war against terror

[rbkwp]

super quick in wanting to call on there 'allies'when they take a few hits
France behaviour all over
why do they think they shouldent be 'attacked'

the US appears not to be overly enthusiastic re Turkeys masnia huh duh Turkey
your on your own with this one double duh'
Turkey calls on allies to fight YPG rebels

uuhmmm
getting tired of no progress in Syria after 5 years of killings and destruction
may as well start on Lybia, set the next war up for the incomming president ..

AFRICA

The US Is Now Bombing Islamic State Targets in Libya

US warplanes carried out air strikes early on Friday morning in the western Libyan city of Sabratha, where Islamic State (IS) militants allegedly operate, killing as many as 40 people.

A US military spokesman said the attacks targeted a senior Tunisian militant linked to attacks in Tunisia last year. Sabratha's mayor Hussein al-Thwadi told Reuters the planes struck at 3.30am local time, hitting a building in the Qasr Talil district in which foreign workers were living. He said 41 people had been killed and six wounded. The death toll could not immediately be confirmed with other officials.

The US Is Now Bombing Islamic State Targets in Libya | VICE News

 

[rbkwp]

US says it was an ISIS training camp, multiple air strikes in Libyawould do it again if neccessary

geeesus the bastards, its never ending what they want to do kill
'go anywhere,anytime, reserve the right

FFS always for the supposed BS of protecting the USA
FFS again, you paranoid bastards
if you never had the military power, you would keep Fn quiet huh

says it had Libyas permission, we know even if it never had such it would still go in and do it
and Fn moan when Russia goes into a couple of countries, as does most on here do
well i can doubly bitch about the US actions globallly as well ..

and when China flexes its muscles, you shit yourself all over again ..

Deaths reported in US raids on 'ISIL camp' in Libya

Published on Feb 19, 2016
US warplanes have carried out air strikes targeting fighters aligned with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Libya, killing dozens of people, possibly including a senior leader of the armed group.Peter Cook, Pentagon press secretary, said in a press conference that the operation was carried out to prevent the group from carrying out "external attacks against US interests."Rosiland Jordan reports from Washington DC.-

 

[rbkwp]

EXACTLY,as expected

media several days late to get the obvious out there as usual, maybe because they choose to ..

US Airstrike In Libya A Sign Of Things To Come

With Barack Obama under pressure to fight the rise of IS in Libya, we can expect more targeted killings like the one in Sabratha.

14:20, UK, Friday 19 February 2016

A US F-15 jet was used to hit the farm house in Libya Pic: File

Sam Kiley
Foreign Affairs Editor
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The first any of the targets of the American airstrike would have known about it would have been when the survivors dragged themselves from the smoking craters.

news.sky.com: US Airstrike In Libya A Sign Of Things To Come

Death, in this form, comes with the scream of a diving missile only for those who are not in its cross-hairs.

But that America and her allies are building towards some kind of greater campaign in Libya has been telegraphed for some time.

:: US Warplanes Hit Islamic State Camp In Libya

The main target of the United States Air Force was Noureddine Chouchane, a Tunisian terrorist believed to have been a ring leader in the organisation of the massacres at the National Bardo Museum in Tunis that killed 22 people in March and another in June that killed 38 people at a beach in the coastal resort in Sousse.

news.sky.com: US Airstrike In Libya A Sign Of Things To Come

Video: Jan: Dozens Dead In Libya Blast

 

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uuhhmmm
how about this gem
but the US dont ask/they tell huh

of course it could be BS as its GR info
reputedly another of the nasties media
according to some ..

ps,'no boots on the ground' rings in my ears ...

