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    Isis in Syria: US air strikes destroys 283 oil tankers used for smuggling to fund terror group

    American military officials said oil revenues account for around half of Isis funding




    Smoke rises as Iraqi security forces and allied Popular Mobilization Forces shell Islamic State group positions at an oil field outside Beiji, Iraq, in October 2015. AP

    US fighter jets and gunships have destroyed 283 Isis oil tankers in Syria as part of efforts to cripple the terror group’s income streams.

    American military officials said the lorries were being used by militants to transport oil from fields under their control in Deir Ezzor and al-Hasakah to smuggling points.


    Warning shots were fired to chase away civilian drivers before the destruction of the trucks began on Saturday, the BBC reported.



    Russia has also been bombing Isis oil fields in Syria

    The US Department of Defense says it will release video of the air raid, which followed one that destroyed another 116 tankers last week.

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    “This was conducted in many ways identical to our last,” said Captain Jeff Davis, a spokesperson for the Pentagon.

    “It was preceded with a leaflet drop to warn drivers out of their trucks as well as a show of force”.


    The strikes are part of Operation Tidal Wave II, which started in October to hit Isis oil transport, production, refining and sales.


    In pictures: Syria air strikes (2014)






    The tactic was previously avoided because of the impact on civilians and the risk of killing lorry drivers.

    “We know that oil funds more than 50 per cent of Isil's operations,” Col Steve Warren said.


    “We need to take this away from them so that their operations are more difficult to conduct.”


    The latest strike was revealed on Monday, as the US defence secretary, Ash Carter, welcomed Britain’s Strategic Defence and Security Review.


    Setting out the plans in Parliament, David Cameron announced £12 billion extra defence spending, including the replacement of Trident, the purchase of new planes, drones and ships and the creation of two 5,000 rapid-response “strike brigades”.


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    “We must expect the unexpected but we can make sure that we have the versatility and the means to respond to new risks and threats to our security as they arise,” the Prime Minister said, adding that he would present MPs with his case to extend British air strikes to Syria on Thursday.

    Opponents criticised the cost of replacing Trident and cuts to civilian staff employed by the Ministry of Defence.


    Francois Hollande has called on the UK and other coalition partners in Operation Inherent Resolve to increase their commitment and will be meeting Barack Obama today to discuss operations.


    He will then travel to Moscow for talks with Vladimir Putin as part of an effort for greater co-operation in the wake of the Paris attacks that killed 130 people, and bombing of a Russian passenger plane.

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    Inside Isis Inc: The journey of a barrel of oil

    (go to link to see maps, not reproducing well here in the post)

    Isis controls most of Syria’s oil fields and crude is the militant group's biggest single source of revenue. Here we follow the progress of a barrel of oil from extraction to end user to see how the Isis production system works, who is making money from it, and why it is proving so challenging to disrupt.
    By Erika Solomon, Robin Kwong and Steven Bernard•October 14, 2015

    Where the oil is extracted

    Isis’s main oil producing region is in Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor province, where production is somewhere between 34,000 to 40,000 barrels a day, according to locals. The group also controls the Qayyara field near Mosul in northern Iraq that produces about 8,000 barrels a day of heavier oil that is mostly used locally to make asphalt.

    It is difficult to determine a definitive oil production figure for Isis-controlled areas. But it is clear production levels have dropped in the Syrian fields since they were taken over by the militants. Most oil fields in the area are aging and despite the group's efforts to recruit skilled workers, it does not have the technology or equipment needed to maintain them. Even so, they continue to provide Isis with its most lucrative income stream.
    The price of the oil depends on its quality. Some fields charge about $25 a barrel. Others, like al-Omar field, one of Syria’s largest, charge $45 a barrel. Overall, Isis is estimated to earn about $1.53m a day.
    Oilfield Est. production (bpd) Price ($/barrel)
    al-Tanak 15,000-17,000 $40
    al-Omar 9,000-13,000 $45
    al-Jabseh 2,500-3,000 $30
    al-Tabqa 1500-1,800 $20
    al-Kharata 1,000 $30
    al-Shoula 650-800 $30
    Deiro 600-1,000 $30
    al-Taim 400-600 $40
    al-Rashid 200-300 $25
    Selling crude oil

