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More war crimes by the West, notice only NATO and Israeli allied countries use the banned munition? (that would include cluster bombs as well as what facilities are targeted with the banned munitions) How can people support regimes with such barbaric leaders?

One of the best posters I have seen for awhile.

 

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Paris prosecutor charge Notre Dame attacker | World | News | Toronto Sun

 

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A hammer?? Was that a locally made hammer or an imported one?

 

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I hope this doesn't surprise anybody, after all this is the US we are dealing with here.
Pentagon Agrees To Sell $12 Billion In F-15s To Qatar | Zero Hedge
Pentagon Agrees To Sell $12 Billion In F-15s To Qatar

Remember when Trump called on Qatar to stop funding terrorism, claiming credit for and endorsing the decision of Gulf nations to isolate their small neighbor (where the most important US airbase in the middle east is located),even as US Cabinet officials said their blockade is hurting the campaign against ISIS. You should: it took place just 5 days ago.
"We had a decision to make," Trump said, describing conversations with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries. "Do we take the easy road or do we finally take a hard but necessary action? We have to stop the funding of terrorism." Also last week, Trump triumphantly announced on twitter that “during my recent trip to the Middle East I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar - look!”
Well, Qatar funding terrorism apparently is not a problem when it comes to Qatar funding the US military industrial complex, because just two weeks after Trump signed a record, $110 billion weapons deal with Saudi Arabia, moments ago Bloomberg reported that Qatar will also buy up to 36 F-15 jets from the Pentagon for $12 billion .... even as a political crisis in the Gulf leaves the Middle East nation isolated by its neighbors and criticized by President Donald Trump for supporting terrorism, according to three people with knowledge of the accord.

 

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White Phosphorus effects

The ingestion of a small quantity of white phosphorus can cause gastrointestinal complaints such as nausea, abdominal cramps, and vomiting. Individuals with a history of oral ingestion have been noted to pass phosphorus-laden stool ("smoking stool syndrome").

White Phosphorus Exposure: Practice Essentials, Pathophysiology, Epidemiology


US coalition using white phosphorus in Raqqa airstrikes | June 8th 2017


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You guys only cover the wars you create and are winning??
Why Are We Attacking the Syrians Who Are Fighting ISIS? - Antiwar.com Original
Why Are We Attacking the Syrians Who Are Fighting ISIS?

by Ron Paul Posted on June 13, 2017 Just when you thought our Syria policy could not get any worse, last week it did. The US military twice attacked Syrian government forces from a military base it illegally occupies inside Syria. According to the Pentagon, the attacks on Syrian government-backed forces were “defensive” because the Syrian fighters were approaching a US self-declared “de-confliction” zone inside Syria. The Syrian forces were pursuing ISIS in the area, but the US attacked anyway.
The US is training yet another rebel group fighting from that base, located near the border of Iraq at al-Tanf, and it claims that Syrian government forces pose a threat to the US military presence there. But the Pentagon has forgotten one thing: it has no authority to be in Syria in the first place! Neither the US Congress nor the UN Security Council has authorized a US military presence inside Syria.
So what gives the Trump Administration the right to set up military bases on foreign soil without the permission of that government? Why are we violating the sovereignty of Syria and attacking its military as they are fighting ISIS? Why does Washington claim that its primary mission in Syria is to defeat ISIS while taking military actions that benefit ISIS?
The Pentagon issued a statement saying its presence in Syria is necessary because the Syrian government is not strong enough to defeat ISIS on its own. But the “de-escalation zones” agreed upon by the Syrians, Russians, Iranians, and Turks have led to a reduction in fighting and a possible end to the six-year war. Even if true that the Syrian military is weakened, its weakness is due to six years of US-sponsored rebels fighting to overthrow it!


The War In Afghanistan Is A Racket
The United States will again escalate the war in Afghanistan.
Sixteen years ago the U.S, invaded the country and decided to eliminate the ruling Taliban for something that was planed elsewhere by a different group. Since the invasion the U.S. tried to defeat the Taliban. It has lost that fight. As soon as it leaves Afghanistan the Taliban will be back in power. But no one is willing to pull the plug on the nonsensical military approach.
The Taliban are part of Afghanistan and a significant segment of the population supports them. When the U.S. invaded Afghanistan it put the brutal and utterly corrupt warlords back into power. These were exactly the people the Taliban were created to hold down and the reason why they could take power in the first place. While demanding a strict religious life the Taliban successfully took care of local security and eliminated the lawless and corrupt rule of the warlords.
It is no wonder then that a large part of the population wishes to have them back in power.
The U.S. supported government in Kabul is utterly corrupt. The Afghan military and police the U.S. pays is likewise only motivated by money. It is not willing to fight. It takes high casualties during Taliban attacks and therefore avoids contact with them whenever possible. Some 60 % of the country is now more or less back under Taliban control. The government's say is restricted to the bigger cities.
It is obvious that this trend will continued and sooner or later the Taliban will be back in power. The only sensible strategy is to negotiate with them and to find some solution that allows them to rule while they guaranteeing that no harm will emanate from Afghanistan for the rest of the world.
But no one in the U.S. is willing to take responsibility for that. Who would want to be blamed for "neglecting" Afghanistan when another 9/11 happens - as unlikely as that might be? Therefore additional troops need to be send whenever the Taliban seem to gain the advantage over the puppet government forces.
President Trump has punted on the issue and has given full authority to the Defense Department to continue the war in Afghanistan with as many troops as it sees fit. It is now the generals, not Trump, who will be blamed should things in Afghanistan go wrong. But the military has no idea what to do about Afghanistan.
Yesterday the Secretary of Defense Mattis was asked during a Congress hearing what "winning" in Afghanistan would mean:

