FSB on toteuttanut vaativia operaatioita kuten ISISin, erityisesti Al-Nusran (jota Englanti aseisti vielä silloin) soluttaminen, jota johti Ramzan Kadyrov (ja ehkä pisti siinä vähän Al-Haidia ja Storsjö-odjuretiakin hommiin...) Al-Nusra on justiin se, joka käytti niitä Saddamin vanhoja hermokaasujakin provokaatiomielessä. Nusran tarkoitus oli käyttää myös YK:ta.

Nyt kun Irakin kurdit ampuivat alas kaksi Englannin aselähetystä Al-Nusralle, lienee erittäin, että kurdit olivat saaneet juuri venäläisiltä nuo tarpeelliset tiedot.

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" CAUGHT RED-HANDED : Two British Planes Shot Down in Iraq Carrying Weapons For ISIS Terrorists

Tuesday, February 24, 2015 12:11

By Fars News Agency

Global Research, February 24, 2015

FARS News

Iraq’s army has shot down two British planes as they were carrying weapons for the ISIL terrorists in Al-Anbar province, a senior lawmaker disclosed on Monday.

“The Iraqi Parliament’s National Security and Defense Committee has access to the photos of both planes that are British and have crashed while they were carrying weapons for the ISIL,” Head of the committee Hakem al-Zameli said, according to a Monday report of the Arabic-language information center of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.

He said the Iraqi parliament has asked London for explanations in this regard.

The senior Iraqi legislator further unveiled that the government in Baghdad is recei-ving daily reports from people and security forces in al-Anbar province on numerous flights by the US-led coalition planes that airdrop weapons and supplies for ISIL in terrorist-held areas.

The Iraqi lawmaker further noted the cause of such western aids to the terrorist group, and explained that the US prefers a chaotic situation in Anbar Province which is near the cities of Karbala and Baghdad as it does not want the ISIL crisis to come to an end.

Earlier today, a senior Iraqi provincial official lashed out at the western countries and their regional allies for supporting Takfiri terrorists in Iraq, revealing that US and Israeli-made weapons have been discovered from the areas purged of ISIL terrorists.

“We have discovered weapons made in the US, European countries and Israel from the areas liberated from ISIL’s control in Al-Baqdadi region,” the Al-Ahad news website quoted Head of Al-Anbar Provincial Council Khalaf Tarmouz as saying.

He noted that the weapons made by the European countries and Israel were discovered from the terrorists in the Eastern parts of the city of Ramadi.

Al-Zameli had also disclosed in January that the anti-ISIL coalition’s planes have dropped weapons and foodstuff for the ISIL in Salahuddin, Al-Anbar and Diyala provinces.

Al-Zameli underlined that  the coalition is the main cause of ISIL’s survival in Iraq.
“There are proofs and evidence for the US-led coalition’s military aid to ISIL terrorists through air(dropped cargoes),” he told FNA in January.

He noted that the members of his committee have already proved that the US planes have dropped advanced weaponry, including anti-aircraft weapons, for the ISIL, and that it has set up an investigation committee to probe into the matter.

“The US drops weapons for the ISIL on the excuse of not knowing about the where-abouts of the ISIL positions and it is trying to distort the reality with its allegations.
He noted that the committee had collected the data and the evidence provided by eyewitnesses, including Iraqi army officers and the popular forces, and said, “These documents are given to the investigation committee … and the necessary measures will be taken to protect the Iraqi airspace.”

Also in January, another senior Iraqi legislator reiterated that the US-led coalition is the main cause of ISIL’s survival in Iraq.

“The international coalition is only an excuse for protecting the ISIL and helping the terrorist group with equipment and weapons,” Jome Divan, who is member of the al-Sadr bloc in the Iraqi parliament, said.

He said the coalition’s support for the ISIL is now evident to everyone, and continued, “The coalition has not targeted ISIL’s main positions in Iraq.”

In late December, Iraqi Parliamentary Security and Defense Commission MP disclosed that a US plane supplied the ISIL terrorist organization with arms and ammunition in Salahuddin province.

MP Majid al-Gharawi stated that the available information pointed out that US planes are supplying ISIL organization, not only in Salahuddin province, but also other provinces, Iraq TradeLink reported.

He added that the US and the international coalition are “not serious in fighting against the ISIL organization, because they have the technological power to determine the presence of ISIL gunmen and destroy them in one month”.'

Gharawi added that “the US is trying to expand the time of the war against the ISIL to get guarantees from the Iraqi government to have its bases in Mosul and Anbar provinces.”

Salahuddin security commission also disclosed that “unknown planes threw arms and ammunition to the ISIL gunmen Southeast of Tikrit city”.

Also in Late December, a senior Iraqi lawmaker raised doubts about the seriousness of the anti-ISIL coalition led by the US, and said that the terrorist group still received aids dropped by unidentified aircraft.

“The international coalition is not serious about air strikes on ISIL terrorists and is even seeking to take out the popular (voluntary) forces from the battlefield against the Takfiris so that the problem with ISIL remains unsolved in the near future,” Nahlah al-Hababi told FNA.

“The ISIL terrorists are still receiving aids from unidentified fighter jets in Iraq and Syria,” she added.

Hababi said that the coalition’s precise airstrikes are launched only in those areas where the Kurdish Pishmarga forces are present, while military strikes in other regions are not so much precise.

In late December, the US-led coalition dropped aids to the Takfiri militants in an area North of Baghdad.

Field sources in Iraq told al-Manar that the international coalition airplanes dropped aids to the terrorist militants in Balad, an area which lies in Salahuddin province North of Baghdad.

In October, a high-ranking Iranian commander also slammed the US for providing aid supplies to ISIL, adding that the US claims that the weapons were mistakenly airdropped to ISIL were untrue.

“The US and the so-called anti-ISIL coalition claim that they have launched a cam-paign against this terrorist and criminal group - while supplying them with weapons, food and medicine in Jalawla region (a town in Diyala Governorate, Iraq). This expli-citly displays the falsity of the coalition’s and the US’ claims,” Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri said.

The US claimed that it had airdropped weapons and medical aid to Kurdish fighters confronting the ISIL in Kobani, near the Turkish border in Northern Syria.

The US Defense Department said that it had airdropped 28 bundles of weapons and supplies, but one of them did not make it into the hands of the Kurdish fighters.
Video footage later showed that some of the weapons that the US airdropped were taken by ISIL militants.

The Iranian commander insisted that the US had the necessary intelligence about ISIL’s deployment in the region and that their claims to have mistakenly airdropped weapons to them are as unlikely as they are untrue.

Sitten kohta Venäjä pommitti myös Al-Nusran johdon paratiisiin...

https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/2015030619309951...

Al-Nusran rintaman sotilasjohtaja surmattu Syyriassa – ”Valtava isku”

06.03.2015 klo 18:42

Syyrian kapinallisiin kuuluva jihadistijärjestö on kärsinyt kovan tappion.

Neljä al-Nusran rintaman (Jabhat al-Nusra) johtohenkilöä on saanut surmansa pommituksessa Syyriassa torstaina. Heidän joukossaan oli järjestön sotilasjohtaja Abu Hammam al-Shami.

– Islamilainen maailma vuotaa verta marttyyri Abu Hammamin takia, al-Nusra tviittasi.

Al-Shami oli pitkän linjan taistelija. Noin vuosi sitten julkaistun videon mukaan hän sai koulutusta Afganistanissa 90-luvun lopulla. Hän osallistui myös al-Qaidan koulu-tusleirille ja vannoi henkilökohtaisesti uskollisuutta Osama bin Ladenille. Afganista-nista al-Shami pakeni Talebanien kaaduttua Egyptiin ja liittyi Irakissa paikallisen al-Qaidan perustajan Abu Musab al-Zarqawin joukkoihin. Irakissa hän toimi kouluttajana Al-Zarqawin alaisuudessa, videolla väitetään.

Vuonna 2006 kuollutta Al-Zarqawia seurasi al-Qaidan johdossa Abu Omar al-Bagh-dadi ja tämän kuoltua tilalle nousi nykyinen Isis-johtaja ja kalifiksi julistautunut Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Tämän myrskyisän viisivuotiskauden al-Shami kuitenkin vietti vankilassa Libanonissa, jonka jälkeen hän matkusti Syyriaan ja liittyi al-Nusraan.

Al-Nusran rintama onkin ollut osa al-Qaidan terroristiverkostoa. Ääri-islamistinen jihadistijärjestö on yksi Syyrian kapinallisryhmistä. Sen ideologia eroaa kuitenkin Isisistä, joka on järjestön vihollinen siinä missä Syyrian hallintokin.