    Though many believe that Isis relies on exports for its oil revenue, it profits from its captive markets closer to home in the rebel-held territories of northern Syria and in its self-proclaimed “caliphate”, which straddles the border between Syria and Iraq.
    The group sells most of its crude directly to independent traders at the oil fields. In a highly organised system, Syrian and Iraqi buyers queue in their tankers at the entrances to fields, often waiting for weeks.
    Oil refineries

    Traders have several options after they pick up their cargo:

    • Take the oil to nearby refineries, unload it and return to queue at the field—usually done by traders under contract to refineries.
    • Sell their oil on to traders with smaller vehicles, who then send it to rebel-held northern Syria, or east towards Iraq.
    • Try their luck selling to a refinery or sell it at a local oil market. The biggest are near al-Qaim on the Syrian-Iraqi border.

    Most traders prefer to sell the oil on immediately and return to queue at the fields. They can expect to make a profit of at least SL3,000 (about $10) per barrel.

    The bulk of oil refineries are in Isis-controlled Syria. The few in rebel-held territories have a reputation for lower quality output than the refineries in the east.
    The refineries produce petrol and mazout, a heavy form of diesel used in generators – a necessity as many areas have little or no electricity. Because the quality of the petrol can be inconsistent and is more expensive, mazout is in greater demand.
    Refining is done by local residents who constructed their rudimentary refineries after Isis's prefabricated "mobile" facilities were destroyed by coalition air strikes. The owners make purchase agreements with the militants for their products.
    There are also signs that in recent months Isis may have returned to refining. In interviews with traders, the FT discovered the group had recently bought five refineries.

    At Isis refineries, the former owner stays on as a "front" man. The group supplies the oil; in return it takes all mazout production and splits the profits on petrol production with the original owner.

    Traders say Isis has its own tankers that supply crude to its refineries from oil fields regularly. The group also appears to retain many of its earlier contracts with unaffiliated gas stations and other refineries.

    Fuel to market

    Once the oil is refined, it is bought by traders or taken by dealers to markets across Syria and Iraq. At this point, Isis is almost completely disengaged from the trade. About half the oil goes to Iraq, while the other half is consumed in Syria, both in Isis territories and rebel-held areas in the north.
    There are fuel markets throughout Isis-controlled areas and rebel-held Syria, often located close to refineries. Most towns have a small fuel market where locals buy and sell oil. But traders supplying these smaller markets often buy their oil in bulk from larger hubs.

    Isis markets
    There are larger Isis-controlled markets in towns like Manbij or al-Bab in Aleppo’s eastern countryside. Traders here must present a document proving they have paid zakat, a tithe, to buy oil without tax. Traders from rebel-held Syria who have not paid the tithe, must pay a tax of SL200 per barrel, or about $0.67.

    Some privately-owned markets also levy taxes. Al-Qaim market, one of the largest in the region, charges buyers and sellers about SL100 ($0.30) per barrel of crude purchased.

    Mosul
    In Isis-controlled Iraqi cities like Mosul, the fuel is sold at mini “petrol stations” with two pumps. They are ubiquitous on Mosul street corners and locals usually name the oil according to the part of Syria it came from. This helps buyers determine the quality of the oil and compare prices.

    Rebel markets
    Two types of fuel are sold in rebel-held Syria: pricier fuel refined in Isis areas, and cheaper locally refined fuel. Residents typically buy a mix of both, and use the cheaper variety for generators and keep better quality variety for their vehicles.
    The importance of Isis oil to those living in rebel-held areas of Syria is one reason why the US-led coalition has been reluctant to target the group's trade routes. The coalition says it is wary of alienating local populations by bombing fuel now critical for their daily lives.

