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Medvedev: Sending foreign troops to Syria will unleash yet another war on Earth


RT
Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:19 UTC
Dmitry Medvedev
© Ekaterina Shtukina / Sputnik
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev
Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev told German media that sending foreign troops into Syria could unleash "yet another war on Earth." The warning follows increasingly aggressive statements made by Saudi Arabia and Turkey amid Bashar Assad's gains in Aleppo.

"All sides must be compelled to sit at the negotiating table, instead of unleashing yet another war on Earth," Medvedev told Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper. "Any kinds of land operations, as a rule, lead to a permanent war. Look at what's happened in Afghanistan and a number of other countries. I am not even going to bring up poor Libya."

The PM was commenting on recent statements from Saudi Arabia claiming that it was ready to send ground troops to Syria, should Washington lead the way.

"The Americans and our Arab partners must think well: do they want a permanent war? Do they think they can really quickly win it? It is impossible, especially in the Arab world. Everyone is fighting against everyone there," Medvedev added. The interview was published on the eve of the International Syria Support Group meeting in Munich, where the cessation of hostilities in Syria became a top item on the agenda.
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Red Flag

Turkish minister claims 50,000 Syrian refugees are headed toward Turkey's border


Sputnik
Fri, 12 Feb 2016 20:08 UTC
syria refugees
© EUTERS/ Murad Sezer
Some 50,000 Syrian refugees are moving towards the Turkish border, Turkey's Minister of European Union Affairs Volkan Bozkir said Thursday,

According to the official, quoted by the local Daily Sabah newspaper, the number of new refugee arrivals from Syria could reach 1.5 million if the city of Aleppo is "completely bombed out."

Turkey hosts over 2 million of Syrian migrants, who fled across the border to escape violence in their home country. Syria has been locked in an armed conflict involving various opposition factions and radical Islamist militant groups for almost five years.

According to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Raad Hussein, since the latest offensive against the extremists by the Syrian government forces began last week in the Aleppo province bordering Turkey, some 51,000 civilians have been displaced and a further 300,000 are at risk of being placed under siege.
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Yoda

Lavrov: Terrorists around city of Aleppo supplied by Turkey


Sputnik
Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:46 UTC
isis jeeps
© REUTERS/ Ammar Abdullah
Militants around the city of Aleppo in Syria, including those from the Jabhat al-Nusra (Nusra Front) and Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam) groups, are supplied from Turkey, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

Speaking after a Thursday meeting of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), Lavrov stressed that the western suburbs of Aleppo are still controlled by al-Nusra and Jaish al-Islam.

"Those guys are around Aleppo on the western side, on the eastern side the government forces have unblocked the city with our support...And don't forget that all those who are in the Aleppo region - both Jabhat al-Nusra and Jaish al-Islam, and [Harakat] Ahrar ash-Sham, and some more moderate groups - all of them are supplied via one route, from one location on the territory of Turkey," Lavrov said.

The Russian Foreign Minister stressed that UN Security Council Resolution 2254 prohibits all supplies that support terrorist organizations.
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Beaker

CIA Director Brennan: Daesh produces and uses chemical weapons, Syria and Iraq


Sputnik
Fri, 12 Feb 2016 09:10 UTC
gasmask
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Chemical weapons: Are they making them or being supplied?
Daesh used chemical weapons in Syria and Iraq, CIA Director John Brennan said. "We have a number of instances where ISIL [Daesh] has used chemical munitions on the battlefield," Brennan told CBS News in an interview.

He added that the militant group had capabilities to produce small amounts of mustard gas or chlorine gas and possibly export it to the Western countries. The CIA chief said that US intelligence was actively involved in searching for chemical weapons or labs producing those in Syria and Iraq.

On Tuesday, US National Intelligence Director James Clapper said an investigation into an alleged Daesh attack in Syria in August revealed that at least two people were exposed to sulfur mustard.

Comment: Exporting mustard gas or chlorine gas to Western countries...is it unrealistic? fear mongering? Probably, but traces of sulfur mustard have been found in mortars that hit Kurdish forces in northern Iraq and Syria. Daesh's Western funding sources/suppliers could potentially provide anything they want, the means for Daesh to produce it including a way to export it. See also:

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Handcuffs

Police State America: DOJ steps up its war on 'domestic extremists'

Derrick Broze
Activist Post
Fri, 12 Feb 2016 18:30 UTC
police state
Senior officials with the U.S. Department of Justice recently announced possible legal changes which could allow the government greater room to combat so-called "anti-government extremists".

On Thursday February 4, Reuters reported that John Carlin, the Justice Department's chief of national security, and federal prosecutors are looking for new tools to deal with the rise of "domestic extremists."

"Based on recent reports and the cases we are seeing, it seems like we're in a heightened environment," Carlin told Reuters. Reuters notes that the U.S. government is facing an increase in opposition from militia groups, "sovereign citizens," and other "anti-government extremists."

However, federal officials like Carlin claim they are impeded in their pursuit of violent domestic terrorists because, although there is currently a U.S. law that prohibits "material" support of internationally recognized terror groups, there is not such a law for domestic groups. Reuters reports:
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Chess

Russia's gambit: Kurds take Moscow's side as ally in Syria


Sputnik
Wed, 10 Feb 2016 09:59 UTC
Kurds
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Kurd fighters on the march, part of the Syrian game change.
The announcement of the leadership of the Syrian Kurds that they would open their first foreign office in Moscow is telling: their choice of Russia over Washington or Western Europe signals that Russia is allying with the Kurds in the Middle East, which will certainly undermine US and Turkish policy in the region, according to the Israeli media.