Washington Asks Moscow: Please Do Not to Bomb American Troops Operating on the Ground in Northern Syria
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, February 21, 2016

Washington has requested Moscow not to bomb areas of Northern Syria where US Special Forces are being deployed. These areas are under the jurisdiction of so-called “moderate opposition” rebels who are supported by the US and its allies.
The areas in question pertain to pockets of Northern Syria in which various US-NATO supported jihadist groups including the Islamic State (ISIS) and Al Nusrah are fighting Syrian government forces (SAA) and their allies. These terrorist pockets are protected by the US-led coalition and Turkey:

The Pentagon has asked Russia to stay away from parts of northern Syria where US special operations troops are training local fighters [i.e. terrorists including the Islamic State ] to combat the Islamic State group [the opposition rebels are allies of ISIS, ISIS is supported by the US and has special forces within its ranks], military officials said Thursday. The acknowledgement is significant because the Pentagon has repeatedly stressed it is not cooperating with Moscow as the two powers lead separate air campaigns in war-ravaged Syria…. (Al Monitor, AFP Report, February 18 2016)

The advisory acknowledges US military presence inside Syria. Washington confirms that US Special Forces and CIA are operating within the ranks of the “Moderate Opposition”.

Washington’s objective is twofold. First, “officially” it wants to avoid direct military confrontation with Russia as well prevent US casualties. That’s the substance of the official advisory. It is not the main objective.

www.globalresearch.ca: Washington Asks Moscow: Please Do Not to Bomb American Troops Operating on the Ground in Northern Syria

 

[rbkwp]

well
Turkey does seem to want to get into every skirmish going as well as the Saudis, Egypt
leave our region alone we can destroy who we want
just keep supplying the military etc etc
we will happily do the rest,, free you up for other wars ..

Emergency services vehicles arrive after an explosion in Ankara, Turkey, Feb. 17, 2016. (photo by REUTERS/Umit Bektas)

Was last week's Ankara attack just the beginning?

The car bomb attack that rocked Ankara Feb. 17 killed 28 people, most of them military personnel. About 100 others were wounded. The assailant was also killed.

Summary⎙ Print The suicide bomb in Ankara on Feb. 17 was the first of its kind, and Ankara is now under pressure to make critical decisions.
Author Metin GurcanPosted February 19, 2016
TranslatorTimur Göksel
Three features of this attack were seen for the first time in Ankara. First, a moving vehicle was used for a suicide attack. Its location was also significant: 500 meters from the parliament, 300 meters from the headquarters of the chief of General Staff, 150 meters from the air force command and 100 meters to the quarters where generals reside. It was the first time military and civilian personnel working at the Chief of Staff offices and at air, naval and ground forces commands have been targeted. The question everyone is now asking is whether such an attack could be repeated there or in Istanbul and other major Turkish cities.

Read more: Was last week's Ankara attack just the beginning? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

and
while we are on that point,re other wats ..

Tunisian police officers guard the entrance of the National Bardo Museum in Tunis, March 19, 2015. Tunisia deployed the army to major cities and arrested four people after militant gunmen killed at least 20 foreign tourists visiting the museum, the worst attack on the North African country in more than a decade. (photo by REUTERS/Anis Mili)

Why did the US really bomb Libya?

The Feb. 19 airstrike on an apparent Islamic State (IS) training camp near Sabratha isn’t the precursor to a sustained American air campaign in Libya, US officials have made clear.

Summary⎙ Print Does the strike on a neighboring terrorist haven signal a new commitment to the Arab Spring’s golden child Tunisia?
Author Julian PecquetPosted February 19, 2016
Instead, the pre-dawn bombing that killed some 40 suspected terrorists near the border with Tunisia appears to be better understood as a one-off operation aimed at protecting that fledgling democracy from militants who would plunge it into chaos. Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said the strike aimed to take out Tunisian national Noureddine Chouchane, a prime suspect in the 2015 attacks that killed 60 people in Tunis and Sousse, along with a camp where foreign fighters were training for possible “external attacks on US interests in the region.”

Read more: Why did the US really bomb Libya? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

uhhmmm, i dontk now about this, you going to tell them ecowatch ha ..

Why China Should Not Put its Nuclear Weapons on High Alert

Elliott Negin, Union of Concerned Scientists | February 12, 2016 3:18 pm |Comments
China’s military wants to put its relatively small nuclear arsenal on hair-trigger alert for the first time, according to newly translated documents. That’s not good. Such a radical departure from the country’s longtime nuclear policy could pose a threat not only to the U.S., but also to China itself.

