Yousaf al Salafi, the man believed to be the leader of the Islamic State in Pakistan confessed during investigations that he was receiving money through the united States. According to the ‘Australian National Review’ online and UK ‘Daily Express’, Salafi made the claim during investigations in early 2015 he said money was funneled through the US to aid Islamic jihadists fighting in Syria against Assad. On January 22, 2015 law enforcing agencies in Pakistan claimed they had arrested three people, including Salafi, in a raid in the city of Lahore and during reports the interrogation he admitted that he received funding to run the organization in Pakistan and ‘recruit young people to fight in Syria’. Daily Express cited sources saying that US Secretary of State John Kerry and CENTCOM Chief General Lloyd Austin knew about al Salafi’s revelations. Al Salafi confessed he was recruiting people to join the Syrian opposition against Assad by giving them around $600. According to a 2012 declassified document, the Obama administration was warned that these Islamist jihadists wanted to create a ‘Salafist principality in eastern Syria’ and that ISI (Islamic State of Iraq) could declare an Islamic State through its union with other terrorist organizations in Iraq and Syria. 50 US intelligence analysts have formally complained that their reports on Islamic State and an al-Qaeda branch in Syria were altered and watered down by senior officials in order to present ISIS as weaker than it really was, according to ‘The Daily Beast’.