The senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, Hans-Jakob Schindler, cautions that the opening of the banking system runs the risk of becoming “entangled with terrorism financing as there are still multiple terrorist groups operating in Syria apart from ISIS.”

“It will be difficult to ensure that funds are not flowing to these individuals if sanctions are relieved without conditionality,” he said. 

Terrorism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler of the international nonprofit research organization Counter Extremism Project considers it extremely unlikely that US authorities failed to notice that the server was located in the United States. He suspects that US authorities want to keep an eye on the server and are therefore allowing everything to continue running, "because with an American server, access is guaranteed. That wouldn't be the case if it were a company based in China, Russia, or anywhere else in the world."

CEP Senior Advisor Edmund Fitton-Brown interviewed: “Bill is joined by Caleb Weiss and Edmund Fitton-Brown to discuss the latest UN Sanctions Monitoring Team report on the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda that was released this week.”