(Washington Post) Terrence McCoy - The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria just got extremely rich. This week the group made off with 500 billion Iraqi dinars from Mosul's central bank - $425 million. The provincial governor of Nineveh, Atheel al-Nujaifi, said that the radical Islamists had lifted additional millions from numerous banks across Mosul, as well as a "large quantity of gold bullion." According to the intelligence consultancy Soufan Group, ISIS has attracted 12,000 militants from abroad, 3,000 of whom are from the West.
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