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ISIS Oil Trade Full Frontal: "Raqqa's Rockefellers", Bilal Erdogan, KRG Crude, And The Israel Connection
"Effectively, we have been financially discriminated against for a long time. By early 2014, when we did not receive the budget, we decided we need to start thinking about independent oil sales” -- Ashti Hawrami, Kurdistan’s minister for natural resources
In June of 2014, the SCF Altai (an oil tanker) arrived at Ashkelon port. Hours later, the first shipment of Kurdish pipeline oil was being unloaded in Israel. “Securing the first sale of oil from its independent pipeline is crucial for the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) as it seeks greater financial independence from war-torn Iraq,” Reuters noted at the time, adding that “the new export route to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, designed to bypass Baghdad's federal pipeline system, has created a bitter dispute over oil sale rights between the central government and the Kurds.”
A week earlier, the SCF Altai received the Kurdish oil in a ship-to-ship transfer from the The United Emblem off the coast of Malta. The United Emblem loaded the crude at Ceyhan where a pipeline connects the Turkish port to Kurdistan.
The Kurds’ move to sell crude independent of Baghdad stems from a long-running budget dispute. Without delving too far into the details, Erbil is entitled to 17% of Iraqi oil revenue and in return, the KRG is supposed to transfer some 550,000 bpd to SOMO (Iraq’s state-run oil company). Almost immediately after the deal was struck late last year, Baghdad claimed the Kurds weren’t keeping up their end of the bargain and so, only a fraction of the allocated budget was sent to Erbil during the first five months of the year.
This was simply a continuation of a protracted disagreement between Erbil and Baghdad over how much of the state’s crude revenue should flow to the KRG. For its part, Iraq has threatened to sue anyone that buys independently produced Kurdish oil. For instance, when The United Kalavrvta - which left Ceyhan last June - prepared to dock in Galveston, Texas a month later, a SOMO official told Reuters that Iraq’s foreign legal team was “watching closely the movement of the vessel and [was] ready to target any potential buyer regardless of their nationality.”
You get the idea. Erbil wants a bigger piece of the pie, Baghdad doesn’t want to give it to them, and so some time ago, the KRG decided to simply cut the Iraqi government out and export crude on its own. The dispute is ongoing.
(at an Erbil oil refinery, the Kurds stand guard)
Ok, so why are we telling you this? Recall that over the past several weeks, we’ve spent quite a bit of time documenting Islamic State’s lucrative black market oil trade. Earlier this month, Vladimir Putin detailed the scope of the operation in meetings with his G20 colleagues. "I’ve shown photos taken from space and from aircraft which clearly demonstrate the scale of the illegal trade in oil and petroleum products,” he told journalists on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Antalya. The very same day, the US destroyed some 116 ISIS oil trucks, an effort that was widely publicized in the Western media. In the two weeks since, Moscow and Washington have vaporized a combined 1,300 ISIS oil transport vehicles.
No one knows why it took the US 14 months to strike the convoys. The official line is that The Pentagon was concerned about “collateral damage”, but we doubt that’s the reason (for a detailed discussion of this, see here). Well now that the mainstream media have been forced to take a closer look at Islamic State’s main source of revenue (the group makes nearly a half billion a year in the illicit oil trade), we decided to take a closer look at exactly who is facilitating the transport of the stolen crude and where it ultimately ends up because you can be sure that the story you get from the major wires will be colored by a slavish tendency to avoid any and all “inconvenient” revelations. This is the fourth in a series of articles on the subject and we encourage you to review the first three:
- The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking
- Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey's President
- How Turkey Exports ISIS Oil To The World: The Scientific Evidence
On Friday we highlighted an academic study by George Kiourktsoglou and Dr Alec D Coutroubis who took a look at tanker rates at Ceyhan around siginifant oil-related events involving ISIS. Here's what the researchers found:
In their words, "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."
Now you can begin to see the connection. Ceyhan is the port from which Kurdish oil (technically "illegal" to let Baghdad tell it) is transported, and as Kiourktsoglou and Coutroubis note, "the quantities of crude oil that are being exported to the terminal in Ceyhan exceed the mark of one million barrels per day and given that ISIS has never been able to trade daily more than 45,000 barrels of oil, it becomes evident that the detection of similar quantities of smuggled crude cannot take place through stock-accounting methods." In other words, if ISIS oil was being shipped from Ceyhan, it would essentially be invisible.
Here's where things get interesting. A few weeks ago, Reuters released an exclusive report detailing how Erbil hides its crude shipments from Baghdad. Here are some of the details:
Most customers were scared of touching it with Baghdad threatening to sue any buyer. Large oil companies - including Exxon Mobil and BP - have billions of dollars worth of joint projects with Baghdad.
Some buyers took tankers to Ashkelon, Israel, where it was loaded into storage facilities to be resold later to buyers in Europe. Kurdish oil was also sold offshore Malta via ship-to-ship transfers helping disguise the final buyers and thus protect them from threats from Iraqi state firm SOMO.
It was a high stakes game. A ship would dock off Malta waiting for another to arrive to take a cargo to a final destination. Sometimes two ships would be sent - one sailing off empty and another full - to complicate cargo tracking.
"Everyone suddenly became a ship tracking expert. So we had to raise our game too ... But one thing was proven correct - when oil is out, it flows," said Hawrami.
Ok, so a scheme involving ship-to-ship transfers off the coast of Malta was used to get Kurdish crude to places like Israel. "Israeli refineries and oil companies imported more than 19m barrels of Kurdish oil between the beginning of May and August 11, according to shipping data, trading sources and satellite tanker tracking," FT reported last week. "That is the equivalent of about 77 per cent of average Israeli demand, which runs at roughly 240,000 barrels per day. More than a third of all of the northern Iraqi exports, which are shipped from Turkey’s Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, went to Israel over the period."
