Posted on 11/27/2015 8:06:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“Turkish fighter jets shot down a Russian-made warplane near the Syrian border on Tuesday after repeatedly warning it over air space violations, Turkish officials said, but Moscow said it could prove the jet had not left Syrian air space.”
Just the other day, “American warplanes destroyed around 280 of ISIS' oil tanker trucks along the Syria-Iraq border on Monday, U.S. officials told NBC News.”
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“U.S. air strikes targeting ISIS oil assets are so rare that PBS was caught using footage of Russian fighter jets bombing an oil storage facility in Syria and passing it off as evidence of the U.S. targeting the Islamic State’s oil infrastructure.”
“U.S. military pilots have also confirmed that they were ordered not to drop 75 per cent of their ordnance on ISIS targets because they could not get clearance from their superiors.”
Will this bombing by Russia or the United States stop the money flowing to ISIS terror in the West? Probably not. “Islamic State is still extracting and selling oil in Syria and has adapted its trading techniques despite a month of strikes by U.S.-led forces...”
Who is buying the ISIS oil on the black market?
Some say Turkey buys ISIS oil. The key question is, how much of an illegal trade is there? The New York Times cited experts who placed the figure “at $1 million to $2 million a day.” Speaking to Al-Monitor, a presidential adviser who preferred to remain anonymous dismissed this claim. He said, “This is impossible. A barrel of oil would be sold for about $50 on the black market. This means 400,000 barrels of oil a day passing illegally from Iraq or Syria to Turkey.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
If the Trump presidential campaign wants to know more about who funds ISIS, they should, as usual, follow the money. Then report to the American people who pays for the terror we see in Paris and around the world.
Obama has us allied with Turkey and, thus, with ISIS.
We were doing 7 (just 7) bombing runs a day and more than half of those never dropped any bombs because of our ‘rules on engagement.’
Russia shows up and kicks ass. Russia is our natural ally. White Christian and European. Instead, America is getting in bed with the Muzzies and terrorists.
That is exactly what I think. Turkey, and primarily the son of their President Erdogan, is making millions of off ISIS sold oil stolen from Iraq.
Russia is not only wiping Erdogan's ISIS allies off the map, he is cutting into Erdoagn's son's profits.
For Erdogan, this is Personal. For Vladimir, it is even more personal, because this has become a direct threat to his own power.
The world wails about blood diamonds, but ISIS oil is a yawn?
Of course Russia has its own pecuniary oil interests. I am not so sure it is upset over the ethics here. But anything is possible.
Caliph Erdogan allows ISIS to sell oil through Turkey and is glad to dump “refugees” on the EU. Someone explain how he is a NATO “ally”.
Does NATO have an ostracism procedure?
That has always bugged me too. I don’t think Muslim countries are our allies at all.
They naturally hate us. They hate Obama too, but they like what he does for them.
At this point, Turkey is more than deserving to be kicked to the curb. They are no ally, and in fact, have been covertly supporting ISIS from the beginning, by being the recipient for the black-market oil that ISIS has been shipping via tanker trucks almost non-stop since they expropriated the Syrian and Iraqi oil fields, by being the gateway for ISIS recruits to infiltrate into Syria, by using deadly force AGAINST the Kurds who are actively engaged in confronting ISIS, and by being generally unsupportive in controlling the flood of “refugees” fleeing from Syria, and in fact, from all over the Middle East.
“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.” - Ann Coulter, September 2001.
Unfortunately, Turkey is part of the F-35 joint strike fighter consortium and is entitled to buy these high-tech airplanes.
So they are entitled to buy an over-priced multi-role incredibly difficult to maintain plane that does nothing well? GOOD.
They have never gone after the money. Now, Obama is blaming the environment for not bombing the Oil that flows to Turkey on the black market(I call bs). Russia has exposed the cooperation of Obama with ISIS indirectly through Turkey.
One thing I think that scares the establishment, and why they hate Trump so much, is that Trump will expose the Saudi connection to 9/11 officially. Many of us already believe the Saudi govt directly financed bin laden and their relationship with the Bushes(and Clintons) has always been sketchy. Remember the redacted 28 pages of the 9/11 commission they still won’t allow to the public?
I posted something similar the other day.
The establishment politicians, left and right, particularly hate Trump because he is a true outsider, he isn’t one of them. They do not want an outsider to have access to the treachery and theft that they have been employing for years against the People.
They know their secrets are safe as long as it is one of them as POTUS.
RE: Turkey is part of the F-35 joint strike fighter consortium and is entitled to buy these high-tech airplanes.
Are there no CONDITIONS attached to the sale of these planes?
Has anyone heard of this woman - Susan Lindauer? She is a former CIA asset and wrote this:
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Watched a speech of hers this morning and she said that when we took out Quadaffi - who was cooperating with us - we knew who would fill the slot - the Islamists. She said we wanted the oil and gold.
She also said we knew 9/11 was coming, we just didn’t know exactly when. She says Flight 93 was shot down and the last she knew the pilot was in prison in Florida. She herself was thrown in prison. If the powers that be are as bad as she says then I don’t know why they didn’t off her I don’t know because what she is saying is not good.
Apparently her cousin is Andy Card.
Starting from the $2 million/day figure, it'd be either $5/bbl black market price or 40,000 bbl/day.
They denied us access to ship supplies through Turkey into northern Iraq. Ally my a**.
So, if Turkey is buying IS oil, Erdogan said “prove it”, so where is that proof?
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-blacklists-russian-chess-leader-ties-assad-1476963883
The Assad regime is likewise accused of buying ISIS oil.
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