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How Turkey Exports ISIS Oil To The World: The Scientific Evidence
Over the course of the last four or so weeks, the media has paid quite a bit of attention to Islamic State’s lucrative trade in “stolen” crude.
On November 16, in a highly publicized effort, US warplanes destroyed 116 ISIS oil trucks in Syria. 45 minutes prior, leaflets were dropped advising drivers (who Washington is absolutely sure are not ISIS members themselves) to “get out of [their] trucks and run away.”
The peculiar thing about the US strikes is that it took The Pentagon nearly 14 months to figure out that the most effective way to cripple Islamic State’s oil trade is to bomb... the oil.
Prior to November, the US “strategy” revolved around bombing the group’s oil infrastructure. As it turns out, that strategy was minimally effective at best and it’s not entirely clear that an effort was made to inform The White House, Congress, and/or the public about just how little damage the airstrikes were actually inflicting. There are two possible explanations as to why Centcom may have sought to make it sound as though the campaign was going better than it actually was, i) national intelligence director James Clapper pulled a Dick Cheney and pressured Maj. Gen. Steven Grove into delivering upbeat assessments, or ii) The Pentagon and the CIA were content with ineffectual bombing runs because intelligence officials were keen on keeping Islamic State’s oil revenue flowing so the group could continue to operate as a major destabilizing element vis-a-vis the Assad regime.
Ultimately, Russia cried foul at the perceived ease with which ISIS transported its illegal oil and once it became clear that Moscow was set to hit the group’s oil convoys, the US was left with virtually no choice but to go along for the ride. Washington’s warplanes destroyed another 280 trucks earlier this week. Russia claims to have vaporized more than 1,000 transport vehicles in November.
Of course the most intriguing questions when it comes to Islamic State’s $400 million+ per year oil business, are: where does this oil end up and who is facilitating delivery? In an effort to begin answering those questions we wrote:
- The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking
- Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey's President
Turkey's role in facilitating the sale of Islamic State oil has been the subject of some debate for quite a while. From "NATO is harbouring the Islamic State: Why France’s brave new war on ISIS is a sick joke, and an insult to the victims of the Paris attacks", by Nafeez Ahmed:
"Turkey has played a key role in facilitating the life-blood of ISIS’ expansion: black market oil sales. Senior political and intelligence sources in Turkey and Iraq confirm that Turkish authorities have actively facilitated ISIS oil sales through the country. Last summer, Mehmet Ali Ediboglu, an MP from the main opposition, the Republican People’s Party, estimated the quantity of ISIS oil sales in Turkey at about $800 million—that was over a year ago. By now, this implies that Turkey has facilitated over $1 billion worth of black market ISIS oil sales to date."
Here's what former CHP lawmaker Ali Ediboglu said last year:
“$800 million worth of oil that ISIS obtained from regions it occupied this year [the Rumeilan oil fields in northern Syria — and most recently Mosul] is being sold in Turkey. They have laid pipes from villages near the Turkish border at Hatay. Similar pipes exist also at [the Turkish border regions of] Kilis, Urfa and Gaziantep. They transfer the oil to Turkey and parlay it into cash. They take the oil from the refineries at zero cost. Using primitive means, they refine the oil in areas close to the Turkish border and then sell it via Turkey. This is worth $800 million.”
Earlier this month, Ediboglu told Russian media that "ISIL holds the key to these deposits and together with a certain group of persons, consisting of those close to Barzani and some Turkish businessmen, they are engaged in selling this oil" ("Barzani" is a reference to Masoud Barzani, President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region).
But even as Turkey's ties to the ISIS oil trade have been hiding in plain sight for the better part of two years, the Western media largely ignores the issue (or at least the scope of it and the possible complicity of the Erdogan government) because after all, Turkey is a NATO member.
Unfortunately for Ankara, Erdogan's move to shoot down a Russian Su-24 near the Syrian border on Tuesday prompted an angry Vladimir Putin to throw Turkey under the ISIS oil bus for the entire world to see. Here's what Putin said yesterday after a meeting in Moscow with French President Francois Hollande:
"Vehicles, carrying oil, lined up in a chain going beyond the horizon. The views resemble a living oil pipe stretched from ISIS and rebel controlled areas of Syria into Turkey. Day and night they are going to Turkey. Trucks always go there loaded, and back from there – empty. We are talking about a commercial-scale supply of oil from the occupied Syrian territories seized by terrorists. It is from these areas [that oil comes from], and not with any others. And we can see it from the air, where these vehicles are going."
“We assume that the top political leadership of Turkey might not know anything about this [illegal oil trade although that's] hard to believe," Putin continued, adding that “if the top political leadership doesn’t know anything about this, let them find out."
Obviously, Putin is being sarcastic. He very clearly believes that the Erdogan government is heavily involved in the transport and sale of ISIS crude. In the immediate aftermath of the Su-24 incident, Putin said the following about Ankara:
- PUTIN: OIL FROM ISLAMIC STATE IS BEING SHIPPED TO TURKEY
- PUTIN SAYS ISLAMIC STATE GETS CASH BY SELLING OIL TO TURKEY
As part of our continuing effort to track and document the ISIS oil trade, we present the following excerpts from a study by George Kiourktsoglou, Visiting Lecturer, University of Greenwich, London and Dr Alec D Coutroubis, Principal Lecturer, University of Greenwich, London. The paper, entitled "ISIS Gateway To Global Crude Oil Markets," looks at tanker charter rates from the port of Ceyhan in an effort to determine if Islamic State crude is being shipped from Southeast Turkey.
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From "ISIS Gateway To Global Crude Oil Markets"
The tradesmen/smugglers responsible for the transportation and sale of the black gold send convoys of up to thirty trucks to the extraction sites of the commodity. They settle their trades with ISIS on site, encouraged by customer friendly discounts and deferred payment schemes. In this way, crude leaves Islamic State-run wells promptly and travels through insurgent-held parts of Syria, Iraq and Turkey.