The idea, [Mattis] said, would be to drive down the violence to a level that could be managed by Afghan government forces with the help of American and allied troops in training their Afghan counterparts, providing intelligence and delivering what Mr. Mattis called “high-end capability,” an apparent allusion to air power and possibly Special Operations forces. The result, he said, would be an “era of frequent skirmishing,” but not a situation in which the Afghan government no longer faced a mortal threat.
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Winning in Afghanistan is an "era of frequent skirmishes" in which the proxy government is continuously endangered? That does, of course, not make any sense. It is a holding strategy that will only work as long as the general framework stays the same. Should the Taliban change their strategy or a new actor come in the "holding" strategy will be finished.


http://www.globalresearch.ca/syrian...e-as-a-shock-defense-secretary-mattis/5594771
Syrian Army Boxing in US Forces in Southern Syria Came as a Shock — Defense Secretary Mattis

The Pentagon was taken aback by how suddenly and quickly it was presented with a fait accompli east of al-Tanf

When last Friday Russian Ministry of Defense announced that Syrian forces had broken through to the Iraqi border and enveloped the US forces in southern Syria this came as a shock to us here at RI.
Not because this was some move nobody could see coming. Anyone who can read a map could see that a Syrian advance to the east of US positions at al-Tanf base would effectively neutralize it. I spelled out as much a week before the Syrian offensive took place:

The obvious play for the Russian-backed Syrians is to neutralize Americans at al-Tanf by giving their base a 55 kilometer-wide berth and punch through to the Iraqi border further east. Such a maneuver would end US dreams of al-Tanf as a staging point for a push into the Euphrates valley and make it into an irrelevant, isolated outpost in the desert.
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No, the shocking part was how quickly the Syrians advanced and with how little warning. Without any previous indication that they intend to do so, the Syrian forces covered 184 kilometers of barren desert in a single day.
It took place so unexpectedly and with such speed that the first we heard about it was when it was all already over — the Syrians were already shaking hands with Iraqis on their joint borders and the Americans had been cut off.

 

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White Phosphorus effects

The ingestion of a small quantity of white phosphorus can cause gastrointestinal complaints such as nausea, abdominal cramps, and vomiting. Individuals with a history of oral ingestion have been noted to pass phosphorus-laden stool ("smoking stool syndrome").

We used Woolly Pete as a coffee substitute.

 

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White Phosphorus effects

The ingestion of a small quantity of white phosphorus can cause gastrointestinal complaints such as nausea, abdominal cramps, and vomiting. Individuals with a history of oral ingestion have been noted to pass phosphorus-laden stool ("smoking stool syndrome").

I didn't see the part where a burning ember will burn it's way completely through them.

 

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https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201706161054697669-daesh-leader-baghdadi/
The leader of the Daesh terrorist organization (outlawed in numerous countries) Ibrahim Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may have been killed in an airstrike conducted by Russian Aerospace Forces on May 28, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday, adding that it was verifying the information.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badri), also known as Abu Dua, was born in 1971 in the city of Samarra in Iraq.
According to media reports, al-Baghdadi was brought up in a religious family. His relatives were famous preachers and specialists of the Arabic language, rhetoric and logic.
Al-Baghdadi received a PhD in Islamic law from the University of Baghdad.
During his time at the university, he became a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood (a terrorist organization, banned in Russia).
After the Western coalition invaded Iraq in 2003, al-Baghdadi joined the Iraqi insurgents. In 2004, he went to jail and spent around a year in the Bucca Camp, a US prison in Iraq. After his release, he participated in activities of various terrorist groups of Islamist militants.
In 2010, al-Baghdadi became the leader of the Daesh of Iraq (ISI), affiliated with al-Qaeda (both terrorist organizations banned in Russia), following the death of its head Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. In 2013, al-Baghdadi announced the merging of the ISI with the al-Nusra Front, another al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist organization, outlawed in Russia, which has been active in Syria since 2012. The Nusra Front denied claims of joining Daesh, which led to the splitting up of al-Qaeda and the forming of Daesh in its current image.


