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US airstrike in Libya kills kidnapped Serb diplomats


Sputnik
Sat, 20 Feb 2016 19:25 UTC
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© Sabratha municipality media office/Reuters
Two Serbian diplomats died in the result of the US airstrikes in the northwestern Libyan town of Sabratha, Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said Saturday.

The US-led coalition against the Islamic State (IS), which is prohibited in numerous countries including the United States and Russia, conducted airstrikes in Libya against a terrorist training camp and Tunisian IS leader Noureddine Chouchane after establishing he was planning attacks in the region, US Defense Department spokesperson Peter Cook said in a briefing on Friday.

"Unfortunately, as a result of the attack on the Islamic State position in Libya, two of them lost their lives," Agence France[-Presse cited Dacic as saying at a press conference.

Dacic stated that the identification of victims would be carried out shortly. They are likely to have been kidnapped on November 28, 2015.

Washington has been considering the possibility of expanding its anti-IS campaign into Libya amid the terrorist group's rise in the country. So far, the United States, however, has ruled out sending ground troops to Libya and has pushed for the formation of a unity government.

The US-led coalition against the Islamic State, which is prohibited in numerous countries including the United States and Russia, conducted airstrikes in Libya against a terrorist training camp and Tunisian IS leader Noureddine Chouchane after establishing he was planning attacks in the region, US Defense Department spokesperson Peter Cook said in a briefing on Friday.
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Turkey waging proxy war against US in Syria

Marko Marjanovic
Russia Insider
Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:00 UTC
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© www.globalresearch.ca"Well, dang! I missed that chapter...can they do that?"
There is no other word for it. Turkey is now waging a proxy war against US in Syria. It has always been clear that Turkish and American interests in Syria do not necessarily match, but until now Turkey had refrained from using its military to blast those contrary US interests to high heaven. That's all changed now that it has emerged that Turkey is now bringing its military force to bear not only against its old enemy the Syrian Kurds, but also an allied formation that is a US creation from the get-go.

In Syria US has always had two problems. The first problem was that whichever non-jihadi "Free Syrian Army" groups it created, trained and equipped these as a rule were quickly pressured by Al Nusra to disband and their weapons and fighters incorporated into the rebel military structure controlled by Al Nusra. Try as it might - except in the south on the border with Jordan - US could not establish a meaningful Syrian rebel network of its own (and eventually "got around" the problem by simply funneling resources into the one controlled by Al Qaeda).

Secondly, in its slow motion war against ISIS it found that having shunned Assad the only forces who could possibly act as its boots on the ground were the Kurds. However, the usefulness of Kurds is limited firstly because they are not necessarily interested in dying en masse to eject ISIS from areas they can not hope to ever make part of their Syrian Kurdistan region. And secondly, because Syria's majority Sunni Arabs are not necessarily thrilled to see the Kurdish YPG take over military control of more of the country.

Comment: See also:

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Jet1

Russia to renovate mothballed military airfield in Crimea


Sputnik
Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:46 UTC
Russian navy ships
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Russia has started the renovation of a mothballed airfield on the Crimean Peninsula to deploy Black Sea Fleet's naval helicopters and drones after 2017, a source in the Sevastopol city administration said Saturday.

The Khersones airfield in Crimea has been mothballed for 20 years, according to the Russian military.

"The renovation work may take several years and envisions full renovation of the airfield's infrastructure," the source told RIA Novosti.

"The deployment priority will be given to helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles," the source stressed.
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Nuke

Passer-by finds missing radioactive material in south Iraq


PressTV
Sun, 21 Feb 2016 17:41 UTC
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"Highly dangerous" radioactive material that had gone missing in Iraq last year has been found dumped near a petrol station in the country's south, officials say.

The chief of the security panel in Basra provincial council, Jabbar al-Saidi, said on Sunday that the material was found by a passer-by in the southern town of Zubair, which is located around 15 km (9 miles) southwest of Basra.

He said there were no concerns about radiation from the material.
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Assad: The West and its Arab client states manufactured Syrian conflict, over 80 countries are supporting terrorists

Rudy Panko
Russia Insider
Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:00 UTC
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Assad says the west and its Arab client states manufactured the conflict in Syria
One of Spain's leading newspapers, El País, sat down with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus for an interview about what lies ahead for Syria. We've compiled some highlights below:

Q. A truce was announced by Russia and the United States. Is the Syrian government willing to respect the cessation of military operations in Syria?

