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The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking
The question of how the Islamic State funds its sprawling caliphate has been discussed in the past: we first broke down the primary driver of ISIS revenue well over a year ago, in September 2014, when we explained that "ISIS uses oil wealth to help finance its terror operations."
Daily Signal's Kelsey Harkness explained the breakdown as follows:
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. By selling the oil on the black market at a discounted price of $40 per barrel (compared to about $93 per barrel in the free market), ISIS takes in $3.2 million a day.
The oil revenue, which amounts to nearly $100 million each month, allows ISIS to fund its military and terrorist attacks — and to attract more recruits from around the world, including America.
Most importantly, we added that to be successful in counterterrorism efforts, "the U.S. and its allies must “push the Islamic State out of the oil fields it has captured and disrupt its ability to smuggle the oil to foreign markets."
None of this was surprising to anyone, but what was quite surprising is that it took the allied forces over a year to take the oil revenue threat seriously and begin targeting the Islamic State's oil infrastructure in earnest.
Today, in an article titled "Why US Efforts to Cut Off Islamic State's Funds Have Failed" Bloomberg tries to explain just how it is that despite a more than a year long campaign, ISIS funding remains as strong as ever, and notes that "the latest round of airstrikes are directly related to the administration’s new math. “You have to go after the oil, and you have to do it in a serious way, and we’ve just begun to do that now,” citing Benjamin Bahney, an international policy analyst at the Rand Corp., a U.S. Department of Defense-funded think tank.
To be sure, there are other sources of revenue: Bloomberg correctly notes that "even if the U.S. finally weakens the group’s oil income, Bahney and other analysts in the U.S., the Middle East, and Europe contend, Islamic State has resources beyond crude—from selling sex slaves to ransoming hostages to plundering stolen farmland—that can likely keep it fighting for years."
Still, without a doubt, the dominant source of funds for the terrorists is oil, and not just oil, but a well-greased logistical machine that keeps thousands of barrels moving from unknown pumps to even refineries, and ultimately to smugglers who operated out of Turkey and other countries.
Here is Bloomberg:
Most often refined in Syria, the group’s oil is trucked to cities such as Mosul to provide people living under its black banner with fuel for generators and other basic needs. It’s also used to power the war machine. “They have quite an organized supply chain running fuel into Iraq and [throughout] the ‘caliphate,’ ” says Michael Knights, an Iraq expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, using the militant group’s religiously loaded term for itself. Because the U.S. apparently believed the real money for Islamic State came primarily via selling refined oil, rather than crude, last year’s strikes heavily targeted refineries and storage depots, says Bahney. He and other experts say that strategy missed an important shift: Militants increasingly sell raw crude to truckers and middlemen, rather than refining it themselves. So while Islamic State probably maintains some refining capacity, the majority of the oil in IS territory is refined by locals who operate thousands of rudimentary, roadside furnaces that dot the Syrian desert.
Here is where it gets interesting: Bloomberg cites Pentagon officials who acknowledge "that for more than a year they avoided striking tanker trucks to limit civilian casualties. 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,” says Knights. That changed on Nov. 16, when four U.S. attack planes and two gunships destroyed 116 oil trucks.
So any qualms about vaporizing "innocent civilians" promptly disappeared when the Pentagon realized that its 1+ year long campaign had been an epic debacle, that a suddenly surging ISIS was stronger as ever, and most importantly, that its critical revenue lifelines had been largely untouched for years. Perhaps they weren't innocent civilians after all.
It is still unknown if this recent crackdown on "dumping oil", or crude which dramatically lowers the price of oil in global markets - it certainly is an odd coincidence that the price of Brent and WTI began its tumble last fall, just when the Islamic State made its dramatic appearance on the world scene - will have an effect and cut off the primary source of funds to ISIS.
But what we have been wondering for months and what we hope some enterprising journalist will soon answer, is just who are the commodity trading firms that have been so generously buying millions of smuggled oil barrels procured by the Islamic State at massive discounts to market, and then reselling them to other interested parties.
In other words, who are the middlemen.
What we do know is who they may be: they are the same names that were quite prominent in the market in September when Glencore had its first, and certainly not last, near death experience: the Glencores, the Vitols, the Trafiguras, the Nobels, the Mercurias of the world.
To be sure, funding terrorist states is not something that some of the most prominent names in the list above have shied away from in the past.
Which one (or ones) are the guilty parties - those who have openly breached terrorism funding laws - we don't know: it may be one, or more of the above, or someone totally different.
At this point, however, three things are certain: whoever the commodity trading house may be that is paying ISIS-affiliated "innocent civilians" hundreds of millions of dollars for their products, they are perfect aware just who the source of this deeply discounted crude is. Crude so deeply discounted, in fact, it results in massive profits for the enterprising middleman who are engaging in openly criminal transactions.
The second certainty: whoever said middleman is, it is very well known to US intelligence services such as the NSA and CIA, and thus to the Pentagon, and thus, the US government.
The third certainty is that while the US, and Russia, and now France, are all very theatrically bombing something in the Syrian desert (nobody really knows what), the funding of ISIS continues unabated as someone keeps buying ISIS oil.
