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The Unexpected Explanation How "That Ford Truck" Ended Up In ISIS Hands
Almost exactly a year ago, the media world was abuzz when as we reported then, a picture posted by Ansar al-Din Front, an Islamic extremist brigade, and which promptly went viral showed a Ford F250 truck with a "Mark-1 Plumbing" decal on the door and a militant standing in the bed firing the anti-aircraft gun.
And while most moved on quickly from this story, for one person the picture had a dramatic and scarring effect: the owner of said Mark-1 Plumbing company, a Texan by the name of Mark Oberholtzer, who as many know by now, is suing a Texas Ford dealership (Charlie Thomas Gord) for more than $1 million in financial losses and damages to his company's reputation, as a result of this pickup truck which he once owned, ending up with Islamic militants fighting in Syria's civil war.
As CNN summarizes, "all Mark Oberholtzer wanted to do was upgrade his ride. What he got instead was a world of trouble from half a world away."
"By the end of the day, Mark-1's office, Mark-1's business phone, and Mark's personal cell had received over 1,000 phone calls from around the nation," Oberholtzer's lawyer wrote in the lawsuit, filed December 9 in Harris County, Texas. "These phone calls were in large part harassing and contained countless threats of violence, property harm, injury and even death."
Oberholtzer said this wouldn't have happened if the dealership had just removed the decals before the truck was resold, as he had demanded, thus serving as the basis for his lawsuit (attached below).
But while we commiserate with Mr. Oberholzer, and wish him prompt restitution of damages as a result of unnecessary harassment, a far more important question is just how did Mark's 2005 Ford F250 Super Duty end up in under the control of the Islamic State.
The answer would be critical, as it will provide a factual, tracable answer how it is that ISIS is if not funded (we know already revealed a critical part of that story), then supplied with equipment and perhaps weapons.
The answer is stunning.
This is what the plaintiff states in his lawsuit:
According to a CARFAX Vehicle History Report (see Exhibit B), the vehicle was listed as a dealer vehicle sold at a Texas auto auction on November 11, 2013. On December 18, 2013 the vehicle was exported from Houston, Texas and imported to Mersin, Turkey.
And here is the proof straight from CARFAX, provided in Exhibit B of Oberholzer's lawsuit:
And the transaction history, with the relevant final clue highlighted:
Presenting Mersin, Turkey, a stone's throw from the infamous port of Ceyhan and about a hundred miles from the territory of the Islamic State:
Here is what happened:
- On October 23, 2013, Mark Oberholtzer entered into a transaction with Charlie Thomas Ford, in which he traded-in his old 2005 Ford F-250 pickup truck for a newer 2012 Ford F-250 pickup truck.
- Promptly thereafter, the vehicle was listed as a dealer vehicle sold at a Texas auto auction on November 11, 2013
- Less than a month later, on December 18, 2013 the vehicle was exported from Houston, Texas and imported to Mersin, Turkey.
- Less than a year later it was in the documented possession of the Islamic State.
So once again the "missing link" supplying ISIS emerges as none other than Turkey.
For those to whom the Turkey-ISIS connection comes as a surprise, we urge you to reread:
- Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey's President
- ISIS Oil Trade Full Frontal: "Raqqa's Rockefellers", Bilal Erdogan, KRG Crude, And The Israel Connection
- Russia Presents Detailed Evidence Of ISIS-Turkey Oil Trade
And while NATO-member Turkey supplying ISIS with funding, supplies, weapons or equipment is hardly groundbreaking news, the Ford "clue" poses new and important questions, such as:
- who is the Turkish party that ordered and paid for the Ford truck's transfer to Turkey, and subsequently received compensation from the Islamic State in the subsequent resale?
- which is the US party which transacts with Turkish counterparts, who ultimately ship US products to Islamic State fighters?
- is the US party aware that its Turkish counterparty has dealings with ISIS
- what is the role of the US government in all of this, because it would be surprising that an administration that has sworn it would crack down on all outside assistance to the Islamic State would be unaware that "made in the USA" trucks ended up in the Islamic State by way of its faitful NATO ally, Turkey.
