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The Guardian: "Islamic state" on the day you get $ 6 million from the oil trade from US raids returns did not lead to the obstruction of the organization's efforts to extract and export oil
Nov 21, 2014
London singled newspaper "The Guardian" in its Thursday edition expanded on the "oil empire", which is controlled by the "Islamic state" in Iraq report.
The authors said the report interval Alhorama and Chalon-Mohammed and Luke Harding that "Islamic state" has strengthened its control over oil supplies in Iraq, is now leading an elaborate network of smuggling and export, which goes to Turkey, Iran, Jordan, citing smugglers and Iraqi officials.
The report indicates that the organization, and after six months of expansion in the regions of Iraq and Syria, a day gets millions of dollars from the trade returns is this legitimacy. Officials say the US strikes against oil refineries did not lead to the obstruction of the organization's efforts to extract and export oil.
The paper shows that the organization controls the dozens of Iraqi oil fields. And was able to "Islamic state" manage and quickly, and to raise productivity levels, and therefore the export of oil through the smuggling networks that operate in Iraq and Syria, long years ago.
The report says that most of the oil which smuggle them past state regulation, since July to October / October, all went to the Kurdistan region, where the organization sold the Iraqi Kurds oil traders discount prices. Oil was sold again in Kurdistan for the Kurds and Iranian traders. Sales of oil and help the organization to pay the fighters and staff salaries of $ 500 a month for a fighter, and $ 1,200 for military leadership.
She adds, "The Guardian" that the US government put pressure on the Kurdistan Regional Government; to prosecute smugglers, but are not controlling them, as there is still oil finds its way to the Kurdish areas, and from Syria to Turkey, as it navigates state regulation of the market to market, crude oil transports and prices low to Jordan.
The Committee called on the US Congress on Monday, each of the countries neighboring Iraq and Syria to the confiscation of trucks laden with oil.
And transmits a report on oil smugglers, Sami Khalaf as saying: "We buy the oil tank, which contains between 26-28 tons, for $ 4,200 and sell it in Jordan for $ 15,000. The smuggler gets all the eight oil storage tanks in the week.
And reveals the behind, who worked in the former Iraqi intelligence, and resides in the Jordanian capital, Amman, that the smugglers pay bribes to border guards $ 650 to cross the checkpoints.
The report cites Iraqi security officials affirmation use state regulation near the border with Jordan Anbar region as a smuggling activity.
The organization controls the three oil fields in Iraq, in the north of Tikrit Agil and Qayyarah and Alhmaren, according to the newspaper.
Official in the Kurdish regions and states that 435 tons of oil from the field in Ajil Salahuddin area has been moved to Anbar in recent times, and which were transferred to Amman. A spokesman for the Iraqi Oil Ministry, Assem Jihad, says the newspaper he did not know about the oil flee to Jordan, but acknowledged that the organization of the state is still conveys oil to Turkey via Syria, "and we are pressing Turkey to stop this trade; because it strengthens the (Islamic state)."
The newspaper reminds that the US reconnaissance plane was flying over northern Iraq in June I got to know a large number of trucks laden with oil, a non-stop express to the Kurdistan region. US officials presented photographs taken by the plane, and pressed them to stop smuggling. The US aircraft had destroyed seven oil tankers last month.
Said David Cohen, Assistant Minister to the Minister of the Treasury in the prosecution of the financing of terrorist groups Affairs, said that "brokers, traders, refinery workers, transport companies and any person having the oil-borne state regulation of the relationship, we are working hard to get to know their identities, but we have methods to stop them," according to report.
The report cites that, according to an official at the Iraqi North Oil Company, the oil fields produced by the control of the "Islamic state" by between 400,000 - 500,000 barrels of oil per day. The dealer says that the size of the amount of oil that were transferred to the Kurdistan at the peak of activity reached 3,000 a day, where they disappear in the Turkish and Iranian markets.
