Ukraine, Crimea, Syria, Israel, Iran, Turkey, Putin, China, and World War III

[Sophocles]

Let us not forget that NATO-Jens Stoltenberg said (12. october) the Russian bombing in Syria strengthen ISIS (link (http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/syria/stoltenberg-russlands-bombing-styrker-is/a/23541059/) in norwegian).

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Trident Juncture: NATO Starts To Show Muscles to Russia (http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/air-space/support/2015/10/19/trident-juncture-nato-starts-show-muscles-russia/74215796/)

By Esteban Villarejo 1:38 p.m. EDT October 19, 2015


TRAPANI AIR BASE, Sicily — Faced with the challenge of Russia's presence at its eastern and southern borders and the threat of a failed state in nearby Libya, NATO has inaugurated its biggest and most ambitious military exercise in more than a decade.

Trident Juncture 2015 will be hosted by Italy, Spain and Portugal at 16 different locations with around 36,000 troops from more than 30 nations — including, along with NATO allies, Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, Macedonia, Sweden and Ukraine.

Monday's opening ceremony took place at the Italian air base of Trapani in Sicily, where NATO showed its air strike power with Typhoon, F-18, F-16, Tornado and AMX aircraft. An MQ-9 Reaper drone was on static display.

"This sends a very clear message to any potential aggressor," NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, US Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove, said about this huge exercise that will finish on Nov. 6.

Trident Juncture 2015 will test the new rapid-reaction force of NATO whose "spearhead force" will be led by Spain in 2016.

Breedlove also sent a strong message for all allies worried about the Russian threat: "Any attempt to violate the sovereignty of one NATO nation will result in the decisive military engagement of all NATO countries."

More than 230 units, more than 140 aircraft and more than 60 ships will take part in this key exercise in NATO deterrence.

NATO Deputy Secretary-General Alexander Vershbow said NATO is concerned about "Russian military build-up," from Kaliningrad through the Black Sea and annexed Crimea to Syria and its border with Turkey.

However ambassador Vershbow denied this is an exercise to face the Russian threat. "Indeed it is inspired by African countries map," he said.

Actually it will simulate a conflict in an area of the Horn of Africa and Sudan with Kamon, Lakuta and Tytan as imaginary countries. And, of course, NATO will act fastly in Africa, the other hot border.



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Article: Turkish police arrest ISIS suspects in raid, including children training as terrorists (http://www.sott.net/article/304382-Turkish-police-arrest-ISIS-suspects-in-raid-including-children-training-as-terrorists)

Article: 20 Islamist terrorists arrested in Moscow (https://www.rt.com/news/319187-hizbut-tahrir-arrests-russia/)

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PS! Refugees in Russia have to show a Schengen visa in order to enter Finland. But they do not need such a visa if they are going to Norway (something Russia made clear after the Ukraine crisis started). So yesterday the Norwegian Department of Justice decided to send back people who entered through the russian - norwegian border. But hours later Russia expelled all the refugees who are in Norway (for 5 years) so that they cannot be sent back. One out of four refugees in Norway comes via the Russian border.

Links (http://www.nrk.no/norge/russland_-krever-visum-til-finland-_-ikke-til-norge-1.12612973) in norwegian. (http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Russland-utviser-flyktninger-for-a-hindre-retur-8210880.html)

[Ewan]

36,000 troops from more than 30 nations = show of strength.

Russian estimated troops:

Active Frontline Personnel: 766,055
Active Reserve Personnel: 2,485,000

http://www.globalfirepower.com/country-military-strength-detail.asp?country_id=russia

Wasn't there someone (famous) once said - "Don't poke the sleeping bear"?

[Cidersomerset]

CrossTalk on Syria: Sulking Superpower

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Published on 21 Oct 2015

The sulking empire: Washington’s Syria policy lies in tatters with the Russian
military making short order of illegal groups and other foreign-paid terrorists.
The West's so-called “moderates” are merely a rebranding trick. Today the
Beltway political caste are no longer the wizards of the universe – should we
cheer, or expect more irrational behavior from them?

CrossTalking with Hafsa Kara Mustapha, George Szamuely, and Sam Husseini.

Listen to CrossTalk+ here: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/cros...

[Cidersomerset]

Some articles released on the RT U'tube site.
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Iraq's ruling alliance asks PM to seek Russian strikes against ISIS

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Published on 21 Oct 2015

The biggest Iraqi parliamentarian block have sent an official letter to the Iraqi
Supreme commander with the request of help from Russian side, Saad Al-Matlabi,
member of State of Law Alliance, told RT.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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‘Assad regime did us no harm’ – Syrian refugees in Lebanon blame ISIS for their fate

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Published on 21 Oct 2015

Syrian refugees in Lebanon pointed to Islamic State as the biggest evil
in Syria that made them leave the country.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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RAW: Islamic terror cell take down by Spetsnaz in Moscow

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Published on 20 Oct 2015

Terror suspects have been detained and dozens have been put under investigation
as a result of a massive operation by security forces in Moscow and the Moscow
region. Read More: http://on.rt.com/6uab

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CIA ‘Queen of Torture’ could face trial in Germany

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Published on 21 Oct 2015

A German human rights group filed a criminal complaint in court against Alfreda
Frances Bikowsky, a CIA agent dubbed “Queen of Torture.” The group claims
Bikowsky allowed using tortures to suspected Al-Qaeda militants in the unit
she headed and participated in tortures herself.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

[Cidersomerset]

I'm glad Benjamin has clarified that Israel has no plans to destroy the temple
mosque and are not going to stop muslims worshiping there. Not sure about
other points....
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Israel’s Netanyahu Makes One of the Most Absurd Claims About the Holocaust Imaginable

By David Icke on 21st October 2015

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Untitled‘Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not known for his nuance,
but his disregard for historical facts themselves took a new turn today as he claimed,
in a speech in Israel, that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler actually did not want to
exterminate Jews until a Palestinian religious leader convinced him otherwise.’


Read more: Israel’s Netanyahu Makes One of the Most Absurd Claims About the Holocaust Imaginable
http://www.alternet.org/world/israels-netanyahu-claims-it-was-palestinians-who-convinced-hitler-exterminate-jews

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Jerusalem Chaos Is a Warning of Things to Come

By David Icke on 21st October 2015 War and Terror

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Jerusalem chaos is a warning of things to come19 October 2015
The National – 19 October 2015 - See more at:

‘Among Palestinians and Israelis, the recent upsurge in violence has been variously
described as the children’s, lone-wolf, Jerusalem and smartphone intifadas. Each
describes a distinguishing feature of this round of clashes.

The steady erosion of Fatah and Hamas’ authority during the post-Oslo years, as
the Palestinian factions proved incapable of protecting their people from the
structural violence of the occupation, has driven Palestine’s orphaned children
to the streets, armed with stones.

The growing hopelessness and sense of abandonment have led a few so-called
“lone wolves” to vent their fury on Israelis with improvised weapons such as
knives, screwdrivers and cars. These attacks have attracted the most publicity,
becoming the equivalent of the second intifada’s suicide bomber. But they
serve chiefly as a barometer of Palestinian despair.’

Read more: Jerusalem Chaos Is a Warning of Things to Come

http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2015-10-19/jerusalem-chaos-is-a-warning-of-things-to-come/

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Israel forces kill five Palestinians in a day in Gaza

By David Icke on 21st October 2015 War and Terror

PRESS TV......................

Israel forces kill five Palestinians in a day in Gaza

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Israeli forces operate in the neighborhood of Issawiyeh in al-Quds (Jerusalem), Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015.

‘Israeli forces have killed two more Palestinians near the city of al-Khalil (Hebron)
in southern West Bank as the Palestinian death toll in the ongoing violence in the
occupied territories rises.Israeli media claimed on Tuesday that the two Palestinians
had been killed following attempted knife attacks.

Earlier in the day, Israeli forces shot and killed another Palestinian youth during
clashes along the border in the besieged Gaza Strip amid intensification of violence
against Palestinians.’

Read more: Israel forces kill five Palestinians in a day in Gaza

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/20/434260/Israel-Palestine-Gaza-alQuds-Jerusalem-Kimoon

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[Cidersomerset]

The CIA were tying to find loopholes around torture.....
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WikiLeaks exposes CIA Chief’s emails on torture tactics, Iran, Afghanstan

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Published on 22 Oct 2015


WikiLeaks has come into possession of the contents of CIA chief John Brennan's
email account. Among the documents, from the period when Brennan worked in the
private sector, are reports on Afghanistan and torture, and ideas for US policy
towards Iran.

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/6udn

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West refuses to share intel on ISIS with Russia - MoD

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Published on 22 Oct 2015

The US is refusing to share intelligence on Islamic State with Russia and is doing
everything to back out of cooperation, a spokesman for the Russian Defense
Ministry said.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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Islamic State: Putin says Assad 'could work with rebels against IS'

1 hour ago

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Mr Putin appeared to reach out to the West in his speech

Vladimir Putin has suggested the Syrian government could be ready to work with
rebel groups that are willing to fight against the so-called Islamic State.Mr Putin
said he had asked President Bashar al-Assad how he would view such a force
during his surprise visit to Moscow on Tuesday."He answered: 'Positively'," Mr Putin
told a conference with foreign dignitaries in southern Russia.

"We are contemplating this and will try to implement it," he added.

He called for Kurdish groups to join forces with the Syrian and Iraqi governments
against IS.

Read More....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34606804


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US-Iraqi rescue operation 'foils IS mass execution'



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The raid comes amid efforts from Kurdish fighters to dislodge IS militants

US-Iraqi forces have rescued dozens of hostages held by Islamic State (IS) in Iraq
after learning of their "imminent execution", the Pentagon has said.But a US soldier
wounded in the raid died of his injuries - the first killed in action since US
operations against IS began last year.The early morning operation on Thursday
took place near the town of Hawija in northern Iraq.

Five IS militants were captured and a number killed, the Pentagon said.

Read More....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/34607471

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France and Kuwait strike $2.8billion military deals

By David Icke on 22nd October 2015 War and Terror


PRESS TV.....

France, Kuwait strike $2.8bn military deals

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France's Economy and Industry Minister Emmanuel Macron (R), flanked by French
Finance Minister Michel Sapin (C), signs an agreement with Kuwaiti Deputy Prime
Minister and Finance Minister Anas al-Saleh during a meeting at the Hotel Matignon
in Paris, France, October 21, 2015.

‘Kuwait has signed a number of major military deals with France, amid concerns in
the Arab kingdom about potential terrorist attacks by the Daesh Takfiri militants.

According to the French government, the deals, which include fixed and provisional
agreements worth USD 2.8 billion (about 2.5 billion euros), were signed on
Wednesday in the capital, Paris, by a slew of ministers.

The deals are led by the purchase of 24 Airbus-built Caracal helicopters for which
Kuwait City is set to pay one billion euros with an option for a further six.

The Caracal is equipped with radar missile protection as well as air-to-ground and
air-to-sea missiles among its weaponry. The chopper is deployed on combat rescue
missions and long-distance troop transport.’

Read more: France and Kuwait strike $2.8billion military deals

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Russia is also one of the top military equipment exporters just to put things
into perspective....

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India, China, Iraq largest importers of Russian military equipment

22 July 2015

Asian countries have become the main importers of Russian military equipment
amid sanction imposed by the US

Russia's arms exporter to sell $13 bln worth of armaments in 2015 — Rostec

22 July 2015

Russia's arms exporting agency Rosoborontexport is planning to sell $13 bln worth
of armaments abroad, Vasily Brovko, Head of Communications for the agency's
parent company Rostec, told TASS Wednesday

http://nl.media.rbth.ru/152x101/web/in-rbth/images/2015-03/big/18/SergeyMamontov_RIAN_02289850_468.jpg

Read More....

http://in.rbth.com/tag/arms%20export

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Russia: Terminator-2 tank support combat vehicle goes on display at RAE-2015

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Published on 9 Sep 2015

One of Russia’s biggest arms manufacturers, the Uralvagonzavod corporation,
displayed heavy armoured vehicles at the Russia Arms Expo 2015 (RAE-2015) in
Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk oblast, on Wednesday

US and Russia Remain World's Biggest Arm Exporters

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Published on 16 Mar 2015

http://www.undergroundworldnews.com

Russia remains the world’s second biggest seller of arms behind the United States,
increasing its share by 37 percent in 2010-2014. China has boosted exports by 143
percent, squeezing out Germany from the top three exporters.

Russian weapons were exported to 56 countries, with India, China and Algeria
making for almost 60 percent of total sales, said the Stockholm International Peace
Research Institute (SIPRI) in its 2015 Yearbook Monday. Asia and Oceania received
66 percent of Russian arms exports during the period, while Africa accounted for 12
percent and the Middle East 10 percent.

The United States remains the leading arms exporter increasing sales by 23
percent, with the country’s share of the global arms trade at 31 percent. Ninety-
four countries imported US made weaponry, with the Middle East accounting for 32
percent of the purchases. The United States and Russia made up 58 percent of the
global trade in conventional arms.

http://rt.com/business/241005-russia-...

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[Sophocles]

What if Daesh decided to attack Russia? (very interesting video) (http://thesaker.is/what-if-daesh-decided-to-attack-russia-very-interesting-video/)

The Saker (http://thesaker.is/latest-articles/) October 23, 2015

Again, it is thanks to Alena Scarecrow that I can share with you a very interesting video about the biggest military exercise held in contemporary Russia: “Center-2015″. In the Cold War years such a video would have been classified as “TOP SECRET” and western intelligence agencies would have paid a fortune to get it. Nowadays, Russia has made a 180 and is showing a surprising degree of openness.

In this video you will see the kind of war Russia is preparing for: basically – a worst case scenario if Daesh supported by regional allies decided make a move into Central Asia or the Caucasus. Or, if Russia has to move to protect Iran from a major attack.

I have already written about the “armored underbelly of Russia” and what this video shows are some, but not all, of the capabilities this armored underbelly can count on. The truth is that if Daesh or any other force suddenly decides to tickle the Russian Bear’s putatively “soft underbelly” it will met with an amount of violence it can’t even begin to imagine. The same goes for any Ukrainian attempt at attacking Russia directly.

A big THANK YOU to Alena for translating and subtitling this video!

(please click on the ‘cc’ button to see the English subtitles)

Strategic Command and Staff Trainings “Center-2015″

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Quote: "It is just a training in self defense".

[idiit]

Three Chinese Warships To Dock In Florida Port


NO, R E A L L Y !


Three Chinese Warships To Dock In Florida Port
10/23/201


At a time when the US and China are practically at arms over the artificial islands in the South China Seas, with the US sending warships on location to patrol (despite White House Spokesman Josh Earnest saying on Oct. 8 that U.S. warships "should not provoke significant reaction from the Chinese") and a stunned China responding "What On Earth Makes Them Think We Will Tolerate This", the last thing we thought we would see right now was three Chinese warships about to port in Florida's Naval Station Mayport.

And yet according to USNI that is precisely what is about to happen: citing US Navy officials, USNI reports that he three ships about to dock in the US are the Type 052C Luyang II-class guided-missile destroyer Jinan (152), the Type 054A Jiangkai II-class guided-missile frigate Yiyang (548) and the Type 903 Fuchi-class fleet oiler Qiandao Hu (886).

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2015/10/201504031727059834_0.jpg


It would appear that Obama was once again all talk and once China threatened to call the U.S. bluff and warned it would use force, the US desire for confrontation promptly evaporated. :)

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-23/three-chinese-warships-dock-florida-port

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totally appropriate "first couple" me thinks. :)

welcome to S U R R E A L²

[idiit]

whistleblower is only cia officer in jail for cia torture program

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CIA Torture Program Whistleblower Speaks on – “The Sad Fate of America’s Whistleblowers”
Posted on October 23, 2015 by WashingtonsBlog


I’ve mentioned John Kiriakou several times before on these pages. In case you forgot, he was the only person jailed for the CIA’s torture program. Unsurprisingly, he was the guy who blew the whistle on it.

Fortunately, John has served his time and, rather than riding off into the sunset, he continues to courageously speak out against the ever expanding injustices perpetrated on the American people by their own government.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/10/cia-torture-program-whistleblower-speaks-on-the-sad-fate-of-americas-whistleblowers.html

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IT'S CALLED AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM! :)

[Sophocles]

Right now, by parachuting their ammunition, the US are neutralizing the action of our air force to destroy ISIS supply lines.

Doctor of Military sciences Konstantin Sivkov interviewed about the Russian operation in Syria (http://thesaker.is/konstantin-sivkov-interviewed-about-the-russian-operation-in-syria/) - The Saker October 24, 2015

[Sophocles]

Week Three of the Russian Intervention in Syria: The return of diplomacy (http://www.unz.com/tsaker/week-three-of-the-russian-intervention-in-syria/)

The Saker • October 25, 2015

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Assad, Patrushev, Fradkov, Lavrov Medvedev, Putin, Shoigu

The end of international law and diplomacy

The end of the Cold War was welcomed as a new era of peace and security in which swords would be transformed into plows, former enemies into friends, and the world would witness a new dawn of universal love, peace and happiness. Of course, none of that happened. What happened is that the AngloZionist Empire convinced itself that it had “won the Cold War” and that it now was in charge. Of the entire planet, no less. And why not? It had built anywhere between 700 to 1000 military bases (depending on your definition of “base”) worldwide and it had split up the entire globe into several areas of exclusive responsibility named “commands”. The last time any power had mustered the megalomania needed to distribute various parts of the planet to to different commands was the Papacy in 1494 with its (in)famous “Treaty of Tordesillas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas)”.

And to make that point abundantly clear, the Empire decided to make an example and unleashed its power against tiny Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia, a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement was viciously attacked and dismembered, creating an immense wave of refugees, mostly Serbs, which the democratic and civilized world chose to ignore. Furthermore, the Empire unleashed yet another war, this time in Russia, which pitched the semi-comatose Eltsin regime against what would later become a key part of al-Qaeda, ISIS and Daesh: the Wahabis in Chechnia. Again, many hundreds of thousands of “invisible refugees” resulted from that war too, but they were also largely ignored by the democratic and civilized world, especially the ethnic Russians. It took Russia a full decade to finally crush this Wahabi-Takfiri insurgency but, eventually, Russia prevailed. And by that time, the AngloZionists had turned their attention elsewhere: the US and Israeli “deep states” jointly planned and executed the 9/11 false flag operation which gave them the perfect excuse to declare a “global war on terror” which basically gave the AngloZionists a worldwide “license to kill” à la 007, except that in this case the target was not a person, but entire countries.

We all know what followed: Iraq, Afghanistan, Philippines, Somalia, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Mali, Pakistan, Syria, Libya, the Ukraine – everywhere the US was at war, whether officially or covertly. The spectrum ranged from an (attempted) complete invasion of a country (Afghanistan) to the support of various terrorist groups (Iran, Syria) to the full financing and management of a Nazi regime (the Ukraine). The US also gave full support to the Wahabis in their long crusade against the Shia (KSA, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, Iran). What all these wars had in common is that they were all completely illegal – the US and any ad hoc “coalition of the willing” became an acceptable substitute for the UN Security Council.

Here again it is important to remind everybody – especially those Muslims who rejoiced at the bombing of the Serbs – that this all began with the completely illegal destruction of Yugoslavia followed by an even more illegal bombing of Serbia.

Of course, the Empire also suffered from a few humiliating defeats: in 2006 Hezbollah inflicted on Israel what might well be one of the most humiliating military defeats in modern history while in 2008 a tiny force of truly heroic Ossetian fighters backed by a comparatively small Russian military contingent (only a small part of the Russian military was involved) made mincemeat of the the US-trained and US-funded Georgian military: the war was over in 4 days. Still, by and large, the first decade of the 21st century saw a triumph of the law of the jungle over international law and a full vindication of the age old principle of “might makes right”.

Logically, these were also the years when the US diplomacy basically ceased to exist. The sole function of US diplomats remained the delivery of ultimatums “comply or else…” and the Empire simply stopped negotiating about anything. Seasoned and sophisticated diplomats like James Baker were replaced either by psychopaths like Madelaine Albright, Hillary Clinton and Samantha Power, or by mediocre non-entities like John Kerry and Susan Rice. After all, how sophisticated must one be to threaten, bully and deliver ultimatums? Things got so bad that the Russians openly complained about the “lack of professionalism” of their US counterparts.

As for the poor Russians with their pathetic insistence that the norms of international law must be observed, they looked hopelessly passé. I won’t even mention the European politicians here. They were best characterized by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who called them “great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI5oRTL-6rA)‘.

But then, something changed. Dramatically.

The failure of force

Suddenly everything went south. Every single US victory somehow turned into a defeat: from Afghanistan to Libya, every US ‘success’ had somehow morphed itself into a situation where the best option, if not the only one left, was to “declare victory and leave”. This begs the obvious question “what happened?”.

The first obvious conclusion is that the US forces and their so-called “allies” have very little staying power. While they are reasonably skilled at invading a country, they then rapidly lose control of most of it. It is one thing to invade a country, but quite another to administer it, nevermind rebuilt it. It turns out that US-led “coalitions of the willing” were unable to get anything done.

Second, it became obvious that the enemy which was supposedly defeated had really only gone into hiding and was waiting for a better time to come back with a vengeance. Iraq is the perfect example of that: far form being really “defeated”, the Iraqi Army (wisely) chose to disband itself and come back in the shape of a formidable Sunni insurrection which itself gradually morphed into ISIS. But Iraq was not an isolated case. The same happened pretty much everywhere.

There are those who will object and that that the US does not care if it controls a country or if it destroys it, as long as the other guy does not get to “win”. I disagree. Yes, the US will always prefer the destruction of a country to an outright victory of the other side, but this does not mean that the US does not prefer to control a country if possible. In other words, when a country sinks into chaos and violence this is not a US victory, but most definitely a US loss.

What the US missed is that diplomacy makes the use of force much more effective. First, careful diplomacy makes it possible to build a wide coalition of countries willing to support collective action. Second, diplomacy also makes it possible to reduce the number of countries which openly oppose collective action. Does anybody remember that Syria actually sent forces to support US troops against Saddam Hussein in Desert Storm? Sure, they did not make a big difference, but their presence gave the US the peace of mind that Syria would at least not overtly oppose the US policy. By getting the Syrians to support Desert Storm, James Backer made it very hard for the Iraqis to argue that this was an anti-Arab, anti-Muslim or even an anti-Baathist coalition and he made Saddam Hussein look completely isolated (even when the Iraqis began shooting missiles at Israel). Second, diplomacy makes it possible to reduce the overall amount of force used because “instant overkill” is not needed to show the enemy that you really mean business. Third, diplomacy is the necessary tool to achieve legitimacy and legitimacy is crucial when engaged in a long, protracted, conflict. Finally, the consensus which emerges from a successful diplomatic effort prevents the rapid erosion of the public support for a military effort. But all these factors were ignored by the USA in the GWOT (Global War on Terror) and the “Arab Spring” revolutions which now have come to a screeching halt.

A diplomatic triumph for Russia

This week saw a true diplomatic triumph for Russia culminating in Friday’s multilateral negotiations in Vienna which brought together the foreign ministers of Russia, the US, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The fact that this meeting took place right after Assad’s visit to Moscow clearly indicates that the sponsors of Daesh and al-Qaeda are now forced to negotiate on Moscow’s terms. How did that happen?

As I have been mantrically repeating it since the Russian operation in Syria began, the Russian military force actually sent to Syria is very small. Yes, it is a very effective one, but it is still very small. In fact, the members of the Russian Duma have announced that the costs of the entire operation will probably fit in the normal Russian Defense budget which has monies allocated for “training”. However, what the Russian have achieved with this small intervention is rather amazing, not only in military terms, but especially in political terms.

Not only has the Empire (very reluctantly) had to accept that Assad would have to stay in power for the foreseeable future, but Russia is now gradually but inexorably building up a real regional coalition which is willing to fight Daesh on the same side as the Syrian government forces. Even before the Russian operation began, Russia had the support of Syria, Iran, Iraq and Hezbollah. There are also strong signs that the Kurds are basically also willing to work with Russia and Assad. On Friday it was announced that Jordan would also coordinate some as of yet unspecified military actions with Russia and that a special coordination center will be set up in Amman (http://russia-insider.com/en/military/jordan-joins-russian-coalition-against-isis-sets-coordination-center-amman/ri10703). There are also very strong rumors that Egypt will also join the Russian-lead coalition. There are also signs that Russia and Israel are also, if not working together, at least not working against each other: the Russian and Israelis have created a special line to directly talk to each other on a military level. The bottom line is this: regardless of the sincerity of the different parties, everybody in the region now feels a strong pressure to at least not look opposed to the Russian effort. That, by itself, is a huge triumph for Russian diplomacy.

Putin’s secret weapon: the truth

The current situation is, of course, totally unacceptable for the Global Hegemon: not only has the US-lead coalition of 62 countries managed to conduct 22,000 strikes with nothing to show for it, but the comparatively smaller Russian coalition has managed to completely displace the Empire and negate all its plans. And the most formidable weapon used by Putin in his proxy war with the USA was not even a military one, but simply speaking the truth.

Both at his UN speech (http://thesaker.is/un-70th-general-assembly-live-vladimir-putin-speech/) and, this week, at his speech at the Valdai Conference (http://thesaker.is/18960/) Putin has done what no other world leader before has ever dared doing: he openly call the US regime incompetent, irresponsible, lying, hypocritical and terminally arrogant. That kind of public “dissing” has had a huge impact worldwide because by the time Putin said these words more or less everybody knew that this was absolutely true.

The US does treat all its allies as “vassals” (see Valdai speech) and the US is the prime culprit for all the terrible crises the world now has to face (see UN speech). What Putin did is basically say “the Emperor is naked”. In comparison, Obama’s lame speech was comically pathetic. What we are witnessing now is an amazing turn around. After decades marked by the “might makes right” principle advocated by the USA, suddenly we are in a situation where no amount of military might is of any use to a beleaguered President Obama: what use are 12 aircraft carriers when you personally look like a clown?

After 1991 it appeared that the only superpower left was so powerful and unstoppable that it did not need to bother itself with such minor things like diplomacy or respect for international law. Uncle Sam felt like he was the sole ruler, the Planetary Hegemon. China was just a “big Walmart”, Russia a “gas station” and Europe an obedient poodle (the latter is, alas, quite true). The myth of US invincibility was just that, of course, a myth: since WWII the USA has not won a single real war (Grenada or Panama do not qualify). In fact, the US military fared even much worse in Afghanistan that the under-trained, under-equipped, under-fed and under-financed Soviet 40th Army which, at least, kept all the major cities and main roads under Soviet control and which did some meaningful development of the civilian infrastructure of the country (which the US is still using in 2015). Nevertheless, the myth of US invincibility only really came crashing down when Russia put a stop to it in 2013 by preventing a US assault on Syria by a mix of diplomatic and military means. Uncle Sam was livid, but could do nothing about besides triggering a coup in Kiev and an economic war against Russia, neither of which have succeeded in their goals.

As for Putin, instead of being deterred by all the US efforts, he invited Assad to Moscow.

Assad’s Moscow visit as yet another indicator of US impotence

This week’s visit by Assad was nothing short of extraordinary. Not only did the Russian succeed in getting Assad out of Syria and to Moscow and then back without the bloated US intelligence community noticing anything, but unlike most heads of state, Assad spoke face to face to some of the most powerful men in Russia.

First, Assad met with Putin, Lavrov and Shoigu. They spoke for a total of three hours (which, by itself, is quite remarkable). They were later joined by Medvedev for a private dinner. Guess who else joined them? Mikhail Fradkov, Head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, and Nikolai Patrushev, Head of the Russian Security Council.

Normally, heads of state do not meet personally with men like Fradkov or Patrushev and, instead, they send their own experts. In this case, however, the topic discussed was important enough to 1) get Assad personally to the Kremlin and 2) get all the top players in the Kremlin around the same table for a personal discussion with Assad.

Obviously, not a word came out from this meeting, but there are two main theories circulating out there about what was discussed.

The first theory says that Assad was told in no unclear terms that his days were numbered and that he would have to leave.

The second one says the exact opposite: that Assad was brought in to signal to him, and the US, that he had the full support of Russia.

I don’t believe that either one of these is correct, but the second one is, I think, probably closer to the truth. After all, if the goal was to tell Assad that he had to go, a simple phone call would have been enough, really. Maybe a visit by Lavrov. As for “backing Assad”, that would go in direct contradiction with what the Russians have been saying all along: they are not backing “Assad” as a person, although they do recognize him as the sole legitimate President of Syria, but they are backing the right of the Syrian people to be the only ones to decide who should be in power in Syria. And that, by the way, is something that Assad himself has also agreed to (according to Putin). Likewise, Assad has also agreed to work with any non-Daesh opposition forces willing to fight against Daesh alongside the Syrian military (again, according to Putin).

No, while I believe that the meeting between Assad and Putin was, at least in part, a message to the USA and the others so-called “friends of Syria”, indicating that their “Assad must go” plan had failed, I believe that the main purpose of the behind-closed-doors meeting with all the top leaders of Russia was something else: my guess is that what was discussed was a major and long term alliance between Russia and Syria which would formally revive the kind of alliance Syria had with the Soviet Union in the past. While I can only speculate about the exact terms of such an alliance, it is my guess that this plan, probably coordinated with Iran has two major aspects:

a) military component: Daesh must be crushed.

b) political component: Syria will not be allowed to fall under US control.

Considering that the Russian military operation is assumed by most Russian experts to be scheduled to last about 3 months, we are dealing here with separate, middle to long term, plan which will require the Syrian armed forces to be rebuilt while Russia, Iran and Iraq jointly coordinate the struggle against Daesh. And, indeed, it was announced on Friday that Iraq had authorized the Russian military to strike at Daesh inside the Iraqi territory. It sure looks like the Russian operation has acted as a catalyst for a region paralyzed by US hypocrisy and incompetence and that the days of Daesh are numbered.

Too early to celebrate, but a watershed moment nonetheless

Still, it is way too early to celebrate. The Russians cannot do it all by themselves, and it will be incumbent upon the Syrians and their allies to fight Daesh, one small town at a time. Only boots on the ground will really liberate Syria from Daesh and only true Islam will be able to defeat the Takfiri ideology. This will take a time.

Furthermore, it would be irresponsible to underestimate the Empire’s determination and ability to prevent Russia from looking like “the winner” – that is something which the US imperial ego, raised in centuries of imperial hubris and ignorance, will never be able to cope with. After all, how can the “indispensable nation” accept that the world does not need it at all and that others can even openly oppose and prevail? We can expect the US to use all its (still huge) power to try to thwart and sabotage every Russian or Syrian initiative.

Still, the recent events are the mark that the era of “might makes right” has come to an end and that the notion that the US is an “indispensable nation” or world hegemon has now lost any credibility. After decades in the dark, international diplomacy and the international law are finally becoming relevant again. It is my hope that this is the beginning of a process which will see the USA undergo the same evolution as so many other countries (including Russia) have undergone in the past: from being an empire to becoming a “normal country” again. Alas, when I look at the 2016 Presidential race I get the feeling that this will still be a very long process.

The Unz Review (http://www.unz.com/tsaker/week-three-of-the-russian-intervention-in-syria/)

The Saker (http://thesaker.is/week-three-of-the-russian-intervention-in-syria-the-return-of-diplomacy/)

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CrossTalk: Situation Syria

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Published on 26 Oct 2015


Russia has acted boldly and within international law in Syria – but what
can we expect next? Washington and its allies remain dumbfounded on
how to react. What will prevail - reason and realpolitik or an intensified
proxy war? We truly face a moment of truth. CrossTalking with Mark
Sleboda, Dmitry Babich, and Alexander Mercouris.

Listen to CrossTalk+ here: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/cros...

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The difference in recent conflicts the web has given those interested more
information than ever. In the past we have only had the mainstream state
propaganda views of what ever country has been involved. Now there is counter
narratives both good and bad. It has not stopped the Neo -con /Zionist plan of the '
terror' meme being used to carry out the agenda set out in the early 1990's thru to
today. Syria has been the first major setback in their plan and we will see how it
turns out. David Icke and others have been pointing this out for many years but the
mainstream will still have none of it, though its as plain as the 'false flag' 9/11
planes and the other psyops and misinformation being played out on our TV screens.

David explains the situation better than most of the so called 'experts' in
the mainstream and alternate media.....

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David Icke: Americans Founded Al-Qaeda Themselves

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The David Icke Videocast - The Isis Crisis, The Hidden Hand

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5th July 2015. The David Icke Videocast - The Isis Crisis - The Hidden Hand. Watch the full video at http://www.davidicke.com

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Hillary actually telling the 'Truth' for once , though there is a lot more to it,
but basically it is right the CIA used the data base created of all these disparate
armed goups and put them on a data base literally 'Al Qaeda: The Database'

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Hillary Clinton : We created Al-Qaeda
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Hillary Clinton: 'We Created al-Qaeda'
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Hillary Clinton admits that the U.S. government created al-Qaeda.

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Documented Proof ISIS Is a Creation of The United States of America

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Published on 19 Apr 2015

Original Article Link: http://thepetesantillishow.com/?p=3989

Today news reports published an ISIS organizational chart which should
cause every American to be very suspicious of why it was released.

As Pete Santilli describes in this report, the terminology in the organizational
chart is almost blatantly Corporate-America-sounding. Additionally, we should
ask ourselves why our military/government intelligence would want to distribute
this information to the entire ISIS organization. The answer is pretty simple:
Because it’s propaganda intended to keep the American public scared & willing
to send money to the Pentagon in order to keep the perpetual war on terror
funded. Perpetual fear funds perpetual war.

Is it conspiracy theory that ISIS is an outright manufactured terror organization
created by the United States? In the below links, you will find numerous, documented
false flags around the world throughout our history. Additionally, Pete researched and
discovered documented proof that U.S. Government officials have openly suggested
creating false flag terror organizations to commit fake terror events.

Former Department of Justice lawyer John Yoo suggested in 2005 that the US should
go on the offensive against al-Qaeda, having “our intelligence agencies create a false
terrorist organization. It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training
camps, and fundraising operations. It could launch fake terrorist operations and claim
credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within al-Qaeda’s ranks,
causing operatives to doubt others’ identities and to question the validity of communications.”

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Al Qaeda: The Database

By Pierre-Henri Bunel
Global Research, September 04, 2015

Wayne Madsen Report and Global Research 20 November 2005


Global Research Editor’s Note

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This article originally published by Global Research in 2005 sheds light on the
nature of Al Qaeda, an intelligence construct used by Washington to destabilize and
destroy sovereign countries, while sustaining the illusion of an outside enemy,
which threatens the security of the Western World.

In recent developments, the Obama administration has intimated that it will be
supporting “moderate al Qaeda rebels” in Syria in its “counter-terrorism” campaign
(i.e. bombing raids) allegedly against the ISIS, formerly known as al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).

Al Qaeda goes after Al Qaeda? The fact of the matter is that both al Nusra and the
Islamic State (ISIS) are supported by Washington and its allies.

September 4, 2015

* * *

Shortly before his untimely death, former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook told
the House of Commons that “Al Qaeda” is not really a terrorist group but a
database of international mujaheddin and arms smugglers used by the CIA and
Saudis to funnel guerrillas, arms, and money into Soviet-occupied Afghanistan.
Courtesy of World Affairs, a journal based in New Delhi, WMR can bring you an
important excerpt from an Apr.-Jun. 2004 article by Pierre-Henry Bunel, a former
agent for French military intelligence.

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“I first heard about Al-Qaida while I was attending the Command and Staff course
in Jordan. I was a French officer at that time and the French Armed Forces had
close contacts and cooperation with Jordan . . .

“Two of my Jordanian colleagues were experts in computers. They were air defense
officers. Using computer science slang, they introduced a series of jokes about
students’ punishment.

“For example, when one of us was late at the bus stop to leave the Staff College,
the two officers used to tell us: ‘You’ll be noted in ‘Q eidat il-Maaloomaat’ which
meant ‘You’ll be logged in the information database.’ Meaning ‘You will receive a
warning . . .’ If the case was more severe, they would used to talk about ‘Q eidat
i-Taaleemaat.’ Meaning ‘the decision database.’ It meant ‘you will be punished.’ For
the worst cases they used to speak of logging in ‘Al Qaida.’

“In the early 1980s the Islamic Bank for Development, which is located in Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia, like the Permanent Secretariat of the Islamic Conference
Organization, bought a new computerized system to cope with its accounting and
communication requirements. At the time the system was more sophisticated than
necessary for their actual needs.

“It was decided to use a part of the system’s memory to host the Islamic
Conference’s database. It was possible for the countries attending to access the
database by telephone: an Intranet, in modern language. The governments of the
member-countries as well as some of their embassies in the world were connected
to that network.

“[According to a Pakistani major] the database was divided into two parts, the
information file where the participants in the meetings could pick up and send
information they needed, and the decision file where the decisions made during the
previous sessions were recorded and stored. In Arabic, the files were called, ‘Q
eidat il-Maaloomaat’ and ‘Q eidat i-Taaleemaat.’ Those two files were kept in one
file called in Arabic ‘Q eidat ilmu’ti’aat’ which is the exact translation of the English
word database. But the Arabs commonly used the short word Al Qaida which is the
Arabic word for “base.” The military air base of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is called ‘q
eidat ‘riyadh al ‘askariya.’ Q eida means “a base” and “Al Qaida” means “the base.”

“In the mid-1980s, Al Qaida was a database located in computer and dedicated to
the communications of the Islamic Conference’s secretariat.

“In the early 1990s, I was a military intelligence officer in the Headquarters of the
French Rapid Action Force. Because of my skills in Arabic my job was also to
translate a lot of faxes and letters seized or intercepted by our intelligence
services . . . We often got intercepted material sent by Islamic networks operating
from the UK or from Belgium.

“These documents contained directions sent to Islamic armed groups in Algeria or
in France. The messages quoted the sources of statements to be exploited in the
redaction of the tracts or leaflets, or to be introduced in video or tapes to be sent to
the media. The most commonly quoted sources were the United Nations, the non-
aligned countries, the UNHCR and . . . Al Qaida.

“Al Qaida remained the data base of the Islamic Conference. Not all member
countries of the Islamic Conference are ‘rogue states’ and many Islamic groups
could pick up information from the databases. It was but natural for Osama Bin
Laden to be connected to this network. He is a member of an important family in
the banking and business world.

“Because of the presence of ‘rogue states,’ it became easy for terrorist groups to
use the email of the database. Hence, the email of Al Qaida was used, with some
interface system, providing secrecy, for the families of the mujaheddin to keep links
with their children undergoing training in Afghanistan, or in Libya or in the Beqaa
valley, Lebanon. Or in action anywhere in the battlefields where the extremists
sponsored by all the ‘rogue states’ used to fight. And the ‘rogue states’ included
Saudi Arabia. When Osama bin Laden was an American agent in Afghanistan, the Al
Qaida Intranet was a good communication system through coded or covert messages.

Meet “Al Qaeda”

“Al Qaida was neither a terrorist group nor Osama bin Laden’s personal
property . . . The terrorist actions in Turkey in 2003 were carried out by Turks and
the motives were local and not international, unified, or joint. These crimes put the
Turkish government in a difficult position vis-a-vis the British and the Israelis. But
the attacks certainly intended to ‘punish’ Prime Minister Erdogan for being a ‘toot
tepid’ Islamic politician.

” . . . In the Third World the general opinion is that the countries using weapons of
mass destruction for economic purposes in the service of imperialism are in
fact ‘rogue states,” specially the US and other NATO countries.

” Some Islamic economic lobbies are conducting a war against the ‘liberal”
economic lobbies. They use local terrorist groups claiming to act on behalf of Al
Qaida. On the other hand, national armies invade independent countries under the
aegis of the UN Security Council and carry out pre-emptive wars. And the real
sponsors of these wars are not governments but the lobbies concealed behind them.

“The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any
informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to
make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing
the ‘devil’ only in order to drive the ‘TV watcher’ to accept a unified international
leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the
US and the lobbyists for the US war on terrorism are only interested in making money.”

In yet another example of what happens to those who challenge the system, in
December 2001, Maj. Pierre-Henri Bunel was convicted by a secret French military
court of passing classified documents that identified potential NATO bombing
targets in Serbia to a Serbian agent during the Kosovo war in 1998. Bunel’s case
was transferred from a civilian court to keep the details of the case classified.
Bunel’s character witnesses and psychologists notwithstanding, the system “got
him” for telling the truth about Al Qaeda and who has actually been behind the
terrorist attacks commonly blamed on that group.

It is noteworthy that that Yugoslav government, the government with whom Bunel
was asserted by the French government to have shared information, claimed that
Albanian and Bosnian guerrillas in the Balkans were being backed by elements
of “Al Qaeda.” We now know that these guerrillas were being backed by money
provided by the Bosnian Defense Fund, an entity established as a special fund at
Bush-influenced Riggs Bank and directed by Richard Perle and Douglas Feith.

French officer Maj. Pierre-Henri Bunel, who knew the truth about “Al Qaeda” —
Another target of the neo-cons.

Copyright © Pierre-Henri Bunel, Wayne Madsen Report and Global Research, 2015

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Why The CIA Created ISIS

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Published on 19 Feb 2015


Alex explains ISIS & ISIL and the US Government’s involvement
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Three prominent investigative journalists and a former CIA analyst present their
views on ISIS and related issues.....

This was recorded before the current Russian air intervention , so some of the
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ISIS Made in USA

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Published on 29 Jun 2015


US efforts to kill the last remaining secular leaders in the Middle East
(and ostensibly replace them with ISIS) is described by NeoCons and
the mainstream media they control as “humanitarian”- but even just
a basic understanding of the region indicates that if you take out a
secular government, a violent Islamist government quickly fills the void.

The chilling truth is that the “rise” of ISIS is no “failure” of US policy -
everything is going as planned... that is until as it always does, the plan
“goes awry” and the US taxpayer is once again forced to pay the price
to the usual suspects, the defense industry... whose grip on our spineless
congress can only be described as criminal.

ISIS is the latest proxy terrorist group that the US and it’s client states
Israel, Saudi Arabia & Qatar has unleashed onto the world scene and like
most monsters they create, this one might not be so easy to get under control.

Join authors and investigative journalists Webster Tarpley & Wayne Madsen,
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern and investigative journalist Vox as they
peel away the accepted narrative of “failure” - revealing the sinister truth
behind the West’s latest murderous proxy ISIS. ISIS like AlQaeda represents
the desperate West’s only methodology left to keep its imperial grip on the
planet Earth.

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Webster Tarpley........40:13
Wayne Madsen......1:11:38
Ray McGovern.......1:30:18
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Real Reason for ISIS and the war against Assad
By Preston James, Ph.D on October 26, 2015
The real reason behind ISIS and their war against Assad and Syria is a secret 995 year old Blood Feud of the Khazarian Mafia against the Persians and the Russians.


The *Khazarian Mafia has had long term plan to enslave and destroy Russia and Persia (now called Iran). They infiltrated Russia and hijacked it in 1917 with their Bolshevik Revolution funded by the RKM Banksters of the City of London and Wall Street.

The Khazarian Mafia asset stripped mother Russia of billions in Gold, Silver, jewels and artwork, while beginning a bloodbath of rape, torture and mass murder of about 100 million non-Khazarian Russians.

This Blood Feud against Russia was based on Russia helping the Persians (now Iran) destroy Khazaria in about 1020 AD because it had become a criminal nation of robbers, murderers and identity impersonators and had not heeded its warnings to clean house from top to bottom.

This Khazarian Mafia Blood Feud against Russia was also accompanied by a blood feud against Persia for helping Russia destroy Khazaria in about 1020 AD.

This plan involves destroying Syria and then using it as a staging area for the destruction of Iran which is a essential step in the construction of Greater Israel which will engulf the whole Mideast for the Khazarian Mafia and Israel, it main action-agent.

This plan also involves using NATO and the US Military to surround the Russian Federation with offensive missiles and missile defenses while making international manipulations to destroy Russia economically.

The plan always is to use false-flag terror to serve as a trigger to justify the deployment of the American military as the Khazarian Mafia’s enforcer. Once the targeted nation’s governments are destroyed and the citizens uprooted and driven from their lands, the Khazarian Mafia associated large corporations come in and cheaply acquire any and all natural resources in order to make massive profits.

This is little more than high tech Khazarian Mafia PIRACY, but instead of piracy on the high seas, it is piracy against sovereign nations and all done to mass-murder in order to access their natural resources as cheaply as possible. This type of international piracy on land is merely an extension of the road warrior behavior that the nation of Khazaria and its leaders were known for that finally ended up with Russia and Persia attacking and destroying Khazaria.

brics-logo-320x116The Russian Federation has seen all this coming and has now taken major steps working with most of the World to set up major financial and economic firewalls against the US Petro Dollar which is actually owned and controlled by the Khazarian Mafia Banksters working out of the City of London.

All the recent Mideast war beginning with Iraq1 by Bush1 are actually part of an elaborate Khazarian Mafia plan to use the infiltrated and hijacked American Military to fight proxy wars for the Khazarian Mafia and its Cutout Israel in order to institute its “Greater Israel” expansion plan designed to eventually destroy Syria, Iran and then surround and destroy the new Russian federation.

But the actual underlying motivation for the Khazarian Mafia top leaders for creating all the Mideast Wars beginning with Bush1 is their inter-generational Blood Feud with Russia and Persia.

This Khazarian Mafia Blood Feud is also based on the Khazarian Mafia’s extreme and unmitigated hatred of Russia for twice aiding America in its resistance to their private City of London Fiat based central Banking System, the first time blockading England from America in the Revolutionary War and the second time blockading England in the Civil War.

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Ambassador Lee Wanta, President Reagan’s Secret Agent under the Totten Doctrine–negotiated a non-violent win/win solution and end to the Cold War.

They used the Cold War to try and set off a nuclear WW3 that would have totally destroyed Russia, but this was stopped by President Reagan using his personal Secret Agent Lee Wanta, who negotiated a win/win settlement which has resulted in a new Russian Federation Russia which is a non-communist, non-fascist nation which has been restored economically.

The leaders of the Khazarian Mafia are part of a “bloodline family” system that never forgets when any group or nation thwarts its evil empire agendas. When the Khazarian Mafia is blocked in the attainment of any of their goals or blocked by any nation of group, they harbor continuing revenge and plots against its enemies (secretly refers to as “Goyim”) forever until they are completely infiltrated, hijacked and preferably destroyed after being completely asset stripped.

The RKM has not been able to destroy Russia and mass-murder the non-Khazarian Russians so far as was its goal as a part of a 995 year old blood feud against Mother Russia.

Part of its Greater Israel expansion plan to destroy seven Middle East Nations in five years has involved Iran. Persia as one of its targeted nations because the RKM’s 995 year old blood feud against Russia is also targeted against Persia.

A very strange 995 year old Khazarian Mafia Blood Feud against Persians and non-Khazarian Russians.

This 995 year old Khazarian Blood Feud goes all the way back to approximately 1020 AD, when after hundreds of years of warnings, the Persians and Russia attacked Khazaria and destroyed it for refusing to stop their frequent road warrior crimes against travelers and neighbors in Persia and Russia.

In about 780 AD the Russians and Persians warned the Khazarian King that this road warrior behavior of murdering and robbing travelers and stealing their identities must stop. They were given an ultimatum, make one of the three Abrahamic religions their official national religion or else they would be dealt with and destroyed.

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The Khazarian Mafia’s Greater Israel Plan, a stepping stone to use as a staging area to eliminate Iran and then Islam, while serving as an essential step in encircling and destroying the Russian Federation. Saudi Arabia and Turkey will be then destabilized by RKM engineered “Color Revolutions”, thus tightening the circle around the Russian federation.

The Khazarian King declared that he selected Judaism as the Khazarian national religion, but in the upper ruling circles secret Baal Worship was continued. Baal worship is also known as High Babylonian Talmudism (secet Luciferian Black Magick) and involves the sacrifice of Children to Lucifer as well as the use of Babylonian Money-Magick which is “making money from nothing”. This is done by charging pernicious usury lending folks private money which should have been their own in the first place. This inner Khazarian circle of rulers began to function as a large national organized crime group, a type of organized crime which has gained control of a nations ruler-ship.

In about 1020 AD when the Russian and Persian leaders agreed the the Khazarians have not changed their ways and their national Judaism had made absolutely no difference, they invaded Khazaria and destroyed it as a nation. Before they were able to invade the Khazarian King and his top circle of Money-changers were able to take their vast wealth earned by criminal activities and leave Khazaria to go to Europe.

They were eventually able to create a significant money-changing empire in Germany and then used trickery to manipulate the English stock market and take it over. This allowed the Rothschild banking Family to take over the City of London and assume leadership over the British Empire which was beginning to decline.

Once the Khazarian Mafia infiltrated and hijacked British City of London Banking and could manufacture all the money it wanted and distribute it to whomever they wanted, they became the largest and wealthiest Organized crime syndicate in the World.

The Rothschild Khazarians came up with a very crafty plan to transform the waning British Empire into a secret worldwide Khazarian Mafia Banking Empire based on central Fiat Banking franchised out of the City of London. Once this Khazarian Mafia private FIAT based central Banking system was franchised to America in 1913 by the illegal, unConstitutuional passage of the Federal Reserve Act, the die was set. The Khazarian Mafia was then able to buy, bribe and human compromise almost every single elected Official and USG official and federal Judge in America.

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Israel attacked America on 9-11-01 with the help of stateside American Traitors.

Right now every member of Congress except on, Rep. Walter Jones, has apparently signed an AIPAC Loyalty Oath to place Israel first even before America and has rewarded each signer with massive campaign funding and very large perks. Folks signing such an AIPAC agreement is Treason and Sedition because AIPAC is an espionage front for the Khazarian Mafia which has proven itself to be an active enemy of America because they attacked America on 9-11-01 with the help of Israeli-American “Israeli-first” Dual Citizen Traitors in PNAC, top NeoCons, and Traitors in the Administration, JCS, USAF, NORAD and the FAA. Last time I checked Treason was defined as aiding and abetting an enemy of the United States of America. Certainly taking an AIPAC Loyalty Oath to place Israel first is a direct and clear violation of one’s Oath of Office for any member of Congress.

Once the Khazarian Banksters used their endless supply of money (they can print or issue all they want and have no oversight at all) to gain control over Congress, the Administration, and the Pentagon, it was then easy to deploy the the CIA, Israel and Saudi Arabia trained, supplied and paid mercenaries to create Mideast terror to start wars. Once this Terror Machine was deployed and used to create chaos, death and destruction of innocent civilians in the Mideast and in America on 9-11-01, it was easy to motivate the American masses to support the deployment of the American Military to fight these wars for Israel and the Khazarian Mafia.

It is very hard to come up with the exact dates in the history and dissolution of Khazaria as a nation or other details because most of this history has been scrubbed from the libraries by the Khazarian Mafia, the World’s largest, most powerful organized crime syndicate. So we have used approximate dates. As more an more history is uncovered, we will attempt to establish the actual dates.

Russian fighter_rockersRight now Putin and the Russian Federation have created a complete checkmate against the Khazarian Mafia’s ISIS and the Israeli-American Terror Machine and has fully exposed America, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Turkey as those who created, supplied and paid the mercenaries making up ISIS (aka the Islamic State which is anything but that).

The Russian federation was invited to help defend Syria from ISIS and has every right under international law to be there. Right now the Russian federation is decimating ISIS by its sophisticated air power and very god Intel.

A good bet is that Putin and the top leaders of Russia figures that it is a good time to checkmate and unravel the Khazarian Mafia and the Israeli-American Terror Machine before it completely surrounds Russia and can become powerful enough to threaten Russia’s future. Beside, Russia has a lot of money invested in its loyal ally Syria and is certainly motivated to help protect its investment especially when formally invited by Syria to do so.

Summary:

Bottom line is that the 995 year old Khazarian Mafia Blood Feud against Russia and Persia is the real reason for the deployment of the Israeli-American Terror Machine which has deployed mercenaries hired, trained, supplied and paid by the CIA, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Turkey to attack the nation of Syria. These mercenaries are labelled as ISIS, ISIL, Daesh, Al Nusra, Al Qaeda (aka Al CIA Duh) and the like but they are all part of the Khazarian Mafia’s Israel-American Terror Machine.

And now Putin has shown himself to be a very resourceful statesman and diplomat in his ability to checkmate the Israeli-American terror machine in Syria after being officially invited by President Assad to assist Syria. This of course is all legal under international law and is actually on the up and up, whereas the CIA and the Israeli-American Terror machine is a criminal action of the Khazarian mafia and has now been fully exposed to the World. The US Administration and several retired US Generals have even admitted all this publicly that the USG started and is running ISIS.

* The Khazarian Mafia is an abbreviation to represent the organized crime group that later morphed into the Rothschild Khazarian Mafia, a term coined by VT Financial Editor Mike Harris whose VT radio show is on Tuesdays and Thursdays 7-9 PM CST. Mike Harris started using this descriptive term Khazarian Mafia after extensively researching the true but hidden history of the nation of Khazaria and its connection to Rothschild World Zionism now centered in the City of London. He also discovered the long held hatred that the RKM has harbored since about 1020 AD for the non-Khazarian Russians that is still a major motive for the Khazarian Mafia today in its quest to destroy Persia (Iran) and then encircle and once again destroy Russia. their goal? To steal all Russia’s its assets like in 1917, and mass-murdering any non-Khazarian Russians remaining alive, as a replay of their Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

The Khazarian Mafia operates out of the City of London, a separate nation inside the UK which has its own police force and diplomats and pays no taxes to the UK government, like the Vatican, but has worldwide power through its private central banking system which uses FIAT money issued and placed in circulation (lent out for use at interest/pernicious usury).

The Khazarian Mafia has deeply infiltrated America and hijacked its manufacturing and distribution of money and most of its institutions of government, uses the US Military to fight its proxy wars for Israel and to earn massive profits. The Khazarian Mafia uses UK, Israeli and American Intel factions and especially the Pentagon to traffick in massive quantities of illegal narcotics to generate massive “off the books” money for black ops and payoffs to politicians and government officials they “own”.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/10/26/real-reason-for-isis-and-the-war-against-assad/

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Boots on Ground? US considering ‘direct action’ against ISIS

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Published on 27 Oct 2015
The US could be set to deploy ground troops in Iraq and Syria - to fight Islamic
State. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Washington - "won't hold back" from
supporting its partners - including with direct action on the ground. RT's Gayane
Chichakyan hare..

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US ground operations in Syria ‘illegal’, may lead to ‘unpredictable’ consequences

By David Icke on 28th October 2015


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US ground ops in Syria ‘illegal’, may lead to ‘unpredictable’ consequences

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Edited time: 28 Oct, 2015 12:59


‘The consequences of potential US ground operations in Syria would be unpredictable,
the head of Russia’s parliamentary committee on foreign affairs told RT. He added that
claims Russian airstrikes have targeted civilians are part of ongoing information war.

“If there …[is]any evidence …[it]should be presented and Russia is definitely open to
making further investigations,” Chairman of the Russian Upper House committee for
foreign affairs, Konstantin Kosachev told RT, while on a visit to Washington. “But
there is no evidence [that has been]presented by the military experts to the
Russian military experts.”


Kosachev’s comments come after the Russian Ministry of Defense summoned the
military attaches of NATO countries and Saudi Arabia, asking them to clarify their
allegations that Russian airstrikes in Syria had hit civilian targets.’

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Washington’s Syria ‘Strategy’ In Complete Disarray As ‘Ally’ Turkey Bombs US-Armed Rebels

By David Icke on 28th October 2015

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‘A little over a week ago in “Full Metal Retard: US Launches ‘Performance-Based’
Ammo Paradrop Program For Make-Believe ‘Syrian Arabs’” we outlined what is
perhaps the most hilarious Pentagon scheme designed to arm rebels in Syria
to date (and that’s saying something).

Following the comical demise of the latest “train and equip” program, the US is
out of options for supporting the opposition in Syria and so Washington decided
to go back to Old Faithful: the Kurds.

But that presents a problem.

The US is now flying sorties from Incirlik and Turkish autocrat President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan hates the Kurds and has gone out of his way to make it clear
that Ankara doesn’t distinguish between the PKK and the YPG. For the uninitiated,
here’s the problem broken down in bullet points:’

Read more: Washington’s Syria ‘Strategy’ In Complete Disarray As ‘Ally’ Turkey Bombs US-Armed Rebels

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57 Years Ago: U.S. and Britain Approved Use of Islamic Extremists to Topple Syrian Government

By David Icke on 28th October 2015



‘BBC reports that – in 1957 – the British and American leaders approved the use
of Islamic extremists and false flag attacks to topple the Syrian government:

Nearly 50 years before the war in Iraq, Britain and America sought a secretive
“regime change” in another Arab country… by planning the invasion of Syria
and the assassination of leading figures.

Newly discovered documents show how in 1957 [former Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom]Harold Macmillan and President Dwight Eisenhower approved
a CIA-MI6 plan to stage fake border incidents as an excuse for an invasion by
Syria’s pro-western neighbours, and then to “eliminate” the most influential
triumvirate in Damascus.’

Read more: 57 Years Ago: U.S. and Britain Approved Use of Islamic Extremists
to Topple Syrian Government

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Busted! Israeli IDF Colonel Arrested In Iraq for Leading ISIS Militants

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Published on 27 Oct 2015


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“The security and popular forces have held captive an Israeli colonel,”
a commander of Iraq’s popular mobilization forces said on Thursday.

“The Zionist officer is ranked colonel and had participated in the Takfiri
ISIL group’s terrorist operations,” he added.

Noting that he was arrested along with a number of ISIL terrorists, the
commander said, “The Israeli colonel’s name is Yusi Oulen Shahak and
is ranked colonel in Golani Brigade of the Zionist regime’s army with
the security and military code of Re34356578765az231434.”

He said that the relevant bodies are now interrogating the Israeli colonel
to understand the reasons behind his fighting alongside the ISIL forces
and the presence of other Zionist officers among ISIL terrorists.The Iraqi
security forces said the captured colonel has already made shocking confessions.

Several ISIL militants arrested in the last one year had already confessed
that Israeli agents from Mossad and other Israeli espionage and intelligence
bodies were present in the first wave of ISIL attacks on Iraq and capture of
Mosul in Summer 2014, but no ranking Israeli agent had been arrested.

Political and military experts told FNA that the capture of the Israeli colonel will
leave a grave impact on Iraq’s war strategy, including partnership with Israeli allies.

Read more at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=10a_14...

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More twists in this 'theatre of global politics.....


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Iran now seen as part of solution to Syria conflict

By Kasra Naji
BBC Persian


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John Kerry and Mohammad Zarif's relationship is based on respect and mutual understanding

After long being considered part of the problem, Iran is now being seen as
part of the solution - at least when it comes to ending the conflict in Syria.

That became apparent on Tuesday as the United States revealed it had
invited Iran to take part in multilateral talks in Vienna on Friday, reversing
its long-standing opposition to involving President Bashar al-Assad's
closest ally in discussions about his future.

The change in US policy seems to be one of the first political dividends of
July's nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers.

The deal was the result of two years of direct negotiations between Secretary
of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif,
during which there was a need for a great deal of mutual understanding and respect.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34662712

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I have no doubt Harry is sincere and as a veteran of Afghanistan conflict
its a part of his life and gives him some focus and perspective on motality.

But its sickening that these young men and woman were used , even if
some willingly went as professional service personell . In manipulated
wars for the elites to play out their agendas.

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Prince Harry meets Barack Obama to promote Invictus Games

28 minutes ago
From the section UK

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Prince Harry has met US president Barack Obama during a visit to the US to promote the Invictus Games.

The prince met Mr Obama in the Oval Office of the White House for an informal chat.

Earlier he joined Michelle Obama to meet injured service personnel in Virginia, and is set to meet
Games organisers at the British ambassador's residence in Washington DC.

The Games are an international event for injured and sick service personnel.

The first Invictus Games took place in London last year, with the next due in Orlando, Florida, next year.

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Mi-24 'flying tanks' protect Russian base in Syria from ISIS attacks (EXCLUSIVE)

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Published on 28 Oct 2015


RT's Murad Gazdiev takes a look at Russia’s Mil Mi-24 ‘crocodiles’ attack helicopters.
They are armed with dozens of missiles and take off every day to patrol the base in
Latakia, to ensure the terrorists are kept away from Russian installations.

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Road to Palmyra: RT follows Assad army assault on ISIS positions (EXCLUSIVE)

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Published on 28 Oct 2015

RT's Lizzie Phelan and her crew report from Palmyra in direct sight of Islamic
State militants, who are holding positions among the ruins of the world heritage
site. With the terrorists weakened by Russian airstrikes, the Syrian Army is
preparing for an offensive to retake Palmyra.

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RT crew caught in mortar fire near Damascus

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Published on 26 Oct 2015
RT correspondent Lizzie Phelan and her crew came under mortar fire close to
the frontline in the town of Harasta, near the Syrian capital, Damascus. The
crew was en route from Harasta to Jobar to film there. No one was hurt in the
shelling. READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/6unz

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Saudi point of view of what should happen , He talks about ' free elections' which
is fine , but totally hypocritical from a 'despot monarchy' that rules in a harsh
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Syria conflict: Saudis say Iran must accept Assad exit

1 minute ago
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Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir says there is "no doubt" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "will go"


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'We have enough soldiers': Iraq 'never asked' US for ground ops against ISIS

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Published on 29 Oct 2015


The Iraqi government never asked for and does not need any US involvement in
ground operations against Islamic State terrorists. The eye-opening statement
came only a day after the Pentagon promised its partner more ground support if it
was required.

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Post-Apocalyptic scenes of Syrian town Morek retaken from ISIS

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Published on 29 Oct 2015


The Syrian village of Morek was besieged by terrorists for nine months until
government troops freed it in October 2014. One year on from its liberation, RT’s
Murad Gadziev visits the village that now resembles a post-apocalyptic movie
rather than a bustling community.

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Published on 29 Oct 2015

The Russian Defence Ministry released a video showing military exercises conducted
near the Crimean peninsula coast.The footage shows the Russian Black Sea fleet
and units of coastal troops taking part in joint missile launches.
RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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CrossTalk: Syrian Turning Point?

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Published on 28 Oct 2015

How has Russia’s stepped up role in Syria changed the politics of that
country’s civil war and the regime? Washington acknowledges Russia’s
bombing campaign at the request of Damascus, but still does not accept
it. Is this because Washington does not practice diplomacy anymore?
CrossTalking with James Jatras, Sukant Chandan, and Mary Dejevsky.

Listen to CrossTalk+ here: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/cros...

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‘Boots on the Ground’ Inside Syria? The Pentagon Comes to the Rescue of
the ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS)

By David Icke on 29th October 2015 War and Terror

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‘Boots on the Ground’ Inside Syria? The Pentagon Comes to the Rescue of
the ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS)

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, October 28, 2015

‘On October 27, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced that the Pentagon
is contemplating “direct action on the ground” in both Iraq and Syria, “in an effort
to combat the self-proclaimed Islamic State terrorist group.” (Sputnik, October 27, 2015).

The not so hidden agenda, however, is not “to combat” but rather “to protect and
come to the rescue” of the Islamic State terrorist group.

What’s new? Are we witnessing a process of military escalation?

The US and its allies already have boots on ground inside Syria. It’s not official, it’s
a so-called “covert operation” which everybody knows about.

The Pentagon together with NATO, Turkey and Israel, et al, have routinely
dispatched their military advisers, special forces and intelligence operatives to the
Syrian war theater. These foreign forces have operated within rebel ranks from the
outset of the war on Syria in March 2011.’

Read more: ‘Boots on the Ground’ Inside Syria? The Pentagon Comes to the Rescue of the ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS)

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Syria’s White Helmets: War By Way of Deception ~ ‘Moderate Executioners’

By David Icke on 29th October 2015 War and Terror

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Syria’s White Helmets: War By Way of Deception ~ ‘Moderate Executioners’

October 28, 2015 By 21wire 6 Comments


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21st Century Wire

“If there is any doubt concerning the nefarious undertones of subversiveness in these
NGO dealings, [National Endowment for Democracy] NED founder reportedly said the
following in the 1990s: ‘A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by
the CIA.’ What was once done at night under the cloak of ‘imperialism’ is now done
during the day under the guise of ‘humanitarianism.’” ~ The Wrong Kind of Green

‘Hindsight is a generous provider of absolution of the guilt from falling for the sophisticated
western government or state propaganda and their media sleights of hand that so often
deceive us into believing the narrative they present, one that’s so often designed to justify
military intervention.

Invariably this is a narrative that all but ensures the massacre of innocent people under the
pretext of ‘liberating’ them, or introducing ‘democracy’ that always promises to erase some
perceived grievance of an western-backed opposition movement. Western nation-builders
normally prescribe the same treatment every time: cutting a swathe through the host country’s
society and culture either via proxy armies of foreign mercenaries under the guise of various
terrorist factions or with an onslaught of bombs and assorted mass destruction or chemical
weapons (including depleted uranium) which can render their land barren for decades and result
in birth defects, increased cancer rates and a multitude of devastating side effects for generations
after. While all this is going on, a parallel government has already been formed by the west, laying
in waiting in some five star hotel in Paris or London.’

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was recycled by Syria’s White Helmets on Aug 20, 2015.

Read more: Syria’s White Helmets: War By Way of Deception ~ ‘Moderate Executioners’

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Iraq to Washington: We Don’t Want Your Troops

By David Icke on 29th October 2015 War and Terror

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Peace and Prosperity

Iraq to Washington: We Don't Want Your Troops
Written by Daniel McAdams
Wednesday October 28, 2015

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”What a difference a day makes. Just 24 hours ago US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter
was telling the Senate Armed Services Committee all about the Obama Administration’s
new military strategy for the Middle East. The headline grabber from his testimony was
the revelation that the US military would begin “direct action on the ground” in Iraq and Syria.

“We won’t hold back from supporting capable partners in opportunistic attacks against ISIL
(ISIS),” he told the Committee. The new strategy would consist of “three R’s,” he said:
more US action, including on the ground, with Syrian opposition partners to take the ISIS
stronghold in Raqqa, Syria; more intense cooperation with the Iraqi army including with
US-embedded soldiers to retake Ramadi from ISIS in Iraq; and the beginning of US military
raids, “whether by strikes from the air or direct action on the ground.”

That was news to the Iraqis, it turns out. And it wasn’t very good news at that. Today
Sa’ad al-Hadithi, spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, said “thanks but no
thanks” to a third US invasion of his country. “We have enough soldiers on the ground,” he said.

Read more: Iraq to Washington: We Don’t Want Your Troops

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22 Iraqi Troops Killed in US Airstrikes in Ramadi

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‘Iraqi security sources disclosed that the US-led coalition’s airstrikes have once again
killed 22 army and volunteer forces on Tuesday.The US-led anti-ISIL coalition targeted
the Iraqi forces’ positions instead of ISIL terrorists in the Western parts of Iraq.

“The coalition warplanes pounded the Iraqi forces after they advanced near the city of
Ramadi after al-Jama bridge and al-Davajen bridge,” a security source said.

He noted that at least 22 Iraqi forces, including volunteer forces, known as Al-Hashad
Al-Shabi, were killed in the US-led airstrikes in Ramadi.’

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‘All relevant actors’ gather in Vienna for decisive Syria talks

By David Icke on 30th October 2015

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Published on 29 Oct 2015


Top officials from the US, Russia, Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are gathering
in Vienna to seek a solution to the Syrian crisis, with Iran getting a place at the
table for the first time. RT's Harry Fear is following the top-level negotiations.
READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/6uzu

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800 Colombian Soldiers Hired to Join Saudi-Led Forces in Yemen with $1000 Weekly Salary

By David Icke on 30th October 2015 War and Terror


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‘At least 800 Colombian nationals could soon be fighting alongside the Saudi-led
coalition against Yemenis, with dozens likely already in the war-torn Middle Eastern
country, a Latin American paper disclosed.

Over 800 Colombian mercenaries could take up front-line positions in Yemen under
the Saudi command, the Colombian newspaper El Tiempo said in a report.

​The troops are expected to be involved in an ongoing offensive against the revolutionary
forces, which currently hold Yemen’s capital, Sana’a.

Hundreds of Colombian nationals are fighting alongside the Saudi-led forces in Yemen,
the report further added.’

Read more: 800 Colombian Soldiers Hired to Join Saudi-Led Forces in Yemen with $1000 Weekly Salary

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Obama and His Neocons Ready to Risk World War III in the South China Sea

By David Icke on 30th October 2015 War and Terror

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Obama and His Neocons Ready to Risk World War III in the South China Sea

By Joachim Hagopian
Global Research, October 29, 2015

‘On October 27, the US Navy guided cruise missile destroyer the USS Lassen sailed
within 12 nautical miles of Spratly Islands in the South China Sea despite repeated
warnings from China that such overt action would be taken as a deliberate provocation
in an already strainedrelationship between the United States and China.

Alarmed Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui immediately summoned US
Ambassador to China Max Baucus chastising him for the naval envoy’s near island
pass-by, calling it an “extremely irresponsible action” and “a threat to China’s
national sovereignty.”

China’s Communist Party run Global Times declared that by exercising tactful restraint
but preparing for the worst, China is showing the White House that it “is not frightened
to fight a war with the US in the region.” The article goes on to say that should any US
ships linger in the area, China must “launch electronic interventions, and even send out
warships, lock them by fire-control radar and fly over the US vessels.”’

Read more: Obama and His Neocons Ready to Risk World War III in the South China Sea

http://www.globalresearch.ca/obama-and-his-neocons-ready-to-risk-world-war-iii-in-the-south-china-sea/5485349

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Halloween is here , lets scare the public with the usual Scary BS !!
To pass our legislation....

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Be Afraid: Islamic State planning mass attack on Britain, warns head of MI5

By David Icke on 30th October 2015 Big Brother,

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BE AFRAID: Islamic State planning mass attack on Britain, warns head of MI5

29th ThursdayOct 2015

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—Andrew Parker.

”This is more likely to be scaremongering to keep us all in our place, rather
than MI5 saying it wants more powers, as some critics have claimed.

This Blog has argued before that the major powers seem more concerned
– not about keep us safe, but about keeping us down.

You are strongly encouraged to read the article and draw your own conclusions.

Read more: Be Afraid: Islamic State planning mass attack on Britain, warns head of MI5

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New Surveillance Bill Will Give Police Powers To Search Your Internet History

By David Icke on 30th October 2015

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Police 'to be given powers to view everyone's entire internet history'

The power is reportedly to be included in the Government's new
surveillance bill which will be published next week

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UK police are too be given new powers to view everyone’s internet
history in a new surveillance bill that will be published next week.

Telecoms companies and internet providers will be required to keep
everyone’s internet history for a period of 12 months.

Read more: New Surveillance Bill Will Give Police Powers To Search
Your Internet History

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-to-be-given-powers-to-view-everyones-entire-internet-history-a6714581.html

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Analyst Calls for Obama to Enter Into a ‘Devil’s Bargain’ with ISIS in Syria

By David Icke on 30th October 2015

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Analyst Calls for Obama to Enter Into a “Devil’s Bargain” with ISIS in Syria

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State Department has announced it will step up support of jihadis

Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
October 29, 2015

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‘According to the Russian news agency Sputnik, the American bi-monthly international
affairs magazine The National Interest has published an article calling for the Obama
administration to support radical jihadists in the war against Bashar al-Assad.

The analysis authored by former US military intelligence officer Thomas Buonomo states
so-called moderate rebels in Syria have been “effectively compelled to enter into a devil’s
bargain with the radical Islamists in order to have any chance of accomplishing their
overriding goal” of overthrowing the “irredeemable dictator Bashar al-Assad.”

Buonomo states that mercenaries who have not joined the jihadists “are by now either
dead, have withdrawn from the battlefield, or are hoping they will not be killed as a
result of the indecisive geopolitical calculations of their American patrons.”’

“Taking these risks [Russian intervention] into consideration, the Obama administration
should increase its military aid to the moderate rebel factions in order to pressure Putin
to jettison Assad,” Buonomo writes.The former al-Qaeda affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, is
widely perceived as the most effective fighting force in Syria. It is now aligned with the
Islamic State, which is an offshoot of al-Qaeda in Iraq.Earlier this year the Council on
Foreign Relations called for supporting al-Qaeda under the guise of defeating the Islamic State.

“The instability in the Middle East following the Arab revolutions and the meteoric rise of
the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) require that Washington rethink its policy
toward al Qaeda, particularly its targeting of Zawahiri,” Barak Mendelsohn wrote for Foreign
Affairs. “Destabilizing al Qaeda at this time may in fact work against U.S. efforts to defeat ISIS.”
Over the weekend the State Department announced it will step up support of jihadi groups
fighting to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.

“They pledged to continue and intensify support to the moderate Syrian opposition while the
political track is being pursued,” the State Department statement said.There are virtually no
“moderate” proxy forces in Syria and the war against al-Assad is waged almost entirely by
radical Sunni Salafist groups determined to establish a principality ruled by Shari’a law in Syria.

The U.S. and the Gulf Emirates have covertly transferred arms to al-Nusra and ISIS through the
Syrian Revolutionary Front (SRF) with the help of the CIA and Saudi and Qatari intelligence.

Jamal Maarouf, the leader of the SRF, told The Independent the fight against al-Qaeda was “not
our problem” and admitted the mercenaries he leads with U.S., Saudi and Qatari help conduct
joint operations with al-Nusra.Earlier this year The New York Times reported the U.S. has given
al-Qaeda millions of dollars, citing “poor oversight and loose financial controls.”


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Read more: Analyst Calls for Obama to Enter Into a ‘Devil’s Bargain’ with ISIS in Syria

http://www.prisonplanet.com/analyst-calls-for-obama-to-enter-into-a-devils-bargain-with-isis-in-syria.html

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Washington has been forced to completely abandon its hardline stance on the ouster of Bashar al-Assad.


Obama, Kerry Throw In The Towel: US Prepared To Accept Assad Regime In Syria
10/30/2015

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-30/obama-kerry-throw-towel-us-prepared-accept-assad-regime-syria

me thinks the next move is the end to the opium wars.

russia, china and iran are dead set against the cia led global heroin problem sourced from afghanistan and Iraq; yes also Iraq.


Opium fields spread across Iraq as farmers try to make ends meet

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/opium-fields-spread-across-iraq-as-farmers-try-to-make-ends-meet-770651.html

look to see usa ground troops removed from iran and Iraq and then the eastern alliance take out the opium fields.

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Mixed messages from Washington over the last week.

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Washington struggles for clear line on Syria
Jonathan Marcus
Diplomatic correspondent

28 October 2015

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US to send special forces into Syria

4 minutes ago
From the section US & Canada

30 th Oct 2015
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The US is sending special forces to Syria to assist anti-government
rebels in fighting the so-called Islamic State (IS), officials have said.

There will be "fewer than 50" forces deployed in the region, in what
will be the first time US troops are working openly on the ground in Syria.

There have been US special forces raids on IS militants in the country.

A senior administration official told the BBC this does not signal a change
in US strategy in Syria.

The special operations forces will be focused on Northern Syria, the official said.


Analysis - Jonathan Marcus, BBC defence correspondent

The numbers are small, nonetheless the US decision represents a notable shift in
US policy. Their mission will be "to help co-ordinate local ground forces and coalition
efforts" against IS in northern Syria. In all likelihood they may fight alongside
Kurdish forces who have been the most effective of Washington's local allies.

"Co-ordination" could well mean forward air controllers; teams trained in the skills of
linking up tactical air power with troops on the ground; designating targets and calling
in strikes. The fact that the US now has specialised A-10 ground attack aircraft reasonably
close by at the Turkish air base of Incirlik may also be significant.

This is a small step intended not least to reassure Washington's unsettled allies in the region.
The drift in US policy has become even more apparent since Russia's muscular intervention
from the air. But to be convincing the US may need to do a good deal more and that seems
to be at variance with President Obama's basic instincts.


US special operations forces have previously taken part in at least two raids in Syria.

In May, troops killed senior IS member Abu Sayyaf and captured his wife in eastern Syria.

And last summer, forces failed in an operation to rescue American hostages including journalist
James Foley, who was later beheaded by IS fighters.

This week talks are being held in Vienna involving Iran, Syria's ally, for the first time.

The meeting sought to close the gap between the US and its allies, who support the rebels, and
the key foreign allies of the Syrian government, Russia and Iran.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34681648

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'To advise and assist': US to deploy special forces in Syria to fight against ISIS

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Published on 30 Oct 2015


A small contingent of US special forces will be sent as part of an “advise and assist”
mission to the Syrian rebels fighting against Islamic State militants, Reuters
reported citing unnamed US officials.

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/6v1d

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'To advise and assist': US to deploy special forces in Syria to fight against ISIS

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Published on 30 Oct 2015

A small contingent of US special forces will be sent as part of an “advise and assist”
mission to the Syrian rebels fighting against Islamic State militants, Reuters reported
citing unnamed US officials.

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China warns US of potential war sparked by 'minor incidents in South China Sea

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Published on 30 Oct 2015

China has issued its strongest warning yet to the US over an incident during which
a US destroyer sailed within territorial waters of China’s man-made islands in the
South China Sea, claiming that US faces running the risk of “a minor incident that
sparks war.”

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Syria conflict: World powers to intensify quest for peace
26 minutes ago

short vid on link.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34673535

US Secretary of State John Kerry said it was ''imperative to accelerate all diplomatic
efforts to end the war'' in SyriaAllies and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-
Assad have agreed to renew efforts to end the civil war.The Vienna talks involved
Iran, a key Assad ally, for the first time.The ministers agreed to ask the United
Nations to start a process that could lead to a ceasefire and new elections. But they
disagreed over Mr Assad's future. New talks are due in two weeks.Ahead of the
talks, a Syrian government attack on a Damascus suburb left at least 57 people dead.
If not Assad, then who?

Where key countries stand

Syria to Sweden: One migrant's 2,000-mile journey

'We went back 200 years'

The Vienna meeting sought to close the gap between the United States and its
allies, who support the rebels, and the key foreign allies of the Syrian government,
Russia and Iran.

After nearly eight hours of talks, the ministers agreed on a number of points, including:
◾inviting the UN to convene Syria's government and opposition to launch a new political process that is "credible, inclusive, non-sectarian"
◾a new constitution and UN-backed elections that involve all Syrians, including members of the diaspora and of all ethnicities
◾improved access to humanitarian aid for Syrians in and outside the country
◾working with the UN to "explore modalities for, and implementation of, a nationwide ceasefire"

The four-year-old war in Syria, which began with an uprising against President
Assad, has left 250,000 people dead and forced half the country's population - or
11 million people - from their homes.

Short vid on link....

Federica Mogherini: "Talks were not easy but there has been a constructive
atmosphere"Russia and Iran have recently stepped up their military involvement in
the conflict, backing forces loyal to Mr Assad.But the US, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and
other Gulf Arab nations have long insisted that Mr Assad cannot play a long-term
role in Syria's future.

"Four-and-a-half years of war, we all believe, has been far too long," US Secretary
of State John Kerry said.

"The time has come to stop the bleeding and start the building."

Mr Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov said they continued to disagree
on the fate of Mr Assad.While the US says Mr Assad should have no role in Syria's
future, Mr Lavrov said: "The Syrian people should decide Assad's fate." He added
that he "did not say that Assad has to go or that Assad has to stay".Staffan de
Mistura, the UN's envoy to Syria, said it was "unimaginable" even a few weeks ago
that all parties would have agreed to talks, but added that much work and
compromise remained to be done.

Read More....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34673535

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Obama and erdogan behind flase flag Syria sarin attack!


The question being investigated here was who caused the sarin gas attack in Ghouta, Syria, on 21 August 2013, that killed over a thousand victims, and that U.S. President Barack Obama has used as his basis for going to war to bring down Syrian President Bashar al-Assad?


The U.S. President had been up to his eyeballs in the scheming to «precipitate a US military response», as Hersh phrased the matter five months later. Obama desperately wanted to have a publicly-citable reason to invade Syria in 2013, just as Bush had desperately wanted to have a publicly-citable reason to invade Iraq in 2003. (And, in both instances, the U.S. ‘news’ media cooperated with the President’s scam.


Seymour Hersh’s News Report Banned in U.S., is Finally Confirmed in Turkey, by Eric Zuesse

Posted on October 30, 2015

https://jhaines6a.wordpress.com/2015/10/30/seymour-hershs-news-report-banned-in-u-s-is-finally-confirmed-in-turkey-by-eric-zuesse/

[idiit]

Mixed messages from Washington over the last week.


of course. wid egg on their face the washington spin jockeys are trying to concoct some lie that explains why they won't attack our mercenary army (isis) without informing the sheeple who isis actually is, won't leave the opium fields unguarded by usa and nato troops, and explain how Russia was able in a couple of weeks to accomplish re isis that usa couldn't do in over one year's military efforts.

mixed messages; obfuscate, obfuscate, obfuscate. :)

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US refuses to share 'proof' of 'Russia striking Syrian hospitals' allegations

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Published on 30 Oct 2015

The US maintains that Russian airstrikes hit hospitals and caused collateral
damage in Syria. However, when asked to provide supporting evidence,
Washington said that it bases its allegations on “press reporting” and
unconfirmed accounts from “civil society groups.”

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Rothschild Zionist Lindsay Graham Attacks Defense Secretary for not Planning War With Russia

By David Icke on 31st October 2015


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Published on 29 Oct 2015

Credit C-SPAN https://www.youtube.com/user/CSPAN
Depraved disciple of Mad John McCain just took crazy to a whole new level. If Mad
John McCain is the most disgusting man in America (and he is), then certainly his
snarling little sidekick from South Carolina Lindsey Graham is a strong second.
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Any use of military force in Syria needs government approval: Russia

By David Icke on 31st October 2015 War and Terror

PRESS TV.........

Any use of military force in Syria needs government approval: Russia

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‘Russia says no country can use military force in Syria without getting the approval of the Syrian government.

Asked about reports that the United States may launch a ground operation in Syria,
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday that, “The
question of using military force in any form without the agreement of Damascus is
for us unacceptable.”

“This situation has continued for a long time, and it is one of the topics on which we
fundamentally disagree with the United States,” he added.

The Russian diplomat said that instead of further complicating the situation, the US
should work with Moscow and look for ways to settle the Syrian crisis.’

Read more: Any use of military force in Syria needs government approval: Russia

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/30/435570/Syria-Russia-Sergei-Ryabkov-

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ISIS Mayhem Being Fueled by Drugs, Arms – Supplied by Saudi Arabia and the CIA

By David Icke on 31st October 2015

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ISIS Mayhem Being Fueled by Drugs, Arms – Supplied by Saudi Arabia and the CIA


October 30, 2015 By 21wire

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21st Century Wire says…

‘It’s the untold and often hidden history which underpins many of today’s proxy wars,
conflicts and the horrific activities of death squads the world over.

The strategic dispensing of narcotics in the military theater and in guerrilla warfare is
more common than many people realize. In many cases this is the X-factor that fuels
the mayhem and terrorizes vulnerable bystanders on the ground.

Aside from the traditional problem of substance abuse by the US military and others,
drugs have played a pivotal role in many recent conflicts and tend to be a feature
where US military and covert intelligence are involved. Narcotic trafficking and use by
military has been well-documented in US-backed wars in Vietnam and Central America,
specifically with El Salvador, Nicaragua, Brazil, Columbia (to name only a few), and also
with NATO’s 21st century opium boom in Afghanistan, other NATO narco wars like
Yugoslavia, as well as countless CIA-linked conflict zones featuring death squads in Iraq,
Sierra Leone, Uganda, Rwanda and Angola.’

