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Related: About this forumTurkey-Syria CIA ratlines (Pepe Escobar)
... So why did Washington take virtually forever to not really acknowledge ISIS/ISIL/Daesh is selling stolen Syrian oil that will eventually find is way to Turkey? Because the priority all along was to allow the CIA in the shadows to run a rat line weaponizing a gaggle of invisible moderate rebels.
As much as Daesh at least up to now the Barzani mob in Iraqi Kurdistan was never under Washingtons watch. The oil operation the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) runs to Turkey is virtually illegal; stolen state-owned oil as far as Baghdad is concerned.
Daesh stolen oil cant flow through Damascus-controlled territory. Cant flow though Shiite-dominated Iraq. Cant go east to Iran. Its Turkey or nothing. Turkey is the easternmost arm of NATO. The US and NATO support Turkey. So a case can be made that the US and NATO ultimately support Daesh.
Whats certain is that illegal Daesh oil and illegal KRG oil fit the same pattern; energy interests by the usual suspects playing a very long game...
... The key reason why Washington always solemnly ignored Ankaras array of shady deals in Syria, through its fifth column Turkmen jihadis, is because a key CIA rat line runs exactly through the region known as Turkmen Mountain...
/... http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/03/how-russia-is-smashing-the-turkish-game-in-syria/
As much as Daesh at least up to now the Barzani mob in Iraqi Kurdistan was never under Washingtons watch. The oil operation the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) runs to Turkey is virtually illegal; stolen state-owned oil as far as Baghdad is concerned.
Daesh stolen oil cant flow through Damascus-controlled territory. Cant flow though Shiite-dominated Iraq. Cant go east to Iran. Its Turkey or nothing. Turkey is the easternmost arm of NATO. The US and NATO support Turkey. So a case can be made that the US and NATO ultimately support Daesh.
Whats certain is that illegal Daesh oil and illegal KRG oil fit the same pattern; energy interests by the usual suspects playing a very long game...
... The key reason why Washington always solemnly ignored Ankaras array of shady deals in Syria, through its fifth column Turkmen jihadis, is because a key CIA rat line runs exactly through the region known as Turkmen Mountain...
/... http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/03/how-russia-is-smashing-the-turkish-game-in-syria/
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Turkey-Syria CIA ratlines (Pepe Escobar) (Original Post)
Ghost Dog
Dec 2015
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Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)1. Funny to see the state department spokesman deal with this.
He kept mentioning they are "smuggling oil". Right through Turkeys border checkpoints.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)2. Article is an interesting read...and these two last paragraphs:
The fact remains that Sultan Erdogan badly needs a new CIA-secured rat line to weaponize not only his fifth column Turkmen but also Chechens, Uzbeks and Uyghurs. And Bilal Erdogan, a.k.a. Erdogan Mini Me, desperately needs new oil smuggling routes and a couple of new tankers; Russia is watching their every move. The latest news from Russias Defense Ministry has struck like a volcanic eruption; the Erdogan family mob was branded as criminals, with Moscow presenting only an appetizer of the all the evidence it has in store.
So we have the Afghan heroin rat line. The Libyan oil racket (now over). The Ukraine fascist rat line. The Libya to Syria weapon rat line. The stolen Syrian oil trade. The northern Syrian rat lines. Lets call them UEBA: Unregulated Exceptionalist Business Activities. Whats not to like? Theres no business like war business.
So we have the Afghan heroin rat line. The Libyan oil racket (now over). The Ukraine fascist rat line. The Libya to Syria weapon rat line. The stolen Syrian oil trade. The northern Syrian rat lines. Lets call them UEBA: Unregulated Exceptionalist Business Activities. Whats not to like? Theres no business like war business.