SitRep by Scott Humor
Russian Ministry of Defense reported that “On September 8, 2019 two F-15 USAF airplanes delivered strikes on Hajin using white phosphorus incendiary munitions. The strikes resulted in severe fires. Casualty toll is being verified.
As to the history of the United States use of the prohibited methods of war against civilians see: The Legality Of The Use Of White Phosphorus By The United States Military During The 2004 Fallujah Assaults, By Roman Reyhani
“The use of white phosphorous in Fallujah violates the purposes and principles of the CWC, and the obligations the United States had as occupying power under Resolution 1483 and the Geneva Conventions. Although the United States was authorized to restore public order and safety, such measures could not involve the indiscriminate killing of civilians. Furthermore, the killings were a violation of Articles 27 and 29 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which require that civilians receive humane treatment and protection from violence. The authorization from the Iraqi Interim Government is irrelevant as such actions could never be authorized under the guise of law enforcement.
Furthermore, the types and quantities of the white phosphorus were not consistent with use for law enforcement purposes. Allegedly, white phosphorous was fired from mortar positions some distance from the target. It was used, not as a smokescreen for US Marines to evade enemy fire, but to force the enemy from their protected positions. The fact that the military had such large quantities of white phosphorus munitions available at its disposal may point to a pre-meditation on the part of the military as to the manner that white phosphorus would be used. Law enforcement cannot use mortars and explosives to restore public order.’79 As such, the types and quantities of white phosphorus were inconsistent with law enforcement purposes.
In summary, the use of white phosphorus smoke is use of a chemical weapon. It was used as a method of warfare during military operations in Fallujah. The lawful use of chemicals for law enforcement purposes does not apply in the Fallujah assault because of the methods and means of the engagement. The United States has violated the CWC by using a chemical weapon in Iraq.”
A Pentagon spokesman denied that U.S. planes dropped phosphorus bombs. “At this time, we have not received any reports of any use of white phosphorous,” said Commander Sean Robertson. “None of the military units in the area are even equipped with white phosphorous munitions of any kind.”
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On September 9th, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov has discussed with the foreign Minister of Jordan Amman al-Saadi the situation of Syrian refugees.
“During the conversation, the ministers the situation in Syria with an emphasis on the return of Syrian refugees and temporarily displaced persons, including those in areas located near the Syrian-Jordanian border.”
The parties also discussed the Palestinian-Israeli settlement.
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Syrian state YouTube channels have been shut down on September 9th with all the videos lost just as the Syrian Army’s ground offensive has officially begun.
This includes the following now terminated Syrian state and media channels: Syrian President, Syrian MoD (Ministry of Defense), SANA, and Sama TV.
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Assad is, apparently, a C.I.A. agent who wants the US to attack the Syrian Army and the Russian troops.
Otherwise, how do you explain the following Sunday night “news.”
US Says Assad Has Approved Gas Attack In Idlib, Setting Stage For Major Military Conflict
“The Wall Street Journal has just published a bombshell on Sunday evening as Russian and Syrian warplanes continue bombing raids over al-Qaeda held Idlib, citing unnamed US officials who claim “President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has approved the use of chlorine gas in an offensive against the country’s last major rebel stronghold.”
And perhaps more alarming is that the report details that Trump is undecided over whether new retaliatory strikes could entail expanding the attack to hit Assad allies Russia and Iran this time around.”
That’s right, unnamed US officials are now claiming to be in possession of intelligence which they say shows Assad has already given the order in an absolutely unprecedented level of “pre-crime” telegraphing of events on the battlefield.
And supposedly these officials have even identified the type of chemical weapon to be used: chlorine gas.
The anonymous officials told the WSJ of “new U.S. intelligence” in what appears an eerily familiar repeat of precisely how the 2003 invasion of Iraq was sold to the American public (namely, “anonymous officials” and vague assurances of unseen intelligence) — albeit posturing over Idlib is now unfolding at an intensely more rapid pace:
Fears of a massacre have been fueled by new U.S. intelligence indicating Mr. Assad has cleared the way for the military to use chlorine gas in any offensive, U.S. officials said. It wasn’t clear from the latest intelligence if Mr. Assad also had given the military permission to use sarin gas, the deadly nerve agent used several times in previous regime attacks on rebel-held areas. It is banned under international law.
It appears Washington is now saying an American attack on Syrian government forces and locations is all but inevitable.”
And further:
The Pentagon is crafting military options, but Mr. Trump hasn’t decided what exactly would trigger a military response or whether the U.S. would target Russian or Iranian military forces aiding Mr. Assad in Syria, U.S. officials said.
