Outside Writing assignment

15/03/2015
As a follow up in the study and rise of the military group, Isis. Isis continues to grow.
Isis is hidden in approximately 11 countries in the world and it only keeps getting bigger.
Although some ma continue to ignore the fact that isis may pose a threat to the U.S. or the
may ignore that Isis personally said that they were coming to the U.S..
It was believed that if Isis were to ever want to try something on the U.S. the might use
the countries south of the united states as an entry point, but these were just speculations.
Well recently an Isis camp have been found in Anapra, Mexico, which is only 8 ,miles from the
U.S. border. Ananpra, Mexico is kown for its cartel activities.
Apparently Isis may have been communicating with the cartels in order to establish a
camp. According to Judicial watch: ' coyotes engaged in human smuggling and working for
Jurez Cartel help move ISIS terrorists through the desert and across the border between
Santa Teresa and Sunland Park, New Mexico. To the east of El Paso and Ciudad Jurez,
cartel-backed coyotes are also smuggling ISIS terrorists through the porous border between
Acala and Fort Hancock, Texas.
Later on we learn that based on Mexican intelligence sources, ISIS intends to exploit
the railways and airport facilities in the vicinity of Santa Teresa, NM which is a US port-ofentry. The sources also say that ISIS has people located in the East Potrillo Mountains of New
Mexico to assist with terrorist border crossing operations.
Not only Isis is taking action but they are not getting weaker either. Not long ago a
another group has decided to pledge there allegiance to Isis, Such as boko Haram. Haram is
about as sadistic and barbaric as Isis. According to Nima Elbagir, Paul Cruickshank and
Mohammed Tawfeeq, who are from CNN, Boko Haram's tactics have intensified in recent
years, from battling Nigerian government soldiers to acts disproportionately affecting civilians

-- such as raids on villages, mass kidnappings, assassinations, market bombings and attacks
on churches and unaffiliated mosques.
Although it is obvious that Isis is growing and become much more threatening day by
day, some may think that isis might crash because of lack of financial resources. Financial
resources will be far from being the source of Isis' downfall. took in control of syrias assets
when they took control of Raqqa wich was syrias power base. That is where most of syrias oil
assets are located. According to CNN , ISIS makes between $1 million and $2 million each
day from oil sales. The oil comes mostly from refineries and wells that ISIS controls in
northern Iraq and northern Syria. Isis produces more then 44000 barrels per day. Then threy
smuggle them into countries in extreme need of oil where they sell them at great priceses.
The oil industry isnt the only place in which ISIS income come from. They are also making
money from ransoms from Kidnappings. In a New York Times investigation it was found that
since 2008, al Qaeda and its affiliates had received $125 million from ransoms, including $66
million in 2013.
Isis also makes money from Looting and selling stolen artifacts. They allow locals to
search ancient sites for valuable merchandise, at the condition that ISIS receives a
percentage of that sale.
ISIS has a method of making money, method of acquiring weapons from other
countries, they are able to terrorize different countries at the same time, and some of Isiss
camp grounds are still not known to the U.S. little do we know if they are not already on U.S.
soil and ready to launch in the name of there cause.