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"Get Out Of Your Trucks And Run Away": US Gives ISIS 45 Minute Warning On Oil Tanker Strikes
Last week, in the wake of Russian and US airstrikes on ISIS oil convoys, we asked three important questions:
- 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?
- Can it possibly be true, as officials now claim, that the Obama administration refrained from bombing Islamic State oil trucks because Washington thought the group was “only” making $100 million per year instead of $400 million?
- Is it likely, considering how cavalier the US is about collateral damage from drone strikes, that The Pentagon refused to take out Islamic State’s revenue stream because the military was afraid of killing a few “innocent” truck drivers who by definition knew they were transporting illegal crude for a terrorist organization?
The first question is, for now anyway, unanswerable. As to the second and third, here’s what we said:
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 month, 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.
Whatever the case, it's too late now, because just as Russian airstrikes and the Iranian ground presence forced the US to do something - anything - to prove to the world that America is serious about fighting terrorism, Moscow's targeting of ISIS oil convoys has forced the US to get on board (the Russians are going to hit them anyway, so there's no point in vacillating).
American airstrikes reportedly destroyed 116 oil tanker trucks earlier this month and another 280 today in Paris mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud's former fiefdom of Deir ez-Zor.
Of course the US would hate to catch ISIS off guard risk killing innocent truck drivers, so prior to the November 16 strike, US planes dropped leaflets warning the drivers to "get out of your trucks now, and run away from them." Here's the leaflet (note the stick figures running for their lives):
Here's some commentary from Colonel Steve Warren from Operation Inherent Resolve (delivered at a press conference earlier this month):
Early Sunday morning in Al-Bukamal, which is the southern blue circle number two, you see two blue circles there. They both represent Tidal Wave II operations, but we're in the southern one -- the one further towards the bottom of your screen, there.
In Al-Bukamal, we destroyed 116 tanker trucks, which we believe will reduce ISIL's ability to transport its stolen oil products.
This is our first strike against tanker trucks, and to minimize risks to civilians, we conducted a leaflet drop prior to the strike. We did a show of force, by -- we had aircraft essentially buzz the trucks at low altitude.
So, I do have copy of the leaflet, and I have got some videos, so why don't you pull the leaflet up. Let me take a look at it so I can talk about it.
As you can see, it's a fairly simple leaflet, it says, "Get out of your trucks now, and run away from them." A very simple message.
And then, also, "Warning: airstrikes are coming. Oil trucks will be destroyed. Get away from your oil trucks immediately. Do not risk your life."
And so, these are the leaflets that we dropped -- about 45 minutes before the airstrikes actually began.
And here's an amusing bit from the post-presser Q&A:
Q: On Bob's question, too, if -- if it's so important to cut off the oil shipments, the critical revenue source for ISIS, why did it take so long to take out 116 oil tanker trucks?
COL. WARREN: No, that's a great question, Jim. Thanks for asking it.
So, a little history on Operation Tidal Wave II. Initially, we, you know, we have been striking oil infrastructure targets since the very beginning of this operation.
What we found out was that many of our strikes were only minimally effective. We would strike pieces of the oil infrastructure that were easily repaired.
When we came to that realization, we conducted some more study -- I think I talked about this last week, a little bit -- we conducted some more study, and determined how to better strike the oil infrastructure itself, different pieces of the system.
During the course of that study, we also determined that part of the illicit oil system, from the oil coming out of the ground at a -- at a pump head, to the end of that chain, which is the distribution network.
So, this is a decision that we had to make. We have not struck these trucks before. We assessed that these trucks, while although they are being used for operations that support ISIL, the truck drivers, themselves, probably not members of ISIL; they're probably just civilians. So we had to figure out a way around that. We're not in this business to kill civilians, we're in this business to stop ISIL -- to defeat ISIL.
So basically, it took the US 13 months to figure out that the best way to cripple Islamic State's oil trade was to bomb - the oil.
To the extent that occurred to anyone previously, the idea was dismissed because the truck drivers are "probably not members of ISIL." Well then who are they? Sure, they may not be suiting up in all black and firing RPGs at Toyota Corollas packed with "spies" for a propaganda video, but it's not like they don't know who they're working for.
Also, as mentioned above, the US hasn't exactly been shy about engaging targets even when there are women, children, and bedridden hospital patients in the vicinity so it's hard to imagine that anyone at the Pentagon was worried about Islamic State's truck drivers.
