Syrian War Report – March 1, 2019: U.S. Forces Steal Tons Of Gold Captured By ISIS In Syria, Iraq
US forces are reportedly transferring tons of gold from ISIS-held areas in Syria to the US.
According to Kurdish Bas News Agency, the US transferred about 50 tons of gold from areas seized from ISIS in Deir Ezzor province. The report says that the gold was withdrawn from Syria through the US military base in Ayn al-Arab. A part of it was allegedly shared with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), which are the core of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Separately, the Syrian state-run SANA news agency claimed that US forces relocated large boxes containing ISIS gold treasure from al-Dashisheh region in southern Hasakah.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR) claimed that ISIS members in the Euphrates poses about 40 tons of gold, which is being used to buy a safe passage from the area besieged by US-backed forces. The SOHR claimed that the SDF and the US-led coalition “deliberately” do not attack the ISIS-held area in order to force ISIS to surrender its treasure.
On February 28, the SDF acknowledged that ISIS had released 24 SDF members, whom were captured by the terrorist group in the previous battles. The US-backed force also confirmed that it had paused its anti-ISIS operation claiming that this is done in order to avoid civilian casualties.
At the same time, according to reports, over 350 ISIS members surrendered to the SDF during the last few days.
Russia and Israel are considering to set up a working group with several other countries to address the issue of removing all foreign forces from Syria. First reports in this issue appeared on February 26, following a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow.
Netanyahu said that the meeting with Putin was “good and productive” and revealed that he had shared intelligence information on Iranian deployment in Syria with him. The Israeli PM went on to say that Russia is also interested in removing all foreign powers from the war-torn country.
On February 28, Putin confirmed that the sides had discussed such an idea, which should allow to withdraw foreign forces and to normalize life in the war-torn country. However, so far, no details have been provided, which would allow suggesting how this kind of group could work. While Moscow and Tel Aviv have some level of understanding regarding the situation in Syria, there are little doubts that they may have a different understanding of the “foreign forces withdrawal” concept.
Meanwhile, the situation in the Idlib de-escalation zone is not improving. Reports about ceasefire violations appear in northern Lattakia, northern Hama and western Aleppo almost on a daily basis. This comes amid resumption of Syrian and reportedly Russian airstrikes on terrorist targets in some parts of the zone. According to local sources, just recently, Syrian and Russian warplanes hit several positions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in southern Idlib.
US Army Takes 50 Tons Of Gold From Syria In Alleged Deal With ISIS
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-01/us-army-takes-50-tons-gold-syria-alleged-deal-isis
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.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-01/us-army-takes-50-tons-gold-syria-alleged-deal-isis
i am curious what the ordinary jarheads/grunts are thinking.
i mean they must be in a constant state of WTF-mode
due to all the discrepancy between the declared reasons why they are in Syria
and the orders given to them on a daily basis.
didn’t trump say (multiple times even) that they are leaving Syria?
the job is done? the caliphate is finished?
liar in chief?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qt5Bq3wC4Ro/maxresdefault.jpg
yes thank you. for a moment i lost focus from what pindos really are.
i would also add this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kings_(1999_film)
Thanatopolis DC created Daash as certainly as it created al-Qaeda. There is not a scintilla of doubt concerning that fact, nor that the Thanatopians will use takfiri butchers, in alliance with Sordid Barbaria and its Wahhabist stooges, and Zionazi Israel, throughout Eurasia, to attack China, Russia, Iran and their friends, allies and business partners, indefinitely.
I would caution you about believing anything coming from that site, its normally just a couple guys wanting to convey a couple ideas in a roundabout way to a couple moore guys and most likely never happened. Even the event that they are trying to convey usually never happened. But they do send a crowd into a frenzy once and a while to react to that action.
Tip of the day: That place is a complete waste of your time.
Should be enough to allow them to suppress the price of gold for a few more months …
They don’t actually need the physical gold to do that. Gold futures are sufficient. Just saying.
No, ultimately physical gold is required to underpin gold futures. There must be something to leverage up to suppress gold. The whole Western financial ponzi system relies on stopping the gold price from giving the game away.
Yes but the banks can flood the market with paper short positions just before the futures expire. This will bring down the price of the gold without any physical exchange, (if the future expires before being sold.)
Here is a really interesting article that shows that just before futures expire, the gold price dropshttp://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article20677.html
There are, I believe, something like ten times the amount of futures contracts for gold than there is physical gold. Like all end-stage capitalist ‘markets’ the gold market is hopelessly corrupted, as is all Western society.
The sad news is that it is a known who these people are, why they are so deeply corrupted and the mechanisms used to achieve this title. The really sad news is that there aint nothing nobody can do about it too. It eventually falls into the category that politicians ruined the human race, by design and then legislation.
Right, the USA is looting Gold that by rights should stay in Syria for reconstruction. The USof@s historically, never contribute to reconstruction efforts just deconstruction leaving chaos in their wake. I have no respect left for the USof@s.
