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Petrodollar Panic: EU Officials Admit Buying Oil From ISIS

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We recently explained how ISIS remains so well funded but what was unclear was who exactly what purchasing their 'recently-provisioned' oil reserves? The assumption being some desperate third-world nation or some scheming offshore hedge-fund arbitrageur; however, as Sott.net reports, a senior European Union official has revealed that some EU member states have purchased oil from ISIL Takfiri militants despite their rhetoric against the group. The official declined to disclose any names but Turkey remains a front-runner (having already shunned President Obama) and potentially France (after their recent anti-Petrodollar comments).

 

As The Daily Signal's Kelsey Harkness ( @kelseyjharkness ) notes,

According to the Iraq Energy Institute, an independent, nonprofit policy organization focused on Iraq’s energy sector, the army of radical Islamists controls production of 30,000 barrels of oil a day in Iraq and 50,000 barrels in Syria.

 

And now we know who is buying... (as Sott.net reports)

A senior European Union official has revealed that some EU member states have purchased oil from ISIL Takfiri militants despite their rhetoric against the group.

 

In a briefing to the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, EU Ambassador to Iraq Jana Hybas-kova said some European countries have purchased crude from the ISIL.

 

She, however, refused to disclose any names despite pressure by some Parliament members to do so.

 

The EU official also warned against any support by the West for separatist Kurdish groups who, she said, would destabilize the Middle East.

 

Earlier reports accused Turkey of buying and transporting oil from both the ISIL and Qaeda-linked Nusra Front. According to the reports, Western intelligence agencies could track ISIL oil shipments as they moved across Iraq and Turkey.

 

ISIL reportedly controls eleven oil fields in northern Iraq as well as Syria's Raqqa province.

 

US intelligence officials estimate that the Takfiri militants earn more than USD 3 million a day from oil profit, theft, human trafficking and ransom. They say the militants sell oil and other products via established networks in Turkey, Jordan and Iraq's Kurdistan region. ?Turkey has denied reports of involvement in ISIL's oil smuggling operations.

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How long before US places sanctions directly on these European nations (instead of implicitly through Russia)?

 

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Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:04 | 5219264 Hippocratic Oaf
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This whole ISIS situation looks almost too hollywierd produced to believe.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:05 | 5219273 summerof71
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production value is about onpar with the moon landing..

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:12 | 5219312 InjectTheVenom
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more smoke & mirrors ! !      HAH ! !

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:24 | 5219359 knukles
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And Barry thinks the Europeans are going to stand up to ISIS and Putin.
Hah ha ha ha ha ha

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:25 | 5219364 whotookmyalias
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Because regardless of what anyone says, oil takes priority.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:32 | 5219393 insanelysane
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You ever get the feeling that Kerry and Obama have been told by these countries that they are allies against us, but due to their arrogance believe these countries said they would be our allies???

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:35 | 5219401 Serfs Up
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This is all unpossible.

The IEA has said the world is awash in oil.

Why would anyone risk buying from ISIL when there's so much to be had elsewhere at the click of a button?

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:41 | 5219421 max2205
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I hope they got the Kerry discount...LOL

FOOLS

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 15:55 | 5219742 Manthong
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“Why would anyone risk buying from ISIL when there's so much to be had elsewhere at the click of a button?”

 

Because “Isis militants are selling their oil between £15  ($25) and £36 ($60) per barrel.”.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iraq-crisis-isis-sells-stolen-crude-oil-raising-over-1-million-per-day-1462389

Tue, 09/16/2014 - 06:34 | 5221851 LostandFound
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This boils my fucking blood! the best way to stop these muppets is to cut off their money supply and instead we aid them by buying on the black market.

We are just asking to be nuked.....

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:44 | 5219439 Chupacabra-322
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Wait a minuite. That meas the Criminal EU is aideing & a bedding the enemy which means the Criminal UNITED STATES, COPR INC. needs to prosecute then under the Patriot Act / NDAA.

What a joke.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 17:29 | 5220055 Mentaliusanything
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They supply the dollars for oil to buy the projectiles for the weaponary.. Vertical intergration with the bonus that every one wins in a circle jerk of love for profit over peace. Cry me a river.