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Tätä voisi pitää tunnustuksena...:

https://www.sott.net/article/318906-Report-Kerry-promises-Lavrov-that-support-for-Nusra-and-Daesh-is-over-Geneva-negotiations-coming-to-an-end?fbclid=IwAR13ZLqM_FrKEpRYlBytGt6s8MfzJzWlBdezKuyD55mifB0VGyX5OhIMz64

Report: Kerry promises Lavrov that support for Nusra and Daesh is over - Geneva negotiations coming to an end

Washington and Moscow have managed to maintain their agreements on Syria after John Kerry assured his Russian oppposite number that the wea-pons sent by the Pentagon to Al-Qaïda and Daesh in April had been deli-vered to honour an old programme which is now abandoned. We are mo-ving towards the end of the Geneva negotiations, and the resumption of intra-Sy-rian discussions - they will include the Kurds, but not the the pro-Saudi faction.

Meeting of the International Syria Support Group (Vienna, 17 May 2016).

US implication in Syria is as bewildering as ever. Despite the fact that John Kerry had negotiated a cessation of hostilites on the 22 February 2016, and that Russia had withdrawn its bombers, Turkey - a member of NATO - continued its support for Daesh.

On the 8 March, Russia registered a report with the Security Council accusing An-kara of controlling the traffic of antiques for the benefit of Daesh [1]. On the 18 March,it registered a further report accusing Turkey of delivering arms and munitions to Daesh [2]. In both cases, Turkey «totally refuted» these allegations and accused Russia of organising a diversionary manœuvre to «distract the attention of the international community from the civilian losses, the chaos and the conside-rable destruction caused by the Syrian régime and Russian military operations in Syria». The Russian Chief of Staff retaliated by revealing that Ankara had just allowed 9,000 new jihadists to enter Syria. However, it is possible to imagine that Turkey had acted alone, without referring to the United States.

On the 7 April, the US Department of Defense delivered 2,000 tonnes of weapons to the «moderate armed groups», of which 500 tonnes were im-mediately redistributed to Al-Nusra (Al-Qaïda), and 500 more to Daesh.

In any case, Turkey's support for Daesh seems to have diminished rapidly over the last few days.

It would seem that Moscow had secretly but violently protested, to the extent that on the 9 May, John Kerry and Sergeï Lavrov published a joint declaration. They called on «all states to implement Security Council Resolution 2253 (2015), which forbids all material or financial assistance to Daesh, the al-Nusra Front or any other group qualified as terrorist by the UN Security Council, and to prevent any of these groups from crossing the frontier into Syria».

Above all, it was agreed that Washington would set a deadline for its allies - the start of July - to arrive at a negotiated agreement in Geneva. Beyond that date, the US would withdraw all their armed forces, while Russia would redirect its aircraft-carrier Admiral Kutznesov to the Syrian coast in order to resume, on a reduced scale, its bombing campaign against the terrorist organisations (who have since been re-armed) [5].

However, the uncertainty has still not been definitively resolved.A heated dispute op-posed Russia and the United States at the UN concerning the Army of Islam (Jaysh al-islam) and the Islamic Movement of the Free Men of the Levant (Ahrar al-Sham). Moscow intended to add them to the list of «terrorist organisations», while Washington still wants to consider them as a «moderate armed group».

The Army of Islam is a formation funded by Saudi Arabia and supervised by the British SAS. Originally commanded by Zahran Allouche, it spread terror throughout the suburbs of Damascus and threatened the capital for three years. Its leader, who worshipped Osama Bin Laden, was characterised by his cruelty, ordering the decapitation of a number of local inhabitants, and using others, locked in cages, as human shields. Finally, the 'bunker-buster' bombs of the Russian Air Force destroyed the underground head-quarters specially built to house his Staff. After a period of confusion, one of Allouche's assistants, Issam el-Bouaydani, tempo-rarily assumed his succession. He was rapidly ousted in favour of a Wahabist cleric, Sheikh Abou Abdarrahman Kaake, who recommended the nomination of one of Zahran Allouche's cousins, Mohamed Allouche, to direct the delegation of the Saudi opposition at the intra-Syrian peace negotiations in Geneva. Mohamed Allouche had become celebrated for having thrown Syrians accused of being gay from the rooftops - the Syrian Arab Republic is the only Arab state to re-spect the private life of its citizens, and does not penalise homosexuals.

The Islamic Movement of the Free Men of the Levant is also supervised by the British. Like the Army of Islam, its communications are handled by InCoStrat [6]. Its «Minister for Foreign Affairs», Labib al-Nahhas, circulates freely in the West. He is in fact also British, and a member of MI6. He published an op-ed in the Washington Post [7], and paid a secret visit to New York last December to present his report to Jeffrey Feltman.

On the 17 May, the International Syria Support Group met in Vienna. In its final declaration [8], it questions the Syrian Arab Army's strategy of encircling the villages controlled by the jihadists of the «moderate opposition». But above all, it once more validates all of the Russo-US decisions of these last months, namely -

• to form a common organisation for the transition between the Syrian government and the entire range of opposition parties when the moment for transition is reached;
• to elaborate a new Constitution;
• then to organise new Presidential and parliamentary elections on that basis.

However, even though Saudi Arabia is a member of the International Syria Support Group, the moderate opposition still refuses to accept these three points. It persists in demanding the departure of President el-Assad and most of the Christian, Chiite and Alawite senior civil servants before the formation of the transition organisation. Furthermore, it does not intend to run against the current leaders in a round of democratic elections.

It is not inconsequential that during the meeting in Vienna, a diplomat declared that his country was ready to fight Al-Qaïda, but that he was concerned as to who would then ocupy the terrain. Sergeï Lavrov noted what he considered to be a «lapsus» - this diplomat was admitting, de facto, that his country preferred the victory of Al-Qaïda to the victory of the Syrian Arab Republic. By doing so, he was distancing himself from the decision of the Security Council to make the fight against terrorism its primary objective.

On the same day,the 17 May, the special representative for the UN Secretary General, Terje Rød-Larsen, presented his final report on the application of Resolution 1559, and announced his resignation. The Resolution had been drawn up in 2004, on the initiative of the United States, France and Saudi Arabia, to demand the disarmement of the Lebanese Hezbollah, the non-renewal of President Emile Lahoud's mandate, and the withdrawal of the Syrian peace force from Lebanon. The Resolution had ne-ver been applied, although Syria withdrew its soldiers of its own accord when asked to do so by the Lebanese public during the «Cedar Revolution». Mr. Ban immedia-tely charged his assistant for Political Affaires, Jeffrey Feltman, with taking over Mr. Terje Rød-Larsen's functions as well as his own until the end of the year. However, very many observers consider that Jeffrey Feltman, ex-US Ambassador in Beirut, is the real author of Resolution 1559,and that today,he secretly directs the military coalition against Syria from New York.

On the 19 May, Jeffrey Feltman took part in a ceremony in Paris alongside members of the foreign Syrian opposition, Burhan Ghalioun, Michel Kilo, Bassma Kodmani and Samar Yazbeck.

Still in France, General Benoît Puga announced his resignation as the French President's personal Chief of Staff, in order to join the Chancellory of the Légion d'Honneur. An integrist Christian, nostalgic for the monarchy and colonisation, he was the only military man to occupy his post during the mandates of two successive Presidents, Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande.He had personally directed France's secret operations in Syria - sometimes in contradiction to the advice of the Army's Chief of Staff - notably with the assistance of the officers of the French Foreign Legion who worked directly for the Presidency.

We are moving inexorably towards an interruption of the Geneva negotiations. Moreover, if an agreement should be found between the Syrian parties present, it would be invalidated in the light of earlier international decisions, taking into account the exclusion - demanded by Turkey - of the main Kurdish party. This is why the failure of the Geneva talks would probably be followed by the resumption of the intra-Syrian negotiations between those who wish to take part - in other words, without the pro-Saudis, but with the Kurds. Then the formation of a transitional system with new participants. On the military side, the Syrian Arab Army should take back the country's main cities, but combats will probably persist at the Iraqi-Syrian frontier.

Translation: Pete Kimberley

1. "Russian Intelligence report on Daesh's smuggling of antiquities", Voltaire Network, March 8th, 2016.
2. "Second Russian intelligence report on Turkey's current assistance to Daesh", Voltaire Network, March 18th, 2016.
3. « Les États-Unis violent le cessez-le-feu en Syrie et arment Al-Qaïda », « Qui arme les jihadistes durant le cessez-le-feu ? », par Thierry Meyssan, Télévision nationale syrienne, Réseau Voltaire, 25 et 30 avril 2016.
4. "Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the United States on Syria", Voltaire Network, May 9th, 2016.
5. "The imminent return of Russian planes to Syria", by Valentin Vasilescu, Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire Network, May 16th, 2016.
6. « Comment le Royaume-Uni met en scène les jihadistes »,Réseau Voltaire, 13 mai 2016.
7. "The deadly consequences of mislabeling Syria's revolutionaries", Labib Al Nahhas, Washington Post, July 10th, 2015.
8. "Statement of the International Syria Support Group", Voltaire Network, May 17th, 2016.

