Syria in 2016 (January-March)

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Originally Posted by davidbfpo

Citing Crowbat in part, from Post 1620:

Well I've not seen any UK reporting on the USAF sorties to Libya from RAF Lakenheath. The nearest is this rather funny "smokescreen" in a local story:

It is more likely the F-15s are deployed elsewhere, as indicated here in December 2015:http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/raf_lake...tmas_1_4350994

Then their return to the UK from Turkey:http://www.airforcetimes.com/story/m...rkey/77419528/

This redeployment in November 2015 I expect indicates a "hot war" was expected:
Link:http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/hundreds...rons_1_4300054

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US is flying from somewhere and this strike was carried out in "night time" so maybe the Lakenheath F15s just got "lost during their night flight training" just as the RuAF accidental got lost in Syria.....

BTW...it takes a lot of arm twisting to get the Italians to accept additional US fighter aircraft into any airfield outside of the number by SOFA treaty allowed numbers...this was a major hindrance during the ramp up for Libya air strikes...it took the Italians forever to agree....as they use the opportunity to "ask" the Us for "other" items in exchange.....

THIS was suppose to be the FIRST day of the Syrian "ceasefire" very loudly PR announced by Kerry, Lavrov and the UN in Munich 1938..........

WHAT happened to those loudly announced US SEVEN humanitarian aid convoys that were to go into besieged Sunni towns?..not a single one was allowed by Russia and or Assad......

BUT as always Kerry get's it wrong again....again and again......

Happy first #Munich ceasefire day, dear #Syria!
From today on,all children are #terrorists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaUwqIkNIb4 …

Aleppo: The unexploded Russian Ballistic missiles dropped on civilians in Azaz
http://fb.me/4lMbJ9t71

Aleppo: 4 Assad forces killed when Rebels targeted their pickup

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Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09

The Russian FM just cannot be that utterly nave........they really expect KSA to tell them what they are up to when Russia unannounced flew into Syria and started bombing FSA ALL the while telling the world we are here to destroy IS.....

The KSA has clearly signaled Russia it's intentions and stated them clearly..it is up to the Russian FM to then figure it out......

MFA Russia ✔ @mfa_russia

#Bogdanov: We are waiting for explanations from Riyadh regarding plans for participation in operation against #ISIS
http://tass.ru/en/politics/857746

WHAT is really interesting is that actually this FM statement fully indicates Russia has done nothing to attack directly via ground forces IS...rather they have fully attacked FSA....



Lt. General Brown says CENTCOM does not communicate with Russia about where Russia should or shouldn't bomb.

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Interesting to say the least...APPEARS some in Moscow do anticipate a KSA intervention into Syria as being not an "if" BUT "WHEN" and the utter embarrassment that Russia will suffer as they have not a strong "resistance force" on the ground to counter the Saudi's and the Saudi/Turkish AFs have enough AC to handle what Russia has in Syria........

Putin called King Salman asking him to come to Russia to talk about Syria...

There is an increasing hardening of the opinion it will come near the Jordanian border region and go into southern Syria while Turkey handles the northern portion.....this would be confirmed by the video of large convoys carrying the armor vehicles for at least three armored BDEs that popped up then disappeared with a single comment from a single Saudi source....old footage...just enough of a teaser for the Russian intel to understand the message THUS the urgent flying of their newest ISR recce jet to Syria......this was also backed up two days later with an equally long convoy video carrying about the same amount of armored vehicles from Kuwait into the KSA for the "alleged exercise".......so equipment appears to being prepositioned for at least six fully armed and manned armored BDEs.

Indication are that the KSA King will not travel to Putin simply out of "perception images" meaning it would appear the King is bowing down to Putin...rumors say if Putin wants to talk he has to come to the KSA.

Some comments coming out of the KSA seem to indicated they cannot believe Putin has not realized he has burnt all his bridges with the Sunnis over his brutal air strikes killing only Sunni's and his Shia/Kurdish/Iraqi ground offensive also killing Sunni's......

