“Turkish armed forces and Syrian rebels pushed Daesh out of Jarablus within hours, despite previous unsuccessful attempts to free the border town since 2013, prompting Syrian Kurds to suspect that something was fishy with Ankara’s military incursion into the neighboring nation.
Abd Salam Muhammad Ali, a representative of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Russia, told Vzglyad that Turkish troops took control of Jarablus encountering almost no resistance. “Judging from how fast this ‘liberation’ took place, I have grounds to believe that this is a show. The militants shaved off their beards and rushed to join ‘moderates,'” he said.
Rodi Osman, the head of Syrian Kurdistan’s representative office in Moscow, was also wary of how fast and easy the operation to retake Jarablus appeared.
“If Daesh was not Erdogan’s ally, could [Turkish troops and Free Syrian Army fighters] seize the city within hours? The United States and others have to see Erdogan’s secret thoughts. We are persistent in pursuing our anti-Daesh strategy and will fight against the militants until the end. The international community needs to know the truth. As long as Erdogan stays there, Daesh will not go anywhere,” he said.”
While osman is obviously an american puppet, what these two are saying presents an interesting question and further paths for speculation upon.
Did the zionazi’s stooges in the usa and turkey order their daesh puppets to stand down? Was the turk take over unopposed and essentially theater to get turkish troops (an official insertion of a zionazi state) into Syria? To break that barrier that has previously held up the zionazi assault on Syria?
Many things don’t add up—yet.
like this just hours old 27th, but then just ask “what’s in/near Kobani?” & it’s suspicious beyond coincidence.
That just happens to be the 1 place in all Syria where both the Zatos And the stinking frenchies each have a base (I assume because they refuse to share because of the awful smell).
Maybe Putin invited in the stench, oops I mean french in because he’s well read on their legendary exploits & figures they can’t do any harm.
except tell that to the Libyans just a few years ago.
Maybe the reason that things dont add up is that there are many factions inside the USA that are fighting for control. One day they send Kerry or Biden to kiss up, next day you receive a letter from the Neocons saying that you need to obey them or else…
A lot of the media were angry with Obama when he did not put boots on the ground following the supposed chemical attack by Assad. The neocons and their allies are doing all they can to stir things up. note deleted obscenities … mod-hs
“It would be likewise difficult to believe that Turkey truly suspected the US of an attempted decapitation of the nation’s senior leadership in a violent, abortive coup just last month, only to be conducting joint operations with the US inside Syria with US military forces still based within Turkish territory.
What is much more likely is that the coup was staged to feign a US-Turkish fallout, draw in Russia and allow Turkey to make sweeping purges of any elements within the Turkish armed forces that might oppose a cross-border foray into Syria, a foray that is now unfolding.”
I’m not endorsing the views here, but think the article posits some valid questions. Still not sure myself what is behind the turk invasion.
For their part, U.S. officials say they are willing to press rebels groups they support harder on separating themselves from the Islamic State and al-Nusra, which despite a recent name change is still viewed as al-Qaida’s affiliate in Syria.
Lavrov echoed that, saying “we still need to finalize a few issues” and pointed to the need to separate fighters from the al-Nusra Front, which has ties to al-Qaida, from U.S.-backed fighters who hold parts of northwest Syria.
The Jarablus “gap” is the route for the head choppers. That route needs to be closed, and maybe it could have been if the Syrians and Kurds cooperated. Thanks to the trouble between the Syrians and some of the Kurds that jumped off in Hasakah, with embedded U.S. troops (troops which are supposedly there to help Kurds fight against the head choppers), the Syrians now don’t seem so keen on cooperation with the Kurds.
Turkey, under the guise of stopping the Kurds, has now entered the Jarablus gap and can prevent it from being closed. This is a disaster if Turkey is still (as I suspect they are) on the Assad must go bandwagon.
After all the attempted scams designed to get the Turks into the gap to block its closure, scams like a safe zone (yes that makes sense, a safe zone right in the middle of a pending battle zone) or the idea that the Turks must go in to shut the border (yeah like the Turks couldn’t shut the border from their side) to the head choppers, this is the one that works.
…the setting up of two US, Turkish-controlled “safe zones” over the past week. That is a dramatic development in the nearly six-year Syrian conflict, whereby foreign forces are now actively commandeering swathes of Syria’s territory without any legal mandate.
One may well ask: how did it come to this? Where Turkish and American military – both NATO members – are conducting combat operations on the ground and in the air on Syrian territory. And moreover these foreign forces are assigning what are in effect no-go areas to the Syrian government and its Russian allies.