Comment: Even if true, it's unlikely that the U.S.'s allies will agree to either ceasing support for terrorists or abiding by the ceasefire. Saudi Arabia is calling for more weapons and boots on the ground in Syria to remove Assad. Turkey is still stating that it will act unilaterally in Syria. So the U.S. can benefit by pretending to be 'moderate', while allowing Turkey and the Sauds to do their dirty work for them. "

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Obina väittää nyt, että "ei olisi muka ikinä väittänytkään Syyrian Hallituksen käyttä-neen taistelukaasuja - ja olisi jopa kieltäytynyt tekemästä maahyökkäystä Syyriaan "kaasujen perusteeella", kun tiesi, että ne olivat muiden kuin hallituksen!

https://www.mideastdiscourse.com/2020/11/22/obama-admits-his-failure-in-syria/

" Obama admits his failure in Syria

News Room

November 22, 2020

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator

Former US President Barack Obama has admitted in an interview with German channel NTV on Wednesday, November 18, that his administration failed to deal with Syria during his presidency.

He was asked about the failures in his administration, and he answered, “In the area of foreign policy, the tragedy in Syria is still bothering me. During the Arab Spring, Egypt was in the spotlight, and later Libya, but at the same time, Syria was beginning to fall apart. In any case, I was not in a position to win the international community over to hold Syria together. I can’t stop thinking about the human suffering that followed.”

Obama acknowledged that his legacy has been negatively affected by his refusal to invade Syria with a US occupation force.  However, his successor, President Donald J. Trump has invaded Syria, and the US military is occupying Syria and stealing the oil resources, in a scene reminiscent of Dick Cheney and George W. Bush administration’s history in Iraq.

The Red Line crossed

Seymour M. Hersh wrote in April 2014, “The Red Line and the Rat Line”, concerning Obama, Turkey, and the US-backed terrorists.

In August 2013, after the sarin attack in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Obama was ready to launch an airstrike on Syria, for allegedly crossing the ‘red line’ he had set in 2012 on the use of chemical weapons.

Obama changed his mind because of research conducted at Porton Down, the UK defense laboratory. British intelligence had obtained a sample of the sarin used in the attack and analysis demonstrated that the gas didn’t match the Syrian army’s chemical weapons arsenal.

A former senior US intelligence official told Hersh that Prime Minister Recep Erdogan of Turkey had operatives who believed they could force Obama to attack the Syrian government by staging a sarin attack inside Syria.

Erdogan was supporting Jibhat al-Nusra, the Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, as well as other foreign Radical Islamic terrorist groups. Hersh was assured by a former senior US intelligence official that, ‘Turkey and Saudi-based chemical facilitators were attempting to obtain sarin precursors in bulk, tens of kilograms, likely for the anticipated large scale production effort in Syria.’

The US joint chiefs also knew that the media claims that only the Syrian army had access to sarin were wrong.The US and UK intelligence communities had been aware since the spring of 2013 that some terrorist units in Syria were developing chemical weapons. The US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) issued a highly classified report which stated that Jibhat al-Nusra maintained a sarin production cell, and was ‘the most advanced sarin plot since al-Qaida’s pre-9/11 effort’.

Jibhat al-Nusra changed their name to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham to circumvent the US restrictions on support of Al Qaeda terrorist groups,and are today holding the 3 million civilians in Idlib as hostages and human shields. The US-NATO-EU conti-nue to demand protection for the terrorists, by insisting on a ceasefire which seeks to prevent Russian and Syrian military attacks on the terrorists, which contravenes the UN-mandated global war on terror.

A series of chemical weapon attacks in March and April 2013 was investigated by a special UN mission to Syria, there was evidence linking the terrorists to the first gas attack, on March 19, 2013, at Khan Al-Assal. Investigators interviewed the victims and their doctors, and it was clear that the terrorists used the gas.

The Obama target list to attack Syria in 2013 included all the electric grids, oil and gas depots, all weapons depots, and all military buildings. But, Obama put the brakes on the plan after the UK defense findings were sent to the US joint chiefs, effectively telling them they were being set-up by the terrorists.

The US military had already questioned who would benefit from the use of sarin gas attack, and they concluded that from a military standpoint,Syria would not use nerve gas at that stage, because Assad was winning the war against the terrorists.

Obama supported the Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria

David H. Petraeus, who was then CIA director, first proposed a covert program of arming and training terrorists in the summer of 2012. Obama signed a presidential order authorizing the CIA to secretly arm and train terrorists at bases in Jordan in 2013. Obama’s decision came after intense lobbying by US allies, King Abdullah II of Jordan and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, who were united in their support of using the Muslim Brotherhood ideology to topple the Assad government.

White House officials also received reports that the CIA-trained terrorists had executed prisoners and committed war crimes and atrocities.

“The Dark Side of the Free Syrian Army” was published in December 2012, and ex-posed the US government’s support of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), which was being armed by financial and military assistance from NATO, EU, and Arab Gulf nations allied with the US.  The FSA was being used as the boots on the ground for the US and their allies, for regime change.

Western media had portrayed the FSA as ‘the good guys’ and was not reporting de-tails of human rights violations, attacks on civilians, rapes, kidnappings, and torture. Western media was turning a blind eye to the facts, and painting the battle as between a dictator, and the FSA, which was labeled freedom-fighters.

Of the 23 million citizens in Syria, about eight million are minorities such as Chris-tians, Druze, Alawites, and Kurds,who are protected by the government, and the ma- jority of the Syrian people support President Assad. The facts on the ground, were of an armed terrorist group, following Radical Islam, with the intent of establishing an Islamic government in Syria, while being supported by democratic western govern-ment, fighting against the majority of the Syrian people and their legitimate govern-ment. The FSA acted as a force opposed to the citizens of Syria, and never intended democracy to be the outcome. 

The FSA had instituted Sharia law in a secular country that has never known Sharia Law, and the FSA targeted the infrastructure of the country, as they destroyed power plants, water systems, schools, hospitals, and factories. 

The FSA was being supported by the US, and Jibhat al-Nusra, the Al Qaeda affiliate, was being supported by the Saudis and Qataris. Once the FSA and Jibhat al-Nusra became partners on the battlefield,the US was in the position of supporting Al Qaeda in Syria; something that Americans had thought impossible after 9/11.

The Obama sanctioned war crimes in a Syrian Christian village

‘Timber Sycamore’, the secret CIA program to support the terrorists in Syria was fo-cused on pushing into areas of which were considered to be government strongholds, such as the northern coastal strip. On the morning of March 21, 2014,the US-suppor- ted terrorists, along with international terrorist partners, attacked the village of Kas-sab, which is an Armenian Christian village on the Turkish border. They attacked from the Turkish side, with the help of the Turkish military who used helicopters and canons to break down the defenses.

The US-backed FSA caused the entire village to flee for their lives, as people were shot, homes were ransacked and looted, women raped, and elderly immobile residents kidnapped to Turkey. 

On April 11, the Syrian opposition leader, Ahmad Jarba, visited his troops at Kassab, and congratulated them on their victory, and predicted the Syrian government would soon fall.  The village would remain occupied for three months, during which time all three churches were burned, religious icons and books destroyed, the graveyard dug up and bones desecrated, and virtually every home, farm, and business destroyed. 

Just weeks later in May, President Obama, and Susan Rice met with Ahmad Jarba in the Oval Office and praised the Syrian National Coalition’s role in trying to find a political solution to the crisis in Syria.

The US officially recognized the Syrian National Coalition as the sole representative of the Syrian people, with Ahmad Jarba as its president, and boosted financial assistance to the group.

“President Obama welcomed the coalition’s leadership and constructive approach to dialogue, and encouraged the coalition to further its vision for an inclusive govern-ment that represents all of the people of Syria,” the White House said. The statement should have added that only those following the Muslim Brotherhood would be part of the ‘inclusive government’, and Christians need not apply.

History repeats itself

The US ties with Radical Islamic groups were cemented in the 1980s when the Reagan administration used Islam as an ideological tool to use jihad against the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.

Using Radical Islam for geopolitical aims has come to diminish global security, inclu-ding the rise of the jihadists, or “holy warriors,” and as a result, the US still props up the Wahhabist monarchs in Saudi Arabia, while secular Arab states, such as Syria, Libya, and Iraq have fallen victim to the US sponsored regime change and sanctions.

Sen. John McCain’s support of Radical Islam 

In 2011, Brahma Chellany wrote in ‘The Japan Times’, recalling President Ronald Reagan in 1985 introducing the Afghan mujahedeen leaders at the White House as, “These gentlemen are the moral equivalent of America’s Founding Fathers.”  Osama bin Laden was later to be found not so moral as Regan espoused.

