Quote of the day (An Angry Iraqi Shia Relative of the young men killed in Spykar, Tikrit): We will march on Tikrit and seek revenge, revenge I tell you revenge. We will make the Sunni tribes pay, blood has been spilt! Why did they (Sunni tribes) allow them (Daash) to do this? We will destroy Tikrit from the face of this earth. No army in this world can stop us.
28th Aug: 6 German soldiers arrive in Iraqi Kurdistan to coordinate with the Iraqi Government and Kurdish authorities and help facilitate the transfer of military and material aid.
28th Aug: The United States decides to air drop essential supplies to the residents of Amerli and bomb besieging Daash forces.
28th Aug: Moqtada Al Sadr meets with Ammar al-Hakim of the Islamic Supreme Council and releases a statement: We agree on the need to do a real partnership in Iraq to meet the security challenges in the country.
Sadr has also stated that he acted on the wishes of the Marja (Sistani) when he opposed Nouri Al Maliki and made sure the latter had to step down.
28th Aug: Nechirvan Barzani, President of Iraqi Kurdistan’s regional government travels to Turkey and meets with its President Erdogan and the new Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
28th Aug: An American Jury in Washington DC is deliberating the fate of 4 American Blackwater Mercenaries/murderers responsible for indiscriminately shooting at more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad in 2007. The shooting had resulted in the deaths of 14 and had wounded another 18.
28th Aug: Collapse of Daash: Peshmerga forces are making rapid progress in taking back Zammar and Ain Zala to the north west of Mosul in Nineveh. Peshmergas are advancing from four directions and the Iraqi Air Force and US warplanes are carrying out airstrikes on Daash fighters in the area. In some cases, and in a reversal of sorts, Daash fighters are abandoning their weapons and fleeing.
18 Daash fighters are picked up by advancing Peshmergas to the west of Zammar. 19 vehicles belonging to Daash are destroyed in air strikes.
The Peshmergas are reported close to the centre of town. Daash fighters are mingling with civilians in an attempt to flee.
Daash fighters burn oil drums in Ain Zala in an attempt to slow down advancing Peshmerga fighters.
28th Aug: Another blow for Higher Education in Daash’s Iraq: Ibrahim al-Fahdawi, Dean of the Agricultural Department at the University of Ramadi is killed in a possible road side bombing cum assassination.
28th Aug: Iraqi Security Forces are gathering their forces outside of Tuz Khurmato preparing to liberate Amerli. They are being backed by Shia militias.
28th Aug: Daash terrorists attack and destroy two shrines belonging to the Kakayeen Kurdish clan in Hamdania, Nineveh. 20000 families are displaced by Daash in Hamdania.
28th Aug: Peshmerga fighters attack two vehicles carrying weapons near Jalawla and kill and injure 8 Daash fighters.
29th Aug: Mishan al-Jubouri, the former MP of Salah al Din province states that 280 bodies of Shia recruits killed at the Spykar military base have been returned to relatives in Iraq. The rest of the bodies are still buried in mass graves near Spykar base.
29th Aug: Police Personnel in Anbar are demanding better weapons from the Government in Baghdad in order to fight Daash and take back control of towns and cities in Anbar.
30th Aug: Peshmerga forces enter Zammar
30th Aug: Mwafaq Hawijah Ali a leader of Daash dies from his injuries and proceeds to hell. He was injured in a failed attack on the Baiji Refinery.
30th Aug: MashAllah: The Iraqi Ministry of Defence announces the freeing of 6 villages in Amerli and the destruction of 5 tanks and 5 vehicles belonging to Daash and the culling of 59 Daash Terrorist. Fa Inaa HizbAllah hum fi Ghalibun.
30th Aug: Peshmerga forces carry out a large scale attack to the west of Mosul under US air cover. The aim is to purge Daash from the area.
30th Aug: a Suicide bomb attack on the Mahmudiyah district of Southern Baghdad has left a number of people dead and injured.
30th Aug: US airplanes target and destroy 7 vehicles of Daash fighters near Mosul Dam.
30th Aug: Issuing resolutions that neither Israel nor its patsy Daash wants to follow: The UN passes resolution number 2175 that calls for the protection of UN workers in conflict zones.
30th Aug: Shamelessness: American Secretary of State, who resembles the living dead, John Kerry calls for a broad alliance of nations that will help fight Daash. In a cruel and tragic irony this alliance will include, champion of Poisoned Islam, Saudi Arabia, and American stooge Jordan.
30th Aug: Sunni uprising against a Sunni uprising: Qasim al-Fahdawi, MP from Anbar, states that Tribes in Anbar are drawing up plans to rise up and take back cities under Daash control.
30th Aug: To the victor the spoils: Semi Formal negotiations for Abadi’s future cabinet have distributed Iraq’s ministries as follows:
Shias (National Alliance): Defense and Foreign
Kurds: Oil
Sunnis: Interior
Negotiations are ongoing with the National Alliance still insisting more ministries based on its vote share.
30th Aug: The flesh trade: 300 Yazidi girls are sold by Daash to its fighters in Syria
31st Aug: US aircraft carry out raids on Daash positions around Amerli and airdrop supplies for its residents
The US also carries out 5 airstrikes on Daash Vehicles in the north near Mosul Dam
31st Aug: Salim al-Jubouri, Speaker of Iraq’s Parliament arrives in Babil to inspect the situation on the ground first hand. Conflict is still raging in Babil where security Forces are trying to remove Daash that had occupied the north of Babil on the 10th of June.
