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Tuesday, December 1, 2015
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Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Iraqi Kurdish minister denies Kurds are buying IS oil
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Iraqi Kurdish minister for natural resources rejects accusations that Iraqi Kurdistan is buying oil from Islamic State-controlled territory, and thus helping to fund the terror group.
Reports that Kurds are helping smuggle oil out of IS territory are “wild imagination and unsubstantiated,” Reuters quotes Ashti Hawrami as saying Tuesday.
“We do everything to ensure that every barrel is accounted for,” Hawrami says at a London conference.
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