U.S. officials investigating how ISIS has so many Toyotas

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U.S. officials investigating how so many Toyotas wind up in the hands of ISIS - The world's second  largest  automaker said  This really is  "supporting"  your own  investigation,  in  Ed Lewis, Toyota's director  regarding   official  policy  AND ALSO  communications  with  Washington, telling ABC News  the business   possesses  briefed  your own  Treasury  from   be used  chains  in the  Middle East  AND ALSO   procedures   inside   place   to help  safeguard  be used  chain integrity. Toyota, he said,  has   the  "strict policy  in order to  not sell vehicles  to be able to  potential purchasers  exactly who   may use   or  modify them  for  paramilitary  or maybe  terrorist activities."

ISIS propaganda videos filmed  inside  Iraq, Syria,  AND  Libya show  several  Hilux  AND ALSO  Land Cruiser vehicles marked  in  ISIS seals,  just like   one   video  ABC News says  are  shot  throughout  Raqqa, Syria, featuring  a good  ISIS parade  through which   in excess of  two-thirds  of your  vehicles were Toyotas. "Regrettably,  ones  Toyota Land Cruiser  AS WELL AS  Hilux have  proficiently   be  almost  area   of the  ISIS brand," Mark Wallace, CEO  of your  Counter Extremism Project  AND  former U.S. Ambassador  towards  United Nations, said. "ISIS  provides   used   these types of  vehicles  to  engage  throughout  military-type activities, terror activities,  and also the  like. But  with  nearly every ISIS video, they show  a great  fleet —  a great  convoy  connected with  Toyota vehicles  AS WELL AS  that's very  with regards to   in order to  us."

Lewis said  all   of an  Toyotas appearing  at the  videos  are generally  not new models,  as well as the   firm   can\'t  track  along  stolen vehicles  or maybe   your current   This   continues to be   purchased   AND ALSO  re-sold  through  middlemen.  an  Iraqi military spokesman told ABC News he thinks trucks  are usually  being smuggled  in  Iraq  through  outside middlemen,  IN ADDITION TO  Toyota distributors  in the  region said  these include  unsure  how the  trucks  are generally   acquiring   for you to  ISIS. Wallace said he doesn't think Toyota  is  "trying  to  intentionally  profits   from  it, but  these are generally   from  notice  currently   AS WELL AS  they  Should  do more."