We wonder how long until someone finally asks the all important question regarding the Islamic State: who is the commodity trader breaching every known law of funding terrorism when buying ISIS crude, almost certainly with the tacit approval by various "western alliance" governments, and why is it that these governments have allowed said middleman to continue funding ISIS for as long as it has?
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Why are we still asking these questions we all know its the USA.
"we hope some enterprising journalist"
They don't exist! Except for
Gearoid O ColmainI already asked that question but a nail gun showed up at my front door so I quickly changed the topic.
I think Tyler missed the memo on this one, judging by the content above
At the G20 yesterday behind closed doors russia said it is considering making public to 40 countries buying ISIS oil, noting that the list included some G20 countries
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43461.htm
The No Agenda Show posed this very question over a year ago.
ITM to you good sir
One middleman has been revealed.
In the fight against ISIS, Putin is taking no prisoners.
"Daesh’s smuggled oil is exported to Turkey by BMZ, a shipping company controlled by none other than Bilal Erdogan, son of “Sultan” Erdogan. At a minimum, this violates UN Security Council resolution 2170. Under the light of Putin’s message of going after anyone or any entity engaged in facilitating Daesh’s operations, Erdogan’s clan better come up with some really good excuses."
http://russia-insider.com/en/fight-against-isis-russia-aint-taking-no-pr...
Not to mention his daughter runs a hospital for ISIS terrorists and continues to bomb and execute the Kurds. Erdogan is part of the problem and needs to be assassinated.
how does a woman run a hospital for isis without getting raped by the patients?
Medieval chastity belts, FTW.
Ubiquitous Syrian passports FTW
Excellent.
ZH is to ISIS what GATA is to gold.
Recall Turkish banks killed for similar embargo breaches
The world is corrupt as fuck.
Rich white men, put their own personal funds into extreme high risk commodity projects and then bribe politicians to plough billions of public funds into military endevours to overcome their dubious ownership rights and deeply unlikely routes to market.
This whole Qatari pipeline is EXACTLY just such a corrupt scam. Some middle age billionaire white dude will be at the root of all this chaos spilt blood and misspent treasure.
Yup, all blood-soaked highways lead to Soros.
pretty sure Qataris are rich brown guys.
...with British and American bank accounts.
But wait, SOROS is from another tribe...totally differen from WHITE.
Could it be the jews fault? NOT AGAIN. Couldn't be, right? After all, they are these innocent little lambs...
Nevertheless, since we know is Zionists fault, and most zionists are jew...therefore logic is irrefutable.
And look what they need all that oil for :
Rabbi's daughter Naomi Russell does Ass To Mouth after her OILY ass gets split open [Explicit content. Click at your own risk.]
Capitalists worship money. Gold is their god. They'll do business with the devil himself if there is a profit to be made. Filthy idolaters.
Jews worship money. Capitalists use it as a tool to benefit their people.
"Islamic State has become the world's best-funded terror group by seizing oil fields across Syria and northern Iraq, selling it to brokers in Turkey from where it has been traced to other countries in the Middle East
– and apparently even to Israel."
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/isis-crisis-unholy-alliance-islamic-state-selli...
Hey Tylers,
An article expounding on the how's and why's of ISIS was recently written by Brandon Smith:
http://alt-market.com/articles/2741-isis-is-being-aimed-at-the-west-by-g...
Explains even more about ISIS than provided in this article, IMHO.
You haven't been to Africa have you. Corruption must have started there along with humans.
I've been to Africa, if you want something done, just take a bottle of Brandy to the Chief of the village. .. or Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General.
Africa is much too diverse to generalize about.
Secondly, issues such as the "old white money" phenomenon that Occident Mortal adressed to the "missing white woman syndrome" rife in Western media outlets remind us of how criticism of white privilege isn't merely fashionable -- it is core to many ethics.
Skin color is now a wedge issue. It is a tradgedy that it works so well.
White privilege is to be watched when it parallels class privileges. And that is very often the case.
The divisiveness this engenders within society (the "wedge issue", as you put it) isn't rooted in skin color itself but in inequality.
There are people of many ethnic backgrounds on my block. I happen to be caucasian. The guy next to me is not of my skin color and he is clearly more affluent than I - he has all kinds of cool toys, nice cars, all the good stuff - a much more nice house. I may some day have the affluence it takes to get to his level though it is a way up. None the less, I am happy for him and bear him no resentment. I do not see why people will not just work through adversity, no matter what adversity to break through to the better life. It took me years of taking big risks and putting up with all kinds of people blocking my goals and putting me down to get where I am. My skin color means nothing. I grew up poor and we did not have food in the house. I have never accepted any excuse from myself or anyone else to interfere with success. Is there inequality? Yes-none of us are equal, we are all born different, some of us will rise very high-some of us will not - it has as much to do with skin color as we, you and me and everyone else, allows it to. Is there racism? Yes there is. Will it be used to screw people over? Yes it will. Can it be defeated? Yes it can. People will use any excuse they can to get over on each other. I have had my share of defeat on multiple fronts, but no one ever killed or dismembered me-so I came back. If a dirt poor pitiful boy like me could do it, I am fairly sure there are few exceptions who could not - and those exceptions are the physically incapacitated, mentally incapcitated, and the dead.