On June 29, 2014, al-Baghdadi was proclaimed the caliph of Daesh, a "caliphate" created on the territories Daesh managed to seize in Syria and Iraq.
In October 2014, the Iraqi Air Forces carried out a strike against a transport convoy of al-Baghdadi, reportedly injuring him. According to media reports, in December 2015, al-Baghdadi left Turkey where he was allegedly receiving treatment, and moved to the Libyan city of Sirte.
In November 2016, the Iraqi military claimed that al-Baghdadi fled from Mosul during the government forces’ operation to re-capture the city, which has been controlled by terrorists since 2014.
In June 2016, Syrian Ambassador to Russia Riyad Haddad said that al-Baghdadi was injured.
In December 2016, Fadhil Barwari, the commander of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces, said that al-Baghdadi was hiding in an underground bunker in Mosul.
Reports of al-Baghdadi’s death repeatedly appear in the world media. His death was reported in June and December 2016, April 2015 and November 2014. In April 2015, he was reported dead after an injury, and in October 2016, reports emerged that al-Baghdadi was poisoned. In January 2017, media reported that al-Baghdadi suffered heavy injuries in an airstrike.


https://sputniknews.com/russia/201706161054690557-putin-baghdadi-elimination/
The Russian Defense Ministry regularly briefs President Vladimir Putin on military matters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday in wake of the unconfirmed killing of Daesh leader by the Russian military.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday its attack and multirole aircraft may have killed Baghdadi on the southern outskirts of Raqqa on May 28. It noted that it was in the process of confirming the information through various channels.
"The president, as commander-in-chief, naturally receives regular reports from our defense department on a regular basis," Peskov told reporters.
"The goal of the operation is the fight against terrorism, helping the legitimate Syrian leadership in the fight against terrorism," Peskov said when asked if Russia's strike on the positions of terrorists could change the US rhetoric that Russia was supposedly more interested in protecting President Bashar Assad rather than destroying Daesh.
"Besides, the president has always said that we are pursuing our own goals as well, because several thousand people from our country are fighting in the ranks of these terrorists," he said.
Russia and the United States lack cooperation in the fight against terrorism, Peskov said.
"Our common position is undermined by the fact that we have a lack of interaction, because if we cooperated and interacted, I mean Russia and the United States, then this fight could be felt more effectively. This, unfortunately, does not take place in connection with a lack of such a desire among our US partners."


https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201706161054699435-russia-baghdadi-airstrike-daesh/
On Friday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that the Russian aerospace forces' strike conducted on May 28 allegedly killed Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi south of Raqqa. The report is yet to be confirmed.

The Daesh leader may have been alongside other leaders of the extremist group and 330 terrorists killed in the airstrike.
The ministry said its Su-34 strike aircraft and Su-35 multirole fighter attacked a so-called Daesh military council south of Raqqa in northern Syria on May 28.
"According to information that is checked through various channels, Daesh leader Ibrahim Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed as a result of the strike, was also present at the meeting," the ministry said in a statement.
"As a result of the Su-35 and Su-34 airstrikes, high-ranking commanders of the terrorist groups who were part of the so-called IS military council, as well as about 30 mid-level field commanders and up to 300 militants of their personal security, have been killed," the statement read.
The Russian Defense Ministry obtained information about the upcoming "military council" in late-May. The meeting was planned to discuss an exit plan from the Daesh stronghold of Raqqa through the "southern corridor."
Later in the day, the US-led coalition said that it could not confirm the death of Baghdadi, but noted it would welcome the news if confirmed.
"There have been several past claims of this kind that have been proven false and we have seen no definitive proof that this report is true either," a coalition spokesperson told Sputnik. "However, the Coalition and the global community would welcome the news of al-Baghdadi's demise."
Al-Baghdadi appeared in the media for the first time in 2014 when he declared the creation of a caliphate in the Middle East. Since then, there have been several reports of his death, none of which were confirmed though. On Sunday, the Syrian state television reported that Baghdadi was presumably killed as a result of US strikes in Raqqa.
'Severe Blow' to Terrorists
The alleged death of al-Baghdadi could help facilitate the liberation of Raqqa, the de facto capital of Daesh, according to Russian Senator Viktor Ozerov, chairman of the Council of the Federation Committee on Defense and Security.
"Ultimately, this will help solve the task of freeing Raqqa," Ozerov told Sputnik.

 

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Last but certainly not least.

https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/ar...campaign-to-gain-a-foothold-in-southern-syria

