The US-led coalition in Syria has shot at twelve oil refineries. With them, the terrorist militia “Islamic State” should have earned two million dollars per day. The British House of Commons could already decide on Friday through participation in the attacks.
The U.S. military and its Arab allies continued their attacks on the jihadist group “Islamic State” (IS) in Syria and it bombed the first time oil refineries. In the past two days especially command centers, training camps and arsenals of the terrorist organization had been the targets of the US-led coalition.
The control extremists in eastern Syria several refineries and smuggle crude oil for sale through intermediaries in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Jordan. In this way, the IS take every day about two million dollars (1.56 million euros), said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby in an interview with the TV channel CNN.
The United States had been supported in the attacks of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. “The majority of aircraft in this mission were machines of the coalition and non-US machines,” says Kirby. The objectives were twelve refineries and a vehicle of the IS, we’ve shot with precision-guided missiles. All planes had returned safely.
Meanwhile, Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron announced on as expected before the UN General Assembly in New York that he would call together the House of Commons, to obtain his consent for participation in air strikes against the IS-wing extremists. “We are confronted with something evil against which the whole world must unite,” said Cameron. “We have a clear international law basis. And we must act in our own interest to protect our compatriots. So it is right that Britain should enter a new phase of action.” The House of Commons should have come together on Friday.
UK to France would be the second NATO country that the United States military jumps to the side. So far, only fly the British reconnaissance flights and provide equipment material on Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq.
Fight against IS in Syria:IS-fighters are advancing in northern Syria
Despite the air strikes the IS is in northern Syria continues on the rise. A fighter of the Kurdish Peshmerga Army said the jihadists are only a kilometer away from the city limits of Ain al-Arab, which is called by its Kurdish population Kobani. Since the bombing began many other IS-fighters and tanks had arrived there, confirmed Ocalan Iso, deputy commander of the Kurdish units: “Kobani is in danger.
A Syrian refugee from the city told the AP news agency that he had seen on the way to the Turkish border about 50 headless corpses. “The situation is bad., When they have conquered a village, they behead someone to intimidate all,” said another refugee from Syria Reuters.
On Wednesday a new video of the Islamist group had appeared: it shows the beheading of a French mountain guide. He had been kidnapped while hiking in a mountainous region in eastern Algeria.
U.S. President Barack Obama took place before the UN General Assembly in New York mince words: “The only language they understand Killer, is the language of force.”
[adrotate group=”13″]
