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Mar 30, 2016

ISIS-Toyota relation * UK

* Dubai - Toyota: “We do not know how ISIS obtained Toyota trucks"

-- A major issue, which has been subjected into inquiries by a number of countries in the late 2015, regarding ISIS possessing Japanese Toyota vehicles raised questions on means of acquiring this great number of new cars by the terrorist organization... The US Treasury opened an investigation about ISIS’s use of large numbers of brand-new Toyota trucks... US counter-terror officials have asked Toyota, 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... Toyota said it does not know how ISIS obtained the vehicles and is “supporting” the inquiry led by the Terror Financing unit of the Treasury Department... Toyota has a “strict policy to not sell vehicles to potential purchasers who may use or modify them for paramilitary or terrorist activities,” Chief Representative of Toyota’s Middle East & North Africa Regional Office (MENARO), Takayuki Yoshitsugu told Asharq Al-Awsat in an interview... He said it is impossible for the company to track vehicles that have been stolen, or have been bought and re-sold by middlemen... Stories regarding Toyota-ISIS relation were numerous as some official US sources indicated that an Iraqi merchant is responsible for importing these trucks in the framework of exchanging them with large quantities of smuggled oil...
London, EN, UK - Asharq Al-Awsat, by Adel Mourad - 29 Mar, 2016

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