    Fuel smuggling

    With Isis only concerned with making its profits ‘at the pump’, smuggling fuel into neighbouring countries can be good business for entrepreneurial Syrians and Iraqis. Syrian smugglers say it has been declining in recent months, not because of tighter border controls but because the sharp fall in international oil prices make it unprofitable. But some determined smugglers continue their trade.
    Most of the smuggling from the Syrian side has gone through opposition areas in the northwest. Locals buy fuel at the market, pour it into jerry cans and carry it over the border on foot or, in mountainous areas, by donkey or on horseback.
    In Iraq, the bulk of smuggling through the northern Kurdistan region has been blocked, so locals say the route now goes south through Anbar province towards Jordan.


    Boat

    When oil prices were high, smugglers loaded larger jerry cans (50-60 litres) of oil into metal tubs or small row boats and, using ropes attached to each river bank, pulled their cargo across the river and into Turkey. On the other bank, tractors picked up the supply and took it to a local informal market, where it was picked up by large trucks, which sold it on.
    Pumps

    Some Syrian and Turkish border towns have co-operated by burying small rubber tubes under the border, such as at Besaslan. In recent months, Turkey has stepped up border patrols and are constantly digging out the makeshift pipelines.
    On foot

    A popular crossing point for smugglers carrying jerry cans of fuel on their backs has been from Kharbet al-Jawz in rebel-held Syria to Guvecci in Turkey. This has been largely shut down by Turkish forces, but the remote terrain makes it impossible to stop.



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    another @ Isis oil and who is buying - the 3 Isis oil posts should probably be moved to another post but the point was the connection to Isis moving oil across Turkey's border and the possible connection to Turkey downing a Russian plane and now killing of the pilots by rebels?
    EU countries buying oil from ISIS might be the reason why they wont join U.S in bombing Syria

    Last week, President Obama came out acting all John Wayne to the camera and stated that he has finalized his new strategy for taking out the ISIS threat in the Middle East. Included in this strategy was the desire for NATO countries such as Britian and Germany to be part of his coalition, along with several Arab nations who are suddenly feeling the heat from the radical caliphate.
    But interestingly enough, Britain, Germany, and Turkey announced they won’t sing kumbaya with America in their desire to take out ISIS by way of Assad and Syria, and perhaps the reason for this is that on Sept. 15, members of the European Union (EU) admitted that they are purchasing oil from ISIS, who took over several wells in Iraq when they solidified their occupation.
    A senior European Union official has revealed that some EU member states have purchased oil from ISIL Takfiri militants despite their rhetoric against the group.
    In a briefing to the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, EU Ambassador to Iraq Jana Hybas-kova said some European countries have purchased crude from the ISIL.
    She, however, refused to disclose any names despite pressure by some Parliament members to do so. – Sott.net
    So in other words, contrary to Western propaganda, ALL conflicts in the Middle East are INDEED about oil.

    The prostitution of principals by Europe over U.S. or United Nations sanctions is not new, and was the foundation of a scandal during the 1990’s between a number of European governments and Iraq’s Saddam Hussein. The infamous ‘Oil for Food‘ scandal involved billions of dollars, and evidence revealed that EU countries were buying oil from Hussien despite the sanctions, which was later used to buy weapons and arms from these same countries.
    Old colonial powers like Britian, France, and even the United States use war and sanctions as a justification for achieving their own national goals, and not for the purposes of humanitarian relief or democratization for the people. And for years many intelligent people were labeled as conspiracy theorists for claiming that the Iraq war was done for the purpose of oil, which of course was later proven to be accurate when no WMD’s were ever found, and the underlying reason for invasion was Saddam Hussein’s implementation of selling oil for Euros which threatened the petro-dollar. And today, even when the Al Qaeda splinter group ISIS is threatening the sovereignty and very lives of millions of people, all that is on the minds of many EU states is how they can be assured of getting their oil, even if it means doing business with terrorists.

