But just down the road the answer had been obvious for several years: the State Department had long been providing these Toyotas to its "Free Syrian Army" which, as Syria expert Josh Landis at the University of Oklahoma asserts, somehow manages to deliver between 60 and 80 percent of its US-supplied goodies to ISIS or al-Qaeda. How did ISIS get the Toyotas? From the State Department.
Ron Paul Institute Executive Director joins Sputnik News to discuss the Toyota fiasco and the larger Afghanistanization of the Syria conflict on Radio Sputnik yesterday. Is Zbigniew Brzezinski riding again, taking the US to oblivion this time? Listen to the full interview with Daniel McAdams on Radio Sputnik to find out...
Comment: The information Daniel Adams mentions in the interview about the 50 tons of ammunition dropped for the "Syrian Moderates" is mentioned here and here. The story about the trucks has been covered in other articles like: Solving the "mystery" of ISIS' Toyota army. That some US-sponsored trucks benefit ISIS and allies can be deduced from the recent report: Deja vu: More U.S.-trained 'Syrian rebels' surrender with weapons to Nusra nutjobs Those US and Turkish "Syrian rebels" can't possibly have left behind the vehicles that carried their weapons and themselves when they changed sides.
It has been in the news that ISIS and other "Syrian rebels" also get income from the sale of looted antiquities and oil. For some details and maps about the oil see the Financial Times: Inside Isis Inc: The journey of a barrel of oil. However, another source thinks that this and similar reports about a significant income from oil are misleading, even very misleading, as they cover the reality that ISIS can't have all that money in such a, by now poor, devastated country, without substantial support from some foreign states. This point is explained in this interview ISIL Oil: 'Internal resources are not enough for sustaining ISIL' - Luay Al-Khatteeb