ISIL oil customers have US permission
The US has information about the ISIL terrorists’ sale of oil from fields in areas under their control in the Middle East, an anti-war activist says.
Don DeBar made the remarks on Press TV on Saturday after US State Department official Julieta Valis Noyes revealed that Washington was considering attacks against Syria’s oil pipelines.
It is not exactly clear who controls the oil fields that are outside of the government control in Syria and Iraq, “but it is not easy to hide an oil tanker in the ocean from satellites that can read license plates on the ground,” he said.
The American TV host said giant companies, mostly active in the energy sector, are the ones that shape the US foreign policies.
“The United States’ foreign policy is driven by multi-national corporations and paramount among those in terms of actual industrial production are energy companies or really the more specifically oil companies,” said the activist.
“The United States knows where the oil is going. Somebody that the oil companies here allow the US the permit is getting the oil,” DeBar noted.
According to reports earlier in the day, Noyes, the US deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, recently said in London that Washington may target oil-related infrastructure inside Syria.
She said that the attacks would include “kinetic strikes against some of the pipelines” and other “physical action to stop the flow.”
DeBar stated that the US “entire history” is replete with wars against the “economic assets of those it deems its enemies,” which makes the issue “not controversial at all.”
David S. Cohen, US Treasury Department undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said on Thursday that the militants are amassing a fortune of $1 million a day through black market oil sales.
Since late September, the US and some of its Arab allies have been carrying out airstrikes against ISIL inside Syria without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate.
The ISIL terrorists have been committing heinous crimes in the captured areas, including mass executions and beheading of people.
The ISIL militants received training to use light and heavy weapons with the help of the US government at a secret base in Jordan in 2012, informed Jordanian officials say.
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