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Putin has sent the feared Spetsnaz special forces into Syria to bail out Assad
Post Date: 2015-10-05 23:56:43 by nativist nationalist
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The move is a blow to Britain and America’s mission to wipe out Islamic State but maintain an opposition to brutal dictator Assad Russia has sent its crack special troops into Syria to back up President Bashar al-Assad’s bid to wipe out his opposition. Vladimir Putin’s feared Spetsnaz unit and a covert para battalion ghosted into the war-torn country and are preparing for an all-out assault on rebels fighting the regime – including moderate units such as the western-backed Free Syrian Army. A military source said last night: “Putin’s marines are there to guard the airbases they are using against sabotage by rebels. But Spetsnaz and air- assault ...
Number One with a Bullet
Post Date: 2015-10-05 16:48:36 by sneakypete
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Woman who sat in McDonald’s for 24 hours was actually dead
Post Date: 2015-10-05 10:38:36 by Willie Green
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Save our McRefugees: Woman’s lonely unnoticed death in Hong Kong McDonald’s highlights need to help homeless Discovery of dead woman who spent 24 hours in fast-food restaurant highlights worsening plight of city’s homeless, say concern groups The lonely death of a homeless woman at a 24-hour McDonald’s outlet has put the spotlight on the need to help “McRefugees” who spend all night at the fast-food chain’s branches because they have nowhere else to go. Concern groups yesterday urged the government to take immediate steps, such as imposing rent controls, building homeless shelters in the short term and building more public housing. Meanwhile, the Social ...
Egypt backs Russian airstrikes in Syria
Post Date: 2015-10-04 20:40:51 by buckeroo
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Egypt says Russia’s anti-terror airstrikes in Syria will restrict the spread of terrorism and deal a major blow to the Daesh group in the violence-torn Arab country. “Russia’s entrance, given its potential and capabilities, is something we see is going to have an effect on limiting terrorism in Syria and eradicating it,” said Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry in a televised interview broadcast on Saturday. Shoukry’s remarks are the latest sign of a thaw in relations between Russia and Egypt. During Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s official visit to Russia in August, Cairo and Moscow called for forming a coalition to counter terrorism in the ...
Syria: Chinese Uyghurs Killing Russian Spies According to Turkey's Plan
Post Date: 2015-10-04 19:46:44 by A K A Stone
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So while enormous numbers of Syrian refugees are attempting to get out of the Middle East and into Europe, what is happening in the empty villages they have left behind? According to Al Mayadeen, a Beirut-based satellite news service, at least some of the abandoned villages in northern Syria are filling up with the families of Muslim Chinese Uyghurs. These Uyghurs, cAl Mayadeen reported in September that after a successful raid on Jisr Al-Shughur, a city of some 50,000 people near Aleppo, "this Syrian city looks more like China than Damascus. Thousands of Chinese Turkestani families were resettled in the area. Especially in the village of Zanbaq." (Translation by MEMRI.) ...
China To Join Russian Air Strikes In Syria, Russia Gains Iraq Air Base – Report
Post Date: 2015-10-04 18:17:34 by A K A Stone
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BELGRADE – DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that China sent word to Moscow on Friday, October 2, that J-15 fighter bombers would shortly join the Russian air campaign that was launched Wednesday, September 30. Baghdad has moreover offered Moscow an air base for targeting the Islamic State now occupying large swathes of Iraqi territory, debka.com reports. Shenyang J-15 Shenyang J-15 The J-15 warplanes will take off from the Chinese Liaoning-CV-16 aircraft carrier, which reached Syrian shores on September 26, according to DEBKAfile. This will be a landmark event for Beijing: its first military operation in the Middle East as well the carrier’s first taste ...
Russia Intensifies Syria Bombing as Cameron Joins Criticism
Post Date: 2015-10-04 15:24:34 by nativist nationalist
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Russia intensified its bombardment of militant targets in Syria with warplanes flying more than 20 missions, as U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron joined calls for Moscow to change course in an intervention he described as a “grave mistake.” The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that 10 Islamic State positions in Syria had been attacked in the past 24 hours, including militant training camps in Raqqa and Idlib provinces. Russian strikes have broken “the management and logistics of the terrorist organization” and caused “significant damage to the infrastructure used for preparation of terrorist attacks,” the ministry said on its website. Laser-guided and ...
450 militants turn themselves in to Syrian authorities
Post Date: 2015-10-04 14:49:19 by buckeroo
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Reports say hundreds of militants have turned themselves in to authorities in southern Syria. State news agency, SANA reported that about 400 and 50 gunmen gave up their arms and handed them over to officials in Dara'a province. 200 and 50 wanted people also did the same as part of the government’s national reconciliation efforts. The weapons handed over include rocket launchers, machine guns and sniper rifles. Many militants have in the past broken ranks with their groups and joined Syrian forces fighting terrorist groups. Looks like Putin has a winning war strategy. Not bad for a couple of days of targetting the bad guys.
