Posted on 12/11/2015 9:06:34 AM PST by Navy Patriot
Syrian President Bashar Assad's government has been buying oil from the Islamic State group, which has made over $500 million so far through the trade, a top U.S. Treasury official said Thursday. Adam Szubin added that some of the ISIS oil went to Turkey -- an allegation also made by Moscow after Ankara downed a Russian fighter jet on the Syrian border late November.
Szubin, speaking at Chatham House in London, said that the militant group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, was selling $40 million a month worth of oil, which is sent on trucks across the battlefront of the Syrian civil war and sometimes further, Reuters reported. He added that large amount of the oil goes to areas under Assad's control and some to ISIS-held regions in the war-torn country
"ISIL is selling a great deal of oil to the Assad regime," Szubin, acting under secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence with the Treasury, reportedly said. "The two are trying to slaughter each other and they are still engaged in millions and millions of dollars of trade," Szubin said referring to the Assad regime and the ISIS.
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Szubin uses the term ISIL.
HusseinCo always says ISIL, as does honorary Democrat Mitch McConnell.
This sounds like propaganda to bolster the Fraud’s anti-Assad campaign.... “Look how much money ISIL, er, ISIS, is making from Assad!!”
It sounds like ISIS is the only ones making profits selling oil! I think Exxon needs to hire them as consultants.
While ISIS has made record profits as oil traders for two years under the protection of US air power, Exxon may have difficulty hiring them, as, in two months, Russia has made many of them dead, and destroyed much of their transport infrastructure, while invigorating the Syrian Army in "regulating" their oil trading.
ISIS in Syria are probably considering retirement to the United States, if they haven't already been retired by the Russian retirement system.
When is GE going to start building plants in the Republic of ISIS?
Not the "Republic", ...The Caliphate of Iraq and the Levant.
GE will probably start small with environmentally safe breeder reactors and nuclear fuel reprocessing facilities.
Obama blows up a few ISIS Oil Tanker trucks then drops cash to pay for the damage
Effectively accurate.
Note how easy it is for ISIS associated dealers to move the money paid for stolen, pirated or tribute oil through the Western, IMF, EU, World Bank banking system.
Russians or Eastern Europeans whom are simply friends or contractors with the Russian government or government officials have frozen accounts and Western arrest threats.
They should pose as San Bernardino public employees and they could move their money anywhere.
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