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Merchants of men : how jihadists and ISIS turned kidnapping and refugee trafficking into a multibillion-dollar business / Loretta Napoleoni.

by Napoleoni, Loretta.

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Seven Stories Press, [2016]

IS (Organization)

Human trafficking.

Kidnapping -- Economic aspects.

Hostage negotiations.

9781609807085 (hc.)

xvi, 288 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A powerful and sophisticated underground business delivers thousands of refugees a day all along the Mediterranean coasts of Europe. The new breed of criminals that controls it has risen out of the political chaos of post-9/11 Western foreign policy and the fiasco of the Arab Spring. These merchants of men are intertwined with jihadist armed organizations such as al Qaeda in the Maghreb. They have prospered smuggling cocaine from West Africa and kidnapping Westerners. More recently, the destabilization of Syria and Iraq coupled with the rise of ISIS offered them new business opportunities in the Middle East, from selling Western hostages to jihadist groups to trafficking in refugees numbering in the millions. Overall, the kidnapping industry today is bigger than the illegal drug trade and worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Merchants of Men is based on access to hostage negotiators actively involved in ransom negotiations and rescue missions, counter-terrorism experts, members of security services and former hostages. Today's fast-aging European nations are buyers on the refugee market. New workers are needed, and the merchants of men are supplying them. But only skilled, highly educated refugees are wanted. As a tsunami of migrants and refugees floods Europe, new questions almost too numerous to count must be answered."--Provided by publisher.

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