31st Aug: Prime Minister of arguably the second most racist country on Earth, where refugees are interred in Desert Caps (Prisons), Tony Abbot, states that the aircraft of his countries Air Force will help the American’s deliver arms to the Kurds.
31st Aug: Rambo to the rescue: US Veterans send a message to a Kurdish Media Outlet stating that they are willing to volunteer in the Peshmergas to help fight Daash.
31st Aug: Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan of the Iranian Ministry of Defense states that Iran is coordinating with Iraqi Forces to ensure the safety of the Iran Iraq Border and that Daash is a phenomenon (project) that Iraq will wipe out on its own.
31st Aug: One time front man of the Americans, Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraqi National Party meets with Massoud Barzani in Erbil to discuss the security and political situation in Iraq.
31st Aug: Iraqi Security forces aided by Peshmerga fighters and backed by Shia militias start to attack Daash and lift the siege of Amerli.
Fighters of Sadr’s Salam Brigades enter the town of Amerli amidst heavy fighting. Iraqi Security Forces and Peshmerga fighters break the siege and the back of Daash.
Local “Shia” militias attack and free three towns to the east of Tikrit. They were backed by the Iraqi Air Force.
The Peshmergas are reporting that the Daash fighters they are now facing have lost their “will.” They are using mosque loudspeakers to ask their fighters to leave the areas of Sulieman Bek.
The Peshmergas retake three villages in Sulaiman Bek.
31st Aug: 3 Martyred men and 8 injured “Shia” militia fighters are brought to a hospital in Tuz Khurmato. They were injured fighting Daash around Amerli.
But do not think of those that have been slain in God’s cause as dead. Nay, they are alive! With their Sustainer have they their sustenance (3:169)
31st Aug: Jassim Mohammed Jaafar, a Turkoman Minister, confirms that Government forces and Shia militias have broken the siege of Amerli. He fails to give credit to the Peshmergas that were also fighting.
Like the Nazis fleeing Soviet troops and surrendering to Allied Armies, Daash fighters flee towards the Peshmergas and away from Shia Militias. The Peshmergas report arresting/capturing 36 Daash fighters in their attack on Amerli.
1st Sep: The UN decides to hold a special session that will oversee the dispatching of UN teams to investigate the human rights abuses carried out by Daash. The session was requested by Iraq and backed by both Iran and the US.
1st Sep: Marthiya Afkham, of the Iranian Foreign Ministry congratulates the Iraqi Security Forces, Government, Sistani, and the people of Amerli for breaking the siege of Daash.
1st Sep: Obama plans a visit to Eastern Europe, Estonia, and then the UK to discuss NATO’s expansion, aid to Georgia, the US made crisis in the Ukraine, and the failed US projects of Iraq and Afghanistan.
1st Sep: President of Iraq, Fuad Masum, states that the first priority of the Iraqi Government, on whose formation he states there is considerable progress, will be fighting and defeating Daash.
1st Sep: Ezzat Saber, Minister of Natural Resources in Iraqi Kurdistan, resigns over rising fuel prices.
1st Sep: Protesters gather outside the Kurdish Parliament demanding that the Natural Resources Committee in parliament resign over rising fuel prices. They stated that the rise in prices was senseless as Iraq controls 5% of the world’s oil reserves.
1st Aug: Peshmerga and Iraqi Security Forces carry out a joint operation and surround the sub district of Sulaiman Bek. The morale of Daash fighters is believed to be low and many are fleeing the area.
The Peshmergas and Iraqi Army liberate Suleiman Bek
1st Sep: War crime: Daash terrorists blow up a Yazidi shrine while 15 elderly Yazidis are still inside
1st Sep: The Peshmergas kill 4 Daash terrorist including a would be suicide bomber as they attack a Peshmerga check post on the outside of Jalawla
2nd Sep: Relatives of those killed at the Spykar Military base protest over the deaths of their loved ones at what can only be described as complete incompetence and arrogance on the part of the Head of the Armed Forces Maliki and his rotten Generals. They enter and occupy the Iraqi Parliament Building in Baghdad, set fire to property and break down doors out of anger. May God grant them patience and may they take solace in the grieving of Imam Hussain (as).
Security Forces are called in to control the situation after casualties are reported. The bodyguards of a number of MPs were also beaten up.
2nd Sep: Robert Stephen Beecroft, the US Ambassador to Iraq, has called on the National Alliance and has reportedly applied “pressure” on it to relent and meet some of the demands being made by the mostly Sunni Iraqi forces coalition.
2nd Sep: The Basra police arrest a man 75 km to the north of Basra believed to be a financer of Daash. He was in the possession of counterfeit currency.
2nd Sep: Iyad Allawi of the National Coalition states that he is expected to play a big role in the next government of national reconciliation.
2nd Sep: Hollande of France tells the visiting, one of many dime a barrel Princes, Crown Prince Salman Abdulaziz that France will help Iraq (Kurds) fight Daash.
2nd Sep: A village of the Al-Zarkosh tribe in Hamrin, Diyala is under constant Mortar attack. The Shia tribe has been supporting the government against the insurgency. It is now complaining of a total lack of security or political assistance from the government. More than 280 members of the tribe have been killed so far.
The governor of Diyala, Amer al-Majmaee, has stated that the attack carried out on the Musaib bin Omair mosque that resulted in over 40 fatalities was carried out by three members of the Al-Zarkosh tribe.
2nd Sep: Daash withdraws its forces from Daqouq after the breaking of its siege of Amerli by Iraqi Security Forces.