Whatever the case, the US is apprently set to give ISIS a 45 minute heads up when The Pentagon plans to bomb an oil convoy which we suppose makes sense.
It's the least the CIA can do for an old friend.
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Military think tank projects expected response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FPELc1wEvk
RUSSIA does intelligent management of their 'resources' - CHINA does intelligent 'manufacturing' - US does perpetual WAR ! 1000 military bases worldwide for our 'protection' turns out to be total BS when actually they were designed to slaughter us ! Oh yeah - If you can't see that now you are Blind - Deaf and STUPID !
Blowing up terrorists is racist , you cant blow them up because of their beliefs*
Or so Obama and the P.C. police say.
Maybe the Bush family has their hands dirty with cheap ISIS oiil and just maybe one of them is a presidential candidate. OOPS!
The number of terrorists killed in Syria so far stands at 9,563,845,356,333.5.
Yea, according to Putin...
sometimes -- no, most of the time -- you are just plain dull.
Am I the only one who sees the need for a real innovation here........an oil train!!!!!! We could bomb it and only hazard the engineer. Whoo, wooo. Paging Warren Buffett.
I wish I hadn't read this, how stupid can we be.... SFB Obama has totally PC'd the military into a bunch of losers. War is war and to win the war there is a no holds barred rule. The Geneva Convention increased the body count by several fold since PC wars last several times longer. Either do it to win or step away, this half-assed PC shit is a total waste of time and lives.
Maybe this would be of interest to you.
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Russia released video of their warplanes destroying over 500 ISIS petrol tankers smuggling oil from Syria to Iraq. The footage above reveals ISIS’ “pipelines on wheels,” or their fuel tanker trucks being targeted and blown up by bombs dropped from Russian planes.
"In just the first few days, our aviation has destroyed 500 fuel tanker trucks, which greatly reduced illegal oil export capabilities of the militants and, accordingly, their income from oil smuggling," said Colonel-General Andrey Kartapolov.
It was also reported that leaflets were dropped before the bombings in order to minimize the risks to civilian drivers. The leaflets read: "Warning: Airstrikes are coming. Get away from your oil trucks immediately."
If you were trying to say that the Russians also dropped leaflets, I'm afraid you left out words to that effect
Which seems to be your method of communication.
no links. Hmm...
Problem: How to differentiate the civie drivers from the ISIS operatives.
Solution: Blow them all to heck and let Allah sort them out. Seems they have a fondness about blowing themselves up anyway.....
So. the US isn't acting as the ISIS air force, just acting as its early warning system. The leaflets might as well say "prepare your air defenses, the Russians are coming" I wonder what the Russians think about that?
Results. I'm only interested in results. Giving fair warning to the boys at the wheel allows them to escape, while those who proit off the oil don't get their illegal oil, money, by which to make mayhem.
Yes, the poor boys driving the trucks should be given fair warning, for they know not what they do. However, ending the illegal oil trade sends a direct message to those who profit most by it.
I am very pleased that my compatriots gave fair warning.
Where do they find these spokespeople? Under rocks?
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Q: On Bob's question, too, if -- if it's so important to cut off the oil shipments, the critical revenue source for ISIS, why did it take so long to take out 116 oil tanker trucks?
COL. WARREN: No, that's a great question, Jim. Thanks for asking it.
So, a little history on Operation Tidal Wave II. Initially, we, you know, we have been striking oil infrastructure targets since the very beginning of this operation.
What we found out was that many of our strikes were only minimally effective. We would strike pieces of the oil infrastructure that were easily repaired."
Near as I can tell, isn't that providing aid and comfort to an enemy, which is an act of high treason.
!00 million/400 million, who cares. One dollar is too much.
Let 'em swing.
Ahahahahaha.. russian haters troll is in FULL PANIC mode. Blaberings about nothings. Waaaaahahahahaha..
And i see more smart people here, ignorings this trolls. Very good!! You know how to deal with nobodies.
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To those NEW to this ZH blogs. Trolls like this is always appears in famous blogs like this.
Here's YOUR GUIDE to deals with these trolls.
http://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
Hints:
IGNORES them. A starter fire, wouldn't be big fires, IF, you don't pours gasoline on it. YOUR REPLY is the FUELS for trolls comments. And that's why ignoring them, is THE BEST medicine. Let them bleeds to oblivions..