Read more: ISIS Mayhem Being Fueled by Drugs, Arms – Supplied by Saudi Arabia and the CIA

http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/10/30/isis-mayhem-being-fueled-by-saudi-arabia-and-cia-drugs-trafficking/

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Saudi jets mistakenly hit allied militants in Yemen

By David Icke on 31st October 2015 War and Terror

PRESS TV.....

Saudi jets mistakenly hit allied militants in Yemen


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‘An unknown number of militants loyal to fugitive former Yemeni President
Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi have been killed in an incident in which Saudi
military aircraft mistakenly bombed their positions in Yemen’s central
province of Ma’rib.

Yemeni military sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Saudi
warplanes carried out airstrikes on Ma’rib’s provincial capital city of the same
name, 250 kilometers (150 miles) east of the capital, Sana’a, on Thursday.

The attacks left scores of gunmen allied to Saudi Arabia killed or injured,
Yemen’s official Saba news agency reported.’

Read more: Saudi jets mistakenly hit allied militants in Yemen

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/30/435585/Yemen-Saudi-jets-militiamen-proSaudi-militants-Marib

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Gaza aid pledges fail to materialize
By David Icke on 31st October 2015 War and Terror

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‘For more than a year, Ahmad al-Hamayda, his six siblings and their elderly parents
have been forced to live in a cramped apartment. Their two-story house in Khan
Younis, a city in southern Gaza, was totally destroyed by Israel during 2014.

Al-Hamayda had spent all of his 24 years in that house. At the time Israel dropped
its bombs, the family had just been evacuated after a neighboring building was hit
by a small missile. This was interpreted as a warning that a larger assault on the
surrounding area was imminent.

“We turned back to see our home was reduced to rubble,” al-Hamayda said.

Promises have been made by officialdom that the house and others in the
neighborhood will be rebuilt with aid from Kuwait. Yet none of the $200 million
pledged by Kuwait in Cairo has been made available, according to World Bank data.’

Read more: Gaza aid pledges fail to materialize

https://electronicintifada.net/content/gaza-aid-pledges-fail-materialize/14961?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=6fb8aad81c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-6fb8aad81c-299185473

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‘Desperate’ Gazans face second winter in tents and animal shelters – UNRWA

By David Icke on 31st October 2015 War and Terror

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"Desperate" Gazans face second winter in tents, animal shelters - UNRWA

Source: Reuters - Thu, 29 Oct 2015 19:33 GMT
Author: Alex Whiting
More news from our correspondents

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‘Nearly 100,000 refugees in Gaza face a second winter without proper housing, with
just one of their homes rebuilt since being damaged or destroyed in conflict last
year, said a United Nations agency that provides assistance in the region.

Families are living under tarpaulins, in animal shacks or with relatives and last
winter, at least three children froze to death, said a spokesman for the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, known as
UNRWA.

“As the winter approaches, one shudders how these people are going to survive,”
the UNRWA spokesman, Christopher Gunness, said in an interview this week.’

The agency helps some 5 million Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the West Bank,
Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.

"What these people need is proper homes," he said.

Reconstruction in the enclave of 1.8 million people is hindered partly because of a
lack of funds and partly because of a blockade that restricts goods entering and
leaving Gaza, Gunness said.

During last year's 50-day war, Israeli air strikes and shelling hammered the densely
populated Gaza Strip, dominated by the Islamist Hamas movement, causing
widespread destruction of homes, schools, hospitals and factories.Hamas and other
militant groups launched thousands of rockets and mortar bombs into Israel.
More than 2,100 Palestinians were killed, mostly civilians. Israel put the number of
its dead at 67 soldiers and six civilians.

"The underlying dynamics that saw the war in 2014 are still there," Gunness
said. "Indeed they've probably got worse because in 2014 there weren't 13,000
families whose homes were uninhabitable.

"Even if Gaza was reconstructed magically tomorrow morning, unless Gaza is
allowed to function economically, then it's hard to see how the instability is going to
go away," he said.The World Bank said in May that blockades, war and poor
governance have strangled Gaza's economy and the unemployment rate is now the
highest in the world. It stands at 43 percent, rising to 68 percent among people
ages 20 to 24, the World Bank said.There have been no significant exports from
Gaza since 2007, when Hamas took full control.Israel maintains tight controls on
the movement of goods and people in and out of the territory, citing security
concerns.Currently, 90 percent of water in Gaza is undrinkable, and the population
relies almost completely on a coastal aquifer which could become unusable next
year, UNRWA said.

Most Gazans consume between 70 and 90 litres a day, below the World Health
Organization standard of 100 litres per person per day, the agency said.The
number of people receiving UNRWA food aid has risen to 860,000 from 80,000
in 2000, Gunness said.

They will become reliant on water aid as well as supplies dwindle, he said.

(Reporting by Alex Whiting, Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women's rights, trafficking, corruption and climate change. Visit www.trust.org)





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A Russian passenger jet just crashed leaving an Egyptian resort en route to St Petersburg

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A Russian passenger jet just crashed leaving an Egyptian resort en route to St Petersburg

Wreckage found as Russian passenger plane crashes in Sinai: Egypt

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?86456-Wreckage-found-as-Russian-passenger-plane-crashes-in-Sinai-Egypt

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From # 5 on the above thread....


Russian A321 jet carring 224 went missing over Egypt

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Published on 31 Oct 2015

A passenger plane belonging to a small Russian airline, which was flying over 220
people from an Egyptian resort to Saint Petersburg, has vanished from radars over
Sinai. Authorities in Egypt have confirmed the plane has crashed.

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100 bodies, incl 5 children, extracted from 7K9268 A321 crash site

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Published on 31 Oct 2015


A passenger plane belonging to a small Russian airline, which was flying over
220 people from an Egyptian resort, Sharm El-Sheikh to Saint Petersburg, has
crashed over Sinai. Rescue operation is underway. LIVE UPDATES: http://on.rt.com/6v35

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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Saddam-style: ISIS oil exports worth $500m a year ‘conducted through Turkey’

By David Icke on 31st October 2015 War and Terror

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Saddam-style: ISIS oil exports worth $500m a year 'conducted through Turkey'

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‘The lion’s share of Islamic State illegal oil exports is conducted through Turkey and Kurdish
areas. Although Washington could curb the illegal traffic, it has chosen to focus on other issues,
a former CIA officer told the Sputnik news agency.

“It’s a question of priorities. They have never allocated enough resources to do so. Other goals
and missions have been rated as having more urgent calls on intelligence and tactical resources,”
John Kiriakou, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counterterrorism officer and US Senate
Foreign Relations Committee senior investigator, told Sputnik.

He said Islamic State’s (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) oil revenue lifeline could be cut short, if Washington
made an effort to do so.’

Read more: Saddam-style: ISIS oil exports worth $500m a year ‘conducted through Turkey’

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1/3 of ISIS funds come from oil; remainder from taxes, ‘confiscations’ – report

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Iraqi Foreign Minister Urges World Powers to Allow Syrian People to Determine Own Future

By David Icke on 31st October 2015 War and Terror

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Fri Oct 30, 2015 6:24
Iraqi FM Urges World Powers to Allow Syrian People to Determine Own Future


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‘The international community must agree on democratic procedures to allow Syrian people
to determine the future of their country, Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Jafari said Friday.

UN Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura and top diplomats from the United States, Russia,
Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, Lebanon and France are currently
discussing a settlement of the Syrian civil war in the Austrian capital Vienna.

“It is important for international powers to agree on details to give the Syrian people
opportunity to decide on their future,” Jafari told reporters on the sidelines of a
meeting in Vienna.’

Read more: Iraqi Foreign Minister Urges World Powers to Allow Syrian People to
Determine Own Future

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Israel legalises hundreds of West Bank settler homes

By David Icke on 31st October 2015 War and Terror

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‘Israel has retroactively legalised some 800 homes in four settlements in the
occupied West Bank, the interior ministry said.

They included 377 homes in the Yakir settlement, 187 in Itmar and 94 in Shilo
in the northern West Bank, as well as 97 more in Sansana in the south of the
occupied Palestinian territory, it said.

The decision was taken two weeks ago, but was only reported in the Israeli
press on Friday.It came at a time of heightened tensions between Israelis
and Palestinians in the occupied territories, Jerusalem and Israel.’

Read more: Israel legalises hundreds of West Bank settler homes

http://news.yahoo.com/israel-legalises-hundreds-west-bank-settler-homes-134957706.html

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Russian A321 fell 'almost vertically', technical fault behind crash

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Published on 31 Oct 2015


According to Egypt's security forces a technical fault was to blame for the
crash of flight 7K9268 in Sinai. The sources say the aircraft took almost a
vertical trajectory as it plummeted down. Large parts of the fuselage
burned in the process.

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'Russian engagement in Syria made parties seek solutions'

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Published on 1 Nov 2015

The world's top diplomats were in Vienna this week, for a major diplomatic
push to stop the bloodshed in Syria. RT talks to Gregory Clark, former
Australian diplomat - and a current contributor to the Japan Times magazine.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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Only Syrians must decide President Assad’s future: UN chief

By David Icke on 1st November 2015 War and Terror

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‘United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has reiterated that only Syrian
people must be allowed to decide the future of President Bashar al-Assad.

“The future of Assad must be decided by the Syrian people,” Ban said in an
interview with Spanish newspapers published on Saturday.

The remarks came a day after the conclusion of international negotiations
aimed at resolving the crisis in Syria, held in the Austrian capital city of Vienna.
The UN secretary general also stated that the crisis has already left a significant
number of casualties and caused much damage, calling for broader efforts to
end the turmoil.’

Read more: Only Syrians must decide President Assad’s future: UN chief


http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/31/435725/Syria-UN-Ban-President-Assad-Vienna-talks

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The Richie Allen Show on Davidicke.com: Ray McGovern – ‘Israel Wants Chaos To
Reign In Syria And The Chilcot Inquiry Is A Whitewash’

By David Icke on 2nd November 2015

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Published on 1 Nov 2015


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US special forces deployed as ‘human shields’ to protect terror assets in Syria: Analyst

By David Icke on 2nd November 2015 War and Terror

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US special forces deployed as ‘human shields’ to protect terror assets in Syria: Analyst

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‘The United States is deploying Special Operations Forces (SOF) to Syria to use them
as “human shields” to halt Russian airstrikes against the CIA-trained militants there,
according to a writer and political analyst.

Finian Cunningham, who has extensively written for Russia Today, Sputnik, Strategic
Culture Foundation and Press TV, made the remarks in an article published by Russia
Today website on Sunday.On Friday, President Barack Obama ordered the deployment
of Special Operations troops to Syria to “assist” militants fighting against the government
and the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group , in an apparent breach of his promise not to put
US “boots on the ground” there.’

Read more: US special forces deployed as ‘human shields’ to protect terror assets in Syria: Analyst

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/11/01/435918/US-special-forces-Syria-human-shields


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US special forces deployed as ‘human shields’ to protect terror assets in Syria: Analyst

By David Icke on 2nd November 2015 War and Terror

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US special forces deployed as ‘human shields’ to protect terror assets in Syria: Analyst

‘The United States is deploying Special Operations Forces (SOF) to Syria to use
them as “human shields” to halt Russian airstrikes against the CIA-trained militants
there, according to a writer and political analyst.

Finian Cunningham, who has extensively written for Russia Today, Sputnik,
Strategic Culture Foundation and Press TV, made the remarks in an article
published by Russia Today website on Sunday.

On Friday, President Barack Obama ordered the deployment of Special Operations
troops to Syria to “assist” militants fighting against the government and the Daesh
(ISIL) terrorist group , in an apparent breach of his promise not to put US “boots
on the ground” there.’

Read more: US special forces deployed as ‘human shields’ to protect terror assets
in Syria: Analyst

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/11/01/435839/Iran-Leader-Khamenei-Zarif-ambassadors

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Russian Air Force Has Destroyed 1623 Terrorist Targets in Syria. Al Nusra and ISIS Join Forces

By David Icke on 2nd November 2015

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Published on 1 Nov 2015

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Since the beginning of its operation in Syria on September 30, Russian Air Force has carried
out 1,391 sorties in Syria, destroying a total of 1,623 terrorist targets. In particular, Russian
warplanes destroyed 249 ISIS command posts, 51 training camps, and 131 depots, Andrey
Kartapolov, head of the Russian General Staff Main Operations Directorate said on Friday.
According to him, militants in Syria are trying to redeploy forces from Iraq and other
neighboring states, but their morale and training levels are very low.

For the last six days, ISIS has blockaded the Syrian Government’s only supply route to the
provincial capital of the Aleppo Governorate. However, for the last 48 hours, the Syrian Arab
Army (SAA) and Hezbollah have worked to restore the security of this vital highway that
stretches across the Khanasser Plains of east Hama. The SAA and Hezbollah are currently
less than 1km away from liberating the Khanasser-Ithriya highway.

Meanwhile, southwest of Ithriyah, ISIS launched another assault on the imperative hilltop
of Tal Khayber, targeting the NDF positions at the southeastern perimeter of the hill. The
assault was beaten back.

ISIS has recently shifted its focus from Khanasser-Ithriya Highway to the Salamiyah-Ithriya
Road, where the SAA reinforces their soldiers at the crucial city of Ithriya. If it falls, the SAA
at the latter city will be cutoff from their main supply line.

According to reports the leaders of the al-Nusra terrorist group operating in the Syrian province
of Hama have decided to join forces with ISIS as the Syrian army continues its offensive.

Separately, the SAA and the NDF continued their advance to the Kuweires Military Airport,
capturing several building blocks from ISIS inside the town of Sheikh Ahmad in the Deir Hafer
Plains. Then they captured the Railroad barrier inside the eastern district of the town. This
allowed for the Syrian Armed Forces to cross the Aleppo-Baghdad railroad that passes
through the east Aleppo.

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The Caliph at the gates of Vienna

By David Icke on 2nd November 2015 War and Terror

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‘History has a jolly habit of repeating itself as surrealist farce. Is it 1683 all over
again, with the Ottoman Empire laying siege to Vienna just to be defeated by
the “infidels” at the last minute?

No; it’s 2015 and a Caliph simulacrum – Ibrahim, a.k.a. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi —
has prompted a gaggle of world powers, lesser powers and assorted minions to
converge to Vienna to discuss how to defeat him.

Westphalians, we got a problem. None of this makes any sense if Iran is not at the
table discussing a solution for the Syrian tragedy. Moscow knew it from the start.
Washington — reluctantly — had to admit the obvious. But the problem was never
Iran. The problem is the ideological matrix of goons who metastasize into Caliphs:
Saudi Arabia.’

Read more: The Caliph at the gates of Vienna

http://atimes.com/2015/10/the-caliph-at-the-gates-of-vienna/

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EU Member States Sell Weapons to Israel, Help Enforce Israel’s Illegal Settlement in Occupied Territories

By David Icke on 2nd November 2015

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EU Member States Sell Weapons to Israel, Help Enforce Israel’s Illegal Settlement in Occupied Territories

By Anthony Bellchambers

Global Research, November 01, 201


‘The human rights provisions of the EU­-Israel Association Agreement are being continuously
violated by the supply of arms and military equipment from the UK and other member states
which are used to implement both an illegal occupation of the West Bank as well as the six
year illegal blockade of essential goods to 1.8 million civilians in Gaza. This is leading to
Increased violence and the threat of a bloody intifada that could see the Holy City in flames.’

Read more: EU Member States Sell Weapons to Israel, Help Enforce Israel’s Illegal Settlement in Occupied Territories


http://www.globalresearch.ca/eu-member-states-sell-weapons-to-israel-help-enforce-israels-illegal-settlement-in-occupied-territories/5485890

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Israeli Knesset members propose bill to allow Jewish prayer on Temple Mount

By David Icke on 2nd November 2015

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‘Labor and Likud MKs have joined forces on a new bill that proposes to allow Jews
to pray at the Temple Mount compound – for the first time since the destruction of
the Second Temple, as Jews are currently barred from praying at the site.

MK Miri Regev (Likud) and MK Hilik Bar (Labor) are expected to introduce the bill for
discussion in the Knesset. It aims to extend freedom of worship on the Temple Mount
to the level allowed in Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs, where Jews and Muslims share
the holy site.Last April, dozens of Arab youths, some masked, rioted on the Temple
Mount, throwing stones and fire crackers at security forces deployed to the scene.
The clashes led to the compound being closed to visitors and the arrests of dozens
suspected of violent acts. Such scenes constantly reoccur in the compound.’

Read more: Israeli Knesset members propose bill to allow Jewish prayer on Temple Mount

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4520843,00.html

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Israel’s Encirclement of Al-Aqsa ‘Nearly Complete’

By David Icke on 2nd November 2015

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‘US move to install cameras at Jerusalem mosque overlooks Israeli
‘obstacle course’ barring Palestinian worship, say archaeologists

Despite claims it is seeking to calm tensions in Jerusalem, Israel
is intensifying activities to encircle the al-Aqsa mosque and
strengthen its control over the holy site, a group of Israeli
archaeologists warned last week.

The group sounded the alarm as the United States oversaw moves at
the mosque compound, known as the Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary,
intended to end weeks of Palestinian unrest focused on Jerusalem.

US Secretary of State John Kerry brokered an agreement last weekend
between Israel and Jordan, the official guardian of the Haram, that will
see cameras installed in the mosque compound.’

Read more: Israel’s Encirclement of Al-Aqsa ‘Nearly Complete’


http://www.jonathan-cook.net/2015-11-01/israels-encirclement-of-al-aqsa-nearly-complete/


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Israeli officials confiscating bodies of slain Palestinians

By David Icke on 2nd November 2015


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Published on 1 Nov 2015


Israel continues to confiscate the bodies of slain Palestinians killed by Israeli forces
in the recent uprising. A number of Israeli officials are opposed to Tel Aviv’s recent
decision to release the bodies, calling it an appeasement for the Israelis. Some
others have set a condition for the families not to hold mass funerals for their loved
ones following their delivery.

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Yemeni media: Saudi warplanes drop cluster bomb on Sa’ada province

By David Icke on 2nd November 2015

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Published on 1 Nov 2015

Saudi Arabia presses ahead with its military campaign against Yemen
inflicting further casualties and destruction across the impoverished nation.
Yemeni media say Saudi warplanes destroyed a number of mosques and
houses using internationally-banned cluster bombs in Hidan district of
Sa'ada province. Fighter jets have targeted the provinces of Ibb, Sa’ada
and Hajjah, killing at least one person in Ibb. Meanwhile, Yemen’s
Ansarullah fighters and their allied army units have pounded targets
inside the kingdom. In the latest retaliatory attacks, the Yemeni side
fired missiles at Saudi forces in Najran region. Over 71-hundred
Yemenis have been killed since Riyadh launched its offensive in late March.

Kevin Barrett
Editor, Veterans Today

[Cidersomerset]

CrossTalk: Multipolar World

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Published on 2 Nov 2015


Since the end of the Cold War a quarter of a century ago, the global security
order has been dangerously out of balance. During this time the US has been
able to unilaterally dictate its unipolar agenda. Today American hegemony is
in question and in decline. Welcome back to a multipolar world…CrossTalking
with Xavier Moreau, Mark Sleboda, and Martin McCauley.

[Dennis Leahy]

I think that the subject of this thread - with focus on Syria - is the major world event since the 9/11 false flag created by Mossad/CIA/US Joint Chiefs of Staff/PNAC cult.

When we are being distracted, this is where they do not want our attention and focus.

The Russians coming in to Syria and wiping out much of the CIA/Mossad-trained, Israeli and US government-backed "ISIS" in short order is (I believe) a major turning point in modern world history, and was not scripted by the global overlords.

I think it has been critical to highlight that O'Bomber and the demo-corporate anal boil have been equally as malevolent as the BushCheney republi-corporates anal carbuncle was. (Well, that's not quite true - the Obombanator has eleven times more drone kills than W), but it really should be plain to see that both of the duopoly parties are warmongering fascists. It has been (and still is) critical to get that information out, to awaken the sleeping masses towards a citizen uprising. But the situation in Syria, specifically the evidence that "ISIS" is CIA/Mossad-trained and Israeli and US government-backed, that the US was pretending to fight ISIS and is simply in the process of overthrowing yet another world leader of a nation they want to destabilize/take over/control (per the words spoken to Gen. Wesley Clark, 7 countries in 5 years (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw)) is also critical information that needs to be disseminated and repeated. The corporate-owned mainscream media and pseudo-news will never tell the truth, so we have to tell each other.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iVL5Vibm0M

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Syria hospitals Russia accused of bombing don’t exist – Defense Min

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Published on 3 Nov 2015

The Russian Defense Ministry has denied media reports its aircraft hit hospitals in
Syria, saying the medical facilities mentioned by Western media don’t actually exist.
READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/6vb1


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Rush Limbaugh confirms: Washington’s news is scripted theater for the masses

By David Icke on 3rd November 2015 Useless Media

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Rush Limbaugh confirms: Washington's news is scripted theater for the masses

Tuesday, November 03, 2015 by: J. D. Heyes
Tags: Rush Limbaugh, Paul Ryan, scripted news

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‘During a recent show, top talker Rush Limbaugh observed that essentially
everything Americans see and hear out of Washington, D.C., is little more than pre-
scripted theater masquerading as real events unfolding publicly before our eyes. Of
course, the mainstream media plays right along with all of the political theater.

While there are many examples, Limbaugh focused on the “controversy”
surrounding Rep. Paul Ryan’s bid to become Speaker of the House, the third in line
to the presidency.

“Reuters story: ‘Paul Ryan Announces Candidacy for House Speaker – Republican
Representative Paul Ryan officially jumped into the race for speaker of the US
House of Representatives on Thursday after nailing down crucial endorsements
from conservative and moderate factions,'” Limbaugh said during his October 23 program.’

Read more: Rush Limbaugh confirms: Washington’s news is scripted theater for the masses

http://www.naturalnews.com/051813_Rush_Limbaugh_Paul_Ryan_scripted_news.html#

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David Cameron drops plans to hold vote on airstrikes on Isis in Syria – because he’s scared he’ll lose again

By David Icke on 3rd November 2015 Illuminati Criminals, Political Manipulation, War and Terror

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‘David Cameron is to shelve plans to call a House of Commons vote to approve
British airstrikes against Islamic State (Isis) targets in Syria in a belief that he has
failed to win over enough Labour MPs and a recognition that Russia’s military
intervention has complicated the picture.

Downing Street has decided that RAF involvement in coalition airstrikes against Isis
targets should not be extended from Iraq.

There are fears that Cameron would be weakened on the world stage by a second
parliamentary defeat over military action in Syria.’

Read more: David Cameron drops plans to hold vote on airstrikes on Isis in Syria –
because he’s scared he’ll lose again

http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2015/11/03/david-cameron-drops-plans-to-hold-vote-on-airstrikes-on-isis-in-syria-because-hes-scared-hell-lose-again/

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Israeli police beat & pepper spray Palestinian journalists

By David Icke on 3rd November 2015

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Published on 2 Nov 2015


A video which has appeared online shows an Israeli police officer assaulting Palestinian journalists
covering clashes in the West Bank. RT talked to the journalist who shot this video - his name is
Fadi Arouri and he works for Xinhua News Agency. He says the Israeli officer was deliberately
chasing down journalists.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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Israel requests extra squadron of F-15s

By David Icke on 3rd November 2015 War and Terror


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‘An additional squadron of advanced Boeing F-15s has been revealed as one of the
elements of a so-called “compensation package” requested by Israel in exchange
for the US government backing a lifting of sanctions against Iran.

Israeli sources confirm that details of the request were agreed during a recent
meeting between the defence ministers of the USA and Israel in Washington DC.
This included the Israeli air force expressing its operational need for another
squadron of F-15s, to ensure that the type can remain the “backbone” of its
capabilities.’

Read more: Israel requests extra squadron of F-15s

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/israel-requests-extra-squadron-of-f-15s-418487/?

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Palestinian residents of Hebron required to register in preparation for severe new restrictions

By David Icke on 3rd November 2015

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‘Palestinians gather in the street to be registered in the Tel Rumeida neighbourhood
in occupied Hebron. It is being reported that the area will be closed off completely
for people who are not residents of the area and who are not registered within the
next few days.

“For the people living in the area, it will become like a prison. For people living in
Hebron, the closure of Tel Rumeida will mean that the city will be split in two”, says
local resident to international activists.’

Read more: Palestinian residents of Hebron required to register in preparation for severe new restrictions

http://palsolidarity.org/2015/10/palestinian-residents-of-hebron-required-to-register-in-preparation-for-severe-new-restrictions/

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Israel Murdering Defenceless Palestinian Youths and Children

By David Icke on 3rd November 2015

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Israel Murdering Defenceless Palestinian Youths and Children

By Stephen Lendman
Global Research, November 02, 2015

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‘Israel’s endless war on Palestine continues unabated – pitting one of the world’s
most powerful militaries against defenseless youths, children, women and others
joining their liberating struggle.

State terrorism rages against courageous freedom fighters, an apartheid rogue
state operating mercilessly, victims blamed for its high crimes.

On Saturday, another Palestinian youth died, murdered by Israel in cold blood,
alleging another stabbing attempt, fabricated like most others – during what
Israeli authorities called a “violent riot,” what Palestinians call resisting tyranny.
They alone were injured during the incident, no Israelis.’

Palestinian medics were blocked at gunpoint from aiding the victim, forced to leave.
A witness told Maan News he saw multiple live rounds fired at a “young man…far
from the main street.”

He threatened no one. Soldiers removed his body to an unknown location. Journalists
witnessing what happened were assaulted, ordered out of the area.As of Sunday morning
local time, the Palestinian death toll stands at 72, including 12 children, two infants and
a pregnant woman, other female fatalities included in the overall total – everyone
victimized by Israeli viciousness.

Scores more resistance victims are being crammed into overcrowded Israeli prisons,
already filled with thousands of Palestinian political prisoners.Human rights groups
condemned Israel’s “shoot-to-kill” policy, adopted by Netanyahu security cabinet officials
in September. Palestinian freedom fighters are being ruthlessly gunned down in cold blood.

Others are being beaten and arbitrarily arrested, guilty of protesting for freedom. East
Jerusalem neighborhoods are blockaded – no one let in or out without authorization and
intrusive searches.Open warfare against defenseless civilians is virtually ignored by Western
officials, one-sidedly supporting Israeli viciousness, mindless of how many Palestinians die,
how many others suffer horrifically.


Read more: Israel Murdering Defenceless Palestinian Youths and Children

http://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-murdering-defenceless-palestinian-youths-and-children/5486068


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Israel shot 2,600 Palestinians in October: Red Crescent

By David Icke on 3rd November 2015


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Israel shot 2,600 Palestinians in October: Red Crescent
Sun Nov 1, 2015 11:37PM

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‘At least 2,617 Palestinians have been shot and injured by Israeli forces using live
and rubber bullets in the month of October, a Red Crescent officials says.

On Sunday, the Palestinian news agency Ma’an released a report quoting a Red
Crescent spokesperson as saying that at least 760 Palestinians were shot with live
rounds across the occupied Palestinian territory, while another 1,857 were hit
with rubber-coated steel bullets.At least 5,645 Palestinians sustained injuries,
including burns from tear gas canisters and excessive tear gas inhalation.

At least 72 Palestinians were also killed in Palestinian territories by Israeli soldiers in October.’

Read more: Israel shot 2,600 Palestinians in October: Red Crescent

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European MPs Call for the Isolation of Israel

By David Icke on 3rd November 2015

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[Flash]

This is soooooooo damn similar to what happened to the Jews of Warsaw during the last world war. Don't they realize that they are doing to others what they justifyingly blame others to have done to them?


Israeli police beat & pepper spray Palestinian journalists

By David Icke on 3rd November 2015

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Published on 2 Nov 2015


A video which has appeared online shows an Israeli police officer assaulting Palestinian journalists
covering clashes in the West Bank. RT talked to the journalist who shot this video - his name is
Fadi Arouri and he works for Xinhua News Agency. He says the Israeli officer was deliberately
chasing down journalists.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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Israel requests extra squadron of F-15s

By David Icke on 3rd November 2015 War and Terror


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‘An additional squadron of advanced Boeing F-15s has been revealed as one of the
elements of a so-called “compensation package” requested by Israel in exchange
for the US government backing a lifting of sanctions against Iran.

Israeli sources confirm that details of the request were agreed during a recent
meeting between the defence ministers of the USA and Israel in Washington DC.
This included the Israeli air force expressing its operational need for another
squadron of F-15s, to ensure that the type can remain the “backbone” of its
capabilities.’

Read more: Israel requests extra squadron of F-15s

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/israel-requests-extra-squadron-of-f-15s-418487/?

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Palestinian residents of Hebron required to register in preparation for severe new restrictions

By David Icke on 3rd November 2015

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‘Palestinians gather in the street to be registered in the Tel Rumeida neighbourhood
in occupied Hebron. It is being reported that the area will be closed off completely
for people who are not residents of the area and who are not registered within the
next few days.

“For the people living in the area, it will become like a prison. For people living in
Hebron, the closure of Tel Rumeida will mean that the city will be split in two”, says
local resident to international activists.’

Read more: Palestinian residents of Hebron required to register in preparation for severe new restrictions

http://palsolidarity.org/2015/10/palestinian-residents-of-hebron-required-to-register-in-preparation-for-severe-new-restrictions/

[Cidersomerset]

This is soooooooo damn similar to what happened to the Jews of Warsaw
during the last world war. Don't they realize that they are doing to others what
they justifyingly blame others to have done to them?

I've been thinking that more during the last few conflicts , Israeli forces
left GAZA looking like ghettos in some place. Now it is happening in
the West Bank. It is in your face on the web if we look , and is obviously
magnified on threads like this , which most people in the world do not visit,
and only have a glancing view or opinion on these subjects. Which is
why they get away with it for long periods. This scenario has happened time
and time again thru history , and as you say the Jews of all recent peoples
should know better.

[Cidersomerset]

This is a good discussion .......


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Published on 4 Nov 2015


Western Russia-bashing is not new, though it has never been so counter-productive.
Unwilling to go along to get along, Russia’s political elite is self-confident when defining
what is in the country’s interest. This makes the exceptionalists inside the beltway go
mad! CrossTalking with Vladimir Golstein, Gilbert Doctorow, and Peter Kuznick.

Listen to CrossTalk+ here: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/cros...

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Propaganda Fail: Five of Six Syrian Hospitals Allegedly Hit by Russian Airstrikes Don’t Exist

By David Icke on 4th November 2015

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PROPAGANDA FAIL: 5 of 6 Syrian Hospitals Allegedly Hit by Russian Airstrikes Don’t Exist

November 3, 2015 By Stuart Hooper 7 Comments

21st Century Wire says…

Some basic fact checking would have saved the Western media from this embarrassment.

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‘The Russian Defence Ministry has openly attacked claims launched by Western
mainstream media outlets that their mission in Syria has been targeting
hospitals and civilians.

Major General Konoshenkov said this:

“I would like to remind you that a week ago several leading Western media outlets
citing the US-based Syrian American Medical Society accused us of allegedly bombing
hospitals in al-Ees, al-Hader, Khan Tuman, Sarmin, Latamna and al-Zirba.“

“All these reports were made without any proof…“

“We investigated this information. It turned out, in fact, that there is a hospital only in
the settlement of Sarmin. There are no hospitals in al-Ees, al-Hader, Khan Tuman,
Latamna and al-Zirba, and, consequently, there are no healthcare workers.“’

Read more: Propaganda Fail: Five of Six Syrian Hospitals Allegedly Hit by Russian Airstrikes Don’t Exist

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‘Systematic crimes against media freedoms’: Israeli forces raid, shut down Palestinian radio station

By David Icke on 4th November 2015

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‘Israeli forces stormed a radio station in the Palestinian city of Hebron in the occupied West
Bank, accusing it of “incitement” amid the ongoing recent escalation of violence between
Israelis and Palestinians.

Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) broke into the office of the Palestinian Manbar al-Hurriyya
(Freedom Tribune) radio station on Tuesday and destroyed the contents of its offices,
including the walls and interior. The security forces also confiscated all the station’s
broadcasting equipment and ripped out the wires in the building as well.’

Read more: ‘Systematic crimes against media freedoms’: Israeli forces raid, shut down
Palestinian radio station

https://www.rt.com/news/320682-israeli-raid-palestinian-radio/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=aplication_chrome&utm_campaign=chrome


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Reporter Spills the Beans and Admits All the News is Fake

By David Icke on 4th November 2015

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Published on 8 Oct 2014


A top German Journalist and Editor Dr. Udo Ulfkatte has just gone public with some shocking
admissions. He basically admitted what all of us who read the alternative media such as
BeforeItsNews have known for a long time – the entire mainstream media is totally fake!
He went into a very detailed talk in this video and spilled the beans about everything! He
talked about how the CIA gets control over all of the major journalists. e next 6 months
than we’ve done in the last 6 years! We can do it together!

[Cidersomerset]

'RT is glamour project' US Senate focuses on 'Russian propaganda' threat

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Published on 4 Nov 2015


On Tuesday, an American Senate committee spent two hours discussing the
supposed threat posed by Russia. But it wasn't the military they were focusing
on. RT network has been mentioned more that once at that hearing.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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On Repeat: US says 'premature' for Syrian govt & opposition to meet in Russia

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Published on 4 Nov 2015

Moscow has invited representatives of the Syrian government and opposition
groups to hold talks in the Russian capital next week. The aim is to find a
solution to the long-running civil war, and to co-ordinate joint action against
Islamic State. However, Washington has expressed doubts over the meeting.

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Israeli commander working with ISIS arrested in Iraq: Popular forces

By David Icke on 4th November 2015 War and Terror

PRESS TV............


Tue Nov 3, 2015 6:45PM

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Fighters from Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces advance toward the center of Baiji,
north of the capital, Baghdad, during a military operation against the Takfiri Daesh
terrorists on October 18, 2015.


Israeli commander working with ISIS arrested in Iraq: Popular forces

‘Iraqi popular forces have say they have arrested a senior Israeli commander
working with the Takfiri Daesh terrorists.

According to a report by Iran’s Fars news agency, sources in Iraq’s Popular
Mobilization Forces (PMF) say they have arrested Colonel Yussi Elon Shahak
during an operation against Daesh.

The report said Shahak was arrested along with a number of key Daesh members,
saying he is currently being interrogated by Iraq’s intelligence officials to determine
the degree and type of support the Tel Aviv regime has been providing to militants
fighting against the Iraqi government.’

Read more: Israeli commander working with ISIS arrested in Iraq: Popular forces

[Cidersomerset]

Obama: Deploying Special Forces To Syria Is Not ‘Boots On The Ground’

By David Icke on 4th November 2015

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Obama: Deploying Special Forces To Syria Is Not 'Boots On The Ground'

"We are not putting U.S. troops on the front lines fighting firefights with ISIL."

Reuters..By Peter Cooney
Posted: 11/02/2015 09:21 PM EST

‘President Barack Obama said on Monday the planned deployment of dozens of U.S.
special forces to Syria to advise opposition forces fighting Islamic State did not break
his promise not to put “boots on the ground” in the Syrian conflict.

“Keep in mind that we have run special ops already and really this is just an extension
of what we are continuing to do,” Obama said in an interview on “NBC Nightly News”
in his first public comments on the deployment since it was announced on Friday.’

Read more: Obama: Deploying Special Forces To Syria Is Not ‘Boots On The Ground’

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/barack-obama-syria_563817fee4b00a4d2e0bad54

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Hillary Clinton And The Funding Of Al-Qaeda Terrorists In Libya And Syria

By David Icke on 4th November 2015


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Untitled (7)‘Picking up where the Benghazi scandal left off, it cannot be
stated often enough that Hillary Clinton, in her tenure as Secretary of
State, was instrumental in helping to fund, organize, train, and direct
al-Qaeda terrorist forces in Libya and Syria.

In regards to Libya, it was well known and even criticized by Libyan
officials that Clinton’s State Department was actively funneling weaponry
to “rebels” with “ties to al-Qaeda.” Of course, the “rebels” actually were
al-Qaeda as the Libyan “rebellion” itself was nothing more than the use
of proxy forces by the United States and NATO whose ranks were made
up of terrorists, jihadists, and mercenaries. As the Washington Times
reported in February, 2015.’

Read more: Hillary Clinton And The Funding Of Al-Qaeda Terrorists In Libya And Syria

http://www.activistpost.com/2015/11/hillary-clinton-and-the-funding-of-al-qaeda-terrorists-in-libya-and-syria.html


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Israeli ‘Staatspolizei’ Carry out Summary Executions in Jerusalem

By David Icke on 4th November 2015 The Police State, War and Terror

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Israeli “Staatspolizei” Carry out Summary Executions in Jerusalem

By Anthony Bellchambers
Global Research, November 03, 2015

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‘Meanwhile, the continued silence from Britain, the EU and the US, becomes ever louder
notwithstanding that Israel is now murdering unarmed Palestinians daily. Death toll last
week stood at 72, including 12 children, two infants and a pregnant woman

‘Tension has surged amid resentment over Israeli settlements and the incursions into
Al-­Aqsa Mosque compound, the third holiest site for Muslims.

Rights groups have slammed Israel for its harsh measures as it continues to crack down
on Palestinians.’ This week, Amnesty International warned Israeli forces to end its
“pattern of unlawful killings. In some cases, Israeli forces appear to have ripped up the
rulebook and resorted to extreme and unlawful measures,” the group said. “They seem
increasingly prone to using lethal force against anyone they perceive as posing a threat,
without ensuring that the threat is real.”‘

The root cause of the violence is Israel’s continuing illegal occupation and
settlement in East Jerusalem and the West Bank and the violent dispossession of
the indigenous population by armed troops and settlers.

The international community needs to apply pressure on Israel to conform to
international law and repatriate all its settlers back to their own homes in Israel, if
there is ever going to be peace. Failing which, the world will need to accept that
there will eventuality be an uprising that will inevitably escalate to a much wider
conflict that will impact Europe as well as the Middle East.

That will be the tragic consequence of the current appeasement policy, by the
European Union, of Binyamin Netanyahu’s illegal colonisation agenda and of the
supply of yet more arms to the Israeli government, which colludes in enforcing the
illegal occupation.

Notes:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/israel­murdering­defenceless-palestinian­youths­and­children/5486068



Read more: Israeli ‘Staatspolizei’ Carry out Summary Executions in Jerusalem

http://www.globalresearch.ca/israeli-staatspolizei-carry-out-summary-executions-in-jerusalem/5486326


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Israel panicked by global boycott on its goods

By David Icke on 4th November 2015
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‘News sources indicate that within the coming days the European Union is going to
register barcode on the Israeli goods with the aim of boycotting the goods made by
Zionists in the Occupied Territories. According to Palestine Information
Dissemination Center, the EU will begin putting barcode on the commodities
manufactured in the Zionist settlements.

The European Parliament made the decision in last September so that the Israeli
goods are recognized and boycotted by European citizens. In view of this, 525
members of this parliament have voted positively to the bill while 70 members gave
negative vote and 31 others abstained. The spread of international sanctions
against the child-killer Zionist regime has caused a wave concern among the
regime’s officials while there is news of forming a new Zionist ministry to counter
this global move. Meanwhile, the Zionist regime’s parliament (Knesset) has agreed
with the formation of a new ministry headed by Gilad Erdan, who serves as the
Minister of Public Security and Strategic Affairs.’

Read more: Israel panicked by global boycott on its goods

http://english.irib.ir/programs/political/item/218087-israel-panicked-by-global-boycott-on-its-goods

[Cidersomerset]

'No moderate rebels in Syria, US just trying to save face'

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Published on 5 Nov 2015

The US has reiterated its support for the so-called moderate opposition in Syria,
despite a State Department official admitting that some of the backed rebels have
joined an Al-Qaeda affiliate. Writer and political commentator John Wight joins
RT to discuss this issue

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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‘No buyers, no looters’: ISIS making money on stolen antiquities

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Published on 5 Nov 2015


Islamic State militants are not only exacting a human toll in the Middle
East but also destroying many cultural heritage sites and priceless artifacts.
Syria's ancient city of Palmyra is being reduced to ruins after the Islamist
captured it back in May.

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British generals and diplomats outraged at Cameron’s retreat over Syria airstrikes

By David Icke on 5th November 2015

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‘Generals and diplomats are upset that Prime Minister David Cameron will not push
for a vote on bombing Syria after failing to convince enough MPs it would have any
beneficial effect on the war against Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL).

Cameron has shelved plans for a vote amid fears rebellious Tories would cancel out
the few Labour MPs willing to back him.

Had Cameron lost another vote on bombing Syria, after the embarrassing 2013 ballot
when he was headed off by then-Labour leader Ed Miliband, the PM would have been
politically compromised.’

Read more: British generals and diplomats outraged at Cameron’s retreat over Syria airstrikes

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EU and NATO Set to Destabilize Russia by Anti-Putin Propaganda Operation

By David Icke on 5th November 2015

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‘EU, US and NATO are preparing a media offensive against Russia inside Russia.
The alliance aim to operate propaganda against the Russian government. This
will also reduce the likelihood that independent media will thrive in Russia.

The “Strategic Communication Team East,” as this operation is called,” has already
“reached its full staffing levels” as of 1 September 2015, according to the German
federal government.

Critical voices against this proposal are arising from within the European Union —
especially in Germany’s Left Party. …’

Read more: EU and NATO Set to Destabilize Russia by Anti-Putin Propaganda Operation

http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/eu-and-nato-set-to-destabilize-russia-by-anti-putin-propaganda-operation/








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[Sophocles]

The Fallacy Of Erdogan-Style Democracy (http://thesaker.is/the-fallacy-of-erdogan-style-democracy/)

November 04, 2015

by Ghassan Kadi

Erdogan’s AKP party has scored a monumental victory; not so much in terms of the lead in parliament though. As a matter of fact, it is a fairly narrow victory, but one that was least expected. What is monumental about it is the course that Turkey has set itself upon.

A victory for Erdogan perhaps, but for Turkey itself, the outcome of this election will probably take years and even decades until it becomes clear what the results truly meant for Turkey’s future and wellbeing.

Nearly one hundred years ago, Ataturk has set the foundations of the Turkish Republic, and Turkey was no longer a waning great Empire better known then as “The Sick Man of Asia”. A fresh new republic emerged, though with much smaller territory and much lesser wealth and resources, but it was a fresh start for the Turkish people and an anticipation for a new direction without having to look back much at the past and the loss of either the war or the Empire.

This election for Turkey has been like no other, because most analyses predicted an AKP loss.

Some of Erdogan’s opponents are making accusations that the result was rigged, but whether the polling booths were rigged. Perhaps one could argue that something was rigged; either the polling booths or the minds of the majority in Turkey.

This election for turkey has been like no other, because Turkey has now embarked on a new path; the Erdogan republic.

This now truly marks the end of the Ataturk era. Out with the old and in with the new. Erdogan continues to brandish the portrait of Ataturk in his office, but in reality he has dismantled everything that Ataturk has built and stood up for.

Democracy Ataturk-style had its own flavour, perhaps a unique flavour not known anywhere else in the world, and definitely one that is very different from Western-Style Democracy.

Ataturk was a soldier before he became a politician. He had full faith and trust in the military, and he therefore decided that the military should have the upper hand over politicians and be the national watchdog.

For decades later, once corruption became rife and once politicians were seen to put their own political agenda before national interests, the council of the three army chiefs stepped in, removed the government from office and declared military rule until there was such enough time to call for elections.

Politicians who were deposed by the army, were (an in accordance with the constitution) not allowed to run for office ever again.

The military deterrent was mean to keep politicians honest or face the consequences. The constitution was amended several times and the last significant change was back in 1982, but the army kept its stature.

Erdogan changed this, and the Turkish military does not have that moral upper hand any longer. The final say is back into the hands of the politicians.

But this is not all.

Erdogan has one more task to perform. He wants to change the constitution again giving more power to the president; ie himself and turn Turkey into a state in which the president has unprecedented power. The link below is an excellent reference to the constitutional changes that preceded Erdogan as well as what he has implemented and endeavours to do.

http://bipartisanpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/BPC_President_-Erdogan_Turkey.pdf

This article however is not about the Erdogan changes per se. It is about the manner by which they have been done, both at the level of Erdogan as well as the Turkish people themselves.

Erdogan has used fear and a slogan that meant “AKP or Chaos” in order to polarise voters and get them to revise their June 2015 vote and vote AKP. But this is not new. All Western-Style politicians use all sorts of tactics and dirty tricks in elections.

What is pertinent in the Erdegan-Style Democracy are a number of serious issues.

To begin with, Erdogan has used the democratic process in order to take power away from the army and political rivals and give more power and autocracy to himself.

Would Erdogan go as far as calling for a referendum that abolishes democracy altogether? Even though this is an unlikely prospect, but the Erdogan-Style Democracy has definitely demonstrated new and unprecedented flaws in democratic systems, ones that have not been seen in Western-Style Democarcies; or at least not yet.

In essence, if the public is polled and approves the abolishment of democracy and the instalment of autocracy, then the public’s wish will be granted. Democracy, in its pure form, Western-Style or Erdogan-Style therefore carries a licence for suicide with total impunity and lack of provisions to prevent any ensuing dictatorship.

What is more interesting in the outcome of the very recent November 2015 Turkish parliamentary elections is that Turkish voters did not really favour an Erdogan-Style autocracy against democracy, they have favoured a Theocratic-Style Democracy against secularism.

This is a potentially serious and dangerous development.

The political and military turmoil that has overtaken the Levant in the last couple of decades and since the first US-led war against Saddam in 1991 to be specific, the last five years or so have seen a dogmatic polarisation of Levantine nations.

With the state of Israel in existence, a state that bases itself on a Zionist-Talmudic interpretation that gives some of the descendants of Abraham a form of superiority, some Levantine states and ideologies countered the Zionist argument by adopting a similar, but opposite, argument that is based on Fundamentalist-Islamic rights instead of Zionist-Jewish rights.

Secularism and all-inclusiveness in the Levant have been under severe attacks, the most fearsome of which is the one manifested in the “War On Syria”. As other nations were eventually drawn in, they had to decide whether they would support the rise of the danger of fundamentalism, especially Islamic fundamentalism, sit back and watch it, or partake in standing up against it.

Erdogan has played an instrumental role in the “War On Syria” and Turks are quite aware of this. His gamble has failed abysmally in Syria, and within Turkey itself, his stand has rekindled ethnic and sectarian divides, and Turks are quite aware of this as well.

On the matter of choosing to side with ISIS or those fighting it, including Kurds, Erdogan chose to support ISIS, and this too is not a secret as all Turks are aware of this.

It was mentioned above that some anti-Erdogan Turkish activists are claiming that the elections were rigged. This is a link to one of those claims:

http://aanirfan.blogspot.com.au/2015/11/election-rigged-in-turkey-november-2015.html?m=1

It would be rather difficult for anyone to make impartial assessments about such claims. Certainly however, if the elections were indeed rigged, then there is a serious problem in the way Erdogan’s party practices politics. However, if the elections were not rigged, and if the Turkish people have indeed decided to side with Islamic fundamentalism, then this constitutes a much more serious problem.

I have always maintained that Islamism is a distorted form of Islam that can only be addressed by Muslims themselves if and when they decide to read the Quran correctly. The war against Islamism is not one that can be won militarily alone. That said, “war on terror” has been an American slogan all the while America was feeding the Jihadi Islamists in one hand and giving them a small smack on the bottom with the other hand. As the world is waking up to the fact that Islamic fundamentalism needs to be curbed, the world powers have been making very serious statements about on which side of this argument do they stand.

If Turkish people have decided to side with Islamism and all that comes with it, they will need to be ready for the consequences, domestically, regionally and internationally, courtesy of Erdogan-Style Democracy.

Source (http://thesaker.is/the-fallacy-of-erdogan-style-democracy/)

[Cidersomerset]

Tony Blair: The Elephant In The Room – The David Icke Videocast

By David Icke on 6th November 2015

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Published on 6 Nov 2015
David Icke Talks Tony Blair, Iraq War and more - 8th November 2015
- Tony Blair: The Elephant In The Room - The David Icke Videocast.

To have David's Videocast sent to you in full every week, Click here http://www.davidicke.com/amember/signup

[Cidersomerset]

These discussions are quite use full for an insight what is
actually going on in Syria. All sides have a bias slant
but Cross talk has been analysing far better than the
western 'spin' given out so far by and large.


CrossTalk on Syria: Russian diplomacy

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Published on 6 Nov 2015


Steady as she goes: Russia continues to pursue a carefully calibrated
policy of force and diplomacy in Syria. Damascus invited Moscow to
enter the conflict to preserve the state and fight terrorism. Washington
and its allies remain clueless

CrossTalking with Mohammad Marandi, Gregg Roman and Catherine Shakdam.

Listen to CrossTalk+ here: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/cros...

[idiit]

almost every member of congress a traitor!


The only Member of the sitting US Congress we can document so far that has refused to sign the AIPAC Loyalty Oath to put Israel first even before America is Representative Walter Jones.


How soon can we get AIPAC owned traitors out of Congress ?
By Preston James, Ph.D on October 29, 2015

AIPAC is pronounced I S R A E L.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/10/29/how-soon-can-we-get-aipac-owned-traitors-out-of-congress/

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Pentagon’s Greatest Fear: Russia Can “Annihilate” U.S. Soldiers
By Jonas E. Alexis on November 7, 2015


Retired US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor has recently made a stunning remark which obviously sent shockwaves across the political spectrum: Russia is more powerful than we think


Macgregor declared that the Russian army, though smaller than the U.S. army, can “annihilate” U.S. soldiers.


acgregor continued to say that U.S. “Stryker” armored fighting vehicles in the Czech Republic in late September “won’t fool anyone in Moscow.”[2] Weapons in the U.S. army, Macgregor added, is “‘obsolescent,’ its senior leaders as ‘self-interested,’ and its spending as ‘wasteful.’”[3]

Keep in mind that Macgregor is not some kind of crock-pot theorist out there who has no clue of what he is saying. He got a Ph.D. from West Point in international relations and has been described as “a brilliant man.”[4] Macgregor, Politico tells us,


If the U.S. happens to go into a head-to-head confrontation with the Russians, said Macgregor, the U.S. would be the victim. “Defeated isn’t the right word,” he added. “The right word is annihilated.”[6]

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/11/07/pentagons-greatest-fear-russia-can-annihilate-u-s-soldiers/

[Sophocles]

Police investigate after Putin ally Mikhail Lesin found dead in Washington hotel (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/07/vladimir-putin-ally-found-dead-in-washington-hotel)

Vladimir Putin’s former press secretary, who was an “inspiration” for the Russia Today (RT) news channel, has been found dead in a hotel room in Washington.

RT (https://www.rt.com/news/321121-lesin-dies-heart-attack/)

[Cidersomerset]

Syria militants used chemical weapon, intl watchdog confirms

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Published on 7 Nov 2015
OPCW international watchdog has confirmed that Syrian
militants used chemical weapons in August this year.

However, the experts didn't say which rebel group was
responsible for the mustard gas attack in Syria's Aleppo province.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

[Sophocles]

Apropos (the) gas... your last post, Cidersomerset, reminded me of what mr Hersh had to say a while ago (7. april 2014 yt):

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[Cidersomerset]

One reason for wars is to fire their weapons so they can develop and sell more '
The mil ind complex' share holders, warmongers and all. Of course other countries
China ,Russia and others have their own arms manufactures, so we are heading
back to the 'Arms race' of the cold war. Which is what these corporate war mongers
and 'chicken Hawke' politicians and of course the generals and admirals who would
not have a job !!

Which is why some British generals have been lobbying to get involved with the
bombing of Syria. The UK is already involved with the conflict going on in Iraq with
drones and other efforts which has been downplayed as if we are letting our allies down....

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Syria crisis: UK 'letting down' allies over air strikes
1 hour ago

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The UK is currently only targeting Islamic State militants in Iraq

The UK is "letting down" its allies by failing to launch air strikes against terrorist
group Islamic State in Syria, says Britain's top military commander.

General Sir Nicholas Houghton, the chief of the defence staff, criticised the UK
policy of restricting RAF air strikes to neighbouring Iraq.

He told Sky News the decision "makes no sense" when IS, also known as Isil, has
its stronghold in Syria.

MPs rejected possible UK military action in Syria in 2013.

Sir Nicholas told Sky's Murnaghan programme: "To an extent yes, we are letting
our allies down by not being a full player."


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34759339

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Blood Media: Many of CNN, FOX News ‘Experts’ Cashing In On Wars They’re Hyping

By David Icke on 8th November 2015

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Blood Media: Many of CNN, FOX News ‘Experts’ Cashing In On Wars They’re Hyping

November 6, 2015 By 21wire 3 Comments

21st Century Wire says…

Here’s a key story we ran previously, and it’s even more relevant today.

Back in late 2013, an independent investigation revealed that at least 22
defense industry stakeholders were used by the likes of CNN, FOX News
and others – as ‘experts’ and ‘correspondents’ in order to help sell another
war in Syria (or anywhere else for that matter).

Just remember the following when you see the usual corporate media
operatives on TV trying to sell you another next war…



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NOTE: The Pentagon should really sell sponsorship on US missiles
and bombs to its trove of corporate partners (Image: 21WIRE)

Before the White House’s Syrian War flop, networks like CNN, MSNBC,
Fox News and Bloomberg TV wheeled out at least 22 different men who
they claimed were “pundits” and “commentators”, but in actuality were
merely bomb and missile salesmen – who held director, board and
shareholding positions with military giants like Raytheon, DC Capital
Partners and BAE Systems.

Yes, you heard that right.

Watchdog organisation, the Public Accountability Initiative, a non-profit
research group, details this and many more disclosures in its recent and
damning report on US media coverage to hype a war in Syria.

Should CNN, MSNBC, FOX lose their broadcasting licenses in the US for
this gross breach of ethics, particularly when it’s used to sell something
as violent and abhorrent as war? We say YES. Will that happen in the US?
Well, no, because the media in the US is far from bias and is tightly linked
in ownership and sponsorship to the war industry. Start with General
Electric and work your way around the table from there.


Read more: Blood Media: Many of CNN, FOX News ‘Experts’ Cashing In
On Wars They’re Hyping

http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/11/06/blood-media-many-of-cnn-fox-news-experts-cashing-in-on-wars-theyre-hyping/

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Roll out the general on remembrance sunday ...


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Corbyn nuclear stance 'could undermine UK's deterrent'
20 minutes ago


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Jeremy Corbyn's refusal to launch nuclear weapons would "undermine" the
UK's "deterrent" if he became PM, the chief of the defence staff has warned.

Gen Sir Nicholas Houghton told the BBC's Andrew Marr he would be worried if such
a view "translated into power".

Shadow defence secretary Maria Eagle said she disagreed with Mr Corbyn's belief in
unilateral disarmament.The party's official policy was still to back renewing Trident,
but a review was under way, she added.

Read More....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34759626

[Cidersomerset]

Why British Haste on Plane Bomb Theory?

By David Icke on 8th November 2015

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‘British officials have made an unseemly leap to speculate on a
terrorist plot in the Russian airliner crash over Sinai last weekend.

And Russia has understandably reacted furiously to the speculation,
saying that it is too early to make such an assessment when crash
investigators have not even compiled, let alone evaluated, evidence.

American officials, including President Barack Obama, are also now
echoing the British claims of a bomb on the plane. The question is:
why the haste?’

Read more: Why British Haste on Plane Bomb Theory?

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Published on 7 Nov 2015

Misha Gavrilovitch, International Affairs Commentator, believes the
UK govt want to respond to Russia's presence in the Middle East.

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Militants Allegedly Linked to A321 Plane Crash Spoke in British Accents

By David Icke on 8th November 2015

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‘The Telegraph newspaper said late Saturday it had picked up on reports
suggesting that British-born jihadists could have been involved in the air
tragedy in Sinai, a desert region where militant insurgency has been on
the rise since last year.

The British outlet said it was too early to claim that perpetrators were British,
but if confirmed this would move the issue of ISIL recruiting Britons high up
the UK government’s anti-terrorist agenda.

UK and US officials said earlier this week there was a possibility that the
crashed Russian airliner could have been brought down by a bomb. The
Airbus A321 was flying from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St.
Petersburg when it crashed, killing all 224 people on board.’

Read more: Militants Allegedly Linked to A321 Plane Crash Spoke in British Accents

http://sputniknews.com/world/20151108/1029762826/a321-crash-sinai-militants-had-british-accents.html

[idiit]

George Carlin on American Foreign Policy - Bombing Brown People


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDw-zFFhFgc

https://jhaines6a.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/george-carlin-religion-is-bull****-and-american-foreign-policy-bombing-brown-people/

[Hervé]

Week Five of the Russian Intervention in Syria: The Russians Are Digging in (http://thesaker.is/week-five-of-the-russian-intervention-in-syria-the-russians-are-digging-in/)

November 08, 2015

This column was originally written for the Unz Review: http://www.unz.com/tsaker/week-three-of-the-russian-intervention-in-syria/

Whether this tragedy was directly linked to the war in Syria or not, there is no doubt that the downing of Kogalymavia Flight 9268 was the main event of the past week. Since I have covered this issue elsewhere (http://thesaker.is/a-few-thoughts-about-the-rumors-around-the-downing-of-kogalymavia-flight-9268/), I shall not return to it in detail again here. I will just repeat here my personal conclusion that this tragedy will not impact the Russian operation in Syria or affect the political situation inside Russia. As for the cause of the tragedy, there are increasing indications that both western and Russian security services have come to a tentative conclusion that it was, indeed, a bomb. On Friday, the head of the Federal Security Service has recommended canceling all flights to Egypt and the evacuation of all the Russian citizens in Egypt (roughly 70,000 people). Several EU countries have also taken similar measures.

There has, however, been another interesting but less noticed development this week in the Russian operation in Syria: the Russians are quietly but very effectively “digging in”.

For the first time, Russia has officially declared that air-defense units were also deployed with the Russian forces. Until now, the main burden for air defense had fallen upon the Russian Navy and, specifically, the ships equipped with the naval variant of the S-300 missile system. This was not an optimal solution not only because it put the burden of defending land based assets from the sea, tying down the Russian navy expeditionary force, but also because this solution only “covered” about half of Syria.


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The use of the Moskva guided missile cruiser was a stop-gap measure designed to protect the Russian force in Latakia, but now it appears that dedicated air defense units have been deployed (https://www.rt.com/news/320909-russian-air-defense-syria/). These are most likely the land-based versions of the S-300 missile, possibly in combination with point defense systems such as the Pantsir-S1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantsir-S1) and other, shorter range, MANPADs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-portable_air-defense_system) such as the 9K338 Igla-S (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9K38_Igla) and the advanced 9K33 Verba (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9K333_Verba).

There are also reports indicating that the Russians have deployed very sophisticated electronic warfare units including top-of-the line Krasukhka-4 EW systems (http://lenta.ru/news/2015/10/05/krasuha/) which are amongst the most sophisticated mobile EW systems ever built (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasukha_EW_System) and they are reportedly capable of jamming AWACS and satellites in space. Add to this the presence of SU-30SMs in the skies, and you have a force capable of controlling the Syrian skies.

When asked about this Russian officials gave a cute reply: they said that these air-defense systems were deployed in case of a hijacked aircraft being used to attack the Russian airbase in Latakia. Right.

The real purpose of these efforts is becoming obvious: Russia is trying to deny the US the control of the skies over Syria and, so far, there is very little the USA can do about it (short of starting WWIII). Furthermore, the Russians are also sending a message to Turkey, France and Israel – all countries which have, at different times and in different ways, indicated that they wanted to use the Syrian airspace for their own purposes.

There are now also reports of Russian special forces being sent to Syria (http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/russia-redeploys-from-ukraine-to-syria-report/story-e6frg6so-1227581269977). The WSJ suggested (http://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-said-to-redeploy-special-ops-forces-from-ukraine-to-syria-1445636834) that these forces could be given the tasks of liaising with Syrian intelligence and acting as forward air controllers (FACs). I also personally see another important task for these units: to pre-position hidden fuel caches for the Russian helicopters should there be a need to send them to rescue downed Russian pilots in eastern Syria (Russian Spetsnaz units did create such fuel cashes in southern Afghanistan during the war).


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Take a look at the combat radius of Russian helicopters in Syria. Ideally, a search and rescue mission would employ both a dedicated attack helicopter such as the Mi-24 and a multi-role helicopter such as the Mi-17, the former provides cover and protection for the latter. It would also be possible to have SU-25s protecting Mi-17s, but the best possible version would be to have a covert refueling base somewhere deep inside nominally Daesh territory to extend the range of the rescue teams.

Some western sources (http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/10/30/russian-special-forces-has-isis-met-its-fear-merchant-match/) believe that Russian special forces might also be given direct action missions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_action_%28military%29). This is absolutely possible and such missions are well within the capabilities of the Spetsnaz GRU. Still, their primary mission is a special reconnaissance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_reconnaissance) one and while they might be used to destroy a high value Daesh target (material or human), we will probably never hear about it.

What is certain is that the Russians are steadily increasing their capabilities in Syria and that their presence is rapidly growing from a small and vulnerable force to a much more balanced and capable one.

The Syrians, in the meanwhile, might be achieving their first real successes in their counter offensive. While the Syrian government forces have been slowly pushing back Daesh on many fronts, this progress had, until now, failed to yield an operational breakthrough. This might be happening right now with the much awaited reopening (http://thesaker.is/international-military-review-syria-iraq-battlespace-nov-05-2015/) of the (http://thesaker.is/international-military-review-syria-iraq-battlespace-nov-05-2015/)highway to Aleppo (http://thesaker.is/international-military-review-syria-iraq-battlespace-nov-05-2015/).

The main problem for the Russians remains the fact that the Syrian military has not been able to capitalize on the Russian intervention. This is due to a combination of factors including the fact that the Syrian military is over-streched and unable to concentrate enough forces in one location to achieve a significant breakthrough and the fact that Daesh fighters are well dug-in and are, by all accounts, resisting with determination and skill. Still, the Russian air campaign is degrading the Daesh capabilities and it is possible that, eventually, this will result in a sudden collapse of the Daesh lines in a critical part of the front. For example, the Syrian army is, reportedly, only a few miles from liberating the Kuweyres military airbase and even though its progress is very slow it is likely that the Syrians will eventually break the Daesh siege of this crucial objective. Likewise, in Djobar neighborhood of Damascus is gradually being reconquered in, again, a slow moving but successful operation.

All in all, I am very cautiously optimistic and I keep hoping for an operational victory for the Syrians. If it does not happen, the Iranians and Hezbollah will have to move much larger forces in.

Graphics by SouthFront

[Sophocles]

Russia’s intervention in Syria – a reality-based evaluation (http://thesaker.is/russias-intervention-in-syria-a-reality-based-evaluation/)

The Saker November 09, 2015

It has been over one month since the Russians launched their military and political operation in Syria and the time for hyperbole and flag waving has clearly passed. Gone are the “most anticipated showdown in recent history” along with rumors of MiG-31s, Russian paratroopers, “thousands” of military personnel, ballistic submarines and other such nonsense. And, contrary to what some wrote, none of what happened was “coordinated with the White House”. What I propose to do today is to evaluate what has really happened and to look at the Russian options for the future. But first, a short restatement of what really took place.

A very daring operation by a small military force

I will never repeat this enough: the Russian military forces is a small one. Yes, they are flying an impressive amount of sorties every day (anywhere between 50 to 80). But let’s compare that to the Israeli air force effort during the war against Hezbollah in 2006 when the Israelis flew 400 (four hundred) sorties every day. Add to this the massive Israeli artillery barrage and even attacks from the Israeli Navy. Finally, let’s remember that Israel was not fighting all of Hezbollah at all, but only 2nd tier Hezbollah forces south of the Litani River totaling less than 1000 fighters (Hezbollah kept all the best trained forces north of the Litani River).

So let’s compare the two operations:

Israel in 2006 (33 days):

Daily air sorties
(average) 400

Size of enemy
forces 1’000 (estimate)

Artillery support massive

Naval support continuous

Infantry and
armor up to 30’000

Distance from
homeland zero

Combat Losses 121 dead, 1’244 wounded,
5 tanks, 4 helicopters,
1 aircraft, 1 navy ship

Russia in 2015 (40 days as of today):

Daily air sorties
(average) 70

Size of enemy
forces 200’000 (estimate)

Artillery support none

Naval support very limited

Infantry and
armor small protection force

Distance from
homeland over 1000km

Combat Losses none

Keep in mind that the AngloZionist propaganda always presents the Israeli military in general and the Israeli Air Force in particular as some kind of quasi-invincible super-force of uber-trained heroes who are the best of the best. One quick look at the chart above tells you who the real super heroes are in reality.

But my main point is not to ridicule the Israelis but to point out the huge difference in size between the two forces and to ask a simple question: if a huge Israeli force could not defeat about 1’000 2nd tier Hezbollah fighters, what could the small Russian force realistically achieve?

This, really, is THE key question. And, the answer, is quite obvious: the Russian force was never sent to Syria to defeat Daesh or even change the course of the civil war. The real goal of the Russian interventions were very limited in purely military terms.

First and foremost, the Russian tried to break the US and Turkish momentum for an overt military intervention. In that they undoubtedly succeeded. The second goal was to provide limited but nonetheless crucial support for the Syrian military (including moral support). Again, in that they also undoubtedly succeeded and on most sectors the Syrians are on the offensive, however slowly. Third, it now appears that one of the goals of the Russian intervention was to basically provide the Syrians with a modern air-defense capability and, in that, the Russians have also succeeded, even if partially. Why do I say partially? Because while the current air-defense capabilities of the Russian forces in Syria are adequate to defend the Syrian airspace against a limited attack, they are far from being sufficient to prevent the US from a determined large scale attack. All the Russian did is raise the costs of intervention for the USA, but they did not make it impossible. Interestingly, the Iranians have declared today that they have (finally!) finalized the sale of Russian S-300s to Iran (http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/11/09/436896/Iran). In doing so Russia not only helps protect Iran, but the Russian military also helps a friendly country secure an airspace which might be vital for Russian efforts in the future.

The real “action” however was never military but political: Russia literally forced the US to negotiate with Iran and, eventually, Syria by making it politically impossible not to. The mantra “Assad must go” is now gone and the AngloZionists have to at least give the appearance of being willing to negotiate. Again, this is undoubtedly a major victory for Russia.

Now let’s look at the (predictable) bad news

Of course, this is “bad news” only for those who from day 1 bought into the “game changing” narrative about the Russian military intervention. For those who, like myself, prefer facts to slogans, none of the following came as a big surprise. In fact, all this was predictable and predicted.

First, Daesh did rapidly adapt to the Russian air campaign. The first thing Daesh realized is that regardless of how intensive the Russian bombing campaign was, it would have a very limited impact on the actual line of contact, on the front line. As far as I know, the only location where the Russians did provide some limited close air support was in the Latakia province and along the main highway to the north. This is now slowly changing as the Russian are now gradually shifting from operational targets to tactical ones, i.e. instead of hitting command or training centers or ammo dumps, they are now gradually increasing their support for the Syrian military engaged in direct combat. Until last week or so, all the Syrians had to support them on the ground were 30 year old MiG-21s and MiG-23s. This is now reportedly changing in some key sectors of the front.

Second, instead of just hunkering down, Daesh went on the offensive in several sectors of the front, thereby forcing the Syrians to send troops to these sectors and that, in turn, prevented the Syrians from concentrating enough firepower and manpower along their chosen axes of attack to achieve an operational breakthrough. The lack of manpower (the 4 year long civil war took a terrible toll on the Syrians) is a crucial Syrian vulnerability which Daesh has very skillfully exploited.

[Sidebar: for those confused by the above, let me explain this: the general rule of thumb – not an absolute rule for sure – in the military is that the defending side has a big advantage over the attacker and that therefore the attacking side needs roughly a 3:1 advantage over the defender. Again, this is a very rough approximation and in certain situations such as urban or mountain warfare this ratio might go much higher up, to 6:1 and even higher. Now, the attacked does not need to achieve this 3:1 ratio in the full length of the front, only in the primary and, possibly, secondary sector of attack, which is typically very narrow. Hence the importance of making deliberately detectable false attacks – to have the defender concentrate his forces in the wrong place. By constantly going on the offensive along various parts of the front Daesh is forcing the Syrians to send in reinforcements which they would otherwise use in the offensive. This is why the Syrians did not achieve any operational breakthrough, at least so far]

The (truly) unpredictable bad news: Flight 9268

More and more signs are pointing to the very high probability that Kogalymavia Flight 9268 was destroyed in mid-air by a bomb. Interestingly, even Egyptian experts which everybody suspected of wanting to cover this up are now saying that they are 90% sure that a bomb caused the crash (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/09/us-egypt-crash-russia-flights-tourists-idUSKCN0SX07D20151109). The Russians ain’t saying much, but all their actions are consistent with the same hypothesis. While we will have to wait for the official report to get the facts (yes, I trust this report simply because there are too many countries involved and the Russians have no reasons to lie) I personally have come to the conclusion that by now the destruction of Flight 9268 by a bomb is a reasonable working hypothesis. I believe that this bomb was placed inside the aircraft by one or several individuals either sympathetic to Daesh and the Muslim Brotherhood or simply for money. I am aware that there are already plenty of goofballs out there offering much more exotic explanations (from a fly-by-wire backdoor to an Israeli missile to an energy weapon) but, being a great believer in Occam’s razor, I will stick to the simplest explanation until I am provided with fact-based logical reasons to think otherwise.

As I have written in the past, I don’t believe that this tragedy will have a significant impact on the Russian operation in Syria or on Russian policies, if only because there is really nothing much the Russians can do.

In this case again, there is a lot of hyperbole around what the Russians might do if it is proven that Daesh or Daesh sympathizers placed this bomb on the aircraft. Furthermore, since Daesh is really a creation of the AngloZionist Empire, then the latter would have to be held accountable, at least under the Command Responsibility (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_responsibility) doctrine. The Washington Post has already decided to preempt any such suggestions (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obfuscation-in-the-sinai-valley/2015/11/06/a7e5aa74-84ab-11e5-9afb-0c971f713d0c_story.html) by ridiculing any possible Russian or Egyptian statements that the CIA might be involved. And considering the “special relationship” the USA has the Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the UAE or Qatar, any suggestions that these countries are involved would also put Russia on a collision course with CENTCOM. Personally, I think that it is perfectly fair and reasonable to place the responsibility for all the atrocities committed by al-Qaeda/ISIS/Daesh & Co on the AngloZionist Empire, including the wars in Bosnia, Chechnia and 9/11. Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the UAE, Qatar or Israel are all just parts of the “Empire of Kindness” created by the US deep state and while they might have disputes with each other they are basically all serving the same interests. And there is no doubt in my mind that Putin fully understands that. The problem is that Russia is too weak a country to be able to declare that or even to acquiesce to any such statements. Not only does the Kremlin want to avoid a direct war with the USA, but even an open-ended political and economic confrontation with the so-called “West” is something which Russia is trying hard to avoid due to her comparative weakness. I therefore don’t believe that Russia will take any direct actions against the countries sponsoring and controlling Daesh.

There is another interesting hypothesis made by some observers. According to them, the real purpose of the bombing of Flight 9268 would be to draw Russian into a ground operation against Daesh. Here again, if that was the goal behind this atrocity, I don’t believe that it will work. Just like Russia did everything in her power to avoid openly intervening militarily in the Donbass, Russia will do everything possible to avoid any ground operation in Syria (for a detailed discussion of the Russian reasons please see here (http://www.unz.com/tsaker/a-russian-military-intervention-in-syria-i-very-much-doubt-it/) and here (http://www.unz.com/tsaker/on-russian-military-interventions-or-lack-thereof/)). If 60% of Russians are opposed to an direct intervention in the Donbass, then there will be even much more opposition to any Russian ground operation in Syria. Finally, as I have written many times, the Russian military (as a whole) was never designed to operate at beyond 1000km from the Russian borders and Russia therefore simply lack that kind of power-projection capability.

Frustrating as this might be, the right thing do to for Russia is to do nothing or, more accurately, to do nothing different from what she has been doing so far.

Russia does have the capabilities to increase her military involvement in Syria and I have already mentioned these options in the past. They include using long-range aviation from Russia or, better, using an Iranian air base. Alternatively, Russia could decide to build a “Khmeimim 2″ airbase near Latakia and commit more aircraft. Maybe I am wrong here, but I don’t see that as a solution. In my opinion, there is a limited timeframe for the Syrian military to achieve an operational victory against Daesh, after that I see no other option left but an Iranian ground intervention (which, by itself, would be a very complex matter and which would trigger a massive anti-Iranian hysteria in the US-controlled part of our planet).

So all I am left with is the hope that the Russian General Staff’s modeling capabilities are as good as they are supposed to be and that the very limited but highly effective Russian intervention will be sufficient to go from having a quantitative effect to a qualitative one. I hope that the sum of small tactical victories will eventually bring Daesh to a breaking point significant enough to allow for a Syrian operational success. I will gladly admit that at the end of the day I trust Putin and the superb team of generals he has placed at the head of the Russian armed forces.

In conclusion I want to say that I am very proud of what the Russians are doing in Syria, both militarily and politically. They have shown an immense amount of courage and skills, at all levels of the game. But I also think that it is crucial for all of us, who are sympathetic to Russia and the anti-imperial Resistance worldwide, to stop presenting this intervention like some kind of “game changing” “done deal” in which the Russian Bear will crush all the terrorists and restore peace to Syria. Alas, we are still very very far from that. What the Russian have provided is an absolutely vital and very daring last minute temporary solution to a very dangerous situation about to get much worse. They did that knowing full well that they were at a huge political, geographic and military disadvantage and that their move was extremely risky. I would not say that Putin is risk averse, but he is certainly very cautious and for him to have authorized such an operation must have been very difficult. My guess is that what made him decide in favor of this intervention is the (correct) belief that the Russian forces in Syria are not only fighting for Syria, but that they are first and foremost fighting for Russia. Every Wahabi/Takfiri organization on the planet has already declared a jihad against Russia and Russia has been fighting these crazies ever since the USA and the Saudis literally federated them in Afghanistan (the “brilliant” plan of Brzezinski and, later, Reagan). The Russian people know and understand that, and Putin has repeated that often enough to have this message fully sink in. This is why the Russians will hold the course even if a major setback occurs and this is also why they will not have an events like the bombing of Flight 9268 by US-run puppet distract them from their real objective: help the Syrians, Iraqis and Iranians defeat Daesh.

The Saker (http://thesaker.is/russias-intervention-in-syria-a-reality-based-evaluation/)

[Sophocles]

Putin: US missile defense aimed at neutralizing Russia nukes, N. Korea & Iran just a cover (https://www.rt.com/news/321434-us-missile-shield-putin/)

RT Published time: 10 Nov, 2015 15:06

Vladimir Putin said the US is trying to “neutralize Russia’s nuclear potential” with its on-going deployment of a missile defense shield in Europe. The Russian president has promised a response.

“References to Iran and North Korea nuclear threats are just a cover for the true purpose [of NATO missile defense]. That is to neutralize the potential of other nuclear states not the US or its allies – primarily Russia,” Putin said during a meeting in Sochi dedicated to national military development. “The US is attempting to achieve strategic military superiority, with all the consequences that entails.”

Full article (https://www.rt.com/news/321434-us-missile-shield-putin/)

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German Foreign Ministry: New Russian nukes in Russia are bad, but new US nukes in Germany are good:

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[idiit]

The real “action” however was never military but political

the real action is going to be financial based on trade. Russia, china and the rest of the brics control trade. usa will be cut off their counterfeiting and borrowing of the world's reserve currency (monetary).

the idiots planning warfare always think in terms of the last war. Russia and china are implementing a new paradigm.

[idiit]

U.S. SecDef Ashton Carter Implies Russia & China Are Enemies of U.S.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/11/u-s-secdef-ashton-carter-implies-russia-china-are-enemies-of-u-s.html

[Callista]

From the Office of the President of Russia (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/50648 )

http://static.kremlin.ru/media/events/photos/big/Kl1cVNrXQYsD3eNqZtyoTdVF2Hy5lLw4.jpg

Meeting on Armed Forces development

The meeting opens a series of discussions on developing Russia’s defence industry, carrying out state defence procurement orders, and armed forces development.

November 9, 2015 14:30 Sochi

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues.

Today, we start the latest in our regular series of meetings on developing production sectors related to our country’s defence. We will take a look at the work underway on defence procurement orders, and review and readjust our plans if needed for the current circumstances and in light of the recent military exercises that took place. We will make a general overview of the work to strengthen our country’s security.

Practice has proven meetings in this format to be very useful. I remind you that the results that came out of the previous meetings were used to draft several concept documents, and we approved the decision to establish the Air and Space Forces, which means that the different units and the main tasks in air and space defence are now under single command.

The Armed Forces are receiving new strategic missile systems, atomic and multipurpose submarines, surface vessels. We are modernising the combat aircraft fleet and air defence systems, and supplying new arms and equipment to the ground forces and the paratroopers.

We also adjusted the plans for re-equipping our forces with modern arms, and organised stable work at the defence industry companies. In this respect, I want to say that our upcoming meetings, including with industry representatives, are extremely important not just for ensuring and improving Russia’s defence capability, but in the current economic downturn, are also important for developing the industry itself and the economy as a whole.

We all know how many people work in this sector, and we know that this sector is related to the high-tech production sectors and in this sense is vital for comprehensive development of our entire economy and for maintaining social stability. I mean this is in the sense that, as I said, this sector employs a large number of people, many highly qualified specialists, and together with their families, this comes to hundreds of thousands of people.

I want to start the meeting by noting that the companies are working steadily. The Armed Forces are receiving new strategic missile systems, atomic and multipurpose submarines, and surface vessels too. We are modernising the combat aircraft fleet and air defence systems, and supplying new arms and equipment to the ground forces and the paratroopers.

The timely measures we have taken have improved combat readiness and our Armed Forces’ combat capabilities. This has been convincingly demonstrated in the anti-terrorist operation that we are conducting at the Syrian government’s request.

The snap checks and numerous military exercises we have held recently have also confirmed a high level of combat readiness. The biggest operations training event this year was the strategic command staff exercise Tsentr-2015. A total 95,000 service personnel took part in the exercise, which tested new models of arms and equipment.

Of course, the conclusions and proposals following the results of these exercises should form the basis for our plans for military development and modernisation over the period 2016–2020.

We will start work today in the same format as before. Once again, I wish you all welcome. Let’s start our work.

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http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/50656
Meeting on Armed Forces development

Vladimir Putin had another in a series of meetings to consider the development of the Armed Forces and the military-industrial complex.

November 10, 2015 17:20 Sochi

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Good afternoon, colleagues.

Today we will continue considering matters pertaining to the operation of industrial facilities and corresponding departments of the Defence Ministry regarding weapons systems that are to determine the overall image of our army in the coming decade.

The development and production of such systems is our response to the challenges we are facing and they guarantee the defence of this country’s security and national interests. As we all know, the United States and their allies are continuously building up their global missile defence system. Unfortunately, neither our concern nor cooperation proposals are taken into consideration.

We indicated on numerous occasions that we see such actions as an attempt to undermine the existing parity in nuclear missile armaments, and actually to destabilise the entire system of regional and global stability.

They assured us that the anti-missile defence system and its European segment were designed to defend from Iranian ballistic missiles. However, we know that the Iranian nuclear issue has been resolved, with appropriate agreements signed. Moreover, corresponding parliaments have already approved them, but work on the anti-missile defence system continues.

Therefore, references to the Iranian and North Korean nuclear missile threats are a cover-up for the true intentions, which are actually directed at neutralising the strategic nuclear potential of other nuclear states, apart from the United States and their allies, primarily that of Russia, of course, and at obtaining a decisive military supremacy with all the ensuing consequences.

We have said repeatedly that Russia would take the necessary reciprocal measures to strengthen its nuclear potential. We will also work on anti-missile defence systems as well, but on the first stage, as we have repeatedly said, we will focus also on offensive systems capable of overcoming any anti-missile defence systems.

In the past three years, facilities of the defence industry have created and successfully tested a number of promising armament systems capable of performing combat missions in conditions of an anti-missile defence system in depth. Troops have begun receiving such systems this year.

Today we will discuss the assimilation of new types of armaments and then we will talk to representatives of the military-industrial complex and ask them to speak of the possibility to further improve the combat characteristics of these systems. Now let us begin.

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http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/50668

Meeting on Armed Forces development

Vladimir Putin held the latest in a series of meetings on Armed Forces development. Carrying out state defence procurement orders was the subject of discussion.

November 11, 2015 16:00 Sochi

President of Russia Vladimir Putin:

Good afternoon, colleagues,

Today, we will continue our discussions, review the preliminary results of work on state defence procurement orders over the course of this year, and decide on measures that will help to make cooperation between the Defence Ministry and the defence industry companies more effective. We therefore have industry representatives present today.

One of our top military development priorities is to create a modern army equipped with the latest arms and hardware, of course. This was always one of the top priorities. Our task now is to carry out all of our plans.

I have said before and say again that we have no intention of getting drawn into an arms race and no plans to try to catch up to or overtake anyone. Our objective is simply to make up for the time that was lost in the 1990s, when the Armed Forces and defence industry companies were chronically underfinanced and forced to scale back programmes for modernising the armed forces units and the defence enterprises themselves.

Today’s situation is different. Overall, money for carrying out the state defence procurement orders is allocated at the level set in the state arms procurement programme through to 2020. Let me say again that this is not urgent additional work, but a planned programme that was put together 10 years ago now. Ten years ago, we started talking about the need for a new state defence procurement programme through to 2020, and that was when we began drawing up these plans.

The results of work on state defence procurement orders for the first three quarters of this year show that the defence industry companies and the Defence Ministry have kept up the pace. The armed forces units received a quarter more new and modernised arms models than in 2014. What is important is that these new arms are being put to intensive use. The exercises and snap inspections we have carried out confirm the increase in effectiveness and level of combat preparedness. I hope that this will continue.

At the same time, there are a few points I want to bring to your attention. First, we must make sure that there are no interruptions and delays in carrying out the set objectives. This has not been the case so far. Of course, we do understand that there are objective reasons for such situations, related to production and organisational problems. Let’s look today at how we can resolve these problems.

Second, we must continue the work on import replacement of foreign components and parts used in arms and military equipment production. We have already noted that we have to replace ever more sophisticated parts and components today. But as I have said before, this will spur high-tech development in our own industrial sectors and I think that it will have a positive impact on civilian sectors too.

It has always been the case at all times and all around the world that high-tech developments that come out of the defence industry soon find applications in civilian production sectors too. We must make sure that the same thing happens here.

Let’s start work.

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[Sophocles]

Did Russia just “gently” threaten the USA? (http://thesaker.is/did-russia-just-gently-threaten-the-usa/)

The Saker November 12, 2015

Interesting stuff today. A major Russian TV channel just aired a report about Putin meeting with his top military commanders. I don’t have the time to translate what Putin said word for word, but basically he said that the USA had refused every single Russian offer to negotiate about the US anti-missile system in Europe and that while the US had initially promised that the real target of this system was Iran, now that the Iranian nuclear issue had been solved, the US was still deploying the system. Putin added that the US was clearly attempting to change the world’s military balance. And then the Russian footage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FgPBGteLzU&featu) showed this:

http://thesaker.is/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Status6.jpg

According to the Kremlin it was a mistakenly leaked secret document. And just to make sure that everybody got it, RT wrote a full article in English about this in an article entitled “‘Assured unacceptable damage’: Russian TV accidentally leaks secret ‘nuclear torpedo’ design (https://www.rt.com/news/321640-leaked-russian-nuclear-torpedo/)“. According to RT


The presentation slide titled “Ocean Multipurpose System: Status-6” showed some drawings of a new nuclear submarine weapons system. It is apparently designed to bypass NATO radars and any existing missile defense systems, while also causing heavy damage to “important economic facilities” along the enemy’s coastal regions. The footnote to the slide stated that Status-6 is intended to cause “assured unacceptable damage” to an adversary force. Its detonation “in the area of the enemy coast” would result in “extensive zones of radioactive contamination” that would ensure that the region would not be used for “military, economic, business or other activity” for a “long time.” According to the blurred information provided in the slide, the system represents a massive torpedo, designated as “self-propelled underwater vehicle,” with a range of up to 10 thousand kilometers and capable of operating at a depth of up to 1,000 meters.