- how many other such vehicles sold in the US and exported to Turkey, have made their way to the Islamic State
We are confident that it will be relatively easy for any aspiring reporter to track down the US-based exporter of the Ford truck (and thus recipient of Turkish funds), just as it will be facile to uncover who was the Turkish buyer who signed the receipt invoice in Mersin, Turkey. What may be more difficult to uncover is whether the governments of the US and Turkey, respectively, were or are appraised about transactions such as this one, and if not, then why not?
We hope to be able to answer as many of the above as possible in the very near future.
The full Oberholtzer vs Charlie Thomas Ford lawsuit is below.
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I hear ISIS like that Turkish made MKE ammo... the same stuff sold at Walmart.
Midnight Express Auto! ALL CASH! NO HASH!
How many degrees of separation from blood money do we need before we may feel guilty?
Is the possession of stolen property a sin?
Ford engines powered the Nazi war machine and Standard Oil provided the gasoline and lead additives. Some things never change.
Tuco
Stayed away from this site for the last 4 days because I was annoyed by all the posts on big bad fake terrorist group ISIS, false flag shootings blamed on evil 90 lb Muslim women and all the Trump bullshit. Sure enough, come and check it out tonight and the two headlined posts are about...ISIS.
Give it a fucking rest.
Guess it's time to boycott this site a bit more.
This IS IS shit is a bit overplayed. No one really gives a fuck about all this fearmongering unless seeking some comedic relief. Fearmongering is so passe'.
or unless you are actually being killed by ISIS, you zionist piece of human shit.
Of course you get down voted for pointing out the obvious. ZH is a pile of shit these days.
Then why are you here hasbara troll?
Goodbye.
With so many Jewish owned/controlled "news" sources, one would wonder why you would come here it all. If you want lies, go to the zionist press, its everywhere money is...
Gee, I guess we will all have to go back to hanging on our hooks until your blessed return...*sob*...
I once purchased a used Toyota hilux pick up when I saw that they could carry 23 Alqaeda fighters with AK 47s and RPGs through the desert at high speed and never break down or run out of gas. I was not dissapointed, the truck with the optional gleason torsen differential and an extra 30 gallon gas tank behind the cab could run off road for an entire month before coming back to paved roads with a gas station.
cool story bro
I thought that the explanation behind the truck story was pretty strange, until I read this article which seems even stranger......
http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/12/is-russian-presiden...As a Dealler there are 100s of Auctions all over this country that wholesale dealer trade-ins. There are many middle eastern dealer/Buyers all over the country as well that ship vehicles of many sorts over to the Middle east. Thats all there really is to this story. It just so happens ISIS aquired it from a dealer in those parts. Im sure they paid cash though unlike most people here would have Financed it.
Install hidden satellite transponders for Middle East exports, problem solved.
Or check satellite footage every now and then. One Hedger ran the math based on amount of oil moving which added up to something like 800 (may have been more)tanker trucks one way to service those wells. That would be 1600 round trips for tankers which would completely fill roads with traffic similar to early Bakken boom tanker traffic and then you have all of the Toyotas and white Nikes.
Plus you have the largest intelligence apparatus on the planet trying to track you down supposedly. It's a huge joke. Of course they are checking satellite footage but only to let their drivers know when threats are approaching, these are types of things that the serveillance state does, they are watching the good guys.
Satellites?? LOL
i know right? its just another coincidence... like all the other 100+ coincidences
It was reported that the last commercial entity to own the vehicle in the US Maz Auto was managed by Mohamed Alkhawam
It was a Christmas 2013 present to Turkey!
CIA is lazy, just buy it up from local US dealer and ship over to our moderate headchopping Sunni wahabi allies.
Just another point of evidence of US complicity in trying to destry Syria contrary to all international law.
The goat fukers now have more TOW missiles than the US Army itself that they can use them as cheap artillery. Why did americans let a fifth columnist secret sunni muslim wahabi like Obama into the oval office? Fker is selling us down the river to the wahabi saudis
State sponsored ISIS are such pussies. They roam the desert in uncreative vehicles killing women and children. Could you imagine if the US had some type of internal warfare against terrorists going on Mad Max style? Of course this scenario doesn't exist in reality but just for entertainment purposes.
We would have excellent terrorist killing rides, we still have tons of good iron laying around (steel, when older guys say iron they mean steel) and the old farm equipment... there would be hand made original vehicles everywhere and it could happen in a hurry.
