The US government wants to know why ISIS has so many Toyotas

The US government wants to know why ISIS has so many Toyotas, Those who accept watched ISIS advertising videos ability accept empiric a analytical constant: Toyota pick-ups and SUVs. And U.S. counter-terror admiral are apprehensive why the Islamic State is active so abounding Toyotas.

An analysis led by the Terror Financing assemblage of the Treasury Department is searching into how ISIS has acquired Toyota cars – which assume to be mostly Toyota Hilux pickups and Toyota Land Cruisers – and why they are catastrophe up in the group’s attack videos in Iraq, Syria and Libya, appear ABC News. Toyota, the world’s additional better car manufacturer, is acknowledging the investigation.


“We abreast Treasury on Toyota’s accumulation chains in the Middle East and the procedures that Toyota has in abode to assure accumulation alternation integrity,” Ed Lewis, Toyota’s Washington-based administrator of accessible action and communications, told ABC.

Other cars by Mitsubishi, Hyundai and Isuzu are aswell featured in the videos, but it’s the admeasurement of Toyotas that accept bent the absorption of authorities. “Regrettably, the Toyota Land Cruiser and Hilux accept finer become about allotment of the ISIS brand,” said Mark Wallace, a above U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

Theories on this cover ISIS angrily demography Toyotas from declared U.S.-aided battling groups and the actuality that the able Toyota Hilux just happens to be the barter of best for rebels beyond the world. Other hypotheses cover the growing auction of Toyotas in the Middle East and the consecutive availability of Toyota additional locations and “middle-men” affairs these vehicles:
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