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Putin Accuses US Of ISIS Oil Coverup
Last Wednesday, the Russian MoD delivered a lengthy presentation which contained compelling visual evidence of a connection between Islamic State’s illegal and highly profitable trade in stolen Iraqi and Syrian crude and Turkey. Here are some highlights:
After loading up with oil, a truck convoy in east Syria heads toward Turkey in direction Al-Qamishli:
October 18: in the Drer-ez-zor region a satellite imagte reveals 1772 oil trucks:
November 14: in the Tavan and Zaho regions, in the zone where coalition forces are active, one can see a gathering of oil trucks:
November 28: in the region Kara-Choh on the territory of an oil refinery one can see 50 oil trucks:
The routes of alleged oil smuggling from Syria and Iraq to Turkey:
A substantial part from east Syria enter a refinery in Batman, Turkey (100km from the Syria border):
The slide show, hosted by Deputy Minister of Defence Anatoly Antonov, featured photos of oil trucks, videos of airstrikes and maps detailing the trafficking of stolen oil. It was the latest PR snafu for Erdogan who is struggling to convince Turkey’s allies that The Kremlin’s accusations are unfounded and that Ankara isn’t set to put NATO in an awkward position by effectively instigating a shooting war with Russia.
Washington came to Erdogan’s defense in the aftermath of Moscow’s claims as State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the US is confident that Ankara “is not complicit in Islamic State oil smuggling.” Russia seemed to take that denial in stride, but after US special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs, Amos Hochstein, said on Friday that the amount of oil smuggled into Turkey from Syria is "of no significance from a volume perspective", Moscow appears to have had enough.
On Saturday, Russia accused the US of participating in a cover-up. “Our colleagues from the State Department and the Pentagon have confirmed that the photo-proof, which we presented at a briefing [on December 2], of the origin and destination of the stolen oil, coming from the areas controlled by the terrorists, is authentic. However, the US claim that they ‘don’t see the border crossings with tanker trucks crossing the border,’ raises a smile, if only, because the photos are still images,” Major General Igor Konashenkov, a Defense Ministry spokesman said. “We advise the American side to have a look at how the tanker trucks not only drive through checkpoints at the Turkish border, but pass through them without even stopping.”
As RT notes, an unnamed US State Department official confirmed to Reuters on Friday that the Russian photos of thousands of oil tanker trucks in Syria were authentic [but] stressed that he hasn’t seen “the imagery of the border crossing with trucks crossing the border, and that’s because [the US doesn't] believe it exists.”
Well, here it is:
"The declarations of the Pentagon and the State Department seem like a theatre of the absurd," the MoD added, before noting that Washington should "watch the videos taken by its (own) drones which have recently been three times as numerous over the Turkey-Syria border and above the oil zones". That, by the way, is an attempt to mock Washington for increasing the number of drones monitoring the situation while failing to actually conduct strikes. Earlier this week, Russia said that despite Washington's claims, the US and its partners are actually not bombing ISIS oil infrastructure or convoys.
In case the above isn't clear enough, here's more from the Russian MoD's Facebook: "When US officials say they don't see how the terrorists' oil is smuggled to Turkey... it smells badly of a desire to cover up these acts."
We have on any number of occasions suggested that Washington has avoided striking ISIS oil convoys in an effort to ensure that the group retains the funding it needs to continue to destabilize Syria and the Assad government (see here for instance) and in order to preserve amicable relations with Ankara which appears to benefit from the trafficking of illegal crude both from Kurdistan and Islamic State.
And so, Russia once again turns the screws on the West in an effort to expose what at this point looks to be a coordinated effort to facilitate the funding of international terrorism via the establishment and maintenance of smuggling routes for some 50,000 b/d of oil looted from fields in eastern Syria and northern Iraq. If the US is indeed complicit in this, it might be time to cut ties with Erdogan because Moscow is on the PR warpath and it's just a matter of time before the smoking gun emerges.
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Within a month of his being elected Senator from "TEXAS", Cruze twice "visited" Israel, to meet with his new boss Netanyahu. I could not agree with you more.
The Rothschilds . . . the bane of humanity and the root of most of the organized evil in the world.
Hey, Vladimir, you might want to look into these fine, upstanding international citizens. …………… Some say they are fencing the stolen Syrian oil for ISIS via Turkey.
~ DC
This quagmire goes much further
Bill Clinton: 'I could have killed' Osama bin Laden - wptv.com
Oliver North, Osama bin Laden Hoax, Iran Contra Hearings, 7/8 ...
1998 - Osama Bin Laden Interview With ABC John Miller - YouTube
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The central banking is the culprit. If the banks are bombed, no more illegal wars. Problem solved.
Mike Rivero WhatReallyHappened.com nails it!
"The President is going to remind us how scared we are supposed to be, and how "terror" attacks in the United States will continue until we do what he tells us to do. Hitler pulled the same stunt with the Brown Shirts to end the German Republic and replace it with the Nazi dictatorship.
Obama will assure us that even though Russia has been invited by both Iraq and Syria to deal with the ISIS "terrorists" and is doing a far better job of it in months than the US has done in years, that the US should go into Iraq and Syria even though neither of those countries want us there.
Obama will tell you this is about the "War On Terror" but what it is really about is guaranteeing that Middle Eastern oil will trade for the US Dollar and not the Russian Ruble, out of which the US financial system makes a huge profit and the US Government exerts hegemonic influence over that region. The US Government has killed an estimated 20 million people over the last 14 years of this campaign.