Actually, such ideas are nothing new. The late Andrei Sakharov had already proposed a similar idea to basically wipe out the entire US East Coast (https://www.facebook.com/john.bengtson.9/posts/10202519228606552). The Russians have also look into the possibility to detonate a nuclear device to set off the “Yellowstone Caldera” and basically destroy most of the USA in one shot (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3020810/The-Apocalypse-Simply-Cheaply-Russian-military-analyst-recommends-bombing-Yellowstone-supervolcano-San-Andreas-fault-nuclear-deterrent.html). While in the early years following WWII the Soviets did look into all sort of schemes to threaten the USA with destruction, the subsequent development of Soviet nuclear capabilities made the development of this type of “doomsday weapons” useless. Personally, I don’t believe for one second that the Russians are now serious about developing such system as it would be literally a waste of resources. So what is going on here?

This so-called “leak” of “secret documents” is, of course, no leak at all. This is a completely deliberate action. To imagine that a Russian journalist could, just by mistake, film a secret document (helpfully held up for him by a general) and then just walk away, get it passed his editor and air it is laughable. Any footage taken in a meeting of the President with his senior generals would be checked many times over. No, this was a deliberate way to remind the USA that if they really are hell-bent on spending billions of dollars in a futile quest to create some kind of anti-missile system Russia could easily develop a cheap weapon system to still threaten the USA with total annihilation. Because, make no mistake, the kind of long range torpedo being suggested here would be rather cheap to build using only already existing technologies. I would even add that rather than setting such a weapon off the US coast the system could also be designed to fire off a secondary missile (ballistic or cruise) which could then fly to any inland target. Again, such technologies already exist in the Russian military and have even been deployed on a smaller scale. See for yourself:

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Coming back to the real world, I don’t believe for one second that any type of anti-missile system could be deployed in Europe to shield NATO the EU or the US from a Russian retaliatory strike should the Empire ever decide to attack Russia. All the East Europeans are doing is painting a cross-hair on themselves as these will be the very first targets to be destroyed in case of a crisis. How? By use of special forces first and, if needed, by Iskander (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9K720_Iskander) missile strikes if all else fails. But the most likely scenario is that key components of the anti-missile system will suddenly experience “inexplicable failures” which will render the entire system useless. The Russians know that and so do the Americans. But just to make sure that everybody got the message the Russians have now shown that even a fully functional and survivable US anti-missile system will not protect anybody from a Russian retaliation.

The sad thing is that US analysts all fully understand that but they have no say in a fantastically corrupt Pentagon. The real purpose of the US program is not to protect anybody against a non-existing Russian threat, but to dole out billions of dollars to US corporations and their shareholders. And if in the process the US destabilizes the entire planet and threatens the Russians – then “to hell with ‘em Russikes! We are the indispensable nation and f**k the rest of the planet!” Right?

Wrong.

What happened today is a gentle reminder of that.

The Saker

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Norwegian msm Dagbladet just reported this:

Russia revealed top-secret plans for "doomsday torpedo" on TV ... accidentally
- Will not happen again. (http://www.dagbladet.no/2015/11/13/nyheter/utenriks/russland/vladimir_putin/41916340/) (in norwegian)

[Sophocles]

Syria's civil war and the uprising against Assad was engineered in Washington (http://www.sott.net/article/306114-Syrias-civil-war-and-the-uprising-against-Assad-was-engineered-in-Washington)


Eric Zuesse
Strategic Culture Foundation (http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/11/10/uprising-against-assad-was-engineered-in-washington.html)
Wed, 11 Nov 2015 17:00 UTC

http://www.sott.net/image/s14/280897/large/s1_reutersmedia.jpg

A terrific news report (https://consortiumnews.com/2015/07/20/hidden-origins-of-syrias-civil-war/) by Jonathan Marshall at Consortium News provides the first-ever presentation in the West of the event that sparked the demonstrations that sparked the Syrian civil war, and of the entire origin of that war.

Unlike so many online 'news' reports that are merely authoritarian trash because they don't link to any of their sources (they rely instead upon dumb readers' faith or trust in the 'reporter' or in the publisher, such as The New York Times or Fox News), this one from Marshall is top-notch: not only does it provide intelligently skeptical readers with instantaneous access to documentation for each one of its key points, but those sources are credible ones. Taken all together, the sources, and Marshall's presentation of them, constitute a solid historical account of how the war to bring down Syria's leader, Bashar al-Assad, actually started.

It didn't start by Assad's dumping (as U.S. President Barack Obama loves to claim) "barrel bombs," upon merely peaceful protesters in Syria. It started actually in Washington, years before that. The Obama Administration itself was taking advantage of not only the "Arab Spring" protests throughout much of the Arab world, but, specifically, of an ongoing economic catastrophe in Syria that had started five years before the anti-Assad demonstrations did: an extended drought. Here is how the source that Marshall linked to (http://grist.org/food/2010-01-15-drought-drives-middle-eastern-peppers/) describes it, two years before the "Arab Spring" even began:


In the past three years, 160 Syrian farming villages have been abandoned near Aleppo as crop failures have forced over 200,000 rural Syrians to leave for the cities. This news is distressing enough, but when put into a long-term perspective, its implications are staggering: many of these villages have been continuously farmed for 8000 years.

That source had been published on 16 January 2010. The drought continued on; the situation only got even worse (http://religioner.no/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/religioner.no_wcas-d-13-00059.pdf) right into 2011 and up through the public demonstrations in Aleppo that started the war. There were no "barrel bombs" then. There was instead surging economic dislocation. Obama merely took advantage of it. He knew that it was coming, and he planned so as to exploit it.

In fact, a wikileaked confidential 26 November 2008 cable from the U.S. Embassy in Damascus to the CIA and other associated agencies (https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08DAMASCUS847_a.html) referred to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization by saying:


UNFAO Syria Representative Abdullah bin Yehia briefed econoff and USDA Regional Minister-Counselor for Agriculture on what he terms the "perfect storm," a confluence of drought conditions with other economic and social pressures that Yehia believes could undermine stability in Syria. Because he is working with such limited resources, Yehia plans to target FAO assistance to small-holding farmers in the hardest-hit province of northeast Syria, Al Hasakah. (Note: This province shares a northern border with Turkey and a southern border with Iraq. Mosul is approximately 100km from Al Hasakah province.) Because the UN appeal has, thus far, not been entirely successful, Yehia has had to prioritize aid recipients.

That was institutional U.S. federal government knowledge three months prior to Obama's becoming President. Obama as the President-elect at the time was privy to such information. Once he got into the White House, he needed to understand what was going on in Syria. Was it dumb of Yehia to trust the U.S. government with this information? Was he naive about the type of people who sit in America's Oval Office nowadays? Is a deer in the forest naive to move when a hunter is stalking it? Is the deer supposed to just stand still, instead? Barack Obama during his electoral campaign had provided the public with no reason to suspect that he might have been harboring aggressive designs against the Syrian government, nor even against the Russian government that has been supporting it. Yehia was just seeking help, like the deer in fear.

Obama knew what was going on. He knew that the Syrian situation wasn't just "barrel bombs" showing up suddenly out of nowhere, from no cause, and for no reason. He knew more than was published to the public in the American press. His repeated references to "barrel bombs" after the situation in Syria blew up, suggests that he takes advantage of the fact that the American public isn't aware of such facts. It suggests that he's playing the American public as trusting gulls, rather than as citizens.

In fact, America's own National Academy of Sciences recently published a study (17 March 2015), "Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought (http://www.pnas.org/content/112/11/3241.full.pdf?sid=6a2d4457-7f00-4063-900b-358bdd1c7382)," which opens (though propagandistically blaming Assad as having contributed to the drought): "Before the Syrian uprising that began in 2011, the greater Fertile Crescent experienced the most severe drought in the instrumental record. For Syria, a country marked by poor governance and unsustainable agricultural and environmental policies, the drought had a catalytic effect, contributing to political unrest." (Of course, Obama doesn't claim to be bombing Assad's forces because Assad had 'unsustainable agricultural and environmental policies.') In the section of that report "Significance," the investigators-propagandists close: "We conclude that human influences on the climate system are implicated in the current Syrian conflict."

So, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, in this recent study, is arguing, in effect, that Syria should have a different government. Perhaps the failed state that Obama insists upon producing there would be the 'solution'? To what extent is the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (its PNAS) now itself politicized, nationalistic, propagandistic — that they are retrospectively publishing something like this, which fails to criticize the U.S. Government itself for having turned down the Syrian Government's years-long pleadings for assistance on the matter? The PNAS study ignores this. Instead, it argues only that, "The rapidly growing urban peripheries of Syria, marked by illegal settlements, overcrowding, poor infrastructure, unemployment, and crime, were neglected by the Assad government and became the heart of the developing unrest."

Wow, the NAS argues that Assad should have been more dictatorial! That would have helped prevent the effects of the drought? Does nothing that comes from the U.S. Establishment possess credibility anymore — publishing garbage like this in PNAS? Is Assad more of a dictator than Obama? Does the U.S. National Academy of Sciences really think he should have been? How absurd does the propaganda need to be in order for the U.S. to become a laughingstock to the entire world for its 'democratic' pretensions? After all: it's not a democracy (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/jimmy-carter-is-correct-t_b_7922788.html). And the one scientific study that has been done of that has confirmed that it's not (http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/04/14/us-oligarchy-not-democracy-says-scientific-study). So: the U.S. now insists upon installing 'democracy' in Syria, where all polls show that Assad would win any free election (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/09/polls-show-syrians-overwhelmingly-blame-u-s-for-isis.html) (and the latest polled finding is that he'd win at least 55% of the votes (http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/11/07/how-bamboozled-the-american-public-are-about-syria.html)) but Obama insists that he must be ousted, so that there can be 'democracy' there?

Marshall's news report about the origin of the Syrian war was published at Consortium News on 20 July 2015, but was picked up and reported to a broader audience only at a very few news-sites, each no larger (or even smaller) in audience-size than is the publisher (Consortium News) itself. Only RINF, CommonDreams and Truthout republished it.

Reddit posted that story's headline, "Hidden Origins of Syria's Civil War," linking to the Consortium News report, but no one up-marked it there, and still no reader-comments have been posted to it there (https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsreallygoinon/comments/3egc9o/hidden_origins_of_syrias_civil_war/). It was just another voice of real news unheard in the wilderness of propaganda that causes an individual tree to be ignored among the forest.

Thus: This blockbuster three-month-old news-report still remains news in the U.S., even today.

Marshall's news report was one of the most important of all news reports on the Syrian war, and it certainly deserves larger public distribution than that. So:

Here (https://consortiumnews.com/2015/07/20/hidden-origins-of-syrias-civil-war/) is his historical account of the origin of the Syrian war.

Sott.net (http://www.sott.net/article/306114-Syrias-civil-war-and-the-uprising-against-Assad-was-engineered-in-Washington)

[Rocky_Shorz]

Anyone have details of the attack today in Beirut Lebanon?

[Flash]

Anyone have details of the attack today in Beirut Lebanon?




Suicide blasts kill 43 in Hezbollah area of Beirut suburb, ISIS claims responsibility
The Associated Press Posted: Nov 12, 2015 11:27 AM ET| Last Updated: Nov 12, 2015 5:14 PM ET
Twin suicide bombings struck a southern Beirut suburb that's a stronghold of the Shiite Hezbollah group on Thursday evening, killing at least 43 people and wounding scores more in one of the deadliest attacks in years in Lebanon.

The attack was quickly claimed by the extremist group ISIS, which is fighting in neighbouring Syria and Iraq but has until now not had a recognized affiliate in Lebanon, though the tiny Mediterranean country has in the past years faced deadly spillovers from the civil war next door.

The explosions hit minutes apart during rush hour in an area of southern Beirut called Burj al-Barajneh, a stronghold of the militant Hezbollah group. Hezbollah has been fighting in Syria along with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces. The area has been hit in the past and Sunni militant groups have threatened to carry out more such attacks.

Along with the 43 killed, the bombings also wounded 239 people, the Health Ministry announced.

It was not immediately clear how many attackers were involved. According to a Lebanese security official, the first suicide attacker detonated his explosive vest outside a Shiite mosque, while the second blew himself up inside a nearby bakery.

An apparent third attacker was found dead, his legs blown off while he still wore an intact explosives belt, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations. The official speculated that the third may have been killed from the explosion of the second suicide bomber, as he was reportedly close to that blast.

The Al-Mayadeen TV also reported there was a third would-be suicide attacker, and showed a video of a bearded young man who wore an explosives belt. The report said he was killed before he was able to detonate his explosives.

At the scene of the blasts, residents showed reporters what they said were metal pebbles that are usually put inside an explosive belt to inflict maximum casualties.

"They targeted civilians, worshippers, unarmed people, women and elderly, they only targeted innocent people," Hezbollah official Bilal Farhat told The Associated Press, calling it a "satanic, terrorist attack."

Hospitals in southern Beirut were calling on people to donate blood and appealed on residents not to gather at the hospital gates so that ambulance and emergency staff could work unhindered.

'Massacre'

For more than an hour, ambulances struggled to ferry the wounded and the dead from the neighbourhood while Lebanese troops and Hezbollah gunmen cordoned off the area, preventing anyone from getting close to the site of the two blasts, which were less than 50 meters apart.

"There is a massacre inside and we will not let you take photos," a Hezbollah member screamed at an Associated Press photographer at the scene shortly after the explosions. An hour later, ambulance sirens could still be heard in Beirut streets.

Hezbollah also called on people to leave all coffee shops in the area, which are usually packed with people, and urged residents to inform the group about any suspicious moves.

Prime Minister Tammam Salam condemned the "cowardly criminal act," urging the Lebanese to unite. U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Sigrid Kaag also denounced the "heinous attack," stressing the need for those responsible to be brought to justice and saying that the international community was standing by Lebanon.

ISIS posted its claim of responsibility for the bombings on social media pages linked to the Sunni militant group. The claim could not be independently verified but it was similar to other ISIS claims.

ISIS said the attack was carried out by detonating an explosives-laden motorcycle close to a gathering of Shiites — a likely reference to the mosque — and followed by a suicide bomber wearing an explosives vest. The statement made no mention of a third would-be bomber.

"Let the Shiite apostates know that we will not rest until we take revenge in the name of the Prophet [Muhammad]," the IS claim said.

SYRIA-CRISIS/HEZBOLLAH-BLAST
At least 43 people were killed in two suicide bomb blasts in a crowded district in Beirut's southern suburbs, a stronghold of the Shi'ite Muslim militant movement Hezbollah. (Hasan Shaaban/Reuters)

2nd Beirut attack by ISIS

Thursday's attack shattered a period of relative calm in Lebanon. It was the first such large-scale bombing since mid-2014, and comes amid much political upheaval in the country. It was also the deadliest attack in Lebanon since Aug. 23, 2013, when two car bombs exploded outside two Sunni mosques packed with worshippers in the northern city of Tripoli, killing 47 people and wounding hundreds.

Lebanon has been without president for over a year. The country has seen major protests in the past few months over the government's inability to agree on a solution for a festering garbage crisis, and parliament has not functioned properly for years.

A spate of similar bombings in 2013 and 2014 targeted Hezbollah strongholds in retaliation for the group's involvement in the Syrian civil war, which has angered Sunni groups across the Middle East.

As for the ISIS, this is the second attack claimed by IS so far in Beirut, after a January 2014 bombing in the district of Haret Hreik, also a Shiite neighbourhood in the Lebanese capital, according to the U.S.-based SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks militant messaging on the Internet.

Among those killed in Thursday's blasts were two staffers of the American University of Beirut, according to a memo circulated to the AUB community. The memo did not give the names of the staffers or other details.

© The Associated Press, 2015
The Canadian Press

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/beirut-dual-explosions-lebanon-1.3315846


I strongly strongly doubt that ISIS would attack anything related to Hezbollah, if ISIS is pro-Muslim pro Arab world. To me this is the demonstration of ISIS true affiliations.

[animovado]

This is another good read about the origins of the crisis in Syria:

http://diewirklichewirklichkeit.com/2015/09/27/bashar-al-assad-how-an-ophthalmologist-became-the-slaughterer-of-damascus/

BASHAR AL-ASSAD: HOW AN OPHTHALMOLOGIST BECAME THE “SLAUGHTERER OF DAMASCUS”
An analysis of the Syrian civil war

https://diewirklichewirklichkeit.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/assad.png


1. “Day of Rage”
Many a famous personage in history is honored with a sobriquet, often describing a characteristic feature of his personality: So we can assume that “Charles the Bald” did not have a lot of hair, “Pepin the Short” was rather small, and Elvis is simply “The King”, even so he is not of noble birth. So when the media is calling the Syrian President “Assad the Slaughterer”, you know what to think. At least you think so.

(Read more (http://diewirklichewirklichkeit.com/2015/09/27/bashar-al-assad-how-an-ophthalmologist-became-the-slaughterer-of-damascus/))

[idiit]

^ good article.

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US Flies B-52 Bomber Near China Sandcastles: "Get Away From Our Islands!"
11/12/2015

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-12/us-flies-b-52-bomber-near-china-sandcastles-get-away-our-islands

[idiit]

Israel has decided wednesday morning to bomb pro Syrian Government forces in the region that Russia is protecting.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7piJiQm-xA


Published on Nov 12, 2015
In this video Luke Rudkowski covers the breaking news in the escalation of the proxy war between between the U.S and its allies against Russia and its allies. Israel has decided wednesday morning to bomb pro Syrian Government forces in the region that Russia is protecting.

Sources

http://www.cnn.com/

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1....

http://www.theatlantic.com/internatio...

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/11/...

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/12/world/s...

http://www.hngn.com/articles/141876/2...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-wh...

http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/...

http://awdnews.com/top-news/russian-p...

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/...

http://cnnphilippines.com/news/2015/1...

http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-7fi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KHCN...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7piJiQm-xA

[idiit]

Two US B-52 strategic bombers have flown near Chinese artificial islands in the South China Sea, ignoring calls to “get away” from Beijing’s airspace


Ashton Carter, the US Secretary of Defense, said the US will sail and fly wherever it is allowed within international law.

“We will continue to fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows,” he said on Saturday in California at the Reagan National Defense Forum, the Hill reports.

https://www.rt.com/news/321766-china-islands-us-bombers/

[idiit]

US attacks on Syrian oil fields on the rise: White House


The United States claims that Washington and its allies have expanded the extent of their airstrikes on Syrian oil fields only to disrupt Daesh (ISIL) terrorists' money flow.


US officials say that American military commanders have decided to increase the aerial attacks to inflict the kind of damage which takes longer to fix or requires specially-ordered parts, the New York Times reported Thursday


The operation seeks to cripple eight major Syrian oil fields over the next several weeks, about two-thirds of which are said to be in Daesh's hands, the report added.

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/11/13/437473/Syria-Oilfield-US-Airstrikes



POLITICS
ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Daesh: What's The Difference?


The Islamic State group, the militant organization active in Iraq and Syria, has rebranded itself several times since garnering international attention earlier this summer. The name itself, one with many iterations -- ISIS, ISIL, the Islamic State and Daesh -- breeds controversy and confusion, and warrants some elucidation.

http://www.ibtimes.com/isil-isis-islamic-state-daesh-whats-difference-1693495

Q). and who runs daesh/isis?

A). usa ( cia), Israel, Saudis.

wave that flag m*fo's. :)

edited to add:


In Aleppo, Electric Shock a Hidden Killer

http://www.syriadeeply.org/articles/2013/11/2587/aleppo-electric-shock-hidden-killer/#!

^anti Syrian government forces ( usa, Saudi, Israel) regularly destroy allepo Syria's electrical supply.

http://www.oneradionetwork2.com/mp3/money/economy/11.10.15_willie_jim_two.mp3

^ do yourself a favor and listen to this latest jim willie podcast ( 2nd part). easy to listen to. just listen.

at about 5 minutes in jim willie discusses this topic. jw's the best at busting out the "real deal". must listen imo for ppl wanting the real truth. the cia and Israel funs come from drug trafficling, white women slave ( forced prostitution) and organ trafficking ( Ukraine has provided immense amount of human organs from fresh slaughters the the Israel based human organ trafficking) jw discusses the Ukraine organ trafficking in several earlier podcasts).

http://www.pravdareport.com/society/stories/11-06-2014/127777-ukraine_human_organs_trafficking-0/

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=20e_1405374291 Organ trafficking in Ukraine

Israel-Ukraine human organ trafficking - PressTV 100819


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgXgdUAcNRw

^
Israel-Ukraine human organ trafficking - PressTV 100819

[idiit]

^ look at the Ukraine human organ trafficking stuff. first time iirc it's been posted here at project Avalon.

[Flash]

sorry, irrelevant post

[animovado]

Some more Info on the election in Turkey:

http://www.voltairenet.org/article189242.html

The rigging of the Turkish general elections


Voltaire Network | 11 November 2015


The observers of the European Council and the OSCE strongly criticised the rigged Turkish general elections of the 1st November 2015. However, none of them dared to draw any conclusions about the illegitimacy of the elected representatives, given that Turkey is a member of NATO.

« The electoral campaign was unfortunately marred by inequity and, to a certain extent, by fear », declared Andreas Gross, head of the delegation from the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council.

« The violence in the South-East of the country, which is predominaently Kurdish, weighed heavily on the voting, and the recent aggressions and arrests of both candidates and militants, mainly from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), are a source of concern insofar as they prevented the targeted parties from campaigning », declared Margareta Cederfelt, head of the delegation of the OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly. « In order for an electoral process to be truly democratic, the candidates should feel free to organise their campaigns, and the voting public should feel that they can go to vote in safety ».

In actual fact :
- Many citizens were barred from presenting their candidacy on the pretext that they had not yet accomplished their obligatory military service, or that they had been found guilty of one of the offences which feature in a long list of reprehensible behaviour, often minor.

- Conscripts, students of military schools and citizens in temporary detention were deprived of their right to vote.

- The opposition media were gagged : the major dailies Hürriyet and Sabah, as well as the television channel ATV, were attacked by thugs in the pay of the party in power ; enquiries were aimed at journalists and organs of the Press who were accused of supporting terrorism, or of having expressed diffamatory opinions against President Erdoğan ; Web sites were blocked ; digital service providers cut off many TV channels ; three out of five national TV channels, including the public channel, were clearly in favour of the party in power ; the other national TV channels, Bugün TV and Kanaltürk, were closed by the police.

- A foreign state, Saudi Arabia, spent 7 billion (!) in « gifts » in order to « convince » the elecorate to support President Erdoğan.

- 128 political services of the left-wing party (HDP) were attacked by thugs working for President Erdoğan. Several candidates and their staff were beaten up. More than 300 Kurdish businesses were destroyed. Tens of HDP candidates were arrested and placed in temporary detention for the duration of the campaign.

- More than 2,000 opponents of the government were killed during the electoral campaign, either in terrorist-style attacks, or else by governmental repression aimed at the PKK. Several villages in the South-East of the country were partially destroyed by Army tanks.

- International observers were asked to leave seven polling stations, and citizen observers authorised by the various political parties were forbidden access to certain polling stations.

- The ceiling of a minimum of 10% of voices for a political organisation to reach Parliament limits political pluralism, and the system used for determining the number of seats per circumscription leads to huge anomalies concerning the number of voters per seat – and outrageously favours the l’AKP.

- The Constitutional Court stated that the decisions of the Electoral Commission could not be re-examined, even when there had been serious obstructions to fundamental freedoms and rights. There is therefore no possible legal resort - either concerning the unfair character of the campaign, or the restrictions of the right to candidacy and the right to vote – which are contrary to Turkey’s international engagements - nor concerning the stuffing of ballot boxes. In the end, the report announced 50,81 % of voices for the AKP.

Translation
Pete Kimberley

[idiit]

Are 'We' Bombing The Wrong Country?

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2015/11-overflow/20151116_isis_0.jpg

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-16/are-we-bombing-wrong-country

[idiit]

Obama Says 10,000 "Carefully Vetted" Syrian Refugees Still Headed To The US

good thing we got bummer carefully vetting for us. :)

https://s.yimg.com/fz/api/res/1.2/UxMbqcxmHOH3IR2IX1SaKQ--/YXBwaWQ9c3JjaGRkO2g9NTczO3E9OTU7dz00MjU-/http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N-Ar2OjjwwQ/UBP1h5Sdy6I/AAAAAAAACmw/hCspW2qof_U/s1600/230-8sigh.jpg



But while these states profess to putting the safety of their citizens first and foremost, then perhaps the Federal government is looking for... more explosions? At least that is the initial take on the statement by the State Department spokesman Mark Toner who said that the United States "still plans to try to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees into the country in the coming year, the State Department said on Monday as the weekend attacks in Paris renewed scrutiny on Syrian migrants."

"These refugees are subject to the highest level security checks of any category of traveler to the United States," State Department spokesman Mark Toner told a news briefing. "We think we can do this safely and in a way that reflects American values."

And the punchline:

CARDIN: U.S. WILL ONLY ACCEPT CAREFULLY VETTED SYRIAN REFUGEES
Better vetted than the Syrian rebels the US had been supplied weapons and ammo to for the past 2 years, who turned out to be both Al Qaeda and ISIS.

Also what is the penalty for incorrectly checking off the box saying one is not a suicide bomber?

And since Obama will generously provide at least 44 states as the new home for tens of thousands of Syrian refugees in 2016, then it is safe to assume that another 100,000 Syrians will be admitted in 2017, as Obama had announced previously.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-16/obama-says-10000-carefully-vetted-syrian-refugees-are-still-headed-us

[Cidersomerset]

" I've been bit tied up on other threads , but here breaking news "

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The timing is very suspicious a day after a little chat with Barack at the G 20.
It is possible to look at Russia and Putins actions over Syria as part of the PTB
geo - political plan that ' Power Blocks ' as in Orwells 'Big Bros'. So corporate
control can be maintained via competing military and other industrial complex.
Its easier to keep control and keep the global NWO that has developed over
the past century and is planed for the future if the reigns of power stay in the
hands of the few not the many. There are political elites in all countries including
Russia and China.

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A321 jet crash in Sinai was terrorist act - Putin

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Published on 17 Nov 2015


The Russian plane crash in Sinai, Egypt, was caused by a terrorist attack as traces
of explosives have been found in the wreckage of the plane, Federal Security Service
director Aleksandr Bortnikov told President Vladimir Putin.

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/6wrd

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Putin & Obama hold talks on G20 sidelines

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Published on 15 Nov 2015


Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama have held talks
on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Antalya, Turkey - READ MORE http://on.rt.com/6wlz

[Sophocles]

Someone Wants War with Russia (http://www.unz.com/article/someone-wants-war-with-russia/)
Victoria Nuland is not alone

Philip Giraldi • November 17, 2015
The Unz Review

Something very odd is going on in Washington. I recently attended and spoke at a conference (http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/a-new-way-forward-for-american-foreign-policy-2/) in Washington on “realism and restraint” as a broad formula to reform U.S. foreign policy. Most presentations reflected that agenda more-or-less but oddly one of the speakers said that it was necessary for the United States to mark its place in the world while “carrying a big stick” while another panelist asserted that it was a core mission of the American people to “help other countries striving to be free.” Both were referring to how the U.S. should comport itself vis-à-vis Russia and one had to suspect that they had wandered into the auditorium by mistake, intending instead to visit the nearby American Enterprise Institute.

That such views should be forthcoming at a conference featuring “restraint” might not in fact be regarded as particularly surprising if one bothers to listen to either the Republican or Democratic so-called debates. Nationalism and American “exceptionalism” are easy products to sell at any time, but recently there has been a strain of bellicosity that is quite astonishing to behold, particularly as only one candidate has ever served in the military, and he was a lawyer. One might call it “Chickenhawks on Parade.”

It is useful to consider in their own words (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/10/well-be-annotating-the-gop-debate-here/) what the GOP candidates said last Tuesday night. Carly Fiorina led the baying pack with “One of the reasons I’ve said I wouldn’t be talking to Vladimir Putin right now is because we are speaking to him from a position of weakness brought on by this administration, so, I wouldn’t talk to him for a while, but, I would do this. I would start rebuilding the Sixth Fleet right under his nose, rebuilding the military — the missile defense program in Poland right under his nose. I would conduct very aggressive military exercises in the Baltic States so that he understood we would protect our NATO allies…and I might also put in a few more thousand troops into Germany, not to start a war, but to make sure that Putin understand that the United States of America will stand with our allies… We must have a no fly zone in Syria because Russia cannot tell the United States of America where and when to fly our planes. We also have a set of allies in the Arab Middle East that know that ISIS is their fight…but they must see leadership support and resolve from the United States of America…we have the strongest military on the face of the planet, and everyone has to know it.”

Ben Carson added his two cents, “And what we have to recognize is that Putin is trying to really spread his influence throughout the Middle East. This is going to be his base. And we have to oppose him there in an effective way… What we’ve been doing so far is very ineffective, but we can’t give up ground right there. But we have to look at this on a much more global scale. We’re talking about global jihadists. And their desire is to destroy us and to destroy our way of life. So we have to be saying, how do we make them look like losers? Because that’s the way that they’re able to gather a lot of influence… And I think in order to make them look like losers, we have to destroy their caliphate. And you look for the easiest place to do that? It would be in Iraq. And if — outside of Anbar in Iraq, there’s a big energy field. Take that from them. Take all of that land from them. We could do that, I believe, fairly easily, I’ve learned from talking to several generals, and then you move on from there.”

And Senator Marco Rubio added his own insights, saying that “I believe the world is a stronger and a better place, when the United States is the strongest military power in the world… I’ve never met Vladimir Putin, but I know enough about him to know he is a gangster. He is basically an organized crime figure that runs a country, controls a $2 trillion economy. And is using to build up his military in a rapid way despite the fact his economy is a disaster. He understands only geopolitical strength. And every time he has acted anywhere in the world, whether it’s in Ukraine or Georgia before that, or now in the Middle East, it’s because he is trusting in weakness… our allies in the region do not trust us. For goodness sake, there is only one pro-American free enterprise democracy in the Middle East, it is the state of Israel. And we have a president that treats the prime minister of Israel with less respect than what he gives the ayatollah in Iran… And we do have a vested interest. And here’s why. Because all those radical terrorist groups…they are coming to us. They recruit Americans using social media. And they don’t hate us simply because we support Israel. They hate us because of our values. They hate us because our girls go to school. They hate us because women drive in the United States.”

Governor John Kasich demonstrated why it would have been best if he had stayed in Ohio, saying “In the Ukraine, arm the people there so they can fight for themselves. In the eastern part of Europe, make sure that Finland and the Baltics know that if the Russians move, we move. In Syria, yes, a no-fly zone in the north on the Turkish border, a no-fly zone on the south on the Jordanian border. Anybody flies in the first time, maybe they can fly out. They fly in there a second time, they will not fly out… in the countries of the Gulf States of Bahrain, the Cleveland Clinic is opening an operation. Clearly we see the same with them. And in Israel, we have no better ally in the world, and no more criticizing them in public, we should support them.”

Governor Jeb Bush, running fast to make up for his lackluster campaign, added “I’d say it [the number one threat facing the U.S.] is Islamic terrorism, and, back to the question of what we are dealing with in Iraq, when we pull back voids are filled. That’s the lesson of history, and, sadly, this president does not believe in American leadership. He does not believe it, and the net result is that we have a caliphate the size of Indiana that gains energy each and every day to recruit Americans in our own country, and the threat to the homeland relates to the fact that we have not dealt with this threat of terror in the Middle East. We should have a no fly zone in Syria. We should have a support for the remnants of the Syrian Free Army, and create safe zones… Without American leadership every other country in the neighborhood begins to change their priorities. It is tragic that you see Iraq, and other countries now talking to Russia. It wasn’t that long ago that Russia had no influence in the region at all. And, so, the United States needs to lead across the board.”

I can almost picture the lads and lassies from the various neocon entities including the John Hay Initiative, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the American Enterprise Institute grinning as they brief the GOP candidates on foreign policy. What a treat to have a gaggle of perfect tabulae rasae possessing the combined intellectual curiosity of an aardvark dutifully waiting in line to have their empty heads filled with nonsense. Carly wins the prize for sheer venom and willingness to start a war. She would be firing at Russians on the ground and in the air. Why? So we can fly wherever we want.

But I think that Ben Carson wins the dummy prize for his brilliant plan to destroy the “Caliphate” by taking away their “big energy field.” And Rubio comes close with his claim that Putin is nothing but a gangster plus his George W. Bush-like assertion that terrorists hate us because of our “values,” allowing women to go to school in our country and also drive cars. Kasich meanwhile sees the Cleveland Clinic as a barometer of civilization while I challenge anyone to make sense out of what Jeb Bush said. He has apparently inherited the gift of tongues from his brother.

And then, of course, it never hurts to give the nod of approval to Israel, which is the only “pro-American free enterprise democracy” in the Middle East as well as “no better ally in the world.” Amen.

The outlier Donald Trump actually made some sense, saying “…If Putin wants to go and knocked the hell out of ISIS, I am all for it, 100%, and I can’t understand how anybody would be against it… Assad is a bad guy, but we have no idea who the so-called rebels — I read about the rebels, nobody even knows who they are. So, I don’t like Assad. Who’s going to like Assad? But, we have no idea who these people, and what they’re going to be, and what they’re going to represent. They may be far worse than Assad. Look at Libya. Look at Iraq. Look at the mess we have after spending $2 trillion dollars, thousands of lives, wounded warriors all over the place…”

There was also some pushback from Senator Rand Paul who counseled a defense policy linked to national interest as well as affordability, but many of the other candidates sought to outdo each other in terms of vilifying Russia and Putin while talking tough about how they would deal with him.

Indeed, the willingness to fight Russkies and Persians simultaneously has surfaced more than once in the current series of debates. But consider for a moment how a war with second rate power Iran would be something less than a cakewalk even if everything went perfectly, and one knows that in war little goes to plan. Iran has sophisticated air defenses and naval resources that could wreak havoc in the narrow waters of the Straits of Hormuz. An American carrier could easily be destroyed. It would be a replay of the worst experiences in Iraq combined with the worst of Afghanistan, given Iran’s terrain, size, resources and willingness to fight.

But Iran aside, the focus is invariably on Moscow. Backing Russia’s Putin into a corner where he felt that he had to strike first with his available military resources, to include tactical nuclear weapons, would be something on quite a different level and the word catastrophic comes immediately to mind. Even if Russia were only limiting itself to military targets, it could, in short order, sink all of America’s vaunted and highly vulnerable air craft carriers and destroy the satellite communications systems that the modern U.S. armed forces depend on. One leading military analyst (http://www.politico.eu/article/inside-the-pentagons-fight-over-russia-us-eastern-europe/) even believes that the Russian Army is better designed to fight an actual ground war than is the vastly more expensive version fielded by the United States, which should surprise no one. Colonel Douglas Macgregor postulates that U.S. forces would likely be annihilated.

Many of those inside the beltway doing the pushing for confrontation argue that Washington and Moscow have long been restrained, in theory, by what is known as “mutually assured destruction,” meaning that a nuclear war is unthinkable because it would destroy both countries and possibly the world. But there might be some high up in both governments who think that a limited exchange could actually be somehow controlled, even while understanding that if a nuclear tit-for-tat were to escalate the targeting could easily shift to cities. Certainly the GOP candidates are flirting with entertaining that possibility, even if they are not completely aware of what they are implying.

In truth, the dangerous Washington consensus that Russia must for some reason to be confronted and even destabilized truly boggles the mind, particularly as it has become dogma for both political parties and even for many critics of the global war on terror and all its tainted fruit. And the brinkmanship game with a nuclear weapon armed adversary that is being played is, as veteran diplomat William Polk has observed (https://consortiumnews.com/2015/08/28/pushing-the-edge-on-nuclear-war/), “…moving closer to the danger point of provoking their use.” It is difficult to understand why it is so. Russia is, if anything, helping in Syria and could even broker some kind of negotiated settlement, while the situation with Ukraine and Crimea is far less Manichean that the U.S. media has depicted it to be. Russia does not threaten the United States and it does not threaten Western Europe, but push hard enough and long enough and a nightmare scenario could easily arise, driven by carelessly stoked fear and the thoughtless language employed by an array of presidential wannabes as well as their punditry enablers.

Source (http://www.unz.com/article/someone-wants-war-with-russia/)

[Cidersomerset]

This is looking more than just coincidence , Paris attack , Russia bomb on
plane confirmed. Attacks stepped up and televised.....Russia was firing off
Ballistic missiles last week and there was a ' accidental ' press leak for a top
secret nuclear torpedoes. Maybe behind the scenes , Russia has warned the
west , and its been agreed the ISIS psyop must be put to bed ? ( speculation ).

This whole thing seems 'dodgy' as we have been speculating . It feels to me
that the Russians have had enough and although they cannot come out and
simply say . ISIS is an intel op that has morphed out of Al Qaeda and the
neo - con agenda from the 1990's , because that would lead to more political
fallout than there is over the Ukraine and Middle east already. Russia still has
many trading sanctions against her , which if this sudden co - operation with
the west succeeds may be lifted.

So they have had to wait and manoeuvre the situation in their favour after they
have caught back up technically after the cold war.

Or they have all been told by their masters to start again ?

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Russia targets ISIS with 34 cruise missiles, strategic bombers – Def Min briefing

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Published on 17 Nov 2015

The Russian military has launched airstrikes against the Islamic State stronghold of
Raqqa in Syria with cruise missiles from their ships in the Mediterranean Sea,
France’s Le Monde newspaper said, citing a French official.
READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/6wrx

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Russian strategic bombers on anti-ISIS sorties to Syria

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Published on 17 Nov 2015
Russia has deployed its fleet of strategic bombers to double the volume of airstrikes
on Islamist targets in Syria, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has announced.

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Moment Russian cruise missile flies by targeting ISIS in Syria

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Published on 17 Nov 2015
Russia has deployed its fleet of strategic bombers to double the volume of airstrikes
on Islamist targets in Syria, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has announced.





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RAW: Russia test-fires Bulava IBMs from nuclear submarine

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Published on 14 Nov 2015


Russian nuclear submarine Vladimir Monomakh (Project 955 Borei class) fires
2 Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles from underwater for the first time –
the launch was successful as the IBMs reached their target in Kamchatka polygon.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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The moment Russian television accidentally shows secret plans for a nuclear torpedo system on air

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Published on 12 Nov 2015


The Kremlin has admitted that Russian television accidentally showed secret plans
for a nuclear torpedo system on air.

Two Kremlin-controlled channels, NTV and Channel One, showed a military official
looking at a confidential document containing drawings and details of a weapons
system called Status-6, designed by Rubin, a nuclear submarine construction
company based in St Petersburg.

SECRET NUCLEAR TORPEDO PLANS APPEAR ON RUSSIAN TV

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Published on 12 Nov 2015


The Kremlin says secret plans for a Russian long-range nuclear torpedo called
"Status-6" - should not have appeared on Russian TV news.The leak happened
during a report on state-run Channel One about President Vladimir Putin meeting
military chiefs in the city of Sochi.One general was seen studying a diagram of
the "devastating" torpedo system.Launched by a submarine, it would create "wide
areas of radioactive contamination", the document says.

The "oceanic multi-purpose Status-6 system" is designed to "destroy important
economic installations of the enemy in coastal areas and cause guaranteed
devastating damage to the country's territory by creating wide areas of radioactive
contamination, rendering them unusable for military, economic or other activity for
a long time", the document says."It's true some secret data got into the shot,
therefore it was subsequently deleted," said Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

"In future we will undoubtedly take preventive measures so this does not happen
again."However, the Russian government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta later
reported details of the weapon, without showing the diagram, and speculated about
a super-radioactive cobalt device. So the leak may not have been accidental.
Cobalt warhead?

On the diagram the giant torpedo's range is given as "up to 10,000km"
(6,200 miles) and depth of trajectory is "up to 1,000m" (3,300ft).
It was developed by Rubin, a submarine design bureau in St Petersburg.It would,
apparently, be launched by nuclear-powered submarines of the 09852 "Belgorod"
and 09851 "Khabarovsk" series.Rossiiskaya Gazeta called the torpedo a "robotic
mini-submarine", travelling at 100 knots (185km/h; 115mph), which would "avoid
all acoustic tracking devices and other traps".

Just before the torpedo diagram came into view in the state TV report, Mr Putin
could be heard telling the generals that the US and its Nato allies were forging
ahead with a global anti-missile defence system "unfortunately ignoring our
concerns and our offers of co-operation".He said the Western defence project
was "an attempt to undermine the existing parity in strategic nuclear weapons and
essentially to upset the whole system of global and regional stability".

http://i.imgur.com/MzHSdZT.jpg

[Cidersomerset]

UNICEF – About 700,000 children in Donbass, Eastern Ukraine, could freeze to death

By David Icke on 17th November 2015

UNICEF – About 700,000 children in Donbass could freeze to death


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‘The lives of children and other vulnerable groups in the Donbass region is under threat
because of the onset of cold weather. This was announced by the UN Children’s Fund
(UNICEF). “The lives of some 700,000 children and other groups of people will be at risk
unless the water-supply network is repaired in the affected regions, ” UNICEF said in a statement.

William Fellowes, the representative of the organization in Ukraine, said that the supply of
water in the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk is difficult due to damage to water pipes and
other infrastructure during the conflict. There is a good chance that in winter, the water
supply system will freeze, leading to failure of heating systems.’

Read more: UNICEF – About 700,000 children in Donbass, Eastern Ukraine, could freeze to death

http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/unicef-about-700000-children-in-donbass-could-freeze-to-death/

[Flash]

The mention of Putin being a gangster and leading a gangster group is truly laughable. Not because it is not true, in fact, i suspect it is, but because it is the other gangster group that is saying so. As if the Hells Angels were disgusted with the Italian Mafia shouting they are gangsters. lolllllll

A bright woman like the author is cannot not know what are the private interest of those in power in the USA and Israel, regarding oïl, water in the region, and mostly arms sales and antique technologies theft, and those are few examples we know about. Probably much much more we do not know. So why the rhetoric as if she did not understand.

And yes, Putin's gangster gang is counteracting this, his gang wants it too. But not to the price of world wide war, up to now, while in the USA, it seems to be at any price - I Wonder which ones are the most gangsters?

I would not want to have their karma! This will be very costly.




Someone Wants War with Russia (http://www.unz.com/article/someone-wants-war-with-russia/)
Victoria Nuland is not alone

Philip Giraldi • November 17, 2015
The Unz Review

Something very odd is going on in Washington. I recently attended and spoke at a conference (http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/a-new-way-forward-for-american-foreign-policy-2/) in Washington on “realism and restraint” as a broad formula to reform U.S. foreign policy. Most presentations reflected that agenda more-or-less but oddly one of the speakers said that it was necessary for the United States to mark its place in the world while “carrying a big stick” while another panelist asserted that it was a core mission of the American people to “help other countries striving to be free.” Both were referring to how the U.S. should comport itself vis-à-vis Russia and one had to suspect that they had wandered into the auditorium by mistake, intending instead to visit the nearby American Enterprise Institute.

That such views should be forthcoming at a conference featuring “restraint” might not in fact be regarded as particularly surprising if one bothers to listen to either the Republican or Democratic so-called debates. Nationalism and American “exceptionalism” are easy products to sell at any time, but recently there has been a strain of bellicosity that is quite astonishing to behold, particularly as only one candidate has ever served in the military, and he was a lawyer. One might call it “Chickenhawks on Parade.”

It is useful to consider in their own words (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/10/well-be-annotating-the-gop-debate-here/) what the GOP candidates said last Tuesday night. Carly Fiorina led the baying pack with “One of the reasons I’ve said I wouldn’t be talking to Vladimir Putin right now is because we are speaking to him from a position of weakness brought on by this administration, so, I wouldn’t talk to him for a while, but, I would do this. I would start rebuilding the Sixth Fleet right under his nose, rebuilding the military — the missile defense program in Poland right under his nose. I would conduct very aggressive military exercises in the Baltic States so that he understood we would protect our NATO allies…and I might also put in a few more thousand troops into Germany, not to start a war, but to make sure that Putin understand that the United States of America will stand with our allies… We must have a no fly zone in Syria because Russia cannot tell the United States of America where and when to fly our planes. We also have a set of allies in the Arab Middle East that know that ISIS is their fight…but they must see leadership support and resolve from the United States of America…we have the strongest military on the face of the planet, and everyone has to know it.”

Ben Carson added his two cents, “And what we have to recognize is that Putin is trying to really spread his influence throughout the Middle East. This is going to be his base. And we have to oppose him there in an effective way… What we’ve been doing so far is very ineffective, but we can’t give up ground right there. But we have to look at this on a much more global scale. We’re talking about global jihadists. And their desire is to destroy us and to destroy our way of life. So we have to be saying, how do we make them look like losers? Because that’s the way that they’re able to gather a lot of influence… And I think in order to make them look like losers, we have to destroy their caliphate. And you look for the easiest place to do that? It would be in Iraq. And if — outside of Anbar in Iraq, there’s a big energy field. Take that from them. Take all of that land from them. We could do that, I believe, fairly easily, I’ve learned from talking to several generals, and then you move on from there.”

And Senator Marco Rubio added his own insights, saying that “I believe the world is a stronger and a better place, when the United States is the strongest military power in the world… I’ve never met Vladimir Putin, but I know enough about him to know he is a gangster. He is basically an organized crime figure that runs a country, controls a $2 trillion economy. And is using to build up his military in a rapid way despite the fact his economy is a disaster. He understands only geopolitical strength. And every time he has acted anywhere in the world, whether it’s in Ukraine or Georgia before that, or now in the Middle East, it’s because he is trusting in weakness… our allies in the region do not trust us. For goodness sake, there is only one pro-American free enterprise democracy in the Middle East, it is the state of Israel. And we have a president that treats the prime minister of Israel with less respect than what he gives the ayatollah in Iran… And we do have a vested interest. And here’s why. Because all those radical terrorist groups…they are coming to us. They recruit Americans using social media. And they don’t hate us simply because we support Israel. They hate us because of our values. They hate us because our girls go to school. They hate us because women drive in the United States.”

Governor John Kasich demonstrated why it would have been best if he had stayed in Ohio, saying “In the Ukraine, arm the people there so they can fight for themselves. In the eastern part of Europe, make sure that Finland and the Baltics know that if the Russians move, we move. In Syria, yes, a no-fly zone in the north on the Turkish border, a no-fly zone on the south on the Jordanian border. Anybody flies in the first time, maybe they can fly out. They fly in there a second time, they will not fly out… in the countries of the Gulf States of Bahrain, the Cleveland Clinic is opening an operation. Clearly we see the same with them. And in Israel, we have no better ally in the world, and no more criticizing them in public, we should support them.”

Governor Jeb Bush, running fast to make up for his lackluster campaign, added “I’d say it [the number one threat facing the U.S.] is Islamic terrorism, and, back to the question of what we are dealing with in Iraq, when we pull back voids are filled. That’s the lesson of history, and, sadly, this president does not believe in American leadership. He does not believe it, and the net result is that we have a caliphate the size of Indiana that gains energy each and every day to recruit Americans in our own country, and the threat to the homeland relates to the fact that we have not dealt with this threat of terror in the Middle East. We should have a no fly zone in Syria. We should have a support for the remnants of the Syrian Free Army, and create safe zones… Without American leadership every other country in the neighborhood begins to change their priorities. It is tragic that you see Iraq, and other countries now talking to Russia. It wasn’t that long ago that Russia had no influence in the region at all. And, so, the United States needs to lead across the board.”

I can almost picture the lads and lassies from the various neocon entities including the John Hay Initiative, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the American Enterprise Institute grinning as they brief the GOP candidates on foreign policy. What a treat to have a gaggle of perfect tabulae rasae possessing the combined intellectual curiosity of an aardvark dutifully waiting in line to have their empty heads filled with nonsense. Carly wins the prize for sheer venom and willingness to start a war. She would be firing at Russians on the ground and in the air. Why? So we can fly wherever we want.

But I think that Ben Carson wins the dummy prize for his brilliant plan to destroy the “Caliphate” by taking away their “big energy field.” And Rubio comes close with his claim that Putin is nothing but a gangster plus his George W. Bush-like assertion that terrorists hate us because of our “values,” allowing women to go to school in our country and also drive cars. Kasich meanwhile sees the Cleveland Clinic as a barometer of civilization while I challenge anyone to make sense out of what Jeb Bush said. He has apparently inherited the gift of tongues from his brother.

And then, of course, it never hurts to give the nod of approval to Israel, which is the only “pro-American free enterprise democracy” in the Middle East as well as “no better ally in the world.” Amen.

The outlier Donald Trump actually made some sense, saying “…If Putin wants to go and knocked the hell out of ISIS, I am all for it, 100%, and I can’t understand how anybody would be against it… Assad is a bad guy, but we have no idea who the so-called rebels — I read about the rebels, nobody even knows who they are. So, I don’t like Assad. Who’s going to like Assad? But, we have no idea who these people, and what they’re going to be, and what they’re going to represent. They may be far worse than Assad. Look at Libya. Look at Iraq. Look at the mess we have after spending $2 trillion dollars, thousands of lives, wounded warriors all over the place…”

There was also some pushback from Senator Rand Paul who counseled a defense policy linked to national interest as well as affordability, but many of the other candidates sought to outdo each other in terms of vilifying Russia and Putin while talking tough about how they would deal with him.

Indeed, the willingness to fight Russkies and Persians simultaneously has surfaced more than once in the current series of debates. But consider for a moment how a war with second rate power Iran would be something less than a cakewalk even if everything went perfectly, and one knows that in war little goes to plan. Iran has sophisticated air defenses and naval resources that could wreak havoc in the narrow waters of the Straits of Hormuz. An American carrier could easily be destroyed. It would be a replay of the worst experiences in Iraq combined with the worst of Afghanistan, given Iran’s terrain, size, resources and willingness to fight.

But Iran aside, the focus is invariably on Moscow. Backing Russia’s Putin into a corner where he felt that he had to strike first with his available military resources, to include tactical nuclear weapons, would be something on quite a different level and the word catastrophic comes immediately to mind. Even if Russia were only limiting itself to military targets, it could, in short order, sink all of America’s vaunted and highly vulnerable air craft carriers and destroy the satellite communications systems that the modern U.S. armed forces depend on. One leading military analyst (http://www.politico.eu/article/inside-the-pentagons-fight-over-russia-us-eastern-europe/) even believes that the Russian Army is better designed to fight an actual ground war than is the vastly more expensive version fielded by the United States, which should surprise no one. Colonel Douglas Macgregor postulates that U.S. forces would likely be annihilated.

Many of those inside the beltway doing the pushing for confrontation argue that Washington and Moscow have long been restrained, in theory, by what is known as “mutually assured destruction,” meaning that a nuclear war is unthinkable because it would destroy both countries and possibly the world. But there might be some high up in both governments who think that a limited exchange could actually be somehow controlled, even while understanding that if a nuclear tit-for-tat were to escalate the targeting could easily shift to cities. Certainly the GOP candidates are flirting with entertaining that possibility, even if they are not completely aware of what they are implying.

In truth, the dangerous Washington consensus that Russia must for some reason to be confronted and even destabilized truly boggles the mind, particularly as it has become dogma for both political parties and even for many critics of the global war on terror and all its tainted fruit. And the brinkmanship game with a nuclear weapon armed adversary that is being played is, as veteran diplomat William Polk has observed (https://consortiumnews.com/2015/08/28/pushing-the-edge-on-nuclear-war/), “…moving closer to the danger point of provoking their use.” It is difficult to understand why it is so. Russia is, if anything, helping in Syria and could even broker some kind of negotiated settlement, while the situation with Ukraine and Crimea is far less Manichean that the U.S. media has depicted it to be. Russia does not threaten the United States and it does not threaten Western Europe, but push hard enough and long enough and a nightmare scenario could easily arise, driven by carelessly stoked fear and the thoughtless language employed by an array of presidential wannabes as well as their punditry enablers.

Source (http://www.unz.com/article/someone-wants-war-with-russia/)

[Hervé]

Russian warplanes disrupt ISIS oil sales channels; destroy 500 terrorist oil trucks in Syria (https://www.rt.com/news/322614-russian-warplanes-isis-oil-trucks/)

Published time: 18 Nov, 2015 17:31


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A Tupolev Tu-22M3 long-range strategic and maritime strike bomber of the Russian Aerospace Forces during a combat flight to strike the Islamic State infrastructure facilities in Syria by OFAB-25-270 fragmentation high explosive bombs. © Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation / RIA Novosti


Around 500 fuel tanker vehicles transporting illegal oil from Syria to Iraq for processing have been destroyed by Russia’s Air Forces, the General Staff said.

“In recent years, Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and other extremist groups have organized the operations of the so-called ‘pipeline on wheels’ on the territories they control,” Russian General Staff spokesman Colonel General Andrey Kartapolov said.

Hundreds of thousands of tons of fuel have been delivered to Iraq for processing by trucks and the revenue generated from these illegal exports is the one of the terrorists’ main sources of funding, he said.


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The spokesman displayed images showing convoys comprised of hundreds of vehicles transporting oil to back his assertion.

“In just the first few days, our aviation has destroyed 500 fuel tanker trucks, which greatly reduced illegal oil export capabilities of the militants and, accordingly, their income from oil smuggling,” Kartapolov stressed.

The spokesman also said that the Russian military has begun developing proposals for joint military action with the French Navy against the terrorists in accordance with an order by President Vladimir Putin.

“This joint work will begin after the arrival of aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to the Syrian shores,” Kartapolov explained.

Russia has been bombing Islamic State and other terror groups in Syria since September 30 at the official request of country’s president, Bashar Assad.

On Tuesday, Russia’s fleet of 25 long-range bombers joined Su-34, Su-25, and Su-24M warplanes conducting operations in Syria to double the number of airstrikes against the militants.

[idiit]

HERE COMES CHINA:

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Here Comes China: Xi "Vows Terror Fight" After ISIS Executes First Chinese Hostage

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-19/here-comes-china-xi-vows-terror-fight-after-isis-executes-first-chinese-hostage

[idiit]

Russian warplanes disrupt ISIS oil sales channels; destroy 500 terrorist oil trucks in Syria

^ YOU FORGOT THE PUNCHLINE; USA BOMBS THE OIL FIELDS.

there's the difference. :)

[Sophocles]

Isis Inc: how oil fuels the jihadi terrorists (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b8234932-719b-11e5-ad6d-f4ed76f0900a.html#axzz3rumunHEy)

Financial Times (http://www.ft.com/home/europe)
October 14, 2015 12:50 pm

Erika Solomon in Beirut, Guy Chazan and Sam Jones in London

Jihadis’ oil operation forces even their enemies to trade with them

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On the outskirts of al-Omar oilfield in eastern Syria, with warplanes flying overhead, a line of trucks stretches for 6km. Some drivers wait for a month to fill up with crude.

Falafel stalls and tea shops have sprung up to cater to the drivers, such is the demand for oil. Traders sometimes leave their trucks unguarded for weeks, waiting for their turn.

This is the land of Isis (http://www.ft.com/intl/isis), the jihadi organisation in control of swaths of Syrian and Iraqi territory. The trade in oil has been declared a prime target by the international military coalition fighting the group. And yet it goes on, undisturbed.

Oil is the black gold that funds Isis’ black flag — it fuels its war machine, provides electricity and gives the fanatical jihadis critical leverage against their neighbours.

But more than a year after US President Barack Obama launched an international coalition to fight Isis, the bustling trade at al-Omar and at least eight other fields has come to symbolise the dilemma the campaign faces: how to bring down the “caliphate” without destabilising the life of the estimated 10m civilians in areas under Isis control, and punishing the west’s allies?

The resilience of Isis, and the weakness of the US-led campaign, have given Russia (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/bb2bfae4-67ef-11e5-a57f-21b88f7d973f,Authorised=false.html?siteedition=intl&_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Fbb2bfae4-67ef-11e5-a57f-21b88f7d973f.html%3Fsiteedition%3Dintl&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F2%2Fb8234932-719b-11e5-ad6d-f4ed76f0900a.html&classification=conditional_standard&iab=barrier-app#axzz3oL6XDY6Q) a pretext to launch its own, bold intervention in Syria.

Despite all these efforts, dozens of interviews with Syrian traders and oil engineers as well as western intelligence officials and oil experts reveal a sprawling operation almost akin to a state oil company that has grown in size and expertise despite international attempts to destroy it.

Minutely managed, Isis’ oil company actively recruits skilled workers, from engineers to trainers and managers.

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Estimates by local traders and engineers put crude production in Isis-held territory at about 34,000-40,000 bpd. The oil is sold at the wellhead for between $20 and $45 a barrel, earning the militants an average of $1.5m a day.

“It’s a situation that makes you laugh and cry,” said one Syrian rebel commander in Aleppo, who buys diesel from Isis areas even as his forces fight the group on the front lines. “But we have no other choice, and we are a poor man’s revolution. Is anyone else offering to give us fuel?”

Oil as a strategic weapon

Isis’ oil (http://www.ft.com/intl/topics/themes/Oil) strategy has been long in the making. Since the group emerged on the scene in Syria in 2013, long before they reached Mosul in Iraq, the jihadis saw oil as a crutch for their vision for an Islamic state. The group’s shura council identified it as fundamental for the survival of the insurgency and, more importantly, to finance their ambition to create a caliphate.

Most of the oil Isis controls is in Syria’s oil-rich east, where it created a foothold in 2013, shortly after withdrawing from the north-west — an area of strategic importance but with no oil. These bridgeheads were then used to consolidate control over the whole of eastern Syria after the fall of Mosul in 2014.

When it pushed through northern Iraq and took over Mosul, Isis also seized the Ajil and Allas fields in north-eastern Iraq’s Kirkuk province. The very day of its takeover, locals say, militants secured the fields and engineers were sent in to begin operations and ship the oil to market.

“They were ready, they had people there in charge of the financial side, they had technicians that adjusted the filling and storage process,” said a local sheikh from the town of Hawija, near Kirkuk. “They brought hundreds of trucks in from Kirkuk and Mosul and they started to extract the oil and export it.” An average of 150 trucks, he added, were filled daily, with each containing about $10,000-worth of oil. Isis lost the fields to the Iraqi army in April but made an estimated $450m from them in the 10 months it controlled the area.

While al-Qaeda, the global terrorist network, depended on donations from wealthy foreign sponsors, Isis has derived its financial strength from its status as monopoly producer of an essential commodity consumed in vast quantities throughout the area it controls. Even without being able to export, it can thrive because it has a huge captive market in Syria and Iraq.

Indeed, diesel and petrol produced in Isis areas are not only consumed in territory the group controls but in areas that are technically at war with it, such as Syria’s rebel-held north: the region is dependent on the jihadis’ fuel for its survival. Hospitals, shops, tractors and machinery used to pull victims out of rubble run on generators that are powered by Isis oil.

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“At any moment, the diesel can be cut. No diesel — Isis knows our life is completely dead,” says one oil trader who comes from rebel-held Aleppo each week to buy fuel and spoke to the Financial Times by telephone.

A national oil company

Isis’ strategy has rested on projecting the image of a state in the making, and it is attempting to run its oil industry by mimicking the ways of national oil corporations. According to Syrians who say Isis tried to recruit them, the group headhunts engineers, offering competitive salaries to those with the requisite experience, and encourages prospective employees to apply to its human resources department.

A roving committee of its specialists checks up on fields, monitors production and interviews workers about operations. It also appoints Isis members who have worked at oil companies in Saudi Arabia or elsewhere in the Middle East as “emirs”, or princes, to run its most important facilities, say traders who buy Isis oil and engineers who have worked at Isis-controlled fields.

Some technicians have been actively courted by Isis recruiters. Rami — not his real name — used to work in oil in Syria’s Deir Ezzor province before becoming a rebel commander. He was later contacted by an Isis military emir in Iraq via WhatsApp.

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“I could choose whatever position I wanted, he promised me,” he said. “He said: ‘You can name your salary’.” Sceptical of the Isis project, Rami ultimately turned down the offer and fled to Turkey.

Isis also recruits from among its supporters abroad. In the speech he gave after the fall of Mosul, Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called not only for fighters but engineers, doctors and other skilled labour. The group recently appointed an Egyptian engineer who used to live in Sweden as the new manager of its Qayyara refinery in northern Iraq, according to an Iraqi petroleum engineer from Mosul, who declined to be named.

The central role of oil is also reflected in the status it is given in Isis’ power structures.

The group’s approach to government across the territories it controls is highly decentralised. For the most part, it relies on regional walis — governors — to administer territories according to the precepts laid down by the central shura.

However, oil — alongside Isis’ military and security operations and its sophisticated media output — is centrally controlled by the top leadership. “They are organised in their approach to oil,” said a senior western intelligence official. “That’s a key centrally controlled and documented area. It’s a central shura matter,” he added, referring to Isis’ ruling “cabinet”.

Until recently, Isis’ emir for oil was Abu Sayyaf, a Tunisian whose real name, according to the Pentagon, was Fathi Ben Awn Ben Jildi Murad al-Tunisi, and who was killed by US special forces in a raid in May this year. According to US and European intelligence officials, a treasure trove of documentation relating to Isis’ oil operations was found with him. The documents laid bare a meticulously run operation, with revenues from wells and costs carefully accounted for. They showed a pragmatic approach to pricing too, with Isis carefully exploiting differences in demand across its territories to maximise profitability.

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Oversight of the oil wells is carefully controlled by the Amniyat, Isis’ secret police, who ensure revenues go where they should — and mete out brutal punishments when they do not. Guards patrol the perimeter of pumping stations, while far-flung individual wells are surrounded by protective sand berms and each trader is carefully checked as he drives in to fill up.

At the al-Jibssa field in Hassakeh province, north-eastern Syria, which produces 2,500-3,000 bpd, “about 30-40 big trucks a day, each with 75 barrels of capacity, would fill up”, according to one Hassakeh oil trader.

Isis’ distribution network

But the biggest draw is al-Omar. According to one trader who regularly buys oil there, the system, with its 6km queue, is slow but market players have adapted to it. Drivers present a document with their licence plate number and tanker capacity to Isis officials, who enter them into a database and assign them a number.

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Most then return to their villages, shuttling back to the site every two or three days to check up on their vehicles. Traders say that towards the end of the month, some people come back and set up tents to stay close to their trucks while they wait their turn.

Once in possession of al-Omar’s oil, the traders either take it to local refineries or sell it on at a mark-up to middlemen with smaller vehicles who transport it to cities further west such as Aleppo and Idlib.

Isis’ luck with oil may not last. Coalition bombs, the Russian intervention and low oil prices could put pressure on revenues. The biggest threat to Isis’ production so far, however, has been the depletion of Syria’s ageing oilfields. It does not have the technology of major foreign companies to counteract what locals describe as a slow drop in production. Isis’ need for fuel for its military operations means there is also less oil to sell in the market.

For now, though, in Isis-controlled territory, the jihadis control the supply and there is no shortage of demand. “Everyone here needs diesel: for water, for farming, for hospitals, for offices. If diesel is cut off, there is no life here,” says a businessman who works near Aleppo. “Isis knows this [oil] is a winning card.”

Additional reporting by Ahmad Mhidi, an independent journalist based on the Turkish border and Geoff Dyer in Washington

Source (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b8234932-719b-11e5-ad6d-f4ed76f0900a.html#axzz3rumunHEy)

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Elimination of tanker vehicle columns, which were transporting oil products in the interests of terrorist armed groups

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Article by Nafeez Ahmed 31 july 2015: UK, US turn blind eye to Islamic State oil sales (http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/uk-us-turn-blind-eye-islamic-state-oil-sales-553879014)

[idiit]

The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking


We wonder how long until someone finally asks the all important question regarding the Islamic State: who is the commodity trader breaching every known law of funding terrorism when buying ISIS crude, almost certainly with the tacit approval by various "western alliance" governments, and why is it that these governments have allowed said middleman to continue funding ISIS for as long as it has?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-19/most-important-question-about-isis-nobody-asking

[idiit]

Why is Washington Turning Blind Eye to ISIL’s Gulf Funding Sources?
Thursday, November 19, 2015
By Paul Martin


Why hasn't the United States yet cut off ISIL's funding sources, Peter Van Buren wonders, adding that by halting the flow of money to the Islamic State Washington could have long ago dealt a lethal blow to the terrorist organization.

War is a brutal and expensive business that requires hundreds of millions of dollars; the existence of the notorious Islamic State is dependent on a perpetual money flow from different sources.

"Follow the money back, cut it off, and you strike a blow much more devastating than an airstrike," Peter Van Buren, an author and a 24-year veteran of the State Department, recommends, posing a question:

"Why isn't the United States going after Islamic State's funding sources as a way of lessening or eliminating their strength at making war?"



Read more: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151119/1030406241/washington-gulf-saudi-funding-isil.html#ixzz3rya7IJ1C

[tnkayaker]

hugs and thanks Bill , wish you the best sir.

[Hervé]

Russia's Airstrikes on Illegal Oil Infrastructure Undermine ISIL Livelihood (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151121/1030510049/russia-syria-isis-oil-petroleum-illegal-business.html)

© AFP 2015/ YOUSSEF KARWASHAN
Middle East (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/) 16:26 21.11.2015
(updated 16:32 21.11.2015)

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Having dealt a heavy blow to ISIL's military capabilities, Russian forces can now focus on destroying the group's economic potential by hitting where it hurts the most – the illegal oil business, political scientist Nikita Smagin told Radio Sputnik.

Massive airstrikes, according to the analyst, could seriously limit ISIL's ability to deliver stolen oil to the black market. Selling oil stolen from oilfields in Iraq and Syria has been a major source of income for the terrorism group. Militants are making as much as $2 million daily, according to different estimates Prior to airstrike campaigns, the key approach to dealing with ISIL's illegal business activities involved exerting political pressure on the buyers.

"This method does not seem to be working. There are still those, mainly in Turkey, who purchase oil and petroleum products from ISIL," the analyst explained.

Recent terrorist acts in France, Turkey and elsewhere, carried out by the radical group, could be the proverbial final straw. Ankara, in Smagin's opinion, could now join those who try to influence buyers of ISIL oil.

"Turkey could have realized the danger ISIL presents," he assumed, adding that Russian airstrikes are taking care of the rest. On Friday, Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed that the Russian aerial campaign undermined ISIL infrastructure preventing the terrorist group from smuggling oil. Unable to deliver 60,000 tons of oil daily, ISIL is losing some $1.5 million per day, according to his estimates.

Russian forces recently destroyed 15 oil storage and refining facilities, as well as 525 tankers.

Smagin believes that Russia's campaign, launched in late September following a formal request from Damascus, is gradually reaching its intended goals.
"ISIL is getting weaker. They are not making any military progress. On the contrary, they are suffering defeat after defeat. Recruiting new fighters has also become complicated," he stated.
Related: Priceless: PBS uses Russian video during report of alleged U.S. airstrike on ISIS oil smuggling trucks (http://www.sott.net/article/306847-Priceless-PBS-uses-Russian-video-during-report-of-alleged-US-airstrike-on-ISIS-oil-smuggling-trucks)

[Sophocles]

Kuwaiti police bust ‘DAESH’ cell – SYRIANS, AUSTRALIAN, EGYPTIAN, KUWAITI HELD – Kuwait raises security level around oil facilities (http://www.arabtimesonline.com/news/kuwaiti-police-bust-daesh-cell-syrians-australian-egyptian-kuwaiti-held-kuwait-raises-security-level-around-oil-facilit/)

Arabtimesonline.com 19. november 2015


KUWAIT CITY, Nov 19: In a new preemptive move against DAESH cells in Kuwait, the local security agencies arrested a terrorist network consisting of six individuals including their leader, identified as Osama Mohammad Sayed Khayat. In a press statement, the Interior Ministry disclosed Khayat is a Lebanese residing in Kuwait and he was born here in 1975. He serves as terrorist communication coordinator and logistics support for DAESH.

He administers a website which he uses in supporting DAESH. During interrogations, Khayat said he signed contracts to buy weapons and missiles (FN6) for DAESH and he is in constant communication with the group’s command in Syria.

He revealed that he made these deals in Ukraine from where he shipped the weapons to Turkey and then delivered to DAESH. He also prints stamps, designs rubber stamps bearing DAESH slogans, and transfers funds to accounts in Turkey and Syria. He mentioned the names of his partners in the organization as follows: Abdul Karim Mohammad Saleem — a Syrian born in 1962 — is a weapons dealer with the company in Ukraine who facilitated the purchase of mobile missiles and wireless communication devices; Hasim Mohammad Kheir Tartari — a Syrian born in 1984 who works in an undisclosed company; Waeel Mohammad Ahmad Baghdadi — an Egyptian born in 1974; Rakan Nasser Al- Ajmi — a Kuwaiti born in 1988 who supports those suspected of involvement in terrorism operations; and Abdul Nasser Mahmoud Al-Shawa — a Syrian born in 1987. All of them have been arrested. The ministry affirmed the confessions unveiled the existence of four other persons affiliated with DAESH and are currently outside Kuwait.

Full article (http://www.arabtimesonline.com/news/kuwaiti-police-bust-daesh-cell-syrians-australian-egyptian-kuwaiti-held-kuwait-raises-security-level-around-oil-facilit/)

And of course...

Ukrainian Defense Ministry has no information on terrorists’ weapons purchases in Ukraine (http://tass.ru/en/world/837999) (tass.ru).

[Sophocles]

NATO is harbouring the Islamic State (https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/europe-is-harbouring-the-islamic-state-s-backers-d24db3a24a40#.cmv0pfl34)

Why France’s brave new war on ISIS is a sick joke, and an insult to the victims of the Paris attacks

By Nafeez Ahmed - 19. November 2015

This exclusive is published by INSURGE INTELLIGENCE (https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence), a crowd-funded investigative journalism project


We stand alongside Turkey in its efforts in protecting its national security and fighting against terrorism. France and Turkey are on the same side within the framework of the international coalition against the terrorist group ISIS.

Statement by French Foreign Ministry, July 2015

The 13th November Paris massacre will be remembered, like 9/11, as a defining moment in world history.

The murder of 129 people, the injury of 352 more, by ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS) acolytes striking multiple targets simultaneously in the heart of Europe, mark a major sea-change in the terror threat.

For the first time, a Mumbai-style attack has occurred on Western soil — the worst attack on Europe in decades. As such, it has triggered a seemingly commensurate response from France: the declaration of a nationwide state of emergency, the likes of which have not been seen since the 1961 Algerian war.

ISIS has followed up with threats (http://boingboing.net/2015/11/18/isisdaesh-threaten-washington.html) to attack Washington and New York City.

Meanwhile, President Hollande wants (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11998301/Paris-attacks-France-to-call-for-effective-suspension-of-Schengen-open-borders.html) European Union leaders to suspend the Schengen Agreement on open borders to allow dramatic restrictions on freedom of movement across Europe. He also demands the EU-wide adoption of the Passenger Name Records (PNR) system allowing intelligence services to meticulously track the travel patterns of Europeans, along with an extension of the state of emergency to at least three months.

Under the extension (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-state-of-emergency-declared-for-three-months-allowing-authorities-to-shut-down-websites-and-a6740886.html), French police can now block any website, put people under house arrest without trial, search homes without a warrant, and prevent suspects from meeting others deemed a threat.

“We know that more attacks are being prepared, not just against France but also against other European countries,” said the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls. “We are going to live with this terrorist threat for a long time.”

Hollande plans to strengthen the powers of police and security services under new anti-terror legislation, and to pursue amendments to the constitution that would permanently enshrine the state of emergency into French politics. “We need an appropriate tool we can use without having to resort to the state of emergency,” he explained.

Parallel with martial law at home, Hollande was quick to accelerate military action abroad, launching 30 airstrikes on over a dozen Islamic State targets in its de facto capital, Raqqa.

France’s defiant promise, according to Hollande, is to “destroy” ISIS.

The ripple effect from the attacks in terms of the impact on Western societies is likely to be permanent. In much the same way that 9/11 saw the birth of a new era of perpetual war in the Muslim world, the 13/11 Paris attacks are already giving rise to a brave new phase in that perpetual war: a new age of Constant Vigilance, in which citizens are vital accessories to the police state, enacted in the name of defending a democracy eroded by the very act of defending it through Constant Vigilance.

Mass surveillance at home and endless military projection abroad are the twin sides of the same coin of national security, which must simply be maximized as much as possible.

“France is at war,” Hollande told French parliament at the Palace of Versailles.


We’re not engaged in a war of civilizations, because these assassins do not represent any. We are in a war against jihadist terrorism which is threatening the whole world.

The friend of our enemy is our friend

Conspicuously missing from President Hollande’s decisive declaration of war however, was any mention of the biggest elephant in the room: state-sponsorship.

Syrian passports discovered near the bodies of two of the suspected Paris attackers, according to police sources, were fake, and likely forged (http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/syrian-passports-found-scene-paris-attacks-fakes-made-turkey-police-520642631) in Turkey.

Earlier this year, the Turkish daily Meydan reported that citing an Uighur source that more than 100,000 fake Turkish passports had been given to ISIS. The figure, according to the US Army’s Foreign Studies Military Office (FSMO), is likely exaggerated, but corroborated “by Uighurs captured with Turkish passports in Thailand and Malaysia.”

Further corroboration came from a Sky News Arabia report (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=25e_1414105309) by correspondent Stuart Ramsey, which revealed that the Turkish government was certifying passports of foreign militants crossing the Turkey-Syria border to join ISIS. The passports, obtained from Kurdish fighters, had the official exit stamp of Turkish border control, indicating the ISIS militants had entered Syria with full knowledge of Turkish authorities.

The dilemma facing the Erdogan administration is summed up by the FSMO: “If the country cracks down on illegal passports and militants transiting the country, the militants may target Turkey for attack. However, if Turkey allows the current course to continue, its diplomatic relations with other countries and internal political situation will sour.”

This barely scratches the surface. A senior Western official familiar with a large cache of intelligence obtained this summer from a major raid on an ISIS safehouse told the Guardian that “direct dealings between Turkish officials and ranking ISIS members was now ‘undeniable.’”

The same official confirmed that Turkey, a longstanding member of NATO, is not just supporting ISIS, but also other jihadist groups, including Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria. “The distinctions they draw [with other opposition groups] are thin indeed,” said the official. “There is no doubt at all that they militarily cooperate with both.”

In a rare insight into this brazen state-sponsorship of ISIS, a year ago Newsweek reported (http://europe.newsweek.com/isis-and-turkey-cooperate-destroy-kurds-former-isis-member-reveals-turkish-282920) the testimony of a former ISIS communications technician, who had travelled to Syria to fight the regime of Bashir al-Assad.

The former ISIS fighter told Newsweek that Turkey was allowing ISIS trucks from Raqqa to cross the “border, through Turkey and then back across the border to attack Syrian Kurds in the city of Serekaniye in northern Syria in February.” ISIS militants would freely travel “through Turkey in a convoy of trucks,” and stop “at safehouses along the way.”

The former ISIS communication technician also admitted that he would routinely “connect ISIS field captains and commanders from Syria with people in Turkey on innumerable occasions,” adding that “the people they talked to were Turkish officials… ISIS commanders told us to fear nothing at all because there was full cooperation with the Turks.”

In January, authenticated official documents (http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/01/turkey-syria-intelligence-service-shipping-weapons.html) of the Turkish military were leaked online, showing that Turkey’s intelligence services had been caught in Adana by military officers transporting missiles, mortars and anti-aircraft ammunition via truck “to the al-Qaeda terror organisation” in Syria.

According to other ISIS suspects facing trial (http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_isil-suspect-mi-t-helped-us-smuggle-arms-to-radical-groups-in-syria_372141.html) in Turkey, the Turkish national military intelligence organization (MIT) had begun smuggling arms, including NATO weapons to jihadist groups in Syria as early as 2011.

The allegations have been corroborated by a prosecutor and court testimony of Turkish military police officers, who confirmed that Turkish intelligence was delivering arms to Syrian jihadists from 2013 to 2014.

Documents leaked (http://odatv.com/n.php?n=iside-turkiyeden-boyle-yardim-edildi-2709141200) in September 2014 showed that Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan had financed weapons shipments to ISIS through Turkey. A clandestine plane from Germany delivered arms in the Etimesgut airport in Turkey and split into three containers, two of which were dispatched to ISIS.

A report (http://www.todayszaman.com/diplomacy_turkeys-statistics-institute-reveals-scale-of-arms-exports-to-syria_383004.html) by the Turkish Statistics Institute confirmed that the government had provided at least $1 million in arms to Syrian rebels within that period, contradicting official denials. Weapons included grenades, heavy artillery, anti-aircraft guns, firearms, ammunition, hunting rifles and other weapons — but the Institute declined to identify the specific groups receiving the shipments.

Information of that nature emerged separately. Just two months ago, Turkish police raided (http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/09/turkey-syria-daily-exposes-transfer-weapons-supplies-to-isis.html) a news outlet that published revelations on how the local customs director had approved weapons shipments from Turkey to ISIS.

Turkey has also played a key role in facilitating the life-blood of ISIS’ expansion: black market oil sales. Senior political and intelligence sources in Turkey and Iraq confirm (http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/uk-us-turn-blind-eye-islamic-state-oil-sales-553879014) that Turkish authorities have actively facilitated ISIS oil sales through the country.

Last summer, Mehmet Ali Ediboglu, an MP from the main opposition, the Republican People’s Party, estimated (http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/business/2014/06/turkey-syria-isis-selling-smuggled-oil.html) the quantity of ISIS oil sales in Turkey at about $800 million — that was over a year ago.

By now, this implies that Turkey has facilitated over $1 billion worth of black market ISIS oil sales to date.

There is no “self-sustaining economy” for ISIS, contrary to the fantasies of the Washington Post and Financial Times in their recent faux investigations, according to Martin Chulov of the Guardian:


… tankers carrying crude drawn from makeshift refineries still make it to the [Turkey-Syria] border. One Isis member says the organisation remains a long way from establishing a self-sustaining economy across the area of Syria and Iraq it controls. ‘They need the Turks. I know of a lot of cooperation and it scares me,’ he said. ‘I don’t see how Turkey can attack the organisation too hard. There are shared interests.

Senior officials of the ruling AKP have conceded the extent of the government’s support for ISIS.

The liberal Turkish daily Taraf quoted (http://m.t24.com.tr/haber/akpnin-kurucularindan-firat-hukumet-asiri-dinci-gruplari-silahlandirdi-akpli-kurtler-de-kobane-icin-ayaklandi,273589) an AKP founder, Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat, admitting: “In order to weaken the developments in Rojova [Kurdish province in Syria] the government gave concessions and arms to extreme religious groups…the government was helping the wounded. The Minister of Health said something such as, it’s a human obligation to care for the ISIS wounded.”

The paper also reported (http://arsiv.taraf.com.tr/haber-isid-militanlari-devlet-kesesinden-tedavi-oldu-163522/) that ISIS militants routinely receive medical treatment in hospitals in southeast Turkey— including al-Baghdadi’s right-hand man.

Writing in Hurriyet Daily News, journalist Ahu Ozyurt described (http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/sympathy-for-the-devil-that-is-isil.aspx?PageID=238&NID=72179&NewsCatID=515) his “shock” at learning of the pro-ISIS “feelings of the AKP’s heavyweights” in Ankara and beyond, including “words of admiration for ISIL from some high-level civil servants even in Şanliurfa. ‘They are like us, fighting against seven great powers in the War of Independence,’ one said. ‘Rather than the PKK on the other side, I would rather have ISIL as a neighbor,’ said another.”

Meanwhile, NATO leaders feign outrage and learned liberal pundits continue to scratch their heads in bewilderment as to ISIS’ extraordinary resilience and inexorable expansion.

Unsurprisingly, then, Turkey’s anti-ISIS bombing raids have largely been token gestures. Under cover of fighting ISIS, Turkey has largely used the opportunity to bomb the Kurdish forces of the Democratic Union Party (YPG) in Syria and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey and Iraq. Yet those forces are widely recognized to be the most effective fighting ISIS on the ground.

Meanwhile, Turkey has gone to pains to thwart almost every US effort to counter ISIS. When this summer, 54 graduates of the Pentagon’s $500 million ‘moderate’ Syrian rebel train-and-equip program were kidnapped by Jabhat al-Nusra — al-Qaeda’s arm in Syria — it was due to a tip-off from Turkish intelligence.

The Turkish double-game was confirmed (http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/middle-east/article32206167.html) by multiple rebel sources to McClatchy, but denied by a Pentagon spokesman who said, reassuringly:


Turkey is a NATO ally, close friend of the United States and an important partner in the international coalition.

Nevermind that Turkey has facilitated about $1 billion in ISIS oil sales.

According to a US-trained Division 30 officer with access to information on the incident, Turkey was trying “to leverage the incident into an expanded role in the north for the Islamists in Nusra and Ahrar” and to persuade the United States to “speed up the training of rebels.”

As Professor David Graeber of London School of Economics pointed out (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/18/turkey-cut-islamic-state-supply-lines-erdogan-isis):


Had Turkey placed the same kind of absolute blockade on Isis territories as they did on Kurdish-held parts of Syria… that blood-stained ‘caliphate’ would long since have collapsed — and arguably, the Paris attacks may never have happened. And if Turkey were to do the same today, Isis would probably collapse in a matter of months. Yet, has a single western leader called on Erdoğan to do this?

Some officials have spoken up about the paradox, but to no avail. Last year, Claudia Roth (http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/12102014), deputy speaker of the German parliament, expressed shock that NATO is allowing Turkey to harbour an ISIS camp in Istanbul, facilitate weapons transfers to Islamist militants through its borders, and tacitly support IS oil sales.

Nothing happened.

Instead, Turkey has been amply rewarded for its alliance with the very same terror-state that wrought the Paris massacre on 13th November 2015. Just a month earlier, German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/19/us-europe-migrants-germany-turkey-idUSKCN0SC08B20151019#4QB6OV40Gzz45wuP.97) to fast-track Turkey’s bid to join the EU, permitting visa-free travel to Europe for Turks.

No doubt this would be great news for the security of Europe’s borders.

State-sponsorship

It is not just Turkey. Senior political and intelligence sources in the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) have confirmed the complicity (https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/britain-s-secret-ties-to-governments-firms-facilitating-isis-oil-sales-210d21470e65#.xrlwaosxb) of high-level KRG officials in facilitating ISIS oil sales, for personal profit, and to sustain the government’s flagging revenues.

Despite a formal parliamentary inquiry corroborating the allegations, there have been no arrests, no charges, no prosecutions.

The KRG “middle-men” and other government officials facilitating these sales continue their activities unimpeded.

In his testimony (http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4509231/general-dempsey-acknowledges-us-arab-allies-funding-isis) before the Senate Armed Services Committee in September 2014, General Martin Dempsey, then chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, was asked by Senator Lindsay Graham whether he knew of “any major Arab ally that embraces ISIL”?

General Dempsey replied:


I know major Arab allies who fund them.