Clashes are now taking place in al Mutassim near Samarra after Daash attacked security forces there.
2nd Sep: A mourning ceremony is held to commemorate those Peshmergas killed in freeing Yakinja, on the outskirts of Suliman Bek, Salah al Din province. A commander of the Peshmerga forces, Harbi Kokhie and Brigadier Sheikh Serbest were amongst those martyred fighting Daash terrorists. The ceremony was overseen by the former President of Iraq Jalal Talibani.
2nd Sep: Peshmerga forces are preparing to attack and take back the Christian town of Tilkaif, 15 kilometers to the north of Mosul. The US is carrying out air strikes on Daash positions inside the town to soften them up for the Peshmergas. The Curse of God on the Oppressors (Daash)!
Nowhere to hide: US airplanes have also hit Daash targets near Mosul Dam.
2nd Sep: Daash admits to its defeat in Amerli and to the collapse of its siege of the town. It claims that the Shias needed 5000 troops to free a town surrounded by less than 150 Daash fighters.
3rd Sep: PsyOps: Iraqi Air Force drops leaflets over Mosul warning residents to stay away from Daash’s headquarters about to be bombed and to avoid Daash vehicles to avoid being hit.
Daash evacuates its headquarters that are later bombed by the Americans.
3rd Sep: Maliki decides to include the residents of Amerli into those entitled to receive aid under the displaced nationals’ category. He also talks at length about the impeding defeat of Daash “The coming days will prove that Iraq will be a graveyard for ISIS who began fleeing from Salahuddin, Diyala and Mosul.”
Maliki also suggests the forming of a militia of volunteer fighters from Amerli and states that the resilience of the people of the town should be an example for all Iraqis.
3rd Sep: The National Alliance states that it has been unable to comply with the decree of religious authorities (Marjas) and reduce the number of Ministries being set up. It has run into political, legal, and constitutional difficulties in trying to form a lean government.
3rd Sep: Tribal leaders from Anbar have voiced their support for the Iraqi Government and Haider Al Abadi and its fight against terrorism. They have requested the government to empower and allow local fighters to take on the terrorists occupying the cities of Ramadi, Fallujah and towns bordering Syria.
3rd Sept: 10 people belonging to volunteer militias are injured in a car bombing in the centre of Samarra, near the Imam Al Askari (as) Shrine.
3rd Sep: Mohammad Karim al-Rubaie, advisor to the Governor of Diyala, is killed in clashes with Daash fighters in a village near Amerli. Al Rubaie was also a member of Sadr’s Al Salam brigade. He was killed in clashes between Daash and the Security Forces, volunteer militia fighters, and Al Salam brigade fighters.
3rd Sept: Haider Al Abadi, Prime Minister in waiting, states that the perpetrators of the mass killing of recruits at Spykar base will be punished. He also added that anyone who has harmed Iraqis in this turbulent period will be pursued and brought to justice.
3rd Sep: The changing of tunes: America’s lackey, and forever two faced British Prime Minister David Cameroon refers to Daash as being a threat to the people of Iraq, Syria, Britain, and most importantly, his beloved USA
3rd Sep: UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, reacts to the killing of journalist Steven Sotloff and refers to the situation in Iraq as outrageous.
3rd Sept: Obama sends in another 350 “Advisors” to Iraq, raising the total number to 820.
3rd Sep: The Iraqi Army has taken back control of Al Atheem dam in the north of Baqouba. The army’s operation was supported by air strikes and resulted in the death of an unknown Daash commander (Emir)
3rd Sep: Iraqi Security Forces capture a Chinese member of Daash and release his picture. He appears badly bruised in the face. China has estimated that 30 of its nationals are fighting for Daash.
3rd Sep: Govt claims for the day:
20 Daash fighters are killed in air strikes in Dhuluiya, south of Tikrit
More Daash fighters are killed in air strikes on Tikrit including a local Daash leader Khairallah Nayef al-Janabi
45 Daash/rebel fighters killed in Fallujah including a Saudi national in air strikes in Fallujah
3rd Sep: 9 bodies are found in Baghdad in what appear to be summary executions
4th Sep: Statement of the family of murdered US journalist Steven Sotloff:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29056608
4th Sep: Kurdish and Yazidi fighters carry out a joint security operation and ambush and kill 6 Daash fighters in Sinjar
4th Sep: Haider Al Abadi, Prime Minister in Waiting of Iraq, requests the EU for assistance in fighting Daash
4th Sep: Pope Francis to the Christians of Iraq “the Church is hurting with you and is proud of you.”
4th Sep: Fiedel Castro refers to Daash as being an instrument of US Israeli project aimed at extending their control of the region.
4th Sep: Iraqi Security Forces are hit by a suicide bomber in the south of Tikrit; 7 dead and 17 wounded.
4th Sep: A mass grave is discovered in Sulaiman Bek. It contains 24 bodies believed to be of kidnapped truck drivers.
4th Sep: Shia Peace Brigade Militia fighters’ state that killed 30 Daash fighters in a village on the outskirts of Amerli. They state that the fire fight lasted 6 hours.
4th Sep: Governor of Nineveh, Atheel al-Nujaifi, probably out of fear of reprisals, states that only forces of the Iraqi Government: Army and police, will be allowed to enter the province.
4th Sep: Qais al-Khazali, leader of the Shia sectarian militia Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, calls on all Iraqis to stand up and throw Daash out of Iraq. He refers to Daash as being cowardly and that the government of Iraq will support any group fighting the terrorists.
