Syria in 2016 (October onwards)

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First small indicator of where FSA is headed along with the TAF......

Step News Agency EN ‏@Step_Agency1 14h
14 hours ago

#Jaish_AlTahrir commander: FSA in Euphrates Shield will end IS 'abuse' of Dabiq & stop separatists' dreams. Will reach al-Bab & #Aleppo soon

REMEMBER Turkey is Sunni and fully understands the Shia drives in both Iraq and Syria..if Erdogan is excluded from Mosul..watch his PLAN B which is taking then Aleppo to prevent a fall to the Shia who demand to take it in the name of Shiites.....

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Aftermath of an airstrike on Tier, Malaah #Homs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2jzxjXE7Zc#…

Medical warehouse in #idlib hit by airstrikes
https://youtu.be/jhbUlZh6unY

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Putin denies charges of #Russia hacking DNC, others. But he tends to deny lots of things that turn out to be true.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-russia-usa-cybercrime-idUKKBN12G0HK#
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The US invaded Iraq which was wrong thus we can bomb Aleepo and not be wrong.

new Russian mantra....

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Please remember that cos we made Grozny into a nice, pretty potemkin village it means we can't be criticized for the other 3

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Ahrar Al-Sham inter ‏@ahrar_alsham_en 4h
4 hours ago

#ahraralsham
Repelling an assault of Assad's militias on Military Housing territory in Sheikh Saeid quarter, killing many & siezing weapons

Syria #Aleppo #FSA took Al-Salihiyah south of #Dabiq & clashes with #IS in nearby Sunbul

Syria #FSA seized also #Ihtaymilat town from #IS

Syria Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki brigade above symbolic #Dabiq town after expelled #IslamicState

Aleppo Rebels repelled regime assault on Karam al-Tarrab
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36.195698&lon=37.210801&z=16&m=b#…

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Charles Lister ‏@Charles_Lister
Extraordinary propaganda by #Russia's Amb to UK @Amb_Yakovenko in @guardian:

Fact-checking would have been good.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/15/syria-russian-ambassador-aleppo-isis?CMP=share_btn_tw#…

pt: The US-led coalition had been in #Syria for *1yr* when #Russia intervened to protect #Assad from further losses to opposition
"Years"?

pt: The US-led coalition’s first year vs. #ISIS saw the jihadi group’s territory *shrink by 25%* in #Syria & #Iraq.
It did not increase.

pt: #ISIS ‘taking #Damascus’ was a paper tiger. It had 200 fighters in #Yarmouk/Barzeh/Qaboun in April ’15, but *opposition* repelled them

pt: Here, #Russia’s Amb twists his own govt's data to intentionally mislead: his MoD gave these figures for *all of* #Syria, not just #ISIS

pt: Moreover, 35,000 ‘terrorists’ (meaning #ISIS/AQ/opposition altogether) is total fantasy (even if including the many civilians killed).

pt: Also, 4,600 sq/miles (11,900 sq/km) doesn’t add up on a map. #Russia shud give visible *evidence.*
(#ISIS still controls 77,000 sq km)

pt: Discounting @Amb_Yakovenko’s intentional deception data, *shows* #Russia strikes vs #ISIS have dropped to 17%!
http://press.ihs.com/press-release/aerospace-defense-security/islamic-state-caliphate-shrinks-16-percent-2016-ihs-markit-#.WAN_gx62xxp.twitter#…

pt: This is a fascinating para.
Pls explain @Amb_Yakovenko, how **on earth** has #Russia’s senseless bombing facilitated a peace process?

pt: Acc. to the UN, 900 JN/JFS are in #Aleppo, amidst 8,000 non-terrorist opposition & 275,000 civilians.
How do you come to “over half”?

pt: Best not to accuse others of ‘hampering’ aid, when your govt is accused internationally of subjecting a UN aid convoy to a 2hr attack.

pt: Yes, replicating #Grozny in #Aleppo looks like textbook counter-terrorism & humanitarian relief strategy.
I’m sure many believe you.

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If "counter-narrative" has any meaning, losing #Dabiq is it. Achieved by two actors (#Syria rebels + #Turkey) long defamed as friends of #IS

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Syria

Four (small) insurgent groups join #JFS (not-al-Qaeda):

- Liwa Safwa
- Liwa Azm
- Saraya al-Ghuraba
- Liwa Shaheed Mustapha Dhahaam

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REALLY.....Putin really means this....???

Al Arabiya English
Verified account
‏@AlArabiya_Eng
#BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir #Putin: #Russia does not intend to influence #US presidential election

THEN shut down WikiLeaks leaking of DNC materials and shut down RT reporting on the failures of Clinton and favoring Trump.....

BUT Putin really never means what he in fact states.....

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REALLY.....Putin really means this....???

Al Arabiya English
Verified account
‏@AlArabiya_Eng
#BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir #Putin: #Russia does not intend to influence #US presidential election

THEN shut down WikiLeaks leaking of DNC materials and shut down RT reporting on the failures of Clinton and favoring Trump.....

BUT Putin really never means what he in fact states.....

Meanwhile all across #Syria, #AssadPutin continue to destroy towns and villages, held by the Syrian opposition.
#Daraa #Hama #Aleppo

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Syrian rebels & the Turkish Army, backed by the US Air Force, liberated all #ISIS-held towns in the #Marea-#Azaz-#Akhtarin triangle

FSA/TAF/USAF CAS has done more to damage and beat IS THAN Putin's AF has done in a WHOLE year of bombing....WAIT NOT IS but FSA....

ISIS collapses between #Azaz and #Akhtarin.
Lost #Sawran, #Dabiq, #Titalyan and surely very soon #Ihtaymilat.

FSA News ‏@FSAPlatform
#Breaking || #EuphratesShield
#FSA forces take control of al-Saleheen, Talaaleen & Asanel from #Daesh in northern #Aleppo province

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Syria Latest map for northern #Aleppo

Wonder what the YPG/SDF/PKK is thinking right about now as FSA/TAF head to al Bab and then towards Aleppo.....even at some point even the Russians have to take notice that FSA/TAF are easing ever slowly towards Aleppo....Iran has that is why they shouting to the rafters that Aleppo is Shiite..and sending in even more Shia militias..

NOTICE that YPG/SDF/PKK has not made a single offensive move against IS since TAF has entered into Syria...but rather they are building out their defenses against not IS but TAF/FSA...

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What a surprise. The Russian group that hacked DNC perfected tactics in Georgia, Ukraine and Poland.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/meet-fancy-bear-the-russian-group-hacking-the-us-election?utm_term=.fcvAMgaR1#

Asked if the American public will know it when the US responds against Russia for hacking, "I hope not," said @VP.

On @MeetThePress, @VP says US will respond to Russian hacking "at the time of our choosing," designed to "have the greatest impact."

Breaking with Trump, Pence admits it looks like Russia is behind the hacks
http://huff.to/2ekH4bV

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Russian Syrian Express....on the move again....

Russian Navy's Ropucha Class large landing ship Tsezar Kunikov 158 southbound on the Bosphorus

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US and UK: Cease-fire immediately needed in Yemen to end 'crisis' of 'enormous proportions'
http://read.bi/2dgc13L

BUT WAIT...they cannot seem to demand the same thing for Aleppo.....ever wonder why that is?????

WHAT happened to those war crimes charges by US/UK...wolf...wolf...wolf.....

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Russia - " #Putin’s “Improvised War Hysteria’ Risks Going ‘Out of Control,’ Shelin Says"
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2016/10/putins-improvised-war-hysteria-risks.html#

IMHO it is already out of control and Putin and his FM are trying to corral it back in and are acting suddenly extremely quiet lately trying to not further drive the hysteria they themselves have started via their own actions in both Syria and Ukraine in recent weeks and their constant propaganda..and nuclear threats.

Putin to USA at BRICS summit: if someone wants a confrontation, it was not our choice
pic.twitter.com/cpL9E13X6C
http://russia.liveuamap.com/en/2016/16-october-putin-to-usa-at-brics-summit-if-someone-wants#
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Wow...even Putin cannot shake off his own propaganda these days......
Putin on the US: Relations were spoiled not because of Syria, but because of attempts by one country to dictate its decisions to whole world
https://twitter.com/dimsmirnov175/status/787670426289840128#
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WOW ...not a single mention that Russia invaded eastern Ukraine and is still fighting there and still has over 8,000 troops stationed inside Ukraine...not a single mention ......

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Int. Policy Digest @intpolicydigest
Syria’s War of Extermination Signals the End of the International Community
http://bit.ly/2eCkRcE

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Tom Nichols
✔
@RadioFreeTom
The man who once headed the DIA is now passing along top-quality intelligence from... InfoWars the neo right wing propaganda machine.

I am not making this up.
https://twitter.com/GenFlynn/status/787482805894643712#
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Aleppo: Rebels have captured #Dabiq, #Sawran, #Ihtaymilat, #Tilalayn, #Hawar_al_Nahr, #Al_Salihiyah and #Sunbul from #ISIS today.

Footage
Several civilians dead in #AssadPutin air strikes on #Rastan (#Homs province) today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hysCrOIZig#
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUPzK3wCGgU#
… #Russia TV on #Putin-#Erdogan bromance goals:#Ukraine out of gas transit loop+'Rus missile shield' for #Turkey maybe

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Turkish PLAN B is full swing and yet the US and Russia somehow missed it...or maybe they thought they could control Erdogan who still views himself as the sole protector of Sunni's......next to KSA......

Aleppo: #FSA rebels are 20 kilometers away from #Aleppo City and 17 kilometers away from #Al_Bab.

Rebel commander: "#FSA will reach #Al_Bab & #Aleppo City soon."

He said also, that #FSA would crush the "separatists (#YPG) dreams".

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Food for thought concerning the somewhat lack of a US FP on just about anything.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmRCAY249ws#
… When #Russia invaded #Crimea,the secret US message was: 'Don't make any moves or you're on your own!'(sent to #Ukraine)

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Aleppo: Rebels have repelled pro-#Assad forces in #Sheikh_Saeed, #Al_Aziza and #Karam_al_Tarab Districts of #Aleppo City today.

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Secretary Kerry tells me "it was a very constructive meeting with some homework we have to do very quickly" #syriatalks

BUT WAIT he said that at Geneva One and Geneva TWO and at the CoH and at the Geneva THREE and Minsk ONE and Minsk TWO.....all he knows to do is simply talk, talk, talk and then talk some more never really ever achieving anything...

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Russian Syrian Express....on the move again....

Russian Navy's Ropucha Class large landing ship Tsezar Kunikov 158 southbound on the Bosphorus

Quick turnaround: #ВМФ #ЧФ BSF Tsezar Kunikov 158 deployed back to #Syria after 9 days. Ropucha LSTM transited Bosphorus

With the high ops tempo Russian logistics has to be quickly running low especially on the bomb side.......

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Russia|n spy ship Yantar spends 5th day loitering over IMEWE undersea cables off Lebanon.

This article provides detailed routes of the Middle Eastern undersea internet cables....if one fully understands that is it both possible to cut those cables and it is also possible to lay monitoring equipment next them.....Russian deep dive abilities can in fact do this...they have been testing their equipment for the last several years in the Baltic and offshore from the UK....

https://www.telegeography.com/telecom-maps/middle-east-telecommunications-map.html

BUT it is just not only ME routes...the ME routes are actually in the top 25 major internet routes for the entire global internet coverage.....so they could in fact be monitoring far more than the ME.....

SHE is looking for a specific cable.....
RV Yantar may be methodically searching the ocean's bottom, and that box is getting smaller @ 34.38494°N, 35.32126°E
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WFIX0PAK1SJq35usKwR4znbeS8M&usp=sharing#
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WELL it finally looks like social media is awakening to the TAF/FSA PLAN B...US and Russia seem to be sleeping at the wheel as always...

Western MSM has not yet picked up on it......

FSA units in North Aleppo now less than 20 km away from the closest regime positions besieging East Aleppo.

THAT is exactly 12 miles as the crow flies and as they say...just presence that close to Assad regime mercenaries will cause some heartburn for them and the closer they get the more the Russian AF is restricted in their flight patterns unless they want to clash with USAF CAS and the Turkish AF....

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Hezbollah confirms death of it's special forces commander Hatem "Haj Alaa" Hamada in Aleppo. He hails from Qmatiye in Aley.

On Sunday -acc to @LccSy- 56 people were killed in #Aleppo alone

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"Western media has strong political orientations... knows nothing of objectivity & fairness," says Communist party's Global Times

Appears that Russia is getting tired of being beaten up by western MSM that I critic as being to uninterested in just about anything longer than 4 hours....how strange is that??.

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JJUST what is it that Kerry/Obama/Rhodes do not understand about Syria...he keeps repeating the following AND Assad and Putin are in fact driving on a military solution......using talking to delay and block Kerry/Obama/Rhodes.....

John Kerry ‏@JohnKerry
There is no military solution in Syria. In London today, explored with partner nations new proposals for achieving cessation of hostilities.

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Hassan Hassan
✔
@hxhassan
I ventured a guess for the battle for Manbij in June & was right about its protraction. The Mosul battle will be even longer.

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The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model
http://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html#

A resurgent Russia hopes to fatally undermine a distracted West | By George Will
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/440879/vladimir-putin-1930s-strategy-russia#
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The White Helmets ‏@SyriaCivilDef
40+ Airstrikes targeted civilian homes in #Aleppo city today. 49 killed and 79+ injured. Many still under rubble, SCD teams still operating.

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Assad's father-in-law claims he hasn't seen Syrian children being bombed.

Talk about living in an altered state of reality....BUT WAIT so is Putin who thinks Gronzy style bombing destruction will drive the Sunni's into submission to a genocidal dictator family....

ALL the bombing destruction in Germany in WW2 did not driven them into submission...he should have reread history...

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Syria #Russia'n airstrikes on #Aleppo city's Karm al-Qaterji neighborhood killed 25 people last night...including EIGHT children

QUOTE:
Assad's father-in-law claims he hasn't seen Syrian children being bombed.
UNQUOTE:

BreakingFootage
#Aleppo tonight.
The #Russian #BunkerBuster bombs obliterated entire blocks of flats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTnccxpjoDU#…

GRAPHIC....closer video of the dead boy in the apartment complex hit by a Russia bunker buster bomb.....

Aleppo tonight.
The horror, brought over the innocent civilians by the #Russian air force.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaIPRr367Mk#…

Syria 14 people killed by #Russian airstrikes on #Aleppo's Marjah neigborhood. Among them 8 children

AND all that sudden talk by Kerry about war crime charges against Putin and Assad in front of the ICC.....MUST have been a figment of his imagination....THERE are no war crimes being committed anywhere in Syria just as there is no starvation being used NOR genocide....

OR at least this is what the Obama/Rhodes/Kerry WH and DoD wants you to honestly believe....NEVER has there been a FP time when there is such a lack of US leadership ...heck even a church mouse might be better at FP than this group is.....

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Reports Russian airstrikes with incendiary munitions targeted Ma’ardas & Souran in north rural #Hama, #Syria


From Rastan in northern #Homs today where several civilians inc. women & children were killed/wounded by Russian/Assad airstrikes #Syria

4 airstrikes targeted #Rastan in the N countryside of #Homs from the SyAF
2 women, 2 infants & a man killed in Assad airstrikes completely destroying a medical centre in Latamna, #Hama yesterday

Jaish al-Nasr targeting Assad forces barracks in Kawkab, north rural #Hama with a D-30 122mm gun
https://youtu.be/NsIEzsfI5XU

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What the heck...Russians bombed the wrong part of Aleppo for a change....OR are they running out of targets?????

Russia bomb train station of Kafr Halab in west #Aleppo with several airstrikes
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.072759&lon=36.885062&z=17&m=b#…

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Syria Jaysh al-Ezza claim they retook Maardes #Hama

Syria Footage of massive regime bombing on Maardas in northern #Hama before tried to storm
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35.254661&lon=36.755877&z=14&m=b#…
https://youtu.be/RFREu5Q_Bmo

Syria Rebels declare: "remain steadfast during siege of #Aleppo"
https://youtu.be/uiZKFX36Q4c

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Little Nasr was hit by a sniper today in East #Aleppo says doctors from @sams_usa

QUOTE:
Assad's father-in-law claims he hasn't seen Syrian children being bombed.
UNQUOTE:

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Charles Lister ‏@Charles_Lister
Important: After #Syria opposition's capture of #Dabiq from #ISIS, FSA & co are c.25km from pro-regime positions besieging #Aleppo from NE.

pt: Re-opening the NE #Aleppo front was a key [unspoken] opposition objective out of joining #Turkey's Euphrates Shield operation vs #ISIS.

Ahrar al-Sham's joining Euphrates Shield has generated significant tension with JFS & also within rival JFS factions = a key dynamic.

pt: Nusra's rebrand to JFS & subsequent developments (failed unity talks, Euphrates Shield etc.) have revealed JFS' internal factionalism.

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REALLY worth reading....


Kyle W. Orton ‏@KyleWOrton
In military terms, post-IS #Iraq is very nearly upon us. Then the turmoil might really begin.
http://bit.ly/2dgsFjT#
v @hxhassan

The actual battle for Iraq has now begun...not just for Mosul....IRAN is thoroughly intent on making Iraq and "Islamic State" and the Obama/Rhodes/Kerry WH and DoD is merrily assisting them....

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Cyberwar between #Russia and #US. Moscow preparing for counter-attack
http://belsat.eu/en/news/kibervajna-rasei-i-zsha-maskva-ryhtuetstsa-da-kontrataki/#
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How #Assad allowed #Iran to take over the Syrian war from #SAA. A soldier´s perspective.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/shia-jihad-and-death-syria-s-army-1508759016#

ACTUALLY really worth reading as background on the ongoing Iranian sectarian war on Sunni's and their drive to create an Islamic State in both Iraq an Syria....

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Two Russian Pacific Fleet destroyers and two support ships have also departed homeport for the Med.
http://bit.ly/2emzmhI

Putin is desperately trying to project the Russian image of a superpower "Blue Water Navy" at a time that this Russian Navy has far fewer ships than did the Soviet Navy.....

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No #EU sanctions, no use of force, no nothing against #PutinAtWar in #Syria.
@FedericaMog will negotiate until the last civilian is killed.

The destroyed several residential areas.
Many killed & wounded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9thDmwO6h8#…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0urhKI3Blyc#…

SO there are now officially no war crimes, starvation and genocide being committed anywhere in Syria.....

BREAKINGNEWS
RUSSIAN JETS UNLEASH HELL ON #LATAMINAH RIGHT NOW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N50PBijwiPk#…

BreakingFootage
#Aleppo tonight.
The #Russian #BunkerBuster bombs obliterated entire blocks of flats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTnccxpjoDU#…

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Several airstrikes on #Dael &# Abtaa towns in southern #Syria

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REMEMBER Russian non linear warfare has two key cornerstones....
1. cyber warfare
2. informational warfare
AND we are currently in a major Russian non linear war over eastern Ukraine and now in Syria....that should never be forgotten in all the discussions....

In the face of the coming cyber war and it is coming because until both the US/Russia fire cyber exchanges neither one is going to sit down and demand a treaty on cyber warfare because next to a nuclear war….cyber warfare is just a deadly and it cannot be easily contained in this entirely networked globe of ours…..in some aspects it will be the direct cause of an Obama/Rhodes/Kerry WH "not wanting to do anything stupid" and never calling Putin out.

It is a known that in a sandlot bully world if one constantly backs up and yields to threats and displays of strength in fact that only strengthens the next bully attack…if kids can understand this I am not sure why the Obama WH does not….

I have posted here a number of comments concerning the issue of internet attacks using the Internet of Things (IoT).

There was a recent cyberattack….. a DDoS…(distributed denial of service attack) the largest ever recorded on the internet using 15,000 online cameras…that a major security network provider was barely able to gain control over and stop.

Research now into the concept of cyber attacks using IoT has produced the following and in wake of the threatened US/Russian cyber war….IoT will play a major role….

Taken from:
http://krebsonsecurity.com/


1.Who Makes the IoT Things Under Attack?
As KrebsOnSecurity observed over the weekend, the source code that powers the “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet responsible for launching the historically large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against KrebsOnSecurity last month has been publicly released. Here’s a look at which devices are being targeted by this malware.
The malware, dubbed “Mirai,” spreads to vulnerable devices by continuously scanning the Internet for IoT systems protected by factory default usernames and passwords. Many readers have asked for more information about which devices and hardware makers were being targeted. As it happens, this is fairly easy to tell just from looking at the list of usernames and passwords included in the Mirai source code.