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The Arabic-language al-Mayadeen TV reports that Terrorists’ Chemical Weapons Expert Escapes from Northwestern Syria to Turkey
Quoting in full
“A notorious commander and expert of Tahrir al-Sham Hay’at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) terrorist group’s chemical warfare has left Idlib province for Turkey as the terrorist group and pro-militant White Helmets are preparing to stage a fake chemical attack in the province, a media outlet reported on Sunday.
The Arabic-language al-Mayadeen TV Channel quoted a well-informed source as disclosing that one of the commanders of Tahrir al-Sham that supervises chemical-armed missiles has escaped Jisr al-Shughour to Turkey.
It went on to say that the commander has left the terrorist group’s missile unit for Turkey, but said the missiles are still stored in the village of Halouz in Jisr al-Shughour.
The TV channel said that the missiles have been armed with chemical warheads with a high degree of lethality.
Tahrir al-Sham, White Helmets and their foreign backers are preparing to stage a false-flag chemical attack in Northwestern Syria to later accuse the Damascus forces and pave the ground for the US-led coalition forces’ raid on Syria ahead of the government forces’ major operation in Idlib province.”
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Turkey, Russia and Iran reached an agreement on the use of the national currency in mutual trade as stated by the spokesperson for the head of the Central Bank of Iran Abdunnazyr Himmety
Abdunnazyr Himmety noted that a productive tripartite summit with the participation of the Presidents of Turkey and Russia, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin, was held on September 7 in Tehran, the capital of Iran, during which issues such as trade in oil, gas and basic consumer goods, as well as banking activities .
According to Himmeti, the three countries agree on abandoning the use of the dollar in mutual trade and moving to local currencies at a fixed rate.
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Russian aerospace defense company Almaz-Antey plans to supply high-tech equipment for three Syrian airfields in Damascus, Aleppo and Latakia starting next year, said Deputy General Director of “Almaz-Antey” Alexander Vedrov. This will include an entire range of modern equipment for safe air traffic, including radars, systems of meteorological and air traffic systems.
Almaz-antey” also negotiating the delivery and installation of its digital television systems.
Excellent SitRep, Scott.
War between Russia-Syria-Iran and the US looks Highly Likely.
If the US goes for Assad and bombs Damascus, surely Russians will be injured or die.
As Auslander in other threads has indicated, Russian troops are everywhere in Syria.
A massive attack against the Syrian government and military will ignite a counterstrike, likely in al Tanf.
The best thing that could happen is if some of the US and UK advisers in Idlib could be captured.
Live prisoners would change the whole geopolitical posture of the US.
U.S. Navy and French Navy sunk in eastern Med.
The hubris of the last fascist government in Germany (lets just think about the psychology of the leadership, and not the origins of the war) made them think that they were projecting themselves manfully into new territories by embarking on a war of expansion on many fronts.
It wasn’t until the middle of the war that their perspective changed and they realised that the whole world was fighting them.
The fascist US empire started fighting for its life at Putin’s speech at the UN convention in Munich, 2008. The patently destructive colour revolutions across the middle east and Ukraine, etc.are acts of desperation to maintain current gains, and Syria maybe the point at which the US starts fighting the world and is recognised as the foe of all mankind.
I am sorry, Yankee friends, but your country is going to have to die at the hands of a foreign power because you have individually and collectively done nothing to reign in your leadership in the US or Israel or UK.
If you can’t stop your own leaders throwing your sons into war for personal gain, someone else is going to have to do it for you the old fashioned way. The same applies to me as a Brit.
Since you brought up the Third Reich, I still remember Public television broadcasting one of Hitler’s speeches, while the same day (if I remember correctly) Bush junior was making a justification speech against Iraq. What immensely shocked me was that the words were almost identical almost as if Bush was reading from the same script. I guess, Public television was not informed to withdraw their war documentaries for a week or so.
Anonius, the Nazi streak in the Bush dynasty is well known. I first noted that George Senior talked about The New World Order just like Hitler did. Where did he learn that phrase? Then a Yank wrote to me apropos George Junior: Grandpa Prescott Bush financed the Nazis, and the fruit does not fall far from the tree.
“the same script”
And the goyim will for the same play, again and again and again.
Aha.. Al Tanf.. I forgot about that one. Thanks Larchmonter! That’s probably the base from where their planes took off for the recent white phosphorus raid.
Here is a map of NATO /us carrier strike groups dates 10/10/2018. There are none in the Mediterranean. Not sure if this is a good or bad sign. Maybe they are preparing for something big and don’t want their ships to get sunk in retaliation..?
https://southfront.org/us-carrier-strike-groups-locations-map-september-10-2018/
A Nimitz class carrier is a 6 billion dollar target, a Ford class is 13 billion, with a lot of significance beyond its dollar value. If it came to it, Russia could fire a thousand cruise missiles to sink one, and it would be a bargain considering the cost of the carrier versus the cost of the cruise missiles. Besides, carriers are more or less obsolete. With the dramatic increase in cruise missile range, carriers have lost their stand-off ability which is what made them superior to the battleship in the first place.
