美国指责土耳其等盟友购买ISIS石油

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) is earning as much as $1m a day through the sale of oil to some of its biggest enemies: middlemen from Turkey, Iraq’s Kurdish community and the regime of Bashar al-Assad, according to the US remarks – made in a speech to the Carnegie Foundation on Wednesday by undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence David Cohen – are likely to raise eyebrows in a region where questions are already being asked over Ankara’s commitment to fighting Isis and Kurdish fighters are battling to avoid being over-run by the jihadis in the Syrian city of Kobani.“We have made our position very clear on this issue. Both Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu and Minister of Energy Taner Yıldız have repeatedly denied that oil has been sold by [Isis] to Turkey,” said Tanju Bilgiç, the ministry of foreign affairs spokesperson.“We expect our allies to share with us intelligence rather than publicly accuse Turkey. Turkey fights the smuggling of oil with determination [and] confiscated 78m litres of smuggled oil last year.”Iraqi Kurdish officials also issued strong denials. “We have never heard accusations of [the government] being involved. The KRG [Kurdistan Regional Government] doesn’t buy oil from anyone – we sell it. We produce about 150,000 bpd [barrels per day] and even more than that is refined,” said Eizzat Sabir, an MP in the KRG added that there were reports of soldiers helping middlemen sell petrol into Isis-controlled areas. “Right now there are two soldiers who have been arrested over this and are being investigated,” he Cohen’s speech amounts to one of the most detailed official and public assessments of Isis financial strength to date – and underscores the extent to which its brutal zealotry is underwritten by pragmatic methods to boost its power and gh western intelligence officials have long-described the group as the most financially powerful terrorist organisation they have ever confronted, exact details on the jihadi group’s financial clout, and the sources of its wealth, have so far been rarely provided in public.

美国财政部(Treasury)表示，通过向部分最大敌手出售石油，“伊拉克和黎凡特伊斯兰国”(Isis)每天能获得高达100万美元的利润。这些购买ISIS石油的人们包括来自土耳其、伊拉克库尔德人社区和巴沙尔•阿萨德(Bashar al- Assad)政权的中间人。以上这种说法是美国财政部负责反恐和金融情报事务的副部长戴维•科恩(David Cohen)在卡内基国际和平研究院(Carnegie Endowment For International Peace)的一个讲话中发表的，它很可能会引发该地区人们的不快。在当地，已经有人对土耳其政府抗击ISIS的决心提出了质疑。与此同时，在叙利亚的科巴尼镇，库尔德武装力量正在激烈战斗，以避免被这些圣战分子赶出该镇。土耳其外交部发言人坦茹•比尔吉奇(Tanju Bilgiç)表示：“对于这个问题，我们已非常明确地表达了我们的立场。土耳其外交部长梅夫吕特•恰武什奥卢(Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu)和能源部长塔内尔•耶尔德兹(Taner Yıldız)都曾反复重申，土耳其并未购买过（ISIS的）石油。”“我们希望我们的盟国应分享他们获得的情报，而不是公开指责土耳其。土耳其一直在坚决打击石油走私，去年曾没收了7800万升走私石油。”伊拉克库尔德官员也对这种说法予以强烈否认。库尔德斯坦地区政府(KRG)议员埃塞特•萨比尔(Eizzat Sabir)表示：“我们从来没听到过有关（政府）曾参与此事的指控。KRG从未从任何人手里购买石油——我们是出售石油的。我们每天会生产大约15万桶石油，我们提炼的石油更多。”他补充说，曾有报道称有士兵帮助中间人将汽油销往ISIS控制的地区。他说：“目前，有两名士兵因此事被捕，此案正在调查之中。”到目前为止，科恩的说法差不多是官方对ISIS经济实力的公开评估中最具细节的一个。也从一个方面表明了ISIS的务实程度，他们用十分实用的方式扩充其拥有的资源，提升其影响力，并为其野蛮的狂热行为保驾护航。