Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts

Thursday, 31 December 2015

Military to Military US Intelligence Sharing in the Syrian War

By Seymour M. Hersh

December 21, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "LRB" - Barack Obama’s repeated insistence that Bashar al-Assad must leave office – and that there are ‘moderate’ rebel groups in Syria capable of defeating him – has in recent years provoked quiet dissent, and even overt opposition, among some of the most senior officers on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. Their criticism has focused on what they see as the administration’s fixation on Assad’s primary ally, Vladimir Putin. In their view, Obama is captive to Cold War thinking about Russia and China, and hasn’t adjusted his stance on Syria to the fact both countries share Washington’s anxiety about the spread of terrorism in and beyond Syria; like Washington, they believe that Islamic State must be stopped.

Thursday, 10 December 2015

The ultimate explanation of the Syrian conflict... NOT!

President Assad (who is bad) is a nasty guy who got so nasty his people rebelled and the rebels (who are good) started winning.

But then some of the rebels turned a bit nasty and are now called Islamic State (who are definitely bad) and some continued to support democracy (who are still good).

Erdogan's leaked phone calls with son Bilal to dispose off money - Transcript

Here is the full transcript, obtained from Turkish outlet Today's Zaman, of the leaked phone call between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tyyip Erdogan and his son Bilal where the Turkish leader allegedly orders his son to dispose of vast amounts of money.

The leaking of the call implicated the Turkish PM in a corruption scandal that has prompted a global outcry.
Erdogan's administration has reacted to the leak, among other leaks, by bannning Twitter and Youtube.

Tuesday, 24 November 2015

Supporting terrorists, Turkey shoots down Russian plane

by crescent-online

November, 2015

Turkey's shooting down of a Russian plane over Syria has dangerously escalated tensions in an already volatile region. Fearing its consequences, Turkey has also requested a meeting of Nato ambassadors. This exposes Nato and its allies' support for the terrorists in Syria. No amount of rhetoric can camouflage this fact.

Beirut, Crescent-online
Tuesday November 24, 2015, 10:07 EST

Monday, 23 November 2015

Bashar Al-Assad Interview: “Al Qaeda was Created by the Americans With the Help of Saudi Wahhabi Money”. Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar Support ISIS

Damascus, SANA-President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to Italian TV channel RAI UNOBelow you will find the full transcript of this interview:
Question 1: Mr. President, thanks for the opportunity of talking to you. Let’s start from Paris. How did you react to the news coming from Paris?
President Assad: We can start by saying it’s a horrible crime, and at the same time it’s a sad event when you hear about innocents being killed without any reason and for nothing, and we understand in Syria the meaning of losing a dear member of the family or a dear friend, or anyone you know, in such a horrible crime. We’ve been suffering from that for the past five years. We feel for the French as we feel for the Lebanese a few days before that, and for the Russians regarding the airplane that’s been shot down over Sinai, and for the Yemenis maybe, but does the world, especially the West, feel for those people, or only for the French? Do they feel for the Syrians that have been suffering for five years from the same kind of terrorism? We cannot politicize feeling, feeling is not about the nationality, it’s about the human in general.

World govts secretly trade with Islamic State - terror financing expert

Have people seen the Sophie Shevardnardze interview with Christine Duhaime?

https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/270322-islamic-state-terror-financing/
Duhaime tends to classify ISIS as mostly a criminal enterprise that extends its assets to grabbing territory from which it then extracts product and sells this, and also use of kindnapping for ransom as an important source of income, as well as human trafficking.   Makes it sound like the Italian mafia with a more public profile.  I found that approach an interesting contrast to the way I had been conceptualising ISIS as an ideologically motivated political entity that supported itself with crime. This way it would be more a criminal enterprise that markets itself as a religious state because that works for it. One can then see how it could be used for money making and money laundering by god knows what private individuals and other governments. It also obviously soaks up unemployed or dissatisfied psychopaths, then gets them to explode themselves before they become dissatisfied with the employment conditions. 
I was interested to hear that the ISIS members who self-destructed in Paris whilst the police were trying to extract them were living in circumstances surrounded by drug paraphernalia.  From the perspective of a some time drug counselor, I have felt from the beginning that such widespread gruesome violence (as opposed to that enjoyed by rare psychopaths) carries the hallmarks of methamphetamine use - ICE notably.  You can quickly foster delusions (righteous wars; women as objects of abuse; paradise after suicide) and make addicts utterly careless with ICE.  That would explain how people could be sucked in by ridiculous promises of resort-style living and also how they might blow themselves up fearlessly, on a whim or under pressure, and how they would do anything to continue drug use, or prefer to self-destruct with ICE on board as opposed to being executed without any.

Thursday, 19 November 2015

Turkish Intel Chief Supports ISIS, condemns Russian intervention as illegal

Putin's intervention in Syria is against Islam and international law, ISIS is a reality and we are optimistic about the future (Oct 18, 2015)


Ankara--- Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, known by the MİT acronym, has drawn a lot of attention and criticism for his controversial comments about ISIS.
Mr. Hakan Fidan, Turkish President's staunchest ally, condemned Russian military intervention in Syria, accusing Moscow of trying to 'smother' Syria's Islamist revolution and serious breach of United Nations law.

Wednesday, 18 November 2015

Paris Attack: Analysing the political and strategic reasons for the 13/11 Paris Terror False Flag

Target Refugees and Heightened Direct NATO-Turkish-Saudi-GCC intervention in Syria and Iraq.

Around 1.50 pm (IST), a massive coordinated terror attack broke out across 7 different targets across Paris. Some of us have been up all night monitoring the media reports, sharing facts from across various media sources, as the information emerged, as well as the political comments that interspersed the reportage, and thus the underlying message

More than a 149 people are reported to have died into the Concert hall, where the people were taken as hostages and then murdered in cold-blood.