At this juncture, we begin to get an idea of what's going on here. Kurdish oil is already technically illegal and Turkey is happy to facilitate its trip to foreign buyers via Ceyhan. What better way for ISIS to get its own oil to market than by moving it through a port that already deals in suspect crude? Al-Araby al-Jadeed (a London-based media outlet owned by the Qatari Fadaat Media) claims to have obtained a wealth of information about the route to Ceyhan from an unnamed colonel in the Iraqi Intelligence Services. Here's their account:
The information was verified by Kurdish security officials, employees at the Ibrahim Khalil border crossing between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan, and an official at one of three oil companies that deal in IS-smuggled oil.
The Iraqi colonel, who along with US investigators is working on a way to stop terrorist finance streams, told al-Araby about the stages that the smuggled oil goes through from the points of extraction in Iraqi oil fields to its destination - notably including the port of Ashdod, Israel.
"After the oil is extracted and loaded, the oil tankers leave Nineveh province and head north to the city of Zakho, 88km north of Mosul," the colonel said. Zakho is a Kurdish city in Iraqi Kurdistan, right on the border with Turkey.
"After IS oil lorries arrive in Zakho - normally 70 to 100 of them at a time - they are met by oil smuggling mafias, a mix of Syrian and Iraqi Kurds, in addition to some Turks and Iranians," the colonel continued.
"The person in charge of the oil shipment sells the oil to the highest bidder," the colonel added. Competition between organised gangs has reached fever pitch, and the assassination of mafia leaders has become commonplace.
The highest bidder pays between 10 and 25 percent of the oil's value in cash - US dollars - and the remainder is paid later, according to the colonel.
The drivers hand over their vehicles to other drivers who carry permits and papers to cross the border into Turkey with the shipment, the Iraqi intelligence officer said. The original drivers are given empty lorries to drive back to IS-controlled areas.
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. He is usually accompanied by two strong-built men in a black Jeep Cherokee.
Once inside Turkey, IS oil is indistinguishable from oil sold by the Kurdistan Regional Government, as both are sold as "illegal", "source unknown" or "unlicensed" oil.
The companies that buy the KRG oil also buy IS-smuggled oil, according to the colonel.
Now obviously that's a remarkable degree of detail, but regardless of whether you believe in "Uncle Farid" and his black Jeep Cherokee, the main point is that there are smuggling routes into Turkey and once the oil is across the border, it might as well be Kurdish crude because after all, it's all "illegal", "unlicensed" product anyway, just as we said above.
Next, Al-Araby al-Jadeed says a handful of oil companies (which they decline to identify) ship the oil from the Turkish ports of Mersin, Dortyol and Ceyhan to Israel.
Here's the alleged route:
While the graphic shows the crude going directly from Ceyhan to Ashdod, it's worth asking whether ISIS crude is also "laundered" (as it were) through the same Malta connection utilized by those smuggling "illegal" Kurdish crude (which also ends up in Israel). We ask that because as it turns out, Bilal Erdogan owns a Maltese shipping company. "The BMZ Group, a company owned by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's son Bilal alongside other family members, has purchased two tankers in the last two months at a total cost of $36 million," Today's Zaman reported in September. "The tankers, which will be registered to the Oil Transportation & Shipping company in October -- an affiliate of the BMZ Group set up in Malta -- were previously rented to the Palmali Denizcilik company for 10 years."
Here's a look at recent port data from Ceyhan and Ashdod via Fleetmon.com (Malta-flagged oil vessels are highlighted).
Ceyhan
Ashdod
To be sure, all of this is circumstantial and there's all kinds of ambiguity here, but it seems entirely possible that Erdogan is knowingly trafficking in ISIS crude given what we know about Ankara's dealings with illegal Kurdish oil. Consider this from al-Monitor:
Details of the energy deals struck between Turkey and the KRG remain sketchy amid claims that Erdogan and his close circle are financially benefiting from them. According to Tolga Tanis, the Washington correspondent for the mass circulation daily Hurriyet who investigated the claims, Powertrans, the company that was granted an exclusive license to carry and trade Kurdish oil by Erdogan’s Cabinet in 2011, is run by his son-in-law Berat Albayrak. It didn’t take long for the notoriously litigious Erdogan to file defamation charges against Tanis.
Several Iraqi Kurdish officials who refused to be identified by name confirmed that Ahmet Calik, a businessman with close ties to Erdogan, had been granted the tender to carry Kurdish oil via overland by trucks to Turkey.
In other words, Erdogan is already moving illicit crude from the KRG (with whom Ankara is friendly by the way, despite the fact that they are Kurds) via a son-in-law and in large quantities. What's to say he isn't moving ISIS crude via the same networks through his son Bilal? Or perhaps through his other son Burak who Today's Zaman reminds us "also owns a fleet of ships [and] was featured in a report by the Sözcü daily in 2014 [when his] vessel Safran 1 was anchored in Israel's port of Ashdod." Here's a picture circulated on social media that purports to show Bilal Erdogan with ISIS commanders (because we do try at all times to be unbiased, we should also note that the men shown below could just be three regular guys with beards with no connection to any black flag-waving desert bandits):
Recep Tayip Erdogan's son "BILAL ERDOGAN" with his ISIS brothers #StopTurkeySuppportOfISIS pic.twitter.com/5IBfXeFo9w
— Dilxaz Sofiyan (@Dilxazsofi) September 20, 2014
Russian media claims the men are "ISIS leaders who it is [thought] participated in massacres in Syria’s Homs and Rojava, the Kurdish name for Syrian Kurdistan or Western Kurdistan."
One person who definitely thinks the Erdogans are trafficking in ISIS oil is Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi who said the following on Friday:
“All of the oil was delivered to a company that belongs to the son of Recep [Tayyip] Erdogan. This is why Turkey became anxious when Russia began delivering airstrikes against the IS infrastructure and destroyed more than 500 trucks with oil already. This really got on Erdogan and his company’s nerves. They’re importing not only oil, but wheat and historic artefacts as well."