Gregory Kulacki, an analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists, discovered evidence of this potential policy change in a number of Chinese military documents. He published a paper this week that provides the details of what he found.

China’s military wants to put its relatively small nuclear arsenal on hair-trigger alert for the first time, according to newly translated documents. Photo credit: Xinhua / Li Ziheng
Why is the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) considering such a major policy change?

ecowatch.com: Why China Should Not Put its Nuclear Weapons on High Alert

 

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amd
whyis that not surprising,been saying it for years ..

DEFENSE & SECURITY

The US is Selling Weapons to Nearly Half the Countries in the World
By Samuel Oakford

February 23, 2016 | 11:20 am
The global trade in arms continued to grow over the last half decade, buoyed by an appetite for weapons in the Middle East and a near doubling of exports from China.

Figures released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, a monitoring group, showed that even as the total trade in weapons grew by 14 percent between 2011 and 2015, the two largest exporters, Russia and the US, managed to capture even greater portions of the pie. American exports made up a full third of the global trade, up from 29 percent between 2006 and 2010. According to a congressional report, US arms sales increased by more than a third in 2014 alone, to $36.2 billion from 26.7 the year prior. SIPRI reported that over the last five years, the US sold "major" weapons to at least 96 countries — just a hair under half the total number of UN member states.

Russia meanwhile captured a quarter of all exports in SIPRI's most recent assessment, up from 22 percent in the previous reporting period.

In line with longstanding security alliances in the Gulf, the US sent nearly 10 percent of its total exports between 2011 and 2015 to Saudi Arabia, and a further 9.1 percent to the United Arab Emirates. Both countries are members of the coalition that has intervened militarily in Yemen for nearly a year, largely with American-supplied aircraft and munitions. According to the Congressional Research Service, the US sold them more than $90 billion in armaments and weapons systems since 2010.

Related: The Islamic State Is Using Weapons From the US — And More Than 24 Other Countries

Overall, imports to the Middle East rose by 61 percent; Saudi Arabia and the UAE were the second and fourth-biggest global importers between 2011 and 2015. Elsewhere in the region, Qatar's imports grew by 279 percent, while Egypt's increased by 37. Weapons purchases by Iraq, which is battling Islamic State militants, rose 83 percent more during the past five years than between 2006 and 2011, continuing a steady flow that began following the US-led invasion of the country in 2003.

Watch the VICE News documentary Rebranding the AK-47: A Weapon of Peace:

The US is Selling Weapons to Nearly Half the Countries in the World | VICE News

 

[Perados]

How many tweets about the IS are positive?
Quatar 1 of 2 are positive
Britain 1 of 4 are positive
USA and France 1 of 5 are positive
Germany 1 of 6 are positive

Interesting is Syria, only 1 of 12 are positive

 

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, flanked by Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay (L) and Energy Minister Taner Yildiz (R), speaks in front of a portrait of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, during a news conference at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, April 4, 2014. (photo by REUTERS)

What happened to Turkey's foreign policy?

Turkish experts — aside from the most hardened, pro-government experts — agree that Ankara’s foreign policy under the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is in shambles. They generally agree this was caused by the country abandoning its traditional foreign policy in favor of an Islamist outlook.

Summary⎙ Print Turkey has made some major mistakes with its one-dimensional foreign policy, say former ambassadors who served under the Justice and Development Party.
Author Semih IdizPosted February 23, 2016
This situation, experts argue, has reduced Ankara’s options significantly, especially at this turbulent time in the region. Al-Monitor asked three retired ambassadors, who served under the AKP and are known as seasoned foreign policy commentators, to explain why Ankara finds itself isolated and unable to influence regional events that are having seriously negative effects on Turkey’s interests.

The foreign policy framework drawn up by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, is summarized by the adage he coined, “Peace at home, peace in the world.” It was based on a realistic assessment of Turkey’s geopolitical location, as well as bitter past experiences, said retired Ambassador Uluc Ozulker. A basic tenet of this policy was to remain Westward-looking — a tenet Ozulker said has changed under the AKP.

