The cash-strapped ISIS has been killing its injured fighters so that their organs can be extracted and sold on the black market abroad, according to reports.
The cash-strapped ISIS has been killing its injured fighters so that their organs can be extracted and sold on the black market abroad, according to reports. “Doctors were threatened to take out the body organs of a wounded ISIS militant,” Arabic-language Al-Sabah newspaper reported, citing an unnamed source in the Iraqi city of Mosul.
The ISIS terrorists are suffering a budget shortage after their recent loss of territory in the southern part of Mosul and for the same reason it is reportedly killing its own militants who have been injured in southern Mosul to take out their body organs, such as hearts and kidneys, to sell them in the black market, the Iranian FARS news agency also reported.
It also cited Spanish daily El Mondo as saying that faced with an increased number of wounded members in the Syrian Army and popular forces’ attacks, the ISIS is using the body organs of its captives for transplantation.
According to the daily, the ISIS also forces the prisoners in Mosul jails to donate blood and postpones the execution of those sentenced to death to use their blood as much as possible.
Medical sources were quoted as saying that the personnel in one of hospitals in Mosul have seen corpses of at least 183 people whose organs had been taken out of their bodies.
Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations Mohamed Alhakim had made the similar accusations last year, saying that the ISIS is trafficking human organs and has executed a dozen doctors for failing to go along with the programme.
Mr Alhakim based his claim on the discovery of dozens of bodies left in shallow mass graves near the city of Mosul, currently an ISIS stronghold.
The reports come just days after it emerged that the ISIS income has plummeted by 30 per cent to $56 million since last year.
Significant territory losses means the number of people living in the so-called caliphate slumped from 9 million at the start of 2015 to fewer than 6 million, according to the tax report by the US-based consultancy firm IHS.
Meanwhile, data from over 11,000 personnel files leaked to US television network NBC by an ISIS defector analysed by the Combating Terrorism Centre at West Point found that ISIS fighters seem overall to be generally well-educated, especially when compared to United Nations data on the average years of schooling in the countries in the dataset.
The report revealed that ISIS intake officers interviewed the new recruits to assess their suitability for a range of roles in its apparatus. “While the Islamic State needs some suicide bombers, it also needs personnel to fill roles like conventional soldiers, Sharia officials, police and security or administrative positions,” the CTC report said. Thus one personnel officer wrote of a new recruit: “Important: he has experience in chemistry.”
However, when a 24-year-old Turkish entrant said his professional experience was as a drug dealer, the remark was: “May God forgive him and us!”
Nearly 10 per cent of recruits reported having waged jihad previously, including a Frenchman who said he fought in Mali, while only 12 per cent said they were prepared to carry out suicide attacks.
The cache also included 431 “exit forms” for departing jihadists, with reasons for leaving including the need for medical treatment, usually in neighbouring Turkey, or for family reasons.
