The terrorist group known for its horrific atrocities wants to also kill people with red tape.
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In addition to the horrific atrocities the terrorist group ISIS commits on its prisoners, an article in Tuesday’s Washington Post explains that the group also is committed to establishing bureaucracy—complete with a Department of Motor Vehicles—in the territories it has conquered.
Although ISIS’ hiring practices, as WaPo points out, include job offers that consist of either accept the appointed job or lose your head, the terrorist group is brutally organized, even to the point of issuing business licenses.
Even as they ruled through fear and brutality, as their counterparts have in Syria and Iraq, Islamic State officials in Libya aspired to create a government with a functioning bureaucracy, public services and a credible judicial system.
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“The system was 100 percent organized,” said Abu Amood, the traffic police officer.
The militants also had a department that collected vehicle transfer fees for anyone wanting to sell a car. After the sale, the car’s logbook was marked with an Islamic State stamp.
They then wanted to expand into issuing driver’s licenses and other official documents. Outside Abu Amood’s house on that February evening, the two religious police officers asked him to persuade 17 colleagues to join the new traffic police department as well.
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