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12,000 Oil Tanker Trucks Parked At Iraq-Turkey Border Aren't Carrying ISIS Crude, Kurds Swear
In our classic piece “ISIS Oil Trade Full Frontal: "Raqqa's Rockefellers", Bilal Erdogan, KRG Crude, And The Israel Connection,” we discussed how Masoud Barzani and the Iraqi Kurds transport some 600,000 b/d of crude to the Turkish port of Ceyhan in defiance of SOMO amid an ongoing budget dispute between Baghdad and Erbil.
Turkey facilitates this trade and we suggested that ISIS (which Turkey is suspected of supporting in order that the group might continue to destabilize Assad) may be using the same networks to get its illicit oil to market.
There’s some evidence that links ISIS to Ceyhan. As documented in an academic study by George Kiourktsoglou and Dr Alec D Coutroubis, tanker rates at Ceyhan seem to spike around significant oil-related events involving Islamic State. Here's the chart:
Additionally, an ISIS fighter captured by the YPG in Syria claims to have lived with an Islamic State commander in Adana, home to Ceyhan.
We also highlighted a piece by Al-Araby al-Jadeed that outlines what the site says is a trafficking route that runs through Zakho. Here are some key passages:
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.
We bring all of this up again because less than 48 hours ago, Russia said it spotted some 12,000 tankers and trucks on the Turkish-Iraqi border. Where, precisely, are the tankers you ask? Why Zakho of course. Here's Lieutenant-General Sergey Rudskoy: “The [aerial] imagery was made in the vicinity of Zakho (a city in Iraqi Kurdistan), there were 11,775 tankers and trucks on both sides of the Turkish-Iraqi border."
“It must be noted that oil from both Iraq and Syria come through this [Zakho] checkpoint,” Rudskoy added, in case it was in any way unclear what Russia was suggesting.
As for the Kurds, well they swear it's there oil and not Islamic State's that's tied up at the border. From Bloomberg:
Iraq Kurds say own oil pumped to Turkey, not Islamic State Crude
Turkey closed border with Iraq during past few days due to war with Kurdish militants, causing long lines of oil tankers, Kifah Mahmoud, adviser to president of self-governed Kurdish region in north Iraq, says by phone.
Of course Kurdish crude is just as "undocumented" as ISIS oil given that technically, it belongs to Baghdad and not Erbil but we'll leave that aside for now. The important point here is that what the Kurds want you to believe is that none of the nearly 12,000 tankers parked at Zakho contain any ISIS crude even as more than one Kurdish security official specifically told Al-Araby al-Jadeed that Zakho is the key transit point.
Additionally, note the timing. ISIS is losing ground and is on the verge of relinquishing Ramadi to Iraqi forces. One certainly wonders if the group's funding needs are rising just as the Russians are cutting off their revenue stream forcing Baghdadi to get as much of the oil through as possible while he still can.
Finally, it's also worth noting that there's something nefarious about the whole thing. That is, the Peshmerga are paid out of money Erbil collects from selling Kurdish crude and the Peshmerga are fighting ISIS. It's thus perverse that the Kurds apparently allow ISIS to use their transit routes on the way to securing the funding the group needs to keep fighting.
In any event, we wonder how long it will be before Baghdad green lights Russian strikes over Iraq, and how Moscow will deal with the intermingling of Kurdish crude with ISIS oil.
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If they aren't carrying oil, they are carrying weapons.
Thank God Bloomberg figured it all out. What would we do without Western media to tell us the truth?
Canadians should get some of the Iraq oil profits.
They fought the bad guys too.
I'm still waiting on the jew run media to blame this ( or anything else bad that happens) on Obama, "because it happened during his watch".
That was the standard when a white Republican was in office. Is that the "white privelege" the jew run media keeps refering to?
Trump might just make a lot of people wann head for the hills, including some TeeVee talking heads who be running out of talking points.
Don't trust them unless they pinky swear
Dread Pirate Roberts
Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi
Who has the better pirate/terrorist moniker?
