“The rebels’ recent breakthrough in the Aleppo siege was done with cash and supplies being ferried in for weeks from its regional backers, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, with the US turning a blind eye to the activities in order to pile pressure on Russia and Iran, according to the revelations of the Financial Times.
The British newspaper spoke to activists and rebels in Syria who said that “opposition forces were replenished with new weapons, cash and other supplies before and during the fighting.”
“At the border yesterday we counted tens of trucks bringing in weapons,” it quotes one Syrian activist, who crosses between Syria and neighboring Turkey, without revealing his name.
weeks … weapons, artillery — we’re not just talking about some bullets or guns,” he added.
The outlet apparently talked to two other rebels, who asked not to be identified “because of the sensitivity of the subject” and who described cash and supplies “being ferried in for weeks.”
The militants say that the money and supplies came from regional backers, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and were sent in trucks across Turkey’s border with Syria.
The newspaper notes that “this was in spite of the fact that the rebel offensive — dubbed “the great Aleppo battle” — has been led and organized by Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, a jihadi group formerly known as al-Nusra Front”.
Some rebels told the outlet that “US officials supporting moderate rebel forces intentionally turned a blind eye to Fatah al-Sham’s participation in the offensive to ensure the opposition maintains a foothold in Aleppo.”
“The Americans, of course, knew what was going on. They ignored it to put some pressure back on Russia and Iran,” it quotes a western diplomat “in contact with the opposition” as saying.
According to the rebels, “there are strong strategic reasons for some foreign powers to want to quietly help the opposition in Aleppo.”
The city is Syria’s largest and the last remaining urban stronghold of the rebels.
“Without it, they could become a rural rebellion with far less pressure to bear on political negotiations that world powers hope will end the bloodshed,” the newspaper says.
Ministry notified of frequent attempts to distort the information on the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo, with some western media outlets being engaged in outright speculation, operating with unverified information from dubious sources.
According to the ministry, accusations of violence by the Syrian army or the Russian Aerospace Forces are abundant, while information on Russian humanitarian work in the country is ignored.”
The pindos helping the al qaida being reported in the zio-gay western msm, interesting.
That “foreign aid” or whatever heart-warming jingo cliche they use gets changed by the day, & it will just keep coming because it’s not just free, it’s freer than free.
Until, as an absolute minimum, all supply routes out of Turkey are cut. But even that won’t end it because remember there’s been discussed by Carter & Saudis about starting a ‘southern front’ operation/war (likely out of Jordan) against Syria.
And why is there a news blackout of what putin’s allies the stinking frenchies are doing? Anyone even remember them??
Note figure is up a bit since Rummy announced on Sept 10/2001 at that public press conference how $2.3T was missing.
Audit Reveals the Pentagon Doesn’t Know Where $6.5 Trillion Dollars Has Gone
Jay Syrmopoulos August 7, 2016
Washington, D.C. – A new Department of Defense Inspector General’s report, released last week, has left Americans stunned at the jaw-dropping lack of accountability and oversight. The glaring report revealed the Pentagon couldn’t account for $6.5 trillion dollars worth of Army general fund transactions and data, according to a report by the Fiscal Times.
The Pentagon, which has been notoriously lax in its accounting practices, has never completed an audit, would reveal how the agency has specifically spent the trillions of dollars allocated for wars, equipment, personnel, housing, healthcare and procurements allotted to them by Congress. http://thefreethoughtproject.com/audit-reveals-pentagon-6-5-trillion/
Of course it is fake. The distributor of this psyops is the Jewish owned and run guardian which means the source is probably israeli, since the zionazi house organ, the guardian, is a common conduit for israeli originating fakes. The israeli would love to see their daesh proxies destroy Syria. That is what the war against Syria is about, destroy the country for israeli geopolitical goals. And the guardian, being the repulsive zionazi tool that it is, always do their part for their masters in israel.
Absolutely! Even reading though some mainstream books such as “By way of deception” and “The other side of deception” (by V. Ostrovsky), “Israeli’s secret wars” (by Ian Black), Every Spy a Prince (by Dan Raviv) etc, etc, one can easily observe how fake narratives are put out there to be viewed as facts by the gullible public.
The chief editor of The Guardian is a fanatical, pro-Israeli agent of Mossad who will never allow any semblance of truth to get through the gates of his paper.
The offensive has not addressed the fundamental realities of why Aleppo is encircled in the first place nor has it established a breakthrough that is in any way sustainable.
And while other plans could have created a much larger and more sustainable break in the encirclement, they have not been employed either because of a lack of strategic vision or strategic competence, a lack of manpower and materiel or likely a combination of these factors.
