Posted on 07/02/2018 10:12:46 AM PDT by bananaman22
Islamic State was selling oil and gas to the Syrian regime and to Turkey, while the militants were ruling over large areas in Syria and Iraq over the past three years, a senior ISIS commander said in an interview with the Kurdistan 24 news outlet on Sunday.
“Oil and gas obtained by the Islamic State was sold to Turkey and the Syrian regime,” Razeek Radeek Maksimo, an Azerbaijani national and formerly senior ISIS commander, told Kurdistan 24 from a prison in Rojava where he is held by Syrian Kurdish authorities.
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Once you know the Erdogans were marketing ISIS oil, the game is exposed.
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I can understand Turkey’s motivations.
But Assads? Isn’t Assad fighting ISIS? Buying from them would be funding your enemy?
Trump’s pre-election comments about taking the oil fields away and defunding them were spot on.
Assad is pretty stupid. They probably dressed up in Saudi robes and said it came from Saudi.
Yes. it is true. Have long know it.
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