4th Sep: Villagers in Tal Ali burn a Daash flag and a position of Daash after Daash fighters leave the area. Daash later returns in force and kidnaps 25 villagers.
Related:
2nd Sep: Saudi Arabia arrests 88 of its nationals on terrorism charges and referred to them as having “misguided ideology” and as being those that “glorify terrorist acts.”
Some of those arrested had been prisoners earlier and had been released after going through Saudi Arabia’s Deqaidafication program.
2nd Sep: Israeli sense of humour, predictably based on productivity: Israel announces plans to develop a colony on land it occupied in the West Bank; as much as 400 hectares. The reason for stealing the land was that the Palestinians were not cultivating it with the required intensity.
3rd Sep: Egyptian Religious Athority, the Dar Al Ifta, issues a fatwa against online fraternizing between men and women. The Fatwa reads “as many experiences in our present time prove that this opens the door for evil and frivolity, an entrance for Satan, and is a source of corruption and sedition.” A similar ruling by Iran’s Khamenie also exists.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/03/egypt-s-fatwa-against-tinder-clerics-ban-online-chatting.html
3rd Sep: Bosnia arrests 16 individuals accused of collecting funds and recruiting fighters to fight for Daash in Syria and Iraq.
4th Sep: Canadian nationals that joined Al Qaida were involved in the interrogation of US journalists Theo Curtis and Matt Schrier. The captors are also believed to have sent the family members of the hostages letters purporting to be from the hostages, stolen money from the accounts of the hostages, and bought electronic equipment from Ebay using stolen funds. Every single act is contrary to Islam.
4th Sep: Going Native: 100 or more Americans fighting on the side of Daash:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/09/03/hagel-100-americans-have-joined-isis.html
4th Sep: US Internet Companies have decided to remove videos and images being posted by Jihadists. The reason they state is that they do not want to become instruments of (enemy-my word) propaganda.
4th Sep: How to be an Asshole: Pakistani Cricketer Ahmed Shehzad tells Sri Lankan Cricket player Tillakarante Dilshan to convert to Islam and go to heaven.
4th Sep: Al Qaeda has established a new branch for the Indian sub continent. Its head is going to be Pakistani Asim Umar and it will concentrate on the regions of Kashmir, Ahmadabad, Assam, and Burma. The sub continent has seen a huge growth in Wahabism with many traditional Orthodox Sunni Muslims becoming the minority. The Petro Dollar has financed a large number of Mosques, Trusts, and Madarsas in the region.
4th Sep: Iranian intelligence reports having thwarted attempts by foreign intelligence services of recruiting Iranian Nuclear Scientists
Further Reading:
Unabashed and to the point: http://takimag.com/article/keep_your_friends_close_unless_theyre_in_washington_taki#axzz3CJtZwLgq
The Women of Daash:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/03/the-bride-of-isis-revealed.html
Bhadrakumar:
http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/2014/09/02/nato-dressing-up-raring-to-go/
http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/2014/09/03/islamic-state-and-the-afghan-analogy/
Short Analysis: 1700 dead Shia service men, who is responsible? Daash or Maliki?
This is a very short analysis. But the links are very interesting. This first explains the fall of Northern Iraq and the complete mismanagement by Maliki. Maliki has tried to conceal his complete incompetence by referring to it as a conspiracy:
http://musingsoniraq.blogspot.in/2014/08/how-northern-iraq-fell-to-insurgency.html
This second talks about the way in which the 1700 Shia service men were executed. As commander of the Iraqi Security Forces and after having the power and authority to pick his commanders, Maliki is directly responsible for the manner in which the base was evacuated and the 1700 recruits literally led to their deaths.
http://rt.com/news/184893-isis-mass-execution-iraq/
In the last part of this article it can be seen how Maliki is still trying to hold on to power by pushing his favourites for key ministries:
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/us-special-operations-forces-fighting-iraq
I am glad Maliki has gone. But if one of my relatives had died at Spykar because of this bureaucrat’s incompetence, I would want to take more than just power from him.
I don’t trust anything Obama-Amerika says or does. The Bushes and Clintons are just as bad. Amerika always lies.
Typo again: the SITREP is from the 28th of Aug to the 4th of Sep. my bad.
There was too much information to go through and I avoided the drone warfare by Iran, even though it’s very important. Or Iran developing long range anti aircraft missiles. Will try and list missing information and articles later.
Mindfriedo
Funny, isn’t it. We all have a good laugh at the pathetic propaganda from Kiev telling us daily that the ‘rebels’ are on their last legs and about go down in one last terrible defeat (at least until the Russians ‘invaded’, snigger).
But almost daily this blog pushes the EXACT same laughable propaganda about the imminent defeat of the ISIS ‘rebels’, because in respect to Iraq, the author considers himself on the other ‘side’.
Sorry, truth is ABSOLUTE. The idea of playing life as a ‘football hooligan’, where it is always “my team” and “whatever helps my team is acceptable” is pathetic.
ISIS (and Boko Haram) are both forces working for Saudi Arabia to create GREATER SAUDI ARABIA- a project supported by the UK, USA, Israel, and very, very sadly, Russia. Russia has fantastic diplomatic and business relationships with Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. While even JAPAN of all places was strong-armed into applying sanctions against Russia against its own national interest, three very significant West vassal states did not- care to guess which three?
Answer: Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel.