Russia is again air striking hospitals....WONDER what their excuses will be this time????? Last time is was US air strikes and wonder of wonders...MSF working for the French intel services.....

BREAKING
#RUSSIA airstrikes targeted the ER Hospital field of #Ashrafiyeh neighborhood
#Aleppo #Syria FEB 19

Aleppo's Health Directorate confirmed it's Hospital in #Ashrafiyeh neighborhood, constantly bombed by #Russia airstrikes & #YPG from it's positions at #Sheikh_Maqsoud, resulting deactivation of Hospital field due material damage, no martyrs & 6 wounded
#Aleppo #Syria FEB 19

FSA destroyed #SAA terrorists 23' Cannon exterminating a number of it's mercenaries in outskirts #Tel_Refaat TOW hit.
#Aleppo #Syria FEB 19

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Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09

THIS was suppose to be the FIRST day of the Syrian "ceasefire" very loudly PR announced by Kerry, Lavrov and the UN in Munich 1938..........

WHAT happened to those loudly announced US SEVEN humanitarian aid convoys that were to go into besieged Sunni towns?..not a single one was allowed by Russia and or Assad......

BUT as always Kerry get's it wrong again....again and again......

Happy first #Munich ceasefire day, dear #Syria!
From today on,all children are #terrorists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaUwqIkNIb4 …

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Syrians do have a sense of humor in all of this.......
Syrian ceasefire will hold if rebels cease & Russia fires.

Russia airstrikes targeting #Anadan
#Aleppo cs #Syria FEB 19

Russia airstrikes on #alLataminah
#Hama cs #Syria Feb 19

Breaking: A Big operation in reef Western Aleppo by the Mujahideen to drive out the regime.

Worrying unconfirmed reports of an impending YPG offensive on Darat Izza & Atma with aims to cut road between #Aleppo & Bab al-Hawa crossing

Airstrikes continue on Latamnah in rural #Hama, some reports say by Russian jets others by regime. #Syria
http://youtu.be/9b7LQ83iatE

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Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09

THIS was suppose to be the FIRST day of the Syrian "ceasefire" very loudly PR announced by Kerry, Lavrov and the UN in Munich 1938..........

WHAT happened to those loudly announced US SEVEN humanitarian aid convoys that were to go into besieged Sunni towns?..not a single one was allowed by Russia and or Assad......

BUT as always Kerry get's it wrong again....again and again......

Happy first #Munich ceasefire day, dear #Syria!
From today on,all children are #terrorists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaUwqIkNIb4 …

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Well concerning those loudly US proclaimed humanitarian aid convoys....

Regime is stealing aid that has just been delivered to Moadamiya after Munich deal and 18 months of Assad seige

The UN was repeatedly warned this would happen and yet they delivered the aid at the locations told to them by Assad and not to the actual residents of Moadamiya for distribution.

Well that highly touted Obama Syrian strategy is now totally in shambles it appears and that great anti IS force that Obama, CIA and CENTCOM trained, feed, funded and armed is doing exactly what now.....fighting for Assad and Putin?

Who would have ever stated a US President spent US taxpayers money in training Russian para military units......?????

Assad’s adviser Bouthaina Shaaban says YPG has partnered w/ regime forces to liberate #Syria from “terrorism” I.e. Anyone who is anti-Assad

Obama is simply "standing by" as he is now out of whatever very limited ideas he had.......BEGS though a core question...has Obama played the US public in that he has actually been supporting all along Putin's expansionism efforts in Ukraine and now Syria...it is a valid question now that one can evaluate his actual moves in both areas...which fit nicely into Putin's efforts of damaging NATO, EU and yes even the US.

