ISIS Inc: Extraordinary documents show terror group's masterplan for world domination
- Leaked ISIS documents have revealed an astonishing level of bureaucracy
- ISIS has created departments for health, education and its economy
- It reveals the effort made to turn the territory under its control into a state
- An overarching administration memo reveals the need for a constitution
- It also reveals three types of military camps for children and adult fighters
- One of these is a 15-day 'refresher' course designed for hardened veterans
- For full news coverage of the Islamic State visit www.dailymail.co.uk/isis
Leaked internal documents have laid bare a staggeringly sophisticated level of administration imposed by ISIS in a bid to turn its self-declared caliphate into a legitimate state.
The terrorists have created departments to administer over the health, education and the treasury sectors, while it also holds 15-day annual refresher courses for its veteran soldiers.
The majority of the revelations come in a 24-page memo, shown to The Guardian, which was published in the months after the group announced its caliphate in mid-2014.
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Leaked documents have revealed the remarkable scale of administration ISIS is using in its bid to become a fully fledged state
Pictured are a group of fighters at an ISIS training camp in Afghanistan, where the group is said to have wrested control from the Taliban
Terrorist handbook: A leaked internal ISIS memo (pictured) has been used as a blueprint for the foundations of terrorists' civil society
Ambitious: The 24-page document was titled Principles in the Administration of the Islamic State
Other details emerge in hundreds of documents translated by Aymenn al-Tamimi, a 23-year-old researcher in Cardiff.
The primary document - named Principles in the Administration of the Islamic State - was written as a base text to train groups of civil servants.
It says: 'The state requires an Islamic system of life, a Qur’anic constitution and a system to implement it.
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'There must not be suppression of the role of qualifications, skills of expertise and the training of the current generation on administering the state.'
This includes how to run the health system, which now has its own department and is controlled by installing ISIS administrators in senior positions at hospitals.
Perhaps most interestingly, the blueprint shows ISIS always intended to train child soldiers in warfare.
The documents reveal child soldiers will be trained to use weaponry, with those children who excel selected for security assignments, such as manning checkpoints and joining patrols.
Propaganda footage released of such training camps show young boys being made to run, climb and crawl through a treacherous assault courses.
Armed with rocket launchers and AK47s, the so-called 'cubs of the caliphate' are also forced to pose under the notorious black flag used by ISIS.
Experts previously spoken to by MailOnline suggest that by hijacking their education - and minds - from an early age, ISIS can mould these children into loyal fanatics who are willing to die defending the state.
The leaked document also shows there are two other types of military camps - this includes 15-day refresher courses for its battlefield veterans, and introduction camps in which new fighters are trained in warfare as well as Islamic teachings.
Footage from ISIS propaganda videos shows children being taught how to fire heavy machine guns
Internal ISIS memos reveal children showing promise at the training camps are selected for low-level security assignments
Other documents show it has a department dealing with state assets, such as its oil production and the looting and trading of antiquities.
ISIS is thought to control about 10 oil fields in Iraq and Syria, from where it sells crude oil at the well head.
This is then smuggled through the region by a black market network of traders and is consumed in Turkey, Iran and Jordan.
Remarkably, the documents referenced by The Guardian suggest it made only $8.4million from the Deir ez-Zor oilfields in January. If correct, it would indicate the group earns substantially less than the estimated one-million-per-day previously reported.
ISIS also controls at least eight power plants in Syria. Remarkably, gas supplies 90 per cent of the power grid used in both ISIS and regime-controlled territory.
Other rackets include control over the production of wheat, the looting of historical antiquities and extortion.
ISIS's emphasis on its economy has previously been well established, by the documents provide a fascinating glimpse into civil society within the territory it administers.
In last month's Global Terrorism Index, Dr Christina Schori Liang from the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, offered compelling detail on exactly how ISIS is funding its wholesale slaughter.
ISIS is thought to control about 10 oil fields in Iraq and Syria, from where it sells crude oil at the wellhead
Pictured is the detonation of an ancient temple in Palmyra, where ISIS militants have looted antiquities. The group's trade in artefacts is administered by a department
She described the 10 oilfields through Iraq and Syria controlled by the militants as its 'black gold'.
'Oil wealth serves several purposes: it provides energy needs for the estimated 10 million civilians living in ISIS controlled territory and it helps fuel the war machine.
'More importantly, oil is used as a leveraging device to control its enemies. Many opposition forces are dependent on ISIS for diesel.'
She added: 'In territories now under [ISIS] control, there is a 10 per cent income tax, 10-15 per cent tax on business revenues, and a 2 per cent value added tax on everyday purchases.
'There are road taxes and custom taxes for vehicles crossing [ISIS] held territory and taxes for smuggling drugs and weapons.'
The terrorists also require citizens to pay a 'departure tax' of £650 for anyone wishing to leave their territory.
'Fearing that many will leave, [ISIS] requires that civilians sign over car titles and family homes in order to just to leave its territory for two weeks,' she added. 'Christians are forced to pay jiza, a religious levy or "protection tax," unless they convert to Islam.'
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