Illuminati Behind Europe's Invasion-by-Migration

Illuminati Behind Europe's Invasion-by-Migration

June 2, 2011

Rothschild overseer Angela Merkel signals her Illuminati 

loyalties with the Masonic pyramid sign.

"This article is about our countries being under attack ... not from the outside, but from the top down, for the implementation of hidden agendas."

by Oliver
Berlin Correspondent
(henrymakow.com)

So many simple minds speak as if Muslims had suddenly decided to roll over our borders and besiege our cities. Far beyond those quarrels about "integration," the paramount question is who is setting us up against each other. 

Has anyone noticed that "migrant" countries-of-origin have been destroyed by western military, engineered "revolutions", assassinations of political leaders and imposed "credit"  from western institutions created out of thin air? Most of us sat in front of the TV and watched the show and paid for the bombings with our taxes. "Our" global leaders have provided Iraqis (depleted uranium),  Yugoslavians (NATO carpet bombings) and now Libyans with good reasons to flee over here.

Africans would be as rich as Saudis, if they would be paid for their natural resources instead of taking it for free in exchange for  IMF book entries. In the late 1980ies Deutsche Bank CEO Alfred Herrhausen already maintained that the debt crisis threatens the peace and economic well being of the whole of humanity! His insistence on debt forgiveness for 3rd world countries, even at the Bilderberg meeting, caused waves in the upper echelons of the banking community. He was soon assassinated. 

When current Deutsche Bank CEO Ackermann was asked about debt relief on state TV he said that he wouldn´t want to share the fate of Herrhausen.    

Today´s EU technocrats still prostrate when they hear the name Calergy-Coudenhove who is regarded as the father of the modern EU. His book "Practical Idealism" is (deliberately) out of print. Two quotes from the EU guru and mentor of Otto von Habsburg: 

1. "From the European quantity-people, ... , the mass, two quality races rise up: blood aristocracy and Jewry."      

2. " The man of the future will be a mongrel." 

Exactly this we are seeing orchestrated with huge government funds, programs, legislation and social engineering. Then, there is Mrs. Spectre with the European Jewish Fund and other programs behind her saying that Jews will be resented because of their leading role of bringing Europe into a multicultural mode. 

Otherwise, she threatens, Europe will not survive it. She didn´t explicitly point out whether  Israel´s nuclear warheads were threatening European cities nor who controls the European financial system. The vile, delusion and arrogance with which these elitists speak is unsurpassed. 

With largely parallel societies emerging, mongrelization has not yet progressed as swiftly as our neo-Babylonian rulers would have hoped. So our proxy governments are now fighting a lot harder for the destruction of European peoples and nations. Migrant  robbers, rapists, violent offenders, "honor murderers" are  getting away with admonitions, psychological training and probation   while natives are serving serious jail terms for equal offenses or even are punished sternly for emergency self-defense.

 Roma gangs of violent offenders in two German cities were provided with   martial arts sports events through government programs. One might wonder about the intentions. A migrant woman received GBP 4,500 in state funds through a UK Home Office program to be spent exclusively in her country of origin after she slammed a baby to death. The UK government hopes she will make use of the offer and leave Britain.

The German Grundgesetz (constitution for an occupied country) was amended to push doors wide open for the multitudes; the European Social Security Agreement (Europäisches Fürsorgeabkommen) was passed, international contracts such as the German Turkish Agreement have been implemented. Government officials are endlessly clamouring for more immigration. More and more legislation is pushed to favour migrants into the police, as  school teachers, etc. while leftist politicians aim at a quota of 40% migrants in the  government administration in Berlin. None of the afore mentioned, push as well as pull factors for migration were planned nor implemented by Muslims or migrants ! Most of the people complaining about Muslims today have voted for exactly those "conservative" parties who were opening legislative doors for multiculturalism and backing the grusome "coalition of the willing" !

