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Old April 29th, 2014 #1961
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Default Syrian rebels who received first U.S. missiles of war see shipment as ‘an important first step’

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KHAN AL-SUBUL, Syria — Under the leadership of a young, battle-hardened rebel commander, the men entrusted with the first American missiles to be delivered to the Syrian war are engaged in an ambitious effort to forge a new, professional army.

Abdullah Awda, 28, says he and his recently formed Harakat Hazm — or Movement of Steadfastness — were chosen to receive the weapons because of their moderate views and, just as important, their discipline. At the group’s base, sprawled across rocky, forested wilderness in the northern province of Idlib, soldiers wear uniforms, get medical checkups and sleep in bunk beds under matching blankets.

The scene is a far cry from the increasingly pervasive view of a chaotic, ragtag rebel movement that has fallen under the sway of Islamist extremists. Such concerns have long deterred the Obama administration from arming the Syrian opposition.

But the arrival at the base last month of U.S.-made TOW antitank missiles, the first advanced American weaponry to be dispatched to Syria since the conflict began, has reignited long-abandoned hopes among the rebels that the Obama administration is preparing to soften its resistance to the provision of significant military aid and, perhaps, help move the battlefield equation back in their favor.

The small number of BGM-71 missiles, about two decades old and hardly better than similar Russian and French models acquired by the rebels from allies and the black market over the past year, will not change the game in the fight against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the fighters say. Three years into the war, the government has pushed opposition forces out of many of their most important strongholds, deferring their hopes of victory indefinitely.

However, the shipment “is an important first step,” Awda said during the first visit to his base by a journalist since the missiles arrived.

The weapons were not directly provided by the United States. “Friends of Syria” delivered them, he said, referring to the U.S.-backed alliance of Western powers and Persian Gulf Arab states established to support the opposition Free Syrian Army. The rebels had to promise to return the canister of each missile fired, to not resell the weapons and to protect them from theft.

Awda declined to offer further details of the provenance of the missiles. But he said the donors made clear to him that the delivery had U.S. approval, and U.S. officials have confirmed that they endorsed the supply.

“The most important thing is not the TOW missile itself, it’s the change in the policy,” he said. “It suggests a change in the U.S. attitude toward allowing Syria’s friends to support the Syrian people. It’s psychological more than physical.”
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Old May 6th, 2014 #1962
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Default Syria clashes kill 21 rebels in Aleppo province, Obama administration offers $27 million in additional help for Syrian rebels & Syria expects to receive first batch of fighters

Syria clashes kill 21 rebels in Aleppo province

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BEIRUT: Fierce fighting around Syria´s contested northern province of Aleppo killed at least 21 rebels on Monday as rockets slammed into a government-held district in the provincial capital, killing nine people.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that along with the 21 rebels, at least 30 soldiers were killed or wounded in Monday´s clashes in the province.

President Bashar Assad´s forces, backed by Lebanese Hezbollah and pro-government militias, have been trying to wrest as much territory in Aleppo from the opposition ahead of the June 3 presidential elections.

In the city of Aleppo, Syria´s largest and the provincial capital, government forces have been relentlessly shelling opposition districts with aircraft and artillery in recent months.

Aleppo has been divided between government- and opposition-held areas since rebels launched an offensive there in mid-2012, capturing whole neighborhoods and large sections of territory outside the city and along the border with Turkey. (AP)
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Obama administration offers $27 million in additional help for Syrian rebels


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The Syrian Opposition Council’s offices in the US will become formal diplomatic missions after receiving approval from the Obama administration on Monday. This comes ahead of high-level talks between the US and opposition leaders in Washington.

The administration first recognized the Syrian Opposition Council as the legitimate representative of Syria in December 2012, but did not suspend the Syrian embassy - representing the Assad government - until this March. The opposition offices were considered informal liaison offices until Monday’s announcement, where they will become “foreign diplomatic missions” under US law, the Associated Press reports.

"This is an important step in the path toward a new Syria, its recognition on the international stage, and its relations with Syrian nationals in the US," Ahmad al-Jarba, head of the Syrian National Coalition, said in a statement. “The new status provides a diplomatic platform for the Coalition to advance the interests of the Syrian people at all levels. This is a diplomatic blow against Assad's legitimacy and demonstrates how far the opposition has progressed.”

"It's a reflection of our partnership with the coalition as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters.

Jarba is embarking on his first official visit to Washington as the head of the SOC, CBS News reports. He will be joined by the new chief of staff of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), Brigadier General Abdelilah al-Bashir, his office told AFP, but State Department officials would not confirm.

The SOC president made the announcement of the change in status via Twitter.

The move comes as Syrian President Bashar Assad runs for reelection in June. A senior US administration official denounced the election as "a parody of democracy," AFP reports. Assad’s decision to hold the elections "rings particularly hollow given that the regime is continuing to attack and massacre the very electorate that is purporting to represent," the official said.

The formal recognition of the diplomatic missions is largely symbolic, as the two offices will not become the embassy in DC or the consulate in New York, AP reports. But the move was a key request by the Syrian opposition, who believe it will give them greater presence and credibility among Syrian expatriates in the US. It will allow the US government to assist the missions with banking and security services.

There are key differences between a foreign diplomatic mission and an embassy or consulate. People working in the missions will not be granted diplomatic immunity, nor will they be allowed access to the assets or properties that belong to the Assad regime, CBS News reports. Even with its embassies suspended, the Assad’s government is still officially recognized by the US.

During his visit, Jarba will meet with US Secretary of State John Kerry and members of the National Security Council and from the Treasury Department, according to CBS News. Al-Bashir is scheduled to meet with US officials “to discuss the supply of sophisticated weapons to the FSA to enable it to change the balance on the ground," his office told AFP.

