New Evidence Reveals Turkish Government Is Directly Funding ISIS

[FreakinDJ]

When US special forces raided the compound of an Islamic State leader in eastern Syria in May, they made sure not to tell the neighbours.

The target of that raid, the first of its kind since US jets returned to the skies over Iraq last August, was an Isis official responsible for oil smuggling, named Abu Sayyaf. He was almost unheard of outside the upper echelons of the terror group, but he was well known to Turkey. From mid-2013, the Tunisian fighter had been responsible for smuggling oil from Syria’s eastern fields, which the group had by then commandeered. Black market oil quickly became the main driver of Isis revenues – and Turkish buyers were its main clients.

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In the wake of the raid that killed Abu Sayyaf, suspicions of an undeclared alliance have hardened. One senior western official familiar with the intelligence gathered at the slain leader’s compound said that direct dealings between Turkish officials and ranking Isis members was now “undeniable”.

“There are hundreds of flash drives and documents that were seized there,” the official told the Observer. “They are being analysed at the moment, but the links are already so clear that they could end up having profound policy implications for the relationship between us and Ankara.”

http://www.mintpressnews.com/new-evidence-reveals-turkish-government-is-directly-funding-isis/208171/

So just maybe Russia had a very justifiable reason for striking so close and possibly within Turkey's borders

This sure as shit blurs the lines

[madokie]

1. Too many people want too much war

for me to take anything at face value

[Scuba]

2. /\Truth/\

[Rex]

3. Now that is a shocker, not who I would expect to be financing ISIS.

So much war and death, so little healing and peace in the world.

[leveymg]

4. Even at its height last year, oil sales only accounted for 40% of IS revenues.

Between $400 and $800 million/year at world market prices, which have since plunged. The reported annual budget of the Islamic State, meanwhile, is more than $2 billion. The bulk of the remainder, as the spokesman for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff announced in February comes for "donors, lots of donors."
See, As UN Security Council Mulls ISIS Oil Sanctions, Most Funds Still Flow from Saudi and Gulf Donors
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026192755
Propo

[lindysalsagal]

5. Just another reason not to judge POTUS from the bleachers: He's the only one who really knows

what's underneath all of the foreign rocks, and his words really can effect how other leaders respond to his leveraging. He's talking to them more often than he's talking to us, and I would hope we'd have the sense (as the most developed nation) to understand that.

That's the point: we select people to handle things for us because some things just get screwed up in a committee. The congress can't decide if it should tie its shoes, for god sakes. At least POTUS can work with other leaders to help everyone.

The world is getting smaller and we should be able to see how short-sighted screwups will just come back to get us later on. He's trying to get it right, and he can't narrate every detail to the world.

This should be obvious: We know the general direction he's going but we can't take every step with him.