War in Syria 2

Marandi interviewed: Man with a country

This is a great interview -  worth reading.

Here is a fascinating and powerful remark about his experience facing US/European-provided chemical weapons to Saadam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war:

Seyed Mohammad Marandi: "I survived two gas attacks. The first was in 1984 during the Khaybar operations and the second was during the last few days of war in 1988 in Shalamche. I also went to Halabche soon after Iraqi forces attacked the town with chemical weapons. It was a nightmare. I remember the blind cats. Iran halted its offensive [operations] against Iraqi forces to save the population. Roughly 5000 people died within minutes. Needless to say, despite the fact that within days tens of western reporters were taken to the town, there was almost no report of the attack in the western media or the so-called free world until after Saddam attacked Kuwait almost 3 years later. At the time, the U.S. government shamelessly claimed that Iran carried out the attack, even though everyone knew what had happened."

The blind cats. There's a horror of war you haven't read about before. Mother fuckers.

The Canadian chihuahua will do what the Master tells it to do. Which means what the US regime does is of great importance for Canadians interested in foreign policy. 

G. Dyer wrote a piece recently suggesting that the US State Department is talking a different tune now, agreeing with the Russians on Syria he says, but the evidence is rather sparse.

Babblers would go a long way towards understanding events in Syria if they kept in mind that all this confusion of names is no accident. A lot of the confusion is simply deliberate. It is the same mercs and jihadists picking (or getting picked) one name or another for their latest organization.  This is not the whole truth but useful and important to keep in mind.

NDPP wrote:

Despite 400,000 Civilians Killed in Syria, US State Dept Wants Military Action Against Assad

"Dozens of US state department officials have signed an internal memo calling on Barack Obama to carry out strikes against Syrian President Bashar Assad..."

Supplemental:

"This move by State Department employees mirrors a similar dissent launched at the time also by Foreign Service Officers during the Clinton Administration demanding that the US become more militarily involved in the crises stemming from the post-communist break-up of Yugoslavia.

We also know how that worked out."

US Diplomats: Kill, kill, kill, kill!

“We announce from this place in central Golan district that it has been cleaned by the counter terrorism service and we convey the good news to the Iraqi people that the battle of Falluja is over,” Lieutenant General Abdul Wahab al-Saidi told state TV........

whatever you may say about Gordon Duff´s politics, there´s no doubt that as a vet he has an enormous network of contacts......

Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War. He is a disabled veteran and has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades. 

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Exclusive: American Special Forces, SAS Captured by ISIS at al Bukamal, Syria

By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor on July 1, 2016

80 "New Syrian Army" Killed in ISIS Ambush, Americans captured while a military coverup of major proportions is underway

 Gordon Duff, Senior Editor

Two news stories today, least of which is the downing of a Syrian SU 22 by the al Islam Army, a Saudi Arabian paid force armed with American Stinger type missiles and Russian SAM 7s.  Another Syrian jet was downed in Idlib ten days ago.  The second story is an American disaster, one being kept secret, a botched operation at the Iraqi/Syrian border that represents the kind of intelligence failure easily predicted when allies like Israel, Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, who all took part in the planning, are deeply invested in an American failure.  We begin.

A combined US, British airborne special operation in remote Eastern Syria, at the confluence of the Euphrates River and the border with Iraq, went very wrong and will not be reported.  American and British “technicians” were captured along with Jordanian advisors and 20 survivors of the US trained New Syrian Army which was virtually wiped out during the botched operation.

A unit of the US trained New Syrian Army was wiped out on an attack on an ISIS controlled agricultural airstrip at al Bukamal, a short distance from the Iraqi border and the city of al Qa’im.

Our sources at the scene describe the operation which began with a two day long 200 plus mile convoy that moved up from the CIA training center at the Syrian-Jordanian border north to attack ISIS. They were joined by American and British special operations advisors, US Army Special Forces and British SAS, who parachuted in just before the attack.

The attack, at dawn June 30, began with the New Syrian Army seizing the small airport at Bukamal, an agricultural airstrip converted to an ISIS underground command center.  This was followed by an American bombing attack across a number of “targets” in the area.  Then the Americans dropped leaflets advising locals to leave the area.  ISIS did not leave, not hardly, they were waiting.

Before the New Syrian Army and their American, British and Jordanian advisors could consolidate, up to 400 ISIS fighters came out of tunnels that stretch all the way across the border to al Qa’im in Iraq and quickly mopped up the entire group taking as many prisoners as possible.