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NOTE: using a scanning tool to locate via Mirai it located far in excess of 500,000 IoT devices that were not protected and responded to the Mirai malcode.
NOTE: the largest DDoS was launched using just 15,000 devices.



2.Source Code for IoT Botnet ‘Mirai’ Released
The source code that powers the “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet responsible for launching the historically large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against KrebsOnSecurity last month has been publicly released, virtually guaranteeing that the Internet will soon be flooded with attacks from many new botnets powered by insecure routers, IP cameras, digital video recorders and other easily hackable devices.
The leak of the source code was announced Friday on the English-language hacking community Hackforums. The malware, dubbed “Mirai,” spreads to vulnerable devices by continuously scanning the Internet for IoT systems protected by factory default or hard-coded usernames and passwords.
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3. IoT Devices as Proxies for Cybercrime
Multiple stories published here over the past few weeks have examined the disruptive power of hacked “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices such as routers, IP cameras and digital video recorders. This post looks at how crooks are using hacked IoT devices as proxies to hide their true location online as they engage in a variety of other types of cybercriminal activity — from frequenting underground forums to credit card and tax refund fraud.

Recently, I heard from a cybersecurity researcher who’d created a virtual “honeypot” environment designed to simulate hackable IoT devices. The source, who asked to remain anonymous, said his honeypot soon began seeing traffic destined for Asus and Linksys routers running default credentials. When he examined what that traffic was designed to do, he found his honeypot systems were being told to download a piece of malware from a destination on the Web.

My source grabbed a copy of the malware, analyzed it, and discovered it had two basic functions: To announce to a set of Internet addresses hard-coded in the malware a registration “I’m here” beacon; and to listen for incoming commands, such as scanning for new vulnerable hosts or running additional malware. He then wrote a script to simulate the hourly “I’m here” beacons, interpret any “download” commands, and then execute the download and “run” commands.

The researcher found that the malware being pushed to his honeypot system was designed to turn his faux infected router into a “SOCKS proxy server,” essentially a host designed to route traffic between a client and a server. Most often, SOCKS proxies are used to anonymize communications because they can help obfuscate the true origin of the client that is using the SOCKS server.
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“In a way, this feels like 1995-2000 with computers,” my source told me. “Devices were getting online, antivirus wasn’t as prevalent, and people didn’t know an average person’s computer could be enslaved to do something else. The difference now is, the number of vendors and devices has proliferated,and there is an underground ecosystem with the expertise to fuzz, exploit, write the custom software. Plus, what one person does can be easily shared to a small group or to the whole world."

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WHY is the security for IoT so important.....right now the attacks that can be launched by infected IoTs can in fact be used to knock any journalist offline, any blogsite off line and virtually any MSM media outlet offline as the power needed to withstand a DDoS from say 300,000 IoT bots cannot be simply be provided by a normal internet service provider without knocking them completely off the net and all their customers as well. Hacking can in fact be used to limit free speech across the globe and there is little any particular government can currently do to protect it.

http://krebsonsecurity.com/


Oct 16
Europe to Push New Security Rules Amid IoT Mess
The European Commission is drafting new cybersecurity requirements to beef up security around so-called Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as Web-connected security cameras, routers and digital video recorders (DVRs). News of the expected proposal comes as security firms are warning that a great many IoT devices are equipped with little or no security protections.
According to a report at#Euractiv.com, the Commission is planning the new IoT rules as part of a new plan to overhaul the European Union’s telecommunications laws. “The Commission would encourage companies to come up with a labeling system for internet-connected devices that are approved and secure,” wrote Catherine Stupp. “The EU labelling system that rates appliances based on how much energy they consume could be a template for the cybersecurity ratings.”

Reference the Mirai malcode used to identify unprotected IoTs.....

One of those default passwords — username: root and password: xc3511 — is in a broad array of white-labeled DVR and IP camera electronics boards made by a Chinese company called XiongMai Technologies. These components are sold downstream to vendors who then use it in their own products.

That information comes in an analysis published this week by Flashpoint Intel, whose security analysts discovered that the Web-based administration page for devices made by this Chinese company (http://ipaddress/Login.htm) can be trivially bypassed without even supplying a username or password, just by navigating to a page called “DVR.htm” prior to login.

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“The issue with these particular devices is that a user cannot feasibly change this password,” said Flashpoint’s Zach Wikholm. “The password is hardcoded into the firmware, and the tools necessary to disable it are not present. Even worse, the web interface is not aware that these credentials even exist.”

Continued.....

Flashpoint says the majority of media coverage surrounding the Mirai attacks on KrebsOnSecurity and other targets has outed products made by Chinese hi-tech vendor Dahua as a primary source of compromised devices. Indeed, Dahua’s products were heavily represented in the analysis I published last week.

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Sound the cyberwar cannons. It has begun.

On Monday afternoon the WikiLeaks Twitter account sent out an urgent tweet to the masses: "Julian Assange's internet link has been intentionally severed by a state party. We have activated the appropriate contingency plans."

The Australian founder of the activist website, known for releasing leaked and classified documents, was apparently having a connectivity issue. How the internet link was severed is unclear.

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The likeliest US retaliatory hack is a threat to reveal the scale and details of Putin's secret wealth.
http://qz.com/810722

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This article provides detailed routes of the Middle Eastern undersea internet cables....if one fully understands that is it both possible to cut those cables and it is also possible to lay monitoring equipment next them.....Russian deep dive abilities can in fact do this...they have been testing their equipment for the last several years in the Baltic and offshore from the UK....

https://www.telegeography.com/telecom-maps/middle-east-telecommunications-map.html

BUT it is just not only ME routes...the ME routes are actually in the top 25 major internet routes for the entire global internet coverage.....so they could in fact be monitoring far more than the ME.....

SHE is looking for a specific cable.....
RV Yantar may be methodically searching the ocean's bottom, and that box is getting smaller @ 34.38494°N, 35.32126°E
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1WFIX0PAK1SJq35usKwR4znbeS8M&usp=sharing#
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H I Sutton @CovertShores
Early Analysis of #Russian spy ship Yantar search pattern near undersea cables
http://www.hisutton.com/Yantar.html

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Sound the cyberwar cannons. It has begun.

On Monday afternoon the WikiLeaks Twitter account sent out an urgent tweet to the masses: "Julian Assange's internet link has been intentionally severed by a state party. We have activated the appropriate contingency plans."

The Australian founder of the activist website, known for releasing leaked and classified documents, was apparently having a connectivity issue. How the internet link was severed is unclear.


The war has been ongoing for awhile now.....
https://www.wired.com/2016/03/inside-cunning-unprecedented-hack-ukraines-power-grid/

Inside the cunning and Unprecedented Hack of Ukraine's Power Grid


It was 3:30 p.m. last December 23 2015, and residents of the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Western Ukraine were preparing to end their workday and head home through the cold winter streets. Inside the Prykarpattyaoblenergo control center, which distributes power to the region’s residents, operators too were nearing the end of their shift. But just as one worker was organizing papers at his desk that day, the cursor on his computer suddenly skittered across the screen of its own accord.
He watched as it navigated purposefully toward buttons controlling the circuit breakers at a substation in the region and then clicked on a box to open the breakers and take the substation offline. A dialogue window popped up on screen asking to confirm the action, and the operator stared dumbfounded as the cursor glided to the box and clicked to affirm. Somewhere in a region outside the city he knew that thousands of residents had just lost their lights and heaters.
Continued...

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Natwest freezes Kremlin propaganda channel #Russia Today's bank accounts in UK. Dirty money or dishonest reporting?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37677020#
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BREAKING: Iraqi cleric and militia leader Muqtada Sadr calls for mass protests at Turkish embassy and warns Turkey from intervening in Mosul

BREAKING: Erdogan says Turkey will participate in Mosul operation, despite Iraqi PM's rejections

[OUTLAW 09]

Turkish, Qatar, KSA Plan B is full in gear...just not sure that the US/Russia like it......

Saudi Foreign Minister #Jubeir: "We increasing our deliveries of arms to moderate #Syria|n rebels."

[OUTLAW 09]

Yes the West can in fact push back against Russian info warfare.....there just needs to be a will for it......and Obama/Rhodes/Kerry WH lack that will........

Fed up with relentless #Russian propaganda the #UK freezes all assets of @RT (Russia Today).
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37677020#
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First #Russian #election observer arrives at #Trump Tower in #NewYork

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Interesting piece by @AlbinSzakola on Hezbollah's top commander that was killed yesterday in #Aleppo. h/t @gilshil
https://mobile.mmedia.me/lb/en/newsreports/567431-high-ranking-hezbollah-commander-killed-in-aleppo#
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[OUTLAW 09]

Syria Not a single #Russia'n/#Assad-regime airstrike in past 2 months on #FSA held area btw N #Aleppo & Euphrates river
#EuphratesShield

Syria #Aleppo city by daylight after residents hit by airstrikes last night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgxfxrjzXCg#…

Assad warplanes targeting the last medical center in Allatamnih in the suburb of #Hama by Parachute bombs, 1 civilians die and many injured

Syria 10 #Iraq' i Shiite militia fighters killed in SE #Aleppo's Aziza

Syria Helicopter dropped barrels with Chlorine Gas on Lataminah town in northern #Hama

[OUTLAW 09]

Critics talk a lot about risk of doing more in #Syria, but [conveniently] ignore the risk that will result from continuing to do so little.

One day, critics of doing more in #Syria are going to get some courage & propose their own policy alternatives.

Still no sign of that now.

[OUTLAW 09]

APPEARS the Russian FM simply forgot the sectarian aspect of Hezbollah, AFG/Pakistan Shia mercenaries, Iraqi Shia militias and the entire IRGC WHEN they talk about "secular"......

MFA Russia
✔
@mfa_russia
Ministerial meeting on #Syria reaffirmed commitment to preserve Syria as integral, independent,secular state | 15/10
http://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/2500222#
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I was wondering when Erdogan would pull out PLAN "O".....for....."Ottoman Empire" and the rabbit is out of the hat and it will throw a major curve at Iran, Russia and YES even the US.....it has been sitting there as a silent but very big pregnant elephant...and YET no one picked up on it.....not even Putin and or Obama.....

The "Ottoman Empire" was actually a Sunni caliphate for over 500 years (starting in the 1400s timeframe) historically speaking until 1925...Erdogan views himself the "protector of Sunni's under that Ottoman mantel"....REMEMBER it was the WW1 victors that demanded Turkish devolvement of the Ottoman Empire.....with boundaries drawn by the French and UK....

The Iranians, Russians and YES even the US forgot that there is a strong Turkman minority inside Mosul as well....and that Mosul is a major Sunni city.

Erdogan invokes document that claims Mosul as Turkish soil
http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/1e9e370c-0585-4aaf-b6dd-ebccb92ca93f/Erdogan-invokes-document-that-claims-Mosul-as-Turkish-soil?platform=hootsuite#

That was something he could not pull off as long as Saddam was in power but now...he is going for it as IS has effectively destroyed the Sykes-Picot territorial boundaries.....AND he can field a very large military force to back up his demands and since the coup he has gone very nationalistic and the military will follow him...as would the Turkish population.

Cannot believe Putin did not see this coming straight at him as Erdogan lulled him into economic concessions never once mentioning to Russia his intentions with Mosul and ACTUALLY Aleppo as he had declared Aleppo a long time red line if it was to be captured by the Shia.....AND his TAF and the FSA is sitting just 12 miles from Assad regime positons around Aleppo.....



ISTANBUL, Turkey (Kurdistan24) – Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan invoked on Monday an early 20th-century irredentist document that claimed the Iraqi city of Mosul as Turkish soil.

Erdogan’s remarks came amid the commencement of a long-anticipated operation by the Iraqi Army, Kurdistan’s Peshmerga Forces and the US-led Coalition to liberate Mosul from the Islamic State (IS).

In Mosul “a history lies for us. If the gentlemen desire so, let them read the Misak-i Milli (National Oath) and understand what the place means to us,” Erdogan declared.

The Turkish president referred to an Ottoman Parliament-sealed, 1920 pact that designates Kirkuk and Mosul as parts of Turkey

Erdogan was speaking to the International Law Congress in Istanbul, according to the Kurdistan24 bureau there.

The Turkish President vowed his country would join both the Mosul operation that began in the morning and any talks regarding the Iraqi city’s fate in the aftermath of its capture from IS.

Iraq, Turkey, and the then colonial power of Great Britain agreed in a 1926 Ankara Pact that Iraq should keep the possession of Mosul in light of recommendation by an investigative commission of the League of Nations Council.

“They say Turkey should not enter Mosul. Come on! How do I not enter? I have a 350 kilometers (217 miles)-long border with Iraq. And I am under threat from that border,” the Turkish President said.

“They tell us to withdraw from Bashiqa. Nobody should expect us to do so,” he added.
Turkey has a military base near the town of Bashiqa just 15 kilometers (10 miles) north of Mosul despite strong condemnations and calls for withdrawal by the Iraqi Government.

“It is impossible for us to remain outside [the Mosul equation],” said Erdogan adding Turkey told the US it would not be “responsible” for outcomes of any operation it did not take part.

All the ground combat forces joining the Mosul Operation are Iraqis, according to an online announcement by General Stephen Townsend of the US’ task force in the fight against IS.

Erdogan also warned the US his country would not cooperate with the International Anti-IS Coalition if Americans did not clear the “terrorist” Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) from the Syrian town of Manbij west of the River Euphrates.

“Under the pretext of [IS], Syria and Iraq are facing a huge destruction in the result of operations participated by 63 nations,” concluded Erdogan.

The next Erdogan move will be to move on Aleppo under the guise of "the US and it's 63 nation coalition cannot and will not stop the Shia war crimes and genocide on Sunni's so we will do it for them" and since we are right here we will ensure humanitarian aid gets to eastern Aleppo AND it was our aid convoy the Russians bombed for over two full hours.....

[OUTLAW 09]

And while (pro-)Russian media claims "dozens" of civilians are dying every day due to rebel shelling in #Aleppo,, #Assad's SANA says 3 yday.

Which is bad but gives exactly the ratio I am always talking about.
#Russia & the regime are responsible for 90%+ of civ. deaths in #Aleppo.

[OUTLAW 09]

Russia says it will not slaughter Syrian children for 8 hours on Thursday.
And the world cheers ...
#ALEPPO TODAY!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dowuagPJzaA#…

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Footage
Syrian rebels destroyed an #Assad forces BMP near #Maardes with the TOW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYiPkmN-QQY#…

Syrian rebels ad the Turkish Army, backed by the US air force, took more villages from #ISIS in northern #Syria today.

TAF/FSA is inching closer and closer to Aleppo and as Assad and Putin bomb Aleppo they seem to take no notice.....AND the closer they get the SyAF and RuAF are not flying air strikes near and or close to that those controlled areas so it is becoming a defecto NFZ.....by default...so to speak....

[OUTLAW 09]

Syria #Hama Rebels still in Maardas but regime seized mills & Iskandarīyah south of it

THIS is interesting as it flips the US/UK attempts at a ceasefire in Yemen...means the Houthi's must hold to it.....if they violate it then the war is on again..and violate it they will and the Saudi's know that....so it is easy for them to say yes with caveats....

Saudis prepared to agree to a ceasefire in #Yemen if the #Iran-backed Houthis would abide by it.

Rumors are the US/UK rammed through this ceasefire proposal before informing the KSA...

[OUTLAW 09]

Here comes the lowly/lonely Russian tug to pull the Russian aircraft carrier when and she will when she breaks down.....

New position of the tug Nikolay Chiker, part of the Kuznetsov task group: 170 nm West of Trondheim

[OUTLAW 09]

HOW much Russian black money is being used to literally "buy" Russian support for eastern Ukraine, Syria and the Us election these days as well as all the far right European groups????

Russian soft power hard at work.

Front National asked Russia for €27 million loan to finance presidential campaign
http://www.politico.eu/article/le-pen-russia-crimea-putin-money-bank-national-front-seeks-russian-cash-for-election-fight/#
…
BTW on Syria it reaches deep into the Libertarian side of US politics as well as the US Congress.

#Putin routinely threatens #nuclear war, yet lefties prefer to lash out against alleged #NATO 'sabre rattling'.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/10/16/putin-throws-out-the-old-nuclear-rules-rattling-washington-clinton-trump-arms-control/#
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[OUTLAW 09]

BUT WAIT....Kerry/Obama/Rhodes WH has declared there is no war crimes being committed in Syria, there is not starvation being used nor ethnic cleansing ongoing AND there certainly is no genocide...THAT is the result of their non action on placing war crimes charges into the ICC against Assad and Putin....WHY is that???

"Aleppo will not be there" in 2 months if diplomatic stalemate continues, warns Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura
http://bit.ly/2dvH2PL

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian central military district peacekeeping brigade partially alerted too
https://ria.ru/defense_safety/20161018/1479441261.html#

Turkish air force involved in air strikes in Iraq's #Mosul: PM -
http://bit.ly/2e1HLcl

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian Syrian Express is picking up speed.....

ВМФ #Cф NF Ropucha cl. LSTM Georgiy Pobedonosets 016 returned from #Syria, departed Aegean & transits Dardanelles towards Marmara

016 transits Dardanelles: Back from #Tartus to the Turkish Straits in 7days, one of the fastest trip for a #ВМФ Ropucha LSTM

[OUTLAW 09]

Syria #Russia's RT action film crew arrived at #Aleppo's frontline gates to produce "the fleeing rebels" movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFhgpWyoT98#

Минобороны России
✔
@mod_russia
#SYRIA #SHOIGU: Syrian troops will withdraw in order to allow insurgents to leave Eastern Aleppo with weapons through 2 corridors

Минобороны России
✔
@mod_russia
#SYRIA #SHOIGU: Today, strikes by Rus AF & Syrian AF are stopped at 10:00 in Aleppo holding a “humanitarian pause” on October 20

RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER: Russia and Syria are halting airstrikes on Aleppo
http://read.bi/2eotiEj

[OUTLAW 09]

Wreckage Confirms Russian Incendiary Cluster Bombs Used Near Homs Town Of Rastan
http://www.interpretermag.com/syria-october-18-2016/#

CIT (en) ‏@CITeam_en
We have analyzed an airstrike on the town of Rastan with incendiary bombs unseen in Syria before the Ru involvement
https://citeam.org/new-evidence-of-russian-incendiary-bomb-use-in-syria/#…

[OUTLAW 09]

Syria #Russia's RT action film crew arrived at #Aleppo's frontline gates to produce "the fleeing rebels" movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFhgpWyoT98#

Минобороны России
✔
@mod_russia
#SYRIA #SHOIGU: Syrian troops will withdraw in order to allow insurgents to leave Eastern Aleppo with weapons through 2 corridors

Минобороны России
✔
@mod_russia
#SYRIA #SHOIGU: Today, strikes by Rus AF & Syrian AF are stopped at 10:00 in Aleppo holding a “humanitarian pause” on October 20

RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER: Russia and Syria are halting airstrikes on Aleppo
http://read.bi/2eotiEj


BUT WAIT Russian air strikes STILL continue..what a farce.....
Syria Heavy airstrikes on northern & western #Aleppo suburbs now

Reported in the last five minutes......
Syria 5 airstrikes hit #Aleppo's Rashidin in southern western outskirts

Footage
#Russian Su-35 war plane, bombing towns east of #Damascus this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAVMt-n5ipg#…

BEFORE so called sham ceasefire....
Fresh #Russian #BunkerBuster attacks on civilians in #Aleppo's Bustan Alqaser ,Kalasi and Zubdia neighbourhoods.

Pro-#Assad media shows #Russian incendiary bomb attack on #Maardes.
EVERYTHING is allowed for them ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNK6G1O7Yo#…

Also east of #Damascus, the #AssadPutin terrorism continued.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Qi6NZoD9I#…

Another #Aleppo suburb after #Russia used #BunkerBuster bombs vs. civilians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2gZGikk5VA#…

KafrNaha, west of #Aleppo yesterday/today ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EhnYAs7FXk#…

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BUT WAIT....US and Iraq openly and publicly stated Shia militias would not enter Mosul....

