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Iraqi Town Mayor: ISIS has begun selling oil
06.07.2014
Bestun Kakayi
BasNews, Erbil
Following the takeover of a number of oil refineries in north Iraq by The Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) the Sunni insurgents are now selling the oil.
“ISIS militants are selling Baiji and Tikrit oil,” the mayor of Tuz Khurmatu Shalal Abdul told BasNews.
“The oil tankers that ISIS is selling are moving towards the Kurdistan Region and a numbers of tankers have moved towards Khanaqin,” said Abdul.
According to the mayor, ISIS has prepared 100 oil tankers to be sold at between US$12,000 and 14,000 and the oil tankers will move towards the Iran-Iraq border.
According to human rights organizations in Syria, ISIS also has control of a number of oil fields in Syira, located in al-Amr and al-Sahl.
On July 1st, in a press conference in New Delhi, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Laurent Fabius stated that the ISIS is selling Iraqi oil to Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
06.07.2014
Bestun Kakayi
BasNews, Erbil
Following the takeover of a number of oil refineries in north Iraq by The Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) the Sunni insurgents are now selling the oil.
“ISIS militants are selling Baiji and Tikrit oil,” the mayor of Tuz Khurmatu Shalal Abdul told BasNews.
“The oil tankers that ISIS is selling are moving towards the Kurdistan Region and a numbers of tankers have moved towards Khanaqin,” said Abdul.
According to the mayor, ISIS has prepared 100 oil tankers to be sold at between US$12,000 and 14,000 and the oil tankers will move towards the Iran-Iraq border.
According to human rights organizations in Syria, ISIS also has control of a number of oil fields in Syira, located in al-Amr and al-Sahl.
On July 1st, in a press conference in New Delhi, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Laurent Fabius stated that the ISIS is selling Iraqi oil to Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
