Posted on 08/01/2017 9:34:22 AM PDT by bananaman22
The Italian mafia may have teamed up with the Islamic State to smuggle crude oil from the Middle East into Italy, an ongoing police investigation has suggested, according to The Times who cited a report by La Repubblica. The Italian daily noted that the police had found substantial amounts of Libyan and Syrian crude that were greater than some local refineries’ inventories, with sources connected with the investigation saying that crude, “should not have been there.”
Yet the police have no evidence that the oil came from IS, or whether it came from another non-extremist group of traffickers, because the cargoes passed through intermediaries, which helped the original senders mask their tracks.
(Excerpt) Read more at oilprice.com ...
And here I had thought the Mafia had honor, something that ISIS has long since redefined as applying only to Muslims, and only certain kinds of Muslims at that.
Could it be the Mafia is just a bunch of common thugs, an older iteration of MS-13?
I feel so disillusioned. < /sarcasm >
Hey, you make a buck wherever you can.
Hey, It’s the mafia! waddya spec?
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