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<p>excerpt via <b><i>ISIS Mercenary Admits Getting Funds from US </i></b>by Tony Cartalicci (Jan 30, 2015):
Finally, now that the US is reportedly aware that money destined for ISIS has been routed through its own borders, surely it can leverage its massive and continuously growing surveillance state to identify where the money originated from. The individuals, organization, or government that provided the funds can then suffer the same fate other “state sponsors of terrorism” have suffered at the hands of US foreign policy, including sanctions, invasion, and occupation.
However, the likelihood that the US was unaware of these routed funds – specifically because of its massive and continuously growing surveillance state – is unlikely, as is the likelihood that the US is not also fully aware of where the funds originated from. Der Spiegel in a report titled, “<a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies-on-international-bank-transactions-a-922430.html" target="_blank">‘Follow the Money': NSA Monitors Financial World</a>,” would state (emphasis added):</p>
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<p>In the summer of 2010, a Middle Eastern businessman wanted to transfer a large sum of money from one country in the region to another. He wanted to send at least $50,000 (€37,500), and he had a very clear idea of how it should be done. The transaction could not be conducted via the United States, and the name of his bank would have to be kept secret — those were his conditions.
Though the transfer was carried out precisely according to his instructions, it did not go unobserved. <b>The transaction is listed in classified documents compiled by the US intelligence agency NSA that SPIEGEL has seen and that deal with the activities of the United States in the international financial sector. The documents show how comprehensively and effectively the intelligence agency can track global flows of money and store the information in a powerful database developed for this purpose.</b></p>
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<p >The obstacle the US faces in stemming funds destined for ISIS centers then, not on knowing about them, but on the fact that both the US itself and its closest allies in the region surrounding Syria are directly complicit in the funding.
source: <a href="http://potentnews.com/2015/02/04/isis-mercenary-admits-getting-funds-from-us/">http://potentnews.com/2015/02/04/isis-mercenary-admits-getting-funds-from-us/</a></p>
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