War in Syria 4

Who Killed Whom in Syria?

http://angryarab.blogspot.ca/2017/07/who-killed-whom-in-syria.html

JKR wrote:

NDPP wrote:

Who Killed Whom in Syria?

Maybe nobody would have been killed if the Assads had run proper governments?

What a fucking ludicrous statement. Try reading some history you ignoramus.  The depth of your ignorance seems to know no bounds.

Gen Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned - '7 Countries in 5 Years'

https://youtu.be/9RC1Mepk_Sw

Nothing to do with Assad. Syria was on 'the menu' is all. 

BAR: Trump Faces Down the CIA and Co-Opts the Pentagon on Syria (for the time being)

https://blackagendareport.com/trump_faces_down_cia

"The crazed, racist, stupid, boorish man in the White House this summer defied the War Party and its corporate mouthpieces, negotiating a cease-fire with the Russians in several regions of Syria and possibly even the CIA's not-so-covert role as Grandmaster of Islamic Jihad.  Which makes him less dangerous to the human species than Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton..."

When Syria War Ends, Woe to the Kurds   -    by Robert Fisk

https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/08/02/when-syrian-war-ends-woe-to-the-...

Dozens of Civilians Killed in US-Led Raids on Raqqa

https://t.co/2TC5mp7vz4

Sorry, keep forgetting babblers only react to Russian or Syrian bombing casualties, and only when MSM does. 

The ISIS jihadis will fight until death.  They believe that way they'll get to the Islam heaven.  Life after 25 years of Western bombing and sanctions isn't their first choice.  We see them only as evil, vicious killers of innocent victims.

The Reasons For Netanyahu's Panic

https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/01/the-reasons-for-netanyahus-panic/

"Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing the panic button over the collapse of Saudi-Israeli jihadist proxies in Syria and is now threatening to launch a major air war, as ex British diplomat Alastair Crooke describes..."

US Bailing Out ISIS Bigwigs?

https://twitter.com/MoonofA/status/903170622741676034

Hezbollah: Hundreds of Civilians in ISIS Buses Will Die If US-Led Coalition Does Not Let Them Move

http://dlvr.it/PkNNCq

"On Saturday, Hezbollah released an official statement saying that hundreds of ISIS family members are still trapped in the Syrian desert because of US-led coalition warplanes. Moreover, US-led coalition war planes bomb anyone approaching the buses.

Hezbollah warned that the civilians will end up dying if they are not allowed to move or at least offered humanitarian help..."

Terror Incognita: 'Demistifying' the Fog of War

https://off-guardian.org/2017/09/01/terror-incognita-demistifying-the-fo...

"...Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, LARRY SUMMERS*, Jacob Rothschild and James Woolsey are just a few of the familiar names who sit on the board of Genie Energy, a company intent on drilling for oil and gas in the Golan Heights, internationally recognized as Syrian territory..."

*Taking Summers' Advice Defies Logic

http://www.torontosun.com/2015/04/08/taking-summers-advice-defies-logic

The West might hardly believe it, but it now seems the Syrian war is ending – and Assad is the victor - Robert Fisk

quote:

The Brits already seem to have got the message. They slyly withdrew their military trainers last week – the men intended to prepare David Cameron’s mythical “70,000 rebels” who were supposedly going to overthrow the Assad government. Even the UN’s report that the regime killed more than 80 civilians in a gas attack this summer got little play from the European politicians who used to play up war crimes in Syria and supported Donald Trump’s pointless Cruise missile attack on a Syrian airbase.

And what of Israel? Here is a nation which truly counted on the end of Assad, going so far as to bomb his forces and those of his Hezbollah and Iranian allies while giving medical help to Islamist fighters from Syria in Israeli cities. No wonder Benjamin Netanyahu was so “agitated” and “emotional” – Russian descriptions – when he met Vladimir Putin in Sochi. Iran was Russia’s “strategic ally” in the region, Putin said. Israel was an “important partner” of Russia. Which was not quite the same – and not what Netanyahu wanted to hear.

The repeated victories of the Syrians mean that the Syrian army is among the most “battle-hardened” in the region, its soldiers used to fighting for their lives and now trained in coordinating troops and intelligence from a single command headquarters. As former St Antony’s College associate scholar Sharmine Narwani put it this week, this alliance now has political cover from two permanent UN Security Council members, Russia and China.

So what will Israel do? Netanyahu has been so obsessed with Iran’s nuclear programme that he clearly never imagined – in company with Obama, Hillary Clinton, Trump, Cameron, May, Hollande and other members of the political elites in the West – that Assad might win, and that a more powerful Iraqi army might also emerge from the rubble of Mosul.

UN Enablers of 'Aggressive War'  -  by Robert Parry

https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/08/u-n-enablers-of-aggressive-war/

"UN investigative reports, like a new one condemning Syria for alleged sarin use, are received as impartial and credible, but are often just more war propaganda from compromised bureaucrats, reports Robert Parry."

11,000+ Blank Syrian Passports In The Hands of ISIS - Media Citing Secret Docs

https://on.rt.com/8mt6

"In total, 18,002 blank Syrian passports were stolen from the Syrian government, Bild am Sonntag reported. According to the documents seen by Bild, at least 8,625 passports checked by German migration authorities in 2016 turned out to be counterfeits. The Bild report comes days after Der Spiegel magazine, citing sources within Germany's security services, reported that several dozen Syrian extremists linked to the Al Nusra Front and IS terrorist groups who committed 'numerous massacres' of civilians and captives, have sought asylum in Germany."

There's an interesting article up at The Intercept about the close relationship between the Assad regime and the white nationalists of Europe and the U.S. Here's the lede:

Mariam Elba wrote:

IT SHOULDN’T BE surprising that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has become an idol among white nationalists in the United States.