In 2011, US Senator John McCain had announced after meeting Libyan jihadists that they are “willing to reimburse us and our allies” for the costs of effecting the regime change. By May of 2013, McCain was crossing illegally into Idlib, Syria to meet with his ‘freedom-fighters’ the FSA, but was caught in a photo-op with Mohammad Nour, who was identified as a known international kidnapper.

McCain had denounced Obama’s decision not to put boots on the ground, while aware of the US support for the Radical Islamic terrorists, pretending to be freedom-loving heroes.

Trump cut-off the Obama funding to terrorists in Syria

In 2017, President Trump cut funding for the $1 billion CIA support of the terrorists in Syria.It was well known that the FSA had been selling and giving their US supplies weapons to Jibhat al-Nusra, the Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, and ISIS. 

The US liked to support Jibhat al-Nusra, despite being Al Qaeda, because they were fierce fighters. The US had used the rationale that the group was focused on battles in Syria, and not on plotting terrorist attacks against the US and Europe. However, the French government recently stated they are at war against Radical Islam, and some of the attacks which occurred on French soil have connections to training in Syria. The US,UK, France,and Germany continued to feed a monster of their creation and now will continue to pay the price with the blood of their citizens.

Steven Sahiounie is an award-winning journalist "

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https://21stcenturywire.com/2016/12/14/tulsi-gabbard-introduces-bill-to-stop-us-government-funding-and-arming-jihadist-terrorists-in-syria/?fbclid=IwAR0q5vLtFZv69MXt6ZdIr1DDbd-84a8dFHkjldyZW_Uy9Ou4s-3Mg0wpKb4

Tulsi Gabbard Introduces Bill to Stop US Government Funding and Arming Jihadist Terrorists in Syria

21st Century Wire says…

Finally,a US government official with character has emerged to condemn Washington’s clandestine support of extremist terrorists overseas. 

https://youtu.be/uKV1sTw8zOc

Previously 21WIRE reported how US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (HI-D) received a somewhat hostile reception when talking with CNN’s Jake Tapper about her “Stop Funding Terrorism Bill.” Gabbard is the first US legislator since the 1980’s to openly highlight the very real problem of US clandestine services arming and supporting violent internatonal terrorist organizations, particularly those currently operating inside of Syria.

Interestingly,Gabbard’s important move to stop international terrorism comes at the exact same time when the outgoing President Obama has pushed his own executive action to lift all restrictions on US arms exports and support to proxy “rebel” or terro-rist fighting groups operating in Syria and elsewhere. In this context, we can see clearly that there is a moral battle being fought in Washington - between those who oppose terrorism – and those like President Obama and Senator John McCain, who have seen it as ‘useful’ in the pursuit of their own geopolitical objectives, particularly by their open support of terrorist factions in Syria.

The following piece of legislation was introduced on in the US Congress on December 8, 2016…

Gabbard House.gov

Washington, DC — Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) introduced the Stop Ar-ming Terrorists Act today.The legislation would prohibit the U.S. govern- ment from using American taxpayer dollars to provide funding, wea-pons, training, and intelligence support to groups like the Levant Front, Fursan al Ha and other allies of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham,al-Qaeda and ISIS, or to countries who are providing direct or indirect support to those same groups.

The legislation is cosponsored by Reps.Peter Welch (D-VT-AL),Barbara Lee (D-CA- 13), Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA-48), and Thomas Massie (R-KY-04), and supported by the Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) and the U.S. Peace Council.

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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said, “Under U.S. law it is illegal for any American to provide money or assistance to al-Qaeda, ISIS or other terrorist groups. If you or I gave mo-ney, weapons or support to al-Qaeda or ISIS, we would be thrown in jail. Yet the U.S. government has been violating this law for years, quietly supporting allies and part-ners of al-Qaeda, ISIL, Jabhat Fateh al Sham and other terrorist groups with money, weapons,and intelligence support,in their fight to overthrow the Syrian government. [i]

“The CIA has also been funneling weapons and money through Saudi Arabia, Tur-key,Qatar and others who provide direct and indirect support to groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda. This support has allowed al-Qaeda and their fellow terrorist organizations to establish strongholds throughout Syria, including in Aleppo.

“A recent New York Times article confirmed that ‘rebel groups’ supported by the U.S. ‘have entered into battlefield alliances with the affiliate of al-Qaeda in Syria, formerly known as al Nusra´. This alliance has rendered the phrase ‘moderate rebels’ mea-ningless. Reports confirm that ‘every armed anti-Assad organization unit in those provinces [of Idlib and Aleppo] is engaged in a military structure controlled by [al-Qaeda’s] Nusra militants.’

“A recent Wall Street Journal article reported that many rebel groups are ‘doubling down on their alliance’ with al Nusra. Some rebel groups are renewing their alliance, while others, like Nour al-Din al-Zinki, a former CIA-backed group and one of the largest factions in Aleppo are joining for the first time. “The Syria Conquest Front—formerly known as the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front—is deeply intermingled with armed opposition groups of all stripes across Syria’s battlefields.”

“The CIA has long been supporting a group called Fursan al Haqq, providing them with salaries, weapons and support, including surface to air missiles.  This group is cooperating with and fighting alongside an al-Qaeda affiliated group trying to over-throw the Syrian government. The Levant Front is another so-called moderate umb-rella group of Syrian opposition fighters. Over the past year, the United States has been working with Turkey to give this group intelligence support and other forms of military assistance. This group has joined forces with al-Qaeda’s offshoot group in Syria.

“This madness must end. We must stop arming terrorists. The Government must end this hypocrisy and abide by the same laws that apply to its’ citizens.”

“That is why I’ve introduced the Stop Arming Terrorists bill—legislation based on congressional action during the Iran-Contra affair to stop the CIA’s illegal arming of rebels in Nicaragua. It will prohibit any Federal agency from using taxpayer dollars to provide weapons, cash, intelligence, or any support to al-Qaeda, ISIS and other terrorist groups, and it will prohibit the government from funneling money and wea-pons through other countries who are directly or indirectly supporting terrorists,” concluded Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.

Stephen Kinzer, a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, and award-winning author and journalist said, “The proposal to stop sending weapons to insurgents in Syria is based on the principle that pouring arms into a war zone only intensifies suffering and makes peace more difficult to achieve. Congress made a decision like this about the Nicara-guan contras during the 1980s. Aid to the contras was cut off by the Boland Amend-ment. The result was a peace process that finally brought an end to wars not only in Nicaragua, but also in El Salvador and Guatemala. This is the example we should be following. Cutting off arms shipments forces belligerents to negotiate. That is what we achieved in Nicaragua. It should be our goal in Syria as well.”

Donna Smith, Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America said, “Progressive Democrats of America believes that it is fundamentally wrong for the United States to fund those groups or individuals aligned with al-Qaeda, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, ISIS, or other terrorist/extremist organizations.  The ‘Stop Arming Terrorists’ bill authored by Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, of Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District, would help bring an end to the human tragedy unfolding in Syria where the haunting eyes of the innocent children of Aleppo call on us all to stop supporting those who threaten and kill them with ferocious intention. War is war, and terrorism is terrorism whether waged by the state or from external forces. PDA supports this measure.”

Alfred Marder, President of the U.S. Peace Council said, “The U.S. Peace Council is honored to endorse and support the ‘Stop Arming Terrorists Bill’ as a ma-jor contribution to peace. This legislation will serve to galvanize the anti-war move-ment and the opposition to regime change policies that characterize our present foreign policy.”

Background:The Stop Arming Terrorists bill prohibits U.S.government funds from being used to support al-Qaeda, ISIS or other terrorist groups. In the same way that Congress passed the Boland Amendment to prohibit the funding and support to CIA backed-Nicaraguan Contras during the 1980’s,this bill would stop CIA or other Fede- ral government activities in places like Syria by ensuring U.S. funds are not used to support al-Qaeda, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, ISIS,or other terrorist groups working with them. It would also prohibit the Federal government from funding assistance to countries that are directly or indirectly supporting those terrorist groups. The bill achieves this by:

1. Making it illegal for any U.S. Federal government funds to be used to provide assistance covered in this bill to terrorists. The assistance covered includes wea-pons, munitions, weapons platforms, intelligence, logistics, training, and cash.
2. Making it illegal for the U.S. government to provide assistance covered in the bill to any nation that has given or continues to give such assistance to terrorists.
3. Requiring the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to determine the individual and groups that should be considered terrorists, for the purposes of this bill, by determining: (a) the individuals and groups that are associated with, affiliated with, adherents to or cooperating with al-Qaeda, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, or ISIS; (b) the countries that are providing assistance covered in this bill to those individuals or groups.
4. Requiring the DNI to review and update the list of countries and groups to which assistance is prohibited every six months, in consultation with the House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services Committees, as well as the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
5. Requiring the DNI to brief Congress on the determinations.

