CNN CNN Newsroom With Fredricka Whitfield December 12, 2015 17:53:00
Archaeological scavagers and thieves isis-issued permits to dig. >> we can see from the satellite photographs, for example, that it is industrial-scale looting. >> reporter: matthew levitt studies isis financing for thener east policy. the fact that stolen antiquities shows success in containing other sources of isis cash, but the terror group, he says, is resilient. >> as oil revenues drop or get hampered, the hunt for antiquities and smuggling and permit issuing increases. >> think of it as squeezing a balloon not hard enough to pop it, but hard enough to squeeze it. if you squeeze it here, ...
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