Since allied U.S. air-raids do not target the truck lorries out of fear of provoking a backlash from locals, the transport operations are being run efficiently, taking place most of times in broad daylight. Traders lured by high profits are active in Syria (even in government-held territories), Iraq and south-east Turkey.
The supply chain comprises the following localities: Sanliura, Urfa, Hakkari, Siirt, Batman, Osmaniya, Gaziantep, Sirnak, Adana, Kahramarmaras, Adiyaman and Mardin. The string of trading hubs ends up in Adana, home to the major tanker shipping port of Ceyhan.
Ceyhan is a city in south-eastern Turkey, with a population of 110,000 inhabitants, of whom 105,000 live in the major metropolitan area. It is the second most developed and most populous city of Adana Province, after the capital Adana with a population of 1,700,000. It is situated on the Ceyhan River which runs through the city and it is located 43 km east of Adana. Ceyhan is the transportation hub for Middle Eastern, Central Asian and Russian oil and natural gas (Municipality of Ceyhan 2015).
The port of Ceyhan plays host to a marine oil terminal that is situated in the Turkish Mediterranean and has been operating since 2006. It receives hydrocarbons for further loading in tankers, which carry the commodity to world markets.
Additionally, the port features a cargo pier and an oil-terminal, both of 23.2m depth that can load tankers of more than 500 feet in length (Ports.com 2015). The annual export capacity of the terminal runs as high as 50 million tonnes of oil. The terminal is operated by Botas International Limited (BIL), a Turkish state company that also operates the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline on the territory of Turkey.
The quantities of crude oil that are being exported to the terminal in Ceyhan, exceed the mark of one million barrels per day. Putting this number into context and given that ISIS has never been able to trade daily more than 45,000 barrels of oil (see Section 2, ‘The Upstream Oil Business of ISIS’, page 2), it becomes evident that the detection of similar quantities of smuggled crude cannot take place through stock-accounting methods. However, the authors of the present paper believe that there is another proxy-indicator, far more sensitive to quantities of ultracheap smuggled crude. This is the charter rates for tankers loading at Ceyhan.
The Baltic Exchange (2015 a) tracks the charter rates on major seaborne trading routes of crude oil. To render its service more efficient and easily understood, it uses the system of Baltic Dirty Tanker Indices (Baltic Exchange 2015 b). One of these indices used to be the BDTI TD 11, 80,000 Cross Mediterranean from Baniyas, Syria to Laveras, France (see Map VI). Route 11 was discontinued in September 2011, due to Syria’s civil war and soon thereafter, it was replaced by BDTI TD 19 (TD19-TCE_Calculation 2015), of exactly the same technical specifications as BDTI TD 11, with the exception of the loading port of Ceyhan instead of Baniyas.
From July 2014 until February 2015, the curve of TD 19 features three unusual spikes that do not match the trends featured by the rest of the Middle East trade-routes (see Graph IV):
- The first spike develops from the 10th of July 2014 until the 21st, lasting approximately ten days. It coincides with the fall of Syria’s largest oil field, the AlOmar, in the hands of ISIS (Reuters 2014);
- The second spike takes place from the end of October until the end of November 2014, lasting one month. It happens at the same time with fierce fighting between fundamentalists and the Syrian army over the control of the Jhar and Mahr gas fields, as well as the Hayyan gas company in the east of Homs province (International Business Times 2014; Albawada News 214);
- The third spike lasts from the end of January 2015 until the 10th of February, stretching roughly ten days. It happens simultaneously with a sustained US-led campaign of airstrikes pounding ISIS strongholds in and around the town of Hawija east of the oil-rich Kirkuk (Rudaw 2015);
The authors of this paper would like to make it clear from the very beginning that this has not been the case of a ‘smoking gun’. The evidence has been inconclusive. But even if volumes of ISIS crude found their way, beyond any reasonable doubt, to the international crude oil markets via the Ceyhan terminal, this fact would not conclusively point to collusion between the Turkish authorities and the shadow network of smugglers, let alone ISIS operatives.
However, having clarified such a politically sensitive issue, the authors believe that there are strong hints to an illicit supply chain that ships ISIS crude from Ceyhan. Primary research points to a considerably active shadow network of crude oil smugglers and traders (see section 2.1, page 3), who channel ISIS crude to southeast Turkey from northeast Syria and northwest Iraq. Given the existence of Route E 90, the corresponding transportation of oil poses no unsurmountable geographic and topological challenges.
An additional manifestation of the invisible nexus between Ceyhan and ISIS became evident through the concurrent study of the tanker charter rates from the port and the timeline of the terrorists’ military engagements (see section 3.4 on this page). It seems that whenever the Islamic State is fighting in the vicinity of an area hosting oil assets, the 13 exports from Ceyhan promptly spike. This may be attributed to an extra boost given to crude oil smuggling with the aim of immediately generating additional funds, badly needed for the supply of ammunition and military equipment. Unfortunately, in this case too, the authors cannot be categorical.
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No, it can't be categorical and frankly, if the authors claimed to have discovered indisputable proof, we would be immediately skeptical. What they have done however, is identify a statistical anomaly and develop a plausible theory to explain it.
The key thing to note, is that this is a state-run terminal and it certainly seems as though charter rates spike around significant oil-related events involving Islamic State. Indeed, the fact that the authors mention collusion between Turkish authorities and ISIS operatives (even if they do so on the way to hedging their conclusions) indicates that the researchers think such a partnership is possible.
Finally, note that Ceyhan is less than two hours by car from Incirlik air base from which the US is flying anti-ISIS sorties. In other words, ISIS oil is being shipped to the world right down the road from Washington's preferred Mid-East forward operating base.
