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2014-07-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iraq Jihadists 'Selling Oil to Assad', Says France

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Posted by Fred 2014-07-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant

#1 Oil money is fungible. They would and did sell it to the devil(s).

Posted by borgboy 2014-07-01 00:38|| 2014-07-01 00:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Fabius said the sale was evidence of the "confusing" nature of the escalating conflict in the Middle East in which Assad and the jihadists are in theory on opposing sides.

File under French military sales to Russia and other rogue states. In other news, French pastry is also very rich.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-01 03:36|| 2014-07-01 03:36|| Front Page Top

#3 This from the supplier of helicopter carriers to Russia. I ams shocked, shocked to find out that PROFITEERING is going on here.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-07-01 07:31|| 2014-07-01 07:31|| Front Page Top

#4 The Souk knows no side or faction.

Posted by Shipman 2014-07-01 15:15|| 2014-07-01 15:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Fabius said the sale was evidence of the "confusing" nature of the escalating conflict in the Middle East in which Assad and the jihadists are in theory on opposing sides.
The rebels, previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), declared a "caliphate", or Islamist state, straddling Iraq and Syria at the weekend.

I was wondering how these jokers were going to finance themselves. They have to eat at some point. They don't seem like the types to set up a viable state. You can only plunder for so long the place where you are before you start thinking about expanding to other countries.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-01 17:09|| 2014-07-01 17:09|| Front Page Top

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