The Lip News
Episode 48
The Billion Dollar Business of ISIS Art Looting with Susan Zalkind
ISIS are amassing billions through oil sales and now through looting ancient art and selling it on the black market. We discuss ISIS’ chokehold on the illegal art trade, the difficulty in stopping it, and bill H.R. 1493 which Congress hopes will curtail the business. We also examine domestic terrorism in the US inspired by ISIS, as exemplified by Boston’s Usama Rahim, with Susan Zalkind of Vocativ and The Daily Beast, in this Lip News Interview, hosted by Gabriel Mizrahi.
Episode Breakdown
00:01 Welcoming Susan Zalkind to the Lip News Interview.
00:32 ISIS business of art looting.
02:59 The second largest business, behind oil.
04:19 The significance to the US and difficulty in investigation.
09:19 Bill H.R. 1493 to crackdown on ISIS looting.
10:04 ISIS influence on domestic terrorism, and Usama Rahim.
15:50 Thanks and Goodbye.
Guest Bio
Susan Zalkind is a freelance journalist who has written for Boston Magazine, The Daily Beast, This American Life and Vocativ.
Additional Links
http://www.vocativ.com/world/isis-2/how-isis-turned-looting-into-big-business
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/06/my-former-friend-the-boston-beheader.html
Hosts
Lissette Padilla
Mark Sovel
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