"Finally, our colleagues from the [US] State Department and the Pentagon confirmed that photo evidence we had presented at a briefing (showing the routes of oil smuggling from terrorist-controlled areas) is authentic. However, their claims that they 'do not see the border crossings with tank trucks that cross the border', cause a smile, at least because the photo is a static image," Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.
"When US officials claim that they do not see oil smuggled by terrorists to Turkey, it looks like an outright patronage rather than slyness," Konashenkov added.
Earlier, a US Department of State official told journalists that the Russian Defense Ministry photos showing hundreds of trucks with Daesh oil are authentic. He noted, however, that "what I have not seen is imagery of the border crossing with trucks crossing the border, and that's because I don't believe that exists."
On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry provided satellite images showing Daesh transporting up to 200,000 barrels of oil in at least 1,722 trucks to third-party countries, most notably Turkey on the northern border. Pentagon rejected Russia’s evidence of Turkey’s involvement in oil deals with Daesh militants.
Pentagon has all reconnaissance means necessary to record oil smuggling from the territories controlled by Daesh to Turkey, ministry's spokesman Igor Konashenkov said..............http://sptnkne.ws/amAf
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Les USA se rangent du côté des contrebandiers du pétrole du Daech...
ReplyDeleteWashington juge "insignifiant" le trafic de pétrole de l'EI (Daech) en Turquie. Le ministère russe de la Défense conseille aux Etats-Unis de ne pas jouer avec les terroristes et de regarder mieux les photos et les vidéos de leurs drones dont la présence près de la frontière turco-syrienne a triplé ces derniers temps.
Bien que le représentant du département d'Etat américain ait déclaré plus tôt que les photos et les vidéos satellites fournies par le ministère russe de Défense montrant des centaines de camions-citernes transportant le pétrole de Daech étaient bien authentiques, le trafic ne s’effectuait pas à l’échelle industrielle.
La dimension de la contrebande pétrolière est petite, et elle diminue avec le temps. Elle est insignifiante tant du point de vue de la quantité de pétrole que du point de vue des revenues", a déclaré Amos J. Hochstein, secrétaire d’État adjoint américain à l’Énergie.
Pourtant, malgré l'authenticité des preuves fournies par la partie russe, il affirme ne pas avoir vu d'"images de passages frontaliers avec des camions-citernes".
A cet égard, le porte-parole du ministère russe de la Défense Igor Konachenkov a souligné que la Russie avait apporté toutes les preuves nécessaires, des photos, comme des vidéos, ayant prouvé la contrebande...........http://fr.sputniknews.com/international/20151205/1020080047/usa-daech-petrole-peuves-russie-drones-satellites-camions-contrebande.html#ixzz3tTocgNOp
Russia's defense ministry on Saturday accused the United States of turning a blind eye to the trafficking of oil into Turkey from Syrian areas under ISIS control, after Washington called the amounts involved insignificant...
ReplyDelete"When U.S. officials say they don't see how the terrorists' oil is smuggled to Turkey... it smells badly of a desire to cover up these acts," the ministry said on its Facebook page.
"The declarations of the Pentagon and the State Department seem like a theatre of the absurd," the statement added, suggesting that Washington "watch the videos taken by its (own) drones which have recently been three times as numerous over the Turkey-Syria border and above the oil zones".
U.S. special envoy and coordinator for international energy affairs, Amos Hochstein, on Friday said the amount of oil smuggled into Turkey from areas of Syria controlled by ISIS is "of no significance from a volume perspective -- both volume of oil and volume of revenue"........AFP........dailystar.com.lb
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