Now that we can add what looks like quantitative evidence that ISIS oil is shipped from Turkey to the voluminous qualitative evidence supplied by ex-Turkish lawmakers, investigative reporters, and the Russian government (to name just a few sources), we can now proceed to consider one final question: where does the crude that helps to fund Bakr al-Baghdadi's caliphate ultimately end up? More on that over the weekend.
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That Haaretz article deals with oil from Kurdistan, not from ISIS. Again, not saying no but as of this hour at night i'm yet to read a report written by an accredited source hehe about purchases from ISIS.
Heh
"accredited source"
Is that CNN or Fox?
Homage to MDB
Read it troll
'Commercial scale' oil smuggling into Turkey becomes priority target of anti-ISIS strikes
Probably Dutch, but anyway.........all that can make money from it.
Ergo, money is the root of all evil.
and
All war's ar bankster war's
The deep state philantropists need to be eliminated. Or oilboarded.
ever do biz with the turks?? sign in stone and still keep your hands in your pocket.
The spice must flow...
same as it ever was...
Zero hedge went from doomsday prepper to Putin fluffer.
Yeah lots of whining to that effect.
Are you having trouble finding over the top Putin bashing ?
If so, kindly refer to virtually any corporate msm newspaper, station, or website.
Do you fucking idiots think regurgitating the neocon talking points on Ukraine and Syria makes you insightful? Everyone here is familiar with that narrative. What is the appeal of ZH reproducing the bullshit and lies coming out of the corporate and yes heavily Zionist us media?
Its a bullshit warmongering chickenhawk narrative.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/08/how-why-the-u-s-media-do-propagan...
That you and a dedicated few simply cant stand dissent from that Orwellized version of the post ussr world doesnt make you seem intelligent and informed - it makes you seem like whiny cunts too stupid to summon any sort of argument on the merits.
Go back to fox and breitbart for the sheeple ye crave!
Raymond,
You have traded one BS narrative for another BS narrative and are blind to it. Think about it. Hedge makes money by postin content, If Obama had a high enough opinion of this site to sponsor content, the tone and content would change ASAP.
Answer on his point:
Do you fucking idiots think regurgitating the neocon talking points on Ukraine and Syria makes you insightful?
I only vaguely know what neocons think about anything. I think it is stupid that Putin overreached so much. He couldn't even take Ukraine. And with oil sub $50 he takes on another adventure, now structured to draw him in deep and bleed him dry. He is now throwing a tantrum, giving his toads a nervous breakdown. because he knows NATO will own him.
Russia needs oil at $110 for a fiscal breakeven, so even without his military spending, Russia is literally burning their reserves. For what? To try and stop a nat gas pipeline that will shut Russia out of the EU energy business.
Is it neocon to say that the Russian economy is in trouble? It is. After a 300 basis point Russian 10Y yield compression I took profits and closed my Sberbank position trade. I am now expecting a big yield reversal.
Instead of the facts, Zero hedge is just the Putin section of some weird geopolitcal game that no one should be cheering for.
So you truly are just a bored idiot/moron.
Why on earth would anybody in their right mind want to occuppy a bankrupt nation full of nazis ?
A question you might ask your congressvritter.
As to overstretched, its not Russia with a thousand bases around the world.
Putin is diconecting from the USD before it collapse.A little pain now is far better than
a shitload later.
That's the way. Throw all the failed zero memes against the wall at once, because some of the crap just has to stick.
DXY cracked 100 today. But the facts don't matter to the faithful do they?
DXY sounds like Zimbabwe to me.
Words unconnected to intelligence: Zero hedge in a microcosm.
You just made the faithful wince in pain, Roger.
Ah! another ignorant uninformed apologist clueless twat muritard
If you believe that Qatar was ever going to get a pipeline through a failed state so Qatari gas can compete with Israeli gas from Leviathan - you are a rank amateur. Or a .gov hack.
And by the way there is the de-Orwellized version where just around the time the Iran-Iraq-Syria deal was signed the CIA Spring reached Syria, real protests Maidanized. Etc.
Curious, no?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/12/us-caught-faking-it-in-syria/
Nato is dissolving with Europe and it is the US with bases and spooks and advisors all over the world that is the agent of Chaos. Russia is and has been acting defensively to the unipolar world realists and zioglobalists whose policies have clearly been about destabilizing the RF, fomenting terror in Chechnya, ansurd pr/media stunts like the olympics wolf and pussy riot, and the usual tricks.
Have you even read "The Grand Chessboard," bro?
http://russia-insider.com/en/americas-hegemony-and-europes-place-chessbo...
We'll see. The EU and thus NATO wants that pipeline and has been trying to get Assad out of the way for a couple of years now. They are going to get a more reliable supplier because Russia has literally blackmailed the EU by cutting off nat gas supplies. When Assad was on his back Russia stepped in, because the pipeline has to run through Syria for it to work.
That is all. Nobody has shining armor here. I strating to think that the weak-minded need someone to believe in or they can't make it through the day.
absolutely
Any pipeline that purports to take the place of a Russian one, after the CIA's ISIS and the Pentagon's Turkey brought down two Russian aircraft, to paraphrase Lincoln, "will be little noted nor long remembered."
dude
When Obama and the West had their filthy, black hands around Russia's neck (Missile Defense Shield), I would hardly call Putin extending his hands up to pull them off, 'overreaching'.
Maybe that's the way it works on your planet.
Can't say. Never been there.
Putin needed Ukraine the way you need a second penis on your forehead.
Fuck me sideway's
Now you tell me that ZeroHedge is a for profit webside......
Damn, have to ajust my colander again, tinfoil just does not cut in these microwave times.
So why are you so upset that this bitch goes to the highest bidder? I'm just calling it out.
Youre conflating the idea of dual narratives (which you allege without argument are 'both wrong' and so equally false, which is simply not true) with whether or not I grasp the influence advertisers have on content.
