TEHRAN
(FNA)- The Russian Air Force has conducted 59 combat missions hitting
200 ISIL targets in 7 Syrian provinces over the past 24 hours, the
Russian Defense ministry said.
"Over
the past 24 hours Russian warplanes have conducted 59 sorties, hitting
212 ISIL targets in the Syrian province of Aleppo, Idlib, Lattakia,
Hama, Homs, al-Hasakah an Raqqa," the Defense Ministry spokesman told
journalists
.
Aircraft from Russia’s Aerospace
Forces in Syria have also destroyed more than 300 militants and scores
of armored vehicles over the last 24 hours, Russian Defense Ministry
spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Wednesday, Sputnik reported.
"More
than 320 militants and 34 armored vehicles of terrorists, including two
tanks, one infantry fighting vehicle, 15 jeeps equipped
with large-caliber guns were destroyed," Konashenkov told journalists
in Syria’s Lattakia.
In the past 24 hours,
Russian jets have also destroyed a column of tanker trucks and more
than 100 fuel-transfer stations used by terrorists, Maj. Gen. Igor
Konashenkov added.
"In order to disrupt
terrorists' sources of income, Russian Su-34 bomber jets destroyed 94
fuel-transfer stations near Deir Ezzur," he said.
The
US-led anti-terrorist coalition's airstrikes on the Syrian Army may not
have been an accident and could be repeated, Russia's envoy to the UN
Vitaly Churkin said.
UNITED
NATIONS (Sputnik) — The Syrian Army confirmed earlier in December an
airstrike on Syrian Army positions by US-led coalition aircraft in the
Deir ez-Zor area that killed three and wounded 13 servicemen.
"Naturally,
there is the suspicion that it was not accidental, that despite all
assurances given to the Syrian government that these strikes would not
target the Syrian government's forces, the strikes could target
government troops from time to time," Churkin told RIA Novosti.
"This will intensify tensions and only complicate the situation in Syria. But let's hope it won't happen," he added.
Churkin
said that Moscow was not currently planning to raise the issue
of coalition strikes on the Syrian army at the UN Security Council.
Monday, December 7th, 2015 | Posted by WorldTribune
Russia accuses U.S. of cover-up over ISIL-Turkey oil smuggling
Special to WorldTribune.com
The
United States is involved in a “cover-up” over Turkey’s alleged
smuggling of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) oil, Russia’s
defense ministry said on Dec. 5.
“When U.S. officials say they
don’t see how the terrorists’ oil is smuggled to Turkey… it smells badly
of a desire to cover up these acts,” the ministry said in a statement
on its Facebook page.
An oil convoy was destroyed when it was hit by a Russian air strike in Syria. /Twitter
ISIL’s
sales of captured oil assets on the black market is credited with
making it the best-funded terror organization in history.
“The
declarations of the Pentagon and the State Department seem like a
theater of the absurd,” the statement said, adding that Washington
should “watch the videos taken by its (own) drones which have recently
been three times as numerous over the Turkey-Syria border and above the
oil zones.”
Russian ambassador shuts down Tories, Turkey AND Labour rebels in single tweet
Published time: 3 Dec, 2015 16:38
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).
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.
The
evidence presented by the Russian Defense Ministry will be “partly
ignored and distorted” by Western MSM, says Foreign Affairs Editor Srdja Trifkovic.
“I
think that Erdogan will scream ‘blue murder’ and claim that this is all
a set-up and a reaction to what he calls ‘justified downing of the
Russian plane’. The real issue is what the US will do about this.
Because it is quite obvious the Turkish tail has been wagging the
American dog for far too long,” he said.
“My hunch is
that the US will continue to be reluctant to really do something about
it. They have had a chance to do so for 15 months prior to the beginning
of the Russian air strikes on September, 25. The question of all
questions is whether Erdogan will finally be pressed by his Western
partners to shape up and to act like a civilized person, which
unfortunately he is not,” Trifkovic told RT.
Turkish leadership, including Erdogan & his family are involved in ISIS oil trade, Russian MoD announced on Wednesday, showcasing satellites images and footage from oil facilities and Syrian-Turkish border.
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Russia presents proof of Turkey’s role in ISIS oil trade
The Russian Defense Ministry has released evidence which it says unmasks vast illegal oil trade by Islamic State and points to Turkey as the main destination for the smuggled petrol, implicating its leadership in aiding the terrorists.
The Russian Defense Ministry held a major briefing on new findings concerning IS funding in Moscow on Wednesday.