30,000 Shiite militiamen are ready to enter the Sunni city of #Mosul — Turkish President @RT_Erdogan.

The Turkish Army is now 21 km inside #Syria and only 14 km from the next #Assad regime position. LESS than 10 miles and slowly inching towards Aleppo...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNUUsBD_9DU#…

[OUTLAW 09]

H I Sutton ‏@CovertShores

BREAKING: #Yantar #Russia spy ship has started new search near UGARIT undersea cable off Syria
http://www.hisutton.com/Yantar.html

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In all seriousness, this is what #Russia & @RusEmbUSA models "success" on for #Aleppo & #Syria.

25,000+ killed in #Grozny in 5 weeks.

THIS is exactly what Russia is doing to Aleppo and the WEST says nothing....absolutely nothing.

THEY have even backed away from the idea of war crimes, starvation, ethnic cleansing and genocide....using Trump's own very twitter comment.... SAD....

[OUTLAW 09]

H I Sutton ‏@CovertShores

BREAKING: #Yantar #Russia spy ship has started new search near UGARIT undersea cable off Syria
http://www.hisutton.com/Yantar.html

This is the third undersea internet/comms cable that Russia has sent down a manned vehicle to place listening/intercept devices next to the cable....they will be able to monitor all traffic carried by these three undersea internet cables.


UGARIT - eastwards to Syria
This is a repeaterless SDH cable system directly connecting Cyprus and Syria and via terrestrial extensions, with Jordan.

UGARIT and CADMOS together with the BERYTAR cable system (Beirut – Tartous), are fully integrated into a secure self-healing ring, interconnecting Cyprus with Lebanon and Syria.

[OUTLAW 09]

The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef
6 family members were killed after their home in Bustan Al Qars in #Aleppo city was targeted by an airstrike at around 03:30 this morning.


EU Mythbusters
✔
@EUvsDisinfo
Remember bullies at school? Trolls use the same tactics on social media (via study of @STRATCOMCOE
https://goo.gl/n7fa2U

BBC News - Trump's Twitter debate lead was 'swelled by bots'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37684418#
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We have seen the very same tactic by the Russian trolls used in Syria and eastern Ukraine and NOW inside the US.


AND it is ALL not intertwined......?????

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U.S. Dept of Defense
✔
@DeptofDefense
"We applaud Turkish & Syrian opposition forces who took part in battle to liberate people of Dabiq from #ISIL oppression" -@PentagonPresSec

WILL they still be applauding as TAF/FSA inch towards Aleppo....???

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FSA backed by #Turkish forces take control on one of the important villages #TAl_Malid in the south of #Marea,
#YPG country Dream is gone

Syria #FSA took al Eyoun & its farms in northern #Aleppo
probably here:
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.452770&lon=37.255454&z=15&m=b#…
means #FSA get closer to #YPG area

FSA captured el-Iyun, Tal Malid and al-Said villages from #IS north Aleppo
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36.447385&lon=37.233353&z=14&m=b#…

THE US would do well to heed the Erdogan warning to them about YPG...he has not forgotten them.....

[OUTLAW 09]

Asma al-#Assad:

'Yes, I was offered the opportunity to leave #Syria… It doesn't take a genius to know what these people were really after.'

She cannot leave as cannot Assad...as he would be charged with war crimes and genocide....so she has to stay...simple as that.....

Asma al-#Assad:

'My husband is very kind, very thoughtful & always polite… so easy to talk to… he’s a very giving man'

AS he kills his way through 73% of the Syrian Sunni population along the way...what world does she really live in these days that she cannot see reality just as her husband cannot apparently see reality staring straight at him......

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BUT WAIT Russian air strikes STILL continue..what a farce.....
Syria Heavy airstrikes on northern & western #Aleppo suburbs now

Reported in the last five minutes......
Syria 5 airstrikes hit #Aleppo's Rashidin in southern western outskirts

Footage
#Russian Su-35 war plane, bombing towns east of #Damascus this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAVMt-n5ipg#…

BEFORE so called sham ceasefire....
Fresh #Russian #BunkerBuster attacks on civilians in #Aleppo's Bustan Alqaser ,Kalasi and Zubdia neighbourhoods.

Pro-#Assad media shows #Russian incendiary bomb attack on #Maardes.
EVERYTHING is allowed for them ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaNK6G1O7Yo#…

Also east of #Damascus, the #AssadPutin terrorism continued.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Qi6NZoD9I#…

Another #Aleppo suburb after #Russia used #BunkerBuster bombs vs. civilians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2gZGikk5VA#…

KafrNaha, west of #Aleppo yesterday/today ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EhnYAs7FXk#…

I wouldn’t believe for a second that 24-48hr bombing pause in #Aleppo is going to see opposition fighters do 180° shift & quickly surrender.

WHY would they surrender with TAF/FSA exactly now 10.5 miles away from them inching even closer and apparently Assad and Putin not realizing the goal of TAF/FSA...

AS TAF/FSA move closer so does a NFZ move closer to Aleppo.....

I *would* believe for a second that renewed fighting after “pause” will see #Russia/#Assad truly go all-out to prepare #Aleppo assault.

HERE is the motive behind this stoppage....every time Russia stops either in Aleppo or eastern Ukraine it is always for preparation for an upcoming battle...it allows him to move troops arms, munitions and fuel ALL under the cover of a so called ceasefire and it freezes say the UAF in Ukraine and the anti Assad forces as then the WEST will state "see you broke the ceasefire".....

[OUTLAW 09]

In all seriousness, this is what #Russia & @RusEmbUSA models "success" on for #Aleppo & #Syria.

25,000+ killed in #Grozny in 5 weeks.

THIS is exactly what Russia is doing to Aleppo and the WEST says nothing....absolutely nothing.

THEY have even backed away from the idea of war crimes, starvation, ethnic cleansing and genocide....using Trump's own very twitter comment.... SAD....


QUOTE:
Russian Embassy, USA
Verified account
‏@RusEmbUSA
#Grozny today is a peaceful, modern, and thriving city. Ain't that a solution we're all looking for
UNQUOTE:

25,000 civilians killed in FIVE WEEKS...THAT is always the Russian solution....

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Kyle W. Orton ‏@KyleWOrton
Press conference with Muqtada al-Sadr and leaders of the #Iran-backed #Hashd, only one of whom is not a formally-designated global terrorist.

Leaders of largest #Iran proxy militias, the backbone of the #Hashd, are to meet Muqtada al-Sadr in Najaf today re coordination over #Mosul.

Kyle W. Orton ‏@KyleWOrton
Russia has used every other "ceasefire" for consolidation and preparation for aggression ...

Also, everyone's now distracted with #Mosul.

[OUTLAW 09]

Izzat_al_Douri denies relationship between Baath Party and #ISIS, & apologizes for invasion of Kuwait in 1990
http://www.alquds.co.uk/?p=615053

The old buzzard apparently dodged the reaper one last time.

BUT he sure spent a lot of time in Syria when the US was in Iraq....

[OUTLAW 09]

A NEW US FP is slowly making it's way to the ME starting 1 Jan 2017....

In OCT 2013, Hillary Clinton criticised Obama's belief in "moderates" in #Iran and #Syria red line fiasco.
http://bv.ms/2dJEag5# @EliLake

AND the Russians will not like it at all....

[OUTLAW 09]

Everyone in the Obama/Rhodes/Kerry totally forgot what it was like fighting an insurgency inside Iraq until Obama....came into the WH.....it is not going to be pretty.....

Kyle W. Orton ‏@KyleWOrton
#IS ceding statelet, moving to insurgency, isn't defeat: that's their strategic choice. Must uproot enabler networks

http://warontherocks.com/2016/10/after-the-battle-for-mosul-get-ready-for-the-islamic-state-to-go-underground/

WITH over 100,000 US troops inside Iraq...we still could not control the insurgency...beat it down yes, but never control nor defeat it.....

[OUTLAW 09]

17 OCT 2016:

State Department says again #Assad and #IS are de facto allies in #Syria.

Still chasing Assad's patrons to defeat IS though.

[OUTLAW 09]

Acc. to the @EUCouncil, CW, Cluster & Barrel Bomb attacks on women & children ARE no war crimes.

The only #MAY be war crimes.

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian Hackers Faked Gmail Password Form To Invade DNC Email System - BuzzFeed News
Careful with Gmail, folks.
https://apple.news/A8thH3ewwRbW_9n4ZkTqg7Q#
…

[OUTLAW 09]

Syria Expect clashes btw #FSA & #YPG along #Aleppo frontlines
#FSA demand #YPG to withdraw from Tal Rifaat in 48h
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuS7lA8rPuI#…

The Syrian SUPER GAU is brewing and yet the US and now Putin does not seem to see it coming whatsoever.....

Erdogan has repeatedly stated the YPG/SDF/PKK must pull out and YET Obama thinks he can talk Erdogan out of this.....AND Putin thinks he has an unspoken agreement over Aleppo which he forgot to tell Erdogan about....

TAF/FSA are inching slowly ever so slowly towards Aleppo and by the YPG not pulling out of Tal Rifaat place YPG directly in front of that slowly inching forward which neither TAF and FSA will tolerate any longer....AS YPG has repeatedly attacked FSA positions under support of Russian CAS and FSA has not forgotten that.....

[OUTLAW 09]

Zinki’s military leader in E. #Aleppo, Omar Salqo, speaks on issues re. the siege & military relations with JFS:
https://youtu.be/0u02caqkvts

Charles Lister ‏@Charles_Lister
Ultimately, I see no interest in US pursuing confrontation with #Russia.
But this idea that #Moscow’s AD negates U.S. capability = rubbish.

The S-300 to S-400 evolution presents further risks, but the U.S has explicitly developed its own stand-off & air systems to deal with them.

Greece has had S-300s in Crete for 15yrs - and as such, both #Israel & the U.S know everything there is to be known about its weaknesses.

Strange comments re. #Russia’s S-300 being insurmountable problem for US = complete codswallop

Wld it be risky? Sure. But perfectly doable.

[OUTLAW 09]

"US and UK reject #Russia offer of #Syria airstrikes pause in #Aleppo”

- US says "too little, too late”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/18/us-and-uk-reject-russian-offer-of-syria-airstrikes-pause?CMP=share_btn_tw#…

Suqor al-Sham leader @aleesa71 condemns Jabhat Fatah al-Sham for merging w. Jund al-Aqsa & suggests it'll have consequences for JFS.

[OUTLAW 09]

#Putin says Western sanctions can "screw themselves," phrase then removed from ofcl transcipt. Guess they're working

[OUTLAW 09]

FSA
#FastaqemUnion
Our forces are fighting a fierce battle in Job Al-jalabi neighborhood against Assad gangs who try to storm it.
#Aleppo

[OUTLAW 09]

The #Russian regime targeted and destroyed the hospital in the small town of #Sarjah, 18 km from the front in #Idlib province, today.

[OUTLAW 09]

WELL so much for the Russian sham so called ceasefire.....Russian air strike AFTER their own called ceasefire start....and that is what Russia calls a "ceasefire Russian style....ALL talk, propaganda and then come the bombs"....

Apocalyptic
The people of eastern #Aleppo left their basements and flats today to see what is left of their city...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzsKjGlNFGY#…

Same scenes as every day in #Aleppo today.
But #AssadPutin used more artillery & less air strikes it seems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS-FQP2rNdo#…

BUT NO TRUE CEASEFIRE ...SAME IDENTICAL TACTIC USED IN EASTERN Ukraine...CLAIM A CEASEFIRE....AND A PULL BACK BUT YOU GET AN INCREASE IN GROUND ATTACKS AND HEAVY ARTILLERY ATTACKS....ALL CLAIMED TO BE A "CEASEFIRE RUSSIAN STYLE"......

[OUTLAW 09]

ANOTHER ASSAD CW ATTACK USING CHLORINE WHICH HAS BEEN STATED A CW....BY INTERNATIONAL TREATIES......

Footage
Syrian activist captures moment of #AssadPutin CW / Chlorine gas attacks on #Souran (#Hama prov.) today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvG7Cmrw9Ek#…

AND THE WEST REMAINS TOTALLY AND ABSOLUTELY QUIET.....

[OUTLAW 09]

Cold, rainy, foggy and a low grey overcast today in Berlin/Brandenburg.....A total TWO cat day weather wise....

[OUTLAW 09]

Rebels replied by sending dozens of #Grad missiles vs. advancing #Assad regime forces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tUG6xwDRRE#…

Many dozens of #AssadPutin air strikes targeted free #Hama province today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mdjmlc6-AI#…
Over 12 villages/towns were hit....

[OUTLAW 09]

Syria Expect clashes btw #FSA & #YPG along #Aleppo frontlines
#FSA demand #YPG to withdraw from Tal Rifaat in 48h
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuS7lA8rPuI#…

The Syrian SUPER GAU is brewing and yet the US and now Putin does not seem to see it coming whatsoever.....

Erdogan has repeatedly stated the YPG/SDF/PKK must pull out and YET Obama thinks he can talk Erdogan out of this.....AND Putin thinks he has an unspoken agreement over Aleppo which he forgot to tell Erdogan about....

TAF/FSA are inching slowly ever so slowly towards Aleppo and by the YPG not pulling out of Tal Rifaat place YPG directly in front of that slowly inching forward which neither TAF and FSA will tolerate any longer....AS YPG has repeatedly attacked FSA positions under support of Russian CAS and FSA has not forgotten that.....

AND here comes the SUPER GAU of US/Russian politics inside Syria as really both the US/Russian actions are supporting the Assad regime and not really attacking IS for some inherently strange reason.....

Turkey determined to set up a 'terror free' zone in N. Syria. Erdoğan: "Manbij will be cleansed of PYD elements."
http://www.dailysabah.com/war-on-terror/2016/10/18/turkey-to-establish-5000-square-kilometer-terror-free-zone-in-syria-president-erdogan-says#
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[OUTLAW 09]

Russian Syrian Naval Express.....

Tarantul III class guided missile corvette #ВМФ #ЧФ Ivanovets transits Bosphorus after 98 days Mediterranean deployment & enters Black Sea

[OUTLAW 09]

73% of Russians Believe Aleppo Airstrikes Criticism 'Attempt to Weaken Country':
https://themoscowtimes.com/news/73-of-russians-believe-aleppo-airstrikes-criticism-attempt-to-weaken-country-55775#
…
A great example of an "altered state of reality" all based on nothing but propaganda information.....

Russia 'will retaliate' against British media after RT's bank accounts closed
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/oct/18/russia-will-retaliate-against-british-media-after-rts-bank-accounts-closed?CMP=share_btn_tw#
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[OUTLAW 09]

Russian Syrian Express....Russian logistics must be getting tight...pace has definitely picked up.....

Sailors, officers, spetsnaz on #ВМФ #ЧФ BSF Tapir class LST Nikolai Filchenkov during its 14:45Z #Syria-bound Bosphorus transit

[OUTLAW 09]

BRK
The #AssadPutin "humanitarian pause" is just another 3 days x 8 hrs #LeaveOrDie ultimatum to residents and rebels in eastern #Aleppo.

JUST a rehash of previously offered ceasefires and so called humanitarian corridors...REMEMBER Putin claimed weeks ago to have opened THREE...BUT they never were opened...REMEMBER promised to allow aid to arrive...NEVER happened....so why would anyone inside Aleppo trust him?????

[OUTLAW 09]

The German FM Steinmeir cannot even say the words..."Russian air strikes on helpless defenseless civilians"....BUT Merkel can and does....there is a massive disconnect between Merkel and her own FM.....

Was #Steinmeier sich nicht wagt auszusprechen, ist fr #Merkel kein Tabu: Es gibt russische Luftangriffe auf hilflose Menschen in #Aleppo.

German SPD is showing itself to be a "true friend" of Putin lately....

[OUTLAW 09]

General Services in besieged Aleppo statement: 80% of network out of service due to bombings. 18 neighborhoods, 200k people without water.

Jabhat al-Shamiyah map of North Aleppo progress. Euphrates Shield moving to block SDF/YPG in Afrin from al-Bab corridor.

[OUTLAW 09]

Damascus Ghouta paid a huge price for the infighting, large territory lost to Assad. Work together or green buses.

Reports by pro-regime activists of loyalist militias looting houses in recently recaptured Maardes town.
http://alkhabar-sy.com/?p=6372

YPG attacking #FSA positions north Aleppo with mortars. Two #FSA killed.
Reports YPG Kurdish militia pushing east toward al-Bab took new positions from IS. This means direct conflict with FSA and Turkish Army soon

Ghost Squad Hackers ‏@GhostSquadHack Oct 17
#GhostSquadHackers is tired of the war crimes
Bashar al-Assad is getting away with we declare all out war on the Syrian Government #OpSyria

[OUTLAW 09]

From start to finish: How Ajnad al-Sham Islamic Union produces Mortars, RPGs, Hell canons and more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3tOLoQ_H-w#…

[OUTLAW 09]

AND the ethnic cleansing of Sunni's in Syria just keeps on happening and the ENTIRE WEST says not a single word....utterance..press release or press conference NOT even the UN says anything...SAD...really SAD....

Hundreds of "terrorists and their families" - brave (Sunni) Syrians from #Qaboun - get ready to lose their homes forever.
The world watches.

ACTUALLY what is simply amazing is that this ethnic cleansing is largely supported/carried out by the UN and the Syrian Red Crescent....in support of the Assad genocidal regime.

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian Naval Syrian Express.....

Russian navy flagship nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov heading towards Tartus in Syria via UK
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1999495/vladimir-putins-nuclear-warships-pictured-steaming-towards-the-english-channel-as-royal-navy-prepares-to-scramble-fleet/#
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[OUTLAW 09]

German interview with Assad is coming....do not anticipate the interview to be a fluff one...there will be some very hard questions about his genocide and the Russian bombings of hospitals and his use of CW.....

Exklusiv-Interview mit #Syrien-Diktator #Assad in der #srfrundschau von @SRF. Mit @SandroBrotz wird das sicher kein Geflligkeits-Interview.
https://twitter.com/SandroBrotz/status/788655759328411648

[OUTLAW 09]

Report
65 civilians were killed by #AssadPutin on Tuesday in #Syria, incl. 12 children.
20 of the victims died in & around #Aleppo
- LCC

If you can't fool them - scare them! Kremlin disinformation trends in Syria.....
http://stfi.re/ljglrnz

EU Mythbusters
@EUvsDisinfo
The confused logic of pro-Kremlin media & latest disinfo trends in #DisinfoReview:
http://eepurl.com/ckA8D9

[OUTLAW 09]

Seems like Turkish-backed/armed #FSA "Sultan Murad Brigade" redeployed a small team to S-W #Aleppo to target #Assad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpTzHMfvliQ#…

AssadPutin air strikes on #Hama and #Homs provinces this morning.
#Syria

[OUTLAW 09]

Qaboun near #Damascus right now.
Hundreds - maybe thousands - of men, women and children are leaving their homes for good.
#EthnicCleansing

The world wants to see the same, starting tomorrow in #Aleppo.
"For #peace" as the @UN says.
Nothing but #EthnicCleansing by #AssadPutin.

Official reason for the mass-displacement:These people "refuse the reconciliation agreement",meaning refuse #Assad control over their towns.

REMEMBER the Russians have been making a BIG deal out of their own written not Assad written "reconciliation agreement" WHICH they have been pushing themselves as a propaganda move that "all is moving forward".....

Assad's #EthnicCleansing busses, facilitated by the @SYRedCrescent, are back on the road.
This time from #Qaboun to #Idlib.
#Syria

[OUTLAW 09]

Aleppo today
#AssadPutin's #EthnicCleansing busses prepare to transport "terrorists" out of the city via the Castello road tomorrow.

WHAT is interesting is that there is total silence out of the anti Assad forces in Aleppo numbering close 10,000 and only an estimated 500-700 are JFS WHO in theory would be leaving BUT ASSAD and PUTIN thinks somehow all are leaving......IMHO they will not be leaving nor will JFS be leaving any time soon as they are all prepared to go down fighting.....

THINK about it...there are absolutely no international guarantees for their safety and Assad/Putin have declared they are killing IS and JFS....would you get on a bus???? Especially since even the UN has a poor track record in
Syria of protecting anti Assad forces....AND Putin does not have a great track record for protecting surrender corridors....ASK the Ukrainian UAF?????