And then there's Iraq's former National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie who posted the following to his Facebook page on Saturday:
“First and foremost, the Turks help the militants sell stolen Iraqi and Syrian oil for $20 a barrel, which is half the market price."
Meanwhile, the US is preparing for an all-out ISIS oil propaganda war. As WSJ reported on Wednesday, "the Treasury [has] accused a Syrian-born businessman, George Haswani, who his a dual Syrian-Russian citizen, of using his firm, HESCO Engineering and Construction Co., for facilitating oil trades between the Assad regime and Islamic State." Why Assad would buy oil from a group that uses the cash at its disposal to wage war against Damascus is an open question especially when one considers that Assad's closest allies (Russia and Iran) are major oil producers. Of course between all the shady middlemen and double dealing, there's really no telling.
Ultimately we'll probably never know the whole story, but what we do know (and again, most of the evidence is either circumstantial, anecdotal, of largely qualitative) seems to suggest that in addition to providing guns and money to the FSA and al-Nusra, Turkey may well be responsible for facilitating Islamic State's $400+ million per year oil enterprise. And as for end customers, consider the following bit from Al-Araby al-Jadeed:
According to a European official at an international oil company who met with al-Araby in a Gulf capital, 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.
Finally, you'll note that this is all an effort to answer what we called "the most important question about ISIS that no one is asking" - namely, "who are the middlemen?" As we noted more than a week ago, "we do know who they may be: 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." Consider that, and consider what Reuters says about the trade in illicit KRG oil: "Market sources have said several trading houses including Trafigura and Vitol have dealt with Kurdish oil. Both Trafigura and Vitol declined to comment on their role in oil sales."
Similarly, FT notes that "both Vitol and Trafigura had paid the KRG in advance for the oil, under so-called 'pre-pay' deals, helping Erbil to bridge its budget gaps."
Indeed, when Kurdistan went looking for an advisor to assist in the effort to circumvent Baghdad, the KRG chose "Murtaza Lakhani, who worked for Glencore in Iraq in the 2000s, to assist finding ships."
"He knew exactly who would and who wouldn't deal with us. He opened the doors to us and identified willing shipping companies to work with us," Ashti Hawrami (quoted above) said.
Indeed. And given everything said above about the commingling of illegal KRG crude and illicit ISIS oil shipments, it's probably a foregone conclusion that these same firms are assisting in transport arrangements for Islamic State.
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Interesting, but not surprising......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/us-gives-their-prox...
Raqqafellers! Hilarious! ;-)
Looney
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Outstanding work.
And Raqqafellers will stick.
I pointed to these assholes yesterday...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-27/how-turkey-exports-isis-oil-wor...
All the weapons in the world won't matter once ISIS army kick into gear!
http://goo.gl/lBRD5v
Golf clap from the heart for Tyler!
Right after 9/11, the Israelis swept in and starting building links with the Kurds. Google it. They are using the Kurds as a destabilizer and as a source for oil. Ashkelon and Haifa moving oil to europe is their grand dream.
Another conspiracy theory involving Mr. Shekelstein proven true....
If there has been ship to ship transfers I bet someone, and maybe several recon capable countries have spy photos. That could be part of the over the top game here. Let's bargain or we will release photos.
Joo World Order unpacking ... ... ... ... ... 22%
This just in : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/erdogan-russian-plane-downing_5659bd...
Erdogan expressing regrets for the downed plane. Also probably regretting ZH analysis.
I'm guessing the photos of the ship to ship transfers won't be released at this time.
Once again Meyssan's analysis proves extremely accurate. In July 2014, he writes:
On June 20, Israel bought the oil that the local Kurdish government had stolen in Kirkuk despite the international opinion voiced by the Iraqi federal government. The transit of the oil had been facilitated by the ISIL which controls the pipeline and Turkey which allowed the goods to be loaded onto a tanker at the port of Ceyhan.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article184669.html
Coming soon...
Russian naval blockade of Ceyhan.
Well.. WTF.... at least they are well lubed.
They are so well lubed, they might start humping each other's legs.
To each his own.
http://goo.gl/ZZ60pp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Moratti
Moratti is selling his shares in Inter to United Arabs Emirates investors.
When asked "How do you fans feel about this"
one answer:
[–]mozfather123 1 point 1 month ago
Id say its a shame that a Italian owner is leaving serie a ...but in moratti's case i say good riddance. He basically fore fronted the foreign player invasion in serie a and is the root problem why the Italian national team isn't as good as they use to be.
Moratti just another billionaire globalist!
Well there ya go... Crude in the $20's
Interesting question. If there was some ship to ship transfers, was there any other ships standing guard?
not the u.s.s. liberty's ghost, in all likelihood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_%28AGTR-5%29
bypass Baghdad's federal pipeline system,..
oops.. that is what independence and freedom ooks like.
“Almost 150 heads of state, including David Cameron, Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are heading to Paris for the start of the most important environmental meeting for decades.
Ahead of the summit, more than 175 countries have tabled pledges (known as intended nationally determined contributions, or INDCs) to cut their carbon emissions which, if enacted, would be enough to limit global warming to 2.7C. But the United Nations has pledged to limit climate change to 2C – and would much prefer it to be 1.5C.”
Tax.. Tax.. Carbon Credit Exchange up against the wall muther f’r’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPB-lb9HDTk
This will be the largest fleecing of the human population in the history of man kind. I just hope we get something like the massive Antartic ice pack increasing in size to stop this madness.
actually, that won't likely happen until the polar bears increase in populatiion by a few thousand per cent..
..which at the rate the ice pack is increassing, might be next week
:-D
And y’know, the South Pacific low islanders are a bit worried about sea levels rising, but they might want to start considering what their beaches might be like if they became mountainous as global cooling and the arctic regions suck the water out of the oceans.