RT has a story on the MH17 shootdown, this story implicating an Israeli Python air to air missile as shooting down the jet. If that is the case, Putin will think that Israel was helping Ukraine and the Obama Jewish neocons in trying to assassinate him when Putin's jet passed near Ukraine a few hours before the Malaysian passenger jet.
https://www.rt.com/news/310039-mh17-israeli-missile-version/
2 malaysian planes, eh, and the russian one doened right near an israeli intel base as the us and israel held aur exercises nearby in sinai...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/kuala-lumpur-tribunal-finds-israel-guilty-o...
https://www.darkmoon.me/2015/russian-plane-crash-was-israel-responsible/
still, I don't think Russia is going to do very much more than kill Salafist mercs.
http://thesaker.is/putin-and-israel-a-complex-and-multi-layered-relation...
Then again, there has to be a limit...
If that´s true, you can say Israel put it´s existence into one shot. That missed the wanted for airplane.
Nothing more to say on that. Wait and see.
Once and for all someone ought to make a list of msm newspapers, magazines and sites that are not entirely, mostly, or very disproportionately (i.e. far more than 3%) owned and/or managed by Jewish people.
Surely this should be an easy task in a contry that is 97% not Jewish, correct?
So why doesnt someone do the homework? Just settle the matter.
Seriously...
It is interesting that there are roughly the same number of American Mormons as there are Jews; either faith representing 1.8% of the US population .
One has to wonder if Mormons held such a disproportionate role in finance, media, and government, would the other 98% be equally as accepting ?
You should check out the disproportionate percentage of Mormons in the CIA and officer's Corp of the US military.
And while you're at it, check out the disaportionate percentage of CHRISTIANS in the US military. You know, the ones that believe in Jesus, turning the other cheek and being wise as serphants but as harmless as doves thing.
They must have missed that sermon.
The Mormons would have to make up some bull shit story about 6 bazillion of them get murdered first and then every time someone challenges a Mormon lie, no matter how big and rediculous the lie is, they simply say they're anti-Mormon racists and get their Mormon pals who own the media to attack and voila, truth no longer matters.
And given enough time you could restructure countries constitutional foundations to enact anti hate laws that would forever ban people for calling out Mormon liars, untill the day people can no longer live under Morman lies, tick tock, the truth will never be controlled.
Russian Humor for December 27th, by Scotthttp://thesaker.is/russian-humor-for-december-27th-by-scott/
bloomberg is terrible
business insider worse
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-25/caught-tape-russian-fighter-jet...
"One month ago, after a farcial year-long campaign to "destroy" ISIS, which achieved absolutely nothing but made the Islamic State grow bigger and stronger"
That's ZH factual LIE nr. 1:
According to a study and handy map presented by US think tank, the terror group lost 14 per cent of its territory while Syria’s Kurds almost tripled the land they control
http://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/ihs-maps-islamic-states-territo...
"US had never actually gone after the lifeblood of the ISIS regime, its oil supply chain, infrastructure and products"
That's ZH factual LIE nr. 2:
U.S. Bombing of ISIS Oil Facilities Showing Progress
http://time.com/4145903/islamic-state-oil-syria/
The US just destroyed 280 ISIS oil trucks
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-isis-oil-trucks-2015-11
U.S. Strikes ISIS Oil Installations
http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/09/24/u-s-strikes-isis-oil-installations/
Why ZH LIES so desperatly and in such a pathetic way that can be cought in it's lies with simple Google search?
Remmeber: IT'S assad WHO BUYS ISIS OIL AND IT'S putin WHO SUPPORTS assad.
Revealed: Assad Buys Oil From ISISSo atmasko, how much does a troll get paid these days?
"So atmasko, how much does a troll get paid these days?"
loaded question or complex question fallacy is a question that contains a controversial or unjustified assumption (e.g., a presumption of guilt).[1]
Aside from being an informal fallacy depending on usage, such questions may be used as a rhetorical tool: the question attempts to limit direct replies to be those that serve the questioner's agenda.[2] The traditional example is the question "Have you stopped beating your wife?" Whether the respondent answers yes or no, they will admit to having a wife and having beaten her at some time in the past. Thus, these facts are presupposed by the question, and in this case an entrapment, because it narrows the respondent to a single answer, and the fallacy of many questions has been committed.[2] The fallacy relies upon context for its effect: the fact that a question presupposes something does not in itself make the question fallacious. Only when some of these presuppositions are not necessarily agreed to by the person who is asked the question does the argument containing them become fallacious.[2] Hence the same question may be loaded in one context, but not in the other. For example, the previous question would not be loaded if it was asked during a trial in which the defendant has already admitted to beating his wife.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question
And what you do, wrap in a cloth and put somewhere to not stank...