As for the first question, the answer is appearing:
Turkey and Israel. Ergodan's son is in charge of the Turkish end of the operation which exports it to Israel which then sells it abroad. Check out the twitter feeds:
https://twitter.com/FGunay1/status/668050955884240896 Fer G @FGunay1 Nov 21ISIS oil is transported to Ceyhan where they get mixed up with oil from Iraqi Kurdistan and exported Israel.
Lots of really shocking stuff here
It's Twitter, so it must be true
So ltet me see if I have this straight.
America, France and soon Britain, is blowing up all oil tankers on roads or parked in Syria.
There are no pipelines that any of the five US trained military experts (for $500m) could or should blow up.
The Russians and Assad's air force are only blowing up ISIS tankers, not Assad tankers and there are no ISIS pipelines.
(North and West?) Syria has respective no fly zones for each of America, France, UK, Russia and Assad fighters and that ISIS tankers only operate in one area or another and there is no chance of these fly boys bumping uglies or accidentally hitting air to air ordinance.
ISIS has US supplied SAM's.
All looks perfectly safe and run by people who not only have my best interests at heart, but are demonstrating an expertise in destroying a country as the first response to any issue that conflicts with their/my beliefs that has been learnt over generations.
All Brits need to know is that the illegal oil makes its way straight to Israhell,the genocidal state, pet project fiefdom of the Rothschild City of London, zionists who care nothing for anything but their 'love of money'.
I would like an honorable mention – “Pentagon Paid Millions to Pro Sports Teams for Military Tributes”
Too bad our Peace Prize "winjing" President doesnt drop warning leaflets towedding pqrties and funerals
Obama is a fucking ghoul
Until Putin starts carpetbombing Riyadh and Doha nothng ng will change
Too many CIA boots on the ground to go ahead and bomb away...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTDlY4o23XA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KHCNk9BYy4
cut to the chase.
the reason the Pentagon dropped leaflets and gave the drivers 45 minutes to run was because FROM THE GET GO THE US PROMISED NOT TO BOMB THEM.
THE US PROMISED THESE DRIVERS THEY WOULD NOT BOMB THEIR TRUCKS IF THEY DROVE ISIS OIL TO THE MARKET.
FOR HELPING OBAMA WEAKEN THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY, THEY GOT A COLLATERAL BLOW JOB FROM THE PENTAGON.
Try to keep up. 'A week is a long time in politics.' (Harold Wilson).
The mafiusa, wasps, orthodox jews and helpers just called time on this shit show zionist filth.
End the money. End the war; ISIS on this particular occasion. Obvious, isn't it. Meanwhile, the cowards in the EUSSR collude to extend ISIS; put Brussels in lockdown; fail to catch the 'mastermind' who is nothing other than easily handled by his paymasters, known to Mi6 and Mossad in particular.
Shalom, debt slave.
I'm afraid you underestimate our CIA, my dear.
What the CIA has done, since Russia began exterminating ISIS for real (and not for pretend as the US was doing) almost 2 months ago, is decamped ISIS out of Syria and Iraq into downtown Western Europe.
I don't have to tell you what that means.
If I do have to tell you, continue replying to my posts.
A week may be a long time in politics, but it's about 10 minutes in my life.
The Geneva Convention.Non combatants.
No further comment necessary as batshit bloodlust types wouldn't understand. No criticism of Russia's efforts intended.
Meanwhile, zionists take that illegal cheap oil straight to modern man made 'Israel' (Judah slave masters in the Bible before 'modernisers' 'progressives', socialists and communists and money masters named it otherwise).
Syria the Northern Kingdom is the Israel of Biblical times. You have been scammed, cheated,, lied to.
Syria, a secular place in modern times which protected jews, Christians, muslims, but Judah hates Israel and Christians and Muslims, and wants to ruin...just as Judah always used theft, slavery.
ISIS, a good excuse for a world war centered in the ME
Me thinks, about to happen
Get ready
Yeah yeah yeah
Break their back bone
& make a mince meat HALAL anyone
Shhh who wants Halal now a days
GoatfcukerMuzzieAmericanSpoonFed terrorists deserve 72 virgins in the afterworld
send them there where they will find 72 virgin goats (err ghosts) where they will be a$$raped forever
These drivers are combatants. They are part of the logistical division of ISIS. Fair game. That's easy enough to defend in court.
This is Obama protecting fellow Muslims and also protecting Turkey. I guarantee you half of those drivers are Turks and Obama and Kerry don't want have to deal with Recap who would probably lodge a complaint with the Magic Nigger. (Kerry flew into the UAE yesterday and is busy schmoozing with the GCC leaders....so the Yanks must be up to something again.)