Which misses the point.
The msm narrative, the 'neocon' narrative, the Team America version - is fucking horseshit, an inversion of aggression and response to aggression, and really, the same facile warmongering propaganda that clever boys like you should be strenuously skeptical of.
Beware false binaries. RT etc are quite obviously giving their own slant. But it happens that their version is less of a fiction than what mainstream news sites are peddling.
Hedge accordingly.
As I have made clear many time in this thread alone. Geooplitics is a sty full of pigs and jackals. Monsters all.
It serves your purpose to portray any opposition to your view as a "false binary" but even a cursory reading makes it clear that your aim is creating/upholding a binary position.
So after 6 years and 20 weeks here, you've learned nothing?
Just fuckan wow dude...
I learned something that you haven't. The clicks mean money, the truth means nothing.
Truth? Knowledge? Insight? Did you even read the article, and have something to add and share or are you just talking out of your ass for something to do?
Just pointing out a hoe.
Crap like this serves no purpose but to stir up the puppets so that goons like Obama and Putin and the rest can use the outrage for their own egos.
If you want to talk about how likely it is a December rate hike will mean anything without epic liquidity drain via reverse repo, now that is a topic I can sink my teeth into.
Analog VS Digital
invest wisely
jm
The article is about how ISIS is funded by exporting oil thru Turkey, with American eyes wide shut. Do you have anything to add?
And Putin is but another "elected" murdering Dictator. Kinda like all the leaders of the Middle East.
Good trading.
K
A pig is no worse than a jackal. But useful idiots make coin trying to convince people the opposite is true.
Putin would "eyes wide shut" this same mess if he was in the same position. And he would have the same whores talking him up like he's a gangster messiah. Keep in mind he is "eyes wide shut" to Assad using poison gas. Obama is "eyes wide shut" to the Talban running Saudi Arabia. Thus he pretends to attack ISIS. Monsters all.
Everyone is eyes wide shut.
Trading: We've had a big favorable move in Russian debt. It's gonna reverse. The catalyst will be a Fed December rate hike, and reserve figures that show a ticking clock.
If you've been here so long and are so knowledgeable, then you'd know that the sarin gas was not Assad's but Turkey's.
Sometimes the goal is to make money while the titanic sinks, sometimes the goal is to warn and notify others that it is sinking.
But you only care for coin. Got it.
Perfectly put.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgbAoUCJDtI
Hows us debt looking?
For goodness sake for Putin to 'do the same' in this 'mess' he would have had to spend years sowing chaos around the muslim world as the us has.
But he did not. The US did.
Youre trying to argue that both are the same based on a counterfactual which by its need, itself demonstrates that they are not the same.
https://medium.com/dan-sanchez/clean-break-to-dirty-wars-d5ebc5fda9f9
try revolutionary.
lol
Why are they always targeting homosexuals to use as anti Russian trolls, probably a zionist preference.
Yup i agree it was a doomsday prepper but reported useful facts which your koolaid media never did. No it isn't puitn fluffer , you
muritard have been brainwashed from your start by your govt and media that they are thebad guys. So you're just another ignorant twat who is too dumb to see the obvious.
Common with murkans, bunch of idiot sooksIf someone could invent a geological weapon which makes oil wells to start sourcing ordinary water, now that will be the real fun. :)
So the Turks are part of NATO, and they are helping NATO's enemy (at least I think ISIS is considered an enemy of the NATO block) so what is one to do about that appaent conflict of interests?
ISIS is NATO's enemy when it comes to fighting terrorism at home (Paris 13 Nov, 2015) but is NATO's friend when it comes to fighting Assad in Syria. It's is so outrageous that NATO (US/UK) get away with this satanic scheme.
So will Erdogan resign now?
Erdogan prepares for war.... moves hundreds of tanks to the Syrian border
http://www.pronews.gr/portal/20151127/defencenet/%CE%B5%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%8...
Oh Man! this is going to be good. Those Turks are HELLACIOUS fighters.
When Erdogan's got all his tanks lined up in a row on the border, I suggest Putin goes on a Turkey shoot and knocks 'em all out.
Erdogan, "but Barry, Putin just incinerated my entire army-kinda like what you guys did to Saddam. I call on Article 5 of the Treaty."
Barry, "I moved the red line. Loose my number."
You misspelled a word...it is 'target'..not 'tanks'. I'm sure the Russians will appreciate the training opportunity...doubt they'll drop leaflets though.
No, he'll say his words have been misinterpreted.
I'm not very military savy. When do you want to use a bomber ? And when do you want to use a drone ? Bombers have more bombs than a drone I suppose. But drones are cheap and there is no loss of human life in the drone. Can't a drone klll an oil truck just as well as a bomber ? I suspect that drones are cheaper than cruise missiles ?
Drones like the Predator are small and slow and can typically carry just two or four small but intelligent missiles - each is big enough to blow up a truck very nicely.
A fighter-bomber is bigger and faster and can carry a heavier load, but typically aren't set up to carry a lot of small 100lb missiles, so they typically carry about four 250lb or 500lb (or even 1000lb) bombs, overkill for a truck, though a single bomb might take out two to ten trucks, if they're parked close and the bomb hits perfectly.
A real bomber is much bigger, can carry something like 20,000 pounds, but is really designed to take out single, bigger targets.
We also have ground-based munitions from the MLRS class that can just litter an area with intelligent bomblets, really creep you out, but I don't know if those are deliverable by air, yet. Certainly they could be. Actually, I think they are, but I don't know that we've tried those yet.
The US has been moving towards setting up everything from C-130s to B-1s to carry loads of those 100lb-class munitions instead of bigger bombs, I can't speak to just what Russia has in the field. None of these are really fun targets, in every case the munition costs probably 2x to 10x what a big truck costs. I wonder if we couldn't just sent a guy into town with a suitcase full of money, he could buy all the trucks and ship them to the Philippines to be recycled.
