An American airstrike on an ISIS bank in the Iraqi city of Mosul destroyed tens of millions of dollars in cash, a US spokesman said in a statement on Monday. “The bulk cash distribution site was used by [Isis] to distribute money to fund terrorist activities. We estimate in the millions of dollars … from all their illicit stuff: oil, looting, extortion.”
A Pentagon official told AFP the attack used two 2,000 lb bombs to strike the facility, destroying millions of dollars in cash.
Since November, US and coalition forces have been going after ISIS’s financial source, namely oil smuggling from wells in areas under the organization’s control. The coalition has been bombing ISIS oil fields and targeting tanker trucks that move the oil to Turkey for distribution. The intelligence about ISIS’s finances was retrieved when US special forces killed Abu Sayyaf, the ISIS money man, last May in Syria. They also seized his wife and his computers.
ISIS pays its foreign recruits an estimated $1,000 a month, according to Syrian rebel sources. In addition, when ISIS takes over an area, once the beheading and burning is over, the new rulers need money to run the civilian systems.
According to the Pentagon official, it was not clear if the blown up money was in US dollars, euros, or local dinars.
just like wall street, money poof disappears.
How much did the bomb cost?
it cost a bomb
Why would you bomb an ally
How bout bombing their bomb making university!!!!!!
Israel to soon become the size of Canada…..Those that attack Israel need to lose land……Settlements and air strips need to be built in all Countrys that attack or supply enemys of Israel. America and Israel soon to be Great Again……..////////
It was Iranian rials, 25,000 of which equal 1 U.S. dollar, so about a hundred bucks. The bomb cost a couple million more than that…
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