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Caught On Tape: Russian Air Force Destroys Dozens Of ISIS Oil Trucks

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Earlier today we revisited Islamic State’s most important revenue stream: crude oil.  

When US attack planes destroyed 116 ISIS oil trucks on November 16 (allegedly after dropping leaflets warning “innocent” drivers to scatter), it purportedly marked a shift in strategy. "Somehow", the Obama administration had grossly underestimated the proceeds ISIS derives from the illicit oil trade while overestimating the damage US warplanes had inflicted on the group’s oil infrastructure. 

Additionally, Bloomberg suggests the Pentagon routinely declined to take out tanker trucks for fear of collateral damage. “None of these guys are ISIS. We don’t feel right vaporizing them, so we have been watching ISIS oil flowing around for a year,” Michael Knights, an Iraq expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy told Bloomberg.

There are a couple of things that should jump out at you there. First, it’s not exactly clear why it matters that the administration “underestimated” the amount of revenue ISIS derives from oil. That is, the difference between $100 million and $400 million per year would be quite meaningful if you were talking about a corporation here, but this is a terrorist group. Sure, it matters that they’re making four times more than you thought when it comes to assessing their operational capabilities (the more money you have, the more you can do), but it shouldn’t matter when it comes to formulating a strategy to cripple their ability to produce oil. It’s not like you can say “oh, well they’re only making $100 million per year, so that’s fine.. now if it’s $400 million, that’s where we’ll have to draw the line.”

Second, since when is the US worried about collateral damage when it comes to taking out “terrorists?” As The Intercept laid bare in a series of recent investigative reports, 90% of those killed in drone strikes aren’t the target. It’s not as if the CIA isn’t aware of that statistic each and every time they pull the trigger on an MQ9 Reaper. 

So sure, perhaps the US overestimated the effect its airstrikes were having on Islamic State’s oil production capabilities and perhaps The Pentagon was concerned with killing innocent truck drivers, but it could also be that, as Sergei Lavrov suggested earlier this week, the US has until now intentionally avoided hitting ISIS where it hurts in order to keep them in the game and ensure they can still be effective at destabilizing Assad. If you cut off the oil trade, they lose the ability to battle the regime.

In any event, there are other pressing questions about ISIS and oil and we encourage you to read more in The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking,” but for now, we turn to Russia and The Kremlin’s efforts to dent Bakr al-Baghdadi’s wallet.

According to  Russian General Staff spokesman Colonel General Andrey Kartapolov, “around 500 fuel tanker vehicles transporting illegal oil from Syria to Iraq for processing have been destroyed by Russia’s Air Forces.” 

“In recent years, Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and other extremist groups have organized the operations of the so-called ‘pipeline on wheels’ on the territories they control,” Kartapolov continued, adding that “in just the first few days, [Russian] aviation has destroyed 500 fuel tanker trucks, which greatly reduced illegal oil export capabilities of the militants and, accordingly, their income from oil smuggling.” 

Without further ado, the video from the Russian Defense Ministry:

 

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Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:35 | 6815556 Government need...
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The CIA is not going to be happy. . . Time for the CIA's next backup plan.  Opium for the US markets.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:49 | 6815616 two hoots
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This is actually a big deal as Russia is fully aware of where that oil is headed/ending up and how long it has been allowed to flow there.  Stopping/slowing it will ruffle some friendly feathers.  Further out it is a 40” pipeline issue that would be in Russia’s interest to block.  This all is making a little more sense

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:03 | 6815669 nuubee
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"Illegal Oil"... sounds like Civil Forfeiture to me.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:10 | 6815695 Fed Supporter
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Eagels of Death Metal JEsse Houghes new movie:  http://www.solarmovie.ac/watch-the-redemption-of-the-devil-2015-online.h...

 

Notice in the opening minutes an envelope against the gun control by the UN>  Hows a little terrorist attack to send a message to celebrities against gun control?

 

"Jesse Hughes, AKA Boots Electric, AKA The Fabulous Weapon, AKA “The Devil” – guitarist, beloved frontman of the band Eagles of Death Metal, man of God, and (possibly) aspiring conservative politician."

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:32 | 6815774 RafterManFMJ
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If there ever was a call for cluster bombs, right there it was.

Three strafing runs would have wiped out all of them.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:45 | 6815822 remain calm
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Wait, Russia is Bombing Syrian oil fields to help keep world peace. Russia should win world peace price, nothing for them to gain by eliminating Syran oil capacity, right?. It would be like asking McDonalds to keep Wendy's in line and do whatever it takes.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 21:49 | 6816016 Bumpo
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That was cool!

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 03:37 | 6816788 Laowei Gweilo
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“None of these guys are ISIS. We don’t feel right vaporizing them.

