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Playtime is over! Russia to increase missions in Syria to 300 a day

Rudy Panko
Russian Insider
Tue, 20 Oct 2015 03:02 UTC
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A 'moderate' rebel's worst nightmare
Moscow plans a huge surge in military operations in Syria, according to reports.

Russia has been flying around 50 missions a day on average in Syria. Soon this number will be closer to 300, according to reports in the British press. The Independent reports:
Russia aims to increase its aerial missions over Syria to 300 a day, sources close to the country's operations have reportedly said.

President Vladimir Putin said the country is currently flying around 50 missions a day on average in Syria.

Operation sources, however, say the aim is to increase this figure to between 200 and 300 a day, according to The Sunday Times.

The construction of a new airstrip as part of preparations for the surge in missions is also reportedly under way.

Russia has deployed a range of bombers, jets, fighters and helicopters in its bid to probe rebel forces in Syria, including Su-24M and Su-34 bombers and Su-30CM fighters.

The source told the newspaper proposed targets were chosen by the Syrians, then passed on for verification by Russian drones.

"They are extremely concerned about the image of Russia's military actions here," the source told The Sunday Times.
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Country with conscience! Russian government mulls measures to protect zoo animals from 'civilized savagry' of public dissection


RT
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:36 UTC
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If European zoos continue to publicly dissect dead animals, Russia will have to review exchange agreements with such institutions, Environment Minister Sergey Donskoy has stated.

"If they continue to make such attempts we could reconsider all agreements with our colleagues. For me it is hard to even think about the possibility of our animals being shown to the public like this," the minister told the Izvestia daily. "In any way, when we transfer some animals to foreign zoos, we always keep a record of their future fate," he said.

Donskoy also added that the Russian authorities always request foreign partners to treat all animals with great care and this does not only include ones that were born in Russia. The comment came days after the public autopsy of a dead lion in a zoo in the Danish city of Odense. It was performed in front of spectators, including small children. The stunt caused a global outcry, especially after the release of pictures and videos of children who started to cry when they saw the grizzly scene.

In 2014, staff at Copenhagen zoo publicly killed an 18-month old giraffe, dressed the carcass and subsequently fed the meat to lions. This happened despite worldwide protests and attempts to save the animal, which although healthy, had a weak gene pool, which is not allowed by international zoological bodies.

The Russian minister called such shows "civilized savagery" and assured reporters that his agency would do everything to prevent Russian-born animals suffering the same fate as the Danish lion and giraffe. "These demonstrations are truly horrible. First, they do not add to Danish specialists' reputations as animal rights activists and second, when they do it in front of children it is hard to imagine what the next generation of zoologists will be like in that country," Donskoy added.

Comment: Once again, Russia upstages other countries by having a heart and exposing barbarism for what it is.

See evilness here:

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Russia blocks Israeli jets from Syrian airspace over Lebanon

Roi Kais
Ynet News
Sat, 17 Oct 2015 23:13 UTC
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© EPA
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Russian forces warned Israel over IAF flights in Russian controlled airspace near the Syrian - Lebanese border area after Israeli jets were detected nearby, according to a report Friday in the Lebanese media outlet As Safir.

The report comes a mere day after Russia announced that it had established a "hotline" with Israel in order to coordinate aerial activity over Lebanon and Syria.

As Safir quoted Lebanese diplomatic officials who were "in the know," as saying that the warning was issued after Russian radar identified Israeli aircraft approaching Russian-controlled airspace two weeks ago.

"Russian aircraft immediately blocked the Israeli jets' path while they flew above the Akkar region in northern Lebanon. The Russians immediately sent a clear warning to the Israelis that entering Syrian airspace would be a pretext for opening fire," the source said.

Comment: Israel testing Russia or just being nosy?

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Russia and Syria's armed forces utilizing new methods of battling ISIL militants


Sputnik
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 21:58 UTC
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© Russian Defence Ministry
The actions of the Russian Air Force in Syria are very effective, making it possible that soon ISIL will be capitulated and the Syrian refugees will be able to return home, according to a political analyst at George Washington University.

Russia and Syria's armed forces are utilizing new methods of conducting warfare against ISIL militants, political analyst Nabil Michael told Press TV in an interview.

"In the two [Persian] Gulf wars, the technique was one of a heavy bombardment campaign that would last for a month or six weeks and then ground troops would move in."

"What we are seeing is a coincidence or a parallel effort between the air force and the ground campaign," Michael told Press TV.

Comment: So far the new battle method seems to be working very well.

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Bad Guys

ISIL child training camp found in pre-dawn raids in Istanbul


Sputnik
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 21:00 UTC
Islamic State flag
© AP
Over the weekend, Turkish police launched a series of pre-dawn raids which nabbed 50 suspected members of the self-proclaimed Islamic State terrorist group. Authorities say roughly two dozen of those suspects were actively training children in Istanbul how to live according to the laws of IS.

Early on Sunday morning, officers with the Istanbul Police Department Counterterrorism Unit raided 17 homes. During the operation, authorities detained 50 individuals, all suspected of having links to IS, and 13 suspected of being involved with the bombing in Ankara earlier this month, which left 102 people dead.

In conducting that investigation, the IPD Counterterrorism Unit also collected intelligence which allegedly indicates many of those arrested individuals were also involved in brainwashing children.

Comment: Looks like Turkey has its hands full now with ISIL and the Kurds.

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Ex-president Viktor Yanukovich sues Ukraine in European Court of Human Rights


RT
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 20:24 UTC
Viktor Yanukovych
© Sergey Pivovarov / RIA Novosti
Ukraine's deposed president, Viktor Yanukovich, has filed a case against the country he used to rule with the European Court of Human Rights, saying his rights had been "repeatedly breached".

