What the United States does against Isis
The article by Giuseppe Gagliano
The United States on Monday sanctioned a network of five ISIS financial facilitators accused of assisting the terrorist group in smuggling children out of refugee camps for recruitment as fighters.
In a statement, the U.S. Treasury Department said the five individuals – Dwi Dahlia Susanti, Rudi Heryadi, Ari Kardian, Muhammad Dandi Adhiguna and Dini Ramadhani – worked in Indonesia, Syria and Turkey.
They were accused of "facilitating the travel of extremists to Syria and other areas where ISIS operates" and of conducting financial transfers to support the group's efforts in refugee camps based in Syria. He said the network raised funds in Indonesia and Turkey for the group, "some of which were used to pay for smuggling children out of the camps and deliver them to foreign ISIS fighters as potential recruits."
"By designating them, we aim to expose and disrupt an international ISIS facilitation network that has funded ISIS recruitment, including [the recruitment] of vulnerable children in Syria," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.
According to the Treasury Department, residents of refugee camps in Syria include those who have been displaced by ISIS, as well as ISIS members, supporters and their families.
"ISIS sympathizers in over 40 countries have sent money to ISIS-related individuals in these fields in support of the future revival of ISIS," he said.
Al-Hawl camp has been recognized as "the largest refugee camp in northeastern Syria", housing up to 70,000 people, most of whom are women and children.
“In Al-Hawl alone, ISIS supporters received up to $ 20,000 a month through hawala, an informal transfer mechanism; most of these funds transfers originated outside Syria or went through neighboring countries such as Turkey, ”he added.
The sanctions followed the 16th meeting of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Counter ISIS Finance Group on May 9. The CIFG is co-led by the United States, Italy and Saudi Arabia and includes nearly 70 countries and international organizations.
"The United States, as part of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, pledges to deny ISIS the ability to raise and move funds to multiple jurisdictions," said Brian E. Nelson, Undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and L financial intelligence.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/stati-uniti-isis-contrabbando-bambini/ on Sat, 14 May 2022 05:14:56 +0000.