    (do not see a date for the above story - link

    http://www.secretsofthefed.com/eu-co...bombing-syria/



    Kerry said they are looking into it - 2014
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    "Well, it's being smuggled out from the border countries of Syria, obviously, which means either through Turkey or through Lebanon or south..."
    "Now, are they joining us in the effort to stop this smuggling?" Durbin asked.
    "They are, but, obviously, Turkey has difficulties right now, has 49 hostages that are being held, and they've talked about that publicly," Kerry responded. "And Turkey is -- you know, we've had some conversations with them, and those conversations will continue."
    In January, the Telegraph reported that Bashar Assad was buying ISIS' oil and funding the terrorist group. Al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra already admitted last year that Assad was buying their oil from Deir Ezzor province."


    https://pjmedia.com/blog/whos-buying...ooking-into-it
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    Interesting story @ the Kurds - Turkey seems to be with Isis

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    Moved to Other Topics - Off topic for Immigration News.

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    Was Russian aircraft shot down because its satellite navigation was wrong?

    One Russian airman dies, plane crashes in Syrian territory; conflicting radar tracks.


    by Sean Gallagher - Nov 24, 2015 2:36pm PST



    A Sukhoi Su-24 of the Russian Air Force like this one was shot down near the Turkish-Syrian border today.
    Was a Russian Su-24 strike bomber over Turkish airspace earlier today when it was shot down by a Turkish F-16 fighter, as the Turkish government claimed? Or did it, as the Russians have claimed, fly in Syrian airspace and never cross the Turkish border?

    The Turkish and Russian governments have published conflicting evidence on the plane's location as accusations fly between the two sides. But it's entirely possible both sides are right—based on different data sources.


    With precision satellite navigation and radar systems available to both sides, one might think that it would be relatively simple to both know where the border was and avoid it or know for certain which side of the border the plane was on when it was shot down. But the Russians have published their own version of navigational tracking data that shows the Su-24 flying south of a part of the Turkish border that juts southward into Syria. The Turks claim that the jet, while clearly not mounting an attack against Turkey, was over a mile into Turkish airspace and had been repeatedly warned that it was on a course that would cross the border.


    But given the Russian aircraft was only in Turkish airspace for a few seconds (and only penetrated, even by the Turks' accounting, by a little more than a mile), it's still possible that the GLONASS system used by the Russian military for navigation may have given the aircrew different information than the Turks had. GLONASS has fewer satellites than GPS, and more of its satellites follow the same orbital path. That makes positioning errors more likely. And with the complex border between Syria and Turkey (and Russia's operations against Syrian rebels taking them extremely close to that border), a slight miscalculation in flight path could put Russian pilots in Turkish airspace.

    A Russian Su-24 goes down this morning, caught on camera as it crashes.

    One crew member ejected safely; another, according to Russian officials, was killed by fire from Syrian Turkmen rebels on the ground as he parachuted down. NATO is holding an emergency meeting at Turkey's request. The Russian foreign minister has canceled a planned trip to meet with Turkish officials.


    Further raising the stakes, a Russian Mi-8 helicopter searching for the two pilots was shot down by US-equipped Syrian rebels this morning, apparently using a US-made anti-tank missile.

    One Russian marine in the rescue crew was killed, and the helicopter made an emergency landing in "neutral territory," according to Russian General Staff spokesman Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi.


    Russian aircraft have repeatedly been accused of crossing into Turkish airspace recently during operations in Syria against rebels. Last month, Turkey shot down what was believed to be a Russian drone after it crossed the frontier.


    But the Su-24 was in Turkish airspace for only seconds before it was shot down today, and diplomats at the NATO meeting told Reuters that they were concerned that the Turkish air force did not simply escort the aircraft out of its territory.

    There are some concerns that the Turks were simply waiting for the opportunity to shoot down a Russian jet—concerns magnified by the fact that a Turkish news crew was on site to capture the Russian jet being shot down.


    As part of the safety procedures established by a Memorandum of Understanding between the US and Russia, both sides are supposed to communicate on a specific set of frequencies in the air and have a communication line open on the ground. The Turks were likely aware that the Russians were going to be operating close to the border, where they have been targeting groups supported by Turkey and the US—including the Sunni Turkmen militia that apparently killed at least one of the Russian pilots. Video, posted by militia members to Twitter, of the fighter going down was accompanied by cheers of "God is great!" as the plane crashed.