But its not an unjustified assumption in your case.
How ISIS Oil Flows Through Turkey And Israel On Its Way To Europe
http://www.mintpressnews.com/211910-2/211910/
After Paris Attacks, France Bombs Syrian Oil Infrastructure While Israel Buys “ISIS” Oil from Kurds
https://willyloman.wordpress.com/2015/11/16/after-paris-attacks-france-b...
Why Is The U.S. Reluctant To Bomb ISIS Oil Fields?
...Using data from the Department of Defense, we can see the targeting of oil infrastructure has indeed been a relatively low priority. Buildings and military positions receive the bulk of coalition attention, and only 260 oil-related targets have been destroyed since operations began, out of 16,075 targets damaged or destroyed. And, we now know just how many of these oil-related targets remain. So, what reason could coalition forces have for holding off?...
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/12/why-is-the-u-s-reluctant-to-bomb-...
You're like a breath of fresh air on this site atmasko, please inform me of other reliable, non-biased organizations where I can get some serious facts and 'real' news.
Could you please send me your personal e-mail so that we can keep in contact about all the things those evil Russians and that Hitler-esque Putin are doing?
We are obviously like minded brethren, who want to keep the world free from those evil communists, fascists and scary muslims.
Also, as a side thought, what are your views on that noble, great man Arseny Yatsenyuk? I for one think he should be given a peace prize for all his good work in the Republic of Ukraine.
Keep in touch my brother in arm....
Pliskin.
Not enough to recruit any good ones obviously, and its denominated in sacks.
I'd give him a potato for perseverance.
What a terribly rude (three kilos of potatoes a week) question.
Hang your head in shame Perimetr.
So it's criminal putin regime and criminal assad regime that actually works with ISIS - this is real axis of evil proven by facts.
Dawai, dawai, such a short sentence and so many lies.
What you write is, like, perfect vision of what is not actually.
Sadly, I don't think you are a paid troll. I think you are actually stupid enough to believe the western msm press as it blatently lies to you and laughs about it. You do realize who you are quoting up there don't you?
Of course it's a paid troll.
Yroll if i ever did see one...
US think tanks are PAID by the US government and alligned corporations to carry out mostly propaganda pieces with just enough of a trimming of eruditeness to pass cursory inspection by the 'too busy to care' public. The article said that ISIS had lost 30K sq miles during 2015, but obviously omits at what time the area began being lost during the last 12 months. Wasn't it mostly when the Russians began bombing allowing the Syrian army to advance? Of course. From the article:
:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/12063152/Islamic-State-lost-around-14-per-cent-of-its-territory-in-2015.html
-----However, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) has made some high-profile gains during the year, including the historic Syrian town of Palmyra and the city centre of Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar, Iraq's largest province. (so ISIS focused on gaining Syrian territory in areas contensted with Assad)
IHS said those victories came at the expense of the group's northern territories, which have been fiercely contested by Kurdish fighters.
Lands under Syrian Kurdish control jumped 186 percent over the year, IHS said.
"This indicates that Islamic State was overstretched, and also that holding Kurdish territory is considered to be of lesser importance than expelling the Syrian and Iraqi governments from traditionally Sunni lands," Mr Strack said.
"The Kurds appear to be primarily an obstruction to Islamic State, rather than an objective in themselves."