Of course there are not a whole lot of really big guns (as far as I know) so the lathes would be running 24-7. All of the old men, most of the middle aged men in this country and many women in rural areas used to build things and they know how to improvise.
Just another reason why fake ISIS is such a joke.
Ahh yes, lovely Houstanistan Texas...the wonderful sanctuary city from hell.
Do you know what the fuck you are talking about? Houston is a hopping vibrant city.
The only thing hopping in Houson are the bed bugs from Mexico...yuk.
Is this bed option factory?
<-- Satan America & the west
Also it will be revealed that Turkey supplied
all the ingredients to ISIS for making poisonous Sarin gas
(sourced from europe)
& this Sarin gas was used to kill civilians in 2013 by ISIS in Syria
in order to blame Assad regime for it & the west did so
There is no end to immorality of west
-------------
Why kerry & cabal evil witch nuland are going to moscow
They are afraid of these revelations that :
America & west are causing massarce of innocents
they want Russia to see that these evil acts are not made public
becuz
otherwise they stand with satan
And their people will not forgive them
Advice to Russia : Expose them naked, let the world see that it is not Russia & its allies rather its the America & west who are the most evil , vampires & satanic who are feeding on human blood for the love of money
erDOGan & his profit making mafia family should stand trial by ICC
And let him reveal that it was the cabalA$$LickerLiarAddictHomObamma
who actually planned , conspired and asked him to
supply poison gas & military h/w to terrorists
Let America & west stand the truth
I'm getting sick of your avatar and your jibberish. If you're human, please remedy them both. Thanks
hey, if you don't like it, don't read it...Information is power, unless your a zionist piece of shit that benefits from the status quo.
Bipolar : You should if you r with west
western media is now all CIA propaganda like that of Hitler
Btw I am very human in flesh & blood who sides with morality & truth
and today Russia upholds morality
thats why?
off topic, but interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcV2FPXg5is
at 31:50 steve carrell says that after making the movie "the big short" he now has all his money in his mattress and sleeps on it...
the end of the clip has some interesting comments from the stars of the film about the financial market...
Never mind, US National Guardsmen are committed to defend Turkey come what may.........good job Mark isn't in The Guard or he would be fighting with ISIS
WHO PAID FOR IT?
Who shipped it?
For Sarin : Read posts for Erdem Erem
https://www.rt.com/news/325825-sarin-gas-syria-turkey/
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/sarin-gas-materials-se...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL6WEQLb2UE
http://richardedmondson.net/2015/12/14/turkish-mp-says-sarin-smuggled-to...
Well maybe we should give the the terrorists this 2012 Mazda 6 my Bulgarian and Japanese friends have. My Bulgarian friend travels a great deal for work and is in Vietnam. His wife is Japanese. They are our friends. I noticed her passenger side headlight was out. He is no wrench anyway. I hate electrical shit and the Mazda's in that model are known for headlight fuck offs. I will be honest here. I have never even driven a Mazda much less worked on one or the electrical system it has. This will be one hell of a challenge for me. She said they just replaced the driver's side head light at great expense at the Mazda stealership. That is not a good sign.
I read that this a very common problem with the Mazda 3 and 6 yet they won't recall the vehicles. It could be a wiring harness issue and that would be very bad but I will start with simple and see if I can figure it out. There can be only be so many things wrong. ALL vehicles are this way. I just hate electrical on cars.
Get an Isuzu diesel truck.
Maybe a guy could donate some Polo shirts with the Goldman Sachs logo embroidered on them.
IF i was a lawer I would be asking the dumb cunt why he didnt remove the decals himself
Well, I guess that was part of the negotiated deal. According to the article. In hindsight, he probably would/should have removed the decal but if the dealer said they would take care of it and was part of the deal, then it looks like to me the dealer is at fault. What is so hard to understand?
I find it hard to understand why anybody would trust the oral promise of a used car dealer.
As for the dealer, well he probably thought he'd remove the decal at the subsequent sale, so as to push that expense out to the future. Then when he ended up exporting it, what the hell, who cares in Turkey?