I wonder if that joint op coordination center in Amman is still running & cooking up this stuff, even as Jordan early this year claims to have switched sides & is now coordinating separately & exclusively with russia?
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950606001177
The Iranian Radio and Television correspondent in Syria and Iraq, Shemshadi Hassan, in an exclusive interviwe, had also told Sputnik that following the Ghouta attack several Western media outlets spoke to the militants in Damascus suburbs who confirmed that they were behind it.
“Over these years, the terrorists’ sponsors and the media resources they control never reported that a few Western media following the chemical attack in Ghouta went to the terrorists in the suburbs of Damascus and talked with them,” he said.
“The terrorists during the meeting admitted that it was they who carried out the chemical attacks in Eastern Ghouta and purposely accused the Syrian government’s army,” he added.
The Ghouta chemical attack left a death toll ranging from at least 281 people to 1,729. The attack was the deadliest use of chemical weapons since the Iran–Iraq War.
Jordan has set up a joint war room with Russia to carry out coordinated anti-Daesh (ISIL) military operations in Syria, indicating a turn by the country from its US, Saudi Arabia and Israeli allies, in the face of the increasing volatility of the entire Middle East region.
Forgot to link key paragraph this article—looks to me like Aqabah is far more likely where it is (because look what 2 countries are very near there), not Irbid in the far north Jordan: http://www.melitour.com/syria/Jordan%20map.jpg
Hassan underscored that after that video, there were reports that Saudi Arabia, near the borders of Syria and Jordan, has organized workspace for the production of special chemicals which are necessary to create chemical weapons, to be used by the terrorists.
looks now that this is the real story 6 weeks ago they’re trying so hard to smokescreen with the rabid frothing about supposed chemical weapons used in Syria.
it was obviously going to surface, since it looks too big for them to hide it.
b-52s aren’t exactly known for precision strike bomb placement, nor for a mere few bombs per sortie.
The United States military rained down 500-pound bombs on a Syrian village last month, possibly killing dozens of women and children instead of Daesh terrorists, a new report says.
On July 19, US A-10 and B-52 aircraft dropped 500-pound bombs on the village of Tokhar in Aleppo countryside. When the dust from the attack cleared, at least 95 people were killed, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
First report i’ve seen saying nobody took Presidisn’t Biden’s “thin red line” threat seriously.
(I like the touch of this article misspelling his name intentionally to hint what a non-entity he is, or isn’t.)
With the capture of Amarnah village south of Jarabulus by the Free Syrian Army and Turkey-backed Islamist proxies, many weapons and ID cards of Kurdish YPG militants were taken.
Turkey Invades Syria, Supposedly to ‘Clear Out ISIS’ – Now Attacking Kurdish Militias
August 28, 2016 By 21wire
21st Century Wire says…
To little fanfare in the West, NATO member Turkey began a ground invasion into northern Syria. Initially, Turkey claimed their operation was in order to support “Syrian rebels” who aim to recapture territory from ISIS, but now we discover that may have only been the cover story.
Four days ago, “Allied Syrian rebels” backed by the United States and Turkey – had seized the ISIS-held town of Jarabulus, Syria – supposedly cutting off ISIS’s last open route into Turkey.
The main “allied rebel” group working with Turkey is said to be none other than Faylaq al-Sham – a known Islamist militant terrorist group whom the West spuriously list as “moderates.” This latest move now gives these US-NATO- backed terrorist forces control of a key choke point inside Syria. The NYT reported:
“Numerous fighters posted photographs and videos of themselves online with the green, black and white flag adopted by the Syrian opposition as they walked through empty streets where the black flag of Islamic State still flew; it appeared that most of the militants had fled without a fight.”
However, US-NATO-Turkey had another goal in mind, another real objective of this invasion exercise: to crush Syrian Kurdish militias who are fighting US-NATO-backed Islamist terrorists (including ISIS) and whom Turkey considers ‘a threat’ to its national security. Washington appears to playing the piggy in the middle, seemingly acting as broker to both sides of the Turkey vs Kurdish militia equation. But are they really ‘brokering’ anything, or is this just more NATO smoke and mirrors working towards their ultimate goal of destroying the Syria and instituting ‘regime change’ in Damascus?
Indeed, this was confirmed today, as Turkish military forces are now in clashes with nearly every Kurdish-linked group in Syria; the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and pro-Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), the Syrian affiliate of the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Iraq and Turkey – all of whom are meant to be fighting ISIS. Instead, they are now busy dodging Turkish artillery rounds.
Some believe now that despite its lofty rhetoric, Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria is really only benefiting one militant group: ISIS.
Turkey also claims to be helping to “separate” moderate rebels from extremist rebels.
