Face It, Iraqi Kurds are ISIS

Face It, Iraqi Kurds are ISIS

02.01.2016 Author: Gordon Duff

Kurdistan, the partially self-governing region of Iraq, the one fighting ISIS so bravely is, as it turns out, very much a part of ISIS. ISIS couldn’t survive without the Kurds, the primary source of ISIS oil, their business partners, their transportation hub and the real go-between for their vast financial dealings with the Erdogan clan and Turkish mafia.

All the oil stolen from Iraq is trucked through Kurdish territory, much of it directly through Erbil, the Kurdish regional capitol, driven past hotels filled with American, German and Korean businessmen, driven on public highways.

The trucks filled with oil come from ISIS and Kurdish regions not under direct Baghdad control. The routes for most of the oil take it on Kurdish controlled roads into ISIS territory and back out again, much of it right past the new Turkish base north of Mosul, back into the Kurdish roads of Duhoc and past the peaceful Kurdish city of Zakho.

On Christmas morning, Russia went public with detailed video showing nearly 12,000 oil trucks crossing into Turkey. Everyone had always known Turkey’s involvement from day one, it was no secret. It is impossible to hide 25,000 tanker trucks, as impossible to hide them as it was for major US defense contractors like Haliburton and Bechtel to supply the majority of the oil transport vehicles for ISIS.

Yes, it’s true, American highways, particularly with plunging oil prices, are virtually free of oil tankers with thousands of them being purchased through straw corporations and shipped out of Houston for “parts unknown,” meaning Turkey.

Those tankers now ply the roads of Syria and Iraq. 100% of the oil goes to Turkey, but not all of it is ISIS oil. Much of it is oil “hijacked” by Kurds as part of their longtime dispute with Baghdad over oil revenue. Baghdad sends 17% of Iraq’s oil revenues to Erbil in exchange for 550,000 barrels a day of oil produced from officially controlled Kurdish production areas.

However, now with much of Iraq’s oil production area in ISIS control or so we are told, the Kurds are now producing, sources tell us, over 1,000,000 barrels a day and sharing revenue on that overage with their business partners, the Erdogan regime and ISIS.

Thus, the roads that carry the majority of the oil into Turkey are guarded and policed, over their length by Kurds, then ISIS, then Kurds again until they drive unmolested and unchecked into Turkey, unless of course Russian warplanes wipe them from the face of the earth.

But there is another story here as well, one of Kurdish duplicity, also a story known all along but ignored by the US, not spoken of in Baghdad or Tehran or even Moscow. The Kurds are masters of playing one side against the other, particularly after decades of being victimized themselves. Veterans Today has longstanding relationships in Iraqi Kurdistan, where I worked during the height of the US occupation.

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