    President Barack Obama today urged Turkey and Russia to de-escalate the crisis. But given the proximity within which Russian forces are operating to the Turkish border, and their attacks on people with political, religious, and even ethnic ties in common with the Turks, it is likely this won't be the last time that there's a conflict in the air near the border.

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    That might explain the issue. It however does not explain why the Turks shot down the Russian jet after it had left Turkish airspace if it was ever in fact in it to begin with. The jet was shot down over Syria. There's no dispute about that.

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    "Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Turkish-Syrian border. The circumstances are in dispute."

    5 things you need to know about Russian jet shot down by Turkey


    By Matthew Chance and Michael Martinez, CNN
    Updated 7:15 PM ET, Tue November 24, 2015


    Story highlights



    • Turkey downed a Russian fighter jet near its border with Syria on Tuesday
    • Turkey says the Su-24 repeatedly violated its airspace; Russia denies this
    • Two pilots parachuted out of the jet; one is dead, the other's fate is unknown



    Moscow (CNN)One of the world's most complicated geopolitical crises became even more tangled Tuesday when a Russian jet was downed by Turkey in Syria's Bayirbucak area, near the Turkish border. Here's what we know so far:

    What happened?

    Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Turkish-Syrian border. The circumstances are in dispute.

    The Turks say the aircraft ignored warnings and violated Turkish airspace. They say two of their F-16 jets were scrambled and brought down the Russian plane with a missile strike.


    Moscow insists its jet remained in Syrian airspace.

    Both sides say they have hard evidence to back up their accounts. Turkey has produced a map which it says proves its case.

    Moscow says both pilots on the Su-24 ejected prior to the crash, and there's video of the pilots parachuting to the ground.

    One of the two pilots was killed in the air by fire from the ground, according to Russian state-run news agency RIA Novosti. The fate of the second pilot wasn't disclosed.


    The body of one of the pilots has been found, according to Abu Ibrahim al-Sheghri, the military leader in the 10th coastal brigade and part of the Turkmen Mountain Military Operation Room. The brigade is searching for the other pilot in the same area, he told CNN.


    New video published on social media by a Syrian rebel group allegedly shows Turkmen rebels shooting at the two ejected pilots landing on the border between Turkey and Syria.


    CNN couldn't immediately confirm the video's claim.


    Speaking in Turkish language, a man shouts off-camera, "don't shoot at them" and "capture them alive."


    Heavy gunfire can be heard on the video. The rebels also shout, "God is great!"


    Two Russian Mi-8 helicopters performed a search-and-rescue operation, but one of them was damaged by small arms fire and made an emergency landing, Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoy said.

    One Russian marine was killed.


    "The helicopter was destroyed by mortar fire conducted from the territory controlled by illegal, armed groups," Rudskoy said.


    The area is home to Turkmen rebels -- a Turkic ethnic minority who are fighting Syria's Assad regime and who have close ties to Turkey.


    What's the reaction in Moscow?


    Russian President Vladimir Putin says the downing of the jet is a "a stab in the back by the terrorists' accomplices" and "will have serious consequences for Russian-Turkish relations."


    The Russians are furious about this, obviously. It's the first time in decades that a NATO country has shot down a Russian or Soviet war plane, and the first plane Russia has lost since it began its campaign in Syria.

    It's an extremely serious development which could have far-reaching consequences.


    What are the ramifications?


    First, there are obvious potential consequences for relations between Russia and Turkey, which share close economic ties, particularly since European sanctions on Russia came into effect. Turkey is a popular tourism destination for Russians.

    But more significantly, there's a broader concern about the impact this could have geopolitically, in terms of the Syrian conflict and the war on ISIS.



    A Russian airman descends from the downed jet via parachute.

    There's always been a divide between Russia and the West over what to do in Syria. And Moscow and Ankara are essentially on opposite sides in the conflict, with Russia standing behind Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Turkey backing rebel forces fighting to topple him.

