NOT sure just how Kerry is going to "walk back this".......????
Feature: #Kerry --- "Go and Blame Your Opposition" for Russia's Bombing
http://eaworldview.com/2016/02/syria...ssias-bombing/ … | .@EANewsFeed #PSRG
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NOT sure just how Kerry is going to "walk back this".......????
Feature: #Kerry --- "Go and Blame Your Opposition" for Russia's Bombing
http://eaworldview.com/2016/02/syria...ssias-bombing/ … | .@EANewsFeed #PSRG
A serious question has been raising it's ugly head on social media since the failure of the Geneva talks and the over 1000 Russian air strikes and the major ground offensive largely attacking the anti Assad opposition forces and the "alleged Kerry pressure on the HNC"...exactly as he has been doing on Ukraine.....
Is the US Obama and Kerry "successful Syrian strategy" ACTUALLY the same strategy being followed by Assad/Putin and Khamenei?????
The destruction of any anti Assad opposition and leaving basically IS in "peace".....
NOT sure just how Kerry is going to "walk back this".......????
Feature: #Kerry --- "Go and Blame Your Opposition" for Russia's Bombing
http://eaworldview.com/2016/02/syria...e-opposition-r... … | .@EANewsFeed #PSRG
Jaysh al-Islam seems destroyed attacking armours then massacred the infantry around Brig 39 #EastGhouta @aboasssem92
First loud and clear message from Jaysh al-Islam new leader after Zahran Alloush killed by Russians.
Regime losses from offensive on Tal Kurdi & Tal Sawan from Brig 39 up to 50 so far + T72 tank & a BMP says JaI spokesman @islamalloush0
FSA Northern Division launching Grad rockets at Assad/pro-Assad militias around Nubul & Zahra in northern #Aleppo
Original link: http://youtu.be/LHWAUNH1uVM
Russian fighter jets reportedly crossed into Israeli airspace for the second time during bombing runs in southern #Syria.
NOTICE virtually the entire western MSM did not carry anything on the facts mentioned below..why is that????
Not a single MSM article on just how is it that IS the avoed enemy that Russia went into Syria to utterly destroy is working hand in hand with the Russian military in full support to Assad.....not a single MSM article of this??
During the N #Aleppo offensive:
- not a single Russian bomb hit #ISIS
- not a single ISIS attack hit #Assad's front
IEDs found with Jund al-Aqsa & ISIS cell caught by rebels in Saraqeb, #Idlib
JaI repelling a heavy regime push on Tal Kurdi & Tal Sawan in rural #Damascus. Regime bodies conveniently numbered.
50 plus Shia mercenaries were counted on the ground...
Sometimes silence does one well....seems Kerry has not heard this saying...
Does he really believe anyone in the ME is listening to this farce of a comment.....there are no humanitarian discussions and or ceasefire talks even via back channel .....the last UN aid convoy was not allowed into the Sunni town by Hezbollah THAT was agreed to by Assad.....
The only solution Kerry has been pushing is the destruction of the anti Assad opposition the same strategy as that of Assad and Putin...thus the HNC and KSA walked.......simple as that...so why does he have a hard time stating he "failed at Geneva"...and blaming others???
BUT WAIT did not Obama "blame others" when he stated our Syrian strategy is working...they just do not understand it so we need more "messaging"......sounds to me like they are blaming us for not "getting it".....
Let's see there was the Obama CW red line, then there was that famous Obama statement...."we will judge Putin on his actions not his words" and then there were those comments by Kerry condemning starvation and the targeting of civilians by Assad/Putin .....BUT these are only words...has there been a single "ACTION"..to back up these "words"......
U.S. Embassy Syria
@USEmbassySyria #SecKerry: #SyriaTalks have not failed. They've interrupted while modalities of #HumanitarianAccess & potential ceasefire are worked out.
Russia|n airstrikes with cluster munitions on Ghanto in #Homs last night:
1- http://youtu.be/Ou3LUS7movU
2- http://youtu.be/50_XBB_BUnY
First pictures from #Kafr_Hamra where Russian terrorists strike again while @SyriaCivilDef evacuates dead children.
NOTICE Kerry mentioned this in his Tweets but then Russia does it again and again and again...AND NO reactions other than words which are really "cheap".
After a 1st airstrike kills a child north of #Aleppo, the jet hits rescuers once more.
Interesting Instagram pictures, from an Iraqi "journalist", taking part in the northern #Aleppo offensive.
