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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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Shooting at him while he was parachuting down would not have been the way to take him alive.
Guess Who is Behind the Islamic State? Israeli Colonel “Caught with IS Pants Down”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/guess-who-is-behind-the-islamic-state-israe...
http://yournewswire.com/israel-caught-receiving-stolen-oil-from-isis-mil...
Yep. This is the Israeli Colonel captured in October.
It doesn't surprise me one jot given that many of the Khazar Ashkenazi jews originated and migrated from Turkey (Turkics) centuries ago. I'd guess there's a lot more just like them still in Turkey, despite currently following Islam.
At the recent G20 conference, Putin stated that there are about 40 countries helping ISIS in various ways and he included members of the G20 itself. I don't think he's a guy who would make false allegations.
There was a lot of speculation as to which G20 country(ies) he meant.
It has now been revealed that one of them is: TURKEY.
This makes it even more incomprehensible as to why the British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond stated in Parliament last week that "Turkey is a close ally of Britain and will continue to be so".
Hammond is admitting that Britain openly befriends a terrorist country run by a fascist.
The current British Regime is trying to run an equivalent of Operation Unthinkable developed by their heor, the drunken sot Churchill. The British Military leadership sensibly put a stop to it. The current British Military leadership seem to be as co-opted as the politicians. They don't appear to have rasied any serious queries about the legality of sending UK military in to Syria. In Blair's days, they made an attempt to cover their ass before going in to Iraq.
"The current British Military leadership seem to be as co-opted as the politicians."
This does seem to be the case. Either they are becoming more political or they need some more action to justify their vast budgets. Or both.
Or Zionists have reached the upper ecehelons of the military.
Possibly even higher. ...
ISISrael has in one way or another become the main marketer of ISIS oil.
WOW! This IS shocking news! Who could have possibly guessed it???
Anybody on ZH.
Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said "All of the oil was delivered to a company that belongs to the son of Recep [Tayyip] Erdogan. ... They’re importing not only oil, but wheat and historic artefacts as well."
Historic artefacts stolen from Syria have ended up in East Turkey. These are commonly looted to order for the benefit of collectors in London, New York and Israel.
http://www.dailysabah.com/investigations/2015/11/25/artifacts-stolen-fro...
Zionists and Jewish fundamentalists are keen on destroying real history in order to make the lack of any extra-biblical support for core claims of Rabbinical Judaism seem less unusual.
funny how "Niall" comes out as a worshipper of false idols ('the jews' rather than 'the lord' or 'israel' rather than 'the christ') now and then.
Jewish Supremacism emanates from both the wriiten and the oral law of the Pharisees.
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/chosen-people.html
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/hoax/scofield.htm
That is possibly one reason why Palmyra was targetted for a mixture of looting and provocative destruction.
' At the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919 Dr. Weizmann had declared, "The Bible is our mandate", and the words sounded good to Western ears. This event showed what they meant, and the same words were repeated by the Zionist leaders in Palestine thirty years after Dr. Weizmann used them.
The massacre at Deir Yasin was an act of "observance" of the ancient "statutes and commandments", including the relevant passage in Deuteronomy,
"When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out. . . seven nations greater and mightier than thou. . . then thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them",
and the related passage,
"thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth, but thou shalt utterly destroy them".
There are seven Arab states today, and each of them has its share of the fugitives of 1948, who for eight years now have been a living reminder to them of the common future fate with which Zionism threatens them under the ancient Law.
The passive condonation of this deed by Jewry as a whole showed more clearly than anything else the change which Zionism had wrought in the Jewish mind in a few years. Writing in 1933 (only fifteen years before Deir Yasin), Mr. Bernard J. Brown quoted the above passage from Deuteronomy as the reason for Arab fears, and added,
"Of course, the uncultured Arabs do not understand that the modern Jew does not take his bible literally, and that he is a kind and charitable person and would not be so cruel to his fellow-man, but he suspects that if the Jews bottom their claim to Palestine on the strength of the historic rights to that land, they can only do so on the authority of the Bible, and the Arab refuses to reject any part of it".
