ISTANBUL — Intensifying pressure on the Islamic State, United States warplanes for the first time attacked hundreds of trucks on Monday that the extremist group has been using to smuggle the crude oil it has been
producing in Syria, American officials said.
Until Monday, the United States refrained from striking the fleet used to transport oil, believed to include more than 1,000 tanker trucks, because of concerns about causing civilian casualties. As a result, the Islamic State’s distribution system for exporting oil had remained largely intact
There is so much wrong with that ... we've been dealing with these
's for how long? And on second thought, just how hard was it to (using surveillance) sort out just who the customers are and where the trucks were going ... are we having trouble with our allies in Turkey on taking care of the border/smuggling routes?
I ask that recalling how much trouble we had with the Iraqi Syrian border and infiltration, and the Iraqi Saudi border, and infiltration, and to a different extent the Iraq Iran border and infiltration back about ten years ago.
X infinity
"Lessons learned" my tired backside.