In other words, the most senior US military official at the time had confirmed that ISIS was being funded by the very same “major Arab allies” that had just joined the US-led anti-ISIS coalition.

These allies include Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, and Kuwait in particular — which for the last four years at least have funneled billions of dollars largely to extremist rebels in Syria. No wonder that their anti-ISIS airstrikes, already miniscule, have now reduced almost to zero as they focus instead on bombing Shi’a Houthis in Yemen, which, incidentally, is paving the way (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/isis-who-behind-islamic-states-latest-franchise-war-torn-yemen-1498532) for the rise of ISIS there.

Porous links between some Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels, Islamist militant groups like al-Nusra, Ahrar al-Sham and ISIS, have enabled prolific weapons transfers from ‘moderate’ to Islamist militants.

The consistent transfers of CIA-Gulf-Turkish arms supplies to ISIS have been documented (http://levantreport.com/2015/01/01/isis-is-now-deploying-us-supplied-tow-anti-tank-missiles-in-syria/) through analysis of weapons serial numbers by the UK-based Conflict Armament Research (CAR), whose database on the illicit weapons trade is funded by the EU and Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

“Islamic State forces have captured significant quantities of US-manufactured small arms and have employed them on the battlefield,” a CAR report found in September 2014. “M79 90 mm anti-tank rockets captured from IS forces in Syria are identical to M79 rockets transferred by Saudi Arabia to forces operating under the ‘Free Syrian Army’ umbrella in 2013.”

German journalist Jurgen Todenhofer, who spent 10 days inside the Islamic State, reported (http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/war-islamic-state-new-cold-war-fiction-1608242142) last year that ISIS is being “indirectly” armed by the West:


They buy the weapons that we give to the Free Syrian Army, so they get Western weapons — they get French weapons… I saw German weapons, I saw American weapons.

ISIS, in other words, is state-sponsored — indeed, sponsored by purportedly Western-friendly regimes in the Muslim world, who are integral to the anti-ISIS coalition.

Which then begs the question as to why Hollande and other Western leaders expressing their determination to “destroy” ISIS using all means necessary, would prefer to avoid the most significant factor of all: the material infrastructure of ISIS’ emergence in the context of ongoing Gulf and Turkish state support for Islamist militancy in the region.

There are many explanations, but one perhaps stands out: the West’s abject dependence on terror-toting Muslim regimes, largely to maintain access to Middle East, Mediterranean and Central Asian oil and gas resources.

Pipelines

Much of the strategy currently at play was candidly described in a 2008 US Army-funded RAND report (http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG738.pdf), Unfolding the Future of the Long War (pdf). The report noted that “the economies of the industrialized states will continue to rely heavily on oil, thus making it a strategically important resource.” As most oil will be produced in the Middle East, the US has “motive for maintaining stability in and good relations with Middle Eastern states.” It just so happens that those states support Islamist terrorism:


The geographic area of proven oil reserves coincides with the power base of much of the Salafi-jihadist network. This creates a linkage between oil supplies and the long war that is not easily broken or simply characterized… For the foreseeable future, world oil production growth and total output will be dominated by Persian Gulf resources… The region will therefore remain a strategic priority, and this priority will interact strongly with that of prosecuting the long war.

Declassified government documents clarify beyond all doubt that a primary motivation for the 2003 Iraq War, preparations for which had begun straight after 9/11, was installing a permanent US military presence in the Persian Gulf to secure access (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/mar/20/iraq-war-oil-resources-energy-peak-scarcity-economy) to the region’s oil and gas.

The obsession over black gold did not end with Iraq, though — and is not exclusive to the West.

“Most of the foreign belligerents in the war in Syria are gas-exporting countries with interests in one of the two competing pipeline projects that seek to cross Syrian territory to deliver either Qatari or Iranian gas to Europe,” wrote (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/syria/2015-10-14/putins-gas-attack) Professor Mitchell Orenstein of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, in Foreign Affairs, the journal of Washington DC’s Council on Foreign Relations.

In 2009, Qatar had proposed to build a pipeline to send its gas northwest via Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria to Turkey. But Assad “refused to sign the plan,” reports Orenstein. “Russia, which did not want to see its position in European gas markets undermined, put him under intense pressure not to.”

Russia’s Gazprom sells 80% of its gas to Europe. So in 2010, Russia put its weight behind “an alternative Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline that would pump Iranian gas from the same field out via Syrian ports such as Latakia and under the Mediterranean.” The project would allow Moscow “to control gas imports to Europe from Iran, the Caspian Sea region, and Central Asia.”

Then in July 2011, a $10 billion Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline deal was announced (http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903591104576467631289250392), and a preliminary agreement duly signed by Assad.

Later that year, the US, UK, France and Israel were ramping up covert assistance to rebel factions in Syria to elicit the “collapse” of Assad’s regime “from within.”

“The United States… supports the Qatari pipeline as a way to balance Iran and diversify Europe’s gas supplies away from Russia,” explained Orenstein in Foreign Affairs.

An article in the Armed Forces Journal published last year by Major Rob Taylor, an instructor at the US Army’s Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, thus offered scathing criticism of conventional media accounts of the Syrian conflict that ignore the pipeline (http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/pipeline-politics-in-syria/) question:


Any review of the current conflict in Syria that neglects the geopolitical economics of the region is incomplete… Viewed through a geopolitical and economic lens, the conflict in Syria is not a civil war, but the result of larger international players positioning themselves on the geopolitical chessboard in preparation for the opening of the pipeline… Assad’s pipeline decision, which could seal the natural gas advantage for the three Shi’a states, also demonstrates Russia’s links to Syrian petroleum and the region through Assad. Saudi Arabia and Qatar, as well as al-Qaeda and other groups, are maneuvering to depose Assad and capitalize on their hoped-for Sunni conquest in Damascus. By doing this, they hope to gain a share of control over the ‘new’ Syrian government, and a share in the pipeline wealth.

The pipelines would access not just gas in the Iran-Qatari field, but also potentially newly discovered offshore gas resources in the Eastern Mediterranean — encompassing the offshore territories of Israel, Palestine, Cyprus, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon. The area has been estimated to hold as much as 1.7 billion barrels of oil and up to 122 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, which geologists believe could be just a third of the total quantities of undiscovered fossil fuels in the Levant.

A December 2014 report (http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/us-army-report-calls-military-support-israeli-energy-grab-57185571) by the US Army War College’s Strategic Studies Institute, authored by a former UK Ministry of Defense research director, noted that Syria specifically holds significant offshore oil and gas potential. It noted:


Once the Syria conflict is resolved, prospects for Syrian offshore production — provided commercial resources are found — are high.

Assad’s brutality and illegitimacy is beyond question — but until he had demonstrated his unwillingness to break with Russia and Iran, especially over their proposed pipeline project, US policy toward Assad (https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-syrian-terror-trap-8626ae94d37f#.k3p39evwp) had been ambivalent.

State Department cables obtained by Wikileaks reveal that US policy had wavered between financing Syrian opposition groups to facilitate “regime change,” and using the threat of regime change to induce “behavior reform.”

President Obama’s preference for the latter resulted in US officials, including John Kerry, shamelessly courting Assad in the hopes of prying him away from Iran, opening up the Syrian economy to US investors, and aligning the regime with US-Israeli regional designs.

Even when the 2011 Arab Spring protests resulted in Assad’s security forces brutalizing peaceful civilian demonstrators, both Kerry and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted (https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/the-syrian-terror-trap-8626ae94d37f#.dthpoz8ik) that he was a “reformer” — which he took as a green light to respond to further protests with massacres.

Assad’s decision to side with Russia and Iran, and his endorsement of their favoured pipeline project, were key factors in the US decision to move against him.

Europe’s dance with the devil

Turkey plays a key role in the US-Qatar-Saudi backed route designed to circumvent Russia and Iran, as an intended gas hub for exports to European markets.

It is only one of many potential pipeline routes involving Turkey.

“Turkey is key to gas supply diversification of the entire European Union. It would be a huge mistake to stall energy cooperation any further,” urged (http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/02/energy-key-eu-turkish-relations-201421794833676602.html) David Koranyi, director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasian Energy Futures initiative and a former national security advisor to the Prime Minister of Hungary.

Koranyi noted that both recent “major gas discoveries in the Eastern Mediterranean” and “gas supplies from Northern Iraq” could be “sourced to supply the Turkish market and transported beyond to Europe.”

Given Europe’s dependence on Russia for about a quarter of its gas, the imperative to minimize this dependence and reduce the EU’s vulnerability to supply outages has become an urgent (http://fuelfix.com/blog/2015/02/03/u-s-russia-fight-over-europes-energy-future/#30267101=0) strategic priority. The priority fits into longstanding efforts by the US to wean Central and Eastern Europe out of the orbit of Russian power.

Turkey is pivotal to the US-EU vision for a new energy map:


The EU would gain a reliable alternative supply route to further diversify its imports from Russia. Turkey, as a hub, would benefit from transit fees and other energy-generated revenues. As additional supplies of gas may become available for export over the next five to 10 years in the wider region, Turkey is the natural route via which these could be shipped to Europe.

A report last year by Anglia Ruskin University’s Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) warned that Europe faced a looming energy crisis, particularly the UK, France and Italy, due to “critical shortages of natural resources.”

“Coal, oil and gas resources in Europe are running down and we need alternatives,” said GSI’s Professor Victoria Andersen.

She also recommended a rapid shift to renewables, but most European leaders apparently have other ideas — namely, shifting to a network of pipelines that would transport oil and gas from the Middle East, Eastern Mediterranean and Central Asia to Europe: via our loving friend, Erdogan’s Turkey.

Nevermind that under Erdogan, Turkey is the leading sponsor of the barbaric ‘Islamic State.’

We must not ask unpatriotic questions about Western foreign policy, or NATO for that matter.

We must not wonder about the pointless spectacle of airstrikes and Stazi-like police powers, given our shameless affair with Erdogan’s terror-regime, which funds and arms our very own enemy.

We must not question the motives of our elected leaders, who despite sitting on this information for years, still lie to us, flagrantly, even now, before the blood of 129 French citizens has even dried, pretending that they intend to “destroy” a band of psychopathic murdering scum, armed and funded from within the heart of NATO.

No, no, no. Life goes on. Business-as-usual must continue. Citizens must keep faith in the wisdom of The Security State.

The US must insist on relying on Turkish intelligence to vet and train ‘moderate’ rebels in Syria, and the EU must insist on extensive counter-terrorism cooperation with Erdogan’s regime, while fast-tracking the ISIS godfather’s accession into the union.

But fear not: Hollande is still intent on “destroying” ISIS. Just like Obama and Cameron — and Erdogan.

It’s just that some red lines simply cannot be crossed.

(The end.)

Dr Nafeez Ahmed (http://www.nafeezahmed.com/) is an investigative journalist, bestselling author and international security scholar. A former Guardian writer, he writes the ‘System Shift’ column for VICE’s Motherboard, and is a weekly columnist for Middle East Eye.

He is the winner of a 2015 Project Censored Award, known as the ‘Alternative Pulitzer Prize’, for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for his Guardian work, and was twice selected in the Evening Standard’s ‘Power 1,000’ most globally influential Londoners, in 2014 and 2015.

Nafeez has also written and reported for The Independent, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Scotsman, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Quartz, Prospect, New Statesman, Le Monde diplomatique, New Internationalist, Counterpunch, Truthout, among others.

He is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Faculty of Science and Technology at Anglia Ruskin University, where he is researching the link between global systemic crises and civil unrest for Springer Energy Briefs.

Nafeez is the author of A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It (2010), and the scifi thriller novel ZERO POINT, among other books. His work on the root causes and covert operations linked to international terrorism officially contributed to the 9/11 Commission and the 7/7 Coroner’s Inquest.

This article was amended on 21st November 2015 to review and supplement sources cited relating to Turkish sponsorship of ISIS, ensuring their credibility, accuracy and plausibility. Some previously quoted sources were removed due to being too partisan within the Turkish political scene, and new more reliable sources added.

This exclusive is being released for free in the public interest, and was enabled by crowdfunding. I’d like to thank my amazing community of patrons for their support, which gave me the opportunity to work on this story. Please support independent, investigative journalism for the global commons (https://www.patreon.com/nafeez?ty=h) via Patreon.com, where you can donate as much or as little as you like.

Source (https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/europe-is-harbouring-the-islamic-state-s-backers-d24db3a24a40#.783djn75r)

[Hervé]

US Congressmen to Obama: Forget Assad, Fight ISIL (http://sputniknews.com/us/20151121/1030513999/congressmen-obama-assad.html)

© AFP 2015/ LOUAI BESHARA US (http://sputniknews.com/us/) 19:03 21.11.2015
(updated 19:10 21.11.2015)


Republican and Democratic representatives in the US House of Representatives urged President Barack Obama to stop trying to overthrow Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and focus all efforts on fighting the Islamic State (ISIL) terrorist group.


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On Friday, Democrat Tulsi Gabbard and Republican Austin Scott introduced legislation to end an "illegal war" to overthrow Assad. "Working to remove Assad at this stage is counter-productive to what I believe our primary mission should be," Austin was quoted as saying by AP.

"The US is waging two wars in Syria. The first is the war against ISIS and other Islamic extremists, which Congress authorized after the terrorist attack on 9/11. The second war is the illegal war to overthrow the Syrian government of Assad," Gabbard said.

Since 2013, the CIA has trained about 10,000 fighters within a covert program to train, arm and fund a moderate opposition to Assad. The secret program is the only step the US is taking against government forces in Syria.

She underscored that Congress has not authorized the CIA’s efforts to support Syrian opposition groups.

The effort to overthrow Assad is counterproductive because it is helping ISIL advance, Gabbard added. If ISIL seizes the Syrian Army’s weapons and infrastructure it would become even more dangerous.

"I don't think Assad should be removed," Gabbard told CNN. "If Assad is removed and overthrown, ISIL, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, these Islamic extremist groups will walk straight in and take over all of Syria… they will be even stronger."

In Syria, the US may repeat its mistakes of the past, like the toppling of Saddam Hussein in Iraq or Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.

"The results of those two failed efforts of regime change and the following nation-building have been absolute, not only have they been failures, but they've actually worked to strengthen our enemy," she added.

[Rocky_Shorz]

Thanks for sharing that article on Turkey, I passed it along to Trump...

He has the Kahunas to bring it forward to public attention...


In a discussion with a bigwig oil investor on how the middle East no longer has any strategic importance to the US.

Give Baath party amnesty, Baghdad and south Iraq to Iran, west Iraq move under control of Jordan and Saudi Arabia. US pulls out and protects the Kurds from Turkey, in exchange for Iraq, Iran must give back Kurdistan.

Turkey in repayment of war crimes, must stop their occupation of Kurdistan allowing the nation to self rule.

This fulfills the prophecy of the divided nation of the origin of the 12 tribes of Israel...

[Hervé]

Journalist who returned from Islamic State HQ tells RT how jihadists can be defeated (https://www.rt.com/news/322996-islamic-state-journalist-todenhofer/)

Jurgen Todenhofer © RT Published time: 21 Nov, 2015 14:55


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RT spoke to Jurgen Todenhofer, the first Western journalist who was allowed to enter territory controlled by the so-called Islamic State. A year ago, he spent 10 days among the terrorists, also visiting Raqqa, the capital of the self-proclaimed caliphate.
Video: https://www.rt.com/news/322996-islamic-state-journalist-todenhofer/
To arrange the journey, Todenhofer held Skype discussions with Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL) for six months before they agreed to his visit.

Finally, the jihadists gave him official guarantee safety. “It was in their interest to fulfill their promises that I would come back alive – and I came back alive,” he said.

After spending several days with ISIS militants, having long discussions with them and observing their daily life, the German journalist said: “They don’t care if we call them terrorists.”

The streets of Raqqa are full of people, cars and functioning businesses, life seemed to be completely normal, Todenhofer said, but one should keep in mind that the Islamists had killed or driven off all the Shias and Christians, so the only people there were Sunnis.

The jihadists are not interested in picking on ordinary people as long as they abide by the Sharia law, they are after important people, the journalist said.

Yet the fear is out there. “If you make a mistake, you can be killed,” Todenhofer said, recalling people being punished with jail terms for offenses such as paying a visit to a girlfriend or using sleeping pills, which are prohibited.


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“People know it is dangerous,” Todenhofer said, but an ordinary person there does not care, because “his life was not [much fun] before, under the control of the Shia government, which they did not like either.”

There are not too many women on the streets of Raqqa, and those few are completely covered with a veil. Only very old women do not have to wear a veil, Todenhofer recalled.

“Because if they are not nice and pretty anymore – they are allowed to show their face.”

Todenhofer told RT's Neil Harvey that on ISIS’s territory, he met people from Russia’s Caucasus, but also from Germany, France, Britain and of course he asked all of them why they had come.

He said he had the impression that all the Muslims who joined ISIS used to be completely unimportant in their countries, were not accepted there and were considered second-class citizens.

“They are told that in Islamic State they will fight a historic fight, a final fight between good and evil,” he said.

“Those young people who were completely unimportant in their countries will be very important [here]. And for the first time in their life, somebody is telling them that they are important,” the journalist said.

Those young men are told they are going to be real stars and heroes, they will have a Kalashnikov and fight against the Americans and so on.

“They played all those video games where killers are the stars. And they believe they are going to be stars now.”

“They are brainwashed, of course, it’s a very successful combination of fanaticism and a very clever military drill they get from Saddam Hussein’s former officers,” Todenhofer said, adding: “They think that they are in a big story now and they are playing a very important role.”

For those European youth who come to Islamic State, the way back is effectively closed, because those who want to return home are considered traitors who have to be killed.

Also, those who believed they were going to fight American and British troops have realized that in reality they are killing innocent Muslims.

“They are realizing that the story they were told is completely wrong. They don’t live in luxury like they were told in Germany, [instead] they live a very simple life, they don’t have food every day, not even water, it is cold in cheap apartments where they live, so life is completely different – and they have to kill Muslims. This is not what they were promised,” Todenhofer said.


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The journalist believes the Islamists are killing hostages such as innocent American journalists to sow fear and to provoke Washington to send ground troops to the Syrian battlefield - because they want to fight against the Americans.

“I think now they would like to fight also against the Russian ground troops, because they have this story that they have to be a hero and fight against the champions, while the Muslims they have killed up until now were not champions and [the ISIS fighters] want to fight powerful people,” he said.

Naturally, the militants did not tell him everything, yet Todenhofer had the impression that Islamic State is still getting money and weapons from Gulf monarchies such as Saudi Arabia.

The weapons are also bought on the black market, where European-made guns are available as well, sometimes those supplied to the Kurdish Peshmerga or the Free Syrian Army (FSA).


“They told me,’Even if we don’t conquer these weapons, we can buy them, because everything has a price. Most of our ammunition we get from the Free Syrian Army.’” This is the ammunition that Americans supplied to the FSA, which is now not important, or those groups which said they belong to the FSA, Todenhofer said.

ISIS is using guerilla warfare tactics, so bombing them is a hard task, because they disperse when the danger is close.


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“I cannot judge the Russian army but I can judge the Western armies. The American Marines and special forces have no chance in a fight against guerilla fighters, because these fighters are ready to die, and Americans Marines do not want to die,” Todenhofer said.

To create real problems for ISIS, the West should do several things: stop the delivery of weapons, ammunition and money from the Gulf monarchies and close the Turkish border used to transit new fighters to ISIS, Todenhofer said, recalling how easy it was to cross the Syrian-Turkish border.

The third important thing is promoting reconciliation between Shia and Sunnis in Iraq, Syria and Turkey, because ISIS finds support among those dissatisfied with the governments and existing state of things.

Fighting ISIS needs an intelligent strategy, Todenhofer said.

[idiit]

US, French Aircraft Carriers Rush Toward Syrian Coast To Find Numerous Russian Warships Already There


Two weeks ago, on November 5, and one week before the Paris terrorist attack, we reported that somewhat unexpectedly, France had dispatched its only aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, to "the eastern Mediterranean for operations against Isis in both Syria and Iraq."[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]It was unclear just what these pre-emptive operations would be and why France is getting so dramatically involved in the campaign against ISIS. Not knowing the dramatic attack that was about to unfold

where things get very interesting is what the Navy Times says next:


ISIS is not the only challenge that awaits the flotilla, which includes the cruiser Anzio, Carrier Wing Air 7, and destroyers Bulkeley, Gravely and Gonzalez. Russian, Chinese and Iranian marines have established their presence in Syria, and Russian warships from the Black Sea have relocated to the eastern Mediterranean to protect fighter jets conducting airstrikes in support of Syria's Assad regime.


Russians and Iranians we knew about, but Chinese? Does the US Navy know something that has not been made public previously?


While we await the answer, what we do know is that suddenly the east Mediterranean is about to become a warship and aircraft carrier parking lot,
emphasis mine.

more at linked article.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-21/us-french-aircraft-carriers-rush-toward-syrian-coast-find-numerous-russian-warships-

[TODD & NORA]

..........

[Baby Steps]

The dark project proceeds according to plan.
In my view the dark tee shirts are just after mayhem and slaughter. The mechanism I predicted was that a brutal Western 'crusader' response to ISIS would win them support in the Sunni world. Whether this happens now that it appears the West & Russia are looking at a coordinated response, depends on the sensitivity of the West to local sensibilities. If they just slaughter civilians within the 'Caliphate' ,more and more fighters and resources will head there from Sunni areas. This is the challenge.

Further down the pyramid there are those commerce and financial manipulations that work to the same end. They are lower in the pyramid because the thinking is that they can achieve their financial and strategic aims without a huge war. This agencies are the foot soldiers of the dark tee shirts endeavors, ignorant of the truly demonic end intention.

The following piece from Shuaib Ahmad sets out the financial & strategic secret game very well, without concluding that there are any dark tee shirts.





After World War II people around the world thought that it was last major war on Earth. This does not look appearing now.
In 1944 major countries of world sat in New Hampshire(Bretton wood conference) to declare dollar as a world currency backed by gold(Gold Standard).US had reserve gold to print paper money.US started printing money and was enjoying the economy boom. From 1945 to 1965 everything was fine but in 1965 US had war with Vietnam and in effect of war US economy started tumble. Until 1970 US was printing more and more dollar to overcome financial crisis. This made countries to start disbelieving in dollar and asking for gold in return of dollar.US had printed more dollar than gold it had. Redeem of gold would have destroy US economy. There fore, US president Nixon ended gold back dollar and started printing more and more dollar to strengthen the economy.Dollar value in international markte was gradually plunging as it was only paper money not backed by gold. Nixon took very smart move, went to Arab and asked to take dollar in exchange of oil. US also promised to give protection and weapons(This is called Petro-Dollar system). This was first seed sow for current war. Other OPEC members (Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar,United Arab Emirates and Venezuela) also followed Arabia exchange policy. US economy started emerge but other countries(China and Japan etc) had to make export oriented policy to get dollar to purchase oil.US economy is like a vehicle which can not run without oil.

In 1999 enemy of dollar had come into the picture "Euro". In 2000 Iraqi president(Russia-China pro) Saddam Hussain decided to sell oil in Euro and assured death warrant of him. US economy(dollar) might derail if Iraq and other OPEC members follow it.
In 2003 Bush invaded Iraq pretending of chemical weapons to save their dollar and destroy the entire country. Iraq again started selling oil in dollar.
Libya's Gaddafi declared to use gold Dinar for oil in 2010. He also tried to form African union and was planning to launch a satellite which was going to serve African nations. Gaddafi step was against US and European nations who have been sucking entire Africa continent for years. So US and EU invaded Libya and killed Gaddafi. Syria moved away from the dollar in 06 and Iran in 08.

Now US has to keep Russia and China away from natural resources(oil and natural gas) and has to compete Euro/Yuan/Rubel as well. Today the US-backed wars in Ukraine and in Syria are but two fronts in the same strategic war to cripple Russia and China and to rupture any Eurasian counter-pole. Natural gas has become the favored “clean energy” source for the 21st Century and the EU is the world’s largest growth market for gas, a major reason US wants to break the Russia-EU supply dependency to weaken Russia and keep control over the EU via loyal proxies like Qatar.

The world’s largest known natural gas reservoir sits in the middle of the Persian Gulf straddling part in the territorial waters of Qatar and part in Iran.China signed agreement with Iran to develop gas pipeline infrastructure to bring the gas to China .In July 2011, the governments of Syria, Iran and Iraq signed an historic gas pipeline energy agreement and this triggered US-Saudi-Qatari war to remove Syrian president Assad. This pipeline would run from the Persian Gulf(in Iran), to Damascus in Syria via Iraq territory. The agreement would make Syria the center of assembly and production in conjunction with the reserves of Lebanon. This is a geopolitically strategic space that geographically opens for the first time, extending from Iran to Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.

Shortly after signing with Iran and Iraq, on August 16, 2011, Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian Ministry of Oil announced the discovery of a gas well in the Area of Qarah in the Central Region of Syria near Homs. Russia, with Assad in power, would be a major investor or operator of the new gas fields in Syria.
Iran ultimately plans to extend the pipeline from Damascus(Syria) to Lebanon’s Mediterranean port where it would be delivered to the huge EU market.
Syria would buy Iranian gas along with a current Iraqi agreement to buy Iranian gas from Iran’s part of South Pars field.

Qatar, today the world’s largest exporter of LNG, largely to Asia, wants the same EU market that Iran and Syria eye.
For that, they would build pipelines to the Mediterranean. Here is where getting rid of the pro Russian-Iranian-Chinese Assad is essential.
In 2009 Qatar approached Bashar al-Assad to propose construction of a gas pipeline from Qatar’s north Field through Syria on to Turkey and to the EU.
Assad refused, citing Syria’s long friendly relations with Russia.

That refusal combined with the Iran-Iraq-Syria gas pipeline agreement in 2011 ignited the full-scale Saudi and Qatari along with US assault on Syria and cause of rise of ISIS. ISIS is now war army of US+Israel+Saudi Arabia+Qatar and many other countries. US announced attack on ISIS but wanted to capture Syria. Now in counter attack Syrian president called his alliance Russia and China.

Now world is on the verge of polarisation, Russia+China+Iran+Syria+Iraq... and US+Israel+Saudi Arabia+Qatar+UK...

US is trying to rapture EU economy to down euro using IMF by weaken its member countries economies. Greece is one of the victim recently(Spain, Italy, Portugal are in queue).

Saudi Arabia is manipulating oil price to weaken Iran indirectly Russia. China is in currency war with US. China did de-value its currency to compete with dollar(China market crash in Aug-Sept).

France voted against Israel for Palestine in UN in Sept-Oct 2015, recognized as a state and stabbed to Israel, and looking for 2 states solution theory.

China is capturing African countries and making lot of investment. Mali is recently attacked because its President went to china door to ask help and get rid of US occupied gold mines.

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US Congresswoman Introduces Bill To Stop "Illegal" War On Assad; Says CIA Ops Must Stop

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Last month, US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard went on CNN and laid bare Washington’s Syria strategy.

In a remarkably candid interview with Wolf Blitzer, Gabbard calls Washington’s effort to oust Assad “counterproductive” and “illegal” before taking it a step further and accusing the CIA of arming the very same terrorists who The White House insists are "sworn enemies.”

In short, Gabbard all but tells the American public that the government is lying to them and may end up inadvertently starting “World War III.”

For those who missed it, here’s the clip:


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That was before Paris.

Well, in the wake of the attacks, Gabbard has apparently had just about enough of Washington vacillating in the fight against terror just so the US can ensure that ISIS continues to destabilize Assad and now, with bi-partisan support, the brazen Hawaii Democrat has introduced legislation to end the "illegal war" to overthrow Assad.

Gabbard, who fought in Iraq - twice - has partnered with Republican Adam Scott on the bill. Here's AP (http://news.yahoo.com/us-lawmakers-forget-assad-focus-172759340.html):

In an unusual alliance, a House Democrat and Republican have teamed up to urge the Obama administration to stop trying to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad and focus all its efforts on destroying Islamic State militants.

Reps. Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat, and Austin Scott, a Republican, introduced legislation on Friday to end what they called an "illegal war" to overthrow Assad, the leader of Syria accused of killing tens of thousands of Syrian citizens in a more than four-year-old civil war entangled in a battle against IS extremists, also known as ISIS.

"The U.S. is waging two wars in Syria," Gabbard said. "The first is the war against ISIS and other Islamic extremists, which Congress authorized after the terrorist attack on 9/11. The second war is the illegal war to overthrow the Syrian government of Assad."

Scott said, "Working to remove Assad at this stage is counter-productive to what I believe our primary mission should be."

Since 2013, the CIA has trained an estimated 10,000 fighters, although the number still fighting with so-called moderate forces is unclear. CIA-backed rebels in Syria, who had begun to put serious pressure on Assad's forces, are now under Russian bombardment with little prospect of rescue by their American patrons, U.S. officials say.

For years, the CIA effort had foundered — so much so that over the summer, some in Congress proposed cutting its budget. Some CIA-supported rebels had been captured; others had defected to extremist groups.

Gabbard complained that Congress has never authorized the CIA effort, though covert programs do not require congressional approval, and the program has been briefed to the intelligence committees as required by law, according to congressional aides who are not authorized to be quoted discussing the matter.

Gabbard contends the effort to overthrow Assad is counter-productive because it is helping IS topple the Syrian leader and take control of all of Syria. If IS were able to seize the Syrian military's weaponry, infrastructure and hardware, the group would become even more dangerous than it is now and exacerbate the refugee crisis. And make no mistake, Tulsi's understanding of Washington's absurd Mid-East policy goes far beyond Syria. That is, Gabbard fully grasps the big picture as well. Here's what she has to say about the idea that the US should everywhere and always attempt to overthrow regimes when human rights groups claim there's evidence of oppression:

"People said the very same thing about Saddam (Hussein), the very same thing about (Moammar) Gadhafi, the results of those two failed efforts of regime change and the following nation-building have been absolute, not only have they been failures, but they've actually worked to strengthen our enemy." Somebody get Langley on the phone, this woman must be stopped.

Here's Gabbard speaking to CNN this week about Assad:
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So there's hope for the US public after all.

Perhaps if the clueless masses won't listen to "lunatic" fringe blogs or Sergei Lavrov (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-18/russia-explains-clueless-us-public-why-obama-cant-defeat-isis), they'll listen to a US Congresswoman who served two tours of duty in Iraq and who is now telling Americans that The White House, The Pentagon, and most especially the CIA are together engaged in an "illegal" effort to overthrow the government of a sovereign country and in the process are arming the very same extremists that are attacking civilians in places like Paris.

Good luck Tulsi, and thanks for proving that there's at least one person inside that Beltway that isn't either dishonest or naive.

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From Gabbard (http://gabbard.house.gov/index.php/press-releases/520-reps-tulsi-gabbard-austin-scott-introduce-legislation-to-end-illegal-u-s-war-to-overthrow-syrian-government-of-assad)
“Here are 10 reasons the U.S. must end its war to overthrow the Syrian government of Assad:


Because if we succeed in overthrowing the Syrian government of Assad, it will open the door for ISIS, al-Qaeda, and other Islamic extremists to take over all of Syria. There will be genocide and suffering on a scale beyond our imagination. These Islamic extremists will take over all the weaponry, infrastructure, and military hardware of the Syrian army and be more dangerous than ever before.
We should not be allying ourselves with these Islamic extremists by helping them achieve their goal because it is against the security interests of the United States and all of civilization.
Because the money and weapons the CIA is providing to overthrow the Syrian government of Assad are going directly or indirectly into the hands of the Islamic extremist groups, including al-Qaeda affiliates, al-Nusra, Ahrar al-Sham, and others who are the actual enemies of the United States. These groups make up close to 90 percent of the so-called opposition forces, and are the most dominant fighters on the ground.
Because our efforts to overthrow Assad has increased and will continue to increase the strength of ISIS and other Islamic extremists, thus making them a bigger regional and global threat.
Because this war has exacerbated the chaos and carnage in Syria and, along with the terror inflicted by ISIS and other Islamic extremist groups fighting to take over Syria, continues to increase the number of Syrians forced to flee their country.
Because we should learn from our past mistakes in Iraq and Libya that U.S. wars to overthrow secular dictators (Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi) cause even more chaos and human suffering and open the door for Islamic extremists to take over in those countries.
Because the U.S. has no credible government or government leader ready to bring order, security, and freedom to the people of Syria.
Because even the ‘best case’ scenario—that the U.S. successfully overthrows the Syrian government of Assad—would obligate the United States to spend trillions of dollars and the lives of American service members in the futile effort to create a new Syria. This is what we have been trying to do in Iraq for twelve years, and we still have not succeeded. The situation in Syria will be much more difficult than in Iraq.
Because our war against the Syrian government of Assad is interfering with our being one-pointedly focused on the war to defeat ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the other Islamic extremists who are our actual enemy.
Because our war to overthrow the Assad government puts us in direct conflict with Russia and increases the likelihood of war between the United States and Russia and the possibility of another world war.”

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Oh, and if you needed another reason to like Tulsi, here's a bonus 40 second clip for your amusement...


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ISIL Sends Long Military Convoy towards Battlefields with US Chopper's Back Up (http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940824000479)

Sun Nov 15, 2015 1:6


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TEHRAN (FNA)- A video displayed by an Arab news website showed that a long convoy of the ISIL terrorists' military vehicles was going on a Highway towards the battlefield with the aerial back up of a US Army Apache helicopter.


The UAE-based al-Sa'a displayed a video clip of over 200 Toyota vans carrying the flag and members of the ISIL terrorist group driving on one of the main highways of Syria while an Apache chopper of US military was accompanying them in a friendly manner.

The Arab media outlet reported that the ISIL convoy did not open fire at the US chopper, which was flying in a very low altitude.


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Early in October, former CIA counter terrorism officer and Senate Foreign Relations Committee senior investigator John Kiriakou said the US congress armed the ISIL terrorists by providing weapons to the "moderate" opposition.

The FSA is an armed Syrian opposition faction, considered "moderate" by the western countries, fighting the Syrian army loyal to President Bashar Assad since the beginning of the war in 2011. In 2014, the US Congress allocated $500 million to create FSA force of more than 5,000 men by the end of 2015.

"They (the FSA) didn’t help at all: supporting them only made matters worse. Most of the US arms that were sent to them only found their way into the hands of the Islamic State (of Iraq and the Levant). Congress paid for the arming (of) the Islamic State (of Iraq and the Levant)," Kiriakou said.

According to him, ISIL forces in Syria had been able to capture and use modern US equipment from the FSA just as their counterparts in Iraq enjoyed the use of huge quantities of US equipment they had captured from fleeing US-trained Iraqi forces.

The US idea of "a liberal, democratic freedom-loving, peace-loving opposition", an alternative to Syrian President Assad, was just nonsense, Kiriakou said. The US should have stayed out instead of making the situation worse, he added.

Editor's Note: The report and its video has been released by the UAE-based al-Sa'a on November 12 and it has NOT been debunked and, we are told, has location tags showing Syria. The story was also covered by the Russian media. Several independent media have confirmed that the trucks are ISIL and the helicopter is an American apache. Yet, FNA is not able to confirm or reject the report.

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Turkish F-16s Shoot Down Russian Su-24 Warplane Near Syria Border


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It said two Turkish F-16s were involved in the shooting down of the jet.

However, while moments ago the Russian defense ministry confirmed that the shot down plane was indeed one of its own in what will be deemed a clear act of aggression by a NATO-member country against Russia, the Russian defense ministry said it could prove the aircraft was over Syria for the entire flight.


Meanwhile, Turkish media reported that either one or both of the pilots may have been captured by Turkmen forces located in the region.

TURKMEN FORCES CAPTURE 2 PILOTS OF DOWNED RUSSIAN JET: AHABER

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-24/turkish-f-16-shoots-down-russian-su-24-warplane-near-syria-border

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HOW DOES USA HANDLE A WAR WHEN THEY ARE FIGHTING THEMSELVES ( USA MILITARY AGAINST USA CREATED ISIS)?


"Get Out Of Your Trucks And Run Away": US Gives ISIS 45 Minute Warning On Oil Tanker Strikes

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-23/get-out-your-trucks-and-run-away-us-gives-isis-45-minute-warning-oil-tanker-strikes

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from other thread.....

Now the zionist neo -con , anglo - saxon , ottoman & 'oil' coalition have nicely got
there little NATO ducklings following ' Uncle Sam' Duck are they ready to escalate
incidents against 'Mother Russia' Duck ?? Or just an accident in the fog of war ?

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Russian Su-24 fighter jet downed over Syria, parachute seen in sky

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Published on 24 Nov 2015

A Russian Su-24 fighter has been shot down in Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry
said, adding the plane hadn’t violated Turkish airspace and was flying at an
altitude of 6,000 meters.

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Russian press convoy attacked with AT missile at Syria-Turkey border

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Published on 24 Nov 2015

Convoy with Russian journalists was hit by an anti-tank missile coming from a rebel-
controlled area some 2.5 km away. RT’s Roman Kosarev sustained a concussion
while RT Arabic’s Sargon Hadaya was injured by pieces of shrapnel in his back and leg.

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Turkey 'shoots down Russian warplane on Syria border'


44 minutes ago

From the section Middle East


The Turkish military has reportedly shot down a Russian military aircraft on the
border with Syria.Russia's defence ministry said an Su-24 had crashed on Syrian
territory after being hit by fire from the ground, and that its pilots had managed to
eject.But Turkish military officials said Turkish F-16s had shot down the plane after
repeatedly warning its pilots they were violating Turkish airspace.

Video showed the jet crashing in a rebel-held area of Latakia province.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34907983


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LIVE: RT special coverage of Russian warplane downed over Syria

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Started on 24 Nov 2015

A Russian Su-24 fighter has been shot down in Syria, the Russian Defense
Ministry said, adding the plane hadn’t violated Turkish airspace and was
flying at an altitude of 6,000 meters.

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Russian Su-24 Fighter Bomber Shot Down By Turkey On Syrian Border

By ickonic on 24th November 2015 David's Picks, New World Order, War and Terror

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BREAKING: Russian Su-24 Fighter Bomber Shot Down By Turkey On Syrian Border

November 24, 2015 By 21wire 2 Comments


21st Century Wire says…

This is certainly not good…

‘Russian Defense Ministers maintain that Russia did not violate Turkish
airspace and has mission data to prove this is the case. It’s confirmed
that the plane came down in Syrian territory. Although reports indicate
the Russian plane was shot down from the ground, Turkey is claiming
that its own F16 fighter intercepted and shot down the Russian aircraft.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was briefed and Prime Minister Ahmet
Davutoglu ordered consultations with NATO, and the United Nations.
Regardless of how you look at this incident, the fact that Turkey, a
NATO member, would knowingly shoot down a Russian fighter jet
involved in operations against ISIS and al Nusra (al Qaeda) terrorists
– is defacto proof that Turkey is not only coordinating with terrorist
paramilitary forces on the ground, but is effectively providing counter
air defense for the terrorist forces on the ground.’

Read more: Russian Su-24 Fighter Bomber Shot Down By Turkey On Syrian Border

http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/11/24/breaking-russian-su-24-fighter-bomber-shot-down-by-turkey-on-syrian-border/

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Former US Ambassador to Syria: Russia Culpable for Paris Attacks Because It Supports Assad

By David Icke on 24th November 2015


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Russian Insider...

‘We’re not going to spend too much time harping on the lunacy that came out of
Ambassador Robert Ford’s mouth-hole during a recent interview with The Daily
Beast. But here’s his “argument”, if you can even call it that:

Former Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford is skeptical that the Russians are really
changing their stance about Assad, and as long as Assad is in place, the armed
opposition will not mobilize to fight against the Islamic State.

Ha-ha, see? Russia refuses to violently depose Assad, which means that US-
backed “moderate” rebels are so busy fighting Assad — and “surrendering” their
weapons to ISIS — that they have no time to fight ISIS! Ergo, Russia “doesn’t care
about Paris”, and has even enabled the Islamic State!’

Read more: Former US Ambassador to Syria: Russia Culpable for Paris Attacks
Because It Supports Assad


http://russia-insider.com/en/brain-dead-former-us-ambassador-support-assad-proves-russia-doesnt-care-about-paris-attacks/ri11360

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Wikileaks: Hillary Clinton Claims Saudi Arabia is the Largest Donor to ‘Sunni Terrorists’ Worldwide

By David Icke on 24th November 2015 War and Terror

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Wikileaks: Hillary Clinton Claims Saudi Arabia is the Largest Donor to “Sunni Terrorists” Worldwide
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By Leith Fadel on November 23, 2015


Wikileaks has struck again; this time, they have revealed a U.S. government cable
sent from the former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, to the U.S. Treasury office
that specifically alluded to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s substantial financial
donations to international terrorist groups fighting the U.S. Armed Forces.

According to an introductory cable that discussed Saudi Arabia’s background:

“Donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni
terrorist groups worldwide.”

Secretary of State Clinton followed this statement up with the following:

“Continued senior level USG engagement is needed to build-on initial efforts and
encourage the Saudi government to take more steps to stem the flow of funds from
Saudi Arabia-backed sources to terrorists and extremists worldwide.”’

Read more: Wikileaks: Hillary Clinton Claims Saudi Arabia is the Largest Donor
to ‘Sunni Terrorists’ Worldwide

http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/wikileaks-hillary-clinton-claims-saudi-arabia-largest-donor-sunni-terrorists-worldwide/

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Flashback Septenber 5th 2014 – ISIS: McCain says everyone in the National
Security Team recommended arming ISIS

By David Icke on 24th November 2015

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ISIS : McCain says everyone in the National Security Team recommended arming ISIS (Sept 05, 2014)
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Drone Pilot Whistleblowers Describe Devastating Impacts of Targeted Kill Program

By David Icke on 24th November 2015 War and Terror

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‘Four former drone operators who are speaking out against the U.S. military’s ongoing
targeted killing program—and risking federal prosecution for doing so—appeared on
Democracy Now! Friday morning, alongside renowned human rights attorney Jesselyn
Radack, for their first extended interview on air.

“We have seen the abuse firsthand, and we are horrified,” former Air Force Staff Sgt.
Brandon Bryant said at a press conference Thursday.

As Common Dreams reported earlier this week, the Air Force pilots-turned-whistleblowers
issued an open letter to President Barack Obama warning that the drone program “is one
of the most devastating driving forces for terrorism and destabilization around the world.”‘

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Putin Throws Down The Gauntlet To Turkey’s Erdogan Over Downed Russian Jet

November 24, 2015 By 21wire 15 Comments


SEE ALSO: Russian Su-24 Fighter Bomber Shot Down By Turkey On Syrian Border

21st Century Wire says…

Earlier today, it’s reported that a NATO Turkish F16 aircraft shot down a Russian Su-24
Fighter Bomber with an air-to-air missile near the Syria-Turkish border. It is the first
time that a NATO fighter has downed a Russian combat aircraft since the start of the
Cold War nearly 70 years ago.

Read More...

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http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/11/24/putin-throws-down-the-gauntlet-to-turkeys-erdogan/



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Putin: Downing of Russian jet over Syria stab in the back by terrorist accomplices

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Streamed live on 24 Nov 2015

The Russian President is making a statement on the Russian Su-24 warplane
recently downed over Syria after meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah in Moscow.

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‘Turkey wants to drag NATO in a kind of collision course with Russia’ – Ali Rizk

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Published on 24 Nov 2015

A Russian warplane has gone down near the Turkish-Syrian border after an apparent
attack. Turkish and Russian sources have given conflicting reports about the incident,
which has the potential to escalate the tension between Russia and NATO member Turkey.
Ali Rizk, expert on Middle East affairs, talks to RT



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Not only Ankara backs Daesh but offers also logistical support - Pepe Escobar

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Published on 24 Nov 2015


A Russian warplane has gone down near the Turkish-Syrian border after an apparent
attack. Turkish and Russian sources have given conflicting reports about the incident,
which has the potential to escalate the tension between Russia and NATO member Turkey.

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MAP: Russian Su-24 crash scheme by defense ministry

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Published on 24 Nov 2015


Russian Defense Ministry demonstrates map of the Su-24M flight which ended in
downing by Turkish F-16 jet. Russian MoD insists the jet didn’t violate Turkish airspace,
while Ankara says the plane crossed into its territory for 17 seconds, leaked document indicates.

LIVE UPDATES: http://on.rt.com/6xew

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CrossTalk on downing of Russian military jet: Dangerous Skies
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Published on 24 Nov 2015


What does the downing of a Russian Air Force jet by Turkey tell us about the war
against the Islamic State? How many sides are there in the conflict? And who
benefits from a very divided front? Is ending the Syrian civil war as elusive as ever?

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Total double talk and standards....

US-backed forces have right to self-defense, but others do not': State Dept. spox

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Published on 24 Nov 2015

Turkey and the rebels it backs northern Syria had the right to defend themselves
against Russian airstrikes, State Department spokesman told reporters. The rebels
reportedly killed one Russian pilot who ejected from the jet hit by a Turkish missile.
READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/6xhn

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Turkey Russia jet: Marine killed in pilot rescue bid

1 hour ago

A Russian marine has been killed on a helicopter mission to rescue the crew of a jet
downed by Turkey near the Syrian border on Tuesday.

He died when his helicopter came under fire from rebels in northern Syria, where
the plane crashed.

read more...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34917485


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FSA video claims Russian helicopter hit with US-made TOW missile near Su-24 crash site

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Published on 24 Nov 2015

LATEST INFO here: http://on.rt.com/6xgq

A video of Syrian rebels allegedly firing at a Russian-made helicopter on the ground
has been posted on a YouTube channel associated with the FSA’s 1st Coastal
Brigade. The helicopter is said to have been on a search mission for the pilots of
the Su-24 jet downed by Turkey in Syria.

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Second pilot of downed Russian Su-24 rescued from behind enemy lines, RT confirms

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Published on 25 Nov 2015

RT correspondent Roman Kosarev has managed to get in touch with the second pilot
of the Su-24 jet bomber that was shot down by the Turkish Air Force over Syria on Tuesday.


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Lavrov: Downing Russian Su-24 looks like planned provocation, well-prepared ambush

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Streamed live on 25 Nov 2015

The downing of a Russian warplane in Syria by Turkey appears to be a pre-planned
provocation, the Russian Foreign Minister said. Ankara failed to communicate with
Russia over the incident, he added - READ MORE http://on.rt.com/6xjg

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No warnings from Turkish jets before attack – Russian Su-24 rescued pilot first interview

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Published on 25 Nov 2015
No warnings from Turkish jets before attack, missile hit unexpectedly
in the tail of the bomber, says Russian Su-24 rescued pilot, who gave
first interview at Hmeimim airbase in Latakia

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Moscow to deploy S-400 defense missile system to Khmeimim airbase in Syria
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Russia deploys missile cruiser off Syria, says will target threats

By David Icke on 25th November 2015

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Obama orders probe into intel’s alleged doctoring reports on ISIS

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Published on 24 Nov 2015

Barack Obama has ordered an inquiry into whether the Pentagon is covering up its
military failures against ISIS. That's after members of the Republican party claimed
the President receives doctored intelligence reports.

[Hervé]

Israeli Colonel Caught with IS Pants Down (http://journal-neo.org/2015/11/25/israeli-colonel-caught-with-is-pants-down/)

Author: F. William Engdahl (http://journal-neo.org/author/william-engdahl/) 25.11.2015
First appeared: (http://journal-neo.org/author/william-engdahl/)http://journal-neo.org/2015/11/25/israeli-colonel-caught-with-is-pants-down/


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This was definitely not supposed to happen. It seems that an Israeli military man with the rank of colonel was “caught with IS pants down.” By that I mean he was captured amid a gaggle of so-called IS–or Islamic State or ISIS or DAESH depending on your preference–terrorists, by soldiers of the Iraqi army. Under interrogation by the Iraqi intelligence he apparently said a lot regarding the role of Netanyahu’s IDF in supporting IS.

In late October an Iranian news agency, quoting a senior Iraqi intelligence officer, reported the capture of an Israeli army colonel, named Yusi Oulen Shahak, reportedly related to the ISIS Golani Battalion operating in Iraq in the Salahuddin front. In a statement to Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency a Commander of the Iraqi Army stated, “The security and popular forces have held captive an Israeli colonel.” He added that the IDF colonel “had participated in the Takfiri ISIL group’s terrorist operations.” He said the colonel was arrested together with a number of ISIL or IS terrorists, giving the details: “The Israeli colonel’s name is Yusi Oulen Shahak and is ranked colonel in Golani Brigade… with the security and military code of Re34356578765az231434 (http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940730000210).”


Why Israel?
Ever since the beginning of Russia’s very effective IS bombing of select targets in Syria on September 30, details of the very dirty role of not only Washington, but also NATO member Turkey under President Erdogan, Qatar and other states has come into the sunlight for the first time.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that at least a faction in the Obama Administration has played a very dirty behind-the-scenes role in supporting IS in order to advance the removal of Syrian President Bashar al Assad and pave the way for what inevitably would be a Libya-style chaos and destruction which would make the present Syrian refugee crisis in Europe a mere warmup by comparison.

The “pro-IS faction” in Washington includes the so-called neo-conservatives centered around disgraced former CIA head and executioner of the Iraqi “surge” General David Petraeus. It also includes US General John R. Allen, who since September 2014 had served as President Obama’s Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) and, until she resigned in February 2013, it included Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (http://www.voltairenet.org/article188337.html).

Significantly, General John Allen, an unceasing advocate of a US-led “No Fly Zone” inside Syria along the border to Turkey, something President Obama refused, was relieved of his post on 23 October, 2015. That was shortly after launch of the highly-effective Russian strikes on Syrian IS and Al Qaeda’s Al Nusra Front terrorist sites changed the entire situation in the geopolitical picture of Syria and the entire Middle East.


UN Reports cites Israel
That Netanyahu’s Likud and the Israeli military work closely with Washington’s neo-conservative war-hawks is well-established, as is the vehement opposition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Israel regards the Iranian-backed Shi’a Islamist militant group, Hezbollah, based in Lebanon, as arch foe. Hezbollah has been actively fighting alongside the Syrian Army against ISIS in Syria. General Allen’s strategy of “bombings of ISIS” since he was placed in charge of the operation in September 2014, as Russia’s Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov have repeatedly pointed out, far from destroying ISIS in Syria, had vastly expanded their territorial control of the country (http://journal-neo.org/2015/10/15/putin-is-defeating-more-than-isis-in-syria/). Now it becomes clear that that was precisely the intent of Allen and the Washington war faction.

Since at least 2013 Israeli military have also openly bombed what they claim were Hezbollah targets inside Syria. Investigation revealed that in fact Israel was hitting Syrian military and Hezbollah targets who are valiantly fighting against ISIS and other terrorists. De facto thereby Israel was actually helping ISIS, like General John Allen’s year-long “anti-ISIS” bombings (http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/02/19/un-report-reveals-how-israel-is-coordinating-with-isis-militants-inside-syria/).

That a faction in the Pentagon has secretly worked behind-the-scenes to train, arm and finance what today is called ISIS or IS in Syria is now a matter of open record. In August 2012, a Pentagon document classified “Secret,” later declassified under pressure of the US NGO Judicial Watch, detailed precisely the emergence of what became the Islamic State or ISIS emerging from the Islamic State in Iraq, then an Al Qaeda affiliate.

The Pentagon document stated, “…there is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist Principality in eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition [to Assad-w.e.] want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime, which is considered the strategic depth of the Shia expansion (Iraq and Iran (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-18/russia-explains-clueless-us-public-why-obama-cant-defeat-isis)).” The supporting powers to the opposition in 2012 then included Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the USA and behind-the-scenes, Netanyahu’s Israel.

Precisely this creation of a “Salafist Principality in eastern Syria,” today’s territory of ISIL or IS, was the agenda of Petraeus, General Allen and others in Washington to destroy Assad. It’s what put the Obama Administration at loggerhead with Russia, China and Iran over the bizarre US demand Assad must first go before ISIS can be destroyed. Now the game is in the open for the world to see Washington’s duplicity in backing what the Russian’s accurately call “moderate terrorists” against a duly-elected Assad. That Israel is also in the midst of this rats’ nest of opposition terrorist forces in Syria was confirmed in a recent UN report.

What the report did not mention was why Israeli IDF military would have such a passionate interest in Syria, especially Syria’s Golan Heights.


Why Israel wants Assad Out
In December, 2014 the Jerusalem Post in Israel reported the findings of a largely ignored, and politically explosive report detailing UN sightings of Israeli military together with ISIS terrorist combatants. The UN peacekeeping force, UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), stationed since 1974 along the Golan Heights border between Syria and Israel, revealed that Israel had been working closely with Syrian opposition terrorists, including Al Qaeda’s Al Nusra Front and IS in the Golan Heights, and “kept close contact over the past 18 months.” The report was submitted to the UN Security Council (http://journal-neo.org/2015/11/25/israeli-colonel-caught-with-is-pants-down/%20http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/New-UN-report-reveals-collaboration-between-Israel-and-Syrian-rebels-). Mainstream media in the US and West buried the explosive findings.

The UN documents showed that the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) were maintaining regular contact with members of the so-called Islamic State since May of 2013. The IDF stated that this was only for medical care for civilians, but the deception was broken when the UNDOF observers identified direct contact between IDF forces and ISIS soldiers, including giving medical care to ISIS fighters. Observations even included the transfer of two crates from the IDF to ISIS forces, the contents of which have not been confirmed. Further the UN report identified what the Syrians label a “crossing point of forces between Israel and ISIS,” a point of concern UNDOF brought before the UN Security Council (http://journal-neo.org/2015/11/25/israeli-colonel-caught-with-is-pants-down/%20http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/New-UN-report-reveals-collaboration-between-Israel-and-Syrian-rebels-).

The UNDOF was created by a May, 1974 UN Security Council Resolution No. 350 in the wake of tensions from the October 1973 Yom Kippur War between Syria and Israel. It established a buffer zone between Israel and Syria’s Golan Heights according to the 1974 Disengagement of Forces Agreement, to be governed and policed by the Syrian authorities. No military forces other than UNDOF are permitted within it. Today it has 1,200 observers.

Since 2013 and the escalation of Israeli attacks on Syria along the Golan Heights, claiming pursuit of “Hezbollah terrorists,” the UNDOF itself has been subject to massive attacks by ISIS or Al Qaeda’s Al Nusra Front terrorists in the Golan Heights for the first time since 1974, of kidnappings, of killings, of theft of UN weapons and ammunition, vehicles and other assets, and the looting and destruction of facilities (http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/undof/background.shtm). Someone obviously does not want UNDOF to remain policing the Golan Heights.


Israel and Golan Heights Oil
In his November 9 White House meeting with US President Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu asked Washington to reconsider the fact that since the 1967 Six-Days’ War between Israel and the Arab countries, Israel has illegally occupied a significant part of the Golan Heights. In their meeting, Netanyahu, apparently without success, called on Obama to back formal Israeli annexation of the illegally-occupied Golan Heights, claiming that the absence of a functioning Syrian government “allows for different thinking” concerning the future status of the strategically important area. (http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.685267)

Of course Netanyahu did not address in any honest way how Israeli IDF and other forces had been responsible for the absence of a functioning Syrian government by their support for ISIS and Al Nusra Front of Al Qaeda.

In 2013, when UNDOF began to document increasing contact between Israeli military and IS and Al Qaeda along the Golan Heights, a little-known Newark, New Jersey oil company, Genie Energy, with an Israeli daughter company, Afek Oil & Gas, began also moving into Golan Heights with permission of the Netanyahu government to explore for oil. That same year Israeli military engineers overhauled the forty-five mile border fence with Syria, replacing it with a steel barricade that included barbed wire, touch sensors, motion detectors, infrared cameras, and ground radar, putting it on par with the Wall Israel has constructed in the West Bank (http://www.mintpressnews.com/israel-takes-advantage-of-syrian-civil-war-to-expand-illegal-golan-heights-settlements/210294/).

Interestingly enough, on October 8, Yuval Bartov, chief geologist from Genie Energy’s Israeli subsidiary, Afek Oil & Gas, told Israel’s Channel 2 TV that his company had found a major oil reservoir on the Golan Heights: “We’ve found an oil stratum 350 meters thick in the southern Golan Heights. On average worldwide, strata are 20 to 30 meters thick, and this is 10 times as large as that, so we are talking about significant quantities (http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/.premium-1.679315).” As I noted in an earlier article, the International Advisory Board of Genie Energy includes such notorious names as Dick Cheney, former CIA head and infamous neo-con James Woolsey, Jacob Lord Rothschild and others (http://journal-neo.org/2015/10/26/genies-and-genocide-syria-israel-russia-and-much-oil-2/).

Of course no reasonable person in their right mind would suggest there might be a link between Israeli military dealings with the ISIS and other anti-Assad terrorists in Syria, especially in the Golan Heights, and the oil find of Genie Energy in the same place, and with Netanyahu’s latest Golan Heights “rethink” appeal to Obama. That would smell too much like “conspiracy theory” and all reasonable people know conspiracies don’t exist, only coincidences. Or? In fact, to paraphrase the immortal words of Brad Pitt in the role of West Virginia First Lieutenant Aldo Raine in the final scene of Tarantino’s brilliant film, Inglorious Basterds, it seems that ‘Ol Netanyahu and his pecker-suckin pals in the IDF and Mossad just got caught with their hands in a very dirty cookie jar in Syria.

F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook” (http://journal-neo.org/).

[Sophocles]

Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey's President (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-25/meet-man-who-funds-isis-bilal-erdogan-son-turkeys-president)

ZeroHedge - Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/25/2015 22:55 -0500

Russia's Sergey Lavrov is not one foreign minister known to mince his words. Just earlier today, 24 hours after a Russian plane was brought down by the country whose president three years ago (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-25/who-said-it-short-term-border-violation-can-never-be-pretext-attack) said "a short-term border violation can never be a pretext for an attack", had this to say: "We have serious doubts this was an unintended incident and believe this is a planned provocation" by Turkey.

But even that was tame compared to what Lavrov said to his Turkish counterparty Mevlut Cavusoglu earlier today during a phone call between the two (Lavrov who was supposed to travel to Turkey has since canceled such plans).

As Sputnik transcribes (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151125/1030764208/lavrov-cavusoglu-conversation.html), according to a press release from Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lavrov pointed out that, "by shooting down a Russian plane on a counter-terrorist mission of the Russian Aerospace Force in Syria, and one that did not violate Turkey’s airspace, the Turkish government has in effect sided with ISIS."

It was in this context when Lavrov added that "Turkey’s actions appear premeditated, planned, and undertaken with a specific objective."

More importantly, Lavrov pointed to Turkey’s role in the propping up the terror network through the oil trade. Per the Russian statement:


The Russian Minister reminded his counterpart about Turkey’s involvement in the ISIS’ illegal trade in oil, which is transported via the area where the Russian plane was shot down, and about the terrorist infrastructure, arms and munitions depots and control centers that are also located there.

Others reaffirmed Lavrov's stance, such as retired French General Dominique Trinquand, who said that "Turkey is either not fighting ISIL at all or very little, and does not interfere with different types of smuggling that takes place on its border, be it oil, phosphate, cotton or people," he said.

The reason we find this line of questioning fascinating is that just last week in the aftermath of the French terror attack but long before the Turkish downing of the Russian jet, we wrote about "The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-19/most-important-question-about-isis-nobody-asking)" in which we asked who is the one "breaching every known law of funding terrorism when buying ISIS crude, almost certainly with the tacit approval by various "western alliance" governments, and why is it that these governments have allowed said middleman to continue funding ISIS for as long as it has?"

Precisely one week later, in even more tragic circumstances, suddenly everyone is asking this question.

And while we patiently dig to find who the on and offshore "commodity trading" middleman are, who cart away ISIS oil to European and other international markets in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars, one name keeps popping up as the primary culprit of regional demand for the Islamic State's "terrorist oil" - that of Turkish president Recep Erdogan's son: Bilal Erdogan.

His very brief bio:


Necmettin Bilal Erdogan, commonly known as Bilal Erdogan (born 23 April 1980) is the third child of Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, the current President of Turkey.

After graduating from Kartal Imam Hatip High School in 1999, Bilal Erdogan moved to the US for undergraduate education. He also earned a Masters Degree in John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2004. After graduation, he served in the World Bank as intern for a while. He returned Turkey in 2006 and started to his business life. Bilal Erdogan is one of the three equal shareholders of "BMZ Group Denizcilik ", a marine transportation corporation.

Here is a recent picture of Bilal, shown in a photo from a Turkish 2014 article (http://www.cumhuriyet.com.tr/haber/turkiye/70059/Bilal_Erdogan_in_gemileri_Suriye_ye_ne_tasiyor_.html), which "asked why his ships are now in Syria":

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In the next few days, we will present a full breakdown of Bilal's various business ventures, starting with his BMZ Group which is the name implicated most often in the smuggling of illegal Iraqi and Islamic State through to the western supply chain, but for now here is a brief, if very disturbing snapshot, of both father and son Erdogan by F. William Engdahl, one which should make everyone ask whether the son of Turkey's president (and thus, the father) is the silent mastermind who has been responsible for converting millions of barrels of Syrian Oil into hundreds of millions of dollars of Islamic State revenue.

By F. William Engdahl, posted originally in New Eastern Outlook (http://journal-neo.org/2015/08/24/erdogan-s-dirty-dangerous-isis-games/):

Erdogan's Dirth Dangerous ISIS Games

More and more details are coming to light revealing that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, variously known as ISIS, IS or Daesh, is being fed and kept alive by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish President and by his Turkish intelligence service, including MIT, the Turkish CIA. Turkey, as a result of Erdogan’s pursuit of what some call a Neo-Ottoman Empire fantasies that stretch all the way to China, Syria and Iraq, threatens not only to destroy Turkey but much of the Middle East if he continues on his present path.

In October 2014 US Vice President Joe Biden told a Harvard gathering that Erdogan’s regime was backing ISIS with “hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of tons of weapons (http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/05/politics/isis-biden-erdogan-apology/)…” Biden later apologized clearly for tactical reasons to get Erdo?an’s permission to use Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base for airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, but the dimensions of Erdogan’s backing for ISIS since revealed is far, far more than Biden hinted.

ISIS militants were trained by US, Israeli and now it emerges, by Turkish special forces at secret bases in Konya Province inside the Turkish border to Syria, over the past three years (http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/12/how-the-west-created-the-islamic-state/). Erdo?an’s involvement in ISIS goes much deeper. At a time when Washington, Saudi Arabia and even Qatar appear to have cut off their support for ISIS, they remaining amazingly durable. The reason appears to be the scale of the backing from Erdo?an and his fellow neo-Ottoman Sunni Islam Prime Minister, Ahmet Davuto?lu.

Nice Family Business

The prime source of money feeding ISIS these days is sale of Iraqi oil from the Mosul region oilfields where they maintain a stronghold. The son of Erdogan it seems is the man who makes the export sales of ISIS-controlled oil possible.

Bilal Erdo?an owns several maritime companies. He has allegedly signed contracts with European operating companies to carry Iraqi stolen oil to different Asian countries. The Turkish government buys Iraqi plundered oil which is being produced from the Iraqi seized oil wells. Bilal Erdogan’s maritime companies own special wharfs in Beirut and Ceyhan ports that are transporting ISIS’ smuggled crude oil in Japan-bound oil tankers (http://awdnews.com/top-news/turkish-president%E2%80%99s-daughter-heads-a-covert-medical-corps-to-help-isis-injured-members,-reveals-a-disgruntled-nurse).

Gürsel Tekin vice-president of the Turkish Republican Peoples’ Party, CHP, declared in a recent Turkish media interview, “President Erdogan claims that according to international transportation conventions there is no legal infraction concerning Bilal’s illicit activities and his son is doing an ordinary business with the registered Japanese companies, but in fact Bilal Erdo?an is up to his neck in complicity with terrorism, but as long as his father holds office he will be immune from any judicial prosecution.” Tekin adds that Bilal’s maritime company doing the oil trades for ISIS, BMZ Ltd, is “a family business and president Erdogan’s close relatives hold shares in BMZ and they misused public funds and took illicit loans from Turkish banks.”

In addition to son Bilal’s illegal and lucrative oil trading for ISIS, Sümeyye Erdogan, the daughter of the Turkish President apparently runs a secret hospital camp inside Turkey just over the Syrian border where Turkish army trucks daily being in scores of wounded ISIS Jihadists to be patched up and sent back to wage the bloody Jihad in Syria, according to the testimony of a nurse who was recruited to work there until it was discovered she was a member of the Alawite branch of Islam, the same as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who Erdogan seems hell-bent on toppling.

Turkish citizen Ramazan Bagol, captured this month by Kurdish People’s Defence Units,YPG, as he attempted to join ISIS from Konya province, told his captors that said he was sent to ISIS by the ‘Ismailia Sect,’ a strict Turkish Islam sect reported to be tied to Recep Erdogan. Baol said the sect recruits members and provides logistic support to the radical Islamist organization. He added that the Sect gives jihad training in neighborhoods of Konya and sends those trained here to join ISIS gangs in Syria (http://awdnews.com/top-news/captured-terrorist-interview-with-sect-in-turkey-recruiting-members-for-isis).

According to French geopolitical analyst, Thierry Meyssan, Recep Erdogan “organised the pillage of Syria, dismantled all the factories in Aleppo, the economic capital, and stole the machine-tools. Similarly, he organised the theft of archeological treasures and set up an international market in Antioch…with the help of General Benoît Puga, Chief of Staff for the Elysée, he organised a false-flag operation intended to provoke the launching of a war by the Atlantic Alliance – the chemical bombing of la Ghoutta in Damascus, in August 2013 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article188337.html). “

Meyssan claims that the Syria strategy of Erdo?an was initially secretly developed in coordination with former French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé and Erdogan’s then Foreign Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu, in 2011, after Juppe won a hesitant Erdogan to the idea of supporting the attack on traditional Turkish ally Syria in return for a promise of French support for Turkish membership in the EU. France later backed out, leaving Erdogan to continue the Syrian bloodbath largely on his own using ISIS (http://www.voltairenet.org/article188337.html).

Gen. John R. Allen, an opponent of Obama’s Iran peace strategy, now US diplomatic envoy coordinating the coalition against the Islamic State, exceeded his authorized role after meeting with Erdogan and “promised to create a "no-fly zone" ninety miles wide, over Syrian territory, along the whole border with Turkey, supposedly intended to help Syrian refugees fleeing from their government, but in reality to apply the "Juppé-Wright plan". The Turkish Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, revealed US support for the project on the TV channel A Haber by launching a bombing raid against the PKK.” Meyssan adds (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/world/middleeast/turkey-and-us-agree-on-plan-to-clear-isis-from-strip-of-northern-syria.html?ref=topics&_r=0).

There are never winners in war and Erdogan’s war against Syria’s Assad demonstrates that in bold. Turkey and the world deserve better. Ahmet Davutoglu’s famous “Zero Problems With Neighbors” foreign policy has been turned into massive problems with all neighbors due to the foolish ambitions of Erdogan and his gang.

Article at ZeroHedge (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-25/meet-man-who-funds-isis-bilal-erdogan-son-turkeys-president)

[Hervé]

Turkish Stream Falls Under Russia's Restrictive Measures Against Turkey (http://sputniknews.com/world/20151126/1030796887/turkish-stream-russia.html)

© Sputnik/ Alexey Kudenko World (http://sputniknews.com/world/) 16:07 26.11.2015
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© Sputnik/ Alexey Kudenko

Russia's Economic Development Minister stated that the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project falls under the restrictive measures against Turkey.

"This project is no different from any other, we are talking about our investment cooperation [with Turkey], it is one of the most perspective investment projects, and, just like any other project, it falls under the law on special economic measures," Ulyukayev said, commenting the fate of the Turkish Stream.

Construction on Turkish Stream was scheduled to begin in June, but was postponed pending a formal agreement. According the Russian Energy Ministry, Russia and Turkey were expected to sign the pipeline agreement no earlier than December 2015.

The restrictions against Ankara may also include the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant, which is currently under construction in the southern province of Mersin in Turkey, Alexey Ulyukayev said. Russia and Turkey signed an agreement in 2010 to construct and operate Turkey’s first nuclear power plant at the Akkuyu site.

The minister also noted that restrictions in aerial communication may include regular and charter flights.

"Departments will soon prepare their proposals — in two to three days. The Ministry of Transport will also have suggestions. As I have said before, the law allows to limit the use of airspace and airports. Which means that limitation of both regular commercial and charter flights is possibe," he said.

Moscow will also halt the creation of a single Turkish-Russian investment fund, Ulyukayev added.

Earlier Thursday, Dmitry Medvedev has instructed the Russian government on Thursday to work out measures against Turkey after Tuesday's downing of a Russian military jet.

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan called Kremlin's reaction to the incident is "emotional" and "unfitting of politicians". The Russian Su-24 Fencer bomber was shot down by two Turkish F-16s Tuesday morning while conducting operations over Syria, where Moscow has been targeting the self-proclaimed Islamic State terrorist group.

Ankara claimed it downed the Russian plane because it had violated Turkish airspace. However, both the Russian General Staff and the Syrian Air Defense Command confirmed that the Su-24 was downed in Syrian airspace and never crossed into Turkey, in accordance with precise objective control data.

One of the two Su-24 pilots was killed by fire from the ground after ejecting from the plane and a Russian naval infantry soldier was killed during a rescue operation.

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NATO Orders Stool-Pigeon Turkey to Shoot Down Russian Jet (http://www.sott.net/article/307145-NATO-Orders-Stool-Pigeon-Turkey-to-Shoot-Down-Russian-Jet#)

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[Octavusprime]

I believe the real reason for the Syrian battle is most likely the pipelines mentioned above. Syria is strategically located between Europe and the oil rich nations in the Gulf....

[Cidersomerset]

This is bleedin ironic , I decided to have a day off from the headlines,
and I've had a hard day at work and wanted a long soak in the bath
and had a look for something completely different to put on in the
back ground. This is from a couple weeks ago and the title says
Nibiru/planet x. For the first hr Bob Fletcher talks about his past
and knowledge of the corruption in the Whitehouse , drugs trade,
etc and how part of what is happening now is trying to clamp down
in preparation of the arrival of a large body coming into the solar
system and causing global disruption.


Ep. 350 FADE to BLACK Jimmy Church w/ Bob Fletcher: Nibiru/Planet X, LIVE on air


Interview starts aprox 30 mins in.......You will know what I mean if you listen to it.
As I see all the time many things we think are diverse end up being connected.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?87085-Ep.-350-FADE-to-BLACK-Jimmy-Church-w-Bob-Fletcher-Nibiru-Planet-X&p=1023666#post1023666

Published on 23 Nov 2015


Bob Fletcher joins the show for the first time and we cover the takeover of
his toy company by an arms dealer which led to his involvement with the
CIA, DOD, WH and the Iran-Contra scandel...eventually this introduced him
to different black projects an inside information with the secret space program,
weapon systems and underground bases...the second half of the show is a
conversation about Nibiru/Planet X and what we know...

[Cidersomerset]

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Putin: Turkey 'knew downed fighter jet was Russian'

21 minutes ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34940109

Jeremy Corbyn 'cannot support UK air strikes in Syria'

30 minutes ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34939109


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‘Short air space violation is no excuse to shoot an ally’ – fmr MI5 agent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3s5BbSpPdg

Published on 26 Nov 2015

A Russian Su-24 fighter has been shot down in Syria, the Russian Defense
Ministry said, adding the plane hadn’t violated Turkish airspace and was
flying at an altitude of 6,000 meters.


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‘Cameron’s claims on anti-ISIS airstrikes are deceit’: fmr ambassador to Syria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E0j2gaATGQ

Published on 26 Nov 2015


Prime Minister David Cameron has made his case for extending UK airstrikes against
Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) from Iraq into Syria. He has ruled out using
British ground troops and claims disagreements with Russia are 'narrowing.'


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Turkey should be booted out of NATO - US General

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNmDn6OGidM

Published on 26 Nov 2015
The downing of a Russian jet in Syria by Turkish fighters has shocked both
Russia and NATO. And though the motives for the action are unclear, the
incident is bound to have significant geopolitical consequences. What was
the reasoning behind the Turkish decision to shoot down the jet, and is it
likely to jeopardize the fragile diplomatic effort to reach a peaceful
settlement in Syria. Oksana is joined by Paul Vallely, a retired US Army
Major General, to sift through these issues.

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EU politicians blast Turkey’s links to ISIS, call Erdogan’s policies dangerous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y5f0PXAyoU

Published on 26 Nov 2015

Turkey's attack on the Russian bomber is the first such incident between a NATO
country and Moscow in half a century. Across the media, there are concerns that
relations between the Alliance and Russia could worsen and see a return to Cold
War times.

[Hervé]

Turkish newspaper editor in court for 'espionage' after revealing weapon convoy to Syrian militants (https://www.rt.com/news/323557-turkey-arrests-editor-cumhuriyet/)

Published time: 26 Nov, 2015 14:18
Edited time: 27 Nov, 2015 09:18

Video: https://www.rt.com/news/323557-turkey-arrests-editor-cumhuriyet/

A Turkish prosecutor asked a court to imprison the editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet newspaper pending trial for espionage and treason. In May, the outlet published photos of weapons it said were then transferred to Syria by Turkey’s intelligence agency.

Besides the editor, Can Dündar, the prosecution said it is seeking the same pre-trial restrictions for Cumhuriyet’s representative in Ankara, Erdem Gül.


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Dündar arrived at an Istanbul court on Thursday, saying that he and his colleague “came here to defend journalism.”


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“We came here to defend the right of the public to obtain the news and their right to know if their government is feeding them lies. We came here to show and to prove that governments cannot engage in illegal activity and defend this,” Dündar was cited by Today’s Zaman.

The articles, published on Cumhuriyet's front page in May, claimed that Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) is smuggling weapons in trucks into Syria and was caught doing so twice in 2014. The trucks were allegedly stopped and searched by police, with photos and videos of their contents obtained by Cumhuriyet.

According to the paper, the trucks were carrying six steel containers, with 1,000 artillery shells, 50,000 machine gun rounds, 30,000 heavy machine gun rounds and 1,000 mortar shells. The arms were reportedly delivered to extremist groups fighting against the Syrian government of President Bashar Assad, whom Ankara wants ousted from power.

The Turkish authorities denied the allegations, saying that the trucks were carrying aid to Syrian ethnic Turkmen tribespeople and labeled their interception an act of “treason” and “espionage.”

Pelin Batu, Ba Turkish TV presenter who worked alongside those who were detained, said that all they had done “was done in the interests of the country ... because our involvement in Syria needed to be brought into question.”

“I don't think this could be judged as treacherous in any way,” Batu told RT, adding that Dundar was always a “pacifist.”

Batu says the editor-in-chief fought for freedom of speech which has been under threat in Turkey since Erdogan took power.

“For the last year or so the freedom of press has been axed in so many ways,” she told RT.

A 2014 report (https://www.rt.com/news/191444-turkey-human-rights-watch/) by Human Rights Watch warned that under Erdogan’s rule Turkey has seen the erosion of human rights via a crackdown on media freedom, dissent and a weakening of the rule of law.

Many journalists in the country are facing harsh prison terms for exposing corruption in the government and surveillance by the Turkish state.

Egdogan’s regime has also attempted to silence social media by blocking YouTube and Twitter on a number of occasions.


READ MORE: Turkish police raid opposition TV station ahead of election (VIDEO) (https://www.rt.com/news/319926-turkey-opposition-media-raid/)

Prior to November’s general election, Turkish police stormed the offices of opposition media group Koza Ipek.

[KiwiElf]

And guess who told Turkey the EXACT flightplan of the Russian Fighter?


US knew flight path of plane downed by Turkey: Putin

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/world/a/30209598/us-knew-flight-path-of-plane-downed-by-turkey-putin/


Moscow (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had given prior information to the United States of the flight path of the plane downed by Turkey on the Syrian border.

"The American side, which leads the coalition that Turkey belongs to, knew about the location and time of our planes' flights, and we were hit exactly there and at that time," Putin said at a joint press conference with French counterpart Francois Hollande in the Kremlin.

Ahead of the Hollande talks, Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan traded barbs, with the Russian leader saying he was waiting for an apology and Erdogan ruling out any such move.

Putin on Thursday dismissed as "rubbish" Turkey's claim that it would not have shot down the jet if it had known it was Russian.

"They [our planes] have identification signs and these are well visible," Putin said. "Instead of [...] ensuring this never happens again, we are hearing unintelligible explanations and statements that there is nothing to apologise about."

Putin has also accused Turkey of buying oil from the Islamic State jihadist group, whose financing heavily relies on the sale of energy resources.

Putin said there was "no doubt" that oil from "terrorist-controlled" territory in Syria was making its way across the border into Turkey.

"We see from the sky where these vehicles [carrying oil] are going," Putin said. "They are going to Turkey day and night."

"These barrels are not only carrying oil but also the blood of our citizens because with this money terrorists buy weapons and ammunition and then organise bloody attacks," he added.

[Hervé]

And guess who told Turkey the EXACT flightplan of the Russian Fighter?

US knew flight path of plane downed by Turkey: Putin

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/world/a/30209598/us-knew-flight-path-of-plane-downed-by-turkey-putin/
[...]

Yep! See: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?87016-Turkey-shoots-down-Russian-jet-near-Syrian-border&p=1023829&viewfull=1#post1023829

[Hervé]

Here we go:

What I outlined in post # 871 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69621-Ukraine-Crimea-Syria-Israel-Iran-Putin-and-World-War-III&p=1023578&viewfull=1#post1023578) (also follow links to original posts) seems to finally see the light of day with Europe being stuck to Us policies via IMF pressures making Bulgaria drag their feet to give an OK for the South Stream pipeline route; then Ukraine becoming unstable on top of economical sanctions and, now Turkey being out of question for the last solution for Russian oil and gas to be distributed to Europe.

So, Europe is now cornered for energy resources unless Russia manages to keep Syria as an ally and Europe quits wanting Bashar Al Assad out of the picture:


Impacts of Turkey’s Aggression against Russia. The “Turkish Stream” is Dead. Disruption of Gas Pipeline Routes to the EU. Russia’s Economy in Crisis? (http://www.globalresearch.ca/impacts-of-turkeys-aggression-the-turkish-stream-is-dead-disruption-of-gas-pipeline-routes-to-the-eu-russias-economy-in-crisis/5491756)

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky (http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/michel-chossudovsky)
Global Research, November 27, 2015



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“Regime change” in Ukraine engineered by the US State Department was largely responsible for the collapse of the “South Stream” gas pipeline project. Washington’s intent was to establish a de facto blockade which would prevent the flow of Russian gas to the European Union.

“The South Stream gas pipeline worth €15.5 billion was intended to pump 67 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas to Europe annually.

The pipeline’s underwater section 900 km (559 miles) long was intended to run along the bed of the Black Sea from the Russkaya compressor station on the Russian shore to the Bulgarian coast.” (TASS, January 14, 2015)

On December 1, 2014, President Vladimir Putin announced that the project to build the South Stream gas pipeline “was closed due to the European Union’s unconstructive approach to cooperation, including Bulgaria’s decision [pressured by the US] to stop the construction of the pipeline’s stretch on its territory.”


http://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/south-stream-map-en-1024x502.jpg (http://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/south-stream-map-en.jpg)
South Stream Pipeline Route Options, source TASS

The South Stream was replaced by the “Turkish Stream”. The scrapping of the South Stream was coupled with the signing in Ankara of a historic December 2014 deal between presidents Vladimir Putin and Recyyp Erdogan.

Under the Russian-Turkish agreement pertaining to gas pipeline routes, Turkey was slated to become a major hub and transit route for the export of Russian natural gas to both Southern and Western Europe.

Russia’s Gazprom in a historical announcement by CEO Alexey Miller in January 2015 confirmed that: The Turkish Stream gas pipeline project was considered “the sole route for Russia’s future supplies of 63 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Western Europe… The Gazprom head made this statement in response to a question about the fate of Russia’s South Stream gas pipeline project.” (Tass, January 14, 2015)


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“The [South Stream] project is closed. The Turkish Stream is the sole route, which can deliver 63 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas. … There are no other options,” Miller said. (Ibid)


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November 24 2015: Turkey’s Act of Aggression against Russia marks the Disruption of the Turkish Stream Project

Back in January, the Moscow-Ankara deal was considered to be a slap in the face for Washington. Today, the Turkish Stream (sponsored by Moscow) is in jeopardy.

The downing of the SU-24 plane engineered by US-NATO has contributed to destabilizing the Russia-Turkey deal. It was by not means the only objective.

In January following the abandonment of the South Stream, the Turkish pipeline was announced as the “sole route”.

What next?
Following the downing of Russia’s SU-24 plane and the collapse of diplomatic relations between Moscow and Ankara, that “sole route” is no longer there, leading not only to a potential crisis in the supply of natural gas to the European Union, but also a major blow to Russia’s national economy, which depends heavily on the energy sector.

From the point of view of Washington, Wall Street and the Pentagon: “War is good for business”.

The original source of this article is Global Research



Turkish Stream Falls Under Russia's Restrictive Measures Against Turkey (http://sputniknews.com/world/20151126/1030796887/turkish-stream-russia.html)
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NATO Orders Stool-Pigeon Turkey to Shoot Down Russian Jet (http://www.sott.net/article/307145-NATO-Orders-Stool-Pigeon-Turkey-to-Shoot-Down-Russian-Jet#)

Joe Quinn Sott.net (http://www.sott.net/article/307145-NATO-Orders-Stool-Pigeon-Turkey-to-Shoot-Down-Russian-Jet#) Wed, 25 Nov 2015 13:38 UTC


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Anyone still wondering why the troubles in Libya, Syria, Ukraine and now Turkey?

[Rocky_Shorz]

actually, there is a new option, Russia is closing the gap in Syria's border with #Turkey, and giving control to the Kurds.

Kurdistan is going to have a Sea Port... Iran is a friend not under Central Bank control...

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b8/ae/93/b8ae9312f9e746d369ce19ecd5251548.jpg

according to Sorcha's report, Russia is sending troops to Kurdistan so Turkey will no longer be able to pound innocent civilians with air strikes.

"November 27, 2015

Putin Orders Complete Destruction Of Turkish President, Family And Government

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reporting today that President Putin has authorized an unprecedented “asymmetric warfare” action, to include “war by proxy”, to destroy the family and government of Turkish President Recep Erdogan in retaliation for the deliberate downing of an Aerospace Forces Sukhoi Su-24M bomber aircraft on 24 November over Syria in a bid to prevent a larger war with the nation of Turkey as a whole.

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http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/pio2.gif
Turkish President Recep Erdogan and his son Bilal

According to this MoD report, and as we had previously reported on, the deliberate ambushing and shoot down of this Su-24M was “directed/organized” by rogue elements operating within the Turkish government and United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who were “partners/collaborators” in an oil-for-weapons scheme involving Islamic State terrorists operating in Syria run by Turkey’s President Erdogan’s son Bilal Erdogan.

Bilal Erdogan, this report continues, is the silent mastermind who has been responsible for converting millions of barrels of Syrian oil controlled by Islamic State terrorists into hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue in a scheme so vast that President Putin described it as a “living oil pipeline” comprised of “vehicles, carrying oil, lined up in a chain going beyond the horizon”.