 

lol the way he speaks of this sounds like a video gamer making a moral gameplay choice in a cutscene... so dehumanized

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 03:52 | 6816804 JLee2027
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I don't remember us being nice with Nazi trucks and trains. If they were German, we bombed the hell out of them. Let them go, and good people will die as a result.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 08:32 | 6817123 SWRichmond
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Was is economic...that is to say, you make war on someone by making war on their economy.  Always been that way.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:01 | 6817183 kralizec
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Jeez.  Isn't this going to create more extremists?

Still waiting for that rulebook...

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:27 | 6817490 tonyw
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Glad they are finally able to tell whio is and who isn't ISIS.

Good move by russia, truck drivers will be harder to find and the money going to ISIS greatly reduced.

Sun, 11/22/2015 - 19:41 | 6825749 Z-Boy
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The US can't afford to vaporize any more terrorists.  New one's seem to cost too much and without terrorist's how could there be a war on terror?  Get it?

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 23:12 | 6816264 jeff montanye
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on the evidence offered they're bombing trucks not oilfields.  if they wanted to reduce competition, i'd think they would be more involved with yemen and the much more seriously competitive saudis.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 00:28 | 6816447 Quus Ant
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Who's to say this isn't a swipe at Saud?  Ghawar went online 65 years ago, it's hard to believe it isn't running stoney bone dry.

Could the  true intention of these under the table shipments of stolen Iraqi and Syrian oil be to hide diminishing Saudi capacity, preventing collapse until the West can reshuffle the deck in her favor? 

Striking these shipments strikes at the very heart of the beast.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 00:35 | 6816481 Manthong
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What? No leaflets dropped first warning the terrorists to run away before the bombs hit?

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 04:08 | 6816815 Manthong
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geez, are you a slut or what?

Putin's going to put 150K troops in, kick ass, take names and fix the US's F-up.

BTW.. Moochie is the biggest fag in the cosmos.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 04:23 | 6816834 hibou-Owl
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Maybe you can tell the yank pilots to look out the window before pushing the button.

The round things are wheels on oil tankers, and hospitals have crosses. If you watch Playschool they'll show you the difference.

Thanks Putin for doing a proper job, maybe if the Yanks had some clues Paris wouldn't have happened.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:04 | 6817392 Deres
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They are also videos from russian bombing oil infrastructure. Mainly destroying big oil tanks. I d'ont remember any raffinery but is seems it is also possible to refine oil in crude little plant also. Maybe those raffinery have bben destroyed a long time ago, maybe by the syrian governement indeed.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 00:01 | 6816383 JamesBond
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A-10's would have knocked them all out in 120 seconds; two passes max. 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 01:18 | 6816570 83_vf_1100_c
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or an AC-130. Nice of ISIS to line them up so nicely.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 04:15 | 6816827 Manthong
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Plus.. taking out that array would be a lot more fun in a Warthog than lobbing a few bombs.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 07:07 | 6816963 ThirdWorldDude
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Same effect with a SU-25 Frogfoot, they're terrific against land-based targets.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 18:41 | 6819575 Abbie Normal
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AC-130 was already booked to engage an MSF hospital.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 02:36 | 6816721 harrybrown
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pity Obumba is doing his jewish masters work, if not perhaps we would have seen them scream in, i lived next to a US air base for 20+ years (RAF Bentwaters) as a child, used to hear them most days

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 04:32 | 6816844 HowdyDoody
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And there you have it. The US could have stopped it all in a few days but didn't. Perhaps their surveillance satellite couldn't see what was going on, MH-17 style.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 07:45 | 6817050 RockySpears
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But they haven't.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 00:26 | 6816461 hairball48
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Exactly. I wondered about that too. Cluster bombs were made for that sort of target. And yeah I know that cluster bombs aren't liked by anti-war types. So what?

The  objective in war is to: WIN

No prize for 2nd place.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 02:51 | 6816740 Wile-E-Coyote
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Drops a couple of bombs on those trucks get them good and alight, the rest will cook off from the initial fire and heat.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 04:34 | 6816849 HowdyDoody
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The sites appear to be in the faw east of Syria, at the extreme end of the range for Su-25s and out of range of the attack helicopters. The Syrians need to reopen Kuweires airbase asap, then the whole country can be covered.

 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:08 | 6817410 Deres
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Syria is easily covered from Lattakia with Su24 and SU34 that are long range tactical bombers.

Anyway, Syria is 500 km large at best, thus a Su25 with small tanks under the wing would have no difficulty attacking any point at all with its nominal 550 km range.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:08 | 6817411 Deres
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Syria is easily covered from Lattakia with Su24 and SU34 that are long range tactical bombers.

Anyway, Syria is 500 km large at best, thus a Su25 with small tanks under the wing would have no difficulty attacking any point at all with its nominal 550 km range.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:57 | 6817359 Deres
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Cluster bombs contains a HEAT charge in order to penetrate armor.

Unguided fragmentation bombs are sufficient for such unarmored targets.

Shrapnel will cripple trucks easily at more than 100 m from the impact.

Remember than the russian are using T22 bombers launching 12 bombs and flying in pair.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 04:58 | 6816862 mc225
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yeah, maybe kind of interesting, the timing of this movie with surrounding events...

