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WikiLeaks published on Monday a searchable archive of nearly 58,000 emails from the private email account of Berat Albayrak - Turkey's incumbent energy minister and son-in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – revealing the influence Albayrak has in Turkey and his correspondence regarding Powertrans, a company implicated in oil imports from ISIS-controlled oil fields.
The emails encompass 16 years between April 2000 and September 23, 2016. A search by the 'Powertrans' keyword in the published WikiLeaks emails returns 32 results, including emails sent to Albayrak regarding personnel and salary issues at Powertrans.
Turkey banned oil transportation by road or railway in or out of the country in November 2011, but included a provision in the same bill that it could revoke the ban in specific cases, such as meeting the needs of the military. The Turkish government later gave exclusive privilege to Powertrans for transit of oil, WikiLeaks says.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by fritsd on Wednesday December 07 2016, @08:48PM
No, no, you're getting the narrative all wrong..
(1) Project for the New American Century writes a book "wouldn't it be nice if we attacked Iraq?"
(2) A Saudi religious nutcase, whose family is friends with the Bushes, convinces several other Saudi nutcases to cause the 9/11 suicide attacks
(3) Because the Saudi Al Qaida nutcases, sheltered by Afghanistan's Taliban, did that, the USA with its poodle(*) UK decides to attack Iraq (sic)
(4) Saddam is toppled, Iraq is destabilized, the upper crust of Baath government is fired and out of a job and looking for a way to regain power
(5) Sectarian violence, long suppressed by secular Saddam Hoessein, flares up in Iraq and spreads to neighbouring Syria
(6) ???
(7) Out of the chaos, the tyranny of Daesh (ISIS) emerges, and starts conquering the empty east bits of Syria and west bits of Iraq
(8) People flee for their lives to neigbouring countries and then try to reach Europe
(9) Full civil war in Syria erupts between all kinds of factions including Al Qaida (goodies now?) and Daesh (baddies)
(9) ???
(10) IT's ALL MERKEL'S FAULT!!!1!!!
(*) George Michael videoclip "Shoot the Dog" no longer available on Youtube
PS jmorris: it's a good question, why wasn't that oil well bombed? No idea.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by jmorris on Wednesday December 07 2016, @09:38PM
PS jmorris: it's a good question, why wasn't that oil well bombed? No idea.
Because the people targeting the bombs didn't want it bombed. Many reasons have been floated, none entirely satisfactory. But the bottom line is the people who could press a button and destroy it, would could have pressed a button and blew up the trucks carrying it, could have pressed a button and blew up the road the trucks drive on, could have pressed a button and seized the funds, all chose to stay their hand. No it wasn't about the oil itself, the quantity involved is a rounding error in world production.
The only answer that fits the available information is ISIS was a creature of the West. We didn't hit their cash flow because we would have had to make it up ourselves. But like most monsters, it turned on its creators and had to be put down. We did lay the groundwork for AQ with the Mujahideen too, nobody disputes that. They were a good solution to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, arm the locals (and Saudi jihadis like Bin Laden who went to fight the infidel) and let them free their own country. Obama had tried making nice with Assad and it didn't work out. So the same idea was at work with ISIS, arm a band of militant misfits to attack Assad. Pretty obvious if you are paying attention that the whole Bengazi mess was arms smuggling to ISIS, which was why they acted crazy when they got attacked, they were terrified it would go public. They didn't succeed though, and ISIS instead went rogue and invaded Iraq. So once it was clear they weren't following the approved attack plan they had to go. Pull the oil money and they couldn't make payroll anymore, no more Islamic State.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 07 2016, @11:16PM
Just some news articles about it http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/629409/Russian-jets-smash-ISIS-oil-tankers-after-spotting-12-000-head-for-Turkish-border [express.co.uk] http://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-counts-12000-turkey-bound-isis-oil-trucks-from-iraq-and-syria/5497998 [globalresearch.ca] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/russia-releases-fresh-footage-of-air-strikes-in-syria-claiming-to-hit-isis-oil-targets-a6787211.html [independent.co.uk]
So yep, it was possible to attack the trucks, and it was done. Not by West, but Russia.
As to why war around Syria, check the plans form oil pipes. Bashar Al-Assad said no to the USA one. And plays along with Russians, that want based in the east of Mediterranean Sea, better if not having to cross Bosphorus. So must be punished. Saddam and Gaddafi wanted to deal in Euro their oil exports, or unify Africa. Punished.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday December 08 2016, @01:59AM
It didn't just "erupt". Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton designed a US policy that supported creating the civil war in order to utterly destroy Syria as a favor to their Israeli allies.
It's odd, I distinctly remember a conversation over a decade ago, back when the Official Enemy was Iraq, when I suggested that the US was going to create problems with Syria as soon as they declare victory in Iraq. Why, my incredulous audience asked? Because it's a neighbor of Israel that isn't a US lapdog like Egypt and Jordan are.
Their next target is Iran. It's easy to see coming: Iran, like Syria, is a salient on the much longer Oceania-Eurasia border.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.