Benjamin Bahney

Howard J. Shatz

Jacob N. Shapiro

Jonathan Wallace

Patrick B. Johnston

Danielle F. Jung

Patrick K. Ryan

Drawing from 140 recently declassified documents, this report comprehensively examines the organization, territorial designs, management, personnel policies, and finances of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) and al-Qa‘ida in Iraq. Analysis of the Islamic State predecessor groups is more than a historical recounting. It provides significant understanding of how ISI evolved into the present-day Islamic State and how to combat the group.

Management, Money, and Terror in Iraq, 2005-2010

Foundations of the Islamic State

Carroll Ganier

Barbara Sude

Renny McPherson

This monograph analyzes the finances of the militant group al-Qa'ida in Iraq in Anbar province during 2005 and 2006, at the peak of the group's power and influence. The authors draw on captured financial documents that give details on the daily financial transactions of one specific sector within Anbar province and of the financial transactions of the AQI provincial administration.

An Economic Analysis of the Financial Records of al-Qa'ida in Iraq

Benjamin Bahney

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