According to Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov, Russia is aware of three main oil smuggling routes to Turkey.
“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 said, adding that this oil “in large quantities” enters the territory of Turkey via “live oil pipelines,” consisting of thousands of oil trucks.
Antonov added that Turkey is the main buyer of smuggled oil coming from Iraq and Syria.
“According to our data, the top political leadership of the country - President Erdogan and his family – is involved in this criminal business.”
However, since the start of Russia’s anti-terrorist operation in Syria on September 30, the income of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) militants from illegal oil smuggling has been significantly reduced, the ministry said.
“The income of this terrorist organization was about $3 million per day. After two months of Russian airstrikes their income was about $1.5 million a day,” Lieutenant-General Sergey Rudskoy said.
At the briefing the ministry presented photos of oil trucks, videos of airstrikes on IS oil storage facilities and maps detailing the movement of smuggled oil. More evidence is to be published on the ministry's website in the coming says, Rudskoy said.
After
the widespread sociopathy of the 1990s—when people had to break all
rules just to feed their families, and it was not unknown even for
priests to steal from their flocks—a too-high proportion of the Russian
population remains in a state of going through each day with little
thought other than how to cheat and defraud its fellow man. Yet it is
also a fact that you cannot lock up everyone (Всех не посадишь, as the
Russians say) or you would have no country left.
The Kremlin’s
solution has been to make conspicuous examples of some, while creating
parallel structures to work around corrupt or incompetent state bodies
and officials.
Probably the most prominent example of such a structure is the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, commonly known by its Russian initials, SK or SK RF, or less commonly by the acronym, Sledkom.
The
SK traces its history to 2007—when authority to make criminal charges
was taken away from Russia’s Prosecutor General—and has existed in its
current form since early 2011.
Today, the Office of the Prosecutor
General is responsible for prosecutions only. It is the SK that
investigates crimes and decides whom to bring to trial and on
what charges.
Since it was brought out from under the Prosecutor
General and made into an independent body reporting only to the
President, the SK has been at the very center of the Kremlin’s
anticorruption drive.
Russia's and Turkey's objectives in fighting the Islamic State group are diametrically opposed.
It's absolutely impossible to understand why the Turkish government would engage in the suicidal strategy of downing a Russian Su-24 over Syrian territory - technically a NATO declaration of war on Russia - without putting in context the Turkish power play in northern Syria.
President Vladmir Putin said the downing of the Russian fighter jet was a "stab in the back." So let's see how facts on the ground allowed it to happen.
Ankara uses, finances, and weaponizes a basket case of extremist outfits across northern Syria, and needs by all means to keep supply line corridors from southern Turkey open for them; after all they need to conquer Aleppo, which would open the way for Ankara's Holy Grail: regime change in Damascus.
At the same time Ankara is terrified of the YPG - the Syrian Kurd People's Protection Units - a sister organization of the leftist PKK. These must be contained at all costs.
So the Islamic State group - against which the United Nations has declared war - is a mere detail in the overall Ankara strategy, which is essentially to fight, contain or even bomb Kurds; support all manner of Takfiris and Salafi-jihadis, including the Islamic State group; and get regime change in Damascus.
Unsurprisingly, the YPG Syrian Kurds are vastly demonized in Turkey, accused of at least trying to ethnic cleanse Arab and Turkmen villages in northern Syria. Yet, what the Syrian Kurds are attempting - and to Ankara's alarm, somewhat supported by the U.S. - is to link what are for the moment three patches of Kurdish land in northern Syria.
A look at an imperfect Turkish map at least reveals how two of these patches of land (in yellow) are already linked, to the northeast. To accomplish that, the Syrian Kurds, helped by the PKK, defeated The Islamic State group in Kobani and environs. To get to the third patch of land, they need to get to Afryn. Yet on the way (in blue) there is a collection of Turkmen villages north of Aleppo.
The strategic importance of these Turkmen lands cannot be emphasized enough. It's exactly in this area, reaching as much as 35 km inland, that Ankara wants to install its so-called "safe zone," which will be in fact a no-fly zone, in Syrian territory, ostensibly to house Syrian refugees, and with everything paid by the EU, which has already unblocked 3 billion euros, starting Jan. 1, via the European Commission (EC).
The now insurmountable obstacle for Turkey to get its no-fly zone is, predictably, Russia.
