Information from local sources said that US army helicopters have
already transported the gold bullions under cover of darkness on
Sunday [February 24th], before transporting them to the United States. The sources said that tens of tons that Daesh had been keeping in
their last hotbed in al-Baghouz area in Deir Ezzor countryside have
been handed to the Americans, adding up to other tons of gold that
Americans have found in other hideouts for Daesh, making the total
amount of gold taken by the Americans to the US around 50 tons, leaving
only scraps for the SDF [Kurdish] militias that serve them [the US operation]. Recently, sources said that the area where Daesh leaders and
members have barricaded themselves in, contains around 40 tons of gold
and tens of millions of dollars.
Allegedly, “US occupation forces in the Syrian al-Jazeera
area made a deal with Daesh terrorists, by which Washington gets tens of
tons of gold that the terror organization had stolen, in exchange for
providing safe passage for the terrorists and their leaders from the
areas in Deir Ezzor where they are located.” ISIS was financing its operations largely by the theft of oil
from the oil wells in the Deir Ezzor area, Syria’s oil-producing
region, and they transported and sold this stolen oil via their allied
forces, through Turkey, which was one of those US allies trying to overthrow
Syria’s secular Government and install a Sunni fundamentalist regime
that would be ruled from Riyadh (i.e., controlled by the Saud family). This
gold is the property of the Syrian Government, which owns all that oil
and the oil wells, which ISIS had captured (stolen), and then sold. Thus, this gold is from sale of that stolen black-market oil, which was Syria’s property. The US Government claims to be anti-ISIS, but actually didn’t even
once bomb ISIS in Syria until Russia started bombing ISIS in Syria on 30
September 2015, and the US had actually been secretly arming ISIS there
so as to help ISIS and especially Al Qaeda (and the US was strongly protecting Al Qaeda in Syria) to overthrow Syria’s secular and non-sectarian Government. Thus, whereas Russia
started bombing ISIS in Syria on 30 September 2015, America (having
become embarrassed) started bombing ISIS in Syria on 16 November 2015. The US Government’s excuse was "This
is our first strike against tanker trucks, and to minimize risks to
civilians, we conducted a leaflet drop prior to the strike.” They
pretended it was out of compassion — not in order to extend for as long
as possible ISIS’s success in taking over territory in Syria. (And,
under Trump, on
the night of 2 March 2019, the US rained down upon ISIS in northeast
Syria the excruciating and internationally banned white phosphorous to burn ISIS and its hostages alive, which Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama had routinely done to burn alive the residents in Donetsk and other parts of eastern former Ukraine where voters had voted more than 90% for the democratically elected Ukrainian President whom Obama’s coupin Ukraine had replaced.
It was a way to eliminate some of the most-undesired voters — people
who must never again be voting in a Ukrainian national election, not
even if that region subsequently does become conquered by the post-coup,
US-imposed, regime. The land there is wanted; its residents certainly
are not wanted by the Obama-imposed regime.) America’s line was: Russia
just isn’t as ‘compassionate’ as America. Zero Hedge aptly headlined “'Get Out Of Your Trucks And Run Away’: US Gives ISIS 45 Minute Warning On Oil Tanker Strikes”. Nobody exceeds the United States Government in sheer hypocrisy. The US Government evidently thinks that the public are fools,
idiots. America’s allies seem to be constantly amazed at how successful
that approach turns out to be. Indeed, on 28 November 2012, Syria News headlined "Emir of Qatar & Prime Minister of Turkey Steal Syrian Oil Machinery in Broad Daylight” and presented video allegedly showing it (but unfortunately providing no authentication of the date and locale of that video). Jihadists were recruited from throughout the world to fight against
Syria’s secular Government. Whereas ISIS was funded mainly by
black-market sales of oil from conquered areas, the Al-Qaeda-led groups
were mainly funded by the Sauds and other Arab royal families and their
retinues, the rest of their aristocracy. On 13 December 2013, BBC
headlined “Guide to the Syrian rebels” and
opened “There are believed to be as many as 1,000 armed opposition
groups in Syria, commanding an estimated 100,000 fighters.” Except in
the Kurdish areas in Syria’s northeast, almost all of those fighters
were being led by Al Qaeda’s Syrian Branch, al-Nusra. Britain’s Center
on Religion & Politics headlined on 21 December 2015, “Ideology and Objectives of the Syrian Rebellion” and
reported: “If ISIS is defeated, there are at least 65,000 fighters
belonging to other Salafi-jihadi groups ready to take its place.” Almost
all of those 65,000 were trained and are led by Syria’s Al Qaeda
(Nusra), which was protected by the US
In September 2016 a UK official "FINAL REPORT OF THE TASK FORCE ON COMBATING TERRORIST AND FOREIGN FIGHTER TRAVEL” asserted
that, “Over 25,000 foreign fighters have traveled to the battlefield to
enlist with Islamist terrorist groups, including at least 4,500
Westerners. More than 250 individuals from the United States have also
joined.” Even just 25,000 (that official lowest estimate) was a sizable
US proxy-army of religious fanatics to overthrow Syria’s Government.
