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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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1 posted on 11/23/2015 12:14:39 PM PST by amorphous
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To: amorphous

Sort of like the TSA in action: Obsessed with stuff. The people who mean us harm, not so much.


2 posted on 11/23/2015 12:17:10 PM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: amorphous
yawn

Clinton used to do this when he needed a bump in the polls.

3 posted on 11/23/2015 12:17:40 PM PST by Slyfox (Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
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To: amorphous
Gee, you'd almost think that the US Commander-in-Chief was a Muslim supporter and sympathizer.

But that couldn't be: NBC, the Washington Compost and the New York Slimes have all assured me that the man called 0bama is a Christian.

4 posted on 11/23/2015 12:21:12 PM PST by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: amorphous

45 minutes to hide their vehicles or round up some human shields. Nice job, Obozo.


5 posted on 11/23/2015 12:22:11 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: amorphous

What a retard!
Take the drivers else wise they will just go and get more trucks.
A little loss of life will send a message to future truck drivers and others involved in the ISIS enterprises.

Costs per hour of American manpower and equipment does not warrant the catch and release fool mentality.

But, he wants to save muslim lives and enable them to expand their operations.


6 posted on 11/23/2015 12:22:39 PM PST by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: amorphous

Obama cheered when the Pentagon was bombed and the
World Trade Center towers hit.

Proof: He cheers today, arms the al Qaeda attackers,
and imports terrorists and diseases into the Homeland.


7 posted on 11/23/2015 12:23:41 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: amorphous

Is ISIS getting participation trophies, too? :)


8 posted on 11/23/2015 12:25:00 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: amorphous

Obama wants to kill illiterate truck drivers!


9 posted on 11/23/2015 12:25:23 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: amorphous

We gave them a YEAR of uninterrupted revenue by not bombing them on any of the last 365 days.


10 posted on 11/23/2015 12:25:47 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.)
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To: amorphous

We anti-ISIS people actually WANT to kill the truck drivers too.

They are a revenue producing arm of ISIS. We need to scare all people in that region from cooperating with ISIS in any way.

That is in the long run a better way of helping the people against ISIS. Kill enough soon enough that ISIS loses support. Yes, there will be “civilian” casualties, but in a war zone, transport of fuel is a legitimate target.

Buy a pair, 0bummer, and bomb the F*** out of anything that moves.


11 posted on 11/23/2015 12:28:10 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.)
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To: Slyfox
Clinton used to do this when he needed a bump in the polls.

Begs the question, why not before now?

Major source of income, fuels islamic terrorist vehicles.

..when not used to burn to death the infidel.

12 posted on 11/23/2015 12:33:00 PM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: amorphous

Maybe they ought to serve them a warrant before they bomb.
Too bad Doctors without Borders weren’t accorded the same courtesy.
But for the typical US peasant, I guess the no knock SWAT raids will continue.


13 posted on 11/23/2015 12:33:15 PM PST by grumpygresh (We don't have Democrats and Republicans, we have the Faustian uni-party)
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To: TexasCajun
My take is that Obama is not motivated by sex, the way Clinton was, but he has to keep the fact that he is building the Muslim Brotherhood a secret while still helping them to survive and grow. But right now his back is getting up against the wall and he has to prove that he is still in charge, but still maintain his support for the Brotherhood.

He does the same thing when there are any Ferguson's happenings. He doesn't led the way we expect him to. Instead he plays lip service to being president while still giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

I am amazed that he has held out for so long.

14 posted on 11/23/2015 12:44:30 PM PST by Slyfox (Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
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To: mojito

Typical Democrats at War


15 posted on 11/23/2015 12:48:04 PM PST by Kozak (ALLAH AKBAR = HEIL HITLER)
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To: amorphous

The Terrorist in Chief.


16 posted on 11/23/2015 1:31:43 PM PST by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: amorphous

Nagasaki people, leave your city for we will be bombing you shortly.
PSST, tell Hirohito NOT to surrender for this will be the last bombing you will experience....


17 posted on 11/23/2015 2:08:09 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: amorphous

So this won’t make them mad and “create more terrorists” but not letting them sneak into our country under cover of “refugee” status would?


18 posted on 11/23/2015 2:40:43 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: AlaskaErik

Exactly. Is there only one road?


19 posted on 11/23/2015 2:41:13 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: amorphous

I can’t help but think of the GI No skit showing how ridiculous ROEs and tactics fail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-VGyp8PJIk


20 posted on 11/23/2015 3:13:33 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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