Pretending ISIS is some independent bunch of Islamic nutters is the propaganda desire of the leaders of the West AND Russia. To be fair, Russia (with mind-boggling naivete) believes that once Greater Saudi Arabia is established, it will stabilise the Arab/Muslim world. Tell that to the women and migrant worker victims of Whabbi extremist religious laws in Saudi.
The monsters of the West consider Russia to be a diplomatic push-over, and they are correct. Why would sites like this be pushing the West’s fairytales about ISIS and Boko Haram if this wasn’t the case?
And if I have to read one more word about the ‘origin’ of Boko Haram and ISIS- where some useful idiot tries to make out that tiny irrelevant movements are NEVER co-opted by powerful forces to create something very different, I’ll give up any belief in commonplace common sense.
Here’s a clue. Scientology had its origin in a pulp SF writer’s curiosity about the quasi-religious nature of fanboy correspondence. Hubbard asked himself the question “could a modern religion be created by overtly tailoring its belief systems to such people?”
He launched his experiment, and the rest is History. BUT Scientology is now a valid organised religion, and its origin matters not.
The seeds that formed the original Boko Haram and ISIS are UTTERLY irrelevant. The UK and USA used both as a convenient ready formed basis for two movements. In Nigeria, 50%+ of all senior business, military, police and government people are now Boko Haram loyalists (most ‘covertly). And they choose this side because they are DIRECTLY informed this is the side of the UK and USA.
When the ISIS project concludes, Greater Saudi Arabia will be ready to take on Pakistan and Iran.
Terrorism as turn into big multi-billion dollar industry, and there are recruits everywhere willing to take arms. Religion is the easiest excuse to use as a reason, also gets you the most recruits too. Its all about the money, money, money, for both the stupid recruits and the financiers paying/using them to further their goals. Boko Haram, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra, Free Syrian Army etc are all mercinaries, paid handsomely by their bosses ie CIA,Mossad,MI5,MI6,FBI,DHS,etc. Religion also gets the most recruits. They are all mecenaries, no different from Blackwater, Academi, Xe, ISIS (western security contractor) and co. The main difference being that this are listed, westerned back,terror company while the ISIS,Al-Qaeda,FSA,Boko Haram etc are shadow blackmarket terror groups operated by the state security agencies to spread terror in unfriendly countries.
@Anonymous 15:04
“When the ISIS project concludes, Greater Saudi Arabia will be ready to take on Pakistan and Iran”
Something tells me its a mistake and waste of time to indulge you, but this conclusion according to you makes sense? Let alone common sense?
mindfriedo
Not to be missed, will be posted again:
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/a-great-will-to-live-how-one-man-survived-an-islamic-state-massacre-586566?pfrom=home-topstories
mindfriedo
One man’s terrorist is another man’s mercenary.
Was wondering what happened to the site rips..
Anyway I am always interested in the technical aspects of things.
When the AZ project started 100 years ago with the normalizing of relations between the UK and US all bowing down the queen, they decided to attack Russia as a long term project using the Queens guard.. They been trying for a few centuries without much success but financing a revolution made sure Russia was 20-30 years behind in development using a socialist model. The same people financed all the wars and even Germany and japan and still do.
By the 1990’s Russia had closed that gap to less than 20 years. Even though Russia developed the bomb in just 5 years, other aspects were far behind.
But you cant use a hammer when you live in a glass house and Russia did not have deadly foam bullets.
But Right now Russia is only 5 years behind the US in deadly foam bullets after which time, the US will be unable to defeat Russia in any sphere. So while the US was puffing its chest and being exceptional, Russia rose out of the ashes and closed the gap by almost 10 years. The USSR might have already closed the gap if it had not broken up.
In another 5 to 10 years, the US will be unable to influence the situation with either Russia or China. Already the US is denied territory of Russia because current Russian SAM’s can even take out F22’s..
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-2008-09.html
We are only talking about advantages in warfare. But US power is based on warfare. US financial power is based on forcing others to do it the US way and paying tribute to it like the Roman empire did.
The US is broke, it will become technologically inferior in 5 years time. This is the last time the US will be able to project power on a global stage and have people take it seriously. Because of financial difficulties, the US can not militarily defeat Russia currently even though it does hold a technological advantage. Soon it wont be able to beat China either which is posed to over take the US technologically using stolen knowledge bypassing decades of research and development. But you dont need to discover a lot of things that others spent a lot of time and money on to get ahead of them as Microsoft and apple and google have proven and even the Japanese.
This might also explain why Russia is willing to give advanced weapons and technology to China now. They also know that in 5-10 years Chinese will hold the upper hand. So sell something now while you can. The Chinese still dont have anything like S500 missile defence systems but they might not need it. They have a billion people they can waste while the US cant waste anyone and still stay ahead in anyway.
Russia is a worse shape that way as well with only 120 mil people.
A stealthy, supercruising, long range interceptor would provide the PLA-AF with the capability to penetrate an opposing IADS to destroy assets like E-3 AWACS, RC-135V/W Rivet Joint, other ISR systems, and importantly, Air Force and Navy tankers. This would significantly complicate if not close down air operations from Andersen AFB and fixed basing in the Ryukyu chain, Japanese main islands, and Korean peninsula, during the opening phase of any contingency.
Any notion that an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter or F/A-18E/F Super Hornet will be capable of competing against this Chengdu design in air combat, let alone penetrate airspace defended by this fighter, would be simply absurd. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet are both aerodynamically and kinematically quite inferior to the as presented J-XX/J-20 design, and even the shape based VLO capability in the J-XX/J-20, as presented, will effectively neutralise any sensor advantage either type might possess against earlier Russian and Chinese fighter designs.