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 21:24 | 6815947 Antifaschistische
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can't we loan the Russians a couple of A10 Warthogs.  they don't need bombs when they're all lined up like that.  They need the gatling gun on the A10 and a few passes to light up the whole row.   Now that would be a video worth paying to watch

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 21:46 | 6816009 Kamath
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They have the Su-25. Why would they need A-10's? :)

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 22:02 | 6816057 847328_3527
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I bet they have camel back-ups for emergenices like this.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 23:56 | 6816371 Paveway IV
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"...They have the Su-25. Why would they need A-10's?..."

For the GAU-8/A. There's nothing quite like lighting up a target at 65 rounds/second with nearly one-pound radioactive projectiles traveling 3200 fps. Frogfoots are cool, but Russian CAS pilots would absolutely love the A-10.

The sound if that gun is enough to make every jihadi within 10 km piss his pants while simultaneously burrowing into the sand like a fucking gopher. In fact, it kind of has that effect on anyone within earshot on the ground... or so I'm told.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 00:48 | 6816507 Manthong
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To think that the Air Force wanted to get rid of the best big machine gun with a flying tank built around it is astounding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHv50lXfDHQ

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 02:19 | 6816696 Nobody For President
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bzzzzzzzzzut

bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzut

Stupid ass Air Farce Gererals. The Army should have offered to take all the A-10s off the Air Farce's hands when they had the chance. But I was Infantry, what the hell do I know?

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 04:30 | 6816841 Manthong
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Infantry knows about Angels when they see them wielding a GAU-8 sword.

But alas, this is Hussein's Air Farce dominatrix.. she probably couldn't tell a Warthog from a Hedgehog

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_the_Air_Force

http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/VIDEOS/USS_Cassin_Young_hedge.html

 

 

 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 02:54 | 6816743 Wile-E-Coyote
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You don't need depleted Uranium shells, that is pure overkill; never mind the eternal pollution. Normal rounds or even better tracer would suffice.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 06:57 | 6816947 BorisTheBlade
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True, DU are designated to penetrate thick armor, those trucks could light up with much less.

On the side note: I think those bomb runs will have a muh more lasting effect on ISIS ability to sustain itself than most weapons cache bombardments so far. Many Islamic fighters are in this for money contrary to popular belief, so there will be decrease in numbers among them. Truly hitting where it hurts - wallet.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:09 | 6817210 Trogdor
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The sound if that gun is enough to make every jihadi within 10 km piss his pants while simultaneously burrowing into the sand like a fucking gopher. In fact, it kind of has that effect on anyone within earshot on the ground... or so I'm told.

From what my buddies who fly them told me, it doesn't even require them firing.  Just the hollow vacuum-cleaner whine of those high-bypass fans and some vulture-like orbiting was enough to stop armored columns and scatter the occupants into the desert - then they could line them up and buuuuuurp .... buuuuurrrp them all off to the scrapyard.  They (so-called "enemies") refer to the A-10 as "the cross of death."  And it was typical high-ranking military hubris and stupidity to end the A-10 ... but then, it's not really about "winning" .... it's about extending the conflict, depleting inventory, obscene contracts for the MIC .... and banksters having control of the ever expanding debt ;)

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:01 | 6817378 Deres
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Su25 also have a 30 mm cannon.

The GAU-8 is mainly usefull for its higher velocity against armored vehicles and its great number of ammo on board.

Using high penetration expensive uraninium ammo against trucks would be a pure waste of taxpayers'money !

Anyway, using any of those guns imply low level flying over ennemy territory far from rescue which is not the fashion of the time.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:02 | 6817379 Deres
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Su25 also have a 30 mm cannon.

The GAU-8 is mainly usefull for its higher velocity against armored vehicles and its great number of ammo on board.

Using high penetration expensive uraninium ammo against trucks would be a pure waste of taxpayers'money !

Anyway, using any of those guns imply low level flying over ennemy territory far from rescue which is not the fashion of the time.

Sat, 11/21/2015 - 19:11 | 6822394 gladius17
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"The sound if that gun is enough to make every jihadi within 10 km piss his pants while simultaneously burrowing into the sand like a fucking gopher. In fact, it kind of has that effect on anyone within earshot on the ground... or so I'm told."

The first time I ever heard an A-10 firing was at FOB Baylough, Afghanistan. We were standing just outside the FOB wall in the pitch black night listening to some kind of battle that was going on over the next ridge. All of a sudden there is this really deep, loud WAAAAAAAAW sound echoing off the valley walls, and my heart skipped a few beats. My first thought was someone must have reincarnated a really pissed off T-Rex and set him loose. I'm like "What the HELL was that?!" The sergeant says "A-10." Holy shit. That thing sent chills up my spine.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 00:29 | 6816466 Pazuzu
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The Russians have declared their AO in Syria to be DU-free.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 00:59 | 6816533 Manthong
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Go figure..