[i] Levant Front (U.S. backed, via the MOC in Turkey) is working under an Ahrar al Sham led umbrella group:

http://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/December%202%20EDITS%20COT_2.pdf ;

U.S. support for Levant Front:

http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/57605?lang=en ;

CIA groups cooperated with Jayesh al-Fateh

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/19/the-cia-s-syria-program-and-the-perils-of-proxies.html;

U.S. weapons arriving in Syria through covert, CIA-led program, via Saudi Arabia and Turkey; CIA can provide support

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-syria-obama-order-idUSBRE8701OK20120802

SEE ALSO: CNN’s hostile treatment of Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard after revealing US are arming, funding Terrorists in Syria

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Vanhalta VHS-nauhalta löydettyä ja leikattua:

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"Öykkärit oli pakko pysäyttää"

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/government-does-not-want-us-know-truth

INTERVIEW ‘The government does not want us to know the truth’

Dutch media have revealed that aid to armed ‘rebels’ in Syria has benefited notorious terrorists. Patrik Paulov talks to Dutch Socialist MP SADET KARABULUT about the Rutte government’s attempts to obstruct a probe into where public funds ended up

Socialist Party’s Sadet Karabulut

AT THE end of 2020, the Socialist Party’s Sadet Karabulut had a debate in the Dutch parliament with Mark Rutte, prime minister of the right-wing government.

At that time almost two-and-a-half years had passed since the Dutch Syrian scandal began to unfold.

According to revelations made by Dutch media, financial and material support had been given to war criminals and jihadist groups in so-called opposition-controlled areas in Syria.

In the parliamentary debate, Sadet Karabulut asked whether it was true that Rutte and his government had tried to stop a motion for an independent inquiry into the Netherlands’ support for opposition groups in Syria.

“Yes, of course … We have advised to vote against the motion,” Rutte replied, according to the protocol of the debate.

An investigation would be a threat to the Syrians in the opposition and might create tensions between the Netherlands and its allies, he said.

A few weeks after the debate, I talk to Sadet Karabulut via Zoom. She has been an MP for the Socialist Party since 2006 and their foreign policy spokesperson.

When I ask her to comment on Prime Minister Rutte’s answer to her question, she does not mince words.

“This is bullshit,” she says, and continues: “The Dutch constitution states that we must comply with international law.

“Therefore, we have an obligation to bring out the truth and investigate whether the Netherlands has violated international law and thus our own constitution. But the government has blocked that until today.”

Let us go back to September 2018. That was the time when the public service programme Nieuwsuur and the daily paper Trouw began to publish their detailed review of the Netherlands’ support for “moderate armed groups” in Syria.

According to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs data from August of the same year, it was more than €25 million in the years 2015-18.

“This act must be seen in its context. When the war in Syria started in 2011, Western nations believed that the regime change was imminent.

“Together with Turkey and the Gulf States, they began to support all sorts of armed groups to get rid of Assad,” says Karabulut.

When the Dutch aid programme was launched, the government declared it meant to send “non-lethal aid” to “moderate rebels” and the opposition.

The aid would not be used in warfare. Responsible ministers gave assurances that groups receiving support would be monitored.

If someone violated the agreements or committed human rights violations, the support would be suspended immediately.

Nieuwsuur’s and Trouws’s review showed that the statement above was not true.

In addition to €27 million for the Free Syrian Police and the White Helmets, it emerged that the Netherlands had provided material support to 22 armed organisations.

Among them were forces guilty of terrorist crimes and ethnic cleansing.

“The revelations showed that we supported war criminals and jihadists and also those who collaborated with al-Qaida.

“The Netherlands has supported groups involved in Turkey’s illegal invasion of Afrin in northern Syria and the expulsion of Kurds, and we have supported the terrorist group Jabhat al-Shamiya, who committed massacres of Alawites,” Karabulut says.

The review gave concrete examples of how the support — computers, communication equipment, satellite telephones, generators etc — was used in the battles.

For example, the Netherlands sent Toyota and Isuzu pick-up trucks to northern Syria.

In a video that Nieuwsuur and Trouw published, it is shown how the recipients of these seemingly peaceful vehicles mounted machine guns on the flatbed.

“This was a huge revelation. We had two debates about it in parliament. But unfortunately, we still do not know the whole truth. It is stamped as a state secret.

“It is obvious to me that the government does not want us to know the truth. It is fortunate that we have talented, digging journalists who have revealed this.”

You are a member of the Socialist Party, I say, which is on the far left in parliament.

How do the other parties stand in relation to the Dutch involvement in Syria and the importance of finding out what happened?

“I am a socialist, an internationalist and a leftist, but there is broad support in the parliament in this issue.

“The people which I have collaborated with the most are members of the government parties, Christian Democratic Appeal and the Christian Union, who are also very critical of what has happened.

“The Social Democrats, on the other hand, are reluctant to dig further into the issue.”

The support programme for the Syrian armed “opposition” was officially slashed in the autumn of 2018.

The stop also included payments to the Free Syrian Police and the White Helmets.

The Dutch Foreign Ministry’s own investigation found that it could not guarantee that the multimillion sums that the police force and White Helmets received in cash did not end up in the hands of armed extremists.

After some political discussion and compromise, the majority of the parliament later that year voted in favour of a motion to examine the Syrian aid, with the aim of learning for the future.

However, the two committees that were given the task said that they lacked competence to review what had happened in Syria.

Because of that, they presented their lessons for the future without finding out the facts.

Even today, it is not even known which 22 groups have received money. Only a few of them have been named.

The continued secrecy is one of the reasons why Karabulut’s Socialist Party, together with members from the Green Left and several right-wing parties, has raised the issue again.

Another reason is that in October 2020 it turned out that the Netherlands had not interrupted all support for Syrian opposition groups with extremist links.

The public service channel VPRO revealed that since 2018, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had financed a Syrian human rights organisation, Syrian Association for Citizens’ Dignity (SACD).

The amazing thing about this was that SADC’s programme director Labib al-Nahhas until 2017 was the spokesperson for Ahrar al-Sham.

This is a notorious armed Islamist group, which the Netherlands now lists as a terrorist organisation.

“It was another shocking revelation,” says Karabulut. “How could that happen? Everyone knows that Ahrar al-Sham is a jihadist organisation. We asked the government many questions but got no good answers.

“They said he left the organisation and had no blood on his hands. But in any case, the support was stopped after the revelation.”

In Europe, the threat of terrorism is often highlighted, I point out, and horrific acts have taken place in several countries. Why do you think the Rutte government does not want to investigate whether its aid programme has benefited terrorists in Syria, I ask.

“My conclusion is that the government does not want to know, because it would be painful for them if the truth came out.

“We have seen heinous attacks in Europe, but they should not come as a surprise. One cannot say that Salafists and jihadists are terrible in Europe and at the same time support them in Syria. What we do there has consequences here.”

The Rutte government thus does not want to examine the actions of its own and the allied Western countries in Syria.

But they are not opposed to scrutinising and prosecuting other actors. In September 2020, Foreign Minister Stef Blok declared that he wanted to hold the “Assad regime” accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

On that issue, Karabulut agrees with the Foreign Minister. She does not in any way defend the current Syrian regime, which she says is a dictatorship.

“We also want Assad to be brought to justice in the International Criminal Court. But the Dutch government will not be credible if it simultaneously blocks an investigation into our own involvement in violations of human rights and international law.”

So what could the Netherlands and other Western countries do to improve the situation in Syria?

“We must learn from lessons learned from recent decades,” Karabulut says and explains further.

“Illegal bombings and regime change policies are not about helping the people. It’s about power, geopolitics and oil, but they sell it in terms of democracy and human rights.

“I think the most important thing we can do is to always follow international law and stop spending billions on wars that give no-one anything.”

In conclusion, she addresses perhaps the most crucial issue for Syria at the moment.

“I wish the Syrians had a different political leadership, and I neither support nor praise Assad. But the United States and the European Union must lift their severe economic sanctions and stop collectively punishing the entire Syrian people.”

This article was originally published in Swedish weekly Proletären (proletaren.se).

Patrik Paulov is a freelance writer based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is author of the book Syria’s Silenced Voices (Syriens Tystade Röster), which is due be published in English later this year.

Shortly after the interview was conducted, the government in the Netherlands resigned. Not due to the Syria aid scandal, but due to a domestic political scandal. But Mark Rutte remains as leader of a transitional government until the parliamentary elections on March 17. "

 

Tunisia to resume diplomatic relations with Syria

Thursday, 09 February 2023 11:44 PM 

Tunisia's President Kais Saied waves as he enters the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, on June 22, 2020. (File photo by Reuters)

Tunisia has said that it aims to resume diplomatic ties with Syria after a ten-year interval.