"...KURDISH CRUDE DISCHARGED IN ASIA
Over the last couple of weeks, United Dynamic and another Suezmax managed by MMS, United Emblem, have apparently discharged two more cargoes of Kurdish crude around Southeast and North Asia, according to market sources familiar with the developments.
United Emblem did a ship-to-ship transfer in the South China Sea, a Singapore-based shipping agent said. "Very few [people] want to talk about it," the agent said with reference to the secrecy involved and sensitivity of the matter. Names of receivers of the cargoes were not immediately available.
"All this is being done under the radar for obvious reasons," said a VLCC broker in Singapore. The crude from Kurdistan is available at a heavy discount while shipowners charge higher freight for moving the cargoes, he said.
Unlike Iranian crude, shipping of which has been severely restricted by Western sanctions preventing ships getting insurance, KRG faces no such restrictions and Protection and Indemnity (P&I) clubs do provide cover for ships moving Kurdish crude, the broker said.
After ship-to-ship transfer, the crude gets blended with other grades so the origin cannot be traced and it is sold in smaller parcels to buyers in China and countries in Southeast Asia, market watchers said.
There are at least a dozen VLCCs functioning as floating storage units within and outside Malaysia's Tanjung Pelepas port alone for blending and storage of crude and fuel oil, an official of a global port storage logistics company said.
But many in the tanker market are reluctant to load Kurdish crude when it can lead to being deprived of the lucrative business of Basrah loadings.
"The risk in carrying out such trades remains. Iraq's government can appoint lawyers and send sea marshalls to get the ship arrested on the grounds that the cargo belongs to them and was sold illegally," one of the shipping brokers said.
--Sameer C. Mohindru; sameer.mohindru@platts.com
--Edited by Alisdair Bowles, alisdair.bowles@platts.com
Source: http://www.platts.com/latest-news/shipping/singapore/iraq-bans-entry-of-...
well the good news is that there a lot of dry boats around nowadays.
Well guess what…
You crave planetary warming?”
Before the oceans warm up 2.7C likely they will boil to 90C because of a CME.
If you like your global cooling/global warming/climate change/ anthropomorphic weather F'ng, you can keep your weather F'ng.
We are not able to change the weather, except if you do wierd contrails.
When I am dead I will have a nice Harp.
And Mr. -.-... sorry..as evil as is the situation you describe with the stolen oil.. it pales in comparison to what the UN is planning to do to freedom and what used to be the U.S.
so now.. adieu
so..don't need to hang around anymoar
Regret is not remorse.
Exterminate Exterminate
Yer - another easy to solve problem with the same solution. Remove Israel and the problem goes.
Oh goodness no, send the Jews there and cut them off and let them deal with the mess they have created.
ISIS jihadis control the Iraqi portion of the Kirkuk, Iraq to Ceyhan, Turkey pipeline, transporting discounted oil to the Zionist Entity aka Israel!!
What kind of jihadis want to work with and support Israel?
It's the devil's calculus: The end justifies the means. Right now, ISIS needs money. The Israelis have it. The Israelis need oil. ISIS has it. But really, it looks like ISIS simply piggybacks their oil on the Kurds, who also are their enemies...My guess is, ISIS will come for the Zionist Entity when they are ready, but by then, they will have been thoroughly co-opted by the Zionists, and so, actually, they won't bother. It's the same old story, yet the irony never seems to get old.
You are missing the script here.
ISIS was created by Israel. It's their operation. It's all a giant scam so they can make easy money off of essentially stolen oil. This is what 9/11 was all about. The US removed Saddam for Israel, so their forces could actually maneuver there without fear of losing. If Israel was seen losing a fight like that, all of the Middle-East would turn on them and eat them instantly. The Egyptians would roll over them over night and take everything that wasn't tied down and rape their women. The Lebanese would do the same thing. They only have their safety due to controlling the House of Saud, and they are very good at propaganda. Not because their military is any good. They push the image that it is, just like they push the image of the lame duck white men down our throats in every tv show, along with white women sleeping with black men. White men with Asians and Jewish girls. They fucking run Hollywood FFS.
It doesn't take a genius to examine any of their past conflicts to see that they are not good at warfare in the slightest. They have never won a fight against an equal foe, and have lost against many that were lesser. Israel fights with subversion, just like all Jews do. They know they can't win a standup fight, so they avoid them and manipulate others into doing it for them.
"No one knows why it took the US 14 months to strike the convoys. The official line is that The Pentagon was concerned about “collateral damage”".
Most ZHer's know why and don't watch MSM.
Hey MIC try that statement on the doctors and nurses you murdered.
Thank you ZH and many other alt media sites.
as the zh post linked, regarding why the u.s. took so long to attack, half-assedly, the isis oil tankers, "There are a couple of things that should jump out at you there. First, it’s not exactly clear why it matters that the administration “underestimated” the amount of revenue ISIS derives from oil. That is, the difference between $100 million and $400 million per year would be quite meaningful if you were talking about a corporation here, but this is a terrorist group. Sure, it matters that they’re making four times more than you thought when it comes to assessing their operational capabilities (the more money you have, the more you can do), but it shouldn’t matter when it comes to formulating a strategy to cripple their ability to produce oil. It’s not like you can say “oh, well they’re only making $100 million per year, so that’s fine.. now if it’s $400 million, that’s where we’ll have to draw the line.”
Second, since when is the US worried about collateral damage when it comes to taking out “terrorists?” As The Intercept laid bare in a series of recent investigative reports, 90% of those killed in drone strikes aren’t the target. It’s not as if the CIA isn’t aware of that statistic each and every time they pull the trigger on an MQ9 Reaper."
