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They ve taken great pains to make sure they have money taking it from banks and operating in all sorts of different major economies. that s why it was seen as a valuable target wendell that force commandos went into syria and killed one isis leader this past weekend. he was not the top leader the self practice claimed caliphate or perceived to be an important leader. he was basically their money guy, their treasury secretary, their cfo. he was the guy organizing a lot of their income particularly from the oil sector. less than a week after isis seized control of ramadi in iraq s anbar province isis has taken palmyra to help us understand the importance of this richard engel, it s nice to see you. thanks, for being here. it s nice to be here. palmyra. well, look at it this way. you mentioned queen zinobia. women in the ancient world tend ....
It is like walking through time and i feel bad for all of your viewers who never got the chance to go there and i hope it is not destroyed and they will be able to go there again. but it s like walking through time. it s walking through a preserved roman era city that has this legendary past. do you think it s just wishful thinkingness? reporting and speculation, argument that s perhaps isis is overstating just for the purpose of terror its willing inside to destroy stuff like this and really they re mostly interested if stealing it and turns it into cash? i think that s wishful thinking. i think they regard these objects as distractions from the truth and in islam, anything in i think they regard these objects as distractions from the truth and in islam, anything in this interpretation of islam, anything that came before islam is considered the age of darkness, which means it is bad. it s a distraction. it is something that should be destroyed. and if it s small enough and you c ....
Civilization. it s a part of all of our cultural heritage. now it s in the hands of isis. how intact is palmyra? how much is there to see in palmyra when you go now? or when you wint before last week, right? well, it is breath taking. it s one of the most beautiful sights in the ancient world. i have been as to pal mir. reporter: i have always wanted to go back. it is like walking through time and i feel bad for all of your viewers who never got the chance to go there and i hope it is not destroyed and they will be able to go there again. but it s like walking through time. it s walking through a preserved roman era city that has this legendary past. do you think it s just wishful thinkingness? reporting and speculation, argument that s perhaps isis is overstating just for the purpose of terror its willing inside to destroy stuff like this and really they re mostly interested if stealing it and turns it into ....
The official army of syria and bashar al-assad. with this gain, arguably, isis controls something like half of syria, including large portions of its oil fields. there are no reports of the damaged archeological sites so far, given isis previous experience with other archeologically sensitive things the destruction of antiquities in the grand museum in mosul and iraq, for obvious reason, there is a lot of global consternation about palmyra being in the hands of people taking pleasure in destroying what s left of the ancient world. today they called eight war crime. ....
Troops and she was from palmyra. this is an important city. this is a part of the western civilization. it s a part of all of our cultural heritage. now it s in the hands of isis. how intact is palmyra? how much is there to see in palmyra when you go now? or when you went before last week, right? well, it is breathtaking. it s one of the most beautiful sights in the ancient world. i have been as to palmyra. i have always wanted to go back. it is like walking through time and i feel bad for all of your viewers who never got the chance to go there and i hope it is not destroyed and they will be able to go there again. but it s like walking through time. it s walking through a preserved roman-era city that has this legendary past. do you think it s just wishful thinking, this reporting and speculation, argument that s perhaps isis is overstating just for the purpose of terror its willing inside to destroy stuff ....