How 7 years of Obama brought the world from Kumbaya to chaos
Post Date: 2015-10-04 13:58:28 by buckeroo
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Just three years ago, President Obama famously ridiculed GOP opponent Mitt Romney’s statement that Russia remained America’s main geopolitical foe by taunting: “The 1980s are calling to ask for their foreign policy back.” Four years before that, Obama stood at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate to declare that once he became president, all people would join him around a global campfire, hold hands and put an end to the world’s evils and miseries. Well, seven years into Obama’s presidency, the promised worldwide Kumbaya is instead global chaos — caused in large measure by his willful retreat from America’s position of leadership. Washington’s ...
McCain: Trump doesn't understand Syria
Post Date: 2015-10-04 13:42:20 by buckeroo
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Washington (CNN)—Sen. John McCain says that GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump doesn't understand the problems posed by Russia's new role in the Syrian conflict. "I don't think he understands very well the situation. And he's entitled to his opinion," the Arizona Republican said Sunday in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." McCain was pushing back against Trump's assertion last week that the United States should let ISIS and Syria's army fight -- and let Russia worry about ISIS there. Trump's comment came as Russia launched air strikes in the region. "Do we want to keep slaughtering people in ...
In Putin’s Syria Intervention, Fear of a Weak Government Hand
Post Date: 2015-10-04 13:38:45 by buckeroo
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On the night of Dec. 5, 1989, Vladimir V. Putin, then a lieutenant colonel in the K.G.B., watched with alarm as thousands of East Germans in Dresden swarmed the riverside compound of the dreaded secret police, the Stasi. The Berlin Wall had been breached the month before, and the Communist government that had ruled East Germany since the end of World War II gasped its last breaths as protesters took to the streets across the country. The young officer and future Russian president, just 37 at the time, could only stand by helplessly at the K.G.B.’s Dresden outpost a few hundred feet away. The takeover of the Stasi headquarters was relatively peaceful, but in Mr. Putin’s mind the ...
Nobody can clearly define what 'moderate opposition' in Syria is - Kremlin spokesman
Post Date: 2015-10-04 11:30:03 by buckeroo
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While the West accuses the Russian Air Force of bombing the moderate rebel forces in Syria instead of Islamic State, no one has clearly defined what moderate opposition is, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said in an interview. “I don’t think anybody has yet explained what moderate opposition is, and Putin demonstrated quite active interest in the issue and asked in which way the moderate opposition was different from the immoderate opposition,” Dmitry Peskov told Rossiya 1 TV channel’s Sergey Brilyov. Peskov added that while speaking to critics in the West, Putin mentioned things such as “the [bombed] wedding in Yemen.” The discussion over what forces ...
Russia intensifying Syria airstrikes
Post Date: 2015-10-04 11:14:02 by buckeroo
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(CNN)—Russia is intensifying its airstrikes in Syria, which it says have "considerably reduced" the combat potential of militants. The Russian air force began strikes in Syria on Wednesday. In the past 24 hours, it has carried out 20 flights targeting 10 ISIS positions in Idlib province, the Russian Defense Ministry announced in a statement Sunday. Since 2011, Syria has been torn apart by a brutal civil war that has seen the rise of extremist groups including ISIS. Moscow supports the regime of President Bashar al-Assad and says it is targeting ISIS, al Nusra and "other terrorist groups." But the U.S-backed coalition against ISIS -- comprising the United States, ...
War Party Hates Putin – Loves al-Qaeda
Post Date: 2015-10-03 19:23:29 by nativist nationalist
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As Russian fighter jets target al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria, the Western media is up in arms – and in denial. They deny the Russians are taking on ISIS – and they are indignant that Putin is targeting al-Qaeda, which is almost never referred to by its actual name, but is instead described as “al- Nusra,” or the more inclusive “Army of Conquest,” which are alternate names for the heirs of Osama bin Laden. And there are no ideological lines being drawn in this information war: both the left and the right – e.g. the left-liberal Vox and the Fox News network – are utilizing a map put out by the neoconservative “Institute for the Study of War” to ...
No ISIS Where Russia Is Bombing–Except Last Week, When ISIS Was Killing Gay Men There?
Post Date: 2015-10-03 19:17:32 by nativist nationalist
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Photo allegedly showing ISIS killing a man in Homs, Syria, for homosexuality earlier this year (Daily Mail, 7/23/15) President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia suddenly escalated the stakes in his contest with the West over influence in the Middle East on Wednesday, as Russian pilots carried out their first airstrikes in Syria…. Russian officials and analysts portrayed the move as an attempt both to fight Islamic State militants and to try to ensure the survival of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Russia’s main ally in the Middle East. But Homs is not under the control of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. —New York Times (9/30/15) A Syrian opposition activist ...