This quote applies here.
“The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.”
?John Arbuthnot Fisher
Read more at http://izquotes.com/quote/62357
When you are a Nobel Peace Prize President...you just don't go around killing innocent civilians ..you must allow some decency when you come out of the sky with your black stealth bombers...you are presumed innocent until proven guilty...thus the pamphlets...
It's the Rothschilds! lolz
I wonder if any of those trucks are Haliburton trucks...
nobsrussia.com smacks ZH Tyler in the face:
Neocons and idiotsHey remember how I’ve said a gajillion times that since 2014, the Kremlin and its supporters abandoned all pretense of believing in national sovereignty and non-intervention and became the very same “neocons” they claim to oppose? Well shit, looks like I’m right again. Just look at that headline:
Shock and Awe: Deadly Weapons Unleashed by Russia Against ISIL in Syria
That’s right, “shock and awe.” When the US does it, it’s bad (because it actually is), but when Russia does it, it’s awesome (no, it’s not). The slideshow of shiny Russian weapons and things that explodes even contains this hilarious line at the bottom:
These are the weapons that turned the tide of the Syrian conflict and will hopefully help save the country from the encroaching Islamic State.
Turned the tide? Saved Bashar’s ass, maybe, but from the look of things we’ve yet to see Operation Bagration 2015. As it turns out, Putin’s latest brilliant gambit has only managed to help the Syrian government forces regain a pitiful amount of territory.
Anyway, with all this Russian neoconservatism, I can’t help but ask where’s Russia’s Toby Keith to make a song about this? You know what I’m talking about. How could any American forget this train wreck of a country song:
https://youtu.be/5PXSK3iDeAI
Maybe Putin can contract Keith to write a new song for Russia’s neocon war on terror, entitled “Courtesy of the White, Blue, and Red.”
CHORUS
Putin put your name, somewhere on his list
and millions of vatniks started shaking their fists
And two-headed eagle will fly
And it’s gonna be hell
When you hear Mother Russia as her head starts to swell
In it feels like the the whole world is raining down on you
Brought to your courtesy of- HEY WHO TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS?! GODDAMMIT WHAT IS HAPPENING?
Wow that was fun wasn’t it? Well now let’s go on to the idiots feature, where we have another gem from the smug red pill taking cool kids at Zero Hedge. As always, the author is Tyler Durden, named after a fictional character from a book so bad the movie was considerably better, though it transformed countless males of my generation into insufferable douchebags.
In this article, Tyler smacks us sheeple upside the head and drops some major knowledge on us about the Syrian war. Turns out, the US has been giving TOW anti-tank missiles to Al Qaeda! Oh wait, hang on a second. Who is their source on that?
Well now, in what can only be described as an embarrassment of truly epic proportions, al-Qaeda has released a video thanking the FSA for supplying al-Nusra with American-made TOWs. Here’s Sputnik:
Yup, Sputnik. So I followed the link to find their source.
A recently released video shows an Al-Nusra Front field commander thanking the FSA commanders for giving his forces TOW missiles, according to a report released by the Iranian news agency FARS.
And that’s it. An Iranian news agency. We don’t get to see the video they report. So I did a little research into this matter of TOWs to the FSA and found a few articles in slightly more reputable sources. This link contains a video with some information about the TOWs. In the video, note that some of the men are clearly wearing the eagle insignia of the Free Syrian Army and not anything that would suggest they are jihadists like the Al Nusra fighters.
https://youtu.be/9cqqgYyyCmA
Also note that the word moderate appears in quotes on the video. That article linked above does mention that in at least one case, Al Nusra jihadists bragged about capturing some TOW missiles from a group that was supplied by the CIA. Here’s a link to that article. So when push comes to shove, the US has certainly risked its weapons falling into the hands of Al Qaeda linked groups like Al Nusra, which is one reason they have consistently opposed supplying any rebels with man portable surface to air missiles such as Stingers. That being said, it’s a far cry from supplying Al Qaeda directly or even indirectly. Al Nusra actively fights against other Syrian rebel groups (including ISIS, incidentally), and their “thank you” to the FSA for the TOWs, if it happened at all, was most likely gloating over loot they took from a defeated enemy.
Getting back to the Zero Hedge article, the third photograph used in the post is not a TOW at all, but rather a Russian-made missile or licensed copy. I’m guessing a Kornet. Tyler Durden finishes off this failure with this pithy line:
Hopefully no one from al-Qaeda ends up firing a TOW at a Paris cafe.
