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Video - Russia destroyed 500 fuel trucks of Islamic State in Syria
[Rudaw] Russia announced Wednesday that its warplanes had destroyed 500 fuel trucks of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) in Syria, carrying crude oil and petroleum to its territories in Iraq.

"I would like to point out that a decision has been made to let Russian planes fly sorties to search for tanker trucks carrying petroleum products belonging to gunnies in areas controlled by the organization calling itself the Islamic State," Russian operations chief Col. Gen. General Andrei Kartapolov said.

He added that Russian warplanes destroyed about 500 fuel tank trucks that were illegally transporting oil from Syria to Iraq.

"Over the past years, the Islamic State and other Death Eater groupings have streamlined the operations of the so-called 'pipeline on the road' in the areas under their control," Kartapolov said.

He noted that these Arclight airstrikes have considerably sabotaged the group's oil smuggling between Iraq and Syria "In the first several days alone, our warplanes destroyed about 500 fuel tank trucks."

Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
on Monday said that he had told his G20 colleagues that 40 countries including G20 nations are financially helping ISIS.

"As we have established, financing comes from 40 countries, including some countries members of G20," Putin told news hounds.
Posted by: trailing wife 2015-11-19
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