Turkey: The Country ISIS Uses as a Home Base and Where It Has Sold 800 Million Dollars of Oil - By Michael Snyder -
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/turkey-the-country-isis-uses-as-a-home-base-and-where-it-has-sold-800-millions-dollars-of-oil
If we truly do want to get rid of ISIS, why aren't we doing anything about the Islamic governments that are funding them, aiding them and facilitating the sale of their oil? As you will see below, ISIS fighters hop back and forth over the Turkish border with impunity, there are "direct dealings between Turkish officials and ranking ISIS members", and more than $800,000,000 worth of ISIS oil has been sold in Turkey. If these things are true, action must be taken. According to a recent Rasmussen Reports survey, 92 percent of Americans consider Islamic terrorism to be a serious threat to the United States, and a Washington Post-ABC News survey found that 83 percent of registered voters believe that a terror attack that causes a large amount of casualties inside the United States is likely in the near future. The American people clearly want ISIS to be dealt with, so why isn't the Obama administration doing anything to go after the state sponsors of such terror?
At this point, most Americans have absolutely no idea what is taking place in Iraq and Syria, and the mainstream media is certainly not being straight with us. That is why I want to share with you some key excerpts from an amazing article that was written by award-winning journalist and best-selling author Dr. Nafeez Ahmed. According to his bio, he has "written for the Independent on Sunday, The Independent, The Scotsman, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Huffington Post, New Statesman, Prospect Magazine, Le Monde Diplomatique, among many others." His recent article entitled "NATO is harbouring the Islamic State" is a must read. In particular, what he has to say about the relationship between the Turkish government and ISIS is extremely eye opening...
A senior Western official familiar with a large cache of intelligence obtained this summer from a major raid on an ISIS safehouse told the Guardian that "direct dealings between Turkish officials and ranking ISIS members was now 'undeniable.'"
The same official confirmed that Turkey, a longstanding member of NATO, is not just supporting ISIS, but also other jihadist groups, including Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria. "The distinctions they draw [with other opposition groups] are thin indeed," said the official. "There is no doubt at all that they militarily cooperate with both."
But it isn't just that Turkey and ISIS have "direct dealings" with each other. In his article, Ahmed goes on to explain that ISIS uses Turkish territory as a home base from which to conduct attacks, and ISIS trucks are able to travel back and forth across the border and throughout Turkey quite freely...
The former ISIS fighter told Newsweek that Turkey was allowing ISIS trucks from Raqqa to cross the "border, through Turkey and then back across the border to attack Syrian Kurds in the city of Serekaniye in northern Syria in February." ISIS militants would freely travel "through Turkey in a convoy of trucks," and stop "at safehouses along the way."
The former ISIS communication technician also admitted that he would routinely "connect ISIS field captains and commanders from Syria with people in Turkey on innumerable occasions," adding that "the people they talked to were Turkish officials... ISIS commanders told us to fear nothing at all because there was full cooperation with the Turks."
Unless the U.S. military and our intelligence agencies are completely blind, deaf and dumb, the Obama administration surely must know all of this already.
So why are they allowing it to happen?
In addition, in his article Ahmed also documented the fact that ISIS has been able to sell more than 800 million dollars worth of oil in Turkey...
Turkey has also played a key role in facilitating the life-blood of ISIS' expansion: black market oil sales. Senior political and intelligence sources in Turkey and Iraq confirm that Turkish authorities have actively facilitated ISIS oil sales through the country.
Last summer, Mehmet Ali Ediboglu, an MP from the main opposition, the Republican People's Party, estimated the quantity of ISIS oil sales in Turkey at about $800 million that was over a year ago.
If ISIS had no place to sell their oil, they would be a far less formidable enemy.
And anyone that believes that the Obama administration does not know exactly where all of that oil is being sold is either completely clueless or is almost unbelievably naive.
Once we understand the role that the U.S. government played in the rise of ISIS, things begin to make more sense. I encourage everyone to check out the excellent video by Ben Swann that I have posted below...
WATCH: https://youtu.be/Z1aDciHCejA
And I think that everything that I have shared above helps to explain why Barack Obama has been so soft on ISIS. In fact, an article posted on the Washington Free Beacon that just came out says that Obama has been blocking 75 percent of all airstrikes against ISIS targets...
U.S. military pilots who have returned from the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq are confirming that they were blocked from dropping 75 percent of their ordnance on terror targets because they could not get clearance to launch a strike, according to a leading member of Congress.
Needless to say, this is more than just a little bit alarming, and many of our military leaders are absolutely disgusted by Obama's approach. The following comes from Newsmax...
According to the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., the policy is coming under attack by military leaders who believe it has enabled ISIS to gain strength within the region.
"You went 12 full months while ISIS was on the march without the U.S. using that air power and now as the pilots come back to talk to us they say three-quarters of our ordnance we can't drop, we can't get clearance even when we have a clear target in front of us," Royce said.
