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Syrian Army sends mass reinforcements to retake Palmyra airbase

J. Arnoldski (translator)
RusVesna / Fort Russ
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:22 UTC
daesh palmyra
© AP Photo/ militant photo
ISIS terrorists have launched an offensive on the T-4 Tiyas airbase near Palmyra in the eastern province of Homs where Russian attack helicopters have been based and on combat duty for many months.

On Monday morning, the bandits stormed the perimeter of the Syrian airbase from the northern and eastern directions. Before the ISIS infantry attack on the positions of the airfield's defenders, two suicide car bombers tried to break through the positions of Syrian Arab Army on the perimeter. The army destroyed both "jihadmobiles" with the help of Russian guided anti-tank missiles before the suicide bombers could reach their targets. Footage of this has since been released:


Comment: The army has regained control over the barracks near the Tiyas base today. Yesterday, Putin convened a meeting of the Russian Security Council, where they discussed Palmyra. As Alexander Mercouris points out, the official list of participants was notably truncated, and the photograph of the meeting obscures the individuals to Putin's left. Mercouris writes:
The concealed officials on Putin's left are of course the senior military and intelligence officials who are being given the task of retaking Palmyra. As is standard Russian practice, their identities are being withheld.
putin
The meeting has all the hallmarks of a planning meeting, with reports being solicited from the relevant military and intelligence officials concerning the situation in Palmyra - including almost certainly the officials and agents on the ground in Syria - and with a detailed discussion of the plan to retake the city.

We shall undoubtedly see this plan put into action over the coming days and weeks.


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Chess

Terrorist attacks in Turkey due to political rapprochement with Russia and dropping US dollar in trade

Hakan Karakurt
Katehon
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:23 UTC
Turkey Bosphorus Bridge and Turkish flag
© Flickr/ KLMircea
On the 10th of December evening after a football match in Beşiktaş district of Istanbul-Turkey, bombing attack targeted Turkish Police Officers who were about to leave the stadium. According to Minister of Interior two bombs were exploded in succession, first was a car bombing and the second was a suicide one.

Unfortunately 38 people killed; of which 30 are police officers, and 155 police officers and civilians wounded. One day national mourning is announced and Kurdish separatist terrorist organization PKK claimed the responsibility of bombing. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that he was about to fly Kazakhstan for an official visit to negotiate bilateral relations and Turkey's possible membership to Shanghai Cooperation Organization, therefore the timing of bombings is very meaningful.

2016 is a very painful year and a turning point for Turkey. Although Turkey is struggling against PKK since 1984, for the first time PKK began to target Turkish targets and civilians in big cities such as Istanbul and Ankara by using suicide and car bombings. During 2016, 12 bombings in Turkish cities caused 317 dead and hundreds wounded. ISIS and PKK shared equally the bombing attacks. Istanbul was targeted five times and Ankara targeted three times in this year. The first ISIS suicide bombing occurred on 6th of January 2015 and skyrocketed in 2016 after Turkey targeted ISIS in Syria. By the way, military coup attempted by US backed FETÖ terrorists on 15th July caused 240 dead, which is regarded as an US proxy attack.
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Best of the Web: RT Interview With Assad: Terrorist's Strength Comes From US Backing, Russia-China Alliance Makes World Safer


RT
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 16:00 UTC
assad rt interview
President Obama's announcement of a waiver for arming unspecified rebel groups in Syria came shortly before the terrorist group Islamic State launched a massive attack on Palmyra. Syrian President Bashar Assad believes it was no coincidence, he told RT.

"The announcement of the lifting of that embargo is related directly to the attack on Palmyra and to the support of other terrorists outside Aleppo, because when they are defeated in Aleppo, the United States and the West, they need to support their proxies somewhere else," he said.

"The crux of that announcement is to create more chaos, because the United States creates chaos in order to manage this chaos," Assad added.

He added that Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) forces "came with different and huge manpower and firepower that ISIS never had before during this attack, and they attacked on a huge front, tens of kilometers that could be a front of armies. ISIS could only have done that with the support of states. Not state; states."

In the interview, the Syrian leader explained how his approach to fighting terrorism differs from that of the US, why he believes the military success of his forces in Aleppo was taken so negatively in the West, and what he expects from US President-elect Donald Trump.

