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Syrian and Iraqi analysts agree: America blackmails, Russia helps out

Yuri Zinin
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:28 UTC
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The propaganda campaign, launched by the West in response to Russia's ongoing military campaign in Syria has produced a massive response across the Arab media. Those sources that were claiming that "Assad should go" from the very beginning of the Syrian crisis reacted negatively to this development, claiming that Moscow is pursuing "imperial ambitions".

The false nature of such claims has been exposed by a number of Arab commentators. The claims that Russia may be after some kind of occupation or meddling in Syria are particularly questionable, since they are being voiced by the same people that have backed US air strikes in this same country, notes a Palestinian author Dr. Ibrahim Alyush in his article.

It's curious that most of those sources also condemned greatly when in the summer of 2013 President Obama refused to send US troops to Syria. Yet, today they have suddenly become "patriots", "defenders of Syrian sovereignty" that Russia is allegedly violating, all while backing Damascus in its war against terrorists.

Comment: Also see: Obama tries to rewrite history, saying he had 'doubts' about ability to create moderate rebels in Syria

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So much for sanctions: Putin says Russian economy stabilizing as crisis has passed


RT
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:06 UTC
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© Vladimir Astapkovich / RIA Novosti October 13, 2015. Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the 7th Russia Calling! VTB Capital Investment Forum at the World Trade Center in Moscow.
The peak of the crisis has passed for the Russian economy as the country is confidently adapting to the changing environment and beginning to stabilize, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"Surely, we have faced the crisis, nevertheless some experts say - and I agree with them - that the peak of the crisis has been reached and the economy in general - I don't say absolutely - adapted or is confidently adapting to these changing conditions. This means the first signs of stabilization..," Putin said at the Russia Calling! investment forum on Tuesday.

Comment: It's becoming clear that the West's efforts to destabilize Russia have only backfired:

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Lavrov: There's little doubt US arms in Syria end up in the hands of terrorists


RT
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:56 UTC
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The Russian Foreign Ministry has few doubts that weapons and munitions supplied by the US to the so-called "moderate Syrian opposition" will end up in terrorists' hands. The US Air Force has reportedly delivered 50 tons of munitions to Syrian rebels.

"I want to be honest, we barely have any doubt that at least a considerable part of these weapons will fall into the terrorists' hands," Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with NTV channel.

Lavrov pointed out that American society and the Congress are also getting anxious about the Washington's previous efforts to support "moderate Syrian opposition."
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ISIS militants have lost "most" of their ammunition, heavy vehicles and equipment in Russian airstrikes


RT
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:37 UTC
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© Russian defense ministry / RIA Novosti
Islamic State militants have lost "most" of their ammunition, heavy vehicles and equipment in Russian airstrikes, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. At least 86 ISIS targets were hit during 88 sorties in the last 24 hours.

Sukhoi Su-24M and Su-34 bombers, together with Su-25SM ground support aircrafts targeted Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) sites in the provinces of Raqqah, Hama, Idlib, Latakia and Aleppo, according to the ministry. The jets hit command posts, ammunition and armament depots, military vehicles, plants producing explosives, field camps and bases.

Su-24M bombers also targeted an IS field headquarters near the city of Anadan in the province of Aleppo from which the terrorists coordinated their activities. There was an ammunition depot at the site, the ministry said.

Comment: Russia's ability to decimate ISIS terrorists in such a short span of time is now making it painfully obvious that the U.S. never had any intentions of halting terrorism. The empire of chaos was only using them as a means to replace Syria's democratically elected government with yet another puppet regime in it's ongoing quest for domination of the Middle East and its resources.

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Rossiya-1's Vladimir Solovyov interviews Putin: "U.S. intel can't know everything, and shouldn't" (COMPLETE)


Kremlin.ru
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:49 UTC
Vladimir Putin gave an interview to Rossiya-1 television channel presenter Vladimir Solovyov. The interview was recorded on October 10.
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Rossiya-1 presenter Vladimir Solovyov: Mr President, we are living in troubled times, as can be seen by the terrorist attack in Turkey that has left many dead and wounded. What conclusions can we draw and what can we do to stop this wave of terror?

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: We need to make a joint effort to combat this scourge. Let me take this opportunity to express my condolences to the Turkish people and the Turkish President. What happened there of course is an insolent terrorist attack, a crime that has caused many victims.

