Ghassan Halim Khalil, governor of Hasakah, announced the grim news in an interview with the Lebanese al-Akhbar newspaper on Saturday, adding that the SDF turbans are plundering Syrian oil in various ways, all with the participation and support of American forces deployed to the region.
He stressed that precise intelligence collected and received show that US-backed turbans use tanker trucks from the Taramish area in Tigris and al-Malikiyah to smuggle the Syrian oil to neighboring Iraq.
Khalil further noted that many tanker trucks pass through the illegal al-Mahmoudiyah crossing into Iraq every day, adding that the SDF turbans also regularly send mounts of stolen oil to their controlled areas in Syria.
The Syrian governor also revealed that the US forces had ordered the SDF turbans not to allow the Damascus-controlled areas receive oil.
Khalil said that while the Syrian people suffer from the cold weather and hunger, these US-supported turbans plunder Syria’s national oil resources.
The US looting of Syrian oil was first confirmed during a Senate hearing exchange between South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham
...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John
MaverickMcCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems...
and then US secretary of State Mike Pompeo last July.
During his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Pompeo confirmed for the first time that an American oil company would begin work in Northeastern Syria, which is controlled by the SDF, which is an alliance of Kurdish turbans operating against Damascus and currently controls areas in Northern and Eastern Syria.
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The Syrian government at the time denounced in the strongest terms the agreement inked to plunder the country’s natural resources, including Syrian oil and gas, under the sponsorship and support of the administration of former US President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...Since late October 2019, the US has been redeploying soldiers to the SDF-controlled oil fields in Eastern Syria in a reversal of Trump’s earlier order to withdraw all troops from the war-torn country.
The Pentagon claims that the move aims to "protect" the fields and facilities from possible attacks by the ISIS (also known as ISIS or ISIS) Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...terrorists. At the same time, Trump famously stated that the US seeks economic interests in controlling the oil fields.
A US-led military coalition has been pounding what it claimed was the positions of ISIS inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from the Damascus government or a UN mandate.
On many occasions, the strikes resulted in civilian casualties and failed to fulfill their declared aim of countering terrorism.