Turkish Socialist party member Gursel Tekin has established that Daesh's smuggled oil is exported to Turkey by BMZ, a shipping company controlled by none other than Bilal Erdogan, son of "Sultan" Erdogan. At a minimum, this violates UN Security Council resolution 2170. Under the light of Putin's message of going after anyone or any entity engaged in facilitating Daesh's operations, Erdogan's clan better come up with some really good excuses.
That jihadi boot campPutin's vow to go after anyone or any entity that facilitates/collaborates with Daesh should logically imply a trip back to "Shock and Awe 2003": the bombing, invasion and occupation of Iraq that created the conditions for the establishment of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, "directed" by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi up to 2006.
The next significant step was Camp Bucca, near Umm Qasr in southern Iraq; a mini-Guantanamo where at least nine members of the future metastasis of al-Qaeda -- Islamic State (IS) -- was spawned.
ISIS/ISIL/Daesh was born in an American prison. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a.k.a. Caliph Ibrahim did time there, as well as Daesh's previous number two, Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, and most of all Daesh's conceptualizer: Haji Bakr, a former colonel in Saddam Hussein's Air Force.
Hardcore Salafi-jihadist meet former Ba'athist notables and find a common purpose; an offer the Pentagon could not refuse and in fact -- willfully -- let prosper. GWOT (the Global War on Terror), after all, is a Cheney-Rumsfeld-coined "Endless War."
The US neocon regime change obsession ended up bolstering Daesh's reach in Syria.
The whole process exhibits multiple ramifications of imperial folly, past and future, that can be identified like splinters from a suicide bomb; from CIA-trained/weaponized, Wahhabi-drenched mujahedeen ("Reagan's freedom fighters") metastasizing into "Al-CIAada," to Hillary Clinton admitting Saudi Arabia is a top source of terrorist financing.
Paris 2015 -- as well as Sinai 2015 -- essentially is a side effect of Baghdad 2003. Putin knows it. For now, the task is to smash those mongrel imperial offspring once and for all.
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