Silence has been the response for the rebels to the Russian/Assad offer.....AND think about it...the so called massive Assad regime to capture Aleppo has repeatedly failed thus really a military offensive failure across the board....and more bombing causes more demands for MORE sanctions on Putin and company...WHICH Obama is actually blocking...why I have no idea....

WHY would actually JFS get on busses flying the Assad fly they have been fighting against for over four long years?....NOT a single UN/SRC flag to be seen.....

[OUTLAW 09]

Russia cannot be allowed to get away with brutality in Syria – By Andrew Mitchell –
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/1/russia-cannot-be-allowed-to-get-away-with-brutality-in-syria/#
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[OUTLAW 09]

Ever wonder why this occurs.....we seem to be unable to learn from our mistakes which just keep on happening...???

The weak coverage of ISIS's defeat from Dabiq by fellow Sunnis is solid evidence the US-led coalition is clueless about how to uproot ISIS.

THIS is indeed a Sunni fight and no one else should be involved..SAD but true.....

[OUTLAW 09]

Report
65 civilians were killed by #AssadPutin on Tuesday in #Syria, incl. 12 children.
20 of the victims died in & around #Aleppo
- LCC

If you can't fool them - scare them! Kremlin disinformation trends in Syria.....
http://stfi.re/ljglrnz

EU Mythbusters
@EUvsDisinfo
The confused logic of pro-Kremlin media & latest disinfo trends in #DisinfoReview:
http://eepurl.com/ckA8D9

This is why the U.K. was right to freeze @RT bank accounts:
http://thebea.st/2dM1glZ

[OUTLAW 09]

Light humor......

Assad: It is our #mission to save #Aleppo from it's residents

BUT WAIT...this is the Assad reality......
Government must rid Aleppo of 'terrorists' to protect civilians: Assad
http://reut.rs/2eQxwZk

BUT WAIT....both Assad and Putin have declared any Sunni that resists Assad as a "terrorist" SO ae 300,000 "terrorists" going to be "eliminated"....????

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian Naval Syrian Express.....

Russian navy flagship nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov heading towards Tartus in Syria via UK
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1999495/vladimir-putins-nuclear-warships-pictured-steaming-towards-the-english-channel-as-royal-navy-prepares-to-scramble-fleet/#
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Kuznetsov now practising "aircraft flight operations" while on way to "traditional" anchorage off Moray Firth.
http://www.marineforum.info/Daily_News/daily_news.html#

Aircraft Carrier Admiral #Kuznetsov" group location confirmed- located west of Trondeim #Norway heading west to #NorthSea

BOY is she leaving a heavy black smoke trail behind her these days.....
Image taken yesterday of #Russia Aircraft Carrier "Admiral #Kuznetsov" (at front) with other vessels of the coast of #Norway

[OUTLAW 09]

Aleppo today
#AssadPutin's #EthnicCleansing busses prepare to transport "terrorists" out of the city via the Castello road tomorrow.

WHAT is interesting is that there is total silence out of the anti Assad forces in Aleppo numbering close 10,000 and only an estimated 500-700 are JFS WHO in theory would be leaving BUT ASSAD and PUTIN thinks somehow all are leaving......IMHO they will not be leaving nor will JFS be leaving any time soon as they are all prepared to go down fighting.....

THINK about it...there are absolutely no international guarantees for their safety and Assad/Putin have declared they are killing IS and JFS....would you get on a bus???? Especially since even the UN has a poor track record in
Syria of protecting anti Assad forces....AND Putin does not have a great track record for protecting surrender corridors....ASK the Ukrainian UAF?????

Silence has been the response for the rebels to the Russian/Assad offer.....AND think about it...the so called massive Assad regime operation to capture Aleppo has repeatedly failed thus really a military offensive failure across the board....and more bombing causes more demands for MORE sanctions on Putin and company...WHICH Obama is actually blocking...why I have no idea....

WHY would actually JFS get on busses flying the Assad fly they have been fighting against for over four long years?....NOT a single UN/SRC/IRC flag to be seen.....

Syrian war: Rebels reject Aleppo withdrawal offer from Moscow; UN says all parties must agree first

19 October 2016 Reuters



Syrian rebels have rejected Russia's offer of a withdrawal of fighters from Aleppo after Moscow announced a halt in air raids which it said was designed to allow insurgents to leave and to separate moderate fighters from extremist militants.

Key points:
Rebels deem the offer "surrender" and pledge to fight on
UN says Russian unilateral statement is insufficient
Red Cross says it is unclear how much time is needed to get security clearances

"The factions completely reject any exit — this is surrender," said Zakaria Malahifji, the political officer of the Aleppo-based Fastaqim group.

On Monday, Moscow said that Russian and Syrian forces would pause their attacks on Aleppo for eight hours on Thursday to allow rebels to leave while allowing humanitarian aid to enter.

On Tuesday, Russia halted all air strikes, two days ahead of time.
But the United Nations said that Russia's unilateral plan for a humanitarian pause would not ensure any supplies get into besieged eastern Aleppo because Russia and Syria and other groups fighting in the city have not yet given guarantees of safety for aid workers.

"We need assurances from all parties to the conflict, not just a unilateral announcement that this will happen," UN spokesman Jens Laerke said on Tuesday.

"We need everybody to give us those assurances before it is immediately useful for us to do anything meaningful."

The International Committee of the Red Cross also said it was still unclear how much time would be needed to get security guarantees from all sides, including from rebel fighters.

Meanwhile, Al-Farouk Abu Bakr, an Aleppo commander in the powerful Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham, added that the rebels would fight on.

"When we took up arms at the start of the revolution to defend our abandoned people we promised God that we would not lay them down until the downfall of this criminal regime," he said, referring to President Bashar al-Assad's Government.

"There are no terrorists in Aleppo," he said.
Rebels in eastern Aleppo have consistently said that insurgent groups linked to Al Qaeda or inspired by it have no real presence in the opposition-held part of the city.

The Russia-Syria bombing campaign has destroyed most health facilities in the besieged city, where 406 people were killed and 1,384 wounded between September 23 and October 8, according to UN data based on reports from medical facilities.

REMEMBER the exact Russian actions WHEN even with the agreed to recent US/Russia "deal" and all approving the urgent shipment of aid into Aleppo a KEY CORE element of the US/Russian "deal" the Russian AF bombed the Turkish aid convoy for over TWO full hours killing 21 and destroying aid for 123,000......

[OUTLAW 09]

Ukraine's "Opposition Bloc" which Trump's Paul Manafort helped establish gives 0 votes (1 agst) to resolution condemning Russian bombing of Aleppo.

The Enemy Within
Whatever horrors #Putin commits, #Germany's Social Democrats will always be on hand to forgive...
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-political-leaders-divided-on-approach-to-russia-a-1116979.html#
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[OUTLAW 09]

Text messages being sent to mobiles in E Aleppo from the government of Syria. They say...

"Armed men in East Aleppo, the promises of aid, supporting troops and weapons will not be kept."...

"The whole world has let you down and sacrificed you to meet your lethal fate.":...

"Think before it is too late. Leave your weapons and get out!"



BUT WAIT now the truth comes truly out....Russia had stated they could leave with their weapons ....this is the same exact trick the Russians played on the UAF in 2014 when they were surrounded and Russia claimed to allow them a safe corridor to leave with their weapons AND Russian troops slaughtered them when they came out....

BUT WAIT...more bombing will harden the EU into actually placing more sanctions of Russia as Merkel will drive that home to Putin today here in Berlin......

AND the Assad regime massive combat operation to capture Aleppo has basically and totally failed...

AND TAF/FSA troops and the Turkish AF sit now 10.5 miles from the Assad regime real lines in western Aleppo.....

AND more weapons and munitions are flowing unrestricted into northern Aleppo via Qatar, KSA and Turkey AND it is making a difference already on the battlefield....AND Assad regime mercenaries are losing high numbers of troops in the fighting....

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AND who stated that "hope is not a Plan"......

Russian Defence Minister calls on civilians to leave E Aleppo via designated escape routes.

So Aleppo Sunni's are really going to trust the same man who has been bombing the heck out of them.....really ????

[OUTLAW 09]

Putin's plan for the week:
Tu. Implement Syria cease-fire.
We. Sound reasonable at Berlin summit.
Th. Undermine EU debate on new sanctions

AND the Obama/Rhodes/Kerry Plan....there is none....

Russia says can respond forcefully if U.S. toughens sanctions
http://reut.rs/2erKM2e

[OUTLAW 09]

FSA || #Aleppo
Senior Hezbollah field commander, Hatem Hamade, killed by FSA in Aleppo
Footage from funeral:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Pj8lTEH6o#…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDgLGWXZSjw#…

He was killed in a failed attempt to storm the area as were blocked by #FSA forces who inflicted heavy casualties on them

Free Syrian Army forces kill senior Lebanese Hezbollah Commander in 1070 Apartments Project in #Aleppo

Aleppo: Rebels have captured entire "1070 Apartments Project" in Southern #Aleppo City.

Aleppo: Rebels have destroyed a van full with #YPG militias at #Al_Hassiah village.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.419349&lon=37.241249&z=13&m=b#…

The people of #Aleppo will not surrender to Russian killers in the sky or Iranians, Hezbollah & sectarian Iraqis on the ground. #Syria

[OUTLAW 09]

On LBC at 2pm to discuss Asma al Assad's claim Western media has one-sided coverage on #Syria. Cause she knows all about free media, right?

[OUTLAW 09]

Aleppo: Heavy clashes now between #YPG and rebels along the entire frontline south of #Marea.

Aleppo: Many #YPG fighters were killed by rebel artillery & mortars in #Umm_Hawsh & #Harbul villages after rebels were attacked by #YPG.

YPG fanboy begging #Russia to help #YPG and bomb the rebels in Northern #Aleppo.

[CrowBat]

The #Russian regime targeted and destroyed the hospital in the small town of #Sarjah, 18 km from the front in #Idlib province, today.
This is actually a new development - and a potentially important one.

Nah, it's not that they have bombed a hospital: this is already 80th ('or so') such facility hit by Assadists and Russians in the last three months alone.

It's the precision of the attack in question.

Where's the point? Over the last few weeks, Assadists and Russians sporadically bombed the FAI, AAS and Jund's units that were advancing into northern Hama - but were missing them all the time. Usually by about 150-200 metres. That was 'perfectly common', i.e. within the pattern of their 'precision' in this part of Syria ever since the Russian military intervention began. Means: they were all the time missing by 150-200 metres (and, best of all: Russians knew that).

About a week ago, they flew a strike on a small, underground hospital near Kfar Zita. While scoring no direct hits, that air strike was much more precise than any of strikes flown in that part of Syria before.

Now, the SVP-24 nav/attack system installed in all of VKS fighter-bombers (and Assadist Su-24MK2s and Su-24M-2s) is 'satellite assisted', but depends on availability of ground-based GLONASS stations. These usually have a range of 150km (like everything Russians develop for their 'frontal aviation', including MiG-29s and Su-25s). Task of such stations (in essence: a tall antenna with a container including power supply) is to compare data provided by the usual four satellites and correct this as far as necessary (there are, BTW, similar GPS-stations all around the world, too, and they are widely used in support of civilian traffic; after all, you don't want your airliner to land 12metres aside of the runway just because the GPS is 'ah, not so 100% precise').

So far, there seem to have been two such stations in Syria: one atop Anti-Lebanon mountains high above Hmemmem AB, constructed back in November 2015 (after the Russians had to deploy two battalions of their troops in order to manage something the Assadists and the IRGC didn't manage in two months of bitter fighting) - and one at Kweres AB, installed in December last year. With their help, average precision of Russian (and Assadist) air strikes in NE Lattakia and in Aleppo area was much improved, and their bombs are usually missing geographic coordinates at which they aim by 30-40 metres.

(This, BTW, is the case even for air strikes 'guided' by Russian FACs - and regardless of these using binoculars equipped with GLONASS receivers and laser-range-finders.)

However, so far average precision of their (and Assadist) air strikes in Idlib and Hama was at about 100-200 metres (as confirmed not only by specific Russian, but insurgent sources too). This was a little bit unusual considering the Russian Army troops are holding the second defence line for Assadist troops in northern Hama. But, fact is: this battlefield was largely stagnant, 'not as important' the last 12 months.

Since the FAI, AAS, FASH + Jund's offensive into northern Hama, the situation changed 'a lot', obviously. Foremost, the 'improved precision' of latest air strikes is indicating that the Russians have installed their third GLONASS ground station in that part of Syria.

[SWJ Blog]

From Mosul to Raqqa? A Complex, Risky Battle Against the Islamic State (http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/from-mosul-to-raqqa-a-complex-risky-battle-against-the-islamic-state)

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[OUTLAW 09]

Russian Duma demands that the US compensate Russia for damages caused by sanctions. How many troll parliaments to you know?

BUT WAIT......Putin has constantly been saying Russia is stronger because of the sanctions.......

SMELL a munity afoot on the part of the Duma as they are not saying what Putin says....

[OUTLAW 09]

Another in the long, long, long line of Russian vodka moments.....

Russia's Alexander Khrolenko: "Russian Navy seizes control over the Atlantic"

Four ships, a tug to tow back their carrier and a sub.....EQUALS "control over the Atlantic"???????

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian black money soft power hard at work these days.........

Trump's Kazakh connection: evidence Trump venture linked to alleged money laundering network. Top work by @tomburgis
https://www.ft.com/content/33285dfa-9231-11e6-8df8-d3778b55a923#
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[OUTLAW 09]

N. #Aleppo: #SDF/#YPG took several villages incl. Qilsuruj from #ISIS. Race for Al-Bab not over yet + would establish buffer zone for Regime

Aleppo: Rebels have captured #Beyt_Misto village from #ISIS. #YPG offensive against #ISIS failed.

[OUTLAW 09]

A real *must* read, by @shadihamid:
"Is a Better World Possible Without U.S. Military Force?"
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/10/american-intervention-syria/504512/#…

Obama/Rhodes/Kerry did absolutely nothing to resolve war crimes, starvation and genocide in Syria BUT he wants a "win" before December for his "legacy"....

US Struggles to Build Force to Retake Raqqa in Coming Weeks, #ISIS Syria Stronghold. Our story:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-builds-force-to-retake-islamic-states-syrian-headquarters-1476869404#… …

Charles Lister ‏@Charles_Lister
I’m hearing more&more that these ‘struggles’ are likely to see #Raqaa accelerated (not delayed) & led by SDF (not tribes) - worrying.

[OUTLAW 09]

Map showing the location and direction of Turkish army incursion into Aqrabat, NW Aleppo/Idlib

[OUTLAW 09]

Turkish forces entered Syria from the West - in Idlib
http://syria.liveuamap.com/en/2016/19-october-more-pictures-of-turkish-military-at-the-fields#
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[OUTLAW 09]

NW #Idlib: Turkish Army entered in #Syria near Aqrabat w/ tanks & bulldozers likely to set up a new crossing point.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36.270850&lon=36.709442&z=12&m#

BTW...this is just not simply to setup a border crossing....THIS is a serious Erdogan warning to both Assad and Putin and it is the Turkish PLAN B...and a not so subtle warning about Aleppo and to YPG in Afrin.

THIS will be the same combined arms maneuver mix as in N Aleppo.....TAF SF, TAF armor and FSA troops.

Aleppo is now being approached from two flanks with Assad in the middle......

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian Naval Express.........

Russian Navy's Tarantul Cls Guided Missile Corvette Ivanovets 954 northbound on the Bosphorus, transiting at a very early hour. 07.00(+GMT3)

[OUTLAW 09]

Another in the long, long, long line of Russian vodka moments.....

Russia's Alexander Khrolenko: "Russian Navy seizes control over the Atlantic"

Four ships, a tug to tow back their carrier and a sub.....EQUALS "control over the Atlantic"???????


Despite great weather........"Russian Navy controls the Atlantic" cannot seem to fly aircraft off a carrier......their own carrier.....

Russia carrier 'Admiral Kuznetsov' reportedly abandons published 19-21 Oct flight training NOTAM

[OUTLAW 09]

Russia has extended #Aleppo’s 8hr ceasefire to 11hrs.
[Shortly thereafter, it’ll drop 18 bombs instead of 20, killing 45 instead of 50]


Small market hit in Talbisah, #homs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fBwhTK3jKk#…

Sultan Murad Brigade firing mortars into #Aleppo Artillery college
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roftHxYc59o#…
Appears that they have a solid ammo supplier at hand.....

Airstrikes hit Tayibat Imam with more airstrikes earlier today #Hama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mdjmlc6-AI#…

Tayib Iman being bombed earlier today #Hama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srU3-J1-CXc#…

Hand in Hand Charity distributes milk
https://youtu.be/MOhHnbeR-GA

Regime helicopters dropping bombs on Khan Sheikh, E. #ghouta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSOF67hObAM#…

Airstrike on Souran, #Hama earlier today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhwYgV32oPU#…

Aftermath of an airstrike on Talbisha, #homs earlier today
https://youtu.be/kWavcaafssE

Wounded in Talbisah, #homs earlier today being treated after they were injured in airstrikes
https://youtu.be/xkM2X_GRXLE

[OUTLAW 09]

FSA News ‏@FSAPlatform
#Video || #FSA
Interview with Free Syrian Army TOW launcher Abu Omar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcLA_vzpWeQ&feature=youtu.be#…

[OUTLAW 09]

Beautiful face from #Idlib wants to be @SyriaCivilDef

40 killed and 70+ injured including 1 SCD volunteer after Oweijel village in #Aleppo western countryside was targeted with 3 Airstrikes.

Many airstrikes targeted civilian areas in Jisr Al Shughur. Initial reports of many injuries among civilians.
https://youtu.be/SuEas79erg4

REMEMBER the US DHS kicked out the Director of SCD when he arrived in DC for an awards evening....although he had a valid US Embassy issued travel visa...BECAUSE a proAssad US citizen troll reported to DHS he was a member of AQ......DHS never checked AND the WH never said a word........

[OUTLAW 09]

This is the third undersea internet/comms cable that Russia has sent down a manned vehicle to place listening/intercept devices next to the cable....they will be able to monitor all traffic carried by these three undersea internet cables.


UGARIT - eastwards to Syria
This is a repeaterless SDH cable system directly connecting Cyprus and Syria and via terrestrial extensions, with Jordan.

UGARIT and CADMOS together with the BERYTAR cable system (Beirut – Tartous), are fully integrated into a secure self-healing ring, interconnecting Cyprus with Lebanon and Syria.

BREAKING #Russia "Research Vessel" Yantar was over undersea cables near #Syria coast to disable (rebels) internet
http://qasioun.net/en/news/show/40040#

Undersea internet cables were deliberately damaged by the Russians...it carries over 60% ME traffic.....

[OUTLAW 09]

Five #USAF F-15 currently over North Sea, two are on Squawk 7002, danger zone.

Russian propaganda trying to connect Syrian and Ukrainian issues
http://24today.net/open/699451


Helicopters attack #KhanAlShih town in #WesternGouta using 14 barrel bombs.

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When you see a child carrying the dead body of another child, you know you are in #Syria.

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TAF Commander In "Euphrates Shield" Promise To Liberate Al-Bab … And Detain SDF Chief in Manbij .........as he stated SDF/YPG has been warned to leave by Turkey and the US......and TAF/FSA is coming to Manbij soon.


E. #Aleppo: Free Idlib Army shelled Sheikh Yussuf hill (major artillery position) with ~50 Grad rockets (2 BM-21s).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJoxoloTvxc#
…

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Russians now fully understand Syrian sanctions are in fact coming.......

Vladimir #Chizhov:“The sanctions as such are illegitimate by default: only #UNSC has authority to impose sanctions".
http://goo.gl/rkOss5

BUT hey Putin says it just makes them stronger SO why is he actually complaining at all????? He should be welcoming them......#

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BREAKING: France's Hollande says events in Aleppo amount to true war crimes; Russia has responsibility

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BUT WAIT...it supposedly started yesterday for 8 hours and then Russians extended it to 11 hours......

Syria says east Aleppo ceasefire has begun, promises 'safe exit'
http://reut.rs/2euXXQ8

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BUT WAIT.......Putin literally flattens and burns Aleppo a la Gronzy AND YET he chastises the West for possible civilian loses in Mosul??????????

