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| Thousands of foreign workers help ISIS keep its crude oil flowing |
| 2015-12-29 |
| [ARA] The myrmidon group of 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) has recruited thousands of workers with experience in the oil industry to help the group keep crude pumping from the wells of the ISIS-held oil fields in Syria and Iraq. The 'Iraq Oil Report' on Monday published a new report providing details on the ISIS oil operations in the region, saying that documents captured in a recent U.S. raid confirmed that the radical group has employed more than 2,000 workers to pump crude from at least 200 wellheads in Syria and Iraq. ISIS has reportedly offered competitive salaries to its oil workers in order to keep its crude flowing and to maintain its oil revenue despite the The majority of the workers came from foreign countries, the report said. According to the records released by the U.S. government, the intensive Experts recruited by ISIS have repeatedly fixed facilities just a few days after being hit by the coalition's The radical group's revenue from oil production reaches $40 million per month. According to 'Iraq Oil Report', ISIS produces about 70,000 barrels per day. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 One administration took Baghdad in a month, as other won a war in a couple of weeks. We are under new management. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2015-12-29 18:57 |
| #3 Why are they still in operation? Per leaks from the WH, we were not bombing them out of concern for |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2015-12-29 12:29 |
| #2 Don't bomb them into oblivion. We can use them as honeypots. |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-12-29 10:27 |
| #1 It would seem that those wells are fairly static targets. Why are they still in operation? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-12-29 09:35 |