Wednesday is set to see an inauguration ceremony of the first European office of the Syrian Kurds, which will be located in Moscow. The ceremony is to be attended by Russian foreign ministry officials as well as representatives from several other countries, according to Abdulsalam Ali, the Syrian Kurdish envoy in Moscow. "The choice of Moscow and not Washington or Western Europe is telling," says The Jerusalem Post. "Putin appears to be making another shrewd play for power in the Middle East by allying with the Kurds, in a step that undermines United States and Turkish policy in the region," states the Israeli newspaper.

The US has established its cooperation with Syrian Kurdish fighters against Daesh (ISIL/ISIS). It has developed working relations with the Syrian Kurdish YPG (People's Protection Units) - the military wing of the Syrian Democratic Unity Party (PYD) - the most dominant force among the Syrian Kurds and an affiliate organization of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Kurdish group located in Turkey which remains listed as a terrorist organization by the US, Turkey, and the EU.

Meanwhile, Turkey has denounced the move. Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued what can be considered as an ultimatum to the US this week, saying that its "either us or the PYD", Gallia Lindenstrauss, a Turkey expert and research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University told the newspaper.

Comment: The effectiveness of the Russian military campaign and the expertise of Kurdish fighters against the Daesh and other factions, has proven to be a mutually aligned and beneficial partnership (one the West could have had but doesn't deserve). Erdogan should knock on Israel's door. His ongoing tantrums and civil war/massacre of the PKK is more aligned with Israel's modus operandi and Bibi's temperament.

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Bad Guys

Extremists in 'moderate' clothing: BBC plays dress up with Al Qaeda affiliates in Syria

Tony Cartalucci
Land Destroyer
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 00:00 UTC
Major Yaser Abdulrahim

If Major Yaser Abdulrahim looks like he's never wore his FSA uniform out into the field, that's because he hasn't. He is not a member of the FSA at all, and is instead a commander of the Fatah Halab, an umbrella group for Al Qaeda affiliates armed and funded by both the US and Saudi Arabia.

The BBC's latest production is as absurd as it is transparent and abhorrent.

Upon reading the increasingly desperate headlines pumped out by the Western media as Western-backed terrorist forces begin to fold under an effective joint Syrian-Russian offensive to take the country back, readers will notice that though the term "moderate rebels" or "moderate opposition" is used often, the Western media is seemingly incapable of naming a single faction or leader among them.

The reason for this is because there are no moderates and there never were. Since 2007, the US has conspired to arm and fund extremists affiliated with Al Qaeda to overthrow the government of Syria and destabilize Iranian influence across the entire Middle East.

Exposed in Seymour Hersh's 2007 article, "The Redirection Is the Administration's new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism?," it stated explicitly that:
The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.

Comment: The BBC - like CNN, Fox News, The New York Times, Washington Post, etc. is yet another organ of gross disinformation, Western terror and imperial ambition. In the vast scheme of things, this latest deception from the British Broadcasting Company is actually pretty small and par for the course.

See these stories for a small sampling of the BBC's wholesale lies:

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Attention

Putin's prophetic 2007 warnings in Munich are all coming true


Sputnik
Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:30 UTC
Russian President Vladimir Putin
© Sputnik/ Alexei Druzhinin
Nine years after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the world against irresponsible US policies spreading instability and threats of new wars around the world, those dangers today are greater than ever, US analysts told Sputnik.

"I read the 2007 speech when [Putin] first delivered it and pretty much agreed with everything he had to say. Now the US/NATO confrontation against Russia has become even worse and more dangerous," University of Illinois Professor of International Law Francis Boyle said.
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Snakes in Suits

Erdogan's deep state revival: Ankara creating monsters in menacing power grab


Sputnik
Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:12 UTC
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
© REUTERS/ Kayhan Ozer/
The Erdogan regime has recreated the Turkish "deep state" comprising of intelligence officials, Islamists and ultranationalists to maintain full control over the country, US author Jonathan Marshall stresses, adding that the "system" represents a direct threat to Turkish democracy, Turkey's neighbors and NATO allies.

The Turkish President has re-established close ties with Islamists and Turkish ultranationalists, at the same time providing the country's intelligence agency with sweeping powers, US author Jonathan Marshall writes.

"Turkey's embattled President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is resurrecting the 'deep state' alliance of secret intelligence operatives and extreme rightists that he so notably challenged just a few years ago while putting hundreds of military officers and other opponents on trial for conspiring against Turkish democracy. In a remarkable about-face, Erdogan is now emulating the ruthless tactics of previous authoritarian rulers at the expense of Turkey's evolution as a liberal state," Marshall writes in his article for Consortiumnews.com.
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Arrow Up

Ex-NATO chairman admits Russia set the groundwork for peace in Syria


RT
Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:18 UTC
Russian Su-24
© Dmitriy Vinogradov / Reuters
A multifunctional fighter-bomber Su-34 of the Russian Aerospace Forces lands at Hemeimeem air base in Syria.
Russia was the first to do the groundwork for peace in Syria by launching its anti-ISIS operation, while both Washington and Brussels lacked any kind of strategy, the ex-chairman of NATO's Military Committee has said.


Comment: Perhaps the 'lack of strategy' was the real strategy? The US goal was never to bring peace to Syria, but to topple Assad's government and replace it with an easily controlled puppet or three.

Lieutenant General Harald Kujat, who was chief of staff of the German Bundeswehr in 2000-2002 and served as NATO's Military Committee chairman in 2002-2005, made the comments on the Syrian crisis in an interview with Passauer Neue Presse newspaper.

Comment: NY Times: Syria is a disgrace for Obama, Putin's policy ensured Russia's success

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