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"Get Out Of Your Trucks And Run Away": US Gives ISIS 45 Minute Warning On Oil Tanker Strikes
Zero Hedge ^ | 23 Nov 2015 | Tyler

Posted on 11/23/2015 12:14:39 PM PST by amorphous

Last week, in the wake of Russian and US airstrikes on ISIS oil convoys, we asked three important questions:

1.Who are the commodity trading firms that have been so generously buying millions of smuggled oil barrels procured by the Islamic State at massive discounts to market, and then reselling them to other interested parties? In other words, who are the middlemen?

2.Can it possibly be true, as officials now claim, that the Obama administration refrained from bombing Islamic State oil trucks because Washington thought the group was "only" making $100 million per year instead of $400 million?

3.Is it likely, considering how cavalier the US is about collateral damage from drone strikes, that The Pentagon refused to take out Islamic State's revenue stream because the military was afraid of killing a few “innocent” truck drivers who by definition knew they were transporting illegal crude for a terrorist organization?

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: attack; isis; oil; tankers
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To: amorphous

I guess there’s nothing treasonous that he might do that would get him impeached.


21 posted on 11/23/2015 3:28:05 PM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are those committed by illegal aliens)
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To: amorphous
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22 posted on 11/23/2015 3:31:29 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: timestax

I think he just might be a Muslim too!


23 posted on 11/23/2015 5:54:25 PM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

An OSHA compliant air strike.
I wouldn’t expect anything less from our sympathizer in chief


24 posted on 11/23/2015 6:35:14 PM PST by La.daddyrabbit (Obama could f**k-up a cup of coffee.)
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To: mojito

His ring precludes otherwise.


25 posted on 11/23/2015 7:29:44 PM PST by mcshot (The "Greatest Generation" would never have allowed the trashing of our Republic.)
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To: amorphous
45 minutes? no sense of drama, make it 45 seconds


26 posted on 11/24/2015 7:53:54 PM PST by Oztrich Boy ('Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy for those who feel' - Horace Walpole)
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