War on terror is a boondoggle to support economic growth.... and fuck anyone who gets between it

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 18:38 | 5220299 Freddie
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The EU is aiding and abetting beheaders in staged Wag the Dog blue screen productions. 

They could at least get some English stage actors doing Shakespearean type speeches before they are beheaded (sic).   Alas Cameron - I knew him well. 

They also need better costumes.  The perfectly clean orange perp walk outfits look too much like someone in Burbank ran over the California Bureau of Prisons to get a perp outfit.

The Paramount backlot never looks so deserty to me,   Looks like some of the old westerns they shot there.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 23:55 | 5221336 Anybody
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+1000

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:38 | 5219394 hobopants
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ISIS seems like some western intelligence op gone bonkers. Like "Opps! lost control over that radical group, now they're just running amok randomly causing mayhem. Lets see how can we salvage this thing...hey look an orange jump suit and a ninja outfit, now to find a mac with imovie and we're set!"

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 15:14 | 5219550 thamnosma
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I figure it's something along those lines but also with very sophisticated players behind what on the surface look like a "bunch of crazies".   Some ISIS videos show them pulling cars over on Iraq highways and using laptops to identify targets they are looking for -- Iraqi army types or collaborators now dressed as civilians.  They know what they are doing. 

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 16:21 | 5219855 cro_maat
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They know what they are doing and the spook outfits (CIA / Mossad) know what they are doing as well. Notice how oil goes through Turkey before entering Europe for purchase. This was what the CIA / MIC did during the Vietnam war with opium from the Golden Triangle. I met a UN soldier who was stationed in Tehran during the Vietnam War who said his job was to guard the US C-130s that flew in every day from Vietnam loaded with opium. They would transfer this to several smaller planes and fly the shipment to Turkey where it would be delivered to the rest of the world. Turkey became the fall guy in case problems arose.

You can tell that ISIS / ISIL is sanctioned and run by the West because they were given a major cache of US weapons and equipment. US military SOP is to destroy (or use killswitchs on vehicles) any equipment / weapons that could possibly fall into enemy hands. Since this was not done then the U.S. military / Langley / State Dept. consider ISIS an ally / proxy.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 15:26 | 5219618 DetectiveStern
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Mon, 09/15/2014 - 16:38 | 5219908 SDShack
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So the EU buys discount oil from ISIS, and Kiev thinks the EU will have their back against Russia when it comes to NatGas - LOL! Better beware who is standing behind you Kiev and what their real intentions are!

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:13 | 5219316 TeamDepends
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Mmmm ISIS oil, the richest kind!

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 15:47 | 5219699 ILLILLILLI
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"Look for it in the plain brown wrapper."

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:28 | 5219379 Dr Strangemember
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This is good for the stockmarket, no????? 

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:28 | 5219381 El Vaquero
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You're seeing the price of oil without the "owners" of the fields having to do any maintenence on the equipment, without having to pay taxes to a state governement, without having to do any upstream spending for future production and without having to pay shareholders.  If we were to just back off, we'd see ISIS lose its capacity to produce oil without anybody doing anything.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:40 | 5219417 hobopants
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Question is are they moving enough of the stuff to explain the drop in price?

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:47 | 5219458 El Vaquero
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Probably not a lot.  That shit's traded in paper.  Until the paper pushers do something that breaks production, they can manipulate the price however they want.

 

What'll be interesting to see, if their production starts to falter, is if they move on Saudi Arabia's oil fields.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 16:19 | 5219850 Poundsand
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I don't think we will have to wait for their production to start to falter before they move on the Saud's. 

It's all a question of timing and dealing with the threat the US poses.  No one else has the capacity to stop them at this point.  Will be interesting to see what happens when they have even the slightest victory against the US.  Will the masses jump on the bandwagon, or remain on the sidelines.  And no, cutting off a reporter's head doesn't count.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 16:26 | 5219874 cro_maat
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The US doesn't pose a threat to ISIS. The bombing raids to come will be on Assad controlled military targets. ISIS is a smoke screen to finally invade Syria.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 17:03 | 5219973 Poundsand
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Obama's not a threat.  The US military is. 

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:41 | 5219430 Bangin7GramRocks
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OH SNAP!

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:11 | 5219309 thunderchief
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The things the west will do for oil.