According to reports from AFP, Turkish shelling and airstrikes killed at least 40 Syrian civilians today with artillery fire and airstrikes on the villages of Al-Amarneh and Jeb el-Kussa.
For the last two years, Turkish leadership, including their Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, insisted that Turkey would not encroach on Syria unless Turkey was attacked. In particular, Turkey insisted they would not attack Kurdish militia forces inside Syria. Watch PM Davutoglu’s August 2015 interview laying out NATO’s complete agenda here:
Turkey’s stated goal has always been the US-NATO strategy – to establish a ‘No Fly Zone’ or “Safe Zone” inside northern Syria presumably, as a “safe area” for people displaced by Syria’s conflict – but in reality, such a safe zone would provide a safe haven for NATO and Turkish-backed Islamist terrorist groups to launch continuous incursions in and around Syria – thus prolonging the conflict and advancing the possibility of breaking a piece off of Syria in order to establish a Sunni-dominated ‘caliphate’ wedged between Turkey and Syria.
Also in August 2015, PKK leader Cemil Bayik based in Iraqi Kurdistan, told the BBC that Turkey is protecting ISIS by attacking Kurds.
Ever since Russia legally (the US-NATO ‘coalition are all operating illegally inside Syria under international law) entered the Syrian Conflict last fall at the invitation , Washington hawks, their NATO allies and their paid media surrogates – have been advocating and making desperate moves into Syria.
ow that a policy of invasion has been established by US-NATO-Turkey, what is the next Syrian city on their terrorist hit list? Will it be Idlib, Syria, currently occupied by Turkish-friendly ‘moderate’ terrorist forces, Al Nusra and Ahrar Al Sham?
The Western strategy is well under way. Chaos and confusion are the order of the day.
Kurds Say Something’s Fishy About Turkey’s Swift Victory in Jarablus
http://sputniknews.com/politics/20160827/1044690114/kurds-turkey-operation-syria.html
“Turkish armed forces and Syrian rebels pushed Daesh out of Jarablus within hours, despite previous unsuccessful attempts to free the border town since 2013, prompting Syrian Kurds to suspect that something was fishy with Ankara’s military incursion into the neighboring nation.
Abd Salam Muhammad Ali, a representative of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Russia, told Vzglyad that Turkish troops took control of Jarablus encountering almost no resistance. “Judging from how fast this ‘liberation’ took place, I have grounds to believe that this is a show. The militants shaved off their beards and rushed to join ‘moderates,'” he said.
Rodi Osman, the head of Syrian Kurdistan’s representative office in Moscow, was also wary of how fast and easy the operation to retake Jarablus appeared.
“If Daesh was not Erdogan’s ally, could [Turkish troops and Free Syrian Army fighters] seize the city within hours? The United States and others have to see Erdogan’s secret thoughts. We are persistent in pursuing our anti-Daesh strategy and will fight against the militants until the end. The international community needs to know the truth. As long as Erdogan stays there, Daesh will not go anywhere,” he said.”
While osman is obviously an american puppet, what these two are saying presents an interesting question and further paths for speculation upon.
Did the zionazi’s stooges in the usa and turkey order their daesh puppets to stand down? Was the turk take over unopposed and essentially theater to get turkish troops (an official insertion of a zionazi state) into Syria? To break that barrier that has previously held up the zionazi assault on Syria?
Many things don’t add up—yet.
like this just hours old 27th, but then just ask “what’s in/near Kobani?” & it’s suspicious beyond coincidence.
That just happens to be the 1 place in all Syria where both the Zatos And the stinking frenchies each have a base (I assume because they refuse to share because of the awful smell).
Maybe Putin invited in the stench, oops I mean french in because he’s well read on their legendary exploits & figures they can’t do any harm.
except tell that to the Libyans just a few years ago.
Is Turkey trying to enter Kobani…Aug.27,2016
People protest against the incursion of Turkish army in the surrounding villages of Kobane in Rojava [northern Syria] .
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=26f_1472309320
Maybe the reason that things dont add up is that there are many factions inside the USA that are fighting for control. One day they send Kerry or Biden to kiss up, next day you receive a letter from the Neocons saying that you need to obey them or else…
A lot of the media were angry with Obama when he did not put boots on the ground following the supposed chemical attack by Assad. The neocons and their allies are doing all they can to stir things up.
note deleted obscenities … mod-hs
Turkey Invades Northern Syria — Truth of Turkish “Coup” Revealed
http://www.thenewatlas.org/2016/08/turkey-invades-northern-syria-truth-of.html?m=1
“It would be likewise difficult to believe that Turkey truly suspected the US of an attempted decapitation of the nation’s senior leadership in a violent, abortive coup just last month, only to be conducting joint operations with the US inside Syria with US military forces still based within Turkish territory.