Long Read: Israel’s Quiet Campaign to Gain a Foothold in Southern Syria

Despite its official policy of non-intervention, Israel has taken on a very proactive role in Syria, working to establish an Israel-friendly zone in Quneitra, akin to its strategy in southern Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war.
UNEITRA, Syria – Over the past five years, Israel has been quietly working to establish a foothold in southern Syria to prevent Syrian government-backed forces from controlling the area and to bolster its claim over the Golan Heights.
What began as tentative contacts with opposition factions and residents across the fence in 2012 has turned into a full-fledged, multifaceted operation that has military, logistical, political and humanitarian dimensions, according to an investigation by Syria Deeply, which interviewed residents, Syrian intelligence officials and opposition members for this story.
Israel’s “safe zone” now unofficially runs roughly 6 miles (10km) deep and 12 miles (20km) long beyond the demarcation line of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The effort is intended to prevent the Syrian government and its allies, specifically Lebanese Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, from maintaining a foothold along the Israeli fence. Israel used a similar tactic to establish a zone of control in the south of Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war.
In 2016, the Israeli army set up a liaison unit to better coordinate with Syrian residents, which now includes facilitating cross-border travel for residents into Israel, regular deliveries of food, clothing, construction equipment and educational materials, airstrikes on pro-government positions and the establishment of an Israeli-backed opposition faction in rebel-held southern Syria.
It is now a near-daily occurrence to see Israeli-run buses coming in and out of southern Syria, transporting residents from the opposition-controlled province of Quneitra into Israel. Most are coming in for medical treatment, generally given at Ziv Hospital in Safad, Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya or Rambam Health Care in Haifa. Some patients stay a few days, a month or up to a year and a half, during which time they are given the opportunity to learn Hebrew and adapt to their new surroundings.
According to the most recent UNDOF report, there has been “a significant increase in interaction” between the Israeli army and those within opposition-controlled areas along the fence, and “personnel and supplies were observed to have been transferred in both directions.”
A Syrian man who goes by the name of Abu Nidal coordinates with Israeli forces and “facilitates the transportation of residents to the border area, [where they are] then picked up by the Israeli army and taken into Israel,” Abu Ahmad, a member of a local opposition civil administrative council inside Quneitra City, told Syria Deeply.
A Syrian government intelligence source, speaking to Syria Deeply on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation, claimed Abu Nidal’s real name is Ahmad al Safouri and that he is originally from Nafha village in the Golan and now based in Maalqah – an opposition-controlled village meters away from the demarcation line. He added that Abu Nidal “uses two crossings into Israel, one at Maalqah and one in the Mari’e Valley.”
Abu Nidal apparently belongs to no faction, and runs a network of “several, at least 20, representatives that operate and coordinate bringing out Syrians and bringing in material at these crossings,” Abu Ahmad said.
Israeli civil society organizations, such as Amaliah, Israeli Flying Aid Organization and Shevet Achim, also coordinate through the Israeli army’s liaison unit to reach residents and local opposition councils in roughly 35 villages between them, providing education services and trucking in medical aid, food and clothing.
“The Israelis are working closely with civil society people on the ground,” a commander with the Jordan-backed Southern Front, who also has a presence in the area, told Syria Deeply on condition of anonymity. “We know it is happening, but we don’t want to have issues with the local population, so there is nothing we can do to stop it.”
Amaliah’s primary mission is to create a safe zone in southern Syria, eventually expanding its current area of operations – approximately 17 villages – to include Quneitra, southern Daraa and part of Sweida, and start initiatives such as training local law enforcement and building schools and hospitals.
The organization’s founder, Moti Kahana, is also spearheading Israel’s decision to adopt 100 Syrian children – a proposal interior minister Aryeh Deri approved in January – providing them with foster homes, residency and eventually citizenship in Israel.
More recently, Israel has stepped up its military involvement in southern Syria. Over the past year, it has funded and supported its own Free Syrian Army faction, known as the Golan Knights (Liwa Forsan al Joulan), led by local Syrian fighters Abu Suhaib al Joulani, opposition sources in the area told Syria Deeply. The group operates in Jabata Khashab, a Quneitra town in the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) zone.
A member of the Golan Knights confirmed to Syria Deeply that the group is present in Jabata Khashab and led by Abu Suhaib, but refused to answer additional questions on the factions.
Syrian government security officials identified Abu Suhaib as Ahmad al Khatib, originally from Masharah in Quneitra, and said the group consists of around 1,000 fighters. However, a high-level Southern Front source put the number at between 300 and 400 local fighters. According to the source, the faction “receives around $50,000 a month from Israel [and] they’re in possession of only light weaponry, so they act predominantly as border guards and patrol the area they’re in.

 

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SYRIA: British and American Presence Directly Escalating Conflict Near Al-Tanf
In southeastern Syria, the region around al-Tanf has quickly become a focal point for the ongoing conflict in the region. Near to both the Iraqi and Jordanian borders, al-Tanf is currently the location of a contingent of US-led coalition forces, supposedly there for the purpose of providing training to ‘anti-ISIS’ militias, but also anti-Assad militias too – the fabled ‘moderate rebels’. Not surprisingly, the US-led coalition has unilaterally imposed a self-styled ‘deconfliction zone‘ around their camp in al-Tanf and claim to be defending their position from ‘pro-Syrian forces’, otherwise known as the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and allied militias. It has been reported by mainstream media outlets that coalition members represented at al-Tanf include not only the United States but also the British SAS, and also possibly Norway too.
Although coalition forces are also present in other parts of Syria, including the area around Raqqa, an ISIS stronghold, the last few weeks have seen coalition forces striking Syrian military targets on at least three occasions near the coalition training camp close to al-Tanf – including incidents on May 18th, June 6th and June 8th. It is now being reported that the US is supplying “truck-mounted long range missiles” to its forces near al-Tanf, in a move that risks immediate escalation in the already-tense situation, and despite diplomatic efforts by Russia to calm the situation. All this comes as the US and its Kurdish proxy militia, the SDF, mount their attack on the ISIS stronghold Raqqa in Northeast Syria. The US has also seized the opportunity to invade more Syrian territory after an alleged sarin gas attack on April 4th that prompted President Trump to launch a missile strike on a Syrian airbase in retaliation.