The multi-cultural Marxist jew "Larssen" is here pushing zionist agenda again.
Better go fudge packing with your "multicultural" friends:
http://www.thepornster.com/video/444/bareback-twink-jews-group-fun
[Not suitable for Normal, white privileged heterosexuals. If you subscribe to this category, pls don't click]
Go take your medication.
I went, but u'r momma wasn't home. She was taking her lunch break:
http://www.thepornster.com/video/475/homeless-blowjob-reality-porn
PS. Enjoy the taste of the anti PC militia.
Did you enjoy the taste of your ass on the cock of tha WP parolee next door in the trailer park?
Larssen go get under that SAAB this weekend, I think the front drive needs some tinkering...in between tinkers you can read up your favorite magazine "Scandanavian Socialism Today"...I think there is a Hillary article in their.
There is no "equality" other than the equality of opportunity. If you can do the job required, then no creed, colour or genitals should exclude you.
There are more that 2 poor white trash Americas for every poor black American.
I guess they didn't get the memo about white privilage.
White Pride, World Wide?
Why, why...this changes everything we thought we knew about skin color and greed! ;-)
damn right
The Tribe don't consider themselves to be white.
Took the words right outta my mouth.
So let me get this straight … FACTA screws the little ‘merican guy who tries to hold a few bucks out of the reach of the US Hydra, but ISIS trades on the international markets as if they were the Mother Theresa investment fund.
"HYDRA was founded on the belief that humanity could not be trusted with its own freedom”
All I can say is that there is a Bitcoin for that.
sorry, but I don't classify khazarian or ashkanazi as "white". nor are the leaders of saudi or qatar who are funding much of this.
you must be using the same race chart the MSM used to come up with a mexican named zimmerman as being "white"
Always remember that the Majority of the masses are uninformed, will not do any research and believe anything that a Dem "leader" will tell them. The Liars at the top know this and use it. They even encourage it through the National Dept. of Education. Critical Thinking leads to independent thought so that is the last thing that is taught to children.
jooos are not white.
Except this quote from the article which is ridiculous. Russia has been very transparent about what they're bombing:
"The third certainty is that while the US, and Russia, and now France, are all very theatrically bombing something in the Syrian desert (nobody really knows what), the funding of ISIS continues unabated as someone keeps buying ISIS oil."
Anybody got any spare Polonium?
And.....the French security services had been tracking some of the Paris attack terrorists for 10 years and "knew" the others??
http://www.globalresearch.ca/confirmed-french-government-knew-extremists...
10 years?
How long do you have to "track" someone before they end up working for you?
How late do you have to be until you're absent?
The fact that her dad controls the cops and the military might be a factor in this.
Another thing to consider is that the people who 'run' hospitals only ever get near a patient by accident.
ALWAYS look at the money first.
That doesn't imply that I agree with your assesment of risk, by the way.
So we are to believe that ISIS/IS/ISIL/DAESH/AL QAEDA are openly running oil fields in Iraq and Syria and selling on the black market and the biggest baddest military with all the latest technology and gadgets cant stop them.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people, now if I can figure out a way to cash in on that stupidity I could have an early retirement
Howdy and ACP
I scrolled down below and apparently some people can't/don't read.
Erdogan just built himself another palace. Gosh almighty, I wonder were all his money comes from ?
Turkey will do everything it can to stop the creation of Kurdistan. Erdogan wants Assad gone. ISIS is hardly going to make a deal with Iraqi Shia's. So lucky for ISIS, Erdogan doesn't mind getting his hands dirty for a price.
But Russia doesn't mind incinerating Turkish truck drivers. No wonder ISIS is flailing around stupidly blowing up Russian planes, slaughtering French civilians and beheading Chinese.
Allah is going to have to conjure up multiples of the 72 chaste goats for the coming martyrs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnzdPcGACQo
So.. were the Halliburton guys toasting each other thinking they get to do the re-build?
Russia bombing some tankers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgYbiCGYy2c
"Well there's proof that the US' satellites aren't worth shit. A blind person with a stick would have seen those long lines of trucks buying oil, and the blind person would have ordered the strike. The US claims to have all these fantastic satellites, and it claims to have been bombing ISIS for more than a year, yet these oil selling activities have expanded. That tells me one of two possible things. 1. The US has shit satellites. That's why it so relies an Facebook and Twitter for info on ISIS troop movements. That would also explain why there are no videos taken by ISIS showing them being attacked by US aircraft. Or ... 2. The US is in on all the illegal activity and has given it it's blessing. The US knows ISIS is making billions through the sale of oil, and didn't want to do anything about it, which means the US is supporting international terrorism?"I'll take 'Covert Support' for $300, Alex..
This is just the CIA simplifying its drugs for guns scheme (Iran-Contra). Now, no moving drugs. Just let them steal land and sell oil to buy weapons and let them wreak havok.
Again, when ISIS start blowing shit up in Tel-Aviv, I'll start debating if they are for real.
