The joint Russian-Turkish patrol set to be held in southern Idlib on July 29 was delayed due to increased military tensions and the inability of Ankara to ensure the security of the patrol in its area of responsibility. And the situation does not seem to be improving.
According to pro-militant sources, on the evening of July 29th and morning of July 30th, the Syrian Army launched over 500 shells at militants’ positions in the Zawiya Mount area, including Kansafra, al-Bara, Kafar Aweed, Fatterah and Erinah. In response, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and its allies struck Syrian Army checkpoints at Kafr Nabl, As Safa, Hakoura and in nearby areas.
In the last few days, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and the Turkistan Islamic Party reinforced their positions on the contact line with the Syrian Army, south of the M4 highway. Their forces reportedly remain on high alert. Pro-government sources say that the inability of Ankara to secure another joint patrol in southern Idlib is a signal that the militants are preparing for offensive actions there.
Meanwhile, the Syrian Army uncovered a hideout that had been used by militants working as organ traders in the village of al-Ghadfah in southern Idlib. According to Syria’s state-run news agency SANA, government forces found human organs, including hearts, livers and heads in the hideout. The organs were preserved in jars with chloroform. The jars carried the names of the victims. Personal IDs of the victims, men and women, were also found in the hideout.
The hideout included a room designated for religious studies with radical ideological publications. This indicates that the site had belonged to one of the multiple militant groups that still operate in Greater Idlib thanks to the Turkish opposition to counter-terrorism operations there.
Al-Ghadfah is located in the vicinity of the city of Maarat al-Numan and for a long time it has been controlled by Turkey’s main partner in Idlib – Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. The town was liberated by the Syrian Army and its allies in January 2020.
Lt. Sharif al-Nazzal of the Syrian Military Intelligence Directorate (MID) was assassinated in the town of Sahem al-Golan in western Daraa on July 29. The lieutenant was with another intelligence officer known as “Abu Haider”, when they were attacked by unidentified gunmen. Both officers were shot dead on the spot.
Opposition sources claimed that al-Nazzal, a native of Sahem al-Golan, was close to Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iranian forces. The officer headed a detachment of the MID in the western Daraa countryside. No group has claimed responsibility for the assassination. Nonetheless, in previous stages of the conflict Israel was extensively supporting militant groups in southern Syria. It is possible that Tel Aviv may have access to cells of these groups for support with particular operations.
Two members of the US-backed Revolutionary Commando Army militant group based in al-Tanf were detained by the Syrian Army near the US-controlled zone. The detained persons were moving on a motorcycle and possessed assault rifles and night-vision goggles. They were reportedly involved in an information gathering operation about civilian and military facilities in the Homs desert.
In the past, Damascus has repeatedly claimed that the US was planning to use its proxies in al-Tanf for destabilizing operations in the government-controlled area.
Organ trading in Syria, like in Kosovo — NATZO does that to the countries it overruns; that, and drug running.
Update by Canthama 3 hours ago BTL 322093 on SyrPer:
“The prepping continues in southern Idlib. SAA has moved large forces to the frontline, those are prime storm troopers taking positions, we can only speculate the objectives.
Intense artillery shelling in several areas in a long front line, no doubt creating doubts among [NATZO member] Turks and [NATZO ISIS] terrorists as to where the spearhead will be. Ariha may be the main short term target on the M4; from there there could come enveloping maneuvers toward Jsir al Shughour and Idlib city.
We have seen the last “joint patrol” between Turks [NATZO] and Russians. It was not uneventful, a bitter taste was left. Several Russian mobile radars and air defense were seen moving around Lattakia, Homs and Hama, as if taking position for defensive – or even offensive – posture. Several Russian Special Ops were also seeing moving to the frontline, these are mostly snipers; as the terrain is full of hill and high mountains, snipers will be heavily used. [The top 10 Russian marksmen during the Great Patriotic War killed over 4,000 enemy soldiers between them]
Soon we shall see intense air strikes, not the sporadic ones we see now. When we start seeing continuous, violent and massive RuAF/SAAF air strikes, then the ground forces will be on the move.
NATZO’s trademark in Kosovo: organ harvesting. Organ harvesting, drug running and destruction of ancient Christian churches: ethos of the Anglo Zio Capitalist’s army.
The true macabre expertise of the Albanians from Kosovo, probably en-masse volunteering in Syria.
As for the detail “… The organs were preserved in jars with chloroform …”: chloroform is a well known anaesthetic, as well as a chemical solvent, etc., but not a tissue preservative. It was probably some other chemical. Although one should also allow for the epic stupidity of these Neanderthals…
Nothing new. The Turks were involved in illegal organ trading of organs “harvested” from the captured Serbs before and during the NATO terrorist campaign of 1999, although the main organiser and dealer was Bernard Kouchner French diplomat and the first head of UNMIK in Kosovo and Metohija. Of course the Serb “donors” were finished off after they were stripped off of their organs.