Putin issues warning to West over civilian casualties in #Mosul, #Iraq
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/russia-putin-isis-mosul-civilian-deaths-comments-after-aleppo-bombing-a7365236.html#
…

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In Berlin to discuss one of my "many agreed to ceasefires".

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ANOTHER example of Russian soft power ie black money as Trump has never released his tax returns and there are social media documents floating around that he has 274 "business ventures in Russia currently"......REMEMBER he must service a debt load of 650M USDs and US banks are not dealing with him.


Charles Lister
✔
@Charles_Lister
Let this sink in.

A Republican candidate for President repeatedly publicly sides with #Russia over the USA & his own national intelligence

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WOULD highly suggest that the Obama/Rhodes/Kerry WH get their Kurdish proxy SDF/YPG/PKK back under control as they are risking a total collision between the TAF/FSA and the TAF will not restraint itself when and where they meet YPG/PKK....

UPDATE: Kurdish YPG continues to advance towards al-Bab from Afrin this morning despite Turkish airstrikes. Now ~20km away -

TAF, Turkish PM and Erdogon himself have warned the US and YPG/PKK.....

MORE: Turkish state media says up to 200 Syrian Kurdish militia members killed in Turkish air raid north of Aleppo - AP

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Russia and Syria declare a ceasefire in Aleppo. @mod_russia has rigged these webcams over two "safe corridors".
http://syria.mil.ru/syria/livecam.htm#

Merkel and Hollande threaten new Russia sanctions
https://euobserver.com/foreign/135577

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Syrian regime attacked YPG held Kurdish Shx Maqsood district in Aleppo and killed two civilians.


WELL SO MUCH FOR A TYPICAL RUSSIAN CEASEFIRE..........in the middle of their ceasefire this happens.......NOT an accident.......

Syria #Assad-forces try to storm Bustan al-Qaser district in #Aleppo city center since morning

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NOW Russian air strikes on TAF supported FSA trying to work their way towards al Bab and slowly towards Aleppo........US Kurdish proxy getting Russian CAS.....and Obama does not SEE this???????

Syria #Aleppo After #Russia'n airstrikes on #FSA in Tel Malid (earlier reports)- now #Turkey strikes on #YPG in UmmQurah
Shahba Reservoir

Syria Heavy #Turkey airstrikes (14 )on kurdish #YPG in northern #Aleppo to stop their advance.

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SO much for that rumored warming up between Putin and Erdogan....

Syria #Russia'n airstrikes on #FSA south of #Mare in northern #Aleppo
First time that they target #Turkey backed #EuphratesShield area

APPEARS the RuAF wants to provoke an outright air war.....they should be extremely careful as the vaulted S300/400s are not so vaulted......as NATO has trained to attack them with ease.....

[OUTLAW 09]

Charles Lister ‏@Charles_Lister
. @realDonaldTrump says we should spring an attack on #ISIS in #Mosul.

Great idea - a city of 1 million people, needing 50,000+ troops...

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Russia's *fearsome* aircraft carrier is also unable to deploy jets fully fuelled or fully loaded w. bombs as launch system too weak.

In past 6yrs, its known to have:

- set fire (killing one sailor)
- spilled fuel
- required US Navy's 6th Fleet escort in case of sinking

Has now a tug in her convoy....smokes like crazy and has cancelled ALL air ops as she is underway....

BLUE WATER NAVY....more like a local lake navy.........

[OUTLAW 09]

SO much for that rumored warming up between Putin and Erdogan....

Syria #Russia'n airstrikes on #FSA south of #Mare in northern #Aleppo
First time that they target #Turkey backed #EuphratesShield area

APPEARS the RuAF wants to provoke an outright air war.....they should be extremely careful as the vaulted S300/400s are not so vaulted......as NATO has trained to attack them with ease.....

Charles Lister ‏@Charles_Lister
Highly significant - #Russia airstrikes have protected #YPG/SDF advances against #Turkey-backed FSA forces fighting #ISIS in N. #Aleppo.

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We don't know who the rebels are" -- @realdonaldtrump b/c he didn't read @badly_xeroxed @ryanmofarrell

Trump could have landed a great consulting gig with the Obama/Rhodes/Kerry WH as this was their mantra when trying to find those so called Syrian "moderates" as an excuse to not engage into Syria and deter war crimes, starvation and genocide.....and using even Trump's tweet......SAD.....

[OUTLAW 09]

Sultan Murad brigade firing mortars on regime forces security building in #Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frJexlaTR6w#…

Ahrar al sham fighters training for an eventual battle to open a way to relieve the siege on eastern #ghouta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is4dkgStkjI#…

Ahrar al sham firing rockets on neirab military airport #Aleppo earlier today
https://youtu.be/gIQ_Apk90AY

Large convoy of aid enters #Douma, eastern #Ghouta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7KxOS3SuV4#…

Rahman corps destroy a regime sniper position in #Ghouta with a recoilless rifle
https://youtu.be/oDgk_sO17pk

Al Safwa Islamic Battalion target regime Security center with mortars in Sulaymaniyah

Video of al Safwa islamic Battalion in N. #Aleppo during #Euphrates_shield operations
https://youtu.be/27QWMu8NKBY

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Aleppo now
#Assad's #EthnicCleansing busses waiting
@SYRedCrescent displacement helpers waiting
#Russian drone overhead.
But no one coming

SIMPLY PUT IT IS AMAZING THE SELF CONTROL OF THE EASTERN ALEPPO SUNNI CIVILIANS WHO HAVE BEEN UNDER A RUSSIAN AIR CAMPAIGN OF UTTER DESTRUCTION A LA GRONZY

Russia gave a humanitarian aid party and no way showed up...EVER wonder WHY?????

RIGHT NOW RUSSIAN DRONE ANALYSTS ARE SEARCHING FAR AND WIDE FOR ANY SIGNS OF CIVILIANS "STREAMING TO THEIR BUSES AND THERE ARE NONE...NONE WHATSOVEVER .......

In their live feed you can sense the frustration and utter disbelief..........as the drone operator keeps searching for a sign of civilians anywhere...
http://syria.mil.ru/syria/livecam.htm#

BTW they stopped and froze their live feed at 12:43:12 as there was nothing to actually show......other than empty street after empty street...NOT a single civilian to be seen anywhere.....remarkable

[OUTLAW 09]

Aleppo now
#Assad's #EthnicCleansing busses waiting
@SYRedCrescent displacement helpers waiting
#Russian drone overhead.
But no one coming

SIMPLY PUT IT IS AMAZING THE SELF CONTROL OF THE EASTERN ALEPPO SUNNI CIVILIANS WHO HAVE BEEN UNDER A RUSSIAN AIR CAMPAIGN OF UTTER DESTRUCTION A LA GRONZY

Russia gave a humanitarian aid party and no way showed up...EVER wonder WHY?????

RIGHT NOW RUSSIAN DRONE ANALYSTS ARE SEARCHING FAR AND WIDE FOR ANY SIGNS OF CIVILIANS "STREAMING TO THEIR BUSES AND THERE ARE NONE...NONE WHATSOVEVER .......

In their live feed you can sense the frustration and utter disbelief..........as the drone operator keeps searching for a sign of civilians anywhere...
http://syria.mil.ru/syria/livecam.htm#

BTW they stopped and froze their live feed at 12:43:12 as there was nothing to actually show......other than empty street after empty street...NOT a single civilian to be seen anywhere.....remarkable

Putin's options are now rapidly running out...if he continues the Gronzy style destruction of Aleppo WHICH he really wants to do he himself is then responsible for a hardening of EU sanctions on the Crimea/Ukraine side and far harsher sanctions for Aleppo and war crimes....

I have never in over 40 odd years of living in and out of Europe seen a French President call out Putin and or any former Soviet or Russian leader for "war crimes"...as the French stated..."true war crimes"....

WHILE Putin attempts to laugh off the effects of the sanctions ALL one hears from him and his Duma is what damages they are and have been causing...so YES they do in fact hurt and hurt badly....

Putin if he continues the destruction of Aleppo truly runs the risk of being charged in the ICC for war crimes...and even as a sitting so called Russian President he could be arrested and hauled into court....ask African leaders who have had the experience....WHILE his courts defy the ECHR he cannot if he does not want to run the risk of being personally sanctioned and cut off from the banking world with his BILLIONS stashed overseas...that could in fact be confiscated and or seized.

Right now his so called "blue water navy" is really being seen as a "local lake navy" that after 80-90 days has to return to base and refit and resupply....he has been largely unable to project for really extended periods of time a strong naval presence anywhere...

Putin has really reached a point where he himself has to ask...is Assad really worth it???? WHY right now the vaulted Iranian, Hezbollah and Shia militias are truly not in a position to win against the anti Assad forces manpower wise and or in a position cost wise to continue years if needed in fighting a guerrilla war with the anti Assad forces....

Assad and Putin really do need to look at the current situation...even if Assad can gain some control of the hand full of rebel held cities...Assad and Putin would need upwards of a 300,000 man force to tamp down a guerrilla war and he simply does not have the necessary troops and MONEY....

Reference the impact of sinking oil prices and the sanctions...in German...stagnation in Russia until 2035...Putin cannot afford another round of sanctions due to Aleppo and Syria.....

Prognose des russischen Wirtschaftsministeriums: Stagnation bis 2035

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WELL the Russian drone operator is back at it again now at 13:04:31 and counting and he is screening his long line of buses .....STILL no civilians.......

WOW.......must be frustrating for the Russian MoD to have thrown a humanitarian aid party and no one came..

BUT HEY they organized it without the UN, the US and the EU and never planned on providing actual humanitarian aid to anyone inside eastern Aleppo....

SIDE COMMENT:.....the quality of the drone footage is actually quite poor...the US Shadow at that height gives far better screen and resolution quality.....

[OUTLAW 09]

Kafranbel SCD center was targeted by an airstrike last night;3 volunteers were injured, one of them critically. @SyriaCivilDef

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NewsMap
Seemingly afraid, their #Rojava project will end for good, #YPG forces put all their energy in the push eastwards now.
#Aleppo

WITH the Turkish AF following their every move..........

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Heavy Turkish artillery fire (not "air strikes" as many suggest) on #YPG-held towns north of #Aleppo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-iOMPB6Lrc#…

RUSSIAN WAR CRIMES....attacking hospitals and clearly marked civil defense facilities

Russia's systematic attacks on @SyriaCivilDef centres continue.
Beside Kafranbel, also in #MaaratAlNuman today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxEK-t1z4hg#…

[OUTLAW 09]

WELL the Russian drone operator is back at it again now at 13:04:31 and counting and he is screening his long line of buses .....STILL no civilians.......

WOW.......must be frustrating for the Russian MoD to have thrown a humanitarian aid party and no one came..

BUT HEY they organized it without the UN, the US and the EU and never planned on providing actual humanitarian aid to anyone inside eastern Aleppo....

SIDE COMMENT:.....the quality of the drone footage is actually quite poor...the US Shadow at that height gives far better screen and resolution quality.....

And over #Aleppo, they drop leaflets,asking the people to surrender / leave / agree to their #EthnicCleansing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlEhgoOk41c#…

The price for a calm #Aleppo
#AssadPutin heavy and sustained air strikes on
#Souran
#Sayad
#MaaratAlNuman
#KafrNaha
#Sarmin
#DayrHafir
#Lataminah
#JisrAlShughur

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Assad regime artillery fire hit and damaged a school near #Daraa city.

Ethnic cleansing is still ongoing and the entire WEST says not a single word, utterance and or press conference...EVEN the UN remains totally quiet and silent in the face of war crimes, starvation and genocide....why is that?????

2 months after #Daraya evacuation, fighters & civilians from nearby #Damascus neighbourhood (Muhadamiat Al-Sham) reached N. Rebel territory.

[OUTLAW 09]

Irkutsk, #Russia @rentvchannel Tu-95 bomber burst into flame at a mil base near Irkutsk
http://ren.tv/novosti/2016-10-20/bombardirovshchik-tu-95-zagorelsya-na-voennoy-aviabaze-pod-irkutskom#

RuAF is slowly but steadily either crashing and being grounded and or catching fire.....

[OUTLAW 09]

Syria Run for al Bab town in eastern #Aleppo
Latest map

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DOES anyone ever question WHY some western MSM journalists seem to always appear at Russian propaganda events invited and cleared by the Russians and Assad to report the Assad/Putin version of events BUT NEVER seem to make it to the rebel side of the Syrian war?

SO just how much do they get for their reporting efforts and what kind of hotels and free flight did they get??????

THIS particular journalist has never reported from the rebel side BUT a lot from the Assad side.....

Dan Rivers ‏@danriversitv 1h
1 hour ago
Mortar lands right where buses were parked - buses had moved though due to gunfire

Buses ready to 'evacuate' civilians from east - so far no one has crossed. A rebel mortar just landed 50 ft from us. No injuries thank God.

Syrian APC broadcasts message telling people in east they will ensure their safe passage. So far no one has crossed

Bakery we filmed yesterday totally destroyed at crossing point Bustan al Qasr - rebel rockets lying nearby

ITV News
Verified account
‏@itvnews
Mortar fire in Aleppo as 'humanitarian pause' begins - our news editor @jonathanwalditn's hotel window has been hit
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2016-10-20/mortar-fire-in-aleppo-as-humanitarian-pause-begins/#…

IF one takes the time to really go through this particular twitter feed from the journalist....when he talks about the rebel mortar rounds HE truly failed in the same breath to talk and the Assad Shia/Hezbollah ground attacks over the last week through this exact area....

FAIR AND BALANCED...seriously doubt it...fair and balanced is determined by who is paying these days NOT by the "truth".....

ITV has been called out a number of times for be a paid proAssad mouthpiece in certain articles.....


EXAMPLE....there are countless smuggle routes into eastern Aleppo..WHY did this journalist not take the risk upon himself and see and experience at first hand the sheer Russian bombing destruction just 500 meters away from where he was standing...THAT he did not but he can talk about a "rebel mortar round landing nearby"....

That would be true "combat journalism" not "invited tourist journalism".....

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THIS is exactly the poor quality of MSM journalism I am talking about......

The world's most dangerous sports stadium: 5 mortars in two days Aleppo
REALLY the most dangerous place in Aleppo...come on....????

FIVE mortar rounds in TWO full days.......WHERE was he WHEN Putin rained bunker busters into row after row of residential housing killing tens and wounding tens ....many of whom were children........TWO days before the so called Russian ceasefire.....

WHY do we need to rely on local activists to provide video footage WHEN we have such well trained journalists in the area BUT somehow they cannot be found to travel in and report the "truth".

[OUTLAW 09]

The Russian Def Min is live-streaming from cameras on its 'humanitarian corridors' from Aleppo. They look deserted:
http://syria.mil.ru/syria/livecam.htm#

Russian is holding a humanitarian aid party and no one is coming to it??????

MAYBE the Syrians learned the UAF lesson when they were offered a "humanitarian corridor" to withdraw and were slaughtered by Russian troops that the US/EU initially refused to believe were inside Ukrainian territory....

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WHEN Putin arrived yesterday in Berlin to talk Ukraine and Syria he was accompanied by two individuals on the main sanctions list that should have never been in Berlin.....BUT Merkel requested a special allowance for them....WHY was that.....BUT EU MSM outside of the German media outlet BILD did not pick up on the two......

BUT US MSM did in fact notice it.......Merkel is moving fast to try to get some sort of agreement by December SO that Obama can claim a successful wrap up of the Russian invasions of Crimea and eastern Ukraine for his "legacy".....

The #German government's sanctions (vs. #Russia) "suspension" / ->breach was also noticed by the @washingtonpost.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/four-nations-agree-on-road-map-to-revive-ukraine-peace-plan/2016/10/19/45c0f120-965a-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html#…

SERIOUS rumors afloat in Berlin today that Merkel wants to lift sanctions against Russia in DEC that is the pressure she, Biden and Kerry/Nuland HAVE been applying against Ukraine....ALL want Ukraine to cave for unilateral appeasement moves WITHOUT a single reciprocal move by Putin..SAD......

SO all her talk about Syrian sanctions for war crimes is JUST what it is...TALK..

Merkel should have reread this........

Geopol Intelligence @GeopolIntel
BY Sophia Pugsley & Fredrik Wesslau, European Council on Foreign Relations - “What's a secure Russian border? One...
http://fb.me/3VVk9aysF

[OUTLAW 09]

DOES anyone ever question WHY some western MSM journalists seem to always appear at Russian propaganda events invited and cleared by the Russians and Assad to report the Assad/Putin version of events BUT NEVER seem to make it to the rebel side of the Syrian war?

SO just how much do they get for their reporting efforts and what kind of hotels and free flight did they get??????

THIS particular journalist has never reported from the rebel side BUT a lot from the Assad side.....

Dan Rivers ‏@danriversitv 1h
1 hour ago
Mortar lands right where buses were parked - buses had moved though due to gunfire

Buses ready to 'evacuate' civilians from east - so far no one has crossed. A rebel mortar just landed 50 ft from us. No injuries thank God.

Syrian APC broadcasts message telling people in east they will ensure their safe passage. So far no one has crossed

Bakery we filmed yesterday totally destroyed at crossing point Bustan al Qasr - rebel rockets lying nearby

ITV News
Verified account
‏@itvnews
Mortar fire in Aleppo as 'humanitarian pause' begins - our news editor @jonathanwalditn's hotel window has been hit
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2016-10-20/mortar-fire-in-aleppo-as-humanitarian-pause-begins/#…

IF one takes the time to really go through this particular twitter feed from the journalist....when he talks about the rebel mortar rounds HE truly failed in the same breath to talk and the Assad Shia/Hezbollah ground attacks over the last week through this exact area....

FAIR AND BALANCED...seriously doubt it...fair and balanced is determined by who is paying these days NOT by the "truth".....

ITV has been called out a number of times for be a paid proAssad mouthpiece in certain articles.....


EXAMPLE....there are countless smuggle routes into eastern Aleppo..WHY did this journalist not take the risk upon himself and see and experience at first hand the sheer Russian bombing destruction just 500 meters away from where he was standing...THAT he did not but he can talk about a "rebel mortar round landing nearby"....

That would be true "combat journalism" not "invited tourist journalism".....

BTW....if this journalist was knowledgeable about the Russian bombing campaign ongoing in eastern Aleppo ....THE bakery he was talking about HAD been hit by a Russian air strike NOT by fighting and or a rebel mortar round.....end of story and I am not in Aleppo as he is.....

Comments concerning that air strike hitting the bakery were in fact posted here the day it happened and he is just getting to the idea of writing about it...THREE/FOUR days later......THAT is exactly why many people feel that MSM has basically fallen off the cliff in their quality of information and writing.

[OUTLAW 09]

Anne Applebaum
✔
@anneapplebaum
when I first spoke about "Putinism" in 2008, much of the audience thought I was exagerrating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nji0osPfefM#
…
https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/789067678526894080#
…

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Russia's *fearsome* aircraft carrier is also unable to deploy jets fully fuelled or fully loaded w. bombs as launch system too weak.

In past 6yrs, its known to have:

- set fire (killing one sailor)
- spilled fuel
- required US Navy's 6th Fleet escort in case of sinking

Has now a tug in her convoy....smokes like crazy and has cancelled ALL air ops as she is underway....

BLUE WATER NAVY....more like a local lake navy.........

The Brits, in a not very subtle gesture, apparently sent out a high sea tugboat to shadow the Russians. Funny as hell.

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BTW....if this journalist was knowledgeable about the Russian bombing campaign ongoing in eastern Aleppo ....THE bakery he was talking about HAD been hit by a Russian air strike NOT by fighting and or a rebel mortar round.....end of story and I am not in Aleppo as he is.....

Comments concerning that air strike hitting the bakery were in fact posted here the day it happened and he is just getting to the idea of writing about it...THREE/FOUR days later......THAT is exactly why many people feel that MSM has basically fallen off the cliff in their quality of information and writing.

This journalist as do a large number of other western MSM journalists fail to even keep up with the Syrian daily events.....meaning he would have known that Russian stopped bombing in Aleppo BUT is currently heavily bombing in other locations and deliberately now striking SCD locations after destroying ALL hospitals and critical civilian infrstructure LIKE bakeries......