The Arabs were right and Mr. Brown was wrong; this enlightened Western Jew could not conceive, in 1933, that Zionism meant a full return to the superstition of antiquity in its most barbaric form.
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/israel/zionist2.html
http://youtu.be/YSy6ENVAJlY
Douglas Reed's "The Controversy of Zion":
http://vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres/reeedcontrov.pdf
Archibald Ramsay's "The Nameless War":
https://archive.org/details/TheNamelessWar_105
O'Grady's "The Beasts of the Apocalypse":
https://archive.org/details/TheBeastsOfTheApocalypse1959
Re Wilhelm Marr's "The Victory of Judahism over Germanism":
https://www.darkmoon.me/2014/the-jewish-question-a-problem-without-a-sol...
(Book itself: http://vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres10/Marreng.pdf )
Maurice Pinay's "The Plot Against the Church":
https://archive.org/details/ThePlotAgainstTheChurch_192
Henry Ford's "The International J-w":
https://archive.org/details/TheInternationalJew_655
" Jewish Domination of Weimar Germany":
https://archive.org/details/JewishDominationOfWeimarGermany1919-1932
Bonus:
http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptorium/english/archives/articles/j...
Wow! Is there anything the Jews can't do?!
avoid the use of red herrings in arguments about the implications of their ethnocentrism and moral arrogance and wildly disproportionate power transnationally?
What do I win?
http://youtu.be/gWkcuaIqaDE
(Did I leave the iron on?)
Something just weird happened to me. We were out of coffee here and that is not so good. So I went to Wal-mart because if you are going to go there you need to do it early when there are not many idiots around. So I picked a small can of coffee and I thought maybe the wife and kids would like some doughnuts this morning. I bought a pack of coffee filters too because I just got carried away with Black Sunday spending but that was it. It came to $9.82. I paid.
Out of all the Wal-marts I have been too, I have never been asked for a receipt on the way out the door. Well, what do you think just happened to me? A 70 year old lady associate stopped me and demanded my receipt. Well, I had it there and so I was good to go. I am not going to steal $3 worth of Wal-mart donuts.
That shit scares me though. That old woman was ready to the call the cops on me. She was ready to escalate the situation. I guess going to get coffee and donuts in the morning is just too outrageous.
So...
Did you fuck her or what, man??
Fuck who? My old 95 Lincoln? I think she fucked me actually because firing up an old V-8 in the cold is not cheap. That old bitch starts and runs but she will burn some gas. I have other vehicles but that is not the point at all. It is about metal, mass and Newton's Third Law. Newton also said something about gravity. A lower center of gravity makes more stable. Do you know why cop cars are low to the ground?
Just getting some coffee and some donuts for the kids is not subversive is it?
You were almost *swatted* by a Walmart greeter?
I belived them all to be *laid off*.
I really did not know what to say. Now the Mr's M woman says that this is common practice.
Wally got rid of the greeters then hired the ticket checkers near the door.
ISIS firing one of their 'Hell' canons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNtKhQqVuFU
The blowback is swift and sweet. A 'go to Hell' canon is born.
Does anyone remember when IRQ started selling Oil to ISR? Was it after the latest Regime Change War of 2003 onwards?
IIRC, ISR bought Oil and NatGas from the USA, CAN, TRK, VEN, EGY, and RUS (and a few more countries); but never from a GCC State.
At this rate, I'd like to see if LBY is selling Oil to ISR; and when.
If a Country sells its Oil/NatGas/Water/Other Goods to ISR, they're free to do that. I just noticed a slight change(IRQ used to send in Scud Missiles instead of Oil to ISR) in what used to be Cold War, Gulf War, and OPEC/GCC Policies of Old.
I'm interested to see if any of the PNAC 7 MENA Countries and other Regime Change Victims set up by the Anglo-American/ZATO Hegemony ended up exporting to ISR "after" the Regime Change/Color Revolutions/Long_War_on_Terr'r(Dubya's pronunciation).
Thanks for the Info.
"Does Jewish/White Privilege Exist?"
http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/09/does-jewishwhite-privilege-exist/
After eviscerating Libya for the same Saudi/Israeli interests, we blackballed Libyan Crude Oil exports so "only Israel" could buy them, at half-price of course.