David L. PhillipsDirector of the Program on Peace-building and Rights, Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights
Posted: Updated:
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Research Paper: ISIS-Turkey Links
By David L. Phillips
Introduction
Is Turkey collaborating with the Islamic State (ISIS)? Allegations range from military cooperation and weapons transfers to logistical support, financial assistance, and the provision of medical services. It is also alleged that Turkey turned a blind eye to ISIS attacks against Kobani.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu strongly deny complicity with ISIS. Erdogan visited the Council on Foreign Relations on September 22, 2014. He criticized "smear campaigns [and] attempts to distort perception about us." Erdogan decried, "A systematic attack on Turkey's international reputation, "complaining that "Turkey has been subject to very unjust and ill-intentioned news items from media organizations." Erdogan posited: "My request from our friends in the United States is to make your assessment about Turkey by basing your information on objective sources."
Columbia University's Program on Peace-building and Rights assigned a team of researchers in the United States, Europe, and Turkey to examine Turkish and international media, assessing the credibility of allegations. This report draws on a variety of international sources -- The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, BBC, Sky News, as well as Turkish sources, CNN Turk, Hurriyet Daily News, Taraf, Cumhuriyet, and Radikal among others.
Allegations
Turkey Provides Military Equipment to ISIS
• An ISIS commander told The Washington Post on August 12, 2014: "Most of the fighters who joined us in the beginning of the war came via Turkey, and so did our equipment and supplies."
• Kemal Kiliçdaroglu, head of the Republican People's Party (CHP), produced a statement from the Adana Office of the Prosecutor on October 14, 2014 maintaining that Turkey supplied weapons to terror groups. He also produced interview transcripts from truck drivers who delivered weapons to the groups. According to Kiliçdaroglu, the Turkish government claims the trucks were for humanitarian aid to the Turkmen, but the Turkmen said no humanitarian aid was delivered.
• According to CHP Vice President Bulent Tezcan, three trucks were stopped in Adana for inspection on January 19, 2014. The trucks were loaded with weapons in Esenboga Airport in Ankara. The drivers drove the trucks to the border, where a MIT agent was supposed to take over and drive the trucks to Syria to deliver materials to ISIS and groups in Syria. This happened many times. When the trucks were stopped, MIT agents tried to keep the inspectors from looking inside the crates. The inspectors found rockets, arms, and ammunitions.
• Cumhuriyet reports that Fuat Avni, a preeminent Twitter user who reported on the December 17th corruption probe, that audio tapes confirm that Turkey provided financial and military aid to terrorist groups associated with Al Qaeda on October 12, 2014. On the tapes, Erdogan pressured the Turkish Armed Forces to go to war with Syria. Erdogan demanded that Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey's National Intelligence Agency (MIT), come up with a justification for attacking Syria.
• Hakan Fidan told Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Yasar Guler, a senior defense official, and Feridun Sinirlioglu, a senior foreign affairs official: "If need be, I'll send 4 men into Syria. I'll formulate a reason to go to war by shooting 8 rockets into Turkey; I'll have them attack the Tomb of Suleiman Shah."
• Documents surfaced on September 19th, 2014 showing that the Saudi Emir Bender Bin Sultan financed the transportation of arms to ISIS through Turkey. A flight leaving Germany dropped off arms in the Etimesgut airport in Turkey, which was then split into three containers, two of which were given to ISIS and one to Gaza.
Turkey Provided Transport and Logistical Assistance to ISIS Fighters
• According to Radikal on June 13, 2014, Interior Minister Muammar Guler signed a directive: "According to our regional gains, we will help al-Nusra militants against the branch of PKK terrorist organization, the PYD, within our borders...Hatay is a strategic location for the mujahideen crossing from within our borders to Syria. Logistical support for Islamist groups will be increased, and their training, hospital care, and safe passage will mostly take place in Hatay...MIT and the Religious Affairs Directorate will coordinate the placement of fighters in public accommodations."
• The Daily Mail reported on August 25, 2014 that many foreign militants joined ISIS in Syria and Iraq after traveling through Turkey, but Turkey did not try to stop them. This article describes how foreign militants, especially from the UK, go to Syria and Iraq through the Turkish border. They call the border the "Gateway to Jihad." Turkish army soldiers either turn a blind eye and let them pass, or the jihadists pay the border guards as little as $10 to facilitate their crossing.
• Britain's Sky News obtained documents showing that the Turkish government has stamped passports of foreign militants seeking to cross the Turkey border into Syria to join ISIS.
• The BBC interviewed villagers, who claim that buses travel at night, carrying jihadists to fight Kurdish forces in Syria and Iraq, not the Syrian Armed Forces.
• A senior Egyptian official indicated on October 9, 2014 that Turkish intelligence is passing satellite imagery and other data to ISIS.
