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The U.S. Government Supplied ISIS’ Iconic Pickup Trucks
U.S. counter-terror officials have launched an investigation into how ISIS got so many of those identical Toyota pickup trucks which they use in their convoys.
They don’t have to look very far …
The Spectator reported last year:
The [Toyota] Hilux [pics] is light, fast, manoeuvrable and all but indestructible (‘bomb-proof’ might not, in this instance, be a happy usage). The weapons experts Jane’s claimed for the Hilux a similar significance to the longbows of Agincourt or the Huey choppers of Nam. A US Army Ranger said the Toyota sure ‘kicks the hell out of a Humvee’ (referring to the clumsy and over-sized High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle made by AM General).
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The fact is the Toyotas were supplied by the US government to the Al Nusra Front as ‘non-lethal aid’ then ‘acquired’ by ISIS.
Al Nusra Front is literally Al Qaeda.
Public Radio International – an American public radio outlet – also documented a specific shipment of Toyotas by the U.S. State Department in 2014:
Recently, when the US State Department resumed sending non-lethal aid to Syrian rebels, the delivery list included 43 Toyota trucks.
Hiluxes were on the Free Syrian Army’s wish list. Oubai Shahbander, a Washington-based advisor to the Syrian National Coalition, is a fan of the truck.
“Specific equipment like the Toyota Hiluxes are what we refer to as force enablers for the moderate opposition forces on the ground,” he adds. Shahbander says the US-supplied pickups will be delivering troops and supplies into battle. Some of the fleet will even become battlefield weapons.
That’s exactly what happened …
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US admits to training ISIL:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d88_1444954071
Not only pickups but also weapons.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rgC10y7sL4M/Vh409ENaN2I/AAAAAAAAbys/CqbxP-6Ykt...
This arsenal has been found by the military of Irak. On journalists' question a Pentagon spokesman admitted that these weapons were missing since last year.
Lol - that explains why they are still wrapped in the original packaging for one year now! I hope these liars get their fair punishment!
Jihad Joes cover their faces - most are ugly bitchez like HRC
43 Toyota trucks?
C'mon... we destroy more than that every single day with airstrikes...
There are about 4,300,000 of them out there.
The first tip- why are they attacking other Muslims, blah blah- shiites- sunni's blah blah? Instead of the Great Satan's Ally Isreal? The next: a convoy of 43 trucks, kicking up dust in the dry desert, and we can't find them?? The NSA can read our licesnse plate from a sattelite and we can;t find a 1/2 mile convoy? A convenient boogie man- and according to western media Putin is falling into the trap by bombing our anti Assad Allies - 2 plus 2 = 4! Our anti Assad Allies are ISIS!!
One of the better Top Gear bits. Trying to destroy a Hilux and only having a screw driver, duct tape and a can of starter fluid for repairs.
Can we send them a Hillary? She seems indestructible, too, despite all the problems she should have already had. Seriously, most people would be under the prison after everything she has gotten away with. But they can try to destroy her...
That set of Top Gear episodes (there were 3) was probably the best they ever did, truly a must see if you haven't already!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTPnIpjodA8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFnVZXQD5_k
Nice to see the black-flagged mercanaries have spankin new Toyotas to ride around in while they fight the next Cold War from afar.
Thanks ... those Top Gear clips are unbelievable!
give me stability, you can have my worthless freedeom (iphone, texts, endless and worthless media). I surrender all.
And in return you will receive, neither.
Will kill for a new Hilux.
BLAH BLAH BLAH ! Black Lives Matter! America Bad! Russia Good! Islam Good! Jew Bad! Christian Bad! GW and his DRONES are "Patriots"?
Every GW blog is a hit on America! More hope and change.....
Hey GeoWash? Posting a lot this month, early Christmas shopping...layaways?
incest hasbara got hurt
I hope they gave them enough Gas from the SPR
assholes!
Hey FU Ben Yellin!
Was there ever a doubt? As soon as I heard this story a few days ago I was like 'next'. LOL.
I'm sure if they were given American trucks, it would have been too obvious.
For 500,000,000 why aren't they Mercedes.
I pointed this out on Zerohedge over a year ago and got nothing but smack.
Well up your noses with rubber hoses!
Give 'em the tailpipe, Corn!
You are way behind the curve. That's all folks!
ISISISUSA
What the hell man, at least send them F-150s that way it will stimulate our economy and after a few thousand miles it will be Found On the Road Dead. Its a win/win
They build Toyota trucks in Texas these days.