Thanks for the education.
You write code for whom?
Mostly dropping older stuff first before it goes bad.
The longer the campaign is, the fancier the hardware will get.
So lets do the math. Tanker truck capacity is about 200 barrels of oil. Say $40 per barrel, so cargo value of $8,000 per truck. We send out a $50M - $1B aircraft or a $10M drone to drop a $20K bomb or $1M guided missle on a truck toting $8K of oil.
Would be far more cost effective to have a CIA guy standing on the side of the road peeling off 100 freshly-printed Benjamins to buy each truckload, and then dump the oil in the desert sand. The Chair Force guys get to stay home and sleep late, no wear and tear on the shiny planes, no leaflets to print, and we don't foul up the air with all that smoke. The truck owner gets to keep his truck.
But that would not be good for the quarterly EPS of the defense contractors selling bombs. Or the truck manufacturers selling thousands of tractors and trailers. This whole thing is kabuki theatre.
So therefore the U.S. should just bomb them with bails of $100 dollar bills.
Report NATO to the Hague!
The Hague nods in approval.
Double Secret Probation.
Excellent investigative work, many thanks!
Turkish journalists are being jailed http://www.cbs8.com/story/30610842/2-turkish-journalists-jailed-over-syr...
This word 'scientific' does not mean what you think it means.
Also take note of Turkish consumption, Iea figures indicate a doubling of Jet Kerosene use in one year.
This is not a statistical thingy or increased tourist activity, this points to a major increase in the tempo of military aviation.
Volume, that is real scientific evidence.
And in few words. Thanks.
WTF A red? Green from me Escrava Isaura
I am glad you noticed I have an avid follower(s).
My life is complete……..Finally.
Unfortunately it looks like ISIS is the Pawn in the Game of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's game of World Domination and it looks like President Putin has just about had enough. For those who have an interest in Geopolitics, Mackinder and the quest for control of the world via control of Eurasia I've just started making youtube videos and one of them is about geopolitics and what is going on in the world today. If you have a minute please have a look at my video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOD2A3cUUS0
Looks like US troops arrived in N Syria on Black Friday evening (tonight) Who in Syria invited them? No one.
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/us-troops-arrive-syria-train-rebel...
The Filthy Cesspit That Is Geopolitics......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/us-gives-their-prox...
On top of this, NATO warplanes, trains and automobiles uses refined ISIS oil for it's current operation. SICK world we live in.
Doubtful. The oil gets shipped to all sort of refineries in many countries, not refined locally behind the terminal and shipped back to the local air force base.
And yet the French ex-PM said only yesterday that they have evidence that ISIS oil is going directly to refineries in Turkey. He didn't say what proportion of the total but ... ...
Wouldn't doubt US jets are using refined ISIL oil to bomb the sand dunes in Syria.
EDIT: Okay HighPressure,,, you beat me to it by a nose!
So what?
Oil is a commodity. We and everyone else does business with their enemies.
Whoopty fucking doo.
Most of the revenues from isil oil sales goes to governance and the people there - not weapons.
Cut off the oil and there will be an even larger refugee crisis.
What's your plan Stan? Shut down the economy of Indonesia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, turkey, Saudi Arabia, Europe, Russia and the United States to stop terrorists getting weapons?
Oh that's real good, fucking rocket scientist you are.
If I am not mistake. ZH has managed to blame just about every country in existence for radical Islamists except their religion and the actual religious bastards themselves.
ZH isn't a source for in-depth analysis, it's a place to find out shit after the fact with just about every prediction of doom and gloom failing to have a timeline or being accurate.
All the while selling garbage advertising from...hedge fund managers!
When is ZH going to actually put their reputation on line and PREDiCT something .
Go on, you know sooooo much tell me the gold price in 2,6 and 12 months, you think you know the reasons why it was at "x " price and why it is where it is today.
ZH, banking the world will go to pot, and bei disappointed every day.
Israel and turkey are buying oil isis is stealing from syria, in part through kurdish middlemen.
And the us has not only not been attacking isis but has supplied isis while attacking Assad
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/12/us-caught-faking-it-in-syria/
http://leaksource.info/2015/01/17/the-yinon-plan-greater-israel-syria-ir...
https://medium.com/dan-sanchez/clean-break-to-dirty-wars-d5ebc5fda9f9
Now what in the fuck are *you* talking about?
He has no fucking idea what he is talking about, that's the problem.
And what is with the heavy influx of these 4 to 6 week newbies talking shit about ZH from the last 5 or 6 years?
Coincides with State department hiring
It's been the same pattern for a few yrs now. They come and go depending on the topic dejour.
The Israeli connection: http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/features/2015/11/26/raqqas-rockefellers...
Well, for one, if they didn't have any revenue then they wouldn't be capable of destroying countries. But that doesn't fit into your greater israel, cleanse the middle east motif now does it?
6 weeks 4 days
itsthetiming
"If I am not mistake."
Yes, you are mistake.
I would say that the horizon to horizon column of oil trucks, from ISIS to Turkey, is scientific enough to prove the trade, as in observed and verified, The evidence they provide is that it is a state run business, as it involves Turkish authorities and a state-run terminal.
It's a very Obama thing, bombing oil transports, pretty surprising we didn't start it years ago. I'll bet Obama would like to target Warren Buffett's oil trains, too.
I Write Code
Obama is bombing Turkish oil trucks loaded with ISIS oil only because Putin has shamed him into it.
But it does, indeed, provide a real opportunity for his buddy- folksy old Uncle Warren. BNSF will carry the oil for Erdogan. Don't need no dang trucks or pipelines when Uncle Warren bought himself a President and a full-size train set.
News:
They leaked the name of turkish pilot who downed Russian plane - Mustafa Hajuroglu
You mean the ISIS air force pilot.
