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An Angry Iraq Demands Security Council Investigation Into "Criminals" Smuggling ISIS Crude
“We don’t believe the Americans support Daesh, but it is true that most people are saying they do, and they are right to believe that the Americans should be doing much more than they are. It’s because America is so slow that most people believe they are supporting Daesh.”
That’s from Naseer Nouri, a spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Defense. Nouri was commenting to The Washington Post in regard to a story about how in the eyes of most Iraqis, the US is “in cahoots” with ISIS (read our take here). Here is what we said in response to the quote shown above:
“If it walks like a duck Mr. Nouri..”
Well it appears as though Naseer is set to take that to heart when it comes to Moscow’s contention that the Turkish government is complicit in the trafficking of illegal ISIS crude.
In the wake of a Russian Ministry of Defense presentation which detailed Islamic State’s oil smuggling operation and its link to Turkey, Nouri told Russian media today that if Vladimir Putin delivers on his promise to provide evidence of Erdogan’s involvement in the illicit trade, Baghdad will file a complaint with the UN Security Council.
Here’s what Nouri told Sputnik:
"If the Iraqi government receives enough evidence and details, without any hesitation it will file a protest at the UN Security Council and all other relevant international bodies,"
"General information about the smuggling of Iraqi oil by trucks to certain countries, including Turkey is already available. This oil is used to fund Daesh."
"There is evidence, satellite photos and security services’ reports which confirm that Daesh smuggles oil to Turkey."
Bear in mind that Iraq is already hypersensitive to the smuggling of crude oil into Turkey. Iraq's November oil exports rose to a record 100.945m bbl in November, generating some $3.67 billion, but Baghdad received no oil from the Kurds during the month even as the KRG produced 636,153 b/d. That crude is piped straight to the Turkish port of Ceyhan and from there generally ends up in Israel and God only knows where else. This isn't an arrangement Baghdad is particularly thrilled with (read more here) and so the idea that in addition to what's "lost" to the Kurds, ISIS is also skimming from Iraq's oil and selling it via Turkey is simply not acceptable.
Underscoring that sentiment is Asem Jihad, the press attaché of the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, who also spoke to Sputnik on Wednesday (Russian media is loving the MoD presentation hype), and who says that Iraq will ask the Security Council to establish committees tasked with investigating anyone and everyone involved with the smuggling of illegal crude from Iraq and furthermore, Baghdad expects the international community to brand anyone found to be involved, "a criminal." Here's the quote:
"The US Security Council is requested to form committees to put in effect the previously adopted resolutions on smuggling. According to said resolutions, all involved in these activities, be they individuals, companies or states, will be branded as criminals."
Meanwhile, US State Department spokesman Mark Toner said at a briefing that while the US can't deny that illegal oil is trafficked across the Turkish border, Washington can say that the Turkish government is not complicit in Islamic State oil smuggling.
So that's the official word from Washington as of now, but as we said earlier this week, "when it comes to criminal conspiracies, the guy who gets caught first usually ends up getting cut loose," so we'll see if the US stands by Ankara once the Security Council (which, you're reminded, includes Russia and China) starts taking a closer look at just who is involved in getting Islamic State crude to Ceyhan.
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UN, not US security council. Or is it???
So let's do a little thought exercise.
Is Assad supporting ISIS with money and guns? They are trying to overthrow him.
Is Iraq supporting ISIS with money and guns? They are trying to overthrow Iraq.
Is Iran supporting ISIS....
Is Russia supporting ISIS....
The only conclusion is that NATO is supporting ISIS as they are the ones that want Assad out and want a pipeline in. They thought they could control Mongo but Mongo decided to go rogue.
You get it, but plenty of people don't. For the first time in years, I listened to part of Limbaugh's show last week when I was driving. He was trying to make the case that ISIS is on the side of Assad and Iran and Obama is somehow helping them out because he loves Assad and Iran. I hate Obama, too, but that's just fucking stupid.
Blind partisanship rots the brain.
i turned off Rusty many years ago. You should do the same
Rush is a controlled partisan, not much different from Wolf Blitzer who is a controlled Hasbara partisan balancing the other end of the act.
Neither of those two are much different from Alex Jones who is controlled opposition. All are designed to "feed" us our daily infobread based on our own preconceived (dare I say pre conditioned?) political and social bents.
These propagandists are just examples, but their numbers run into the hundreds, and that's just the overtly visible cadre.
Then there are the behind-the-scenes propagandists who number in the tens of thousands; it is they who write what goes on the teleprompters, the news briefings, the press releases and the newspaper articles, etc.
Two areas Limbaugh is particularly slow in:
1. Economics, finance, anything remotely related to it. I've listened to him enough to catch many cringe-worth (and outright wrong) explanations of how things work. Recent butchery: TAP 529 college savings plans. He wasn't even in the ballpark.
