Toyota Hilux pickups, similar to Toyota Land Cruisers, have become fixtures in videos of the ISIS campaign in Iraq, Syria and Libya, with their truck beds loaded with heavy weapons and cabs jammed with terrorists.
A report by the radio broadcaster Public Radio International noted that the U.S. State Department delivered 43 Toyota trucks to Syrian rebels. A more recent report in an Australian newspaper said that more than 800 of the trucks had been reported missing in Sydney between 2014 and 2015, and quoted terror experts speculating that they may have been exported to ISIS territory.
Toyota’s own figures show sales of Hilux and Land Cruisers tripling from 6,000 sold in Iraq in 2011 to 18,000 sold in 2013, before sales dropped back to 13,000 in 2014.
An Iraqi military spokesman, told ABC News he suspects that middlemen from outside Iraq have been smuggling the trucks into his country.
The former owners, a Saudi company, said it “made the decision to cease all trading activities in the country and fully divested the business in October, 2012,” according to a spokesperson.
The Counter Extremism Project wrote directly to Toyota to urge the company to do more to track the flow of trucks to ISIS, and noted that the trucks are Stamped with Taceable Identification numbers. Some think it may be donated By US to the moderate rebels in Syria.
So who is helping ISIS and the opposition?.... . Every Body and I mean EVERYBODY. Just a thought.
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