The vast majority of Muslims and migrants, I personally have met, were decent and kind individuals; some were exceptionally fine people. I feel for the peoples of all countries, European or not European. 

I am writing from a German perspective because that is what I happen to see every day. This article is about our countries being under attack ... not from the outside, but from the top down, for the implementation of hidden agendas. Manuel Barroso, former president of the EU Commission spoke of a foreseeable Apocalypse" with civil war and the re-emergence of dictatorships. Meanwhile, our "representatives" keep on pushing the cart in exactly that direction. If not a bigger segment of society will wake up, we might end up as the next migrants.

Integration is just another ruse. The deliberate swap of a population is in consequence genocide. The occult theocracy creates the population profile it needs for it´s agenda. The ideal of the brotherhood of mankind has been perverted into the creation of one slave race. I invite all peoples all over the world wherever they are born, to say "I want my country back. My country is not a chess board. I´m fed up with deluded occultists creating a global tyranny." Otherwise we can expect to continue to be straw dogs in their satanic "dialectics".

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Commentary:

Notice that this article is from 2011 - all of 4 years ago,and reality today,because it was carefully planned and executed by the Bilderberg Group,a masonic faction of Illuminati.

The creator of the ´boogeyman´ ISIL have now joined the ranks of their destructors. "The Devil pays a willing servant but destroys him when the task is done"

Still in doubt?  Read more of the previous articles in The Otium Post or do a google with Bilderberg,Illuminati,The New World Order.

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The Popes Bilderberger guru proposes a classless society of slaves

The Popes Bilderberger guru proposes a classless society of slaves

‘The world’s responsibility’

In February, the Vatican approved Sutherland’s election as president of the International Catholic Migration Commission, a position he holds while serving as the U.N. special representative of the secretary-general for international migration.

He is also a member of Opus Dei ,the most controversial group in the Catholic Church today. To its members it is nothing less than The Work of God, the inspiration of Blessed Josemaría Escrivá, who advanced the work of Christ by promoting the sanctity of everyday life. To its critics it is a powerful, even dangerous, cult-like organization that uses secrecy and manipulation to advance its agenda. At the same time, many Catholics admit knowing little about this influential group. Moreover, because of the dichotomy of views on the group, and perhaps because of its influence in Vatican circles, it is difficult to find balanced reporting on Opus Dei.

On Oct. 5, Sutherland ruffled feathers with an interview published by the United Nations in which he claimed the refugees currently flooding Europe from Syria and the Middle East are the responsibility of the world under the United Nation’s 1951 Refugee Convention.

“They’re the responsibility of the United States, of Canada, of Latin America and of Asia, as well as Europe. Proximity doesn’t define responsibility,” Sutherland said. “The world has to get its act together with regard to what is happening in North Africa.”

Sutherland’s ideas on migration trace back to an interview he gave the BBC in June 2010 in which he said the European Union should “do its best to undermine” the “homogeneity of its member states, arguing that the future prosperity of many EU states depended upon them becoming multicultural.”

The BBC further reported that Sutherland told a House of Lords committee that migration was a “crucial dynamic for economic growth” in some EU nations, “however difficult it might be to explain this to the citizens of those states.”

Sutherland, according to the BBC, gave a lecture to the London School of Economics, where he is also chairman, arguing there was a “shift from states selecting migrants to migrants selecting states” and the EU’s ability to compete at a “global level” was at risk.

He added that the EU states should stop targeting “highly skilled” migrants, insisting that “at the most basic level individuals should have a freedom of choice” about whether to come and study or work in another country.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/meet-the-popes-bilderberger-guru/#00TISLiPpWcOpuGX.99

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Commentary:

Peter Sutherland is a spokesman for the Bilderberger Group,an association of old,rich and powerful men with an agenda for total world control through a New World Order. He is also a spokesman for United Nations,created by the Bilderberg Group.