The Israeli slimeballs have crept out of the woodwork over the SU-24 shootdown.
According to Israel's Minister of Defense, Russian military aircraft from Russia's aviation group in Syria flew a mile into the Israeli-controlled airspace and left without incident.
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF...
So the message is nasty evil Russia invaded yet another country's airspace, but Israel, being the wonderful country it is, did not shoot the aircraft down.
Hoewever, there is absolutely no detail behind the story. When did it happen? Where? What is considered to be 'Israeli-controlled' airspace (a good question, since, like the Islamic State, Israel has not formally declared its borders). Is this controlled space part of recognised Israel per 1948 border? Per 1967 border? Is this airspace the area in the Syrian Golan claimed by Israel? Or is it the area in SYria controlled by Israel's ISIS ground force?
In short, totally bs, as to be expected, but hey' it 'Makes Israel Look Good' (TM).
.
Now that the CIA is ramping up its activities in the area, expect a monstah crop of opium to be harvested soon. Oil AND opium, the CIA's most lucrative money-raisers.
Those of you who deny Israeli interests control US media lock, stock and barrel should explain why there has been a complete boycott of any mention whatsoever anywhere of the fact an active-duty IDF Colonel was captured while commanding an ISIL brigade:
http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/forum/topics/iraqis-release-photo-of-ca...
WOW!
"That's a nice photo of John McCain with al-Baghdadi"
Isis is israel's golem.
https://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/isisisil-completely-fab...
http://www.todayscatholicworld.com/mossad-agents-911.htm
An "ISIS Warrior wearing a Star of David" necklace.
Imagine that (!)
I predicted the Israeli connection in one of my comments last week.
Admittedly, it wasn’t that difficult to make. Call it a high probability guess.
"No one knows why it took the US 14 months to strike the convoys."
When did you become thick, Tyler? Obozo doesn't want to hurt them, obviously.
"The great danger of faking your ability to do something in the public square is that someone with an actual desire to the job you are pretending to do might come along and show you up.
This is what has just happened to the US in Syria with the entrance of Russia into the fight against ISIL.
And as is generally the case with posers caught with their pants down, the US policy elites are not happy about it.
You see, the US strategic goal in Syria is not as your faithful mainstream media servants (led by that redoubtable channeler of Neo-Con smokescreens at the NYT Michael Gordon) might have you believe to save the Syrian people from the ravages of the long-standing Assad dictatorship, but rather to heighten the level of internecine conflict in that country to the point where it will not be able to serve as a bulwark against Israeli regional hegemony for at least another generation.
How do we know? Because important protagonists in the Israelo-American policy planning elite have advertised the fact with a surprising degree of clarity in documents and public statements issued over the last several decades.
The key here is learning to listen to what our cultural training has not prepared us to hear.
In 1982, as the Likud Party (which is to say, the institutional incarnation of the Revisionist Zionist belief, first articulated by Jabotinsky in the ”Iron Wall” that the only way to deal with “the Arabs” in and around Israel was through unrelenting force and the inducement of cultural fragmentation) was consolidating its hold on the foreign policy establishment of Israel, a journalist named Oded Yinon, who had formerly worked at the Israeli Foreign Ministry, published an article in which he outlined the strategic approach his country needed to take in the coming years.
What follows are some excerpts from Israel Shahak’s English translation of that text:
“Lebanon’s total dissolution into five provinces serves as a precedent for the entire Arab world including Egypt, Syria, Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula and is already following that track. The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon, is Israel’s primary target on the Eastern front in the long run, while the dissolution of the military power of those states serves as the primary short term target. Syria will fall apart, in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure, into several states such as in present day Lebanon….”
“Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon. In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and Shi’ite areas in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north.”
“If Egypt falls apart, countries like Libya, Sudan, or even the more distant states will not continue to exist in their present form and will join the downfall and dissolution of Egypt.
“There is no chance that Jordan will continue to exist in its present structure for a long time, and Israel’s policy, both in war and in peace, ought to be directed at the liquidation of Jordan under the present regime and the transfer of power to the Palestinian majority.”
