Authord by Elias Marat via The Mind Unleashed,
As the remaining pockets of ISIS fighters faced imminent defeat in northeast Syria, the United States allegedly gave them an offer they couldn’t refuse: give us your massive caches of gold – or die.
According to reports by Syrian state news agency SANA, U.S. forces struck a deal with ISIS whereby the terrorist group would give up 50 tons of gold across eastern Syria’s Deir el-Zour province in exchange for safe passage.
The precious metal, worth about $2.13 billion, was plundered by the self-designated “caliphate” as its reign of terror spread across Syria and Iraq between 2015 and 2017.
Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah reports that local sources claim U.S. Army helicopters have already transferred the gold from the U.S. forces’ base in Kobani, the Kurdish-controlled city that lies close to Syria’s northern border with Syria. A portion of the gold was also distributed to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which dominates the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
The news comes after SANA claimed that locals witnessed U.S. helicopters airlifting large cases of gold amounting to about 40 tons from the al-Dashisha area in Hasaka’s southern countryside earlier this month. The gold was purportedly looted by ISIS from Mosul in Iraq and other parts of Syria.
The Syrian state media outlet claimed that ISIS leaders were on-hand to guide the U.S. helicopters to the places where the gold was stashed, “closing a deal by which Washington spared hundreds of the terror organization’s field leaders and experts.”
The claims by the Syrian government outlet coincide with reports by U.K.-based war monitor, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR), which alleged that the U.S. and its Kurdish allies had been sparing ISIS fighters in hopes of acquiring the group’s war spoils.
The SOHR said:
“The U.S.-led coalition forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) deliberately do not target the areas under the control of the ISIL terrorists and commanders in Eastern Euphrates in Deir el-Zour as they are trying to locate this treasure by forcing the ISIL militants to speak about its location after surrendering.”
Syrian and Russian media alike have long alleged that, contrary to Washington’s claims, it is waging a war on the extremist group. U.S. forces are instead collaborating with them in myriad ways.
During the destruction of ISIS-controlled Raqqa in Syria by the U.S.-led coalition, a secret deal was struck with the group that granted members safe passage as it evacuated the area. The deal, uncovered by the BBC, ensured the survival and freedom of many top ISIS leaders and a number of foreign fighters.
The U.S. still maintains its base in al-Tanf at the Syrian-Jordanian border in contravention of international law and against the wishes of the Syrian government on the pretext of combating ISIS. Moscow has repeatedly accused the United States of forming new armed groups from the remains of ISIS, where they are allegedly given free rein and pop up “like a jack-in-the-box” to ambush Syrian troops before fading back into the U.S.-controlled region.
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If true, probably the most useful thing our Army has done in half a century.
Correct. Not because the Army needs a lousy $2 B, but good if they got it away from those animals. Sounds sketchy.
“If true”……..ever hear of CGI?
Hillary now has all the funding she needs for 2020.
“The precious metal, worth about $2.13 billion,”
All your gold are belong to us!
The USA!USA!USA! spends almost $7 Billion Dollahs per DAY. So, we collected about an 8 hour’s shift worth. Pfffft, pardon me if I don’t get an erection.
Yeah, and I’m sure that gold will go straight to Fort Knox to be safely stored on behalf of the American people. /sarc
I certainly hope the troops had orders to get the loot then ensure that the enemy was killed without quarter.
Nah. Probably they let them go with some Halal luncheon first, (laser printed with hologram and raised seal) fake I.D., laissez-passer documents, traveller’s cheques and maps with precise GPS coordinates for France, Germany and Sweden.
It was mildly amusing to find out the article stated a portion of the gold had belonged to the Iraqis.
That took me back to the antiquities “theft”during the Bush years where the staff and caretakers of said items bugged out and neglected to document where things were hidden and wanted US compensation.
To hell with them, they didn’t defend the gold or antiquities and their own citizens were raping the sites themselves to sell on a domestic black market.
But “making a deal with terrorists”? The hell with that – you don’t negotiate if you’re winning against the likes of them, you eliminate them – period.
About fucking time we got back to pillaging countries proper.
Soooo, when killary and Sarkozy, via the US army, overturned Libya and stole their gold and wikileaks showed their discussion, that’s alright as well? Where does it end?
You can follow this down the rabbit hole if you like.
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/12659
This is nothing new. If you study the history of the middle east you discover it is one of continually shifting alliances. Going back to the Crusade era you will find one Christian army fighting with one Muslim army against a different Muslim or Christian group. Next year they had all switched around and allied with a previous enemy against last year’s ally.
Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel are allies today. Five years from now they may have all nuked each other. I wish we could just do what George Washington urged and avoid foreign entanglements.
For those who may believe the total BS that Gold is a barbarous relic or just a chunk of metal, please note how many people are killed over it to this day. If you count Libya, Iraq,and Syria alone the number in the last few years is likely in the tens of thousands. You may also note that Iran was running “illegal” oil sales with gold and that the famous Obama plane loads of cash to Iran were partly loaded with Gold.