The Rooskies are more environmentally conscientious than the black Nobel Prize winning Murderer –In-Chief.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:03 | 6815672 philipat
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Are the tankers all Toyotas?

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:08 | 6815685 lakecity55
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Hey, he called out the US for creating WasWas!

Damn right he blew those fuckers up!

Take that, you lying Gay Crusader! Russia Rocks!

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 21:10 | 6815891 Freddie
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According to  Russian General Staff spokesman Colonel General Andrey Kartapolov, “around 500 fuel tanker vehicles transporting illegal oil from Syria to Iraq for processing have been destroyed by Russia’s Air Forces.”

500?!  Wow.  That's gonna leave a mark.

I hope the Russians smash the shit out of phony cIa-S-I-S and their Turkish pals.  F em!

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 22:29 | 6816121 New_Meat
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Git Some!!!!!!

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 00:55 | 6816526 Paveway IV
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Some sites were reporting that 'fuel bowser columns' were destroyed. That cracked me up - I haven't heard a fuel truck called a Bowser in ages. That was a Brit/Aussie thing - we never knew what the hell they were talking about. The name actually comes from America. Those old-school pre-Depression-era hand-cranker gas pumps were invented and sold by some guy named Bowser. The name got attached overseas to the first tanker trucks that apparently used Bowser pumps. 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:18 | 6817456 Deres
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The american announces 100 truck detsroyed yesterday.

The russian thus announced 500 trucks detroyed today.

I am sure the french president  will need to announce at least 1000 trucks destroyed tomorow to show its determination !!!

At this pace, all the truck of the world past and present will be destroyed at the end of the week ...

It make me think about the body count in Vietnam !

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:54 | 6815637 freewolf7
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Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:17 | 6815726 American Psycho
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and all the inexperienced vagina you can handle if things go south.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:34 | 6815781 RafterManFMJ
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Um, are we talking about human female vagina? The Devil is often in the details...

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 22:29 | 6816123 New_Meat
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sheep lie

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 23:15 | 6816274 jeff montanye
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camels too.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:31 | 6817512 tonyw
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goats, in fact anything with a crease

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:30 | 6815748 Kirk2NCC1701
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"I love the smell of burning petrol in the Middle-East morning.  Smells like... victory"

-CEO of Rosneft

So nicely lined up... Those lines of tankers probably look like the petrol-equivalent of Cocaine Lines to the Russians, I'd imagine.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:31 | 6815772 Youri Carma
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Kill the opium trade you kill the Bush clan. Kill the cocaine trade you kill the Clinton clan.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 22:58 | 6816211 cynicalskeptic
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They're both involved in both.   

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 21:16 | 6815917 Freddie
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/19/nyregion/half-of-new-yorkers-say-they-...

Please note that I do NOT read the f**king NY Times and all newspapers are shit except maybe IBD.

The article talks about how shitty life is in NYC because of the costs (and liberlaism but they don't mention that plus crony NeoCon NeoLib fascism too). 

Staten Island which is the most conservative borough was the most optimistic.

Only in Staten Island, where residents had a strongly favorable view of their borough as a place to raise children, and expressed clear confidence that their children would graduate from high school, did participants in the poll share a distinctively negative outlook on the future.

The reason for that pessimism may be crime: Heroin abuse there has risen sharply, and, along with high reported rates of vandalism and theft, about four in 10 Staten Islanders expect children in their neighborhoods to fall victims to drug or alcohol abuse

Heroin abuse has risen sharply??  I am sure it has nothing to do with the exploding supply of Afghanistan heroin courtesy of the See Eye Aye aka ISIS aka Al Qeada aka False Flags Are Us.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 22:32 | 6816134 wchild
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That is, and has been - plan 1 - keeping the sheeple in line...

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:35 | 6815557 buzzsaw99
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putin 4 prez

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:06 | 6815681 lakecity55
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Trump for prez!
Vlad for VP!

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:50 | 6815843 lakecity55
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>>>Trump for Prez

>>>Vlad for Prez

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:50 | 6815846 lakecity55
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>>>Vlad for Prez

>>>Trump for VP

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:36 | 6815561 Meat Hammer
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Obama sent ISIS potpourri from Bed Bath & Beyond. Putin dropped bombs on their heads.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 23:24 | 6816286 jeff montanye
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the potpourri was for the latrines so it would smell nice when putin wasted them in the outhouse.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:36 | 6815562 nmewn
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Carbon emissions! Carbon emissions! Run for your lives!...lmao!

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:38 | 6815796 Kirk2NCC1701
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I'll give you cause to Run For Your LivesCarbon emissions, meet my Corbon emissions.