Russian airstrikes in Syria 'OK' with Trump
Post Date: 2015-10-03 18:44:37 by buckeroo
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The full interview airs on CNN Tonight at 10 p.m. ET New York, New York (CNN)—If Vladimir Putin wants to launch airstrikes inside Syria, that's no problem for Donald Trump, who said Wednesday that he believes Russia's military moves in Syria are targeting ISIS and that the United States shouldn't interfere. "They don't respect our president. They really don't respect us anymore. And that's why they're doing this," Trump told CNN's Don Lemon in a wide-ranging interview at Trump Tower Wednesday. "At the same time, if they want to hit ISIS, that's OK with me." Trump's remarks came in response to the latest escalation of ...
ZDF - Islam - Effects on Germany
Post Date: 2015-10-03 14:36:45 by A K A Stone
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A very important and sobering documentary that clearly illustrates how catastrophic islam and non-Western immigration, has been, and still very much is, for Germany
Giant prehistoric lizards co-existed with humans
Post Date: 2015-10-03 11:33:46 by A K A Stone
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While the concept of men battling 16–foot prehistoric lizards sounds like something out of a 50’s sci-fi flick, a new discovery in Australia has revealed that such encounters may have occurred. According to a study appearing in Quaternary Science Reviews, researchers from the University of Queensland have found a tiny fossil that belonged to a giant lizard bone 50,000 years ago, indicating that gigantic reptiles and humans once co–existed. The bone – an osteoderm, which grows under the lizard’s skin and serves as internal body armor – was found in one of the Capricorn Caves near Rockingham, Queensland. According to Queensland University Vertebrate ...
Air attacks kill 16 at Afghanistan hospital; U.S. investigating
Post Date: 2015-10-03 11:18:45 by buckeroo
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Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)Aerial bombardments hit a Doctors Without Borders hospital in the battleground Afghan city of Kunduz early Saturday, killing at least 16 people, including nine staffers and seven patients, the charity said. Three of those patients were children. The circumstances weren't immediately clear, but the U.S. military conducted an airstrike in Kunduz at the time, and the incident is being investigated, U.S. Army Col. Brian Tibus said. Specifically, the military is investigating whether a U.S. AC-130 gunship -- which was in the area firing on Taliban positions to defend U.S. special operations troops there -- is responsible, a U.S. military official said on condition ...
Take the Russian Gift Horse’s gift and run like hell to North America
Post Date: 2015-10-03 10:16:43 by nativist nationalist
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One has to be amazed at the number of chances to save itself that America keeps encountering and refusing to grasp and exploit in the Arab world. We were safely out of Iraq when Obama and the Republicans returned us to that hell hole created by Mr. Bush, Mr. Blair, and Israel First. We were safely and serenely sitting on the sidelines and happily watching the descent of the Muslim world into a massive sectarian war when Obama signed us up to fight on the side of both Saudi Arabia and Iran, thereby knowingly and deservedly earning the hatred of Sunnis and Shias. We were completely out of harm’s way from the migrant mess the effeminate Europeans are either too stupid or too cowardly to ...
Putin & Netanyahu: Our ties are getting stronger and stronger
Post Date: 2015-10-02 22:21:09 by A K A Stone
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Too Scared to Pray? ISIL Cancels Prayers for Fear of Russian Airstrikes
Post Date: 2015-10-02 21:18:53 by Pericles
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Too Scared to Pray? ISIL Cancels Prayers for Fear of Russian Airstrikes © REUTERS/ Khalil Ashawi MIDDLE EAST 00:24 03.10.2015(updated 00:29 03.10.2015) Get short URL 122513440 The Islamic State terror group cancelled Friday prayers in the Syrian city of Raqqa and emptied mosques there out of fear of further Russian airstrikes, according to activists and city residents.
According to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 12 Islamic State militants were killed Thursday in Russia’s first airstrikes carried out in the group's de facto capital in Syria.
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Syria crisis: The West wrings its hands in horror but it was our folly that helped create this bloodbath
Post Date: 2015-10-02 21:15:43 by buckeroo
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Reaction to Russia’s military intervention in Syria shows that the lack of knowledge of the Syrian political landscape on the part of Western political leaders and media is hindering the adoption of more constructive policies. During the past four years, over-simplifications and wishful thinking have prevented any realistic attempt to end the civil war, mitigate its effects or stop it from spreading to other countries. Since 2011 the departure from power of President Bashar al-Assad has been prescribed as a quick way to bring an end to the conflict, although there is no reason to believe this. There are no quick or easy solutions: Syria is being torn apart by a genuine, multi-layered ...
Need a Russian translation.
Post Date: 2015-10-02 20:14:48 by BobCeleste
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Can someone tell me what this says?
Officials: Pentagon weighs protections for US-trained rebels
Post Date: 2015-10-02 14:48:33 by redleghunter
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon is grappling with whether the U.S. should use military force to protect U.S. trained and equipped Syrian rebels now that they may be the targets of Russian airstrikes. Senior military leaders and defense officials are working through the thorny legal and foreign policy issues and are weighing the risks of using force in response to a Russian attack, U.S. officials said Thursday. Pentagon leaders have consistently said that the U.S. must take steps to protect the American-trained rebels because it would be far more difficult to recruit fighters without those assurances. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters in March that the U.S. has an obligation to ...
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