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Oil middleman between Syria and Isil is new target for EU sanctions

Syria's regime is not only buying oil from Isil, but helping to operate the terrorist movement's oil and gas facilities


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The Oil Stills of Al Mansura near Al Raqqah Photo: David Rose

By David Blair, Chief Foreign Correspondent

12:01AM GMT 07 Mar 2015

A Syrian businessman described as the "middleman" for oil deals between Isil and Bashar al-Assad's regime will be targeted for European Union sanctions on Saturday.

The listing of George Haswani, the owner of HESCO engineering company, sheds more light on financial links between Syria's regime and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil).

In public, the two belligerents claim to be sworn enemies. Isil has vowed to topple Mr Assad and transform Syria into an Islamic "Caliphate". But the rise of the jihadist movement has served Mr Assad's interests by allowing him to pose as an essential bulwark against Islamist terrorism.

Isil fighters captured the oilfields of eastern Syria in 2013. Since then, the regime is believed to have funded the jihadists by purchasing oil from Isil. But those links are understood to extend further than was previously thought. Instead of merely being a customer for Isil's oil, the regime is understood to be running some oil and gas installations jointly with the terrorist movement.

Mr Haswani's company, HESCO, operates a gas plant in Tabqa, a town in central Syria which was captured by Isil last August. Officials believe this installation is being run jointly by Isil and personnel from the regime. The gas facility continues to supply areas of Syria controlled by Mr Assad.


Other oil and gas fields in Isil's hands are thought to be operated by personnel who remain on the payroll of the regime's oil ministry. The oil is then sold to Mr Assad, who distributes it in areas he controls at relatively low prices, helping him to win the loyalty of local people.

Sometimes, the regime has paid for the oil by supplying Isil-held towns with electricity.

Mr Haswani, a Christian from the town of Yabroud, will be forbidden from visiting any of the EU's 28 member states from Saturday onwards. Any assets he holds in EU banks will also be frozen.

Philip Hammond, the Foreign Secretary, described Mr Haswani as a "middleman buying oil from Isil on behalf of the regime".

Mr Hammond added: "This listing gives yet another indication that Assad's 'war' on Isil is a sham and that he supports them financially."

Oil middleman between Syria and Isil is new target for EU sanctions - Telegraph
 
Got to love the description of Syrian rebels as being 'rats' for digging tunnels.

Coming from those who are too cowardly to take on the Sunni Muslim world blatantly and openly, but instead have to fight like, for lack of a better term, 'rats' against the disempowered and forsaken in failed states. You're vultures -- you're lower than rats.

Get it through your head: you're too heretical for the Muslim World and too foreign for the West, and your fantasy of Persian-Safavid-Shi'a hegemony will remain just that. You've won a few battles, but you're going to lose the war miserably.
 
Syria Sanctions Update: New EU Sanctions Indicate Assad Regime, ISIS Working Together

Syria Sanctions Update: New EU Sanctions Indicate Assad Regime, ISIS Working Together

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Following the approval of new sanctions against the Assad regime and its international backers by the European Union, the Syrian National Coalition’s representative to the Benelux and EU, Mouaffaq Nyrabia, said:

“The thirteen new EU sanctions target key individuals, businessmen and companies, and include senior military officials responsible for horrific chemical weapons attacks against civilians. These are people and entities that ensure that the Assad regime is able to continue to slaughter its own population, including George Haswani, who has strong personal ties to Assad, and who the EU has confirmed acts as a middleman in significant oil deals between the regime and ISIL. The Syrian National Coalition welcomes these new sanctions and, in particular, the decision to list the firm ‘DK Group’, a subsidiary of the Russian company ‘Goznak’, that produces the banknotes that help keep Assad’s killing machine operating.
 
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US-Saudi Agreement to Achieve Military Balance in Syria

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Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said that “reaching the peaceful solution to the Syrian conflict based on Geneva 1 Conference demands achieving military balance on the ground, during a press conference with US Secretary of State John Kerry.