SNHR: gov warplanes fired missiles near #SCD center fire truck in Kafr Nobbol in #Idlib, damaging it, Oct 19

Air strikes targeted #WhiteHelmets in #Idlib subrub killed one & others injured, seems that #Assad still angry because of the @SyriaCivilDef nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize

whitehelmets - idlib @whitehelmets_sy
Goodbye my brother
Humanity Martyr
SCD

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Take this opportunity before its too late #Aleppo

ALMOST like Russia is pleading because if they resume the heavy destruction of Aleppo a la Gronzy killing more civilians and children the EU will have no choice but to sanction Putin and his friends....NOT to speak of Turkish/FSA actions now less than 10 miles from Aleppo and slowly closing.

[OUTLAW 09]

Russia is getting desperate now.....

BREAKING: @mod_russia presents #proof that Belgian jets hit a village in #Syria

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Luke Coffey @LukeDCoffey
My latest: "As Aleppo burns, Spain resupplies the Russian Navy"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/5808b794e4b00483d3b5d06a?timestamp=1476966603854#

NATO hard at work supporting Putin in Syria......

[OUTLAW 09]

Turkish warplanes have carried out 26 air strikes in northern Syria, killing up to 200 Kurdish fighters.
http://ow.ly/j6zy305mG4q

[CrowBat]

The second upgrade of the SCW-coverage for the magazine Truppendienst (official magazine of the Austrian Ministry of Defence), is now online here (http://www.truppendienst.com/themen/beitraege/artikel/der-syrische-buergerkrieg-update-20-oktober-2016/) (in German, as usually). While the first covered a summary of events in period June and up to mid-August, this one is covering the period mid-August to early October.

Also new on the Truppendienst's website is a complete ORBAT for Armed Opposition in Syria (http://www.truppendienst.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Einzelbeitraege/2016/Syrien/20_10_16_Update/Bewaffnete_syrische_Opposition.pdf).

This is an overview of all the known FSyA, AAS, FASH, and whatever other units of Syrian insurgents, plus Jihadist groups, organized by their primary zone of operations, and various alliances, and 'reinforced' through inclusion of data on their known armour (whether MBTs, IFVs, or SP-artillery pieces, and all cross-examined with help of visual evidence - i.e. photos and videos).

What some might find 'particularly useful' in this review are Arab transcriptions and (sorry: German only) translations of names of specific units. Namely, these are causing plenty of chaos in (English-language) reporting (German-language reporting tends to throw everybody on the same pile).

We are already working on similar ORBATs for Kurds, and for IRGC/Loyalists.

This big data-base was further enhanced through addition of an Atlas of the SCW (http://www.ecoi.net/atlas_syria_iraq.pdf) created by the Austrian Ministry of Defence and Sport (Ministerium fr Landesverteidigung und Sport = BMLVS) and the Ministry for Internal Affairs (Bundesministerium fr Inneres, BMI), in cooperation with various other official agencies. This is a huge PDF file, so it might take a while to download.

Next major update is planned for mid-December.

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Russian non linear warfare has two core critical cornerstones in order to be successful.

1. cyber warfare and
2. information warfare....

Reference cyber warfare.... we ever increasing Russian attacks on the US, and EU and I have been pointing out one of the major weak points inside the entire internet currently...."the Internet of Things (IoT)"....or simply stated "smart devices"...from online cameras/video players, smart phones, refrigerators, wash machines, house heating and lighting systems to even you smart enabled car......AND your smart coffee machine in your kitchen next to you in the mornings...

MITRE will award $50,000 for a solution that detects rogue IoT Devices
MITRE has challenged the security community to devise new methods that could help in detecting rogue IoT devices on a network. The non-profit research and development organization MITRE has challenged security researchers to propose new methods and technologies...

Exclusive: interview made by @unixfreaxjp of MalwareMustDie for Security Affairs about the Linux/NyaDrop. The latest details about this new dangerous IoT malware.

After the Krebs DDoS attacks the enrollment of new IoT botnets is going to grow and new large “zombie army” made by of web-ip-cam, DVR/NVR, routers/modems are invading the cyberspace.
The evidence of this comes from the finding of a new undetected malware codenamed NyaDrop by the same security researcher has discovered and reverse engineered the now famous Mirai, MalwareMustDie!


The Mirai botnet is targeting also Sierra Wireless cellular data gear products
Sierra Wireless is warning its customers to change factory credentials of its AireLink gateway communications products due to Mirai attacks. Sierra Wireless is warning its customers to change factory credentials of its AireLink
gateway communications...


Reverse engineering a Smarter Coffee machine for fun and a security lesson
Simone Margaritelli has done a reverse engineering of the Smarter Coffee IoT Machine Protocol to control the machine from his terminal. What is the lesson? While security industry is stressing the need to adopt#a security by design approach for#IoT...

[OUTLAW 09]

The second upgrade of the SCW-coverage for the magazine Truppendienst (official magazine of the Austrian Ministry of Defence), is now online here (http://www.truppendienst.com/themen/beitraege/artikel/der-syrische-buergerkrieg-update-20-oktober-2016/) (in German, as usually). While the first covered a summary of events in period June and up to mid-August, this one is covering the period mid-August to early October.

Also new on the Truppendienst's website is a complete ORBAT for Armed Opposition in Syria (http://www.truppendienst.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Einzelbeitraege/2016/Syrien/20_10_16_Update/Bewaffnete_syrische_Opposition.pdf).

This is an overview of all the known FSyA, AAS, FASH, and whatever other units of Syrian insurgents, plus Jihadist groups, organized by their primary zone of operations, and various alliances, and 'reinforced' through inclusion of data on their known armour (whether MBTs, IFVs, or SP-artillery pieces, and all cross-examined with help of visual evidence - i.e. photos and videos).

What some might find 'particularly useful' in this review are Arab transcriptions and (sorry: German only) translations of names of specific units. Namely, these are causing plenty of chaos in (English-language) reporting (German-language reporting tends to throw everybody on the same pile).

We are already working on similar ORBATs for Kurds, and for IRGC/Loyalists.

This big data-base was further enhanced through addition of an Atlas of the SCW (http://www.ecoi.net/atlas_syria_iraq.pdf) created by the Austrian Ministry of Defence and Sport (Ministerium fr Landesverteidigung und Sport = BMLVS) and the Ministry for Internal Affairs (Bundesministerium fr Inneres, BMI), in cooperation with various other official agencies. This is a huge PDF file, so it might take a while to download.

Next major update is planned for mid-December.

A super thanks especially on the German side.....

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IslamicState claim shot down #US warplane above Markadah in eastern #Hasaka province
Wreckage evidently bombed by US AC....


You cannot ID yourself as “opposition” if you regularly fight the opposition
You cannot ID yourself as “FSA" if the FSA see you as an enemy

If you’re an analyst/journalist/commentator & you adopt these contradictions, you’re ignoring a fairly substantial reality in #Syria.

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SDF/PKK spokesman says group might fight #Turkey and allied #FSA rebels if Ankara/FSA push #IS out of al-Bab.
http://bit.ly/2dCNvII

NOTICE the term PKK used above.....BUT WAIT.....YPG Afrin has been repeatedly warned by Turkey to make no moves on al Bab.....

Interesting that the #PYD should accuse Turkey of "fighting against revolutionary forces" in Syria.
http://bit.ly/2e48PpZ

BUT WAIT...YPG/SDF/PKK has been fighting FSA even using the Russian CAS to take territory, towns and villages from FSA AND now they complain.....AND then ethnically cleansing Arab Sunni's from those towns and villages...????

Syria #FSA/#EuphratesShield-forces took Hassiyah from #SDF/#YPG after last took village from #IS
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.421662&lon=37.240219&z=15&m=b#…

*All* parties are to blame for outbreak of #Turkey/opposition vs. YPG/SDF conflict in N #Aleppo.
But U.S counter-#ISIS policy catalyzed it.

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BEING called a war criminal and told you are responsible for true war crimes is "distorted reality"??????

@mfa_russia
#Zakharova: It is unacceptable if New Zealand’s #UNSC draft resolution on #Syria is like the French draft resolution that distorted reality

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Take this opportunity before its too late #Aleppo

ALMOST like Russia is pleading because if they resume the heavy destruction of Aleppo a la Gronzy killing more civilians and children the EU will have no choice but to sanction Putin and his friends....NOT to speak of Turkish/FSA actions now less than 10 miles from Aleppo and slowly closing.

Russia is now looking over their shoulders at the coming EU meeting where in fact it appears heavy sanctions will be impose on Russia for their war crimes in Syria that they "naturally deny ever happened as they did in the shot down of MH17"....

IF they continue the destruction the sanctions will come immediately...they are hoping by dragging this out the EU will "calm down" and not pass sanctions.

Russian media reporting the humanitarian pause in Aleppo apparently extended by another 24 hours
https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/789100233812799488#

BUT WAIT still no actual humanitarian aid which was behind the last Russia/US deal that fell through .......

[OUTLAW 09]

WOW...did the US DoS finally learn that in fact informational warfare is highly successful???? BUT you need clear narratives and rive it 24 X 7 X 365....not start and stop as below.....

Exclusive: @StateDept's Global Engagement Center turns to targeted ads & early results are promising. Read more:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-targets-would-be-terrorists-overseas-with-new-ad-campaign-1476973216?tesla=y#
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[OUTLAW 09]

Russia’s famed “troll factory” may be in hot water after authorities open a fraud investigation against the company
https://themoscowtimes.com/news/russias-famed-troll-factory-faces-fraud-investigation-55767#
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Seven NATO warships now east of Scotland/Wick, heading SSE.
http://europe.liveuamap.com/en/2016/20-october-seven-nato-warships-now-east-of-scotlandwick-heading#
… pic.twitter.com/k6y6mJNCJI

[OUTLAW 09]

When something hurts the most #Russia / #Russians complain, bemoan, blame others. MFA spox unhappy on hacker arrest.
https://twitter.com/the_ins_ru/status/789106562828820480#

He was one of the best and brightest and had deep ties to FSB....that is why the MFA is yelling...actually screaming at the top of their lungs.....he knows to much so it will be interesting t see if he "lives" long enough to be sent back to the States....IMHO...doubt it.....

Russia says detention of alleged hacker in Prague is evidence that US law enforcement organizing global hunt for Russian citizens .......THEN as a law abiding Russian citizen do not travel outside Russian borders and you will not get arrested.....BUT lately ALL those arrested were Russian mob, hackers, money laundering, business fraud....sanctions violators........etc.......

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This must have been a massive shock for the US Kurdish proxy YPG/PKK/SDF today to wake up to.......

Turkey conducted hundreds of air and artillery strike vs #YPG targets north of #Aleppo today.
American air strikes paved the way there ...NATO flying air strikes against a supposedly US supported proxy WHO somehow forgot to listen that was being said to them ......

[OUTLAW 09]

FSA News @FSAPlatform
"We will stand
We won't leave our land"
- Message from #Aleppo today
#Syria

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TAF supported FSA forces have started shelling Assad regime positions in and around the Industrial area......

MAJOR move by TAF and FSA......now Russia has a sudden choice start bombing TAF and FSA and risk a Turkish AF/USAF response and drop the destruction of Aleppo.....especially since USAF was flying CAS today for FSA during their of the ground movements....

[Azor]

TAF supported FSA forces have started shelling Assad regime positions in and around the Industrial area......

MAJOR move by TAF and FSA......now Russia has a sudden choice start bombing TAF and FSA and risk a Turkish AF/USAF response and drop the destruction of Aleppo.....especially since USAF was flying CAS today for FSA during their of the ground movements....

Where is Fatah Halab and Jaish al-Fatah in all of this? Seems rather simplistic...

[OUTLAW 09]

Where is Fatah Halab and Jaish al-Fatah in all of this? Seems rather simplistic...

Azor....CrowBat will probably agree with me......while everyone including Assad and Putin are so focused on Aleppo JaF, Sham and other top FSA groups indicated in a public statement early last week that they will taking back Aleppo...then the Russians went into a la Gronzy in superdrive and the message got lost in chatter.....but if one notices all groups have gone quiet.

Right now Assad does not have the troops necessary to fully win so he is picking the battles and racing the rest around Syria...right now I count over four different combat front wars in progress each being fought separately which actually is effectively keeping Assad off balance manpower wise.

If Putin and the West had seriously taken Erdogan's statements at face value then the YPG/PKK would not have been so surprised by the air strikes and artillery strikes placed on them yesterday by the TAF.....

TAF/FSA and US SF under the guise of taking al Bab have in fact inched ever closer to Aleppo and are now within artillery range which FSA immediately put to use....thus Assad regime troops are basically now faced with a two front Aleppo war.....

Actually SWJ had a really good article on the Turkish CAM being used inside Syria....

You will have noticed that the forces inside Aleppo have effectively blocked all attempts to take any solid area from them, and those outside have completely retaken 1070 placing them in position to open a corridor again and in the process beat up badly Hezbollah....

In some aspects now Putin is boxed in sanctions wise...if he continues destroying Aleppo he gets hit with them, if not then FSA is in the back of Assad forces in Aleppo along with TAF and the Turkish AF that the RuAF has not challenged nor will they as that would be a direct attack on a NATO partner who is fighting IS on the ground for them....sanctions will also probably come anyway due to the total over all war crimes he has committed in Syria per se ie destroying hospitals and deliberately attacking civilians with cluster munitions, cluster incendiary munitions, thermobaric bombs, napalm, and now bunker buster munitions.

[OUTLAW 09]

Aleppo now
#Assad's #EthnicCleansing busses waiting
@SYRedCrescent displacement helpers waiting
#Russian drone overhead.
But no one coming

SIMPLY PUT IT IS AMAZING THE SELF CONTROL OF THE EASTERN ALEPPO SUNNI CIVILIANS WHO HAVE BEEN UNDER A RUSSIAN AIR CAMPAIGN OF UTTER DESTRUCTION A LA GRONZY

Russia gave a humanitarian aid party and no way showed up...EVER wonder WHY?????

RIGHT NOW RUSSIAN DRONE ANALYSTS ARE SEARCHING FAR AND WIDE FOR ANY SIGNS OF CIVILIANS "STREAMING TO THEIR BUSES AND THERE ARE NONE...NONE WHATSOVEVER .......

In their live feed you can sense the frustration and utter disbelief..........as the drone operator keeps searching for a sign of civilians anywhere...
http://syria.mil.ru/syria/livecam.htm#

BTW they stopped and froze their live feed at 12:43:12 as there was nothing to actually show......other than empty street after empty street...NOT a single civilian to be seen anywhere.....remarkable

I am impressed by the Sunni population and fighters inside eastern Aleppo...having survived initially a massive Russian a la Gronzy attempt to destroy and suppress them into submission...they refuse to surrender...but all that know them they would not anyway.....you do not fight a four year war for the rule of law and good governance and be starved and bombed and then just "surrender"....

Four Russian drones up and all video cameras of the Russian MoD are fully up and running......BUT not a single civilian or fighter to be seen anywhere on them....lost of Assad forces hanging around with cameras for their "victory" photos...BUT as of yet ..."NO VICTORY" can be claimed by them or Putin....

Syria Regime propaganda claim "Al Qaeda" hold 250.000 civilians as hostages in eastern #Aleppo
Here is the truth:
https://youtu.be/8bGGs2eIwQA
THIS is just how bad their math is............700 JFS stopping 300,000??????????????????

[OUTLAW 09]

REMEMBER the very loud arguments out of the Obama/Rhodes/Kerry WH over the last four years that by providing weapons they would fall into the hands of "AQ".....yes we all remember that particular argument well.....

BUT WAIT.......

Total TOW missile use in #Syria

- 1,030 by vetted FSA
- 9 by non-vetted groups (inc. AQ & #ISIS)

= 0.8% proliferation rate.

SO who in the Obama/Rhodes/Kerry WH has been spinning us and the MSM badly.....???????

[OUTLAW 09]

After Battles Against #SDF … #Syrian_Opposition Seize Hasya Farms Northern #Aleppo
http://q-sy.net/zjtvno6# http://fb.me/61ZRNUgTG

IMPORTANT.....
Three Russian officers wounded in Aleppo, according to Russian state media..if Russian media is reporting this then there were more wounded and or killed..suspect a Russian spetsnaz team got caught by FSA trying to move into eastern Aleppo or was involved in the 1070 heavy fighting....

Assad claiming the image of Omran was faked & it's really an Al Qaida production - desperate stuff
Assad seems to forget the recuse of Omran and his entire family was video covered...and his brother died...so not a fake as he claims but hey he lies as much as Putin does....

[OUTLAW 09]

Amid a temporary reduction in violence, protesters took to the streets in East #Aleppo today, demonstrating vs. #Assad & #Russia.

Check the flag.......

[OUTLAW 09]

NOW Assad is in direct violation of the Putin/MoD declared ceasefire...so what will Russia do?????

Syria Airstrikes with barrel bombs hit #Aleppo' Bustan al Qaser neigborhood now near the "human corridor"

Syria Regime airstrikes on #Aleppo city now (Helicopter)

WHILE Russia claims a "humanitarian ceasefire" Assad forces try to assault eastern Aleppo.....

Syria Rebels repelled regime assault at "human"-corridor in #Aleppo' Bustan al-Qaser/city center in early morning

[OUTLAW 09]

Aleppo: Ahrar Al-Sham took out a BMP on Sheikh Said Front (outside urbanized area).

Syria #Hezbollah watchpoint in Republican Guard Base (Brigade 104) #Damascus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXqsNRG_p94#…
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=33.557704&lon=36.266727&z=14&m=b#…

[OUTLAW 09]

EuphratesShield: Turkey released video of 6 airstrikes vs #SDF/#YPG positions in N. #Aleppo.
https://mobile.twitter.com/anadoluajansi/status/789133179152060416/video/1#…

US Kurdish proxy fighting now against a full NATO partner who is fighting on the ground against IS....
Syria Jaysh al-Thuwar (#SDF) in battle with #FSA in northern #Aleppo
exactly here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Q38OnWgJ8#…
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36.412269&lon=37.233696&z=17&m=b#…

MORE evidence the US supported Kurdish proxy YPG/SDF/PKK is actually a 300% Russian proxy...HOW did that happen..someone needs to ask CENTCOM and DoD and where are the US SF in all of this?????

If this isn't insane?!
#Russian Kremlin-loving news, embedded with #YPG under #Turkish air strikes north of #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0a9rkw3kcc#…

[OUTLAW 09]

DOES anyone ever question WHY some western MSM journalists seem to always appear at Russian propaganda events invited and cleared by the Russians and Assad to report the Assad/Putin version of events BUT NEVER seem to make it to the rebel side of the Syrian war?

SO just how much do they get for their reporting efforts and what kind of hotels and free flight did they get??????

THIS particular journalist has never reported from the rebel side BUT a lot from the Assad side.....

Dan Rivers ‏@danriversitv 1h
1 hour ago
Mortar lands right where buses were parked - buses had moved though due to gunfire

Buses ready to 'evacuate' civilians from east - so far no one has crossed. A rebel mortar just landed 50 ft from us. No injuries thank God.

Syrian APC broadcasts message telling people in east they will ensure their safe passage. So far no one has crossed

Bakery we filmed yesterday totally destroyed at crossing point Bustan al Qasr - rebel rockets lying nearby

ITV News
Verified account
‏@itvnews
Mortar fire in Aleppo as 'humanitarian pause' begins - our news editor @jonathanwalditn's hotel window has been hit
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2016-10-20/mortar-fire-in-aleppo-as-humanitarian-pause-begins/#…

IF one takes the time to really go through this particular twitter feed from the journalist....when he talks about the rebel mortar rounds HE truly failed in the same breath to talk and the Assad Shia/Hezbollah ground attacks over the last week through this exact area....

FAIR AND BALANCED...seriously doubt it...fair and balanced is determined by who is paying these days NOT by the "truth".....

ITV has been called out a number of times for be a paid proAssad mouthpiece in certain articles.....


EXAMPLE....there are countless smuggle routes into eastern Aleppo..WHY did this journalist not take the risk upon himself and see and experience at first hand the sheer Russian bombing destruction just 500 meters away from where he was standing...THAT he did not but he can talk about a "rebel mortar round landing nearby"....

That would be true "combat journalism" not "invited tourist journalism".....

Another smart move by #AssadPutin. After killing 100/day w/no W journo reporting from the E, now ever shot by rebels at the W is reported.