“Steal” is such a harsh word. The US is investing the gold in “democracy” and “anti-terror”.
There. Fixed the message.
CENTCOM is testing Uber Helicopter service for Baghdadi and the boys, and competing with Amazon for delivery same day.
You might call this Pentagon Prime.
No surprise that the US steals gold. The US stole gold from Ukraine, Libya, and I remember reports from the 1990’s that the US got its dirty hands on some of Russia’s gold.
The US is a criminal enterprise. To understand the US think of it as a mafia.
To show some of the criminality of US elites here is my post on Elliott Abrams and Iran-Contra:
From ‘The Conspirators’ by Al Martin (Iran-Contra insider):
“Noreiga began to complain that what he was getting per kilogram (or per M-16 going the other way) wasn’t enough money. He threatened to talk and to start letting some stuff out. That was evident in the December 10th, 1985 meeting at the Hotel Intercontinental in Panama City between Noreiga and Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams and Bill Walters who also attended the meeting. In this meeting these exact matters were discussed.”
Al Martin says Maj General Joseph E Stilwell Jr was also in the meeting and that he controlled the Guatemalan corridor and the Watchtower corridor in Guatemala. The Watchtower corridor had a response transmission code so US Customs would not inspect and find the drugs going north or the weapons going south.
Elliottt ‘Iran-Contra’ Abrams was appointed to run the US operation against Venezuela. Behind his friendly smiling face like HW Bush, Oliver North, Jeb Bush, and all the others in and out of government, CIA, military are the hearts of stone cold killers. The recent appointment of Elliott Abrams tells us that this vermin is back in operation and was never put down during the Iran-Contra hearings that was a controlled cover-up operation.
Unfortunately, most governments, if not all governments are criminal organisations: always have been,probably always will be in spite of some peoples best efforts to change that paradigm. The ones that do try, get themselves assassinated. It`s a full time job in a Democratic Society, to keep up with the scoundrels voted in to not be bought out by an “offer they can`t refuse”.
‘….his friendly smiling face???!!!’ No-one I have ever seen in public life, even in the Thanapolis DC sewer, wears their innate and unchanging wickedness on their dials as nakedly as does Abrams. The purest distillation of Evil.
How did ISIS get hold of this gold? I do not believe this is Syrian gold. Sovereign gold is normally stored in central bank vaults in the capital city, and Damascus was always under the control of the government. This is probably Iraqi or Libyan gold. Both capitals cities, Baghdad and Tripoli, fell to the empire and the central banks were looted. Yet more proof, as if we needed any, that usa is behind ISIS. Now that ISIS is a shambles they are taking it back. Wonder where it’s going next?
Maybe Uncle $hmuel is stealing back the gold he paid the terrorists? Is it even gold, or just gold plated tungsten bars, such as we heard about a few years ago?
The biggest part is from northern Iraqi cities like Kirkuk and Mosul, which were captured four or five years ago. The rest is from northern Syria. Besides looting local population they stole gold, gold coins and millions of cash in different currencies from bank vaults. Gold and currencies they stole from bank of Mosul only were worth half a billion. So yes, it is gold from bank vaults. (They also have multi million businesses where they perhaps use gold as a currency also.) Unfortunately I didn’t save the link to post it.
50 tons can gold plate a whole lot of bathroom fixtures!
This gold would be being handed over by Daash to its Thanatopian Masters, are per pre-arranged diktat. Now Daash will be re-trained and unleashed on the Belt and Roads Initiative.
right: central Asian one on a horseback!
Well, no big surprise that the US stole that Syrian gold. In 2014, after the coup d’etat against Yanukovich, the US moved 33 tonnes of Ukrainian gold from Kiev to New York. Washington obviously loves to look after other peoples gold. How nice.
What about the 1 000 mto of German Gold that vanished from Federal Reserve Bank vault in New York a couple of Years ago.
Could we get a link to the original story at Kurdish Bas News Agency? I could not find the story there in English, Kurdish, or Arabic.
I won’t thanks for this article. It is grossly misleading in its headlines however still somewhat informative.
“U.S. Forces Steal Tons Of Gold Captured By ISIS In Syria, Iraq”
Corrected:
“U.S. Forces facilitate theft of Tons Of Gold Captured By ISIS In Syria, Iraq on behalf of zionists.
The same group is grabbing gold for centuries.
Just saying, S75ponny
Yes, and? That is what the Jewish Mafia supposed to do. Read their charter.
The US…uh, that’s too much generalisation? Come on Saker fans, please be more specific; e.g. Deep State, 5 Eyes, Mi6, Rogue CIA, Pentagon Black Ops, DGSE, Academi, SERCO, which is it or combinations of?
Russia do this: Say to the US: You are going to be completely out of Syria by May 1 or we will help you move out.