Wall Street and the bankers have a free hand to do as much thieving as they please as long as they saddle up when DC wants to screw some other country or do some illegal dirty work. Once in a while they throw some crook in the slam for show to placate the populace. Thus the US, along with it's compliant army of souless bankers, satellites, phone taps and intercepts , NSA hacking, spies, high level foreign banking informants, and such have a very good handle on the complete picture. That does not mean they can catch all the small stuff like Charlie Hebdo or the latest Paris attacks. There is speculation they knew about Paris and let it happen. To say the US didn't know about the truck tankers into Turkey, the ship to ship transfers in the Med, the hundreds if not thousands of civilian trucks full of goods traffic from Turkey into ISIS areas, or where the money trails are defies belief. This is just more examples of the US supporting ISIS. That bull crap that the US can't bomb ISIS because they might hurt civilians is mere pablum for the masses in the centuries long line of propaganda fed to it's citizens that the US does only good and a fantastic excuse for the lack of success against ISIS . Notice not a peep out of the US when Israel bombed schools and hospitals because Hamas terrorsits were supposedly hiding there. Or the ongoing drone campaign that has killed thousands of innocent people and has people daily living in terror but not a tear is shed for them in DC. When the Russians started bombing those tankers and let the world know the score Obama had no choice but to join in the fray as he not only lost face but by not doing so the willfully blinded sheep would finally become aware of what many of us have known for a long time. ISIS was created and is supported by the US and all the carnage and death in the ME is intentionally done directly, by bombing, or indirectly through proxies, ISIS or it's ilk, by the US. The recent reports that the US will join with Russia to eradicate ISIS for good is more bullshit as Obama has his agenda and he will keep on until there are no more Syrians to kill. Just as in that clusterfuck the US created in Ukraine the US will "fight" to the last Ukrainian.
Give up your jew hatred and get a life, fir fuck's sake
Get your head out of your ass FFS
To understand how Turkey can, on one hand, cooperate with the Kurds in northern Irak - and enable their oil commerce - and, on the other hand, be fighting Kurds in Syria (and Turkey itself), it is important to realize these two populations, although both ethnically kurdish, have little in common.
For starters, they don't speak the same language, and killed each other throughout the Cold War.
Nowadays, the Iraki Kurds are pro-West and lead by Barzani (admitedly a Mossad agent put in place by the Americans and British). The Syrian Kurds are aligned with Iran and Russia.
Thierry Meyssan's exposé is much better than mine:
http://www.voltairenet.org/article189385.html
thank you, that is enlightening.
This is huge.
I wonder why the NYTimes or CNN didn't mention it...
Sulzberger and Zucker will say it's racist. Silly!
KFI will pick it up in Los Angeles, they apparently read ZH.
well it isn't "good for the jews", as they, repeatedly, say.
It is not in the major rags, because, young man, its more bs., yello journalism at its apex
Similar to the red coats, this website promotes the trash to support the whims of the Napolean in the Kremlin, note the wording below, taken from the above article
To be sure, all of this is circumstantial and there's all kinds of ambiguity here, but it seems entirely possible that Erdogan is knowingly trafficking in ISIS crude given what we know about Ankara's dealings with illegal Kurdish oil
In other words, propaganda and speculation promoted by the biased scribes here at the ZH
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers".
Thomas JeffersonOn the one hand, you say the story isn't in the mainstream media because the story is "propaganda." On the other hand, you post a quote that attacks the mainstream media as outlets of misinformation. Fail.
Yet another shitty few week old troll posting nonsense. Easy to spot them these days.
the turkish socialist party thinks billy erdogan is brokering isis oil.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/2/In-the-fight-against-ISIS-by-Pepe-Esc...
you're not living up to your picture
Israel needs oil and water
and they have proven they will do anything to get it
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.Thomas Jefferson
strannick,
Huge indeed. The MSM don't report responsible journalism and are owned by 6 corporations. Turn off the TV, it's only good for watching movies, playing games and alternative computer monitor
Maybe because their owners are members of and duty bound to a "cult" which has brainwashed them since childhood to never speak ill of the cult's sins. It's part of that "unflinching resolve" thing.
Half of all Turks live under the poverty line. A quarter of those live underneath the starvation line = eat from dumpsters. Erdogan and his crime family live in a three-quarters of a billion dollar palace.
The Kurds have it worse, from Be Very Worried About Barzani Family Power Struggle
Kurds hate Barzani - he's in power because Israel and the U.S. back him. Time to strip the Barzani babies of their U.S. citizenship and bar their entire clan from ever setting foot on U.S. soil for the rest of their lives.
Everything the U.S. touches turns to shit. Every country we have anything to do with is ruled by psychopathic, money-grubbing gangsters. Every country we "freedomize and liberate" ends up knee-deep in the blood of their own citizens while the wars have turned out to be neocon chickenhawks grudge against a leader they don't like.
When Syria and Iraq have been sufficiently destroyed, U.S. and U.K. oil companies will own the oil and gas production destined for the EU or Israel. The U.S. will continue to turn a blind eye to the tin-pot dictators they have empowered and made profanely rich while their 'little people' eat out of garbage cans. If those peons rise up to kick the dictator's asses (Erdogan, Barzani, and whoever is in charge if the Iraqi hell-hole of death), then we will be there with weapons, armor, aircraft and troops to kill those dumpster-diving terrorists.
If we don't like the Saddam Husseins or Bashar al-Assads of the world, WHY THE FUCK DO WE KEEP MAKING MORE OF THEM?
RE
Soundslike a country I live in
Nice work Paveway!
Russia should quietly sink Erdogan's 2 oil tankers. Use some Spetsnaz guys to punch a hold in the bottom of both of them with some plastic explosives.
Good job by Tyler in exposing this and good post by Paveway. I hope Russia or hezbollah put Erdogan and this Barzani clan out of business.
Come on Putin - takes the gloves off. Get rid of these f**king rats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs3Lecs1sb0
If we don't like the Saddam Husseins or Bashar al-Assads of the world, WHY THE FUCK DO WE KEEP MAKING MORE OF THEM?
Simple. The petrodollar system.