The Barzani faction supports ISIS in that they are facilitating ISIS's oil shipment to Turkey; meanwhile the US/Turkey/Israel/Sauda Arabia/Gulf states support ISIS in helping them to overthrow Assad and cause more chaos and war in the ME (per the neocon/Zionist doctrine). Obama is being pulled by the Trilaterals and Zbig who see overthrowing Assad as secondary to installing a Syrian central bank beholden to the Rothschilds. If the US destroys any ISIS troops now, it is only because the Trilats are trying to play both sides right now, seeing that their original horse, ISIS, is going to lose to the Russians.
maxwellsdemon= EXACTLY!
atmasko.. You are a moron period.. As a forex trader I know what is going on around the world from a geopoitcal spectrum... Crude Oil was suppressed by the elites to break Putins back.. Unfortunately it's done more then that Canada has been hammed as they rely on Crude exports.. I know made $$ shorting Canada currency. Add Americans in the Northwest and Texas too.. The elites and banksters are some of the dumbest people just like you.. PS I Know because I put my money where my mouth is.. Fucking Puppet=Atmasko
Being hammed is terrible and their Crude needs a safe geoloigical space.
Not really fair to call them dumb without knowing their goal.
Ok tipster, start making some predictions. What horse should I put my money on?
Hammed=Schlonged ?
Just cuious.
dup....Money does not care who owns it...
That's a great line right there..'proven by facts.'
I'm gonna use that next time I'm down the bar...
"Hey John, did you know...elephants can jump up to eighty meters off the ground? Proven by facts."
"Hey, Paul, did you know...The earth changes shape from oval to square every 5,000 years? Proven by facts."
"Hey, Dave, did you know...Earthquakes are caused by giant carrots pushing up out of the ground? Proven by facts."
Man, I can have some great fun with this. How do I know? Proven by facts.
+10
"[...] criminal putin regime [...]"
This is exactly the same phrase used day-after-day-after-day by your alter-ego Zinu.
Lats are known for small round head.
Brain size is direct to intelligence.
Western Propaganda an Encouraging Sign for Russia in Syria
December 23, 2015 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - As joint Russian-Syrian military operations against NATO-backed terrorists in Syria approach their logical conclusion - the cutting off of NATO supply lines along Syria's borders and the encirclement and destruction of terrorist forces within the nation's interior - the West has gone through several phases in an attempt to salvage what is left of their four, now nearly five year immensely destructive proxy war against the Syrian people.
...
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2015/12/western-propaganda-encouraging...
US Caught Faking It In Syria
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.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/12/us-caught-faking-it-in-syria/
Putin’s Progress in Syria Sends Kerry Scampering to the United Nations
Imagine if the American people elected a president who was much worse than George W. Bush or Barack Obama. A real tyrant. Would that be sufficient justification for someone like Vladimir Putin to arm and train Mexican and Canadian mercenaries to invade America, kill US civilians, destroy cities and critical infrastructure, seize vital oil refineries and pipeline corridors, behead government officials and prisoners they’d captured, declare their own independent state, and do everything in their power to overthrow the elected-government in Washington?
Of course not. The question is ridiculous. It wouldn’t matter if the US president was a tyrant or not, that doesn’t justify an invasion by armed proxies from another country. And yet, this is precisely the policy that US Secretary of State John Kerry defended at the United Nations on Friday. Behind all the political blabber about a “roadmap to peace”, Kerry was tacitly defending a policy which has led to the deaths of 250,000 Syrians and the destruction of the country.
And, keep in mind, Kerry didn’t drag his case before the UN Security Council because he’s serious about a negotiated settlement or peace. That’s baloney. What Kerry wants is a resolution that will protect the groups of US-backed jihadis on the ground from the Russian-led offensive. That’s what’s really going on. The Obama administration sees the handwriting on the wall. They know that Russia is going to win the war, so they’ve settled on a plan for protecting their agents in the field. That’s why the emphasis is on a ceasefire; it’s because Kerry wants a “Timeout” so his Sunni militants can either regroup or retreat. Just take a look at this short excerpt from the UN’s summary of last Friday’s confab and you’ll see Kerry’s really up-to:
...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/23/putins-progress-in-syria-sends-ke...