How about an Isis sit down in the white House.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:15 | 5219325 nope-1004
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Sit down?  There's an ISIS prez there now, ffs.

 

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 16:27 | 5219880 cro_maat
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You mean John McCain's endorsement wasn't enough?!

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 16:42 | 5219929 XitSam
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Beer Summit!

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:12 | 5219313 FeralSerf
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How is it so different from the Afghanistan opium production and trade?

It's just Company business. And the America military is its body guard.

Follow the money. In whose pockets does the money ultimately end up in?

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:04 | 5219267 williambanzai7
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Surprise surprise....not

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:05 | 5219270 Four chan
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pretty organized for a new organization, unless this is all bullshit to get us into another pointless war in the middle east.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:06 | 5219274 Dr. Engali
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It's funny how they always get the letters CIA mixed up with ISIS in these articles. Are there any editors around here?

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:31 | 5219390 El Vaquero
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Or, after creating ISIS, we lost control of them. 

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:10 | 5219275 sleigher
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Israeli Secret Intelligence Service

 

edit: IF the US and petrodollar is really in the trouble so many think it is, doesn't it stand to reason Israel needs to do something to shore up its own oil supplies?  Money supplies?  whatever?

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:42 | 5219433 Flagit
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I wonder what ISIS is going to call their new petrol-backed currency.

The Sand-dollar?

Allah's?

Uocod's (use our currency or die)

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:04 | 5219276 MarsInScorpio
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Sluts.

-30-

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:06 | 5219280 pan
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They were for buying oil from ISIS before they were against it.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:42 | 5219432 Osmium
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That and "First we have to buy the oil to know who is selling it".

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:05 | 5219285 DCon
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BERLIN: Germany said Friday it had prohibited activities in support of ISIS, warning the "terrorist" group operating in Iraq and Syria also posed a threat to Europe.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the immediate ban included the recruitment of jihadist fighters, the public display of ISIS symbols and signs and social media propaganda.

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Sep-12/270471-germany-...
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)

Is buying oil considered support?

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:27 | 5219371 knukles
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No.  Buying oil is Not Support for ISIS.
Because your minions cannot go cold or be immobilized.
They get mad.
Cast you out of the Honeycomb.

But recruiting for ISIS or hanging signs are serious measures which will bring them to their knees

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:06 | 5219287 Winston Churchill
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What a cluster.Farce at its best.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:06 | 5219289 trigasux
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Does this mean traditional oil prices will have to compete?

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:07 | 5219293 astoriajoe
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which country has the lowest refining margins?

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:08 | 5219298 Theta_Burn
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What should shock everyone more is that the Israeli's let them muscle in on thier discount

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:08 | 5219300 rejected
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Talk about hypocrisy.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:08 | 5219301 U4 eee aaa
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They would probably buy meat from the Nazis too (fresh killed and cooked in the oven yesterday)

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:15 | 5219329 FeralSerf
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The average Ukrainian woman strongly prefers to buy whole chickens rather than sausage or ground meat. They have historical reasons for this preference.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 16:09 | 5219807 booboo
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WOW! a whole chicken. I've heard of a French Tickler. Thats with the feathers I presume.

 

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:09 | 5219304 ZeroPoint
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And the fiat money charade goes round and round.....

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:12 | 5219311 localizer
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Actually seeing the events unfold it now seems to me that both ISIS and Ukraine events are in fact very much related and have been planned well in advance... in a way one has to admire the audacity and sophistication of the CFR tribe planners! Yet I'm afraid the world is too complex even for them...

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 16:11 | 5219813 booboo
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"Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the mouth"

God

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:19 | 5219319 JRobby
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"Sammy, I heard you bought junk from Izzy the Push?"

"I'm sorry man, I'm am addict. I needed a fix right then and Izzy was there, you know how it is man!"

"Hey Sammy, we are done, fuck you"

 

(are the reporters gone? Cool! Sammy, you know I don't mean it right? Just keeping up appearances, you know?)

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:19 | 5219333 alexcojones
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But but but, all those beheadings

Not to worry, Saudis have ISIS beat in the oil & beheading industry.

Saudi Arabia executes 19 in one half of August in 'disturbing
Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:20 | 5219339 p00k1e
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Nuke Britain!

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:31 | 5219373 alexcojones
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Let me see: ISIS controls VAST Stretches of Syria.

