An economic analysis of the financial records of al-Qa'ida in Iraq / / Benjamin Bahney ... [et al.].

• Author: National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
• TeilnehmendeR: Bahney, Benjamin.; National Defense Research Institute (U.S.); Rand Corporation.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (116 pages)
• Notes: "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense".; "Rand National Defense Research Institute".

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.

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; Financing Militant Organizations; Individual Returns to Militancy; Empirical Work on Militant Finance and the Financing of al-Qa'ida; The Contribution of This Monograph; How This Monograph Is Organized; CHAPTER TWO AQI and the Political and Economic Environment in Anbar; Anbar Province; AQI: A Primer; Politics and Security in Anbar; Tribes and Security in Modern Iraq; Insurgency, Tribes, and the Security Forces in Anbar Province: 2003-2007; The Economy of Anbar

CHAPTER THREE Auditing al-Qa'ida in IraqArea of Operations; AQI in Anbar's Organization, Bureaucracy, and Division of Labor; AQI's Division of the Anbar Operating Area.; The Bureaucracy of AQI in Anbar; A Change in Emirs; Division of Labor; Financial Flows.; Revenue-Generating Activities; Expenditures and Funding of Subsidiary Units; Administrative Decisionmaking; CHAPTER FOUR The Economics of AQI's Compensation; Payrolls; Risk; Per Capita Household Earnings.; Household Earnings; Considering Discount Rates and Lifetime Payments.; The Many Motivations of AQI Members

CHAPTER FIVE The Flow of Expenditures and the Pace of AttacksMonthly Patterns; Weekly Patterns; Changes in Spending and Changes in Attacks.; The Cost of Militant Activity.; Caveats to the Analysis; CHAPTER SIX Implications; Implications About Organization and Financing Methods.; Implications About Spending and Attacks.; Compensation as a Guide to Motivations.; Threat Finance or Threat Economics?; APPENDIX; A. Anbar Province; B. Time Line of Events in Anbar Province; Bibliography; Back Cover