Posted on 11/27/2015 12:40:07 PM PST by Nachum
Over the course of the last four or so weeks, the media has paid quite a bit of attention to Islamic State’s lucrative trade in “stolen†crude.
On November 16, in a highly publicized effort, US warplanes destroyed 116 ISIS oil trucks in Syria. 45 minutes prior, leaflets were dropped advising drivers (who Washington is absolutely sure are not ISIS members themselves) to “get out of [their] trucks and run away.â€
The peculiar thing about the US strikes is that it took The Pentagon nearly 14 months to figure out that the most effective way to cripple Islamic State’s oil trade is to bomb... the oil.
Prior to November, the US “strategy†revolved around bombing the group’s oil infrastructure. As it turns out, that strategy was minimally effective at best and it’s not entirely clear that an effort was made to inform The White House, Congress, and/or the public about just how little damage the airstrikes were actually inflicting. There are two possible explanations as to why Centcom may have sought to make it sound as though the campaign was going better than it actually was, i) national intelligence director James Clapper pulled a Dick Cheney and pressured Maj. Gen. Steven Grove into delivering upbeat assessments, or ii) The Pentagon and the CIA were content with ineffectual bombing runs because intelligence officials were keen on keeping Islamic State’s oil revenue flowing so the group could continue to operate as a major destabilizing element vis-a-vis the Assad regime.
Ultimately, Russia cried foul at the perceived ease with which ISIS transported its illegal oil and once it became clear that Moscow was set to hit the group’s oil convoys, the US was left with virtually no choice but to go along for the ride. Washington’s warplanes destroyed
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It didn’t take the Pentagon 14 months to figure this out. It took Russia to expose Obama’s fraudulent war by bombing the trucks first.
I heard this first from Trump that bombing the oil revenue source for ISIS was the best approach to destroying that vile Caliphate.
Obama was never going to bomb his own source of campaign cash donors.
Now we know how all those military age men got the 2-$3000 for phony papers and how they could afford airplane rides and ship travel.
I think this pretty well shows that Zero is a Muzzie.
The only reason for the attacks on the oil trucks is that Obama has been notified that Is is has completed the underground pipe line
Assassinate the oil traders.
They need to drag out the A-10 Warthogs and shred the pumping stations and pipeline and don’t give any warning. Zero doesn’t want to kill his brothers.
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Interesting stuff here. Seems Erdongans son Bilal is the major force behind keeping isis alive.He creates shell corps to funnel stolen crude all over Eurpoe.Ivey league educated at Harvard and a product of the world bank,(bet Kearen Hudes knows all abot this clown) below
is a clip from the zero hedge link.
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http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-25/meet-man-who-funds-isis-bilal-erdogan-son-turkeys-president
“More and more details are coming to light revealing that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, variously known as ISIS, IS or Daesh, is being fed and kept alive by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish President and by his Turkish intelligence service, including MIT, the Turkish CIA. Turkey, as a result of Erdogan’s pursuit of what some call a Neo-Ottoman Empire fantasies that stretch all the way to China, Syria and Iraq, threatens not only to destroy Turkey but much of the Middle East if he continues on his present path.
In October 2014 US Vice President Joe Biden told a Harvard gathering that Erdogan’s regime was backing ISIS with “hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of tons of weapons…†Biden later apologized clearly for tactical reasons to get Erdo?an’s permission to use Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base for airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, but the dimensions of Erdogan’s backing for ISIS since revealed is far, far more than Biden hinted.
ISIS militants were trained by US, Israeli and now it emerges, by Turkish special forces at secret bases in Konya Province inside the Turkish border to Syria, over the past three years. Erdo?an’s involvement in ISIS goes much deeper. At a time when Washington, Saudi Arabia and even Qatar appear to have cut off their support for ISIS, they remaining amazingly durable. The reason appears to be the scale of the backing from Erdo?an and his fellow neo-Ottoman Sunni Islam Prime Minister, Ahmet Davuto?lu.”
Months ago I read where ISIS soldiers freely ride Turkisk busses and i was wondering WTH is going on over there.Beginning to get a much better picture.
Just keeps getting better and better,seems the erdogan daughter Sumeyye(gotta love these wacky names) has anothert famliy business that runs a hospital solely for the purpose of patching up wounded isis soldiers,go figure.
Here is another clip formthe same link as before.
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Nice Family Business
“The prime source of money feeding ISIS these days is sale of Iraqi oil from the Mosul region oilfields where they maintain a stronghold. The son of Erdogan it seems is the man who makes the export sales of ISIS-controlled oil possible.
Bilal Erdo?an owns several maritime companies. He has allegedly signed contracts with European operating companies to carry Iraqi stolen oil to different Asian countries. The Turkish government buys Iraqi plundered oil which is being produced from the Iraqi seized oil wells. Bilal Erdogan’s maritime companies own special wharfs in Beirut and Ceyhan ports that are transporting ISIS’ smuggled crude oil in Japan-bound oil tankers.
Gürsel Tekin vice-president of the Turkish Republican Peoples’ Party, CHP, declared in a recent Turkish media interview, “President Erdogan claims that according to international transportation conventions there is no legal infraction concerning Bilal’s illicit activities and his son is doing an ordinary business with the registered Japanese companies, but in fact Bilal Erdo?an is up to his neck in complicity with terrorism, but as long as his father holds office he will be immune from any judicial prosecution.†Tekin adds that Bilal’s maritime company doing the oil trades for ISIS, BMZ Ltd, is “a family business and president Erdogan’s close relatives hold shares in BMZ and they misused public funds and took illicit loans from Turkish banks.â€
In addition to son Bilal’s illegal and lucrative oil trading for ISIS, Sümeyye Erdogan, the daughter of the Turkish President apparently runs a secret hospital camp inside Turkey just over the Syrian border where Turkish army trucks daily being in scores of wounded ISIS Jihadists to be patched up and sent back to wage the bloody Jihad in Syria, according to the testimony of a nurse who was recruited to work there until it was discovered she was a member of the Alawite branch of Islam, the same as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who Erdogan seems hell-bent on toppling.”
This was no mistake, Obama had no intention of stopping the ISIS to Turkey oil flow. It took Putin to force his hand.
Or there is a third reason.The US and Turkey are behind ISIS and have been for some time.
One now wonders about the link at Benghazi where the late Chris Stevens headed up the CIA smuggling operation of arms to Turkey that went to Syria. Were these arms eventually winding up in the hands of ISIS back then?Could that have been the reason Stevens had to go? He knew entirely too much? Inquiring minds....
Timmerman wrote Dark Forces with this explanation. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard pulled off the attack on Benghazi to get arms out of the hands of rebels attacking Assad, their guy. They paid off the locals who provided security; locals we were paying to protect the buildings, to abandon their posts.
You know what its all coming together all starting to make sense.
Makes sense as well since ISIS are hardcore Sunni. They hate the alewaite/shia while Iran is run by Shia. I don’t know if they are the Alewaite sect or not.
Once again thousand year old religious wars are at the core of what goes on in the mid east.
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