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International News See other International News Articles Title: Russia: Over 500 sorties put million-dollar dent in daily ISIS oil revenue
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URL Source: http://hotair.com/archives/2015/11/ ... llar-dent-in-isis-oil-revenue/
Published: Nov 20, 2015
Author: Ed Morrissey
Post Date: 2015-11-21 07:42:11 by Tooconservative
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Comments: 16
Give Russia this much credit: when it goes to war, it goes at it rather enthusiastically. Russias defense ministry has released video of its soldiers writing messages on missiles and bombs such as For Our Guys and For Paris, loaded on bombers that subsequently delivered them to ISIS at full speed. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu claims that the strikes have targeted ISIS oil revenues, and have degraded them by over a million dollars a day: The Russian military has destroyed numerous oil facilities and tankers controlled by the Islamic State group in Syria, sharply cutting its income, Russias defense minister said Friday. Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin on Friday that Russian warplanes destroyed 15 oil refining and storage facilities in Syria and 525 trucks carrying oil during this weeks bombing blitz. He said this deprived IS of $1.5 million in daily income from oil sales.
Russian state TV on Friday showed Russian air force ground crew writing For Ours! and For Paris! on bombs being attached to Russian warplanes. According to Shoigu, Russian warplanes have flown 522 sorties and destroyed over 800 targets over the last four days. Russian long-range bombers and navy ships have launched 101 cruise missiles in four days, including 18 fired Friday by Russian navy ships from the Caspian Sea. | ABC News notes that Russia has been flying bomber sorties since the end of September, but have increased the intensity after ISIS blew up a Metrojet airliner filled with Russian tourists. Thats true, but a bit misleading. Russia had been flying bombing runs over Syria, but mostly in the western part of the country against Syrian rebels more intent on unseating Bashar al-Assad. After ISIS attacked Russians, the priorities have shifted and pretty dramatically. If Russia is correct about their impact on ISIS oil infrastructure, then its quite an improvement on American efforts in this regard. Bloombergs Cam Simpson reported yesterday that the US not only overestimated the damage it had done in its own airstrikes on ISIS oil revenues, it vastly underestimated the amount of revenue the terrorist quasi-state generated from it. Its not a rounding error, Simpson notes, saying that the US missed the mark by $400 million or so:
[See original article for video of this 3-minute interview about how much America underestimated ISIS's revenue. I eliminated this Bloomberg vid because they tend to autoplay on other sites like LF which is too annoying.] |
Oil is only one revenue source for ISIS. According to the the AP, they also control the black market on cigarettes in their territory which is odd, since they forbid smoking, too. They levy taxes on all trade, but especially on sales of passports brought in by foreign recruits, cell phones, human trafficking, and smuggling antiquities, some of which ISIS does itself. But oil is truly where its at, and not just in producing crude, but in extortion through oil too: Why cant either simply shut down the crossing and deprive ISIS of its revenue stream? Because there is no choice. ISIS has the diesel, the oil. Last time, a little bit before Ramadan, the rebels closed ISISs crossing. ISIS responded by turning off the tap. The price of oil in Syria went up. The bakeries stopped because there was no diesel. The cars, the hospitals, everything shut down. Theres a knock-on effect to the ISIS energy racket. Abu Khaled says that everything in Syria works on generators now. I have a huge generator, I can fuel a small area, and people pay me for the power. And because he could purchase his diesel fuel at cut-rate prices owing to his ISIS membershipone-sixth the cost to civilianshe became a minor energy baron in his own right. ISIS also, famously, sells Assads oil back to him. In Aleppo, people have electricity for maybe three or four hours per day. The electricity station is in Asfireh, ISIS-controlled territory, near Kweris airport. So the regime pays for the fuel to run the station. It pays the salaries for the workers because theyre specialized and cant be replaced. And ISIS takes 52 percent of the electricity and the regime takes 48 percent. Thats the deal they have with Assad. | Take out the oil, and you take out a significant strut of ISIS grip on power. The Russians are aiming at the right target, although it remains to be seen whether their assessment of damage done is accurate. Their aggressive action prompts the question yet again, though: How did the US miss this so badly, and why havent we demonstrated the same will to action? Adam Kredo has an answer at the Free Beacon: U.S. military pilots who have returned from the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq are confirming that they were blocked from dropping 75 percent of their ordnance on terror targets because they could not get clearance to launch a strike, according to a leading member of Congress. Strikes against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) targets are often blocked due to an Obama administration policy to prevent civilian deaths and collateral damage, according to Rep. Ed Royce (R., Calif.), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The policy is being blamed for allowing Islamic State militants to gain strength across Iraq and continue waging terrorist strikes throughout the region and beyond, according to Royce and former military leaders who spoke Wednesday about flaws in the U.S. campaign to combat the Islamic State. You went 12 full months while ISIS was on the march without the U.S. using that air power and now as the pilots come back to talk to us they say three-quarters of our ordnance we cant drop, we cant get clearance even when we have a clear target in front of us, Royce said. I dont understand this strategy at all because this is what has allowed ISIS the advantage and ability to recruit. | The Russians are clearly not as particular. |
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Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
There are no Carthaginian terrorists. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - George S. Patton
Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
There are no Carthaginian terrorists. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - George S. Patton
Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
There are no Carthaginian terrorists. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - George S. Patton
Vegetarians eat vegetables. Beware of humanitarians!
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