Along with the recognition, the administration promised an additional $27 million aid to the opposition council, as well as promising to step up its non-lethal assistance to moderate commanders in the Free Syrian Army, AP reports. The additional aid will bring the total US assistance to opposition groups to $278 million, according to the Guardian.

The coalition is battling against Assad in the country’s civil war, which began with peaceful protests in March 2011. More than 150,000 people have been killed and millions more have been displaced in the three years since fighting began. Assad’s forces are backed by Lebanese Hezbollah militants and pro-government militias, and have made recent battlefield gains, AP reports. In February, a second round of peace talks between the opposition, representatives of the Assad government, the US and Russia failed to reach an agreement.
http://rt.com/usa/156968-obama-admin...ls-assistance/

Syria expects to receive first batch of fighter jets from Russia

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Russia is planning on delivering the first batch of Yak-130 fighter jets to its ally Syria by the end of 2014, reported al-Arabiya on Monday.

Russian media reported that Russia intends to deliver a total of 36 jets as per a previously signed contract. A previous report stated that Syria had made an advanced payment of $100 million to Russia for the first batch of fighter jets and signed the contract in late 2011.

The Moscow Times stated that companies Rosoboronexport, and arms exporter, and United Aircraft-Building Corp. had already scheduled the delivery of this first batch of jets.

Russia has reportedly stated that it complied with international law and has only provided "defensive weapons."
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Rep...-Russia-351398
 
Old May 8th, 2014 #1963
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Homs, SANA, Homs Governor Talal Barazi affirmed Thursday national reconciliations and getting the gunmen out of the old city would have never given fruit without the sacrifices of Army and struggle of the Syrian People.

"What has been achieved was a result of efforts that lasted for months starting through evacuating hundreds of civilians from the old City and settling the cases of nearly 820 gunmen who have given up and handed over their weapons to authorities," the Governor said while touring Homs city center to inspect the work of public institutions there.

He added what has been gained until now to restore security and stability to Homs old city and have it free of weapons and gunmen was a victory to be added to the Army's victories, affirming the next period will witness restoration of security to some northern areas and resuming the process of reconciliation and settlement.

"Getting the gunmen out of Homs old city will be ended soon while cases of 50 gunmen were settled yesterday after they had handed over their weapons to the competent authorities and a number of abducted persons by the armed terrorist groups, among them women and children, were released," Al-Barazi said.

He added what has been fulfilled until now came according to the directives of President Bashar al-Assad on the need for working to embrace anyone who wants to return to the homeland's lap and the Government's endeavors to restore national unity.

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Old May 14th, 2014 #1964
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In a botched attempt to stop drinking water reaching government-held districts of Aleppo, rebels managed to cut off water supplies to large parts of the city in northern Syria including their own strongholds. Women and children are being forced to queue up with cooking pots, kettles and plastic bottles to get water from the fountains of mosques and wells that may be contaminated.

The water shortage started 10 days ago when the rebels, who control the two main pumping stations, tried to keep water flowing to their areas in east Aleppo, but stop it reaching the government-held west of the city. Describing the action as “a crime”, Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that the al-Qa’ida affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra and other rebel groups were responsible for the water shortage.

People in both halves of the divided city have been forced to rely on ancient wells and fountains. In west Aleppo the Red Crescent and government agencies have provided some water but say it is not safe to drink over an extended period. Some trucks used for taking away waste water from houses are now selling drinking water likely to be contaminated. Fights have broken out in queues when members of local defence committees and officials have demanded they be given priority. Aleppo used to have a population of 2.5 million though at least one million have fled fighting.

A member of the Aleppo Water Department told the Beirut paper al-Akhbar that the Sharia Authority, which unites the rebel movements, controls a crucial pumping station in the Suleiman al-Halabi region. He said that there is a “danger of insurgents pumping water only to the neighbourhoods that they control as it might lead to the collapse of the integrated water system”.

Even before the recent cut-off of supplies, the water system of Aleppo depended on a degree of grudging co-operation between government and opposition mediated by the Red Crescent. The pumping station depends on deliveries of diesel to fuel a generator.

Water has become very expensive in a city where it used to be free. It is the latest disaster to befall Aleppo which, since 2012, has been divided in two. The government has been dropping barrel bombs packed with explosives on rebel districts causing heavy casualties and a further exodus of the population. The rebels have been firing mortars randomly into government areas.

Unlike in central and southern Syria, the rebels are holding their own in Aleppo where they recently launched an offensive which government forces had difficulty in repelling. Last week the Islamic Front detonated explosives at the end of a 400yd-long tunnel under the Carlton Citadel Hotel killing many government soldiers.

The forces of the opposition are dominated by Jabhat al-Nusra and other al-Qa’ida type groups. Their civil war with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) is mostly being fought further east along the Euphrates Valley with 100,00o people being forced to flee their homes in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor in recent days. The Syrian Observatory says that battles between Jabhat al-Nusra and Isis killed 230 fighters in the last 10 days.

The rebels are concentrating their efforts on Aleppo after the final loss of Homs Old City last week when 1,200 rebel fighters were evacuated on buses. Though the government has long been in control of most of Homs, the evacuation marks a serious symbolic defeat for the opposition since the city has been at the centre of media attention. Only the Waer district in the north-west of Homs now remains under partial rebel control, but is sealed off by government checkpoints.
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Old May 21st, 2014 #1965
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A 31-year-old man from Portsmouth has become the first person in the UK to be convicted of terrorist offences in connection with the conflict in Syria.

Father-of-two Mashudur Choudhury was convicted of engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts.

The court heard he had travelled to Syria to attend a terrorist training camp. He was arrested at Gatwick Airport on his return to the UK.

Choudhury had told the court he wanted to emigrate to avoid problems at home.

Prosecutors at the trial at Kingston Crown Court said Choudhury had wanted to be trained in the use of firearms and intended to pursue a "political, religious or ideological cause".