Their plan is to create a classless society of slaves without any national adherence, democracy or human rights. Their main weapon is civil-wars and terrorism on a scale of cruelty hitherto not experienced in Europe. The effect being a mass exodus of predominately people of the Muslim faith, into a European society with a culture unable to integrate,causing even further conflicts and terror.

The Bilderberger oligarchs are well on their way to achieve their goals,having for many years also managed to place their disciples in important governmental positions both in the US as well as the EU and other countries around the world.

Although Peter Sutherland proposes a classless society on a poverty level,having removed the middle classes,he should consider the possibility of the people,when they realize the truth of his scheme,might turn the table on him and the Bilderberger Group, demanding FULL equality,removing also the upper class of the immensely rich and make them work for their living.

THEIR RISKY GAME COULD VERY EASILY BACKFIRE ON THEM !!

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60 asylsøkere plasseres på øde øy i vintermørke Alta

       Det norske folk har snudd

KRISEHÅNDTERING: Europa står overfor en av de største flyktningkatastrofene etter2. verdenskrig. Statsminister Erna Solberg og Ap-leder Jonas Gahr Støre mener begge Norge er avhengig av innstramminger for å kunne håndtere situasjonen, men minner samtidig om at nordmenn ikke må glemme å være medmennesker.

Det norske folk har snudd: Over halvparten av oss sier nei til flere flyktninger, og dugnads-ånden er erstattet med netthets. Erna Solberg og Jonas Gahr Støre maner oss til å vise hjertevarme.

Bekymrede flyktninger kom til Altneset,Seiland med båt fra Hammerfest.

FULL KONTROLL: Fisketuristvert Stig Erland Hansen, som er en av de tre som nå drifter akuttmottaket i den gamle leirskolen og turistanlegget på Altneset på Seiland, sier flyktningene finner seg til rette. FOTO: ARKIVFOTO

SEILAND (VG) I denne avsidesliggende bygda bodde det seks fastboende. Så kom det 60 asylsøkere.Etter en times kjøretur fra Alta og en båttur på 30 minutter er man der: Altneset på Seiland, Norges syvende største øy.

Her er det liv og leven om sommeren, når hyttefolket og fisketuristene koser seg med midnattssol i den idylliske naturen. Om vinteren, i mørketiden, når vinterstormene herjer som verst, er de seks fastboende overlatt til seg selv og suset fra vinden.

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Commentary:

Var ikke dette litt i drøyeste laget?? Må jo skremme vannet av dem?? Greit nok i mindre byer og i større bygder,MEN,på ei lita avsides,stormutsatt øy,30 min båttur til fastlandet?  Dette blir en katastrofe!

Tror ikke JEG hadde holdt ut der i ei uke! Det må da være mulig å finne et litt mere sentralt strøk? I dag er det soloppgang kl. 09:57 og solnedgang kl. 12:27. altsaa dagslys i 2.5 timer. Om ikke lenge blir det stupmørkt i 24 timer i døgnet på den breddegraden.

Viser bare hvor desperat eller ufornuftig vår regjering må være.

SKJERP DERE!!




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A day on Avenida Paulista in the mega-town of São Paulo

The Avenida Paulista takes longer than I thought to cover entirely. I go up there, from Trianon-MASP Metro Station at 7:45 AM a Thursday, the streets still half empty, the shops closed. The day is beautiful, sunless, but pretty clear, everything: air, bicycle lanes, even the asphalt. It had rained hard the night before. The smell of coffee is remarkable. This scent always causes me tast sensations. It brings back memories of the first time I lived in São Paulo, nearby, at the corner of Brigadeiro Luis Antonio. 