"Now, no moving drugs."
You sure about that bro?
Pure heroin has been hitting the streets here in the USA since 2012. Which, coincidentally, is when ISIS appeared out of nowhere. The heroin is coming from somewhere....and the money is going somewhere. I'm guessing it's coming from Afghanistan via the CIA, and the funds are going to ISIS.
Ding ding ding! Winner winner chicken dinner!
"which means the US is supporting international terrorism" I would go one step further: US IS an international terrorist.
Correct Oh Sage . Don't forget Nadhmi and Al Kaffajii! !Plus le change!
Thank you for your courage
Glad Tylers are bringing this up, better late than never. The Turks "allowing" oil through their country has been know for some time, here from a year ago:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/19/-sp-islamic-state-oil-empir...
The other question is: Who then sells them the arms and other supplies?
If Obammy and the chicken hawks in congress aren't willing to carpet bomb orphans and widows, then we shouldn't even be paying attention to what happens in the middle east. Close shop and bring everybody home. Let the savages sort themselves out.
we know theyll carpet bomb widows and orphans all day long like in Iraq.
they are only holding back because they dont want to hurt their precious strategic asset ISIS.
For that we must count on Putin
This has been discussed here mnumerous times. I have been railing about it for what seems like 2 years.
But the other thing that no one yet seems to want to dig too deeply in to is how all their money gets passed around. What banks/bankers are involved? The $100Mil/Mo figure is old, and what I read now pegs it closer to half that...but it is still tons of cash, and it has to flow just like the oil to be effective. As someone noted in a post not long ago, the Feds can tell when $10K hits your bank account, but somehow can't follow the trail of 100's of millions of dollars....we all know that is flat wrong, and some bankers are pocketing fortunes.
Give it time. The Fed And the SEC are still working on locating the culprits behind the 9/11 airline shorts. Don't these ISIS cats realize they're in big trouble if they don't get their FACTA reporting in on time.
Maybe they're trading in gold. That's why Fort Knox is empty.
In The Morning, Sir!
Nice to see some fellow producers.
Don't worry. If we all band together to get Hillary in the WH she said she was going to track and disrupt the finances of these terrorists.
Hurrah for Hillery. She carries a big stick!!
Hurrah for Hillery. She carries a big stick!!
Yeah, strapped between her legs. It's got Huma's lipstick on it, too.
yuk
First thought I had when I started reading this article was "Hillary is involved somewhere". Just her sort of deal.
Follow the money.
Every alternative theory about Syria and ISIS, Serena Shim proved, on video. They killed her the same day as those airdrops to the Kurds where one was confirmed to fall into ISIS hands...
White House, Media Silent One Year After Murder of US Reporter Who Exposed Western Links to ISIS October 20, 2015
WTF, Tyler... Is this suppose to be some kind of a secret? ALL ISIS oil sales to Turkey are through Kurdish president Barzani's mafia directly to Israel, with full knowledge and consent of the U.S. State Department. EU countries then buy it from Israel. Every oil shipper in the Mediterranean knows this.
The U.S. and Israel have been bribing corrupt Kurds for a decade. KRG President Barzani, his KDP party and his mafia clan family fucking OWN all criminal activity in Iraqi Kurdistan. The average Kurd isn't involved and doesn't see a dime. Mob boss and president for life Barzani is a fucking TOOL of the U.S. and Israel and a buddy of Erdogan (who is busy shelling Syrian Kurds). Barzani's mafia is allowed to rape the Kurds and Iraqis with impunity as long as he 'obeys' his U.S., Israeli and Turkish masters. He is a sell-out; a Kurdish Saddam Hussein in the making and we'll eventually have to send U.S. troops to Kurdistan to take out that fucking U.S.-created monster some day. His land-grabbing supposedly on behalf of the Kurds is so fucking egregious that he would make an Israeli blush.
Barzani's clan has been selling millions of barrels of oil well below market price for a year and none of the money has been making it to the Kurdish Regional Government. A good chunk does make it to Barzani's corrupt political party: the KDP. That's only one of his criminal enterprises, but it's a huge one. The Barzani mafia has been buying ISIS oil (no questions asked) and shipping it to Turkey along with whatever they are pulling from their patchwork of fields. The Toyota Hilux pipeline TO ISIS is also - surprise - controlled by a different arm of the Barazani mafia. Barzani runs bartertown, and no oil flows without his henchmen getting a cut for Barzani. This is by U.S. and Israeli design. It was always their intention to steal the northern Iraqi oilfields from the Iraqis AND from the Kurds. Barzani is nothing but their paid thief, and he buys from anyone INCLUDING ISIS.
Did you really think ISIS just trucked a tanker through Kurdish territory and negotiated a sale one-on-one with Erdogan's mafia? We're talking millions of barrels here, not a bunch of little 1000 bbl truckloads sold individually (although that's the impression the U.S. would have you believe).
The U.S. has gone overboard to paint this as the desperate actions of the Kurds because the Iraqi government in Baghdad isn't sending the Kurds their share of Iraqi oil revenue. While that part is true, it turns out that the U.S. and Israel are the ones originally bribing Baghdad to interfere with payments, and Baghdad has been stealing most of the oil revenue for themselves with the help and consent of Western bankers anyways.