    Was this predictable?


    This seems to have been a long time in the making. Russia essentially launched its raids in Syria unilaterally. There was always a danger that it was going to run into other air forces.
    Russia has previously apologized for its incursions into Turkish airspace during its Syria campaign -- something that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Russia last month that it "cannot endure."

    There was hope in the wake of the Paris attacks that common ground could be found between Russia and the West in terms of coordination in taking the fight to ISIS. French President Francois Hollande met with U.S. President Barack Obama and will meet with Putin this week, where he is expected to urge greater coordination.


    Appearing at joint press conference Tuesday in the White House, Obama and Hollande urged a de-escalation of the crisis.

    Obama said the plane incident "points to an ongoing problem with the Russian operations" in Syria, which are taking place very close to the Turkish border. There, Russia targets "moderate opposition" to the Syrian regime, Obama said.


    Those opponents have the support of Turkey.


    If Russia instead focused on fighting only ISIS, "some of those conflicts or potential for escalation are less likely to occur," Obama said.


    The plane incident highlights a complicated picture.


    What happens next?


    The fate of the pilots will be central to how this plays out.
    Russia will presumably present data to back up Putin's claim that the jet was "was downed over Syrian territory ... (while) carrying out an operation fighting against ISIL in northern Latakia." (ISIL is another acronym for ISIS.)

    Russia has something of a checkered recent history when it comes to claims about the movements and activities of its forces, in Ukraine and with the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17. It's going to be interesting to see what it produces.


    It's in no one's interest for Russia to respond to this militarily. But, as Putin's strong words indicate, we can expect to see diplomatic fireworks.

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    Christian blood for oil

    Exclusive: Gina Loudon accuses Obama of 'treasonous behavior' for 'supporting ISIS'

    Published: 11/29/15 Gina Loudon, Ph.D., is host of America Trends on the YTA cable TV Network. She is the best-selling co-author of two books, "What Women REALLY Want" and "Ladies and Gentlemen: Why the Survival of Our Republic Depends on the Revival of Honor." Her psychological, political and social analysis is in high demand on networks including Fox News, Fox Business, Dr. Drew, Salem Radio, C-SPAN, ABC, Al Jazeera, HLN & BBC. She has appeared on ABC's prime-time reality show, "Wife Swap," and Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central. She is married to former state Sen. John Loudon and has five children, including one child with Down Syndrome by the miracle of adoption.

    Never has the world witnessed such horror on the scale inflicted by the Islamic terrorists comprising the would be caliphate builders known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, or the Obama administration’s preferred “ISIL” for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. We can revisit the curious name discussion later, but this entire battle that has Cold War adversaries saber rattling, two NATO allies suggesting invocation of NATO Treaty Article 5, and competing U.S. and Russian claims over Syrian airspace has the world on the brink of World War III. For what?
    Is Syrian President Bashar al-Assad so bad, that the reign of ISIS’ destruction, Christian genocide, worldwide acts of terror, sex slavery and obliteration of antiquities, etc., are not just ignored but supported by the West? That’s right. The West is supporting ISIS and for unthinkable reasons.

    Am I the only one shocked that the only people in the world who use the term “ISIL” rather than ISIS are the Obama administration officials and a few Republican senators who share Obama’s zeal for removing Assad? ISIS describes lands it holds in Iraq and Syria and accurately represents who it is. The Levant refers to a Syrian and Palestinian territory, land it does not hold, and ignores the existence of Israel all together. Why give ISIS that propaganda boost

    Obama won the presidency on his opposition to U.S. engagement in “regime change” and foreign wars. The rallying cry of the leftist peaceniks and communist agitators was, “No blood for oil!” Where are they now? All across North Africa and the Middle East, regimes have fallen like dominoes. As emails are exposed, we now learn that Obama and “Madame” Secretary Clinton were behind every coup in their “Arab Spring.” From Tunisia to Libya, Egypt and now Syria, we see U.S. fingerprints from direct engagement to complicity.

