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oberliner

(58,724 posts)
Wed Sep 17, 2014, 04:53 PM Sep 2014

The rumor that McCain met with ISIS in northern Syria in May 2013 has been proven false.

The rumor that McCain met with ISIS in northern Syria in May 2013 has been proven false. As reported by The New York Times, pictures of McCain meeting with members of the Free Syrian Army—who have historically opposed ISIS—have been seized upon by conspiracy theorists and McCain skeptics, some of whom have gone as far as to photoshop McCain pinning a medal on the chest of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/17/rand-paul-eats-up-those-long-debunked-mccain-isis-rumors.html

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The rumor that McCain met with ISIS in northern Syria in May 2013 has been proven false. (Original Post) oberliner Sep 2014 OP
If our intelligence operatives Aerows Sep 2014 #1
At this point, I won't be surprised if they are buying and moving it themselves. arcane1 Sep 2014 #2
No, it wouldn't Aerows Sep 2014 #3
I agree, the very idea that this group who seems to have appeared out of nowhere sabrina 1 Sep 2014 #4
There is only so much suspension of disbelief Aerows Sep 2014 #5
 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
1. If our intelligence operatives
Wed Sep 17, 2014, 04:54 PM
Sep 2014

can't figure out who is buying large quantities of oil and how it is getting moved to the people who are purchasing it, they aren't worth the amount of funding they receive.

It's ridiculous to believe otherwise.

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
2. At this point, I won't be surprised if they are buying and moving it themselves.
Wed Sep 17, 2014, 05:00 PM
Sep 2014

It wouldn't be the first time

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
3. No, it wouldn't
Wed Sep 17, 2014, 05:03 PM
Sep 2014

This is a lot of political theater. We need to get involved in Iraq again and the morass that is Syria like we collectively all need additional holes in our heads.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
4. I agree, the very idea that this group who seems to have appeared out of nowhere
Wed Sep 17, 2014, 05:08 PM
Sep 2014

and become so powerful they could take out several governments in the ME AND pose a huge threat to us, not to mention are supposedly getting their money from selling OIL.

How on earth did they manage to take over the Oil fields, do business with their customers, who would be WHO again?

We are being told so many stories that make no sense, it's best to not even try to make sense of them.


And as you point out, if with all its massive spying to 'prevent terror' the NSA cannot find out who the Oil Customers of this group are, and we are supposed to believe this, we may as well believe in Santa Claus.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
5. There is only so much suspension of disbelief
Wed Sep 17, 2014, 05:11 PM
Sep 2014

that any writer can expect, and this fiction went into the realm of the absurd long ago.

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