Posted on 09/29/2016 8:06:27 PM PDT by Rabin
Islamic State militants will no longer control any oil in Iraq after being ousted by government forces last week from an area near Kirkuk. The ultra-hardline Sunni Muslim have been driven out of Shirqat by co-ordinated Iraqi force.
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Iraqi forces have yet to recapture the Najma oil-field, near Qayyara, but its producing wells are no longer accessible to IS government offensive and (US) air strikes.
The reality is that it is extremely difficult to extract and smuggle oil while our forces are advancing towards Mosul...," oil ministry spokesman Asim Jihad.
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Raben
>spokesman Asim Jihad.
But of course.
The hussein administration is just trying to make it look like a success before the election. Soon afterwards, obama will go back to looking the other way as the jayvee terrorists do their thing.
If they don’t lose it in Libyia Trump will take it.
Good news. This is good progress. Less money for ISIS and Iraq is proving itself a relatively stable country.
This cutting off of the oil fields from ISIS should have been done as soon as they gained control of them. Take out the trucks and pipelines and ISIS would have not gotten so much money to slaughter their way thru Iraq and Syria.
More cowardice by Obama and his mental midgets in the State Department and DOD.
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