BREAKING: United States confirms Russia killed Isis Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – InvestmentWatch
Pentagon Confirms, indirectly, hastily claiming they killed Isis Leader in Afghanistan.
Shocking news:

A U.S. confirmation on Friday that the Islamic State militant group’s media head in Afghanistan had been killed coincided with unverified Russian reports that ISIS’s global leader is also dead.
U.S. forces in Afghanistan issued a press statement saying it verified that Jawad Khan, described as the senior director of media production for ISIS’s Afghanistan affiliate, was killed June 3 by a U.S.-led coalition airstrike in Achin, Nangarhar Province. The U.S. military has become increasingly involved in battling the rise of what’s known as ISIS-Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), which is responsible for all six U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan this year. While previously overshadowed by rival hard-line Sunni Muslim group the Taliban, ISIS-K appears to be strengthening its foothold in the country, and the U.S. has attempted to curb its influence by taking out key leaders.
“His death will disrupt the ISIS-K network, degrade their recruitment process and hinder their attempts to conduct international operations,” General John Nicholson, commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, said in a statement. “There is no safe haven for ISIS-K in Afghanistan. With our Afghan partners, we will continue to aggressively target ISIS-K and defeat them.”

TASS: Military & Defense - US may attack Syrian troops with multiple rocket launchers
MOSCOW, June 15. /TASS/. The United States may attack Syrian government troops with the HIMARS multiple rocket launchers moved to the al-Tanf military base in Syria from Jordan, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

 

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30 ISIS Commanders Killed After Russian Air Force Invites Itself to 'Military Council' Near Raqqa
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been "almost dead" for a very long time. Is he finally dead now?
Maybe. The Russian Ministry of Defense says that an airstrike conducted at the end of May near Raqqa, Syria, wiped out a "military council of ISIS", which included 30 senior field commanders and up to 300 militants.
That in itself seems newsworthy to us.
What about al-Baghdadi? Was he present at this terrorist powwow?

 

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The sound this headlines is the sound of NATO boots starting to abandon Syria enmasse. The only question is which Arab country will become the new home for the captured USIS fighters. Qatar is possible as it is small and can easily contained or it could be Saudi as even ISIS is kinder to women and kids that the current gov.

https://sputniknews.com/world/201706201054803283-australia-airstrikes-coalition-nato-daesh/
Australia's suspension of its anti-Daesh air campaign over Syria may prompt other non-NATO members to follow suit, Russian military expert Leonid Ivashov told Sputnik.



In an interview with Sputnik, Russian military expert Leonid Ivashov did not rule out that more non-NATO member states may suspend their anti-Daesh air campaigns following Australia's relevant decision. Earlier on Tuesday, media reports said that Australia had suspended its air campaign against Daesh (ISIL/ISIS/Islamic State) in Syria after a US aircraft shot down a Syrian military jet near the city of Tabqa.
In another development, the US-led coalition against the Islamic State has narrowed its latest airstrikes to the Daesh-held city of Raqqa after Russia declared that it would target all airborne objects west of the Euphrates, according to the coalition's tally, released earlier this day.
"Near Raqqah, eight strikes engaged seven Daesh tactical units and destroyed 15 fighting positions and a vehicle," the Combined Joint Task Force of Operation Inherent Resolve said in a press release documenting air operations conducted on Monday.

 

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Russia's Not Joking Around: US Reshuffles Forces After Pentagon Expresses Concern for 'Aircrew Safety' in Syria

This time around, there was no warning about the shoot-down, and Moscow has obviously lost its patience. And the Pentagon clearly understands what's at stake. Now without guaranteed safe passage over much of Syria's airspace, the US has been forced to "re-position" its forces:

"We have taken prudent measures to re-position aircraft over Syria so as to continue targeting ISIS forces while ensuring the safety of our aircrew given known threats in the battlespace," Pentagon spokesman Major Adrian Rankine-Galloway said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer said "we are going to do what we can to protect our interests," adding that the United States would keep an open line of communication with the Russians.
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Are the Russians eager to shoot down a US warplane? Definitely not, for a multitude of very good reasons.
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But the Pentagon understands the severity of the situation—and has responded accordingly.

 

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Really?? Perhaps somebody dropped a container of some sort of banned nerve agent. I wonder how far Murphy will have to take it before the US sees their current foreign policy for what it is. Fulfilling somebodies ambitions for the area.

https://sputniknews.com/military/201706211054821104-dozens-exposed-to-deadly-disease/
The US Air Force Surgeon General announced on Monday that as as many as 135 people may have been infected with bloodborne diseases, including the HIV virus, from unclean medical tools at an air base clinic in Qatar.