And if that is so, then the real thought behind the operation may have been political.
The West and its Persian Gulf allies, the primary underwriters of the entire war and the militants currently embattled in and around Aleppo, have gone through great lengths to portray the pivotal battle as “rebels desperately trying to save 300,000 encircled civilians.”
As part of this rhetoric, the Western media has engaged in a concerted public relations campaign, presenting a document they claim was written by 15 individuals alleging to be doctors, pleading with the US to intervene amid the ongoing fighting around Aleppo. The media offers no evidence that these individuals are doctors, or that these individuals even exist at all.
What clearly does exist however, is a desperate need for a humanitarian pretext with which the US and its allies can cite to more directly intervene and change the tides in a proxy war they are decidedly losing.
The ability to establish a ceasefire and in some way salvage those forces trapped at the centre of Aleppo, perhaps even allowing them to escape, exists on the lower end of extremes. On the higher end, there is the prospect of Western military power being used to directly intervene against Syrian forces if and when they are able to “shame” Russia into the shadows.
Politically Doomed, and Not Likely to Succeed
However, this has been tried many times before, with much greater prospects of succeeding, yet to no avail. The only aspect of the war in Syria that exists in greater quantities for the West now is desperation. And while the West is becoming increasingly desperate (and dangerous as a consequence), it seems that Syrian resolve and the resolve of its allies has increased right along with it.
The Western media has attempted to portray Syrian forces as “spent” since 2011. Today, they are again claiming that they lack the ability to fully secure Aleppo because they are “spent.” The fact that Aleppo was encircled in the first place suggests that isn’t so.
The necessity for the West and its militants to depend on political ploys and symbolic victories versus the very real, albeit slow progress the Syrian military is making around Aleppo suggests that despite the see-sawing battles we are witnessing, zooming out reveals a vector sum working in Damascus’ favour.”
Check out latest syrian perspective article……thinks Alepo will be settled by end of week…….also very good link to intercept article re truth of western lies re medical situation only reporting from rebel held area which they support, cf with truth re Syrian medical situation in remainder of Aleppo….great suffing not reported by western media etc etc…..I am coming to think that the Aleppo battles could be compared with Stalingrad situation? Hopefully will be accomprehensive anaylis of events there one day, historical definitive assessment maybe.
TEHRAN (FNA)- A large number of Jeish al-Fatah terrorists have come under the Syrian army siege in the Southern districts of Aleppo city, battlefield sources said Sunday afternoon.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Some 1,000 vehicles carrying foodstuff and medical equipment have crossed Turkey’s border into Northern Syria in the last three days heading towards ISIL-held regions, local sources told Kurdish media.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950524001414
sun Aug 14, 2016 9:38
Significant Shift: Turkey Moving National Needle Away from War on Syria
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and Turkey have agreed to engage in “greater cooperation” on the Syrian war, the differences notwithstanding.
True, one is among Syria’s closest allies, while the other has been backing the rebellion from the beginning.
zero evidence or news anywhere that Erdo has “shifted”.
AUG24 visit.
Biden to meet Erdogan as post-coup tensions surge
US Vice President Joe Biden is set to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the White House says, marking another attempt by Washington to improve worsening ties with Ankara since the failed coup in July.
Sultan’s housecleaning is still going gangbusters, with dizzying numbers.
He’s going to have to hold a garage sale, or maybe rent a stall at the local bazaar, to offload this much detritus.
Sun Aug 14, 2016 3:12
Turkish PM: 81,000 Sacked or Suspended over Coup Bid
TEHRAN (FNA)- More than 81,000 people have been suspended or dismissed from work over suspected links to the group behind the July 15 attempted coup, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said.
In a speech to media figures at Cankaya Palace in Ankara, he said 76,597 had been suspended and 4,897 dismissed. Of those sacked, more than 3,000 were military staff, judges and civil servants, Anadolu Agency reported.
Yildirim said the government would distinguish between those willingly involved in the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) behind the coup and those who were caught up in the movement “by chance”.
US Turns Blind Eye on Foreign Aid to Rebels to Put More Pressure on Russia, Iran
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160813/1044235310/rebels-aleppo-foreign-aid.html
“The rebels’ recent breakthrough in the Aleppo siege was done with cash and supplies being ferried in for weeks from its regional backers, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, with the US turning a blind eye to the activities in order to pile pressure on Russia and Iran, according to the revelations of the Financial Times.
The British newspaper spoke to activists and rebels in Syria who said that “opposition forces were replenished with new weapons, cash and other supplies before and during the fighting.”
