Erodgan Owes Syria 100Bn for Stolen Oil, Iraq Owed $1.5Tn

[flamingdem]

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/11/28/erodgan-owes-syria-100bn-for-stolen-oil-iraq-owed-1-5tn/



Over the last two weeks, Russia has been destroying the “living pipeline” that has allowed Turkey to steal tens of millions of barrels of Syrian crude oil, much of it at peak market prices, while only paying their ISIS allies a pittance.
This process isn’t new. Turkey did this all during the Bush era, having cut a deal with US “manager” Paul Bremmer, a deal VT insiders helped manage for Bremmer and that I was witness to personally.

The game involved playing Baghdad against Erbil and bleeding off oil revenues from the Kirkuk Oil Fields, largest oil reserves in the world, as they moved by pipeline through Kurdistan and into Turkey. There they were offloaded onto American tankers in the Mediterranean where these huge ships, largest in the world, were filled with oil but it was never recorded and the oil never paid for.

Turkey got their cut, certain Turkish naval officers became fabulously wealthy while the Bush cabal poured billions into their Cayman offshore accounts managed by Bain Capital.
During the Bush era “War on Terror,” up to 40% of Iraqi crude oil, up to half of what was sent through Turkey on the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline was stolen. Our investigations between 2005-7 which included meetings between Gordon Duff and Iraqi and Kurdish leaders in both Erbil and Tikrit covered this issue.

Active ship identification and locator services tracked loaded stolen cargoes so obviously any moron could figure it out

[Proserpina]

1. If true (and I've good reason to believe it is) We've got RICO against W and friends

and even good old Romney. Birds of a feather get tarred together...

It's monstrous! Looting! Pirates!

[dvduval]

2. More sources?

Would love to see more support for this one if there are more sources. Especially the part about Iraq and the oil going through Turkey and Bain Capital.

[bemildred]

3. Oh my, this should be good.

[bemildred]

4. And finally we have an explanation for Bremer's Folly that makes sense.

Only in a failed state can this sort of chicanery go on for long. And also why they cannot give it up. And why they wanted Syria too.

[polly7]

5. Reminds me a bit of Halliburton's profits during the sanctions against Iraq.

Cheney was on the board at that time ........ letting in equipment to keep that oil being funneled out - despite the fact that half a million children were dying because of these economic terrorism sanctions.

[daybranch]

6. Fascism and croney capitalism triumphs again

Can you think of a better reason to reject Corporatist Hillary and nominate Bernie? The problem we have here with corporations and big money influencing our government is played out in Europe, the Middle East, the Far East. As long as you can legally buy great influence you will have corporations working ever harder to steal everything they can and if the US Government cannot be changed to stop rather than aide them, no one can. We need Bernie , we needed him years ago Bernie and we must elect him if anything is to be done about international and national piracy and crony capitalism. Go Bernie!

[Mosby]

7. Veterans today is an anti-Semitic, CT hate site

[KoKo]

8. "Isis Oil" Some Questions --Vijay Prashad

December 3, 2015
ISIS Oil

by Vijay Prashad

On December 2, Russia’s Deputy Minister of Defense Anatoly Antonov made a strong statement about Turkish complicity with ISIS. The charge sheet is long and detailed. It mentions many aspects, but the most incendiary is the accusation about “ISIS oil.”

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Stunningly Ceyhan Port is a few hours drive from the Incirlik Air Base, from where the US jets have been hitting targets in Syria. It is literally under the noses of the US planes that the ISIS oil has been transported. For the fourteen months that the US has been hitting ISIS targets, it has avoided striking at the oil tankers. US officials say that they did not strike ISIS oil tankers for fear of “collateral damage.” In fact, when the US did hit the oil tankers last month, they did so after warning the drivers by leaflets. This was a very noble gesture, but also out of character. The US generally does not warn its targets. It only began to hit the oil tankers after Russian jets struck them. Did the US begin its strike on the tankers so as not to be shown up by the Russians? When I put this question to a US state department official, she demurred. She said that the US was merely building up intelligence on the tanker routes and it was now prepared to hit the convoys. That it came after the Russian bombings of the tankers, she said, is mere coincidence.

Western bombing of Syria is now going to intensify. The French have joined in with the Americans. The British will now begin its bombing raids, as the Germans will support the French. The history of aerial bombardment shows that guerrilla armies are not easily defeated from the air. The US blasted the Vietnamese forces from the sky and still lost the war. As the British found in World War II, German bombing only strengthened the will of the British people to resist. They have forgotten that lesson.

The Europeans want to solve the refugee crisis. They believe that their bombing will advance their interests. It is likely to increase the displacement in Syria. The Turkish government’s demand for a “buffer zone” is of interest to the Europeans. They believe it is for refugees. But it could just as well be to protect the tankers from the Russian bombing raids. It is precisely what makes Corbyn’s demand so important – to hold a through investigation of the ISIS oil pipeline. Such an inquiry must ask the following questions:

1 Who is carting the oil from Mosul to the Turkish border? Who owns those trucks?

2 Who is carting the oil from the Turkish border to Ceylan? Who owns those trucks?

3 How does ISIS oil go through Ceylan, a port owned by the Turkish government?

4 Who owns the ships that cart the ISIS oil out of Turkey and to ports afield?

5 What banks handle the transaction between the sale of ISIS oil and the foreign buyers? Should they also be implicated in the smuggling of ISIS oil?

An investigation along these lines is overdue. It is not enough to accept or dismiss the Russian accusations. These should be used as an opportunity to clarity the actual pipelines for ISIS funding. Bombing the Omar fields in Syria – as the UK has done today – might not be sufficient. It might dust over the evidence of much greater complicity in ISIS oil.

Continued at.....

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/03/isis-oil/