Russia Accuses Turkey of Supplying Islamic State Extremists
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
By EDITH M. LEDERER, ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS May 25, 2016, 5:42 PM ET
Russia has accused Turkey of supplying the Islamic State extremist group with components for improvised explosive devices.
Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said in a letter to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon circulated Wednesday that the devices "are being widely used to commit terrorist acts."
He said an analysis of chemical components of explosives captured from Islamists in the region of the Iraqi city of Tikrit and the Syrian city of Kobani, and a review of conditions for selling the components, "indicates that they were either manufactured in Turkey or delivered to that country without the right of re-export."
Churkin accused five Turkish companies of delivering aluminum powder, ammonium nitrate, hydrogen peroxide and other material produced by various Turkish and foreign companies to the Islamic State group.
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msongs
(67,509 posts)Rafale
(291 posts)Would Turkey have any motivation for doing that sort of thing? Would Saudi Arabia? Would Qatar?
Would Turkey pursue its own national interest over another nation's interest?
askeptic
(478 posts)It seems to have become pretty common knowledge that this is true. Collusion with ISIS in oil trade, the free movement of ISIS people between turkey
Senior Western official: Links between Turkey and ISIS are now 'undeniable'
"NATO member Turkey has long been accused by experts, Kurds, and even Joe Biden of enabling ISIS by turning a blind eye to the vast smuggling networks of weapons and fighters during the ongoing Syrian war."
So there would be no surprise in the likelihood of Russia's accusations being true.
But I expect Erdogan to flip the UN the bird if it condemns him. We should be expelling them from NATO. If fighting ISIS is what we are spending a trillion plus on, we ought to at least recognize and punish state actors.
JohnyCanuck
(9,922 posts)Unless "we" are secretly happy that this state actor is assisting ISIS in efforts to depose our current evil-doing, bogeyman of the day - a bogeyman who just happens to be leader of the second country in the list of "7 countries in 5 years" that retired General Wesley Clark claims a pentagon source indicated to him were to be targeted by Washington.
Wesley Clark: 'So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, Are we still going to war with Iraq? And he said, Oh, its worse than that. He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, I just got this down from upstairs -- meaning the Secretary of Defenses office -- today. And he said, This is a memo that describes how were going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.'
http://genius.com/General-wesley-clark-seven-countries-in-five-years-annotated