Tunis, which cut diplomatic ties with Damascus following the start of the foreign-backed insurgency in Syria in 2011, announced on Thursday that it wanted to resume its diplomatic ties with the Middle Eastern Arab country.

Tunisian President Kais Saied said his country had decided to boost its diplomatic ties with Syria,

 

US working to discourage countries willing to normalize with Syria: Report

The report is based on the summary of a recent UN Security Council meeting on Syria seen by Lebanon

Saied said in a statement following a meeting with his country's foreign affairs minister that the issue of the Syrian conflict was an internal affair that concerned only the Syrian people.

Tunis and Damascus severed diplomatic relations almost a decade ago.

Tunisia began limited diplomatic links with Syria in 2017, in part to help track more than 3,000 Tunisian militants reportedly fighting in Syria.

However, since Saied took the helm in 2021 and consolidated his power, Tunis has been sending Damascus signals that it is ready to resume full diplomatic ties with it.

Several other Arab countries, including Egypt, Jordan, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, in the past months, have sent similar signals, indicating that they too are prepared to resume ambassador-level diplomatic ties with the Syrian government.

 

US forces relocate Daesh terrorist from detention camps in Syria’s Dayr al-Zawr to Hasakah

American occupation forces have reportedly transferred dozens of Daesh terrorists from detention camp in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr to facilities in the neighboring province of Hasakah.

The foreign-backed insurgency, which started in Syria in 2011, became a platform for the Daesh (ISIS) forces, and other western-backed terrorist groups, to wreak havoc in the Arab country, and beyond its borders, particularly in Iraq.

Eventually, defense forces mobilized from Iran, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan were able to overpower the Daesh forces and push the terrorist takfiri forces out of the region.

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" Vladimir Putin Knows Exactly Where US Special Forces Are in Syria

Obama needs to make sure his token contribution to the fight against ISIS doesn't end up getting pounded by Putin and Assad

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The insertion of U.S. Special Forces into Syria became even more bungled on Thursday when the Defense Department revealed that it had asked Russia to avoid bombing certain areas inside the country because that’s where the several dozen soldiers are working.

"We've told them these are areas that we have coalition forces in — general areas where we have coalition forces," Lt. Gen. Charles Brown, head of U.S. Air Force Central Command, told reporters during a Pentagon press conference from his headquarters in Qatar. "We don't want them to strike there because all it's going to do is escalate things. And I don't think the Russians want to escalate against the coalition.”

 

The request goes above and beyond the memorandum of understanding Washington and Moscow reached soon after Russian forces deployed to Syria last September. That agreement was aimed at avoiding military air collisions as the two former Cold War enemies carried out bombing campaigns — Washington against Islamic State forces, Moscow on behalf the government of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.

Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook confirmed that the request had been made, but refused to get into specifics “other than to say that there was an effort made to protect the safety of our people from the risk of Russian airstrikes.”

 

"And that those steps were taken, and those so far have been honored,” he added.

 

Cook said he has no additional requests between the two countries to disclose.

Just because Washington and Moscow have an agreement not to bomb specific sites doesn’t necessarily mean that an accident can’t happen or that the Syrian air force, dilapidated as it is, has to abide by it. So the revelation of the deal is bound to set alarm bells ringing on Capitol Hill and on the presidential campaign trail. President Obama has long been criticized by Republicans who feel he is not doing enough to eradicate ISIS, especially in Syria.

The condemnation reached new heights in October when the president announced he had decided to send around 50 Special Operations forces into Syria to assist moderate rebel groups fighting the Assad regime, with everyone from Senate Armed Services Committee chair John McCain (R-AZ) to GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump skewering the decision and its very public announcement.

"I think we have a president who just doesn't know what he's doing," Trump said at the time. "You either do it or you don't do it. Fifty people. He puts 50 people.”

 

While the administration signaled the number of commandos could grow, the idea that Russian President Vladimir Putin, and possibly Assad himself, know where they are located may spark waves of new attacks on Obama for potentially putting U.S. troops in harm’s way.

 

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Risto Koivula

20. helmikuu 2016  ·

 

OHO! Ruutisbyroo CNN:nkin (Joka mm. lietsoi ja ajoitti Georgian sodan Pekingin olympialaisten avajaispäiväksi, joista se oli bannattu) myöntää, että syyrialaset toivottavat alueillaan "länsiopposition" tervemenneeksi, ja Venäjän toimet ISISin hävittämiseksi tervetulleiksi!

 

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/12/middleeast/syria-inside-nubl-after-siege/index.html

" ‘Thank you Russia!’ Life after the siege for pro-regime Syrians

By Frederik Pleitgen, CNN

Updated 4:39 PM EST, Fri February 12, 2016

 

Nubl, Syria CNN  — 

“Thank you Russia! Thank you Hezbollah! Thank you Iran!” shouts the man, as he passes us in the busy square.

Nearby, a photograph of Bashar al-Assad beams down from the front of the town hall, and banners in support of the Syrian President hang outside the main mosque.

This is Nubl, a mostly Shia, pro-government town in Syria, so close to the border with Turkey that on the way here our phones constantly switched to Turkish mobile networks.

 

 

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U.N. struggles to get food to starving Syrians

Until two weeks ago Nubl and its neighbor al-Zahra were under siege; various rebel factions, including the al-Nusra Front and others linked to the Free Syrian Army, controlled the countryside nearby for more than three years.

Then the Syrian army – backed by pro-Iranian militias and supported by controversial Russian air strikes – broke through.

In Nubl, al-Assad-supporting local residents are still jubilant; “God, Syria, Bashar, and nothing else,” a group of them chanted as we approached.

 

Many houses are decorated with posters of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Outside the town hall, 14-year-old Zolfiqar Ali Jawish is selling cigarettes and candy. He says life under siege was a struggle.

“It was tough,” he tells us. “Many people got sick and the kids were very scared. But after a while we became numb to the fear.

“Sometimes it took very long to get aid in here,” he added. “It was awful because there was shelling all the time as well.”

Humanitarian relief

Some supplies were able to get through, so the situation in Nubl was never as life-threatening as that seen in Madaya, where Syrian government forces were accused of leaving residents on the brink of starvation.

But those here say the army had to send aid in via airdrops, and earlier this week, the Syrian Red Crescent says it delivered humanitarian relief to the town and to Al Zahra.

On Feb 7-8, 2016: @SYRedCrescent managed to deliver #humanitarian #relief #aid to #Nubl & #AlZahra in rural #Aleppohttps://t.co/8Hewmzvwh8

— Syrian Red Crescent (@SYRedCrescent) February 9, 2016

Now, a few weeks on from the end of the siege, stores in Nubl are well stocked.

In the town’s market, we saw several stalls offering an array of fruit and vegetables for sale; a barrow full of bright green apples was lined up next to trays loaded with tomatoes and potatoes.

 

The lifting of the sieges of al-Zahra and Nubl were key victories for the Syrian military not just because they boosted morale among pro Assad forces, but also because this area north of Aleppo is a decisive battleground in Syria’s brutal five year long civil war.

The towns and villages here lie between the rebel-held parts of Aleppo and the border with Turkey; fully controlling this area would allow the Syrian army to choke off almost all supplies to rebels inside Aleppo, potentially dealing a crushing blow to the already weakened opposition.

One soldier who fought to end the siege of Nubl offered a stern warning to rebel fighters:

“Their families should encourage them to look for reconciliation or, I say, they will be killed,” he tells us. “They have no other option.”

‘Cessation of hostilities’

But the opposition does not believe that reconciliation is truly on the government’s mind; rebel factions say they are simply being slaughtered by Russian air power and a newly invigorated Syrian army.

The U.N. and other aid groups fear a protracted siege of rebel-held areas in Aleppo would lead to a humanitarian disaster for the many civilians also trapped there.

Already, tens of thousands of people have fled the city, heading for the Turkish border, leading to warnings of a surge in an already overwhelming refugee crisis.

Major world powers meeting in Munich, Germany, on Friday agreed on a plan to end the use of starvation and denial of medical aid as a weapon in this conflict. The U.N. has strongly criticized the Syrian government, various rebel factions, and ISIS for not allowing aid deliveries to surrounded areas.

They also agreed to what U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called a “cessation of hostilities” in Syria.

The progress we made today in #Munich can and must improve the lives of the Syrian people.

— John Kerry (@JohnKerry) February 12, 2016

Russia, however, says it plans to continue its airstrikes in Aleppo, as well as attacks against what it believes are terrorist targets across Syria.

The Syrian soldiers we spoke to said they were confident that, backed by Russian air power, their forces could make it all the way to the Turkish border – dealing what could be a decisive blow to the opposition.