Kurds selling 'their own' oil because Baghdad isn't sending tax revenues IS A U.S. AND ISRAELI engineered crisis to justify independent Kurdish oil sales. Israel's interest isn't just discounted oil (for now). Iraq still refuses to sell Israel any of it's oil directly, so it's 'arranging' theft of Iraqi oil through their paid-off monkey Barzani through his personal mafia. This is all greasing the skids for the U.S. and Israel-engineered Kurdish independence movement, allowing the completion of the Kirkuk to Haifa pipeline and unlimited supplies of oil for Israel. Israel also has tons of listening posts and surveillance stuff in Iraqi Kurdistan on the Iranian border. Israel plans to own Kurdistan - it's their highway from the Mediterranean to attack Iran. Israel will kill every last Kurd if they have to in order to keep Barzani (their paid stooge) in power.
If you want the U.S./Israeli/Barzani-mafia side of the story, look no further than their propaganda mouthpiece (Barazani's son runs it): BasNews. Barzani's narratives are always 100% consistent with Israeli and U.S. 'news' about Kurdistan. Talk to the average Kurd or anyone from the YPG/YPJ and you'll get the 'little peoples' story. They fucking HATE the U.S. and Israel BECAUSE they know they're behind Barzani's mafia.
If you want the real story, then ask yourself who benefits:
Israel turns to Kurds for three-quarters of its oil supplies
Exclusive: How Kurdistan bypassed Baghdad and sold oil on global markets
Iraqi Kurds to continue oil sales despite Baghdad's US court win
The last article is interesting in that U.S. courts have decided that Kurds cannot legally sell Iraqi oil on world markets. So while most countries won't touch it, Israel is able to buy it at a huge discount and sell it to another middleman for a few bucks a barrel more. Israel is immune from goy law, so fuck U.S. courts.
I wouldn't object to Kurd oil sales if the Kurds actually got the money, but they're not. Most is being siphoned off by Barzani and Israeli criminals. The U.S. should be intervening and forcing Baghdad to share oil revenues according to the original plan, but the U.S. has put so many of their stooges in the Iraqi government that most of THAT revenue is stolen.
A million Iraqi deaths, hundreds of thousands of Kurd deaths, and ten thousand American soldiers dead for what? A dysfunctional, criminal government in Baghdad stealing so much oil revenue that the Kurds don't get their share, and the empowerment of an even bigger criminal - Barzani - to steal Iraqi oil and Kurdish oil revenue for his clan. Thanks for fucking up another country, America (with honorable mention to Israel).
Correct P IV, author surely knew this?
ISIS >Iraq Oil>Through Kurdish Region>Turkish Refineries>Port of Ceyhan>Israel>Cheap Oil
I don't think the Turks ship anything they refine, two hoots. Erdogan's son and other parts of his criminal mafia do own refineries and probably buy some of the discounted Kurd-sourced oil, but there's no refineries directly on the Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline and it would be nothing compared to the quantities of crude that make it to the Port of Ceyhan terminal for shipping. The Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline was built to feed the Ceyhan terminal for export, not for any Turkish consumption. Erdogan's mafia makes plenty in transit fees, skim and 'protection' money.
Barzani will insist that he can account for the revenue of every drop of Kurd oil he exported to Turkey and he's not 'stealing' any. Even if that's true, he conveniently omits the millions of barrels of stolen Syrian and Iraqi oil he buys off the books from ISIS for pennies on the dollar and ships through the same pipelines/trucks to the same Israeli middlemen. He makes tens of millions a month just on the skim from those off-the-book side sales, and he will - of course - delay Kurdish oil transport in favor of his ISIS/Israeli oil-laundering side-business.
The red fields in this graphic shows the previous extent of Barzani's ISIS/Israeli oil-laundering business. Every dime he made was stolen either from the Syrian people or the Iraqi people and none of the profits went to the Kurds. He's nothing but a God damn common thief, bought and paid-for and protected by the U.S. and Israel. The Kurds would string that fucker up on a lamp post, except Barzani 'owns' the local Peshmerga commanders loyal to his KDP party. They are the biggest, best paid and best equipped of all the Kurdish Peshmerga (by Israeli and U.S. design) so he's probably safe from the lamp post for a while.
And the fact that Israel buys three-quarters of its oil from the Kurds/ISIS isn't the whole story. That's still immoral and criminal for Israel, but they do much, much more business acting as a middleman between the Barzani clan and the EU. The EU gets to claim ignorance of the source of the oil, "We just buy it from Israeli brokers - we don't know where it comes from!" I'm guessing Israel buys and sells twice as much ISIS crude compared to the small amount they divert and use for the reported three-quarters of their internal consumption.
And Israel is, of course, exempt from ANY punishment for violating international laws by intentionally and knowingly providing financial support to a terrorist organization by acting as a middleman for ISIS oil sales. In fact, I think U.S. taxpayers owe them another $3 billion because... well, you know...