During the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally several weeks ago in Charlottesville, Virginia, Baked Alaska, an infamous far-right YouTuber, livestreamed an encounter with a demonstrator wearing a T-shirt that read “Bashar’s Barrel Delivery Co.” The shirt alluded to the Assad regime’s frequent, horrific use of barrel bombs — weapons employed to indiscriminately target rebel-held areas of Syria.

That rally-goer shouted, “Support the Syrian Arab Army!” and “Assad did nothing wrong!” They gloated over how Assad can “solve this whole ISIS problem” with just two chemical bombs. James Fields, the 20-year-old white supremacist who allegedly rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing Heather Heyer, posted a portrait of Assad, in military regalia and aviator sunglasses to Facebook. A superimposed caption read: “UNDEFEATED.”

CrossTalk Bullhorns: Media As PR (and vid)

https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/402849-media-war-west-pr/

"It would seem the corporate media can't get enough of war..."

Were We Deceived About The Alleged Sarin Attack in Syria?   -   by Gareth Porter

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/deceived-syrian-sarin-attack/

"The official narrative on Khan Sheikoun doesn't hold up under scrutiny..."

US-Backed Kurds Won't Let Syrian Forces Cross Euphrates River

http://news.antiwar.com/2017/09/15/us-backed-kurds-wont-let-syrian-force...

"Assad govt vows to fight all rival forces to reunite country..."

Showdown in Syria: The Reason Russia (Not China) is the Target of Washington's Wrath

https://on.rt.com/8nip

Russia Warns US It Will Strike Back If Kurdish-Led Militia Attacks in Syria Don't End

https://on.rt.com/8nrc

"Moscow has warned the US that if militias it supports in northeast Syria again attack positions of pro-government forces backed by Russia, the Russian military will use all its force to retaliate. 'Fire from positions in regions [controlled by the SDF] will be suppressed by all means necessary..."

Breaking: Israeli Airforce Struck the International Damascus Airport

https://t.co/FG1YI5Vd0O

"Let's not pretend anymore that 'Kurds are fighting ISIS.' This is a US invasion of oil rich Deir Ezzor."

https://twitter.com/snarwani/status/910739605850386433

US Special Ops Forces & Hardware Spotted At ISIS Positions North of Deir Ez Zor - Russia MOD

https://on.rt.com/8o0d

"The Russian Ministry of Defense has released aerial images which they say show US Army special forces equipment north of the town of Deir Ez Zor, where ISIS militants are deployed. US Army special units provide free passage for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) through the battle formations of Islamic State (IS) terrorists, the ministry said in a statement..."

from the Saker.......

The bigger picture is also one which gives me a great deal of concern. The Syrians, with Iranian, Hezbollah and Russian help, have freed Deir ez-Zor and have crossed the Euphrates river and are moving further East. In plain English, this means that the US and Daesh have lost the war and that the last region of Syrian from which the Anglo-Zionists can hope to partition the country (their current “plan B”) and establish a permanent US military presence is now threatened by the Syrian advance. The distance between the US forces currently deployed in northeastern Syria and Syrian, Iranian, Hezbollah and Russian forces is becoming shorter and shorter each day. I can just imagine how, say, Iranian or Hezbollah forces which are already “smelling” the nearby presence of US forces are drooling with hunger for the moment they will finally be able to get their hands on their old and most hated foe. I feel sincerely sorry for the first US unit to make contact with the Iranians or Hezbollah forces.

Right now the Americans are hiding behind the Kurds, but sooner or later the Iranians or Hezbollah will find them. As for the Kurds, their situation in Syria is precarious, to put it mildly: they are surrounded on all sides by the Turks, the Syrians and the Iranians and their only more or less stable zone of control is in Iraq. The Americans understand that perfectly, hence their desperate attempts to stop the Syrians.

This is a very dangerous situation: even though CENTCOM and NATO are by far the “biggest guys on the block”, in Syria the Americans are cornered, their corner is shrinking fast and it remains entirely unclear how this process can be stopped. Hence the attack on the de-confliction zone we just witnessed.

I hope that eventually the Americans will do what they did in al-Taif and simply pack, declare victory and leave. That would be the only rational thing to do. But after listening to Trump at the UN I don’t get the feeling that being rational is at the top of the US priority list. That’s all rather frightening.

Damascus Urges UN To Stop US-Led Coalition 'War Crimes' & To Expel Alliance From Syria

https://on.rt.com/8oh0

"The UN Security Council should take 'urgent measures' to stop the atrocities and human rights violations committed in Syria by the US-led coalition, the Syrian foreign ministry has said, denouncing the coalition and its unwelcome presence as 'illegal.'

Damascus has demanded a halt in the 'systematic' US-led airstrikes which the government believes only aids the terrorists while at the same time claiming endless civilian lives and destroying homes and vital infrastructure in Syria, SANA reported..."

Canada is of course a part of the 'US-led' coalition despite the official public indifference to it.

Israel Sees Assad Winning Syria War, Urges More US Involvement

https://t.co/LvDjltHy81

"Israel's defense minister urges the US to weigh in..."

Syria, Iraq - Why the Kurdish Independence Project Failed

https://t.co/u4QEUcJ6or

"The dream of Kurdish independence in Iraq and Syria is, for now, dead. This a a positive development for both countries..."

Saudi Money Invades Raqqa - Sowing the Seeds of ISIS 2.0

http://t.co/x7K8iDzLbj

There is dangerous news evolving from Raqqa Syra while ISIS is largely defeated. Seems government sows for its reappearance. On Monday, the US coordinator for the fight against ISIS, Brent McGurk, brought an unwelcome visitor to Syria..."