Run, rabbit, run.  Dig that hole, forget the sun.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:38 | 6815570 buzzsaw99
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owebomba couldn't hit a bull in the butt with a double bass fiddle

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:39 | 6815577 nmewn
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He just has a conflict of interest while eyeing the bulls butt ;-)

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:43 | 6815591 buzzsaw99
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we used to get pictures of a smart bomb going through a bridge. now we get no video of a hospital being broadsided in the middle of the night. usa troops invented the word clusterfuck. there's a reason for that.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:49 | 6815617 nmewn
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Yeah, I guess if your fed the wrong intel from the Pentagon...saaay...how bout that youtube video? ;-)

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 05:01 | 6816865 HowdyDoody
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The aftermath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yYHCPJOtLc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STCSHxAVY2k

The US, when they destroy things, they destroy things.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:47 | 6815607 stant
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Can't find his own without a funnel unless reg is around

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:22 | 6815741 WorkingClassMan
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He's good with other butts, sorry to say.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:39 | 6815575 pebblewriter
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Nice shootin' Vlad.

 

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:58 | 6815650 ghengis86
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Agreed. Those are guided munitions and on target. But if ever there was a time to wind up a few Bears and carpet bomb a couple densely grouped targets in a wide open flat desert, this would be it! I guess targeting from 40k feet with dumb bombs is a bit tricky, but hell! You've got air superiority and stock piles from the Cold War; time for target practice!

Those dumbass camel fuckers should at least park the trucks further apart. But they take pot shots at Migs and Sukhois only to be blown to smithereens so I guess I understand. Generational inbreeding will do that.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:05 | 6815676 lakecity55
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Not their fault, Bath House told 'em they were safe.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:40 | 6815580 SMC
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Iran-Contra...

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:13 | 6815712 Lumberjack
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You need to see the hillary stories ZH has today...and read the comments.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:43 | 6815589 Berspankme
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apparently Obama couldn't find them

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:44 | 6815596 Bruce Gender
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In the wise words of Judge Jeanine Jirro: BOMB THEM

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC5iP2LFsM0

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:54 | 6815636 Shaznardickleze...
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You watch that shit? wow.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 00:15 | 6816437 pot_and_kettle
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Not for nothing, but I wouldn't need to be in too bad a way to fuck her crosseyed

 

As long as I can gag her first

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:45 | 6815599 ghengis86
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Keep going. Who is pumping is out the ground? Where are the trucks being loaded with the 'illegal' oil? Or is it so close to the surface, the camel fuckers can just shove a straw in the ground and drink someone else's milkshake?

Come on...follow the (black gold) money.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:05 | 6815679 ghengis86
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This is unrefined oil, right? If not, it's coming from a refinery staffed by ISIS oil engineers? If not, it's being delivered to...Turkey, right? Then off to Israel. Soooo....follow the black money and it ends up in the hands of America's "greatest" ally? No shit? Those guys again? Spain's why ISIS gets such good treatment at their hospitals.

All roads lead to Francis Sawyer (peace be upon him wherever he is).

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:49 | 6815619 AlaricGaudiTheSecond
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??????? ??????? ?????? !!! bolshoi Spasiba Mr Putin!!!! A real hero Not an xbox hero

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 00:37 | 6816473 AlaricBalth
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You are quite the handsome man.
It's been said imitation is the greatest form of flattery, therefore I'm honored.
Now, go find another Avatar and try something original this time.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:50 | 6815622 I Write Code
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Video is massively unconvincing, what is that an authentic Norden bombsight left over from WWII? At that rate I don't believe Russia could kill 500 trucks in a month.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:03 | 6815671 lakecity55
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The Norden was a vacuum cleaner, as everyone knows from Hogan's Heroes, not a bomb sight.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:51 | 6815629 I Write Code
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Oh btw if we're asking questions, what about the $20b/year that Iraq has pocketed from their oil production since aboutg 2005?  That's a big stack of silver, somewhere.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:06 | 6815680 earleflorida
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sadly, as with the 1st gulf war-- iraq was made to pay-up restoring all the damage to kuwait, with the 'food for oil', paying for the cost of all coalition forces...and, pay the ussa with their reserve oil for the cost of the 2nd iraqi war liberating them 

fwiw: both bushes, totally out of hand..?

special thanks to haliburton in both wars via cheney the traitor!, and, fucking 'war criminal'!!!

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:18 | 6815729 Freddie
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Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama = the same people.  Heavily involved with the narco trade in Latin America, Afghanistan, the Balkans, etc.  Stooges for MIC, elites, Soros and chosunites. 

 

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:52 | 6815632 Gregory Poonsores
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None of these guys are ISIS. We don’t feel right vaporizing them, so we have been watching ISIS oil flowing around for a year,

No shit, because this is ISIS contra.

No need to sell any weapons to funnel money though, you can safeguard their money supply to keep your little terrorist buddies in business.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:46 | 6815823 lakecity55
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"Call for you, Munchkins!"
"God, Reggie, is it...Dick?"
"Yes."
"Tell him I'm at the golf course."
"He's calling from the golf course."
"Uh, get Joe to talk to him, ya know, Vp to former VP thingy."
"Munchkins! You have to stiffen up and tell the man all his oil is gone."
"I'm...just a bit limp, today, Redge."
"Hmmph! All week, I'd say, ever since you let the I'm a Muslim cat out of the bag again."
"Awright, I'll take it."
"That Ergodan boy is on line two. Now, he's really mad!"