With the money earned from this sale of the Islamic States oil, this report notes, American weapons and ammunition were then bought from the CIA and transported back into Syria by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) to Islamic State terrorists—which was documented and verified by the editor-in-chief of the Turkish Cumhuriyet newspaper who upon the release of this information was ordered arrested yesterday by President Erdogan on treason and espionage charges.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bV-UstPNwM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRV9UEJISdk

With Aerospace Forces having destroyed over 1,000 fuel tankers in the week prior to 24 November carrying illegal Islamic State oil into Turkey, MoD analysts in this report state, Bilal Erdogan, along with his MIT and CIA “accomplices” then ordered the “shootdown by ambush” of Russia’s Su24-M bomber aircraft with Turkish Prime Minister, and Erdogan family ally, Ahmet Davutoglu admitting that he personally gave the order to fire on the aircraft—and which was filmed by Islamic State terrorists who knew where and when to “get that exclusive footage”, as reported by Federation Colonel-General Viktor Bondarev.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qL8B-OLeWQ


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf8xsqNmfFc

To the Western propaganda effort to “disguise/distort” this war crime against the Federation by Turkey, this report says, it has fallen into to many absurdities to count—including the impossibility of this Su24-M being able to fly over Turkish territory at a speed at which if true it had would have fallen from the sky, and which Wikileaks stated about: “Journalists: Learn to do basic maths. Look at Turkey's statement to UN: 1.15 miles / 17 seconds x 60 x 60 = 243 miles/hour = 391 km/hour”.

Even worse about the Western propaganda, this report notes, is an obvious Erdogan-MIT-CIA fabricated recording of the alleged warning given to the Su24-M bomber aircraft—but which Turkish authorities have informed the Russian military attache that they did not provide the media with any audio recordings of alleged radio contacts between their F-16 fighter and the downed Russian Su-24M bomber aircraft because they don’t exist.

To President Putin’s war order against the Erdogan family and regime, this report continues, it has included the obliteration of the Islamic State forces in the area where this plane was downed and now allows Aerospace Forces to shoot down all enemy planes and objects which pose, or can pose, a threat to the serviceman of Russia in Syria.

And as stated by President Putin to the media this morning, these measures let everyone know clearly that the next time any foreign plane tries to carry out aggression against the Russian Air Force, air base, or the military personnel of Russia in Syria—they will be, without any doubts, immediately destroyed—and the Triumph S-400 air defense missile complex wasn't just deployed to Syria for appearances.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaVa_S12ePk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RCLOfC3FfM

With Turkey now massing tanks on their border with Syria, this report continues, President Putin’s war plan against the Erdogan regime also includes the destruction of the Turkish economy and the 1 January 2016 planned suspension of visa-free travel between Russia and Turkey—and, perhaps most dangerously, the immediate deployment to the Kurdish Syrian independent region of Rojava a contingent of Spetsnaz (Special Forces) troops to aid these people in their fight against the Islamic State.

With Turkey having bombed Kurdish fighters in Iraq and Syria 300 times and Islamic State targets only three, this report notes, the Erdogan regimes greatest fears have been revealed as being against these mainly women and girl Kurdish fighters in Rojava decimating Islamic State terrorists—and who by their success has invigorated the freedom thoughts of Turkey’s own Kurdish minority President Erdogan has vowed to destroy.

[Rocky_Shorz]

con't

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To if the United States would go to war against Russia to protect the Islamic State on the side of Turkey, this report concludes, it appears unlikely after the Obama regime removed all of their military forces Patriot Missiles from Turkish territory leaving that nation defenseless against Federation retaliation if needed.

And even though not contained in this MoD report, it is worth noting that should the Obama regime engage in war with Russia over the Islamic State, the American fighters entering the battlefield have now become so weak that this past week, the elite US military academy for training officers, West Point, was forced to ban pillow fights and the students at the University of Massachusetts were provided emergency grief counseling after they inadvertently saw a Confederate Battle Flag sticker on someone’s computer. link (http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1947.htm)


this report came out right after Erdogan threatened Putin not to play with fire...

Putin likes fire, but he isn't playing...

click mute, audio is pretty annoying...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2C5aAxpRGM

Erdogan called today begging to speak with Putin, he was disconnected...

[Rocky_Shorz]

Israeli Colonel Caught with IS Pants Down (http://journal-neo.org/2015/11/25/israeli-colonel-caught-with-is-pants-down/)

Author: F. William Engdahl (http://journal-neo.org/author/william-engdahl/) 25.11.2015
First appeared: (http://journal-neo.org/author/william-engdahl/)http://journal-neo.org/2015/11/25/israeli-colonel-caught-with-is-pants-down/

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The “pro-IS faction” in Washington includes the so-called neo-conservatives centered around disgraced former CIA head and executioner of the Iraqi “surge” General David Petraeus. It also includes US General John R. Allen, who since September 2014 had served as President Obama’s Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) and, until she resigned in February 2013, it included Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (http://www.voltairenet.org/article188337.html).

Significantly, General John Allen, an unceasing advocate of a US-led “No Fly Zone” inside Syria along the border to Turkey, something President Obama refused, was relieved of his post on 23 October, 2015. That was shortly after launch of the highly-effective Russian strikes on Syrian IS and Al Qaeda’s Al Nusra Front terrorist sites changed the entire situation in the geopolitical picture of Syria and the entire Middle East.

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Interestingly enough, on October 8, Yuval Bartov, chief geologist from Genie Energy’s Israeli subsidiary, Afek Oil & Gas, told Israel’s Channel 2 TV that his company had found a major oil reservoir on the Golan Heights: “We’ve found an oil stratum 350 meters thick in the southern Golan Heights. On average worldwide, strata are 20 to 30 meters thick, and this is 10 times as large as that, so we are talking about significant quantities (http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/.premium-1.679315).” As I noted in an earlier article, the International Advisory Board of Genie Energy includes such notorious names as Dick Cheney, former CIA head and infamous neo-con James Woolsey, Jacob Lord Rothschild and others (http://journal-neo.org/2015/10/26/genies-and-genocide-syria-israel-russia-and-much-oil-2/).

Of course no reasonable person in their right mind would suggest there might be a link between Israeli military dealings with the ISIS and other anti-Assad terrorists in Syria, especially in the Golan Heights, and the oil find of Genie Energy in the same place, and with Netanyahu’s latest Golan Heights “rethink” appeal to Obama. That would smell too much like “conspiracy theory” and all reasonable people know conspiracies don’t exist, only coincidences. Or? In fact, to paraphrase the immortal words of Brad Pitt in the role of West Virginia First Lieutenant Aldo Raine in the final scene of Tarantino’s brilliant film, Inglorious Basterds, it seems that ‘Ol Netanyahu and his pecker-suckin pals in the IDF and Mossad just got caught with their hands in a very dirty cookie jar in Syria.

F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook” (http://journal-neo.org/).



this is what the insider mentioned to me, in all the prisoner Captures, dozens of Turkish Intel officers, and commanders from Israel and Saudi Arabia have been caught or found dead, but not one from CIA

he says it is easier to blame CIA who no one will go after, and helps to protect our allies who aren't strong enough to protect themselves...

[Hervé]

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... but not one from CIA
[...]

... didn't those have a deadly meeting in Benghazi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack)?

[Hervé]

Violence Erupts In Turkey After Prominent Lawyer Is Assassinated On Live TV (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-28/violence-erupts-turkey-after-prominent-lawyer-assassinated-live-tv-while-giving-publ)

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-5.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden)
Submitted by Tyler Durden (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden) on 11/28/2015 12:14 -0500

A day after Turkey arrested two journalists (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-27/turkey-arrests-journalists-who-exposed-erdogans-weapons-smuggling-extremist-syrian-r)for their report exposing Erdogan's weapons deliveries to "extremist groups" in Syria, confirming that no dissent to the president's foreign policy would be allowed, today a new riot has erupted in Istanbul following the dramatic murder in broad daylight of Tahir Elci, the president of the Turkish bar association in southeastern Diyarbakir province, who was shot dead by unidentified gunmen while giving a public speech.

A campaigner for Kurdish rights, Elci had been criticized in Turkey for saying the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was not a terrorist organization, as the government describes it. He had, however, denounced PKK violence. He was facing trial over his comments, which had infuriated state prosecutors. A Turkish prosecutor last month demanded up to seven and a half years of prison tme for Elci on the grounds of "making propaganda of a terror organization" after remarks he made supporting the PKK.

Just before being gunned down, Elci called for peace and the silencing of all guns.

Moments later TV footage showed a shoot out breaking out and plain clothes police repeatedly shooting at a figure running past them towards Elci. He was then seen lying on the ground with blood apparently streaming from his head. He was later pronounced dead from gunshot to the head. A policeman was also killed in the gunfight.


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The killing which was captured on tape, took place while Tahir Elci was making a statement to the media.

"The moment the statement ended, the crowd was sprayed with bullets,” Reuters cited Omer Tastan (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/28/us-turkey-kurds-lawyer-idUSKBN0TH07N20151128#O6Lclg1zU0cVIzmf.97), a local official from the pro-Kurdish HDP party, as saying. "A single bullet struck Elci in the head," he said, adding that 11 people had also been injured in the incident.

In other words, a hit meant to take out the pro-Kurdish lawyer, staged as an attack by the very people he was defending.

According to the state Anadolu news agency, it was Kurdish insurgents that opened fire, killing Elci, as well as a police officer, and injuring three other people, among them correspondents of the leading Turkish media organizations – the Anatolia and Dogan news agencies

That, however, appears to be just more state propaganda, because as journalists were quick to point out, Elci not only was a pro-Kurd activist but defended the "Terrorist" PKK, which is Erdogan's political nemesis.

Then Erdogan himself chimed in, saying "I have just learnt that Bar Association President Mr. Tahir Elçi died and a policeman was martyred," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at a meeting in the northwestern province of Bal?kesir. “This incident shows how Turkey is right in its determined stance in fighting terrorism." The irony is that according to the official narrative, Elci was somehow assassinated by the same people whom he was defending, which, needless to say, makes very little sense.


https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/663353788296773632/zOzpa-k9_bigger.png William Whiteman ‏@willmwhiteman (https://twitter.com/willmwhiteman)

#Turkish (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Turkish?src=hash) President #Erdogan (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Erdogan?src=hash) just claimed Tahir #Elci (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Elci?src=hash)'s killing was work of #PKK (https://twitter.com/hashtag/PKK?src=hash), despite fact that Elci was pro-#Kurd (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kurd?src=hash) activst & defended PKK
According to Today Szaman (http://www.todayszaman.com/national_diyarbakir-bar-association-president-killed_405573.html), in a video clip of the incident taken by the Dogan News Agency, men hiding behind the minaret of a nearby mosque started firing at Elci and people standing with him. "A person ran towards Tahir Elci, fired with one hand and then started to run away. Then fighting started," Dogan news agency reporter Felat Bozarslan said.

The US Embassy expressed shock over Elci's death, calling him a "courageous defender of human rights. Our condolences go to his family, that of the policeman killed and to all of Turkey. A terrible loss," the embassy said on Twitter.

Two policemen and a reporter of the state-run Anadolu news agency were injured in the gunfire, along with an unknown number of civilians, Dogan news agency said. One of the policeman was in critical condition, it said.

Turkey's People's Democratic Party (HDP) condemned Elci's killing which it described as an "planned assassination" and called a protest in Istanbul in a written statement.

"In the place left by Tahir Elci, thousands more Tahir Elcis will carry on the work in the struggle for law and justice," it said. Noting that Elçi had been targeted by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and its media, the statement called on political parties, civil society and professional groups to "raise their voices" in protest. Metin Feyzioglu, head of the Turkish Bar Association (TBB), said he and members of the executive board of the TBB will be heading to Diyarbakir, inviting all executives of local bar associations across Turkey to join.

"This bullet has been fired at not only our brother but at Turkey as a whole. We need to show that our unity will not be undermined and this heinous attack will not succeed," said Feyzioglu.

And so the tension across Turkey rises even more, only this time it has nothing to do with the country's ruinous foreign politics and everything to do with Erdogan's relentless attempt to crackdown on all domestic political adversaries.

Meanwhile, as summoned, at least 2000 people gathered in central Istanbul in Turkey late on Ssaturday, to protest the killing of Elci According to RT, (https://www.rt.com/news/323836-tahir-elci-protest-istanbul/)one of the few media organizations covering today's political violence in Turkey, police used water cannon and tear gas, ordering protesters to disperse, RT's William Whiteman reported from the scene. He himself and an RT cameraman were also teargased during the clashes, the reporter added.

Protesters grew more and more angry with the police who were "being incredibly heavy-handed," Whiteman reported, adding that people were chanting slogans accusing President Erdogan of being a "thief" and a "killer."

Helicopters have been heard flying low over the area, and the "violent" protests are continuing into the night.


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Someone on this thread - or related - mentioned something to the effect that Turkey was next... well, there you go!

[Rocky_Shorz]

That was me, but Erdogans attacks on innocent villages of women and children sooner or later had to hit a nerve, the insanity of attacking Russia was the final nail in this dictators coffin.

NATO told Turkey to move the tank batallian away from Kurdish cities and into the path of isis to stop the flow.

A negative response could end Turkey's membership in NATO

At that point civil war is only breaths away...



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... but not one from CIA
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... didn't those have a deadly meeting in Benghazi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Benghazi_attack)?

Secret prison in Lybia for sure, but I haven't seen 1 report of them fighting with Isis. Training fighters in Jordan, arranging arms, but not in the trenches like the

[Hervé]

ISIS Oil Trade Full Frontal: "Raqqa's Rockefellers", Bilal Erdogan, KRG Crude, And The Israel Connection
(http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-28/isis-oil-trade-full-frontal-raqqas-rockefellers-bilal-erdogan-krg-crude-and-israel-c)
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-5.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden)Submitted by Tyler Durden (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden) on 11/28/2015 15:32 -0500

"Effectively, we have been financially discriminated against for a long time. By early 2014, when we did not receive the budget, we decided we need to start thinking about independent oil sales” --
Ashti Hawrami, Kurdistan’s minister for natural resources In June of 2014, the SCF Altai (an oil tanker) arrived at Ashkelon port. Hours later, the first shipment of Kurdish pipeline oil was being unloaded in Israel. “Securing the first sale of oil from its independent pipeline is crucial for the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) as it seeks greater financial independence from war-torn Iraq,” Reuters noted (http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/20/us-israel-iraq-idUSKBN0EV0X620140620) at the time, adding that “the new export route to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, designed to bypass Baghdad's federal pipeline system, has created a bitter dispute over oil sale rights between the central government and the Kurds.”

A week earlier, the SCF Altai received the Kurdish oil in a ship-to-ship transfer from the The United Emblem off the coast of Malta. The United Emblem loaded the crude at Ceyhan where a pipeline connects the Turkish port to Kurdistan.

The Kurds’ move to sell crude independent of Baghdad stems from a long-running budget dispute. Without delving too far into the details, Erbil is entitled to 17% of Iraqi oil revenue and in return, the KRG is supposed to transfer some 550,000 bpd to SOMO (Iraq’s state-run oil company). Almost immediately after the deal was struck late last year, Baghdad claimed the Kurds weren’t keeping up their end of the bargain and so, only a fraction of the allocated budget was sent to Erbil during the first five months of the year.

This was simply a continuation of a protracted disagreement between Erbil and Baghdad over how much of the state’s crude revenue should flow to the KRG. For its part, Iraq has threatened to sue anyone that buys independently produced Kurdish oil. For instance, when The United Kalavrvta - which left Ceyhan last June - prepared to dock in Galveston, Texas a month later, a SOMO official told Reuters that Iraq’s foreign legal team was “watching closely the movement of the vessel and [was] ready to target any potential buyer regardless of their nationality.”

You get the idea. Erbil wants a bigger piece of the pie, Baghdad doesn’t want to give it to them, and so some time ago, the KRG decided to simply cut the Iraqi government out and export crude on its own. The dispute is ongoing.


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(at an Erbil oil refinery, the Kurds stand guard)


Ok, so why are we telling you this? Recall that over the past several weeks, we’ve spent quite a bit of time documenting Islamic State’s lucrative black market oil trade. Earlier this month, Vladimir Putin detailed the scope of the operation in meetings with his G20 colleagues. "I’ve shown photos taken from space and from aircraft which clearly demonstrate the scale of the illegal trade in oil and petroleum products,” he told journalists on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Antalya. The very same day, the US destroyed some 116 ISIS oil trucks, an effort that was widely publicized in the Western media. In the two weeks since, Moscow and Washington have vaporized a combined 1,300 ISIS oil transport vehicles.

No one knows why it took the US 14 months to strike the convoys. The official line is that The Pentagon was concerned about “collateral damage”, but we doubt that’s the reason (for a detailed discussion of this, see here (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-19/caught-tape-russian-air-force-destroys-dozens-isis-oil-trucks)). Well now that the mainstream media have been forced to take a closer look at Islamic State’s main source of revenue (the group makes nearly a half billion a year in the illicit oil trade), we decided to take a closer look at exactly who is facilitating the transport of the stolen crude and where it ultimately ends up because you can be sure that the story you get from the major wires will be colored by a slavish tendency to avoid any and all “inconvenient” revelations. This is the fourth in a series of articles on the subject and we encourage you to review the first three:


The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-19/most-important-question-about-isis-nobody-asking)
Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey's President (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-25/meet-man-who-funds-isis-bilal-erdogan-son-turkeys-president)
How Turkey Exports ISIS Oil To The World: The Scientific Evidence (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-27/how-turkey-exports-isis-oil-world-scientific-evidence)

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Now obviously that's a remarkable degree of detail, but regardless of whether you believe in "Uncle Farid" and his black Jeep Cherokee, the main point is that there are smuggling routes into Turkey and once the oil is across the border, it might as well be Kurdish crude because after all, it's all "illegal", "unlicensed" product anyway, just as we said above.

Next, Al-Araby al-Jadeed says a handful of oil companies (which they decline to identify) ship the oil from the Turkish ports of Mersin, Dortyol and Ceyhan to Israel.


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Here's the alleged route:

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While the graphic shows the crude going directly from Ceyhan to Ashdod, it's worth asking whether ISIS crude is also "laundered" (as it were) through the same Malta connection utilized by those smuggling "illegal" Kurdish crude (which also ends up in Israel). We ask that because as it turns out, Bilal Erdogan owns a Maltese shipping company. "The BMZ Group, a company owned by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's son Bilal alongside other family members, has purchased two tankers in the last two months at a total cost of $36 million," Today's Zaman reported in September. "The tankers, which will be registered to the Oil Transportation & Shipping company in October -- an affiliate of the BMZ Group set up in Malta -- were previously rented to the Palmali Denizcilik company for 10 years."

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To be sure, all of this is circumstantial and there's all kinds of ambiguity here, but it seems entirely possible that Erdogan is knowingly trafficking in ISIS crude given what we know about Ankara's dealings with illegal Kurdish oil. Consider this from al-Monitor (http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/09/turkey-iraq-kurdistan-krg-pkk-love-affair-over.html#):

Details of the energy deals struck between Turkey and the KRG remain sketchy amid claims that Erdogan and his close circle are financially benefiting from them. According to Tolga Tanis, the Washington correspondent for the mass circulation daily Hurriyet who investigated the claims, Powertrans, the company that was granted an exclusive license to carry and trade Kurdish oil by Erdogan’s Cabinet in 2011, is run by his son-in-law Berat Albayrak. It didn’t take long for the notoriously litigious Erdogan to file defamation charges against Tanis.

Several Iraqi Kurdish officials who refused to be identified by name confirmed that Ahmet Calik, a businessman with close ties to Erdogan, had been granted the tender to carry Kurdish oil via overland by trucks to Turkey.
In other words, Erdogan is already moving illicit crude from the KRG (with whom Ankara is friendly by the way, despite the fact that they are Kurds) via a son-in-law and in large quantities. What's to say he isn't moving ISIS crude via the same networks through his son Bilal? Or perhaps through his other son Burak who Today's Zaman reminds us (http://www.todayszaman.com/anasayfa_bilal-erdogans-firm-purchases-two-new-tankers-at-cost-of-36-million_399209.html) "also owns a fleet of ships [and] was featured in a report by the Sözcü daily in 2014 [when his] vessel Safran 1 was anchored in Israel's port of Ashdod." Here's a picture circulated on social media that purports to show Bilal Erdogan with ISIS commanders (because we do try at all times to be unbiased, we should also note that the men shown below could just be three regular guys with beards with no connection to any black flag-waving desert bandits):



https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/658240465976893440/5IocuX7a_bigger.jpg Dilxaz Sofiyan ‏@Dilxazsofi (https://twitter.com/Dilxazsofi)

Recep Tayip Erdogan's son "BILAL ERDOGAN" with his ISIS brothers #StopTurkeySuppportOfISIS (https://twitter.com/hashtag/StopTurkeySuppportOfISIS?src=hash)
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Russian media claims the men are (https://www.rt.com/business/323391-isis-oil-business-turkey-russia/) "ISIS leaders who it is [thought] participated in massacres in Syria’s Homs and Rojava, the Kurdish name for Syrian Kurdistan or Western Kurdistan."


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One person who definitely thinks the Erdogans are trafficking in ISIS oil is Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi who said the following on Friday:

“All of the oil was delivered to a company that belongs to the son of Recep [Tayyip] Erdogan. This is why Turkey became anxious when Russia began delivering airstrikes against the IS infrastructure and destroyed more than 500 trucks with oil already. This really got on Erdogan and his company’s nerves. They’re importing not only oil, but wheat and historic artefacts as well."And then there's Iraq's former National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie who posted the following to his Facebook page on Saturday:
“First and foremost, the Turks help the militants sell stolen Iraqi and Syrian oil for $20 a barrel, which is half the market price."
Meanwhile, the US is preparing for an all-out ISIS oil propaganda war. As WSJ reported (http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-says-syria-is-buying-oil-from-islamic-state-1448471418) on Wednesday, "the Treasury [has] accused a Syrian-born businessman, George Haswani, who his a dual Syrian-Russian citizen, of using his firm, HESCO Engineering and Construction Co., for facilitating oil trades between the Assad regime and Islamic State." Why Assad would buy oil from a group that uses the cash at its disposal to wage war against Damascus is an open question especially when one considers that Assad's closest allies (Russia and Iran) are major oil producers. Of course between all the shady middlemen and double dealing, there's really no telling.

Ultimately we'll probably never know the whole story, but what we do know (and again, most of the evidence is either circumstantial, anecdotal, of largely qualitative) seems to suggest that in addition to providing guns and money to the FSA and al-Nusra, Turkey may well be responsible for facilitating Islamic State's $400+ million per year oil enterprise. And as for end customers, consider the following bit from Al-Araby al-Jadeed:

According to a European official at an international oil company who met with al-Araby in a Gulf capital, Israel refines the oil only "once or twice" because it does not have advanced refineries. It exports the oil to Mediterranean countries - where the oil "gains a semi-legitimate status" - for $30 to $35 a barrel.

"The oil is sold within a day or two to a number of private companies, while the majority goes to an Italian refinery owned by one of the largest shareholders in an Italian football club [name removed] where the oil is refined and used locally," added the European oil official.

"Israel has in one way or another become the main marketer of IS oil. Without them, most IS-produced oil would have remained going between Iraq, Syria and Turkey. Even the three companies would not receive the oil if they did not have a buyer in Israel," said the industry official. Finally, you'll note that this is all an effort to answer what we called "the most important question about ISIS that no one is asking" - namely, "who are the middlemen?" As we noted more than a week ago, "we do know who they may be: the same names that were quite prominent in the market in September when Glencore had its first, and certainly not last, near death experience: the Glencores, the Vitols, the Trafiguras, the Nobels, the Mercurias of the world." Consider that, and consider what Reuters says about the trade in illicit KRG oil:

"Market sources have said several trading houses including Trafigura and Vitol have dealt with Kurdish oil. Both Trafigura and Vitol declined to comment on their role in oil sales." Similarly, FT notes that "both Vitol and Trafigura had paid the KRG in advance for the oil, under so-called 'pre-pay' deals, helping Erbil to bridge its budget gaps."

Indeed, when Kurdistan went looking for an advisor to assist in the effort to circumvent Baghdad, the KRG chose "Murtaza Lakhani, who worked for Glencore in Iraq in the 2000s, to assist finding ships."

"He knew exactly who would and who wouldn't deal with us. He opened the doors to us and identified willing shipping companies to work with us," Ashti Hawrami (quoted above) said.

Indeed. And given everything said above about the commingling of illegal KRG crude and illicit ISIS oil shipments, it's probably a foregone conclusion that these same firms are assisting in transport arrangements for Islamic State.

Full article: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-28/isis-oil-trade-full-frontal-raqqas-rockefellers-bilal-erdogan-krg-crude-and-israel-c

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[Cidersomerset]

This video pretty much sums things up...tit-for-tat escalation continues unabated.


This is what Alex is talking about , though this has been posted. I don't think
they would be stupid enough to escalate the conflict. But who knows ?

You shall not pass: Cutting-edge Russian air defense system brought to base in Syria

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Published on 26 Nov 2015

Russia deploys cutting-edge S-400 air defense system to Syrian base after Su-24 downing
READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/6xos

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Paul Craig Roberts On Russia, Turkey, NATO & Where It's All Heading!

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Published on 27 Nov 2015
Please Support The Show – http://richieallen.co.uk/


From the U/tube comments this listener sums part of it well....

thecrowhouse 23 hours ago

Great information from Paul Craig Roberts. This Russian electronic jamming
technology he is referring to was also used in the Black Sea last year, not
just on one ship but the entire fleet. A Russian fighter flew over the fleet and
jamming all communications and defense systems and rendered the entire
fleet dead in the water. Then the Russian fighter apparently, quite casually,
made a series of simulated missile strikes on the lead ship before waving
goodbye and flying off home. It demoralized the entire fleet which then
limped off to the nearest port.

[Rocky_Shorz]

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This video pretty much sums things up...tit-for-tat escalation continues unabated.

Well Erdogan changed his tone today and said he wishes the plane was never shot down...

only because it has cost the greedy prick Billions...

Turkey still hasn't moved the Battalion of tanks like NATO requested...

[Sophocles]

Robert Baer: Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude (http://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Devil-Washington-Saudi-Crude/dp/1400052688)


Saudi Arabia is more and more an irrational state—a place that spawns global terrorism even as it succumbs to an ancient and deeply seated isolationism, a kingdom led by a royal family that can’t get out of the way of its own greed. Is this the fulcrum we want the global economy to balance on?”

In his explosive New York Times bestseller, See No Evil, former CIA operative Robert Baer exposed how Washington politics drastically compromised the CIA’s efforts to fight global terrorism. Now in his powerful new book, Sleeping with the Devil, Baer turns his attention to Saudi Arabia, revealing how our government’s cynical relationship with our Middle Eastern ally and America’ s dependence on Saudi oil make us increasingly vulnerable to economic disaster and put us at risk for further acts of terrorism.

For decades, the United States and Saudi Arabia have been locked in a “harmony of interests.” America counted on the Saudis for cheap oil, political stability in the Middle East, and lucrative business relationships for the United States, while providing a voracious market for the kingdom’ s vast oil reserves. With money and oil flowing freely between Washington and Riyadh, the United States has felt secure in its relationship with the Saudis and the ruling Al Sa’ud family. But the rot at the core of our “friendship” with the Saudis was dramatically revealed when it became apparent that fifteen of the nineteen September 11 hijackers proved to be Saudi citizens.

In Sleeping with the Devil, Baer documents with chilling clarity how our addiction to cheap oil and Saudi petrodollars caused us to turn a blind eye to the Al Sa’ud’s culture of bribery, its abysmal human rights record, and its financial support of fundamentalist Islamic groups that have been directly linked to international acts of terror, including those against the United States. Drawing on his experience as a field operative who was on the ground in the Middle East for much of his twenty years with the agency, as well as the large network of sources he has cultivated in the region and in the U.S. intelligence community, Baer vividly portrays our decades-old relationship with the increasingly dysfunctional and corrupt Al Sa’ud family, the fierce anti-Western sentiment that is sweeping the kingdom, and the desperate link between the two. In hopes of saving its own neck, the royal family has been shoveling money as fast as it can to mosque schools that preach hatred of America and to militant fundamentalist groups—an end game just waiting to play out.

Baer not only reveals the outrageous excesses of a Saudi royal family completely out of touch with the people of its kingdom, he also takes readers on a highly personal search for the deeper roots of modern terrorism, a journey that returns time again and again to Saudi Arabia: to the Wahhabis, the powerful Islamic sect that rules the Saudi street; to the Taliban and al Qaeda, both of which Saudi Arabia helped to underwrite; and to the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the most active and effective terrorist groups in existence, which the Al Sa’ud have sheltered and funded. The money and arms that we send to Saudi Arabia are, in effect, being used to cut our own throat, Baer writes, but America might have only itself to blame. So long as we continue to encourage the highly volatile Saudi state to bank our oil under its sand—and so long as we continue to grab at the Al Sa’ud’s money—we are laying the groundwork for a potential global economic catastrophe.

[ThePythonicCow]

This video pretty much sums things up...tit-for-tat escalation continues unabated.
My guess is that we're seeing two (at least) wars going on here.

From North Africa (e.g. Libya) to Southeast Asia (e.g. Indonesia) and especially in the Middle East, it's a more violent and tumultuous conflict for land, control, resources and such.
In the US and allies (Brussels, Japan, ...) it's about the death of the US Dollar hegemony, including maintaining control in the US when the dollar dies.

Events in the Middle East spill over into Europe and the US as the occasional "terrorist" attack, but few actually die that way. Such attacks, and the news from the Middle East, are used in the West (US) more as a smoke screen and distraction from the financial, economic and monetary events, and as an excuse for the increased tyranny, surveillance and propaganda.

I associate the first war above more with the Rothschilds, with Israel a key element, and the second more with the Rockefellers, with the Petro-Dollar a key element, but that's mostly just guess work on my part.

The big events, such as 9/11, of course involve both arena's, providing both an excuse to invade 7 countries (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran) in, by the initial plan, in 5 years, and cover for increased "Homeland" security within the US.

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So that is what that war is about! American oligarchy wants the Saudi and Qatar oïl and gaz sold to EUrope in place of the Russian gaz and oïl. American are cutting the path for Russia to sell its natural resources,while also trying to create war in Syria and Eastern Turkey probably to put the hand on the ex USSR republic oïl and gaz.

American have wage war in Irak, Lybia, name it to get their oïl, always always the same guy waging war to get oïl and sell it to whom they want, to get opium and sell it,

Always the same oligarchy.

this is not the American people, but their money which is speaking for the oligarch.



Here we go:

What I outlined in post # 871 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69621-Ukraine-Crimea-Syria-Israel-Iran-Putin-and-World-War-III&p=1023578&viewfull=1#post1023578) (also follow links to original posts) seems to finally see the light of day with Europe being stuck to Us policies via IMF pressures making Bulgaria drag their feet to give an OK for the South Stream pipeline route; then Ukraine becoming unstable on top of economical sanctions and, now Turkey being out of question for the last solution for Russian oil and gas to be distributed to Europe.

So, Europe is now cornered for energy resources unless Russia manages to keep Syria as an ally and Europe quits wanting Bashar Al Assad out of the picture:


Impacts of Turkey’s Aggression against Russia. The “Turkish Stream” is Dead. Disruption of Gas Pipeline Routes to the EU. Russia’s Economy in Crisis? (http://www.globalresearch.ca/impacts-of-turkeys-aggression-the-turkish-stream-is-dead-disruption-of-gas-pipeline-routes-to-the-eu-russias-economy-in-crisis/5491756)

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Anyone still wondering why the troubles in Libya, Syria, Ukraine and now Turkey?

[Hervé]

Turkey Arrests Generals for Stopping Syria-Bound Trucks 'Filled With Arms' (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151129/1030948809/turkey-arrest-generals-truck-syria-weapons-terrorists.html)

Middle East (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/)16:42 29.11.2015
(updated 16:49 29.11.2015)


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Two Turkish generals and a colonel were detained on Saturday for intercepting Syria-bound trucks that belonged to Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT), the newspaper Today’s Zaman reported.

In January 2014, Ankara Gendarmerie Major-General Ibrahim Aydin, former Adana Gendarmerie Brigadier-General Hamza Celepoglu and former Gendarmerie Criminal Laboratory Head Colonel Burhanettin Cihangiroglu stopped Syrian-bound trucks in southern Turkey after they received information from an anonymous source that the trucks were illegally carrying weapons to militants in Syria.

When the information about the trucks became public, MIT officials and high-ranking Turkish politicians, including President Recep Teyyip Erdogan, who was Prime Minister back then, and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, then the country's foreign minister, were furious that the gendarmes stopped the trucks and said the Syria-bound trucks were carrying "humanitarian aid" to Turkmen living just south of Turkey, the newspaper said.

"Yes, I'm saying this without any hesitation. That aid was going to the Turkmens. There will be a war next door and we will watch our Turkmen, Arab and Turkish brothers being massacred," Davutoglu said, as cited by Today's Zaman.

However, members of opposition parties and some Turkish media said the trucks were indeed transporting weapons to Islamic extremists in Syria. The gendarmes involved in the interception confirmed that the Syria-bound trucks weren't going to an area where the Turkmen lived, but to an area populated by radical groups, the Turkish newspaper said.

When an investigation into the MIT case was launched, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) called the probe as "treason and espionage" on the part of prosecutors.

New Twist in the Story
New developments on the issue took place recently. Last Tuesday, Erdogan answered claims previously made by critics, who said the trucks were filled with weapons, by sarcastically asking them: "What if the MIT trucks were filled with weapons?"

Then on Saturday, contrary to his earlier claims that the MIT trucks were carrying humanitarian aid to Turkmen, Erdogan said the trucks were actually heading on their way to help the Free Syrian Army (FSA).

"They [the gendarmes who revealed the transfer] also exposed those going to the FSA in that way," Erdogan said on Saturday while addressing his supporters in Balikesir, as cited by Today's Zaman.

Well, that's getting pretty confusing — were the trucks delivering "humanitarian aid" to the Turkmen or the FSA then? Just make up your mind, Mr. Erdogan. Where the trucks were heading and what were they carrying after all? Meanwhile, some very high-ranking Turkish officials, including then-president Abdullah Gul, revealed that the Syria-bound trucks were a "state-secret," leading to more speculations that the trucks were indeed filled with weapons.

The recent developments are taking place in the wake of a major government crackdown on two Turkish journalists of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, Can Dunbar and Erdem Gul, who we arrested for covering a story and releasing pictures, claiming that Turkish trucks provided weapons to Syrian opposition rebels.

The reason why the Turkish government arrested the journalists is because Erdogan and his ruling party don't want reporters to write about certain things, such as the government's support of Syrian rebels, corruption and other important things that people should actually know about, human rights activist Arzu Geybulla said.

Following the arrest of the journalists, who covered Erdogan's "tender" topic, it looks like the Turkish President is trying to eliminate everyone who's willing to speak up or reveal the fact that the Turkish government was helping out Islamic extremists in Syria.

All of this comes amid the political scandal involving the downing of the Russian Su-24 by a Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet on Tuesday.

After the incident Russia said Turkey was one of the countries which cover the actions of Islamic terrorists in Syria.

Related:
Turkish Reporters Jailed Over Claims Ankara Sent Arms to Rebels in Syria (http://sputniknews.com/europe/20151127/1030841535/turkey-reporters-arrest.html)

[Calz]

Oooops ... already posted in this thread.

Sorry ... my bad ...

[Cidersomerset]

This has been going on a long time in the region


A Comedy of Errors: U.S. Backed Rebels Fight U.S. Backed Rebels in Northern Aleppo

By David Icke on 30th November 2015

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If you are a policymaker in Washington; it has to be a difficult week for you, as the U.S.
backed “Free Syrian Army” (FSA) and their Islamist allies fight the U.S. backed “Syrian
Democratic Forces” (SDF) in the northern Aleppo countryside.

Perhaps, what is even more odd about the U.S. backed rebels fighting the U.S. backed
rebels in northern Aleppo is the fact that at least two parties from the opposing sides
are factions of the Free Syrian Army; this means the rebels combatting both the Syrian
Arab Army (SAA) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) are actually fighting
one another with the same weapons transported to them from the Gulf States and the west.’

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http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/comedy-errors-u-s-backed-rebels-fight-u-s-backed-rebels-northern-aleppo/

[Cidersomerset]

‘ISIS managed to sell oil to Turkey on black market at less than 50% of global prices’ – Iraqi MP

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Published on 29 Nov 2015

A member of the Iraqi Parliament, Dr Mowaffak al Rubaie, tells RT how ISIS manages to earn
millions of dollars selling oil on the black market in Turkey and reveals that wounded terrorists
are being treated in Turkish hospitals.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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CrossTalk: Erdogan's blunder

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Published on 30 Nov 2015

Crime, and now punishment: So far the Russians are succeeding on all counts.
The situation in Syria has stabilized, the Syrian army is on the offensive, and
negotiations are underway. Is this why Turkey shot down the Russian jet over Syrian airspace?

CrossTalking with Dmitry Babich, Mark Sleboda, and Stephen Ebert.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

[Hervé]

...

How "they" did it in Yougoslavia... all over South America, Africa, Libya, Egypt, Syria... Ukraine... and now the rest of Europe:


Confession of a CIA Agent: They Gave Us Millions to Dismember Yugoslavia (http://www.globalresearch.ca/confession-of-a-cia-agent-they-gave-us-millions-to-dismember-yugoslavia/5492008)

By Britic (http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/britic) Global Research, November 29, 2015
Web Tribune (Serbia) and Britic (http://www.ebritic.com/?p=551270) 26 November 2015


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We bribed parties and politicians who have enticed hate between the nations. Our ultimate goal was to enslave you!

WebTribune publishes their interview with former CIA agent Robert Baer during his promotion tour in Quebec for upcoming book “Secrets of the White House” last week.
My boss, who was formerly a US Senator, stressed repeatedly that some kind of scam would go down in Bosnia. A month before the alleged genocide in Srebrenica, he told me that the town would be headline news around the world and ordered us to call the media.
Robert Baer, a former CIA officer, has authored many books which disclosed the secrets of both the CIA and the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He has been arrested and detained several times. Mitt Waspurh, a personal friend who worked at the Senate and shared information was killed at gunpoint. As a senior CIA operative, Baer worked in Yugoslavia during the 1991-94 period and in the Middle East. He has worked on several documentaries on National Geographic, accusing the Bush administration of waging war for oil.

The interview was conducted live in Canada, during my trip a few days ago. Robert Baer is currently promoting his book “The Secrets of the White House” in Quebec, where we talked. In an interview we spoke of the background of the war in Yugoslavia.

Where and when was your first job in Yugoslavia?
I arrived by helicopter with three agents. We landed on 12 January 1991 in Sarajevo. Our job was to keep an eye on alleged terrorists of Serbian nationality, who were expected to attack Sarajevo.

Who were the terrorists in question and why were they supposed to carry out these attacks?
They gave us files about a group called “Supreme Serbia” detailing plans to conduct a series of bomb attacks on key buildings in Sarajevo in opposition to Bosnia’s ambition to leave former Yugoslavia.

Did that group ever exist and what exactly you were doing in Sarajevo under CIA command?
No such group ever existed! Our headquarters lied to us. Our mission was to alarm and spread panic among politicians in Bosnia, simply to fill their heads with the idea that Serbs would attack. To begin with, we accepted the story, but after a while we started to wonder. Why were we raising such hysteria when the group clearly did not exist?

How and when did the mission end and did it have a name?
For me it ended after two weeks, I landed a new job in Slovenia. The operation lasted a month and had the name “Istina” (i.e. “truth”) although it was anything but!

Why did you go to Slovenia?
I received instructions that Slovenia was ready to declare independence. We were given money, a few million dollars, to fund various NGOs, opposition parties and various politicians who have inflamed hatred.

Did you have an opinion about the CIA propaganda and did your colleagues think?
Of course, no one turns down a CIA mission, especially when we were all nervous and prone to paranoia! Many CIA agents and senior officers disappeared simple because they refused to conduct propaganda against the Serbs in Yugoslavia. Personally I was shocked at the dose of lies being fed from our agencies and politicians! Many CIA agents were directed propaganda without being aware of what they are doing. Everyone knew just a fraction of the story and only the one who create the whole story knew the background – they are politicians.

So there was only propaganda against the Serbs?
Yes and no. The aim of the propaganda was to divide the republics so they would break away from the motherland Yugoslavia. We had to choose a scapegoat who would be blamed for everything. Someone who would be responsible for the war and violence. Serbia was chosen because in some ways it is a successor to Yugoslavia.

Can you name the politicians in the former Yugoslavia were paid by the CIA?
Yes, although it is somewhat delicate. Stipe Mesic, Franjo Tudjman, Alija Izetbegovic, many counselors and members of the government of Yugoslavia, were paid as were Serbian generals, journalists and even some military units. Radovan Karadzic was being paid for a while but stopped accepting help when he realised he would be sacrificed and charged with war crimes committed in Bosnia. It was directed by the American administration.

You mentioned that the media was controlled and funded, how exactly did that happen?
This is already known, some CIA agents were responsible for writing the official statement that the announcers read on the news. Of course the news presenters were oblivious to it, they got the news from their boss and he got it from our man. Everyone had the same mission: to spread hatred, nationalism and the differences between people through television.

We all know of Srebrenica, can you say about it?
Yes! In 1992 I was in Bosnia again, but this time we were supposed to train military units to represent Bosnia, a new state that had just declared independence. Srebrenica is an exaggerated story and unfortunately many people are being manipulated. The number of victims is the same as the number of Serbs and others killed but Srebrenica is political marketing. My boss, who was formerly a US Senator, stressed repeatedly that some kind of scam would go down in Bosnia. A month before the alleged genocide in Srebrenica, he told me that the town would be headline news around the world and ordered us to call the media. When I asked why, he said you’ll see. The new Bosnian army got the order to attack homes and civilians. These were of course citizens of Srebrenica. At the same moment, the Serbs attacked from the other side. Probably someone had paid to incite them!

Then who is guilty of genocide in Srebrenica?
Srebrenica should be blamed on Bosnians, Serbs and Americans – that is us! But in fact everything has been blamed on the Serbs. Unfortunately, many of the victims buried as Muslims were Serbs and other nationalities. A few years ago a friend of mine, a former CIA agent and now at the IMF, said that Srebrenica is the product of agreement between the US government and politicians in Bosnia. The town of Srebrenica was sacrificed to give America a motive to attack the Serbs for their alleged crimes.

Ultimately why do you think Yugoslavia collapsed and why did your government want to do it?
It is all very clear, the people who incited the war and dictated the terms of the peace now own the companies that exploit various mineral resources and the like! They simply made slaves of you, your people work for nothing and that produce goes to Germany and America…they are the winners! You will eventually have to purchase and import what you have created yourself, and since you have no money, you have to borrow, that’s the whole story with the whole of the Balkans!

You were never in Kosovo as a CIA agent, but did you feel any pressure from America?
Of course! Kosovo has taken for two reasons, first because of mineral and natural resources, and secondly, Kosovo is a military base of NATO! In the heart of Europe is their largest military base.

Do you have a message for the people of the former Yugoslavia?
I have. Forget the past, it was staged and false. They manipulated you, they got what they wanted and it is stupid that you still hate one another, you must show that you are stronger and you realise who has created this ! I sincerely apologise! That’s why I have for a long time disclosed the secrets of the CIA and the White House!


Click here to read the original article in WebTribune (Serbian, Latinica). (http://web-tribune.com/iza-kulisa/ispovest-cia-agenta-dati-su-nam-milioni-da-rasparcamo-sfrj-podmitili-opozicione-stranke-i-politicare-koji-su-raspaljivali-mrznju-medu-narodima-a-krajnji-cilj-je-bio-da-vas-napravimo-robovima#)
The original source of this article is Web Tribune (Serbia) and Britic (http://www.ebritic.com/?p=551270)
Copyright © Britic (http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/britic), Web Tribune (Serbia) and Britic (http://www.ebritic.com/?p=551270), 2015

[Hervé]

Yep, same template all over the place:

The Dirty War on Syria (http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-dirty-war-on-syria/5491859)

By Prof. Tim Anderson (http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/tim-anderson)
Global Research, November 27, 2015



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The following text is the introductory chapter of Professor Tim Anderson’s forthcoming book entitled The Dirty War on Syria

Although every war makes ample use of lies and deception, the dirty war on Syria has relied on a level of mass disinformation not seen in living memory. The British-Australian journalist Philip Knightley pointed out that war propaganda typically involves ‘a depressingly predictable pattern’ of demonising the enemy leader, then demonising the enemy people through atrocity stories, real or imagined (Knightley 2001). Accordingly, a mild-mannered eye doctor called Bashar al Assad became the new evil in the world and, according to consistent western media reports, the Syrian Army did nothing but kill civilians for more than four years. To this day, many imagine the Syrian conflict is a ‘civil war’, a ‘popular revolt’ or some sort of internal sectarian conflict. These myths are, in many respects, a substantial achievement for the big powers which have driven a series of ‘regime change’ operations in the Middle East region, all on false pretexts, over the past 15 years.


This book is a careful academic work, but also a strong defence of the right of the Syrian people to determine their own society and political system. That position is consistent with international law and human rights principles, but may irritate western sensibilities, accustomed as we are to an assumed prerogative to intervene. At times I have to be blunt, to cut through the double-speak. In Syria the big powers have sought to hide their hand, using proxy armies while demonising the Syrian Government and Army, accusing them of constant atrocities; then pretending to rescue the Syrian people from their own government. Far fewer western people opposed the war on Syria than opposed the invasion of Iraq, because they were deceived about its true nature.

In 2011 I had only a basic understanding of Syria and its history. However I was deeply suspicious when reading of the violence that erupted in the southern border town of Daraa. I knew that such violence (sniping at police and civilians, the use of semi-automatic weapons) does not spring spontaneously from street demonstrations. And I was deeply suspicious of the big powers. All my life I had been told lies about the pretexts for war. I decided to research the Syrian conflict, reading hundreds of books and articles, watching many videos and speaking to as many Syrians as I could. I wrote dozens of articles and visited Syria twice, during the conflict. This book is a result of that research.

Dirty wars are not new. Cuban national hero Jose Martí predicted to a friend that Washington would try to intervene in Cuba’s independence struggle against the Spanish. ‘They want to provoke a war’, he wrote in 1889 ‘to have a pretext to intervene and, with the authority of being mediator and guarantor, to seize the country … There is no more cowardly thing in the annals of free people; nor such cold blooded evil’ (Martí 1975: 53). Nine years later, during the third independence war, an explosion in Havana Harbour destroyed the USS Maine, killing 258 US sailors and serving as a pretext for a US invasion.


Full chapter: http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-dirty-war-on-syria/5491859

[Hervé]

...

Digging even deeper into the background ops going on:


Russia versus NATO's Gladio 2.0: Turkish jihad from China to Syria (http://www.sott.net/article/307515-Russia-versus-NATOs-Gladio-2-0-Turkish-jihad-from-China-to-Syria#)

Joe Quinn Sott.net (http://www.sott.net/article/307515-Russia-versus-NATOs-Gladio-2-0-Turkish-jihad-from-China-to-Syria#) Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:27 UTC



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Cold War Part Deux: This Time It's Jihad


To understand what is happening on the geopolitical global scene today, you have to understand what has been happening on that same scene for the last 100 years, because it hasn't really changed much.

The US Empire has been the world's only (and 'greatest') superpower since at least the end of the Second World War. Once the Empire had achieved that position, it was determined to keep it. Russia was supposed to have been destroyed as a result of the 1939-45 war, but Russian ingenuity and hardiness, and Stalin's surprising independent streak, forced the Empire to accept a division of the world between 'East' and 'West'. As soon as the lines were drawn, however, the Empire sent its agents out to continue and complete the process of global conquest.

Apart from the few overt US military forays (Korea, Vietnam, the odd turkey shoot in Latin America) the Empire relied primarily on covert operations to expand its control. In Western Europe - a prized piece on the 'grand chessboard' - the US Empire established 'stay-behind' networks made up of paramilitary groups from various backgrounds and espousing right-wing, fascistic ideologies. The rationale for 'mining' Europe with weapons caches and nutjobs trained in sabotage and bloody mayhem was that, in the event of a Soviet invasion and occupation of Europe, 'resistance fighters' would form the West's front-line in the coming war with the Soviets.


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Not an empire though


These groups were created and funded as part of the Truman Doctrine, which pledged to "support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures". A Soviet invasion was never on the cards, of course, and thus this 'support' took the form of CIA funding, training and arming of minority groups that used extreme violence to 'correct' any European political or social drifts towards 'the left', or anything that opposed the Empire's interests. In their spare time, many of these groups involved themselves in arms- and drug-smuggling and other racketeering, much of it also under the control of the CIA and other Western intel. agencies.

This aspect of the Truman Doctrine was the beginning, in earnest, of the US National Security State's covert foreign policy, which has comprised the bulk of all US foreign policy over the past 70 years. Most of the details of that foreign policy has not only been kept from the American people, but from most American politicians also. In December 1947, United States National Security Council (NSC) Directive 4-A "secretly authorised the CIA to conduct these officially non-existent programs and to administer them" in such a way that "removed the U.S. Congress and public from any debate over whether to undertake psychological warfare abroad."


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© Time Magazine


A Time cover from 1979. Russia is the menacing bear. Islam, represented by the crescent symbol, would be distorted into 'global jihad' to become the new anti-ideology against which the West will pretend to 'crusade' in order to 'defend Western civilization'. In actuality, the West will spread the black flag of jihad in order to maintain a permanent war footing and thus 'contain' Russia and any other threat to its hegemony.

Yes, the 'Cold War' ended in 1991, but the hegemonic drive to 'contain' Russia (and China) did not. With the Berlin Wall coming down and Russia 'joining the community of civilized nations', world peace was in danger of breaking out. Coincidentally (or not), Operation Gladio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio) received some public attention that same year when a number of parliamentary investigations across western Europe verified its existence, threatening the whole sordid scam with widespread exposure, but it was quickly buried by the first US invasion of Iraq. Rather than being dismantled because its raison d'etre had become obsolete, the Gladio networks during the 1990s were taken to the next level.

A 'communist plot to take over the world' could no longer be held up as the ideological battering ram with which to keep Europe and Russia apart (and justify US imperial expansion all over the planet), so a new 'anti-ideology' was needed. Up to that point, Western intel. agencies had coached paramilitary groups to don 'leftist colors' and conduct subversive activities - bombings, assassinations, disrupting elections - in order to sway public opinion in favor of anti-Communist (specifically, anti-Russian), nationalist, law-and-order, Washington-aligned parties and governments.

Going forward, they would extend and develop the successful 1980s mujahideen project in Afghanistan to recruit, train, arm and fund paramilitaries in 'jihadi garb', then guide them towards committing (or being associated with) terrorist atrocities carried out under the black flag of 'Global Jihadism', rather than the red flag of Russian Communism. Where the first version was limited in scope because 'communism' was associated with an increasingly smaller number of countries, Gladio 2.0 blew the field wide open because Islam is present in, and could be spread to, a far larger geographic area; a geographic area that included Russia and former Soviet Republics in the heart of the 'World Island (http://www.sott.net/article/276668-Geopolitics-of-Empire-Mackinders-Heartland-Theory-and-the-Containment-of-Russia)'.


Turkey: A wholly-owned subsidiary of the CIA since 1945
The seamless transition from 'Gladio' to 'Gladio 2.0' is best illustrated by NATO member Turkey, which has the edge over other NATO members in this new Western intelligence 'game' because it has a large Muslim population and is strategically situated to contain Russian access to, and influence in, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. The Turkish branch of covert CIA Gladio operations began on September 27th 1952, when the Tactical Mobilization Group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_Mobilization_Group) (STK) (special operations department of the Turkish military) was created with the consent of Brigadier-General Daniş Karabelen of Turkey's National Defense Supreme Council. Karabelen was one of sixteen soldiers (including Alparslan Türkeş (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alparslan_T%C3%BCrke%C5%9F)) who had been sent to the United States in 1948 (http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/51/017.html) for training in special warfare (assassinations, bombings etc.) During their training several were directly recruited into the CIA.

In 1965 these same men formed the core of Turkey's Special Warfare Department, which replaced the STK (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Warfare_Department). During the 1970s, the Special Warfare Department was run by General Kemal Yamak (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemal_Yamak). In his memoirs, Yamak stated that the United States had set aside around $1m for weapons for the group. This CIA organisation within Turkey was effectively a parallel government or 'deep state', and it was only when Yamak asked then Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BClent_Ecevit) for more cash for his operations that Ecevit actually became aware of the operation's existence. Not wanting to expose to his fellow ministers that Turkey had no real sovereignty to speak of, Ecevit suggested that the organization seek support from Europe. So Yamak contacted generals from the United Kingdom and France, from whom he received a positive response.

In 1992 this Special Warfare Department was renamed the "Special Forces Command", although it remains largely controlled by the CIA to this day.

Concurrently with this complete subversion of Turkey's military hierarchy, the CIA also began funding Turkey's civilian intelligence agency - the 'National Intelligence Organization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Guerrilla)' - in which it maintained a cadre of moles, as acknowledged in 1977 (http://web.archive.org/web/19980214105822/http://www.ozgurluk.org/contrind/brochu/part1.html) by its former deputy director - and CIA recruit - Sabahattin Savasman.


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Map of 'Turkic peoples', a diverse collection of ethnicities spanning central Eurasia


Having infiltrated the Turkish civilian and military intelligence establishments, the CIA then sought to co-opt Turkish political and civilian life also. In the 1960s, under US direction, one of the above-mentioned 16 soldiers, Alparslan Turkes, established the 'civilian' Associations for Struggling with Communism, and funded the far-right National Movement Party (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalist_Movement_Party) (MHP). The National Movement Party espoused a fanatical pan-Turkic ideology that called for reclaiming large sections of the Soviet Union under the flag of a reborn Turkish empire. This ideology was, of course, perfectly matched with the US 'cold war' ideology aimed at attacking the Soviet Union, and the CIA clearly were interested in promoting it, although their job was relatively easy given that Turkes and his cohorts had also been enthusiastic supporters of Hitler during World War II, who had also attempted to undermine Soviet unity under the flag of Pan-Turkism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkestan_legion).

The paramilitary wing of the MHP (today the third largest political party in Turkey) is called the 'Grey Wolves' (http://articles.latimes.com/1998/apr/12/opinion/op-38664). In the 1960s, Turkes established over 100 camps across Turkey where members received ideological and paramilitary training from CIA agents, including one former Nazi SS member (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruzi_Nazar). This system was analogous to the hundreds of 'madrassas' established (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/09/sleeping-with-the-devil-how-u-s-and-saudi-backing-of-al-qaeda-led-to-911.html) with CIA money for the training of jihadi extremists in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Often masquerading as 'cultural' or 'sports' organizations, the Grey Wolves in Turkey carried out shootings and bombings against left-wing and liberal activists, journalists, judges, Kurds and anyone else (http://articles.latimes.com/1999/apr/20/news/mn-29194) who was deemed a threat to US control over Turkey. Over 6,000 people were killed.


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The flag of 'East Turkestan' (Xinjiang, Western China)


Working with the CIA-controlled National Intelligence Organization, the Grey Wolves were also involved in several coup d'etats in Turkey and at least one foreign attempted coup in Azerbaijan in 1995. It was immediately after this 1995 coup that Azerbaijan was 'opened up' to Western capital and, in the words of investigative journalist Greg Palast (http://www.gregpalast.com/killings-cancer-corruption-and-azerbaijan-eurovision-in-the-islamic-republic-of-bp/), became the 'Republic of BP' (British Petroleum). The Grey Wolves also fought against Russian soldiers as proxy forces for NATO in both Chechen wars, and 15,000 'Grey Wolves' fought on the side of Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_War) (1988 - 94) against Armenia (another US proxy war designed to provoke Russia).

With their fanatical 'pan-Turkic' ideology, the Grey Wolves have, more recently, been put to good CIA use in the farthest reaches of their 'Turkish empire'. In recent years, the Eastern Turkestan Grey Wolf Party has sprung up in China's western province of Xinjiang, supposedly in support of the Turkic-speaking Uyghur ethnic minority, some of whom have apparently been encouraged to embrace 'jihad'. On March 1st, 2014, eight of these Uyghurs hacked 33 people to death at a train station in the southern Chinese city of Kunming. The perpetrators were found with a hand-painted East Turkestan flag and said that they had wanted to go abroad to engage in 'jihad' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Kunming_attack), but with no papers to leave China they decided to go on a domestic killing spree instead.


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‌Vehicles pass by a digital billboard showing the sketch of a man suspected to be the Bangkok bomber in central Bangkok on August 22, 2015


In July this year the Thai government stopped over 100 Uyghurs on their way to wage glorious 'CIA-had' in Syria (via Turkey), and sent them back to China. The US State Department was very annoyed (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/09/us-thailand-uighurs-turkey-idUSKCN0PJ18620150709) - so annoyed, in fact, that in August a bomb exploded at a shrine in Bangkok, killing 20 people, mostly ethnic Chinese holiday-makers. The key suspect fled to Turkey. (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34244772) An accomplice to the bomber was arrested and found to be carrying 11 Turkish passports. The bombing is now suspected to have been carried out by the Grey Wolves (http://www.forbes.com/sites/susancunningham/2015/08/24/thailands-shrine-bombing-the-case-for-turkeys-grey-wolves/) in retaliation for Thailand's previous deportation of Uyghur terrorist suspects back to China instead of allowing them to travel to Turkey, and then Syria.

On the feel-good, peace-loving humanitarian front, the US government has gone 'all in' to create and financially support (via the NED) the World Uyghur Congress (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Uyghur_Congress) (in 2004), a political (rather than military) tool designed specifically to put pressure on the Chinese government.

But the Kunming and Bangkok attacks are likely to be just a small taste of what is to come. This is why Russia is attempting to strangle the creature in its cradle in Syria. And this is why Russia conducted the largest military exercises seen since the Cold War (http://www.sott.net/article/301862-Massive-Russia-led-war-games-simulate-international-threat-coming-from-central-Asia) - 100,000 soldiers across 6,000km of southern Russia - held in September just days before Putin started bombing the hell out of terrorists in Syria, and simulating "an international threat coming from central Asia."

There is substantial evidence of a major US/NATO operation to traffic Chinese Uyghur fighters from Xinjiang to Turkey, and then Syria, and back again to bring 'jihad' to western China. According to Al Mayadeen (http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5089.htm), a Beirut-based satellite news service, abandoned villages in northern Syria have recently been filling up with the families of Muslim Chinese Uyghurs. These Uyghurs, claims the report, are entering the country, along with their wives and children, to fight alongside Al Nusra Front (formerly known as Al Qaeda) and ISIS/Daesh against the Syrian government. In addition to providing a cadre of battle-trained fighters to ship back to China, the influx of 'Turkic' Uyghurs into northern Syria is very likely an attempt by the Turkish government to populate the area with 'Turks' in advance of potential 'peace talks' on the likely future break-up of Syria.

With that little bit of background, let's take a look at an image of the individual who appeared on camera in the immediate aftermath of the shoot-down of the Russian Su-24 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymKnnMJjtFA), the same man who claimed that he and his friends had shot at and killed the Russian pilot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymKnnMJjtFA), and were also responsible for the attack on the Russian rescue helicopter with a US-supplied TOW anti-tank missile that killed another Russian marine:


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Alparslan Celik (center with blue beret) - 'Grey Wolf'


His name is Alparslan Celik; he's standing in front of the flag of 'East Turkestan' and is giving the signature 'Grey Wolves' hand salute. He's not Syrian, he's not even a Syrian Turkman; he's just Turkish, the son of a former MHP mayor of an eastern Turkish town.


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With that said, here are a few (perhaps rhetorical) questions:

Was it just a coincidence that members of this long-term, NATO-sponsored, pan-Turkic paramilitary group, with direct connections to recent Turkish-linked terrorist atrocities in China and Thailand, were in the right place at the right time to kill the Russian pilot after he ejected?



Was it just a coincidence that, within a couple of hours, Fox News and CNN reporters were there on the scene to interview this Turkish 'Grey Wolf' and broadcast him gloating about the murder of the Russian pilot, in doing so pushing Turkish/Russian relations past the point of no return?



Is it just a coincidence that this is the second time in the last 18 months that a non-EU country on Russia's border has seen its relationship with Russia destroyed over the shoot-down of a plane (MH17 (http://www.sott.net/article/284868-MH17-Who-Dunnit-Western-Media-Silent-on-the-Evidence), previously) and promises of entry into the EU?



Can it really be seen as a coincidence that, just a few days before the Turkish PM was scheduled to go to Brussels to talk about getting a €3billion hand out for dealing with Syrian refugees and fast-tracking the long-sought-after Turkish entry into the 'elite' EU club, someone shoots down a Russian bomber from Turkey, forcing the Turkish government to 'own' it and thereby destroying their relationship with Russia?

I suppose not. Everyone has to pick a side, it seems, and some people need a little encouragement.

[Sophocles]

Is Turkey Waging War on Russia in Crimea, the Caucasus, and Central Asia? (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151201/1031060730/turkey-war-russia-crimea-caucasus-central-asia-daesh.html)

18:26 01.12.2015
Ekaterina Blinova
SputnikNews

What is taking place today is a battle for global dominance, waged by major Western geopolitical players, and what is at stake here is the future of our planet, an anonymous US analyst who goes by the name 'The Saker' told Sputnik; as for Daesh, it is simply a weapon, he adds.


During the Paris Climate Change Conference (COP21), Russian President Putin revealed that Moscow has evidence confirming that the Russian Su-24 bomber was shot down by Turkey in order to protect oil deliveries from Daesh (ISIL/ISIS), adding that oil from Daesh-occupied fields has been transferred to Turkey on an industrial scale.

But is it possible that Turkey is selling the stolen oil without Washington's knowledge? Are the Turkish officials who are responsible for oil smuggling acting alone or are they backed by some influential oil market players?


US intelligence agencies suffer from many weaknesses, but being unable to track money movements is not one of them," The Saker, an anonymous top level American military analyst, told Sputnik in an exclusive interview.

"Furthermore, both the USA and Israel have an extensive network for agents in Turkey. I thus consider it extremely unlikely that anybody in Turkey would be able to move around large sums of money without the US being fully aware of that. Also, consider that Daesh is a top-priority target for US intelligence agencies and that their immense data collection capabilities are also focused on the Daesh side of the equation," he emphasized.

"Finally," The Saker added, "the illegal sale of oil is a minor element in a much more important battle between the USA and the Russia-Iran-Syria alliance and, thus, the US would never allow it to interfere with its bigger objectives."

The analyst underscored that corruption has long been an integral part of the US "imperial" system.


Corruption being one key feature of the US Empire, it is normal for the US deep state to allow its local puppets to engage in profitable war profiteering, but only as long as this does not interfere with the global US strategy," he stressed.

Experts call attention to the fact that the shooting down of the Su-24 could have been Turkish President Erdogan's "act of revenge," given the fact that his family has reportedly been involved in Daesh's oil smuggling business. In his recent interview with Radio Sputnik, Middle East analyst Stanislav Tarasov noted that "Erdogan's family is directly involved in the incident," and suggested that "we could soon learn that President Erdogan himself is directly linked to ISIL."

But was the downing of the Su-24 bomber by the Turkish F-16 fighter a "lone wolf" operation or a preplanned action coordinated by NATO and Washington? If so, what goal does NATO/Washington have in mind?


The downing of the SU-24 was definitely a major and carefully planned ambush operation which involved a large number of Turkish F-16 [being] constantly held on airborne alert positions. The notion that the Americans did not know about this all along is ridiculous," The Saker elaborated.

"Make no mistake, this was an act of war by the USA and NATO, but executed in such a manner as to provide the real culprits some degree of plausible deniability. The hope was to have Russia over-react and trigger a direct confrontation which could be them blamed on Russia. You have to keep in mind that the Russian force in Syria is a very small one and that it is vulnerable. Even with 60+ combat aircraft and S-400s, the Russian force is much smaller than the Turkish air force, which has well over 200 F-16s. The USA is now using this vulnerability to provoke Russia," the analyst told Sputnik.

The Saker noted that the Turks themselves had violated the Syrian and, especially, Greek airspace hundreds of times "and not just once for 17 seconds." In the wake of the incident, Ankara suggested that the alleged intrusion of the Russian Su-24 into Turkish airspace had lasted a mere 17 seconds.


The very fact that they actually used this "17 seconds" excuse it by itself is a clear provocation, designed to humiliate Russian and trigger an over-reaction. Thank God Putin and the Kremlin did not take this bait," The Saker underscored.

Interestingly enough, the incident in Syrian airspace had been preceded by an act of sabotage in Ukraine: on November 20, unidentified saboteurs blew up the main power lines in Ukraine leading into Crimea; Crimean Tatar activists blocked access to fallen lines. Given the close ties between Ankara and Crimean Tatars (Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is reportedly of Crimean Tatar descent himself), the question arises, whether the two action were connected in any way?


I have no information showing any links, but what is clear is that Turkey is waging its own mini-war of influence against Russia, not only in Crimea, but also in the Caucasus and Central Asia," The Saker told Sputnik, commenting on the issue.

"The Turkish 'deep state' appears to be ruled by a revanchist imperial ideology every bit as lunatic and dangerous as the Wahhabi ideology of Daesh & Co. Erdogan apparently wants to re-establish some kind of Grand Ottoman Empire v2 and for him Russia is the biggest obstacle. This is why Turkey is so precious for the USA — it is run by delusional maniacs every bit as dangerous as the Nazis in Kiev or the Wahhabi freaks of Daesh. This is what Russia is confronted by today — a war by the Anglo-Zionist Empire waged by means of various hate-filled regional powers which are used by the USA to destabilize Russia and her allies," the analyst underscored.

Remarkably, in 2001, then-modest academic Dr. Ahmet Davutoglu published a book entitled "Strategic Depth." In his book, Davutoglu suggested that Turkey possesses a unique "strategic depth" due to its historical and geographical position. The would-be Turkish prime minister argued that Turkey should simultaneously exercise its influence in the Middle East, the Balkan region, the Caucasus, and Central Asia as well in the Caspian, Mediterranean and Black Sea zones. According to Davutoglu, Turkey should re-establish its role as a global player, not just a regional power. In some sense, Davotoglu viewed the collapse of the Soviet Union as a historic chance for Turkey to expand its influence in the Caucasus region and Central Asia.

And here enters Daesh…

Given the fact that ISIL has been created and fuelled by a number of states and private donors, which geopolitical players are resisting Russia's attempts to eradicate terrorism in the region and preserve the sovereignty of Syria? Is Russia confronting a bunch of terrorists fed by Saudi and Qatari sheikhs or some well-organized multi-national organizations?


As for Daesh, it is simply one 'weapon' used by the [US] Empire to destroy its opponents. There is no such thing as 'terrorism' by itself, it is always a weapon used by one (or several) state actors," The Saker explained.

"The sheikhs you mention are just pawns in the hands of the 'deep state' which runs the US Anglo-Zionist 'Empire' and they themselves only have a local influence. Thus, the Saudis or the Qatari are major players in Syria, but already at the Middle-Eastern level they are far less powerful than, say, the Turks or the Israelis. And while they can act as 'private donors' and sponsors of this or that faction of Daesh/al-Qaeda, they can only do that as long as the Americans tolerate that. One could say that the local sheikhs are influential or even powerful puppets, but they still remain fundamentally puppets," the US military analyst told Sputnik.

However, he claims, this is only the tip of the iceberg; the situation in general is far more serious.


What is taking place today is a world war between, on one hand, the so-called 'West' (the US Empire) and what I call the 'Resistance' i.e., Russia, China, the BRICS, the SCO countries, Latin America, etc. What is at stake here is the future of our planet: it will either be ruled by a single world Hegemon or it will be organized as a multi-polar world. The events in the Middle East are just one 'front' in this worldwide war, and the war in Syria just one "battle" in the Middle Eastern 'front', The Saker concluded.

Full article (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151201/1031060730/turkey-war-russia-crimea-caucasus-central-asia-daesh.html)

[thunder24]

might i add this from the grand chessboard...


"Ever since the continents started interacting politically, some five hundred years ago, Eurasia has been the center of world power."- (p. xiii) (Eurasia means "the Middle East")
"... But in the meantime, it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America. The formulation of a comprehensive and integrated Eurasian geostrategy is therefore the purpose of this book.” (p. xiv)
"In that context, how America 'manages' Eurasia is critical. A power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world's three most advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa's subordination, rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania (Australia) geopolitically peripheral to the world's central continent. About 75 per cent of the world's people live in Eurasia, and most of the world's physical wealth is there as well, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for about three-fourths of the world's known energy resources." (p.31)

“The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian region and the Caspian Sea basin are known to contain reserves of natural gas and oil that dwarf those of Kuwait, the Gulf of Mexico, or the North Sea." (p.125)

"In the long run, global politics are bound to become increasingly uncongenial to the concentration of hegemonic power in the hands of a single state. Hence, America is not only the first, as well as the only, truly global superpower, but it is also likely to be the very last." (p.209)
“Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization." (p.35)

"Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat." (p. 211) http://www.takeoverworld.info/grandchessboard.html

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[Cidersomerset]

Keiser Report: Moar War (E843)

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Published on 1 Dec 2015


Check Keiser Report website for more: http://www.maxkeiser.com/

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss MOAR war as
stock prices soar for defense contractors and the CIA gets involved in environmental activism
as we sacrifice our freedoms so that nobody has reason to hate us while we play naked Twister.
In the second half, Max interviews journalist and author Nick Kochan about ISIS - the most well
financed terrorist organization ever. They look at the cash and dowry from Saddam’s treasury
which sustains the terrorist group.

WATCH all Keiser Report shows here:

[Hervé]

Going nicely alongside posts # 897 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69621-Ukraine-Crimea-Syria-Israel-Iran-Putin-and-World-War-III&p=1024835&viewfull=1#post1024835), 898 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69621-Ukraine-Crimea-Syria-Israel-Iran-Putin-and-World-War-III&p=1024848&viewfull=1#post1024848) and 899 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69621-Ukraine-Crimea-Syria-Israel-Iran-Putin-and-World-War-III&p=1024934&viewfull=1#post1024934):


Is Erdogan Planning a Full-Fledged Turkish Occupation of Northern Syria? (http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20151201/1031070705/Turkey-northern-syria-occupation.html)

Radio Sputnik France (https://soundcloud.com/sputnik_fr/nicolas-dhuicq-erdogan-veut-recreer-lempire-ottoman) 20:06 01.12.2015
(updated 21:11 01.12.2015)


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French politician Nicolas Dhuicq believes that the Turkish government may be attempting to carry out a campaign which amounts to an indirect form of ethnic cleansing in northern Syria, resettling abandoned villages in the north of the country with Turkic-speaking peoples.

Speaking with Radio Sputnik France (https://soundcloud.com/sputnik_fr/nicolas-dhuicq-erdogan-veut-recreer-lempire-ottoman) on Tuesday, Dhuicq, an MP in the French National Assembly and a member of the legislative body's Defense Commission, said that he thinks "that Mr. Erdogan seeks, like the Ottoman Empire did before him, to move people and resettle several villages in northern Syria with Turkic-speaking peoples."

The MP explained that he has access to information which leads him to believe that "these villages, abandoned by Syrians, will be settled by Uighurs from China."
"I think that Mr. Erdogan is pursuing a policy aimed at the reconstruction of the Ottoman Empire," Dhuicq warned.

"He is investing heavily in Iraqi Kurdistan, aiming to take possession of its oil, as Turkey has no oil of its own. Mr. Erdogan is gunning down Syrian and Turkish Kurds. He is moving Turkic-speaking peoples to northern Syria. He is interested in seeing the distraction of ISIL, Al-Nusra or whatever else you want to call it, playing out in the center of Syria and Iraq."

Ultimately, the politician said, "Mr. Erdogan is playing a very dangerous game. Unfortunately, [Western governments] have turned a blind eye to his extremely sharp rhetoric." Asked to comment on the anti-ISIL coalition's ostensible military goals of cutting off ISIL's oil revenue, Dhuicq emphasized that "the military goal is very simple –its aim must be to close the northern border of Syria, to block off supply channels. We [the members of the French National Assembly's Defense Commission] spoke about this with our Commander in Chief, [President Francois Hollande]."

Related:
Is Turkey Waging War on Russia in Crimea, the Caucasus, and Central Asia? (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151201/1031060730/turkey-war-russia-crimea-caucasus-central-asia-daesh.html) (see Sophocles' above post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69621-Ukraine-Crimea-Syria-Israel-Iran-Putin-and-World-War-III&p=1025110&viewfull=1#post1025110))

[Hervé]

PressTV: Sott.net's Joe Quinn sets Obama straight on American lies about ISIS in Syria (http://www.sott.net/article/307565-PressTV-Sott-nets-Joe-Quinn-sets-Obama-straight-on-American-lies-about-ISIS-in-Syria#)

Sott.net (http://www.sott.net/article/307565-PressTV-Sott-nets-Joe-Quinn-sets-Obama-straight-on-American-lies-about-ISIS-in-Syria) Tue, 01 Dec 2015 19:36 UTC


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In his latest appearance on PressTV's World News, Sott.net editor Joe Quinn was asked to comment on US President Obama's statements regarding the shooting down of a Russian Su-24 bomber by a Turkish F-16 fighter jet last week. Have a listen to US foreign policy explained in under 3 minutes...

[Sophocles]

Building Air Defense for ISIS: A Qatar – Ukraine Link (http://orientalreview.org/2015/11/22/building-air-defense-for-isis-a-qatar-ukraine-link/)

Sun, Nov 22, 2015
By Oriental Review (http://orientalreview.org/)

The fact that the ISIS infrastructure in Syria and Iraq is absolutely vulnerable to the airstrikes of the international coalition is undoubtful. During the last week only the Russian Air Force and Navy hit around 826 ISIS targets (training camps, munition and explosives plants, depots, oil refinery and transport objects) causing critical damage to the terrorist groups and its revenue sources. The sponsors of the ISIS are certainly committed to acquire and supply to the jihadist brigades the air defense systems efficient enough to at least hamper the activities of the coalition in the Syrian sky.

Back in September 2015, being aware of the Russian plans to launch anti-terrorist air campaign, a Qatari delegation from the Ministry of Defense came to Kiev to take part in the Arms and Security Expo, September 22-27, 2015:


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A letter by the Director of Ukrainian SpetsTechnoExport enterprise
Pavlo Barbul to Ukrainian MFA with the list of Qatari delegation.

They reached a deal with UkrOboronProm (a state-run Ukrainian arms trader) to purchase the modernized Air Defense Missile Complex “Pechora-2D” (http://en.uos.ua/produktsiya/tehnika-pvo/67-zenitniy-raketniy-kompleks-s-125-2d-pechora-2d):


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Pavbo Barbul writing to the Deputy Head of the Ukroboronservice that his
enterprise is about to deliver Pechora-2D systems to the Armes Forces of Qatar.

On Sept. 30 Volodimir Kuruts, the Trade Councellor of the Ukrainian Embassy in Qatar, writes to his business contact in Cyprus Vasyl Babytskiy, director of the Blessway Ltd:


Thank you for Morocco and Saudi contacts. It was right in time.
The locals have been to Kiev at the Expo, are about to buy “Pechora” and something more serious. The issue of delivery is pending. Our side will not able to do that. You have a chance to make good money.
Try to talk to the military guys. The probability is high as the yankees agreed. Bulgarians and Turks are aware, the route is the same…

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Take note that it is the same Vasyl Babitskiy who resold 265 outdated Poland-made anti-aircraft autocannons to Saudi Arabia (http://orientalreview.org/2015/10/26/ukraine-ripping-western-aid-to-sponsor-terrorism/) (eventually to the same ISIS), originally dedicated for the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior.

The revealed information clearly indicates that the Qatar Ministry of Defense is arranging supplies of the Ukrainian air defense systems to Syria-based terrorist organizations via Bulgaria and Turkey. The US officers in Qatar have approved the deals. Taking into account that “Pechora 2D” system is able to strike the aircrafts at the heights up to 21 km, the investigation of the A321 Metrojet downfall (http://sputniknews.com/russia/20151117/1030241199/a321-crash-explosive-explodes.html) over Sinai may receive an unexpected turn…

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The hacked mails were published (http://cyber-berkut.org/) by Cyber Berkut on Nov 21, 2015.

Source (http://orientalreview.org/2015/11/22/building-air-defense-for-isis-a-qatar-ukraine-link/)

[Cidersomerset]

This is so predictable ISIS fleeing the Russians back to Libya
and gives the coalition the perfect excuse to invade Libya. Plenty
of oil still there of course , and no one will object in the world
community. If they cannot secure plan A , consolidate with plan C .

Libyan Sirte becomes new ISIS stronghold with direct sea route to Europe

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Published on 1 Dec 2015

The anti-terror campaign in Syria and Iraq is pushing Islamic State militants
to look for a new foothold, which they're apparently finding in Libya…The new
ISIL stronghold in the country is in the northern town of Sirte. Worryingly its
location is just across the Mediterranean from the coasts of Europe.

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Breathtakingly incoherently: how mainstream media covers Syria

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Published on 30 Nov 2015

Lionel calls out the mainstream media for failing to contextualize the Syrian conflict
by refusing to show maps and avoiding to explain Russia's business in the region;
namely, targeting ISIS.

[Cidersomerset]

US deploys special forces to boost fight against ISIS in Iraq, Syria

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Published on 1 Dec 2015

The US is set to deploy an expeditionary target force to help Iraq put additional
pressure on Islamic State, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said. The special forces
will be positioned to conduct unilateral operations in Syria.

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MEANWHILE ......Back in Downing Str. Dave is desperate to join the other ' Chicken
Hawk ' leaders in bombing Syria with our other plane , the one not bombing Iraq.
So he can sit with the other 'bullingdon boys'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-435875/Camerons-cronies-Bullingdon-class-87.html

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Syria air strikes: PM urges Tory MPs to 'take a stand'


45 minutes ago
From the section UK Politics

David Cameron has urged Tory MPs to take a stand on fighting terror on the eve of
a vote in Parliament on authorising UK airstrikes in Syria.

The prime minister called on them not to "sit on their hands" and side with Jeremy
Corbyn and others he labelled "a bunch of terrorist sympathisers".

Labour's leader has said bombing is not a sensible way to bring peace to Syria.

read more...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34980061

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Turkey enables ISIS and Al-Nusra - Porter

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Published on 30 Nov 2015

Turkey has been accused of supporting Islamic State (IS, formerly known as
ISIS/ISIL) militants, allowing an estimated 15,000 or more fighters to cross the
border into Syria, and buying up ISIS-produced oil. Turkey’s policy to use IS, Al-
Nusra Front and others to put pressure on the Syrian government has been well
documented, renowned historian, author and investigative journalist Gareth Porter
told RT’s Manila Chan.

Find RT America in your area: http://rt.com/where-to-watch/

[Cidersomerset]

The Northern War Lords and regional operators and the CIA affiliates control
and run the Afghan poppy fields....So are the Russians insinuating that
they are helping fund ISIS and other groups ? probably.

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Published on 1 Dec 2015

As coalition attacks on ISIL-controlled oil sites intensify, militants are
being forced to look, not only for a new stronghold, but also for new
sources of income.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?84791-Afghan-Opium-Harvesting-Protected-by-British-American-Occupation-Forces-2014-the-largest-Opium-crop-in-History.

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Stupid people ? or brainwashed by the mainstream ?

Philly man kept off plane for speaking Arabic

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Published on 1 Dec 2015

Pizza shop owner, Maher Khalil, was recently stopped from boarding a plane in
Chicago because other passengers heard him speaking Arabic. When he was finally
allowed to board, the other passengers remained suspect. Eventually, he had to
share pastries with his fellow passengers to put them at ease. The Resident
discusses. Follow The Resident at http://www.twitter.com/TheResident

[Rocky_Shorz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHkher6ceaA

[Cidersomerset]

I've heard rep Gabbard before and she is well informed and has not been 'bought'
out or 'lobbied out' yet, it seems She has a bit to learn about 9/11 , but we need
more open minded politicians and she is an Iraq vet, which makes it hard for
the 'hawks' to attack her upfront.

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‘Turkish government to blame for terrorist funding’ – retired US Army Major General

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Published on 1 Dec 2015


Russia is preparing a draft UN resolution aimed at cutting off financing to terrorist
groups, including ISIS. The jihadi group makes up to 1.5 million dollars a day from
black-market fuel exports. The Russian government says it has proof that most of
the oil sold by terrorists makes it way to Middle East markets via Turkey. Paul
Vallely, a retired Major General of the US Army, thinks world powers need to put
greater pressure on the Turkish government.

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The hype surrounding todays vote has been ramping up with 'fear porn'
rife in the mainstream aimed mainly at MP's as well as the public.



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Terror attack might prompt 'go forward' tactic, says Met
8 hours ago


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The training exercise took place in the City of London at an undisclosed location

Firearms officers might have to "walk over casualties" in the event of a Paris-style
UK attack to deal with the threat, a senior officer has said.Metropolitan Police
Assistant Commissioner Patricia Gallan said officers would "go forward" to confront
gunmen in a marauding attack.She was speaking after an exercise to test the way
armed officers would deal with an incident in a shopping centre.

read more...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34979910

[Cidersomerset]

US must work with Russia, Iran to really defeat the threat of ISIS – Katrina vanden Heuvel

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Published on 1 Dec 2015

While the Pentagon is sending more special forces to join the fight against the Islamic
State in Iraq and Syria, critics have been saying that America needs to work together
with Russia and Iran to be successful in the region. RT’s Lindsay France speaks with
The Nation’s editor-in-chief Katrina vanden Heuvel about how the new US deployment
will impact the battle against ISIS.

Find RT America in your area: http://rt.com/where-to-watch/

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Syria vote: MPs to vote on whether to bomb IS targets
36 minutes ago


MPs will decide later whether to back UK air strikes in Syria against militants from
so-called Islamic State.

A 10-hour House of Commons debate will culminate in a vote on whether the UK
should join the US, France, Russia and others bombing targets in Raqqa, the
group's stronghold, and other areas.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron says IS is a threat to Britain's security.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34980504

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This is the road we have been down so many times before .....


Independent.......

UK Government Officials Tell Parents That Young People Who Question the Government or Corporate Media May Be ‘Extremists’

By David Icke on 2nd December 2015

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/young-people-who-question-government-policy-or-the-media-may-be-extremists-officials-tell-parents-a6756086.html

[Cidersomerset]

CrossTalk: Syrian fault lines

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Published on 2 Dec 2015

In the wake of Turkey’s intentional downing of a Russian jet over Syrian
airspace it appears the wrong lessons are being learned. Instead of greater
cooperation to fight terrorism, we see the US doubling down on its failed
policy. Events are spinning out of control as Syria turns into a battleground
for military forces locked on a mutual collision course.

CrossTalking with Naim Salem, Sara Flounders and Onur İşçi.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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Live debate .....I think they will get a majority judging by the rhetoric used by the
pro 'bombers'....National Security, standing shoulder to shoulder with our allies
and the usual patriotic 'bluster'.....


UK PM and opposition leader address MPs before Syria vote

1 hour ago


UK Prime Minister David Cameron, opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and
other MPs set out the arguments for and against bombing Syria ahead of a
Commons vote on the issue

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34984289

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Syria vote: Cameron says air strikes will make UK safer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-34980504

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Four men arrested in Luton on suspicion of terror offences
1 hour ago

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Police have been searching a house in Ferndale Road, Luton

Four men from Luton have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences,
Scotland Yard has said.

The men - who are all in their 30s - were arrested on suspicion of being involved in
the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism. They have been
taken into custody at a London police station and seven addresses and several
vehicles are being searched in Luton, police said.

The arrests are not connected to last month's attacks in Paris, they added.

The men are also not believed to have been preparing to travel to Syria.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34982048

[Cidersomerset]

Catch me if you can !