SO has ITV now become part and parcel of the Russian Syrian info warfare towards the WEST....think so.....

THIS is the reporting by WESTERN MSM.....
Western journalists, reporting "rebel mortars stop E Aleppo civilians from leaving through exit points" perfectly fit the #AssadPutin story.

FROM THE US NPR......
Via @NPR: The Stark Choice In Aleppo: Flee Or Face More Attacks
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/10/20/498710689/the-stark-choice-in-aleppo-flee-or-face-more-attacks?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

1. Only #AssadPutin says there is a will to leave / surrender.
2. These "exit points" are parts of the front for rebels, nothing more. The idea that rebels would have to respect the unilateral "humanitarian ceasefire" publicity stunt by #AssadPutin in Aleppo is odd itself.

EVEN odder is that western MSM journalists actually believed/fell for the Russian myth?????

THIS is exactly how western MSM is spun into the Russian info warfare "narrative" and they seem to even give it a second thought as so called fair and balanced journalists........MAYBE all western MSM journalists need some classes on the Russian propaganda 6 Ds?

But common Europe!
Keep sending journalists to Damascus and Moscow to give the biggest & deadliest liars on earth a voice!
They love it.
Assad claiming the image of Omran was faked & it's really an Al Qaida production - desperate stuff

BUT the interview is coming from western MSM WHO did not even challenge this statement BY Assad during the interview...THUS really are they part and parcel now for the Putin info war circus????

BUT some western MSM are accurately reporting....
Assad’s Latest Lie Debunked by His Own Wife
http://thebea.st/2enYZmb# via @thedailybeast

[OUTLAW 09]

SEEMS odd that Assad really wants to give the Turkish AF a true reason to attack is AD systems as well as the Russian systems in that S300s/400s are not really a serious problem for NATO....and the Turkish AF has "clear eyes" over Syria"......

Syrian military statement: It will 'deal with' and 'bring down' any Turkish war planes entering Syrian airspace - Reuters via @breaking

HERE is the serious miscalculation by both Assad and Putin....Erdogan is driving on a serious set of geopolitical goals that do not include Assad and or Putin and he has the force to extend his forces in an instant...as he has now two fronts which he as opened...the second one in Idbid this week.....and weapons are flowing heavily now to all FSA units....

[OUTLAW 09]

Azor....CrowBat will probably agree with me......while everyone including Assad and Putin are so focused on Aleppo JaF, Sham and other top FSA groups indicated in a public statement early last week that they will taking back Aleppo...then the Russians went into a la Gronzy in superdrive and the message got lost in chatter.....but if one notices all groups have gone quiet.

Right now Assad does not have the troops necessary to fully win so he is picking the battles and racing the rest around Syria...right now I count over four different combat front wars in progress each being fought separately which actually is effectively keeping Assad off balance manpower wise.

If Putin and the West had seriously taken Erdogan's statements at face value then the YPG/PKK would not have been so surprised by the air strikes and artillery strikes placed on them yesterday by the TAF.....

TAF/FSA and US SF under the guise of taking al Bab have in fact inched ever closer to Aleppo and are now within artillery range which FSA immediately put to use....thus Assad regime troops are basically now faced with a two front Aleppo war.....

Actually SWJ had a really good article on the Turkish CAM being used inside Syria....

You will have noticed that the forces inside Aleppo have effectively blocked all attempts to take any solid area from them, and those outside have completely retaken 1070 placing them in position to open a corridor again and in the process beat up badly Hezbollah....

In some aspects now Putin is boxed in sanctions wise...if he continues destroying Aleppo he gets hit with them, if not then FSA is in the back of Assad forces in Aleppo along with TAF and the Turkish AF that the RuAF has not challenged nor will they as that would be a direct attack on a NATO partner who is fighting IS on the ground for them....sanctions will also probably come anyway due to the total over all war crimes he has committed in Syria per se ie destroying hospitals and deliberately attacking civilians with cluster munitions, cluster incendiary munitions, thermobaric bombs, napalm, and now bunker buster munitions.

Someone else (YPG) just realised,they are not part of the #ErdoganPutin deal&the US lost all its influence in the ME
http://www.hawarnews.com/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B0%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%85%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%8A-%D9%88%D8%A7/#…

As always there are rumors afoot in Syria that Erdogan and Putin did a deal over Aleppo....which I tend to not agree with as it would clash with his often stated red line of Aleppo and that would actually damage him right now in the face of the Turkish population that is more and more for supporting their Sunni brothers the FSA....

[OUTLAW 09]

Hassan Hassan ‏@hxhassan
Continued advances towards Al Bab will break the siege of Aleppo. Isis was one part of the regime's siege.

Highly correct.....

Obama/Rhodes/Kerry WH has always overlooked the intertwining of Assad and IS goals inside Syria THIs proven for the last year WHEN Russia AVOIDED attacking IS in favor of FSA....

Question is HAS Putin realized it?

[OUTLAW 09]

THIS is what has driven Putin's so called "humanitarian corridors" AND HY is disparate for western MSM to support his "propaganda narrative" that it is the rebels blocking free movement for the civilians...AND he definitely has been getting western MSM support...this is why he extended it over and over and YET it is still failing to trick the Sunni population into leaving.

Al Arabiya English
Verified account
‏@AlArabiya_Eng
#BREAKING: #EU leaders threaten sanctions against #Syrian regime supporters: Draft summit statement

DOES this include Iran, Hezbollah and the Iraqi Shia militias...probably not...because of Us pressure to not include them is the rumor out of Bussels.

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian aircraft carrier is still heavily smoking it's way to Syria and STILL not a single air ops as they are underway....SEEMS they can only fly off the carrier when it is totally not moving....like at anchor???????

Russian aircraft carrier Kuznetsov intercepted by @BBCNews helicopter
http://europe.liveuamap.com/en/2016/21-october-first-shots-of-the-russian-aircraft-carrier-kuznetsov#
… pic.twitter.com/UzQxr0jBiF

[OUTLAW 09]

How Russian hackers broke into the @Gmail accounts of @johnpodesta, Colin Powell, and others.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-hackers-broke-into-john-podesta-and-colin-powells-gmail-accounts#
…

[OUTLAW 09]

THIS is what has driven Putin's so called "humanitarian corridors" AND HY is disparate for western MSM to support his "propaganda narrative" that it is the rebels blocking free movement for the civilians...AND he definitely has been getting western MSM support...this is why he extended it over and over and YET it is still failing to trick the Sunni population into leaving.

Al Arabiya English
Verified account
‏@AlArabiya_Eng
#BREAKING: #EU leaders threaten sanctions against #Syrian regime supporters: Draft summit statement

DOES this include Iran, Hezbollah and the Iraqi Shia militias...probably not...because of Us pressure to not include them is the rumor out of Bussels.

BUT Putin has some deep pocketed friends in EU.....
Italian Prime Minister Renzi blocks German/French/UK demand for tougher sanctions against Russia at EU summit.

THIS though is the typical Italian "game"...their banks are about to seriously all collapse on the Renzi watch and he urgently needs EU to loosen some of it tough banking requirements since the 2008 crashes and they are not...so he is trying to "trade agreement" on Russia for something for his banks.....only one major bank is actually fully solvent right now....and the populist right is sitting on his neck right now....

[OUTLAW 09]

Russia runs Syria like if Assad regime doesn't exist, publicly managing Assad's political and military efforts now
http://reut.rs/2ee429g

[OUTLAW 09]

Syria Clashes btw #YPG & #FSA continues south of #Mare town in northern #Aleppo

[OUTLAW 09]

Breaking || #Syria
#FSA & @SyrCoalition reject new #UN initiative - surprised it is acting as a tool in #Russia's hand & supporting regime

UN under pressure by regime & #Russia to implement their policy to displace civilians rather than supporting them in their areas

UN supports policy of Assad & Iranian militia, fails to condemn them & stand against bloody escalation in #Aleppo

FSA Statement || #UN #Aleppo
With upcoming new UN Secretary General, now is the time for the UN to seriously evaluate its work in #Syria

IMHO..the UN has largely supported the Assad/Putin war crimes, starvation, ethnic cleansing and genocide BY not undertaking a serious attempt to do the opposite of what they have been doing for over FOUR years...nothing actually other than like the Obama WH...talk, talk, talk. and more talk.....

UN Proposal on #Aleppo ‘Flawed,’ & Made amid Mass Forced Ethnic Cleansing Displacement Operations around #Damascus
http://ow.ly/GLi6305nnrI# #Syria

Moadamiyah Residents Forced to Evacuate District under #UN-Sponsored Deal
http://ow.ly/MNr3305ndhd#

[OUTLAW 09]

The White Helmets ‏@SyriaCivilDef 25m
25 minutes ago

SCD teams rescuing a child after working for 5 hours last night in #jisr_AlShughur #Idlib.
https://youtu.be/eJY8k3ETh1c

[OUTLAW 09]

Mourning @SyriaCivilDef volunteer Bassam Hadleh killed by Assad/Russia airstrikes on Maaret Numan #SyrianCivilDefence center yesterday. #Syria

Until now we saved the lives of 70.280+ civilians, unfortunately while doing that we lost 147 heroes. @SyriaCivilDef

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian Airstrikes Kill 6 Civilians in #DeirEzzor under Pretext of Fighting Terror
http://ow.ly/sMVm305nv1O#

Abu Amara @Abo_amaraa take out 3 regime guards on #Aleppo fronts. Two in the same area

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian drones spinning empty circles in the skies over Aleppo and all so called Russian humanitarian corridors total devoid of Aleppo civilians....

Only 200 civilians cross over yesterday due largely to medical reasons....needed urgent care due to injuries suffered during Russian air strikes and malnutrition among young children cases....

Geolocation of Russian/Assad/western MSM alleged so called opposition mortar fire video on exit corridor in East Aleppo, #Syria. http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=36.200555&lon=37.134814&z=18&m=b#… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJGppjSA7iA#…

[OUTLAW 09]

Reference the Russian hacking.....the Dark Net has as a general rule ..."for every legal business model on the internet" there is an equal "illegal same business model"........

Great chart to depict this and hacking is just one part of the core problem with the Dark Net...just an average any day of the week on the Dark Net.

[CrowBat]

Russia is getting desperate now.....

BREAKING: @mod_russia presents #proof that Belgian jets hit a village in #Syria
Yeah... they summon Belgian ambassador (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-belgium-diplomacy-idUSKCN12L0S1?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuter s+World+News%29), report this affair all over the media, and then - silently apologise: Russian Envoy to Belgium gave wrong aircrafts numbers. The planes are part of the coalition but are not Belgian. (http://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_l-ambassadeur-russe-n-a-pas-apporte-la-preuve-d-un-bombardement-d-un-f-16-belge-en-syrie?id=9435487)

Keystone Cops in Moscow.

[OUTLAW 09]

Russian aircraft carrier is still heavily smoking it's way to Syria and STILL not a single air ops as they are underway....SEEMS they can only fly off the carrier when it is totally not moving....like at anchor???????

Russian aircraft carrier Kuznetsov intercepted by @BBCNews helicopter
http://europe.liveuamap.com/en/2016/21-october-first-shots-of-the-russian-aircraft-carrier-kuznetsov#
… pic.twitter.com/UzQxr0jBiF

The strike group in the Channel is intended to underline that Russia and the West/NATO are hostile to each other. That's Russia's message.

BUT the Russian sole aircraft carrier has one serious pollution problem....kind of reminds me of those German WW2 sub films of the allied convoy being spotted over the horizon just by their smoke....the smoke is far darker now than when she left her homeport....WILL she make it back to homeport???????

She is basically in clear violation of the new Climate Control Treaty on emissions....

CLEAR question if the Russian Navy "now controls the Atlantic" as they boosted when she left port...HOW many fuel tankers are needed per 100 sea miles covered by their aircraft carrier????

[CrowBat]

MAJOR move by TAF and FSA......now Russia has a sudden choice start bombing TAF and FSA and risk a Turkish AF/USAF response and drop the destruction of Aleppo.....especially since USAF was flying CAS today for FSA during their of the ground movements....
Where is Fatah Halab and Jaish al-Fatah in all of this? Seems rather simplistic...
IMHO, this is indeed slightly 'over-enthusiastic'.

As posted two days ago, here is the latest ORBAT of insurgents (and jihadists) in Syria (http://www.truppendienst.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Einzelbeitraege/2016/Syrien/20_10_16_Update/Bewaffnete_syrische_Opposition.pdf).

(Sure, it's in German, but it's easy to understand in English. Foremost, it's organized geographically, and thus easy to follow with help of any map, too.)

As can be seen from that file, and from maps of local frontlines, the TSK/FSyA (and a lil bit of AAS) in Northern Aleppo Governorate are geographically separated from insurgents of Fatah Halab (surrounded in Eastern Aleppo) and insurgents and jihadists of Jaysh al-Fateh (operational in northern Idlib, and westerna nd soutehrn Aleppo Governorate).

The only land connection between them goes via Turkey. Of course, Turkey is 'responsible' for all the support they all - the FSyA in northern Aleppo, the JAF in Idlib/Aleppo and the FH in Eastern Aleppo (City) receive: it's directly involved in the TSK/FSyA offensive (Euphrates Shield) in northern Aleppo, and it's directly responsible for the flow of supplies for the JAF in Idlib and Aleppo.

IMHO, it's not only that coordination of all of these would be extremely though: especially the JAF is de-facto 'independent', because it's primarily supported by Qatar. I.e. Qatar pays Turkey to let it pay for and supply different elements of the JAF (whether insurgents or jihadists).

But foremost: the TSK/FSyA's 'move south' (after capturing Dabiq) was primarily related to PYD/YPGs attack from the Efrin Enclave (NW corner of Syria) on FSyA-held Mare'a and on Daesh-held villages further south and south-east from that town.

The PYD has a crucial interest in connecting the Efrin Enclave with the large part of NE Syria it holds - starting with Manbij.

Turkey has a crucial interest in preventing this from happening. But, Turkey knows who-is-how of Syria, and is not the least curious in single-handed attack on that conglomerate of IRGC, Russian and Assadist troops holding northern Aleppo - and thus causing Putler's outrage.

Means: Turkey is likely to continue the TSK/FSyA advance 'further south', but it's at least as likely to stop as soon as it defeats the Daesh in al-Bab area and thus reaches IRGC-held positions north of Aleppo.

At least I do not expect them to go any further.

Therefore, the FH and the JAF simply 'do not matter' in this regards.

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Aleppo: Turkish artillery has destroyed a #YPG convoy in #Harbul village.

Aleppo: Turkish army shelling #YPG in #Umm_Housh and #Harbul with T-155 Fırtına howitzers.

Aleppo: #FSA rebels will capture #Tal_Rifaat and all surrounding villages from #YPG before moving eastwards towards #Al_Bab running right along the edge of the Assad IS/YPG previous front lines to these two allies.

Aleppo: #YPG militias fear a massive attack by #FSA rebels in Northern #Aleppo tomorrow.
WELL for once YPG is fully correct.....and where is their Assad/Putin CAS/artillery...nowhere to be seen ........

NOTICE per map how close FSA is inching to Assad rear lines around Aleppo.....FSA is easing into a frontal attack on those rear areas and Assad will have to pull off his eastern Aleppo front line troops to defend those positions as they were facing IS and YPG THUS not heavily defended at all....

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Azor....CrowBat will probably agree with me......while everyone including Assad and Putin are so focused on Aleppo JaF, Sham and other top FSA groups indicated in a public statement early last week that they will taking back Aleppo...then the Russians went into a la Gronzy in superdrive and the message got lost in chatter.....but if one notices all groups have gone quiet.
My assessment in this regards is as follows (in simplest possible terms):

- Russia: massively frustrated and curious in achieving - asap - any kind of what Moscow could describe as 'victory': any durable cease-fire, especially anything including some kind of insurgents and/or jihadists 'giving up' some part of Syria on Moscow's conditions.

But, Russia is NOT in control of anything in Syria (no matter what they pretend to be on the international scene, this entire airshow in Syria was created precisely for the purpose of Russians being able to act as a 'superpower').

And, the Russians continue to prove unable of directly influencing developments on the battlefield.

- Iran: the IRGC IS in control of Assad regime, and IS in control of what is going on on battlefields in Aleppo.

But, Iran wants to 'liberate all of Aleppo' (then, lately, they are defining all of Aleppo as 'belonging to the Shi'a).

And, the IRGC continues proving unable to capture Eastern Aleppo (city).

- Assad: is IRGC's puppet and has nothing to say. At best has representative function for PR and public-perception purposes (it is simply 'nicer' to say, 'legitimate president of Syria', than 'hordes of IRGC-controlled Shi'a Jihadists').

But, Assad wants to 'liberate all of Syria' (because he's defining his legitimacy by amount of Syrian population he controls).

There are next to no troops loyal to Assad inside Aleppo left: the area is under IRGC control (various IRGC-controlled gangs are deployed along the frontline, the rear is meanwhile run by Hezbollah/Syria; nominal Ba'athist authorities are retained for PR-purposes).

On the contrary: most of Assadist troops were recently re-deployed to counterattack that insurgent/jihadist offensive on Hama.

All of this means:
- Russians would nuke Aleppo within next 5 minutes - if they could only be sure there would be 2 'terrorists' left alive they could show on TV in the process of 'withdrawing from the city', or 'surrendering', i.e. 'accepting Russian conditions'.

They know they are running out of time - primarily because of US elections. They know that any new US admin is likely to do the same the US admin did in Bosnia, back in 1995: namely, after wasting years while trying not to meddle (or doing so 'just a lil bit'), the USA go 'all in' and sort things out the way USA like.

- Iranians would like to 'liberate' Aleppo for their own purposes, but they can't. They lack the troops for this, and Russians are not cooperating with them: Russians are bombing civilians, instead of providing CAS.

This is so because Russians (correctly) assessed civilian authorities in insurgent-held areas for a bigger threat for Assad's regime than any JFS or Daesh.

Iranians also know they are running out of time in regards of the USA - for exactly the same reason like Russians are running out of time.

- And Assad... he's got to dance to Iranian music, and tolerate whatever nonsense the Keystone Cops in Moscow are babbling.

Against this backdrop, the TSK/FSyA ops in northern Aleppo Governorate are de-facto 'not important'. Yes, they are disturbing, then every time the THK F-16s bomb the Kurds or the Daesh inside Syria, they are creating a 'precedent', which might become important sometimes in the future. But, they are no direct threat before they liberate al-Bab and then establish a coherent frontline to IRGC's troops north of the city.

Or in other words: right now, they are 'problem No. 1789' on all the possible 'to do' lists, whether in Tehran, Moscow, or Damascus.

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N. #Aleppo: fighters from Ahrar Al-Sharqiya heading to fight #SDF/#YPG on 3rd day of clashes & #TSK shelling. #EuphratesShield

40 #Daesh and 6 PKK/PYD targets hit by Turkish army in northern Syria as part of Oprt. #EuphratesShield

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My assessment in this regards is as follows (in simplest possible terms):

- Russia: massively frustrated and curious in achieving - asap - any kind of what Moscow could describe as 'victory': any durable cease-fire, especially anything including some kind of insurgents and/or jihadists 'giving up' some part of Syria on Moscow's conditions.

But, Russia is NOT in control of anything in Syria (no matter what they pretend to be on the international scene, this entire airshow in Syria was created precisely for the purpose of Russians being able to act as a 'superpower').

And, the Russians continue to prove unable of directly influencing developments on the battlefield.

- Iran: the IRGC IS in control of Assad regime, and IS in control of what is going on on battlefields in Aleppo.

But, Iran wants to 'liberate all of Aleppo' (then, lately, they are defining all of Aleppo as 'belonging to the Shi'a).

And, the IRGC continues proving unable to capture Eastern Aleppo (city).

- Assad: is IRGC's puppet and has nothing to say. At best has representative function for PR and public-perception purposes (it is simply 'nicer' to say, 'legitimate president of Syria', than 'hordes of IRGC-controlled Shi'a Jihadists').

But, Assad wants to 'liberate all of Syria' (because he's defining his legitimacy by amount of Syrian population he controls).

There are next to no troops loyal to Assad inside Aleppo left: the area is under IRGC control (various IRGC-controlled gangs are deployed along the frontline, the rear is meanwhile run by Hezbollah/Syria; nominal Ba'athist authorities are retained for PR-purposes).

