Senators Urge Obama to Stop Funding ISIL in Iraq, Syria

[k98nights]

Wed Aug 27, 2014 6:24

Senators Urge Obama to Stop Funding ISIL in Iraq, Syria

TEHRAN (FNA)- Two US senators have urged the Obama administration to cut off the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group’s financing in Syria and Iraq.

In a letter Tuesday to Secretary of State John Kerry, Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) characterized ISIL as the "best funded terrorist group" which has the "resources, weaponry, and operational safe havens to continue to threaten the stability of the region and US national security interests," The Hill reported.

"ISIL’s criminal activities — robbery, extortion, and trafficking — have helped the organization become the best funded terrorist group in history," the senators wrote in the letter.

"ISIL was using black markets, smuggling routes and third party groups to sell oil to finance their terrorist activities. ISIL could be earning up to $2 million a day through the illicit sale of oil from reserves captured in Iraq and Syria," the senators said.

"This wealth has helped expand their operational capacity and incentivized both local and foreign fighters to join them," they added.

Rubio and Casey asked the State Department to designate ISIL as a "Transnational Criminal Organization," saying that designation would serve as a warning to countries and third parties who are buying oil from the terrorist group on the black market.

"We urge you to make the halting of these private financial flows a greater priority and to make clear to countries in the region that continued financial support of ISIL could lead to imposition of financial penalties on their citizens and financial institutions by the US Government," they wrote.

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930605001444

[WheresmyRV?]

Just impeach the sob and be done with it. O has so many counts of treason it is pathetic.

[dontlop]

Can't they just give them some free health benifits like the hookers and gang members can get here in the usa

They should just hold up a protest sign for more benifits and the democrats can go to war for them against those nasty American working citizens for more tax dollars

[italiancat]

Just impeach the sob and be done with it. O has so many counts of treason it is pathetic.

Every politician is a crook. Goes back hundreds of years. Nonoe of them have been completely honest. If you think they are , then I have some beach property in the Mohabi desert you will buy.

[Maggie123]

Yep... Saw this a couple of months ago... ISIS selling oil on "black market"... tried to point it out here.

 

I was practically yelling at the screen... lol... all I got was...CRICKETS..

 

"ISIL was (is) using black markets, smuggling routes and third party groups to sell oil to finance their terrorist activities. ISIL could be earning up to $2 million a day through the illicit sale of oil from reserves captured in Iraq and Syria," the senators said.

 

Don't have time to find it right now... I'll look for it when I have a chance.

[Man_Kind]

Just impeach the sob and be done with it. O has so many counts of treason it is pathetic.

 

Two words, two syllables.................DRONE STRIKE !

[MyLadiesDaddy]

Thermal nuclear weapons

PRAY FOR REVIVAL EVERYDAY

[sandfly]

YEP W