This is an attempt to destabilise the situation in Turkey, our neighbour and Russia's friend. The fact that this has happened during an election campaign is a sign of a clearly provocative act. But we will be effective in combating terrorism only if we fight this evil together.

Vladimir Solovyov: We did try to fight it together with the international community, but the international community does not wish to listen to us. Now everyone is busy raising a storm about the fact that we are in Syria. What are our real goals in Syria, and what are the criteria for success there?

Vladimir Putin: First, let me confirm what is already known, namely, that we informed our partners of our plans beforehand. We informed our American partners and many others, especially the countries in the region concerned, of our plans and intentions.

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Kurdish militia also claims Baghdadi 'severely injured' - a possible media win for the new coalition?


Fort Russ
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:12 UTC
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© Reuters/Social Media Website via Reuters TVA man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Breaking: ISIS leader severely injured as a result of an Iraqi airstrike in partnership with Russia, western media withhold information - Kurdish militia intelligence

Oct. 11, 2015 23:32: This sensational information was relayed to "Russian Spring" by a militiaman from Donbass, call-sign "Timur", who is now among the Kurdish resistance detachments and responsible for coordinating operations with the Syrian Army.

Contrary to the claims of Western media, the head of the terrorist organization "Islamic State", Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was injured, along with ISIS leaders, by an Iraqi airstrike on a convoy in the city of Karabilah in the Iraqi province of Anbar.

Currently, the wounded thug leader is in the Syrian city Al-Bukamal near the Iraqi border, where around 1,000 fighters are concentrated.

It should be noted that repeated attempts by US and NATO special services to liquidate the odious terrorist leader were without effect. However, shortly after the beginning of Iraqi-Russian cooperation in the framework of an anti-terrorist coalition and the opening of a joint information center in Baghdad, the Iraqi air force received the necessary data for a strike against top ISIS leaders.

Comment: There's another angle to this story. Does al-Baghdadi even exist, as he is portrayed in the media? The first was a fake: If Baghdadi is a PSYOP creation (like Bin Laden in the after-death years of his media 'life'), this is a pretty genius move by the anti-ISIS coalition. Iraq, Russia and Syria can take credit for taking out ISIS's leader, and there's not a thing the U.S. can do about it. How can they prove Iraq didn't kill a man who doesn't really exist? Either way, as Arnoldski writes above, it's a win-win situation if Baghdadi is killed: they get the credit for doing a job the U.S. has been trying and failing to do, and they take out a Western intelligence asset/terrorist in the process.

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Obama tries to rewrite history, saying he had 'doubts' about ability to create moderate rebels in Syria


RT
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:10 UTC
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The failed $500 million program to set up a proxy army in Syria was a test, US President Barack Obama told '60 Minutes', adding that he had doubts about the project from the start. He also ruled out sending US troops to Syria.

"I've been skeptical from the get-go about the notion that we were going to effectively create this proxy army inside of Syria," Obama said in the interview. "My goal has been to try to test the proposition, can we be able to train and equip a moderate opposition that's willing to fight ISIL?"


Comment: If Obama was skeptical, then why was the program even begun? Could it be that Obama is just following orders and that the notions that the president of the U.S. is "commander-in-chief" and "leader of the free world" are myths? That the president is told what to do? The fact that Obama is coming out now, only when the program has clearly failed, could be a sign that he's really just trying to politically distance himself from the worsening public reaction to Washington's handling of Syria and Russia's takeover and eminent success in fighting ISIS. But it also could be a sign of Obama essentially admitting that he doesn't really have a choice on America's foreign policy decisions. Of course, the U.S. HAS successfully created a proxy army in Syria, except it's not moderate rebels, but ISIS.


Broadcast Sunday night, Obama's interview with CBS correspondent Steve Kroft was recorded last Tuesday, days before the administration announced it would stop attempting to train a force of 'moderate' militants in Syria.

After spending hundreds of millions of dollars, Washington had only "four or five" fighters to show for the effort. Most of the equipment ended up in jihadist hands as US-trained rebels were captured or deserted without ever facing Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS or ISIL) in battle.


Comment: Most of the equipment and cash was meant for ISIS, and the idea that it "accidentally" ended up in their hands is merely the propaganda that the government and media are using to explain how the vast majority of funding and resources were never used as intended.


