Follow the money.
Deep Throat.
After
last weekend’s Muslim atrocity in Paris, the big question of the day has become
which giant commodity trading firms are illegally funding Daesh by buying their
oil, and why if America were serious about ending ISIS, they hadn’t taken any
steps at stopping and prosecuting this
illegal oil trade? The suspicion is America wasn’t serious about crushing ISIS,
which it helped create, and arms and funds via its allies Saudi Arabia, Qatar
and the UAE. After the G-20 meeting in Turkey, President Putin blew the lid off
all the secret Daesh oil trading. President Obama was then forced to act.
Today,
what a tangled web the CIA can weave, when America sets about to deceive, via regime
change in Damascus. Remind me again who brought down The World Trade Center? Oh
that’s right they were all Saudis. Below, what we think we know so far.
What
does America’s NSA know, and when did they know it? A whole lot ofpeople in France must
be wondering if President Obama isn’t duplicitous, to say the least.
In the Fight Against ISIS, Russia Ain't Taking No Prisoners
By blowing a Russian airliner out of the sky ISIS may just have miscalculated
20 November 2015.
The so-called Islamic State should have learned by now: they've picked a
fight against the wrong guys. We have entered “take no prisoners” territory.
For Russia, now all the gloves are off.Especially after online terrorist magazine Dabiq published a photo of the alleged bomb that downed the Metrojet: a crude device inside a can of Schweppes Gold, placed under a passenger seat. Also published were photos of passports of Russian victims, allegedly taken “by the mujahedeen.”
Their collective fate was sealed the minute the Director of the Federal Security Service Aleksandr Bortnikov told President Putin, about the Metrojet crash on October 31 in Egypt that: “We can say with confidence that this was a terrorist act.”
----The message comes with extra enticement; the $50 million bounty offered by the FSB for any information leading to the perpetrators of the Sinai tragedy.
Putin’s message instantly turned heavy metal in the form of a massive, impressive Russian barrage over 140 Caliphate targets, delivered via 34 air-launched cutting-edge cruise missiles and furious action by Tu-160, Tu-22, and the Tu-95MC ‘Bear’ strategic bombers. This was the first time the Russian long-range strategic bomber force has been deployed since the 1980s Afghan jihad.
----At the G-20 in Antalya, Putin had already, spectacularly, unveiled who contributes to Daesh’s financing – complete with “examples based on our data on the financing of different [Daesh] units by private individuals.”
The bombshell: Daesh’s cash, “as we have established, comes from 40 countries and, there are some of the G20 members among them.” It doesn’t take a Caltech genius to figure out which members. They’d better take the “you can run but you can’t hide” message seriously.
Additionally, Putin debunked - graphically – to the whole G20 the myth of a Washington seriously engaged on the fight against Daesh: “I’ve shown our colleagues photos taken from space and from aircraft which clearly demonstrate the scale of the illegal trade in oil.” He was referring to Daesh’s oil smuggling tanker truck fleet, which numbers over 1,000.
Apparently acting on Russian satellite intelligence, the Pentagon then miraculously managed to find tanker truck convoys stretching “beyond the horizon,” smuggling out stolen Syrian oil. And duly bombed 116 trucks. For the first time.
And this in over a year that the ‘Coalition of the Dodgy Opportunists’ (CDO) is theoretically fighting Daesh. The only such bombing that happened before was by the Iraqi Air Force.
----Russia once again went straight to the point. Bomb the transportation network – the oil truck convoys – not the oil infrastructure. That will eventually drive oil smugglers out of business.
The key reason
the Obama administration had not thought about this before is Turkey.
Washington needs NATO member Ankara for the use of the Incirlik air base. And
then there’s the sensitive subject of who profits from Daesh’s
oil smuggling.
Turkish
Socialist party member Gursel Tekin has established that Daesh’s smuggled oil
is exported to Turkey by BMZ, a shipping company controlled by none other than
Bilal Erdogan, son of “Sultan” Erdogan.
At a
minimum, this violates UN Security Council resolution 2170. Under the light of
Putin’s message of going after anyone or any entity engaged in facilitating
Daesh’s operations, Erdogan’s clan better come up with some really good
excuses.
----Putin’s vow to go after anyone or any entity that facilitates/collaborates with Daesh should logically imply a trip back to ‘Shock and Awe 2003’: the bombing, invasion and occupation of Iraq that created the conditions for the establishment of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, “directed” by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi up to 2006.
The next significant step was Camp Bucca, near Umm Qasr in southern Iraq; a mini-Guantanamo where at least nine members of the future metastasis of al-Qaeda – Islamic State (IS) – was spawned.
ISIS/ISIL/Daesh was born in an American prison. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a.k.a. Caliph Ibrahim did time there, as well as Daesh’s previous number two, Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, and most of all Daesh’s conceptualizer: Haji Bakr, a former colonel in Saddam Hussein’s Air Force.