Syria shares border with ISRAEL.

ISIS threatens USA, Europe, Russia, Suez canal, Mars, Uranus etc.

BUT, ISIS does not threaten Israel.

"To learn who rules you simply find out who you aren't allowed to criticize." ~ Voltaire
Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:33 | 5219398 p00k1e
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And “We the People” are trapped on the burning wheel.

 

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 17:39 | 5220086 Lea
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"BUT, ISIS does not threaten Israel."

Before you let your imagination run away with you, check where ISIL is in Syria. In the north.

The Israel border is right in the south. And in the middle, the Syrian official army. So maybe ISIL doesn't threaten Israel BECAUSE IT CAN'T.

Can't even read a map, but has to somehow vent its rabid paranoid antisemitism.  


Mon, 09/15/2014 - 18:57 | 5220366 paddyirishman
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hey lea you hasbara troll, man you tribe lot are natural born liars, the mossad front group isis kidnapped un troops on the golan heights which is on the border between syria and israhell, in addition israel have been treatening their isis troops there, even bibi visited.

 

in addition the jews in israel are not semites they're ashkansi from present day Ukraine, the real semites are the Palestinians that you lot are murdering

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:29 | 5219377 Atomizer
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You have to wonder how Obama could keep a straight face during 9/10/14 ISIS wardrum speech. 

 

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:37 | 5219404 jay28elle
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I'm sure he was giggling as he walked away from the podium

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:38 | 5219413 JRobby
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Medication

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:30 | 5219385 the tower
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UK and France have been buying oil from ISIS a mate in London tells me.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:31 | 5219387 Fuku Ben
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The coalition hadn't officially placed ISIS on the official terrorist organization list at the time of the purchases so its all okay.

They'll be more cautious in the future and work more closely with their partners in tyranny to ensure they fund and supply their covertly created and run terror groups in a way that can't be disclosed.

Isn't that how the game works?

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:33 | 5219397 Joe Tierney
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Those stinky French are buying dirty oil, eh?

 

That's their "white flag waving", telling ISIS not to target France and French victims.

 

I'll just bet the British are gonna love the French even more, now!

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:57 | 5219490 Analyse2
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Stupid

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:34 | 5219403 LawsofPhysics
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When fraud is the status quo, possession is 100% of the law.

Possession of what you say?  Well, in order to actually do or build anything, you need energy, period.

Specifically, calories that can be consumed.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:36 | 5219405 p00k1e
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The Scots are doing the right thing by getting away from the Terrorist supporting Queen.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:40 | 5219420 JRobby
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If they can see it as you describe. Yes.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:51 | 5219467 thamnosma
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LOL, right into the arms of the EU.  Please....

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:37 | 5219408 venturen
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if only we could all shun Obama!

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:44 | 5219447 p00k1e
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Turncoat Brits.

Shaft Intro Original

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehg2EaYhoJs

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:49 | 5219463 thamnosma
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Despite their rhetoric on establishing an ever-growing Caliphate, they can spread only so far before running up against real militaries.  IS is not going to take over Turkey, for instance.  At some point they will begin making moves to create an accepted state, at least accepted by some.  They might try to grab some of Jordan.  The longer they hold and consolidate their radical Sunni enterprise, the West will have to deal with them as a settled deal.   However, the west seems determined to escalate the situation into more war and chaos for the time being.  I'm just imagining the blowback from this new push to arm and train "moderate rebels" in Syria.  Black comedy to the nth degree.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 16:58 | 5219962 SDShack
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ISIS is just a proxy creation to counter Iran. The CIA/USSA is just reconstituting the Iraq Baathist Party to do the dirty work that no else wants to do to contain Iran. Only this time it has to be in a New State since Iraq doesn't exist anymore for all practical purposes, and Syria can't exist in it's present form to get Qatar/Saudi Nat Gas. So enter ISIS, which has been awarded the worthless sandlands of East Syria and West Iraq, but not the rich oil lands, or the fertile lands. Just strong enough and crazy enough to suck Sunni fighters from every failed Sunni state and money from every rich Arab state, and make the Shiite Iranians pause and plan for the new threat. All this to create a "stable Jihadist zone" in no-mans land, surrounded on all sides by West-Friendly proxies, except for one direction... towards Iran. Meanwhile the West uses the cover to take out Assad.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 14:53 | 5219471 In.Sip.ient
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What was that again?