What is much more likely is that the coup was staged to feign a US-Turkish fallout, draw in Russia and allow Turkey to make sweeping purges of any elements within the Turkish armed forces that might oppose a cross-border foray into Syria, a foray that is now unfolding.”
I’m not endorsing the views here, but think the article posits some valid questions. Still not sure myself what is behind the turk invasion.
AUG 26
U.S., Russia fall short on deal to restore Syria truce
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-us-russia-syria-truce-20160826-story.html
For their part, U.S. officials say they are willing to press rebels groups they support harder on separating themselves from the Islamic State and al-Nusra, which despite a recent name change is still viewed as al-Qaida’s affiliate in Syria.
Lavrov echoed that, saying “we still need to finalize a few issues” and pointed to the need to separate fighters from the al-Nusra Front, which has ties to al-Qaida, from U.S.-backed fighters who hold parts of northwest Syria.
The Jarablus “gap” is the route for the head choppers. That route needs to be closed, and maybe it could have been if the Syrians and Kurds cooperated. Thanks to the trouble between the Syrians and some of the Kurds that jumped off in Hasakah, with embedded U.S. troops (troops which are supposedly there to help Kurds fight against the head choppers), the Syrians now don’t seem so keen on cooperation with the Kurds.
Turkey, under the guise of stopping the Kurds, has now entered the Jarablus gap and can prevent it from being closed. This is a disaster if Turkey is still (as I suspect they are) on the Assad must go bandwagon.
After all the attempted scams designed to get the Turks into the gap to block its closure, scams like a safe zone (yes that makes sense, a safe zone right in the middle of a pending battle zone) or the idea that the Turks must go in to shut the border (yeah like the Turks couldn’t shut the border from their side) to the head choppers, this is the one that works.
Did the Syrians and Russians get fooled again?
Erdogan Plays US and Russia
Finian Cunningham
…the setting up of two US, Turkish-controlled “safe zones” over the past week. That is a dramatic development in the nearly six-year Syrian conflict, whereby foreign forces are now actively commandeering swathes of Syria’s territory without any legal mandate.
One may well ask: how did it come to this? Where Turkish and American military – both NATO members – are conducting combat operations on the ground and in the air on Syrian territory. And moreover these foreign forces are assigning what are in effect no-go areas to the Syrian government and its Russian allies.
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20160826/1044660930/erdogan-russia-us-jarablus.html
I wonder if that joint op coordination center in Amman is still running & cooking up this stuff, even as Jordan early this year claims to have switched sides & is now coordinating separately & exclusively with russia?
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13950606001177
The Iranian Radio and Television correspondent in Syria and Iraq, Shemshadi Hassan, in an exclusive interviwe, had also told Sputnik that following the Ghouta attack several Western media outlets spoke to the militants in Damascus suburbs who confirmed that they were behind it.
“Over these years, the terrorists’ sponsors and the media resources they control never reported that a few Western media following the chemical attack in Ghouta went to the terrorists in the suburbs of Damascus and talked with them,” he said.
“The terrorists during the meeting admitted that it was they who carried out the chemical attacks in Eastern Ghouta and purposely accused the Syrian government’s army,” he added.
The Ghouta chemical attack left a death toll ranging from at least 281 people to 1,729. The attack was the deadliest use of chemical weapons since the Iran–Iraq War.
http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20160116/1033229615/jordan-russia-war-room.html
Jordan has set up a joint war room with Russia to carry out coordinated anti-Daesh (ISIL) military operations in Syria, indicating a turn by the country from its US, Saudi Arabia and Israeli allies, in the face of the increasing volatility of the entire Middle East region.
Forgot to link key paragraph this article—looks to me like Aqabah is far more likely where it is (because look what 2 countries are very near there), not Irbid in the far north Jordan:
http://www.melitour.com/syria/Jordan%20map.jpg
Hassan underscored that after that video, there were reports that Saudi Arabia, near the borders of Syria and Jordan, has organized workspace for the production of special chemicals which are necessary to create chemical weapons, to be used by the terrorists.
looks now that this is the real story 6 weeks ago they’re trying so hard to smokescreen with the rabid frothing about supposed chemical weapons used in Syria.
it was obviously going to surface, since it looks too big for them to hide it.
b-52s aren’t exactly known for precision strike bomb placement, nor for a mere few bombs per sortie.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/08/27/481958/US-military-airstrikes-Syria-Tokhar-Manjib
The United States military rained down 500-pound bombs on a Syrian village last month, possibly killing dozens of women and children instead of Daesh terrorists, a new report says.