Well Tyler, if you actually knew anything about TOW missiles you’d understand how idiotic that idea is, and if someone actually did manage to do that, I bet at least half of your readership would claim the whole thing was a “false flag.”
You know this guy really is kind of like Tyler Durden, in the sense that reading his theories makes you want to shoot yourself in the face to make him go away.
Obama put your name, somewhere on his list
and millions of 'mericans started shaking their fists
And two-headed eagle (cia/mossad) will fly
And it’s gonna be hell
When you hear ZION scream as her head starts to swell
In it feels like the Zion Masters are pissing on you
Brought to your courtesy of- Hey look at me > I am a Zionist Douche and I am trying to pull the wool over your eyes...
sigh.. somebody really got inside your anus today.
thats for trucks, for headquarters is a month before, lol, this looks like a fucking comedy, but we are the suckers in it
Dropping warning leaflets has historical precedence (Japan) but in ISIS territory I would think it, along with buzzing, is a dangerous thing to repeat: 45 minutes could give someone time to run off and get an RPG.
This is our first strike against tanker trucks, and to minimize risks to civilians, we conducted a leaflet drop prior to the strike. We did a show of force, by -- we had aircraft essentially buzz the trucks at low altitude.
And so, these are the leaflets that we dropped -- about 45 minutes before the airstrikes actually began.
VS
the US is apprently set to give ISIS a 45 minute heads up
Ou ZH - how low can you go?
Of course those where civilians that are forced by ISIS to do this job for them. So should they be killed because their families are captured by ISIS that threts to behead them? No! You should not kill civilians! So when will necon ZH will learn that? I guess never.
Been watching the Russian airstrikes and the explosions don't look
like the ww2 500 pounders dropped from B-17's.
The shockwaves look more ground based.Less wasted blast upwards.
Some kind of concussion explosion.Wouldn't want to be on the receiving end.
The Russkie pilots must like flying at high altitude,flat landscape,unlike the Afghan area.
Congrats to Langley lads,the Iranians will be ever so much stronger now and they are going
mainstream.Iran,the new China.Bet Starbucks and McDonalds can't wait to get thru the door.
Grab what YOU can, Bitchez!!! It’s a free for all!!!
So will the US also drop warnings now on hospitals, weddings, souverain countries before bombing them?
USSA and its blushing I$I$ bride, the defender of the blood-spattered Saudi Mercan toilet paper petroscrip known as the dollah. My oh my how far the Anglozionazi Empire of Filth has sunk into the mire since the Puritanical Genocide that foisted this tumor on humanity.
Onward to the great flushing of the Ponzi sewer in the Potemkin Village "economy" until the tsunami of toxic derivative shi# washes US away.
Too bad Peace Prize didn't give that warning to voters while he was running for office.
Russian TU-22M shot down by Turkey?
https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/669068762251968512
Pilots ejected, apparently parachuted into Syrian territory per Bloomberg.
Well, it begins!!!
https://www.rt.com/news/323215-warplane-crash-syria-turkey/
Turkish military shoots down fighter jet near Syria-Turkey border
Check out video on Twitter link above and compare to silhouette of Tu-22M on Wikipedia (clear top down silhouette at :15 into video).
Apparently plane crashed and pilots ejected onto Syrian territory.
This is when Tyler is at Fight Club (ZZZzzz...) so I wouldn't hope for a thread of its own til later.
Not near Turkey border, but crossing Turkey border. Tutkey gave many times warning to criminal putin regime - not to cross Turkey border with it's bombers and fighter jets - but still criminal putin regime kept pushing. So there you go - yes, russkies where shot down dead with their pathetic airforce.
Bloomberg reports jet crashed and 2 of crew parachuted in Syrian territory.
Type of aircraft not reported could be Tu-22M which can have a crew of 4.
So now we know Alan's Snackbar is in Turkey. Turkey is up to it's neck in supplying, arming, and defending ISIS.
I would pay good money to have one of those leaflets!
What a truly faggot way to bomb isis.
There have been a lot of contract truck drivers hired in the US to serve as a contract workers in the middle east.
It would make sense that if ISIS is a CIA/Mossad/banker army ... and the customer for the oil has been Nathaniel Rothschild's company, then the truck divers are likley western or Israeli contract workers.
"We've got $45K invested in your truck and 14 million invested in you! Run!".....capital preservation.
The difference between the US and Pootin.
Who is happily taking ISIS cash and giving them weapons?