2. The ME (and, frankly, anything related to foreign policy/world politics). Let's first admit NOBODY is an expert on the ME, but still, he gets it so wrong sometimes you wonder why one of his many wealthy and well-connected friends doesn't sit him down in private and explain the basics of what's going on over there just so he doesn't sound like a complete moron on the air.
His circular weaving of solid conservative values with hypocritical identity politics is like a drug for the legions of ditto-heads, a tool for the establishment right, probably a valuable counter weight to the group-think PC leftists. He is an absolute hack as far as any thoughtful, objective, geo-political or economic analysis.
Hmmmmm... is that a trick question?
WAIT. The UN Security Council? So what about the invasion and occupation of a sovreign nation? And the destruction of said Country with hundreds of thousands of dead people. Will a "case" be filed against the US, SA, France, Turkey etc.?? NO? Oh, OK.
The UN is the de facto World Governement......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/12/road-to-ww3-time-to...
Not yet but not for lack of trying.
According to scripture, it stands a good chance once it finds the leader - then manmade hell on earth will be unleashed - No good comes from the UN
It's very complicated... but if you want to understand it, start here:
http://www.law.nyu.edu/news/REISMAN_MICHAEL_LECTURE
We'll get right on that, Iraq. But please be patient.
We all know who is behind arming rebels and smuggling crude...
the spice must flow...
"This is what free people do." -- Donald Rumsfeld, commenting on Iraqi looting and rioting following the fall of Iraq in '03
French proposed closing the Syrian/Turkey border, the Vienna committee puts al-Nursa on the list and now Iraq says they will be the ones to take the case to the UNSC.
That Russian diplomacy is a motherfucker.
Anyone want a piece of Iraq? Just go in and grab some. They will do nothing to stop you, anyone! A class of Israeli schoolgirls could probably take all of Bhagdad in a week.
Don't be influenced by western media. I am sure you never heard that US army could not move much outside their fortress. The so called green zone.
They had to release drugged zombie killers to terrorize normal people of Iraq into shock and awe.
Shits getting real,. Better go shoot up a development center so we can impose some more gun control on the sheep.
No sooner said than done!
Isis is America and it's dictator mirror states arround the world and it's them against the rest of the world.
IBut as Disney teaches us, the bad guys lose in the end.
So the day American soldiers realize they don't want to catch bullets for 1000 dollars a month protecting billionaires economic interests, it will be over and they be defeated.
Also makes you wonder how broke America is because they're paying their soldier NOT the minimum wage!
Look at all the cheap oil Israel is getting!!
buying wholesale is good but buying illegal is better.
hahaha, the UN security council. wtf are they going to do? one no vote and its a hung jury and no action happens.
When things get serious, you have to ... form committees?
Damn right fella!
The unsuitable
Appointed by the unwilling
To do the unnecessary
Works every time
Well, at least the committee is easier to run than the iron maiden. You have to FORCE people to enter the iron maiden, and the only cost of committees (provided they don't do anything) is coffee and danish halfway thru.
(H/T to Terry Pratchett)
Very fantastic. I started making the prediction that the Israeli-Neocon's days are numbered because their plans are failing in the real world. They could only have worked where the victims could not communicate and nobody learned from their experiences, in addition to the massive psychops capabilities they have shown. The private communication channels they depended on for their plotting are now being used by all of us against them.
But meanwhile, fear of their heads in nooses drives them to ever-more risky moves, and intentional creation of chaos. I believe the risk of coup via very large false flag is not insane to think about, these seem to me to be insane times.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/the-next-false-flag/
Just because it was available to past, but worth the read.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/to-the-modelers-of-the-world/
When pushed to back off or admit defeat, they'll go on offense and double down. It's called hutzpa.
Not dispensed or available to regular Church goers. The Sermon On The Mount does not approve standing up for yourself, to be rich, or to seek just retribution. How messed is that?
Time to bring back the Nordic and Greek gods, kick ass, and look after your own people.
BTW, you do know that Moses and Joshua conducted Ethnic Cleansing -- not on other races, but on their own people. It's all there, right on the OT, but the Religiously Correct won't tell you about it, or discuss its true significance: Ideological Cleansing in the own ranks -- which has to rank worse than Ethnic Cleansing.
This oil thing is taking roots.
Interesting how high is the bar set by US for evidence to prove Turkish government involvement in oil trade with ISIS, yet the evidence that US produces for their own accusations is usually done in MS Paint...
or the evidence the u.s. produces to rain fire from the sky on whomever, i.e. non-existent.
Well, there you have it. If Washington says Turkey is not complicit then....WE now KNOW FOR A FACT THEY ARE!
Yes, the most reliable confirmation is when the "official denial" is released.
Security Council? Investigation? Who is the Chief of UNSC?
Bart Chilton?
Nope. Its the guy with the giant coke bottle glasses.
Its not Mr Magoo (blind cartoon character) -- its Hans Blix!
mr. magoo needs explication now?
i am so old.
Well, there you go. If the USSA says, must be true.
