"ISIS, Turkey and Oil: Interview with Pelicourt "- Worldpress.org

TOPICS:
"• The terrorist threat to global energy security
• What ISIS is really after
• The bigger oil picture for ISIS
• Why Iraq can't cope
• Why Iraqi Kurdistan has disappointed
• Why loose and shifting alliances spell geopolitical
disaster
• Whether it's all as doom-and-gloom as it seems
..."
http://www.worldpress.org/article.cfm/isis-turkey-oil-paris-attack-interview

GOOD INTERVIEW: "ISIS, Turkey and Oil: Interview with Pelicourt" - Worldpress.org

"Stafford: How significant a role does oil play in funding
the Islamic State?
Bensh: I think we have to look at this from a much
broader angle. While ISIS is earning significant income
from oil sales, keeping in mind that no one really has a
true estimate of volumes, the more dangerous aspect of
this is that we are well beyond the point at which this is
a crazy group of jihadists running amok.
..."
http://www.worldpress.org/article.cfm/isis-turkey-oil-paris-attack-interview