THE US LEFT THESE OIL CONVOYS ALONE

Everett Stern's HSBC testimony strongly suggests the reason ISIS is so well-funded is that it is receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from Western banks.

It is also noteworthy to point out that the US conveniently overlooked these oil convoys for the preceding year, claiming they didn't want to kill innocent people:

11/19: US Conveniently Avoided Bombing ISIS Oil Convoys

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-19/caught-tape-russian-air-force-destroys-dozens-isis-oil-trucks

Bloomberg suggests the Pentagon routinely declined to take out tanker trucks for fear of collateral damage.

“None of these guys are ISIS. We don’t feel right vaporizing them, so we have been watching ISIS oil flowing around for a year,” Michael Knights, an Iraq expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy told Bloomberg....

So sure, perhaps the US overestimated the effect its airstrikes were having on Islamic State’s oil production capabilities, and perhaps The Pentagon was concerned with killing innocent truck drivers.

It could also be that, as Sergei Lavrov suggested earlier this week, the US has until now intentionally avoided hitting ISIS where it hurts in order to keep them in the game and ensure they can still be effective at destabilizing Assad(the president of Syria.)

If you cut off the oil trade, they [ISIS] lose the ability to battle the regime.

TAKING CREDIT FOR OTHER PEOPLE'S WORK

In an even more surreal moment, PBS used Russian military footage of the destruction of ISIS oil tankers and claimed the US did it:

11/23: Epic Bombing Fail? PBS Uses Russian Footage To Depict US Airstrikes on ISIS Oil Fields

https://www.rt.com/usa/323070-pbs-isis-video-russian/

Apparently being unable to find any footage of the US Air Force strikes against Islamic State’s oil infrastructure, PBS NewsHour spliced Russian Defense Ministry’s video into their report– but it did not go unnoticed.

The PBS report last week used two objective control videos made by Russian drones while Sukhoi bombers based at Khmeimim airfield in Latakia bombed out an oil storage facility in Syria used by ISIS and a large camp of oil trucks.

While showing black-and-white military footage of burning trucks, the PBS voiceover says: “For the first time, the US is attacking oil delivery trucks.”

The fact was first noticed by the Moon of Alabama website, which noted that any average viewer of the PBS report would assume that the black-and-white explosions of oil trucks and tanks are from US airstrikes filmed by US Air Force planes.

“We have destroyed 116 tanker trucks and reduced ISIS’s ability to transport stolen oil,” reported Col. Steve Warren, spokesman for the combined joint task force, on November 18, after 15 months of bombing ISIS. He noted it was the first US strike against ISIS tanker trucks in Syria.

“But unless we have US video of such strikes and not copies of Russian strike videos fraudulently passed off as US strikes, we will not know if those strikes happened at all,” the Moon of Alabama said.

Last Wednesday, Russian General Staff spokesman Colonel General Andrey Kartapolov said: “In just the first few days, our aviation has destroyed 500 fuel tanker trucks, which greatly reduced illegal oil export capabilities of the militants and, accordingly, their income from oil smuggling.”

Date: 2015-12-11; view: 751