If what you said is true, why did the US bomb 120 oil trucks?
Help for Caterpillar sales.
Audience engagement, of course. The US strikes hit only one-sixth of the fleet. Russia, who isn't trying too hard not to, cleaned up the rest.
Thank you Paveway IV, you deserve your own column on ZH. +1000
Another splendid posting, many thanks.
Can someone now please enlighten me on who is selling the weaponry to ISIL, and why the so-sanctimonious US isn't using one of it's notorious long-arm statutes (that it ususally rolls out against all and sundry e.g. some poor sap trading from his bedroom near Heathrow) to freeze all relevant bank accounts and assets and punish any institution handling the funds?
Further (and as I was discussing with a mate who is an international lawyer), why is no one shouting out from the rooftops that airstrikes on targets in Syria by France (and previously the US) are illegal? And that a UN fig leaf would not change that, even if it were forthcoming.
Also, how come France can reportedly bomb the beejaysus out of ISIL with the benefit of US "intelligence", but the US somehow couldn't?
Lastly, let it be known that Izal is a particularly harsh brand of toilet paper here in UK.
Why no sanctions against Toyota?
As for the bog roll, whoever came up with the idea for that stuff for sure had a sense of humour!
Newspaper is prefereable.
ISIL weaponry comes largely from US via Saudis and 'captures' in Iraq.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/01/isis-captured-2300-humvee-a...
In Syria alone, there are an estimated +100,000 fighters with various colourful names that eventually spell Al Queda or ISIS shooting out hundreds of rounds a day. I don't buy the "captured" weaponry and ammo deal. Considering that they are going through containers of ammo a day on the battlefield, they would have to be capturing an ammo depot every other week. "Somebody" is resupplying them daily.
It's simple maths: No bullets, no war. Russia has done well taking out caches, so now they have to take out every container truck coming into Syria.
"Can someone now please enlighten me on who is selling the weaponry to ISIL,"
What was really going on at Bengazi?
Isn't that the question that should be asked of the demoncrats anointed presidential candidate??
The press gave her as much cover as they could, first calling it the Embassy (lie), then reluctantly calling it a Consulate (lie), then calling it an "outpost" leaving out the acronym CIA.
Not even the Congress has the guts to ask this question.
Sirius:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/where-does-isis-get-all-those-tanks-weapons...(Newsletter_19_11_1511_19_2015)&mc_cid=8e697f81d4&mc_eid=8a06a27ca5
Thanks Fence, v interesting although I don't really buy that USD219bn+ of equipment gets to them just accidentally!
@ Paveway IV
As Latinalover already elucidated, you do deserve our thanks and your own column. I remember commenting something to that effect shortly after you first posted on ZH a couple of years ago, to which you humbly replied that it was just a few things you picked up on other boards and put together. Impressive & modest.
Anyway, the question is the funding of ISIS and I don't think anyone has mentioned who bankrolled the bastards for them to start their vast expansion, infrastructure, vehicles, munitions and training in the first place. Covertly it's Langley and their much reported terror training camps in Jordan, but overtly if one browses the headlines during late 2013, it is the UK and US governments earmarking millions of pounds to recruit and fund every jobless nutjob in the ME, aka "Syrian rebels", under the guise of promoting regime change to oust the "evil" Assad and his chemical weapons. Our foreign minister at the time, William Hague, made no attempt to hide this and he is guilty of the crime of funding terrorism. With tax payer's money no less.
This links well with your research. The zionist supporters in our governments, members of the "Friends of Israel" brigades, William Hague amongst them, in one fell swoop removed the only obstacle to Israel's expansion into Syria: Assad's chemical weapons and at the same time secured them the Syrian Golan Heights captured in 1967 by openly funding the FSA (SMC), Al-Nusra, Islamic Front, SILF, etc who actually boil down to Al Queda and ISIS with the lie of the fantasy "moderate rebel". When the narrative was regime change and the demonization of Assad, our governments openly funded terrorists, covertly trained them. As the narrative has become more complex, their lies are being forgotten with new atrocities in Europe perpetrated by evil cartoon characters whose group's entire PR campaigns focus on causing as much revulsion and hatred as is humanly possible.
Another thing that galls me about our (The West's) whole year and a half of pretending to bomb ISIS only to see it expand rapidly is supply and logistics. The article mentions how the oil is exported but nothing about where the fuck these ISIS nutjobs are getting container loads of ammunition. Last year, Iraqi generals on the ground were complaining that their troops were running out of ammo on the battlefield but the ISIS fighters were being constantly resupplied with airdrops by SOMEBODY when the skies were supposed to be brimming with US jet fighters bombing them. The whole thing is a tragi-comedy of epic proportions conducted by insane and evil bastards under the facade of respectability in the corridors of finance and power.
When one digs into the worms and dirt and filth one will just find more worms more dirt and more filth.
how does ZH feel about jeremy scahill?
scay-shill ?
Apparently he hates nuns. Huh.
TRP, agree about Colmain!
