tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409482909880290151.post3264099283425471611..comments2024-03-29T13:28:01.770+02:00Comments on EL KaOs UT News: ISIL/ISIS Still Makes Millions From Oil Despite a Year of Coalition Airstrikes xronoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13107445158803745642noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5409482909880290151.post-47034905253983197552015-10-30T10:49:13.429+02:002015-10-30T10:49:13.429+02:00Islamic State Secret Oil Lifeline Runs Through Tur...Islamic State Secret Oil Lifeline Runs Through Turkey - Former CIA Officer...<br /><br />Most Islamic State illegal oil exports are probably conducted through Turkey and Kurdish areas, and are facilitated by corrupt regional officials, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counterterrorism officer and US Senate Foreign Relations Committee senior investigator John Kiriakou told Sputnik.<br /><br />WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — A US Treasury Department spokesperson told Sputnik this week that the Islamic State has made about $40 million in one month of oil sales, making close to $500 million a year.<br /><br />"I’ve always assumed someone on the Turkish side of the border is making enough money out of it. There are too many vested interests involved for it to stop," Kiriakou said on Thursday. "They greased the right people. Someone’s making a lot of money out of this."<br /><br />Kiriakou noted that the current Islamic State illegal oil trade followed the same basic pattern that longtime Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein used to defy international economic sanctions.<br /><br />"[Selling and transporting oil] thorough Turkey was the way Saddam Hussein for years beat the sanctions regime imposed on him," the expert said.<br /><br />Turkey is an ally of the United States and has been a member of NATO for 60 years, but Kiriakou said the national government in Ankara could not prevent the corruption of local officials in outlying regions that enabled the secret oil trade..........Read more: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151030/1029316317/isil-oil-lifeline.html#ixzz3q2UI5a88<br />30/10/15Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com