    The inconvenient truth is that every new regime has seen Christian minorities once protected by basically secular dictators subjected to full-scale genocide at the hands of Obama-supported Muslim Brotherhood victors. Why would Obama be so determined to depose Assad, and why would Republicans like John McCain and Lindsey Graham be so firmly in lockstep with him? Do any of them care that opposition to Assad puts them in league with ISIS? What could possibly be so important?

    The only reason we are ever given for why Assad should be deposed is humanitarian. He is mean to his people. He maybe even crossed a red line and used chemical weapons. So that makes him more loathsome than ISIS, how? If that is the measure, why has the world not turned on the North Korean regime? I’m sorry, Mr. President. You campaigned against regime change. For you to support it now makes you a liar. Maybe Assad needs to go, but you cannot be for it. What you can be for is protecting Americans, and that clearly means destroying ISIS, not merely “degrading” it.
    This gets us to the real Obama motive.

    Now if you are Bush, you campaigned on advancing American interests, so you can accept some lost blood for oil, and you can fairly freely seek regime change. The same can be said for Republicans like McCain and Graham. So while Putin supports Assad to hold monopoly control of Iranian natural gas to Europe, one can understand European interest in toppling the Russian ally. The planned natural gas pipeline from Iran through Syria would give Europe a source in competition with Russia’s sole source monopoly. But what is Obama’s real interest? Could the guy who killed the Keystone XL pipeline in the U.S. be driven to build a pipeline to Europe?

    We have only Obama’s words and record to ascertain why he is so determined to topple Assad. In every conflict, radical Islamists filled the vacuum. No matter how much Obama, and McCain for that matter, talk about this vaunted “Free Syrian Army,” they are puppets in a proxy war squeezed between the vastly superior forces of the Russian-backed Assad military and ISIS. If Assad goes, who really believes some moderate Islamic forces will be able to take and hold control in a region where the record of the radicals is nearly 100 percent victory? Against the protests of the Obama administration, the mighty Egyptian military handed the Muslim Brotherhood its only defeat and, thus, Christian populations their only relief.

    Regarding ISIS, we have a clear Obama record for support of radical Islamic expansion, and we know why Europeans and Senate Republicans want to support ISIS as a way to topple Assad. But the dirty secret of these conjoined interests was laid bare this week by Putin, who exposed NATO ally Turkey’s interest and, in so doing, the sinister U.S. interest.

    By attacking ISIS’ oil convoys, Putin decimated a huge chunk of its financial infrastructure. He ticked off Turkey because the president’s son, Bilal Erdogan, is getting very wealthy brokering oil for ISIS and raised the question of why the U.S. had not shut off this oil flow over a year ago. Were we incapable or uninterested?
    The ISIS attack in Paris showed that no corner of the world is safe from this monstrosity of a rogue state that has been allowed to grow into a metastasized cancer of the worst order. It has the best weapons, nearly unlimited cash, infrastructure and a stream of fresh recruits serviced by a steady flow of kidnapped Christian and Yazidi sex slaves, and the united might of the world is powerless to check it?

    It is unthinkable that the U.S. would materially support ISIS, but that is exactly what the growing body of evidence suggests. Our ally, Turkey, is brokering its oil, and we are allowing it. We engage in nominal airstrikes and report the death of an occasional “high-value” target, but the ISIS reign of terror grows ever deeper and wider. By supporting ISIS, the president and congressional supporters of his policy are engaging in truly treasonous behavior. The unthinkable is here and, sadly, we have Putin to thank for exposing it and actually “degrading” ISIS. Beam me up, Scotty!

    http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/christian-blood-for-oil/
    Last edited by artist; 11-29-2015 at 10:57 PM.

