NATO-medlem støtter Islamsk Stat (IS)

[amit]

Det har lenge vært rapportert i alternative media at Tyrkia støtter IS, og nå blir det også rapportert i mainstream media. The Guardian, som er en av Storbritannias ledende aviser, skriver i en artikkel blant annet: 

 

 

 

 

When US special forces raided the compound of an Islamic State leader in eastern Syria in May, they made sure not to tell the neighbours.

 

The target of that raid, the first of its kind since US jets returned to the skies over Iraq last August, was an Isis official responsible for oil smuggling, named Abu Sayyaf. He was almost unheard of outside the upper echelons of the terror group, but he was well known to Turkey. From mid-2013, the Tunisian fighter had been responsible for smuggling oil from Syria’s eastern fields, which the group had by then commandeered. Black market oil quickly became the main driver of Isis revenues – and Turkish buyers were its main clients.

 

As a result, the oil trade between the jihadis and the Turks was held up as evidence of an alliance between the two.

 

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In the wake of the raid that killed Abu Sayyaf, suspicions of an undeclared alliance have hardened. One senior western official familiar with the intelligence gathered at the slain leader’s compound said that direct dealings between Turkish officials and ranking Isis members was now “undeniable”.

 

“There are hundreds of flash drives and documents that were seized there,” the official told the Observer. “They are being analysed at the moment, but the links are already so clear that they could end up having profound policy implications for the relationship between us and Ankara.”

 

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However, Turkey has openly supported other jihadi groups, such as Ahrar al-Sham, which espouses much of al-Qaida’s ideology, and Jabhat al-Nusra, which is proscribed as a terror organisation by much of the US and Europe. “The distinctions they draw [with other opposition groups] are thin indeed,” said the western official. “There is no doubt at all that they militarily cooperate with both.”

 

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One Isis member says the organisation remains a long way from establishing a self-sustaining economy across the area of Syria and Iraq it controls. “They need the Turks. I know of a lot of cooperation and it scares me,” he said. “I don’t see how Turkey can attack the organisation too hard. There are shared interests"

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/26/isis-syria-turkey-us?CMP=share_btn_tw

Endret 1. august 2015 av amit

[Sir Winston]

Jeg trodde konspirasjonsnisser hatet Main Stream Media???

[Mann 42]

Vel, NOEN  kjøper oljen som IS finansierer sine operasjoner med.

Jeg ville ikke bli forbauset om tyrkerne har spilt et høyt spill og satset på at IS skal redusere deres kurderproblem gjennom sin krigføring i Irak. Det ville antakelig være langt å foretrekke fremfor en styrket kurdisk selvstyreregion i Irak, som er det som antakelig kommer til å bli resultatet dersom IS taper for fort der. Kurderne har så langt vært de eneste som har ytt effektiv motstand mot IS.

Det er nok ingen som egentlig er bekymret for at det skal opprettes noe globalt kalifat under IS. De kan knuses når som helst, det eneste som kreves er at først og fremst amerikanerne og britene tar av silkehanskene.

IS's nådetid kommer til å vare akkurat så lenge amerikanerne håper at de skal destabilisere Syria nok til at regimet faller, eller til de kommer i skade for å true amerikanske interesser.

Ikke glem at Saddam Hussein ble knust på en uke. To ganger.