They said he had discussed his wish to become a "martyr". He is due to be sentenced on 13 June and has been warned he faces a substantial sentence.

Earlier this month, the EU's anti-terror chief said hundreds of Europeans were now fighting with rebel forces in Syria against Bashar al-Assad's regime.

In March, police arrested four people on suspicion of Syria-related terror offences.
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China and Russia Block Referral of Syria to Court

By SOMINI SENGUPTAMAY 22, 2014



UNITED NATIONS — Beheadings, torture, aerial bombardments of schools and hospitals: The war in Syria, raging for more than three years with no sign of relief, represents the very excesses of war that the International Criminal Court was designed to take on.

Nevertheless, the court will not take on war crimes in Syria, not anytime soon anyway. China and Russia voted Thursday against a Security Council resolution that would have empowered the world tribunal to go after perpetrators of crimes against humanity in Syria.

Before the vote, the United Nations deputy secretary general, Jan Eliasson, issued a poignant rebuke. “If members of the Council continue to be unable to agree on a measure that could provide some accountability for the ongoing crimes,” he said, “the credibility of this body and the entire organization will continue to suffer.”

Now those who demand accountability for war criminals in Syria will have to prepare other options, potentially including ones outside of the International Criminal Court. One option could be setting up a special tribunal, which American officials have privately suggested in the past. Another could involve plucking war-crime suspects from Syria when they travel abroad — to go shopping or attend a child’s college graduation, for instance — to be tried under universal jurisdiction laws. A third could involve a General Assembly resolution under a provision called Uniting for Peace, which can be invoked when the Security Council is believed to have failed to do its job in maintaining peace and security.

“In the face of mounting crimes, and 150,000 dead, the international community must think creatively about how to ensure accountability in Syria — with or without the Council,” Beth Van Schaack, a law professor at Santa Clara University and a former special adviser to the State Department, wrote Thursday on a legal blog called Just Security.


None of these options would be easy, legal scholars and diplomats have said. Each would face considerable diplomatic and legal hurdles. Supporters of the world court say that this is precisely the kind of war that it was set up for, and that it would be a waste of time and money to create something else.


Thursday’s vote underscored the paradox at the heart of how cases can be referred to the court. Syria has not signed the international treaty that created the court, which is why the court cannot start an inquiry, no matter how egregious the crimes. The court can act only if the Council demands it. Political deadlock among the Council’s five permanent members — Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States — has made that impossible.

China’s deputy permanent representative, Wang Min, told the Council on Thursday that referring Syria to the court for war crimes is “neither conducive to building trust” nor helpful in getting the warring parties back to political negotiations.

The French ambassador to the United Nations, Gérard Araud, described China’s and Russia’s decisions to vote against the resolution as akin to “vetoing justice.”

Mr. Araud told reporters afterward, “There is a moment when you realize you are powerless in front of barbarians and their supporters.”

France drafted the measure and garnered the support of 62 other countries.

Samantha Power, the United States ambassador, said the Council had not previously raised the prospect of a war crimes referral because it feared it would be vetoed. “But the victims of the Assad regime’s industrial killing machine and the victims of terrorist attacks deserve more than to have more dead counted,” she said. “They deserve to have each of us, the members of this Security Council, counted and held to account.”

The United States, which has not signed the treaty that created the Hague-based court, supported the draft resolution only after it secured important exemptions: namely protecting its soldiers from prosecution by the tribunal, should they ever get involved in Syria with Security Council authorization, and ensuring that its ally Israel — which holds the Golan Heights, territory that Syria also claims — is not made vulnerable to a court investigation. Qusai Zakarya, a Syrian opposition activist whom Ms. Power invited to the Council session, said the failed effort should propel action outside the Council.

“This will go to history,” he said shortly after leaving the viewing gallery above the Council chambers. “It will also show how the Security Council is helpless to help the Syrian people.”


Correction: May 22, 2014

An earlier version of this article misidentified the position held by Wang Min, the diplomat who represented China at the Security Council session on Thursday. He is the Chinese mission’s deputy permanent representative, not its deputy ambassador.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/wo...y-council.html
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Old May 25th, 2014 #1967
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"Despite all pressures Syria is committed to its stances and its relations with other countries and it will always remain beside Iran, Iraq and Palestine," Al-Za'bi said in a video conference addressing the Seventh General Assembly meeting of Islamic Radios and Televisions Union in Tehran on Sunday.

He underlined that Syria relies on its allies and with their help it is trying to display the realities by disclosing the identity of those who are targeting Syria's infrastructures with the help of terrorists and exerting pressures on the country.

Iranian officials have repeatedly underlined that Tehran is in favor of negotiations between the Syrian government and opposition groups to create stability in the Middle Eastern country.

In November 2012, Iran hosted a meeting between the representatives of the Syrian government and opposition to encourage them to start talks to find a political solution to their problems. The National Dialogue Conference kicked off work in Tehran mid November with the motto of 'No to Violence, Yes to Democracy".

The meeting brought together almost 200 representatives of various Syrian ethnicities, political groups, minorities, the opposition, and state officials.

On Saturday, a senior Iranian official announced that Tehran will host 'the Friends of Syria Conference' early next month to discuss the latest developments in crisis-hit Syria and find diplomatic solutions to the ongoing bloodshed in there.

"The second round of the Syria conference will be held in Tehran on June 1 and will be participated by a number of countries," Iranian Parliament Speaker’s top advisor for international affairs Hossein Sheikholeslam told FNA.

He noted that Syria and resolving the crisis in that country are issues to be discussed in the conference.

The top advisor explained that representatives of Russia, Syria, Cuba, Lebanon, Iraq, Algeria and Venezuela attended the first round of the conference in Tehran on March 12.