There is another who eviscerates US CIA/DIA/NSA heads AND US journalists for their total complicity with TPTB on DemocracyNow today:
Glenn Greenwald
Watch his segments after Headlines. I watched twice, cheering his take-downs:
http://www.democracynow.org/
Russia is also in cohoots, because they never published the dirt files on Clinton, Kohl, Mitterrand, Merkel etc.
So if they protected 'dirt' then, so they are protecting dirt now. But possibly the culprit traders would put a ban on trading Russian oil, so they can't do it. It's a classical case for some accidental leakage from Belorus, Kazakhstan, or Bulgaria. Pay people there and you can get anything, even old KGB and new FSB files.
a recent documentary on arte france about daesch (douche) put their oil revs. at 10 million a day via mostly tank trucks over the turkish border. this is allowed by the nato pal erdogan.
as we see from recent apaches hovering over toyota parades the us presence is active in the region. that trade could be cut off instantly were it actually desired by nato. it is allowed.
the other 2/3 s of the IS income stream is from direct wahabi funding sources and the ISs tendency to extort all real local economies and their inhabitants.
ISIS sells crude oil to Turkey and Israel to raise money. Of course, the US is aware of that and can easily stop these sales if it wanted to.
The so-called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria(ISIS) began selling Iraqi crude oil extracted from oil fields which its seized in recent months and exporting it through the Kurdish region to Turkish refineries and from Turkey's Mediterranean port of Ceyhan ultimately to Israel.
http://whatsupic.com/economy-world/1407936162.html
With that turnaround ISIS should be noted on NASDAQ.
If people think that IS(is)-RA-EL is paying $40/bbl, they are seriously deluded.
It all comes out of QE laundry money.
absolutely nailed it, mate....great post
Respectfully, there is no "C" in DAESH.
It is the Arabic acronym for ISIL, and rhymes with many "bad" Arabic words, which was why they branded themselves as ISIL.
For instance fahish (sinners) and Kahesh (dumb ass), which was why the popular rap in the Middle East when DAESH first appeared:
"They call themselves DAESH,
but they are full of fahish,
and really just a bunch of kahesh,
who are just after everyone's baksheesh!"
$10 million/day = 250,000 barrels @ $40/per.
Large trucks can apparently haul 8,400 gallons [1] = 200 barrels
200 barrels/truck means that there are 1,250 truckloads of oil per day being moved somewhere (whether this is 1,250 unique trucks or fewer trucks making several trips is up for questioning). Either way there would be several hundred tanker trucks going in and out of known ISIS-controlled oil facilities per day, which all should be really easy to find on satellite or drone images.
Intelligence agencies' apparent inability to track this trade is nothing short of treason for anyone involved.
[1] - http://www.wellservicingmagazine.com/featured-articles/2011/07/crude-oil...
And the highways north into Turkey are lined with trucks full of oil...
Easy to spot with satellites and drones, eh?
Just an oversight on the part of some GS9 analyst I would imagine.
DaddyO
10 hours of work during a kinder, gentler gulf war:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Death
If Russia is the good guy, why dont they go after these convoys?
They thought you'd never ask.
don't know why you got that down vote (hunkerdown)
here's the video again inbedded in a RT article:
Russian warplanes disrupt ISIS oil sales channels; destroy 500 terrorist oil trucks in Syria:
https://www.rt.com/news/322614-russian-warplanes-isis-oil-trucks/
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/all-of-your-wars-ar...
Careful, don't get yourself banned from Facebook now!
Same game like with Afghanistan´s opium.
Who ever is doing it would have to be really sleazy! Wait, has anyone looked at the Clinton Foundation?
As of early 2015, the IEA Oil Market Report forecast average demand for the year of more than 93 million barrels of oil and liquid fuels per day worldwide – that works out to more than 34 billion barrels a year – with January 2015 production totalling just over 94 million barrels per day.
30,000 + 50,000 = 80,000.. hmmm.
ZH is asking the right question. Who is the middleman that brokers the oil out of Turkey. Akin to the question never asked during WWII regarding financing and deals with the Nazis. OR who profited from 911?
I would imagine that the money trail to both of those business positions would lead to the same pocket books.
I would also point out that US has not bombed any of the actual oil pumping sites until this week after G20. Then they hit an oil site and a bunch of trucks. So hey?
Turkey
But Really......Russia just blew the fuck out of ISIS oil industry....something the USA allowed for how many years?
How old is that information? Oil hasn't sold for $93 a barrel in quite awhile.
A little dodgy -> And some of those running US F policy have a dual citizenship, with a little country in the SE corner of the med.
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/all-of-your-wars-ar...
USA the best funded, the best equipped and the deadliest terrorist organization in the world.!
On it's own responsiblefor 20 million human lives since WWII.
Please, the spice must flow...
same as it ever was...
Yes, we're supposed to believe that the US has no idea how the oil is getting from ISIS to market. What a laugh!
Call the CIA, ask one of hundreds, if not thousands, of agents working directly with ISIS on everything from funding, training, transportation, communications, etc.
No . . . no . . . no, according to asshat jackholes, John Brennan, American traitor scum and head of the CIA, and former CIA and preent traitor whorescum, James Woolsey and uber-neocon at the FBI and douchetard, James Comey, Edward Snowden is the cause of everything wrong.