The shooting down of the Russian Su-24 bomber was a planned attack and a trap set by the Turkish Air Force, Dr. Mark Galeotti, the Professor of Global Affairs at the New York University, told Radio Sputnik.
"What it in fact seems to be, as many are saying, it was more of an ambush than anything else," Galeotti told Sputnik.
By downing the Russian plane, Turkey had two things in mind. First of all, Ankara wants to assert itself as a powerful regional actor, especially considering Russia's active participation in Syria. The Turkish government thought that by shooting down its plane Turkey would make Russia take Ankara more seriously in the future.
Secondly, the Turkish government wanted to protect its allies, whom Russia's currently bombing in Syria, Galeotti, an expert in Russo-Turkish relations, explained.
Turkey intends to protect ISIL, as it has direct financial interests involved in the delivery of oil extracted from ISIL-controlled territories. Various estimates place oil revenues generated by ISIL somewhere between $40 and $50 million a month. A day prior to the downing of the Su-24, Russian airstrikes destroyed over 1,000 semi-truck tankers carrying crude oil to ISIL refineries, a large oil storage facility and an oil refinery in Syria.
Syrian Turkmen commander who 'killed' Russian pilot turns out to be Turkish ultranationalist
A Syrian rebel commander who boasted of killing a Russian pilot after Turkey downed Russian jet on Tuesday appeared to be Turkish ultranationalist and a son of former mayor in one of Turkish provinces.
Alparslan Celik, deputy commander of a Syrian Turkmen brigade turned out to be the son of a mayor of a Keban municipality in Turkey’s Elazig province.
He also turned out to be the member of The Grey Wolves ultranationalist group, members of which have carried out scores of political murders since 1970s.
In the space of a few hours, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan went from running scared to defiant belligerence over the shooting down of the Russian fighter jet. It would appear that someone had a stiff word in his ear.
Tough-talking Turkish President? No. More like somebody’s message boy.
When the news first broke on Tuesday that Turkish F-16s had downed a Russian Su-24 bomber near the Syrian border, the Erdogan government in Ankara immediately called for an emergency NATO summit.
Ankara rushed to explain that it was the party that had incurred an act of aggression from Russia. Erdogan was running scared because the facts were such that it was the Turks who had actually carried out an act of aggression against Russia, not the other way around.
And they knew it.
Suspiciously, Ankara did not contact Moscow about the incident, which would have seemed a normal thing to do in the aftermath of a serious incident in which a Russian aircrew was forced to eject and one of the pilots was subsequently killed.
Recall that Turkey claimed that it did not know the identity of the Russian warplane as it allegedly approached Turkish airspace. So if, as it turned out, the Turks shot down a Russian jet in a rapid encounter of uncertainty about its “national security”, then why didn’t Ankara make subsequent attempts to resolve the matter with the Russians as an urgent matter when the circumstances soon became clear? That would have been the expected behavior if the incident was simply an unfortunate, unforeseen confrontation.
Again, the inference is that Ankara knew full well that it was committing a sinister deed.
Finian Cunningham (born 1963) has written extensively on international affairs, with articles published in several languages. Originally from Belfast, Ireland, he is a Master’s graduate in Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a career in newspaper journalism. For over 20 years he worked as an editor and writer in major news media organizations, including The Mirror, Irish Times and Independent. Now a freelance journalist based in East Africa, his columns appear on RT, Sputnik, Strategic Culture Foundation and Press TV.
847 shotguns seized in Italy en route from Turkey to Belgium
A large cargo of shotguns without transportation permits has been seized by the Italian police at the Port of Trieste. The 847 Turkish-made Winchester shotguns worth about €500,000 were on their way to Belgium.
The weapons were declared along with other cargoes destined for Germany and the Netherlands on a Dutch-registered truck driven by a Turkish citizen. Gun shipments from Turkey are nothing new in Trieste, but this time the shipment was missing a key document: authorization for transportation in the EU.
The shipment consisted of 847 pump-action Winchester shotguns: 781 SXP 12-51 and 66
SXP 12-47 models, La Stampa reports.
The Haddad I departed from the Turkish port of Iskenderun and was heading to the Libyan city of Misrata. After intelligence services informed the Greek coastal guards about the ship’s cargo of guns, the vessel was intercepted south of Crete by the Open Sea Coast Patrol.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks during a press conference following talks with French President Francois Hollande (L) in the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia, 26 November 2015.