 

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Presidenttiehdokas Mika Aaltola sanoi ainoana höperturoana tähän mennessä ainakin minun havaintojeni mukaan, että mua "VENÄJÄ KÄYTTI KAASUSASEITA SYYRIASSA!"!

https://www.is.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000009140450.html
 

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Mika Aaltolalta kylmäävä arvio: Venäjä saattaa iskeä siviileihin uudella julmalla tavalla

Mika Aaltolan mukaan Ukrainan kriisin kärjistyminen idän ja lännen välillä on edelleen mahdollista.

Pasi Lapinkangas

18.10.2022 7:00

 

Ulkopoliittisen instituutin johtajan Mika Aaltolan mielestä Ukrainan kriisissä on edelleen vaarana sodan eskaloituminen Venäjän ja lännen väliseksi.

Aaltolan mukaan Venäjä voi esimerkiksi iskeä Puolan rajalle liittolaisvaltio Valko-Venäjää maasiltana käyttäen.

– Sodan eskalaatioita ei voi ohittaa mahdollisuutena.

Aaltolan arvion mukaan todennäköisempi skenaario on kuitenkin se, että Venäjä ajautuu yhä ahtaammalle, koska sen sotilaalliset keinot ovat käyneet vähiin.

– Venäjä on ampunut jo ison osan ohjuksistaan eikä maan sotateollisuus ole kykenevä tuottamaan uusia. Tehtaat eivät toimi, sillä sieltä on otettu miehiä rintamalle ja komponentteja puuttuu. Venäjän ahdinko on syvä.

Jo nyt sota on joka tapauksessa temmannut mukaansa yhä useampia valtioita.

 

– Suuressa sodassa harvan maan on vaikea jäädä neutraaliksi, Aaltola toteaa.

 

Venäjä pyrkii nyt kasvattamaan sotaa saamalla liittolaisia tuekseen. Viikko sitten Valko-Venäjä ilmoitti perustavansa yhteiset alueelliset joukot Venäjän kanssa.

Lisäksi Iran on viime aikoina aseistanut Venäjää muun muassa niin sanotuilla ”itsemurhalennokeilla”, joilla Venäjä on iskenyt eri puolille Ukrainaa, kuten pääkaupunkiin Kiovaan.

 

Lue lisää: Onko tässä Ukrainan uusi uhka? Tällainen on iranilainen ”mopedi-lennokki”, jota on vaikea pysäyttää

– Venäjä pyrkii saamaan muita mukaan ahdinkoonsa, mikä saa taas aikaan sen, että esimerkiksi Israel on nyt päättänyt tukea Ukrainaa. Sota imee nyt tiiviimmin mukaan maita niin lännessä kuin idässä, Aaltola sanoo.

 

Aaltola muistuttaa kuitenkin, että harvat Venäjää tukevat maat ovat niin kutsuttuja ”hylkiövaltioita”. Samaan aikaan kansainvälisessä yhteisössä Venäjän vastainen rintama on käynyt entistä leveämmäksi.

– Ei tämä Venäjän ongelmia ratkaise, mutta kuuluu sodan luonteeseen, Aaltola summaa.

Venäjälle Ukrainan sodassa on ennen kaikkea kyse kunniasta.

Näin Mika Aaltola summaa helmikuussa alkanutta hyökkäyssotaa maanantaina julkaistussa kirjassaan Mihin menet Suomi? – Pelon aika Euroopassa.

Presidentti Vladimir Putinille Ukrainan valtaaminen on rakennettu yhden ja saman pyrkimyksen ympärille: palauttaa Venäjä neuvostoaikaiseen suurvalta-asemaansa.

 

Kun sodan todellisuus on osoittanut Venäjän olevan puheitaan heikompi sotilaallinen mahti, on Putin joutunut Aaltolan mukaan turvautumaan yhä epätoivoisimpiin temppuihin kunnian menettämisen peittelemiseksi.

Kirjassaan Aaltola myös toteaa, että länsimaiden, Suomi mukaan lukien, on varauduttava tulevaisuudessa häväistyyn Venäjään ulko- ja turvallisuuspolitiikassaan.

 

Kunniansa menettänyt, häpeän ryvettämä ja sotilaallisesti monin tavoin lyöty Venäjä on edelleen vaarallinen myös Ukrainan rintamilla, Aaltola painottaa.

 

– Jos Venäjä haluaa näyttää mahtiaan ukrainalaisia tappamalla, on sillä edelleen varastossaan muun muassa kemiallisia aseita, joita se käytti esimerkiksi Syyriassa. Venäjä on saanut myös Iranilta uutta aseistusta.

Mika Aaltola puhui maanantaina uuden kirjansa julkistamistilaisuudessa Helsingissä. Kuva: Paula Kaskimaa / IS

Reilu viikko sitten tapahtuneen Krimin sillan räjähdyksen jälkeen Venäjä on kiihdyttänyt iskujaan siviilejä kohtaan. Aaltolan mukaan sama kierre on vaarana käydä yhä synkemmäksi.

– Summittainen tappaminen Ukrainassa voi vielä kiihtyä, mikä taas kuvaa Venäjän epätoivoa. Iskuista puuttuu tolkku. Ei ukrainalaisten taistelutahtoa lannisteta heitä tappamalla, sillä vaan lisätään sitä.

Jos Venäjä siirtyy Ukrainassa kemialliseen sodankäyntiin, kysyy se Aaltolan mielestä länneltä entistä vahvempaa aseellista tukea, kuten lisää pitkän kantaman ohjuksia ja sekä ilmatorjunta-aseita.

Aaltola pitää kuitenkin käsittämättömänä sitä, miten länsi on kiihdyttänyt ilmatorjunta-aseiden toimituksia aina silloin, kun Venäjä on iskenyt ukrainalaisiin kaupunkeihin.

 

– Pitäisi olla askel edellä Venäjän mahdollisissa eskalaatioissa. Toivottavasti kemiallisten aseiden käyttöön onkin varauduttu toimittamalla Ukrainalle esimerkiksi siihen sopivaa suojavarustusta.

 

Kaikkien muiden aseellisten keinojen käydessä vähiin syöksykierteessä oleva Venäjä on tarrautunut yhä tiukemmin kiinni ydinaseilla uhkailuun.

Uhkailussa ei itsessään ole mitään uutta, onhan Venäjä jo sodan alkuvaiheesta asti uhannut vastaavansa ydinasein, jos länsi päättää puuttua sotilaallisesti maan hyökkäykseen Ukrainassa.

Venäjän sotaoperaation käytyä yhä tukalammaksi ydinuhka on saanut uuden käänteen, kun Venäjän äärimilitaristiset voimahahmot ovat vaatineet taktisten ydinaseilla iskemistä Ukrainaan.

Länsitiedustelun mukaan Venäjältä ei ole tullut selviä signaaleja ydinaseiden valmistelusta. Etenkin Yhdysvallat on varoittanut seurausten olevan vakavia, jos Venäjä päättää käyttää ydinaseita.

Lukuisat asiantuntijat ovat korostaneet, että atomiaseiden käyttö olisi hyvin tuhoisaa myös jo valmiiksi pahoin rampautetulle Venäjälle.

 

Aaltola ei usko Venäjän kaivavan ydinkärkiä käyttöön, vaikka jännite niiden ympärillä onkin kiristynyt entistään.

– Kaikki asiat eivät vaan toimi tietyssä tilanteessa, enkä usko ydinaseiden muodostavan Venäjälle tapaa ratkaista tätä sotaa. Venäjällä ei yksinkertaisesti ole välineitä, jotka toimisivat tappiotilanteeseen Ukrainassa.  "

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Osa epätotuuksista on Trumpin tyylistä suhteellisen harmitonta hölötystä - esimerkiksi että hänen isoisänsä olisi ollut paikan päällä vapauttamassa Auaschwitzin vbankeja - vaikka jenkit olivat silloin vielä helvetin kaukana - eivätkä tainneet armeijana siellä olla koskaan, ennen Puolan NATO-jäsenyyttä. Osa on todella härskiä kuten nuo taistelukaasujutut edelleen.

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Fake News — Obama Tells One Whopper Of A Lie [Halabja chemical attack — March 16 1988]

Posted on November 23, 2020 by L

“Unlike some, I actually try to state facts. I believe in facts. I believe in a fact-based reality and a fact-based politics. I don’t believe in just making stuff up. I think you should actually say to people what’s true.”

Barack Obama — Las Vegas (October 22 2018)

November 23 2020 — In his book, the former US President writes that the Soviets supplied Iran with chemical weapons during the 8 years long war with Iraq. This is totally untrue. Follow us on Twitter: @INTEL_TODAY

RELATED POST: Belgium — World Top Arms Dealer Sentenced to 4 Years. Not Jailed for Now. [UPDATE : BELGA News Agency Launches Disinformation Campaign]

Barack Obama is no stranger to big lies. On May 26 2008, Obama actually told a crowd that his uncle was among the American soldiers who liberated the Jewish people held in Auschwitz. 