F__k the EU! (?)

 

I guess we just got the response to that one.

 

Wears well doesn't it!

 

 

 

 

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 15:01 | 5219505 Flybyknight
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So to be clear James Foley's family are not allowed to pay a ransom to IS to save their sons life but its OK to buy oil from IS... Our leaders have the morals of sewer rats.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 17:47 | 5220110 Lea
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"So to be clear James Foley's family are not allowed to pay a ransom to IS to save their sons life but its OK to buy oil from IS... Our leaders have the morals of sewer rats."

Check who was James Foley before you shed any tears.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/james-foley-went-looking-to...

Otherwise, you're right about our leaders, even though your comparison is not nice to sewer rats.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 23:24 | 5221245 numapepi
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That is totally unfair!!!! Sewer rats have feeling too!

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 15:10 | 5219511 SmittyinLA
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NJ asphalt refineries are also buying (seriously) http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/01/oil-axeon-iraq-idUKL2N0Q729T201...

its a jersey thing 

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 15:03 | 5219514 craus
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Alright you got your caliphate, just stop taking people's heads off.

That's reserved for the Japanese testing their swords.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 15:15 | 5219555 stockbroker
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Isis can not be accused of anti-semitism

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 15:16 | 5219563 joego1
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Suddenly the world dosen't seem so orderly.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 15:15 | 5219565 ThroxxOfVron
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WHICH NATIONS & CORPORATIONS ARE BUYING FROM ISIS?

WHICH BANKS ARE FACILITATING THESE TRANSACTIONS?

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 15:18 | 5219580 Overflow-admin
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European official sez prefer to buy oil from ISIS instead of evil Russians.

MIFFED!

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 15:40 | 5219652 Chuck Knoblauch
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Why would ISIS sell Iraqi oil to Europe?

I thought these crazy fanatics were idealists?

The media presents them as mad dogs.

They act like businessmen?

Are they wearing silk suits under their black PJ's?

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 15:38 | 5219660 q99x2
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ISIS(L)-Al-Queda works for the Bush family.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 15:46 | 5219668 Chuck Knoblauch
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ISIS wearing silk suits under their black PJ's?

hahahahahaha.... what a fucking joke all this is!

Terror training at Oxford, Georgetown, and Jewville Universities?

Not your typical cave dweller.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 15:42 | 5219676 Catullus
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Yawn

Just give them their own state. That's the worst thing that could happen to them.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 15:48 | 5219709 Chuck Knoblauch
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Do the Muslims fighting for ISIS know their leadership is Israeli?

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 16:06 | 5219796 Bankster Kibble
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This is all over talk radio, but the mainstream press still says "attack ISIS."  Is there still a chance that American citizens can sway Congress and the White House?  If even the Brits don't want to spend the resources and it was THEIR citizen who got beheaded, why do we get all excited?

 

This is beginning to sound like what happened last year when we were preparing to invade Syria.  Maybe I might send more mail to my Congress-critters.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 16:13 | 5219826 esum
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ISIS doesn't threaten ISRAEL...... because unlike the ussa ....it has the will to react..... 

besides muslim killing muslim is fun to watch and is the strategy to begin with

 

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 17:31 | 5220062 Lea
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"They say the militants sell oil and other products via established networks in Turkey, Jordan and Iraq's Kurdistan region".

If that's a rag-tag jihadist bunch, I am the Queen of England. Question is, whose well-organized merc army are they?

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 19:43 | 5220502 GotGalt
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I think it's high time team USA sent in the expendables to deal with this situation.  Stallone, Statham, Schwarzenegger, Lundgren and crew will show ISIS what's what!  :-)

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 20:51 | 5220760 Sheppy
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"The EU official also warned against any support by the West for separatist Kurdish groups who, she said, would destabilize the Middle East."

 

Yes, because up till now it's just been a bastion of stability. Idyllic, even.

Mon, 09/15/2014 - 23:28 | 5221256 numapepi
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I thought Europe was all terrified of global warming?

Now I find out they don't mind getting their heads cut off, and burning the planet alive... so they can drive their smart cars to the Place St. Germain for Pastis?

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