Sheikholeslam said that the heads of the foreign policy commissions of the parliaments of the participating countries will take part in the upcoming conference in Tehran to review ways of ceasing bloodshed and violation of human rights in Syria.

The first conference was held in the presence of the chairpersons of the foreign policy commissions of Iran, Algiers, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Russia in March this year.

Resolutions of the Syrian crisis through diplomacy and immediate end to violation of human rights were the main topics of the first conference.

Venezuelan and Cuban ambassadors to Tehran were also present at the event.

Syria has been the scene of deadly violence since March 2011. Over 130,000 people have reportedly been killed and millions displaced due to the crisis.

According to reports, the western powers and their regional allies -- especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey -- are supporting the militants operating inside Syria.

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Default Bashar al-Assad wins Syria election with 88.7 percent of votes

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Another day, another ISIS crucifixion: Man accused of joining Syrian regime is found hanging from a cross in busy market town with cryptic note pinned to his chest


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  • The man was executed after he was accused of helping government forces
  • Sign reads: 'Cleanliness is civilised matter that shows your ethics and love for your country'
  • Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is so extreme al Qaeda won't deal with them
  • Comes after ISIS release images of two men similarly executed in al-Raqqa
  • White House providing 'lethal and non-lethal' support to Syrian opposition
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Default NATO's Terror Hordes (ISIS) in Iraq a Pretext for Syria Invasion



June 12, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - All roads lead to Baghdad and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is following them all, north from Syria and Turkey to south. Reading Western headlines, two fact-deficient narratives have begun gaining traction. The first is that this constitutes a "failure" of US policy in the Middle East, an alibi as to how the US and its NATO partners should in no way be seen as complicit in the current coordinated, massive, immensely funded and heavily armed terror blitzkrieg toward Baghdad. The second is how ISIS appears to have "sprung" from the sand dunes and date trees as a nearly professional military traveling in convoys of matching Toyota trucks without explanation.

In actuality, ISIS is the product of a joint NATO-GCC conspiracy stretching back as far as 2007 where US-Saudi policymakers sought to ignite a region-wide sectarian war to purge the Middle East of Iran's arch of influence stretching from its borders, across Syria and Iraq, and as far west as Lebanon and the coast of the Mediterranean. ISIS has been harbored, trained, armed, and extensively funded by a coalition of NATO and Persian Gulf states within Turkey's (NATO territory) borders and has launched invasions into northern Syria with, at times, both Turkish artillery and air cover. The most recent example of this was the cross-border invasion by Al Qaeda into Kasab village, Latikia province in northwest Syria.

In March, ISIS withdrew its terror battalions from Latikia and Idlib provinces and repositioned them in the east of Syria, now clearly in preparations for invading northern Iraq. The Daily Star reported in a March 2014 article titled, "Al-Qaeda splinter group in Syria leaves two provinces: activists," that:

On Friday, ISIS - which alienated many rebels by seizing territory and killing rival commanders - finished withdrawing from the Idlib and Latakia provinces and moved its forces toward the eastern Raqqa province and the eastern outskirts of the northern city of Aleppo, activists said.

The alleged territorial holdings of ISIS cross over both Syrian and Iraqi borders meaning that any campaign to eradicate them from Iraqi territory can easily spill over into Syria's borders. And that is exactly the point. With ISIS having ravaged Mosul, Iraq near the Turkish border and moving south in a terror blitzkrieg now threatening the Iraqi capital of Baghdad itself, the Iraqi government is allegedly considering calling for US and/or NATO assistance to break the terror wave. Adding to the pretext, ISIS, defying any sound tactical or strategic thinking, has seized a Turkish consulate in Mosul, taking over 80 Turkish hostages - serendipitous giving Turkey not only a new pretext to invade northern Iraq as it has done many times in pursuit of alleged Kurdish militants, but to invade Syrian territory where ISIS is also based.


Turkey Has Already Attempted to Use Al Qaeda False Flag Attacks to Justify Invading Syria

It had been revealed that NATO has been planning a false flag attack against Turkey to justify the Turkish invasion of northern Syria, the International Business Times reported in its article, "Turkey YouTube Ban: Full Transcript of Leaked Syria 'War' Conversation Between Erdogan Officials." It released the full transcript of a leaked conversation between the head of Turkish intelligence Hakan Fidan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu. The Times reported:

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ban of YouTube occurred after a leaked conversation between Head of Turkish Intelligence Hakan Fidan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu that he wanted removed from the video-sharing website.

The leaked call details Erdogan's thoughts that an attack on Syria "must be seen as an opportunity for us [Turkey]".



In the conversation, intelligence chief Fidan says that he will send four men from Syria to attack Turkey to "make up a cause of war".


The report would also state:

In the leaked video, Fidan is discussing with Davutoğlu, Güler and other officials a possible operation within Syria to secure the tomb of Suleyman Shah, grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman empire.

Instead of four men carrying out a false flag to secure a tomb, it appears now that an entire mercenary army will be used as a pretext to secure all of northern Iraq and eastern Syria.



Banks Robbed After Invasion Funded the Invasion? Western Media Puts Cart Before the Horse

Tales of ISIS looting armories, vehicle depots, and banks are being carefully planted throughout the Western media in an attempt to portray the invasion as a terrorist uprising, sustaining itself on plundered supplies, weapons, and cash. In reality, ISIS already possessed all that it needed before beginning its campaign from Syrian and Turkish territory.

The International Business Times in its article, "Mosul Seized: Jihadis Loot $429m from City's Central Bank to Make Isis World's Richest Terror Force," claims:


The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams (Isis) has become the richest terror group ever after looting 500 billion Iraqi dinars - the equivalent of $429m (£256m) - from Mosul's central bank, according to the regional governor.