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The Yinon Plan, “Greater Israel”, Syria, Iraq, and ISIS: the Connection
The Zionist Plan for the Middle East, also known as the Yinon Plan, is an Israeli strategic plan to ensure Israeli regional superiority. It insists and stipulates that Israel must reconfigure its geo-political environment through the balkanization of the surrounding Arab states into smaller and weaker states.
http://leaksource.info/2015/01/17/the-yinon-plan-greater-israel-syria-ir...
re: Yinon plan
sounds a lot like what the US did in the Balkans in the 90s
"yugoslavisation,"of the area
I just want to add this. I first found the writer/reporter, Tony Cartalucci, about a year or so and immed. bookmarked to Save. He is one of the best, the only reason I check Twitter is to keep updated with him-here:
https://twitter.com/TonyCartalucci
<-- Alphahammer's dumb brother
<-- Alphahammer's brighter brother
This atmasko guy just sockpuppetry from Zinu (a.k.a. viedoklis_lv, freedom123, message, newsoutlet), infamous Latvian hiretroll paid with potato.
He post from Strenci mental hospital, another psychopath obsessed with hatred to Putin. Anti-Putinism has turned into a mental illness.
It reflects depth of cesspool into Latvia sinks. Come on I'll finish off with statistics, the maximum population of Latvia was 2.66 million at the bloody Soviet occupant in 1990. In the prosperous EU, Latvia's population at 1.97 million today, with a very sly statistics, when all Latvian emigrants cleaning toilets in Germany. And Latvia continues to shrink, those remaining increasingly consist of incarcerated convicts or mental hospital patients who trolling for potato.
This is Latvia heavenly life as member EU.
Excellent analysis BB.
Aka newsoutlet aka ... ...
At least he isnt threadjacking here. Credit where due, mates...
TB, what a stupid thing to attack someone for. There are plenty of idiots who have been longer than you, some shorter than you, and some just as long.
Why bother parsing idiots?
Member for
8 weeks 4 days
Welcome, looking forward to reading your comments.
Gee, all links to socialist jew run propaganda outlets. Why not link to Obowelmovement.com?
Quoting Time magazine! A new low for a NWO troll.
I hear Time magazine has discovered a hot new band called U2.
NBC (Never Blame Communism) cited an unnamed source within the Obama administration that said we bombed ISIS tankers after warning them thoroughly to make sure we didn't kill anyone. Remember that recent time the US state department "accidently" used Russian footage to show how well the "US campaign against ISIS" was doing? This time we have an unnamed source with no visual evidence that just happened to come right after the Obama administration (using that word loosely now aren't we) got heavily criticized about not going after the ISIS oil earlier including the CIA admonishing they were more afraid of climate change than they were of ISIS. There is a lot wrong with your statement and anyone who objectively reads the news can see you're pretty full of leftist propaganda.
>2015
>still trying to get Tyler to respond to your shitposting
lol
You read the article and typed all that, in less than 9 minutes?
Fuck, I am old.
Ukranian Neo Nazi trolls, see them on blogs a lot, same old bitter and twisted nonsense everytime
Go on, enlighten us to why Assad would buy oil from the very people who are trying to destroy him, especially given that Assad has allies who have oil a plenty, as well as having his own
Thank you for these unvarnished truths and clearly unbiased facts. I would suggest that you use a spell checker
"Remmeber: IT'S assad WHO BUYS ISIS OIL AND IT'S putin WHO SUPPORTS assad." -atmasko
1. Your spelling and grammar is atrocious. Q: Did you make it out if high school?
2. Q: Why would Assad 'buy' his OWN oil? Did you suffer a head trauma?
3. Basically you're saying "I Googled it on the Internet, so it must be true. Especially if it comes from the MSM". You poor, gullible soul. Please get better.
Zh is a Pootin loving circle jerk.
"U.S. Bombing of ISIS Oil Facilities Showing Progress
The US just destroyed 280 ISIS oil trucks
U.S. Strikes ISIS Oil Installations"
Yeah, sure. They have Russian made videos to prove it.atmasko this is your XYZth ( damn i lost the count) account on zh. Dammit! Tyler needs to ban your Lithuanian IP Address instead of banning your recurring accounts.
Still looking for signs of this info on mainstream media... "Sorry, you have a 404"
Hi There, My Name Is Isis
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-n0s2zrBiBOU/VlzM6MdqrZI/AAAAAAAACo0/Ogb4N0SkDpw/s1600/Isis.jpg
"and how Moscow will deal with the intermingling of Kurdish crude with ISIS oil."
