Toyota aiding Treasury Dept. probe into Mideast terror group vehicles, Japanese automaker Toyota says it is allied with the U.S. Treasury Department's analysis into the accretion of its cars by Mideast alarm groups.
Over the years, Toyota cars, such as the Toyota Hilux analeptic truck, accept appeared in abounding ISIS advertising videos. But how the alarm accumulation has acquired the trucks is not clear. They are awash in Iraq.
In a account to CBS News, Toyota said it is acknowledging the U.S. Treasury Department's broader analysis into all-embracing accumulation chains and the breeze of basic and appurtenances in the Middle East.
"Toyota has a austere activity to not advertise cars to abeyant purchasers who may use or adapt them for paramilitary or agitator activities," the account read.
Toyota said that they accept procedures and acknowledged commitments in abode to advice anticipate their articles from getting absent for crooked aggressive use.
"However, it is absurd for any automaker to ascendancy aberrant or actionable channels through which our cars could be misappropriated, baseborn or re-sold by absolute third parties," the aggregation said.
In a account to CBS News, the U.S. Treasury Department said they will not animadversion about about accessible assurance with specific clandestine companies. A agent would not animadversion on a address from ABC News that Treasury had accurately asked Toyota for conference on its accumulation alternation apropos ISIS.
"In band with our accepted access to compassionate ISIL's banking and bread-and-butter activities, we are alive carefully with adopted counterparts and stakeholders worldwide," the account read.
"60 Minutes" contributor Lara Logan letters that the use of Toyota trucks by terrorists can be traced aback to Somalia. Somalis, alive with al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, are believed to accept pioneered the address of ascent apparatus accoutrements on the aback of their trucks and application them in combat.
Mark Wallace, the CEO of the not-for-profit Counter Extremism Project, a accumulation formed to activity the growing blackmail from agitator ideology, told CBS News that ISIS' use of what seems to be new Toyotas in their videos is a artefact of Toyota's own success.
"Toyota is a abundant company. I don't accept Toyota is an ISIS sympathizer in any way or supporter," said Wallace.
Wallace said ISIS tries to activity ability and ascendancy through abundantly allegorical images.
He said aback in February, he beatific a letter to Toyota about the cars actualization in ISIS videos. He asked the aggregation to analyze and attending into it.
"We don't apperceive absolutely how this happened," Wallace said to CBS News. "Once you amount that out, there has to be activity taken on how this transpired."
"I would like to see an investigation," Wallace added.
He said that there has been letters that clandestine humans in war-torn Iraq and Syria do not adopt the cars, accustomed its abutting affiliation with the alarm group.
Over the years, Toyota cars, such as the Toyota Hilux analeptic truck, accept appeared in abounding ISIS advertising videos. But how the alarm accumulation has acquired the trucks is not clear. They are awash in Iraq.
In a account to CBS News, Toyota said it is acknowledging the U.S. Treasury Department's broader analysis into all-embracing accumulation chains and the breeze of basic and appurtenances in the Middle East.
"Toyota has a austere activity to not advertise cars to abeyant purchasers who may use or adapt them for paramilitary or agitator activities," the account read.
Toyota said that they accept procedures and acknowledged commitments in abode to advice anticipate their articles from getting absent for crooked aggressive use.
"However, it is absurd for any automaker to ascendancy aberrant or actionable channels through which our cars could be misappropriated, baseborn or re-sold by absolute third parties," the aggregation said.
In a account to CBS News, the U.S. Treasury Department said they will not animadversion about about accessible assurance with specific clandestine companies. A agent would not animadversion on a address from ABC News that Treasury had accurately asked Toyota for conference on its accumulation alternation apropos ISIS.
"In band with our accepted access to compassionate ISIL's banking and bread-and-butter activities, we are alive carefully with adopted counterparts and stakeholders worldwide," the account read.
"60 Minutes" contributor Lara Logan letters that the use of Toyota trucks by terrorists can be traced aback to Somalia. Somalis, alive with al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, are believed to accept pioneered the address of ascent apparatus accoutrements on the aback of their trucks and application them in combat.
Mark Wallace, the CEO of the not-for-profit Counter Extremism Project, a accumulation formed to activity the growing blackmail from agitator ideology, told CBS News that ISIS' use of what seems to be new Toyotas in their videos is a artefact of Toyota's own success.
"Toyota is a abundant company. I don't accept Toyota is an ISIS sympathizer in any way or supporter," said Wallace.
Wallace said ISIS tries to activity ability and ascendancy through abundantly allegorical images.
He said aback in February, he beatific a letter to Toyota about the cars actualization in ISIS videos. He asked the aggregation to analyze and attending into it.
"We don't apperceive absolutely how this happened," Wallace said to CBS News. "Once you amount that out, there has to be activity taken on how this transpired."
"I would like to see an investigation," Wallace added.
He said that there has been letters that clandestine humans in war-torn Iraq and Syria do not adopt the cars, accustomed its abutting affiliation with the alarm group.
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