According to a press-release by London-based Joseph Hage Aaronson LLP, the law firm representing Yanukovich, the former president is asking the court to "declare violations of his rights under the European Convention on Human Rights, including the right to a fair trial (Article 6), the right to an effective investigation of attempts made upon his life and the right to protection (Article 2), and the right not to be discriminated against because of his political status and opinions (Article 14)."

In the accompanying statement, the firm's chief lawyer, Joe Hage, says "it is clear that the Ukrainian authorities are determined to bring prosecutions" against Yanukovich, having initiated "unfair trials which infringe his basic human right to be present and to defend himself against allegations which President Yanukovych vigorously denies."
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Swiss MOD admits sending military jet but denies it avoided collision with Russian diplomatic flight


Sputnik
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:48 UTC
Swiss FA-18 hornet jet
© AFP 2015/ TT NEWS AGENCY / SUSANNE LINDHOLM
The Swiss Ministry of Defense has denied Monday that its military jet had narrowly avoided collision with an airliner carrying Russian lawmakers in French airspace.

Switzerland said that its F/A-18 military aircraft had been performing standard verification procedures and had not flown in dangerous proximity to a plane with the Russian parliamentary delegation abroad, Swiss Federal Department on Defense, Civil Defense and Sport spokesman Peter Minder told RIA Novosti.

Earlier in the day, the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned the French ambassador in Moscow over a dangerous aviation incident involving what it believed was a French military jet and a plane carrying Russian lawmakers. However, Paris said later that the aircraft belonged to Switzerland.

Comment: The Swiss Ministry of Defense claims this was 'standard procedure' but we've never heard of such incidents until now?

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History repeating: Lusitania and MH17 both used to turn the tide of public opinion

Srdja Trifkovic
Chronicles
Thu, 15 Oct 2015 00:00 UTC
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Reports by various commissions of inquiry - national as well as international - into politically significant tragic events tend to be distorted by politics. The Dutch-led inquiry report into last year's downing of the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine, released on October 13, is no exception.

The British Lusitania Inquiry, chaired by Lord Mersey one hundred years ago, provides an early example of the problem. It concluded, in July 1915, that the loss of the ship and 1,197 of its passengers two months earlier - including 123 Americans - was "caused by torpedoes fired by a submarine of German nationality whereby the ship sank." In its opinion this was done not merely with the intention of sinking the ship, but also "with the intention of destroying the lives of the people on board." In other words premeditated murder most foul. German claims that the Lusitania was a legal and legitimate target because it was carrying ordnance for Britain were dismissed out of hand as "propaganda" on both sides of the Atlantic.

When a survivor of the disaster, Professor Joseph Marichal (a former French army officer), testified at the Inquiry that the ship had sunk in a matter of minutes in all probability because a hidden cargo of munitions had triggered a massive second explosion after the torpedo struck, his testimony was duly dismissed. The British authorities went out of their way to undermine Marichal's credibility, and especially his insistence that as a military man he knew the difference in sound, speed and magnitude between the main boiler's bursting pipes (as officially claimed) and the detonation of high-power explosives. Marichal was killed on the Western Front in 1916, but the suspicion of foul play did not die with him.

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Israeli Cabinet opposes Netanyahu's Jerusalem wall project


Sputnik
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:23 UTC
Jerusalem
© Wikipedia
The Israeli Cabinet opposes the erection of a barrier in East Jerusalem that was previously ordered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Ynetnews reported.

Last month, Prime Minister Netanyahu ordered to erect a wall between the Armon Hanatziv and Jabel Mukaber neighborhoods of East Jerusalem. But members of the security cabinet pressured the prime minister to stop the project following their meeting on Sunday night, the source said.

"The wall erected in front of the houses of Armon Hanatziv divides Jerusalem and represents an achievement and a reward for terrorism. It also will not bring security and should be removed immediately," Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz said.

Several other high-ranking ministers also supported the words of the transportation minister, adding that the wall gives the impression of Jerusalem being divided.
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Bad Guys

United States wants "another Afghanistan" for Russia in Syria

Ekaterina Blinova
Sputnik
Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:02 UTC
Syria missile
© Sputnik/ Dmitriy Vinogradov
There are clear signs that the Pentagon will try to create "another Afghanistan" for Russia in Syria, US political analyst Phil Butler told Sputnik.

The Syrian chess game has evidently entered into its critical phase: Vladimir Putin has thwarted the West's plan to overthrow Assad at every turn, prompting a fierce outcry from Washington's war hawks.

In September 2014, Kenneth M. Pollack, a former CIA intelligence analyst, proposed a plan entitled "An Army to Defeat Assad." The CIA analyst envisaged the creation of a US Syrian proxy army that would take over the Syrian government forces (and deal a blow to Islamic State). However, the toppling of Bashar al-Assad was marked by Pollack as the overriding priority.

"Once the new army gained ground, the opposition's leaders could formally declare themselves to represent a new provisional government. The United States and its allies could then extend diplomatic recognition to the movement, allowing the US Department of Defense to take over the tasks of training and advising the new force - which would now be the official military arm of Syria's legitimate new rulers," Pollack elaborated.

'In January 2015, the Pentagon announced that it kicked off a plan aimed at training Assad's opposition fighters, strikingly similar to that offered by Pollack in September 2014.

Comment: One of the recent propaganda lines coming out of Western media is that Russia will get bogged down in Syria as it did in Afghanistan. While the reason Soviet Union fought in Afghanistan for nearly a decade relates to the same method of the United States using proxy forces, the situation is much different today. For one, modern-day Russia is not the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union's power was on a descending path, morale was low within the military, and the war was unsupported by the Soviet people. Not to mention the Soviet Union committed ground troops to the conflict. Alternatively, the US was at its peak as the world's super power. The reverse trend is showing to be true today.

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