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:57 | 6815643 22winmag
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You can't have ISIS-contra without a present day Ollie North.

 

Any suggestions?

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:09 | 6815689 earleflorida
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yeah!

cancel his TV show and nominate him for ussa senate a second tyme

2nd tymes always a charm for this scumbag

aka, 'Shedder'

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:27 | 6815760 Ms No
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I nominate Wesley Clark.  He is retired but he has always fit the bill for a lying criminal treasonous piece of shit. 

Just a reminder, Clark recently said that .gov reserves the right to detain (prison camp)anyone that is "disloyal" to their war plans, I am pretty sure that is about everyone here who thinks WWIII is a bad idea.   

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:57 | 6815646 earleflorida
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at ~ $40bbl X 200 bbls/truck = ~$8k X 125 Oil [truck] tankers =~ $1mln.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 01:42 | 6816630 Mentaliusanything
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Oil they got but replacement tankers are going to get scarce. Long Petroleum tank builders.

Drivers will want big time "danger money"

War is a fucking racket - follow the money

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 07:19 | 6816981 HowdyDoody
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Milo Minderbender would get his airforce buddies to bomb trucks like these just to raise the price (+ profit).

 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:56 | 6817348 Arnold
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I found chocolate covered cotton to be delicious and nutritious.

 

Have some for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

 

Also I endorse Hillary for POTUS 2016.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:01 | 6815652 lakecity55
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Hell YES, Vlad! The Saudis can't keep giving them money! They gotta spend it at home now!  Bomb those fucking trucks before they get to Cheney's oil terminal in Turkey!!

As Strother Martin would say in The Wild Bunch, "This is better than a hawg killin!"

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 21:05 | 6815878 Freddie
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Saudis are burning the candle at both ends with this shit, bad demographics, a huge free shit army, money spending princes, dying oil fields, buying wepons to buy friends and getting their arses kicked in Yemen.

Here are some of those shitty Crown-Krinsky crime family General Dynamics M1s getting blown to shit by the Houthi's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVSDxPo7KNs

Those MRAPs are also pretty useless.

This is an M1 cooked not by a more modern Kornet but an older 1970's era Russian ATGM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBwKYvINTds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIZV9DKfOWY

F the House of Saud.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 21:19 | 6815923 lakecity55
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The dumbass Saudis are not using RPG screens on the MRAPS, ahahahaha!

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 21:37 | 6815973 Freddie
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Note to those concerned about when the shit hits the fan akak TEOTWAWKI - take out the MRAPs front tire.  Then cook em.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 22:44 | 6816130 Dark Daze
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After nearly a month of exhaustive research on all things middle eastern, including histories going back to Egyptian times, here is what I think. It could just be that the Israeli's are playing a long game, pretending to be friendly with the Sunnis while hating the Shia's (who are after all, a minority in the ME). It looks like when this is all over that the ME is going to look very different. The house of Saud will fall. Turkey will be castrated. The Sunni's will be scattered and bankrupt and the Shia's (mainly Iran and Azerbaijan), who have always been in fact MORE civilized than the Sunni's or their crazy cousins the Whabbaists, will have most of their former Persian empire, going through Iraq into Syria, restored. The biggest lie that was ever foisted on the west was the lie about Shia Islam. The Shia's (or Iranians as you prefer) host the largest and oldest diaspora of Jews outside of Israel. They have been there for 2,600 years dating back to Biblical times, long before Mesopotamia and the Babylonian Talmud. In addition to that the Shia's have always allowed and protected the Christians, and other religious sects, and the original Persian culture, before it was over run by the Sunni Muslim Empire, was Zororastrian, which is a religion of science and discovery, and is very close to Chritianity.

It is the Saudi Arabian madrasas that have been producing these brutal murderers, not Iran. Sunni-ism, like Sufism and Whahabbism is a brutal, unforgiving, blood thirsty culture that is predicated on the poverty and suppression of their subjects through institutionalized terror and unbelievably harsh and corrupt judicial systems. It's time will hopefully be over soon.

I don't think, and the evidence is quite clear, that the Iranians have any problem at all with Christianity or the peaceful and multiple different sects of Judaism. They have a problem with the Zionists, led and directed by a book of rules called the Talmud, which has to be the most neurotic, twisted manifestation of evil I have ever read.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 23:23 | 6816289 Cabreado
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How 'bout a short and simple recognition that a society based on personal liberty and a rule of law (based on personal liberty) transcends all the "religions" of the world, eh?

The greatist evil is a subjective thing, but it only needs to be open for discussion when removing personal soveriegnty from the grand equation -- there is the Control you are looking for; religious fanaticism is a cover and a farce.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 02:43 | 6816728 Zwelgje
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Any system is as good as the people who maintain it.

