Posts From The Saker
Ok, now the picture of what actually happened this morning is becoming clear (thanks to the Russian media which is in a coverage frenzy over this and which has plenty of contacts inside the Russian military).The two missiles fired this morning were not cruise missiles of the Tomahawk type, but Israeli ballistic missiles of the “Anchor” type which are used as targets by the Israeli air defenses and which are
Russian media sources report that Hassan Nasrallah has ordered a full emergency mobilization of Hezbollah reservists who are now directed to their assembly areas from which they will be sent to their combat positions.
According to Russian media sources, early this morning the Russian early warning radar system Armavir run by the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces detected the launch of two missiles in the Mediterranean. Both missiles were fired in an eastern trajectory and both eventually fell into the sea. Russian early warning radars systems First, nobody admitted firing these missiles, in fact everybody denied it, but eventually the Israelis admitted that they
Tonight a good friend send me these links which I would like to pass on to you with a few disclaimers: http://www.crescent-online.net/2013/09/syrian-rebels-admit-using-chemical-weapons-wwwcrescent-onlinenet-4013-articles.html http://www.infowars.com/rebels-admit-responsibility-for-chemical-weapons-attack/ http://www.mintpressnews.com/witnesses-of-gas-attack-say-saudis-supplied-rebels-with-chemical-weapons/168135/ http://www.infowars.com/exclusive-syrians-in-ghouta-claim-saudi-supplied-rebels-behind-chemical-attack/ Disclaimers and caveats: a) It seems to me that these sources quote each other a lot; this might be because everybody else is trying hard to look away from this story. b) I also heard another explanation which says that a group of CIA agents
First, the leaders of the Russian Duma have decided to send a Parliamentary delegation to the USA to meet with their counterparts in Congress. The intention here is clearly to lobby for a ‘no’ vote to Obama’s request for a Congressional approval for a US attack on Syria.Second, the Russian Navy is sending a specialized intelligence ship – called the Priazovie – to the waters off the Syrian coast to
LOL! This did not take too long. According to the WSJ, “two key Republican Senate lawmakers gave notice that despite President Barack Obama‘s pledge to seek congressional authorization for a potential military strike against Syria, they wouldn’t support a limited attack that fell short of changing the momentum on the battlefield.” Hardly a surprise.But this a great way to achieve a complete deadlock. If Obama wants only a “shot across
Great news! Obama announced that he is going to go to Congress to seek a vote on military action against Syria. There is little doubt in my mind that what happened is that Obama’s advisers (possibly Hegel and Dempsey at the JCS) found a way to “spread the blame” for the inevitable accusation of “losing face” with Congress. From their point of view this is a win-win move: their Congress
Important note: the word “provocation” in the English voice-over is a mistranslation from the Russian word провокация (“provokatsia”) which, in this context, clearly means “false flag operation”. Putin is unambiguously stating that he knows that the Syrian military did not use chemical weapons but that this was a staged event.
Pepe Escobar – brilliant as always!
I took the time to listen to the full “here is our evidence” press statement by Kerry (full transcript here). This was a very discouraging experience. The bottom line is this: it appears quasi certain that the Americans will attack Syria essentially because “we are America” and because “its just gotta be Assad who did it”. Imperial hubris at its most pathological and compulsive.It is also rather clear that the
Over the past few days the Internet has been buzzing with reports about the Russian Navy sending warships including possibly guided missile cruisers (the Kerch, the Varyag, the Moskva are often mentioned), while Russian sources mention the large anti-submarine ship Admiral Panteleyev and various support vessels. Russian officials have made contradictory statements about how many ships are being send and which ships exactly would join the Russian flotilla, but the
Great host, great speakers, great show. Its good to hear some sane people, a rare privilege. Watch and enjoy:
All the latest leaks seem to be pointing to the same scenario: Obama would order ‘limited’ strikes on ‘key’ targets to ‘send a message’ to Assad. Ok, let’s look into that.First, this probably means that cruise missiles will be used, but little or no air strikes. We will come back later to this one.Second, what are ‘limited’ strikes. We are talking about high visibility static targets such as security services
“It’s got to be done quickly. Bang, boom. And then let the chips fall where they may. But no more dead kids breathing poison gas.” Bill O’Reilly “We have two options: either to surrender, or to defend ourselves with the means at our disposal. The second choice is the best: we will defend ourselves“ Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Muallem “The West behaves towards the Islamic world like a monkey
During his emergency press conference today Foreign Minister Lavrov said something to the effect that attempting to predict the future is not a helpful exercise and I will not argue with this wise man. However, Lysander did ask an interesting question today: Is it possible that a NATO air campaign might still fail in removing the government? I think that while attempting to predict the future is, indeed, a useless
President of the Syrian Arab Republic told about threat of US invasion, about his relationship with Putin and about common fate of Russian and Syrian people. All in exclusive interview in Izvestia. Interviewer: Mr President, the most pressing question today is the current situation in Syria. What parts of the country remain under the rebels’ control?President Assad: From our perspective, it’s not a matter of labelling areas as controlled by
According to RT the ‘Syrian’ insurgents have now used the excuse of the (false flag) chemical attack to refuse to attend the Geneva II conference:“We refused to speak about Geneva after what’s happened. We must punish this dictator, Bashar the Chemist we call him, and then we can discuss Geneva,” coalition Secretary General Badr Jamous told Reuters, after a meeting with international opposition backers Friends of Syria in Istanbul. This
First, here is the report as published by Information Clearing House translating As-Safir. I have just bolded out the particularly important parts. This is the text in-extenso:——-A diplomatic report about the “stormy meeting” in July between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan concluded that the region stretching from North Africa to Chechnya and from Iran to Syria — in other words, the entire Middle