Israel meets with Google and YouTube to discuss censoring Palestinian videos
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/22471-israel-meets-wi...
The first casualty of war is... Something...
http://ifamericansknew.org/media/meet-nyt.html
Being lied to about us support for terrorism and 'why we fight' is simply par for the course.
http://ftmdaily.com/what-jerry-thinks/whysyria/
http://leaksource.info/2015/01/17/the-yinon-plan-greater-israel-syria-ir...
The casual reader might spend 20 minutes web searching the Zionist/Balfour Treaty role in getting the us into ww1 against the wishes of the vast majority...
In the 100 years since, the Zionist Squid has merely grown more arms
https://consortiumnews.com/2014/10/02/how-israel-out-foxed-us-presidents-3/
Its only getting worse. Lebensraum and hegemony for the self-chosen (and/or life as a privileged, hostile minority elite all over the west where they will agitate for moar 3rd world immigration ...
"Israel meets with Google and YouTube to discuss censoring Palestinian videos"
Pretty short walk from Zion Room 102 to Zion Room 103.
http://celticanglopress.tumblr.com/post/47433261983/the-coudenhove-kaler...
i don't want to be rude tho this is an economic and not a scientific proof ...
BUT
i believe you can track any crude to the well it comes from (biologicaly / chemicaly)
that would help find out where that crude ended and not just transited
Broc
Don't need no dang science. Just need a map. Oil ain't going thru Shia Iran or Shia Southern Iraq. It ain't going thru western Syria held by Assad and further west thru Lebanon. So it is going thru Turkey. NATO, Europe, and the good ol' USA have known this since the Erdogan family started it.
Don't need no dang science.
K
ps: Erdogan had better have gotten the nod from Barry 'cause popping a made wiseguy, when you are just another street punk, can be dangerous to your health- no matter how many new castles your dirty oil money bought you.
Turkey is boxed in. They get 20% of its gas from Iran, and 57% from Russia.
we can now proceed to consider one final question: where does the crude that helps to fund Bakr al-Baghdadi's caliphate ultimately end up? More on that over the weekend.
Right now I am prepared to wager a months pay that the answer is ISRAEL!
The real war to steal the oil.
http://original.antiwar.com/dan_sanchez/2015/10/05/seize-the-chaos/
If Russia and Iran cut off the natural gas,it means that 70% of Turkey's NatGas demands for industry and residential use drys up instantly.Now that's economic sanction.And what happens next you say? Their currency plunges into the basement when traders catch wind of it and an inflationary spiral upwards puts pressure on the population.Just like the U.S. has done to Russia.Tit for tat.
I don't need any "scientific evidence" to know Turkey is moving the oil.
Just like I don't need any scientific evidence that 9/11 was a demolition job.
"I don't need any "scientific evidence" to know Turkey is moving the oil."
Indeed. As they say "if it walks like a duck ... ..."
Or in this case "if it walks like a turkey ...."
Then it is an axiom
Midnight EX Pre$$.
Caliph of Carnage and spawn Bilal....deadmen walking with Saudi Mercan petroscrip dollah.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxbjW7mqOB8
Most major MSM organs in the English-speaking parts of the Empire are now selling Russia's version of the shooting incident - presumably on the orders of their Imperial sponsors. To me, that spells the end of Erdogan. With that desertion, he can surely have no possible hope of survival.
Where does Israel fit into this? Digs on the Golan heights oil?
http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/features/2015/11/26/raqqas-rockefellers...
I repeat what I previously posted here:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-25/meet-man-who-funds-isis-bilal-e...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YXLlBHtWSk
Benjamin Fulford Interview - "The Elites Secrecy Is Breaking!" - November 2015
At the 11:10 mark, it is discussed how it is possible to sort of "fingerprint" oil, in that the exact chemical composition of different sources of oil can be detected. Therefore, it is quite possible to test to see who is buying what oil ... However, for the overall reasons discussed there, that information tends to be deliberately ignored.
P.S.
Ben Fulford seems to me to be unreasonably optimistic. I certainly do NOT think he is a "fake," although he seems slightly "flakey." But nevertheless, such an interview is still interesting enough to listen to ... although that follows what I regard as the standard pattern of relatively good, albeit superficial, analysis, followed by bogus "solutions," due to the original analysis having never been deep enough to approach how and why civilization necessarily operates according to the principles and methods of organized crime.
Fulford, and people like him, e.g., David Willcock, have been promising some kind of good military coup in the USA and elsewhere for almost a decade. However, so far, nothing like that has happened. Furthermore, that seems to me to be politically impossible to happen, other than after things get way worse, and then, any such military coup may happen, but not be good, and not make things any better.
ANYWAY:
The brief passage I referred to, in that YouTube radio recording, was about how it is certainly possible to Scientifically Know where a barrel of oil came from, by accurate sampling of its unique chemical content. That means it is forensically possible to identify where the ISIS oil from Syria and Iraq was going ... (Although, that information tends to be deliberately ignored, due to the apparent paradoxes that the governments are the biggest gangs of criminals, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals.)
MEANWHILE:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3334650/Russia-enters-diplomatic...
Of course, Turkey is DENYING the statements made in that Zero Hedge article I linked above, which were also similarly asserted by Russia ...
You can use 'marinetraffic.com' to track the movement of oil tankers around the globe.
Ceyhan port.
BMZ Group tankers:
- Mecid Aslanov
- Begim Aslanova
- Poet Qabil
- Turketer 81
- Armada Breeze
- Shovket Alekperova
Then all we need to do is track the tankers from that port to their next port of call.
Would not surprise me if Israel was buying the stuff on the cheap.
Isnt the Jewish National Motto: never pay retail
The Israeli connection: http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/features/2015/11/26/raqqas-rockefellers...
last winner of Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights is:
http://www.algaddafi.org/al-gaddafiinternationalprizeforhumanrights/list-of-recipients-of-the-international-prize-for-human-rights
So. What is NATO going to do about the Erdogan problem?