Nineveh governor Atheel al-Nujaifi confirmed Kurdish televison reports that Isis militants had stolen millions from numerous banks across Mosul. A large quantity of gold bullion is also believed to have been stolen.

Following the siege of the country's second city, the bounty collected by the group has left it richer than al-Qaeda itself and as wealthy as small nations such as Tonga, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands and the Falkland Islands.


This cover story is the latest in a long propaganda campaign designed to cover up the extensively documented state sponsorship of ISIS and other Al Qaeda franchises by the United States, NATO, and the Persian Gulf monarchies. Previous attempts to explain why alleged "moderates" being funded billions by the West were being displaced by Al Qaeda in Syria have included claims that "Twitter donations" were eclipsing the combined aid provided by the US, EU, NATO, and Persian Gulf states.


The US, NATO, and Persian Gulf States are Behind ISIS

Published in 2007 - a full 4 years before the 2011 "Arab Spring" would begin - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh's New Yorker article titled, ""The Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the war on terrorism?" stated specifically (emphasis added):

To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.

Throughout the Syrian conflict, which began in 2011, the West and its regional partners have sent billions in cash, weapons, and equipment. In the March 2013 Telegraph article titled, "US and Europe in 'major airlift of arms to Syrian rebels through Zagreb'," it is reported:

It claimed 3,000 tons of weapons dating back to the former Yugoslavia have been sent in 75 planeloads from Zagreb airport to the rebels, largely via Jordan since November

The story confirmed the origins of ex-Yugoslav weapons seen in growing numbers in rebel hands in online videos, as described last month by The Daily Telegraph and other newspapers, but suggests far bigger quantities than previously suspected.

The shipments were allegedly paid for by Saudi Arabia at the bidding of the United States, with assistance on supplying the weapons organised through Turkey and Jordan, Syria's neighbours. But the report added that as well as from Croatia, weapons came "from several other European countries including Britain", without specifying if they were British-supplied or British-procured arms.

British military advisers however are known to be operating in countries bordering Syria alongside French and Americans, offering training to rebel leaders and former Syrian army officers. The Americans are also believed to be providing training on securing chemical weapons sites inside Syria.


Additionally, The New York Times in its article, "Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With C.I.A. Aid," admits that:

With help from the C.I.A., Arab governments and Turkey have sharply increased their military aid to Syria’s opposition fighters in recent months, expanding a secret airlift of arms and equipment for the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, according to air traffic data, interviews with officials in several countries and the accounts of rebel commanders.

The airlift, which began on a small scale in early 2012 and continued intermittently through last fall, expanded into a steady and much heavier flow late last year, the data shows. It has grown to include more than 160 military cargo flights by Jordanian, Saudi and Qatari military-style cargo planes landing at Esenboga Airport near Ankara, and, to a lesser degree, at other Turkish and Jordanian airports.


The US State Department had also announced it was sending hundreds of millions of dollars more in aid, equipment and even armored vehicles to militants operating in Syria, along with demands of its allies to "match" the funding to reach a goal of over a billion dollars. The NYT would report in their article, "Kerry Says U.S. Will Double Aid to Rebels in Syria," that:

With the pledge of fresh aid, the total amount of nonlethal assistance from the United States to the coalition and civic groups inside the country is $250 million. During the meeting here, Mr. Kerry urged other nations to step up their assistance, with the objective of providing $1 billion in international aid.

The US has also admitted that it is now officially arming and equipping terrorists inside of Syria. The Washington Post's article, "U.S. weapons reaching Syrian rebels," reported:

The CIA has begun delivering weapons to rebels in Syria, ending months of delay in lethal aid that had been promised by the Obama administration, according to U.S. officials and Syrian figures. The shipments began streaming into the country over the past two weeks, along with separate deliveries by the State Department of vehicles and other gear — a flow of material that marks a major escalation of the U.S. role in Syria’s civil war.

The Western media and the governments providing them their talking points now expect the general public to believe that somehow "Twitter donations" and "bank robberies" have managed to outpace this unprecedented multinational logistical feat and give Al Qaeda the edge over the West's nonexistent "moderate" forces in Syria and give rise to phantom terrorist legions capable of seizing entire provinces across multiple national borders. The evidence simply doesn't add up.

Combined with reports from the US Army's West Point Countering Terrorism Center, "Bombers, Bank Accounts and Bleedout: al-Qa'ida's Road In and Out of Iraq," and "Al-Qa'ida's Foreign Fighters in Iraq," it is clear that Iraq's Al Qaeda/ISIS legions were created, funded, and armed by Persian Gulf states and are augmented with foreign fighters drawn from Libya's terror epicenter of Benghazi, and Saudi Arabia in particular. These legions have been in operation in one form or another since they were first created by the US CIA, Saudi Arabia and Pakistani intelligence during the 1980's to combat Soviet forces in Afghanistan.
 
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The alleged territory of ISIS overlaps the Iraqi-Syrian border constituting a region nearly the size of Syria itself. With Baghdad asking for foreign intervention, and ISIS giving NATO the perfect pretext to do so by seizing a Turkish consulate in Mosul, making the case for (re)invading Iraq may be feasible. With the Western media capitalizing on ISIS' notorious brutality, including mass beheadings and hundreds of thousands of civilians fleeing before them, a demonstrable campaign to sway public opinion toward intervention is clearly under way.

Invading northern Iraq will allow NATO to then justify cross-border operations into eastern Syria. In reality what NATO will be doing is establishing their long desired "buffer zone" where terrorists can launch attacks deeper and more effectively into Syrian territory
. With western Syria returning to peace and order after a series of victories for the Syrian government, the last front NATO's proxy forces have is Al Qaeda's arch of terror running along Turkey's border and now, across eastern Syria and northern Iraq. NATO's presence in northern Iraq would also provide an obstacle for Iranian-Syrian trade and logistics.

