EU ambassador to Iraq: We're funding ISIS by buying their oil

Rasa - European countries are unwittingly funding the ISIS terror campaign by buying oil from Islamic State controlled oil fields, claims a top EU official.

News ID: 1177

Date: 18 September 2014 - 18:06

RNA (EU) - European countries are unwittingly funding the ISIS terror campaign by buying oil from Islamic State controlled oil fields, claims a top EU official.

Jana Hybášková, the former Czech Member of European Parliament and now ambassador to the war-torn country was addressing the committee on foreign affairs when she criticised European nations of inadvertently aiding ISIS.

So far the European External Action Service, the EU branch which administers the Union's diplomats, has declined to comment.

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