Published 09:14 November 27, 2015
Updated 09:14 November 27, 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he expected from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to simply apologise, but the latest ruled out such a move
President Vladimir Putin said that Russia had given prior information to the United States of the flight path of the Su-24 downed by the Turkish Air Force on the Syrian border. The US leads the anti-Daesh coalition, in which Turkey is member.
“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. ”Why did we give this information to the Americans if they did not pass it along to the rest of the coalition?
Translated from Russian by Tom Winter With additional photos supplied by Fort Russ
Last
night (November 25) the first photos and video came up of the destroyed
Turkish convoy that arrived in the militant-controlled city of Azaz.
First, some photos:
Well,
all in the same spirit, some information about what kind of city is
this, and why is this news you need to focus on. The town Azaz is
located in the north of Syria, almost on the border with Turkey. The
city is a hub, where Turkish aid (weapons, ammunition, drugs, rations
etc.) are dumped off. Then with all his "help" they begin to disperse it
to other cities under militant control, as well as camps and fortified
places.
Map. Azaz is circled in red:
As
you can see, it's about five km from the Turkish border. Speaking of
buffer zones, Turkey was expecting to make this city an absolute
springboard, out of reach of Syrian army strikes. It did not happen. But
until today, due to the remoteness of the Syrian army from it, as well
as a number of geopolitical reasons, attacks were not mounted on this
city.
As
expected, the F-16 attack on a Russian Su-24 bomber over Syria has
become a hot topic for discussion on Turkish social media. Taking a peak
at both the Turkish and English-language corners of the Twitterverse,
Sputnik discovered that not only are many Turks upset over the incident,
some are downright outraged over their government's actions.
With the Turkish Air Force attack on the Russian plane in Syria instantly provoking a swelling response of debate and condolences
from both Russian and foreign social media users, Turkish social media
users naturally joined in. But in a surprising twist, many offered
apologies to their northern neighbor, emphasizing that it is the Recep
Erdogan government, not the Turkish people, who should be blamed for the
attack.
Some users appealed directly to their Russian friends, using the Russian-language hashtag #StabInTheBack.
The
United States is starting a second phase of training of the Ukrainian
army and is planning to train and equip six army battalions, including
one special operations unit
MOSCOW,
November 26 /TASS/. The United States has launched a new phase of
training of Ukrainian servicemen, a fact, which may have negative
consequences for the future of the Donbas truce, Russian Foreign
Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.
She
recalled that 300 US instructors from the 173rd US airborne brigade had
trained three battalions - 780 people - for Ukraine’s National Guard in
a period from April to November. "It is noteworthy that the training
completed at a time when the situation on the line of contact in Donbas
started getting worse and the newly trained people were apparently sent
there," Zakharova said.
"Now the Americans and their NATO
colleagues, including the Lithuanians and Canadians, will train a new
group of Ukrainian troopers. It is clear that such preparations are
unlikely to deescalate tensions and may have a negative impact on the
fragile truce in the country’s southeast," the Russian diplomat
stressed.
Lavrov said during a joint press conference with his Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem that Russia would suspend the visa-free regime with Turkey.
"The Russian government reached a decision to suspend the free-visa regime between Russia and the Turkish Republic. The decision will come into effect on January 1 2016," Lavrov said at a press-conference after talks with his Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem.
The Russian minister added that threats coming from Turkey were "not artificial."
Turkey 'temporarily' suspends Syria air strikes after Russia spat
AFP
NATO
member Turkey has "temporarily" suspended air strikes against Islamic
State targets in Syria after the downing of a Russian warplane on the
Syrian border sparked a major row with Moscow, local media reported on
Friday.Turkish F-16 jets on Tuesday shot down a Russian warplane which
Ankara said had breached its air space. Russia on Thursday vowed to
carry out broad retaliatory measures against Turkey's economy.
Turkey,
a member of a US-led coalition fighting IS, has halted air raids
against the group in Syria in order to avoid any further crises, the
Hurriyet newspaper reported.
Turkey denies suspending Syria air strikes after Russia crisis
Turkey
denied Friday it had suspended air strikes against Islamic State
targets in Syria after the downing of a Russian warplane on the Syrian
border.
Turkish F-16 jets on Tuesday shot down a Russian warplane which Ankara said had breached its air space.
The
Hurriyet newspaper said Turkey, a member of a US-led coalition fighting
IS, had "temporarily" halted air raids against the group in Syria in
order to avoid any further crises.
"Both sides
agreed to act cautiously until they re-establish dialogue channels to
reduce tensions," the paper said, citing security sources.
But a government official denied that strikes had been halted.
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.”
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.
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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