybercrime operation while separately the US Treasury sanctions Iran.

Kidnapped in haiti. >> i want to bring in the founder and editor in chief of "the haitian times." good to have you on, sir, this morning. my first question is what is the danger right now that these missionaries including five children, are in based on how these dpangsgangs operate? are these in general ransom operations or should we be genuinely concerned about their lives? >> well, of course, jim, we should be concerned about their lives. but if we are worried about whether or not they will be...

"new york times" gives you a sense of how isis makes money. most of the terror groups funds come from extortion or taxes, smaller portion from the sale of oil and kidnapping for ransom operations. lets discuss this and more the impact of abu sayyafs death, the impact joining us our security analyst and our cnn contributor the co-author of the book "isis inside the army of terror" michael weis. juliette you wrote an excellent article on cnn.com saying the death of abu sayyaf represents in your wo...