Yinon’s vision reappeared in the now infamous “Clean Break” document from 1996, authored by a consortium of US and Israeli “strategic thinkers” that included Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and David and Meyrav Wurmser, which was meant to serve as a foreign policy blueprint for the first administration of Benjamin Netanyahu.
The text is nothing if not obsessive regarding the need to seriously debilitate Syria’s ability to act in any way is a pole of regional influence in the in the area .
“Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq – an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right – as a means of foiling Syria’s regional ambitions.”
“Most important, it is understandable that Israel has an interest supporting diplomatically, militarily and operationally Turkey’s and Jordan’s actions against Syria, such as securing tribal alliances with Arab tribes that cross into Syrian territory and are hostile to the Syrian ruling elite.”
And as Dan Sanchez has recently shown, David Wurmser went into even greater detail about the need to balkanize Israel’s northeastern neighbor in articles published in approximately the same time period, talking quite openly in one essay about “expediting the chaotic collapse“ of Baathist Syria.
Then there is Wesley Clark’s famous interview, given in 2007, in which he revealed the true strategic aims of those running US foreign policy in the wake of the September 11th attacks. In it, he tells of a conversation he had at that time with a Pentagon official who admitted that the real plan was “to attack and destroy the governments in seven countries in five years”.
Those countries, according to Clark, were: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iraq. In the same speech, he explicitly ties the hatching of the plan to Richard Perle, head of the cadre of people who wrote in the “Clean Break” document of the paramount importance of putting Israel in position to “shape its strategic environment”.
On September 5th, 2013, Alon Pinkas, the former Israeli Consul General in New York and well-connected member of Tel Aviv’s conservative policy elite described the Syrian conflict in the following terms in the New York Times:
“This is a playoff situation in which you need both teams to lose, but at least you don’t want one to win – we’ll settle for a tie,….Let them both bleed, hemorrhage to death: that’s the strategic thinking here. As long as this lingers, there’s no real threat from Syria.”
I don’t think it can get much clearer than that. The US-Israeli plan in Syria has never been about helping anyone in that country, but rather insuring its effective dismemberment so as to further the perceived “strategic interests” of the Jewish state.
As Tomás Alcoverro, the longtime Mideast correspondent of Barcelona’s La Vanguardia newspaper wrote on 9 October 2015, in reference to the combined Russian and Syrian government attacks carried out during the previous week: “If this joint offensive is successful, the US plan for continuing the war of attrition until both sides are exhausted will lie in ruins”.
Yes, the US and Israelis, have been “faking it” in Syria for a good long time now. And Putin has come along and called their bluff.
And they are not happy about it. Which is why the ongoing campaign of demonization against the Russian leader is being ratcheted up – if that’s possible – to still higher levels of intelligence-insulting hyperbole."
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/12/us-caught-faking-it-in-syria/
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http://america-hijacked.com/2012/02/12/israel-lobby-pushes-for-us-action...
http://leaksource.info/2015/01/17/the-yinon-plan-greater-israel-syria-ir...
http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=western_support_for_islam...
http://www.ahavat-israel.com/eretz/future
http://youtu.be/rFr4C2BPLeM
http://youtu.be/NDqL6AJP9v8
http://youtu.be/UntixeRiEK8
Such a tragedy . . . So much illicit trade, deals, graft, kickbacks. The world on fire and money to be made. Glencore's founder Marc Rich passed and Bill and Hilary without a present office to help facilitate and, of course, participate. No wonder she's so driven . . . follow the money. There is no longer any morality.
Sunday the ZH Nazi's do not rest
Having a little love fest
The warmth of it all
not seeing the fire below
http://henrymakow.com/2014/09/Anti-Gentilism-Came-before-Anti-Semitism.html
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semitism
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/10/settler-palestinians-october
http://www.alternet.org/story/148016/how_to_kill_goyim_and_influence_peo...'s_shocking_religious_defense_of_killing_non-jews_(with_video)
Oh, fuck you ya lying racist hypocrite chickenshit fuckin' pussy asshole.
http://youtu.be/QphxGBXiA-M
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http://www.todayscatholicworld.com/mossad-agents-911.htm
And wasn't dsty up even earlier, to lay in ambuscade for these so called nazis?
