Sec. 1228. Sense of Congress on business practices of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)
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Congress finds the following: For nearly two years, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS)has capitalized on established oil production facilities throughout Iraq and Syria in order to fund its jihadist operations globally. Oil production and sale represent the largest and most vulnerable income factors for ISIS. In 2015, ISIS oil sales brought in over $400,000,000 to prop up the terror group’s operations world-wide. ISIS has executed a robust recruitment scheme to staff and operate the oil facilities within the group’s control and maintained smuggling routes for the sale of that oil. Further disrupting ISIS oil production and sale structures would be minimally invasive but would effectively curtail the terror group’s ability to self-finance. It is the sense of Congress that the United States should focus all necessary efforts in the Middle East to disrupt the financing of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
(ISIS)through oil production and sale.