The full transcript of the interview is below.
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Attention

Russia rejects Aleppo ceasefire deal after jihadis refuse to leave, shell humanitarian buses

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:58 UTC
Syrian residents of the Old City of Aleppo stand in a bus
© AFP 2016/ Youssef KARWASHANSyrian residents of the Old City of Aleppo stand in a bus at a crossing point during their evacuation to a distinct government-controlled area of the city early on December 7, 2016.
Fighting resumes in Aleppo after Jihadis fail to act on Turkish promise to withdraw from Aleppo and after Russia rejects ceasefire.

Reports circulated throughout the evening of yesterday Tuesday 13th December 2016 of a supposed agreement between the Russian military and Turkish military intelligence to evacuate the remaining Jihadi fighters and civilians from eastern Aleppo.

I have learnt through long experience to doubt the existence of any agreement the Russians are supposed to have entered into until they announce it.

In the event the hours passed and no confirmation of the existence of such an agreement came from Moscow or Damascus though in comments to the UN Security Council Russia's ambassador Vitaly Churkin did appear to refer to it indirectly.

Instead there was a temporary draw down in fighting in the evening of yesterday, with the Syrian government's green buses appearing in eastern Aleppo this morning, apparently in order to take the Jihadis away. None however came, Russian and Syrian reports say the Jihadis fired at the buses, and the fighting has resumed in earnest.


Comment: The Russian reconciliation center reported: "When the transport arrived at the previously agreed loading place, the militants began shelling the convoy. Having used the ceasefire, the militants regrouped at dawn and renewed hostilities, trying to break through the positions of the Syrian army in the northwestern direction." Five people were killed in shelling of the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood by the remaining jihadists.


The Russian military's Reconciliation Centre at Khmeimim air base in Syria is now saying that the Syrian military will continue its offensive until all the Jihadi fighters in eastern Aleppo are either dead or captured or give up.

Comment: Despite these problems, over the last day, another 366 militants surrendered and 329 of them received amnesty and safe passage to Idlib. Another 6,000 civilians (including 2,210 children) were evacuated from the occupied part of the city.

The Syrian took one more neighborhood in Aleppo today, the Sukkari district. The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic has now confirmed what we all knew: that Nusra terrorists and associated rebels embedded themselves among civilians in Aleppo and prevented them from leaving:
"Alongside a pattern of indiscriminate attacks, the Commission has further received allegations of opposition groups, including the terrorist group Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra [al-Nusra Front]) and Ahrar al-Sham [Ahrar ash-Sham] preventing civilians from leaving as well as opposition fighters embedding themselves within the civilian population, thus heightening the risk to civilians of being killed or injured," the statement read. According to the commission, the Syrian government and allied forces "now exercise effective control over eastern Aleppo, and therefore bear the primary responsibility for preventing such violations, including possible acts of reprisals."


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Bizarro Earth

Russian hacking and the Deep State civil war

Charles Hugh Smith
Of Two Minds
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:58 UTC
CIA disinformation
This is a blatantly politicized "report" that is not supported by any evidence, nor is it supported by the other 16 intelligence agencies.

The recent pronouncement by the C.I.A. that Russian hackers intervened in the U.S. presidential election doesn't pass the sniff test--on multiple levels. Let's consider the story on the most basic levels.

1. If the report is so "secret," why is it dominating the news flow?

2. Why was the "secret report" released now?

3. What actual forensic evidence is there of intervention? Were voting machines tampered with? Or is this "secret report" just another dose of fact-free "fake news" like The Washington Post's list of 200 "Russian propaganda" websites?

4. The report claims the entire U.S. intelligence community is in agreement on the "proof of Russian intervention on behalf of Trump" story, but then there's this:

"The C.I.A. presentation to senators about Russia's intentions fell short of a formal U.S. assessment produced by all 17 intelligence agencies. A senior U.S. official said there were minor disagreements among intelligence officials about the agency's assessment, in part because some questions remain unanswered."
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Erdogan announces national mobilization following Istanbul attack


Sputnik
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:56 UTC
Turkish special forces
© AFP 2016/ YASIN AKGUL
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday called for a national mobilization in the face of the terrorist threat following the recent terror attack in Istanbul.