So what this is really about is your working hard and sacrificing your money and children to make already rich money-junkies even richer. You will be told that it is your patriotic duty to continue to work hard and sacrifice your money and children to make already rich money-junkies even richer.
But, setting aside that these are all wars of aggression by the US, setting aside that wars are just mass murder wrapped in pretty flags, and setting aside the very real possibility of escalation into a global nuclear conflict, ask yourself this pragmatic question. Has a lifetime of work and sacrifice of money and children made YOUR life better? If the answer is "no" as it is for 99% of Americans, then you should tell Wall Street and Washington DC to take their wars of conquest and shove them up their ass!"
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/262234-obama-to-address-thre...Read more: whatreallyhappened.com http://whatreallyhappened.com/#ixzz3tYPmyhci
You're being herded onto the reservation, natives and savages.
The oligarchs are herding you.
Only one group of oligarchs in this "shit show"
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"Obama will tell you this is about the "War On Terror" but what it is really about is guaranteeing that Middle Eastern oil will trade for the US Dollar and not the Russian Ruble, out of which the US financial system makes a huge profit and the US Government exerts hegemonic influence over that region. The US Government has killed an estimated 20 million people over the last 14 years of this campaign."...
I'm with Jim Rogers...
Buyin Rubles!!!
Why is Vlad still doing business with the Rockefellers?
The Rockefellers are dirty in the Turkey/ISIS oil business.
So why, Vlad?
Until Vlad calls out the Rocky's involvement, Putin is suspect.
Good question.
The American People may pay a terrible toll for losing control of government to:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-06/inequality-america-richest-20-o...
The American People may pay a terrible toll for losing control of government . . .
Sorry SMC, your post should have read; "The American People WILL pay a terrible toll for losing control of government . . ".
IMHO even if all of the sheep in the USA that are addicted to things like their I-gadgets and Kim Khardasian's butt immediately get their heads out of their collective asses I am afraid it is too late to change anything without a very bloody conflict taking place first. And that conflict, if it takes place, will not guarantee that anything will change for the better in the long term
Agreed. However, the use of "will" may be interpreted as a threat.
"Jeremy Corbyn’s close associates are secretly planning to purge the shadow cabinet of moderate MPs who disagree with his radical, anti-war policies, as he seeks to impose his will on the Labour Party".
The above statement was taken by the "liberal" UK paper, the Telegraph". Written by Tim Ross, say no more.
So a "liberal" paper in England considers bombing Syria "moderate", and not wanting to be in a constant state of war "radical". This mirrors the America zionist media, where liberal and conservative are contrived notions, meant only to distract from the common themes of war, aggression, monetization, consumerism, and anti SOCIETY! (That is to say they have conflated the ideas of the common good with socialism).
Well, there's doubt because we still haven't even defined the word "is", and we haven't outlawed PhotoShop.
/sarc
Thank God Vlad is telling the truth and actually going after the bad guys. but I have a feeling he is pissing in the wind when it comes to the PR campain. Unfortunately the Us Citizenry doesn't care what their government is doing. Most already suspect their leaders are incompetent and corrupt. Sadly they just want to be left alone and taken care of.This applies to the west in general and it's pathetic.
Hochstein, said on Friday that the amount of oil smuggled into Turkey from Syria is "of no significance from a volume perspective", Moscow appears to have had enough.
so we went from no oil to some oil but it's no big deal, is that right?
looks to me like Washington is employing the "four dog defense" here and have already burned through the first two. this tactic is exclusively employed to cover up or to mitigate something damning such as evidence of knowledge and participation in illegal or immoral and harmful, destructive activities. typically used by major corporations (that's how big pharma keeps obviously deadly "medications" on the market) .gov is now using it here.
what it also means is Moscow just checkmated the PR war and DC is now in full on defense mode. the jig is up and they know it so now they are working to keep this info as low key and as far from the mainstream public collective as possible. it would not surprise me to see an effort by .gov and the MSM to memory hole Syria and remove it from the headlines for a while. remember that's exactly what happened after the epic fail over bombing Assad for using chemical weapons.
I noticed over the last few days the anti Putin propaganda in the MSM has been heavy as well, very heavy so I figure something is stirring in the weeds. maybe he has the smoking gun on this whole sordid affair.
or maybe he has the smoking gun on much more then just where ISIS oil is going and who is buying it...
Hochstein's "yeah thir stealing oil for headloppers and liver eaters, but it's only a little hanky panky"
The little bit pregnant defense
Erdogan like any Mafiosi believes he is entitled to his ill gotten gains
Obama is passively sggressively goading him into war with Russia
Why not a two front war? Get Nuland to have Ukraine declare war on zrussia first, then let Erdogan invade Syria
Is this a different post from the one back on Wednesday?
Because it seems like the same one. Before that San Bernadino fiasco, that is.
On occasion, the headlines get rebranded or updates to the OP are made.
Obamacare federal subsidies disappear only after Obama's out of office. Obama's ISIS timeline extends beyond his term.
In 2014 Walid Shoebat documents who had pledged bay'ah, loyalty, to ISIS. (pledge made by San Bernadino shooter)
I dont discount the oil. It is revenue for ISIS and Turkey. The migration to EU explained in same article:
Only a nuclear war can stop stupidObama