On July 19, US A-10 and B-52 aircraft dropped 500-pound bombs on the village of Tokhar in Aleppo countryside. When the dust from the attack cleared, at least 95 people were killed, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
First report i’ve seen saying nobody took Presidisn’t Biden’s “thin red line” threat seriously.
(I like the touch of this article misspelling his name intentionally to hint what a non-entity he is, or isn’t.)
With the capture of Amarnah village south of Jarabulus by the Free Syrian Army and Turkey-backed Islamist proxies, many weapons and ID cards of Kurdish YPG militants were taken.
Although warned by US Vice Presidsnt Joe Biden to withdraw to the east of the Euphrates or not receive US weapons and support, evidently this has not occurred.
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/photos-fsa-islamists-near-jarabulus-find-ypg-id-cards-weapons/
Turkey Invades Syria, Supposedly to ‘Clear Out ISIS’ – Now Attacking Kurdish Militias
August 28, 2016 By 21wire
21st Century Wire says…
To little fanfare in the West, NATO member Turkey began a ground invasion into northern Syria. Initially, Turkey claimed their operation was in order to support “Syrian rebels” who aim to recapture territory from ISIS, but now we discover that may have only been the cover story.
Four days ago, “Allied Syrian rebels” backed by the United States and Turkey – had seized the ISIS-held town of Jarabulus, Syria – supposedly cutting off ISIS’s last open route into Turkey.
The main “allied rebel” group working with Turkey is said to be none other than Faylaq al-Sham – a known Islamist militant terrorist group whom the West spuriously list as “moderates.” This latest move now gives these US-NATO- backed terrorist forces control of a key choke point inside Syria. The NYT reported:
“Numerous fighters posted photographs and videos of themselves online with the green, black and white flag adopted by the Syrian opposition as they walked through empty streets where the black flag of Islamic State still flew; it appeared that most of the militants had fled without a fight.”
However, US-NATO-Turkey had another goal in mind, another real objective of this invasion exercise: to crush Syrian Kurdish militias who are fighting US-NATO-backed Islamist terrorists (including ISIS) and whom Turkey considers ‘a threat’ to its national security. Washington appears to playing the piggy in the middle, seemingly acting as broker to both sides of the Turkey vs Kurdish militia equation. But are they really ‘brokering’ anything, or is this just more NATO smoke and mirrors working towards their ultimate goal of destroying the Syria and instituting ‘regime change’ in Damascus?
Indeed, this was confirmed today, as Turkish military forces are now in clashes with nearly every Kurdish-linked group in Syria; the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and pro-Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), the Syrian affiliate of the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Iraq and Turkey – all of whom are meant to be fighting ISIS. Instead, they are now busy dodging Turkish artillery rounds.
Some believe now that despite its lofty rhetoric, Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria is really only benefiting one militant group: ISIS.
Turkey also claims to be helping to “separate” moderate rebels from extremist rebels.
According to reports from AFP, Turkish shelling and airstrikes killed at least 40 Syrian civilians today with artillery fire and airstrikes on the villages of Al-Amarneh and Jeb el-Kussa.
For the last two years, Turkish leadership, including their Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, insisted that Turkey would not encroach on Syria unless Turkey was attacked. In particular, Turkey insisted they would not attack Kurdish militia forces inside Syria. Watch PM Davutoglu’s August 2015 interview laying out NATO’s complete agenda here:
Turkey’s stated goal has always been the US-NATO strategy – to establish a ‘No Fly Zone’ or “Safe Zone” inside northern Syria presumably, as a “safe area” for people displaced by Syria’s conflict – but in reality, such a safe zone would provide a safe haven for NATO and Turkish-backed Islamist terrorist groups to launch continuous incursions in and around Syria – thus prolonging the conflict and advancing the possibility of breaking a piece off of Syria in order to establish a Sunni-dominated ‘caliphate’ wedged between Turkey and Syria.
Also in August 2015, PKK leader Cemil Bayik based in Iraqi Kurdistan, told the BBC that Turkey is protecting ISIS by attacking Kurds.
Ever since Russia legally (the US-NATO ‘coalition are all operating illegally inside Syria under international law) entered the Syrian Conflict last fall at the invitation , Washington hawks, their NATO allies and their paid media surrogates – have been advocating and making desperate moves into Syria.
ow that a policy of invasion has been established by US-NATO-Turkey, what is the next Syrian city on their terrorist hit list? Will it be Idlib, Syria, currently occupied by Turkish-friendly ‘moderate’ terrorist forces, Al Nusra and Ahrar Al Sham?
The Western strategy is well under way. Chaos and confusion are the order of the day.