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The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking
Submitted by Tyler Durden on
11/19/2015 23:49 -0500
The question of how the Islamic State funds its
sprawling caliphate has been discussed in the past: we first broke down the
primary driver of ISIS revenue well over a year ago, in
September 2014, when we explained that "ISIS uses oil wealth to
help finance its terror operations."
----Most importantly, we added that to be successful in counterterrorism efforts, "the U.S. and its allies must “push the Islamic State out of the oil fields it has captured and disrupt its ability to smuggle the oil to foreign markets."
None of this was surprising to anyone, but what was quite surprising is that it took the allied forces over a year to take the oil revenue threat seriously and begin targeting the Islamic State's oil infrastructure in earnest.
Today, in an article titled "Why US Efforts to Cut Off Islamic State's Funds Have Failed" Bloomberg tries to explain just how it is that despite a more than a year long campaign, ISIS funding remains as strong as ever, and notes that "the latest round of airstrikes are directly related to the administration’s new math. “You have to go after the oil, and you have to do it in a serious way, and we’ve just begun to do that now,” citing Benjamin Bahney, an international policy analyst at the Rand Corp., a U.S. Department of Defense-funded think tank.
To be sure, there are other sources of revenue: Bloomberg correctly notes that "even if the U.S. finally weakens the group’s oil income, Bahney and other analysts in the U.S., the Middle East, and Europe contend, Islamic State has resources beyond crude—from selling sex slaves to ransoming hostages to plundering stolen farmland—that can likely keep it fighting for years."
Still, without a doubt, the dominant source of funds for the terrorists is oil, and not just oil, but a well-greased logistical machine that keeps thousands of barrels moving from unknown pumps to even refineries, and ultimately to smugglers who operated out of Turkey and other countries.
----Here is where it gets interesting: Bloomberg cites Pentagon officials who acknowledge "that for more than a year they avoided striking tanker trucks to limit civilian casualties. None of these guys are ISIS. We don’t feel right vaporizing them, so we have been watching ISIS oil flowing around for a year,” says Knights. That changed on Nov. 16, when four U.S. attack planes and two gunships destroyed 116 oil trucks.
So any
qualms about vaporizing "innocent civilians" promptly disappeared
when the Pentagon realized that its 1+ year long campaign had been an epic
debacle, that a suddenly surging ISIS was stronger as ever, and most
importantly, that its critical revenue lifelines had been largely untouched for
years. Perhaps they weren't innocent civilians after all.
----But what we have been wondering for months and what we hope some enterprising journalist will soon answer, is just who are the commodity trading firms that have been so generously buying millions of smuggled oil barrels procured by the Islamic State at massive discounts to market, and then reselling them to other interested parties.
In other words, who are the middlemen.
What we do know is who they may be: they are 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.
To be sure, funding terrorist states is not something that some of the most prominent names in the list above have shied away from in the past.
Which one (or ones) are the guilty parties - those who have openly breached terrorism funding laws - we don't know: it may be one, or more of the above, or someone totally different.
At this
point, however, three things are certain: whoever the commodity trading house
may be that is paying ISIS-affiliated "innocent civilians" hundreds
of millions of dollars for their products, they are perfect aware just who the
source of this deeply discounted crude is. Crude so deeply discounted, in fact,
it results in massive profits for the enterprising middleman who are engaging
in openly criminal transactions.
The
second certainty: whoever said middleman is, it is very well known to US
intelligence services such as the NSA and CIA, and thus to the Pentagon, and
thus, the US government.
The third
certainty is that while the US, and Russia, and now France, are all very
theatrically bombing something in the Syrian desert (nobody really knows what),
the funding of ISIS continues unabated as someone keeps buying ISIS oil.
We wonder
how long until someone finally asks the all important question regarding the
Islamic State: who is the commodity trader breaching every known law of
funding terrorism when buying ISIS crude, almost certainly with the tacit
approval by various "western alliance" governments, and why is it
that these governments have allowed said middleman to continue funding ISIS for
as long as it has?
So are any commodities trading
companies about to get get hammered and coshed? If Uncle Scam isn’t willing to take up
President Putin’s money trail, perhaps Anonymous might.
Anonymous claims to have taken down 20,000 IS Twitter accounts
20/11/15
The online hacking collective Anonymous says it's taken down 20,000
IS-related Twitter accounts.The group "declared war" on the group after the attacks in Paris, which left 129 dead and dozens more injured.
It asked hackers around the world to join its #OpParis operation.
"It is time to realise social media is a solid platform for ISIS' communication," said an Anonymous spokesman in a new video on its YouTube page.
"At the same time social media has proven that it is an advanced weapon.
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