And draws the paper to that at the time identified the international restrictions of activity Trade "Islamic state" of oil, but the parliamentary Kurdish confirmed that it did not stop completely, "I can say that trade increased by 50%, and we have arrested a number of people who have dealt with (the Islamic state ), they are the same people who supply areas (Islamic state) oil using a 250 wagon pickup father. "
He continues to the newspaper that the Shiite militias that are fighting "Islamic state" benefited from the trade, through the imposition of the tax on oil tankers transiting the areas under its control.
The report is presented for the benefit of Karim Hassan, a Sunni truck driver, that Saud al-Zarqawi, one of the leaders of the "Islamic state" is responsible for the oil trade. Zarqawi and signed a contract with the tribal leaders and dignitaries in Mosul to smuggle oil. Leaders and reactivate the smuggling networks with Kurdish leaders, who were transferred to the oil region autonomy.
Expresses Hassan, who has worked in the field of transportation of oil 13 years ago, expressed surprise at the speed of state regulation, and the ability to resume oil production in fields dominated by. When asked some acquaintances in Mosul told him that "Islamic state" brought from Syria, two engineers, who were able to manage the fields.
He adds Hassan told the newspaper that the Kurdish leaders have agreed to buy oil at half the price, and paid US $ 1,500 for each oil truck passed through checkpoints in Kirkuk and drunken and DAQUQ and Tuz Khurmatu. The oil was then transferred to the Turkish and Iranian markets.
The report emphasizes the participation of some of the leaders in the Peshmerga smuggling at a time when their colleagues are fighting "Islamic state". He says Nihad Jaafar, a truck driver, he carry crude oil from Hmaren field, and transferred to Akectabh area, which lies 30 kilometers from the provincial capital of Arbil. Noting that "it is not as we stood on the Kurdish checkpoints; because of the relationship between the traders and the leaders of the Kurds points."
And concludes, "The Guardian" report with reference to the words of the Kurdistan Regional Government that it had arrested a number of people, and they will be charged, based on the anti-terrorism law, which is punishable by up to death.
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Nov 21, 2014
London singled newspaper "The Guardian" in its Thursday edition expanded on the "oil empire", which is controlled by the "Islamic state" in Iraq report.
The authors said the report interval Alhorama and Chalon-Mohammed and Luke Harding that "Islamic state" has strengthened its control over oil supplies in Iraq, is now leading an elaborate network of smuggling and export, which goes to Turkey, Iran, Jordan, citing smugglers and Iraqi officials.
The report indicates that the organization, and after six months of expansion in the regions of Iraq and Syria, a day gets millions of dollars from the trade returns is this legitimacy. Officials say the US strikes against oil refineries did not lead to the obstruction of the organization's efforts to extract and export oil.
The paper shows that the organization controls the dozens of Iraqi oil fields. And was able to "Islamic state" manage and quickly, and to raise productivity levels, and therefore the export of oil through the smuggling networks that operate in Iraq and Syria, long years ago.
The report says that most of the oil which smuggle them past state regulation, since July to October / October, all went to the Kurdistan region, where the organization sold the Iraqi Kurds oil traders discount prices. Oil was sold again in Kurdistan for the Kurds and Iranian traders. Sales of oil and help the organization to pay the fighters and staff salaries of $ 500 a month for a fighter, and $ 1,200 for military leadership.
She adds, "The Guardian" that the US government put pressure on the Kurdistan Regional Government; to prosecute smugglers, but are not controlling them, as there is still oil finds its way to the Kurdish areas, and from Syria to Turkey, as it navigates state regulation of the market to market, crude oil transports and prices low to Jordan.
The Committee called on the US Congress on Monday, each of the countries neighboring Iraq and Syria to the confiscation of trucks laden with oil.
And transmits a report on oil smugglers, Sami Khalaf as saying: "We buy the oil tank, which contains between 26-28 tons, for $ 4,200 and sell it in Jordan for $ 15,000. The smuggler gets all the eight oil storage tanks in the week.