“The continuity of this crisis not only led to destruction of Syria … it also made Syria a safe haven for terrorist organizations, with the endorsement of the illegitimate Bashar Al Assad’s regime. This entails a threat to Syria, the region and the world, urging us to intensify efforts to promote and support moderate opposition with all ordnance and training to encounter Al Assad’s terrorism and terrorist organizations,” Al-Faisal added.

US-Saudi Agreement to Achieve Military Balance in Syria


UNSC Resolution 2209 on Assad and its collaborators

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I think the title of the above article is misleading, as they didn't really agree to do anything. It's evident Saudi Arabia wants something done, while the Obama Administration has completely different priorities and isn't willing to take an assertive policy.
 
The FSA forces affiliated with Burkan al-Furat military operation room battled ISIS in the village of Zour Magar near the city of Jarablus.

FSA rebels gained control of Handarat hill and Tall al-Madafeh in the northern outskirts of Aleppo City after attacking and killing several regime forces and their supporting local and foreign militias in both areas. They also destroyed a regime tank killing all crew.

Rebels destroyed tank at Handarat front with TOW-ATGM. Assadists bbqued in their metal coffin.


Some activists report that the rebels retreated from Handarat Hill but they are still in control of Tall al-Madafa after they repelled a regime attempt to retake the hill overseeing Aleppo Central Prison.

The regime had tried for months to take the area around Handarat, cutting off opposition-held areas of Aleppo city. However, rebels have turned the tide, including the defeat of a regime offensive last month with heavy casualties suffered by Syrian troops and their allies.

The rebels also said the Free Syrian Army has bombarded pro-Assad militias and their fortifications in Bashkoy, the one village they were able to hold after the ill-fated February offensive.

The opposition claimed that it bombed the remaining structure of the Air Force Intelligence building in northwest Aleppo city. The complex was heavily damaged earlier this week by an underground bomb while killed dozens of regime troops.



Last month, you also said the killing and capturing more than 50 assadist soldiers during the hit and run attack in Al maisat hill "achieved nothing". They didn't retreat from Handarat"after suffering casualties" lol but because they aren't stupid, and as far as they are concerned, holding positions on the empty hill isn't important and it's tactically indefensible against aerial attack. Their plan is to wear down and bleed the enemy slowly using guerrilla warfare in battle.

Hezbollah Sources - One of Hezbollah best snipers "Mohamed Abdulmunim" sent to rot in hell byRebels in Southern Syria.

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Funerals for 7 Iranian Revolutionary Guards Killed in Syria
Asr Iran reports on funerals for 7 Revolutionary Guards troops killed in Syria.

The article follows the template of not revealing details of where the troops died, repeating the formula that they were killed “defending the Sayyeda Zeinab shrine” in southern Damascus.

Iranian fighters have been involved in Syrian regime operations south of Damascus and northwest of Aleppo in recent weeks.

تشییع پیکر 7 شهید مدافع حرم در مشهد

Former Head of Political Security Ghazaleh Leaves Hospital After Beating — Or Shooting — and Dismissal
Rustom Ghazaleh, until last month one of the Assad regime’s most powerful figures, has left hospital after he was beaten — or shot — following his dismissal as Head of Political Security.

Ghazaleh was admitted to the intensive care unit of a Damascus hospital in late February, less than 24 hours after he was fired.

Accounts differ on the exact cause of his injuries, although all converge that Ghazaleh was punished for offending other figures in the Assad regime.

“Political sources” told Lebanon’s Daily Star that Ghazaleh was beaten on the orders of Lieutenant General Rafik Shehadeh, the head of military intelligence. He was summoned to Shehadeh’s office, attacked by the general’s bodyguards, and dumped at the entrance of the hospital.

Ghazaleh’s offense was his refusal to hand over his villa in his native village of Qarfa in Daraa Province to military personnel from Iran and Hezbollah. The Iranians and Hezbollah allies have been helping direct a counter-offensive against rebels south of Damascus.

