Katherine Frisk – Daesh/ISL is a private army, with private funding and with no oversight from any government. Daesh has been making a profit through oil stolen from Syria and transported to Turkey where it has been bought by Erodogan’s son. Who he is selling it to is still under debate.

On Monday 16^th of November, President Putin presented the G20 with satellite and banking details of those countries and individuals who have been both supporting Daesh and buying illegal oil through Turkey. His disclosures at this meeting were not covered in any Main Stream Media Outlet.

Speculation has run rife as to who exactly is involved. In The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking Zero Hedge suggests the following.

But what we have been wondering for months and what we hope some enterprising journalist will soon answer, is just who are the commodity trading firms that have been so generously buying millions of smuggled oil barrels procured by the Islamic State at massive discounts to market, and then reselling them to other interested parties.

In other words, who are the middlemen. What we do know is who they may be: they are the same names that were quite prominent in the market in September when Glencore had its first, and certainly not last, near death experience:the Glencores, the Vitols, the Trafiguras, the Nobels, the Mercurias of the world. Continue reading →