Markel’s speech;
"We have done so much in our quest to destroy our way of life due to Nazi guilt. I've spent billions of taxpayer Euros on transforming Europe into a multicultural 3rd world, the standard of living has dropped but needs to drop further. European culture is on its being phased out and a new Islamic one to take over; we need to work on fastening this process. Hopefully I have irreversibly damaged any hope of a western dominated culture in any western country. Now please clap and cheer to show your solidarity in the true ethnic cleansing this world needs!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU1LMsbvblA
Your copy/paste of that comment from YouTube went a tad wonky (!)
"European culture is on its being phased out" should read:
European culture is on its "way to" being phased out.
Sadly, the exact same thing is going on in America, but here its the Latino invasion. Actually in America it is much worse, but we just keep taking it, like a battered wife, who just can't leave her abusive husband...by 2050 US will be majority Latino, and since we don't force ANY integration, our kids better start learning Spanish so they can make it in America.
i hope no one gets paid to write article like this. it a whole article that has nothing to say. it has no value. i just read the toilet paper i used to clean my ass before i flush it. please write something that is worth a fuck. no stupid hidden messages. no fucking BS fear propaganda. just a simple post with value for the few mature mother fuckers that give a fuck about how fucked up this place............thanks and fuck you
Write one yourself.
The article does have merit by showiing more Turkey ISIS connection. Too bad for Mark the plumber, he should have taken the logos off the door himself. If it were a movie director that bought it and the truck were in a scene with Katness Everdeen giving a guy road head he would be sayiing "Dude thats my truck"
Hey Troll, go back under you government provided bridge and spank it.
STFU, wouldn't you feel more at home on Fox, CNN, or MSNBC, there you can get you zionist propanda fed to you.
The only people who don't like knowledge are those who profit from the ignorance....
A great example of the pot calling the kettle black,
sometimes ya just know when one of these threads is going to be a laugh creator
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Seems my hog delivery truck was passed over...
Doesn't GM have a really big inventory they need to unload.
By the way Tesla's as bomb cars, just leave them in the sun somewhere....
This part is funny.
"Selling your car can be very dangerous. If you do choose to sell your vehicle yourself, be extremely careful and take the proper precautions to insure your personal and financial saftey. When setting up appointments with potential buyers that you don't know, only schedule meetings when a friend or family member can be there with you.".
Once upon a time Alexander went that way via Iskenderun (not far from Ceyhan).
Apparantely Ford takes the same route singing ; you can have my pick-up in any colour as long as its black!
Black goes fine with the ISIS flag!
"Black is black and I want my baby back !"
Well done ZH, lets find out how that baby went all the way to Raqa.
John Ford made the Searchers...
I don't feel that sorry for Mark. He is the owner of his business, he's responsible for the reputation of his business. He should have removed the decal himself. He is his own business's first line of defense when it comes to his business's reputation. I wouldn't award him any money if I were on the jury on this law suit.
I think you are missing the point, and did you read the complaint? He had concerns and the dealer told him they would remove the decal. Some people work for a living and have better things to do that worry about a decal...
A US truck is being used by ISIS, and you focus on a guy who did not want to remove a decal.
Your why our system of democrasy does not work, your an idiot.
"A US truck is being used by ISIS, and you focus on a guy who did not want to remove a decal. "
Isn't that what the ex-owner is doing? Where's his patriotism?
I agree. Take responsibility.
Ford - Have you martyred yourself lately?
So why didn't Mark Oberholtzer remove the decal himself ? It's always somebody else's fault. Take responsibility Mr. Oberholtzer.
Read the complaint, it states it there. Furthermore, I don't think anyone who works for a living wants to take the time to remove a decal. I think any American should be con fident that our vehicles will not end up in Syria, being used by ISIS.
I mean the FBI, CIA, seem to track just about everything going into the Middle East why not this.
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/origins-of-jihadi-terrorism-a-short-history-of-the-cias-bloody-hands/
http://fee.org/resources/our-enemy-the-state/
It is too bad this happened, but seriously, as a former small business owner myself, I cannot imagine doing what this business owner did, i.e. dropping my branded vehicle off at a dealership and expecting them to do something I should have done myself...all part of being a respectable business owner and looking out for your interests. The dealership had no idea where this truck would end up after the auction, I do not think they are at fault here. The plumbing company owner just wants to jump on the tort gravy train...not a whole lot different from an EBT card holder.