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New developments in the growing international fight against the ISIS terrorist group.
That leads off our show today.
I'm Carl Azuz for CNN STUDENT NEWS.
In addition to last week's terrorist attacks in Paris, France, which killed at least 129 people,ISIS has claimed responsibility for bringing down a Russian passenger plane last month.Thathappened over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
Yesterday, the head of the Russian federal security service said the plane was bombed, that ithad more than two pounds of explosives on it.
And Russia is offering 50 million for information that leads to the arrest of those responsible.
Russia also announced it had doubled its airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria,and that itwould work more closely with France to fight international terrorism.
An international manhunt is stretching across Europe for Salah Abdeslam.
He's a 26-year-old suspect in the Paris terrorist attacks whose brother Ibrahim was one of thesuicide bombers.
Also, yesterday, a soccer game between Netherlands and Germany was cancelled.
The stadium in Hannover, Germany, evacuated.
Police said they had concrete intelligence that someone wanted to bomb it.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was planning to attend the game.
As of last night, no arrests have been made.
It's not known if ISIS had anything to do with this, but the group, its affiliates andsympathizers are being closely watched worldwide.
It's the best funded terrorist organization in history.
ISIS controls big territory in Syria and Iraq.
And it runs its pillaging machine like a business, to fund its ultimate goal, one ginormousIslamic State.
Let's follow the money:
At its heart, ISIS is a criminal enterprise.
In 2014, the U.S. Treasury Department says it made at least half a billion dollars from seizingbanks in northern and western Iraq.
But banks aren't the only target.
ISIS fighters loot houses, they steal cars, chop them up for parts, they trade weapons, andpeople.
It's a revenue stream that thrives on territory.
The more they control, the more they can steal.
There's a reason ISIS has become compared to the mafia.
It extorts protection money from the people it lords over.
You want to move your truck down the highway, pay a tax.
You want to move money out of your own bank account, it will cost you.
You're a farmer with 100 sheep, ISIS takes five.
The extortion game earns it several million dollars every month.
ISIS has made millions selling oil from fields it controls in Syria and Iraq, as much as 100 millionin 2014.
It's less now that the price of oil has fallen, and the U.S. and its allies started bombingrefineries.
But ISIS doesn't need refineries to make money from oil.
The unrefined crude it pumps out of the ground is worth plenty.
ISIS fighters smuggle in barrels across the border or in containers small enough to fit under atruck.
A middle man buys the crude oil or whatever ISIS has managed to refine and sells it on theblack market.
Kidnapping for ransom also big business.
In 2014, ISIS made at least 20 million that way.
The United States says it won't negotiate with terrorists,
but some European countries do and so do wealthy Arab families whose relatives are targeted.
ISIS is taking sledgehammers to ancient artifacts.
But it also makes money looting and selling stolen treasures.
A giant sculpture of an Assyrian idol might be destroyed, while a gold Babylonian coin is sold,because the coin was never worshipped.
And that's how ISIS makes its millions.
It's become a swirling controversy in the U.S.
The Obama administration's plan to accept 10,000 additional Syrian refugees next year.Why?
French officials say at least one of the suspects at last week's terrorist attacks in Paris slippedinto Europe, among the millions fleeing Syria's civil war.
And most of the suspected terrorists had spent time in Syria.
The U.S. government isn't changing its plans to accept more refugees, saying it can safelyresettle them in America.
But a Republican lawmaker on the House Intelligence Committee says there's no real vetting, nodetailed investigations in place of the refugees.
At least seven U.S. governors who are all Democrats say they'll allow the refugees in theirstates.
But a majority of U.S. governors, at least 30 Republicans and one Democrat, say they won'taccept additional refugees from Syria.
Experts say the final decision rests with the federal government, but the states that don'tagree can slow down the process.
In the wake of Paris attacks, there's now a big split between Democrats and Republicans overwhat to do with Syrian refugees who President Obama had planned to admit into the UnitedStates.
The Partisan split over Syrian refugees.
Republican governors everywhere are raising their hands and saying, whoa, we don't wantthese refugees in our states.
I am now requesting that the president and the federal government cease sending refugeesfrom Syria to North Carolina.
This sets up a big fight on Capitol Hill,
where Paul Ryan, the new speaker, just weeks into his tenure,is under a lot of pressure fromRepublicans on the Hill and on the presidential campaign trail.
Congress I think should defund all the programs that allow these people to be brought hereimmediately, today.
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