LEADER 03831nam 2200589 450 001 9910220157803321 005 20230725051640.0 010 $a0-8330-5162-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000000031108 035 $a(EBL)669768 035 $a(OCoLC)707092639 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000468621 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11322519 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000468621 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10506960 035 $a(PQKB)10801035 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL669768 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10448720 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC669768 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000031108 100 $a20100714d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auruz|---auuu| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 03$aAn economic analysis of the financial records of al-Qa'ida in Iraq /$fBenjamin Bahney ... [et al.] 210 1$aSanta Monica, CA :$cRAND,$d[2010] 215 $a1 online resource (116 pages) 300 $a"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense". 300 $a"Rand National Defense Research Institute". 311 $a0-8330-5039-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aCHAPTER 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 327 $aCHAPTER 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 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aTerrorism$xFinance 606 $aTerrorism$zIraq$xFinance 615 0$aTerrorism$xFinance. 615 0$aTerrorism$xFinance. 676 $a363.32509567 702 $aBahney$b Benjamin 712 02$aNational Defense Research Institute (U.S.) 712 02$aRand Corporation. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910220157803321 996 $aAn economic analysis of the financial records of al-Qa'ida in Iraq$91964955 997 $aUNINA