They cannot find their oil because they all have "encrypted smartphone apps"!
Yeah, that's why the CIA couldn't stop the hijackers, because they all had "encrypted smartphone apps" and al Qaeda has "encrypted smartphone apps" and the Taliban has "encrypted smartphone apps" and . . . and . . and will somebody please fire a Hellfire up the useless, incompetent incredibly overpaid skankholes of Brennan, Woolsey and Comey!
"well, sir, we can see a line of oil tankers from horizon to horizon coming out of isis territory, but we just cant be reeeeeally sure who owns it because their damn smartphones are encrypted!"
Never forget that John Brennan is widely regarded as a crypto-muslim who converted during his time living in Saudi Arabia.
And the House of Saud are crypto-____? I know we've covered this ground before...
Ashke NAZI onists!
That's the word, thunderbird!
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2015/11/putin-names-and-shames-obama-into-b...
On the way to town the other morning I happened to hear Glenn Beck shouting at the tops of his lungs that the POTUS refused to bomb the main road into Turkey.
Must've been a flash back from his using days...purely a hallucination.
DaddyO
Bunghole, Did you catch this comment from your link?
I do not want to rain on parade by US attack has nothing to do with shame. This area is about to be taken over by SAA and this is an act of destruction of state assets against Syrians.
Posted by: Kalen | Nov 16, 2015 2:55:18 PM |
Might be more to this...
Beware the Lamb!!!
Isnt' ISIS official currency the gold dinar?
I heard a rumor that the west may be a bit short of physical gold.
It WAS the plan. They have a Central Bank now.
and then, having the money and not being able to buy weapons is another thing. the next most important question -- who is selling them weapons? we will not get the answer to either of these, it would reveal the corruptness of it all.
We are delivering weapons to them by next day air... You didn't see the "mastermind"'s picture with an AR-15 ?
AR-15s are for Domestic/ME use only. It would be bad PR to use them in Paris.
Plus, an AR-15 would have been easier to trace, since Jihadists don't care about Traceability and won't file the SN's down. Only the CYA would do that. And that would be the Tell.
93 dollars in the free market? How old is this article?
And the oil from ISIS passes Turkey, everybody knows this already. It's not really a secret anymore, people just don't give a fuck anymore.
Some of it. And then Turkey resells it. It is the "commodity trader" that buys it form Turkey that is the question.
*insert anti-semitic canard here*
Aniti Askenazi. lets get our terms correct. They are no more semite than Santa Claus.
Isn't if funny how that has been covered up for so long.
Ashkenazim jews are descendants of gentile converts and therefore are goy followers of Talmudic Rabbinism. They are NOT Hebrew!
Ashkenazim are the majority of israel's population and they have been driving Palestinians off their lands in violation of the same U.N. charter that created the secular state of Israel. AND the Palestinians are a semitic people!
And where is Jon Corzine?
What are laws when they are never enforced?
Even though the problem is with enforcement, what we REALLY need is more laws. Also, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help. /s
It has to be either Belgium, Spectre, or the Anunnaki.
Too complicated. The lumpenproles will never understand that.
All you need to know is "Russia bad. Assad must go." ...
(it's just getting a little more difficult to weave into the narrative, with Russia actually bombing the oil convoys)
The lumpenproles care only about their snap cards and whats her name's ass.
One guy alone interfaces with the whole ISIS organization ?
Tyler - get the team investigating these leads:
guardian had a write-up on this last year claiming that kurdish traders were responsible for buying ISIS-produced oil at a steep discount:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/19/-sp-islamic-state-oil-empir...
Murtaza Lakhani - the pakistani broker and former glencore exec - might know who is doing it, since he has the best networks in the northern iraq / kurdistan region:
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/02a7065a-78cd-11e5-933d-efcdc3c11c89.html
being the richest people in turkey and of course well connected, this family might have some ideas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C3%A7_family
trafigura gets implicated again in shady dealings with kurdish oil traders:
http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2014/12/4/iraqi-kurd-oil-deals-fue...
"it's complicated" -
Israeli and U.S. oil refineries have joined the growing list of customers for crude from Iraqi Kurdistan, a region locked in a bitter struggle with the central government in Baghdad that says the sales are illegal.
...
The deals involve major international commodity traders, including Trafigura, one of the top three oil traders in the world, trading and shipping sources said.
...
A Turkish company called Powertrans is the broker for the Kurdish government, selling the oil via tenders to traders.
http://ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2014/5/state7982.htm
But you already know the answer, or you wouldn't have asked the question... Blythe Masters - The ex JP Morgan commodity business?
If the Obama Administration is so quick to cut off "pariah states" from funding and selling of oil, then why don't they just put an Oil Embargo on ISIS?
In theory, he could do it with a stroke of his pen -- literally -- with an E.O. And then arm-twist the European vassal states to follow suit.
The fact that he doesn't do it, speaks volumes.
# "The fact that he doesn't do it, speaks volumes."
Yeah well, then he would get a nasty phone call from Bibi NutinYahoo.
Why not an Embargo on Turkey?