Of mercenaries and proxy armies: Why is this Texas plumber's pick-up truck being used by 'Islamic jihadists' in Syria?

Daily Mail, UK
Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:14 UTC

ISIS is a US proxy army, exhibit A

Mark Oberholtzer isn't an Islamic fighter in Syria. He's never been to Syria. And the plumber from Texas City, Texas, says he certainly would never willingly aid fundamentalist rebels.

So it's hard for him to understand how his Ford F-250 pickup truck - including his logo for Mark-1 Plumbing and his phone number - wound up in a propaganda picture sent out by the extremist Ansar al-Deen Front from the front lines of the war in Syria.

Mr Oberholtzer says he's been getting hundreds of phone calls and faxes since the Ansar al-Deen Front tweeted a picture of his old truck with an anti-aircraft gun in the back, according to the Galveston County Daily News.

'A few of the people are really ugly,' he told the newspaper.

Some threatened his life.

Mr Oberholtzer says he has hired a lawyer and wants to make Twitter remove the posting, CBS News reports.

Mark Oberholtzer says he has no idea how Islamists and Syria got hold of his truck after he sold it

He says he sold the truck to an AutoNation dealership three years ago.

In the past when he sold his work trucks, he always removed the logo first. The last time he got rid of a vehicle he didn't.

Mr Oberholtzer, who has worked as a plumber for the past 32-years, assumed AutoNation would remove the decal before selling the truck.

Apparently it didn't.

It's still entirely unknown how the truck made its way into the possession of Islamist fighters in Syria.

A spokesman for AutoNation told KHOU 11 News that the truck went to auction, and probably different owners over and over, before ending up in the hands of Islamic terrorists.

'Ameri'qa Akbar!'

Oberholtzer wants the death threats and the phone to stop ringing.

'We have a secretary here, she's scared to death. We all have families. We don't want no problems,' said Oberholtzer.

'Born in the USA, yes we were... Born in the USA!'

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Comment: The answer to this 'riddle' is perfectly simple: the CIA/US government purchased this used car as part of the war material for its proxy army of mercenaries ('ISIS', 'Al Nusra', 'Free Syrian Army', 'Ansar al-Deen' whatever, they're all the same) to carry on what it was no longer willing to send US troops in to do: 'pacify the natives', remove unwanted regimes, and secure control of the Middle East oil valve. The British Foreign Office has been doing this in the exact same location since MI6 agent 'Lawrence of Arabia' got the Arabs to do London's dirty work during WW1.