# ISIS, who be they, where do their funds come from?

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**Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isis-who-be-they-where-do-their-funds-come-from/735496/1 "2015-10-23T00:55:39Z")

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**UN Report Reveals How Israel is Coordinating with ISIS Militants Inside Syria**  
21WIRE reported back in December 2014 and again in January 2015, how the \*\*State of Israel has consistently provided both material, medical relief and IDF airstrike support \*\*to various terrorist and ‘rebel’ insurgents fighting in Syria.

> **[UN Report Reveals How Israel is Coordinating with ISIS Militants Inside Syria...](https://21stcenturywire.com/2015/02/19/un-report-reveals-how-israel-is-coordinating-with-isis-militants-inside-syria/)**
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> 21WIRE | Either way, Israel has blood on its hands in the Syrian conflict.

The Iraqi forces said they have retrieved four foreign passports, including those that belonged to American and Israeli nationals and one that belonged to the national of a Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member-state, from ISIL’s military advisors.

> **[Iraq Arrests ISIS Advisors, US And Israelis Held](https://www.mintpressnews.com/iraq-arrests-isis-advisors-us-and-israelis-held/203250/)**
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> Agents of both Mossad and CIA contractors are being held on suspicion of aiding ISIS militants.

**Iraq Arrests ISIL’s US, Israeli Military Advisors in Mosul**  
March 07, 2015 TEHRAN)- Iraqi Special Forces said they have arrested several ISIL’s foreign military advisors, including American, Israeli and Arab nationals in an operation in Mosul in the Northern parts of the country.

The Iraqi forces said they have retrieved four foreign passports, including those that belonged to American and Israeli nationals and one that belonged to the national of a Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member-state, from ISIL’s military advisors.

Last year, a senior aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin accused\*\* Mossad of training ISIL terrorists operating in Iraq and Syria.\*\*

[http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41158.htm](http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41158.htm)

But **Israel’s indirect support of ISIS** -affiliated Syrian opposition groups could be an even bigger gamble.

[http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/16/north-and-south-israels-deadly-](http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/16/north-and-south-israels-deadly-)  
game-divide-and-conquer-backfiring  
Israel ex-officer leads Ukraine protests: Reports  
Sunday Feb 16, 2014

Ukrainian media have reported that a **former Israeli army officer** is playing a \*\*leading role in the anti-government protests \*\*in the former Soviet republic.  
Four other Israelis, who had previously served in the army, were recently reported to have taken part in opposition rallies in Ukraine’s capital, Kiev.

[http://thewe.cc/contents/more/archive/mossad.htm](http://thewe.cc/contents/more/archive/mossad.htm)

\*\*Mossad Agent was an agent of the Israeli Mossad \*\*who was seen in MTAC, witnessing an operation that Mossad Officer Ziva David had acquired intel for.

> **[Mossad Agent](https://ncis.fandom.com/wiki/Mossad_Agent)**
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> Mossad Agent is an unnamed man.

Nov 4, 2014 - **The Islamic State group is the creation of Israel’s Mossad** , Iran’s deputy foreign minister said Tuesday, accusing the spy agency of aiming to …

> **[Senior Iran official: Israel's Mossad created ISIS](https://www.haaretz.com/2014-11-04/ty-article/iran-official-israels-mossad-created-isis/0000017f-f381-d497-a1ff-f381e24c0000)**
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> Deputy foreign minister's accusation echoes many others, which abounded after an Iranian news report purportedly proving Islamic State's Israeli and American roots.

Russian writer and political activist: **Mossad training ISIS terrorists** in Iraq, Syria  
[http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Top-Pu](http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Top-Pu) … ria-383964

Edward Snowden Reveals **ISIS Leader** Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi \*\*Trained By Israeli Mossad \*\*(Video)  
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 13:10

[http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/20](http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/20) … 93768.html

ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi is a Jewish Mossad Agent  
“sraeli” secret intelligence service”

  
ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi **Trained by Israeli Mossad** , NSA Documents Reveal

> **[ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi Trained by Israeli Mossad, NSA Documents Reveal](https://redice.tv/news/isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-trained-by-israeli-mossad-nsa-documents-reveal)**
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> WASHINGTON: The former employee at US National Security Agency (NSA), Edward Snowden, has revealed that the British and American intelligence and the Mossad worked together to create the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).Snowden said...

The leader of the radical Islamic State (IS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been reputed to be a **Mossad-trained operative** whose real name is Elliot Shimon, the son of Jewish parents. - See more at:

[Is ‘IS’ a CIA-Mossad Creation? – American Free Press](http://americanfreepress.net/?p=19176#s) … OoAMV.dpuf

French Report ISIL Leader Mossad Agent  
Posted by GPD on August 4, 2014

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, so-called “Caliph,” the head of ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is, according to sources reputed to originate from Edward Snowden, an actor named Elliot Shimon, a Mossad trained operative.  
Simon Elliot (Elliot Shimon) aka Al-Baghdadi was born of two Jewish parents and is a **Mossad agent**.

Iranian intelligence discovered the true and full identity of the Emir Daash, which is known under the name Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi; his real name is Elliot Shimon. Its role in **Mossad secret agent** in the Zionist espionage. His false name: Ibrahim ibn Awad ibn Ibrahim Al Al Badri Arradoui Hoseini.

**The plan:** get into the military and civilian heart of the countries that are declared as a threat to Israel in order to destroy to facilitate thereafter, the takeover by the Zionist state on the entire area of the Middle East in order to establish Greater Israel.

[http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/08/04](http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/08/04) … er-mossad/

Note: ISIL = ISIS  
Comments welcome

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2015, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isis-who-be-they-where-do-their-funds-come-from/735496/2 "2015-10-23T01:24:57Z")

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I don’t mind Conspiracy Theories, (they are fun to mock), but they should have some basis on which to build. seeing a pyramid of nonsense based on a claim that has actually been debunked (by Snowden’s publisher), before the nutcases took off with it is just silly.

I am not even going to move this to The BBQ Pit.

Closed.
