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| Coalition Strikes Destroy IS Oil Field in Syria |
| 2015-10-23 |
| [AnNahar] Air strikes by the U.S.-led coalition destroyed an oil facility run by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group in eastern Syria, a front man said Thursday. The series of strikes late Wednesday on the Omar oil field near the city of Deir Ezzor would affect the jihadist organization's ability to generate funds through oil sales, he said. "There were strikes last night that struck Daesh [Islamic State]-controlled oil refineries, command and control centers and transportation nodes" in the Omar oil field, U.S. operations officer Major Michael Filanowski told news hounds in Baghdad. "There were 26 targets and all 26 were struck," he said. "That will impact their strategic ability to generate money." He said the amount of money IS was estimated to generate through its exploitation of the Omar oil field was between $1.7 million and $5.1 million a month. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said a coalition air raid on the Omar field destroyed pipelines and oil storage facilities. Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said the strike killed a civilian, and maimed several other civilians and IS fighters. IS, which controls large regions of Syria and Iraq, has relied heavily on oil production to finance its self-proclaimed "caliphate." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 You know that their payroll has got be in cash. Send SO in to steal it. |
| Posted by: Sven the pelter 2015-10-23 00:21 |