The organ trafficking is an Albanian- Israeli- Turkish joint venture.
https://www.dw.com/en/israeli-mastermind-behind-organ-trafficking-ring-is-arrested-in-cyprus/a-42051747
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/01/08/a-cruel-harvest-of-the-poor-israeli-allegedly-behind-human-organ-black-market-arrested-in-cyprus/
It was Israeli Dr. Moshe Harel who was at the centre of the organ harvesting ring in Kosovo, together with Albanian doctor Lufti Dervish his son Arban and Turkish doctor Yusuf Sonmez.
Here is a link of another Israeli doctor Zaki Shapira being arrested along with other Turkish doctors for organ trafficking.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1867886/
Israel seems to be an organ trafficking “hub”:
Only last year Israeli Dr. Abilay Donbay was arrested in Kazakhstan for illegal organ harvesting https://www.timesofisrael.com/kazakhstan-holds-doctor-over-israel-linked-organ-harvesting-scheme/
Swedish newspaper broke the story of how Israeli officials remove organs from Palestinian prisoners who die in their custody.
https://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/Rx1n5A/our-sons-are-plundered-of-their-organs
Thanks for this.
Maybe I am wrong but I would have thought organs preserved in Chloroform would be useless for transplants and therefore of no value. A quick google search shows a much more complex solution is needed to preseve organs for transplantation.
Yes, wondering the same thing.
Ghoulish, whatever the intended purpose or reason.
Heads???
Katherine
There are only two explanations I can think of:
1. The headchoppers are stupid enough to imagine that organs packed in chloroform are fit for transplantation. Unlikely in the extreme because their buyers would have told them how to go about it.
2. They are organs taken from dead bodies awaiting shipment to pathology laboratories in Turkey for analysis. Why?
Possibility (a): Legitimate checking for illnesses.
Possibility (b): To deliberately contaminate with sarin or chlorine and present this as “evidence” of an “Assadist gas attack”.
I cannot think of any third possibility. The idea that organs in chloroform are fit for transplantation is absurd.
The 3rd possibility could be keeping them as souvenirs?
They could be used for learning – school/medical school dissections. The frogs dissected in high school science classes had been preserved in chloroform. Perhaps actual human organs for that purpose are lucrative…?
You are not wrong. It is impossible to preserve organs for transplantation in chloroform.
That was my thought as well. Chloroform would immediately kill a living organ.
These were apparently just gruesome trophies. Of course, it’s possible that the same location was also packing other organs in sterile chilled saline, for the transplant trade.
“According to Syria’s state-run news agency SANA, government forces found human organs, including hearts, livers and heads in the hideout”.
Perhaps in preparation for a celebration dinner? Obviously organs “preserved” in such fashion could not possibly have any surgical value.
That thought crossed my mind too. That the organs that were preserved are to be used in some “ritual” (although not eaten due to toxicity of the chemicals).
Also I think they meant formaldehyde – a common embalming agent and not chloroform.
Formaldehyde is used as preservation in fishing industries replacing ice as a cost cutting. Unfortunately causing sickness among people consumed fishes laced with chemical.
I find it interesting and instructive to compare the US federal government’s policy on the terrorists in Syria with its policy towards the Confederate States of America in 1861.
The CSA had seceded in proper legal fashion from the USA, following the precedent of the American Revolution by which the American colonies seceded from Great Britain. They cited the Declaration of Independence as guaranteeing them the right to choose their own government; yet the US government declared them rebels and fought a terrible 5-year war, in which nearly a million lives were lost, to crush and subdue them.
Compare the terrorists in Syria, who have absolutely no legal standing or pretext. They openly aim to overthrow the legitimate, democratically elected government in order to replace it with a medieval Islamist theocracy. Most of them ar foreigners, working for pay. They murder, torture and imprison civilians; murder and torture members of the armed forces and other government employees; and systematically steal huge amounts of property, from oil to crops.
Yet the US government openly supports the terrorists! No further proof could be needed that the US federal government is itself an openly criminal organization, with not the slightest heed for any laws, morality or religion.
“… or religion …”
… except of course the “Talmud”…
Jars with chloroform aren’t the way human organs for transplantation are preserved. Nobody with the slightest knowledge of transplant surgery will believe this for an instant. Organs are packed in cryogenic conditions, in liquid nitrogen or at least dry ice, and shipped to the recipient as fast as possible. There is absolutely no way that “jars of chloroform” can be used to store organs. I’m pro Syria but this propaganda is stupid. Whatever the organs, assuming that they exist, were for they were not for transplantation.
Perhaps they are trophies which is what I would expect from bloodthirsty killers.
Organs were definitely extracted. Some ended up being stored.