On 26 November 2015, the first of Russia’s videos of Russia’s bombing
ISIS oil trucks headed into Turkey was bannered at a US military
website “Russia Airstrike on ISIS Oil Tankers”, and exactly a month later, on 26 December 2015, Britain’s Daily Expressheadlined "WATCH: Russian fighter jets smash ISIS oil tankers after spotting 12,000 at Turkish border”. This article, reporting around twelve thousand ISIS oil-tanker trucks heading into Turkey, opened:
“The latest video, released by the Russian defence ministry, shows the
tankers bunched together as they make their way along the road. They are
then blasted by the fighter jet.” The US military had nothing
comparable to offer to its ‘news’-media. Britain’s Financial Times headlined on 14 October 2015, ”Isis Inc: how oil fuels the jihadi terrorists”.
Only America’s allies were involved in this commerce with ISIS — no
nation that supported Syria’s Government was participating in this black
market of stolen Syrian goods. So, it’s now clear that a lot of that
stolen oil was sold for gold as Syria’s enemy-nations’ means of buying
that oil from ISIS. They’d purchase it from ISIS, but not from Syria’s
Government, the actual owner.
On 30 November 2015 Israel’s business-news daily Globes News Service bannered "Israel has become the main buyer for oil from ISIS controlled territory, report”, and reported:
An estimated 20,000-40,000 barrels of oil are produced daily in
ISIS controlled territory generating $1-1.5 million daily profit for the
terrorist organization. The oil is extracted from Dir A-Zur in Syria
and two fields in Iraq and transported to the Kurdish city of Zakhu in a
triangle of land near the borders of Syria, Iraq and Turkey. Israeli
and Turkish mediators come to the city and when prices are agreed, the
oil is smuggled to the Turkish city of Silop marked as originating from
Kurdish regions of Iraq and sold for $15-18 per barrel (WTI and Brent
Crude currently sell for $41 and $45 per barrel) to the Israeli
mediator, a man in his 50s with dual Greek-Israeli citizenship known as
Dr. Farid. He transports the oil via several Turkish ports and then onto
other ports, with Israel among the main destinations.
After all, Israel too wants to overthrow Syria’s secular, non-sectarian Government, which would be replaced by rulers selected by the Saud family, who are the US Government’s main international ally.