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-J-XX-Prototype.html
Is there Ukraine sitrep?
@Anonymous (04 September, 2014 15:04):
“ISIS (and Boko Haram) are both forces working for Saudi Arabia to create GREATER SAUDI ARABIA- a project supported by the UK, USA, Israel, and very, very sadly, Russia. Russia has fantastic diplomatic and business relationships with Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.”
There’s some truth to what you’re saying. For a while now, I have been under the impression that Russia has been trying to improve relations with Egypt and Israel. But there’s also one hole in your theory: Russia backs Syria, which the Saudis very clearly want gone. Moreover, the Saudis are not at all well-liked in Russia, since they financed so much takfiri terrorism in Chechnya.
“4th Sep: Fiedel Castro refers to Daash as being an instrument of US Israeli project aimed at extending their control of the region.”
Despite his age and all the medical problems he has had, Castro remains sharp as ever.
Thanks for the sitrep, Mindfriedo.
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Thanks Mindfriedo for your efforts and best wishes for this moment of success to continue.But why is the Empire of lies and the house of Saud going against their own creation? Very strange.
Nouri Al Maliki’s great sin was supporting Bashar Assad. The Empire will no longer have this problem with the new crop of well paid satraps.
Saker, I will say it again. Your website has been infiltrated by willing fools pretending to be humble pro Russian Shia while wholeheartedly supporting the Brotherhood/Zion agenda.
If the purpose of this blog is to seek truth, as opposed to rallying support for the destruction of it, then you’re going have to get rid of these willing tools.
LOOK at the healine!
Is this a quote or a statement of celebration?
The pretend Shia who come here are 100% behind a US intervention and they’re using your blog to run cover. This is the problem when you expand your blog beyond what you can easily control. Despite all your great work you are also naive. You always take people at face value until you learn things the hard way. That is how good people are but you need to see past your own good nature and recognize the trap.
Look to motivation man. Why are these religious loons pushing so hard for a great war between Shia and Sunni? Why are they so motivated to draw a curtain over the actions and betrayals of the Iranian leadership and so many others? They will not let this go because it interferes with theiur objective.
The ingeniousness of the AZ plan to keep us divided and conquered is most apparent with regards to the importation of Islamicists. Good people accept them believing they are are also good people but as soon as you turn your back they move quickly to their agenda.
As another commenter pointed out yeaterday, Maedheros I believe, Islam is Judaism married to universalism. They (the Islamists) are culturally programmed to be our destroyers.
Christians are culturally programmed to be unable to see it. We’re are all in deep shit unless we learn to see clearly and act accordingly at all times.
What pleases God?
I don’t know but I’m damn sure that these destroyers are even less qualified than I am to answer the question.
Get rid of them.
They are not going against ISIS, the plan is to get Nato boots into Iraq and Syria. Nato needs a war/enemy to justify it’s existence, the US needs it to sustain the Dollar and distract the sheep’s back home from the failing economy and lost of their domestic freedom while the EU governments are just poodles who do as they are told end off! As far as the US is concerned FCUK the EU. The association is nothing but a failed project which had been totally hijacked by the US since the last financial crisis of 2007, hence why the UK wants out of the EU more than ever
OT: The attack against Mariupol has started.
The videos show the consequences of a grad strike against a target – a checkpoint on the east of the city.
Bot Tak 18:34
Too true. Castro has been on the receiving end of US/CIA aggression for decades.
Mindfriedo
Thank you for the report. I have a question about Moqtadar Al Sadr. In the early days of the Iraq debacle post 2003, he appeared to have substantial power and a significant following. He then seemed to disappear from view. What is the current status about his position in the hierarchy of influence?
Forget NATO, Russia’s Got Bigger Problems by Judy Dempsey….. m.ceip.org/brussels/publications/?fa=56517lang=en
@Anonymous 15:04 who is suggesting that ISIS is some independent entity?
This reminds me of Bandar’s threats before Sochi.
ISIS appears to be synthetic and mutable enough to cover any agenda.
@Notsofast
When you lie down with fleas, you get dogs or something like that.
I suppose Larry Lucky Luciano is the example. He was the boss of organized crime, but he got to the top by organizing a shadow operation and removing his former patrons when they were weak. Why do the religious types in Saudi Arabia need the House of Saud? The only reason is fear that the population likes the stability offered by the monarchy enough to fight for it, but the king and the line are old. Succession is not clear, so why can’t the king be replaced by an Iman?
My personal CT was the chemical weapons scam in Syria last year was a move to cover an assault against proto-ISIS which was moving into Iraq and solidifying a state in Syria instead of throwing themselves against Assad. Obama and the Sauds wanted to move before ISIS began its campaign.
Saker,both sides of fighters in this war in Ukraine have been real warriors unlike the anglosaxon cowards who bomb civilians from 10 kilometer heights. Sad part is that these brothers in Ukraine had to fight for evil anglos and zionists who are still full of mirth.
Mindfriedo, you said:
@Anonymous 15:04
“When the ISIS project concludes, Greater Saudi Arabia will be ready to take on Pakistan and Iran”
Something tells me its a mistake and waste of time to indulge you, but this conclusion according to you makes sense? Let alone common sense?
Greater Saudi Arabia plan? How about Ersatz Israel and their Greater Israel plan? The ISIL caliphate? AngloZionist hedgemony? Qatari gas pipelines and the anti-Russia petrodollar cabal? Kirkuk-Haifa pipeline oligarchs and their paid-off Kurdish politician cronies? Greedy oil companies?