Some 135 people may have been infected with HIV, Hepatitis A, and Hepatitis B over the course of the past ten years, according to the Air Force medical chief, after clinic implements were improperly sterilized.


Endoscopes, used in gastrointestinal surgery and other procedures, wielded by Air Force Medical Service staff at the US Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, were, according to the Air Force Times, "cleaned in a manner inconsistent with sterilization guidelines," according to the Air Force medical chief.
According to reports, some 135 patients at the air base medical facility underwent procedures requiring the use of the improperly cleaned medical devices between April 2008 and April 2016.

 

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http://totalconservative.com/clash-coming-russia-issues-dire-threat-u-s-fighters-syria/
Many American isolationists voted for Donald Trump because they saw in him a new path for the Republican Party and Washington D.C. as a whole. A path that would take us away from endless overseas conflicts that ate up American money and put our troops in harm’s way for unclear benefits to the country. Hillary Clinton, they figured, would just deliver more of the same Bush-era doctrine of intervention and nation-building. And a country sick to death of war in the Middle East was looking for someone willing to tell the Pentagon: Enough is enough.
Trump appeared to be that man, and his hesitant overtures to Russia were part and parcel with his views on foreign policy. He didn’t come into the White House with Obama’s naïve belief that we could talk Islamist dictators out of being Islamist dictators, but he wasn’t shutting the door on the possibility of…well, possibility. His praise of Vladimir Putin struck some as inappropriate and even un-American, but the point was this: Why close diplomatic doors when the alternative could be war with a nuclear-armed Russia?
But even the best negotiators can find themselves in situations that are tough to wrangle free of, and we might be in just such a situation in Syria.
After the U.S. shot down a Syrian fighter on Sunday, claiming that it had dropped bombs in an area controlled by our allied groups on the ground, the Russian government responded with a round of harsh threats the next day. Russia demanded that the U.S. and its coalition allies provide a full accounting of exactly what happened with the Syrian bomber. It also suspended communications with the U.S., including a special hotline that had been kept open so that U.S. and Russian forces could avoid midair confrontations and collisions. And in a statement, the Russian Defense Ministry said that any U.S.-led coalition forces found flying west of the Euphrates would be considered targets for destruction.

Russia Announces No-Fly Zone in Syria
By Eric Zuesse – Late on Monday the 19th, was reported by Russia’s Sputnik: “In areas where Russian aviation is conducting combat missions in the Syrian skies, any flying objects, including jets and unmanned aerial vehicles of the international coalition discovered west of the Euphrates River, will be followed by Russian air and ground defenses as air targets” — meaning ordered out, or else immediately shot down.

In international law, and as recognized by the U.N., Syria has been invaded by the United States, was never invited into the country but is instead there as an invader. Russia was invited in; Iran was invited in; but the U.S. are only invaders. And, now, Russia and Syria will start treating the U.S. as such.

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When U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton repeatedly called for the U.S. government to establish a no-fly zone in Syria, she was proposing that the U.S. invasion of Syria become recognized officially by the U.S. government, and this would have meant immediate war by the U.S. against Syria, Russia, and Iran, in the battlefields of Syria. President Barack Obama had decided not to go that far — to war against Russia — but Hillary Clinton insisted on it. And now, Russia has actually done it — but (unlike if the U.S. had done it) legally, in defense of the sovereign government of Syria, not as an invader. (Furthermore, most Syrians support that government, and 82% of Syrians blame the U.S. for the invasion of Al Qaeda and other jihadist forces to overthrow it — most of which are foreigners — into Syrian territory.)

 

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http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/231827-qatar-emir-congratulates-saudi-crown-prince
Qatar's emir congratulated Saudi Arabia's newly-appointed Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Wednesday and called for "brotherly relations" between the two countries, currently locked in a bitter diplomatic dispute.
State media in the gas-rich Gulf state said Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani had sent a cable of congratulations to the Saudi leadership.
The message was sent to King Salman "on the occasion of the selection of his royal highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud as Crown Prince", said the Qatar News Agency.
The statement also expressed hopes "brotherly relations between the two brotherly countries".
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Talk about rubbing how high the corruption goes and how bad the script really is. This will get a heavy edit 100 tears from now so it fits the designed future like a glove. All in all it seems like a lot of work for very little as far as tangible gains. This is still a material world and the flow of goods from one point to another is called 'the good times'. Sometimes moving things even has a purpose, mostly not as it serves only to keep the middleman in the money.

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A repeat of a threat to Lebanon by Israel that is really for a Russian equipped Syria. Radar that sees all the way to the Red Sea without needing the high ground that is the Golan Heights. Missiles launched from one country that land in another is an act of war that allows the launch facility to be taken out of action by force by the country that was attacked, legally and without retaliation, by any party. The part below is interesting as it is actual the platform for a battle-plan that is a repeat of a month long bombing campaign. The number and targets are on record so they are saying they could hit all the same targets in a much shorter period of time. A better delivery system would fix that as the skies weren't dark with aircraft during those past campaigns. Add it all up and it is short of saying it could be carried at that level for as long as the last campaign lasted.
Without getting into a lot of detail a prophecy exists that says certain things must happen. The ones in control of the financial system have the money to carry out almost any plan they think up. It takes a few years at least so it should be easy to follow. I'm going with there is an ending that hasn't happened yet and it goes as far back as 1880's and part a and part b are 70 years in length.

