Selected Articles: Blood and Oil. Dirty Dealings are “Oxygen for Jihadists”

turkey-ISISTurkey Refines and Sells Stolen Syrian and Iraqi Oil for ISIS

By Stephen Lendman, November 30 2015

Erdogan is an international outlaw. He’s supporting ISIS, US proxy foot soldiers in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere, directly involved in their oil smuggling, refining and sales worth hundreds of millions of dollars on the black market.

isis-oil-1024x575‘Oxygen for Jihadists’: ISIS-smuggled Oil Flows through Turkey to International Markets – Iraqi MP

By RT, November 30 2015

“In the last eight months ISIS has managed to sell … $800 million dollars worth of oil on the black market of Turkey. This is Iraqi oil and Syrian oil, carried by trucks from Iraq, from Syria through the borders to Turkey and sold …[at] less than 50 percent of the international oil price,” Mowaffak al Rubaie said in an interview with RT.

DSEI-arms-fair-LondonBritain’s “Robust Arms Export Control Regime.” UK Munitions Sales to Saudi Arabia, Bombing Yemen, Crimes against Humanity….

By Felicity Arbuthnot, November 30 2015

As Prime Minister David Cameron attempts to persuade Parliament to back another illegal assault on a country posing no threat to the UK, Syria, it transpires that Britain may anyway face war crimes charges for arms sales to Saudi Arabia, arms being used to decimate civilians and civilian infrastructure in Yemen.

Reuters, Pope Francis (R) talks with Ignatius Aphrem II, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, during a meeting at the Vatican, on June 19, 2015.Syrian Christian Leader Tells West: ‘Stop Arming Terror Groups Who Are Massacring Our People’

By Ruth Gledhill, November 30 2015

The world leader of Syria’s besieged Christians has issued a heartfelt plea to the West to “stop arming and supporting terrorist groups that are destroying our countries and massacring our people.”

ReutersErdogan Government Arrests Turkish Generals for Stopping Syria-Bound Trucks “Filled With Arms”

By Sputnik, November 30 2015

Two Turkish generals and a colonel were detained on Saturday for intercepting Syria-bound trucks that belonged to Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT), the newspaper Today’s Zaman reported.


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