And reveals the behind, who worked in the former Iraqi intelligence, and resides in the Jordanian capital, Amman, that the smugglers pay bribes to border guards $ 650 to cross the checkpoints.
The report cites Iraqi security officials affirmation use state regulation near the border with Jordan Anbar region as a smuggling activity.
The organization controls the three oil fields in Iraq, in the north of Tikrit Agil and Qayyarah and Alhmaren, according to the newspaper.
Official in the Kurdish regions and states that 435 tons of oil from the field in Ajil Salahuddin area has been moved to Anbar in recent times, and which were transferred to Amman. A spokesman for the Iraqi Oil Ministry, Assem Jihad, says the newspaper he did not know about the oil flee to Jordan, but acknowledged that the organization of the state is still conveys oil to Turkey via Syria, "and we are pressing Turkey to stop this trade; because it strengthens the (Islamic state)."
The newspaper reminds that the US reconnaissance plane was flying over northern Iraq in June I got to know a large number of trucks laden with oil, a non-stop express to the Kurdistan region. US officials presented photographs taken by the plane, and pressed them to stop smuggling. The US aircraft had destroyed seven oil tankers last month.
Said David Cohen, Assistant Minister to the Minister of the Treasury in the prosecution of the financing of terrorist groups Affairs, said that "brokers, traders, refinery workers, transport companies and any person having the oil-borne state regulation of the relationship, we are working hard to get to know their identities, but we have methods to stop them," according to report.
The report cites that, according to an official at the Iraqi North Oil Company, the oil fields produced by the control of the "Islamic state" by between 400,000 - 500,000 barrels of oil per day. The dealer says that the size of the amount of oil that were transferred to the Kurdistan at the peak of activity reached 3,000 a day, where they disappear in the Turkish and Iranian markets.
And draws the paper to that at the time identified the international restrictions of activity Trade "Islamic state" of oil, but the parliamentary Kurdish confirmed that it did not stop completely, "I can say that trade increased by 50%, and we have arrested a number of people who have dealt with (the Islamic state ), they are the same people who supply areas (Islamic state) oil using a 250 wagon pickup father. "
He continues to the newspaper that the Shiite militias that are fighting "Islamic state" benefited from the trade, through the imposition of the tax on oil tankers transiting the areas under its control.
The report is presented for the benefit of Karim Hassan, a Sunni truck driver, that Saud al-Zarqawi, one of the leaders of the "Islamic state" is responsible for the oil trade. Zarqawi and signed a contract with the tribal leaders and dignitaries in Mosul to smuggle oil. Leaders and reactivate the smuggling networks with Kurdish leaders, who were transferred to the oil region autonomy.
Expresses Hassan, who has worked in the field of transportation of oil 13 years ago, expressed surprise at the speed of state regulation, and the ability to resume oil production in fields dominated by. When asked some acquaintances in Mosul told him that "Islamic state" brought from Syria, two engineers, who were able to manage the fields.
He adds Hassan told the newspaper that the Kurdish leaders have agreed to buy oil at half the price, and paid US $ 1,500 for each oil truck passed through checkpoints in Kirkuk and drunken and DAQUQ and Tuz Khurmatu. The oil was then transferred to the Turkish and Iranian markets.
The report emphasizes the participation of some of the leaders in the Peshmerga smuggling at a time when their colleagues are fighting "Islamic state". He says Nihad Jaafar, a truck driver, he carry crude oil from Hmaren field, and transferred to Akectabh area, which lies 30 kilometers from the provincial capital of Arbil. Noting that "it is not as we stood on the Kurdish checkpoints; because of the relationship between the traders and the leaders of the Kurds points."
And concludes, "The Guardian" report with reference to the words of the Kurdistan Regional Government that it had arrested a number of people, and they will be charged, based on the anti-terrorism law, which is punishable by up to death.
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