Not, it will all go kaboem.
They must be transporting pink slime as a humanity effort.
It helps promote the Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty. No labels to check origin of food manufacturer.
"In any event, we wonder how long it will be before Baghdad green lights Russian strikes over Iraq, and how Moscow will deal with the intermingling of Kurdish crude with ISIS oil."
It should deal with the Barzani looting of Iraqi oil in the same way it deals with ISIS looting of Syrian oil. The money gained by Barzani is not going anywhere near Kurds outside his clan.
Easy to distinquish when blown up:
White smoke, Kurdish oil.
Black smoke, ISIS oil.
Brown smoke, moderate opposition oil.
why would the Kurds, who suffered many atrocities from ISIS, want to cooperate with it?
because ISIS is run by the Turks/US/Israel/SA/Gulf states who have told ISIS to leave Barzani alone since he is their only hope of creating a friendly Kurdistan buffer between Iran and Iraq. Barzani is just a dictator like any other in the ME getting rich off of cheap oil. The Kurds have never been a united country, just a swath of people spread out in a region that is controlled by many countries
Kurds arent a monolithic group. In Iraq you have traditional rivalries of Barzani vs Talabani plus the North Eastern Kurds of the Syrian Panhandle and Turkey's Kurds calledby Sultan Erdogan as Mountain Turks
Plus Iran doesnt want their akurds in the West to get amy ideas
Money
Same reason elites arm both sides in a war.
More ISIS thugs meet their maker, courtesy Syrian Arab Army forces working near Dar'aa. The Syrians had spotted a couple of houses the ISIS thugs used as refuge and placed some massive explosive devices there. So when ISIS returned for a rest - kabooooom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28GeubnDya0
Nice.
I think the terrorist gangsters "got more bangs for their buck"
Killed ISIS Commander’s Cell Phone Shows Direct Ties to Turkish Intelligence
http://theantimedia.org/killed-isis-commanders-cell-phone-shows-direct-t...
Pentagon refuses to share intel on ISIS until Moscow’s stance on Assad changes
https://www.rt.com/news/327120-pentagon-moscow-isis-intelligence/
So deposing Assad, (who is not only the least worst option but less brutal than either Erdogan Netanyahu, the Saudis, or O'Bombya) rather than holding elections after isis is defeated ( as Russia and Assad himself have agreed to) is more important to the Anglo-Zionist Empire than helping to defeat the us/israeli/saudi/turkish proxy terrorists known as " isis "?
I AM JACK'S COMPLETE LACK OF SURPRISE.
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2012/05/syrian-war-prequel.html?m=1
http://www.mintpressnews.com/isis-israel-iraq-and-syria-its-all-part-of-...
I have many favorites here on the Hedge in the year plus of reading and commenting
Johnny your posts are Jack Burtonesque. My highest compliment
Thanks
Black marketeers play all sides. They're in it for money, not ideals.
Bomb all of them.
there ya go!
It's all as clear as mud clear now:
- Turkey is fighting the Kurds
- Turkey is up to its neck with Kurds smuggling stolen oil
- Kurds are fighting ISIS
- Kurds are up to their necks smugging ISIS oil thru Turkey
- Iranians are involved in smuggling oil stolen by ISIS
- Iranians are fighting ISIS
You're missing a whole level of tribal interests that go across borders and
religous sects.Not to mention personal emnity's and grudges going back hundreds of years.
I doubt anyone of this benighted planet could ever know whats really happening there.
Which is the best reason to stay the hell out of it.
Darn it.
I thunk I was missing a few pieces of the jigsaw.....
{sigh}
A US plot to evacuate (air lifted) Daesh leaders from the strategic city of Ramadi in central Iraq has reportedly been disclosed by a volunteer forces commander. http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151227/1032365363/iraq-us-daesh-rama...
soon to be americans, or Europeans.
My question...and a simple one at that...WHO are the kurds 'swearing' on? Allah? Is that not blasphemy? Tut-tut, no 76 virgins for you guys.