Building on the United Nations, gringo of all, I, in 1980. I remember with shame, even today, having raised my voice and fought a pub in Paulista for refusing to serve me feijoada on a Tuesday. When I arrived there was little of the United States. I already spoke Portuguese reasonably. But it was my first time alone in the country, independent and free. At that time the menu of pubs followed a strict schedule. I did not know that. Was upset to Paulista in the second, the steak rolê on Tuesday, feijoada on Wednesday, macar-Ram chicken on Thursday, fish on Friday and again on Saturday feijoada. Learned, over time, to feel the right course at the right day of the week. But it took a while. At the very beginning of my stay I decided, on a Tuesday, I would eat feijoada, and found inexplicable refusal. The barman looked at me with pity. A case of hospitality,you may have thought. I imagine him telling the story to his woman at night. Just the smell of coffee in the street to cause this memory. 

I am in São Paulo to attend a lecture on the Olympics at Casper Libero School, which is in the Gazette building. I arrived early for a change. I decide to seek an express across the street in the São Paulo beach building on Alameda Joaquim Eugenio de Lima. I worked there once, an English language school in 1980. Today it is Hooters restaurant chain, I realize with some amazement. 

In the lecture. a Spanish academic, Beatriz Garcia, defends the 2016 Games as a unique cultural opportunity, not only for the host city, but also for the country hosting the event. Sounds like music to my ears that idea. She gives examples of exhibitions and displays promoted outside of London, England, in 2012. The greatest legacy of the event is cultural, memory, says Beatriz. World (all) are looking at the moment, curious, at your country, she explains. It's good to think about how you want to be remembered. I can think of ideas for São Paulo. I'm a fan of megae-winds, I confess. I think in the Olympic festival of graphite, with the entire planet artists in our city. Maybe this-already being planned. I do not know if it's possible. Hope so. Would not it be great? 

Back to Paulista, ready for lunch, I go out toward the Consolation. The sidewalk is crowded out and about, as they say. Passing a young man tied to a new type of vehicle, skating mixed with unicycle, also known as unicycle, according to was hospitalized. This is going to work, I think. Maybe you should walk up the cycle path? The streets buzz gladdens my heart. I'm going in search for a spaghetti with chicken. Can you still get that? It's Thursday, after all.

VEJA Sao Paulo - 18 December 2015

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Sorry about the poor OCR/translation...

Nothing to do with the problems of the world, just a peaceful  stroll along Avenida Paulista in the country of my retirement.

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WAR & CONFLICT

ISIL and the Taliban

Al Jazeera gains unprecedented access to ISIL's central leadership and explores the threat it poses to the Taliban.

01 Nov 2015 14:47 GMT | War & Conflict, ISIL, Middle East, Afghanistan, TalibanFilmmakers: Najibullah Quraishi and Jamie Doran

Raising its black flag over the rugged mountainous regions of Afghanistan, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has emerged as a new threat to the war-ravaged country as it battles the Taliban for supremacy. 

The Taliban are worried about the influx of foreign fighters who 

are believed to make up as many as half of ISIL's fighters [Al Jazeera]

Employing violence and brutality to impose its will , Wilayat Khorasan, (the ancient name ISIL has chosen for the region made up of Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of neighbouring countries), has emerged in seven different areas and vowed to step up operations, where the veteran fighters - the Taliban - once held sway.

Fighting to reconstitute the historical Khorasan into the so-called "caliphate" of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group says it has grand plans for the region, starting with uprooting the Taliban and the government of President Ashraf Ghani.

Causing friction with the regional and overall leadership of the Taliban, armed battles have increased over the past few months with dozens of Taliban fighters killed in clashes, most notably in the Taliban stronghold of Nangarhar province.

ISIL's local chapter has also managed to attract dozens of fighters from the Taliban's ranks into its fold, while foreign fighters unable to make it to Syria and Iraq have thronged to the group's territory.

In ISIL and the Taliban, we look at the group's growing popularity, how it made steady inroads into the country, and the threat it poses for the future of Afghanistan .

We gain unprecedented access to ISIL's central leadership and meet children as young as five years old being trained to fight and dedicate their lives to the 'caliphate'.

Children as young as five are receiving weapons and 

jihad training from the ISIL group [Al Jazeera]

This is a Clover Film production for Al Jazeera and Frontline.