The planners would like the history books to show their version of events and alternative versions would be eliminated. I actually like most of it and I would really like it if not for the 'covet' aspect that you cannot end up with something lawful when it is funded by money gained by unlawful means. (or something like that)

UN 181 was sign in Nov/47 and it's implementation was immediate in theory. In practice the history books are going to show the Gentiles ran it for the first 70 years (Arabs) and it was the shambles but move it to Jerusalem like it should be when Jerusalem is designated as an international city in the UN 181 plan itself. The implementation that should have taken place in 1947 will now take place and rather than chaos it will be roses in the streets, there and around the globe. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that part of the plan. Iran tried to adopt those UN Human Rights documents but were prevented from doing so yet at the move to Jerusalem a lot of conflicts between neighbors are resolves as you can't have a booming economy and perpetual war or perpetual preparing for war.

Oh yeah, the stab in the back is when Israel says the US made them take all the bombs or they would not get any so that forced them to have to get rid of the old stock and Gaza and Lebanon were the results. They could make that happen today but they are big on holy days so that is flaw #1. The Bible's version is more dramatic and it has a strict timeline and the resurrection scene at the end kind of can't be faked so you know if God is involved or not.

I'm more interested in what a thriving North America would look like. Step 1 would be the manufacturing strength in the north could supply the south with all the goods they need to elevate them to upper middle class living conditions while setting record unemployment numbers.
There is nothing wrong with that as long as we are giving them heirloom pieces rather than peddling them our junk, at inflated prices to boot. Today that is broadband to the remotest village and a smart phone in every room. Again, nothing wrong with that at all as long as the ones that benefit the most are the ones who currently have the least.

 

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The First Shots of America's New War for Eastern Syria Have Already Been Fired
The First Shots of America's New War for Eastern Syria Have Already Been Fired

If Trump admin officials have their way, the next US war will be to block the Syrian army from retaking Syria's Euphrates valley
When the US shot down the Syrian Su-22 jet Sunday this may have been intended as a warning to Syria that the US intends to take eastern Syria for itself -- and that a Syrian push into eastern Syria will be violently opposed.
As late as April the Americans still assumed eastern Syria -- the city of Raqqa and the entire Euphrates valley down to Iraq -- was theirs for the taking. The Syrian army they assumed was too far away, too weak, and too busy, to try to liberate these areas from ISIS itself. A high-ranking US officer confidently told CNN:

"Right now, we are not planning, or coordinating, with them [the Russians and regime]. They are not even located near Raqqa. We think they have their hands full doing their tasks in their areas and they are probably happy to let the SDF and coalition forces tackle Raqqa."
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Instead, the Russian-brokered cease fire deal with rebels in the west, allowed Syrians to move their best units eastwards, and start clawing away territory from ISIS. With Russian help the Syrian army took back 5,000 square kilometers to the east of Palmyra, and was making mayor gains in the northern Aleppo province as well.


Russia, Syria Must Resist Urge to Retaliate Against US Attacks ? At Least for Now
Russia, Syria Must Resist Urge to Retaliate Against US Attacks — At Least for Now

Escalation would be counter-productive, but the US could interpret too much appeasement the wrong way





Robert Parry made an incredibly astute and important point in his latest over at Consortium News. Commenting on the apparent US thirst for a broader war in Syria against its Russian-backed government, Parry observed:

Ironically, the best hope for averting a dangerous escalation into a global conflict is to rely on Assad, Putin, Iran and Hezbollah to show restraint in the face of illegal military attacks by the United States and its Mideast allies inside Syria.
In other words, after the U.S. military has bombed Syrian government forces on their own territory and shot down a Syrian warplane on Sunday – and after Israel has launched its own strikes inside Syria and after Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies have financed and armed jihadists to overthrow Assad – it is now up to the Syrian government and its allies to turn the other cheek.
Of course, there is also a danger that comes from such self-control, in that it may encourage the aggressors to test the limits even further, seeing restraint as an acceptance of their impunity and a reason to ignore whatever warnings are issued and red lines drawn.


ISIS Command Posts Become Intimately Acquainted With Russian Cruise Missiles
ISIS Command Posts Become Intimately Acquainted With Russian Cruise Missiles

More Russian meddling in Syria
Good morning! Today is June 23, 2017, and apparently it's going to rain for the rest of summer in Moscow.
We know you have been anxiously awaiting the latest Russian meddling-related headlines, so let's get to it:
This morning's top story: Two Russian warships and a submarine launched a total of six Kalibr cruise missiles at ISIS targets in Syria:

The missiles were launched from Russian Navy frigates, the Admiral Essen and the Admiral Grigorovich, as well as a submarine, the Krasnodar, from the eastern Mediterranean, the Defense Ministry said in a Friday statement. The submarine fired its missiles while submerged.
The strikes targeted Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) command and control centers, as well as ammunition depots in the Syrian province of Hama.
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CNN: 'NATO Jet Approaches Aircraft of Russian Ambassador'
Experts agree: CNN is the proud owner of the world's most poorly edited news website.
Every day, thousands of geriatrics using dial-up and Netscape Navigator wait 10-15 minutes to load up their favorite website, CNN, only to be immediately bombarded with the sloppiest journalism money can buy.
And unfortunately, today is just like every other day.
CNN has once again outmaneuvered its media competitors with an explosive and extremely inaccurate report about an incident that happened nearly 24 hours ago:





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Is Syria a banned word on g00gle yet??

