U.S. Officials Confused ISIS Have Many Trucks Toyota
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Update-WASHINGTON - A US counterterrorism officials (US) asking for help
related to the number of Toyota pickups and SUVs from Japan's manufacturing
output is used by ISIS in a number of propaganda videos.
"ISIS
has used these vehicles in military activities, terrorist activities, and the
like," said CEO Counter Extremism project, Mark Wallace. "Almost in
every video, ISIS will show the fleet or convoy of vehicles Toyota and it was
very concern for us," he continued, as quoted from the pages of ABC News,
Wednesday (10/07/2015).
Questions
about ISIS who use vehicles, Toyota has been a long time coming. In 2014, a
report by Public Radio International broadcaster noted that the US State
Department said 43 trucks Toyota owned by Syrian rebels.
Meanwhile,
a recent report from surar Australian newspaper revealed that more than 800
trucks have been reported missing in Sydney between 2014 and 2015, allegedly by
terrorism experts may have been exported to the ISIS.
In
response, Toyota said the party did not know how ISIS can get their vehicles.
Toyota was not aware of any dealers who sell their vehicles to the terrorist
group.
However,
if found, then the Toyota will take action, including termination of the
distribution agreement. Toyota also supports the investigation led by the
financial sector terror unit US Treasury Department.
"Toyota
has a strict policy not to sell vehicles to buyers who are potentially able to
use or modify our vehicles for the military or terrorist activities," said
Director of Public Policy Toyota is based in Washington, Ed Lewis. (...)
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