“A senior European Union official has revealed that some EU member states have purchased oil from ISIL Takfiri militants despite their rhetoric against the group. In a briefing to the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, EU Ambassador to Iraq Jana Hybas-kova said some European countries have purchased crude from the ISIL. She, however, refused to disclose any names despite pressure by some Parliament members to do so. The EU official also warned against any support by the West for separatist Kurdish groups who, she said, would destabilize the Middle East. Earlier reports accused Turkey of buying and transporting oil from both the ISIL and Qaeda-linked Nusra Front. According to the reports, Western intelligence agencies could track ISIL oil shipments as they moved across Iraq and Turkey. ISIL reportedly controls eleven oil fields in northern Iraq as well as Syria’s Raqqa province.”
— PressTV - EU members purchased oil from ISIL: Official
11:21 am • 17 September 2014 • 3 notes