Posted on 09/25/2014 10:32:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The U.S. military and two Arab allies on Wednesday bombarded a dozen small-scale oil refineries in eastern Syria as part of an expanding campaign to cut off key sources of financing and fuel for the Islamic State, according to the Pentagon.
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The Islamic State is estimated to produce between 25,000 and 40,000 barrels of oil a day, earning as much as $1 million a day, according to industry experts.
The attacks on the refineries came on a day when U.S. military forces reported hitting an Islamic State convoy in Syria near the Iraqi border and Syrian opposition groups reported heavy bombardment in areas near Turkey. American planes also carried out five airstrikes in Iraq, U.S. officials said.
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This seems kind of stupid to me. Maybe better to do a little sniper work. We must have trained a few snipers. Oy yeh...we don’t know who the good guys are.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE?? Maybe they said it was a good idea....but participate?? Me thinks...the big lie...
So Iraq’s President knows what is best for Egypt, Saudi and UAE?
Perhaps he is more concerned their military won’t leave when ISIS is gone.
Wars are always economic in motivation. Moslem war is religiously motivated but economically enabled.
Green war: To protect the environment, coalition will let ISIS keep major oil wells http://hotair.com/archives/2014/09/25/coalition-will-not-hit-major-oil-wells-under-isis-control-in-order-to-protect-the-environment/
From your link.
“[CBS News reporter David] Martin says 12 small-scale oil refineries were hit in the eastern desert of Syria,” a CBS report revealed. “According to the Pentagon, the refineries produced between 300 and 500 barrels of petroleum a day, which ISIS used to power its own vehicles and to sell on the black market, bringing in up to $2 million every day in revenue.”
I wish reporters would not consider reporting numbers without doing the most basic math.
$2 million a day.
12 refineries at 300~500 BPD.
Do they think this Black Market Petroleum Products sell for $500 a barrel?
We could use a few dozen of those small refineries here. How come they have them and we don’t ? Defund the EPA for starters.
A Look Inside The Secret Deal With Saudi Arabia That Unleashed The Syrian Bombing
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/25/2014 10:17 -0400
For those to whom the recent US campaign against Syria seems a deja vu of last summer’s “near-war” attempt to ouster its president Bashar al-Assad, which was stopped in the last minute due to some very forceful Russian intervention and the near breakout of war in the Mediterranean between US and Russian navies, it is because they are. And as a reminder, just like last year, the biggest wildcard in this, and that, direct intervention into sovereign Syrian territory, or as some would call it invasion or even war, was not the US but Saudi Arabia - recall from August of 2013 - “Meet Saudi Arabia’s Bandar bin Sultan: The Puppetmaster Behind The Syrian War.” Bin Sultan was officially let go shortly after the 2013 campaign to replace Syria’s leadership with a more “amenable” regime failed if not unofficially (see below), but Saudi ambitions over Syria remained.
That much is revealed by the WSJ today in a piece exposing the backdoor dealings that the US conducted with Saudi Arabia to get the “green light” to launch its airstrikes against ISIS, or rather, parts of Iraq and Syria. And, not surprising, it is once again Assad whose fate was the bargaining chip to get the Saudis on the US’ side, because in order to launch the incursion into Syrian sovereign territory “took months of behind-the-scenes work by the U.S. and Arab leaders, who agreed on the need to cooperate against Islamic State, but not how or when. The process gave the Saudis leverage to extract a fresh U.S. commitment to beef up training for rebels fighting Mr. Assad, whose demise the Saudis still see as a top priority.”
In other words, John Kerry came, saw and promised everything he could, up to and including the missing piece of the puzzle - Syria itself on a silver platter - in order to prevent another diplomatic humiliation.
“Evironment” is just a cover for the real goal of Obama and the Saudis.
This was done actually to protect the oil wells that the Saudis want in order to keep their grip on all Mideast Oil with the willing help of Obama.
“Officials said the strikes wouldn’t target fixed oil fields, a precaution intended to minimize the potential for environmental damage,” The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. “The U.S. instead targeted small capacity mobile refineries used by Islamic State around northeastern Raqqa province and other locations in eastern Syria, officials said.”
Makes sense.
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