Read more: What happened to Turkey's foreign policy? - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

wars
good for the Arms industry, tell ussomething else ..

Inside Story - Will a ceasefire in Syria hold?

Published on Feb 23, 2016
Damascus accepted the Russian-US plan, but insists it will continue to fight 'terrorism'.Presenter: Mike HannaGuests: Jean-Marc Rickli - Associate Fellow , Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Mark Sleboda - International Relations and Security Analyst. Justin Bronk - Research Analyst, Royal United Services


www.aljazeera.com: Will a ceasefire in Syria hold?

 

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naughty Russkis, not impressed
getting into warmongerish western behaviour more so, BAD!!!

Russia sends 10,000 automatic rifles to Afghanistan as a gift to fight insurgency
Posted about 2 hours ago

PHOTO: Russian Ambassador Alexander Mantytskiy (L) hands over a AK-47 rifle to Afghan National Security Adviser Hanif Atmar. (AFP: Shah Marai)

As the NATO-led coalition's military presence dwindled last year, Afghan leaders reached out to Moscow, which fought a war of its own in Afghanistan during the 1980s, for more Russian-made weapons, including small arms, artillery and attack helicopters.

"This donation represents a deep friendship between two nations," Afghan national security adviser Hanif Atmar said at an event marking delivery of the arms shipment.

"This important donation is from an important friend of Afghanistan in a crucial time for Afghanistan and the region."

The guns and ammunition were provided under an existing security agreement between the two countries, he added.

www.abc.net.au: Russia sends 10,000 automatic rifles to Afghanistan as a gift

 

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as expected obviouslt
2016s WESTern war .. starting ..
seem determined to annihilate the middle east, you know who ..


Yemen conflict: Civilians killed in air strikes

Residents say 40 dead in market in Sanaa province, where coalition-backed loyalists are battling Houthis and allies.

27 Feb 2016 20:57 GMT | Politics, War & Conflict, Middle East, Yemen, Saudi Arabia

Air strikes hit a popular market in Yemen's Sanaa and killed at least 40, residents say [Yahya Arhab/EPA]
Air strikes in Yemen have killed 40 people in a market northeast of the capital Sanaa, residents say.

Saturday's air strikes in the Nehm district in Sanaa province wounded 30 others, they told Reuters news agency, adding that most of the casualties were civilians.

The attack hit Khulaqa market, which is known for selling qat, a mild narcotic that is chewed throughout Yemen, witnesses said.

www.aljazeera.com: Yemen conflict: Civilians killed in air strikes


for what its worth,perhaps nothing at the end of the day ha ..
same ole paranoia!

Find Out Why the US Considers Russia “Threat Number One” to America’s Security. Bonanza for US Weapons Industry

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Major-General Igor Konashenkov, said that recent statements from the US military about Russia as a major threat to the national security of the United States were made in connection with the discussion of the military budget in Congress.

“The statements from US security officials, who said that Russia was the main threat to US national security, were no surprise for us. This wave rises annually, at about the same time. The reason is simple: the discussion of the size of the military budget for the next year in Congress,” Konashenkov told RIA Novosti.


www.globalresearch.ca: Find Out Why the US Considers Russia "Threat Number One" to America's Security. Bonanza for US Weapons Industry

so it says .. duh'
no mention of the wests 5 years of war crimes in

People and Power - Syria: Under Russia's fist
Since September 30, 2015 Russia has been carrying out air strikes in Syria in support of its ally President Bashar al-Assad. The campaign has been relentless and growing in intensity, with Russian jets flying 444 combat sorties against more than 1,500 targets between February 10 and 16 alone.

Moscow insists these attacks have only been aimed at fighters from ISIL and other "terrorist groups" such as al-Nusra Front. But monitoring groups, including the Violations Documentation Center and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, say thousands of non-combatants have also been killed or wounded. Amnesty International and others have said the bombings may be war crimes. Indeed, Amnesty has also cited consistent reports of second bombardments from planes returning to kill and injure rescue workers, paramedics and civilians attempting to evacuate the wounded and the dead from earlier raids.