The idea of such a buffer zone has been in the works since at least March 2012, where the idea was proposed by the US corporate-financier funded Brookings Institution in their "Middle East Memo #21" "Assessing Options for Regime Change" where it stated specifically (emphasis added):

"An alternative is for diplomatic efforts to focus first on how to end the violence and how to gain humanitarian access, as is being done under Annan’s leadership. This may lead to the creation of safe-havens and humanitarian corridors, which would have to be backed by limited military power. This would, of course, fall short of U.S. goals for Syria and could preserve Asad in power. From that starting point, however, it is possible that a broad coalition with the appropriate international mandate could add further coercive action to its efforts."

Through Iraq, NATO has used its terrorist proxies to create a pretext to put this "buffer zone" strategy back into motion. The prospect of the US, NATO, or the Persian Gulf states delivering Iraq from ISIS is an ironic tragedy - as definitive evidence reveals ISIS' brutal incursion was of this collective coalition's own doing to begin with, and for its own insidious ends. Instead, a joint Iranian-Iraqi-Syrian anti-terror campaign should be conducted to corner and crush NATO's terrorist mercenary expeditionary force once and for all.



http://landdestroyer.blogspot.co.uk/...etext-for.html

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http://journal-neo.org/

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Former war crimes prosecutor David Crane says the fullest extent of the brutality of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has yet to be uncovered.

“We were just given a tip-of-the-iceberg look of the horror,” said Crane, one of the authors of a report into the atrocities committed by the Assad regime.

The report, based on thousands of images of mutilated corpses provided by a former Syrian police photographer, found evidence of 11,000 people tortured and killed in three detention facilities in and around Damascus. And with 50 other such facilities unexplored, the total numbers of human casualties could be “astronomical and horrific,” he said.

Stephen Rapp, head of the U.S. State Department's Office of Global Criminal Justice, recently said that those "images of individuals that have been strangled, and mutilated, gouged, burned, starved" is "solid evidence of the kind of machinery of cruel death that we haven’t seen frankly since the Nazis."

But Crane, who was chief prosecutor at the Sierra Leone war crimes tribunal, also stressed that evaluating the brutality of tyrants, especially through death toll numbers, places the focus in the wrong place. And it’s why he takes some umbrage with a recent column by foreign affairs author and expert Robert Kaplan comparing Assad to Iraq's former dictator, Saddam Hussein.
Some tyrants far worse

“Even among tyrants, there are distinctions,” wrote Kaplan, a chief analyst for the geopolitical intelligence firm Stratfor. “Some tyrants are worse than others. It is important that we recognize such distinctions.”

Kaplan said it's "nonsense" for anyone to suggest that while Saddam was brutal, he wasn’t as bad as Assad.

He notes that while 160,000 have been killed during the three-year conflict in Syria, in the Al-Anfal campaign, Saddam killed an estimated 100,000 civilians alone. Kaplan adds that Saddam likely killed tens of thousands following the first Gulf War, and that he initiated the Iran-Iraq war which killed hundreds of thousands.

“The total number of his victims, depending upon how you count, may reach upwards of a million. Saddam was beyond brutal," Kaplan wrote. "The word brutal has a generic and insipid ring to it: one that simply does not capture what Iraq was like under his rule. Saddam was in a category all his own, somewhere north of the al-Assads and south of Stalin. That's who Saddam Hussein was.”

But Crane said that Kaplan's argument is somewhat misleading.

“I think you need to note what he says but also to really make the point that in reality it’s not about numbers, it's about human beings," Crane said.
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'We were just given a tip-of-the-iceberg look of the horror,' said former war crimes prosecutor David Crane, one of the authors of a report into the atrocities committed by the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria.
“The fact that one [of the dictators]

may have had different methodologies or had literally, by numbers, killed more than the other is frankly, in my opinion, not significant and actually can be misleading as to the intent," Crane said. "And that is the widespread and systematic destruction of their own citizens."

International law and war crimes expert Cherif Bassiouni said it's difficult to compare tyrannical regimes and that it's not just a question of total people killed but also the impact those killings have on a country.

“Every conflict is sui generis, every conflict has its own characteristics, has its own impact. And to try and quantify numbers in a given conflict and try to compare it to another is just totally impossible," he said.

But Henri Barkey, professor of international relations at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Penn., agreed with Kaplan, noting a distinction can be made between Saddam and Assad.

"The interesting thing in terms of comparison is that Saddam's system of brutality was one he instituted from the moment he came to power that was incessant, that was continuous. He ratcheted up when necessary but it was constant," Barkey said.
'Derived pleasure from killing'

"Assad, as much as he's a hoodlum, he's a two-bit dictator, did not engage in the kind of massive continuous stuff that Saddam has done. Saddam would kill just for the fun and pleasure of killing. He derived pleasure from the killing."

Assad's current behaviour, while horrible, is one of someone who is fighting for their life, Barkey said. But in the case of Saddam, the whole system from the beginning was based on continuous violence against everybody — real and imagined enemies he said.

Barkey said one must also look at the two regimes during peace time and at war. During periods of conflict, both Saddam and Assad were equally brutal, using weapons of mass destruction, and engaging in indiscriminate bombing and shelling. But in non-conflict time, Saddam was far worse than Assad, he said.

Barkey also dismissed Rapp's comparison of Assad's regime to the Nazis, saying when the Kurds liberated the police stations and prisons in the north,"they found exactly the same thing — meticulous documentation on anybody who was killed, executed."

"[Rapp] should know better. The moment you bring this comparison. First of all, you're cheapening the massive horrors of World War Two. We need to protect that in many respects.