Making ISIL and the Taliban

By Jamie Doran

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has arrived in Afghanistan and is planning to replace the Taliban as the major belligerent force opposing the government in Kabul. That's the simple message contained in our new film for Al Jazeera. But, of course, the reality is far more complex.

The precursor group to ISIL, comprised mainly of disaffected Pakistani Taliban, first began making inroads into Afghanistan in 2014, announcing their arrival with the hanging of a dozen Taliban commanders in Nuristan Province.

But even before that, ISIL fighters had been travelling from Syria and Iraq to training camps just over the Pakistani border - something the Pakistani intelligence services, the ISI, would have been fully aware of and, more than likely, acquiesced to.

Today, ISIL has a presence in at least seven Afghan provinces, most strongly in eastern Kunar Province, which is where we chose to attempt contact.

Their aim is to reconstruct an historical province known as Khorasan and to incorporate it into the newest caliphate.

A vast territory extending across north central and eastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and spreading southwards across Afghanistan, Khorasan was an important region in early Islam. Some Arab geographers have even suggested that its reach went as far as the modern borders with India. But then, ISIL's stated ambitions have always been rather grand.

According to the Afghan government there are about 

1,000 ISIL fighters in the country [Al Jazeera]

Professionally filmed and edited beheadings, hangings and massacres are the group's brand logo. In one example, from spring 2015, which we show in our film, they force a group of 10 elders, who had previously accommodated the Taliban in their districts and villages, to kneel on landmines. They are blown up, their torsos scattered across a wide expanse.

It's genuinely horrendous, but what's particularly unpleasant about this stunt (for that is what it is) is the fact that it is filmed with three separate cameras and then skilfully edited to music as the gore reaches its crescendo.

[For anyone inclined to watch that scene, don't bother tuning into our film - we don't show these gratuitous final moments.]

Establishing Khorasan will require conquering territory in at least five modern states - an enormously appealing concept to many of the most extreme elements from those countries, who have grown frustrated with the limited ambitions of their own groups.

And that brings us to perhaps the greatest difference between the Taliban and ISIL: The Taliban's professed aims begin and end within the boundaries of Afghanistan.

As Nazir Mohammad Mottayam, a former Taliban official, tells us in the film: "The Taliban are saying: 'We are fighting for the independence of Afghanistan, according to Afghanistan's geography. We don't want to attack Russia. We don't want to attack America.'"

"But ISIL is saying: 'We will attack America, we will attack everywhere. We want one Islamic country and that means the Islamic Caliphate."

ISIL teaches children as young as 5-years-old to sacrifice 

their lives for its so-called 'Caliphate' [Al Jazeera]

The Taliban is itself facing major internal difficulties.

It may have shown what appeared to be a united front when it briefly captured the northern city of Kunduz in September this year, but that operation had been planned for many months before the announcement of the death of its leader, Mullah Omar, in the summer of 2015. He is believed to have died at least two years earlier, but this was kept quiet in order to maintain cohesion.

Since the announcement, the Taliban had faced - and still faces - the prospect of a break-up, as the older heads, under the newly appointed Mullah Akhtar Mansoor - who is widely believed to have been the choice of Pakistan's ISI - and younger commanders, opposed to Pakistan's influence in their country, clash.

Despite its recent moderate success in Kunduz, it is rumoured that the schism is growing, with the opposition to Mansoor being led by Mullah Omar's son.

It is a divide ISIL will be eager to exploit.

And it is into this scenario that my colleague, Najibullah Quraishi, who has frequently brought stories to light from behind Taliban lines, ventured in recent weeks, risking life and limbs to become the first journalist to gain full access into ISIL units in Afghanistan.

As I sat giving instructions from the safety of Kabul, it was Najibullah who headed into the hills and mountains of Kunar Province, from where ISIL is already expanding its reach.