 

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ceasefire BS as expected
always be one side that doesent want such,boring ..

Syria fighting continues despite ceasefire

Is Turkey ‘on the hook’ regarding Syria cease-fire?

US-Russia agreement best chance yet for Syria

Laura Rozen reported from Washington this week that White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that Russia is “on the hook” regarding a cessation of hostilities in Syria, which was endorsed unanimously by the UN Security Council on Feb. 26.

Rather than pointing out why the agreement might fail, and it might, our starting point is that UN Security Council Resolution 2268 and theUS-Russia agreement on a cessation of hostilities in Syria are potential breakthroughs. This is not to say that a cease-fire and peace are just around the corner in Syria. The process is uncertain and fragile. It is to say, however, that the only means of getting there is cooperation between Washington and Moscow, so the developments of the past week are a giant step forward.

The agreement calls for sharing targeting information, which will put Russia to the test regarding attacks on Syrian armed groups allied with the United States. The process has also drawn overdue attention to the coordination among various jihadi armed groups, such as Ahrar al-Sham and Jaish al-Islam with Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria. Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State (IS) are outside the bounds of the cease-fire, so these jihadi groups, which are deeply sectarian and backed by outside powers, and sometimes misleadingly described as “rebels,” will finally be held accountable. This column has warned for more than two years about the blurring of jihadi and terrorist groups in Syria, and we reject any ambiguity that would allow al-Qaeda allies and sympathizers, such as Ahrar al-Sham and Jaish al-Islam, to have any role or stake in Syria’s future.


a nother OPINION and i tend to agree
if they have more info than i, especially?

OPINION
A ceasefire in Syria is pure fantasy
When it comes to supporting ceasefires, Russia has a dismal record - so why would Syria be any different?

23 Feb 2016 06:07 GMT | Syrian Civil War, Syria, War & Conflict, Middle East, Politics

A Syrian man stands on top of a damaged building in Barzeh neighborhood of Damascus, Syria [EPA]

www.aljazeera.com: A ceasefire in Syria is pure fantasy

 

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of interest duh
funny enough ha

UpFront - Reality Check: Beyond the Saudi Arabia-Iran feud

Published on Jan 23, 2016
The spat between Saudi Arabia and Iran heated up earlier this month after the execution of Shia religious leader Nimr al-Nimr and the burning of the Saudi embassy in Tehran.

Some have called the feud a war within the Muslim world, pointing to what many see as an inevitable clash between the two countries. A look at history however, proves otherwise.

In this week's Reality Check, Mehdi Hasan challenges the notion that the current row between Saudi Arabia and Iran stems from a 1,400-year-old theological split and says the feud should not taint relations between Muslims, the majority of whom live outside the Middle East.

yes/no,of no interest, may be ..

Former US Secretaries of State George Shultz (L) and Madeleine Albright testify at the Senate Armed Services Committee on global challenges and US national security strategy on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 29, 2015. (photo by REUTERS/Gary Cameron)

Why so many US presidents have failed to bring Middle East peace

In the US Republican primaries, nothing exemplifies the nature of the Israeli connection to American political discourse better than Sen. Marco Rubio's tempest-in-a-teapot over leading Republican candidate Donald Trump saying that he intends to try to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians. And if that weren’t enough, in the Feb. 18 debate, Trump dared to say that it's not efficacious for a mediator in negotiations to declare unswerving support for one of the sides.

Summary⎙ Print Attempts by a long line of American presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, to broker an accord between Israelis and Palestinians or promote initiatives to end the conflict have hinged more on timing than anything else.
Author Akiva EldarPosted March 1, 2016
TranslatorSandy Bloom
This sentence made Trump an unfair mediator in Rubio’s eyes, and he swore not to be neutral, saying, “I will be on Israel’s side every single day, because they are the only pro-American, free enterprise democracy in the entire Middle East.”