International law is over.
http://theantimedia.org/isis-israel-iraq-and-syria-its-all-part-of-the-p...
Now we have nato shooting down planes tasked with killing terrorists supported by nato/allied nations, premeditated and in syrian airspace.
We have Netanyahu ramping up his absurd lies.
Unless people start arresting and jailing the obamas and camerons and nutty yahoos we'll be in outright shooting war soon (less than 3 months maybe? Assets in place etc...).
I mean forget the putin or israel ir red blue shit for 1 second.
A third world war? For what?
How in the fuck can the free peoples of middle earth not unite against The One Bank?
Until the proles of this world stop with FaceFuck, stop watching the boob tube and get off their asses to engage, this world is fucked. The Vampire Squid is a master at Marketing and Consumer Behaviour. Years of fine tuning their craft. Can they be curtailed. Not sure. But one day soon, we will wake up to a world that in nothing like we ever imagined. And they will then ask themselves, "well how did I get here"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98AJUj-qxHI
Well, there goes most of DC and israeli ,gov
So... Erdogan has no idea that thousands of ISIS oil trucks are crossing the border every day? But sure knows when Russian plane (allegedly) enters 1 km into Turkish air space?
So I guess, WH message is we'll go with his story that Russian plane entered Turkey 1 km, but we are not buying that he knew about all those oil trucks from ISIS roaming Turkey at will...? Really?
No shit, miles of trucks loaded with oil and no one stops to ponder what's going on. Hmmm. And the stupid ass US just spews utter bullshit and everyone is supposed to say, "Oh, I see".
This shit is surreal, Twilight Zone fucking material.
At last, thanks to Russia, the truth is being told and forcefully enough to penetrate the wall set up by Western MSM.
I have read, from reliable sources, that it has been Russian diplomatic policy to keep quiet about a lot of potentially very damaging facts, so as not to spoil chances of diplomatic resolutions of conflicts ... but with the priviso that guilty parties do not go too far.
Well Erdogan went too far and so have other actors by either siding with Turkey, or failing to condemn. And these include Washington, Brussels, most NATO countries and sundry Gulf States ... so expect repurcussions.
A while back RT ran a bit of an expose on 9/11, but went quiet again, except for leaks to such alternative media as Veterans Today (which isn't necessarily reliable, with Gordon Duff admitting to about 60% disinformation - however).
I would not be in the least surprized if Putin rides his wave of surging popularity and credibility to dump all he knows about 9/11, now it is out in the open that Daesh/ISIS is a Washington/CIA creation - an expanded Al Qaida, originally CIA created in Afghanistan to defeat the Soviets.
We ARE blessed to live in interesting times, doncha thunk.
Pay-back is sweet.
yes, all the kgb has on 9-11 and buy up all the silver futures then stand for delivery.
a boy can dream can't he?
To bad the UN would never think about charging those responcible. The Oil has been stolen, those who deal with it are trading in stolen material. America Protects Nato's member Turkey and lies. Turkey and Human rights and the America tax Payer foots the bill as they lose their jobs and homes. Isn't it time the UN folds, the World court needs revamping and the young and stupid Drone Children.
Necessity is the mother(fucker) of all invention, applies here.
Turkey should be taken to court and forced to pay reparations to Syria and Iraq for buying stolen goods from those countries.
Obama not knowing Erdogan's involvment just makes US as bad as Turkey.
Not so much Turkey as the people/corporations involved in/profit from the destruction that need to be forced to pay up, no matter where they come from.
"Obama not knowing Erdogan's involvment"
ls (laughing silently).
The term “Daesh” is strategically a better choice because it is still accurate in that it spells out the acronym of the group’s full Arabic name, al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham. Yet, at the same time, “Daesh” can also be understood as a play on words — and an insult. Depending on how it is conjugated in Arabic, it can mean anything from “to trample down and crush” to “a bigot who imposes his view on others.” Already, the group has reportedly threatened to cut out the tongues of anyone who uses the term.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n0s2zrBiBOU/VlzM6MdqrZI/AAAAAAAACo0/Ogb4N0SkDpw/s1600/Isis.jpg
will do. i note putin uses it.
Daesh, as in do a big daesh in the toilet.
Pirate America & its euroPeons have always been like that
euroPeons were cannibals in ancient times they ate neanderthals to extinction
euroPeons then became pirates , looting & burning ships
euroPeons started slavery of people, treated humans as animals
euroPeons attacked (peace loving) spiritually advanced civilizations killed monks & ascetics & burnt libraries in asia (by turkish)
euroPeons then became colonialists , racists , treated people as servants
...and millions died in colonies
euroPeons started drug trade (opium wars)
euroPeons then started another form of piracy - swiss banks & britsh caymen islands
keeping stolen money by corrupt & became rich
Now euroPeons(& americans) want oil & gas monopoly
destroying country after country (Iraq, Libya, Syria etc) millions dead, injured, homeless
You euroPeons(& americans) are a disease to planet earth
i have heard some expand it to the species.