This has been followed by suicide terror attacks and the horrific bombings of the Russian Plane, and attacks in Beirut, Baghdad in the last 24 hours. It just points to the fact that the ISIS and other terror organizations are losing the war to the Syrian and Iraqi Armies, the Kurdish forces, Hezbollah, backed by Russia and Iran.

In the last few days, the Syrian Army has liberated the KUWEIRES AIRBASE in Aleppo from the clutches of the ISIS, thus striking a body blow to the terrorist organization and their Turkish-Saudi-Qatari-US-UK-French-Israeli-NATO-GCC backers, funders, weaponizers.

Once Aleppo falls to the Syrian Army, the ISIS will soon be driven out from all across Syria, as its entire supply routes via the Turkish borders will have come to a dead halt, or at best a trickle. Thus the Turkish-Saudi-Western cabal, had to take recourse to drastic measures and build their case for direct intervention, or then lose their strategic space to Russia.

There are thus many forces that have seen their entire plan to control the Middle-East, destroy Syria, bring about Regime Change, all shattered and defeated.

Thus, It is apparently clear that this False Flag Terror attack, will create:

1) A very strong anti-Refugee Climate across Europe and the West. France has declared an Emergency and has sealed its borders, which is unprecedented. France has also deployed its Air-Craft Carrier, the Charled De Gaulle to the Mediterranean. The CNN says that this terror attack will change France, as did the 9/11 change the USA.

2) The "solution" that will emerge is that the only way to stem the tide of the Refugees flowing in from Syria and Iraq (mainly Syria), is for the WEST-NATO for go into Direct Enhanced Intervention, More Aerial Attacks, Boots on the Ground.

3) The Turkish-Erdogan-Dovutoglu-Muslim Brotherhood plan is to create a SAFE-ZONE in Northern Syria, by NATO Declaring a NO FLY ZONE, wherein Turkish troops move into Northern Syria and create the space for the REFUGEES, thus resolving the CR-ISIS for EUROPE and the USA.

In fact the G20 Summit is to be held, interestingly and fortuitously so in Antalya, Turkey itself. (15-16 November, 2015)

These are the political and the strategic reasons that lie at the root of the horrendous terror attack.

In solidarity with the resistance
Feroze Mithiborwala
~~~~~~~~~~
http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/at-least-60-dead-in-paris-shootings-hostages-held-french-media/

At least 60 dead in Paris shootings, hostages held: French mediaON NOVEMBER 13, 2015

France was rocked by multiple, near simultaneous attacks on entertainment sites around Paris on Friday evening and French media said at least 60 people were killed and hostages were being held in a concert hall in the capital.
The apparently coordinated gun and bomb attacks came as the country, a founder member of the U.S.-led coalition waging air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq, was on high alert for terrorist attacks ahead of a global climate conference that opens later this month.
Western security sources said they suspected an Islamist militant group was behind the carnage.
At least two explosions were heard near the Stade de France national stadium where a France-Germany friendly soccer match was being played, attended by President Francois Hollande.
The match continued until the end but panic broke out in the crowd as rumors of the attack spread, and spectators were held in the stadium and assembled spontaneously on the pitch.
There were reports of possibly as many as four shootings in central Paris, one of which turned into a hostage taking at a popular rock music venue, witnesses said.
TF1 television said up to 35 people were dead near the soccer stadium, including two suspected suicide bombers in the attack in the neighborhood of Saint Denis, north of central Paris.
Police helicopters circled the stadium as Hollande was rushed back to the interior ministry to deal with the situation. The president’s office said he had called an emergency cabinet meeting for midnight (2300 GMT) to manage the crisis.
Police confirmed there had been shootings and explosions at the stadium, but not the number of casualties.
In central Paris, shooting erupted in mid-evening outside a Cambodian restaurant in the capital’s 10th district and the Bataclan music hall, where bystanders were evacuated as elite police commandos took up position.
Several witnesses told television stations that up to 60 hostages were being held inside the popular concert venue.
“There are lots of people here. I don’t know what’s happening, a sobbing witness who gave her name only as Anna told BFM TV outside the Bataclan hall. “It’s horrible. There’s a body over there. It’s horrible.”
Elsewhere, police cordoned off a wide area around the Petit Cambodge restaurant where witnesses said gunmen armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles had fired at diners through the plate-glass windows, causing multiple casualties.
“I was on my way to my sister’s when I heard shots being fired. Then I saw three people dead on the ground, I know they were dead because they were being wrapped up in plastic bags,” student Fabien Baron told Reuters.
There were also reports of shootings in rue de Charonne in the 11th district and at the central Les Halles shopping center.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the Paris attacks, which came within days of attacks claimed by Islamic State militants on a Shi’ite Muslim district of southern Beirut in Lebanon, and a Russian tourist aircraft which crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
Earlier on Friday, the United States and Britain said they had launched an attack in the Syrian town of Rakka on a British Islamic State militant known as “Jihadi John” but it was not certain whether he had been killed.

US-Turkey Invasion Derailed by Syrian Army Triumph at Kuweires

By Mike Whitney

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) achieved its greatest victory in the four year-long war on Tuesday when it recaptured the strategic Kuweires military airbase in North Syria. Hundreds of ISIS terrorists were killed in intense fighting while hundreds more were sent fleeing eastward towards Raqqa. The victory was announced just hours after Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said in an interview with CNN’s  Christiane Amanpour that Turkey would be willing  to invade Syria as long as Washington agreed to provide air support, create a safe zone along the Syrian-Turkish border, and remove Syrian President Bashar al Assad.