Russia warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting #Teir_Maela
#Homs #Syria FEB 7
Jaysh_alFateh & #SAA exchanged prisoners assisted by #Nada_alLasir foundation y'day FEB 6, 3 #JF for 4 #SAA
#Hama #Syria
Moment of #Russia ClusterBombs airstrikes on #alGhanto & #Talbiseh
#Homs #Syria FEB7
https://youtu.be/50_XBB_BUnY
65 MARTYRS
[14 Fighters 4 children 2 women 2Tortured]
20 Aleppo
10 Damascus
8 Hama
5 Latakia
3 Daraa
2 DeirEzzor
2 Idlib
1 Homs
#Syria FEB 6
Putin's UXO Cluster bombs are taken care of here:
https://youtu.be/dBRuVVeTjPo
Latakia: Syrian rebels in Jabal Al Akrad capture 2 points in Ruwaysah Al Rus
CORRECTION: so called Hezbollah "Journalist" killed in Aleppo
Iranian revolutionary guard general Satar Ornek killed in Aleppo
Syrian Rebels repel pro Assad forces night attack on Marj Al Sultan
Hezbollah confirmed the deaths of at least 10 Hezbollah fighters in last 24 hours
http://www.all4syria.info/Archive/291085
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The bodies of 2 #IRGC officers and 24 more Iranian soldiers, killed north of #Aleppo, arrived in #Iran.
From brigade 39 pro Assad forces heading in convoys of tanks & vehicles to capture Tel Kurdi & Tel Sowan
Clashes going on between Assad forces & Rebels in Al Marj
Syrian Rebels kill 2 sectarian Shia Iraqi militia generals in Aleppo
1- Majid Nan
2-Mahmoud Hashemi
High numbers of Shia terrorists and IED specialists have made it into Europe/Germany....
Jabagh Baker & friends kill Bilal Mansour Ali on video:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.p...84957314925209 …
Jabagh is now in #Germany. #Syria
CrowBat...heard anything on this merger.....??
15 FSA brigades in Aleppo unite to form the Aleppo Army
Saudis don't need to "send ground troops" just disobey Obama & send Rebels air defence weapons & war will be over in weeks
Interesting as these types of comments are coming faster and with more content....maybe Russia was right about the "invasion"...but heck they provoked it......
13 States will send ground troops to Turkey to enter Syrian territory
http://fb.me/2ZtALWkON
Full story up on @AP now. #UAE prepared to send ground troops to #Syria
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/597bb...-forces-syria# …
I doubt Pro #Assad Syrians wld dare attack Ghouta this way, they're probably shia Iraqis/Afghanis. Anyone can take a close look to identify?
Damaged Russian tanks in Syria...
First in, first damaged.
pic.twitter.com/BRUBARjZD0
Interesting piece of equipment on tank..captured from regime.....
They got it from Brigade82 in the south @oryxspioenkop
https://youtu.be/AbRBZpoC9e0
Also seen here......
SyAA ZSU-23 with an unknown optical sensor, early 2015.
Really worth listening to this short video clip by an excellent author who understands Syria....mentions a number of things CrowBat has been saying on the Syrian thread.....about democratically elected Syrian local councils....we never hear anything about them in the western MSM
He also has some bitter comments about MSM Syria reporting or actually the misreporting out of Syria.......
Robin Yassin-Kassab, Author, Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War
https://youtu.be/-NTWU-St4Ds
excellent film featuring @Qunfuz1
NOTICE he uses the interesting term "transnational Shia jihadists"......
ABSOLUTELY no conversation concerning this development out of this WH and the western MSM .....just as dangerous as the Sunni variation.....in some ways far more dangerous as they have definitely not abandoned their Khomeini battle cry..."death to Americans...death to the US..."
The vid is out. Watch #Assad troops get slaughtered outside Birg 39 in #EastGhouta #Damascus
https://youtu.be/8l3nybD0Uv8
I ask an activist from #Aleppo how civilians view current situation in city. His answer says it all: @akhbar
pic.twitter.com/ANKIUqZ6c3
Plenty of news today, so 'checking'...
BTW, here a typical scene of the last few days - but this time at least one that was well-documented with help of videos and photos:
- 'Regime' troops (unclear if Hezbollah/Lebanon, NDF, or 105th Brigade RGD) assaulted the Base 39, a military base in Eastern Ghouta, recently captured by IF and FSyA;
- Insurgents first stopped the AFVs, by knocking out two....
- ...and then literally 'slaughtered' the infantry with Dushkas and AK-47s...
- ...here are some still trying to advance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l3nybD0Uv8
- and here what's left of them....