Words can be just that: words.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:20 | 6817460 Arnold
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Yeah, the Buddha had some problematic dogma too,

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 03:19 | 6816767 emersonreturn
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dark daze, you had me until you equated sufism to brutality.  please, if you could enlighten me?  everything i've read about sufism is exactly the opposite & nearer shia than sunni.  rumi was in no way brutal.  other than i agree with you.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:59 | 6815655 Duc888
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"Additionally, Bloomberg suggests the Pentagon routinely declined to take out tanker trucks for fear of collateral damage. “None of these guys are ISIS. We don’t feel right vaporizing them, so we have been watching ISIS oil flowing around for a year,” Michael Knights, an Iraq expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy told Bloomberg."

 

But we'll sure as fucking shit bomb the hell out of waste water  treatment plants, water purification plants and power plants that the civilian population needs.

Fuck yea,  Go 'Murica.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:10 | 6815693 Freddie
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Yeah the USA has no concern over Buffett's oil trains of death taking out small towns in the USA or Canada.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:15 | 6815673 Freddie
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Haha!  Love Putin and the (Christian) Russians plus support Hezbollah, who are helping Syria and helping protect ***ALL*** Syrians including Christian Syrians.

The Russians are real men not like dumb white American males who cheer their Trayvon thugs and Jameis rapist quarterback and dog killer Vick.  They are dumb shit sissies cheering like girly cheerleaders. Cheering on the genocide of whites like little girls. 

And F**k the lying, evil and corrupt Pentagram, Congrezz, Obola and the evil State Dept and See Eye Aye. Evil scum. 

Also compare this Russian (possibly cossack) woman to those Kardashian pigs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OuaMsaSiQU

No makeup, no botox, no ass implants and her hair is not done up or teased. Absolutely gorgeous.

 

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:32 | 6815755 Freddie
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Ha Ha!  Being downvoted by idiot white American males who love their Trayvon thug ball and Univ of Mizzou thugs.  Shove it girly men.

Also some State Dept Khazar trolls who hate Hezbollah and Christians and probably a few Pentagram drones who bow to Bibi like good little boyish goyim.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:39 | 6815803 lakecity55
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Go for it, Freddie!!

+100

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 21:04 | 6815874 earleflorida
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ya know[?],... that the israelites bombed lebanons' hezbollah's munitions warehouse this week. basically telling putin to keep hezbollah in syraq. putin was pissed, but, in morrows, today's yesteryear,...Murika's`incredibly shrunken world of miniture 'damocles sword`swallowing- daggars[?]' is contain'd presently in ussa bifurcated foreign-object-policy orifice's... where 'no-holes-are-barb'd'?... wonton of oil.  

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 07:25 | 6816993 HowdyDoody
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Let me guess - Israeli media said Israel bombed Hezbollah. Ah, the Eternal Victim (TM).

 

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 21:50 | 6816020 Terremoto
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When I win the Loto she's my first pick for Head of Security! 

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:08 | 6815688 Martian Moon
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I have an idea

Let's park all our combustible filled oil trucks in open terrain

 

Yet these guys can produce Hollywood grade promo material?

 

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:10 | 6815699 earleflorida
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been done

2013- present

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:11 | 6815708 Ms No
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Well.... if the US couldn't find those tankers for a year with all of their technology that must mean that ISIS laid them out for the Russians to attack, which must mean that Putin is league with ISIS!

Just kidding... of course, but expect to hear this argument nontheless.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:12 | 6815710 Lumberjack
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ZH asks the right questions...

 The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking,” 

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:21 | 6815736 Jorgen
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Very likely some of these 'evaporated' trucks drivers were Turkish...

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:41 | 6815806 medium giraffe
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Some probably said 'BP' on the side too.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 22:35 | 6816141 Beatscape
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Not just the tankers, but their refining plant too.  Vlad doesn't mess around. RuAF Airstrike against an ISIS oil refueling plant http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9ed_1447865561
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:29 | 6815740 MKD
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smuggling isis oil is a highly profitable business. the turkish presidents son bilal erdogan is the direct contact between isis and turkey.

 

http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.com.au/2015/08/is-turkey-fostering-is.html

their are heaps of articles that prove this just type in bilal erdogan +isis oil

also his daughter runs a clinic for injured isis fighters in turkey

 

http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/erdogans-daughter-reportedly-cures-i...

also i want to note a football match that was played on the 17th of november.the game was played in turkey and their was a 1 minute silence for the paris massacre but instead these muslim subhumans were booing and chanting martyrs never die

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqMHe2ltffE

 

   

 

  

 

 

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 22:13 | 6816081 Dark Daze
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By 1908 the Ottoman Empire was finished. In 1918 the British and French through Sykes-Picot divied up what is today Syria, Iraq, the Holy lands and Jordan. It had originally been intended that there would be a Sunni Caliphate, led by the King of the Hashemites (Jordan's King Hussein today, and the 47'th direct blood descendant of Mohammed) in a triangle bounded by Mosul, Alleppo and Damscus, but that fell through and we ended up with a minority Alawite sect (Shia) running Syria with the Sunni's pushed back into lower Iraq and the Arabian Penninsula. The Sunnis aparently never got over it. I have no doubt that when the full story of Turkey's (Sunni) involvement comes out, there will be a universal condemnation of them and demands for Turkey to be booted from NATO. And so they should be. They have always been brutal and treacherous, just ask the British.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:23 | 6815747 QQQBall
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Obomber's next State visit - Antarctica... he may never come back?