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Turkey challenges Russia over IS oil trade claim

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President Erdogan has vowed to step down if Russia's
claim about Turkey's trade with IS is proven


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34971506

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Russian military reveals details of ISIS-Turkey oil smuggling

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Streamed live on 2 Dec 2015

Russian Defense Ministry holds news briefing on new findings related to
counter-terror activities - READ MORE http://on.rt.com/6y70

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URGENT: Massive truck flow through Syrian-Turkish border at Reyhanli checkpoint

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Published on 2 Dec 2015
Trucks are crossing Syrian-Turkish border with no restrictions near Reyhanli
checkpoint, according to Russian Defense Ministry who released the footage.

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Combat cam: Russian warplanes target ISIS oil facilities in Syria

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Published on 2 Dec 2015
Russian Defense Ministry showcases footage of targeting ISIS oil facilities in Syria.

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Syria conflict: Russia accuses Erdogan of trading oil with IS
51 minutes ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34982951

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On Monday, Mr Erdogan challenged the Russian president to produce evidence to
back up the claim - and said he would resign if it was found to be true.

"As soon as such a claim is proved, the nobility of our nation requires [me] to do
this," he said. "I will not remain in this post. But I am asking Mr Putin, would you
remain?"

US officials have previously said they have information suggesting
Turkish "middlemen" were involved in the illegal IS oil trade.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34982951

[Hervé]

Nine EU countries want to bury Nord Stream-2 (https://www.rt.com/business/324224-nord-stream2-europe-gazprom/)

Published time: 2 Dec, 2015 09:27
Edited time: 2 Dec, 2015 14:33


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A group of Eastern European countries has sent a letter to the European Commission calling to block the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany bypassing Ukraine. They say it goes against the EU’s energy diversification and security policies.

The countries against Gazprom’s deal with Berlin are headed by Slovakia and Poland who are believed to have initiated the campaign. They are supported by the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Greece. Bulgaria was planning to sign the document, but walked away, according to the FT (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/eb1ebca8-9514-11e5-ac15-0f7f7945adba.html#axzz3t9GcHeLU). The EU has confirmed receiving the letter.

Greek Energy Minister Panos Skourletis said Athens did not sign a petition to block Nord Stream-2. He confirmed this to Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak during a meeting on Wednesday according to the Ministry.


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According to the petition, the Nord Stream-2 pipeline will allow Germany to dominate the European gas market.

“Nord Stream 2 would be, above all, detrimental in geopolitical terms . . . for the purpose of exerting more political pressure and applying blackmail on the EU, its eastern member states and its eastern neighbors,” said Polish MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, a member of the centre-right leadership in the European Parliament.

“In the current geopolitical context, enhancing Gazprom’s — the external expression of the Kremlin’s policy — position on EU territory could be a geopolitical game-changer, especially for the EU’s neighborhood,” he added.

At the same time the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker has said the project should be considered not as a political issue, but as a commercial one.

Nord Stream-1 started in 2011 despite strong opposition from Eastern European countries. Radoslaw Sikorski, who was the Polish foreign minister at the time, said the pipeline was similar to the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact that divided Poland between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

However, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder insisted on signing the deal. These were his last days in office, and after leaving his post Schroder was appointed chairman of the company that runs Nord Stream, the North European Gas Pipeline Company.

The second part of the pipeline depends on the political will of Angela Merkel, the current German Chancellor. Germany is by far the biggest consumer of Russian gas and extending the pipeline is a good deal for Berlin. However, it is unclear whether Merkel will go as far as her predecessor judging by her unwillingness to defend troubled domestic companies like Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank.

When Germany’s Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel visited Moscow in October, he said that politics should be left behind in building the pipeline.

The Nord Stream-2 pipeline project has become necessary for both Russia and the EU due to the continuing problem of reliability of gas transit though Ukraine. Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak warned German and French colleagues that Kiev could face a gas shortage this winter. This could result in a gas crisis similar to 2006 which left parts of Europe without heat after Ukraine began to siphon off gas sent to the European market.

In September, Gazprom signed a deal to create a company to construct Nord Stream-2. It will include two new pipes that will deliver an additional 55 billion cubic meters of gas annually from Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea bypassing Ukraine.

Among the shareholders in the project called New European Pipeline AG will be Gazprom, E.On, Shell, OMV, BASF/Wintershall and Engie (former GdF Suez). Gazprom will hold a 51 percent stake, and its European partners will each have about 10 percent. The project's route is expected to follow the 1,224 kilometers of Nord Stream-1.

Related:
Germany says ditch politics over Nord Stream-2 (https://www.rt.com/business/320029-germany-nord-stream-gas-russia/)
‘Only political issues can hamper Nord Stream-2’ – Russian energy minister to RT (https://www.rt.com/business/317602-novak-gas-nord-stream/)


Here we go:

What I outlined in post # 871 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69621-Ukraine-Crimea-Syria-Israel-Iran-Putin-and-World-War-III&p=1023578&viewfull=1#post1023578) (also follow links to original posts) seems to finally see the light of day with Europe being stuck to Us policies via IMF pressures making Bulgaria drag their feet to give an OK for the South Stream pipeline route; then Ukraine becoming unstable on top of economical sanctions and, now Turkey being out of question for the last solution for Russian oil and gas to be distributed to Europe.

So, Europe is now cornered for energy resources unless Russia manages to keep Syria as an ally and Europe quits wanting Bashar Al Assad out of the picture:

Impacts of Turkey’s Aggression against Russia. The “Turkish Stream” is Dead. Disruption of Gas Pipeline Routes to the EU. Russia’s Economy in Crisis? (http://www.globalresearch.ca/impacts-of-turkeys-aggression-the-turkish-stream-is-dead-disruption-of-gas-pipeline-routes-to-the-eu-russias-economy-in-crisis/5491756)

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South Stream Pipeline Route Options, source TASS

The South Stream was replaced by the “Turkish Stream”. The scrapping of the South Stream was coupled with the signing in Ankara of a historic December 2014 deal between presidents Vladimir Putin and Recyyp Erdogan.

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“The [South Stream] project is closed. The Turkish Stream is the sole route, which can deliver 63 billion cubic meters of Russian natural gas. … There are no other options,” Miller said. (Ibid)


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NATO Orders Stool-Pigeon Turkey to Shoot Down Russian Jet (http://www.sott.net/article/307145-NATO-Orders-Stool-Pigeon-Turkey-to-Shoot-Down-Russian-Jet#)

Joe Quinn Sott.net (http://www.sott.net/article/307145-NATO-Orders-Stool-Pigeon-Turkey-to-Shoot-Down-Russian-Jet#) Wed, 25 Nov 2015 13:38 UTC


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[norman]

Here's a good historical 'long view' looking right back over the entire middle east history since the Churchill commission carved it up after WW1.


Daniel Sheehan, Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School trained constitutional litigation and appellate attorney joins Jimmy Church to discuss the lost and forgotten history between the U.S. and the Middle East
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDq7X94xMJo

[Hervé]

Russia Presents Detailed Evidence Of ISIS-Turkey Oil Trade (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-02/russia-presents-detailed-evidence-isis-turkey-oil-trade)

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On Monday, Turkey’s sultan President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said something funny (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-30/putin-says-has-more-proof-isis-oil-routed-through-turkey-after-erdogan-slams-claim). In the wake of Vladimir Putin’s contention that Russia has additional proof of Turkey’s participation in Islamic State’s illicit crude trade, Erdogan said he would resign if anyone could prove the accusations.

Now obviously, conclusive evidence that Ankara is knowingly facilitating the sale of ISIS crude will probably be hard to come by, at least in the short-term, but the silly thing about Erdogan’s pronouncement is that we’re talking about a man who was willing to plunge his country into civil war over a few lost seats in Parliament. The idea that he would ever “step down” is patently absurd.

But that’s not what’s important. What’s critical is that the world gets the truth about who’s financing and facilitating “Raqqa’s Rockefellers.” If a NATO member is supporting this, and if the US has refrained from bombing ISIS oil trucks for 14 months as part of an understanding with Erdogan, well then we have a problem. For those who need a review, see the following four pieces:


The Most Important Question About ISIS That Nobody Is Asking (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-19/most-important-question-about-isis-nobody-asking)
Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey's President (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-25/meet-man-who-funds-isis-bilal-erdogan-son-turkeys-president)
How Turkey Exports ISIS Oil To The World: The Scientific Evidence (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-27/how-turkey-exports-isis-oil-world-scientific-evidence)
ISIS Oil Trade Full Frontal: "Raqqa's Rockefellers", Bilal Erdogan, KRG Crude, And The Israel Connection (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-28/isis-oil-trade-full-frontal-raqqas-rockefellers-bilal-erdogan-krg-crude-and-israel-c)

Unfortunately for Ankara, The Kremlin is on a mission to blow this story wide open now that Turkey has apparently decided it’s ok to shoot down Russian fighter jets. On Wednesday, we get the latest from Russia, where the Defense Ministry has just finished a briefing on the Islamic State oil trade. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Turkey may be in trouble.

First, here’s the bullet point summary via Reuters:


RUSSIA'S DEFENCE MINISTRY SAYS RUSSIA'S AIR STRIKES IN SYRIA HELPED TO ALMOST HALVE ILLEGAL OIL TURNOVER



RUSSIA'S DEFENCE MINISTRY SAYS TURKISH PRESIDENT AND FAMILY INVOLVED IN BUSINESS WITH ISLAMIC STATE OIL



RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY SAYS WILL CONTINUE STRIKES IN SYRIA ON ISLAMIC STATE OIL INFRASTRUCTURE



RUSSIA'S DEFENCE MINISTRY SAYS KNOWS OF THREE ROUTES BY WHICH ISLAMIC STATE OIL IS DIRECTED TO TURKEY



RUSSIAN DEFENCE MINISTRY SAYS TO PRESENT NEXT WEEK INFORMATION SHOWING TURKEY HELPING ISLAMIC STATE

That’s the Cliff’s Notes version and the full statement from Deputy Minister of Defence Anatoly Antonov is below. Let us be the first to tell you, Antonov did not hold back.

In the opening address, the Deputy says the ISIS oil trade reaches the highest levels of Turkey's government. He also says Erdogan wouldn’t resign if his face was smeared with stolen Syrian oil. Antonov then blasts Ankara for arresting journalists and mocks Erdogan’s “lovely family oil business.” Antonov even calls on the journalists of the world to "get involved" and help Russia "expose and destroy the sources of terrorist financing."

"Today, we are presenting only some of the facts that confirm that a whole team of bandits and Turkish elites stealing oil from their neighbors is operating in the region," Antonov continues, setting up a lengthy presentation in which the MoD shows photos of oil trucks, videos of airstrikes and maps detailing the trafficking of stolen oil. The clip is presented here with an English voice-over. Enjoy.


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And here's the latest video of Russia destroying Islamic State oil infrastructure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol4xMGgAbKE


Oh, and for good measure, Lieutenant-General Sergey Rudskoy says the US is not bombing ISIS oil trucks.



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ISIS OIL logistics hub, over 3,000 TRUCKS, travelling between Iraq & TURKEY & US can't seem to find this??? BS
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Full statement from Anatoly Antonov (translated)

At a briefing for the media, "the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the fight against international terrorism. The new data "

International terrorism - is the main threat of our time. This threat is not illusory but real, and many countries, primarily Russia, knows this firsthand. The notorious "Is Islamic state" - the absolute leader of the terrorist international. This is a rearing monster of international terrorism can be countered. And you can win. Over the past two months, Aerospace Russian forces is clearly demonstrated.

We are firmly convinced that victory over LIH need to deliver a powerful and devastating blow to the sources of its funding, as repeatedly mentioned by President Vladimir Putin. Terrorism has no money - is a beast without teeth. Oil revenues are a major source of terrorist activity in Syria. They earn about $ 2 billion. Dollars annually, spending this money on hiring fighters around the world, providing them with weapons, equipment and weapons. That's why so LIH protects thieves oil infrastructure in Syria and Iraq.

The main consumer of stolen from legitimate owners - Syria and Iraq - the oil is Turkey. According to the data entered in this criminal business involved the highest political leadership of the country - President Erdogan and his family.
We have repeatedly talked about the dangers of flirting with terrorists. It's like that stokes. The fire from one country can spill over to others. This situation we are seeing in the Middle East. Today, we present only part of the facts, confirming that the region has a team of bandits and Turkish elites stealing oil from the neighbors.

This oil in large numbers on an industrial scale, for the living pipelines from thousands of oil tankers entering the territory of Turkey. We are absolutely convinced today present you the hard facts about what the final destination of the stolen oil - Turkey. There is a large number of media representatives, and Our briefing will see more of your colleagues. In this regard, I would like to say the following. We know and appreciate the work of journalists. We know that in the journalistic community, many courageous, fearless people honestly do its job.Today, we have clearly shown you how the illegal trade in oil, the result of which - the financing of terrorism. Provided concrete evidence that, in our opinion, may be the subject of investigative journalism.

We are confident that the truth with your help will, will find its way. We know the price to Erdogan. He has already been caught in a lie again Turkish journalists who opened Turkey delivery of arms and ammunition to militants under the guise of humanitarian convoys. For this imprisoned journalists.

Do not resign Turkish leaders, particularly Mr. Erdogan, and did not recognize, even if their faces will be smeared by oil thieves. I might be too harsh, but at the hands of the Turkish military killed our comrades. The cynicism of the Turkish leadership is unlimited. Look what they're doing ?! Climbed to a foreign country, it shamelessly robbed. And if the owners interfere, then they have to be addressed.

I stress that Erdogan's resignation is not our goal. It is - it is the people of Turkey. Our goal and the goal to which we urge you, ladies and gentlemen, - joint action to block the sources of funding for terrorism. We will continue to provide evidence of robbery by Turkey of its neighbors. Maybe I'll be too straightforward, but the control of these thieves in business can be entrusted only to the most close people.

No one in the West, I wonder, does not cause the issue that the son of the President of Turkey is the leader of one of the largest energy companies, and son-in-appointed Minister of Energy? What a brilliant family business!

This, in general, may elsewhere? Well, once again, of course, such cases can not be charging anyone, only the closest people. Votes this fact in the Western media we do not see much, but it sure can not hide the truth. Yes, of course, dirty petrodollars will work. I am sure that there are now discussions about the fact that everything you see here, - falsification. Well. If it did not - let be allowed in those places that we showed journalists.

It is obvious that today the publicity was devoted only part of the information about the monstrous crimes of the Turkish elites who directly finance international terrorism. We believe that any sane journalist should fight this plague of the XXI century. The world experience has repeatedly argued that the objective journalism is able to be an effective and formidable tool in the fight against various financial corruption schemes. We invite colleagues to investigative journalism on the disclosure of financial schemes and supplies oil from the terrorists to the consumers. Especially since the oil produced in the controlled militants territories in transit through Turkish ports shipped to other regions. For its part, the Ministry of Defense of Russia will continue to disclose new evidence on the supply of terrorists oil to foreign countries and to talk about the conduct of aerospace forces of Russia operations in Syria.Let's unite our efforts. We will destroy the sources of financing of terrorism in Syria, as you get involved in the kind of work abroad. "

[Hervé]

Iraq Will File Protest at UNSC if Turkey Confirmed to Be Buying Daesh Oil (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151202/1031131372/iraq-turkey-oil-trade.html)

© AFP 2015/ YOUSSEF KARWASHAN 18:15 02.12.2015
(updated 19:14 02.12.2015)


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© AFP 2015/ YOUSSEF KARWASHAN Oil well pumps are seen in the Rmeilane oil field in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province on July 15, 2015.


Baghdad will immediately lodge a protest in the UN Security Council if claims that Turkey is involved in oil smuggling with Islamic State terrorists are confirmed, the Iraqi Defense Ministry said Wednesday.

"If the Iraqi government receives enough evidence and details, without any hesitation it will file a protest at the UN Security Council and all other relevant international bodies," ministry's spokesman Naseer Nuri told Sputnik in a phone interview.

According to him, certain “general information about the smuggling of Iraqi oil by trucks to certain countries, including Turkey” is already available. “This oil is used to fund Daesh”, Nuri said.

“There is evidence, satellite photos and security services’ reports which confirm that Daesh smuggles oil to Turkey,” he said.

Earlier in the day, the Russian Defense Ministry has provided (http://sputniknews.com/russia/20151202/1031100729/russia-defense-ministry-briefing.html) evidence of the Turkish involvement into Daesh illegal oil trade at the briefing in Moscow. Moscow also expects that members of the UN Security Council will quickly adopt a revised Russia-backed draft resolution on curbing financing of the Islamic State (IS or Daesh in the Arab world) militant group, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said Wednesday.

On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia had received additional evidence that oil from fields controlled by ISIL were being transported to Turkey on an industrial scale.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated on Tuesday that he was ready to resign if it were proven that Ankara was purchasing oil from Daesh.

Various estimates put the income generated by Daesh through oil sales on the black market at about $1 billion a year. Mowaffak Rubaie, an Iraqi parliamentarian and former national security adviser, told Sputnik last week that Daesh, an organization outlawed in Russia and many other states, has managed to sell some $800 million worth of oil on the Turkish black market.


Related:
The Smoking Gun: Main Illegal Oil Transportation Routes Proved to be on Turkey-Syria Border (PHOTO, VIDEO) (http://sputniknews.com/world/20151202/1031114219/syria-turkey-oil-routes.html)

[Rocky_Shorz]

John Kerry just made a statement.

Turkey is closing a 60 mile stretch of their border with Syria to stop the flow of terrorist and oil. .

Excuse me?

Is this the same oil Erdogans isn't buying from Isis?

[Hervé]

SOTT Exclusive: Pentagon rejects damning Russian evidence of Turkish support for ISIS, despite VP Biden saying same last year (http://www.sott.net/article/307655-SOTT-Exclusive-Pentagon-rejects-damning-Russian-evidence-of-Turkish-support-for-ISIS-despite-VP-Biden-saying-same-last-year#)

Niall Bradley Sott.net (http://www.sott.net/article/307655-SOTT-Exclusive-Pentagon-rejects-damning-Russian-evidence-of-Turkish-support-for-ISIS-despite-VP-Biden-saying-same-last-year) Wed, 02 Dec 2015 20:20 UTC



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Palling around with terrorists


The Pentagon has rejected the Russian Defence Ministry's damning evidence (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69621-Ukraine-Crimea-Syria-Israel-Iran-Putin-and-World-War-III&p=1025440&viewfull=1#post1025440), presented at a press conference today, of Turkish state involvement in oil deals with 'Islamic State' terrorists, with spokesman Colonel Steve Warren stating:

"Let me be very clear that we flatly reject any notion that the Turks are somehow working with ISIS. That is preposterous and kind of ridiculous. We absolutely, flatly reject that notion." The Russian MOD presented satellite photos, aerial surveillance videos, and maps demonstrating that the Turkish government - and President Recep Erdogan personally - is receiving hundreds of thousands of barrels of stolen Syrian oil from ISIS terrorists daily.

Here's a video of the Russian Ministry of Defence briefing. Note the clip showing ISIS-Turkish oil tankers freely passing through a Turkish border checkpoint:

The Pentagon spokesman, in the face of this evidence, reaffirmed America's commitment to Islamic State terrorists Turkey:

"The Turks have been great partner to us in the fight against ISIS. They are hosting our aircraft, they are conducting strikes, they are supporting the moderate Syrian opposition." This outspoken rejection of Russia's evidence clashes sharply with an assessment made last year by US Vice-President Joe Biden. In a speech at Harvard University in October 2014, Biden stated that US allies Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar were so eager to overthrow the Syrian government that they were ignoring the fact that there were "no moderates in Syria" and continued pouring "hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tons of weapons" into Syria to support the terrorists.

Have a listen:


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"...they [Turkey, Qatar, et al] were so determined to take down Assad, they poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of tonnes of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad. The people who were being supplied were Al Nusra and extremist jihadis coming from other parts of the world... who teamed up with ISIS, formerly Al Qaeda-in-Iraq. We could not convince our colleagues [Erdogan et al] to stop supplying them." Biden's comments are instructive for two reasons:

1.) It illustrates that US policy-makers don't actually give any credence to the distinction of 'moderate rebel' versus 'terrorist'.

2.) It illustrates that US policy-makers know perfectly well that its "great partner" Turkey is up to its neck in supporting ISIS and other terrorist groups in Syria.

[Rocky_Shorz]

according to Sorcha it goes much deeper than that...

Putin Orders “Doomsday” Plane Into Air After Military Warns US-Turkey Plot Is “Beyond Staggering”

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reporting today that President Putin has ordered the Federation’s Ilyushin-80 giant command and control aircraft designated for use during nuclear war (otherwise known as the “Doomsday plane”) to prepare for worldwide war operations within a fortnight after military intelligence analysts discovered a “beyond staggering” plot by United States and Turkish government factions to bring down Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan and replace him with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) “designated figurehead” Fethullah Gulen—while at the same time utilizing Islamic State terrorists as “leverage”.

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According to this report, this “beyond staggering” plot by the CIA to overthrow the current government of Turkey was first started in 2008 by the US military-intelligence establishment supported think tank American Enterprise Institute (AEI) whose board members are a “whose who” of American military connected individuals, including former US Vice President Richard Cheney, and whose research papers advocated the United States creating what they call a “moderate Muslim” majority in the Middle East to battle Islamic extremists and whose target nation for this action was Turkey.

Aiding this CIA in this effort, this report continues, is the Turkish imam Fethullah Gulen who came to the United States in 1999 due to “health problems” and has stayed there since after gaining his visa with help from former CIA officials.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), however, this report notes, resisted granting permanent residency status to Gulen and, according to secret US leaked cables [Warning: It is illegal under US law for US federal employees or military personal to click on these red links], parts of the American government have long believed that Gülen “is a ‘radical Islamist’ whose moderate message cloaks a more sinister and radical agenda.”

Shortly after the CIA got Gulen into the United States, this report further explains, President Erdogan established in Turkey the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2001 as the “moderate Muslim” platform desired by the AEI to effectuate change throughout the entire Middle East using part of Gulen’s massive wealth estimated to be between $22-50 billion.

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Fethullah Gulen (l) with Recep Erdogan (r) in 1998

In 2013 though, this report continues, then Prime Minister Erdogan discovered the CIA-Gulen plot against himself and Turkey which he publically labeled as an “international conspiracy” vowing revenge on Gulen and threatening Francis Ricciardone, the US ambassador to Turkey, with expulsion.

Fearing their “moderate Muslim” project would be destroyed, this report grimly states, the CIA then transferred out of Turkey “selected” military and intelligence officers, before Erdogan could arrest them, to Iraq—and where on 8 April 2013 they declared themselves to be the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS/Daesh/Islamic State).

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With Gulen being described as nothing more than the projection of an idea from Langley Virginia CIA headquarters, an idea from essentially stupid people there who believed they could use him and they could abuse religion as a cover to advance their design for global control, this report continues, a duel arrangement was then brokered by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton between the Erdogan and Gulen factions in Turkey to split the illegal oil wealth captured by Islamic State terrorists in Iraq and Syria—and which Hillary Clinton has been paid by Gulen, to both her families foundation and presidential campaign, an estimated $1 million.

As the MoD began just hours ago publishing the details “of Turkey robbing its neighbors”, this report notes, the continued mounting evidence of this massive CIA plot is now being openly supported by the Obama regime who announced yesterday they were sending more American troops to Iraq to protect their Islamic State allies—and which Iraq’s Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, said were not welcome and whose powerful Shiite militia leaders vowed to kill the moment they set foot on Iraqi soil.

And with the MoD today reporting that 2,000 fighters, 250 vehicles and hundreds of tons of ammo have been sent in the past weeks from Turkey to Islamic terrorists in Syria, this report grimly states, Britain’s plan to enter this war, along with NATO rushing air defense weapons to Turkey, more than make understandable US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard’s warning to the American people yesterday about the Obama regimes actions when she said: “Russia’s installation of their anti-aircraft missile-defense system increases that possibility of — whether it’s intentional or even an accidental event — where one side may shoot down the other side’s plane, and that’s really where the potential is for this devastating nuclear war.”

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Also, this report notes, as National Defense Management Center Lieutenant-General Mikhail Mizintsev today stated that the size of the illegal Erdogan-CIA-Gulen oil trade is impressive, and more information will be presented about it next week, Russian airstrikes have nevertheless destroyed 32 Islamic State oil production facilities, 11 refineries, and thousands of fuel trucks leaving MoD experts to wonder about whom the exactly the Obama and regime and its allies are going to attack and questioning their true motives.

This is critical point to note, this report says, especially when viewed in the light of international law where Russia is the only military force currently to allowed to be operating in Syria, and which US Defense Secretary Ash Carter admitted to yesterday before the US Congress when he acknowledge that the claim of legal authority to make such a deployment under the terms of the 2001 legislation that authorized the use of military force (AUMF) in Afghanistan and Iraq (the only such congressional authorization on the books) did not exist to send American military forces into this war zone.

With the Iraqi government already knowing that the Obama regime is supporting the Islamic State, and having videos showing US military forces dropping weapons and supplies to these terrorists, this report continues, the “true agenda” of the CIA’s plan to install Gulen in power is there for anyone to see if they so wished.

But to what the Obama regimes “true agenda” actually is, this report claims, may to be to actually ignite World War III—particularly when seen by the evidence that the over 14,000 Islamic refugees reported completely vanished by Sweden have, in fact, been transported to the United States—most specially to the more than 100 radical Islamic charter schools owned and operated by “King of Madrasas” Gulen in the United States set up by a maze of dubious NGO’s—including George Soros’ Center for American Progress NGO which joined with Gulen, and which after this “beyond staggering” plot was discovered this past week caused Russia to label George Soros as threat to national security.

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And as to how these over 14,000 Islamic refugees in Sweden were able to gain Swedish passports to assure their visa free travel to the United States, this report further explains, began this past spring when Margot Wallström, Sweden’s foreign minister, became the first Western official to publically denounce the subjugation of women in Saudi Arabia—and which aside from being met with the vast and powerful US-led propaganda machine used by this barbaric monarchy, also resulted in Sweden’s “surrender” thus giving the Saudi’s de facto veto power over Sweden's foreign policy -- and perhaps its domestic policies too.

To what exact purpose the Obama regime has in secreting these over 14,000 Islamic refugees into the United States, this report concludes, can, perhaps, be seen more clearly in the massive military actions currently underway in America (specifically in the regions occupied by Gulen charter schools), and when combined with the actions currently being observed in the Middle East, shows a nation preparing for total global war. http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1952.htm

[Sophocles]

Sibel Edmonds ON GULEN SCHOOLS (August 2009)

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[Rocky_Shorz]

didn't take long to dig and find more...

"In the first part, geopolitical analyst William Engdahl discussed the role of CIA’s Graham Fuller in creating the policy of using angry Jihadist Muslims as trained terrorists in Afghanistan and elsewhere against the Soviet Union. Herein—largely drawing on the revelations made by FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edwards—Engdahl throws the spotlight on the entire CIA-sponsored Islamic Jihadist operations run through Fetullah Gülen across Turkey into Central Asia and Russia and China.

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The open press statement of denial by senior reportedly former CIA official Graham Fuller in April of a link between the Boston Bombings and the CIA, labeling the reports “absurd,” may go down in history as one of the worst intelligence blunders [1] in the past century. The public admission by Fuller, on a website reported tied to the CIA, of his relationship to the Uncle of the alleged but not ever convicted Boston bombers opened a can of worms the CIA might well wish never had been opened.

The public admission by Fuller, on a website reported tied to the CIA, of his relationship to the Uncle of the alleged but not ever convicted Boston bombers [2] opened a can of worms the CIA might well wish never had been opened.

A deeper look into Fuller’s role reveals him to be a key figure in what FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds terms American Deep State rogues. Edmonds worked as an FBI translator from Turkish, Azerbaijani and Farsi languages during and after September 11, 2001 when she uncovered damning email and other evidence of criminal networks linking the actors of 9/11, drug networks out of Turkey and terrorists in and around Al Qaeda together with senior Pentagon and other US Government officials. [3]
Fuller, A Deep State Rogue

As later identified, among the people uncovered by Edmonds’ translation efforts at FBI were notorious neoconservative Richard Perle, Iraq war architect who headed Bush’s Defense Policy Board advisory committee in 2001; Douglas Feith, neocon Under-Secretary of Defense under Bush-Cheney; Anwar Yusuf Turani [4], key figure in the anti-Beijing Uygur separatist operations under the name East Turkistan National Freedom Center in Washington DC. East Turkistan is their name for China’s Xinjiang Province where Uygur riots took place several years ago. Turani modestly calls himself President-in-exile, East Turkistan (Xinjiang), though it’s by no means clear who if anyone elected him.

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Whistleblower Sibel Edwards has revealed extraordinary information on the U.S. government’s support for international terrorist networks and organised crime. She was described as "the most gagged person in the history of the United States" by the American Civil Liberties Union.

In her classified translations Edmonds discovered that a criminal network had penetrated the highest levels of the US Government including Pentagon and FBI, and were engaged in illegal sales of weapons, including nuclear, of drugs and more. Criminal activities were being protected by claims of State Secrets, she asserted. Repeated attempts to call attention inside the FBI to what she was convinced was a conspiracy against the United States from within came to no avail. Her gripping account to bring attention to an alarming rogue network inside Washington is the subject of her autobiography, Classified Woman – The Sibel Edmonds Story. [5]

Attorney General John Ashcroft went all the way to the Supreme Court to muzzle her under a little-used Doctrine of State Secrets. Edmonds, suffering under an unprecedented Bush Administration gag order, was banned from revealing the complicity of high-ranking US and Turkish figures uncovered by her and duly reported at FBI before she was fired in 2002 for “blowing the whistle.” She partly got around the Government gag by posting photos with no comment on her website. Others filled in the names. [6]

Graham Fuller was one of the 21 American Deep State rogues Edmonds posted.

In 1995, according to investigative journalist Daniel Hopsicker, the uncle of the alleged Boston bombers, Ruslan Tsarnaev, “incorporated the Congress of Chechen International Organizations in Maryland, using as the address listed on incorporation documents 11114 Whisperwood Lane, in Rockville Maryland, the home address of his then-father-in-law.” [7] Father-in-law was Graham Fuller whose daughter was married to Uncle Ruslan.

Chechnya, an autonomous province of Russia deeply involved in oil pipelines from the Caspian Sea, has been the scene of Islamic jihad terrorists since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. In 1995 when Uncle Ruslan founded the Congress of Chechen International Organizations from Graham Fuller’s home, the Islamist Jihad terror war against Moscow was raging full-force in Chechnya. Putin and Russian intelligence have repeatedly claimed the terrorism was being fed from outside.

As more is coming out on the role of Fuller, the evidence points to the conclusion that the Chechnya terrorists were also a project bearing the footprints of the “former” CIA political Islam expert, Graham Fuller. By 1988 Fuller had formally moved from a very senior post at CIA to the neo-conservative think tank, RAND Corporation, where he officially worked on the “Middle East, Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and problems of ethnicity and religion.” [8]

While at RAND Fuller played a key role gaining asylum for a Turkish national in the USA. Fetullah Gülen, a Turkish national who was forced to flee in 1999 and seek asylum, won his US residence permit due to the intervention of two senior CIA or former men. One was Graham E. Fuller. [9]

Foreign Policy Journal describes the role of Fuller and the CIA in getting indicted Turkish fugitive Gülen asylum in the USA: “Fethullah Gülen became a green card holder despite serious opposition from FBI and from Homeland Security Department. Former CIA officers (formally and informally) such as Graham Fuller and Morton Abromovitz were some of the prominent references in Gülen’s green card application.” [10]
Jihad Spreads to Central Asia

From his new luxurious heavily-guarded estate in Saylorsburg, a remote part of eastern Pennsylvania, Gülen launched a series of fundamentalist Salafist mosques and madrasses, not only in his native Turkey where he was the alleged power behind Turkey’s AKP regime of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, himself a product of Gülen’s schools, but across the Islamic regions of Central Asia as they separated from the Soviet Union in the chaos after 1991. [11]

According to Edmonds, an authority on the subject, “US Islamization Operations in Central Asia via Gülen started in late 1997, early 1998. That brings me to …Graham Fuller.” [12]

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Fethullah Gulen, lives in Pennsylvania. From there he runs a $25 billion international network. He is tied to hundreds of Gulen charter schools in the United States itself, 36 of which are located in Texas alone.

A memoir by former head of Turkish intelligence, Osman Nuri Gundes, claims that Fethullah Gülen’s worldwide Islamic movement based in Pennsylvania has been providing cover for the CIA since the mid-1990s, and that in the 90s, the movement “sheltered 130 CIA agents” at its schools in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan alone. [13]

Gülen schools in Russian Chechnya and Dagestan regions, both locations of fanatical Jihadists since 1991, were ultimately banned by Putin. The Russian government has banned all Gülen schools and the activities of the Gülen-linked Nurcu sect in Russia. Over 20 Turkish followers of Gülen were deported from Russia in 2002-2004. In 1999 Uzbekistan closed all Gülen’s Madrasas and shortly afterward arrested eight journalists who were graduates of Gülen schools, and found them guilty of setting up an illegal religious group and of involvement in an extremist organization. In Turkmenistan, government authorities placed Gülen’s schools under close scrutiny and have ordered them to scrap the history of religion from curriculums. [14]

Responsible Turkish journalists I’ve met with relate that Gülen-loyal police tied to Edrogan’s AKP have infiltrated the Turkish police, intelligence services and other key state institution and are systematically arresting, purging or silencing all nationalist military, trade union and other secular figues opposed to creation of an Islamic Sharia state in Turkey, uprooting ninety or more years of Kemalist legal foundations. More than one hundred Turkish journalists have been arrested for writing critically about the actions of Gülen’s AKP.

Gülen’s public profile is as a humble, deeply spiritual Imam of love and brotherhood. His record in practice is anything but. Gülen once stated, “You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence, until you reach all the power centers, until the conditions are ripe." Sounds a bit like Lenin in the old days. Certain networks in Washington including people in and around Fuller obviously have no problem with that.

Why would the CIA and US agencies want Central Asia? As Obama adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, notes in his now-famous book, The Grand Chessboard, “For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia...America’s global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained…It follows that America’s primary interest is to help ensure that no single power comes to control this geopolitical space and that the global community has unhindered financial and economic access to it."

Washington has used Turkey and the AKP fundamentalist networks of Gülen to wreak havoc across the post-communist oil and mineral-rich regions of Central Asia. Graham Fuller’s foot prints are all over those covert operations as are Fetullah Gülen’s. In 2008 Fuller published a book titled, “The New Turkish Republic: Turkey as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World.” As Sibel Edmonds describes, the process involved using Turkey with assistance from ’actors from Pakistan, and Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia’ as a proxy, which in turn used Bin Laden and the Taliban and others as a proxy terrorist army before 9/11. [15]

Edmonds notes regarding US operations in Central Asia, “This started more than a decade-long illegal, covert operation in Central Asia by a small group in the US intent on furthering the oil industry and the Military Industrial Complex, using Turkish operatives, Saudi partners and Pakistani allies, furthering this objective in the name of Islam.” [16]

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What did Uncle Ruslan Tsarnaev, uncle of the Boston alleged bombers do when he was married to Graham Fuller’s daughter? Ruslan worked for companies connected to Halliburton, doing oil deals in the Caucasus and as “consultant” for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. Russia barred USAID from its soil in late 2012, alleging USAID together with CIA was attempting to influence the internal political processes in the country. [17]

Some are beginning to ask whether the Boston bombing might have been a deception operation carried out by the Rogues associated with Graham Fuller and the network within the CIA and Pentagon, to make it appear Putin was behind the ghastly events. In any case, when Graham Fuller went to the press to publicly denounce CIA links to the Tsarnaevs he made what is likely to go down as one of the greatest snafus in US intelligence history. He lost his cool, and with it, has put the spotlight on the entire CIA-sponsored Islamic Jihadist operations run through Fetullah Gülen across Turkey into Central Asia and Russia and China."

F. William Engdahl

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This was inevitable with the amount of hype and propaganda after Paris....


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RAF Tornado jets based in Cyprus carry out their first air strikes against so-called
Islamic State in Syria, the MoD confirms, hours after MPs voted in favour by 397 to 223.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news


Syria air strikes: How MPs voted

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‘Shame on you’: Anti-war protesters rally in London as UK govt votes to bomb ISIS in Syria

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Published on 2 Dec 2015


Some 1,500 anti-war protesters gathered outside the parliament after the vote to protest
the UK’s intervention in Syria. The airstrikes could begin “very quickly,” with raids expected
to begin as soon as tomorrow morning. The campaign group Stop the War Coalition organized
the largest protest, blocking the roads surrounding Parliament.

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Erdogan promises to resign if ISIS oil links to Turkey are confirmed

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Published on 1 Dec 2015

Russia has received additional intelligence confirming that oil from deposits
controlled by Islamic State is moved through Turkey on an industrial scale,
said Vladimir Putin. President Recep Erdogan said he will resign if this is confirmed.


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US State Dept dismisses Russian evidence of Turkey aiding ISIS

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Published on 2 Dec 2015

The Pentagon rushed to defend Turkey, calling it an important partner in the fight against
terrorists, despite earlier claims from Washington that Ankara was supporting extremist
groups in the region. RT’s Gayane Chichakyan was at a US State Department briefing
dealing with these allegations.

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Washington's Double Life? Iraqis Accuse US of Being in Cahoots With Daesh (http://sputniknews.com/world/20151203/1031184532/iraq-accusation-us-daesh-cooperation.html)

15:06 03.12.2015
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Suspicion that the US is collaborating with Daesh (also known as ISIL/The Islamic State), instead of fighting the military group, is spreading among Iraqis, primarily due to the country's minimalist approach toward the crisis.

To Americans, accusations that the US government is helping Daesh may seem ludicrous. However, many Iraqi fighters and civilians claim they have seen evidence of collusion between the US and the notorious terrorist group citing, for instance, videos allegedly showing US helicopters airdropping weapons to the militants, The Washington Post reported.

The idea that the US is supporting Daesh is being persistently promoted via social media and voiced in parliament by Shiite politicians in Iraq, US military officials claim. In one popular video, recently released on a Shiite militia group's Facebook page, a lawmaker with the country's biggest militia group, the Badr Organization, waves seemingly new US military MREs (meals ready to eat), allegedly found at a recently seized Daesh base in Baiji, saying it is proof that the US supports terrorists. The US military's Baghdad-based spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said the charges are "beyond ridiculous."


"The Iranians and the Iranian-backed Shiite militias are really pushing this line of propaganda, that the United States is supporting ISIL," he said. "There's clearly no one in the West who buys it, but unfortunately, this is something that a segment of the Iraqi population believes."
Many accuse the US of "creating" the antagonist so that it could fight to restore its damaged image in the region, while others assume America wants to assert its control over Iraq and throughout the Middle East in order to control oil supplies. These ideas are triggered by the ubiquitous belief that US should be doing more in the Middle East. This confusion of outcomes with intentions has resulted in the popularization of conspiracy theories.


"The reason is that the Americans aren't doing the job people expect them to do," said Mustafa Alani, director of the Dubai-based Gulf Research Center. "Mosul was lost and the Americans did nothing. Syria was lost and the Americans did nothing. Paris is attacked and the Americans aren't doing much. So people believe this is a deliberate policy. They can't believe the American leadership fails to understand the developments in the region, and so the only other explanation is that this is part of a conspiracy." According to Warren, The US military reported near-daily strikes in support of the offensive to recapture Baiji and continues to respond to requests for strikes in the vicinity on a regular basis. However, the fighters there claim there were no strikes by the Americans at all and that the only air support they received was from the Iraqi air force.

Naseer Nouri, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense who himself thinks the allegations are groundless, said America is "so slow", it doesn't surprise him that some Iraqis think they are supporting Daesh.


"We don't believe the Americans support Daesh," He said. "But it is true that most people are saying they do, and they are right to believe that the Americans should be doing much more than they are."
Related:
It's Complicated: Iraq Says US Troops Would Only Hinder Anti-Terror Fight (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151202/1031136063/us-troops-iraq.html)

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Western Media Calls Russia 'Hostile' for Outing Turkey's Dirty Oil Secret (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151203/1031188147/western-media-reaction-turkey-dirty-oil.html)

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On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry held a briefing detailing the Turkish government's involvement in the trade of Daesh (ISIL) oil. However, instead of starting their own investigations, many Western media outlets have instead attacked Russia for presenting the evidence, suggesting the revelations were 'hostile' and 'confrontational'.

At Wednesday's Defense Ministry briefing in Moscow, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov presented Russian intelligence materials, including photographs, satellite imagery, and detailed maps outlining exactly how "industrial quantities" of oil from Daesh-controlled territories in Syria and Iraq find their way into Turkey, and then on to third countries. Undoubtedly the most sensational moment in the briefing was Antonov's statement that Turkey's top political leadership, including President Erdogan and his family, are directly involved (http://sputniknews.com/military/20151202/1031113310/russia-defense-syria-daesh-turky.html) in the trade of dirty oil.

In the course of his briefing, the deputy defense minister preempted the skeptics by recommending that journalists use the Defense Ministry's findings to continue their own investigations into the shady affair, adding that Turkey should allow journalists "access to the places we showed journalists today."

Despite independent analysts saying that the briefing's disclosures were an "important first step," (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151202/1031142712/turkey-nato-outpost.html) which will hopefully be followed up with the release of further evidence and an investigation by the UN Security Council, much of the Western media, unfortunately, seems to want to see the fruits of the Russian investigation die on the vine.

The reaction of The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/russias-top-diplomat-agrees-to-meet-with-turk-counterpart/2015/12/02/768bb094-98e8-11e5-aca6-1ae3be6f06d2_story.html) and The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/12/02/world/europe/ap-eu-russia-turkey.html?_r=0), amounting to a rehashing of an article by The Associated Press, blamed "Russia's top military brass" for "sharply raising the stakes in Moscow's spat with Ankara" through their "bluntly-worded accusations" against the Turkish president.

Deputy Defense Minister Antonov, AP continued, "didn't provide any specific evidence to back up the claims of personal involvement of Erdogan and his family in the oil trade with the IS." Moreover, the Turkish president, the article recalled, had already vowed to resign if Moscow's accusations were proven to be true.

The AP piece cited a spokesman from the US State Department, who "categorically rejected Russia's allegations" (naturally, before really even having a chance to look at them). "We never said oil smuggling from ISIL is not a problem," the spokesman said, but "there is no Turkish government complicity in some operation to buy illegal oil from ISIL. We just don't believe that to be true in any way, shape or form." For its part, Bloomberg also quickly took to Erdogan's defense (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-02/turkey-s-erdogan-is-part-of-islamic-state-oil-trade-russia-says), suggesting that the investigation was a sign that Russia was "intensifying its attacks on Turkey," and citing the commentary of a Turkish defense attache who had attended the briefing, who said that "he had expected a military briefing, rather than 'political accusations'."

Foreign Policy went a step further (http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/12/02/russia-pours-hot-oil-on-wounded-ties-with-turkey-isis-erdogan-putin/), trotting out a Harvard expert on Russian energy geopolitics who suggested that the allegations were really just a sign that "Putin's regime, [first] with Ukraine and now Syria, has greatly revamped Russian nationalism."

Other US outlets, including USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/12/02/russia-claims-turkeys-president-selling-oil-islamic-state/76654566/) and Voice of America (http://www.voanews.com/content/russia-claims-to-have-proof-turkey-involved-in-is-oil-trade/3084253.html), focused on Washington's response to the Russian briefing, citing the reactions of the White House, the State Department, and US military commanders, who rushed to defend their allies in Ankara. Col. Steve Warren, anti-ISIL coalition spokesman in Baghdad, emphasized that "the Turks" were actually "great partners" in fighting Daesh.

Across the pond, in the UK, media reaction was generally more of the same. The Guardian headlined (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/02/russia-steps-up-hostility-against-turkey-with-war-room-briefing-in-kremlin) their article "Russia Steps Up Hostility Against Turkey With War Room Briefing," sarcastically suggesting that the briefing indicated that "Turkey may have replaced the US as Russia's rhetorical enemy No 1," again instead of focusing on the actual evidence. The BBC, for its part, also made clear to stick up for the UK's NATO allies, with their article on the briefing headlined (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34990548) "Turkey's Erdogan Says Russia IS Oil Trade Claims are 'Slander'."

The Financial Times again went a step further (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/404bbbb4-990b-11e5-9228-87e603d47bdc.html#axzz3tFNMS9og), suggesting that the revelations are really just another component of the anti-Turkish propaganda which has emerged in the Russian media following the downing of the Russian Su-24. The business newspaper cited the commentary of Ukrainian Interior Ministry advisor Anton Gerashchenko, who suggested that the Russian media's anti-Erdogan campaign was reminiscent of the anti-Kiev campaign it had carried out earlier.

Incidentally, the newspaper forgot to mention that Gerashchenko, a rather smarmy figure in his own right, had earlier called (http://sputniknews.com/world/20151007/1028142446/russia-ukraine-gerashchenko-isil.html) on Ukrainian social media users to publically disclose any information they had on the Russian pilots operating in Syria, in order that terrorists might locate the servicemen and their families and take revenge.

In an interesting contrast to their American and British colleagues, major French and German media outlets seemed less eager to line up behind their Turkish allies. France 24 (http://www.france24.com/en/20151202-russia-says-has-proof-turkey-erdogan-benefiting-islamic-state-group-oil) and Germany's Bild (http://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/recep-tayyip-erdogan/erdogan-russland-erhoeht-druck-43636316.bild.html) reported on the Russian briefing skeptically, but fairly, saying more evidence was needed.

For its part, Deutsche Welle went so far (http://www.dw.com/de/der-is-die-t%C3%BCrkei-und-der-%C3%B6lschmuggel/a-18889708) as to suggest, in its German-language piece, that while additional evidence in Russia's accusation toward the Turkish president "is still pending, one thing is certain: ISIL oil is reaching Turkish territory."


Related:
Russia Reveals How Turkey and Daesh Make 'Bloody' Oil Business (PHOTO, VIDEO) (http://sputniknews.com/russia/20151202/1031137834/russia-revelation-turkey-oil-smuggling.html)
Holy Smokes! ISIL Oil Trail Leads to Turkey's Batman (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151203/1031163796/turkey-erdogan-daesh-oil.html)

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US backed forces behind rise of ISIS – Virginia senator

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Published on 3 Dec 2015

Virginia's State Senator Richard Black, said instead of stopping the rise
of Islamic State, Washington is backing forces that are aiding terrorists.


A longer version of the above interview....

‘Turkey has a war trade with ISIS,’ making millions with oil – VA state Senator Richard Black

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Published on 2 Dec 2015

The claim that the Turkish government has been a part of an illegal oil trade with
the Islamic State has brought more criticism from Virginia state Senator Richard
Black, who has been vocal about the American airstrikes against the terror group.
He explains his view to RT’s Lindsay France.


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Putin: No refuge for terrorists, no contacts, no bloody business

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Published on 3 Dec 2015

Putin was speaking on Thursday before the Federal Assembly, a joint session of the
two chambers of the Russian parliament, plus regional governors and the cabinet.
The annual address is a traditional key policy report of the executive, which focuses
on domestic politics rather than international relations - READ MORE http://on.rt.com/6yex

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Business as usual’ with Erdogan is now over - Putin's Chief of Staff

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Published on 3 Dec 2015

‘Business as usual’ with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is now over,
Sergey Ivanov, the head of Putin’s office, confirmed to RT after the Russian
president’s address.

[Cidersomerset]

This is a good conversation about war profiteering in a capitalistic
corporate world.

US would start with ally S. Arabia if it was serious about
terrorism- Disaster Capitalism author

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Published on 2 Dec 2015

When disaster strikes, people set aside their differences and band together,
in order to overcome adversity. But for others, catastrophes mean big business
and even bigger profits. Has capitalizing on misery become an industry model?
Worlds Apart's Oksana is joined by journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of
Disaster Capitalism, to discuss these issues.

FOLLOW Oksana Boyko on Twitter http://twitter.com/OksanaBoyko_RT
Worlds Apart channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/WorldsApa...


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one of the biggest war crimes Guantanamo , it
will go down in history with the H blocks in N Ireland
and infamy , if not scale as the gulags and concentration
work camps.....

" Sorry an administration error , I hope you enjoyed you
stay with us , have a nice day ". If his name was Smith
or jones two common anglo surnames I don't think this
would have happened.


Guantanamo inmate mistakenly held for 13 years due to name mix-up

By David Icke on 3rd December 2015

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RT NEWS...

Guantanamo inmate mistakenly held for 13 years due to name mix-up


Published time: 2 Dec, 2015 11:11

‘US officials have admitted they held the wrong man at Guantanamo Bay prison
for 13 years because his name was similar to that of a high-profile terrorist suspect.
The wrongly imprisoned man, Mustafa al-Aziz al-Shamiri, is now getting ready for
reintegration into society.

The truth emerged Tuesday during a panel hearing for al-Shamiri’s release, according
to The Guardian. It had been previously alleged that al-Shamiri, 37, was a high-level
Al-Qaeda courier and trainer. It turns out now he is actually a low-level foot soldier –
contrary to what his profile says, published by the Department of Defense.

The profile also says that al-Shamiri accused fought in Bosnia in 1995, Yemen’s civil war
In 1996 (to which he allegedly admitted) and in the Afghan Taliban’s ranks in 2000-2001.
He was allegedly captured in Mazar-e-Sharif, in north Afghanistan, and has since been in
detention at Guantanamo.’

Read more: Guantanamo inmate mistakenly held for 13 years due to name mix-up

https://www.rt.com/usa/324234-guantanamo-prisoner-mistaken-identity/

Helping you to #QuestionMore: How RT brought stories on Gitmo MSM ignored

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Published on 3 Dec 2015

After years of bickering over torture and rights abuses, President Obama has
rejected a plan to close Guantanamo Bay. Over its 10 years, RT has been among
the few major news outlets working to put the facility under a magnifying glass. We
recount the stories.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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Russian ambassador shuts down Tories, Turkey AND Labour rebels in single tweet (https://www.rt.com/uk/324627-russian-ambassador-tweet-syria/)

Published time: 3 Dec, 2015 16:38


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Russia’s ambassador to the UK has tweeted a takedown of the Tories and Turkey while simultaneously showing support for anti-war Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn – not bad for 140 characters.

Alexander Yakovenko tweeted Corbyn after the Labour leader asked Prime Minister David Cameron about who buys oil from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).



https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1427604158/222_bigger.jpg Alexander Yakovenko Verified account ‏@Amb_Yakovenko (https://twitter.com/Amb_Yakovenko)

.@jeremycorbyn (https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn) Sending you by courier Russian data you requested yesterday in Parliament on who benefits from ISIL oil trade
Corbyn asked the question during Parliament’s marathon 10-hour debate on Wednesday night over whether to extend British airstrikes against IS from Iraq into Syria.

The period before Corbyn’s twitter handle means the tweet was intended to appear on the feeds of all Yakovenko’s followers, not merely those who follow both Yakovenko and Corbyn.

In just 140 characters, the Russian ambassador hit three birds with one tweet.

He professed his support for Corbyn – who opposed extending airstrikes into Syria – while simultaneously taking a dig at the Tories for supporting the war and Turkey for allegedly buying oil from IS and downing a Russian fighter jet.

The Twitter-savvy ambassador also tweeted this take down of Britain’s strategy in Syria.



https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1427604158/222_bigger.jpg Alexander Yakovenko Verified account ‏@Amb_Yakovenko (https://twitter.com/Amb_Yakovenko)

UK Government motion: why strikes limited to ISIS. What about other terrorist groups, incl Al-Nusra?
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Stirring speeches from both father and son. Hillary calls the Isis/isil facists
and technical they are backed by right wing fascist elements in Saudi ,Turkey,
Israel , US and elsewhere and I think his father Tony will be looking on
angrily from beyond at the 'stupid boy' his son has become.Note Jeremy
Corbyn sitting close to both. Of course they must be stopped but the best
way is thru the UN, which would work if backed by both the US and Russia.

The 'allies' must try to save face and now ' The Brits are coming ' what possibly
can go wrong !!

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Tony Benn v Hilary Benn on war votes

6 hours ago

Father and son, Tony and Hilary Benn have given two of the most
impassioned speeches on the issue of whether to vote for military action.


In 1998 Tony Benn argued against the bombing of Iraq, while this week
his son Hilary Benn argued in favour bombing Syria.

Both speeches were widely praised - and both men, coincidentally, had
current Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn sitting by them in the Commons
as they were delivered.


" stupid Boy " has a certain context in british comedy ....

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I knew a lot of what is going on and all these political cycles happen
as history constantly repeats itself. Before the web I watched
many of these type of docs , as it seems each generation faces
this one way or another , but what we question who actually
controls these 'hawks & puppets ' that pop up over and over again.

The BBC and others did some excellent docs , in this one they
talk about 'The project for the new American century' and the
agenda to invade countries they saw as 'The Axis of Evil'.

Now we know that 9/11 was created for the catalyst of these
plans and policy. If only the mainstream could connect all the
dots. The trouble is the press and media including the BBC
has been compromised more and more and they have been
bought up by the corporate world. Of course there are many
other aspects involved , and there are altruistic and genuine
people caught up in these events, and that's when we ask
the questions why are we always in these low level mind sets.
Then you get into other alternate theories about entities etc.

But this documentary openly exposes that the neo -con
are predominantly Jewish and working hand to hand with
Benjamin Netanyahu, and say most of the neo -cons are pro
Israel and the aim was to destroy the totalitarian regimes in
the middle east. Except the most totalitarian Saudi Arabia.
This is obviously a goal of Israel , to balkanise its neighbours.

I am collating some documentaries on various related subjects
that are the basis of the theories express in alternate debates.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?87235-MI6-Special-Black-Ops-Spy-Secrets-Playing-Dirty--2003--assassinations-and-murder.&p=1026082#post1026082

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Neo - cons .....

The War Party-Panorama-BBC

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Here is who led us into this mess. Meet the NEOCONS and what they want.

[Baby Steps]

I think under the nuremberg principles the british government is criminal:


the nuremberg principles (of international law)
principle i
"any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefore and liable to punishment."
principle ii
"the fact that internal law does not impose a penalty for an act which constitutes a crime under international law does not relieve the person who committed the act from responsibility under international law."
principle iii
"the fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as head of state or responsible government official does not relieve him from responsibility under international law."
principle iv
"the fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him".
This principle could be paraphrased as follows: "it is not an acceptable excuse to say 'i was just following my superior's orders'".
Previous to the time of the nuremberg trials, this excuse was known in common parlance as "superior orders". After the prominent, high profile event of the nuremberg trials, that excuse is now referred to by many as the "nuremberg defense". In recent times, a third term, "lawful orders" has become common parlance for some people. All three terms are in use today, and they all have slightly different nuances of meaning, depending on the context in which they are used.
Nuremberg principle iv is legally supported by the jurisprudence found in certain articles in the universal declaration of human rights which deal indirectly with conscientious objection. It is also supported by the principles found in paragraph 171 of the handbook on procedures and criteria for determining refugee status which was issued by the office of the united nations high commissioner for refugees (unhcr). Those principles deal with the conditions under which conscientious objectors can apply for refugee status in another country if they face persecution in their own country for refusing to participate in an illegal war.
principle v
"any person charged with a crime under international law has the right to a fair trial on the facts and law."
principle vi
"the crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under international law:
(a) crimes against peace:
(i) planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;
(ii) participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i).
(b) war crimes:
Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave labor or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory; murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity.
(c) crimes against humanity:
Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhumane acts done against any civilian population, or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds, when such acts are done or such persecutions are carried on in execution of or in connection with any crime against peace or any war crime."

principle vii
"complicity in the commission of a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity as set forth in principle vi is a crime under international law."

[Cidersomerset]

CrossTalk on Syria: Complicated Battlefield

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Published on 4 Dec 2015

The plot dangerously thickens – with the UK voting to officially join the
Syrian conflict, the battlefield and airspace are now precariously crowded.
And since the U.S. and its allies are unwilling to cooperate with the
Syrian-led coalition, do one and all sides risk miscalculation? Maybe this
is what Washington wants…

[Hervé]

Lebanese Politician: Turkey Main Sponsor of Terrorists in Syria
(http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940913000576)
Fri Dec 04, 2015 6:7


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TEHRAN (FNA)- The fight against international terrorism should start with pressuring Turkey, now the main sponsor for militants groups in Syria, leader of the Lebanese orthodox party Masarik Roderick Khoury said.

"Turkey is the first and main power which funds and supplies weapons to terrorist groups. We believe the fight against terrorism should begin with pressuring Turkey. Now Turkey is the main sponsor of terrorism in the region," Khoury said at a press conference in Moscow, Sputnik reported.

“The name of the real leader of the terrorists is Tayyip Erdogan (Turkish President). The others like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (ISIL leader) and al-Qaeda are just his servants. Al-Nusra Front also carries out orders from Turkey," he pointed out.

According to him, there is real evidence to the allegations. Khoury said that after the city of Kassab, near Lattakia, was liberated from terrorists Turkish ambulance vehicles, clothes and weapons were found there.

Khoury added that when the terrorists take Syrian or Lebanese hostages they only can be released after negotiations with Turkey.

[norman]

Here, Joel Skousen puts the all important perspective around all this:

https://app.box.com/s/hpt6397zz2p68ord4om9geqffs45pu9a

[Cidersomerset]

This show was recorded before the yes vote was cast......

Patrick Henningsen: "Turkish President Erdogan Is Undoubtedly Buying Black market Oil From ISIS!"

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Published on 3 Dec 2015
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Kerri says we must all come together to fight 'Dash' !

US still using ISIS for political means – Iraqi security official

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Published on 3 Dec 2015

US still using ISIS for political means, never serious in combating them, states
Saad Al Mutalabi from security council of Baghdad province

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

[Hervé]

Hunt On For Tayyeep Bin Ardogan Over Fighter Shoot-Down And Bosphorus Blockade (http://www.moonofalabama.org/2015/12/putin-announces-war-on-tayyeep-bin-ardogan-over-fighter-shoot-down-and-bosphorus-blockade.html)

Posted by b on December 3, 2015 at 03:26 PM


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Today the Russian President Putin gave his yearly address to the Russian Federal Assembly (http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/50864). In the context of terrorism and the shooting down of the Russian fighter in Syria he addressed some very harsh words to the Turkish President Erdogan:

[T]he Turkish people are kind, hardworking and talented. We have many good and reliable friends in Turkey. Allow me to emphasise that they should know that we do not equate them with the certain part of the current ruling establishment that is directly responsible for the deaths of our servicemen in Syria. We will never forget their collusion with terrorists. We have always deemed betrayal the worst and most shameful thing to do, and that will never change. I would like them to remember this – those in Turkey who shot our pilots in the back, those hypocrites who tried to justify their actions and cover up for terrorists.

I don’t even understand why they did it. Any issues they might have had, any problems, any disagreements we knew nothing about could have been settled in a different way. Plus, we were ready to cooperate with Turkey on all the most sensitive issues it had; we were willing to go further, where its allies refused to go. Allah only knows, I suppose, why they did it. And probably, Allah has decided to punish the ruling clique in Turkey by taking their mind and reason.

But, if they expected a nervous or hysterical reaction from us, if they wanted to see us become a danger to ourselves as much as to the world, they won’t get it. They won’t get any response meant for show or even for immediate political gain. They won’t get it.

Our actions will always be guided primarily by responsibility – to ourselves, to our country, to our people. We are not going to rattle the sabre. But, if someone thinks they can commit a heinous war crime, kill our people and get away with it, suffering nothing but a ban on tomato imports, or a few restrictions in construction or other industries, they’re delusional. We’ll remind them of what they did, more than once. They’ll regret it. We know what to do. That was strong stuff from someone who usually stays very cool. These were not even threats but direct declarations that Russia will take revenge and will follow through.

What are "all the most sensitive issues" Turkey had and on which Russia was ready to cooperate? What has enraged Putin so much to declare Erdogan out of "mind and reason"? Was it only the ambush of the fighter plane? Or was there another, deeper provocation?

At the end of last week there were some rumors that Russian ships crossing the Bosphorus between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea were unreasonably delayed. Someone claimed that Turkey was holding them up but the issue soon vanished again. I filed that under "false rumor" but I was wrong. It apparently happened (http://rbth.com/international/2015/12/01/pres-digest-ankara-obstructing-pasage-of-rusian-ships-in-black-sea_546415):

Turkey is creating obstacles for Russian ships without technically violating the right of free passage through the Turkish Straits, the online newspaper Vzglyad reports. According to an online vessel tracking system, Russian ships moved in zigzags and circles on Nov. 29, waiting for hours for permission to enter the Bosphorus.

For instance, the Bratsk waited for permission from 10.00 to 19.00, and the Volgobalt from 3.00 to 17.00. However, as stated by the Ukrainian Center for Transport Policies, vessels belonging to the other countries passed through the straits without a delay on that day.

The Haberler.com news website reports that the transport ship Yauza was met by a Turkish submarine as it was passing through the Dardanelles on the morning of Nov. 30.

The Istanbul media reported the same day that at least two Turkish submarines were located in the vicinity of the Moskva missile cruiser (covering the Khmeimim Russian airbase in Syria). Back in September Pat Lang posted this at his site (http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2015/09/httpwwwreuterscomarticle20150909us-mideast-crisis-syria-iduskcn0r91h720150909.html):

[T]he Russians seem intent on reinforcing the Syrian government and the US is doing all it can to prevent this. The US has pressured governments seeking a denial of diplomatic overflight clearances for Russian cargo aircraft en route to Syria. It has also sought some means with which to deny Russian vessels passage through the Bosporus and Dardanelles.It seems that Obama administration had developed the idea to delay Russian ships without directly violating the Montreux Cenvention (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_the_Regime_of_the_Straits) that covers free passage through the strait. Erdogan used the trick last week to put additional pressure on Russia. But there was nothing in the wider news about this standoff.

So did this really happen and how was this resolved? Joanne Leon asked (https://twitter.com/joanneleon/status/672440427170177025) that question today and two (https://twitter.com/EjmAlrai/status/672442139763150850) answers (https://twitter.com/DR_SHAHID/status/672457483626106881) from knowledgeable people were offered:

Elijah J. Magnier ‏@EjmAlrai
Turkey mentioned it and sent 2 submarines. Russia said "Turkey can't do it" and sent 2 submarines huntersand

Dr Shahid @DR_SHAHID
Yup.
Russia Threatened To Nuke Ankara.
Problem Solved.Hmm ... I am not sure we know if the issue was really resolved with a nuclear threat or by some lesser means. But as no further ships were reported delayed the crisis seems to be over and Russia got its way.

To delay Russian ships by military means is rude behavior by Erdogan just short of openly declaring war. This and the fact that he ordered to ambush and shoot down a Russian jet likely incited Putin to use really harsh words today. Had Erdogan apologized and blamed some minions for the fighter jet shoot down the episode would have been forgotten by now.

But Erdogan escalated. Putin will now not rest until he has kicked that wannabe Sultan off his throne. My bet is that he will be more resourceful in his endeavor than Erdogan.

This for example is exceptional good trolling. Who arranged for this very intelligent hoax to appear (http://www.moonofalabama.org/2015/12/%22https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/672314520455397377/pu/vid/480x360/ZbFrWnMdCs9Z_YYB.mp4) in various U.S. media last night?


http://www.moonofalabama.org/images4/tayep.jpg


Pass the popcorn, please.

[Hervé]

Russia Surprised by US 'Blindness' to Trucks Delivering Daesh Oil to Turkey (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151205/1031295870/russia-us-trucks-oil.html)

Middle East (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/)17:30 05.12.2015
(updated 18:44 05.12.2015)


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© Photo: Russian Defence Ministry



The Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday that it was surprised by the "blindness" of US authorities in regard to photo evidence showing trucks delivering Daesh oil to Turkey.

"Finally, our colleagues from the [US] State Department and the Pentagon confirmed that photo evidence we had presented at a briefing (showing the routes of oil smuggling from terrorist-controlled areas) is authentic. However, their claims that they 'do not see the border crossings with tank trucks that cross the border', cause a smile, at least because the photo is a static image," Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said.

"When US officials claim that they do not see oil smuggled by terrorists to Turkey, it looks like an outright patronage rather than slyness," Konashenkov added.

Earlier, a US Department of State official told journalists that the Russian Defense Ministry photos showing hundreds of trucks with Daesh oil are authentic. He noted, however, that "what I have not seen is imagery of the border crossing with trucks crossing the border, and that's because I don't believe that exists." On Wednesday, the Russian Defense Ministry provided satellite images showing Daesh transporting up to 200,000 barrels of oil in at least 1,722 trucks to third-party countries, most notably Turkey on the northern border. Pentagon rejected Russia’s evidence of Turkey’s involvement in oil deals with Daesh militants.

Pentagon has all reconnaissance means necessary to record oil smuggling from the territories controlled by Daesh to Turkey, ministry's spokesman Igor Konashenkov said (https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1683960105180072&id=1492252324350852&substory_index=0).

"If even this is not enough for our American colleagues, we advise to watch video from their drones, the number of which, by the way, recently tripled over the Syrian-Turkish border and the oil-bearing regions, controlled by terrorists."

The recent statements made by US officials concerning the developments in Syria are based on double standards and remind of "theater of the absurd," Konashenkov said.

"In general, the recent statements by representatives of the Pentagon and the [US] State Department remind of 'theater of the absurd,' based on double standards and the wordplay," Konashenkov said at a press briefing.

"First they see something, then they don't. They divide the opposition into moderate and non-moderate. Even terrorists, in their view, are bad or very bad," he added.

The US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter stated earlier that over the last month the US aviation has been destroying only profitable terrorist facilities.

The Russian Defense Ministry spokesman commened on this statement saying that:


"Can the statement be treated as [admitting] the Americans have been eliminating only unprofitable terrorist objects for a year and a half?"

[Rocky_Shorz]

All of you know, Russia was brought in to do everything Obama and Biden wanted to..

Turkey has prevented them from helping the Syrian Kurds, Russia just flipped off CIA and the Pentagon, moving forward with advanced weaponry for Kurdish fighters.

Turkey sent subs into Russian waters..

Putin gave the nod to sink NATO ships if they get in the way...

http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1953.htm

[Callista]

Moret & Battis: US DEW downed Russian Metrojet 9268 over Sinai. False flag like MH370 & MH17


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mWnvbEjOUA

VANCOUVER, BC – In a NewsInsideOut.com interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre, independent scientist Leuren Moret, MA, PhD ABD and military historian Laurens Battis demonstrate how Russian Metrojet flight 9268 was shot down by a U.S. directed energy weapon (DEW) over the Sinai desert. Russian Vladimir Putin and Russian military authorities know this and are using Western disinformation that “there was a bomb aboard the plane” to facilitate formation of the anti-ISIS coalition in Syria. Thus the downing of Russian Metrojet 9268, like that of MH370 and MH17 was a false flag by the United States.

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2015.10.31 GRAPH- MetroJet-9268 Flight Recorder Extended Mode-S Data Set – Demonstrating how US DEW downed Metrojet 9268
Summary of the Moret-Battis Interview

INTRO: Background on Syria war

– Geographic setting

– transition to silk road economy

– Syria war caused by Sarkozy/Hollande and Arabian Gulf Princes

– Putin speech at UN Sept. 28, Sept. 29 bombing started

– Many diplomatic meetings, change in allies, deep intel on causes

– Refugee crisis

– Countries supporting Russia, slow shift to ally w Russia

Part I: McCain False Flag

– Leaked Ukraine Wikileaks memo

– McCain and Ukraine CIA set up False Flag w Saakashvilli

– False Flag leaked to Putin, started bombing that night

Part 2: Metrojet shot down over Sinai

– Maps – Mediterranean, Sinai map, flight path

– Plane crash, disinfo from ISIS etc,

– Black box flight data

– Larry’s graph

– International emblem of disaster

Part 3: Paris Terrorist Attack

– Theater shootings

– Sports stadium – suicide bombers, Hollande and Steinmeyer at game

– France immediately passed French Patriot Act

– Other countries imposed police state policies

Part. 4: G20

– Putin exposed illegal oil trade in Iraq and Syria and how it funded ISIS

– Putins speech, satellite photos, bombing ISIS oil infrastructure, 40 countries involved (mentioned Turkey)

– Map oil infrastructure

– Satellite photos – RU bombing
– US bombing civilian infrastructure but using RU attacks to claim that US was bombing terrorists

– Putin’s Kremlin meeting w report on bomb in Metrojet, as basis for invoking UN article 51

Part 5: Strategic Bombing

– Cruise missiles from Mediterranean submarine, Caspian Corvettes

– Strategic bombers sent from RU, doubled bombing sorties

– Killed terrorists and destroyed infrastructure, terrorists leaving Syria

– White Swan bomber against moon backdrop

Part 6: FRANCE changes allies

– Putin and Hollande at G20

– Jean Claude Junker hints to Putin that sanctions may go

– French deploy aircraft carrier to Syria, and get top headlines as ally of RU

Putin takes another ally away from US, isolating US and making NATO irrelevant



Refererences

LEURENMORET.INFO

www.leurenmoret.info

[Hervé]

Turkey Detains Russian Ships In Black Sea, Blasts Moscow For Brandishing Rocket Launcher In Strait (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-06/turkey-detains-russian-ships-black-sea-blasts-moscow-brandishing-rocket-launcher-str)

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/pictures/picture-5.jpg (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden)Submitted by Tyler Durden (http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden) on 12/06/2015 10:59 -0500


Exactly a week ago, we warned that Turkey does have one trump card (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-29/turkeys-trump-card-erdogan-can-cut-russias-syrian-supply-line-closing-bosphorus) when it comes to dealing with an angry Russian bear that’s hell bent on making life miserable for Ankara in the wake of Erdogan’s brazen move to shoot down a Russian Su-24 near the Syrian border. Turkey, we explained, could move to close the Bosphorus Strait, cutting one of Moscow’s key supply lines to Latakia.

We went on to explain, that such a move would probably be illegal based on the 1936 Montreux Convention, but as Sputnik noted, "in times of war, the passage of warships shall be left entirely to the discretion of the Turkish government."

Obviously, Turkey and Russia haven’t formally declared war on one another, but the plane “incident” marked the first time a NATO member has engaged a Russian or Soviet aircraft in more than six decades and given the gravity of that escalation, one would hardly put it past Erdogan to start interfering with Moscow’s warships, especially if it means delaying their arrival in Syria where the Russians are on the verge of restoring an Assad government that’s Turkey despises.

Well sure enough, the tit-for-tat mutual escalation that’s ensued since the Su-24 crash has spilled over into the maritime arena with Moscow and Ankara detaining each other's ships.

After five Turkish vessels were held at the port of Novorossiysk for “inspections,” Turkey retaliated on Friday by holding four Russian ships at the Black Sea port of Samsun. The following table reveals a hilarious list of the Russian vessels’ alleged infractions which apparently include fire safety violations, pollution prevention violations, and problems with “life saving appliances.”:


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One of the vessels - the cargo ship Crystal - has yet to be released.

"Six ships with a Russian flag were checked at Samsun Port on Dec. 5. The ships were found to be in compliance with Port State Control (PSC) rules, a series of international standards that all ships are required to meet, but some problems were subsequently detected in four of the ships," Hurriyet says (http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-detains-russian-ship-at-samsun-port-in-retaliatory-move.aspx?pageID=238&nID=92130&NewsCatID=345), adding that "three of the ships consequently met the requirements and were permitted to leave, but the remaining vessel has not yet been permitted to depart."

The Crystal apparently lacks the "required documents."

Obviously, Russia and Turkey are engaged in a bit of petty mutual escalation here, but it's worth noting that Samsun isn't far from the Bosphorus:


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And while Turkey now appears content to harrass Russian cargo vessels, one shouldn't discount the possibility that Erodgan will look to do something more provocative now that it looks like the UN will ultimately be dragged into the ISIS oil smuggling debate.

Indeed, Moscow seems to be taking the Bosphorus issue quite seriously because as Hurriyet reported just hours ago (http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/russian-warship-passes-through-bosphorus-as-soldier-on-board-carries-missile.aspx?PageID=238&NID=92121&NewsCatID=341), when the Russian warship Caesar Kunikov made its way through the strait on Saturday, a Russian soldier stood on deck with a shoulder ground-to-air missile at the ready.


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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu's response: "For a Russian soldier to display a rocket launcher or something similar while passing on a Russian warship is a provocation. If we perceive a threatening situation, we will give the necessary response."" Indeed.

And meanwhile, three NATO warships have dropped anchor off Istanbul’s Sarayburnu coast: Portugal's F-334 NRP Francisco de Almeida, Spain’s F-105 ESPS Blaz de Lezo, and Canada's FFG-338 HMCS Winnipeg.


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[Baby Steps]

32199

32200

Just viewing the USA as the reckless Hegemon, controlled by an evil hidden hand and sowing mayhem and destruction around the world may not be the full story.

we know that Iraq was invaded because Saddam Hussain was threatening to move to selling oil in Euros.

Saudi Arabia is a great Ally of USA, and heavily armed by USA & UK. IF THEY THREATENED TO START SELLING OIL IN ANOTHER CURRENCY it is bye bye dollar!

by the same token, if others move to reduce the importance (de-dollarisation) of the world reserve currency, the currency inevitably tanks, and Saudi income collapses as the Dollar falls. In other words if one set of counties drop the dollar, it incentivises the SAudis to follow.

So there is a large positive feedback mechanism on de-dollarisation.

From the above it is obvious that Saudi can exert a very heavy influence over the USA financial establishment (like a knife to the throat)

On to Israel.
They have their eyes on a huge new oil find in the Golan Hights. This territory is currently Israeli controlled but legally Syrian Territory. Assad was the one who effectively was resisting this and attempting to recover sovereign Syrian territory.

DO SAUDI AND ISRAEL WORK TOGETHER?
You bet!
Check out the footage of low yield nuclear weapons illegally used against the YEMENI people. These weapons almost definitely came from Israel or USA via Israel.

So we have a convergence of strategy and interests between Saudi and Israel (secret alliance?)

This is the gruesome twosome that is partially controlling USA. USA is being used as a soldier state for foreign interests.

[Cidersomerset]

'Washington targets Syrian govt because of fear to lose to Russia'

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Published on 7 Dec 2015


Damascus has sent a complaint to the UN Security Council regarding a suspected
Western-coalition air strike on army positions in Syria. Catherine Shakdam, Middle
East expert, joins RT to discuss this issue.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

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‘Turkey gets impunity for whatever it does’: Turkish troops deployed in N. Iraq

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Published on 7 Dec 2015

The Arab League has condemned deployment of Turkish troops in northern Iraq,
saying it amounts to “an intervention.” Iraq has demanded that Ankara withdraws
its troops, saying it will go to the UN Security Council if they remain.

[Hervé]

Pentagon Denies US-Led Coalition Strikes on Syrian Army Facilities (http://sputniknews.com/military/20151207/1031375805/pentagon-syrian-army-strikes.html)

19:03 07.12.2015
(updated 20:42 07.12.2015)


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© AP Photo/ U.S. Air Force via AP


According to the Syrian Foreign Ministry, four US-led coalition aircraft launched nine missiles at Syrian Army facilities on Sunday evening killing three and injuring another 13, as well as destroying numerous military vehicles, weapons and equipment.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — US Army spokesperson Col. Steve Warren denied on Monday that US-led coalition airstrikes hit Syrian government military facilities on Sunday as claimed by Damascus.

"The coalition conducted four strikes in the Deir ez-Zor province yesterday, all against oil well heads," Warren stated. "We did not strike any vehicles or personnel targets. We have no indication any Syrian Soldiers were near our strikes."

The Syrian Foreign Ministry sent an official protest to the UN Security Council accusing the US-led coalition of hitting Syrian Army facilities in Deir ez-Zor province, Syria’s official SANA news agency reported Monday. Damascus added that the attack on the military post hinders efforts to fight terrorism and highlights the US-led coalition's lack of "seriousness and credibility" in countering terrorism.

A US-led international coalition has been conducting airstrikes against Daesh, also known as ISIL or the Islamic State terrorist group, in Syria since 2014 without the approval of the UN Security Council or the Syrian government.


Related:
Syria Sends Protest to UN Over US-Led Coalition Strike on Army Facilities (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151207/1031350219/strikes-syria-facilities-un-coalition.html)

[Cidersomerset]

CrossTalk: Syria's Wheel of Fortune

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Published on 7 Dec 2015


The Syrian Civil War is a place of cruel realities and western illusions. The only
moderate force on the ground is the Syrian Arab Army – fighting for Syria’s
sovereign survival. This is unacceptable to the Washington Consensus. For the
sake of false pride, is Washington willing to destroy everything in its path?..

CrossTalking with Jonathan Steele, Brian Becker, and Yunus Soner.

[Hervé]

NATO's jihad: Turkey invades ISIS-occupied Iraq, U.S. attacks Syrian forces (http://www.sott.net/article/308029-NATOs-jihad-Turkey-invades-ISIS-occupied-Iraq-US-attacks-Syrian-forces#)

Harrison Koehli
Sott.net (http://www.sott.net/article/308029-NATOs-jihad-Turkey-invades-ISIS-occupied-Iraq-US-attacks-Syrian-forces#) Tue, 08 Dec 2015 00:21 UTC



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© Tim Anderson


Reading the news over the last couple of weeks, you'd be forgiven for thinking that some players on the world stage are doing their best to provoke all-out war.

On November 24, Turkey committed an act of war against Russia and Syria, violating Syria's airspace to shoot down a Russian jet flying anti-terrorist missions in northeastern Syria. Turkey had the audacity to call it "self-defense against Russian aggression."

Immediately after the shoot-down, Turkish-born and Turkish-backed terrorists committed a war crime, violating the Geneva Conventions by executing the Russian pilot as he parachuted to the ground. The U.S. called it "legitimate self-defense against Russian aggression."

On December 4, Turkey invaded the territory of Iraq, sending over 100 troops and 25 tanks into northern Iraq - in ISIS-controlled territory. By December 7 that number increased to over 900 troops (http://www.sott.net/article/307992-Turkeys-belligerence-signals-a-new-phase-in-Russias-fight-against-Daesh-Russian-military-expert). After repeated warnings and complaints from the Iraqi government, Ankara told Baghdad that "no further forces (http://www.sott.net/article/307993-You-cannot-pass-Flow-of-Turkish-troops-into-Iraq-stops-due-to-Bagdad-ultimatum) will be deployed". They have yet to remove the troops that were deployed.

On December 6, the U.S. committed an act of war against Syria, violating Syria's airspace to launch four airstrikes (http://www.sott.net/article/307978-Pentagon-denies-US-led-coalition-airstrikes-hit-Syrian-Army-facilities) on the Syrian army near Deir Ezzor, killing three soldiers and severely injuring another 13. (Photos of the damage here (http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/12/us-led-coalition-airstrike-on-saa.html).) The U.S. denied the strikes, saying they targeted oil well heads in the same area: "We have no indication any Syrian Soldiers were near our strikes." They can claim this because they routinely refuse to acknowledge such indications, just as they claimed they could not "see" the evidence provided by Russia of Turkey's complicity in the illegal ISIS oil trade.

In addition to these acts of naked aggression, Turkey is currently constructing an airbase (http://www.sott.net/article/307964-Images-show-Turkey-covertly-building-airbase-in-Northern-Iraq) in northern Iraq without the Iraqis' prior knowledge or consent. The U.S. is reportedly doing the same (http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-building-military-airbase-in-northeastern-syria/5493746) in northern Syria.

On the interpersonal level, this type of behavior is called picking a fight. The aggressive party engages in taunts and provocations, wishing the other party to 'take the bait'. This might include insulting the opponent's mother, 'getting in their face' by invading their personal space, and escalating the level of physicality, e.g., with an aggressive poke or a light shove. The goal, of course, is to get the other party to throw the first punch.

Turkey and the U.S. are now responsible for the deaths of 2 Russian soldiers and 3 Syrian soldiers. They have both sent troops into Iraq and Syria without the permission of those states and unilaterally 'set up shop', constructing military bases there. This is not just rude; it is cause for war. So far, Russia, Syria, and Iraq have shown remarkable restraint. World wars have started over less.

Now take a look at these maps. First, the locations of the illegal airbases in Syria and Iraq, along with the locations of the Turkish troops in Iraq.


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Now take a look at the image provided by the Russian Defense Ministry showing the routes where ISIS oil is smuggled into Turkey.


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© syria.mil.ru


This must be a coincidence; 'our' team would surely never side with terrorists.

This nexus where the borders of Turkey, Syria and Iraq meet has long been a crucial region for Western control of the Middle East. This location is the center-point where the country of Kurdistan would, and arguably should, exist, if if had not been for the deliberate gerrymandering of borders by Western imperialists during and after World War 1, which trapped them between three countries.

In nearly every regional conflict since then, Western intel. has used and abused Kurdish freedom fighters/terrorists as it plays the Kurds against each state, and thus each state against each other. The 'promise' of statehood has been the carrot that kept Kurds in the game, while Western military support and 'looking the other way' has given the states a green light to repress the Kurds.

Turkish troops have recently entered Syria and Iraq illegally, allegedly to "train" certain 'forces' there. The real reason for this incursion however is to prevent the Syrian and Iraqi Kurds from taking more land and possibly establishing an independent Kurdistan across northern Iraq, Syria and possibly into parts of Turkey. This is a scenario that Turkish governments, in particular that of Erdogan, have strenuously fought against for decades.

Obama recently 'prophesied' "pockets of ceasefire (https://www.rt.com/usa/324200-obama-syria-rebels-ceasefire-pockets/)" in Syr-aq, aka Islamic State. I think he was obliquely referring to US-NATO military efforts to secure control of bits of Syria and Iraq for themselves, effectively taking over stewardship of the so-called 'Islamic State' from the terrorists. Maybe by 'creating new facts on the ground' in this way, the Empire anticipates using its de facto control of 'safe, ceasefire zones' as leverage in the Vienna talks on the region's future.

On the other hand, something else entirely could be brewing. The Imperial Exceptionalists HATE it when things don't go their way. Syria was scheduled to be obliterated as Libya was. Russia has so far blocked that from happening, but that doesn't mean the obliteration of Syria is off the table.

[Hervé]

Where will the Ukrainian bombs explode? (http://orientalreview.org/2015/12/08/where-will-the-ukrainian-bombs-explode/)

By ORIENTAL REVIEW Tue, Dec 8, 2015


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On Dec 7 the Cyber-Berkut made public (http://www.cyber-berkut.org/) another set of evidence exposing preparations for false flag attacks in Syria by the Ministry of Defense of Qatar. According to a hacked mail by Anton Pashynskyi, a SpetsTechnoExport (official Ukrainian arms trader) functionary, on Oct 21, 2015 he wrote to his Polish partner Level 11 (http://level11.pl/) the following:
Good afternoon! There is a new proposal. The Qatari military want to buy 2 thousand High Explosive Fragmentation bombs OFAB 250-270 (http://www.cat-uxo.com/#/ofab-250-270-bomb/4583666019). The issue is urgent, they are ready to pay US$2100 per item. Consider how to deliver ASAP. The final recipient is the Ministry of Defense of Qatar. EUC is enclosed.
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OFAB 250-270 is the unguided 250-kg bomb currently used by the Russian jets SU-25 and TU-23M3 to hit the positions of Daesh and sister subversive groups in Syria:


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The Qatar Air Force consists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_Armed_Forces)of French Mirage multirole fighter jets and Alpha light attack jets. None of them can be equipped with OFAB 250-270. So the legitimate question is:

Why does the Qatari Minitry of Defense want to buy enormous arsenal of the air bombs, not only unfit for their aircrafts, but at a price 3 times (!) higher than the market one? (normally OFAB 250-270 is sold at US$700-800 per item)

The answer is horrifically simple: to make an OFAB 250-270 explode you do not need to drop it from a jet – it can be done right on the ground. Any Qatar-linked terrorist group can drive it to a highly-populated area in Syria and stage a “merciless strike by the Russian aviation”.