I'm pretty sure Putin will be nice without jumping on the bait.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201706241054935024-qatar-visa-rules-simplification/
The deputy head of the Russian Federal Agency for Tourism Rostourism said Friday said that by easing visa rules for Russian nationals Qatar is rather a foreign policy-oriented message, than the signal aimed at large number of tourists.

ZAVIDOVO (Tver Region)(Sputnik) — The tourist flow from Russia to Qatar is insignificant, and, therefore, simplifying visa issuing procedures is rather a political move by Doha, the deputy head of the Russian Federal Agency for Tourism Rostourism said Friday.
"Turism has always been and will be a soft power for solving particular issues. Qatar is not having good relations with its neighbor countries now, that is why, Qatar will pay special attention to the facilitation for the outside world from the standpoint of big politics. Probably, this [visa facilitation] also has some sort of foreign policy-oriented message, rather than the signal aimed at large number of tourists," Nikolay Korolev told reporters.

 

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Let's assume, just for the hell of it, that it was a planned act of support rather than some chopper experienced the guns going off all on their own.
Notice how Israel fired from the occupied territory of the Golan Height rather than risk having the chopper enter Syrian air-space. Think for a moment on why that would be and that will tell you who is actually in charge and this is Israel trying to save face nor that the world knows it's jet will be shot at they will be hit, . . . period.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201706241054948125-israel-syria-army-golans/
A source on the ground told RIA Novosti that the Syrian government forces have been repelling a massive Nusra-Front terrorists' attack in the Golan Heights when they were struck by the Israeli Air Force in the area.

"The [Syrian] army repelled a massive al-Nusra Front attack on the city of Baath in the Quneitra province [bordering the Golan Heights]. The army took up the fight with terrorists. The attackers have suffered losses. [Syrian] aviation and artillery helped repel the attacks," the source told RIA Novosti.
According to the source, a Israeli Air Force helicopter launched a strike on the Syrian army in Baath at the moment of the al-Nusra Front offensive.
Earlier on Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that the Israeli Air Force attacked the Syrian government forces' tanks and artillery positions after 10 projectiles fell on the Israeli-controlled part of the Golan Heights.
According to Al Mayadeen channel citing a source, at least two Syrian soldiers were killed in the airstrike.
The majority of such incidents are described by the Israeli military as accidental overspills during clashes between the Syrian government forces and opposition groups.
The Golan Heights, internationally recognized as Syrian territory, was seized by Israel during the Six-Day War in 1967. In 1981, the Israeli parliament voted to annex two-thirds of the region. The United Nations has repeatedly stated that Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights is illegal, calling for it to be returned to Syria.


https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201706241054947094-coalition-syria-russia-warning/
The US-led coalition again expanded the geography of its airstrikes in Syria following Russia's warning earlier this week.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On June 19, the Russian Defense Ministry said that any aircraft and drone in the area of Russian Aerospace Forces’s operations on Syria would be tracked by the air defense systems as aerial targets. Moreover, Russia halted all interactions with the US within the framework on the memorandum of incident prevention in Syrian skies. The move came following the US-led coalition's downing of a Syrian army's jet near Raqqa.
The US-led coalition carried out 27 strikes against Daesh in Syria on June 23, including 21 near the terror group’s de facto capital of Raqqa, Operation Inherent Resolve said in a press release on Saturday.
"Near Raqqah [Raqqa], 21 strikes engaged 15 ISIS [Daesh] tactical units; destroyed 10 fighting positions, six vehicles, a VBIED [vehicle borne improvised explosive device], an ISIS staging area, a tactical vehicle, a mortar tube, and a mortar system; damaged an ISIS supply route; and suppressed an ISIS tactical unit," the statement read.
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America really has no shame. Splash 1 FA/18 or something similar and America might as well start a garage sale as their time of being important on the world stage will be over, . . for good. Nobody wants the protection of somebody who can be #1 in the skies. Before they needed a no-fly zone, now they are in real danger of losing their best aircraft.



The Tomahawk is already shown to be a big-ass failure with only 50% of 60 making it to the intended destination. WTF did the Generals tell trump that he would insist on a show of force, and then lose it big time on an undefended air-base.
In reality that was as damaging as the Boeing doing a nose-dive in Russia and leaving wreckage behind unlike Flight 93 on 9/11. Most North Americans were asleep for that revelation and are still just as clueless. (right to the bitter end)