On 9 November 2014, when Turkey was still a crucial US ally trying to overthrow Syria’s secular Government (and this was before the failed 15 July 2016 US-backed coup-attempt to overthrow and replace Turkey’s Government so as to impose an outright US stooge), Turkey was perhaps ISIS’s most crucial international backer. Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s leader, had received no diploma beyond k-12, and all of that schooling was in Sunni schools and based on the Quran. (He pretended, however, to have a university diploma.) On 15 July 2015, AWD News headlined "Turkish President’s daughter heads a covert medical corps to help ISIS injured members”. On 2 December 2015, a Russian news-site headlined “Defense Ministry: Erdogan and his family are involved in the illegal supply of oil”;
so, the Erdogan family itself was religiously committed to ISIS’s
fighters against Syria, and they were key to the success of the US
operation against Syrians — theft from Syrians. The great investigative
journalist Christof Lehmann, who was personally acquainted with many of the leading political figures in Africa and the Middle East, headlined on 22 June 2014, “US Embassy in Ankara Headquarter for ISIS War on Iraq – Hariri Insider”,
and he reported that the NATO-front the Atlantic Council had held a
meeting in Turkey during 22-23 of November 2013 at which high officials
of the US and allied governments agreed that they were going to take
over Syria’s oil, and that they even were threatening Iraq’s Government
for its not complying with their demands to cooperate on overthrowing
Syria’s Government. So, behind the scenes, this conquest of Syria was
the clear aim by the US and all of its allies. The US had done the same thing when it took over Ukraine by a brutal coup in February 2014: It grabbed the gold. Iskra News in Russian reported, on 7 March 2014,
that “At 2 a.m. this morning ... an unmarked transport plane was on the
runway at Borosipol Airport” near Kiev in the west, and that,
“According to airport staff, before the plane came to the airport, four
trucks and two Volkswagen minibuses arrived, all the truck license
plates missing.” This was as translated by Michel Chossudovsky at Global
Research headlining on 14 March, “Ukraine’s Gold Reserves Secretly Flown Out and Confiscated by the New York Federal Reserve?” in
which he noted that, when asked, “A spokesman for the New York Fed said
simply, ‘Any inquiry regarding gold accounts should be directed to the
account holder.’” The load was said to be “more than 40 heavy boxes.”
Chossudovsky noted that, “The National Bank of Ukraine (Central Bank)
estimated Ukraine’s gold reserves in February to be worth $1.8 billion
dollars.” It was allegedly 36 tons. The US, according to Victoria Nuland
(Obama’s detail-person overseeing the coup)
had invested around $5 billion in the coup. Was her installed Ukrainian
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk cleaning out the nation’s gold
reserves in order to strip the nation so that the nation’s steep
indebtedness for Russian gas would never be repaid to Russia’s
oligarchs? Or was he doing it as a payoff for Nuland’s having installed
him? Or both? In any case: Russia was being squeezed by this fascist Ukrainian-American ploy. On 14 November 2014, a Russian youtube headlined “In Ukraine, there is no more gold and currency reserves” and reported that there is “virtually no gold. There is a small amount of gold bars, but it's just 1%” of before the coup. Four days later, Zero Hedge bannered “Ukraine Admits Its Gold Is Gone: ‘There Is Almost No Gold Left In The Central Bank Vault’". From actually 42.3 tons just before the coup, it was now far less than one ton.
The Syria operation was about oil, gold, and guns. However, most of
America’s support was to Al-Qaeda-led jihadists, not to ISIS-jihadists.
As the great independent investigative journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva reported on 2 July 2017:
“In December of last year while reporting on the battle of Aleppo
as a correspondent for Bulgarian media I found and filmed 9 underground
warehouses full of heavy weapons with Bulgaria as their country of
origin. They were used by Al Nusra Front (Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria
designated as a terrorist organization by the UN).”
The US had acquired weapons from around the world, and shipped them
(and Gaytandzhieva’s report even displayed the transit-documents)
through a network of its embassies, into Syria, for Nusra-led forces
inside Syria. Almost
certainly, the US Government’s central command center for the entire
arms-smuggling operation was the world’s largest embassy, which is
America’s embassy in Baghdad.
Furthermore, On 8 March 2013, Richard Spenser of Britain’s Telegraph reported that
Croatia’s Jutarnji List newspaper had reported that “3,000 tons of
weapons dating back to the former Yugoslavia have been sent in 75
planeloads from Zagreb airport to the rebels, largely via Jordan since
November. … The airlift of dated but effective Yugoslav-made weapons
meets key concerns of the West, and especially Turkey and the United
States, who want the rebels to be better armed to drive out the Assad
regime.”
Also, a September 2014 study by Conflict Armaments Research (CAR), titled “Islamic State Weapons in Iraq and Syria”,
reported that not only east-European, but even US-made, weapons were
being “captured from Islamic State forces” by Kurds who were working for
the Americans, and that this was very puzzling and disturbing to those
Kurds, who were risking their lives to fight against those jihadists.
In December 2017, CAR headlined “Weapons of the Islamic State” and
reported that “this materiel was rapidly captured by IS forces, only to
be deployed by the group against international coalition forces.” The
assumption made there was that the transfer of weapons to ISIS was all
unintentional.