Overall: about 50 KIA... and, at least according to insurgent-sources, such scenes happened quite often the last few days, not only in Eastern Ghouta, but especially north of Aleppo. But, why should regime, IRGC, or Russians care - if they have 'only victories' to report these days: they 're-load' another company and assault again...
EDIT.... images not showing; have to upload them...
http://www.businessinsider.de/assad-...16-2?r=US&IR=T
The one line the West keeps repeating about Syria that is helping Assad win the war
Natasha Bertrand
#FootageQuote:
In a Washington press conference shortly after peace talks over Syria's future fell apart earlier this week, US Secretary of State John Kerry again called on Syria's government and its supporters to end its military campaign and pursue a political solution to the conflict instead.
Days earlier, Gareth Bayley, the UK's special representative for Syria, told reporters in Geneva that "there is no military solution" to the conflict.
As the diplomats called for a peaceful resolution to the crisis, however, pro-regime forces were encircling Aleppo — Syria's largest city — aided by heavy Russian airstrikes that are estimated to have killed scores of civilians.
Some experts now say the line oft-repeated by Kerry and many of his western counterparts — that there is "no military solution" to the crisis in Syria — has actually allowed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies to pursue such a military solution with impunity.
"Moscow has used its 'co-convener' status of the Vienna peace process (which mandated the Geneva conference) as a cover to distract and occupy Washington and the West," Fred Hof, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East and former adviser on Syria under the Obama administration, wrote on Thursday.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif makes a pledge makes a pledge during the second makes a pledge during the second 'Thematic Pledging Session' at the donors Conference for Syria in London, Britain February 4, 2016. REUTERS/Matt Dunham/poolThomson Reuters
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif makes a pledge makes a pledge during the second 'Thematic Pledging Session' at the donors Conference for Syria in London
That, Hof continued, has allowed Russia to pursue its own "political-military objective: neutralizing the armed nationalist opposition to create for the West — for Washington in particular — the horror of a binary choice between Bashar the Barrel Bomber and Baghdadi the False Caliph."
He was referring to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the terrorist organization ISIS.
Analysts generally agree that any attempt to pursue a political solution while the Assad regime, Russia, and Iran pursue a military campaign is doomed for failure.
But the Obama administration has so far failed to put adequate pressure on the Syrian government to stop its aerial bombardments and sieges of rebel-held areas. Those, incidentally, were two of the opposition's conditions that, because they were not met, compelled them to walk away from negotiations last week.
"It will take Russian and Iranian pressure for the regime to negotiate in good faith with the opposition," Hof said in an email to Business Insider. "But Russia and Iran both want Assad to prevail militarily against the nationalist opposition."
He added: "The Assad regime, being borne aloft militarily at the moment by Iran and Russia, is not very interested. Kerry is trying hard to talk them out of this. But each is interested in forcing the West into a binary choice between Assad the Barrel Bomber and Baghdadi, the ISIS 'caliph.' And both are confident that the West – led by the US – will reconcile with their guy, Assad, if Baghdadi is the only alternative."
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Jeff White, a defense analyst at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said that while Russia, Iran, and Assad are not interested in a political solution, pretending that they are while pursuing military objectives on the ground has come to form the core of their war strategy.
"The regime and allies are in it to win, not to negotiate a 'transition,'" White said in an email to Business Insider last week. "Negotiations and fighting are related parts of their war strategy."
He added: "The war will keep going until the regime prevails, increasingly likely, or Assad's allies abandon him, unlikely for the foreseeable future."
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It is especially unlikely, given the Assad regime's recent battlefield victories.
Government troops, accompanied by Iran-backed Shiite militias and Hezbollah forces, reached the cities of Nubl and Zahraa outside of Aleppo last week. As such, the regime "succeed[ed] in a few days in what it had failed to do for over three years" thanks to heavy Russian air support, according to an Atlantic Council analysis by Faysal Itani and Hossam Abouzahr.
The offensive, moreover, was a huge blow to Turkey — a staunch opponent of Assad — as it effectively cut off Ankara's supply line to the rebels it had been supporting in Aleppo.
A scathing op-ed published by The Financial Times days earlier seemed prescient following the successful government offensive.
"Mr. Putin is treating Geneva as a smokescreen behind which to keep up his offensive," the editorial board wrote. "Instead of bullying rebels to attend the talks, the US and its allies should back their demand that Russia and the regime cease bombing the Syrian people. Geneva will otherwise be the venue for a third failure to end this pitiless war."
The #FSA sends reinforcements to #Aleppo ... into certain death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US_xYkyN0tA …
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