Is it just me

[Platypus]

Couldn't possibly be propaganda then, could it?
I mean we have always been told the absolute truth before, right?

The closest ISIS are to oil money, is that they are funded by Saudis

Do you still believe in Father Christmas?

You couldn't possibly be wrong, for once, could you? Kn0b.

[meridian]

Well, that escalated quickly....

[rl4engc]

Really come on, how likely are they to be making $millions selling oil? I'm no expert in the trading of oil but I'm pretty sure it's not just a case of driving a few stolen tankers into an oil facility, filling them up then selling them down the local market for $millions.

[vetran]

Really come on, how likely are they to be making $millions selling oil? I'm no expert in the trading of oil but I'm pretty sure it's not just a case of driving a few stolen tankers into an oil facility, filling them up then selling them down the local market for $millions.

sorry to say its extremely likely they can sell oil to almost anyone not directly involved in the conflict

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_diamond

[MrMarkyMark]

You couldn't possibly be wrong, for once, could you? Kn0b.

Someone put something in your tea, while you were reading The Wail, this morning, Treacle?

Really come on, how likely are they to be making $millions selling oil? I'm no expert in the trading of oil but I'm pretty sure it's not just a case of driving a few stolen tankers into an oil facility, filling them up then selling them down the local market for $millions.

My point exactly. They are just not that organized.

Propaganda and drivel.

[LondonManc]

The news also reported that Isis were controlling oil wells and selling oil to finance their terrorism. Quite how the mechanics of that would work (maybe they have some oil engineers and international financiers in their midst?) was never detailed, but it might be a tenuous link to why the oil fields are being bombed.

ISIS have (allegedly) sold oil to Turkey, the route through which their arms, fighters and training (allegedly) arrive. They can't get oil out through other borders as the bordering countries aren't interested - they have their own oil markets to look after. Ironically ISIS's biggest enemies are also America's. Ain't that funny?

[alreadypacked]

I think people have to realise that ISIS has different levels of people, the smart educated and the cannon fodder we see on the news. The powers that be want the public in the west to be reassured by the image of the drug hazed ISIS recruits blowing themselves up. They don't want the public to think about a well oiled machine with "$1.5 billion a year"

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/ne...t-organisation

[MrMarkyMark]

I think people have to realise that ISIS has different levels of people, the smart educated and the cannon fodder we see on the news. The powers that be want the public in the west to be reassured by the image of the drug hazed ISIS recruits blowing themselves up. They don't want the public to think about a well oiled machine with "$1.5 billion a year"

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/ne...t-organisation

So, the bombing can now be justified as it will hit ISIS, in the pocket, with regards to its "oil business".

Really?

[LucidDementia]

Christ.

ISIS are as much selling oil as the Taliban were selling heroin.

[DodgyAgent]

(maybe they have some oil engineers and international financiers in their midst?)

I got some pretty good margins supplying them