“I had an uncle … who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps.”

That is of course utter nonsense. The Auschwitz survivors were liberated by the Soviet troops on January 27 1945.

Well, the worst is never certain. In his book, Obama manages to get a much bigger lie in print for all the idiots out there to read and appreciate.

The Soviets never supplied Iran with chemical weapons. On the other end, US companies did supply Iraq with chemical precursors that Saddam used against the Kurds at Halabja on March 16 1988.

“You will remember that for many years, Iraqi used chemical warfare against Iranians. And we never retaliated because we abide by our Islamic principles. And this is a principle that we always abide by. We act upon our own Islamic principles, which to some extent covered international regulations. ”

Mohammad Jaafar Mahallati, Iran’s Ambassador at the United Nations (July 4 1988)

The Halabja chemical attack

On March 16 1988, Iraqi military killed several thousands people when it used mustard gas in an attack at Halabja, a Kurdish city located in an Iranian-held section of Iraq.

Saddam Hussein was not charged for the events related to the Halabja attacks at the Iraqi Special Tribunal. There is circumstantial evidence that Saddam had personally authorized the use of chemical weapons against the Kurds.

It is estimated that 30,000 Kurds died from these weapons during the 8 years long war. Ali Hasan al-Majid, better known as Chemical Ali, also escaped the charge of crime against humanity for his direct role in the chemical attacks of Halabja. Why on earth?

As the Reagan administration had removed Iraq from the State Department list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, US companies were allowed to export chemical precursors to the Saddam regime.

For instance, US Companies Alcolac International and Philips provided Thiodiglycol, a precursor of mustard gaz.

On March 12 2008, the Iraqi government announced that it would take legal actions against the suppliers of chemical used in the Halabja attacks. Both Alcolac International and Philips were reorganized.

The origin of the lie

In the immediate aftermath of the incident, the U.S. State Department — quoting a US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) study — took the official position that Iran was responsible for the attack.

This erroneous assessment was used subsequently by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for much of the early 1990s.

The UK National Archives

On July 24 2018, the National Archives released files from the Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet Office predominantly covering the year of 1993. 

Richard Norton-Taylor quickly pointed out that many entire files have been retained, some temporarily, most indefinitely.

Even more curiously, four files relating to the Scott arms-to-Iraq inquiry have been retained.

The judge-led public inquiry that was bitterly opposed by ministers who had been involved in supplying Saddam Hussein with equipment he used for his weapons of mass destruction programme, heard devastating evidence.

It included the Thatcher government’s secret decision to supply Saddam with equipment that could be used to manufacture weapons after he shelled the Kurdish town of Halabja in March 1988 with gas bombs, killing an estimated 5,000 civilians and maiming thousands more.

The TEREX Affair

On January 25 1992, Seymour M. Hersh published an article in the NYT headlined “U.S. Linked to Iraq Scud Launchers”. [1]

Hersh reported that a Congressional subcommittee was investigating allegations against the Terex Corporation made by Dr. Fuisz.

In Sept. 1987, Dr Fuisz was given a tour of the main Terex plant in Motherwell, Scotland. The Terex Corporation is a subsidiary of KCS of Westport, Connecticut.

“I had noticed two large armor-plated vehicles painted in desert camouflage with specially attached steel backs.”

“I asked the plant manager, Art Rowe, about them and was told they were missile launchers for the Iraqi military,” Fuisz said in an affidavit taken for a US Congressional subcommittee investigating the matter.

“These shipments were all requested by the C.I.A. with the cooperation of the British intelligence people,” David J. Langevin, the vice president of Terex, told Fuisz according to his deposition.

John J. Clements was named a Terex vice president in 1987.

“One of Terex’s pressing needs when I joined the company was to borrow money for the purchase of the truck plant in Scotland,” Clements said.

Clements added that he had repeatedly heard Randolph W. Lenz, the president of Terex, tell potential investors:

“We’ve got a purchase order from Iraq for 90 to 100 units. It’s great business.”

“I knew there was business in Iraq,” Clements told NYT journalist  Seymour Hersh in 1992.

Terex successfully sued Fuisz for libel and the NYT apologized for the story in 1995. [2]

The gist of the article could be read to charge Terex with supplying Scud missile launchers to Iraq before the Persian Gulf War, a charge neither The Times nor Mr. Hersh intended.

This resulted from an inaccurate headline, erroneous changes made to the content and emphasis of the article in the course of the editorial process, and the inclusion of information supplied by Dr. Fuisz that Terex asserts is false.

Terex vigorously denied the charge and instituted a libel suit against Mr. Hersh and Dr. Fuisz.

The article should not have suggested that Terex has ever supplied Scud missile launchers to Iraq, and The Times regrets any damage that may have resulted to Terex from any false impression the article may have created.

On February 23 2003, the Sunday Herald published a story headlined “Revealed: 17 British Firms Armed Saddam with his Weapons”.

The Terex Corporation is listed as a UK company having provided rocket technology to Iraq. To my knowledge, Terex never sued the Herald for libel. [3]

PS — Dreaming of a Pulitzer Prize?

In his piece ‘The intelligence coup of the century” published by the Washington Post on February 11 2020, Greg Miller ‘revealed’ that Crypto AG was actually owned by the CIA.

Maybe, just maybe, the time has come for a brave journalist to investigate who really owned TEREX at the time it illegally supplied Iraq with weapons. Is this clue too subtle?

REFERENCES

The Halabja chemical attack — Wikipedia

1. “U.S. Linked to Iraqi Scud Launchers,” Jan. 26, 1992.

2. “Editors’ Note,” Dec. 7, 1995.

3. “Revealed: 17 British Firms Armed Saddam with his Weapons” — Feb. 23, 2003.

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Does the U.S. Army have any peacekeeping missions in Syria?

Arabi Souri
Posted on September 26, 2021Categories News, Politics, russia, Syria, Terrorism, USATags Al Qaeda, economy, ISIS, israel, military, NATO, News, oil, Politics, regime change, Syria, Terrorism, US Armed Forces, US Military, USA,   نفط, أخبار, اقتصاد, الولايات المتحدة, سورية

 

Don’t laugh, yet, the above is a real question asked by a member of the Quora Q & A wiki platform, it was sent to my inbox for an answer.

The person asking cannot be blamed for ignorance of the nature of missions the US Army carries out around the world, let alone the heinous and obvious criminal mission in Syria, the western audience is bombarded with brainwashing media by the Pentagon’s mouthpieces the likes of the BBC, the Guardian, Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, Fox News, Sky News, et al, just see how all of them rally behind the US interventionist wars and how they demonize the Pentagon’s targets.

I’m sharing my answer here to preserve it from Quora’s heavy censorship and to share the information in it with readers of this platform:

Q: Does the U.S. Army have any peacekeeping missions in Syria?

My Answer:
I’m sorry but the question itself contains two contradicting phrases: the ‘US Army’ and ‘Peacekeeping’, the two do not go along.

What US officials would label as ‘peacekeeping missions’ is literally an occupation of territories of another country, or if invited by a state official in that country that would be to protect an unpopular ruling class from their people.

John Kerry, the former US secretary of state and career legislator with vast experience in foreign policy, international law, and the US’s own legislation, he simply explains it:

“The Russians were invited in by the legitimate ‘regime’ and we’re not invited in, we’re flying in airspace there where they (the Syrian air defense) can turn on air defense and we have a very different scene..”

Listen to him in the leaked recording in this explosive post:

 

The Pentagon Threatening to Revive ISIS

So, the US Army presence in Syria is anything but ‘peacekeeping’ they’re not welcomed in the country, in the matter of fact, they’re asked to leave not only by the Syrian state but also by most other countries around the world and even by the United States Security Council resolutions they vote in favor each time, in each of the UNSC resolutions relating to Syria, the preface starts with: ‘respecting Syria’s sovereignty and integral territories’, foreign forces uninvited by the Syrian state which holds a seat in the United Nations and attends UNSC meetings representing Syria, these foreign forces are occupation forces and are not ‘peacekeeping’ missions.

Actually, the US Army has been reported to steal Syrian oil, wheat, burn down wheat fields, and smuggle Syrian gold and antiquities, not to mention aiding terrorist groups including ISIS as in the above report.

Hearing is Not Like Seeing:
NATO’s Terrorists Burning Syrian Wheat Crops – Video

and:

Trump burns Syrian wheat fields on Christian Sabbath

It’s not only in Syria, the US forces have never been part of any real peacekeeping mission anywhere in the world, their missions would always be to aid the unpopular side of any conflict.

 

End of my answer on Quora.

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