The killed ruthless terrorist and sectarian Salafist insurgent leader Zahran Alloush was mourned by the Turkey-backed Syrian Islamic Council, the U.S. backed FSA and affiliates, by Riad Hijab the former Syrian Prime Minister who defected and who now heads the Saudi-formed opposition body, by the terrorist groups Ahrar al Sham, Jabhat al Nusra/al-Qaeda and by the head of Human Rights Watch who gets payed $450,000 per year for such valuable (for some rich people) service:
Kenneth Roth Verified account @KenRothSo, according to Kenneth Roth, Zahran Alloush who lauded Osama bin Laden, shelled civilians in Damascus and put Alawite women into cages as human shields, was a potentially valid "choice" for the Syrian people?
Killing Zahran Alloush is part of Assad strategy of trying to reduce choice to him or ISIS.
The Islamic State Caliph Baghdadi published an audio speech in which he acknowledged loss of territory but promised victory after more hardship. He announced an attack on Israel or probably soft Jewish targets elsewhere. Baghdadi mentioned "Jews" eight times and "Palestine" five times in the 24 minutes tape. An attack on Israel would probably be a valuable recruiting tool for the Islamic State.
The Syrian Arab Army freed several Islamic State held villages north east of Aleppo.
The Syrian-Kurdish YPG, under its U.S. label Syrian Democratic Forces, took the Tishreen dam away from the Islamic State fighters. The move was supported by Russia and the U.S. There are plans to reroute electricity from Tishreen to the predominate Kurdish Kobane, a prospect that other parts of Syria will not like and a potential reason for future conflicts. From Tishreen the Kurds can cross to the west bank of the Euphrates and proceed towards Jarablus. This would cut the corridor the Islamic State has to Turkey. The Turkish government had announced that such a move by the Kurds would be a grave transgression of its red lines and against Turkish interests.
Comment: How dare the Kurds fight ISIS and block their supply lines to/from Turkey. Someone call Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International! Those poor head-choppers might go hungry...
Iraqi government forces stormed the Islamic State held central government complex in Ramadi, Anbar province. Some IS fighters died there but more fled. The city of Ramadi was announced free of IS by the Iraqi government but I would expect that IS sleeper cells have staid in the city.
The Islamic State is definitely shrinking. It seemingly lacks manpower and is still wasting personnel by ruling over far flung but useless areas and in pointless suicide attacks for minor tactical gains.
There is unconfirmed news of a deal between the U.S. and Russia on Syria. Some Syrian businessman currently in London would become new Prime Minister but Assad would stay on as President. There would follow a review of the constitution and new election in which Assad could be a candidate. Assad believes he would win in an election. Any group not following the plan would be declared a terrorist groups by the UN Security Council and Syria, Russia and their allies would continue to fight those groups.
The Russian envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev is traveling to several Middle East countries in an attempt to sell the deal. He so far visited Baghdad, Amman, Jerusalem, Cairo and Abu Dhabi. A visit to Riyadh was postponed after the killing of Alloush.
This was posted days ago when the first SOTT story ran on the death of this murderous douche bag Allousch, but in view of the SOTT final comment, I felt it was worth a reprise....
"HRW and Amnesty Int'l are, in my humble estimation, 100% zionist controlled entities, at least from all the evidence I have seen over the last 15 years or so.
In my experience of closely watching HRW and AI over this time span, it seems that these two organizations do the zionists' bidding wherever and whenever necessary, like the good little zionist butt-puppets they would appear to be. This is just another of literally countless examples of this duplicitous garbage and open lies and propaganda these groups spew for their zionist masters and partners. Compared to their relatively muted responses to the various horrifying Gaza slaughters over the last decade, and in Lebanon, their 'concerns' in Syria for the 'innocent Syrians' are clearly crocodile tears (and of the most smelly, hypocritical variety.)
Mr "Roth" has been HRW's director for the last 22 years, eh?
"Roth" is a famously Jewish name.
No surprises there.
This Mr Roth, the [HIGHLY paid!] executive director of HRW since 1993, appears from his despicable tweets and false propaganda actions in the zionist planned and controlled Syrian murder-fest to be exactly the type of guy that would be a spokes-puppet for a zionist controlled POS organization like HRW. He may even be a committed zionist himself, as the evidence would strongly suggest, but his actions, certainly, support the evil Yinon Plan that is now openly being carried out by Israel's own personal butt-toy murder-monster, Uncle Shmuel and associates (i.e., NAZO)
That HRW spews endless and obvious zio-lies is, therefor, completely unsurprising.
And equally nauseating is the fact that the utterly zionist controlled Western media heaps lavish praise on these turdsicles posing as 'independent' NGOs (actually, "NZO" is a far more appropriate and accurate acronym: Nazi-Zionist Organizations.) Again. no surprises there, either.
Here's a poem to capture the essence of these zionist scum who lie to us about the evil these monsters perpetrate, and what they think of us for eating up those bald-faced lies like filthy spaghetti:
Zio-Scum, Zio-Scum
They think we're all just fat and dumb
Stealing land, killing kids,
Nothing stops those evil Yids,
LOOK OUT!!
Here comes the Zio-Scum
Proving we're all just fat and dumb
Here comes the ZIO-SCU-U-U-U-U-U-U-M!!
(Sing it to any tune you like that fits. Your choice.)"