This article is confusing at best. The Kurds are fighting Isis, but somehow they are shipping oil for Isis?? Or the Kurds are selling oil to Turkey which is bombing them .... that also makes no sense.
The only thing that is clear is that Turkey is involved shipping or trans shipping oil for Isis and this is tied pretty directly to their President who has become more or less a dictator.
So is this guy blinding me with his brillance or bullshit ??
Howie
Please refer to Erdogan as Caliph, or at least as a Sultan----not "a dictator"
But,but,but..Goldman says the earth is a hollow ball,full of oil,and that's why GoPro deserves a higher market cap than Exxon Mobile,because selfies,and titty shots, are much more valuable than stinky black goo...
What fucking good is NATO? Where is the worthless UN on this one?
See the article above.
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The coffin carrying the the body of the slain pilot Oleg Peshkov was flown to Ankara by the Turks where it was received by the Russian Ambassador to be returned to Moscow.
Will Putin give the Russian hero a televised Red Square funeral and a burial at the Kremlin Wall?
(The Turks must have read my comments last week on the importance of the return of the slain pilot to the Russians?)
Was this act of respect merely an order from Langley from Erdogan's handlers?
And will Erdogan publicly apologize to Russia and admit the possibility that the SU-24 did not violate Turkey's airspace?
The fact that this pilot was officially returned by Turkey in Ankara
is clear proof that the pilot was killed during his parachute descent
by Turkish military forces in Syria under direct Turkish control,
rather than by one of the various anti-Assad terrorist insurgents
such as al Qaeda, Al Nusra, or ISIS acting independently of Turkey
I highly recommend the eBook by The Saker...quite an eye opener.
http://thesaker.is/the-sakes-community-announcement-on-the-essential-sak...
Things are heating up quite fast: US and Turkey cease flights over Syria, as Russia deploys 7000 troops to Turkish border with Armenia
Fascinating.
from the article: "The Krasukha-4 broadband multifunctional jamming station is mounted on a BAZ-6910-022 four-axle-chassis and like the Krasukha-2, the Krasukha-4 counters NATO-Turkish AWACS and other air borne radar systems. The Krasukha-4, also, has the range for effectively disrupting low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites and can cause permanent damage to targeted radio-electronic devices with ground based radars also being a viable target—which is, undoubtedly, MoD experts in this report state, the reason US and Turkish aircraft have fled from the skies over Syria."
If the US and Turkey are halting air operations over Syria due to risk of being shot down and/or damage to electronic systems from Russian Krasukha-4, WTF is going on with Brit PM David Cameron, 'cos he's just about to start.
There is hardly ever any serious discussion regarding the financial angle of these events (except on sites like ZH). Back in my auditing days, we all knew that money played a major part in any decision. Follow the money, and you'll get your answers. This is yet another example. Tracking financial transactions is fairly easy as well. We're all being played for fools while the weasels make out like bandits. They're using ISIS as their angle to make a small fortune. Thats also why I dont want large immigration from these areas. This attitude is in their culture. What has this part of world contributed lately? Any cures for cancer?
Oillah hoo A-kabar
(Oil devil come out of grave)
MuhammedUr Rasool Oillah
MuhammedIsTheRepresentative of the Oil devil
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The prophecy of abrahamic religions :
The dead shall come out of graves
(petroleum & gas are actually dead bodies from ancient past now coming up)
Then they shall deliver justice & Judgement day (qayamat) to humankind
(Nuclear war due to oil)
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The Gawd of Abrahamic religions (Mulims, Jewws & Christians) demands killing
Abraham was asked to kill his son
Then a tradition to kill animals & birds was instituted to please this Gawd. (Qurbani, Qorban)
It is nothing but ChiefLord of Asuras
Humankind has been deceived to trust in the Gawd that demands blood
"The smell of burning flesh & spilled blood is pleasingToTheLord"
The Lord of violence (eye for eye , tooth for tooth)
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The end is coming to Asuras
(those who like violence)
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Oillah hoo A-kabar
(Oil devil come out of grave)
Spectacular effort in journalistic investigation. Well done. well done.