Uh oh ... my sensor has just gone off.
What do you want to bet that the net result of trying to cut money off to the bad guys means invading the privacy of regular U.S. citizens? It started with the War on Drugs, Dead Beat Dads, War on Terror . . . every problem means tracking us more.
The mention of ISIS' oil wealth makes one wonder if ISIS struck a deal w/ neocon godfather--Richard Perle---who was staring his own oil company in Iraq----according to the WSJ.
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REFERENCE POINTS---Circa 2008, the WSJ reported neocon Richard Perle was talking with a "Turkish" firm, AK Group International, and also a representative from the government of Kazakhstan.
They are targeting the co-called "K18 concession" which is near the city of Erbil and is estimated to hold 150 million or more barrels of oil.
Houston-based Endeavour International would conduct the exploration and drilling, according to the Journal.
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BACKSTORY During the run-up to the neocons' duping Bush into the Iraq invasion, Perle was chairman of the Defense Policy Board, which advises the US Pentagon. He was also a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank in Washington.