Reply to: Is it just me

[Chuck]

Pretty sure I saw something on the news the other night that ISIS are selling oil to Assad. It's a funny old world.

[vetran]

How are Syrian house prices?

Maybe they could stage of version of Im a celebrity over there.....

I'd watch Mr & Mrs B'liar in that, maybe Gorgeous George & CorbIn as well.

[MrMarkyMark]

Maybe they could stage of version of Im a celebrity over there.....

I'm in.
As long as I have a say as to which celebrities

[LondonManc]

So, everyone is speculating that their version is true and denouncing other versions. Sounds just like religion and on that basis, I'm out.

[BrilloPad]

How are Syrian house prices?

Maybe they could stage of version of Im a celebrity over there.....

[fullyautomatix]

There is as much chance of ISIS selling barrels of oil as Tony Blair selling speeches.

[oracleslave]

Syria oil map: the journey of a barrel of Isis oil

[MrMarkyMark]

Christ.

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

Especially ironic, as the production of good old brown went up, in Afghanistan, once the Taliban were ousted.

There always has to be some kind of income generator, before it was junk, this time its oil.

I believe this is also done in a deliberate attempt to muddy where the real funding comes from.
Also, it provides justification for the bombing to start in earnest.

People will just believe everything they read, probably thought Bliars WMD dossier was true, at the time, too

[DodgyAgent]

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

I got some pretty good margins supplying them

[LucidDementia]

Christ.

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

[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?

[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

[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?

[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.

[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