For
Ordinary
Repairs
Daily
There should be a balance. Half should be GMC trucks. They would keep them busy as well. "Garage Mechanic's Companion". There would be part sales, maybe.
Make sure they get the computers to diagnose all the idiot lights that pop up on the dash.
I remember when FORD meant First On Race Day!
Unfortunately, today the vehicles are allegedly part of the First Orwell Reconnaissance Division.
The Tacoma has more parts made in America than the F-150. True with almost all Toyota's versus Ford, GM and Chrysler. Keep waving the Red, White and Blues.
yep, glad I found a 1992 Toyota 4Runner that was still made in Japan.
wow, I did not know that.
I ran across that when in a Toyota lot. The Previa was over 90% US, the Ford Mustang was in the 60% range. That was in 2006. What a wake up.
We trained, funded, and set ISIS on the world to try and create havoc. As all good Fabian Socialist nations, we are trying to remake the world thru fire.
When will people wake up and realize ISIS is simply a black book division of the CIA?
But they've got a shitty benefits package. If I were with them, I'd be trying to transfer over to a nice desk job in Virginia.
Langley, VA to be more specific, the HQ for Al-CIAda. Funny how Al-CIAda was the enemy in the IRAQI wars and now their our friends and moderate as well; what is a "Moderate Terrorist"? A paid mercenary via US GOV'T.
The American public just takes it all in; I'd bet that many would watch the evening narrative and if the narrative said that Al-Qaeda was our friendly ally; not a single light-bulb would go off in their head.
I also knew that since Hillary-gate focused on the narrative of "emails" that it would just vanish. The key was the use of the words"email server" because most people just think; what is the big deal it was just emails. Compare that to Patreus who lost his career and could have been in jail.
I'm thankful to the Lord that we, as a nation, have not got what we deserve as of yet, but make no mistake it is coming.
Why do all the ISIS dudes cover their face? Aren't they proud of their jihad?
Or are they more like the Nazis that survived WWII, and thinking of their exit strategy/next gig?
Jane's are a bunch of morons if they think Hilux pickup trucks or Huey Choppers are even in the same league of battlefield effectiveness as the Longbow was at Agincourt.
Obviously, our Government is either incompetent or lying if they think that Al Nusra Front is not Al Qaida.
ANF is not strictly AQ. It's largely a marriage of convenience that eventually will fail when they inevitably turn on each other sometime in the future. That fact that supplies provided to "moderates" so quickly ends up in the hands of people like AQ (and worse) is more than enough to remove our leadership's ability to "support" moderates in Syria.
Last I knew, the Toyota Hilux was not offered in America.
Thoroughly recommend any sturdy 4x4 repowered with a glorious 6.5 Chevvy diesel, reco from a Hummer. No chips or electronics to EMP. I have one in a Toyota Troopcarrier. All the conversion parts can be sourced here: http://www.brunswickdiesels.com.au/ And here a quick search for a source for LHD Toyota 4x4s http://toyota-dealer.org/LHD-Toyota-Landcruiser-70/
I wish the State Dept would send me a Hilux. Diesel, please.
Of course the Toyota trucks are bomb proof - especially if the U.S. never drops any bombs near any of the trucks!
Why would we bomb the very people we train and supply?
Oh yeah, like you expect us to believe you don't understand simple SUPPY & DEMAND?
You increase the demand, you increase the supply!
Dead rebels equals more dead rebels required, more weapons surrendered or taken when conquered, more weapons needed by more rebels needed.
And as the general responded to the reporter on C-SPAN the other day,
"Yes, it cost us $500 million for 5 Syrian rebels (who prompted surrendered their weapons to al Qaeda and fled the scene)"!
[That's $100 million per Syrian rebel, so the banksters which own the military companies, and the resource companies, and the oil companies, are making out like the bandits they are!]
Well apparantly the Hilux is bomb-proof how else could they have stood up against the nato bombardment for the last year! And yet Russia bombs for a couple weeks and somehow the Hilux mile-long convoy parades through the open desert are no longer occuring.
I suppose the juxtaposition of seeing terrorists driving around in brand new unscathed toyota trucks while many struggle with their bills and would only dream of a new vehicle has done much to wake many people that their governments are lying through their teeth.
Did they come with a free subscription to XM?
You don't wage western-sponsored jihad with the Toyotas you don't have. You wage western-sponsored jihad with the Toyotas you do have.
Should have supplied VW Amarok with functional emission control.....they would have been so slow and devoid of acceleration they could have been mobile ISIS incinerators