We've confronted this problem before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYvyh3IIdDk
Erdogan is 10 times more dangerous than Putin.
2 x battlefield nukes on the Oil Convey will halt it immediately.
It will also show Turkey that it is within an inch of its life.
Erdogan is the typical rogue Mafia type with the lying tongue of a politician, probably why the USA TPTB relate to him so much.
Cruise missles will close up that port.
The whole nine yards would do the trick on those trucks.
NATO will want to shut Erdogan up. Their trial balloon shooting down of the Russian plane made Russia's hand in Syria and its right to respond even greater. As usual US gamesmanship blows up in their own face.
I think maybe US execute Erdogan and blame Russia.
CIA takes Erdogan out to his favorite restaurant. Chokes on a chicken bone.
ROGUE STATES; Oil smuggling began with the Libian crude, then expanded to Iraq and Syria. Rogue States have profited astronomically at zero costs over the last 1,500-years and are still powered by Monetary Fraud and subsequent paper Ponzi currencies of false prosperities. The sheep enjoy all of it.
1.
Around the year 600, the Arab traders arrived in India with their bodyguards as payments were made in gold and silver, hard currencies.
2.The Arabs (Turks, Mongols) and others first arrived as merchants and Muhammad was one of them around the year 600, of course with their bodyguards and paying in gold for their purchases. Eventually bodyguards turned into well armed cavalry to India (the Golden Goose) by 800, and this was the beginning of headaches for Europe. They no longer paid for goods but would seize them and eventually seized territories, turning the world upside down till this very day. At zero costs, the profits, taxation, plunderings, looting yielded such astronomical cash that the Arabs/Moslems were able to conquer Spain by 712, Persia by 633, Sind-India in 712 , Portugal, Constantinople in 1453,Africa the Middle East and most parts of India by 1565 with the fall of the great city of Hampi. The battle for Hampi involved almost a million men on the ground but bountiful Hindu armies never attacked the worthless and senseless home base of the hungry nomadic warriors.
3.
2.By the year 1500, famine and depopulation in Europe was unbearable and a small country of Portugal, with a small cavalry ,Portugual was conceded Goa and by the year 1600 became the richest nation on earth. Having duly filled their bellies, they were able to build Portugal and Braszil which is 924 bigger than Portugal, with the looting, the spoils, the bounty, the taxation and the profits made with India, mostly at zero costs.
4.3.Rogue England, France and Holland wouldn't be left out and by 1603, the British arrived in India also empty stomach. Again with the efficient use of a small cavalry, they were able to seize goods initially and eventually seizing almost all of India by defeating much bigger Hindu armies and were able to fend off the Moslems as well. Once again, the economic yield of looting the , the spoils, the bounty, the taxation and the profits made with India, the Golden Goose funded the building of North America, Australia England as well as the rest of Europe. From the junk currency funded British East India Co. to the Lehman Bros. crisis of 2008, the accrued US/Euro sovereign and Corporate debt amounts to Us$700-trillion (roughly, 600,000-tons of gold ) at the cost of 140-million human murders, genocide and ethnic cleansing.
4. Just when it seemed we have had enough of Middle Eastern Rogue Cults, a new warrior cult arises in the name of "Communism", another failed lab rat experiment that has lasted almost 90-years.
NOT ONLY HAVE THE ROGUE STATES SEIZED TERRITORIES, THEIR PRINTING PRESS GAVE BIRTH TO THE CURRENT MONETARY FRAUD AND SUBSEQUENT PONZI PAPER CURRENCIES THAT DESTROYED THE 5,000-YEAR OLD PHYSICAL MONETARY SYSTEM. THEY ALSO SEIZED OUR MINDS BY CREATING INDOCTRINATION CENTERS WHICH THEY NOW CALLED “SCHOOLS/UNIVERSITIES”, AND DUMPED JUNK CURRENCIES WORLD-WIDE POWERED BY ALFRED NOBEL'S GUNPOWDER.
Communism ? Never happened. Russia and its satellites were controlled by murdering dictators. Nothing more, nothing less.
French thinker Jacques Ellul said that propaganda is hardwired to education. One is impossible without the other. Saying that, I'm sure that 99% of the modern, zombie mentality was engeneered by the Talmudic reptiles. They were always lurking in the shadows of every society and every war for the last 5000 years. David Irving, the brightest modern historian, is the one who truly helped me to see beyond their parasitic veils.
According to newspaper headlines the six million died several times during the early twentieth century.
Speaking of DNA. How many know that only 15% of Israeli Jew DNA is Semitic? The other 85% is mostly Khazar. Also, over 50% of Israeli Jews are atheist Jews! Imagine that!
Learn who the Khazars were and why they stole the Jewish identity and made it their own. Once you understand this, you will understand the world like very few ever do. https://youtu.be/k2oW63XkBhw
Khazars: "The 13th Tribe".
https://archive.org/details/TheNamelessWar_105
http://www.iamthewitness.com/books/Archibald.Maule.Ramsay/The.Nameless.W...
welcome Rbnegative, i up voted on hampi. i shall never forget visiting the site. one of the wonders of our world.
The Syrian ground forces have been advancing rapidly into the heights in the north of Latakia.
https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ar-en.en/sana.sy/?p=303985
They have discovered numerous homemade ISIS 'hell bombs'
http://sana.sy/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/22119.jpg
some unidentified gifts from Qatar
http://sana.sy/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/15132.jpg
and numerous sacks of Turkish lignite coal
http://sana.sy/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2028.jpg
and some US 'SAMCO infusion sets' with other unidentified medical paraphenalia.
http://sana.sy/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/17122.jpg
Very cosmopolitan! Very multicultural!
thank you, howdy doody, your links are invaluable.