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    Captured Daesh Fighter Reveals Turkey’s Connection to ISIS, Predicts New 9/11

    TOPICS:Brandon TurbevilleISISTurkey
    December 29, 2015
    By Brandon Turbeville

    It appears that the week of Christmas in 2015 is quite the low moment for Turkey’s public relations department. In addition to be revealed as one of the top purchasers of ISIS oil by many in the alternative media, the Russian government, and a number of other sources, Erdogan’s own son has been pointed out as one of the principal smugglers and the Turkish President’s own daughter as the Florence Nightingale of the caliphate. If that wasn’t bad enough, an independent report by a Norwegian oil consulting firm also confirmed that much of the ISIS oil was being shipped directly to Turkey. A Turkish party member even revealed that the terrorists who committed the chemical weapons attack in Ghouta most likely received their chemical weapons from Turkey and committed the atrocity with foreknowledge and assistance from Turkish intelligence.


    Yet the hits to the Turkish government’s public relations just keep on coming, the latest of which involves statements coming from an ISIS member who was recently captured by Kurdish troops in Syria, who has revealed that not only is Turkey a primary buyer of ISIS oil but that ISIS fighters were being trained both in and by Turkey itself to be deployed into Syria. The captured fighter also revealed that the ISIS fighters on the ground do not take the American airstrikes seriously, viewing them as nothing more than show.


    Mahmut Ghazi Tatar, the member of Daesh captured by the Syrian Kurds, gave an interview to Sputnik Turkiye about his experiences in joining the terrorist organization. Tatar, who is 24 years old, allegedly joined Daesh after being influenced by a friend who was already a member. Tatar joined Daesh along with 27 other Turks.


    Tatar relates his path from Turkey to Syria by stating:
    After crossing border we were moved to a training camp 5 km from the border. We received military training and attended religious classes. Before the start of training, each of us was asked whether we want to be martyrs. I refused. This question is asked of all new recruits. Those who agree, within 6 months receive special religious training. Since I refused, my education and training lasted 70 days. We learned by the Turkish books. During the training, a few people from Turkey came to check on us. They did not have beards and they were not members of Daesh.
    After they received training, the 28 men were moved to Tal Abyad, where they were kept secret and allowed no contact with their families. Tatar states that his group received warning that the Kurds had learned of their whereabouts and had planned to storm the house in which they were staying. Thus, Tatar fled from Tal Abyad along with 12 other members. The men made it to a nearby village but were captured after Tatar attempted to make a run for it.


    Speaking about the oil being sold by ISIS to supposedly “unknown” and shadowy entities in the Middle East, Tatar stated what many in the alternative media have known for some time – that the principal purchaser of ISIS oil was in fact Turkey, a NATO country.
    Tatar states,
    The oil tankers that were sent every day to Turkey had crude oil, fuel oil and gasoline. The main source of income for Daesh is oil trade and oil inventories will last them a long time.
    Abu Talha [Daesh commander] also said that the group earns a lot of money in trade with Turkey. He also said that the oil is sold through the mediation of a number of businessmen and merchants, but did not give names. Daesh also receives many products from Turkey and other Arab countries.
    Tatar stated that neither he nor his comrades attached “particular importance to the US bombings. They believed that it was done as a pretense.”


    Tatar mentioned that, at one point, a member of his group asked their commander, Abu Talha, why Daesh did not attack Israel. Talha’s response was “First we need to break down a small wall and then destroy the large one.”


    Tatar described most ISIS recruits as coming from Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Yemen, Qatar, Lebanon, and Egypt and that they entered Syria from the Turkish border, a very easy thing to do. European and American fighters, according to Tatar, follow the same route.


    Tatar also forebodingly stated that, “The commanders told us that they were going to commit a terrorist act that would exceed the scale of the September 11 attacks on the US.”


    While Tatar revealed nothing that was not already widely known amongst geopolitical researchers, his information does confirm what many have been saying all along regarding the purchase of ISIS oil – that NATO and Turkey in particular is the largest consumer of this oil and, thus, is contributing to the financial support of ISIS (among several other methods of funding). Tatar also confirms the nature of the American airstrikes against Daesh – the lack of actual bombing of terrorist targets – and the fact that Turkish assistance is essential to the funneling of terrorists into Syria.

    http://www.activistpost.com/2015/12/captured-daesh-fighter-reveals-turkeys-connection-to-isis-predicts-new-911.html

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