No doubt that a number of absolutely independent forensic experts would promptly conclude that this type of bomb is widely used by the Russian AF in Syria.

At the end we have to note that some pro-Kiev bloggers are harping (http://www.milnavigator.com/gordost-russkogo-mira-oskolochno-fugasnaya-aviacionnaya-bomba-ofab-250-270-v-sirii/) on the allegations about “Russian aviation recklessly using unguided bombs close to civilian areas in Syria” since early October.

Below is the End-User Cerficate proved by the Ukrainian seller to the importer.


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Anton Pashynskyi, photo taken from his personal Facebook page.

P.S. Anton Pashynskyi is the 25-years old son of Sergei Pashynskyi, who is known for his controversial role in the shootings during February 2014 coup in Kiev. The latter is currently a member of Verkhovna Rada (parliament) of Ukraine.


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[Hervé]

Iraqi parliament defense committee calls to review & cancel security agreement with US - MP (https://www.rt.com/news/325202-iraqi-parliament-us-agreement/)
(https://www.rt.com/news/325202-iraqi-parliament-us-agreement/)
Published time: 9 Dec, 2015 10:52
Edited time: 9 Dec, 2015 11:48


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Iraqi soldiers train with members of the U.S. Army 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, at Camp Taji, Iraq. © Sgt. Cody Quinn / Reuters



The Iraqi parliament's Security and Defense Committee has called for a review and cancellation of the agreement with Washington on security, a committee member has stated.

Iraq needs either to overhaul the terms of the agreement on security or annul it, Hamid Mutlak, an Iraqi Parliamentarian and member of the Defense and Security Committee told Sputnik.

“The [Iraqi] government and the parliament need to be review its security agreement with the US, because Washington is not serious about its implementation. We will demand its cancellation,” Mutlak stated.

He also commented on the deployment of the Turkish troops in Iraq.

"Iraq will be defended only by its sons, but Turkey will withdraw [its troops], since the land of Iraq is sacred, and its sovereignty is a red line. We have a right to give this issue an international character and to demand from the UN Security Council the withdrawal of Turkish troops," he said.

Recent media reports of Turkish troops deploying to a base near the Islamic State-held city of Mosul created a stir in Baghdad. Although Turkey maintains that the troops were part of a training mission coordinated with the Iraqi officials, Iraq's Prime Minister Haider Abadi said on Sunday that if Ankara did not withdraw its troops within 48 hours, Baghdad would take the matter to the UN Security Council.

US Defense Secretary Ash Carter added fuel to the fire when he recently stated that the US military would deploy a new special operations force to Iraq.

"Iraq does not need foreign ground forces and the Iraqi government is committed not to allow the presence of any ground force on Iraqi land," Abadi replied in a statement.

Hadi Amiri, the head of one of Iraq's most powerful Shiite militias, the Badr Organization, warned that any US base in Iraq would be then considered a "target," AP reported.

There are currently some 3,500 US troops in Iraq on a training and support mission designed to help Iraqi forces fight Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

The Iraqi parliament's Security and Defense committee plans to ask for cooperation with Russia in carrying out airstrikes against IS, another member of the committee, Iskander Watut, told Sputnik on Tuesday.

"Soon, a meeting [of the committee] with Prime Minister Haider Abadi will be held, at which we will propose cooperating with Russia in carrying out airstrikes against IS and in the fight against terrorism in Iraq," he stated.


Related:
Baghdad ultimatum to Ankara expires, Moscow to discuss Turkish military invasion at UNSC (https://www.rt.com/news/325070-turkey-iraq-troops-crossing/)

[Cidersomerset]

Iraq vs Turkey: Baghdad issues ultimatum, threatens with NATO, UN

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Published on 9 Dec 2015

In the wake of Turkey disturbing deployment of troops in Iraq, Moscow
hopes that Ankara will avoid escalating situation in the region with any
further reckless actions, including in the territory of Syria, said Russia’s
UN envoy following a UN Security Council meeting.

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Unidentified jets attacked Syrian army, US-led coalition suspected - Russia MoD

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Published on 9 Dec 2015

Four Western coalition warplanes were spotted over the Deir az-Zor
area in Syria on December 6, when a Syrian Army camp came under
attack. No Russian warplanes were in the region, says the Russian
Defense Ministry.

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Hopefully, no nukes needed in fight against ISIS – Putin

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Published on 9 Dec 2015

The downing of a Russian Sukhoi bomber by the Turkish Air Force was sufficient
reason to start a war, but Moscow chose not to respond symmetrically, says
Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
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Russian S-300 missile defense systems deployed to Arctic military base

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rETW4zIxWCo

Published on 9 Dec 2015

Kola’s new surface-to-air regiment began their anti-aircraft duty in combat
readiness at the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. The regiment is equipped with the
upgraded S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems, which are capable of hitting the
enemy targets in a radius of several hundred kilometres. The surface-to-air missile
regiment are the first full-fledged military unit of the Northern Fleet, formed on the
islands of the Arctic Ocean.

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‘Our enemies live in our own country’ - Mayor of refugee-flooded town

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnJzZ8B5Wws

Published on 9 Dec 2015

The political breakthrough for France's far-right National Front in Sunday's regional
elections has been widely interpreted as a 'shock'.But a closer look suggests some
of the results were actually fairly predictable.

[Cidersomerset]

CrossTalk: Syrian chessboard

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Published on 9 Dec 2015
Recent claims that the US bombed a Syrian military installation may be
a telling example of how Washington and its allies intend to escalate their
war on the Syrian regime and NOT against terrorists. It would appear
Assad remains target number one.

CrossTalking with Martin Jay, Marcus Papadopoulos, and Ivan Eland.

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

[Morbid]

bbc propoganda full frontal:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35050183

note that the british correspondent, un forces and the so called 'rebels' scramble together to leave homs. bbc is not even trying to hide the fact that they support those that fight alongside isis..

[Cidersomerset]

Pentagon demands more from action anti-ISIS coalition allies

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Published on 9 Dec 2015

The Pentagon Chief says America's allies in the anti-ISIL coalition must do
more in their efforts to fight the jihadists. Ash Carter was giving testimony
before the Senate on Wednesday, and agreed Islamic state has not been
contained, despite previous claims.

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ISIS Oil Empire: 'It's not smugglers with donkeys, it's huge business with Turkey
main conduit'

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Amid a discord in relations over a serious violation of Iraq’s sovereignty by Turkey’s
deployment of ground troops, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi accused its
neighbor of being a hub for the “majority” of illegal oil smuggling operations by
ISIS terrorists.

[Baby Steps]

IF YOU DO NOT KNOW THE FOLLOWING YOU ARE UNLIKELY TO HAVE A BALANCED UNDERSTANDING OF THE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR

• The Qataris have purchased thousands of old Russian dumb bombs from Ukraine. The plan is to drop them on civilian areas and blame the Russians.
• The only intervention in Syria that is legal is the Russian one.
• Other countries attacks are illegal under the Nuremberg Principles
• ISIS was created by the CIA and MOSSAD
• ISIS is funded and armed by the USA and various Gulf states
• The external provocation to create a civil war was started because Assad agreed to run a gas pipeline from Iran, via Iraq, into Syria and on to the Mediterranean.
• Assad enjoyed 80% approval amongst the Syrian people before the trouble started
• The moderate opposition was around 10% at that time
• The USA has been illegally attacking Syria for more than 1 year, in that time NOT ONE OIL FACILITY was bombed
• The Turks are running a huge illegal oil theft from both Syria and Iraq
• Turkish troops are illegally based in Northern Iraq (meaning NATO troops)
• The USA is actively preventing the Kurds from arming themselves
• Vladimir Putin is contemplating using nuclear weapons against ISIS
• Israel is preparing to exploit a large new oil field in the Golan Heights, located within territory that is legally Syria.
• Israel and Jordan have been assisting ISIS with medical care and training.
• The Russians have deployed their latest anti-aircraft missiles to protect their Syrian base. These missiles could hit NATO planes approaching the area.
• Assad has stated that he does not wish for NATO airstrikes, as they have so far, been indiscriminate, ineffective, and many civilians have died. NATO has deliberately targeted Syrian civil facilities within the Government controlled areas of the country.
• Syria under Assad is one of the few countries left who issue currency to the populus without private bank debt being created.
• The Iraqis have requested US forces to leave Iraq.
• Russian bombing of ISIS and AL QAEDA targets has enabled large areas to be liberated and some refugees are already returning to their homes.
• According to Amnesty international approximately 75% is ISIS weaponry is USA made.
• Assad, the legal leader of Syria, has promised elections once the fighting stops.
DO NOT BELIEVE THE ABOVE, RESEARCH THE ABOVE!
IF STOPPING THE WAR AND PROTECTING THE SYRIAN PEOPLE WAS OUR FIRST PRIORITY , NATO WOULD WITHDRAW, & THE RUSSIANS WOULD PAINT THEIR HELMETS BLUE!

[Hervé]

Is Erdogan's Mosul Escapade Blackmail For Another Qatar-Turkey Pipeline? (http://www.moonofalabama.org/2015/12/is-erdogans-mosul-escapade-blackmail-for-a-new-qatar-turkey-pipeline-project-.html)

Posted by b on December 7, 2015 at 02:26 PM

Update: Iraqi sources confirm (https://elijahjm.wordpress.com/2015/12/08/turkish-forces-in-iraq-to-impose-the-gas-versus-the-water/) to Elijah J. Magnier that Turkey is indeed blackmailing Baghdad to get a Qatar-Turkey pipeline. The blackmail also has a water resource component. I wrote (http://www.moonofalabama.org/2015/08/the-wars-in-syria-and-iraq-are-water-wars-more-will-come.html) on that here back in August. I recommend to read the above linked Magnier piece together with my speculations below.

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The Turkish move to annex Mosul (http://www.moonofalabama.org/2015/12/erdogan-moves-to-annexes-mosul.html) is further developing into a serious conflict. Iraq has demanded that Turkey removes its soldiers and heavy weapons from the "training base" near Mosul within 48 hours. It asserts that these were put there without asking or informing the sovereign Iraqi government.

Turkey first denied that any new troops arrived in Iraq. It then said that the troops were only a replacement (http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/no-forces-to-be-deployed-in-mosul-until-baghdads-concerns-are-addressed-turkish-pm.aspx?pageID=238&nID=92160&NewsCatID=510) of the existing training force. Then it claimed that the new troops were there to protect (http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-base-in-iraq-targets-mosuls-liberation-from-isil.aspx?pageID=238&nID=92159&NewsCatID=409) the training force:

Turkish sources say the reinforcement plans were discussed in detail with Brett McGurk, U.S. President Barack Obama’s counter-ISIL fight coordinator, during his latest visit to Ankara on Nov. 5-6. “The Americans are telling the truth,” one high-rank source said. “This is not a U.S.-led coalition operation, but we are informing them about every single detail. This is not a secret operation.”The U.S. was informed but Iraq was not? That makes it look as if the U.S. is behind this. Brett McGurk has also said that this is not a "U.S.-led coalition" operation but is otherwise playing (https://twitter.com/brett_mcgurk/status/673606916497670145) "neutral" on the issue.

But Reuters now stenographed (http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/12/07/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-turkey-idUSKBN0TQ0SS20151207) some other Turkish source which suddenly claims that the tanks and artillery are part of the coalition:

Turkey said on Monday it would not withdraw hundreds of soldiers who arrived last week at a base in northern Iraq, despite being ordered by Baghdad to pull them out within 48 hours. The sudden arrival of such a large and heavily armed Turkish contingent in a camp near the frontline in northern Iraq has added yet another controversial deployment to a war against Islamic State fighters that has drawn in most of the world's major powers.

Ankara says the troops are there as part of an international mission to train and equip Iraqi forces to fight against Islamic State. The Iraqi government says it never invited such a force, and will take its case to the United Nations if they are not pulled out. The force to be trained is under control of a former Iraqi state governor who is, like the Kurdish ex-president Barzani, a Turkish tool:

The camp occupied by the Turkish troops is being used by a force called Hashid Watani, or national mobilization, made up of mainly Sunni Arab former Iraqi police and volunteers from Mosul. It is seen as a counterweight to Shi'ite militias that have grown in clout elsewhere in Iraq with Iranian backing, and was formed by former Nineveh governor Atheel al-Nujaifi, who has close relations with Turkey. A small number of Turkish trainers were already there before the latest deployment. The former policemen who ran away when the Islamic State took over Mosul are not and will not be a serious fighting force against their Islamic State brethren in Mosul. They are just a fig leave for the Turkish occupation.

There are rumors, not confirmed yet, that Turkey now uses the presence of its force to blackmail the Iraqi government. Turkey, it is said, wants agreement from Baghdad for a gas pipeline from Qatar through Iraq to Turkey.


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Map via Fer G (https://twitter.com/FGunay1/status/673870364078903296)

The original plan was to have such a pipeline run through Syrian desert flatland to Turkey and on to Europe. The gas from Qatar would be sold there in competition with gas from Russia. President Assad had rejected that pipeline and preferred one from Iran through Iraq to the Syrian coast. Qatar and Iran collectively own a huge gas field in the Persian Gulf. Whoever gets his pipeline going first will have a big advantage in extracting from the field and selling its gas.


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The rejection of the original pipeline project was one reason why Qatar engaged heavily in the regime change project in Syria. The Plan B would have the pipeline go through the rather rough east Anatolia - more expensive than the Syria route but feasible. The U.S. supports the Qatar project. Anything that would make Europeans dependent on gas from a U.S. controlled regime is preferable to Europeans who do independent business with Russia.

Erdogan visited (http://policy.dfns.net/2015/12/01/erdogan-visits-qatar-to-discuss-relations/) Qatar on December 1 for two days and the two countries signed a number of "strategic agreements". The Turkish troops moved to Mosul on December 4 and 5. This makes the pipeline extortion that Turkey is said to try with Iraq at least plausible.

But Iraq and its Prime Minister Abadi can not agree to the pipeline project. Its allies in Iran, Russia and Syria are all against the Qatar-Turkey-(U.S.) project and would see that as treason. Shia militia in Iraq, especially the Badr brigade, have threatened to destroy the Turkish force near Mosul. They would remove Abadi from his office if he would fold under the Turkish-Qatari-(U.S.) extortion scheme.

Possibly related to the Turkish escalation is today's attack (http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Dec-07/326235-three-syrian-soldiers-die-in-suspected-us-coalition-air-strike-monitoring-group.ashx?src=iPhone) on a Syrian government position near Deir Ezzour:

Syria's government said the U.S.-led military coalition has carried out a deadly airstrike on a Syrian army camp, but officials from the alliance said the report was false. Syria said four coalition jets killed three soldiers and wounded 13 in the eastern Deir al-Zor province on Sunday evening, calling it an act of aggression, the first time it has made such an accusation.
...
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported earlier that jets likely to be from the coalition hit part of the Saeqa military camp near the town of Ayyash in Deir al-Zor province, killing four Syrian army personnel.
But a U.S. military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States is certain that Russia was responsible for the deadly strike on the Syrian army camp .

The official flatly dismissed claims that U.S.-led coalition jets were responsible.

Brett McGurk, U.S. President Barack Obama's envoy to the coalition, also denied claims of coalition responsibility, saying on his Twitter account: "Reports of coalition involvement are false." Damascus insists that four jets entered Syria from Al-Bukamal, Iraq and fired 9 missiles against al-Saeqa military base in Ayyash near Deir Ezzour.

The U.S. accuses Russia to have committed the strike. I very much doubt that. There have been accidental "friendly fire" strikes by the Russian air force against Syrian troops and against Hizbullah. But those accidents were always immediately admitted and investigated within the 4+1 alliance. The Russians say they did not do this strike and Damascus agrees.

But notice the weasel word in the U.S. statements: "U.S.-led coalition". The Turks in Mosul are not part of the "U.S.-led coalition" even if they first claimed to be. If the air strike in Syria today were not done by the "U.S.-led coalition" it could mean that some country committed these air strikes on its own without the strike being officially within the "U.S.-led coalition" framework. Could that country's name start with a Q?

The U.S. will know who really launched this strike. In both, the Turkish aggression on Iraq and the airstrike in Syria today and even with the earlier mountain ambush (http://harpers.org/blog/2015/12/mountain-ambush/) on the Russian jet, the U.S. is likely "leading from behind" the curtain. All these events are, like the now forming new alliance with Jihadis (http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/12/04/will-an-al-qaeda-ally-be-a-peacemaker-in-syria/), part of Obama's bigger plans and designs (http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2015/12/jihadis-integral-part-for-us-designs-for-syria-by-cp.html) for Syria and the Middle East.

[Hervé]

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The mis-direct from the above scheme (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69621-Ukraine-Crimea-Syria-Israel-Iran-Putin-and-World-War-III&p=1028186&viewfull=1#post1028186):

Turkey eyes Israeli gas to replace Russian imports
Thu Dec 10, 2015 11:44AM


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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during the Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards ceremony at the presidential palace in Ankara, on December 9, 2015. (AFP photo) Turkey is considering gas imports from Israel, with the Tel Aviv regime's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying the two sides have already discussed the possibility.


Full article: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/10/441126/Turkey-consideration-Israel-gas-offer-Russia-row-tension

[Dennis Leahy]

Hervé, the thanks button is not enough. Excellent reporting. You're keeping your eye on the ball. :~)

[animovado]

Some ideas of Thierry Meyssan that give an additional perspective to the above posted articles by Hervé:

The unavowable project for a pseudo-Kurdistan (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189562.html)

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris and London are multiplying their categorical declarations against Daesh, its programme of ethnic cleansing and its terrorist attacks. And yet they are preparing in secret for the ethnic cleansing of Northern Syria with a view to creating a pseudo-Kurdistan, and the re-localisation of Daesh to Al-Anbar in order to create a « Sunnistan » there. Thierry Meyssan analyses this plan, and underlines the numerous contradictions in the official discourse.


Is the military intervention by France, Israël and the United Kingdom in Syria legal ?

On the 20th November, in order to launch their new war in Iraq and Syria, France, Israël and the United Kingdom forced the Security Council to adopt resolution 2249 [1]. In the opinion of the French representative at the UNO, who is the author of the text, the resolution authorises collective action in accordance with article 51 of the United Nations Charter, in other words, as a means of « legitimate defence ». For the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, it supports « any action against this murderous and diabolical sect, both in Iraq and Syria » [2].

However, according to the experts of the Research Service of the Library of the House of Commons, this is entirely false. After a careful study of the legislation concerned, Arabella Lang states that the resolution in no way authorises the use of force, but enjoins everyone who has the legal possibility to do so to redouble their efforts [3]. This means that the resolution only applies to states which have been requested to intervene by Iraq and Syria.

For the purposes of the cause, Iraq therefore addressed a letter to the General Secretary and the Security Council confirming that they were under attack by Daesh from Syrian territory, even though the Islamic Emirate was founded in Iraq. Since France and the United Kingdom had been solicited by Iraq, the two states – excluding Israël - pretend that they are exercising their right to « legitimate collective defence ». Besides this, each of them pretend that they have been attacked by Daesh from Syria, and therefore claim they also have an individual right to legitimate defence. Unfortunately, these arguments are only valid if Paris and London can provide proof that Daesh is preparing imminent attacks from Syria, which is not the case [4].

Consequently, military intervention in Syria by France, Israël and the United Kingdom remains illegal in the absence of prior agreement from the governement of the Syrian Arab Republic.

Let us remember that the United Nations Charter and the pertinent resolutions of the General Assembly formally prohibit military support for non-state groups seeking to overthrow members of the UNO. This is why France and the United Kingdom have long been pretending that they were sending only defensive equipment to the armed groups in Syria. Unfortunately, these groups also receive large quantitites of offensive weaponry – notably rifles, mortars, anti-tank and ground-to-air missiles, explosives, and even combat gases. In August 2014, French President Hollande admitted, in an interview with Le Monde, that he had delivered offensive weapons to the Syrian « rebels » [5]. He later specified, in interviews with journalist Xavier Panon, that he has been delivering [6] 20 mm cannons, machine guns, rocket-launchers, and anti-tank missiles since 2012, which unambiguously violates international law, and drags France down to the level of a « gangster state » [7].

Full article: http://www.voltairenet.org/article189562.html

(following chapter titles:
- The unavowable project of France, Israël and the United Kingdom
- The Juppé plan
- Kurdistan and Syria
- Who are the Kurds ?
- The destruction of the Russian Soukhoï 24 by Turkey
- The Franco-British intervention)

[Callista]

From RT https://www.rt.com/news/325583-putin-isis-threat-syria/
(also on TASS and PressTv)

Any targets threatening Russian forces in Syria must be immediately destroyed - Putin
Published time: 11 Dec, 2015 10:28
Edited time: 11 Dec, 2015 11:42

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Jihadists in Syria pose a direct threat to Russia, Putin has told a defense meeting in Moscow, adding that any targets threatening the country's military there should be destroyed. Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said Islamic State’s influence in Syria continues to expand.

The Russian military’s actions in Syria are being coordinated with Russian special services such as the FSB, who are disclosing terrorist cells, including Islamic State, Putin said.

All forces threatening Russian servicemen in Syria should be destroyed, according to the Russian president.

"Any targets threatening our [military] group or land infrastructure must be immediately destroyed," Putin said, speaking at a Defense Ministry event.

Putin said more 5,000 members of the Free Syrian Army are operating on the terrorists’ side.

"In general, the actions of the Russian groups deserve high praise. This is a result of work by the Ministry of Defense, General Staff officers, Russian Air Force pilots and the Russian Navy," he added.

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‘ISIS influence expanding in Syria’ - Russian Def Min

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu added that Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) controls about 70 percent of Syria’s territory, adding that in Syria and Iraq there are about 60,000 militants.

"The Islamic State area of influence is expanding," he said, “There is a threat that their actions will be transferred to Central Asia and the Caucasus.”

To date the Russian military has carried out about 4,000 sorties, striking around 8,000 terrorist facilities in Syria, he added.

Drones have proved a necessary part of the military operation against the terrorists, according to Shoigu. He said that Moscow has an about 1,720 drones at its disposal.

Both Putin and Shoigu took part in the Defense Ministry board meeting, which apart from the Syrian operation touched upon such issues as nuclear strategy, NATO expansion and Arctic military bases.

"Special attention should be paid to strengthening the combat potential of the strategic nuclear forces and implementing defense space programs," Putin said during the meeting.

Russia needs to "arm all the components of the nuclear triad with new armaments, raise the efficiency of the missile attack warning and aerospace defense systems,” the Russian president said.

Shoigu added NATO has significantly expanded in Europe.

The US has sited at least 200 bombs in the Netherlands, Turkey, Belgium, Italy and Germany, according to the defense minister.

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BREAKING: Russian Kilo-class sub with cruise missiles in Mediterranean off Syria - reports http://on.rt.com/6ytg
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Why is the US Aiding and Enabling Saudi Arabia’s Genocidal War in Yemen? (http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/08/why-is-the-us-aiding-and-enabling-saudi-arabias-genocidal-war-in-yemen/)

October 8, 2015
Counterpunch
Michael Horton

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The humanitarian crisis in Yemen rivals the crisis in Syria. After six months of war and the imposition of a naval blockade designed to starve the country into submission, 90% of Yemen’s population of more than 24 million are in urgent need of humanitarian aid. More than 6000 people, nearly 90% of which are civilians, are dead and most of Yemen’s already limited infrastructure is in ruins. Sana’a, the capital of Yemen and home to 3 million, is under continuous aerial bombardment by Saudi Arabia and its partners who have targeted schools, hospitals, and homes in densely populated urban areas.

The US, along with the UK, is providing intelligence and logistical support to Saudi Arabia and its partners. Both countries are also supplying Saudi Arabia with weapons. The US is equipping the Saudis with internationally banned cluster munitions which now litter large swaths of the Yemeni countryside where they will kill and maim for years to come.

Beyond arms manufacturers, the only real beneficiary of this bloody war are takfiri groups like al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the Islamic State (IS) which is making inroads in Yemen.

So why is the US supporting a war that has achieved little beyond further empowering groups like AQAP and IS?

Yemen and its people are being offered up as a kind of sacrifice for Saudi Arabia’s and the Gulf Cooperation Council’s support for the nuclear arms deal with Iran. Most importantly US support for Saudi Arabia’s war has ensured a steady stream of new weapons orders. US-based arms manufacturers have sold 8 billion USD worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia since it launched ‘Operation Decisive Storm’ six months ago. This is a figure that adds almost ten percent to the 90.4 billion USD worth of weapons that US arms manufacturers have sold to Saudi Arabia since President Obama was elected.

In exchange for tepid Saudi support for the nuclear arms deal with Iran—support that the US does not need given that both Russia and China back the deal—and billions of dollars in weapons sales, the US has turned a blind eye to what can only be called state sanctioned genocide in Yemen. US support for Saudi Arabia’s disastrous war in Yemen is likely to have profound and lasting consequences for not only Yemen but also for the region, and in particular for Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi led war in Yemen was launched on the pretense of re-installing the exiled government of Yemeni President Hadi. The real aim of the war is to destroy Yemen’s Houthi Shi’a rebels which Saudi Arabia views as Iranian proxies. The Houthis are Zaidi Shi’a, a sect which is doctrinally closer to Sunnis than Iran’s Twelver Shi’a. The Houthi movement is deeply rooted in the socio-cultural context of north-west Yemen and while it undoubtedly has a relationship with Iran, it has never been—and likely never will be—an Iranian proxy. The Houthi movement and its leadership are fiercely independent.

Saudi Arabia’s fears about growing Iranian influence in the region have led it and its partners into a war that will consume their blood and treasure for years to come thereby guaranteeing years of healthy profits for US and British arms manufacturers. Yemen’s mountainous terrain and complex political landscape rival those of Afghanistan. The Houthis, while at the other end of the religious spectrum, are comparable to Afghanistan’s Taliban in terms of their capabilities as guerilla fighters. In many respects, they are superior.

The Houthis will not be defeated by an aerial campaign and a limited number of ground troops. Neither Saudi Arabia nor its partners have the capability to deploy and sustain the thousands of troops that it will take to defeat the Houthis and their allies. Nor do they have enough political capital to absorb what would be an extremely high casualty rate for their soldiers. In 1962, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser sent troops into Yemen for what he thought would be a quick victory over Royalist forces fighting for the Zaidi Imam who ruled north Yemen. By 1967, at least fifteen thousand Egyptian soldiers had been killed in Yemen.

By enabling Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, the US is not only ensuring the destruction of Yemen and the empowerment of AQAP and IS, it could also be inadvertently further tipping the balance of power in the Middle East in favor of Iran. The government of Iran can only be delighted as it watches Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates plunge ever deeper into the quagmire that is Yemen. The war, which, if negotiations are not pursued, could go on for years, will only weaken the governments of Saudi Arabia and the UAE. During a period in which oil prices are low and may head lower, both governments will be forced to pour billions of dollars into a war that will have no victors beyond groups like AQAP and IS—both of which will—and have—targeted the Gulf monarchies that now view them as useful proxies.

In the case of Saudi Arabia, the war has already spread across its long, rugged, and largely unguarded border with Yemen. Houthi fighters and Yemeni Army units allied with them have launched numerous successful attacks on Saudi border posts. For short periods, Saudi Armed Forces have lost control of towns and villages in the Saudi provinces of Jizan and Najran due to Houthi incursions.

Most seriously for Saudi Arabia, there are rumblings of discontent in the House of Saud with King Salman and his son and defense minister Muhammad bin Salman. Muhammad bin Salman—who at age 30 is the youngest and least experienced defense minister in the world—has broken with a foreign policy that has long been cautious and careful. The young defense minister who is also second in line to the throne is viewed by many members of the House of Saud as reckless. As Saudi Arabia is drawn deeper into what could well be its Vietnam, discontent with the current leadership will undoubtedly increase.

US support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen has led to the deaths of thousands of civilians and helped erase fifty years of progress in Yemen. As the war grinds on for what could be years, it will produce blowback as significant as that generated by the US’ own ill-conceived invasion of Iraq which altered the balance of power in the Middle East and ultimately spawned the Islamic State. This is undoubtedly welcome news for arms manufacturers.

Source (http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/08/why-is-the-us-aiding-and-enabling-saudi-arabias-genocidal-war-in-yemen/)

[Cidersomerset]

100,000 foreign troops including Americans to be deployed in Iraq, MP claims


The US is to send some 10,000 troops to Iraq to provide support for a 90,000-strong
force from the Gulf states, a leading Iraqi opposition MP has warned. The politician said
the plan was announced to the Iraqi government during a visit by US Senator John McCain.

During a meeting in Baghdad on November 27, McCain told Prime Minister Haider Abadi
and a number of senior Iraqi cabinet and military officials that the decision was
‘non-negotiable’, claimed Hanan Fatlawi, the head of the opposition Irada Movement.

“A hundred thousand foreign troops, including 90,000 from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar
and Jordan, and 10,000 troops from America will be deployed in western regions of Iraq,”
she wrote on her Facebook page.

She added that the Iraqi prime minister protested the plan, but was told that “the decision
has already been taken.”’

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https://www.rt.com/news/325477-arab-army-iraq-plan/

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Who’s ‘unprofessional’ now? RT’s Gayane Chichakyan gets criticism instead of answers

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Published on 10 Dec 2015

Iraq is furious at Turkey’s military incursion, but the US State Department doesn’t
seem too concerned. Its spokesman stonewalled RT’s questions about the Iraq-
Turkey row, getting personal in the process.

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More Blair spin & BS......

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Tony Blair defends advice to Colonel Gaddafi during Libya conflict
2 hours ago

From the section UK Politics

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Tony Blair met former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2007

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35069842

[Hervé]

Ali al-Ahmed: Saudi regime has come to realize it has been defeated in Yemen
(http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/11/441228/Yemen-Saudi-Arabia-UN-Ansarullah-Ahmed)
Fri Dec 11, 2015 7:44AM

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Press TV has conducted an interview with Ali al-Ahmed, director of the Institute for the [Persian] Gulf Affairs (IGA) from Washington, on a UN-brokered truce in Yemen.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: What do you think about the ceasefire agreement? We’ve had talks about the whole situation in Yemen before. And you were talking about the Yemenis taking the whole situation into their own hands. What do you make of this new truce that is supposedly going to take place between Yemen’s Ansarullah movement and the United Nations?

Ahmed: There appears to be Saudi fatigue, the Saudi government right now, I think, more than ever is convinced that it has reached its end. There is nothing that they can do that can change the realities in Yemen. They have spent over 100 billion dollars in eight months on this war. They have bombed Yemen. They have destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure. They have killed more than 10,000 people, mostly civilians, yet although they have many countries behind them, the US, the UK and the mercenaries from different parts of the world from Colombia to Senegal to Jordan, it didn’t work. So, there is a realization that is setting in that Saudi Arabia has been defeated. It has not been able to reach its stated goals. So they are trying to find a way out of this conflict.

Press TV: Huge failure as you say on behalf of Riyadh and its allies, they didn’t get anywhere with this war, but as we reported Saudi Arabia can’t really be trusted when it comes to a ceasefire, because it’s violated before. Do you think this is the case now or we can be actually hopeful that peace is restored within Yemen?

Ahmed: You cannot ever trust the Saudi government, ever, but the signs, the writings on the wall, show that there is a Saudi realization that they have been defeated. They are trying to find a way. Today the communiqué in Riyadh of the GCC summit indicated such Saudi desire to end by calling on the warring parties in Yemen to reach a ceasefire. At the same time, there was a disagreement between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on the final communiqué.

And I think the emir of Kuwait saw an end and he wanted to make it clear, so he can withdraw his forces as well, because now all these [Persian] Gulf countries, except Oman obviously, which have participated in the criminal war against Yemen, will have to pay certain or some price, at least financial, for reconstructing the Yemeni state and the infrastructure.

I really think that it’s happening, but again you never ever can trust the Saudi government.

[Hervé]

Turkish Grey Wolves: Forgotten Story of Cold War-Era Paramilitary Group (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151211/1031604883/turkish-grey-wolves-cold-war-era-paramilitary-group-gladio-cia-bozkurtlar.html)

Politics (http://sputniknews.com/politics/) 19:38 11.12.2015
(updated 19:58 11.12.2015)


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Why has Washington been blind to Turkey's misdeeds in Syria and Iraq, including the bombing of the Syrian Kurds and oil smuggling in Syria and Iraq? The truth of the matter is that since the beginning of the Cold War era US leadership has viewed Ankara as a valuable geostrategic ally.

During the Cold War era Turkey was regarded by Washington as an entity capable of containing the USSR's access to the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

"Since the earliest days of the Cold War, Turkey's strategic importance derived from its geographic position as the West's easternmost bulwark against Soviet communism. In an effort to weaken the Soviet state, the CIA also used pan-Turkish militants to incite anti-Soviet passions among Muslim Turkish minorities inside the Soviet Union, a strategy that strengthened ties between US intelligence and Turkey's ultra-nationalists," prominent American author and expert on far-right movements and terrorism, Martin A. Lee, wrote in his essay for The Consortium in 1997.

In 1952 the Tactical Mobilization Group, a counter-guerilla special force, was founded in Turkey (later absorbed by the Turkish Army's Special Warfare Department). It was established as a part of NATO's covert "stay-behind" anti-Communist initiative, also known as Operation Gladio. The roots of the initiative lay at the Truman Doctrine voiced by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947, before a joint session of Congress. "I ask the Congress to authorize the detail of American civilian and military personnel to Greece and Turkey, at the request of those countries, to assist in the tasks of reconstruction, and for the purpose of supervising the use of such financial and material assistance as may be furnished. I recommend that authority also be provided for the instruction and training of selected Greek and Turkish personnel," Truman said in his official speech, pledging to "protect" Greece and Turkey from "Soviet aggression."

A number of Turkish soldiers were sent to the United States in 1948 in order to undergo training in "special war methods" including assassinations, bombings, kidnappings, attacks, torture and militia training.


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One of these Turkish military servicemen was Alparslan Turkes (Türkeş), a would-be founder of the Turkish National Action Party (Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi, MHP) in 1969 and its militant arm the Grey Wolves (Bozkurtlar).

"Led by Colonel Alpaslan Turkes, the National Action Party espoused a fanatical pan-Turkish ideology that called for reclaiming large sections of the Soviet Union under the flag of a re-born Turkish empire," Lee narrated, adding that Turkish nationalists widely used translations of Nazi texts and formed a Nazi-like credo "the Turkish race above all others."

Although many Turkish ultra-nationalists were both "anti-Western" and "anti-Soviet," they continued to cooperate with NATO and US intelligence. Interestingly enough, the Grey Wolves had also established close ties with the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN), backed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The ABN was an umbrella organization for anti-Communist émigré — former Nazi collaborators — formed in 1943 by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). Headed by the infamous Nazi collaborator and OUN member Yaroslav Stetsko, the organization brought together a wide range of Eastern European emigration groups.

It is no secret that the CIA used former Nazi collaborators and executioners as a Cold War instrument against the USSR. For instance, the CIA and the US State Department sponsored OUN leaders' immigration to the United States in 1949, according to Dr. Per Anders Rudling, a Swedish-American historian (The OUN, the UPA and the Holocaust: A Study in the Manufacturing of Historical Myths, 2011).

Remarkably, Ruzi Nazar, a leader of the Munich-based ABN, had longstanding relations with the CIA and MHP. Being a former member of SS Turkestan legion, he had been involved in paramilitary training of Grey Wolves in the 1960s. In general, Turkes established over 100 camps across Turkey for MHP's military arm. The ultra-nationalist group took part in terror activities aimed against their leftist rivals and Kurds in the 1970s, resulting in the death of almost 6,000 people. It is believed that Bozkurtlar were also responsible for a 1981 assassination attempt aimed against Pope John Paul II.

Despite the massacre they unleashed, the Grey Wolves enjoyed full protection from Turkey's counter-guerilla units of a Special Warfare Department.

Needless to say, the collapse of the USSR was seen by pan-Turkish MHP and Bozkurtlar as a brilliant opportunity to expand their influence over the former Soviet Republics with Turkic and Muslim population.

​The Grey Wolves took part both in the Nagorno-Karabakh War of 1992 between Azerbaijan and Armenia (on the Azerbaijani side) and in the First and the Second Chechen Wars, in 1994 and 1999, respectively, on the side of Chechen Islamists. Furthermore, in 1995 Bozkurtlar were spotted making an attempt to seize power in Azerbaijan.

Bangkok-based geopolitical analyst Tony Cartalucci calls attention to the fact that the Grey Wolves have recently bolstered their activity in Central Asia, including former Soviet states and, most notably, China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The analyst assumes that Bozkurtlar could have been behind numerous terror attacks carried out by Uyghur separatists in China.

Given the history of the Grey Wolves organization, Bozkurtlar's purported cooperation with Crimea Tatar nationalists and the Ukrainian far-right groups, as well as Islamists in Syria and Iraq comes as no surprise.

However, the question remains open whether there is a force capable of controlling the Turkish Frankenstein, created during the Cold War era.


Related:
Are Erdogan's Grey Wolves Terrorists Knocking on Crimea's Door? (http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20151210/1031518376/grey-wolves-threat-to-crimea.html)
Oil Smuggling and Syria: Is NATO No Better Than Turkey? (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151210/1031535597/oil-smuggling-syria-iraq-nato-no-better-than-turkey.html)
By Equating USSR to Nazi Germany West Covers Up Own Shameful History (http://sputniknews.com/analysis/20150512/1022040756.html)

[Hervé]

Another mis-direct?

Turkey issues arrest warrant for dozens linked to Gulen (http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/11/441290/Turkey-Gulen-Erdogan-Crackdown-)

Fri Dec 11, 2015 4:43PM


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Fethullah Gulen, the US-based Turkish opposition cleric ©AFP


Turkey has issued arrest warrants for top opposition figure Fethullah Gulen and tens of others accused of having alleged links to a terror group, in what is seen as a new attempt by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government to counter the influence of its ally-turned-foe.

[...]

Full article: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/11/441290/Turkey-Gulen-Erdogan-Crackdown-

Who to believe?


[...]
While at RAND Fuller played a key role gaining asylum for a Turkish national in the USA. Fetullah Gülen, a Turkish national who was forced to flee in 1999 and seek asylum, won his US residence permit due to the intervention of two senior CIA or former men. One was Graham E. Fuller. [9]

Foreign Policy Journal describes the role of Fuller and the CIA in getting indicted Turkish fugitive Gülen asylum in the USA: “Fethullah Gülen became a green card holder despite serious opposition from FBI and from Homeland Security Department. Former CIA officers (formally and informally) such as Graham Fuller and Morton Abromovitz were some of the prominent references in Gülen’s green card application.” [10]
Jihad Spreads to Central Asia

From his new luxurious heavily-guarded estate in Saylorsburg, a remote part of eastern Pennsylvania, Gülen launched a series of fundamentalist Salafist mosques and madrasses, not only in his native Turkey where he was the alleged power behind Turkey’s AKP regime of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, himself a product of Gülen’s schools, but across the Islamic regions of Central Asia as they separated from the Soviet Union in the chaos after 1991. [11]

According to Edmonds, an authority on the subject, “US Islamization Operations in Central Asia via Gülen started in late 1997, early 1998. That brings me to …Graham Fuller.” [12]

Fethullah Gulen, lives in Pennsylvania. From there he runs a $25 billion international network. He is tied to hundreds of Gulen charter schools in the United States itself, 36 of which are located in Texas alone.

A memoir by former head of Turkish intelligence, Osman Nuri Gundes, claims that Fethullah Gülen’s worldwide Islamic movement based in Pennsylvania has been providing cover for the CIA since the mid-1990s, and that in the 90s, the movement “sheltered 130 CIA agents” at its schools in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan alone. [13]

Gülen schools in Russian Chechnya and Dagestan regions, both locations of fanatical Jihadists since 1991, were ultimately banned by Putin. The Russian government has banned all Gülen schools and the activities of the Gülen-linked Nurcu sect in Russia. Over 20 Turkish followers of Gülen were deported from Russia in 2002-2004. In 1999 Uzbekistan closed all Gülen’s Madrasas and shortly afterward arrested eight journalists who were graduates of Gülen schools, and found them guilty of setting up an illegal religious group and of involvement in an extremist organization. In Turkmenistan, government authorities placed Gülen’s schools under close scrutiny and have ordered them to scrap the history of religion from curriculums. [14]
[...]

Full post: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69621-Ukraine-Crimea-Syria-Israel-Iran-Putin-and-World-War-III&p=1025663&viewfull=1#post1025663

[Sophocles]

It`s worth a try:clapping: -A friendly hand for Arseniy Yatsenyuk

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[umar]

Since the wars are rising. This may be the right time to see the following from Grants Williams called "Consequences of Economic Peace".

Should give some idea about if future has more wars or less.

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[Hervé]

Gulen (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69621-Ukraine-Crimea-Syria-Israel-Iran-Putin-and-World-War-III&p=1025661&viewfull=1#post1025661), Grey wolves... and now that other brotherhood:

Where Will this War Frenzy Lead? What Stinks in Saudi Ain’t the Camel Dung. ISIS is A “Saudi Army in Disguise.”
(http://www.globalresearch.ca/where-will-this-war-frenzy-lead-what-stinks-in-saudi-aint-the-camel-dung-isis-is-a-saudi-army-in-disguise/5495036)
By F. William Engdahl (http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/f-william-engdahl)
Global Research, December 10, 2015
New Eastern Outlook (http://journal-neo.org/2015/12/08/what-stinks-in-saudi-aint-the-camel-dung/) 8 December 2015



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In recent weeks one nation after another is falling over themselves, literally, to join the turkey shoot known, erroneously, as the war in Syria, ostensibly against the Islamic State or Daesh. The most wanted but most feared question is where will this war frenzy lead, and how can it be stopped short of dragging the entire planet into a world war of destruction?

On September 30, responding to a formal invitation or plea from the duly-elected President of the Syrian Arab Republic, the Russian Federation began what was an initially highly effective bombing campaign in support of the Syrian Government Army.

On 13 November following the terror attacks claimed by ISIS in Paris, the French President proclaimed France was “at war” and immediately sent her one and only aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, to Syria to join the battle. Then on December 4, the German Parliament approved sending 1,200 German soldiers and six Tornado jets to “help” France. Reports out of Germany say the Germans will not work with Russia or the Assad regime, but with CentCom command in Florida and coalition headquarters, not in Damascus, but in Kuwait. The same week the UK Parliament approved sending British planes and forces to “fight ISIS” in Syria. Again we can be sure it’s not to help Russia’s cause in cooperation with the Syrian Army of Assad to restore sovereignty to Syria.

Then Turkey’s hot-head President Recep Erdoğan, fresh from his criminal, premeditated downing of the Russian SU-24 in Syria, orders Turkish tanks into the oil-rich Mosul region of Iraq against the vehement protests of the Iraqi government. And added to this chaos, the United States claims that its planes have been surgically bombing ISIS sites for more than a year, yet the result has been only to expand the territories controlled by ISIS and other terror groups.

If we take a minute to step back and reflect, we can readily realize the world is literally going berzerk, with Syria as merely the ignition to a far uglier situation which has the potential to destroy our lovely, peaceful planet.

Something major missing
In recent weeks I have been increasingly unsatisfied by the general explanations about who is actually pulling the strings in the entire Middle East plot or, more precisely, plots, to the point of reexamining my earlier views on the role of Saudi Arabia. Since the June, 2015 surprise meeting in St Petersburg between Russian President Putin and Saudi Defense Minister Prince Salman, the Saudi monarchy gave a carefully cultivated impression of rapprochement with former arch-enemy Russia, even discussing purchase of up to $10 billion in Russian military equipment and nuclear plants, and possible “face time” for Putin with the Saudi King Salman.

The long procession of Arab leaders going to Moscow and Sochi in recent months to meet President Putin gave the impression of a modern version of the walk to Canossa in 1077 of Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV to Pope Gregory VII at Canossa Castle, to beg revocation of Henry’s ex-communication. This time it looked like it was the Gulf Arab monarchs in the role of Henry IV, and Vladimir Putin in the role of the Pope. Or so it seemed. I at least believed that at the time. Like many global political events, that, too, was soaked in deception and lies.

What is now emerging, especially clear since the Turkish deliberate ambush of the Russian SU-24 jet inside Syrian airspace, is that Russia is not fighting a war against merely ISIS terrorists, nor against the ISIS backers in Turkey. Russia is taking on, perhaps unknowingly, a vastly more dangerous plot. Behind that plot is the hidden role of Saudi Arabia and its new monarch, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, together with his son, the Defense Minister, Prince Salman.

Saudi ‘impulsive intervention policy’
German media has widely reported a leaked German BND intelligence estimate. The BND is Germany’s version of the CIA. The BND report, among other things, concentrates on the rising role of the King’s son, 30-year-old Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Referring to the child prince’s important role the BND states, “The current cautious diplomatic stance of senior members of the Saudi royal family will be replaced by an impulsive intervention policy (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/12029546/Saudi-Arabia-destabilising-Arab-world-German-intelligence-warns.html).”

Prince Salman is Defense Minister and led the Kingdom, beginning last March, into a mad war, code-named by Salman as “Operation Decisive Storm,” in neighboring Yemen. Saudis headed a coalition of Arab states that includes Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain. The Prince is also head of the Saudi Economic Council which he created.

The new King, Salman, is not the benign sweet guy his PR staff try to paint him.

As my soon-to-be-released book, The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy, documents in detail, ever since CIA Cairo Station Chief Miles Copeland organized the transfer of the Muslim Brotherhood, banned in Egypt for an alleged assassination attempt against Nasser, to Saudi Arabia in the early 1950’s, there has existed a perverse marriage of the Saudi monarchy and radical “Islamic” terrorist organizations. As described by John Loftus, a former US Justice Department official, by the joining of Egypt’s Muslim Brothers and Saudi strict Islam, “they combined the doctrines of Nazism with this weird Islamic cult, Wahhabism.”

Allen Dulles’ CIA secretly persuaded the Saudi monarchy in 1954 to help rebuild the banned Muslim Brotherhood, thereby creating a fusion of the Brotherhood with Saudi ultra-fundamentalist Wahhabi Islam and, of course, backed by the vast Saudi oil riches. The CIA planned to use the Saudi Muslim Brothers to wield a weapon across the entire Muslim world against feared Soviet incursions. A fanatical young terrorist named Osama bin Laden was later to arise out of this marriage in Hell between the Brotherhood and Wahhabite Saudi Islam.

King Salman was in the middle of creating Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda as it was later dubbed in the media. His involvement goes back to the late 1970’s when he, as Governor of Riyadh, was named head of major conservative Saudi charities later discovered financing Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Bosnia. Salman worked intimately as the financial funding conduit for what became Al Qaeda together with bin Laden’s Saudi intelligence “handler,” then-head of Saudi Intelligence, Prince Turki Al-Faisal and the Saudi-financed Muslim World League.

King Salman in those days headed the Saudi High Commission for Relief to Bosnia-Herzegovina, a key front for al-Qaeda in the Balkans in the 1990s. According to a United Nations investigation, Salman in the 1990s transferred more than $120 million from commission accounts under his control — as well as his own personal accounts — to the Third World Relief Agency, an al-Qaida front and the main pipeline for illegal weapons shipments to al-Qaida fighters in the Balkans. Osama bin Laden was directly involved in those operations of Salman.

During the US invasion of Iraq in 2003-4, Al Qaeda entered that country, headed by Moroccan-born terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who had pledged allegiance to bin Laden’s Al Qaeda, creating Al Qaeda in Iraq, later calling itself the Islamic State in Iraq, the Saudi-financed forerunner of ISIS. A declassified Pentagon DIA document shows that in August 2012, the DIA knew that the US-backed Syrian insurgency was dominated by Islamist militant groups including “the Salafists, the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda in Iraq (https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/officials-islamic-state-arose-from-us-support-for-al-qaeda-in-iraq-a37c9a60be4#.mrjgu8mcl).” According to author Gerald Posner, Salman’s son, Ahmed bin Salman, who died in 2002, also had ties to al-Qaida (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/02/new-saudi-king-tied-911-bin-laden.html).

A Saudi Oil Imperium
If we look at the emergence of Al Qaeda in Iraq and its transformation into the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), it all traces back to the Saudi operations going back to the late 1970’s involving now-King Salman, Saudi Osama bin Laden, together with Saudi intelligence head, Prince Turki Al-Faisal.

Washington and the CIA worked intimately with this Saudi network, bringing bin Laden and other key Saudis into Pakistan to train with the Pakistani ISI intelligence, creating what became the Afghan Mujahideen. The Mujahideen were created by Saudi, Pakistani and US intelligence to defeat the Soviet Red Army in the 1980’s Afghanistan war, the CIA’s “Operation Cyclone.” Cyclone was Zbigniew Brzezinski’s plan to lure Moscow into an Afghan “Bear Trap” and give the Soviet Union what he called their “Vietnam.”

The so-called ISIS today in Iraq and Syria, as well as the Al Qaeda Al-Nusra Front in Syria and various other Jihad terror splinter gangs under attack from Russia and the Damascus government of Assad, all have their origins in Saudi Arabia and the activities of King Salman.

Has the King undergone a Saul-to-Paul conversion to a pacific world view since becoming King, and his son, Prince Salman as well? Despite signals in recent months that the Saudis have ceased financing the anti-Assad terror organizations in Syria, the reality is the opposite.

The Saudis Behind Erdoğan
Much attention of late is given, understandably, to the Turkish dictatorship of the thug, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. This is especially so since his Air Force deliberately shot down the Russian SU-24 jet over Syrian territory, an act of war. What few look at are the ties of Erdoğan and his AKP to the Saudi monarchy.

According to a well-informed Turkish political source I spoke with in 2014, who had been involved in attempts to broker a peace between Assad and Erdoğan, Erdoğan’s first Presidential election campaign in August 2014 was “greased” by a gift of $ 10 billion from the Saudis. After his victory in buying the presidential election, Erdoğan and his hand-picked Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu opened the doors wide to establish secret training centers for what was to be called ISIS. Under supervision of Hakan Fidan, Erdoğan’s hand-picked head of the Secret Services (MIT), Turkey organized camps for training ISIS and other terrorists in Turkey and also to provide their supplies in Syria (http://www.voltairenet.org/article187879.html). The financing for the Turkish ISIS operation was arranged apparently by a close personal friend of Erdoğan named Yasin al-Qadi, a Saudi banker close to the Saudi Royal House, member of the Muslim Brotherhood, financier of Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda since Afghanistan in the 1980’s. (http://www.voltairenet.org/article181671.html) x

Erdoğan’s US-sanctioned and Saudi-financed terrorist training camps have brought an estimated 200,000 mercenary terrorists from all over the world, transited by Turkey in order to wage “jihad” in Syria.

But that jihad, it is now clear, is not about Allah but about Moola—money. The Saudi monarchy is determined to control the oil fields of Iraq and of Syria using ISIS to do it. They clearly want to control the entire world oil market, first bankrupting the recent challenge from US shale oil producers, then by controlling through Turkey the oil flows of Iraq and Syria.

Saudi TOW missiles to ISIS
In May 2014, the MIT transferred to ISIS terrorists in Syria, by special train, a quantity of heavy weapons and new Toyota pick-ups offered by Saudi Arabia.

Now a detailed investigation of the Turkish shoot down of the Russian SU-24 jet reveals that the Turkish F-16 jet that shot down the jet was supported by two AWACS reconnaissance planes that enabled the Turkish F-16 exact hit, a very difficult if not impossible feat against a jet as agile as the SU-24. One of the AWACS planes was a Boeing AWACS E-3A of the Saudi Arabian air force which took off from the Riyadh, Saudi Arabia airbase (http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/bombshell-turkish-attack-russian-su-24-was-guided-us-and-saudis-reconnassaince-aircraft).

Then, as a Russian rescue helicopter rushed to the scene of the SU-24 crash, Saudi TOW anti-aircraft missiles shot the Russian helicopter down. The Saudis had sent 500 of the highly-effective TOW missiles to anti-Assad terror groups in Syria on October 9 (ttp://russia-insider.com/en/politics/bombshell-turkish-attack-russian-su-24-was-guided-us-and-saudis-reconnassaince-aircraft).

What we have, then, is not an isolated Russian war against ISIS in Syria. What lies behind ISIS is not just Erdoğan’s criminal regime, but far more significant, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and her Wahhabite allies Kuwait, UAE, Qatar.

In the true sense, ISIS is simply a “Saudi army in disguise.”

If we strip away the phony religious cover, what emerges is a Saudi move to grab some of the world’s largest oil reserves, those of the Sunni parts of Iraq, and of Syria, using the criminal Turkish regime in the role of thug to do the rough work, like a bouncer in a brothel. If Moscow is not conscious of this larger dimension, she runs the risk of getting caught in a deadly “bear trap” which will more and more remind them of Afghanistan in the 1980’s.

What stinks in Saudi Arabia ain’t the camel dung. It’s the monarchy of King Salman and his hot-headed son, Prince Salman. For decades they have financed terrorism under a fake religious disguise, to advance their private plutocratic agenda. It has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with money and oil. A look at the ISIS map from Iraq to Syria shows that they precisely targeted the oil riches of those two sovereign states. Saudi control of that oil wealth via their ISIS agents, along with her clear plan to take out the US shale oil competition, or so Riyadh reckons, would make the Saudi monarchy a vastly richer state, one, perhaps because of that money, finally respected by white western rich men and their society. That is clearly bovine thinking.

Don’t bet on that Salman.

[Hervé]

All right all, take a breather :):

RT exposed in leaked video: Watch how evil 'Kremlin propaganda bullhorn' REALLY works (https://www.rt.com/news/325827-how-rt-propaganda-works/)

Published time: 14 Dec, 2015 07:29

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Corruption, military style uniforms, trucks of cash, a bear and the feeling of fear and despair in the eyes of expats such as Peter Lavelle and Anissa Naouai locked in a dungeon and living on a Happy Meal.
TrendsRT10 (https://www.rt.com/trends/rt-10-years/), Viral (https://www.rt.com/trends/viral/)

Yes, that's how RT works - all the secrets have been revealed in this video by RT's editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan.


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Published on Dec 13, 2015
Finally! What everyone has been waiting for - how RT really works! Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan shows how we 'operate'.

Capture RT's Great Moments Through Interactive Timeline http://10.rt.com/

RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air

[avid]

It's how every MSM news media works! This proves many points, that RT can obviate all of the tricks, openly. It is an exercise in trust, would any MSM outlet do this to expose their lying techniques? OK, tricks are played on the internet globally, but that necessitates more thorough research, and the public are posting reality (or not - as was in Paris, thousands of missing pieces of evidence). Bottom line - question more!

[Hervé]

Meanwhile, at Greece's Garage Sale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garage_sale):

Germans take over 14 Greek airports in privatization deal (https://www.rt.com/business/325977-greece-airports-privatisation-bailout/)

Published time: 15 Dec, 2015 12:27
Edited time: 15 Dec, 2015 12:27



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A plane is parked at the airport included in a big privatisation deal between Greece and German airport operator Fraport, Thessaloniki, Greece December 14, 2015. © Alexandros Avramidis / Reuters



Greece has signed its first major privatization deal granting control of over a dozen regional airports to a German company. The agreement is part of international creditors’ demands to privatize state assets to secure €86 billion in bailout funds for Athens.

The €1.23 billion contract gives a 40-year lease to the Frankfurt airport operator Fraport. The German firm could upgrade and operate a cluster of airports, including those on the popular tourist islands of Corfu, Mykonos, Rhodes and Santorini.

Fraport chief executive, Stefan Schulte called the deal a “win-win” for “Greece and its people.”

“The project underscores the extensive know-how that Fraport will be able to provide at these 14 aviation gateways which are vital for Greece’s economy and, in particular, its huge international tourism sector,” Schulte said.

“It’s a very significant development and a strong message, in all directions, that the Greek economy is winning the trust of markets and entering the road toward growth,” said Stergios Pitsiorlas, the head of Greece’s privatization agency.

The privatization deal with Fraport was agreed last year but final negotiations were frozen when Syriza came to power in January. It goes against Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' pre-election promise not to privatize the country’s infrastructure. The idea was strongly opposed by Syriza’s left platform which accused the coalition of “surrendering” public assets.

Around €3 billion in revenue has been raised in Greece through privatizations over the last six years. In terms of the current bailout program, the Greek government has to raise an additional €6.2 billion from selling or awarding management contracts for state-owned assets in the next three years. The measure aims at reducing national debt and increasing investment.

On Tuesday night the Greek Parliament will vote on the latest package of economic measures which is widely expected to be passed. If approved it would unlock the next €1 billion in bailout funds.

Greece’s two biggest unions GSEE and ADEDY have already called on workers to rally in central Athens against the so-called austerity measures.

Related:
Athens strikes deal with creditors to unlock €12bn - minister (https://www.rt.com/business/322405-greece-deal-creditors)

[Octavusprime]

3 ISIS Twitter accounts ‘trace back to UK govt computers,’ claim hackers - RT news 12/15/15

https://www.rt.com/uk/325994-isis-dwp-government-hackers/


At least three Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) supporters’ social media accounts are run from IP addresses linked to the British government’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), a group of hackers has claimed.
The group of teenage computer experts, known as ‘VandaSec,’ have unearthed details of internet protocol (IP) addresses used by three jihadists to access Twitter accounts used to carry out online recruitment.

The addresses were thought to be based in Saudi Arabia, but upon further inspection they linked back to the DWP’s London offices, according to the Daily Mirror.

“Don’t you think that’s strange?” one of the hackers asked the Daily Mirror.

“We traced these accounts back to London, the home of the British intelligence services,” they added.


This revelation has sparked speculation that someone inside the government is running IS-supporting accounts, or they were created by intelligence services to trap wannabe terrorists.

The evidence caused the Cabinet Office to admit to selling IP addresses to two Saudi firms earlier this year. An expert has suggested this is why the IP’s are linked to the government.

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Following the sale, the IP addresses were used by extremists to spread their message of hate on social media.

The DWP denied owning the IP addresses.

“The government owns millions of unused IP addresses which we are selling to get a good return for hardworking taxpayers,” a Cabinet Office spokesperson said.

“We have sold a number of these addresses to telecoms companies, both in the UK and internationally, to allow their customers to connect to the internet.

“We think carefully about which companies we sell addresses to, but how their customers use this internet connection is beyond our control.”

However, the government failed to reveal how much money was made from selling the IP addresses.

[Hervé]

Turkish MP faces treason charges after telling RT ISIS used Turkey for transiting sarin (https://www.rt.com/news/326084-erdem-rt-interview-treason/)

Published time: 16 Dec, 2015 09:56
Edited time: 16 Dec, 2015 14:44


A treason investigation has been launched against a Turkish MP who alleged in an exclusive interview with RT that Islamic State jihadists delivered deadly sarin gas to Syria through Turkey.

Video: https://www.rt.com/news/326084-erdem-rt-interview-treason/

Ankara’s Chief Prosecutor's Office opened the case against Istanbul MP Eren Erdem of Republican People's Party (CHP) after his interview about sarin was aired on RT on Monday.


"Chemical weapon materials were brought to Turkey and put together in ISIS camps in Syria, which was known as the Iraqi Al-Qaeda at that time."

Erdem noted that the chemicals used for the production of weapons did not originate from Turkey. “All basic materials are purchased from Europe. Western institutions should question themselves about these relations. Western sources know very well who carried out the sarin gas attack in Syria,” Erdem told RT.

As Turkish media reported Wednesday, the prosecutor’s office is planning to send a summary of proceedings to the Ministry of Justice on Thursday. Following that, the summary may be forwarded to the Turkish parliament, which could vote to strip Erdem of his parliamentary immunity.

Once Turkish mass-media reported the criminal investigation had been opened against Erdem, the hashtags #ErenErdemYalnızDeğildir - #ErenErdemYouAreNotAlone began to circulate in Turkish social networks.

On Tuesday, MP Erdem issued a written statement in his defense, saying he had become the target of a smear campaign because of his statements made in parliament.

As for his accusations about Turkish businessmen being involved in supplying Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) with the poisonous gas sarin and other reactants needed for chemical warfare, Erdem maintained this statement was made based on the results of a Turkish court investigation in 2013.

Erdem revealed that five Turkish citizens had been arrested by the Adana Chief Prosecutor's Office as a result of an investigation coded 2013/139. A Syrian national was prosecuted in Turkey for procuring chemical agents for Islamist groups in Syria. At the same time, Erdem noted all the persons arrested within the framework of the 2013/139 investigation were released a week later.

In his statement Eren Erdem claimed he had received death threats over social media following the publication of his interview to RT.

Eren Erdem said that the Turkish paramilitary organization Ottoman Hearths has published his home address on Twitter in an effort to enable at an attack on his house.

“I am being targeted with death threats because I am patriotically opposed to something that tramples on my country's prestige,” MP Erdem said.

In an interview to Turkey’s Kanal 24 on Tuesday, Cem Küçük, a columnist at the pro-government Star daily, said that Erdem's claims about sarin gas should be regarded as treason. Erdem should be stripped of his parliamentary immunity to “pay for his deeds,” Today’s Zaman cited Küçük as saying.

The Turkish public is “very much polarized” and those supporting the government and followers of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) make up “about half of the country,” Hisyar Ozsoy, Turkish MP for leftist HDP party, told RT.

“They really do not care about what is happening in terms of freedom of expression,” Ozsoy said, adding that “anybody who is critical of the government is facing incredible pressure: indictments, court cases, even imprisonments.”

The Turkish government - and the president in particular - use polarization of the Turkish community as a mode of carrying out politics that very much worries the other half of the citizenry.

The most widely-reported chemical attack in Syria took place in the early hours of August 21, 2013, in Ghouta, on the outer fringes of Damascus. Rockets containing sarin gas were reportedly fired, killing more than 1,400 people, including no fewer than 426 children. It was on the very day a UN team of inspectors arrived in the city to investigate the alleged March 19 chemical attack in Khan al-Assal, northern Syria.

Related:
Turkish newspaper editor in court for 'espionage' after revealing weapon convoy to Syrian militants (https://www.rt.com/news/323557-turkey-arrests-editor-cumhuriyet/)
On brink of Syria invasion: 1 year since Ghouta chemical attack (https://www.rt.com/news/181696-ghouta-chemical-attack-anniversary/)

[Hervé]

Report: US Pilots in Syria Ordered to Ignore ISIS Oil Convoys (http://russia-insider.com/en/report-us-pilots-syria-ordered-ignore-isis-oil-convoys/ri11832)

Rudy Panko (http://russia-insider.com/en/rudy-panko) Mon, Dec 14
(https://goo.gl/VmmitY)

According to reports, U.S. pilots in Syria have 'flown over oil tanker convoys 4 lanes wide at times and been told to stay silent'


(https://goo.gl/VmmitY)

http://russia-insider.com/sites/insider/files/styles/s400/public/A-10_Thunderbolt_II_In-flight-2_0.jpg?itok=cZTp98S8 (http://russia-insider.com/sites/insider/files/A-10_Thunderbolt_II_In-flight-2_0.jpg)
The U.S. is also using flying dinosaurs to 'target' ISIS


American officials and responsible western news pundits have had a hard time explaining why the U.S.-led “anti-ISIS” coalition, after more than one year, has been unable to stop ISIS' lucrative oil smuggling operation. Maybe because they were never trying to stop it in the first place? Via New Eastern Outlook (http://journal-neo.org/2015/12/14/how-john-mccain-crippled-obama-s-war-on-isis/):

Reports from pilots and sources up and down the Pentagon chain of command tell an interesting story. Considering America’s years of experience at “precision bombing” and the vast intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities of the world’s largest military, America’s utter failure in curtailing ISIS and her dozens of “sister organizations” has been inexplicable.

American pilots flying over Iraq and Syria have quietly leaked their story for over a year now but no news agency will carry it. They say they have flown over oil tanker convoys 4 lanes wide at times and been told to stay silent.

They report mysterious aircraft dropping supplies to ISIS and al Nusra, they are silenced on that as well. Hardly surprising. Add in the fact that the Pentagon consistently airdrops ISIS weapons and equipment “by accident”, and one begins to question how serious this “anti-ISIS coalition” really is.

If U.S. planes actually targeted ISIS oil convoys, they'd probably get shot down by Turkey.

[Rocky_Shorz]

Israel and GOP war mongers cry seeing Iran moving enriched Uranium out of the country...

Russia and Iran are beginning to trade sensitive nuclear materials, an activity that is at least in part condoned by the Obama administration and permissible under the tenets of the recent nuclear accord, according to U.S. and Iranian officials.

Russian-made yellow cake, a type of uranium powder that helps turn it into a nuclear fuel, “is in Iran and Iran’s enriched uranium cargo will be sent to Russia” within the next several days, according to top Iranian officials quoted this week in the country’s state-run press.

Senior U.S. officials confirmed on Thursday that the Obama administration backs the opening of commercial nuclear trade between Moscow and Tehran.

“Commercial contracts are in place for Iran to ship its enriched uranium stockpiles to Russia,” Stephen Mull, a State Department official who is leading the administration’s charge to implement the nuclear deal, told lawmakers.

“We expect that this material, about 25,000 pounds of … low enriched uranium, will leave Iran in the coming weeks” and make its way to Russia, according to Mull.

This trade is permitted under the parameters of the nuclear agreement, according to Mull and other U.S. officials who testified before Congress on Thursday.

Iranian officials say that they intend to send up to nine tons of enriched uranium to the Russians in exchange for yellow cake powder.

“The yellow cake cargo has been imported and is in [the city of] Isfahan (now) and Iran’s enriched uranium will be loaded into a Russian ship in coming days and will be delivered to that country,” Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran’s atomic energy organization, told Iranian reporters on Wednesday.

Iran has further vowed to commercialize its nuclear technology once the deal is implemented.

Meanwhile, U.S. officials detailed plans to create a “procurement channel” by which Iran can obtain nuclear technology and other related materials.

The nuclear agreement allows for the “creation of a procurement channel that can meet the limited, legitimate nuclear needs that Iran may have,” Thomas Countryman, an assistant secretary of state in the Bureau Of International Security and Nonproliferation, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The National Nuclear Security Administration also will have a role in deciding what nuclear goods Iran may import going forward.

The nuclear accord “establishes a process for review and approval of procurement by Iran of specified nuclear related items,” according to retired Lt. Col. Frank Klotz, an undersecretary for nuclear security at the Department of Energy.

Elements within the nuclear security administration also will aid in this process, Klotz said.

As Iran prepares to ship large quantities of its nuclear stockpile to Russia, it has doubled down on the development of intercontinental ballistic missile technology, which historically has been used to carry a nuclear payload.

Iran’s defense minister, Hossein Dehqan, maintained on Wednesday that Iran will “continue developing its missile and weapons industries” even though this behavior violates United Nations Security Council resolutions.

“Since day one of the endorsement of the [nuclear agreement], our different tests have not postponed even for a single day, hour or moment,” Dehqan said. “Rather we have not even felt any doubt about declaring them.”

The Obama administration has come under intense criticism for its failure to take action against Iran in the wake of its second ballistic missile test since the deal was signed.

“The agreement is off to a really terrible start,” Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said during Thursday’s hearing. “We see no evidence of [Iran] paying a price for any of these actions.”

Mull, the State Department official, maintained that Iran is going to continue its missile tests no matter what action the administration takes or does not take

“Iran is going to develop that program regardless of the consequences it’s paid for that,” he said, explaining that the Obama administration’s goal is to remove the nuclear issue from the equation.

Mull further noted that while Iran’s missile tests violate U.N. resolutions, they do not violate the nuclear deal.

When pressed by senators to explain whether the administration will take any concrete action against Iran in response to its rogue behavior, Mull said that officials are “actively considering additional measures at this moment.” link (http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-russia-begin-swapping-nuclear-materials/)

[Hervé]

Over 30 Iraqi Soldiers Killed in US Air Force Strike, 20 Others Injured (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151218/1031964714/iraq-us-airstrike-casualties.html)

Middle East (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/) 15:39 18.12.2015
(updated 18:05 18.12.2015)


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At least 30 Iraqi soldiers were killed and 20 others injured in US air strike, Hakim al-Zamili, the head of Iraqi parliament's Security and Defense Committee said.

"Thirty soldiers from the Iraqi Army's 55 brigade were killed and 20 were injured in a US airstrike on the town of al-Naimiya in the al-Fallujah province," al-Zamili's statement obtained by Sputnik reads.

The politician stated that he demanded "the [Iraqi] prime minister to conduct an investigation into the airstrike against the 55 brigade, which had previously had huge success in the fight against Daesh terrorists." Daesh (http://sputniknews.com/tags/organization_Daesh/) (ISIL, ISIS), the international terrorist organization, is in control of vast territories in Iraq and Syria. A number of ISIL cells, with local insurgent groups pledging allegiance, are also known to operate in Libya, Yemen and other territories across the Middle East and North Africa.

Baghdad will go to court over a US airstrike, head of the Iraqi parliament's security and defense committee Hakim Zamili told Sputnik following the incident.


"This is very serious and I have asked the prime minister to launch an urgent investigation… We will go to court over this crime, there will be a hearing," Zamili said. According to the lawmaker, the number of casualties may increase.

"The number of victims may increase, many were seriously injured and have not yet been taken to hospitals," Zamili added.

Meanwhile, Pentagon has denied [the] allegations (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151218/1031975640/airstrike-pentagon-iraq-casualties.html).

Claims of a US airstrike killing more than 20 Iraqi soldiers are not accurate, US Defense Department spokesman Maj. Roger Cabiness told Sputnik on Friday.

“This is not true,” Cabiness said when asked to confirm reports of the incident.

[Octavusprime]

Just finished watching this interview by the ex-RT news anchor Abby Martin. Must watch.


Abby Martin interviews retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former national security advisor to the Reagan administration, who spent years as an assistant to Secretary of State Colin Powell during both Bush administrations. Today, he is honest about the unfixable corruption inside the establishment and the corporate interests driving foreign policy.

zOagQ_nfCes

This is from the thread started by Callista here: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?87638-Bush-Military-Official-The-Empire-s-Ship-is-Sinking&p=1030860#post1030860

[Cidersomerset]

UN Security Council unanimously approve resolution to deal with Syrian crisis

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Published on 18 Dec 2015

The five members of the United Nations Security Council approved a security resolution
with aims to put an end to the violence in Syria. It calls for a ceasefire and an end to
attacks on civilians. RT’s Egor Piskunov reports from the UN and takes a look at the
finer points of the reconciliation plan.

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Syria war: US welcomes 'milestone' as UN endorses peace plan

1 hour ago...From the section Middle East

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Sergei Lavrov (left) and John Kerry were both upbeat after the vote, despite
differences in the Russian and US positions on Syria


A UN plan for Syria is a "milestone" in the efforts to end the conflict there, says US
Secretary of State John Kerry.

He said the plan gave Syrians a "real choice... between war and peace".

However, disagreements remain over President Assad and the unanimously agreed
Security Council resolution makes no mention of his future role.Western countries
have called for his departure, but Russia and China say he should not be required
to leave power as a precondition for peace talks.

Mr Kerry said Mr Assad had "lost the ability to unite the country".

But he also said that demanding Mr Assad's immediate departure was "prolonging
the war"."We are under no illusions about the obstacles that exist," Mr Kerry
said. "There obviously remain sharp differences within the international community,
especially about the future of President Assad."

However, while Western and Arab nations accept that Mr Assad can be part of the
transition, they insist he must be gone at the end of it.France's Foreign Minister
Laurent Fabius said the idea of Mr Assad standing in elections was "unacceptable".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35138675


http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?87097---Everything-the-West-has-done-was-to-create-ISIS------John-Pilger/page3

[Callista]

From the Office of the President of Russia:

Vladimir Putin attended gala reception to mark Security Agency Worker’s Day

Here is the link to the full report:

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/50977

This paragraph particularly caught my eye:

I have already mentioned Syria. We can see the efficient work of our pilots and intelligence officers, good coordination even between different forces – the Army, the Navy and aviation, and the use of the most up-to-date armaments. I would like to note that our capabilities are not limited to this. We are not using everything we have there. We have additional means and we will use them if necessary.



The Russian Bear does not put all his cards on the table and obviously has more moves up his sleeve - mixed metaphors but you know what I mean:thumb:

[Cidersomerset]

GLOBAL RESEARCH...

America’s Permanent War State: Money is Raining Down on the US Military Complex

The US Congress and the Omnibus Military Bill

By Binoy Kampmark

Global Research, December 20, 2015

The funding to continue the war against ISIL is an authorization of force against ISIL, albeit a
quiet one, designed not to attract public attention. Jack Goldsmith, Lawfare, Dec 17, 2015

Money is raining down on the US military complex in the $1.15 trillion spending bill that was
unveiled on Wednesday by various leaders of Congress.[1] Of that portion, a good $572.7
billion is set aside for Pentagon expenditure. (These figures tend to be deceptive in themselves,
given the notoriously unreliable accuracy of defence accounting.)

The portions, roughly broken down, come to $58.6 billion for so-called Global War on Terror/
Overseas Contingency Operations (GWOT/OCO) funds, $111 billion for procurement, which
comes to $17 billion more than actual expenditures for the 2015 fiscal year, and $49.8 billion
for R&D – $13.7 billion more than 2015 (Defense News, Dec 16).[2]

House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) pressed his colleagues to pass the legislation,
insisting that the “package reflects conservative priorities in both funding and policy – including
support for critical areas such as our national defence, halting many harmful regulations, and
trimming wasteful spending.”

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Seymour M. Hersh on US intelligence sharing in the Syrian war

Barack Obama’s repeated insistence that Bashar al-Assad must leave office – and that there are ‘moderate’ rebel groups in Syria capable of defeating him – has in recent years provoked quiet dissent, and even overt opposition, among some of the most senior officers on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. Their criticism has focused on what they see as the administration’s fixation on Assad’s primary ally, Vladimir Putin. In their view, Obama is captive to Cold War thinking about Russia and China, and hasn’t adjusted his stance on Syria to the fact both countries share Washington’s anxiety about the spread of terrorism in and beyond Syria; like Washington, they believe that Islamic State must be stopped.

The military’s resistance dates back to the summer of 2013, when a highly classified assessment, put together by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, then led by General Martin Dempsey, forecast that the fall of the Assad regime would lead to chaos and, potentially, to Syria’s takeover by jihadi extremists, much as was then happening in Libya. A former senior adviser to the Joint Chiefs told me that the document was an ‘all-source’ appraisal, drawing on information from signals, satellite and human intelligence, and took a dim view of the Obama administration’s insistence on continuing to finance and arm the so-called moderate rebel groups. By then, the CIA had been conspiring for more than a year with allies in the UK, Saudi Arabia and Qatar to ship guns and goods – to be used for the overthrow of Assad – from Libya, via Turkey, into Syria. The new intelligence estimate singled out Turkey as a major impediment to Obama’s Syria policy. The document showed, the adviser said, ‘that what was started as a covert US programme to arm and support the moderate rebels fighting Assad had been co-opted by Turkey, and had morphed into an across-the-board technical, arms and logistical programme for all of the opposition, including Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamic State. The so-called moderates had evaporated and the Free Syrian Army was a rump group stationed at an airbase in Turkey.’ The assessment was bleak: there was no viable ‘moderate’ opposition to Assad, and the US was arming extremists.

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, director of the DIA between 2012 and 2014, confirmed that his agency had sent a constant stream of classified warnings to the civilian leadership about the dire consequences of toppling Assad. The jihadists, he said, were in control of the opposition. Turkey wasn’t doing enough to stop the smuggling of foreign fighters and weapons across the border. ‘If the American public saw the intelligence we were producing daily, at the most sensitive level, they would go ballistic,’ Flynn told me. ‘We understood Isis’s long-term strategy and its campaign plans, and we also discussed the fact that Turkey was looking the other way when it came to the growth of the Islamic State inside Syria.’ The DIA’s reporting, he said, ‘got enormous pushback’ from the Obama administration. ‘I felt that they did not want to hear the truth.’

‘Our policy of arming the opposition to Assad was unsuccessful and actually having a negative impact,’ the former JCS adviser said. ‘The Joint Chiefs believed that Assad should not be replaced by fundamentalists. The administration’s policy was contradictory. They wanted Assad to go but the opposition was dominated by extremists. So who was going to replace him? To say Assad’s got to go is fine, but if you follow that through – therefore anyone is better. It’s the “anybody else is better” issue that the JCS had with Obama’s policy.’ The Joint Chiefs felt that a direct challenge to Obama’s policy would have ‘had a zero chance of success’. So in the autumn of 2013 they decided to take steps against the extremists without going through political channels, by providing US intelligence to the militaries of other nations, on the understanding that it would be passed on to the Syrian army and used against the common enemy, Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamic State.

Germany, Israel and Russia were in contact with the Syrian army, and able to exercise some influence over Assad’s decisions – it was through them that US intelligence would be shared. Each had its reasons for co-operating with Assad: Germany feared what might happen among its own population of six million Muslims if Islamic State expanded; Israel was concerned with border security; Russia had an alliance of very long standing with Syria, and was worried by the threat to its only naval base on the Mediterranean, at Tartus. ‘We weren’t intent on deviating from Obama’s stated policies,’ the adviser said. ‘But sharing our assessments via the military-to-military relationships with other countries could prove productive. It was clear that Assad needed better tactical intelligence and operational advice. The JCS concluded that if those needs were met, the overall fight against Islamist terrorism would be enhanced. Obama didn’t know, but Obama doesn’t know what the JCS does in every circumstance and that’s true of all presidents.’

Once the flow of US intelligence began, Germany, Israel and Russia started passing on information about the whereabouts and intent of radical jihadist groups to the Syrian army; in return, Syria provided information about its own capabilities and intentions. There was no direct contact between the US and the Syrian military; instead, the adviser said, ‘we provided the information – including long-range analyses on Syria’s future put together by contractors or one of our war colleges – and these countries could do with it what they chose, including sharing it with Assad. We were saying to the Germans and the others: “Here’s some information that’s pretty interesting and our interest is mutual.” End of conversation. The JCS could conclude that something beneficial would arise from it – but it was a military to military thing, and not some sort of a sinister Joint Chiefs’ plot to go around Obama and support Assad. It was a lot cleverer than that. If Assad remains in power, it will not be because we did it. It’s because he was smart enough to use the intelligence and sound tactical advice we provided to others.’

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The public history of relations between the US and Syria over the past few decades has been one of enmity. Assad condemned the 9/11 attacks, but opposed the Iraq War. George W. Bush repeatedly linked Syria to the three members of his ‘axis of evil’ – Iraq, Iran and North Korea – throughout his presidency. State Department cables made public by WikiLeaks show that the Bush administration tried to destabilise Syria and that these efforts continued into the Obama years. In December 2006, William Roebuck, then in charge of the US embassy in Damascus, filed an analysis of the ‘vulnerabilities’ of the Assad government and listed methods ‘that will improve the likelihood’ of opportunities for destabilisation. He recommended that Washington work with Saudi Arabia and Egypt to increase sectarian tension and focus on publicising ‘Syrian efforts against extremist groups’ – dissident Kurds and radical Sunni factions – ‘in a way that suggests weakness, signs of instability, and uncontrolled blowback’; and that the ‘isolation of Syria’ should be encouraged through US support of the National Salvation Front, led by Abdul Halim Khaddam, a former Syrian vice president whose government-in-exile in Riyadh was sponsored by the Saudis and the Muslim Brotherhood. Another 2006 cable showed that the embassy had spent $5 million financing dissidents who ran as independent candidates for the People’s Assembly; the payments were kept up even after it became clear that Syrian intelligence knew what was going on. A 2010 cable warned that funding for a London-based television network run by a Syrian opposition group would be viewed by the Syrian government ‘as a covert and hostile gesture toward the regime’.

But there is also a parallel history of shadowy co-operation between Syria and the US during the same period. The two countries collaborated against al-Qaida, their common enemy. A longtime consultant to America’s intelligence community said that, after 9/11, ‘Bashar was, for years, extremely helpful to us while, in my view, we were churlish in return, and clumsy in our use of the gold he gave us. That quiet co-operation continued among some elements, even after the decision to vilify him.’ In 2002 Assad authorised Syrian intelligence to turn over hundreds of internal files on the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria and Germany. Later that year, Syrian intelligence foiled an attack by al-Qaida on the headquarters of the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, and Assad agreed to provide the CIA with the name of a vital al-Qaida informant. In violation of this agreement, the CIA contacted the informant directly; he rejected the approach, and broke off relations with his Syrian handlers. Assad also secretly turned over to the US relatives of Saddam Hussein who had sought refuge in Syria, and – like America’s allies in Jordan, Egypt, Thailand and elsewhere – tortured suspected terrorists for the CIA in a Damascus prison.

It was this history of co-operation that made it seem possible in 2013 that Damascus would agree to the new indirect intelligence-sharing arrangement with the US. The Joint Chiefs let it be known that in return the US would require four things: Assad must restrain Hizbullah from attacking Israel; he must renew the stalled negotiations with Israel to reach a settlement on the Golan Heights; he must agree to accept Russian and other outside military advisers; and he must commit to holding open elections after the war with a wide range of factions included. ‘We had positive feedback from the Israelis, who were willing to entertain the idea, but they needed to know what the reaction would be from Iran and Syria,’ the JCS adviser told me. ‘The Syrians told us that Assad would not make a decision unilaterally – he needed to have support from his military and Alawite allies. Assad’s worry was that Israel would say yes and then not uphold its end of the bargain.’ A senior adviser to the Kremlin on Middle East affairs told me that in late 2012, after suffering a series of battlefield setbacks and military defections, Assad had approached Israel via a contact in Moscow and offered to reopen the talks on the Golan Heights. The Israelis had rejected the offer. ‘They said, “Assad is finished,”’ the Russian official told me. ‘“He’s close to the end.”’ He said the Turks had told Moscow the same thing. By mid-2013, however, the Syrians believed the worst was behind them, and wanted assurances that the Americans and others were serious about their offers of help.

In the early stages of the talks, the adviser said, the Joint Chiefs tried to establish what Assad needed as a sign of their good intentions. The answer was sent through one of Assad’s friends: ‘Bring him the head of Prince Bandar.’ The Joint Chiefs did not oblige. Bandar bin Sultan had served Saudi Arabia for decades in intelligence and national security affairs, and spent more than twenty years as ambassador in Washington. In recent years, he has been known as an advocate for Assad’s removal from office by any means. Reportedly in poor health, he resigned last year as director of the Saudi National Security Council, but Saudi Arabia continues to be a major provider of funds to the Syrian opposition, estimated by US intelligence last year at $700 million.

In July 2013, the Joint Chiefs found a more direct way of demonstrating to Assad how serious they were about helping him. By then the CIA-sponsored secret flow of arms from Libya to the Syrian opposition, via Turkey, had been underway for more than a year (it started sometime after Gaddafi’s death on 20 October 2011).​＊ The operation was largely run out of a covert CIA annex in Benghazi, with State Department acquiescence. On 11 September 2012 the US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, was killed during an anti-American demonstration that led to the burning down of the US consulate in Benghazi; reporters for the Washington Post found copies of the ambassador’s schedule in the building’s ruins. It showed that on 10 September Stevens had met with the chief of the CIA’s annex operation. The next day, shortly before he died, he met a representative from Al-Marfa Shipping and Maritime Services, a Tripoli-based company which, the JCS adviser said, was known by the Joint Staff to be handling the weapons shipments.