Furthermore, why do we need the petrodollar? DEBT BASED ECONOMIC SYSTEM
Why? Private central banks owned by a small group of people with common interests
Why? Control, greed, power.
Maslow's inverted pyramid
Impressive article. Thank you. The Israel connection is extremely tenuous though.
What makes you think the Israel connection is tenuous?
Probably has something to do with his handle being a play on words to make fun of National Socialists. You know, European Nationalism...
NAZI schatzi is a German NAZI, it has nothing to do with European nationalism.
Nazism is a disease.
Stay tuned...
The Tylers do a good job of showing the trail of breadcrumbs in these oil operations. If you need a PowerPoint deck and streaming video of Israeli brokers negotiating legally-questionable and terrorist-supporting stolen oil purchases and scans of bill-of-sales from ISIS from Erdogan's son, then you're probably on the wrong site.
There are plenty of accounts of Israel buying Kurdish oil directly, or acting as a middleman for EU sales. Any Israeli brokers can legally claim ignorance of the source of the oil, but everyone involved knows exactly where some it comes from and why it's so cheap. The legality of ANY Kurdish oil sales are still in legal limbo - the U.S. courts won't permit its import. The fact that a substantial quantitiy of Kurdish (or Turkish terminal spot sales of 'Kurdish') oil is in fact ISIS oil stolen in Syria and Iraq really isn't a secret to anybody. To show what is (or should be) obvious to a reasonably intelligent person is not the same thing as concrete proof with a documented legal trail. Israel probably regrets the ISIS connection, but ISIS won't be around forever. Israel plans on buying oil from the Kurds for a long, LONG time, so I don't expect them to ask too many questions now.
We're talking a few Israeli brokers and refinery buyers, not ten million Israelis conspiring to buy and sell ISIS oil. If it wasn't Israeli oil dealers, it would be someone else.
Paveway,
I generally love your posts, but you really shouldn't try to make excuses for any player who is involved in these oil trades. There's too much blood on all of their hands.
I don't mean to excuse or otherwise overlook the immorality of their actions. My emphasis is on the slippery weasels they are and the fact that you're never going to pin anything legally on them, and nobody - least of all the U.S. - will even try. We know exactly what the fuck is going on and so do they, but you're never going to drag anyone to The Hague and acutally prove anything in front of the ICC.
Tyler pounds out a great report and connects the dots. Lightbulbs go off above people's heads and everyone rubs their chins, wags their heads and mutter "Uh huh... uh huh... I get it." But we all know damn well that at the end of the day, not a damn thing is going to happen over it. There are certain nations and certain clans 'on our side' that are just above the law.
How the hell does anyone justify going after a Syrian forced to deal with ISIS for oil when WE (the U.S.) are precisely the ones that sanctioned Syria to begin with cutting off oil sales, sponsored the terrorists that took over Syria's oil fields, then bonbed the shit out of their infrastructure? It would be fucking comical if it wasn't such a tragedy.
So we busted the smirking-ass chimp 'players' in these oil trades... what now?
Yeah. Only in my wood-chipper justice fantasy of a world. Maybe I'll dash off a strongly-worded tweet to the U.N. - that will teach those bastards!
Israel is essentially the State of Rothschild.
Intelligence agencies + secret societies are essentially sociopathic white collar gangs. ISIS is just every POS they could hire.
It's not tenuous, it's politely phrased, but there are actually a lot more people and institutions involved. The physical oil trade is a black art, and all the practitioners know each other, and as many times as a title to cargo may trade hands at sea, ONE party is responsible for legitimizing black market product (after which it can be traded more freely). Unfortunately, the simplest and least bloody solution is unlikely at this point, international sanctions on Turkey and an embargo on all oil from Ceyhan not originating from the Baku pipeline.
I have a feeling, Putin will do what he does best, find away around, and bust their asses.
Next news cycle: More clandestine killings in Turkey and more oil infrastructure bombed by Russia.
@schatzi- It seems strong enough to me. BUT I dont have a problem with Israel buying Kurd oil. As far as the idea that maybe there is some ISIL oil mixed in there- ok Maybe and maybe not. Israel doesnt buy ALL of it. Plus remember what the Tylers themselves admitted in the above article-"Of course between all the shady middlemen and double dealing, there's really no telling." And then Tyler added- "and again, most of the evidence is either circumstantial, anecdotal, of largely qualitative". So go take cold showers and try to not drool too much over all this, all you ZH anti-zionists
That's the thing with stuff like this, it never gets past the circumstantial stage, just like the bailout of the banks. The shit got "investigated" out of that and Paulson, Bernerk, Geitner, Greenberg, Blankfein all looked pretty guilty; but as it turned out it was nothing but anecdotes and speculation that was msking them look bad. (LOL)
Not on ZH.
You must work for ISIS to make that kind of dough...
Also known as "Goodfellas" in another type of mafia.
I heard this first from my ethnic Ukranian Russian co-worker, of these Raqqa-fellers..most notably Erdogan.
With his Daesh support and arms dealing, media suppression, killings, demonstrations, the beef with Russia, Assad, the Kurds, PKK, etc..we are witnessing the beginning of the end of the Erdogan regime.
FSB on the way. Stay tuned.
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Russia reacts to Turkey’s attack SITREP November 29, 2015 by Scott Russia reacts to Turkey’s attack SITREP November 29, 2015 by Scott
http://thesaker.is/russia-reacts-to-turkeys-attack-sitrep-november-29-20...
Will Russia nuke Turkey?
Great speech by Kadyrov on the meanning of being a Muslim in Russia
lots of more
it's like Vietnam all over again
Well......a little light on the triple canopy.
and a hit load more beards..... (and less lovely ladies and more crappy food)
Less weed and beer. A big downer, that.