Several days earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warmly welcomed former US Secretary of State George Shultz, who visited Jerusalem. In a speech in the Israel Democracy Institute, Netanyahu complimented the retired diplomat on his “vision and integrity” and ended with lofty words about Israel and the Jewish people never having a better friend. Yet according to the "Rubio index," Shultz’ friendship is questionable. Al-Monitor has discovered that the 95-year-old diplomat has recently consolidated a group of Israeli, Palestinian and American experts to discuss alternatives to the two-state solution, according to the Oslo Accord model. In the discussions, he has not concealed his disappointment in the policies of Israel’s right-wing government.

Read more: Why so many US presidents have failed to bring Middle East peace - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

 

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can pretty well believe it from her
she seems to have a bit of a love fest with Vlad ..

SYRIAN CIVIL WAR

Merkel says Putin is committed to Syria ceasefire
European leaders ask president Vladimir Putin to use Russia's influence over Syrian government to abide by the trucce

• The leaders of France, Britain, Germany and Italy had a teleconference conversation with Putin on Friday, during which they asked him to use Russia's influence over the Syrian government to abide by the truce.
  

www.aljazeera.com: Merkel says Putin is committed to Syria ceasefire

 

[rbkwp]

similar number of deaths that crybaby France suffered huh
and this is pea/trucecetime ..

135 killed in first week of Syria truce, monitor says

A total of 135 people are killed in the first week of a fragile truce in Syria in areas covered by the cessation of hostilities agreement, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.

www.abc.net.au: 135 killed in first week of Syria truce, monitor says


Au media searching for Sunday scaremongering US style news ..
we all know its a possibility, anywhere, even in piddly NZ ..

Australia could be the next Paris, terrorism expert warns

Read more: www.smh.com.au: Australia could be the next Paris, terrorism expert warns

 

[Oxnard]

Bah. The "war on terror" is a farce.

It's a manufactured conflict to boost political power and wealth for certain groups and individuals both in the West and in the Muslim world. It's just theater to keep the masses hopped up on fear and rage to make us easier to manipulate.

We just recently survived the Cold War, during which time we faced a real and serious threat in a ridiculous public squabble over economic systems and how many checks and balances should or should not be placed on government.

The next time the media or politicians try to push your fear buttons put it in perspective and compare the threat of terrorism to an armed Soviet Union that was prepared to annihilate the human race at the push of a button, and actually had the (hypothetical) means to carry out its intention of toppling all the government's in the world.

And yes, there are assholes in the Middle East pushing their fear buttons for their own political agendas, generally the same quest for wealth and power.

Terrorism isn't a military problem with a military solution. It's mostly a policing problem and should be treated as such.

You guys remember that big argument I started about the fact that it is taboo to criticize religion? I believe that to a large degree the current radicalism of certain Muslims can be blamed on the fact that Islam managed to completely shield itself from any criticism for centuries (this is also why modern Muslims are so much worse than Christians at apologetics arguments). With inadequate criticism, they lacked any mechanism to retard the growth of extra stupid or extra dangerous ideas within their own religion.

 

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well well,is that a truth or ..
not very often anything like this is ever a possibility huh ..
rspecially comming oyt of the almighty infallible Congress,akin to there infalliable UN ..\
must be a reason why/new US presidency looming, always suspect happenings in a pre empting way ..

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad speaks during his meeting with the heads and members of public organizations and professional associations in Damascus, July 26, 2015. (photo by REUTERS/SANA/Handout via Reuters)

Congress rethinks anti-Assad stance

A growing number of Democratic lawmakers are openly questioning whether toppling Syria's Bashar al-Assad should still be a priority amid steady gains by the Islamic State.

The issue came to a head Sept. 16 as a key Senate panel held its first IS hearing since the first batch of 54 US-trained rebels was routed in late July by al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra as soon as it entered Syria. Reports that Russia is beefing up Assad's forces with tanks, troops and artillery has only added to the calls of some Democrats for a new strategy.