On Saturday, two bombs exploded near the Vodafone Arena Stadium in the Turkish largest city, killing at least 44 people, mostly police officers, and injuring about 150. The country's authorities claimed that the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was tied with the twin blast.


Comment: Twin Istanbul blasts kill 38 and injure 155 near Besiktas stadium


"I announce a national mobilization. Henceforth, neither terrorists nor their supporters will have a minute of peace. I appeal to our security forces: the whole country, all the citizens are with you against terrorists," Erdogan said at a meeting with the heads of rural administrative authorities in Ankara.
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Snakes in Suits

US-led offensive pause in Raqqa designed to let Daesh attack Palmyra


Sputnik
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:41 UTC
Palmyra, Syria
© REUTERS/ Omar Sanadik
The suspension of a military operation in Raqqa by a United States-led international coalition was designed to help militants relocate to Palmyra, said Sabbah Zanganeh, former Iranian envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

According to the diplomat, it raises the question of how large groups of Daesh militants managed to move from Iraqi Mosul to the area of Palmyra.

Zanganeh suggested that the suspension of a Kurdish and US-led operation in Syrian Raqqa also played in the hands of the terrorists. "When Daesh and al-Nusra Front militants are attacked and close to being defeated they try to relocate to other areas. After Mosul was blocked large parts of Aleppo province near the city of Al-Bab were retaken by the Syrian Army and its allies as a result of fierce clashes. In an attempt to breach the entrapment, Daesh militants and other terrorists launched an offensive on Palmyra," Zanganeh told Sputnik.
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Snakes in Suits

Britain continues to back Saudi bombing of Yemen despite US stopping arms sale, Houthi PM accuses UK of war crimes


RT
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:21 UTC
Yemen buildings destroyed
© Khaled Abdullah / ReutersA man sits near others amidst rubble of a building destroyed by Saudi-led air strikes in the northwestern city of Amran, Yemen. File photo.
The US will halt a planned arms sale to Saudi Arabia due to "strong concerns" over civilian deaths in the country's Yemen campaign. The announcement came just 48 hours after UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson restated his support for the Gulf kingdom.

The US administration will also limit future air training in Saudi Arabia to prioritize targeting, officials said.


Comment: Unnamed official says US halted weapons sales to Saudis over growing civilian casualties in Yemen conflict


Up to 10,000 people have been killed since fighting began in Yemen, including 4,000 civilians, according to UN estimates.

The UN stated in August that the Saudi-led coalition is responsible for 60 percent of the civilian deaths.

US action on Saudi Arabia runs in stark contrast to British policy to the Gulf kingdom, which it continues to back militarily.

Comment: More on Saudi Arabia's terrorism support:

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Snakes in Suits

Unprecedented White House attempt to overturn democratic process


RT
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 14:12 UTC
Donald Trump
© Harrison McClary / Reuters
It is unprecedented for American democracy to blame a foreign power for influencing an election and use that as a tool to overturn the democratic process, experts told RT.

The White House has made some new allegations against President-elect Donald Trump over his supposed ties with Russia.

"It was the president-elect who refused to disclose his financial connections to Russia. It was the president-elect who hired a campaign chairman with extensive, lucrative, personal financial ties to Russia. It was the president-elect who had national security adviser on the campaign that had been a paid contributor to RT, the Russian propaganda outlet," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told the daily briefing on Monday.
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Propaganda

Merkel's Christian Democratic Party says Putin would like to see her fall in 2017

Arne Delfs
Bloomberg
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:55 UTC
merkel putin
German voters would hand a victory to Russian President Vladimir Putin if they ousted Chancellor Angela Merkel in next year's election, a leader of her party said.

A coalition of Social Democrats, Greens and the anti-capitalist Left party governing Europe's biggest economy would be more to Putin's liking, Michael Grosse-Broemer, parliamentary whip of Merkel's Christian Democrat-led bloc, said Tuesday. That's in line with the chancellor's campaign message that her party faces an unprecedented two-prong challenge from the political left and right in the election expected to be held in September.
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