These ISIS sympathizers are also a key component to the groups financing. When it comes to the financial status of ISIS, it is estimated that they are worth up to $2 billion USD. This occurrence is clear when one looks at the various tools, networks, and opportunities the group has to finance itself. First and foremost, it is important to understand that the organization has technically existed since 1999, and since then has built a large network through the Middle East. Although, under the name of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the group was once financed by Osama Bin Laden. During the groups transition into ISI, it became financed by foreign fighters and sympathizers in countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Syria, and Jordan. As time has progressed
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One main problem that western countries have had with the group is their social media presence, and how “attractive” the group has become to sympathizers, radicals, Islamic followers, and others that view their material and information about them. This has caused the ISIS organization to create sleeper cells, and followers in other countries to act on their behalf. These can range from sleeper cells placed by ISIS, to lone wolfs who become indoctrinated through ISIS’s use of social media to spread their ideological theories. Further, such groups as Boko Haram have pledged allegiance to the group, and many smaller radical Islamic factions have followed in suit. Although this does not create an immediate threat to the Syrian and Iraq domestic issues, it does provide a network for ISIS to disappear and recover, or draw support from. The global aspect of ISIS is that their network is both dispersed and hidden, but the simple fact is that it is known to be rather extensive and ever growing. It is clear, that even since the groups start in 1999, there has been a global aspect to how the group operated, recruited, financed themselves, and appeared to the public. When looking at this, it is important to understand the difference between ISIS, the sleeper cells ISIS has abroad, and those that pledge their allegiance to ISIS. As …show more content…
The airstrikes conducted through the US-led coalition have led to a major source of financing for the terrorist organization being severely severed, the growth and the intensity of the organizations attacks on a global level have increased. The following shall present and explain the goal of the presented counterterrorism policies, which if enforced, would render ISIS a minor threat to global and US interests. In combating ISIS, it is clear to look at its organizational structure and history. The group, although still a terrorist organization, operates as a state. It conducts policing and lawmaking forces in the territories in controls, and offers those residing in these territories schools and social welfare programs. In order to begin to combat this state like terroristic organization, we must treat it both like a state and a terrorist organization. The vast amount of land within its territory, and the public view ISIS’s holds in Sunni populations, the United States must employ tactics that counteract the growth and popularity of terroristic organizations, as well as the tactics terroristic organizations use on states it wishes to terrorize and
One main problem that western countries have had with the group is their social media presence, and how “attractive” the group has become to sympathizers, radicals, Islamic followers, and others that view their material and information about them. This has caused the ISIS organization to create sleeper cells, and followers in other countries to act on their behalf. These can range from sleeper cells placed by ISIS, to lone wolfs who become indoctrinated through ISIS’s use of social media to spread their ideological theories. Further, such groups as Boko Haram have pledged allegiance to the group, and many smaller radical Islamic factions have followed in suit. Although this does not create an immediate threat to the Syrian and Iraq domestic issues, it does provide a network for ISIS to disappear and recover, or draw support from. The global aspect of ISIS is that their network is both dispersed and hidden, but the simple fact is that it is known to be rather extensive and ever growing. It is clear, that even since the groups start in 1999, there has been a global aspect to how the group operated, recruited, financed themselves, and appeared to the public. When looking at this, it is important to understand the difference between ISIS, the sleeper cells ISIS has abroad, and those that pledge their allegiance to ISIS. As …show more content…
The airstrikes conducted through the US-led coalition have led to a major source of financing for the terrorist organization being severely severed, the growth and the intensity of the organizations attacks on a global level have increased. The following shall present and explain the goal of the presented counterterrorism policies, which if enforced, would render ISIS a minor threat to global and US interests. In combating ISIS, it is clear to look at its organizational structure and history. The group, although still a terrorist organization, operates as a state. It conducts policing and lawmaking forces in the territories in controls, and offers those residing in these territories schools and social welfare programs. In order to begin to combat this state like terroristic organization, we must treat it both like a state and a terrorist organization. The vast amount of land within its territory, and the public view ISIS’s holds in Sunni populations, the United States must employ tactics that counteract the growth and popularity of terroristic organizations, as well as the tactics terroristic organizations use on states it wishes to terrorize and