Posted on 04/17/2018 8:20:56 PM PDT by BeadCounter
Revenues from oil and gas sold to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are now the largest source of funds for the Islamic State (ISIS), as the militant group faces mounting military pressure in both Iraq and Syria.
The Wall Street Journal reports that officials from the U.S. and Europe said the Assad regime, despite pronouncements that it is fighting the extremist group, is directly supporting ISIS through the purchase of energy, needed to power the Syrian capital Damascus and other parts of the country.
Amos Hochstein of the U.S. State Department told the Journal that the group’s “revenue and energy generation is being supported by the Syrian regime.” Syria’s state-owned energy company and oil ministry have previously denied purchasing gas and oil from ISIS and did not respond to the new allegations, the Journal reports.
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He wanted to faster and with less damage to infrastructure as did his Russian allies.
It's not hard to figure out unless one's mind is blind by conspiracy nonsense.
The nonsense is demonstrated in your flimsy, funny and false proposition. And snide remarks can’t change that.
A believer in some conspiracies does not believe every conspiracy. For example, I believe there was a conspiracy involving the JFK killing but not that there was a conspiracy between Trump and the Russians.
There is no reason to believe Assad wouldn’t use chemical weapons if he thought he could get away with it. He’s not a benevolent dictator.
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