This is Russia outside ZH and other criminal putin regime propaganda channels:
https://youtu.be/nry2duPN6WY
There you go again: "criminal putin regime".
You must be alter-ego of Zinu.
How are the potatos coming along?
Still got blight and blackheads?
tch tch
looks like 100,000 food pantries in america, minus the I-phones.
MAN!!! 12000 OIL TRUCKS!!!
THAT WILL BE A AWESOME FIREWORK SPECIAL IN THE COMMING DAYS!!!
Let's how they get it all on camera and youtube doesn't block the feed...
Fuck the entire Middle East. Tired of reading headlines about these religous clusterfucks.
Why do we continue to tolerate this stupid foreign policy in the ME?
1) There is enough crude in the Bakken shale, and in the Campos Basin in Brazil, to supply us indefinitely.
2) Our military probably uses half of crude overall demand implementing these asinine policies.
3) The USA should have developed mass transit and alternative methods like electric cars.
4)The Wahhabis will pump it and we will buy it regardless of the political situation in the ME.
It is obvious Obama prevented the pipeline solely to protect Warren Buffet's profits in Union Pacific RR which carries every barrel of Bakken Shale oil.
WTF? Millions have been killed and displaced and now there is chaos in Europe.
When Are WE GOING TO STAND UP and stop these maniacal bastards?
Hey smarties,
They're prolly not carrying anybody's crude. They're prolly empty.
Anybody know how many of these 12,000 (11,775) tanker trucks have already shot their loads into the Turkish crude oil snatch and are sitting on the border empty, waiting for the CIA and Obama to wipe out the Russian air force?
Sending a message to the tranker drivers keep your tanker trucks empty and we won't destroy them.
And explaining why crude inventories are dropping slightly, since the Syrian and Iraqi pipelines have been interupted when Russia got involved.
Ha ha four down votes
I never thought I'd be the target of "explanation envy" here at Zero Hedge.
I suppose a few guys got a few lumps of coal.
The Fruits of Islam =
People who's only means of contributing to the world is to allow the advanced cultures to extract oil from under their feet. Useless people.
Islam is a disgrace and always has been a disgrace. Thuggery, oppression, murder and enslavement. Come 2017 there will be a new US President and he will very likely work closely wtih Russia and China to lay waste to all things Islam.
"Come 2017 there will be a new US President and he will very likely work closely wtih Russia and China to lay waste to all things Islam."
More productive to lay waste first to all things talmudic. Then the islam problem would most likely cease as they can return to their own lands.
Sickening: US Evacuating ISIS/Israeli Military Commanders from Ramadi
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/12/24/sickening-us-evacuating-isisisra...
EXCUSE ME ... can I raise my hand at the back of the class?
Two Dumb Questions:
If Turkey is doing everything possible to CRUSH the Kurds, including training ISIS fighters and allowing them to use back roads (inside Turkey) to attack Kurdish strongholds in Syria, then why would the Turks allow Kurdish oil to flow en-masse through their country?
AND if Putin already knows that a lot of Kurdish oil is flowing through Syria, why is he bombing it? The Russian bombing doesn't make sense, unless, of course, Putin wants to eliminate all flows of energy supplies through Syria that conflict with his own goals for a future Russian Energy Empire?
There are no White Knights in Syria ... just terrorists, energy warlords, and a lot of civilian victims.
If you "sample" a truck, i.e., drop a bomb on it and it doesn't explode/burn, then it's not.
(I.e., either the trucks are empty...or they are carrying ISIS oil.)
They probably should send "their" Oil through somewhere other than TRK.
I can't locate the report but allegedly there were 11,000 original oil trucks being used for transport. These were supposedly wiped out from the air attacks.
So if there are now that same number showing up again just across the border that was an awfully quick resupply of the total fleet destroyed the first time around.
Just bomb them and if the oil burns its Syrian.
Bilal's dark Chocolate
Vanishing slowly
erDOGan fuming
losses multiplying
ISIS now butchering human being
and selling their organs for profit
TheirProphetMohammed Also did like that
rather worse, they ate their enemies
Slave trade revived
All the credit goes to europe & american backed Turkey
euroPeons can do anything for their love - money
as usual