“At the border yesterday we counted tens of trucks bringing in weapons,” it quotes one Syrian activist, who crosses between Syria and neighboring Turkey, without revealing his name.
weeks … weapons, artillery — we’re not just talking about some bullets or guns,” he added.
The outlet apparently talked to two other rebels, who asked not to be identified “because of the sensitivity of the subject” and who described cash and supplies “being ferried in for weeks.”
The militants say that the money and supplies came from regional backers, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and were sent in trucks across Turkey’s border with Syria.
The newspaper notes that “this was in spite of the fact that the rebel offensive — dubbed “the great Aleppo battle” — has been led and organized by Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, a jihadi group formerly known as al-Nusra Front”.
Some rebels told the outlet that “US officials supporting moderate rebel forces intentionally turned a blind eye to Fatah al-Sham’s participation in the offensive to ensure the opposition maintains a foothold in Aleppo.”
“The Americans, of course, knew what was going on. They ignored it to put some pressure back on Russia and Iran,” it quotes a western diplomat “in contact with the opposition” as saying.
According to the rebels, “there are strong strategic reasons for some foreign powers to want to quietly help the opposition in Aleppo.”
The city is Syria’s largest and the last remaining urban stronghold of the rebels.
“Without it, they could become a rural rebellion with far less pressure to bear on political negotiations that world powers hope will end the bloodshed,” the newspaper says.
Ministry notified of frequent attempts to distort the information on the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo, with some western media outlets being engaged in outright speculation, operating with unverified information from dubious sources.
According to the ministry, accusations of violence by the Syrian army or the Russian Aerospace Forces are abundant, while information on Russian humanitarian work in the country is ignored.”
The pindos helping the al qaida being reported in the zio-gay western msm, interesting.
That “foreign aid” or whatever heart-warming jingo cliche they use gets changed by the day, & it will just keep coming because it’s not just free, it’s freer than free.
Until, as an absolute minimum, all supply routes out of Turkey are cut. But even that won’t end it because remember there’s been discussed by Carter & Saudis about starting a ‘southern front’ operation/war (likely out of Jordan) against Syria.
And why is there a news blackout of what putin’s allies the stinking frenchies are doing? Anyone even remember them??
Note figure is up a bit since Rummy announced on Sept 10/2001 at that public press conference how $2.3T was missing.
Audit Reveals the Pentagon Doesn’t Know Where $6.5 Trillion Dollars Has Gone
Jay Syrmopoulos August 7, 2016
Washington, D.C. – A new Department of Defense Inspector General’s report, released last week, has left Americans stunned at the jaw-dropping lack of accountability and oversight. The glaring report revealed the Pentagon couldn’t account for $6.5 trillion dollars worth of Army general fund transactions and data, according to a report by the Fiscal Times.
The Pentagon, which has been notoriously lax in its accounting practices, has never completed an audit, would reveal how the agency has specifically spent the trillions of dollars allocated for wars, equipment, personnel, housing, healthcare and procurements allotted to them by Congress.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/audit-reveals-pentagon-6-5-trillion/
Was the ‘Aleppo Medics’ Letter Begging Obama to Stop Russian Airstrikes a Fake?
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160813/1044241738/aleppo-nusra-russia-assad-obama.html
Of course it is fake. The distributor of this psyops is the Jewish owned and run guardian which means the source is probably israeli, since the zionazi house organ, the guardian, is a common conduit for israeli originating fakes. The israeli would love to see their daesh proxies destroy Syria. That is what the war against Syria is about, destroy the country for israeli geopolitical goals. And the guardian, being the repulsive zionazi tool that it is, always do their part for their masters in israel.
Absolutely! Even reading though some mainstream books such as “By way of deception” and “The other side of deception” (by V. Ostrovsky), “Israeli’s secret wars” (by Ian Black), Every Spy a Prince (by Dan Raviv) etc, etc, one can easily observe how fake narratives are put out there to be viewed as facts by the gullible public.
The chief editor of The Guardian is a fanatical, pro-Israeli agent of Mossad who will never allow any semblance of truth to get through the gates of his paper.
Battle for Aleppo: How Not to Break an Encirclement
http://www.thenewatlas.org/2016/08/battle-for-aleppo-how-not-to-break.html?m=1
“Operationally Doomed, But Never Meant to Succeed
The offensive has not addressed the fundamental realities of why Aleppo is encircled in the first place nor has it established a breakthrough that is in any way sustainable.
And while other plans could have created a much larger and more sustainable break in the encirclement, they have not been employed either because of a lack of strategic vision or strategic competence, a lack of manpower and materiel or likely a combination of these factors.
And if that is so, then the real thought behind the operation may have been political.
