A leaked internal ISIS document sheds new light on how the terror group has gone about setting up a caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
The manual outlines how the terrorists are attempting to build their own religious country, or caliphate, complete with government departments, a treasury, and an economic program for self-sufficiency.
The manual was written last year and “lays bare Isis’s state-building aspirations and the ways in which it has managed to set itself apart as the richest and most destabilizing jihadi group of the past 50 years,” according to the Guardian, which obtained the document.
“Together with other documents obtained by the Guardian, it builds up a picture of a group that, although sworn to a founding principle of brutal violence, is equally set on more mundane matters such as health, education, commerce, communications and jobs. In short, it is building a state.”