Abdullah Gul is a fighter and one of the teacher's
 at an ISIL-run school [Al Jazeera]

We had worked on the details and contacts for months, but, in truth, Najibullah was about to walk into the unpredictable and dangerous unknown. ISIL's penchant for torturing and beheading journalists is well documented, and no amount of preparation could guarantee that Najibullah would make it back out.

I have previously put my life in the hands of al-Qaeda when attempting an interview with Osama bin Laden, but ISIL is an entirely different case. With them, agreements mean little and death can arrive on a whim.

Rarely have I been more concerned when a colleague left on assignment.

He and our fixers (whom we do not name for security reasons) spent several hours travelling by car and then by foot before being met by an armed ISIL scout in a deep valley by a high ridge in the spectacular Hindu Kush mountain range.

He informed them that they would have to climb the ridge and then, only when they felt it safe, would other fighters emerge to taken them on to their local headquarters.

The greatest fear of both ISIL and the Taliban is armed drones - many of their fighters have died in drone attacks in recent months - so they make every effort to avoid coming together in large numbers.

So it was that, when our team reached a rocky plateau above the ridge, a group of around 10 ISIL fighters materialised as though from nowhere.

During the course of the film two young ISIL recruits, a 17 and 13-year-old, 

spoke candidly about carrying out a suicide attack [Al Jazeera]

After another hour's walk, they arrived at a village. The scene they found there could hardly have been more surreal: ISIL fighters were sitting around a tree, having lunch, as local children gathered around, excited by their presence. Our team's movements were highly restricted, but wherever they looked, there were no parents in sight.

Following lunch, three commanders sat together on the ground as children held the black flag of ISIL as a backdrop to their interview. Each one gave predictable pronouncements demanding the establishment of a caliphate and denouncing the US and it's "stooges", the Afghan government.

The three were positioned in such a way so as to appear equal, but it became clear that the one in the middle, known only as Abu Rashid, was more equal than the others. He spoke fluent Arabic and it was soon obvious that he was the link man between this group and their controllers in Iraq. He had defected from the Afghan Taliban to answer the call of ISIL's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

"We were fighting jihad under the leadership of [the] Taliban," he explained. "At the time, fighting with them was the right thing to do because there was no caliphate."

"But God says that once there is a caliphate, to leave any other group and to follow the caliphate, the Quran and the Islamic system."

ISIL has a presence in at least seven Afghan provinces [Al Jazeera]

Of course, the $700 each fighter receives each month from the burgeoning ISIL coffers might have had some influence too. An average Taliban fighter receives less than a tenth of this.

But one of the other leaders, Jalal Khan, insisted his motivation came only from a desire to establish a caliphate and to oppose the infidels and their allies. And, among their ranks, he placed the Taliban.

"The Taliban are sitting with Pakistani intelligence, who tell them what to do," he said. "Those people who are [in] league with Americans and Pakistani intelligence and work for America reject the caliph."

"It's the same with those working for Afghan i ntelligence. In fact, anyone working for any of the intelligence services rejects our leader, Caliph Baghdadi."

Our team was granted relatively free access to the fighters, who had clearly been given orders to cooperate from above. This included being permitted to interview two would-be teenage suicide bombers who, on the one hand, appeared frustrated at having not yet fulfilled their mission and, on the other, talked excitedly about their hopes for when they grow up.

Their motivation for dying was never made entirely clear, but what was apparent was that these boys had never attended school, could have known little about the target of their attack and were prime fodder for ISIL programming.

But even more disturbing than this was the way in which ISIL targets very young children. While the Taliban insist that young boys and girls spend years learning the Quran by heart, ISIL adopts a more direct and deliberate form of indoctrination - one involving guns and grenades.

Clearly determined to capture young minds from the outset, children as young as five are given practical lessons in how to fire pistols and sub-machine guns and how to throw grenades.

As their fighter-teacher, Abdullah Gul, explains to Najibullah in the film: "Islamic law tells us to give children all essential skills. We teach them, and we give them military training so they are prepared in mind and body so they are set on the right path and eachf generation will learn and teach in turn."