Along with the prisoners, ISIS seized the entire convoy of vehicles along with radios and weapons.  A deep suspicion is now being accepted at the Pentagon, that ISIS has been trained by US and British advisors, rumored to be with L3 Corporation, Dyncorp and others, over not weeks but years, under the guise of putting together a special operations combined force to protect the Gulf States.  American trainers were paid $350k per year to train a force seen only twice, once during the Benghazi attack and now, as the core cadres of ISIS.

There should be no surprise at the things ISIS accomplishes, considering their best were trained to US Army Special Forces standards with tens of millions spent.  As to who was politically behind this is another story.  None of the funding was American, not officially anyway.  VT knows those who worked on the project and we were not told but had so much money thrown at us that we couldn’t easily refuse.

Since the first outing for ISIS was the Benghazi attack, with clear overtones of a combined CIA op in coordination, and our sources here are impeccable, with traitorous right wing pro-Israeli American billionaires, we can now clearly see the treasonous role the CIA is playing in Syria and Iraq and better understand the current “waffling” of Erdogan and his strong desire to get as far away from this as he can.

There is a total information crackdown on this debacle, a major American failure and a huge failure for President Obama.  Everyone with information about this has been taken into custody or silenced, this is that serious.

Recent terrorists attacks in Turkey, among other events, have led the Erdogan regime in Ankara to go through what seem to be some very big changes in foreign policy. The changes may be only short term for Erdogan, who is, it is argued, an unprincipled politician interested in power alone, but nevertheless these changes may make a big difference in the short term.

Peter Lavell in his Friday show (Crosstalk) had 3 guests discuss these changes.

If there is a rapproachment between Turkey and Russia (Erdogan apology for shooting down the Russian aircraft and killing the pilot), then what seemed impossible might be possible; Turkey and Russia working together against DAESH, ISIS, etc. IN Syria.

The terrorist attacks could even be viewed as ISIS revenge for the change in policy by Turkey.

Can we say we're now into PostBrexit era, geostrategically, as alliances breakup and realign?

from Voltairenet.org

Over the past few weeks, several member states of the International Coalition against the Syrian Arab Republic began secret negotiations with it with a view to withdrawing from the war.

These states include members of the European Union and the Commonwealth.

The following three voyages have been disclosed by theGulf News and Al-Mayadeen: 
• a trip by General Ali Mamelouk —coordinator of Syrian Secret Services — to Berlin; 
• a trip by General Mohammed Dib Zaitoun — Director General of Syrian Security — to Rome; _ • a trip by General Alberto Manenti — Director of the Agency on Intelligence and Foreign Affairs — by special plane from Rome to Damas.

The High Representative of the European Union, Federica Mogherini, is the former Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs.

All these trips follow Brexit. They are only the tip of the iceberg.

All negotiators interpret the Geneva Communique as having to lead not to regime change but to the establishment of government of national unity presided by Bachar el-Assad.

A Syrian officer is already placed in a European Capital to coordinate the fight against the jihadists.

These contacts contravene the sanctions officially decreed against Damas.

Slaughter in Syria: US and French air strikes butcher 140 civilians - mainly seniors, women and children. Syria appeals to the UN.

Quote:

Syria is demanding the UN take action after it says French war planes killed more than 120 civilians during airstrikes on Tuesday near the Turkish-Syrian border. The deaths came just a day after US air assaults killed a further 20 people in Manbij. The Syrian Foreign Ministry sent letters to the UN secretary general and to the president of the UN Security Council, which at present is Japan.

I have admit I am a cyncial person but the following story put a smile on my face. 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/go-train-riders-help-syrian-family...

When Valerie Taylor spotted a family of newcomers looking lost in the hustle and bustle of rush hour at Toronto's Union station on Wednesday, she offered to help them find their train. What she didn't know then was that moment would be the beginning of one her most memorable trips home ever.

Taylor was headed in the same direction and offered to take them to the right train. To their surprise, strangers began to take notice helped to carry their bags up the stairs and onto the train, some riders even making room to give the family a place to sit, Taylor said.

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/syrian-activists-us-led-coalition-091758492.html

Chlorine gas used by US-backed "moderates" on Aleppo civilian population ...

RT wrote:

Syrian fighters from a rebel group considered ‘moderate’ by Washington are responsible for using toxic gas shells that killed seven and injured 23 in Aleppo on Tuesday, according to a statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense.

“On August 2, 2016 at 19 hours 05 minutes militants from the Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki group, considered by Washington as ‘moderate opposition’, launched poisonous materials from the Sukkari district towards the eastern part of Aleppo,” the ministry said.