Comment: Obama seems almost desperate to continue capitulating the propaganda. He and his bosses advisors must really feel the pressure closing in all around them to resort to the tone given in this interview. Give it up Obama, those people in the world with firing neurons are seeing the reality of the inept U.S. effort to fight ISIS and their empirical designs to overthrow a freely elected leader.

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South Front Syria Military Review: The myth of the 'moderate rebel'


South Front
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 08:52 UTC
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Washington has been continuing to develop measures against the Russian strategy in Syria. First of all, the US has to demonstrate the existence of the so-called "moderate rebels". For that reason the topic of the "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) became popular in the US and European media. But what is the FSA?

FSA units were created about half a year after the start of the Syrian war.Turkey supported this idea. However, it always was a PR myth and never was a real power in the battlefield. The first FSA activity was noted in 2011 when its leader, a former colonel of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), Riad al-Asaad made a statement about the creation of the FSA. Sunni deserters from the SAA became the core of the group. Turkey started supplies of arms and equipment, but there weren't any confirmed reports of FSA operations.

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The fakery of 'The Free World'

Eric Zuesse
Global Research
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 05:14 UTC
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13 October 2015 is the release-date of the report from the fake investigation — by the governments of Ukraine, Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, and later Malaysia — into who and what and why caused the shoot-down of the Malaysian MH17 Boeing airliner over the conflict-zone in Ukraine on 17 July 2014.

That's the plane which, at the last moment, was inexplicably instructed by the Ukrainian Government's Air Traffic Control to go off the normal course avoiding the Ukrainian civil war zone over the east, and to go instead right into the war-zone.

The airliner got shot down with all 298 aboard dead. Obama and his coup-installed Ukrainian Government blamed Russia immediately, and the European Union (which knew that he had actually taken Ukraine in a bloody February 2014 coup that was staged to look like a 'revolution') promptly caved to Obama's demand to hike the anti-Russia sanctions that had been instituted in March 2014, when Crimea rejected Obama's Ukrainian-coup-imposed government and held a referendum which resulted in Crimea's switching to become again a part of Russia, of which Crimea had been a part for hundreds of years until the Soviet dictator in 1954 had it transferred to Ukraine — and so Russia is now being punished for enabling self-determination, real democracy, for the residents of Crimea.

But Western government-and-'news'-media lying is hardly only about Ukraine. For example, look at this:
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Terrorist attacks increased 9 times since the 'War on Terror' was declared 14 years ago (interactive map)


RT
Tue, 13 Oct 2015 03:15 UTC
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© www.dailymail.co.ukAmbulances gather in the street outside Charlie Hebdo's offices in Paris January 7, 2015.
Ever since the tragic events of 9/11 and US President George W. Bush declared a "War on Terror", the number of attacks across the planet has increased ninefold, from 1,882 in 2001 to 16,818 in 2014, according to UMD's Global Terrorism Database.


The statistics by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland includes all global terrorist acts, from the 9/11 bombings in the US to the Hebdo attacks in France and those further afield.

The GTD's interactive map show that the impact of terrorism over time has increased dramatically since 2001, when the world saw 1,882 terrorist acts around the globe.

In five years' time, this number grew further and reached 2,729 documented instances in 2006.
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© www.capitalbay.comMembers of the public observe the thousands of floral tributes left near the site of the Sydney cafe siege in Martin Place December 17, 2014.
Ten years on, in 2011, with the emergence of Arab Spring uprisings in the wider Middle East and North Africa, terrorist atrocities had more than doubled in number since 2001, with 5,007 registered cases.

In 2013 five countries - Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria and Syria - accounted for 80 percent of deaths from terrorism, according to the GTD. In 2013 alone, the world saw 11,999 terrorist attacks.

The following year, in 2014, the number increased to 16,818.
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With 2015 almost over, the new statistics are yet to emerge. However, based on recent trends, figures remain likely to increase.

Comment: There may be many ways to interpret statistics, but these are quite clear in their message. The trend in attacks and fatalities is on the rise and we are no closer to solving our problems, indeed we are making more. The global stress points are fracturing and it is increasingly taking its toll in lives and property, financially and militarily. We are a more fearful, restricted, monitored, warring and broken global community and relief doesn't seem to be on the near horizon. The trend is not encouraging, in fact, worsening every year. Thank you, especially Western PTB, for all your efforts to bring us to the edge of annihilation and into the pit of despair.

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