Some of the above are probably fictional, some (and many more unnamed ones) undoubtedly exist. They all have their own critical mass by now, so it’s hard to tell if they would have existed independently of each other in the same form that we see today.
You’re right to call out Anon, but please tell me that you at least see the larger (whether intentional or coincidental) consequences for targeted nations: the four D’s:
Disarmament of the military Destruction of infrastructure Displacement of populations and Disruption or Denial of meaningful civil and political process
Egypt. Libya. Syria. Iraq. Iran is clearly next. New to the Kill List: Pakistan. [Afghanistan seems to be a one-off American psychopath side-project]
The question of ‘Who is really behind all this’ is pointless. It’s like asking “Who is responsible for all mob crime” in 1920’s Chicago or “Who is the real backer of all drug gangs” in Central America today. There is no single party or simple answer to those questions. It’s a bunch of self-serving opportunistic psychopaths that may collude with each other in limited ways for mutual benefit, but wouldn’t hesitate to kill each other for the same reason.
Something very wrong has been happening in the Middle East. Iraq should have been substantially rebuilt and on it’s way to becoming a wealthy nation by now. Who seeks to keep Iraq on it’s knees? There is no one, simple answer. Take your pick from the usual suspects – they’re all kind of guilty, but all of them can maintain plausible deniability for being totally responsible.
Anon may not be correct singling out ‘the Greater Saudi Arabia plan’, but Iraq better start recognizing that external forces have kept it on it’s knees until now and will continue to do so. There isn’t a single hydra-headed enemy to identify. There really are dozens of independent ones.
As much as I blame Maliki for being some intentional part of the ‘eternal destabilization plan’ from day one, I have to concede that he did seem to recognize (at least the last few years) the vastness and complexity of organized efforts by foreign parties to continue to screw over the Iraqi people. Not just for the oil, but for a multitude of other reasons as well.
Maliki wasn’t Iraqi’s biggest problem and neither is ISIS. Foreign interests have whole damn warehouses of other destabilizing problems to trot out after those are taken care of. I don’t know the answers for Iraq, I’m just trying to characterize the enemies.
@Paveway Mk IV
The Shia in Iraq see through the Americans. At least the clergy does. But their purpose is not just mindless killing. If they were to openly oppose the US and its project, a lot more Shia would die. Like they were killed in the Shia uprising after the first Gulf War. Sistani has so far refused to meet a single American.
I feel that as a Shia I have a right to be critical of Maliki. I also blame a lot of this mess on him. Even if he was being set up. He was woefully and now tragically incompetent.
You are right Iraq is being kept on its knees.
But the conclusion anonymous came up with made me think that he was sitting in a trailer somewhere letting some herbs “enlighten” his mind.
mindfriedo
@Where-Wolf
“The pretend Shia who come here are 100% behind a US intervention and they’re using your blog to run cover”
When US troops were in Iraq, Sistani issued a Fatwa. Asking every Shia to end his/her conversation with the Americans with a simple question: When are you leaving?
I’m celebrating the culling of Daash.
mindfriedo
part 1: from ex-NATO military intelligence Army captain (who gives a balanced
&
pro-militia view) who gave & gives accurate analysis (his predictions since July have been true) of
how the Ukraine forces were lured into traps/cauldrons, encircled & destroyed
as
well the the 1,000s of East Ukrainians that fled to Russia as refugees were then trained in Russia to operate tanks/artillery
&
returned for the current offensive (Militia commanders said their forces QUADRUPLED from it)
http://rocksolidpolitics.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-ukraine-rope-dope.html & http://winterpatriot.com/node/921
Rather than recognize what should have been the obvious, the Ukraine government continued with the policy of “not giving one inch” and remained in place, trying all the time to crush the will to defend by massive artillery strikes on cities.
However, just like Hitler did to his Generals, notably the 6th in Stalingrad, the Ukraine government refused to give ground to a more favorable position.
The result of that somewhat reckless decision is now the same result Hitler found – encircled forces.
At the time of this post there are 9 encircled formations of Ukraine troops with an estimated total strength of 20,000.
For an army the size of Ukraine’s, this number represents a decisive loss.
What makes matters worse is the knowledge that the units now trapped, and the ones trapped prior to this and already eliminated, represent the entire core of Ukraine’s professional army.
The situation in north and central Luhansk is essentially a standoff, with neither side making any bold moves at this point. It has become a static front.
The same applies to the west of Donetsk city. Ukraine continues to try and make fruitless attempts to cut off Gorlovka, north of Donetsk, from the rear. The result has been mixed, and has resulted in high casualties with no tangible reward.
It is to the south of both Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts (provinces), lined by the Russian border, where Ukraine has suffered the most dramatic and catastrophic losses – in men and position.
It began with several Ukraine brigades being trapped in the “South Pocket” along the Russian border, and ended with approximately 1500 soldiers being released back to Ukraine with 10,000 missing.
It also resulted in the capture of large amounts of Ukraine tanks, and more importantly artillery.
With the essential destruction of the Ukraine air force, artillery on both sides has become the tool for battlefield dominance.
That brings us to today, and tomorrow.
continued below-
part 2 from http://rocksolidpolitics.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-ukraine-rope-dope.html & http://winterpatriot.com/node/921
Having tied up a large percentage of Ukraine troops at the north and central fronts, and with Ukraine thus far refusing to withdraw to positions more defensible with fewer troops, the NAF has moved in the South.