No probs.
There are some important details left out of this ZH story that may be of interest. Read this more detailed story of where the oil goes from Turkey, how it is refined more in Israel before being sold around the Med to private companies. http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/features/2015/11/26/raqqas-rockefellers...
The story is Turkey told NATO this black crude business route is rebel of Syrian ,the actually is rebel and ISIS together .Every member of NATO know that .
One can only wonder about how long it will be until the dingnat here really starts a larger woar with Russia. This stupid puppet is well on his way to doing just that. Now taking bets in the woar pool:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/erdogan-pledges-to-start-war-over-russian-an...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-isis-rockefellers-how-islamic-state-oil...
Once in Turkey, the lorries continue to the town of Silopi, where the oil is delivered to a person who goes by the aliases of Dr Farid, Hajji Farid and Uncle Farid.
Uncle Farid is an Israeli-Greek dual national in his fifties. Uncle Farid owns a licensed import-export business that he uses to broker deals between the smuggling mafias that buy IS oil and the three oil companies that export the oil to Israel.
The companies compete to buy the smuggled oil and then transfer it to Israel through the Turkish ports of Mersin, Dortyol and Ceyhan,...
Israel refines the oil only "once or twice" because it does not have advanced refineries. It exports the oil to Mediterranean countries - where the oil "gains a semi-legitimate status" - for $30 to $35 a barrel.
"The oil is sold within a day or two to a number of private companies, while the majority goes to an Italian refinery owned by one of the largest shareholders in an Italian football club [name removed] where the oil is refined and used locally," added the European oil official.
"Israel has in one way or another become the main marketer of IS oil. Without them, most IS-produced oil would have remained going between Iraq, Syria and Turkey. Even the three companies would not receive the oil if they did not have a buyer in Israel," said the industry official.
"To be fair, the [IS] organisation sells oil from caliphate territories but does not aim to sell it to Israel or any other country," he said. "It produces and sells it via mediators, then companies, who decide whom to sell it to."
Source: http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/features/2015/11/26/raqqas-rockefellers...
Israel getting in as middleman? Boy, isn't that a surprise...
I want a translator for this (not Google; I need a human)...
http://www.diyarbakirbarosu.org.tr/Anasayfa
There is information within this webpage that is important to extract now prior to the media handing it to the new league of worthless, soulless journalists.
Thanks for the link, USSLiberty.
Crude oil can be traced by its chemical makeup if anyone is actually interested in following the glop as it travels.
It’s probably too expensive to spectrum analyze or chemically lab test a few crude oil samples given our country’s limited defense and intelligence gathering budget however.
~ DC
Full Orwell:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-isis-rockefellers-how-islamic-state-oil...
But
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/wap/Item.aspx?type=0&item=203946
And
https://willyloman.wordpress.com/2015/11/16/after-paris-attacks-france-b...
Isis is Israel's golem.
http://leaksource.info/2015/01/17/the-yinon-plan-greater-israel-syria-ir...
Turks want you dead.
They watched Iron Egale to many times.
Our CeyeA collects intelligence in foreign lands for our national security, correct?
We have a boatload of agency personel on the ground in Turkey. Of this I am 100% certain.
Maybe we could ask these ‘in country’ resources to monitor the port of Ceyhan and do a little detective work to try and figure out who’s smuggling oil out of Syria for ISIS.
They could probably just check around to see how many of their own covert agents and paid assets are moonlighting as tanker truck drivers and ask them where they load up and unload every night.
Sometimes the pros just slam dunk miss the obvious approach to a tough HUMIT problem.
Now that I’ve shown them how to acquire the information our leaders urgently need to choke off the ISIS cash flow I wonder how long it will take our crackerjack spook brigade to write up the intel report and whisk it up the proper channels? ………………. Any guesses?
~ DC
Ask David Cohen in the Treasury dept.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/12/us-caught-faking-it-in-syria/
Excellent post. Thanks...
Oh right,….do you mean the old ‘follow the money’ trick?
~ DC
Excellent explanation of Islam;
http://www.infowars.com/the-truth-about-islam/
What about the things that the former lawmaker Ali Ediboglu are stating. According to this article he is quoted as having said that ISIS has laid down oilpipes from their captured oilfields in the northern Iraq all the way up to the Turkish borders, and that is how ISIS transport the oil to Turkia.
This might be why Erdogan has stressed and pushed forward so hard to establish a security zone along the Turkish/Iraq border in the north. They are protecting these oil pipes. That might also explain why they are so trigger happy when it comes to protecting their border in the North and why they eventually shot down the Russian bomber.
I do however not doubt that they also use oilcar tankers to transport oil, but it seems to me that the majority of the illegal oil are transported by pipe lines directly to the Turkish border. When Edogan is so damn protective of his northern border, we can be pretty damn sure that it is because something big is going on there. We already know that ISIS has built miles and miles of tunnels under their captured cities, why not oil pipes as well.
But, why doesn’t the Russians bomb the entire oil installations in question instead. That would be the most effective way to stop this activity.
The Kurds built most of the oil transport infrastructure. And now... the Kurds and ISIS are effectively sharing the oil tranport infrastructure while fighting each other. In terms of shutting down ISIS's cash cow and thus weakingin it militarily, why do you think the Kurds have not destryoed the pipelines to fields that ISIS controls - they know EXACTLY where they are and EXACTLY how valuable they are. You will go blind trying find black and white in the Middle East, perhaps that's why it's so easy for politicians to perenially dupe 'Muricans... just enough truth to sound believable absent serious inspection and analysis.
You really think it took them 14 months to figure out they should bomb the oil? Or could it be the powers that be were using the oil revenue to help fund the proxy fighters "off the books"?
You forgot lining their own pockets, making bribes, more pocket lining.
ISIS is only getting a cut of "their" oil.