Here is a interesting piece from ICH: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50353.htm. If the author is right, any attack on Syria will be costly every which way as the S-300 systems will likely show US F-35s for what they really are: Junk.
We are in dangerous times with idiots in charge in Washington.
It is inconceivable with the build up of forces and recent drills that Russia would back down; there is no way that Putin and his commanders would lead the forces up the hill just to lead then down. And the world would be a more dangerous place if they did.
All the events in the sitRep are of course connected – the moves to dedollarise and strengthen Syria etc. There is the smell of panic in the air from the Empire.
One hopes the reporting from the WSJ is just hyperbole to make Trump look week when he doesn’t follow through. But as I said, with idiots puffed up with their own hubris (ie bullshit) one never knows. Sending 100 US marines to Al Tanf smacks of tokenism.
Given the detailed info on the upcoming false flag I assume moves are afoot to capture the perps, or at least destroy the facility. And it wouldn’t surprise me if the Brits were already captured.
Either the US or Russia has to blink or we are all in trouble.
The WSJ is owned by Murdoch.He is also a stakeholder in Genie, with rights to the gas in Golan Heights from Israel who stole them from Syria.
Thus he has a vested interest (billions) in getting rid of Assad. No Assad and the Israelis keep Golan and the gas.
https://www.sott.net/article/347777-Genie-Energy-Granted-Drilling-Rights-in-Occupied-Golan-Heights-by-Israeli-Regime-Rothschild-Cheney-Murdoch-Claim-Syrias-Oil
He’s also a Globalist and hates Trump. So he’d like to get rid of Trump, too.
Does he really hate Trump? Fox (Murdoch’s company) supports Trump in many interviews that I have seen.
The only major media organizations expressing sympathy to the Trump candidacy were the Wall Street Journal and Fox News. Both are Murdoch properties. Both Murdoch and Trump have long associations with unsavory characters such as convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein (New York Magazine quotes Trump as saying) I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy, He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life. Other notable affiliates of Epstein include Bill Clinton, Evelyn de Rothschild and uber-Zionist lawyer Alan Dershowitz, long time supporter of the Democratic Party but recently in the news in defense of Trump. In conclusion, Rupert Murdoch is a very highly placed Zionist operative. Trump has expressed unprecedented subservience to Israeli and Zionist interests, so in addition to the history to date, the conclusion that Murdoch hates Trump would not seem to be justified.
Trump was also financed by the Koch Brothers but they are now against him.Very strangely since then the Coup is now going faster and faster.
Interesting, but the Koch brothers advocate many different government policy initiatives. Most having nothing to do with foreign policy. Their orientation is primarily “Libertarian” (as the term is used in the US). The Charles Koch Foundation advocates a foreign policy of non-interventionism. If they’ve soured on Trump that would not be surprising.
The Koch brothers are definately not Libertarians. They are sworn opponents of that philosophy. Read Murray Rothbard, Lew Rockwell et al or listen to Tom Woods podcasts on the subject and you’ll soon be aware that whatever else the Koch brothers are, it aint Libertarians!
It’s a huge reservoir of oil, unusually deep, that is the prize currently in the hands of Rothschild, Cheney and Murdoch.
The stoner-like stupidity in these CIA-alleged plots is reaching Ukrainian levels of absurdity.
I wonder if the CIA has taken to recruiting its black ops personnel from the Azov Battallion or the hordes of Hasbarat Disinformation trolls in the boiler rooms of the Rada.
It would be better that this glorious and noble bird, the bald eagle, not be used as any type of symbolic representation of this perverted government. Besides, did anyone ask the eagle how it felt about this?
I see John McCain’s ghost has come back from the dead to “gift” us all with one more false flag, following the same narrative as previously, to give the gullible moron Trump another excuse to puff up his chest, followed by a completely ineffective barrage of outdated tomahawks.
How infuriating that the idiot Trump faithfully believes every blatant false flag that the CIA throws his way, even though it’s the same CIA that is both trying to impeach him and came up with the phony narrative of Russian collusion.
Anyway, this won’t end any differently than the last two times. More missiles might be used this time, with more targets, to show off America’s dreadful impotence, arrogance, hypocrisy, stupidity and evil. But is anything going to change on the ground? The answer is a resounding no. Trump was elected because unlike Hillary, he didn’t want to see the human race totally annihilated in a nuclear war with Russia. He won’t risk it now.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world, and many Americans as well, are tired of America’s blatant evil and this will only infuriate everyone further, increasing our collective drive to act. I think this will only hasten the Empire’s demise, ultimately. Furthermore, all of these blatant crimes and false flags being conducted by the US Pentagon and their intelligence agencies, can be used against them later. Every single one of the crimes they have committed will be brought to light, and be used against them. And they will pay for all of them.
