{"id":52091,"date":"2015-10-15T02:27:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T02:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_isis_inc_how_oil_fuels_the_jihadi_terrorists\/"},"modified":"2015-10-15T02:27:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T02:27:04","slug":"ft_isis_inc_how_oil_fuels_the_jihadi_terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52091","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Isis Inc: how oil fuels the jihadi terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oil is the black gold that funds Isis\u2019 black flag \u201d\u201d it fuels its war machine, provides electricity and gives the fanatical jihadis critical leverage against their neighbours.<br \/>\nBut more than a year after US President Barack Obama launched an international coalition to fight Isis, the bustling trade at al-Omar and at least eight other fields has come to symbolise the dilemma the campaign faces: how to bring down the \u201ccaliphate\u201d\u009d without destabilising the life of the estimated 10m civilians in areas under Isis control, and punishing the west\u2019s allies?<br \/>\nThe resilience of Isis, and the weakness of the US-led campaign, have given Russia a pretext to launch its own, bold intervention in Syria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/b8234932-719b-11e5-ad6d-f4ed76f0900a.html#axzz3oa1ROBwQ\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil is the black gold that funds Isis\u2019 black flag \u201d\u201d it fuels its war machine, provides electricity and gives the fanatical jihadis critical leverage against their neighbours. But more than a year after US President Barack Obama launched an<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52091\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,149,140,168,144,203,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-middle-east","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}