On the contrary: most of Assadist troops were recently re-deployed to counterattack that insurgent/jihadist offensive on Hama.

All of this means:
- Russians would nuke Aleppo within next 5 minutes - if they could only be sure there would be 2 'terrorists' left alive they could show on TV in the process of 'withdrawing from the city', or 'surrendering', i.e. 'accepting Russian conditions'.

They know they are running out of time - primarily because of US elections. They know that any new US admin is likely to do the same the US admin did in Bosnia, back in 1995: namely, after wasting years while trying not to meddle (or doing so 'just a lil bit'), the USA go 'all in' and sort things out the way USA like.

- Iranians would like to 'liberate' Aleppo for their own purposes, but they can't. They lack the troops for this, and Russians are not cooperating with them: Russians are bombing civilians, instead of providing CAS.

This is so because Russians (correctly) assessed civilian authorities in insurgent-held areas for a bigger threat for Assad's regime than any JFS or Daesh.

Iranians also know they are running out of time in regards of the USA - for exactly the same reason like Russians are running out of time.

- And Assad... he's got to dance to Iranian music, and tolerate whatever nonsense the Keystone Cops in Moscow are babbling.

Against this backdrop, the TSK/FSyA ops in northern Aleppo Governorate are de-facto 'not important'. Yes, they are disturbing, then every time the THK F-16s bomb the Kurds or the Daesh inside Syria, they are creating a 'precedent', which might become important sometimes in the future. But, they are no direct threat before they liberate al-Bab and then establish a coherent frontline to IRGC's troops north of the city.

Or in other words: right now, they are 'problem No. 1789' on all the possible 'to do' lists, whether in Tehran, Moscow, or Damascus.

Kremlinspeak decoded

Lavrov: We're stalling until Admiral Kuznetsov arrives then we bomb the f*ck out of Aleppo

Russia alarmed by Jabhat al-Nusra’s refusal to leave Aleppo — Lavrov
http://tass.com/politics/907897

CrowBat...at the pace TAF and FSA are moving they will reach Ehrez by Sunday before she arrives in theater then TAF/FSA will have finally "touched Assad regime positions" which are weakly manned right now as they were facing their assumed allies/partners YPG/PKK and IS......

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CrowBat.....sounds like Russia got suckered by Erdogan's moves.....but Erdogan was serious when he waved the 1926 map during his recent public statements over Mosul...

Lavrov reacting to Turkey sounds like Kerry reacting to Russia

https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng/status/789408589710364672#

Al Arabiya English
Verified account
‏@AlArabiya_Eng
#BREAKING Lavrov says #Russia very concerned by reports that #Turkey is bombing parts of northern #Syria

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Pictures for #FSA convoys moving toward #Tal_Rifaat

Breaking. The battle to control Tell Rifaat started. The town was seized by #SDF/#YPG in February with #RuAF support. #EuphratesShield

AGAIN the Kurds and Russians did not listen....the Turkish Commander for ES yesterday gave them 48 hours to pull out and they did not so the attack is on......

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Yeah... they summon Belgian ambassador (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-belgium-diplomacy-idUSKCN12L0S1?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FworldNews+%28Reuter s+World+News%29), report this affair all over the media, and then - silently apologise: Russian Envoy to Belgium gave wrong aircrafts numbers. The planes are part of the coalition but are not Belgian. (http://www.rtbf.be/info/monde/detail_l-ambassadeur-russe-n-a-pas-apporte-la-preuve-d-un-bombardement-d-un-f-16-belge-en-syrie?id=9435487)

Keystone Cops in Moscow.

MFA Russia
✔
@mfa_russia
.@MFA_Russia is perplexed at #Belgium’s persistent denial of the fact that on October 18 the Royal Belgian Air Force struck #Aleppo suburbs


THERE was a air strike conducted on western Aleppo....CrowBat is this the strike the Russians are complaining about?????

[CrowBat]

Kremlinspeak decoded

Lavrov: We're stalling until Admiral Kuznetsov arrives then we bomb the f*ck out of Aleppo

Russia alarmed by Jabhat al-Nusra’s refusal to leave Aleppo — Lavrov
http://tass.com/politics/907897

CrowBat...at the pace TAF and FSA are moving they will reach Ehrez by Sunday before she arrives in theater then TAF/FSA will have finally "touched Assad regime positions" which are weakly manned right now as they were facing their assumed allies/partners YPG/PKK and IS......
Given the Daesh is presently falling apart, they'll certainly 'reach' and 'touch' the IRGC's positions north of Aleppo (these are held by Liwa Zainobioun and Liwa al-Qods, so one really can't talkabout 'Assad regime positions').

But, as I attempted to explain above, there is a huge question mark over what happens afterwards.

What the FSyA might like to do is one thing; what Erdogan wants to do, and what he can do, an entirely different one. See this frame from a Reuters reports in this regards...

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The strike group in the Channel is intended to underline that Russia and the West/NATO are hostile to each other. That's Russia's message.

BUT the Russian sole aircraft carrier has one serious pollution problem....kind of reminds me of those German WW2 sub films of the allied convoy being spotted over the horizon just by their smoke....the smoke is far darker now than when she left her homeport....WILL she make it back to homeport???????

She is basically in clear violation of the new Climate Control Treaty on emissions....

CLEAR question if the Russian Navy "now controls the Atlantic" as they boosted when she left port...HOW many fuel tankers are needed per 100 sea miles covered by their aircraft carrier????

Reason #Russia Carrier warship #Kuznetsov producing smoke is due to defective boilers & poor maintenance......yes, it also has 25 diesel generators and boilers... it is ancient tech.

Russian media refer to Kuznetsov passage as "armada". I assume they didn't mean "The Armada" as that ended badly --
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37725327#

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BREAKING: Russian foreign minister says Moscow prepared to continue pause of bombing of Aleppo if rebels do not initiate attacks.

Russia trying a net tactic to keep Aleppo "quite" to avoid anymore sanctions coming their way as Italy in the end will eventually cave to French and German pressure as they always do.....

Russians aware rebels preparing to break the siege of Aleppo. This's just another tactic to blame the rebels for what's planned for the city another round of Gronzy style air strikes.....

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Turkish artillery pounding #YPG south Mare to support #FSA push. No reports of airstrikes after Assad threatened to down Turkish jets y'day.

Some of the villages YPG now control north Aleppo were captured from IS recently but the majority were taken from FSA while under IS attacks

Erdogan got someone's attention with his recent comments......

BREAKING: Turkey should participate in Mosul offensive, U.S. Defense secretary Ashton Carter says - @RudawEnglish

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Obama/Rhodes/Kerry WH STILL refusing to call out Russia for war crimes, starvation, ethnic cleansing and genocide and Obama still is blocking a US Congress move to sanction Assad and his partners in genocide....WHY is that???

Yesterday: @AmbassadorPower urges naming #Russia, "not to equivocate or use euphemisms"
Today: US draft omits Russia
http://www.unwatch.org/western-backed-un-resolution-syria-fails-name-russia-iran-hezbollah/#…

WHY does the Obama/Rhodes/Kerry WH and his entire NSC STILL refuse to name Iranian Shia militias, IRGC and Hezbollah.....WHAT do they have to blackmail a US President into silence...BECAUSE this is what it looks like as they cannot be any other reason?????

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E. #Damascus: Faylaq Al-Rahman took control of several points in #Jobar during a surprise attack, destroying a Shilka & 2 cannons.

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THIS Syrian statement says a lot about the so called US supported Kurdish YPG/SDF/PKK....as being a solid IS fighting proxy and NOT TIED DIRECTLY to Assad and Putin....

HOW could have Obama, CENTCOM and DoD get it so wrong??????

#Syria’s Army threatens to shoot down #Turkey’s jets due to their strikes vs. YPG/SDF in N. #Aleppo

ALL of the above have somehow totally forgotten that the RuAF has been providing YPG/SDF/PKK CAS in their drive against positions held by FSA NOT IS.....

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Given the Daesh is presently falling apart, they'll certainly 'reach' and 'touch' the IRGC's positions north of Aleppo (these are held by Liwa Zainobioun and Liwa al-Qods, so one really can't talkabout 'Assad regime positions').

But, as I attempted to explain above, there is a huge question mark over what happens afterwards.

What the FSyA might like to do is one thing; what Erdogan wants to do, and what he can do, an entirely different one. See this frame from a Reuters reports in this regards...

CrowBat....
Agreed but notice that went Russia Assad complains about TAF air strikes on Syrian soil TAF just shifts to heavy artillery strikes which based on field reports has been actually quite accurate....AND both Assad and Putin cannot complain about .....

There is an innate feeling that there is a dynamic momentum taking over that even will swamp the TAF...they are on an effective roll against IS and they will not stop just to test the waters about what Assad and or Putin think or do....al Bab is within reach .........and then onto Manbij.

Al Bab is the key to blocking Afrin from joining the rest of YPG/PKK, sets up Manbij and effectively raises the siege pressure on Aleppo....in one single move that is the reason that YPG/PKK tried an end run to al Bab and got caught by the TAF....

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WELL late afternoon on those Russian "humanitarian corridors" and via their own CCTV at the crossing points and via their own drones....ABSOLUTELY not much going on at all....no civilians to be seen anyway "pleading to be given assistance from those mean terrorists forcing them to stay as human shields"........AND for the Russian TV propaganda/western MSM teams to film as the "Russian victory over JFS/AQ".......

http://syria.mil.ru/syria/livecam.htm#

The Russian held a "humanitarian aid party" and literally no one came......
WHAT an embarrassing propaganda failure......

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CrowBat....
Agreed but notice that went Russia Assad complains about TAF air strikes on Syrian soil TAF just shifts to heavy artillery strikes which based on field reports has been actually quite accurate....AND both Assad and Putin cannot complain about .....

There is an innate feeling that there is a dynamic momentum taking over that even will swamp the TAF...they are on an effective roll against IS and they will not stop just to test the waters about what Assad and or Putin think or do....al Bab is within reach .........and then onto Manbij.
Turkish military lost a lot of its efficiency and capability since post-coup purges. It's not only that it lost hundreds of top officers: some of involved units appear to have been disbanded.

It takes time to replace them.

The military is already neck-deep involved in fighting the PKK-insurgency inside Turkey.

Net result of all of this is that they currently have only elements of two army brigades, and few batteries from two artillery regiments deployed inside Syria. That's a far cry from what they could deploy there - in theory: namely, there are actually two full 'army corpses' of the Turkish military - at least nominally - deployed along the border to Syria (and, partially, to Iraq too).

IMHO, this is an aspect that must be kept in mind when 'expecting', 'looking forward for' or 'hoping for' something like 'Turkish-supported assault on IRGC's siege of Aleppo. Turkey can't go and do there what it might appear capable of doing on the paper.

Sure, Turkish troops are far better commanded, trained, equipped and supported than IRGC's militias of various Shi'a Jihadists, not to talk about whatever is left of Assadists. No clue if they are as well-motivated as the FSyA is. I would even go as far as to say that the THK should have no major problem with Russians deployed in Syria either: neither with their Su-30s and Su-35s, nor with S-300s, and especially not with Russian ground troops.

But - and aside of all the potential repercussions on the international/diplomatic plan (imagine Russian outcry alone if they start losing members of the Wagner PMC in larger numbers, not to talk about regulars from their Army, Navy and Air Force units deployed in Syria!!) - an outright advance on Aleppo would still be anything than easy in military sense.


Al Bab is the key to blocking Afrin from joining the rest of YPG/PKK, sets up Manbij and effectively raises the siege pressure on Aleppo....in one single move that is the reason that YPG/PKK tried an end run to al Bab and got caught by the TAF....
That's exactly the point of another of my posts above. Al-Bab is the key - to cutting off a possible join between Kurdish areas held in NW and NE Syria, and to approaching IRGC's positions north of Aleppo. Its liberation would - potentially - 'open the doors', 'make possible' some sort of advance in direction of Aleppo too. But, this doesn't mean this would 'automatically' happen.

That's at least my assessment. Perhaps I'm wrong (like I couldn't believe it that Russians would be as stupid as to get directly involved in Syria, and deploy their troops and aircraft there), and you're right. But, for the moment at least, the idea with Erdogan ordering an assault with the aim of lifting the siege of Aleppo is simply not looking very likely to me.

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Turkish military lost a lot of its efficiency and capability since post-coup purges. It's not only that it lost hundreds of top officers: some of involved units appear to have been disbanded.

It takes time to replace them.

The military is already neck-deep involved in fighting the PKK-insurgency inside Turkey.

Net result of all of this is that they currently have only elements of two army brigades, and few batteries from two artillery regiments deployed inside Syria. That's a far cry from what they could deploy there - in theory: namely, there are actually two full 'army corpses' of the Turkish military - at least nominally - deployed along the border to Syria (and, partially, to Iraq too).

IMHO, this is an aspect that must be kept in mind when 'expecting', 'looking forward for' or 'hoping for' something like 'Turkish-supported assault on IRGC's siege of Aleppo. Turkey can't go and do there what it might appear capable of doing on the paper.

Sure, Turkish troops are far better commanded, trained, equipped and supported than IRGC's militias of various Shi'a Jihadists, not to talk about whatever is left of Assadists. No clue if they are as well-motivated as the FSyA is. I would even go as far as to say that the THK should have no major problem with Russians deployed in Syria either: neither with their Su-30s and Su-35s, nor with S-300s, and especially not with Russian ground troops.

But - and aside of all the potential repercussions on the international/diplomatic plan (imagine Russian outcry alone if they start losing members of the Wagner PMC in larger numbers, not to talk about regulars from their Army, Navy and Air Force units deployed in Syria!!) - an outright advance on Aleppo would still be anything than easy in military sense.


That's exactly the point of another of my posts above. Al-Bab is the key - to cutting off a possible join between Kurdish areas held in NW and NE Syria, and to approaching IRGC's positions north of Aleppo. Its liberation would - potentially - 'open the doors', 'make possible' some sort of advance in direction of Aleppo too. But, this doesn't mean this would 'automatically' happen.

That's at least my assessment. Perhaps I'm wrong (like I couldn't believe it that Russians would be as stupid as to get directly involved in Syria, and deploy their troops and aircraft there), and you're right. But, for the moment at least, the idea with Erdogan ordering an assault with the aim of lifting the siege of Aleppo is simply not looking very likely to me.

CrowBat......totally agreed but what I think the TAF has actually done unintentionally is to set the battlefield conditions for FSA....by allowing them a certain measure of limited armor and heavy artillery that is accurate and access to the TAF SF and CAS....believe it now possible for FSA to use that leverage to "fix" in place the Iranian arrayed troops and Shia militias....thus allowing for a fair fight......

The question is now after the UN Main Rights Lawyer has openly called the Assad/Putin destruction of Aleppo..."historic war crimes"...Putin is now in a bind as Merkel is using the same terms and the Italians will not be able to block another sanctions move by UK/France and Germany....IF he resumes bombing Aleppo.

Right now Putin is calculating just how much he is in over his head when he had thought he had the US/EU in check...the TAF card was a wild card and it is producing wild card effects on the battlefield that the Russians did not calculate even possible...and the anti Assad forces are simply not to be beaten into the ground and now I think he is seeing that as well....they are not going to go away as he thought they would.....

What is surprising to me is that he chose Aleppo for this so called final battle in order to save Assad....he had the most perfect example of what a determined defense can do..... in the Donetsk International Airport where a hardened UAF defense by a small force held out longer than Stalingrad against a 200 times larger force backed by artillery and tanks...called the Cyborgs which provide a massive morale boost to the UAF military resilience as a battle cry overall even today...the "Aleppo effect" will haunt both Assad and Putin in the coming months....IMHO.....

Both Assad and Putin have vastly underestimated what fighting for flag, nation and your civil society can do for a fighting force.....

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Aleppo siege and air strikes are "historic war crimes": U.N. rights boss

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-n-rights-boss-denounces-air-strikes-aleppo-084525421.html


GENEVA (Reuters) - The top United Nations human rights official said on Friday that the siege and bombing of eastern Aleppo in Syria constituted "crimes of historic proportions" that have caused heavy civilian casualties amounting to war crimes.

Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein did not specifically name Russia, whose war planes have carried out weeks of air strikes on the rebel-held part of Aleppo along with the Syrian air force, but his reference was clear.

"Armed opposition groups continue to fire mortars and other projectiles into civilian neighborhoods of western Aleppo, but indiscriminate air strikes across the eastern part of the city by Government forces and their allies are responsible for the overwhelming majority of civilian casualties," Zeid said in a speech to a special session of the U.N. Human Rights Council.
He called for major powers to put aside their differences and refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

"The violations and abuses suffered by people across the country, including the siege and bombardment of eastern Aleppo, are simply not tragedies; they also constitute crimes of historic proportions," Zeid told the Geneva session by video link.

Russia has denied any deliberate targeting of civilians and says it is combating terrorists.

The ambassadors of Russia and Syria said that their forces were observing a 11-hour truce in Aleppo to allow evacuation of the wounded and for civilians to leave.

CEASEFIRE

Britain, which requested the one-day session along with allies including the United States in order to set up a special inquiry on Aleppo, said Russian air strikes in Aleppo were worsening the situation.

"This is shameful and it is not the action or leadership that we expect from a P5 nation," Britain's junior Foreign Office minister Tobias Ellwood said, referring to the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. Ted Allegra, deputy U.S. ambassador, said that the Russian and Syrian assault had killed 400 people, including 100 children. "These shocking acts in Aleppo beg for an appropriate investigation and those who commit them must be held accountable," he said.

Ukraine's ambassador Yurii Klymenko, referring to the Chechen capital battered by Russia, said: "We are witnessing turning Aleppo into another Grozny."

Russian Ambassador Alexey Borodavkin accused Britain and its allies of "trying to save terrorists from being the target of strikes, allowing them to regroup and continue their barbaric acts".

An 11-hour unilateral ceasefire in Aleppo was "allowing civilians and those fighters who lay down their weapons to leave" the city, Moscow's envoy said.

Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the U.N. commission of inquiry on Syria, said that the panel would continue to document war crimes in Aleppo and urged the government of President Bashar al-Assad to provide information on violations.

"Hospitals, markets, bakeries and water stations have all been targeted by airplanes flying overhead; many have been destroyed, amplifying the effect of the siege," Pinheiro said.

Syria's ambassador Hussam Aala accused Western and Gulf countries of launching a "propaganda campaign" against his country.

"The hysterical hype by these countries about the eastern part of Aleppo, its timing, and the statements of the Saudi (Foreign Minister) Adel al-Jubeir about sending more lethal weapons to the terrorists there, make it clear that the goal is to protect the terrorists encircled in that part of the city."

Russia, you're making the situation worse, not solving it”

- UK Middle East Minister, to UN Human Rights Council
http://reut.rs/2eNRyoj

1999. Russia, before bombing #Grozny residents: "Beware the evil terrorists using you as human shields"
https://twitter.com/OzKaterji/status/789469687860133888#
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Lavrov: #Turkey will feel repulsion if they once again violate #Syrian airspace.

IMHO...the Lavrov threat IMHO "will not cause Erdogan to shake in his boots".....

CrowBat..... "this hype by the anti Assad forces is getting a lot of mileage on the hype side and definitely unsettling to both Assad and Putin as it has at it's core the question...will they go for it or not...that suspense in military planning that is as clunky as the Russia model is a hard one to counter....

Syria Zenki spox"4th phase of Euphrates Shield Op.started&will besiege regime troops which besiege #Aleppo,the battle of revolution"
https://twitter.com/abdulslam_abd/status/789451743675416576#

This form of battlefield propaganda would make Sun Tzu even proud as it freezes to a degree the Russian planning abilities and brings in a layer of uncertainty......

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Russian cyberwar is hard at work today......and it is those "IoTs" AGAIN........

Somebody's testing those #IOT #botnet tools again? #Dyn #DDoS
http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835?rev=1477054209946#

ALERT: Cyber attack on @twitter @Spotify @PayPal was a DDos -flooding websites w/ requests in an attempt to crash it
https://www.dynstatus.com/incidents/nlr4yrr162t8#

Russia is escalating their cyber war .............

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CrowBat....something for you....

Triumphant Belgian Defence Minister says "Russian evidence against Belgium proves our innocence"; expects apologies
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