By the late summer of 2013, the DIA’s assessment had been circulated widely, but although many in the American intelligence community were aware that the Syrian opposition was dominated by extremists the CIA-sponsored weapons kept coming, presenting a continuing problem for Assad’s army. Gaddafi’s stockpile had created an international arms bazaar, though prices were high. ‘There was no way to stop the arms shipments that had been authorised by the president,’ the JCS adviser said. ‘The solution involved an appeal to the pocketbook. The CIA was approached by a representative from the Joint Chiefs with a suggestion: there were far less costly weapons available in Turkish arsenals that could reach the Syrian rebels within days, and without a boat ride.’ But it wasn’t only the CIA that benefited. ‘We worked with Turks we trusted who were not loyal to Erdoğan,’ the adviser said, ‘and got them to ship the jihadists in Syria all the obsolete weapons in the arsenal, including M1 carbines that hadn’t been seen since the Korean War and lots of Soviet arms. It was a message Assad could understand: “We have the power to diminish a presidential policy in its tracks.”’

The flow of US intelligence to the Syrian army, and the downgrading of the quality of the arms being supplied to the rebels, came at a critical juncture. The Syrian army had suffered heavy losses in the spring of 2013 in fighting against Jabhat al-Nusra and other extremist groups as it failed to hold the provincial capital of Raqqa. Sporadic Syrian army and air-force raids continued in the area for months, with little success, until it was decided to withdraw from Raqqa and other hard to defend, lightly populated areas in the north and west and focus instead on consolidating the government’s hold on Damascus and the heavily populated areas linking the capital to Latakia in the north-east. But as the army gained in strength with the Joint Chiefs’ support, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey escalated their financing and arming of Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamic State, which by the end of 2013 had made enormous gains on both sides of the Syria/Iraq border. The remaining non-fundamentalist rebels found themselves fighting – and losing – pitched battles against the extremists. In January 2014, IS took complete control of Raqqa and the tribal areas around it from al-Nusra and established the city as its base. Assad still controlled 80 per cent of the Syrian population, but he had lost a vast amount of territory.

CIA efforts to train the moderate rebel forces were also failing badly. ‘The CIA’s training camp was in Jordan and was controlled by a Syrian tribal group,’ the JCS adviser said. There was a suspicion that some of those who signed up for training were actually Syrian army regulars minus their uniforms. This had happened before, at the height of the Iraqi war, when hundreds of Shia militia members showed up at American training camps for new uniforms, weapons and a few days of training, and then disappeared into the desert. A separate training programme, set up by the Pentagon in Turkey, fared no better. The Pentagon acknowledged in September that only ‘four or five’ of its recruits were still battling Islamic State; a few days later 70 of them defected to Jabhat al-Nusra immediately after crossing the border into Syria.

In January 2014, despairing at the lack of progress, John Brennan, the director of the CIA, summoned American and Sunni Arab intelligence chiefs from throughout the Middle East to a secret meeting in Washington, with the aim of persuading Saudi Arabia to stop supporting extremist fighters in Syria. ‘The Saudis told us they were happy to listen,’ the JCS adviser said, ‘so everyone sat around in Washington to hear Brennan tell them that they had to get on board with the so-called moderates. His message was that if everyone in the region stopped supporting al-Nusra and Isis their ammunition and weapons would dry up, and the moderates would win out.’ Brennan’s message was ignored by the Saudis, the adviser said, who ‘went back home and increased their efforts with the extremists and asked us for more technical support. And we say OK, and so it turns out that we end up reinforcing the extremists.’

But the Saudis were far from the only problem: American intelligence had accumulated intercept and human intelligence demonstrating that the Erdoğan government had been supporting Jabhat al-Nusra for years, and was now doing the same for Islamic State. ‘We can handle the Saudis,’ the adviser said. ‘We can handle the Muslim Brotherhood. You can argue that the whole balance in the Middle East is based on a form of mutually assured destruction between Israel and the rest of the Middle East, and Turkey can disrupt the balance – which is Erdoğan’s dream. We told him we wanted him to shut down the pipeline of foreign jihadists flowing into Turkey. But he is dreaming big – of restoring the Ottoman Empire – and he did not realise the extent to which he could be successful in this.’

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One of the constants in US affairs since the fall of the Soviet Union has been a military-to-military relationship with Russia. After 1991 the US spent billions of dollars to help Russia secure its nuclear weapons complex, including a highly secret joint operation to remove weapons-grade uranium from unsecured storage depots in Kazakhstan. Joint programmes to monitor the security of weapons-grade materials continued for the next two decades. During the American war on Afghanistan, Russia provided overflight rights for US cargo carriers and tankers, as well as access for the flow of weapons, ammunition, food and water the US war machine needed daily. Russia’s military provided intelligence on Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts and helped the US negotiate rights to use an airbase in Kyrgyzstan. The Joint Chiefs have been in communication with their Russian counterparts throughout the Syrian war, and the ties between the two militaries start at the top. In August, a few weeks before his retirement as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Dempsey made a farewell visit to the headquarters of the Irish Defence Forces in Dublin and told his audience there that he had made a point while in office to keep in touch with the chief of the Russian General Staff, General Valery Gerasimov. ‘I’ve actually suggested to him that we not end our careers as we began them,’ Dempsey said – one a tank commander in West Germany, the other in the east.

When it comes to tackling Islamic State, Russia and the US have much to offer each other. Many in the IS leadership and rank and file fought for more than a decade against Russia in the two Chechen wars that began in 1994, and the Putin government is heavily invested in combating Islamist terrorism. ‘Russia knows the Isis leadership,’ the JCS adviser said, ‘and has insights into its operational techniques, and has much intelligence to share.’ In return, he said, ‘we’ve got excellent trainers with years of experience in training foreign fighters – experience that Russia does not have.’ The adviser would not discuss what American intelligence is also believed to have: an ability to obtain targeting data, often by paying huge sums of cash, from sources within rebel militias.

A former White House adviser on Russian affairs told me that before 9/11 Putin ‘used to say to us: “We have the same nightmares about different places.” He was referring to his problems with the caliphate in Chechnya and our early issues with al-Qaida. These days, after the Metrojet bombing over Sinai and the massacres in Paris and elsewhere, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that we actually have the same nightmares about the same places.’

Yet the Obama administration continues to condemn Russia for its support of Assad. A retired senior diplomat who served at the US embassy in Moscow expressed sympathy for Obama’s dilemma as the leader of the Western coalition opposed to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine: ‘Ukraine is a serious issue and Obama has been handling it firmly with sanctions. But our policy vis-à-vis Russia is too often unfocused. But it’s not about us in Syria. It’s about making sure Bashar does not lose. The reality is that Putin does not want to see the chaos in Syria spread to Jordan or Lebanon, as it has to Iraq, and he does not want to see Syria end up in the hands of Isis. The most counterproductive thing Obama has done, and it has hurt our efforts to end the fighting a lot, was to say: “Assad must go as a premise for negotiation.”’ He also echoed a view held by some in the Pentagon when he alluded to a collateral factor behind Russia’s decision to launch airstrikes in support of the Syrian army on 30 September: Putin’s desire to prevent Assad from suffering the same fate as Gaddafi. He had been told that Putin had watched a video of Gaddafi’s savage death three times, a video that shows him being sodomised with a bayonet. The JCS adviser also told me of a US intelligence assessment which concluded that Putin had been appalled by Gaddafi’s fate: ‘Putin blamed himself for letting Gaddafi go, for not playing a strong role behind the scenes’ at the UN when the Western coalition was lobbying to be allowed to undertake the airstrikes that destroyed the regime. ‘Putin believed that unless he got engaged Bashar would suffer the same fate – mutilated – and he’d see the destruction of his allies in Syria.’

In a speech on 22 November, Obama declared that the ‘principal targets’ of the Russian airstrikes ‘have been the moderate opposition’. It’s a line that the administration – along with most of the mainstream American media – has rarely strayed from. The Russians insist that they are targeting all rebel groups that threaten Syria’s stability – including Islamic State. The Kremlin adviser on the Middle East explained in an interview that the first round of Russian airstrikes was aimed at bolstering security around a Russian airbase in Latakia, an Alawite stronghold. The strategic goal, he said, has been to establish a jihadist-free corridor from Damascus to Latakia and the Russian naval base at Tartus and then to shift the focus of bombing gradually to the south and east, with a greater concentration of bombing missions over IS-held territory. Russian strikes on IS targets in and near Raqqa were reported as early as the beginning of October; in November there were further strikes on IS positions near the historic city of Palmyra and in Idlib province, a bitterly contested stronghold on the Turkish border.

Russian incursions into Turkish airspace began soon after Putin authorised the bombings, and the Russian air force deployed electronic jamming systems that interfered with Turkish radar. The message being sent to the Turkish air force, the JCS adviser said, was: ‘We’re going to fly our fighter planes where we want and when we want and jam your radar. Do not **** with us. Putin was letting the Turks know what they were up against.’ Russia’s aggression led to Turkish complaints and Russian denials, along with more aggressive border patrolling by the Turkish air force. There were no significant incidents until 24 November, when two Turkish F-16 fighters, apparently acting under more aggressive rules of engagement, shot down a Russian Su-24M jet that had crossed into Turkish airspace for no more than 17 seconds. In the days after the fighter was shot down, Obama expressed support for Erdoğan, and after they met in private on 1 December he told a press conference that his administration remained ‘very much committed to Turkey’s security and its sovereignty’. He said that as long as Russia remained allied with Assad, ‘a lot of Russian resources are still going to be targeted at opposition groups … that we support … So I don’t think we should be under any illusions that somehow Russia starts hitting only Isil targets. That’s not happening now. It was never happening. It’s not going to be happening in the next several weeks.’

The Kremlin adviser on the Middle East, like the Joint Chiefs and the DIA, dismisses the ‘moderates’ who have Obama’s support, seeing them as extremist Islamist groups that fight alongside Jabhat al-Nusra and IS (‘There’s no need to play with words and split terrorists into moderate and not moderate,’ Putin said in a speech on 22 October). The American generals see them as exhausted militias that have been forced to make an accommodation with Jabhat al-Nusra or IS in order to survive. At the end of 2014, Jürgen Todenhöfer, a German journalist who was allowed to spend ten days touring IS-held territory in Iraq and Syria, told CNN that the IS leadership ‘are all laughing about the Free Syrian Army. They don’t take them for serious. They say: “The best arms sellers we have are the FSA. If they get a good weapon, they sell it to us.” They didn’t take them for serious. They take for serious Assad. They take for serious, of course, the bombs. But they fear nothing, and FSA doesn’t play a role.’

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Putin’s bombing campaign provoked a series of anti-Russia articles in the American press. On 25 October, the New York Times reported, citing Obama administration officials, that Russian submarines and spy ships were ‘aggressively’ operating near the undersea cables that carry much of the world’s internet traffic – although, as the article went on to acknowledge, there was ‘no evidence yet’ of any Russian attempt actually to interfere with that traffic. Ten days earlier the Times published a summary of Russian intrusions into its former Soviet satellite republics, and described the Russian bombing in Syria as being ‘in some respects a return to the ambitious military moves of the Soviet past’. The report did not note that the Assad administration had invited Russia to intervene, nor did it mention the US bombing raids inside Syria that had been underway since the previous September, without Syria’s approval. An October op-ed in the same paper by Michael McFaul, Obama’s ambassador to Russia between 2012 and 2014, declared that the Russian air campaign was attacking ‘everyone except the Islamic State’. The anti-Russia stories did not abate after the Metrojet disaster, for which Islamic State claimed credit. Few in the US government and media questioned why IS would target a Russian airliner, along with its 224 passengers and crew, if Moscow’s air force was attacking only the Syrian ‘moderates’.

Economic sanctions, meanwhile, are still in effect against Russia for what a large number of Americans consider Putin’s war crimes in Ukraine, as are US Treasury Department sanctions against Syria and against those Americans who do business there. The New York Times, in a report on sanctions in late November, revived an old and groundless assertion, saying that the Treasury’s actions ‘emphasise an argument that the administration has increasingly been making about Mr Assad as it seeks to press Russia to abandon its backing for him: that although he professes to be at war with Islamist terrorists, he has a symbiotic relationship with the Islamic State that has allowed it to thrive while he has clung to power.’

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The four core elements of Obama’s Syria policy remain intact today: an insistence that Assad must go; that no anti-IS coalition with Russia is possible; that Turkey is a steadfast ally in the war against terrorism; and that there really are significant moderate opposition forces for the US to support. The Paris attacks on 13 November that killed 130 people did not change the White House’s public stance, although many European leaders, including François Hollande, advocated greater co-operation with Russia and agreed to co-ordinate more closely with its air force; there was also talk of the need to be more flexible about the timing of Assad’s exit from power. On 24 November, Hollande flew to Washington to discuss how France and the US could collaborate more closely in the fight against Islamic State. At a joint press conference at the White House, Obama said he and Hollande had agreed that ‘Russia’s strikes against the moderate opposition only bolster the Assad regime, whose brutality has helped to fuel the rise’ of IS. Hollande didn’t go that far but he said that the diplomatic process in Vienna would ‘lead to Bashar al-Assad’s departure … a government of unity is required.’ The press conference failed to deal with the far more urgent impasse between the two men on the matter of Erdoğan. Obama defended Turkey’s right to defend its borders; Hollande said it was ‘a matter of urgency’ for Turkey to take action against terrorists. The JCS adviser told me that one of Hollande’s main goals in flying to Washington had been to try to persuade Obama to join the EU in a mutual declaration of war against Islamic State. Obama said no. The Europeans had pointedly not gone to Nato, to which Turkey belongs, for such a declaration. ‘Turkey is the problem,’ the JCS adviser said.

Assad, naturally, doesn’t accept that a group of foreign leaders should be deciding on his future. Imad Moustapha, now Syria’s ambassador to China, was dean of the IT faculty at the University of Damascus, and a close aide of Assad’s, when he was appointed in 2004 as the Syrian ambassador to the US, a post he held for seven years. Moustapha is known still to be close to Assad, and can be trusted to reflect what he thinks. He told me that for Assad to surrender power would mean capitulating to ‘armed terrorist groups’ and that ministers in a national unity government – such as was being proposed by the Europeans – would be seen to be beholden to the foreign powers that appointed them. These powers could remind the new president ‘that they could easily replace him as they did before to the predecessor … Assad owes it to his people: he could not leave because the historic enemies of Syria are demanding his departure.’

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Moustapha also brought up China, an ally of Assad that has allegedly committed more than $30 billion to postwar reconstruction in Syria. China, too, is worried about Islamic State. ‘China regards the Syrian crisis from three perspectives,’ he said: international law and legitimacy; global strategic positioning; and the activities of jihadist Uighurs, from Xinjiang province in China’s far west. Xinjiang borders eight nations – Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India – and, in China’s view, serves as a funnel for terrorism around the world and within China. Many Uighur fighters now in Syria are known to be members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement – an often violent separatist organisation that seeks to establish an Islamist Uighur state in Xinjiang. ‘The fact that they have been aided by Turkish intelligence to move from China into Syria through Turkey has caused a tremendous amount of tension between the Chinese and Turkish intelligence,’ Moustapha said. ‘China is concerned that the Turkish role of supporting the Uighur fighters in Syria may be extended in the future to support Turkey’s agenda in Xinjiang. We are already providing the Chinese intelligence service with information regarding these terrorists and the routes they crossed from on travelling into Syria.’

Moustapha’s concerns were echoed by a Washington foreign affairs analyst who has closely followed the passage of jihadists through Turkey and into Syria. The analyst, whose views are routinely sought by senior government officials, told me that ‘Erdoğan has been bringing Uighurs into Syria by special transport while his government has been agitating in favour of their struggle in China. Uighur and Burmese Muslim terrorists who escape into Thailand somehow get Turkish passports and are then flown to Turkey for transit into Syria.’ He added that there was also what amounted to another ‘rat line’ that was funnelling Uighurs – estimates range from a few hundred to many thousands over the years – from China into Kazakhstan for eventual relay to Turkey, and then to IS territory in Syria. ‘US intelligence,’ he said, ‘is not getting good information about these activities because those insiders who are unhappy with the policy are not talking to them.’ He also said it was ‘not clear’ that the officials responsible for Syrian policy in the State Department and White House ‘get it’. IHS-Jane’s Defence Weekly estimated in October that as many as five thousand Uighur would-be fighters have arrived in Turkey since 2013, with perhaps two thousand moving on to Syria. Moustapha said he has information that ‘up to 860 Uighur fighters are currently in Syria.’

China’s growing concern about the Uighur problem and its link to Syria and Islamic State have preoccupied Christina Lin, a scholar who dealt with Chinese issues a decade ago while serving in the Pentagon under Donald Rumsfeld. ‘I grew up in Taiwan and came to the Pentagon as a critic of China,’ Lin told me. ‘I used to demonise the Chinese as ideologues, and they are not perfect. But over the years as I see them opening up and evolving, I have begun to change my perspective. I see China as a potential partner for various global challenges especially in the Middle East. There are many places – Syria for one – where the United States and China must co-operate in regional security and counterterrorism.’ A few weeks earlier, she said, China and India, Cold War enemies that ‘hated each other more than China and the United States hated each other, conducted a series of joint counterterrorism exercises. And today China and Russia both want to co-operate on terrorism issues with the United States.’ As China sees it, Lin suggests, Uighur militants who have made their way to Syria are being trained by Islamic State in survival techniques intended to aid them on covert return trips to the Chinese mainland, for future terrorist attacks there. ‘If Assad fails,’ Lin wrote in a paper published in September, ‘jihadi fighters from Russia’s Chechnya, China’s Xinjiang and India’s Kashmir will then turn their eyes towards the home front to continue jihad, supported by a new and well-sourced Syrian operating base in the heart of the Middle East.’

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General Dempsey and his colleagues on the Joint Chiefs of Staff kept their dissent out of bureaucratic channels, and survived in office. General Michael Flynn did not. ‘Flynn incurred the wrath of the White House by insisting on telling the truth about Syria,’ said Patrick Lang, a retired army colonel who served for nearly a decade as the chief Middle East civilian intelligence officer for the DIA. ‘He thought truth was the best thing and they shoved him out. He wouldn’t shut up.’ Flynn told me his problems went beyond Syria. ‘I was shaking things up at the DIA – and not just moving deckchairs on the Titanic. It was radical reform. I felt that the civilian leadership did not want to hear the truth. I suffered for it, but I’m OK with that.’ In a recent interview in Der Spiegel, Flynn was blunt about Russia’s entry into the Syrian war: ‘We have to work constructively with Russia. Whether we like it or not, Russia made a decision to be there and to act militarily. They are there, and this has dramatically changed the dynamic. So you can’t say Russia is bad; they have to go home. It’s not going to happen. Get real.’

Few in the US Congress share this view. One exception is Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat from Hawaii and member of the House Armed Services Committee who, as a major in the Army National Guard, served two tours in the Middle East. In an interview on CNN in October she said: ‘The US and the CIA should stop this illegal and counterproductive war to overthrow the Syrian government of Assad and should stay focused on fighting against … the Islamic extremist groups.’

‘Does it not concern you,’ the interviewer asked, ‘that Assad’s regime has been brutal, killing at least 200,000 and maybe 300,000 of his own people?’

‘The things that are being said about Assad right now,’ Gabbard responded, ‘are the same that were said about Gaddafi, they are the same things that were said about Saddam Hussein by those who were advocating for the US to … overthrow those regimes … If it happens here in Syria … we will end up in a situation with far greater suffering, with far greater persecution of religious minorities and Christians in Syria, and our enemy will be far stronger.’

‘So what you are saying,’ the interviewer asked, ‘is that the Russian military involvement in the air and on-the-ground Iranian involvement – they are actually doing the US a favour?’

‘They are working toward defeating our common enemy,’ Gabbard replied.

Gabbard later told me that many of her colleagues in Congress, Democrats and Republicans, have thanked her privately for speaking out. ‘There are a lot of people in the general public, and even in the Congress, who need to have things clearly explained to them,’ Gabbard said. ‘But it’s hard when there’s so much deception about what is going on. The truth is not out.’ It’s unusual for a politician to challenge her party’s foreign policy directly and on the record. For someone on the inside, with access to the most secret intelligence, speaking openly and critically can be a career-ender. Informed dissent can be transmitted by means of a trust relationship between a reporter and those on the inside, but it almost invariably includes no signature. The dissent exists, however. The longtime consultant to the Joint Special Operations Command could not hide his contempt when I asked him for his view of the US’s Syria policy. ‘The solution in Syria is right before our nose,’ he said. ‘Our primary threat is Isis and all of us – the United States, Russia and China – need to work together. Bashar will remain in office and, after the country is stabilised there will be an election. There is no other option.’

The military’s indirect pathway to Assad disappeared with Dempsey’s retirement in September. His replacement as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Joseph Dunford, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee in July, two months before assuming office. ‘If you want to talk about a nation that could pose an existential threat to the United States, I’d have to point to Russia,’ Dunford said. ‘If you look at their behaviour, it’s nothing short of alarming.’ In October, as chairman, Dunford dismissed the Russian bombing efforts in Syria, telling the same committee that Russia ‘is not fighting’ IS. He added that America must ‘work with Turkish partners to secure the northern border of Syria’ and ‘do all we can to enable vetted Syrian opposition forces’ – i.e. the ‘moderates’ – to fight the extremists.

Obama now has a more compliant Pentagon. There will be no more indirect challenges from the military leadership to his policy of disdain for Assad and support for Erdoğan. Dempsey and his associates remain mystified by Obama’s continued public defence of Erdoğan, given the American intelligence community’s strong case against him – and the evidence that Obama, in private, accepts that case. ‘We know what you’re doing with the radicals in Syria,’ the president told Erdoğan’s intelligence chief at a tense meeting at the White House (as I reported in the LRB of 17 April 2014). The Joint Chiefs and the DIA were constantly telling Washington’s leadership of the jihadist threat in Syria, and of Turkey’s support for it. The message was never listened to. Why not?

Source (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n01/seymour-m-hersh/military-to-military): [B]London Review of Books Vol. 38 No. 1 · 7 January 2016 pages 11-14 6831 words

[norman]

I seriously think this post in it's own recently new thread belongs here in this thread.

It's Kameran Faily, talking to Kerry Cassidy recently. He explains in minute detail what the real deals are that have been going on in the middle east in the last several years.

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?87617-Project-Camelot-KAMERAN-FAILY-INTERVIEW-III-ISIS-EVENTS-TO-COME-PLANET-X&p=1030409&viewfull=1#post1030409

[Hervé]

Iraqi forces take control over last ISIS stronghold in Ramadi - military spokesman (https://www.rt.com/news/327204-ramadi-iraq-army-isis/)
(https://www.rt.com/news/327204-ramadi-iraq-army-isis/)
Published time: 27 Dec, 2015 15:56
Edited time: 27 Dec, 2015 19:33


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Iraqi government forces have seized the government complex in the center of Ramadi – the last Islamic State stronghold in the western city, a military spokesman told Reuters.

"By controlling the complex this means that they [Islamic State, IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL] have been defeated in Ramadi," Sabah al-Numani, a spokesman for the Iraqi counter-terrorism units leading the fight, told the news agency.

Al-Numani stressed the complex is under full control of the Iraqi forces with “no presence whatsoever of Daesh [ISIS] fighters” adding that some militants could still be hiding in “pockets that could exist here or there in the city.”

According to al-Numan, a major clearing effort is still needed to allow Iraqi troops to move freely around the city as IS militants had filled the area with bombs and booby-traps. The necessity of a clear-up operation prevented the Iraqi government and the military from declaring a victory immediately, although some people in a number of cities were already celebrating, AFP reports.


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Iraqi forces advanced to the provincial government compound in Ramadi overnight and encircled the terrorists in the complex earlier on Sunday.

The Ramadi offensive has been supported by airstrikes from the US-led coalition, but Iran-backed Shiite militias were barred from the operation by the government, in order to avoid sectarian violence in the mainly Sunni Anbar province.

The city was seriously damaged during the fighting with some districts being completely destroyed by the Iraqi Army advance, Reuters reports. Falih al-Essawi, a regional council member of the Anbar province, urged the government to start rebuilding the city quickly.

"It will not be easy to convince families to return to a city that lacks basic human needs," he said as quoted by Reuters.

The Iraqi government plans to hand the city over to the local police and local Sunni tribal forces in order to convince the local community to join the fight against Islamic State.

"We have trained hundreds of tribal fighters, their role will be holding the ground," Brigadier-General Yahya Rasool, the spokesman for the Iraqi joint operations command, said as quoted by Reuters.

"Seeing their own tribes responsible for security will be a relief for the civilians,” he added.

Ramadi, the capital of the Anbar province, was seized by IS militants in May after about a week of fighting with the governmental forces.

[Hervé]

Love Thy Enemy? US Plot to Evacuate Top Jihadis From Ramadi Uncovered (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151227/1032365363/iraq-us-daesh-ramadi.html)

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Middle East (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/)15:32 27.12.2015
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A US plot to evacuate Daesh leaders from the strategic city of Ramadi in central Iraq has reportedly been disclosed by a volunteer forces commander.

An Iraqi volunteer forces commander has revealed US plans to evacuate Daesh (ISIL/ISIS) (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151221/1032067936/Cheap-Oil-Hinders-Iraqs-War-tDaesh.html) leaders from the central Iraqi city of Ramadi, according to the Iranian news agency FARS (http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13941003000828). The disclosure comes as the Iraqi army and popular troops are attempting to secure victory over the jihadist group in Ramadi.

FARS quoted Imam Khamenei Battalion Commander Haidar al-Hosseini al-Ardavi as saying that "the delay in operations to liberate the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah in Anbar province has been the result of US interference."

"It seems that the US intends to evacuate the ISIL terrorist group's infamous ringleaders secretly (with helicopters) from Ramadi (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151204/1031228867/us-iraqi-forces-ramadi.html) to unknown places," he was quoted by FARS as saying.

His remarks came amid efforts by Iraqi security forces to continue gaining ground in Ramadi's central areas, where hundreds of Daesh terrorists (http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151208/1031421698/russia-iraq-daesh-coalition.html)are trapped under siege.



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On Wednesday, it was reported that the Iraqi troops had managed to make significant advances in Ramadi after they reached the Tigris River and started entering the city center after crossing the al-Khor Bridge. In another development, the army's special forces attacked Daesh hideouts in the al-Zubat neighborhood of the city, and started liberating government buildings in the al-Hoz district of Ramadi.

Earlier this week, Iraqi Army Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Othman al-Ghanimi said his troops needed only days to completely drive Daesh out of Ramadi, which has been under Daesh control since May 2015.

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[Hervé]

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What!?! No news!... let's brew some fresh ones:

Iran denies it fired rockets near US aircraft carrier in Gulf, brands claim 'psychological warfare' (https://www.rt.com/news/327526-iran-denies-rockets-us-warship/)

Published time: 31 Dec, 2015 08:52
Edited time: 31 Dec, 2015 12:14



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Tehran has officially denied that its Revolutionary Guards’ patrol vessel launched rockets in imminent proximity to the USS Harry S. Truman and its convoy entering the Persian Gulf, calling the allegation an act of “psychological warfare.”

On Tuesday, reports emerged that last Saturday the US aircraft carrier was intimidated after missiles were launched by an Iranian patrol vessel on a parallel course with the American naval convoy.

"The naval forces of the Guards have not had any exercises in the Strait of Hormuz during the past week and the period claimed by the Americans, for them to have launched missiles and rockets," Reuters quoted Revolutionary Guards spokesman Ramezan Sharif as saying.

The alleged dangerous missile launch was reported by NBC News, which cited two unnamed US military officials as saying that the USS Harry S. Truman was about 1,400 meters away from the Iranian vessels, which launched two missiles as part of naval exercises.


"The publication of such false news under the present circumstances is akin to psychological warfare," Sharif said.

[Hervé]

More on that Ramadi extraction/exfiltration (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?69621-Ukraine-Crimea-Syria-Israel-Iran-Putin-and-World-War-III&p=1032841&viewfull=1#post1032841):

U.S. Accused Of Smuggling 2000 ISIS Fighters Out Of Ramadi (http://fortruss.blogspot.fr/2015/12/us-accused-of-smuggling-2000-isis_31.html)

Fort Russ - 31st December, 2015
by Elijah J. Magnier (https://elijahjm.wordpress.com/2015/12/30/where-did-isis-fighters-go-too-before-the-battle-of-ramadi-the-united-states-is-imposing-radical-changes-on-baghdad/)
Edited by Ollie Richardson


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The Iraqi Army, the Counter Terrorism units, the Federal police, and Anbar tribes entered the city of Ramadi that was occupied by the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” group (ISIS) for several months. To their biggest surprise, only a few bodies of the terrorist group were found when intelligence gathering by the U.S led coalition and the Iraqi intelligence service confirmed the presence of around 2000 fighters in the city until days before the final assault. Six ISIS fighters were arrested while trying to flee Ramadi among the 442 civilians who left the city one day before the final assault on the city center.

The same phenomena of “ISIS evaporation” was registered in Sinjar when 7500 Kurds, supported by the U.S Air Force, occupied the key northern Iraqi city, finding a very small number of ISIS fighters in it.

So where did all these ISIS fighters go to?
A high-ranking source within the Iraqi government told me:

“The US forces operating in Iraq within the military operation room in Baghdad are the ones who define the units and the time (day and hour) of attacks against ISIS. If we want to benefit from an Air Force to defeat the terrorist group, we should bow to the American command. It is not unlikely for a possible American – Turkish coordination to communicate with “ISIS” and give a free way out to fighters to withdraw in the direction of the Syrian – Iraqi borders. That’s the information our drones collected in the last few days prior the attack of Ramadi.

Our signals and Human Intelligence informed the Americans and us about ISIS movement of troops. We were not allowed to engage against these and no one in the government can contradict the Americans for the moment. The U.S ordered Baghdad to keep al-Hashd al-Sha’bi (PMUs) away from the battlefield of Anbar perhaps to ensure a free passage to ISIS and to reduce the Iranian influence and credit of victories in Iraq”.

“America has asked decision makers in Baghdad to change the heads of anti-terrorism, intelligence and security services of the army and Interior Ministry. Moreover, the Secretary General of the Council of Minister was also suggested by the Americans and in consequences he has been appointed to this position. The U.S wants a homogeneous team that is friendly to its policy and presence of these (US forces) on the ground in Iraq.

The hostile Era – created by the former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that led to a withdrawal of the forces from Mesopotamia – is over and the policy adopted at the moment consists of reducing the influence of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani over a few Iraqi armed groups. What is contributing to the success of such a policy is the fact that the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is in a bad terms with Soleimani. Since the start, PM Abadi believed that Soleimani was planning to remove him from power, supporting al-Maliki and promoting other choices to replace the actual Premier”, said the source.
The source concluded:

”Iran controls various military organisations fighting within the Popular Mobilisation Units that are strongly present in the battlefield in Iraq and in Syria. Such an influence persuaded al-Abadi to choose the path that leads to ” Uncle Sam ” instead of choosing the one of Welayat-el-faqih. This is why Abadi rejected, following an explicit American demand, to reject any Russia military assistance in the air, in Iraq, unlike the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Iraqi Prime Minister is aware of the possibility that the U.S would like to see 3 Iraqi cantons, one for the Kurds, one for the Sunni and another one for the Shia. The Americans are also supporting the Turkish presence in Iraq, and met with the Director of the French Intelligence Service who said: The Middle East will never be the same as before. What is becoming more clear now [is] that ISIS is a toy used by players for their agenda and plan to reshuffle the map of the Middle East”.

[Hervé]

Western media AWOL as 'Islamic State' regroups in Libya: Interview with James & Joanne Moriarty (http://www.sott.net/article/309627-Western-media-AWOL-as-Islamic-State-regroups-in-Libya-Interview-with-James-Joanne-Moriarty#)

By Niall Bradley Sott.net (http://www.sott.net/article/309627-Western-media-AWOL-as-Islamic-State-regroups-in-Libya-Interview-with-James-Joanne-Moriarty#) Sat, 02 Jan 2016 13:57 UTC



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From Texas to Libya, via Turkey and Syria: terrorism has never been more 'homegrown'


The nightmare is not over for Libya. In fact, it may only have just begun. Sirte, Muammar Gadaffi's birthplace and the last major city to fall to the 'rebels' in 2011, is once again occupied by terrorists. In recent communication with the leadership of Libya's Tribes' Council (http://www.voltairenet.org/article171207.html), US contacts James and Joanne Moriarty (http://libyanwarthetruth.com/) were told that the leadership of ISIS (Islamic State), Boko Harim ('ISIS in Nigeria'), Ansar al-Sharia ('ISIS in Libya'), and possibly others, all gathered in Sirte, Libya, for meetings that took place around the 9th and 10th of December 2015.


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No kidding: This is the actual fleet of cars that rolled off a cargo ship into Sirte port when Libya was (re)invaded by ISIS terrorists in early 2015.


In their discussion with myself and Joe Quinn on our Behind the Headlines radio show on Sunday December 13th (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sottradionetwork/2015/12/13/behind-the-headlines-libyan-islamic-state-with-james-joanne-moriarty), the Moriartys relayed how Sirte, once a thriving city on Libya's Mediterranean coast, but now a stronghold of cut-throats and bandits, was placed on full lock-down for the mid-December terrorist coven.

Much of Sirte's population of 300,000 either succumbed to genocide or fled during and after the violent 2011 coup and NATO bombardment in Libya (told fully in horrific detail for the first time here (http://www.sott.net/article/298448-NATO-Slaughter-James-and-Joanne-Moriarty-expose-the-truth-about-what-happened-in-Libya)). By mid-2012, about 70% of the population had returned to Sirte, then spent three years attempting to rebuild until, in February 2015, 'ISIS' terrorists appeared out of nowhere - in a fleet of brand, spanking new Toyota pick-ups - and commenced a siege of the city.

In August 2015, ISIS brutally quelled a rebellion (http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/ISIS-brutally-quells-rebellion-in-Libyas-Sirte-20150818) by citizens who took up arms to try to push the terrorists away from their city. Desperate, the Council of Deputies (one of Libya's two 'legitimate' governments - three if you include ISIS) formally requested support from the Arab League in the form of airstrikes against the terrorists.


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The international community's response? Nothing, nada, zilch. The Saudi-led alliance of rich Gulf states was too busy targeting civilians in the uprising against Western-backed dictatorship in Yemen, while the US and friends just watched from their aircraft carriers, warships, jets, satellites, and regional military bases as ISIS rapidly took control of about half of Libya over the course of last year.

By late November 2015 (http://uk.businessinsider.com/isis-now-controls-key-libyan-city-2015-11?r=US&IR=T), Sirte was under the complete control of ISIS. With the Russian airstrike campaign against ISIS targets in Syria by then two months old, a UN report in early December (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/12028246/Islamic-State-is-building-a-retreat-zone-in-Libya-with-3000-fighters-say-UN-experts.html) warned that up to 5,000 ISIS terrorists were in Libya, with half of them concentrated in Sirte, and that the terrorist organization "sees the country as a retreat zone and strategic hub for recruits unable to reach its Syrian heartland."

US military propagandist Joseph V. Micallef lays out the 'retreat' (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-v-micallef/al-baghdadi-zeroes-in-on_b_8792394.html), which is really a vast expansion:

It's believed that about 70% of the Islamic State militants in Libya are foreigners, with the bulk coming from Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan and Tunisia. In recent months there have been consistent reports that Islamic State has been transferring "administrators" and "military commanders" to Libya to take direct control of its militants there. Moreover, Islamic State websites in Libya have been prominently featuring the slogan that "Sirte will be no less than Raqqa," suggesting that if Raqqa falls, Sirte may become the new capital of Islamic State. [...]

Islamic State is not being contained. It has now expanded to 35 international affiliates. It is zeroing in on North Africa in general, and on Libya in particular, in an attempt to create, on a far vaster scale, an even bigger Islamic State on the very edge of Europe's doorstep. 'Retired' Israeli spook Jacques Neriah was kind enough to round out the nightmare scenario for Europeans (http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/479895/ISIS-kamikaze-British-bases-bomb-suicide):

"We are talking about kamikaze pilots who can take off in [one of the aircraft stolen from the Libyan military and various local airports] and crash themselves into the Vatican, for instance. It only takes an hour and a half across the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to Rome.''
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Big Bad Baghdadi, Mossad asset?


On the heels of the UN report, Iranian news agency FARS reported that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi fled Syria via Turkey, and with CIA assistance (http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2015/12/09/al-baghdadi-in-sirte-after-treatment-in-turkey-fars_b842a855-2562-410b-b221-f50feeb19677.html). The story goes that Baghdadi was treated in Turkey for injuries sustained in an Iraqi airstrike against his convoy (http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2015/12/09/al-baghdadi-in-sirte-after-treatment-in-turkey-fars_b842a855-2562-410b-b221-f50feeb19677.html), presumably based on intelligence provided to Baghdad by the Russians, in October. With the Russians carrying out actual airstrikes against ISIS in Syria, Baghdadi's handlers decided he couldn't return to Raqqa, so he was spirited out of Turkey... and arrived in Sirte, now ''the safest jihadist stronghold in the world'', around December 9th.

And so, while there were media reports about al-Baghdadi's retreat to Sirte, observers on the ground have provided a far more detailed account of what's going on there to James and Joanne Moriarty. According to their sources in the Libyan Tribes' Council, the terrorists in Sirte initiated a complex operation to make safe passage for their leaders - residents were cleared out, a perimeter was imposed, and a communications black-out thrown over the city. The Moriartys even know the exact address at which Baghdadi and friends were gathering.

One would think, given Western leaders' commitment to defeating 'world enemy number 1', the Islamic State terror group, that their media arms would have reported this 24/7, and that their intelligence and security services would have either tracked the world's most wanted arriving in Libya, or capitalized on the Libyan tribal leaders' intelligence to launch an airstrike and take out al-Baghdadi and his cohorts all at once. But then, to believe that, one would have to believe that the 'war on terror' really is a 'clash of civilizations', and not a charade managed by Western intelligence to justify imperial control of the Middle East and beyond...

Here is the real story about the 'Islamic State' you won't hear anywhere else:

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[Hervé]

How Bulgaria supplied drugs and weapons to Al-Qaïda and Daesh (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html)

by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network | Damascus (Syria) | 4 January 2016

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The best-kept secrets must be revealed in the end. The mafia cartel which governs Bulgaria has been caught supplying drugs and weapons to Al-Qaïda and Daesh, at the demand of the CIA, both in Libya and Syria. The affair is all the more serious since Bulgaria is a member of NATO and the European Union.


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Head of one of the two Bulgarian mafia cartels, the SIC, Boïko Borissov has occupied the post of Prime Minister since 2014. While his country was a member of both NATO and the European Union, he supplied drugs and weapons to Al-Qaïda and Daesh in Libya and Syria.


It seems that everything began by accident. For about thirty years, fenetylline was used as a performance-enhancing drug in the West German sports world. According to trainer Peter Neururer, more than half of the athletes took it regularly [1 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nb1)]. Bulgarian drug dealers spotted an opportunity in this situation, and from the dissolution of the Soviet Union until Bulgaria’s entry into the European Union, they began to produce it and illegally export it to Germany under the name of Captagon.

Two mafia groups were locked in serious competition - Vasil Iliev Security (VIS), and Security Insurance Company (SIC), the company which employed the karateka Boïko Borissov. This high-level athlete, professor at the Police Academy, created a company supplying protection for important personalities, and became the body-guard for pro-Soviet ex-President Todor Jivkov as well as for pro-US Simeon II Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha. As soon as Simeon II became Prime Minister, Borissov was named as the central Director of the Ministry of the Interior, then was elected mayor of Sofia.

In 2006, the United States ambassador in Bulgaria (and future ambassador to Russia), John Beyrle, sketched his character in a confidential cable which was revealed by Wikileaks. He presented Borissov as being connected to two major mafia bosses, Mladen Mihalev (alias « Madzho ») and Roumen Nikolov (alias « The Pacha ») [2 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nb2)], the founders of SIC.

In 2007, basing its article on a report drawn up by a large Swiss company, the U.S. Congressional Quarterly claimed that he had smothered a number of enquiries at the Ministry of the Interior, and was himself implicated in 28 mafia murders. He apparently became a partner of John E. McLaughlin, Deputy Director of the CIA. He is said to have set up a secret prison for the Agency in Bulgaria, and helped to provide a military base in the context of the project for an attack on Iran, the Quarterly continued [3 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nb3)].

In 2008, the German specialist in organised crime, Jürgen Roth, qualified Boïko Borissov as a « Bulgarian Al Capone » [4 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nb4)].

Having himself become Prime Minister, and while his country was already a member of NATO and the EU, he was solicited by the Agency to help in the secret war against Mouamar el-Kadhafi. Boïko Borissov supplied Captagon, manufactured by the SIC, to the al-Qaïda jihadists in Libya. The CIA rendered this synthetic drug more attractive and more powerful by mixing it with a natural drug, hashish, which made it easier to manipulate the fighters and make them more terrifying, in line with the work of Bernard Lewis [5 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nb5)]. Following that, Borissov extended this market to Syria.

But most importantly, the CIA, using the profile of an ex-Warsaw Pact member which had recently joined NATO, bought from him 500 million dollars’ worth of Soviet-type weaponry and transported it to Syria — mainly 18,800 portable anti-tank grenade launchers and 700 Konkurs anti-tank missile systems.

When Hezbollah sent a team to Bulgaria to gather information about this traffic, a bus-load of Israeli holiday-makers were the object of a terrorist attack in Burgas, leaving 32 wounded. Immediately, Benjamin Netanyahu and Boïko Borissov accused the Lebanese resistance, while the Atlantist Press spread a number of allegations about the supposed Hezbollah kamikaze. Finally, the forensic scientist, Dr. Galina Mileva, noticed that the corpse did not correspond to the witness descriptions – while a counter-intelligence chief, Colonel Lubomir Dimitrov, noted that he was not a kamikaze, but a simple carrier, and that the bomb had been triggered from a distance, probably without his knowledge. The Press accused two Arabs of Canadian and Australian nationality, but the Sofia News Agency quoted a US accomplice known by the pseudonym of David Jefferson. The outcome was that when the European Union sought to use the affair in order to classify Hezbollah as a « terrorist organisation », the Minister for Foreign Affairs - during the short period when Borissov was excluded from executive power - Kristian Vigenine, made it clear that in reality, nothing was found that could tie the attack to the Lebanese resistance [6 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nb6)].

From the end of 2014, the CIA ceased its orders and was replaced by Saudi Arabia, who were thus able to buy weapons which were no longer ex-Soviet left-overs, but modern NATO material, such as the wire-guided anti-tank BGM-71 TOW missiles. Soon, Riyadh was supported by the United Arab Emirates [7 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nb7)]. The two Gulf states themselves handled the deliveries to Al-Qaïda and Daesh, via Saudi Arabian Cargo and Etihad Cargo, either at Tabuk, on the Saudi-Jordanian border, or the Emirati-Franco-US base at Al-Dhafra.

In June 2014, the CIA turned up the pressure. This time, they forbade Bulgaria to allow access to the Russian gas pipeline South Stream, which could have supplied Western Europe [8 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nb8)].This decision, which deprived Bulgaria of some very important income, not only helped to slow down the growth of the European Union, as described in the Wolfowitz plan [9 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nb9)], but also to apply the European sanctions against Russia which had been implemented under the pretext of the Ukranian crisis, to develop the exploitation of shale gas in Eastern Europe [10 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nb10)], and finally, to maintain the interest of overthrowing the Syrian Arab Republic, a possible major gas exporter [11 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nb11)].

The latest news is that Bulgaria – a member-state of NATO and the European Union – continues to illegally supply drugs and weapons to Al-Qaïda and Daesh, despite the recent Resolution 2253, which was unanimously adopted by the UN Security Council.


Thierry Meyssan (http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur29.html?lang=en)
Translation Pete Kimberley (http://www.voltairenet.org/auteur125569.html?lang=en)

References:
[1 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nh1)] „Doping war im Fußball gang und gäbe (http://www.faz.net/aktuell/sport/fussball/bundesliga/neururers-vorwurf-doping-war-im-fussball-gang-und-gaebe-1438596.html)“, Frankfürter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 13th, 2007.
[2 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nh2)] “Bulgaria’s most popular politician: great hopes, murky ties”, John Beyrle, May 5th, 2006.
[3 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nh3)] “Bush’s Bulgarian Partner in the Terror War Has Mob History, Investigators Say”, Jeff Stein, U.S. Congressional Quarterly, May 2007.
[4 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nh4)] Die neuen Dämonen, Jürgen Roth, 2008.
[5 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nh5)] The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam, Bernard Lewis, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967.
[6 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nh6)] “Bulgaria discards Hezbollah involvement in Burgas bombing (http://www.voltairenet.org/article178814.html)”, Voltaire Network, June 8th, 2013.
[7 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nh7)] « Mise à jour d’une nouvelle filière de trafic d’armes pour les jihadistes (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189735.html) », par Valentin Vasilescu, Traduction Avic, Réseau Voltaire, December 24th, 2015.
[8 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nh8)] « Le sabotage du gazoduc South Stream (http://www.voltairenet.org/article184185.html) », par Manlio Dinucci, Tommaso di Francesco, Traduction Marie-Ange Patrizio, Il Manifesto (Italie), Réseau Voltaire, June 10th, 2014.
[9 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nh9)] « US Strategy Plan Calls For Insuring No Rivals Develop » and « Excerpts from Pentagon’s Plan : "Prevent the Re-Emergence of a New Rival » », Patrick E. Tyler, New York Times, March 8th, 1992. « Keeping the US First, Pentagon Would preclude a Rival Superpower », Barton Gellman, The Washington Post, March 11th, 1992.
[10 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nh10)] « South Stream bloqué, la "claque" des États-Unis à l’Union européenne (http://www.voltairenet.org/article186131.html) », par Manlio Dinucci, Traduction Marie-Ange Patrizio, Il Manifesto (Italie), Réseau Voltaire, December 5th, 2014.
[11 (http://www.voltairenet.org/article189802.html#nh11)] “Struggle over the Middle East: Gas Ranks First (http://www.voltairenet.org/article173718.html)”, by Imad Fawzi Shueibi, Voltaire Network, 17 April 2012.

[Sophocles]

Putin Shares His View on Russia's Role in Emerging World Order (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151220/1032059345/putin-documentary-world-order-interview-highlights.html)

Sputniknews.com 20:12 20.12.2015

The new documentary film “World Order” was aired on Rossiya 1 television channel Sunday. Vladimir Putin was among those interviewed for the documentary. For your convenience Sputnik compiled best bits and pieces of the interview with the Russian president.

Putin emphasized the importance of being careful when it comes to nuclear weapons, stating that although Russia has its nukes ready, it "never either swung or would never swing its nuclear club at others."

"I hope no person is insane enough on Planet Earth who would dare to use nuclear weapons," Putin said.

On the issue of foreign interference into internal affairs of countries, the Russian president said a national government's drawbacks shouldn't be a reason for an intervention.

"The most important thing is not to undermine legitimate governments, not to destroy their statehood even if it appears to be imperfect," the president said.

"I think that no one should ever impose any values, which he/she considers to be correct, on others. We [Russia] have our own values and our own ideas about justice," Putin explained.

Some countries out there have "lost a sense of reality" thinking that they could tell Russia how to conduct its politics. That isn't going to happen, according to Putin.

"I guess that political nouveaux riches have lost a sense of reality… There are some countries and nations that will never accept a secondary role, a role of an occupied country or some kind of a vassal. It will end sooner or later. Soon enough, I guess," Putin said.

Geopolitics is an important issue the world has always faced. Putin thinks if the geopolitical struggle cannot be avoided, then it should at least be civilized, with its principles uniformly understood and supervised.

"It is essential for future development to build relations of the so-called geopolitical struggle. The fight is inevitable and it is normal. It is only necessary to conduct it in compliance with the civilized rules," Putin said.

Obviously, Ukraine was also on Putin's mind.

"In relation to Ukraine and the post-Soviet countries in general, I am convinced that the position of our Western partners — Europe and the US — is not to do with the protection of Ukraine's interests, but with attempts to prevent the re-creation of the Soviet Union. And nobody wants to believe us that Russia doesn't aim to re-create the Soviet Union," the president said.

According to Putin, the West has now realized that it made a mistake by supporting an anti-government coup in Ukraine. However, now the West isn't willing to admit it.

"You cannot improve anything by organizing a coup. Has anything improved in the country? The power is in the hands of oligarchs," Putin said.

"Nobody wants to financially support Ukraine… At the same time, they [the West] want to shift the financial burden to Russia… Let's share the risks, we said. We are ready to restructure Ukraine's debt to us… They do not want to share this risk."

Putin also touched upon his neighbors on the European continent, stating that "Europe's problem is that it doesn't have independent foreign policy. At all."

"The role of Germany, which can and should act at international stage, cannot be ignored in order to change the existing international climate to increase stability," Putin said.

Source (http://sputniknews.com/politics/20151220/1032059345/putin-documentary-world-order-interview-highlights.html)

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The documentary "World Order" at the Saker:

Russian Documentary “World Order” with English subs (MUST SEE) (http://thesaker.is/russian-documentary-world-order-with-english-subs-must-see/)

(or at LiveLeak (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5a8_1451921214))

[Sophocles]

Vladimir Putin Fights the War Party on All Fronts (http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Vladimir-Putin-Fights-the-War-Party-on-All-Fronts--20151229-0004.html)

By Pepe Escobar, 29. December 2015

The Obama administration still sticks to the Cold War 2.0 script on Russia.

Let’s talk about “Russian aggression.”

The fight to the death in Moscow’s inner circles is really between the Eurasianists and the so-called Atlantic integrationists, a.k.a. the Western fifth column. The crux of the battle is arguably the Russian Central Bank and the Finance Ministry – where some key liberalcon monetarist players are remote-controlled by the usual suspects, the Masters of the Universe.

The same mechanism applies, geopolitically, to any side, in any latitude, which has linked its own fiat money to Western central banks. The Masters of the Universe always seek to exercise hegemony by manipulating usury and fiat money control.

So why President Putin does not fire the head (http://russia-insider.com/en/2014/12/12/1689) of the Russian Central Bank, Elvira Nabiulina, and a great deal of his financial team - as they keep buying U.S. bonds and propping up the U.S. dollar instead of the ruble? What’s really being aggressed here if not Russian interests?

That Stab in the Back

It’s clear by now which party profited from the downing of the Russian Su-24 by the Turkish Air Force – a graphic act of war. The immediate result was the suspension – which could lead to the cancelling – of a crucial Pipelineistan plank: Turkish Stream, which is a bête noire for the Masters of the Universe as Turkey was about to become the key alternative bypassing failed state Ukraine for supplying natural gas to southern Europe.

On top if it the EU paid Ankara 3 billion euros for its “indirect” services (the official excuse is to allow Turkey to control Syrian immigration to the EU.) And EU sanctions to Russia were extended for another six months.

A fitting Russian response would be Moscow defaulting on all debt to Western banks in retaliation for the sanctions. An extreme step would be blocking natural gas shipments to the EU. If Russia even floated one of these moves, not to mention both, sanctions would be lifted in a flash. So who’s really being “aggressed” here?

Putin – and Russian intel – didn't see it coming: Sultan Erdogan’s “stab in the back (http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Why-Turkey-Stabbed-Russia-in-the-Back--20151126-0029.html).” So a case can be made that Russian intel seriously underestimated Erdogan’s massive investment on regime change in Syria.

Whatever happens on the ground – much more than in the Vienna-Geneva charade now passing for a “peace process” – the future of Syria bears two stark options; a neo-Ottoman colony, but essentially subordinated to the whims of the Masters of the Universe; or a unitary sovereign nation, not partitioned, with a strong relationship to both Russia and Iran.

The question, though, remains; how does Turkey get away with such a provocation, with Russia imposing just a few sanctions?

That Fuzzy Agenda

The missing link in the puzzle is Israel. Contradictions became glaringly obvious with the flattening of a building in Jaramana, in Damascus, by Israeli missiles, killing nine civilians as well as Hezbollah-linked Samir Kuntar.

This could not have happened, in any way, without Russian acquiescence – considering Russian missile defense now protects Syrian territory. So the message is clear; Russia won’t interfere with Israel’s priorities in Syria/Lebanon – and vice-versa.

“Vice-versa” couldn’t be trickier. Tel Aviv tacitly “supports” the Nusra Front, a.k.a. al-Qaida in Syria, which even the Obama administration finally has been forced to admit is a terrorist outfit.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry – as well as independent Turkish investigations - most of the stolen Syrian/Iraqi oil Islamic State group scam ends up with the oil being bought by Israel. Tel Aviv happens to be the top buyer of the stolen-from-Baghdad Iraqi Kurdistan oil with which stolen Daesh oil is mixed.

And to top it off, Tel Aviv is a mortal enemy of both Iran and Hezbollah – which are essential nodes of the “4+1” coalition (Russia, Syria, Iran, Iraq, plus Hezbollah) fighting the Islamic State group. Not to mention that Tel Aviv – which favors a partitioned Syria - wants to gobble up the energy-rich Golan Heights for perpetuity.

So how does Israel get away with it?

That War Party “Offer”

The bottom line of these three scenarios – the Russian economy, Turkey and Israel – is that a lethal, devastating response is an easily available option for Putin on all three. Yet he refuses to be trapped by a war logic. Putin is the ultimate adversary of “Russian aggression.”

A full confrontation with Turkey will unite a disunited NATO. Now Russian intel has connected the dots on how the Masters of the Universe are trying to use Ankara as bait to trap Moscow, as they extensively used a now discarded, irrelevant Kiev. Turkey’s top three import nations happen to be Russia (10.4 percent), China (10.3 percent) and Germany (9.2 percent); deep trouble in Turkey would be a major headache for the trio, much to the delight of the Empire of Chaos.

A confrontation with Israel will obviously bring about the full force of the Masters of the Universe. Not to mention that the last thing Moscow needs is to open a new front in the Levant. Here is a meticulous attempt by The Saker (http://thesaker.is/putin-and-israel-a-complex-and-multi-layered-relationship/) to clarify the dangerous liaisons between Israel and Russia.

The key front though is the Russian economy; sooner or later there’s got to be a purge of the Russian Central Bank and the Finance Ministry, but Putin will only act when he has surefire internal support, and that’s far from given.

The lame duck Obama administration – whatever rhetorical and/or legalistic contortions – still sticks to the Cold War 2.0 script on Russia, duly prescribed by Obama mentor Dr. Zbigniew “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski.

That follows a “tradition” Bill Blum, for instance, has extensively documented, as since the end of WWII Washington attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments – the absolute majority full democracies; dropped bombs on the civilian population of over 30 nations; attempted to assassinate over 50 foreign leaders; attempted to suppress nationalist movements in 20 nations; interfered on countless democratic elections; taught torture through manuals and “advisers”; and the list goes on.

Putin and the best and the brightest of Russian intel very well know it.

And yet they do maintain a decent margin of maneuver; establishing Russia as an indispensable power all across Southwest Asia (after smashing the fake “Caliphate” from Raqqa to Mosul); preventing any Masters of the Universe encroachment on the Black Sea; and putting up a real fight in the near future in the Balkans.

The real advances will keep coming as spin-offs of the Russia-China diplomatic/strategic partnership – from energy to trade to the military sphere. And that projects us once again towards the New Silk Roads – and the convergence of the China-driven One Belt, One Road with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU).

The bottom line is that in 2016 the option will continue to be stark; it’s either the hegemony of the War Party – with the subtext of a Washington “willfully” condoned (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42567.htm) Salafi-jihadi “offer” to young, disaffected Muslims; or the vision of a full, prosperous trade/commerce/communication network for the whole of Eurasia. Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets.

Full article at telesurtv.net (http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Vladimir-Putin-Fights-the-War-Party-on-All-Fronts--20151229-0004.html)

[Hervé]

OPWC report: rebels used chemical weapons – not Assad (http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/assad-never-used-chemical-weapons-islamist-rebels-did/)

Written by Chris Tomson on 08/01/2016 1:31 pm


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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPWC) has confirmed the traces of the sarin gas used in Syria are not linked with the Syrian government’s former stockpile of chemical weapons. The report corroborates the Syrian government’s assertions that the faction responsible for the chemical attack, as well as 11 other instances of chemical weapons use, was the Syrian opposition.

The report also substantiates last month’s claims from Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi, cousin of Muammar Gaddafi, who said that the chemical weapons used in the incident had been stolen from Libya and later smuggled into Syria via Turkey by militants.

The announcement follows an investigation carried out by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) at the request of the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian government.

“In one instance, analysis of some blood samples indicates that individuals were at some point exposed to sarin or a sarin-like substance” said Ahmet Uzumcu, the head of the OPCW. He later added that the sarin gas examined bore different characteristics to the one formerly owned by the Syrian government.

When the devastating sarin gas incident left some 1400 civilians dead in East Ghouta in 2013, the United States, European Union and Arab League were quick to accuse Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian military of utilizing its chemical weapons to combat Islamist rebels in the Syrian capital.

Subsequently, the Syrian government agreed with Russia and the US administration to have its stockpile safely demolished in Norway. Less than a month ago, it was announced that the entirety of the chemical stockpile had been safely disposed of.

Prior to the 2013 attack, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that the Syrian Army had seized chemical gas equipment from a militant field hospital in the western port city of Latakia. It cited a field commander stating that the nature of the equipment suggested militants had been planning to carry out chemical or biological attacks and blame the government.

http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/assad-never-used-chemical-weapons-islamist-rebels-did/ | Al-Masdar News (http://www.almasdarnews.com)

[Hervé]

Gaddafi's Grim Prophecy Fulfills as Terrorism Spreads Across Europe (http://sputniknews.com/africa/20160107/1032814511/gaddafi-blair-warning-islamic-extremists-libya.html)

Africa (http://sputniknews.com/africa/) 21:54 07.01.2016
(updated 00:14 08.01.2016)


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© Sputnik/ Andrey Stenin

Turns out Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was right when he told former British Prime Minister Tony Blair that if his regime failed then Islamic extremists would attack Europe, leaked phone conversations between the two leaders revealed, according to the Telegraph.

Gaddafi tried to explain Tony Blair in two phone conversations in February 2011 that if foreign powers helped Libyan rebels to overthrow his government then next thing Europeans would know jihadists would carry out terrorist attacks across the European continent.


"It's a Jihad situation. They have arms and are terrorizing people in the street… Can't reason with them. They keep saying things like Mohammad is the profit [the Prophet]. Similar to Bin Laden," Gaddafi told Blaire, according to excerpts from their 2011 phone conversation, the Telegraph reported.Gaddafi also welcomed foreign journalists to come over to Libya and see the situation for themselves, so the world would know the truth about those so-called "rebels" who eventually toppled his government. "Need to explain to the international community. Reporters can come to make sure this is the truth, they are welcome," Gaddafi told the former Prime Minister.

When Blair told Gaddafi to step down as the head of the state, the former Libyan leader insisted that he was defending his country and the entire North African coast from Islamic extremists.


"We are not fighting them, they are attacking us… The story is simply this: an organization has laid down sleeping cells in North Africa. Called the Al-Qaeda Organization in North Africa," Gaddafi said. During his second conversation with Blair, in which the former British Prime Minister re-iterated that Gaddafi must step down to bring peaceful changes to his country, Gaddafi refused to leave and said he'd have to arm troops loyal to him to crush jihadist groups taking over Libya and the Mediterranean Sea.

"Libyan people will die, damage will be on the med, Europe and the whole world these armed groups are using the situation as a justification — and we shall fight them," Gaddafi said, according to excerpts from their 2011 phone conversation with Blair, the Telegraph reported.In the end, Gaddafi's words were ignored and three weeks later NATO began bombing the Libyan Armed Forces, which soon led to the overthrow of the Libyan government. After Gaddafi's government was overthrown and Colonel himself killed, the country failed to form a stable government and Libya descended into chaos. Various groups of Islamic extremists, including Daesh (Islamic State), took advantage of the situation and increased their influence in the country.

Gaddafi's warnings were prophetic. In fact, he predicted everything. As soon as Libya fell into the hands of Islamic extremists, the country became the hotbed of terrorism. In November 2015, Daesh terrorists carried out a series of terrorist attacks in Paris killing 130 people and injuring 368. At the same time, a growing number of jihadists are said to be crossing into Europe from North Africa.


Related:
Hotbed of Terrorism: Post-Gaddafi Libya is Becoming New Daesh Stronghold (http://sputniknews.com/africa/20151221/1032104912/libya-terrorism-daesh-gaddafi.html)
Allons-y! Is France Ready to Bomb Daesh in Libya? (http://sputniknews.com/africa/20151223/1032217136/france-libya-daesh.html)

[Hervé]

Anti-Assad Propaganda Exposed: ‘Starving Syrian Child’ Revealed as Healthy Lebanese Girl
(http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/anti-assad-propaganda-exposed-starving-syrian-child-revealed-healthy-lebanese-girl/ri12143)
Rudy Panko (http://russia-insider.com/en/rudy-panko) 3 hours ago

Filed under 'Saddam's incubator babies'


http://russia-insider.com/sites/insider/files/styles/s400/public/484063_img650x420_img650x420_crop.jpg?itok=HJw8RTLI (http://russia-insider.com/sites/insider/files/484063_img650x420_img650x420_crop.jpg)
Neither of these images are from Madaya


A viral photo depicting a "malnourished Syrian child" being "starved" by the "evil Syrian army" is a bona fide fraud. The details, via Lebanon's Daily Star (http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2016/Jan-09/331101-starving-syria-child-revealed-as-south-lebanon-girl.ashx) ('Starving Syria child' revealed as south Lebanon girl):
The family of a south Lebanon girl depicted in a photo that went viral alleging to show a starving child from a besieged Syrian border town has expressed anger over the incident.

"They took it too far this time," Rosine Mazeh, the grandmother of 7-year-old Marianna Mazeh, told Al-Jadeed from their village of Tay Filsey in a report broadcast Saturday.

She said the photo of her smiling brown-haired, blue-eyed granddaughter was originally posted to Facebook three years ago and had been doctored several times in the past by individuals promoting different causes.
Most recently, the photo was circulated in a side-by-side with images depicting a skeletal figure said to be suffering from malnutrition as a result of a Syrian army siege in the town of Madaya, located several kilometers east of Lebanon's border.

Several other photos circulating on social media and picked up by some international news agencies that alleged to show starvation from the town have also been revealed as fakes.
Next time try congressional testimony from a teary-eyed daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_%28testimony%29)? It has a 100% success rate with justifying bogus wars of aggression.

[Shannon]

Anti-Assad Propaganda Exposed: ‘Starving Syrian Child’ Revealed as Healthy Lebanese Girl
(http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/anti-assad-propaganda-exposed-starving-syrian-child-revealed-healthy-lebanese-girl/ri12143)
Rudy Panko (http://russia-insider.com/en/rudy-panko) 3 hours ago

Filed under 'Saddam's incubator babies'


http://russia-insider.com/sites/insider/files/styles/s400/public/484063_img650x420_img650x420_crop.jpg?itok=HJw8RTLI (http://russia-insider.com/sites/insider/files/484063_img650x420_img650x420_crop.jpg)
Neither of these images are from Madaya


A viral photo depicting a "malnourished Syrian child" being "starved" by the "evil Syrian army" is a bona fide fraud. The details, via Lebanon's Daily Star (http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2016/Jan-09/331101-starving-syria-child-revealed-as-south-lebanon-girl.ashx) ('Starving Syria child' revealed as south Lebanon girl):
The family of a south Lebanon girl depicted in a photo that went viral alleging to show a starving child from a besieged Syrian border town has expressed anger over the incident.

"They took it too far this time," Rosine Mazeh, the grandmother of 7-year-old Marianna Mazeh, told Al-Jadeed from their village of Tay Filsey in a report broadcast Saturday.

She said the photo of her smiling brown-haired, blue-eyed granddaughter was originally posted to Facebook three years ago and had been doctored several times in the past by individuals promoting different causes.
Most recently, the photo was circulated in a side-by-side with images depicting a skeletal figure said to be suffering from malnutrition as a result of a Syrian army siege in the town of Madaya, located several kilometers east of Lebanon's border.

Several other photos circulating on social media and picked up by some international news agencies that alleged to show starvation from the town have also been revealed as fakes.
Next time try congressional testimony from a teary-eyed daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_%28testimony%29)? It has a 100% success rate with justifying bogus wars of aggression.

Just last night the topic of these children being starved was on the local news These photoshopped images were shown as well as doctors over there in Syria talking about what they are doing to help. It didn't feel right to me. I know there is terrible crimes being committed and the victims are innocent women and children but idk. I just didn't like how it was being presented and it felt so deceiving.

Thank you those links are full of relevant info.


*also I couldn't help but think of the Palestinians being starved via Israel.

[Hervé]

French delegation on the trail of Ukraine war crimes (http://fortruss.blogspot.fr/2016/01/french-delegation-on-trail-of-ukraine.html)


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Laurent BRAYARD (http://dnipress.com/en/posts/crimes-de-guerre-ukrainiens-une-delegation-francaise-en-approche/) In DONiPRESS, January 10 2016

Translated from French by Tom Winter

Things are getting nailed down in the case of thousands of war crimes committed by neo-Nazi reprisal battalions -- or by the Ukrainian army that is plaguing the Donbass and also the territory itself of Kievan Ukraine.

So far the first series of 800 war crimes dossiers have been filed to the European Court of Human Rights, and 1500 others are awaiting deposit. Lawyers of Lugansk and Donetsk are still at it, hard at work gathering testimony, because the crimes continue and survivors of the Ukrainian prisons or escapees flood month after month to the Donbass or appear in other parts of the world sometimes after long and very dangerous journeys, journeys to escape the clutches of the political police of Kiev.

But the noose tightens tirelessly. In addition to the issues that come together and will be filed in the competent courts, about 12 000 cases of elderly people who, in the depth of winter, had been deprived of their pensions by Kiev and left in danger of death are already collected and will be joined by several thousands more. This decision, putting lives of the vulnerable citizens at risk, contravenes international law. Taken by Kiev, it should cost them dearly and it will not be forgotten in the future courts that will rule on Ukrainian war criminals at all levels of the state apparatus where they are found.

The French delegation that will arrive Monday in Donetsk is a vanguard, officially coming to meet the authorities and their fellow lawyers to establish the first collaborations for the legal actions to be undertaken.

According to commitments made by the delegation, another, more important and prestigious in its composition, will strengthen contacts and can allow the start of work. It is quite significant that it is France that, despite its government being quite involved in supporting the illegal and criminal government of Kiev, will be at the forefront of legal battles that will probably last many years.

An important aspect of the visit will be also the legal proceedings to be conducted against French war criminals in Ukrainian battalions, including the infamous Azov. In maximum secrecy a French team gathered key information, non-disputable evidence, involving at least one of the "French" of Azov battalion who is also organizing a neo-Nazi meeting in the city of Nantes (http://fortruss.blogspot.com/search?q=Nantes).




In this regard, various institutions have already been at work and identification of participants is underway for justice to do its work in France, where the glorification and promotion of neo-Nazism is prohibited, fortunately. The main document, overwhelmingly themed with the killing of civilians, will be handed over to the French delegation for justice to be done.

The tremendous investigative work is therefore continuing at all levels, both in the Donbass, Europe, and now in France. The French government when faced with thousands of incontrovertible documents will find it increasingly difficult to support the cause of Kyiv and especially the neo-Nazis behind it, in Ukraine ... and France.

One day or another, the party will end for them, in competent tribunals through the patient work of collecting information on the underground activists of Ukraine in France that can equally be put to good use when the first conviction will set a precedent. The time will come for the denazification of Ukraine, which inevitably will lead to the dismantling of French cells organized even in our territory, in the wake of the murderous war of brown Ukraine.

Recall that the Ukrainian networks include a lot of journalists, and political personalties that have infiltrated a number of French parties, including and especially the Socialist Party, the Republicans and the UDI, not to mention various fauna supporting Ukraine, camouflaged in various associations that raise funds, money and weapons for Ukraine, practicing criminal disinformation about the war waged by the Ukrainian killers in the Donbass and the terrible political repression conducted by the regime in Kiev.

The content of the documents gathered at this time for the meeting of the first international courts have terrible cases of torture, rape, summary executions, looting, political repression, political assassinations, kidnappings, extortion, religious persecution, ethnic persecution, violations of Human Rights and Democracy.

I myself have consulted some of the documents and statements in interviews attesting terrible things, some of which have already been made public. Justice is on, nothing will stop it, any more than it could stop the truth and I can say that sooner or later all those who directly or indirectly have supported the brown Ukraine, in France or elsewhere, will hardly have any more arrogance than Nazis had in 1945!

Related:
Study proves Maidan massacre was carried out by current Ukrainian government (http://sputniknews.com/europe/20160103/1032633643/study-maidan-deaths-false-flag.html)

[Hervé]

Syria. Analyzing Madaya’s Starvation Falsification. Western Media Propaganda in Support of US-NATO War Crimes (http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-analyzing-madayas-starvation-falsification-western-media-propaganda-in-support-of-us-nato-war-crimes/5500559)

By Paul Antonopoulos (http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/paul-antonopoulos) Global Research, January 11, 2016
Al-Masdar News (http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/analysing-madayas-starvation-falsification/) 9 January 2016



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Public outcry and condemnation against the Syrian government spread like wildfire across mainstream news and social media when the horrific photos of starved children and civilians from the besieged town of Madaya emerged. No one could understand why Assad would allow this to happen to his own people, especially since videos emerged (that can be seen on my last Madaya article) under a month ago that displayed rallies against the occupying terrorist forces and in support of the Syrian government.

Hours after my last article, truth seekers quickly unveiled the lies shrouding around the starvation of the people.


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It was also interesting to see that an official statement by the neutral Red Cross could not verify or deny the systematic starvation of Madaya’s people.



However, for the sake of analysis, I must now retract from my previous refusal of posting photos of malnourished people so that the truth can be open.

One of the first and most heartbreaking was one of a healthy young girl followed by a new photo of her on the verge of death because of starvation.


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This photo published by Saudi owned Al-Arabiya soon quickly engulfed media platforms and the calls for humanitarian intervention was called. However, it was quickly revealed by the Lebanese Daily Star that the girl in question is actually a south Lebanese girl who is in safe hands with her family, and is fit and healthy.


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Although this does not discount the hunger permeating in Madaya, and the shocking condition of the girl starved in the photo, what it does present is an obvious media distortion of the truth. This propaganda was well received by war mongering interventionists, Syrian ‘opposition’ (jihadists and their sympathizers), and the trendy Western left.

When this truth was exposed, calls for people to retract their propaganda were denied.


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This shocking tweet is just one upon hundreds I personally saw of people refusing to revert their falsifications, or admittance that they will keep up with the propaganda campaign till intervention against the Syrian government is achieved. It must be questioned however why people automatically assumed that the Syrian government were responsible for the starvation of Madaya. Throughout the war we have seen efforts of terrorist militants attempting to force an international intervention as seen in Libya that provided the conditions of a stable ruler to be overthrown and where jihadists can prosper.

This began with the chemical weapon allegations, despite prominent U.N. Weapons Inspector on the ground in Syria, Carla del Ponte, stating there is little evidence that the government were responsible for the sarin gas attack in Ghouta in 2013. She alluded that it was most likely the terrorist forces, but of course, the usual social justice warriors and international community ignored her, and continued with the false narrative.

Then of course there is the narrative that Assad is supposedly barrel bombing his own people in a systematic effort, despite Assad fighting a war for the support of his people, as well as the war against the terrorist forces. It seems that would be a little counter-productive to systematically target your own innocent civilians. Of course, this simple notion seems to be a little perplexing for the terrorist sympathizers.

However, the case of Madaya was not reduced to one southern Lebanese girl, the propaganda was far and wide.

Al-Jazeera published a photo of a man supposedly starved in Madaya, which turns out to be a photo of a refugee in Europe from 2009.


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Then of course we had the shocking photo of the malnourished baby ‘from Madaya’, who actually turned out to be a child from the Yarmouk Palestinian camp on the outskirts of Damascus. The photo was taken in 2014.


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The Western media narrative has focused on Hezbollah and the Syrian Arab Army forces conducting a food blockade on the town. However, these allegations ignore that truckloads of food and medical aid that have reached Madaya and that have been turned into a weaponized tool by the terrorist forces holed up in the town. As seen in my previous Madaya piece, which was linked earlier in the article, the people of Madaya support the government and confronted the militants on why they have no food. Images have appeared of hunger sticken women and children, yet all the militants seem to be in fit and healthy conditions. One must question why is this?
More importantly, this propaganda campaign has remained defiant, and the public outcry for intervention stonger then ever, despite the irrefutable evidence on the falsification of the situation in Madaya. We have had the Middle East’s largest media services blatantly posting false images from Madaya. This is not to discount the pain and suffering of the people starved in the photos, this should not exist anywhere in the world, but we set a dangerous precedence when we apply these photos to the wrong context. Most disturbing however are the acknowledgement on the false photos, but people still wanting to use them for their own agendas that serve to only increase the suffering in Syria through the expansion of war and intervention.

Before submitting to the western narrative that leads to calls of intervention, always take a step back and find the truth on the issue, because just like the chemical weapons and the systematic targeting of civilians that led to calls for intervention, this is just another false red line that was once again quickly disproven.

Paul Antonopoulos is currently a Candidate for an MA Degree, writing his dissertation on the Saudi-Iranian Geopolitical Rivalry in the Syrian War.

Related:
Syria: BBC Fabricates Again, Uses Recycled Photos. Madaya Residents used as Human Shields by US-NATO Backed Terrorists (http://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-bbc-fabricates-again-uses-recycled-photos-madaya-residents-used-as-human-shields-by-us-nato-backed-terrorists/5500540)

[Hervé]

First aid convoys enter besieged Syrian town of Madaya (https://www.rt.com/news/328503-syria-madaya-fake-photos/)

Published time: 11 Jan, 2016 12:22
Edited time: 11 Jan, 2016 16:53


[for pictures and videos, see original article at: https://www.rt.com/news/328503-syria-madaya-fake-photos/]


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Aid convoys carrying food, medicine and blankets, leave the Syrian capital Damascus as they head to the besieged town of Madaya on January 11, 2015. (AFP photo)


A humanitarian aid convoy has entered the besieged town of Madaya in southern Syria, where people are said to be dying of starvation. Locals say rebels are charging them $250 for a kilogram of rice, an RT crew on the spot says.

The UN confirms the convoy’s presence in the city. Lorries are carrying basic food items as well as water, baby food, blankets, medicines and surgical supplies.

"Two trucks carrying food and two others full of blankets entered Madaya at 5:00 pm [15:00 GMT]," an official from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent also told AFP.

Simultaneously, first aid convoys arrived in the villages of Foah and Kefraya besieged by rebels in the northern Syrian province of Idlib, the BBC reports.

Several convoys consisting of 60 lorries operated by the UN, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Syrian Red Crescent and the World Food Program left for Madaya, Foah and Kefraya on Monday morning. Earlier, the UN said it had received credible reports of people dying of starvation in these settlements.

Humanitarian aid on 39 trucks is expected in Madaya, RT’s Murad Gazdiev said, reporting from the area.

The humanitarian aid comes thanks to an agreement between the warring sides in the areas where thousands of people are under siege.

Media coverage is low, and there are no Western journalists there, according to Gazdiev.

However, since the start of January, social media and MSM have been flooded with reports, saying many have died of starvation in the besieged town of Madaya, and that government forces loyal to President Assad are to blame.

Various media outlets, including the Telegraph, the Independent, BBC, CNN and Fox news said Syrians were eating domestic animals, and had been left without any help. Some media didn’t bother to re-check the authenticity of images allegedly showing dying Madaya residents.

No one has as yet been able to confirm that the images are actually authentic. RT decided to investigate the photos.

One haunting image posted on Arab-speaking social media shows (http://ixiir.com/caricatureshow204.html)a starving man supposedly lying somewhere in the streets of Madaya, a town with a population of about 9,000 people.

"The victims of starvation caused by Bashar Assad, Hezbollah and Iranian militias on Madaya and Al-Zabadani,” says the caption under the image.

However, the story behind the starving man turned out to be fabricated. In fact, he starved (http://syriaundersiege.org/gallery/)to death in the city of Ghouta a year ago, according to the Syrian American Medical Society. The picture was taken on January 13, 2015.

“Mohammad Yoususf An-Najjar, disabled, from Damascus died on 13 January due to extreme cold and lack of food during the government forces’ siege of Eastern Ghouta,” the Syrian network of human rights said.

An image of a Syrian girl that appeared in Arab media prompted global condemnation of Assad’s policies. It was claimed she had turned into a lifeless shadow of herself due to extreme starvation.

However, the girl appears to be safe and sound in Jordan. According to MBC TV, this picture (http://www.mbc.net/ar/programs/sabah-al-khair/articles/%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%81-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D8%A7-%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%8A-%D8%B3%D8%B1%D9%82%D8%AA-%D9%82%D9%84%D9%88%D8%A8-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86.html)was taken in the streets of Amman, the Jordanian capital, in January 2014.

An image published by the Telegraph and Aljazeera (http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2016/1/7/madaya-syria-starving.html)shows a starving boy, who they said was in Madaya.

However, it turned out that a YouTube video featured the Syrian boy in May 2015, before the crisis in the town started.

Another horrendous picture of a starving man in Madaya has turned out to be a drug addict (or refugee, according to other sources) taken (http://shannonmorgan.theworldrace.org/?filename=expectations-of-my-mission-trip)in Europe in 2009. His eyes were even Photoshopped to hide the fact they are blue. The image originally appeared on Al Jazeera. It was subsequently deleted, but not before it had been retweeted many times.

The Red Cross said they can’t confirm the authenticity of the images.

[Hervé]

After Saudis Beheaded 47 People, Belgium Now Refusing to Sell them Arms, Germany May Follow (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/saudis-beheaded-47-people-belgium-refusing-sell-arms-germany-follow)

By Matt Agorist (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/author/savy4/) on January 7, 2016


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On Saturday, the Saudi Arabian government beheaded 47 people, one of whom was prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a senior opposition figure. He and the others were all killed for their charges of “undermining the national security” of the kingdom.

Immediately following the beheadings, countries across the globe–except for the United States– denounced the barbaric move.

Rightfully outraged with the beheadings, Shiite Muslims in Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon and Bahrain angrily condemned the executions, and Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi embassy in Tehran.

These inhumane acts of murder on the part of the Saudis have forced the hands of those who sell them weapons and on Monday, Germany became the first country to question their arms trade deal.

“We must now review whether in the future we should take a more critical stance” on selling arms to Saudi Arabia, German Vice Chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel said Monday.

While Germany has said they will review their decision, Belgium just took it a step further on Tuesday, by immediately declining Saudi Arabia’s request for military equipment supplies.

“We have rejected the request [for military equipment supplies to Saudi Arabia],” Geert Bourgeois told the Flemish Parliament, as quoted by the RTBF broadcaster. (http://www.rtbf.be/info/belgique/detail_geert-bourgeois-je-n-exporterais-pas-d-armes-a-feu-pour-l-instant-a-l-arabie-saoudite?id=9177818) “If there is a possibility that the weapons may be used for internal repression, I refuse.”

The moves by Germany to advocate for a review, and Belgium to renounce the selling of weapons to such a repressive regime are heartening and should be a model for all those involved in arming a country who beheads more people than ISIS. (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/saudi-king-gave-obamas-1-3-million-gifts/)

Of course, the US is not about to give up their largest weapons export contract, even if the weapons are used to oppress entire nations and murder their children.

Immediately after the beheadings, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce took to CNN to blame the Saudi’s executions on Iranians. (http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2016/january/05/us-politicians-on-saudi-beheadings-its-all-irans-fault/)

As Daniel McAdams reports for the Ron Paul Institute (http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2016/january/05/us-politicians-on-saudi-beheadings-its-all-irans-fault/), Royce falsely claimed that the Iranian military invaded Yemen. But that is demonstrably untrue. It was the Saudis who invaded Yemen.

It seems that the Saudi influence over the United States is far and wide, even spreading to the presidential candidates, who all curtsey to “our Saudi ally” by pledging their blind support of the terrorist regime.

It’s no coincidence that President Obama was showered with $1.3 million in gifts from the Saudi King last year. (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/saudi-king-gave-obamas-1-3-million-gifts/)Obama is responsible for forging the largest weapons sale in American history, all of which went to Saudi Arabia.

[Hervé]

West’s airstrikes cost ‘billions’ to Syria economy – Damascus’ UN envoy (https://www.rt.com/news/328624-western-airstrikes-economic-damage/)

Published time: 12 Jan, 2016 12:32


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Bombing raids in Syria by the US-led coalition target civilian and industrial infrastructure worth billions of dollars, while Western airstrikes aim to exhaust the “capacities of the people” and halt post-war reconstruction, Syria’s envoy to the UN says.


“Those attacks aim at devastating capacities of the Syrian people and complicate development and reconstruction of the country,”Bashar Ja’afari was quoted as saying by TASS on Tuesday.

The Western coalition’s air raids are hitting facilities critical for ordinary Syrians to survive, he stressed, mentioning recent bombing of water tower facility in the province of Raqqa that deprived people of an access to pure water in surrounding villages and towns. In October 2015, the coalition’s warplanes bombed Radwaniyah area outside Aleppo, severely damaging two power plants, with the damage estimated at €1.2 billion, Ja’afari added.

Except the civilian infrastructure, Ja’afari stressed, Syria’s oil and gas industries are also targeted. In early January the coalition bombed and hit oil refineries 80km away from Raqqa, he said.

Syrian oil is also being stolen by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) and “delivered to Turkey’s refineries owned by the son of [Turkish President] Erdogan, then to Turkish port of Jeyhan, and then to Israel,” the envoy told journalists. “It’s quite a profitable business.” Purchasing oil from terrorist groups is prohibited by the UN Security Council’s resolutions, Ja’afari reiterated.

He went on to address humanitarian situation in a town of Madaya where inhabitants are said to be dying of starvation. He dismissed the Western accusations Damascus is hampering deliveries of aid as having been falsified to undermine the Geneva peace talks, according to TASS.


“Every time when a step forward is made towards political reconciliation in Syria, information on certain incidents is fabricated to slander the Syrian government and negatively impact the political process,” he said.The bloody conflict has been ongoing in Syria since 2011, claiming the lives of some 220,000 Syrians while around 12 million people are in constant humanitarian need, according to the latest UN Human Rights Office’s estimates. Some 7,632,500 Syrians have been internally displaced, with 4,194,554 seeking refuge outside the country.

Related:
‘Thanks for destroying our country’: Angry Libyans lash out at Obama’s independence congratulations (https://www.rt.com/news/327060-obama-congratulates-libyan-people/)

[Yetti]

Ok Bill, let say you nailed , the question here is : Is there any hope for us ? with all those warmongers criminals , who not only have the power of government also the weapons? . From my point of view, not a referendum nor any election would put them aside , they laugh on us. It's is time for get some help from our friends, real help. Another tough, if they plan to use nukes, is because they have the technology to suppress the rads effect, otherwise a nuclear war is nonsense. Or, they have somewhere else to go after destroy the planet. Any comments?

[GlassSteagallfan]

INTERVIEW with Hon Sen Richard Black

Published on Jan 10, 2016

Video interview with Hon. Senator Richard Black - Commonwealth of Virginia State Senate - about Seymour Hersh's report "Military to military" and the actual situation in Syria and Middle Est.
January 6th, 2016


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNMM4KlYFfY&feature=youtu.be