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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 . Ransom has always been a nontrivial but small part of it. Nothing compared to extortion, oil, money the...

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 their revenue portfolio includes oil as you said and then also ex tors and extortion and taxation much a...

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 takes us back to the question of whats and appropriate force of that size to protect a zone of 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. And with though will to recognize our important it is as a more comprehensive approach to go after ...

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 the Oil Infrastructure and the tankers because we then appreciated how much of an impact that would ha...