A: Definitely ... A ceasefire is about - if you want to say ceasefire, it's not the correct word, because a ceasefire is between two armies or two countries - it's better to say cessation of hostility, or, let's say, stopping the operations ... It's about preventing other countries, especially Turkey, from sending more recruits, more terrorists, more armaments, or any kind of logistical support to those terrorists. There is a United Nations resolution, or Security Council resolution, regarding this point that's not implemented. If we don't provide all these requirements for the ceasefire, it will be against the stability; it's going to make more chaos in Syria, it may lead to a de facto division of the country.
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Syrian Army crushes ISIS in East Aleppo cauldron, aims to capture all of Aleppo

Rudy Panko
Russia Insider
Sun, 21 Feb 2016 16:54 UTC
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According to breaking reports, ISIS was boiled alive in the East Aleppo cauldron. Hundreds of ISIS fighters apparently fled the area, leaving less than 200 to defend the thermal power plant, which is now under full SAA control. ISIS is now on the run:
The Syrian Arab Army's "Tiger Forces" and their allies have officially captured every village inside the Al-Safira Plains today after a very long battle at the Aleppo Thermal Power Plant this past week.

According to a battlefield correspondent at the Kuweires Military Airport, sappers from the Syrian Arab Army's engineering corps are now clearing the IEDs placed by the terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) before they fled the area.

The source added that some 700 ISIL terrorists fled the Al-Safira Plains this past week, leaving only 100-150 fighters left to control the Thermal Power. However, those terrorists were unable to hold on for very long, thanks in large part to the Tiger Forces, who surrounded the entire facility while also seizing the Aleppo-Raqqa Highway.

Comment: Further reading: U.S. tells Russia, "stop bombing al-Qaeda", violates own UNSC resolution

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Bombshell CIA confirmation: Saudi Arabia has four to seven nuclear bombs, deliverable by missile or aircraft


Superstation95
Sun, 21 Feb 2016 16:31 UTC
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Founding Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Counter-Terrorism Operations Center publicly confirms Saudi Arabia has deliverable nuclear bombs.

Last week, on "The Hal Turner Show" Mr. Turner told his audience that, based on his years of experience as a National Security Intelligence Asset with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Saudi Arabia is in possession of nuclear weapons. He also made clear that a CIA asset had (earlier) made this revelation in public, on FOX NEWS CHANNEL, and this revelation was a staggering breach of Classified Information protocols.
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FBI wants backdoor to your data: San Bernardino shooter's Apple ID password changed while in government custody

Matt Agorist
Free Thought Project
Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:45 UTC
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As the federal government continues to publicly chastise Apple for keeping their users' data secure, Apple remains resilient in their act of civil disobedience — in spite of a court order filed on Friday against the tech giant.

Using the alleged San Bernardino shooter's phone as the subject of their campaign, the feds are claiming that if Apple doesn't create a backdoor through their encryption, then civilization, as we know it, will cease to exist.

John McAfee has even offered up his team's hacking services to the FBI free of charge, as a means of allowing the phone in question to be accessed - without allowing the government to have a backdoor into all iPhones. He's offered to eat his shoe if he fails. But, they've yet to accept.

A startling discovery on Friday, however, has just raised more questions about the FBI's motives in wanting their backdoor to your data.

Comment: It's good to see Apple taking a stand against the Federal Government and their invasive spying. There's a battle being waged over our right to privacy and Big Brother wants total control of it.

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Jackie Chan: 'America is the most corrupt country in the world'


Daily Mail
Sun, 21 Feb 2016 14:53 UTC
He may enjoy a Hollywood payday now and then, but that doesn't stop Jackie Chan from criticizing America.

The martial arts star called the U..S the 'most corrupt' country in the world during a recent interview on a Hong Kong television show.

'If you talk about corruption, the entire world, the United States has no corruption?' Chan asked the host.
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© Getty ImagesControversial: Chan, who's made millions in American films, called the country the most corrupt nation on the planet
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Light Sabers

RAND wargame simulation sees NATO lose most of Europe to Russia

Robert Farley
The National Interest
Sat, 20 Feb 2016 00:00 UTC
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A recent RAND wargame on a potential Russian offensive into the Baltics brought talk of a "new Cold War" into sharp focus. The game made clear that NATO would struggle to prevent Russian forces from occupying the Baltics if it relied on the conventional forces now available.

These wargames have great value in demonstrating tactical and operational reality, which then informs broader strategic thinking. In this case, however,the headlines generated by the game have obscured more about the NATO-Russian relationship than they have revealed. In short, the NATO deterrent promise has never revolved around a commitment to defeat Soviet/Russian forces on NATO's borders. Instead, NATO has backed its political commitment with the threat to broaden any conflict beyond the war that the Soviets wanted to fight. Today, as in 1949, NATO offers deterrence through the promise of escalation.
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