However, other sources have given EA a different account. They say Ghazaleh may have been shot in the shoulder as punishment alongside his dismissal. The “crime” was his declaration to Syrian fighters, whom he recruited to protect his village, that Qardaha — the ancestral hometown of President Assad — can be controlled by the rebels, but that Qarfa must never be lost.

Ghazaleh was the long-time head of Syrian intelligence in Lebanon before Damascus’s forces withdrew in 2005. He was also a key liaison with Iranian officials supporting the Assad regime.

Rustom Ghazaleh leaves hospital after ‘beating’ | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR

So much rubbish is being spread on this thread, no wonder, because of too many IS twitter accounts' followers.

First: Handarat hill is NOT captured by terrorists as of now.

Second: There is no reports on any big SAA casualties, while terrorists had to retreat under heavy SAA fire.

Third: They are not IRGC, you are known in this thread for lying and posting false info. They are Afghan volunteers called Fatimiun brigades and yes they are indeed present in Syria and they have inflicted heavy losses on terrorists especially in Aleppo and Deraa fronts.Keep killing IRGC in Twitter and Facebook while they kill or plan to kill terrorists in reality.
Got to love the description of Syrian rebels as being 'rats' for digging tunnels.

Coming from those who are too cowardly to take on the Sunni Muslim world blatantly and openly, but instead have to fight like, for lack of a better term, 'rats' against the disempowered and forsaken in failed states. You're vultures -- you're lower than rats.

Get it through your head: you're too heretical for the Muslim World and too foreign for the West, and your fantasy of Persian-Safavid-Shi'a hegemony will remain just that. You've won a few battles, but you're going to lose the war miserably.

Says the guy behind the monitor while typing his enemies to death.

It wasn't an ISIS propaganda, that is what I read on Shiite Facebook pages, be it right or wrong I am not interested, terrorists kill terrorists :

I think you better not to embarrass yourself more than this with that ridiculous lie, just an advice.
Let us see who is desperate, the only thing you and your fans did is that you picked up from either :

1. 58 Iranians were killed in Iraq.
2. Shiite Facebook pages which I took that from were telling lies.

You picked up #2, so stop blaming us for falling for 'Shiite propaganda' .
Be it true or false, I have nothing to lose .

Now your source is a random Facebook profile of a random guy calling it a Shiite source'? Not that I expected anything more, but according to your logic:

I read on one of 'Sunni ISIS' Twitter accounts that all 'rebels' in Syria are infidels and should be killed. He must be saying the truth since that account represents all Sunnis. Only because you just called a random Facebook account a 'Shiite source'. I'd better not to waste my time more than this.
 
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And dropping barrels from the skies make them men. Come on its a war, and when its war, you do all u can to win. Digging tunnels had been done for centuries, nothing new. Just dont cry when you are at the receiving end.

Yet you cry about the barrels..

Nevertheless got to say this entire thread and war is worthless, same BS going on for years with barely anything that changes. You can continue for many more years and it'll end in a stalemate. Some minor gains here and there, won't change much.
 
New IS video proves gains for IS in Hasakah. Maashallah many dead YPG kuffar.
 
Got to love the description of Syrian rebels as being 'rats' for digging tunnels.

Coming from those who are too cowardly to take on the Sunni Muslim world blatantly and openly, but instead have to fight like, for lack of a better term, 'rats' against the disempowered and forsaken in failed states. You're vultures -- you're lower than rats.

Get it through your head: you're too heretical for the Muslim World and too foreign for the West, and your fantasy of Persian-Safavid-Shi'a hegemony will remain just that. You've won a few battles, but you're going to lose the war miserably.
Couldn't agree more. They're so cowards, never dared to attack a strong Muslim country. The best example is Iraq which had humiliated them and yet they didn't pick on them but after the American invasion and guess what? They try to take the credit for that. :-) Exactly as you described them, vultures who only attack dead ones. Nations like that are not respected and will never win as they've never done for more than 1400 years. I hope the next demise of Persia will be the last.
 

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