-Bombadil
So, according to the Wall Street Journal, President Assad has “approved” the use of chlorine gas. How “original”. Makes you wonder who works in the US media and political establishment, when they continue to parrot the same old story, which is contrary to basic logic. Why on earth would Assad use chlorine gas against his own people, now that he has almost won ? To incriminate himself ? To give Washington an “excuse” to bomb him ? I think not.
The swamp creatures are extremely desperate. The corruption is bubbling to the surface and they all face prison unless they can win the midterms and impeach Trump. If this fails the next nad only option is to distract everybody from thier crimes with war.
The last time the Russians implicitly said-You may bomb but not bomb Russian men or material.
This time the Russians are saying- No bombs and no interference.
Will the US risk it?
Apparently the US stopped the cruise missile launches when Russian fighter planes took to the air during the volley. This time around it looks like the Russians will have a dozen planes flying constantly throughout the operation.
The US options are limited- it is go nuclear or bust. But then there isn’t enough political support for a nuclear face off.
We will find out soon. My guess is the the Syria situation will fizzle out and the internal political battles in the US will intensify.
The situation in Syria will not fizzle out. The jihadis in Idlib will be blown out of their caves by the combined forces of the Russian Aerospace forces and the SAA. The SAA will then turn east and march on Manbij, then east to the border of Iraq to cut off ISIS/American oil smuggling operations, and south along the Euphrates towards Raqqa and Deir Ezzor from the North. This will push the US out of the oil field it has occupied in Eastern Syria and make the American occupation of Al Tanf pointless.
The US and Israel face the dilemma of going to real war over Syria, meaning with the full force of Russia, or accept strategic defeat in Syria. Strategic defeat in Syria is out of the question since this ensures the eventual and complete defeat elsewhere of the American presence in the Middle East, the next logical step being Iraq ridding itself of the US occupation once and for all. Israel cannot accept a strong Syria since this means the end of the Greater Israel project. Unfortunately for Israel this is exactly what they have created by their attempt to destroy Syria. Karma is a bitch.
So war it is, but the Americans and Israelis know full well that Israel has zero strategic depth and would be destroyed and rendered uninhabitable very quickly and very easily. This is why the US and Israel are trying to manufacture a situation where they can have the cake and eat it, remain in Syria and keep Syria weak and dysfunctional while not losing the war.
But Russia, Syria and Iran will have none of it. Every inch of Syria will be liberated and Russia is building up the Syrian forces towards this end.
Italy will also take part in an attack against Syria.Thanks Salvini for your supposed to be ‘sovereign’ govt. and fake pro russian(still waiting you accomplish what you told your voters you would do,cancelling russian sanctions).
We have:US/UK/FRA/GER I will not be surprised to see Israel of course and maybe Trudeau lgbt participate as well.
Update:SPD against german participation
“Fears of a massacre have been fueled by new U.S. intelligence indicating Mr. Assad has cleared the way for the military to use chlorine gas in any offensive, U.S. officials said. It wasn’t clear from the latest intelligence if Mr. Assad also had given the military permission to use sarin gas, the deadly nerve agent used several times in previous regime attacks on rebel-held areas. It is banned under international law.”
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An’ I heard Sy Hersch on RT’s Going Underground say one can’t use chlorine with sarin gas – because the chlorine mitigates the effects of the sarin.
Sarin is banned under int. law but chlorine is not because chlorine is not a chemical weapon. Let me repeat that – Chlorine is not a chemical weapon. Should I capitalise it? It’s pointless that it can be used as weapon because so can a butter knife or a bank card.
…. An’ I’m still waiting to hear someone who talks about using chlorine as a chemical weapon explain exactly what “weaponised chlorine” is? …. Bleach in a bomb? Used swimming pool water?
Scott Humor wrote: “Russian Ministry of Defense reported that “On September 8, 2019 two F-15 USAF airplanes delivered strikes on Hajin using white phosphorus incendiary munitions. The strikes resulted in severe fires. Casualty toll is being verified.”
Because of the date – September 8, 2019 – I assumed that this would be another “humor” piece by Scott. By the end, I realized that everything is reported as truth. Oh well.
Turkey is helping the terrorist groups. That is why they control so much land on the Turkey-Syria border and why they can move easily between Syria and Turkey, including escaping to Turkey: “A notorious commander and expert of Tahrir al-Sham Hay’at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) terrorist group’s chemical warfare has left Idlib province for Turkey…”
Al-Nusra is the group which has filmed their gory decapitations of captives – including the boy they kidnapped from a hospital a couple years ago and killed in the back of their pick-up truck.
Russia is foolish to cooperate so much with Turkey.