Essentially, the move came from near the Russian border two days ago, including an amphibious landing just east of Mariupol on Ukraine’s south coast.
Simultaneously, NAF units in Donetsk city counterattacked toward the South.
The resulting squeeze caused a large Ukraine retreat, but not before two more large pockets of trapped troops were created.
At the time of this post Mariupol is surrounded on two sides, with the western resupply/escape route being rapidly closed.
NAF units are fanning along the north of Mariupol in an attempt to block Ukraine units from moving south to intercept advancing NAF forces.
The goal appears to be the City of Melitopol. From there the NAF have quick access to the Crimean border (Russia) and the Dnieper River cities to the north.
I call this the “Left Hook”. Basically a very large flanking maneuver. Having sustained all the blows the Ukraine army could throw at it, the NAF is now countering an exhausted foe – hence the title “Rope a Dope”.
With Ukraine’s entire rear exposed, including all the way to the capital Kiev, it will have no choice but to rapidly withdraw West, and re-position forces to its southern rear.
That opens the door for the NAF to easily move West, and that is where the next move comes – the “right uppercut” if you will.
The NAF will then be in position to move on Kharkiv city, and the oblast in general – in the North.
It will be free to advance in the centre and bypass (if still heavily defended) or capture Slavyansk and area moving directly to the City of Dnepropetrovsk on the Dnieper River – which is to become the new westerly border of a new Novorossyia (New Russia).
The last front to be explained is the Kherson/Odessa areas. Once the NAF capture and secure Melitopol, the Ukraine defences along the Crimea border are exposed from the rear.
At that time the separatist region of Moldova, Transnistria, which houses Russian and “Transnistria Self-Defence Forces”, is likely to strike southward toward Odessa.
All these moves combined mean a few things.
Firstly, it appears that although there are peace or cease fire talks ongoing, they are likely for show at best.
Secondly it means that Ukraine will cease to function as a country.
Its already desperate financial position will be crippled by the loss of one half of the country – the most resource rich part.
Thirdly it means that Ukraine will become landlocked and essentially a new “pocket – like” area.
If NATO were to move into this area, they would be surrounded on three sides by Russia, Novorossyia, and Belarus. It would be indefensible.
Therefore, Ukraine, or what’s left of it, turns into an economically barren no mans land between East and West.
In any case, the “Mouse Trap” is done, the “Rope a Dope” is done, and now it’s time for the “Left-Right” combination punches.
I understand Putin is a judo champ, and he may have a judo analogy for this, but for now this is mine.
Mindfriedo:
“…The Shia in Iraq see through the Americans… …Sistani has so far refused to meet a single American.”
Which gives me some hope for the future of your country. *I* don’t even trust my dual-citizen U.S. political leaders, why should any Iraqi trust them?
“…I feel that as a Shia I have a right to be critical of Maliki. I also blame a lot of this mess on him. Even if he was being set up. He was woefully and now tragically incompetent…”
Absolutely. But I have to believe the U.S. initially backed him knowing his particular weaknesses would prove nearly fatal to Iraq’s rebuilding efforts. A tendency for corruption and abuse of power should have been a huge red flag.
Psychopaths like Maliki are not good choices for unifying and rebuilding nations. I’ll keep my fingers crossed that Sistani can salvage what’s left and get things moving forward. I know the Iraqis are survivors, but things should have been far better for everyone by now.
“…You are right Iraq is being kept on its knees…”
And I hope some day the Iraqi people can believe that a good number of American people and U.S. soldiers THOUGHT we were going to Iraq because we believe no people anywhere should live on their knees. That’s it. We were naive enough as a nation to trust that our leaders had that same intent. It’s painfully obvious by now that the U.S. government psychopaths were simply enabling their corporate and foreign cronies that wished to exploit the people of Iraq under the guise of ‘helping’.
It’s pretty damn depressing. I should head over to Anon’s trailer for some enlightenment.
I have read about this issues for deacdes, and I dont by the “islamic” bollocs some try as hard they can to pimp it on us, but someone was right in their assumbtions, regarding the BH, since the Gov. is doing grave atrocetys( indiscriminating bombings and killings of thousands of their own people) against its own people and pushes the comoners into the arms of BH, than its becoming a self fueled civil war, upheld and fueled by both parts as the Ukrainians hav e done it in a breathtaking speed.
So, and I have sayed this for years, and say it again, I dont fear Islam nor the teachings of muhammad, at all.
http://thehigherlearning.com/2014/08/16/did-you-know-muhammad-wrote-a-letter-guaranteeing-the-protection-of-christians/
What I fear is the situation we face to day, and in this I hope sincerly, and prays that the Arabs, witch incl Zoroastrians, Christians, Jews and Muslims, and the majorety witch is seculare, like any other country, that they finaly after all this years of wars/civilwars/terror, instigated and fueled by outside and inside force, that they pushes aside their internal disagreements, and unite.
There is per dato, NO other force that can do what it takes to liberate them selfs from the grasps of the western ZioNazis and their hendgmens, and that is an United Arabic people.
I hope and pray that the Kurds, after centurys of fighting for their own land, recignises the facts that the uSSa may be gone tomorrow, but your nabours will stil be there, to create aliances and fight with the Shiits/Sunnis, and have the Christians and others with you, to takes beack your world.
Remeber the state that was there before the wars begunn, like Libya, that isnt a impossibility, the facts are you have it all, to regain that was loost, to rebuild the Arab world to what it deservs.
Unify.
peace