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:37 | 6815795 lakecity55
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I really think he and Hitlery should check out Raqqa Right Now and take a road trip in a Toyota Pick-Up to Mosul!

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:30 | 6815762 steelrules
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Would like to post that picture of shaved off beards I saw since Putin took ISIS matters into his own hands.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3279094/A-close-shave-Terrified-...

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:35 | 6815782 Freddie
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Here is some more good news.  Former Subway spokesman and sex pervert Jared Fogle got 15 1/2 years in prison today:

More on Jared:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Fogle

Fogle was born in Indianapolis, Indiana,[1] and raised in a Jewish home.

He became a bar mitzvah while on a trip to Israel, and then was confirmed by his Conservative-Reconstructionist synagogue.[6] In 1995, Fogle graduated from North Central High School in Indianapolis.[7] He graduated from Indiana University in 2000 and then worked briefly in the revenue management department at American Trans Air.[8]

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:36 | 6815787 lakecity55
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So, the kid-poker was one of "them" after all, eh?

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 22:42 | 6816162 Anunnaki
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Enjoy your footlong Jared. i hope Bubba, Leroy and Tyrone are circumsized

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:35 | 6815784 lakecity55
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Gawd, they are dumping their fighters into the sewage, unless they are high-ranking terrists, says Tass.
So, as "loyal" to the Ko-Ran as they are supposed to be, they don't even try to bury their men via Islamic law.

Of course, that's hard to do when Ivan has tossed in strategic bombing in the last two days. They can hit these pigs 24/7 now.

They are running from Raqqa to Mosul, so I bet they plan to carpet bomb the worthless cocksuckers in the open desert while running thru Iraq to Mosul.

Hahaha, Gay Crusader Bath House, your buddies don't have time for goat-fucking now! They are being "Liquidated," as our Russian Partners are fond of saying.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 21:24 | 6815936 Dark Daze
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You know, this 'story' about the families of the terorists runnng to Mosul was floated by Bloomberg, so I did a little map reading. It turns out that the direct road (48) to Mosul is held by the Kurds at Sinjar and Tal Afar, and the northern route goes right through Kurdish homelands. The southern route is out becuase they would have to go all the way down to Qa'IM and then north, right through the Shia front lines that are collected south of Mosul. So unless the 'families' are trekking through 230 miles of desert, with no water, no food, exposed to Russian and Syrian bombing, then the story doesn't hold water.

Somebody is lying their guts out, just have to figure out why.

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 22:41 | 6816158 Volkodav
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bloomberg is terrible

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:37 | 6815792 CHoward
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Since when - except for ISIS - has the U.S. EVER fucking cared about collateral damage?  WHEN?!?!?

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 23:43 | 6816292 earleflorida
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the cia & clinton could have killed obl thrice`tymes over at 'Tarnak Farms',... but his[obl] name was kept purposely at the bottom of the world's most wanted terrorist list because the saudi's intelligence prince 'turki' told [?them?] clinton, etel he was harmless and not a formidable threat?

clinton at least twice over-ruled an easy kill with cia agents besides themselves.

clinton looked the other way when A. Q. Khan was churning out his 'Milk [P-1 centrifuges (todays centrifuges can produce weapons-grade uranium in a quarter of the tyme with a higher beta-fissile grade) for churning uranium] Farm' and selling nuclear-tech on the world's open markets. buying maraging steel, special machinery easily on the duel-use manifesto and switch`igniters electronics devises,.. etc., etc.

ref:    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnak_Farms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maraging_steel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_centrifuge

ps. believe nothing they [msm/propaganda] that the centrifuges for processing uranium was unfeasable, or unrealistic. Uranium gives you just as good a bang as plutoium [breeder reactors/ heavy water] 

now, don't get me wrong about just blaming clinton,... it all started with carters Brzezinski and the reagan took it to the limit, with bush #41 ignoring everything, and clinton totally letting the whole fucking thing bake until totally 'burnt'

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Barlow who was basically eviscerated as a whislteblower like snowden, etel. and tossed under the bus without even a gov't pension.

i can't write enough about this forgotten 'hero' that will one day get justice!!!

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:38 | 6815797 matinee55
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Obama Admits US is Training ISIL (ISIS) 

Thu, 11/19/2015 - 20:55 | 6815835 me or you
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US satellites can see a lot of Russian soldiers in Ukraine but cannot see those ISIS trucks in the open desert....this shows us that US government is an accomplice of ISIS terrorists.

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