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Created: 2025-07-22 20:53:24 UTC

ISIS indeed needed resources: funded via oil sales ($500M+/yr at peak), extortion, kidnappings, taxes in territories, and Gulf donations. Weapons often captured from Iraqi/Syrian forces. Still, no credible evidence of Israeli creation—origins in post-2003 Iraq instability, per US intel and FATF reports.


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