The West and its Persian Gulf allies, the primary underwriters of the entire war and the militants currently embattled in and around Aleppo, have gone through great lengths to portray the pivotal battle as “rebels desperately trying to save 300,000 encircled civilians.”
As part of this rhetoric, the Western media has engaged in a concerted public relations campaign, presenting a document they claim was written by 15 individuals alleging to be doctors, pleading with the US to intervene amid the ongoing fighting around Aleppo. The media offers no evidence that these individuals are doctors, or that these individuals even exist at all.
What clearly does exist however, is a desperate need for a humanitarian pretext with which the US and its allies can cite to more directly intervene and change the tides in a proxy war they are decidedly losing.
The ability to establish a ceasefire and in some way salvage those forces trapped at the centre of Aleppo, perhaps even allowing them to escape, exists on the lower end of extremes. On the higher end, there is the prospect of Western military power being used to directly intervene against Syrian forces if and when they are able to “shame” Russia into the shadows.
Politically Doomed, and Not Likely to Succeed
However, this has been tried many times before, with much greater prospects of succeeding, yet to no avail. The only aspect of the war in Syria that exists in greater quantities for the West now is desperation. And while the West is becoming increasingly desperate (and dangerous as a consequence), it seems that Syrian resolve and the resolve of its allies has increased right along with it.
The Western media has attempted to portray Syrian forces as “spent” since 2011. Today, they are again claiming that they lack the ability to fully secure Aleppo because they are “spent.” The fact that Aleppo was encircled in the first place suggests that isn’t so.
The necessity for the West and its militants to depend on political ploys and symbolic victories versus the very real, albeit slow progress the Syrian military is making around Aleppo suggests that despite the see-sawing battles we are witnessing, zooming out reveals a vector sum working in Damascus’ favour.”
Check out latest syrian perspective article……thinks Alepo will be settled by end of week…….also very good link to intercept article re truth of western lies re medical situation only reporting from rebel held area which they support, cf with truth re Syrian medical situation in remainder of Aleppo….great suffing not reported by western media etc etc…..I am coming to think that the Aleppo battles could be compared with Stalingrad situation? Hopefully will be accomprehensive anaylis of events there one day, historical definitive assessment maybe.
http://syrianperspective.com/2016/08/decisive-week-in-aleppo-terrorists-losing-ground-all-over-damascus.html
Sun Aug 14, 2016 6:9
Aleppo: Scores of Terrorists Trapped in Al-Ramousiyeh
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950524001255
TEHRAN (FNA)- A large number of Jeish al-Fatah terrorists have come under the Syrian army siege in the Southern districts of Aleppo city, battlefield sources said Sunday afternoon.
which to believe?
sun Aug 14, 2016 5:21
1,000 Vehicles Cross Turkish Border into Syria, Distribute Aid among ISIL Terrorists
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950524001221
TEHRAN (FNA)- Some 1,000 vehicles carrying foodstuff and medical equipment have crossed Turkey’s border into Northern Syria in the last three days heading towards ISIL-held regions, local sources told Kurdish media.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950524001414
sun Aug 14, 2016 9:38
Significant Shift: Turkey Moving National Needle Away from War on Syria
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran and Turkey have agreed to engage in “greater cooperation” on the Syrian war, the differences notwithstanding.
True, one is among Syria’s closest allies, while the other has been backing the rebellion from the beginning.
zero evidence or news anywhere that Erdo has “shifted”.
AUG24 visit.
Biden to meet Erdogan as post-coup tensions surge
US Vice President Joe Biden is set to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the White House says, marking another attempt by Washington to improve worsening ties with Ankara since the failed coup in July.
Biden will arrive in the Turkish capital on August 24, the White House said in a statement on Saturday.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/08/14/480022/Biden-Erdogan-Turkey-US-coup-Gulen
Sultan’s housecleaning is still going gangbusters, with dizzying numbers.
He’s going to have to hold a garage sale, or maybe rent a stall at the local bazaar, to offload this much detritus.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950524000946
Sun Aug 14, 2016 3:12
Turkish PM: 81,000 Sacked or Suspended over Coup Bid
TEHRAN (FNA)- More than 81,000 people have been suspended or dismissed from work over suspected links to the group behind the July 15 attempted coup, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said.
In a speech to media figures at Cankaya Palace in Ankara, he said 76,597 had been suspended and 4,897 dismissed. Of those sacked, more than 3,000 were military staff, judges and civil servants, Anadolu Agency reported.
Yildirim said the government would distinguish between those willingly involved in the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) behind the coup and those who were caught up in the movement “by chance”.