"So you want the children to learn about weapons and fighting?" asks Najibullah.

"Yes, of course we do," answers Abdullah.

True to form, our team finally comes under threat from one of the ISIL commanders and is forced to make an extremely swift exit. What became clear, though, is that ISIL is planning to be around in Afghanistan for a long time to come.

Source: Al Jazeera

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Commentary:

A complicated chess-game with the potential for catastrophically wrong moves. Must be solved in consultation with people familiar with the Muslim think-set,which is VERY different from our own. 

Even the local people are not in agreement with each other and have very different interpretations of the Koran and local life-styles.  They are also subjected to lethal pressure from extreme factions, making otherwise peaceful Muslims stand up and fight.  This fact makes integration with other cultures very difficult. The shear numbers,arriving by the millions,is a new factor which will take time to get accustomed to.

Read also the commentary of a previous blog:>

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Putin Exposes 40 Countries That Finance ISIS

Putin Exposes 40 Countries That Finance ISIS

November 18th, 2015 | by Vandita

Russian President Vladimir Putin claims that the ISIS terrorists are receiving funding from at least 40 countries, including G-20 members. After the just-concluded G-20 meet in Turkey, Putin told reporters that he shared Russian intelligence data on Islamic State financing with his G-20 colleagues:

“I provided examples based on our data on the financing of different Islamic State units by private individuals. This money, as we have established, comes from 40 countries and, there are some of the G20 members among them. This topic (the war on the terror) was crucial. Especially after the Paris tragedy, we all understand that the means of financing terrorism should be severed. “

Putin also spoke of the illegal trade in oil that helps the Islamic State earn huge amounts of revenue:

“I’ve shown our colleagues photos taken from space and from aircraft which clearly demonstrate the scale of the illegal trade in oil and petroleum products. The motorcade of refueling vehicles stretched for dozens of kilometers, so that from a height of 4,000 to 5,000 meters they stretch beyond the horizon.”

Claiming that the United States had changed its stance on cooperating with Russia after the Paris terror attacks, Putin said:

“We need to organize work specifically concentrated on the prevention of terrorist attacks and tackling terrorism on a global scale. We offered to cooperate (with the US) in anti-IS efforts. Unfortunately, our American partners refused. They just sent a written note and it says: ‘we reject your offer’. But life is always evolving and at a very fast pace, often teaching us lessons. And I think that now the realization that an effective fight [against terror] can only be staged together is coming to everybody.”

He also blasted the Western criticism of Russia’s actions in Syria:

“They’re afraid to inform us on the territories which we shouldn’t strike, fearing that it is precisely where we’ll strike; that we are going to cheat everybody. Apparently, their opinion of us is based on their own concept of human decency.”

ISIS is your fault: Putin tells America

In 2014, when American President Barack Obama named ISIS, Russia and Ebola the three major threats to US national security, Putin took much offence to being placed in this list – next to a terror organization and a disease. Reacting strongly to the statement, he told a US journalist:

“Well who on earth armed them? Who armed the Syrians who were fighting with Assad? Who created the necessary political climate that facilitated this situation? Who pushed for the delivery of arms to the region? Do you really not understand who is fighting in Syria? They are mercenaries, mostly. Do you understand they are paid money? Mercenaries fight for whichever side pays more. So you support them, arm them and tomorrow they join ISIS… Do you think the USA doesn’t know who is buying the oil? Is it not their allies that are buying oil from ISIS? “

Though the video was filmed at the Valdai International Discussion Club in late 2014 and went viral earlier this month, it is again making the rounds in the aftermath of the Paris attacks and after the United States had a change of heart and sent its warplanes to attack hundreds of trucks – for the first time – that ISIS has been using to smuggle the crude oil it has been producing in Syria. FYI, the Islamic State makes an estimated $50 million a month from selling crude from captured oilfields in Iraq and Syria.

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