November 20, 2015
U.S. media can no agree with itself if Russia is giving ISIS an airforce or if Russia pounds ISIS with the biggest bomber raid in decades. Such confusion occurs when propaganda fantasies collide with the observable reality.
To bridge such divide requires some fudging.
So when the U.S. claims to act against the finances of the Islamic State while not doing much, the U.S Public Broadcasting Service has to use footage of Russian airstrikes against the Islamic State while reporting claimed U.S. airstrike successes.
The U.S. military recently claimed to have hit Islamic State oil tankers in Syria. This only after Putin embarrassed Obama at the G-20 meeting in Turkey. Putin showed satellite pictures of ridiculous long tanker lines waiting for days and weeks to load oil from the Islamic State without any U.S. interference.
The U.S. then claimed to have hit 116 oil tankers while the Russian air force claims to have hit 500. But there is an important difference between these claims. The Russians provided videos showing how their airstrikes hit at least two different very large oil tanker assemblies with hundreds of tankers in each. They also provided video of several hits on oil storage sites and refinery infrastructure.
I have found no video of U.S. hits on Islamic State oil tanker assemblies.
The U.S. PBS NewsHour did not find any either.
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What’s made IS one of the richest terrorist armies ever?
Published on Nov 19, 2015
How does the Islamic State militant group make money to fund its operations? A key source is oil extraction, which has helped make the group one of the richest terrorist armies in history. Economics correspondent Paul Solman takes a look at the Islamic State’s revenue sources, while William Brangham learns more from Cam Simpson of Bloomberg Businessweek.
Just check out and compare the
time line recorded on the top right hand side of the airstrike footage
and you will see that at 14:03:55 at 0:57 on the RT video and at 2:36
on the PBS video both show the bombing of the same exact tankers at
exactly the same time. And again 13:49:07 can be seen at 0:45 on the
PBS video and at1:43 on the RT video. Not to mention
the Cyrillic characters on the targeting screen (green letters down sides). Really ?
Now what are the chances that these were being filmed at the same exact time on the same exact day, with the same exact interface markers?
So if the US did indeed bomb 116 tankers where is the American footage?
Combat Cam: Russian jets destroy ISIS oil refinery & tanker trucks in Syria
Published on Nov 18, 2015
Russian
Air Force jets carried out airstrikes against an oil refinery
controlled by Islamic State in Syria on Wednesday and destroyed around
500 fuel tanker vehicles transporting illegal oil from Syria to Iraq.
READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/6wxiOil on Fire: Russian jets destroy ISIS refineries, trucks and wells
Published on Nov 19, 2015
Russia
has stepped up its air strikes on Islamic state over the last few days.
It's now targeting the transport of the oil which brings in much of
ISIS funding . Let's get more from RT's Lizzie Phelan in Damascus.
Moscow is currently hosting an international energy forum. Economist
Constantin Gurdgiev is there at the moment - let's cross live to him.
