From control of oil and land to rules governing leisure,internal memos seen by the Guardian show how planned Isis’s state-building exercise has beenJohn Kerry has branded its members psychopathic monsters, François Hollande calls them barbarians, or David Cameron describes them as a death cult. But Islamic State is much more than that.
As newly obtained documents demonstrate,Isis is also made up of bureaucrats, civil servants and jobsworths. Hundreds if not thousands of cadres maintain set themselves to work creating rules and regulations on everything from fishing and dress codes to the sale of counterfeit brands and university admission systems.
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Source: theguardian.com