"I don't understand this strategy at all because this is what has allowed ISIS the advantage and ability to recruit."
While Jack Keane, a retired four-star U.S. general, agreed with Royce's evaluation of the policy, he noted that it's not only severely "constricting the U.S.," but he believes it has "been an absurdity from the beginning."
Could it be possible that Obama never intended to win the war against ISIS?
Could it be possible that Obama simply wanted to try to "contain" them and use them as a tool to help overthrow the Assad regime in Syria?
Could it be possible that he is purposely turning a blind eye to the assistance that the Turks, the Saudis and other Arab governments in the region are giving to ISIS?
If the answer to any of those questions is "yes", then the entire war against ISIS is a complete and total fraud, and Obama should be immediately impeached.
Things are not as they seem, and the American people are not being told the truth.
Please share this article with as many people as you can on Facebook, Twitter and through email. Our government has actively betrayed us, and now Islamic terror is more of a threat to our way of life than ever before.
How Iran exploits ISIS to wage terror - http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran/Analysis-How-Iran-exploits-ISIS-to-wage-terror-434892
With the Obama administration and Europe courting the world's leading state-sponsor of terrorism to help defuse the Syrian civil war, core aims of Tehran's clerical regime have been ignored.
The intense Western effort to decimate Islamic State after the terrorist entity executed attacks in Paris has largely relegated Iranian and Hezbollah jingoism in Syria and Iraq to a secondary status.
With the Obama administration and Europe courting the world's leading state-sponsor of terrorism - the Islamic Republic of Iran - to help defuse the Syrian civil war, core aims of Tehran's clerical regime have been ignored.
Writing on last week's events in Foreign Affairs magazine's website, Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and Reuel Marc Gerecht, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, noted: "Iran is using ISIS' ascendance in the Middle East to consolidate its power. The country is now the key ally keeping Iraq's Shi'ites and the Alawite [Syrian President] Bashar Assad regime standing against well-armed and tenacious Sunni jihadists.
"In those battles, Tehran will likely do just enough to make sure the Sunnis don't conquer the Shi'a portions of Iraq and Assad's enclave in Syria, but no more. Meanwhile, in ISIS' wake, Tehran will strengthen its own radical Shi'a militias. The result could be a permanent destabilization of the Arab heartland."
To counter Iran's expansion, Saudi Arabia and Qatar spearheaded on Thursday a non-binding anti-Iran UN resolution to keep some semblance of a spotlight Tehran.
The resolution condemned the intervention in Syria of "all foreign terrorist fighters... and foreign forces fighting on behalf of the Syrian regime, particularly the al-Quds Brigades, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (of Iran) and militia groups, such as Hezbollah." The resolution passed in the General Assembly 115-15, with 51 abstentions.
In many ways Iran and Islamic State are mirror images of each other. Take a historical example from a half millennium ago. Asked what Francis I of France sought in his war with Charles V of the Habsburg Empire, the French king replied: "None, we are in complete agreement. We both want control over Italy."
Fast forward to 2015. Both Islamic State and Iran seek to exert hegemony over the Islamic heartlands.
It is worth recalling that the Iran-Hezbollah- Syria troika is responsible for eight times as many Syrian dead as Islamic State. An October German survey conducted among nearly 900 Syrians revealed 70 percent of those questioned held the Assad regime responsible for their exodus from Syria. The poll showed 52% of the Syrians would not return to Syria if Assad remained in power.
All of this helps to explain J. Matthew McInnis's conclusion. The resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute wrote, "ISIS also serves a practical purpose for Iran. [Islamic State's] reign of terror and global ambitions have effectively distracted the international community from President Assad's butchering of his own people."
Iran and its strategic partner Hezbollah have invoked a kind of plastic surgery to disguise their terrorism in the West. French literary star Michel Houellebecq reminded readers in his Thursday New York Times op-ed titled "How France's Leaders Failed Its People" that in 1986 Hezbollah launched "a series of bombings in various public places in Paris."
Hezbollah's so-called political operation still remains a legal organization in France.
While European politicians have largely gone to great lengths to mainstream Iran's regime - and as a corollary effect, Hezbollah, too - there is a countervailing force in Congress. Last week, the US Senate unanimously adopted the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act.
The legislation would permit the US government to sanction foreign financial organizations for providing monetary services to Hezbollah or its subsidiaries.
The sheer barbarity of the massacres in Paris has understandably overshadowed the role of Iran's terrorist apparatus in the region. The Islamic Republic's nefarious behavior is a kind of masterpiece of a dialectic. Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei manages to keep his hands in all political buckets in the region.
If France and its allies - the US and the EU - are serious about slashing Islamic State terrorism, they will need to examine how the Islamic state of Iran helps boost Islamic State and Syria's al-Qaida franchise Nusra Front.
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