Russian-Turkish military hotline is deactivated – Kremlin spokesperson
http://rbth.com/news/2015/11/28/rusian-turkish-military-hotline-is-deact...
lol
Okay ZH, I’ve followed you down this particular rabbit hole and all I can think right now is, why the fuck should I even have think about this? With three kids under 25, it’s my parental duty to be apprised and warn them of hazards that could threaten their long-term well being. That my natural concern should have to extend to what some pre-historic savages are up to on the opposite side of the globe (and post-modern savages on this side of the globe) is totally fucked up.
Even so, would I rather be ignorant? No, I would not.
I G Y
Sucks don't it?
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Once you look it's hard to look away.
I see a bad future to cities on "C"
Like Ceyhan or Chicago.
Why Assad would buy oil from a group that uses the cash at its disposal to wage war against Damascus is an open question especially when one considers that Assad's closest allies (Russia and Iran) are major oil producers.
Only an open question for trolls and dullards. Syria has lost a lot of its oil infrastructure, and it needs oil to operate. The Assad government probably isn't buying directly, but unscrupulous middlemen will try to make a profit no matter what their nationality.
Watch how the MSM will pump the US version, and ignore the Russian version, of who benefits from ISIS oil sales... it fits their agenda like a glove.
Perversely Obama was correct in saying ISIS is the JV team. A small cog in a very illegal, immoral but lucrative trade in stolen oil. A lot of dirty money to pass around, deposit in Swiss bank accounts in Potus' name, or members of the family, Congress vendors, etc.
If the U.S. and Nato wanted to- they could strangle the neck of the ISIS chicken by cutting off all oil going through Turkey and all newbie ISIS recuits and arms heading back into Raqqa.
But there is too much dirty money being made by the real players in the game. Can't have a peace settlement with dirty hands in the game. I now wonder if the ISIS internet recruitment videos are being made in Turkey, Israel or Hollywood.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b8234932-719b-11e5-ad6d-f4ed76f0900a.html#axzz...
According to this it is Syrian REBELS who are dependent on ISIS oil, it would also partially explain why is US unhappy with turn of events. It is safe to say that the line between ISIS and "rebels" is practically non-existent:
“It’s a situation that makes you laugh and cry,” said one Syrian rebel commander in Aleppo, who buys diesel from Isis areas even as his forces fight the group on the front lines. “But we have no other choice, and we are a poor man’s revolution. Is anyone else offering to give us fuel?”
Indeed, diesel and petrol produced in Isis areas are not only consumed in territory the group controls but in areas that are technically at war with it, such as Syria’s rebel-held north: the region is dependent on the jihadis’ fuel for its survival.
“At any moment, the diesel can be cut. No diesel — Isis knows our life is completely dead,” says one oil trader who comes from rebel-held Aleppo each week to buy fuel and spoke to the Financial Times by telephone.
Football clubs are quite often used for money laundering. Manchester City's cash comes from an investment group, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, (in England, the their sport authority is called the Abu Dhabi United Group who claims to have "no ties to the government" = LOL) who is in charge of the sovereign wealth fund of the nation, which is tied to its oil reserves. I am sure war would spike the price of oil, which in turn, pads their bankrolls.
My guess of the Italian football club? U.C. Sampadoria, who is owned by
Edoardo Raffinerie Garrone, an Italian energy company who has stakes in various oil companies across the EU.My money's on Moratti, the owner of Internazionale and SARAS oil refineries.
If you want to know why, look at the current Calcio League table...
benjamin got his evidence now
someone give him two latvian potatos
Yes send them to me. Hurry.
If i close my eyes i can almost taste them.
but be careful latvian potatos tend to carry serious diseases like syphilis
Yet another excellent investigative effort! Great stuff, this never makes MSM, but more people are in fact realizing what is going on, it's a slow process, but rather irreversible since the truth cannot be silenced.
this has indeed been a great line of articles
Astonishing. Good job ZH.
I guess NSA is still busy sifting through my E-mails and trying to get Snowden, or they just don't care who is financing terrorists...
Zionist Khazar dogs...
always at the source of any and every evil...
DEATH TO THE MONEYCHANGERS....
Uncle Farid the dual national Israeli involved in this type of mischief. I'm shocked!
ISIS mercenaries do as they are told: murder them villagers, gas those children, carry OIL to here
ISIS is a Pentagon-CIA run operation
Turkey is assisting the Pentagon, as are all the other lackeys, in a coordinated operation.
putins sanctions are useless erdogan gives a shit about turkeys economy
someone have to kill erdogans son and his chidren
just let them drown accidantly or let a plane crash or something like that
kill erdogays filthy criminal breed
nnnnnnn
Come on man. Don't put it all on the Erdogan kid. Pappa is in it up to his Islamic eyeballs. So is Israel and the U.S. Dirty money always attracts strange bedfellows.
When ISIS beheads 50 Israelis, let me know. What better way to steal Syrian and Iraqi oil than an ISIS strongman/frontman promoting Muslim kids, that haven't even grown pubic hair, to die so they can lose their virginity to 72 chaste goats. A Hollywood tail/promotion if I ever saw one.
Fuuuck. This is one world of deceit.
when i say erdogan i dont mean erdogan alone
i mean all his staff behind him
if i say obama i also mean not obama but all of the staff behind who is funding and ruling the country
what erdogan is doing is only signing the papers, which some intelligence funded by oligarch and great money write for him
not obama nor erdogan are in charge of anything
they are just the talking heads for the tv
its the peole behind them who do all the agenda
I reasoned some time ago that taking out** those who appear to be in power while only being puppets has some value. As an analogy one could say that generals have the real power while soldiers are puppets, yet taking out** the soldiers certainly diminishes the general's power.
If enough puppets are taken out, no one will be willing to replace them. And how good is a pupeteer without puppets?
**euphemism for killed.
its enough to separate the head from the body
head can be replaced with another head
body can be re-educated/replaced within 20-30 years
best examples germany, russia
Obama will say it was news to him. He never knows anything. He will say he read it in the paper.
