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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Wed May 25, 2016, 06:47 PM May 2016

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.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/russia-accuses-turkey-supplying-islamic-state-extremists-39379555

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Russia Accuses Turkey of Supplying Islamic State Extremists (Original Post) Purveyor May 2016 OP

walgreens sells hydrogen peroxide as does wally-world nt msongs May 2016 #1

Would Turkey? Rafale May 2016 #2

Newsweek (Nov. '14): ‘ISIS Sees Turkey as Its Ally' askeptic May 2016 #3

"If fighting ISIS is what we are spending a trillion on,... JohnyCanuck May 2016 #4

msongs

(67,421 posts)

1. walgreens sells hydrogen peroxide as does wally-world nt

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Wed May 25, 2016, 07:10 PM

May 2016

Rafale

(291 posts)

2. Would Turkey?

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Wed May 25, 2016, 07:33 PM

May 2016

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)

3. Newsweek (Nov. '14): ‘ISIS Sees Turkey as Its Ally'

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Wed May 25, 2016, 08:57 PM

May 2016

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

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4. "If fighting ISIS is what we are spending a trillion on,...

Reply to askeptic (Reply #3)

Thu May 26, 2016, 06:27 AM

May 2016

we ought to at least recognize and punish state actors."

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, it’s 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 Defense’s office -- “today.” And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re 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

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