"But factually he's not right. Saddam and the Khmer Rouge were worse. Even Rwanda, where 800,000 people killed in a matter of weeks, wasn't there a machinery there too?"
Can you believe the chutzpah from these jews? Just as Iraq is imploding, the war and occupation was a colossal failure, they still have the gall to say that Saddam Hussein was a bad man. Keeping Saddam in power would have SAVED untold number of lives, you idiots, fucking morons.

You dictators out there want my advice? Don't be an enemy of the jew, and if you are, get a nuke (and sure as hell don't give your up like Qaddafi did). Only then will they think twice about fucking with you.
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The Syrian army is advancing to retake the country’s largest city, Aleppo, which would deliver a devastating blow to the opposition after two years of stalemate. Doctors are preparing for the worst.

Aleppo, formerly Syria's commercial hub, has been the target of the conflict's most vicious air campaign, with government barrel bombs - oil drums packed with hundreds of kilograms of explosives and metal fragments - killing thousands in the rebel-held areas this year.

Fears of a siege by government forces have risen after the army made dramatic gains in the last two weeks, taking the Sheikh Naijar industrial zone in the northeast.

The army is focused on capturing Handarat camp, an area beside Aleppo Central prison, which, if successful, would put the government in a position to besiege an estimated 300,000 civilians remaining in the city and cut off the rebels' main supply route in the countryside.

The advance follows months of slow gains by government forces as President Bashar al-Assad prepares to be sworn in for a new seven-year term this week.

Since the conflict in Aleppo began in mid-2012, the government has controlled the south and west but has been unable to push rebel fighters out of the city after they entered from the north.

Political prize

Yezid Sayigh, senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, said the recapture of Aleppo would constitute a shift in the conflict.

"The retaking of Aleppo would represent a big blow in terms of morale and political significance," he told DW. "For the regime to reassert effective control of the city is a big signal of its ability to turn the tide and fight its way back. It doesn't represent a major military prize, but a political one."

Sayigh said it was likely government forces would encircle the city. "The regime would prefer to encircle because it's a relatively easier task. It won't necessarily go in but it will besiege, starve and bomb. But taking neighborhoods and an estimated 300,000 people won't be easy."

Siege preparation

Doctors on the ground told DW they were preparing for the worst. "The situation is very horrible," one doctor, who didn't want to be named for security reasons, said. "There is enough medicine for now but we are working to store more to have enough for the longest time possible. It is the same situation for food. We must try to make something for our country."

Another doctor added that there were no more than 20 doctors on the ground - a far cry from the 6,000 in the city before the war.

He expressed concern about increasing barrel bombs on the city, which had also recently targeted a few of the remaining functional hospitals.

"We have enough medical supplies for one month," said Muhammed, a medical supplier in Aleppo. "But we really need external fixation and anesthesia."

Revolution over?

Despite the situation in Aleppo deteriorating rapidly, Oubai Shahbandar, a spokesperson for the Syrian National Coalition, said the opposition would fight the battle until the end.

"The Assad regime is dependent upon Iranian military forces and Hezbollah militias in their attempt to encircle Aleppo," he said.

"Syrian revolutionary forces are dug in and are fiercely fighting back in order to protect the inhabitants of Aleppo city and the surrounding countryside. Assad's tanks cannot destroy a revolution."

Anas Al-Haj from the Revolutionary Military Council of Aleppo stressed that the opposition was not only facing government forces but also those of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS), which recently pushed into the Aleppo countryside.

"The regime doesn't want to attack the city, it just wants to create a siege. We have the regime on one side and ISIS on the other."

Al-Haj said that rebel groups were increasingly coordinated, boosted by a 600-strong elite force to combat the offensive.

"The problem is that we can't see any soldiers because the whole battle is overhead - just barrels and more barrels," he added.

"Innocent people are trying to leave the city but the poor people can't leave Aleppo city because they have no money to get to Turkey or to the countryside. But even if the regime makes a siege, he cannot do what he [Assad - the ed.] thinks because we have the ability to break the siege and we will do our best."

But political analyst Sayigh was more skeptical. "I think the rebels are unable to win. This is not to say that people aren't resisting and fighting back. But as a political set of structures that aims to achieve battlefield results on the ground, I think they peaked already a while back and I don't think they're able to deliver results."
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Beirut (AFP) - Eastern Damascus was on Tuesday hit by its fiercest fighting in months between rebels and pro-regime forces, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The air force pounded the rebel-held eastern neighbourhood of Jobar, as opposition fighters launched mortars into army-held parts of Damascus, wounding 18 people.

An AFP correspondent nearby said "very loud explosions could be heard starting late last night up until Tuesday afternoon."

Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said: "Starting dawn Tuesday, Jobar saw the fiercest fighting in months, coupled with intense aerial bombardment."

"Jobar is under army control, and the fighting is taking place on the neighbourhood's edges," he told AFP.

The air force carried out at least nine strikes on the neighbourhood, he said, adding rebels were fighting troops backed by pro-regime paramilitary forces.

Jobar, on the eastern edge of Damascus, is important because it is located at the entrance to the besieged, rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area on the outskirts of the capital.

It also neighbours Abbasiyeen, one Damascus' main squares where the army "deployed tanks... and shelled rebel areas of Jobar," Abdel Rahman told AFP.

Fighting in the area has intensified following a relative lull for months, after rebels launched an offensive and took an army checkpoint in Jobar.

The army has since reclaimed the checkpoint.

Meanwhile, rebel fighters fired mortar rounds at regime-controlled areas of Damascus, wounding 18 people, state news agency SANA reported.

Mortar shells also hit the mixed Christian-Druze suburb of Jaramana, which is under army control, killing two civilians, said the Observatory.

The air force pounded the nearby rebel-held areas of Irbin and Hammuriyeh, killing a man and a child.

It meanwhile launched three air strikes on Mleiha, a rebel bastion in Eastern Ghouta that the army has been fighting to reclaim for months because of its strategic position near the Damascus airport road.

Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, including Lebanon's Hezbollah, have waged a campaign for more than a year to crush rebel positions near Damascus.

Eastern Ghouta, a rebel rear base that the army has besieged for more than a year, was the scene of a massive chemical attack in August that killed hundreds.

In recent weeks, rebels in southern Damascus have also been fighting the jihadist Islamic State, after expelling it from four towns in Eastern Ghouta, according to the Observatory.

The Syrian conflict began as a peaceful movement for democratic change, but transformed into a civil war when Assad's regime unleashed a brutal crackdown on dissent.

The violence has killed more than 170,000 people and forced nearly half the population to flee their homes.
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President Barack Obama has been roundly criticized in recent years for a supposed lack of support for so-called moderate rebels fighting the Syrian government. What does he think of such critiques? "Horseshit," he recently told lawmakers.

The Daily Beast reported that Obama, in a White House meeting on July 31 over foreign policy with about a dozen House and Senate leaders, was pressed over his administration’s handling of requests for arms and other support made by opposition groups in Syria. During the meeting, Sen. Bob Corker criticized this policy and others related to the administration’s posture in Ukraine and Iraq, according to lawmakers in the meeting.

A “visibly agitated” Obama, according to the report, defended his administration’s foreign policy decisions, saying that any notion of a better outcome had the US offered increased support to rebels in the Syrian civil war against Bashar Assad’s forces was “horseshit.”

The White House confirmed the exchange between Corker and Obama, but would not confirm the president’s use of choice language.

Obama recently told the New York Times, in less heated terms, that arming anti-government rebels earlier in the conflict would have made a major difference has “always been a fantasy.”

“This idea that we could provide some light arms or even more sophisticated arms to what was essentially an opposition made up of former doctors, farmers, pharmacists and so forth, and that they were going to be able to battle not only a well-armed state but also a well-armed state backed by Russia, backed by Iran, a battle-hardened Hezbollah, that was never in the cards,” Obama said.

Criticism over the Obama administration’s policies in Syria have bubbled to the surface once again of late, as the Islamic State, a jihadist group formerly allied with Al-Qaeda that developed during the Syrian conflict, has now made major territorial gains in northern and western Iraq.

Islamic State’s latest advances - met with American airstrikes over the weekend - spurred the Obama administration’s previous secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, to slam her former boss’ supposed “failure” to contain the spread of Islamic extremists in the region.

"The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad —- there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle -— the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled," Clinton said in an interview with the Atlantic.
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FLASHBACK: Hillary Clinton Compared Arming Syrian Rebels To Supporting Al-Qaida in 2012

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Hillary Clinton now says she was a strong advocate of arming the Syrian rebels when she was secretary of state, but in a February 2012 interview, she passionately pushed back against the viability of such an opposition — even raising the specter that such a policy might be akin to supporting al-Qaida.

“What are we going to arm them with and against what?” she said, when pressed in a CBS interview about why the Obama administration wasn’t giving the Syrian rebels weapons to help them in their fight against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. “You are not going to bring tanks over the borders of Turkey, Lebanaon and Jordan — that’s not going to happen. So maybe at the best you can smuggle in, you know, automatic weapons.”

“And to whom are you delivering them?” she continued. “We know that al-Qaida [leader Ayman al] Zawahiri is supporting the opposition in Syria. Are we supporting al-Qaida in Syria? Hamas is now supporting the opposition. Are we supporting Hamas in Syria?”

Despite the great pleas that we hear from those people who are being ruthlessly assaulted by Assad, if you are a military planner or if you are a secretary of state and you are trying to figure out do you have the elements of an opposition that is actually viable, we don’t see that,” she concluded.

In her memoir about her time as secretary of state, Clinton claimed that she was a strong advocate for arming the Syrian opposition within the Obama administration, but the president ultimately opposed the policy. In a recent interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, Clinton said the Obama administration’s failure to provide significant military aid to the Syrian opposition has had profound consequences.

“The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad—there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle—the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled,” Clinton said.

While it could be argued that Clinton was merely conveying the administration’s position in the 2012 CBS interview, the vehemence with which she expressed opposition to arming the Syrian rebels makes that case harder to believe.
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Damascus, SANA- A joint shipping company will be established to implement the idea of green corridor to transport Syrian agricultural products to Russia and Belarus.

Secretary-General of the Syrian Exporters Union Mazen Hammour said that the first step starts by buying the ship Roro by the company to be allocated for achieving the aforementioned purpose, stressing that the existence of two streamers facilitates the exchange of products and increases the amount of exports.

A delegation of the union will visit Belarus on September 18th and 19th after visiting Russia on September 14th to complete the agreement of the shipping line between Russia and Syria, and there will be an attempt to reach an agreement with Belarus and Kazakhstan at the same time, Hammour told SANA.

He added that the green corridor project is the best solution in the current circumstances to transport the Syrian exports to Russia and Belarus and other countries in the region, underlying the importance of providing all the required substitutes to land, air, and sea transportation of exports and imports.

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Looks like things are slowly getting better...good thing Assad hung in there.
 
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American professor claims that ISIS is an covert intelligence operation led by Washington.

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Kurdish security chief: Turkey must end support for jihadists

QAMISHLI, Syria — The head of the Kurdish security police in northeast Syria, Ciwan Ibrahim, said that his security forces are willing to cooperate with Turkey if it ends its support for radical jihadist groups.

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The Syrian army said on Friday it had taken control of a town northwest of Hama where ZOG had been massing forces.

The army also said it had secured nearby areas close to Hama military airport, driving back an offensive by ZOG terrorists whose advance had threatened several Syrian towns populated mostly by minority Christians and Alawites.

The gains help shore up Syrian control in a key corridor of territory stretching north from Damascus to the coast including the heartlands of the minority Alawites.

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