You do not see ISIS in Israel because Israel is not PC when it come to giving people the benefit of the doubt about coming into their country. You will never see an Israeli airliner go down because there are monitors that go down the boarding line asking questions and judging the person they are interviewing before boarding. Also you can't turn a Jew into and ISIS fighter through propaganda. That is a closed society, their problem of security is the Palestinians they allow in.
Only Zerohedge can put the pieces together and put it out there. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
did someone step on a duck?
According to this article the US destroyed 116 oil trucks, and the Russians destroyed another 500. I don't know how many barrels of oil that is but that has to make a real mess with all that oil leaking all over the place.
Where are all the Envrionmentlists wringing their Dawn covered hands over all of this. Probably no Seagulls were harmed, but still somebody has to clean up the mess.
And it seems to me the MSM should be paying more attention to this "Envrrionmental Disaster" like they love to do whenever an offshore oil rig spills any amount of oil.
Palladin
Obama couldn't risk killing "innocent" truck drivers- a direct acknowledgement that everyone but the public knew Turkey was the oil conduit.
Now you are offering him the opportunity to stop incinerating the trucks for environmental reasons- you ought to be on Obama's staff.
K
ps. sarc squared.
the US used Russian footage of destroying 116 oil trucks as proof
doubt they did, it's their mercenaries and their operation
that's why nothing happened in the 2 years they pretended to destroy ISIS and Russia has immediate success, one is genuine and the other is fake
Such a shit hole nobody noticed.
This article says 1300 transports have been destroyed. I read an article that ISIS is using smaller trucks as tankers now, instead of 36,000 liters to 9000 liters per load. Soon they will be carrying oil in 5 gallon buckets.
I hope the Russians, Syrians and Hezbollah keep hitting the ISIS scum tankers.
Palladin,
Turn off the TV, stop watching the MSM and read:
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/category/world-wildlife-fund/
The original drivers are given "empty" lorries to drive back to IS-controlled areas.
There, fixed it for 'ya.
"Empty" except for the crates of CIA/Mossad supplied weapons labled 'machine parts'.
If the trucks were empty, the drivers would all go back in busses.
And whos going to drive the tankers back? Isis is an oil exporter, not a tanker exporter.
Awesome reporting Tylers. For free.....
There's no free lunch.
Its a CIA project, no worries.
Maybe they bought that burger-robot with the adds profits.
"... scheme involving ship-to-ship transfers ..."
That does not exist!
You just transfer the location of a datalink to the other!
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!
To transfer load there is a thing called Port!
kkkkkkkk
I wondered about that...and Malta???why go half way across the Mediteranian Sea????
Brent, WTI, SC (suspect crude) soon to become PC.
This just about sums up the whole ISIS situation......
http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2015/11/cowardly-isiss-terrorist-...
I told you ISIS was funded by Israel.... and was getting the oil.... this is old news, but thank you ZH for showing the proof!!
Now ISISrael must be sanctioned hard!!! They are the enemy
It's why Israel never said anything about ISIS and why they patched their fighters up and why ISIS never threatened them. I heard years ago they wanted Haifa to be the oil export hub for Iraqi oil.
One thing is over on Yahoo boards the comments show they know what is going on.
And they have not been able to demonize Russia and Putin with the American public, only leftists and gays hate Putin.
'only leftists and gays hate Putin.' That's a bit harsh on homosexuals, I'm sure they don't want Teh Fin, DTSY, Yomutti, Falconflight or that other fucking idiot that's just appeared Itsthetiming, clubbed in with them.
Olson johnson; "All right, we'll accept the Niggers and the Chinks, but we don't want the....fucking troll morons who post on ZH."
Now to silidly connect the Clinton foundation et. al...
Now to silidly connect the Clinton foundation et. al...
Here are the oil tankers belonging to BMZ Group:
- Mecid Aslanov
- Begim Aslanova
- Poet Qabil
- Turketer 81
- Armada Breeze
- Shovket Alekperova
......................................Use 'Marinetraffic' to track them .............
"...Moscva, Moscva... this is pbr Ceyhan... Fire mission, over...."
Spetsnaz is coming to greet them. They wil make new home for fish soon.
since I requested the Sputnik feature your stories I hope they plaster this one all over the airwaves....
you shall never see this on FOX or CNN
You will see it soon, trust me. They can't keep a lid on this.
This is outstanding, investigative journalism. Not the trash that we get from CNN, Fox and the BBC.
I just checked Trafigura.com and whenever I see a corporation talking about "ethics and transparency" (on their home page). I get suspicious. I am sure KPMG or whatever hooker-accounting firm is auditing this firm, is doing a fine job.
On another side note, Paypal thinks I am a terrorist and money-laundering criminal, because I wanted to transfer 20 Euros from my Bank account to my Paypal, to buy swimwear on Ebay.
FUCK THEM. FUCK THEM HARD IN THE ASSHOLE.
"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."
The Moratti family? Inter Milan...
Read that paragraph again. That's not information, that's garbage. A football team, a refinery, a person....
What a fucking joke.
Give me a name.
Give me the refinery.
Give me the football team.
You won't hand it over because you have jack squat.
Junk investigative journalism, you read the whole thing and here is no trail, there are no names and there is no evidence.
Itsthetiming
"there is no evidence."
For crying out loud- it's Hiliary Clinton.! Of course there's no evidence, therefore, it never happened.
Go troll somewhere else.
Massimo Moratti is the owner of Inter Milan and Sorroch Refinery in Sardinia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Moratti
Shitty troll already got banned.
LOL
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Laws are written for the little people, silly wabbit
NSA officially quits collecting bulk phone records as of tonight!
Exxon cares about the environment and Bush was not a puppet.
Oil goes to the highest bidder, I am shocked.
ahh the good old jews will sell their mother and deliver her for a shekal
A shekel? What can i do with a shekel?