"I don't know that it helps for us to keep banging the table about Assad," panel member Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., told Al-Monitor. "I think it would be better for us to be as effective as possible in fighting [IS] and restoring some kind of security environment that shifts back the flow of refugees."

Read more: Congress rethinks anti-Assad stance - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East



Bah. The "war on terror" is a farce.

never ever denied that at all

 

[Oxnard]

Pointing out that it is farce was mostly for the benefit of other Americans. Most everyone else already gets that.

 

[rbkwp]

cool buddy
i actually drafted a nice explanation in response to your mention above, but silly me i lost it haha
all good,love your posts/contributions
enlightning thought provoking variations of etc etc ha true ..

now we just have to find something to get shitty about so i can dislike someone else ha ..Kiwi humour

 

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you decide
is this what the UK debated it wanted to do in Syria, was missing out in the killing action prior huh ..

500 Days of British Drone Attacks in Iraq and Syria, “Against ISIS” or “Against Civilians”?
By Chris Cole
Global Research, March 07, 2016

Overall this indicates that one-third of British air strikes against ISIS have been carried out by drones, however this masks a very recent change. For the 12 months from November 2014 (when first UK drone strike against ISIS took place) until 31 October 2015, UK Reaper drones carried out 49% of strikes (191) while UK Tornados carried out 51% of strikes (202).

In the four months since October 2015, when additional British Tornados and Typhoon aircraft were deployed and there was a surge of strikes in Iraq around Ramadi and Mosul, Reapers have carried out 76 strikes (19%), Tornados 197 (49%) and Typhoons 130 (32%). So while it may look as though the use of British drones to carry out strikes has declined, in fact the monthly average of British drone strikes has actually increased in that four month period from 16 per month to 19 per month (see table). There are also signs that the ‘surge’ in strikes by Tornados and Typhoons in Dec 15/Jan 16 has diminished.

Strikes in Syria

According to the MoD updates (up 1 March 2016) there have been 54 British air strikes in Syria out of a total of 338 UK strikes since the December 2nd vote to extend military action into Syria. Despite David Cameron’s insistence that the UK had to “crush the head of the snake” by bombing in Syria and Michael Fallon’s argument that it was “morally indefensible” not to bomb in Syria, just 16% of British air strikes have taken place there in the three months since the vote.

This is likely due to the fact that finding targets for strikes – when the US and others have already been bombing for more than a year – would be very difficult, as was clear for some time before the vote. About half of the 50 or so British strikes in Syria have been against oil infrastructure – or engineering vehicles to fix damaged oil infrastructure – with the rest against ISIL positions, checkpoints and fighters.

Civilian Casualties

www.globalresearch.ca: 500 Days of British Drone Attacks in Iraq and Syria, "Against ISIS" or "Against Civilians"?

the USA new tact, to cover there arses
put it out there
trying to BS with transparency

but always add ..
preparing to attack U.S. troops and allies,

as if that justifies everything ..

NYTimes.com »

March 07, 2016

BREAKING NEWS

American airstrikes killed about 150 Somali militants preparing to attack U.S. troops and allies, the Pentagon said

Monday, March 7, 2016 2:01 PM EST
American warplanes on Saturday struck a training camp in Somalia belonging to the Islamist militant group the Shabab, the Pentagon said, killing about 150 fighters who United States officials said were preparing an attack against American troops and their regional allies in East Africa.
Read more »

 

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Update on the US-NATO War on Syria

dont worry about anything anyone
after 5 years oof killing and destroying Syria, we now have an airbase as per usual, and will never leave now, no matter what, same as usual, its what we do, and do better than any other country in the world ..strageic planning we call it

Russias not allowed, but China is doing such in its ownb way ..

www.globalresearch.ca: Selected Articles: Update on the US-NATO War on Syria

Breaking: US Establishing Air Force Base inside Syria
“US Experts and Technicians Now Working on the Air Fields”, Establishing Airbases in Rojava

www.globalresearch.ca: Breaking: US Establishing Air Force Base inside Syria