US Officials Ask How ISIS Got So Many Toyota Trucks

[Little Tich]

Source: ABC News Australia

U.S. counter-terror officials have asked Toyota, the world’s second largest auto maker, to help them determine how ISIS has managed to acquire the large number of Toyota pick-up trucks and SUVs seen prominently in the terror group’s propaganda videos in Iraq, Syria and Libya, ABC News has learned.

Toyota says it does not know how ISIS obtained the vehicles and is “supporting” the inquiry led by the Terror Financing unit of the Treasury Department -- part of a broad U.S. effort to prevent Western-made goods from ending up in the hands of the terror group.

“We briefed Treasury on Toyota’s supply chains in the Middle East and the procedures that Toyota has in place to protect supply chain integrity,” said Ed Lewis, Toyota’s Washington-based director of public policy and communications.

Toyota has a “strict policy to not sell vehicles to potential purchasers who may use or modify them for paramilitary or terrorist activities,” Lewis said. He said it is impossible for the company to track vehicles that have been stolen, or have been bought and re-sold by middlemen.



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/International/us-officials-isis-toyota-trucks/story?id=34266539

Edit: Added pic.

[razorman]

1. A really good Presidents' Day sale.

[Rex]

2. Unfettered capitalism?

[neverforget]

3. What about the 2300 Humvees?

The ones that Iraqi forces abandoned?

[bemildred]

5. They make great car bombs, but are really bad for gas mileage. nt

[Fumesucker]

6. That's what I thought of immediately too...

And this...

http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/06/pentagon-to-supply-isis-directly/

WASHINGTON — Recognizing the need for a new strategy to fight ISIS, the Pentagon announced today that it would no longer supply the Iraqi Army with American vehicles, artillery and rifles, and instead would supply materiel directly to ISIS.

CENTCOM spokesman Air Force Col. Patrick Ryder says the idea “would be a game changer.”

The plan has its roots in Army Capt. Noel Abelove’s PowerPoint briefing, which was hailed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sources said. Abelove, a supply officer on the Joint Logistics Staff (J-4), realized that cutting out the Iraqi Army middlemen had numerous advantages.

“They taught me at West Point that ‘amateurs talk strategy but professionals talk logistics,’” Abelove told reporters. “The most important advantage is, we only supply about 40 percent of each ISIS requisition.”



Read more: http://www.duffelblog.com/2015/06/pentagon-to-supply-isis-directly/#ixzz3cgJsijXb

[LittleBlue]

4. There is no way we can stop terrorists from buying trucks

Is this article serious? There must be millions of Toyota trucks in driveways and on cars lots. Nothing can stop a terrorist from walking up to an owner and buying a truck. It's not like there are credit check agencies for terror activities

How about investigating how Isis got so many of the weapons we gave to "moderate Islamists"? Oh yeah, that article will never be written by the US corporate media.

[Rex]

7. I agree WTH!?

What about the BILLIONS of dollars worth of military hardware we left behind! We didn't even take the time to blow that shit up before we left.

Heaven forbid we bring any of it back...no no...that would hurt the military contractors bottom line.

I am so sick of the US corporate media.

[tech3149]

8. The bought them from Afghanistan's largest Toyota dealer

Karzai Brothers

Be sure to Listen to Karzai Talk every week on Afghan Public Radio

[dembotoz]

9. would assume they have vin numbers, would assume they can find destroyed trucks with numbers

just track them down.....


interesting note....well maybe not...talking to a used car dealer couple months back. He advertised a fair amount on the internet.
He loved it when he got in toyota trucks cause the fly off the lots very quickly. he could make a good buck on them.
not just local buyers but sometimes from a couple hundred miles away. Pretty much buy them sight unseen.
Conversation came up because i happened to be there when a newly acquired toyota truck came in...The truck was moved to the head of the line cause the owner knew he could turn it that quickly and i would be fast money in his register.
It did not sound like it was one guy buying them.