That report ignored contrary evidence, which I summed up on 2 September 2017 headlining "Russian TV Reports US Secretly Backing ISIS in Syria”,
and reporting there also from the Turkish Government an admission that
the US was working with Turkey to funnel surviving members of Iraq’s
ISIS into the Deir Ezzor part of Syria to help defeat Syria’s Government
in that crucial oil-producing region. Moreover, at least one member of
the ‘rebels’ that the US was training at Al Tanf on Syria’s Jordanian
border had quit because his American trainers were secretly diverting
some of their weapons to ISIS. Furthermore: why hadn’t the US bombed
Syrian ISIS before Russia entered the Syrian war on 30 September 2015?
America talked lots about its supposed effort against ISIS, but why did
US wait till 16 November 2015 before taking action, “'Get Out Of Your Trucks And Run Away’: US Gives ISIS 45 Minute Warning On Oil Tanker Strikes”? So, regardless of whether the US Government uses jihadists as
its proxy-forces, or uses fascists as its proxy-forces, it grabs the
gold — and grabs the oil, and takes whatever else it can.
This is today’s form of imperialism. Grab what you can, and run. And call it ‘fighting
for freedom and democracy and human rights and against corruption’. And
the imperial regime’s allies watch in amazement, as they take their
respective cuts of the loot. That’s the deal, and they call it ‘fighting
for freedom and democracy and human rights and against corruption
around the world’. That’s the way it works. International gangland.
That’s the reality, while most of the public think it’s instead really “fighting for freedom and democracy and human rights and against corruption around the world.” For example, as RT reported on Sunday, March 3rd, about John Bolton’s effort at regime-change in Venezuela, Bolton said: “I’d
like to see as broad a coalition as we can put together to replace
Maduro, to replace the whole corrupt regime,’ Bolton told CNN’s Jake
Tapper.” Trump’s regime wants to bring clean and
democratic government to the poor Venezuelans, just like Bush’s did to
the Iraqis, and Obama’s did to the Libyans and to the Syrians and to the
Ukrainians. And Trump, who pretends to oppose Obama’s regime-change
policies, alternately expands them and shrinks them. Though he’s
slightly different from Obama on domestic policies, he never, as the US
President, condemns any of his predecessors’ many coups and invasions,
all of which were disasters for everybody except America’s and allies’
billionaires. They’re all in on the take. The American public were suckered into destroying Iraq in
2003, Libya in 2011, Syria in 2011-now, and so many other countries, and
still haven’t learned anything, other than to keep trusting the
allegations of this lying and psychopathically vicious and
super-aggressive Government and of its stenographic ‘news’-media. When
is enough finally enough? Never? If not never, then when? Or do most people never learn? Or maybe they don’t really care. Perhaps that’s the problem.
On March 4th, the Jerusalem Post bannered "IRAN
AND TURKEY MEDIA PUSH CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUT US, ISIS: Claims pushed
by Syrian regime media assert that US gave ISIS safe passage out of
Baghuz in return for gold, a conspiracy picked up in Tehran and Ankara",
and simply assumed that it’s false — but provided no evidence to back
their speculation up — and they closed by asserting “The conspiracies,
which are manufactured in Damascus, are disseminated to Iraq and Turkey,
both of whom oppose US policy in eastern Syria.” Why do people even
subscribe to such ‘news’-sources as that? The key facts are hidden, the
speculation that’s based on their own prejudices replaces whatever facts
exist. Do the subscribers, to that, simply want to be deceived? Are
most people that stupid? Back on 21 December 2018, one of the US regime’s top ‘news’-media, the Washington Post, had headlined "Retreating ISIS army smuggled a fortune in cash and gold out of Iraq and Syria”and
reported that “the Islamic State is sitting on a mountain of stolen
cash and gold that its leaders stashed away to finance terrorist
operations.” So, it’s not as if there hadn’t been prior reason to
believe that some day some of the gold would be found after America’s
defeat in Syria. Maybe they just hadn’t expected this to happen
quite so soon. But the regime will find ways to hoodwink its public, in
the future, just as it has in the past. Unless the public wises-up (if that’s even possible).