Reports of intense #Russia|n airstrikes with cluster munitions targeting Ma’arat al-Artiq in north rural #Aleppo, #Syria

Airstrikes continue on Latamnah in rural #Hama, some reports say by Russian jets others by regime. #Syria
http://youtu.be/9b7LQ83iatE

Footage of airstrike on Deir al-Asafir in rural #Damascus said to be by Russian jets
http://youtu.be/2EoxbUsdVTI

YPG/SDF supported by Russian airstrikes are trying to break into Sheikh Isa in north rural #Aleppo, heavy clashes w/ rebels reported. #Syria

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Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09

Both Pentagon and @StateDept deny any link btw Russia and YPG forces, while reports insist Russia AF opens ways for them. Why deny?

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Appears DoD and the DoS really does need some social media assistance....OR are they simply lying to the journalists which is no different than what the Russian FM does these days...appears there are great parallels between Putin's administration and the Obama administration when it comes to lying.to the public...

YPG/SDF supported by Russian airstrikes are trying to break into Sheikh Isa in north rural #Aleppo, heavy clashes w/ rebels reported. #Syria

Wow...Obama WH trying to appear for the US public as being now "tough with Putin"...there are four specific ways to demonstrate that "toughness" but Obama just "talks" and Putin knows it....so again what a wow statement........means absolutely nothing

U.S. to Russia on Syria ceasefire: 'Put up or shut up'
http://cnn.it/1XwnXvj

Read the article...it is just all talk ...heck the headlines by CNN sound even tougher than the actual article does....

IF the Obama WH was serious about attacking and destroying IS then they should simply state ..we are signing off on and supporting the Sunni Islamic Armies of Turkey and KSA to enter Syria and attack IS...Sunni's staking care of a Sunni jihadi movement...best of all choices....then take Assad and Russian into the UNSC for direct violations of three UNSC resolutions and charge Assad with war crimes and declare the deliberate killing of civilians and use of cluster munitions against civilians by Russia also a war crime....AT the same time deliver to Iran the statement all shia militias and IRGC out of Syria ......

Russia will not go to war as it is not fully prepared to do so.....yes it is loud and threatens the use of nuclear weapons but in the end the destruction of Russia as a result of war is not their goal these days......they want to rake in more money into their pockets and a war would stop that.

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Faylaq al-Rahman has merged w. Al-Ittihad al-Islami Ajnad al-Sham:

This is exactly what the Turks were warning the US on their support of and still their verbal support to YPG....

YPG:

“We’ll abolish rotten borders.. make Erdogan drown in his blood.. fight of [Syria] is the fight of [#Turkey]”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqM20tkzOK0 …

This is what led to the Turkish blunt warning to the US...choose either Turkey or the YPG but choose wisely......

Appears Obama, CIA and CENTCOM choose unwisely????????

AND YPG is not a terrorist organization?...and since when does the US actively feed, arm and funded terrorist activities?????

Great summary via @nytimes on US tangled relations with Turkey and Kurds, in the wake of #AnkaraBombing -
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/wo...T.nav=top-news

"Tangled is a bad choice of words...."disastrous relations" is a better one.....and all the Biden calls in this world is not going to repair this damage for months to come if at all before Obama leaves office in about 300 days....

VIDEO: Activist films the moment a shia 'elephant' rocket strikes Darayya, #Syria.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPycyBVlpEY …

VIDEO: Footage of #SDF/#YPG Shaddadi campaign against #ISIS in #Syria -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AObCPuuQQHA …

SDF/YPG Hawl front 3km from #ISIS held Shaddadi, and Abdulaziz front 5 km away - @4rj1n

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Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09

This is exactly what the Turks were warning the US on their support of and still their verbal support to YPG....

YPG:

“We’ll abolish rotten borders.. make Erdogan drown in his blood.. fight of [Syria] is the fight of [#Turkey]”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqM20tkzOK0 …

This is what led to the Turkish blunt warning to the US...choose either Turkey or the YPG but choose wisely......

Appears Obama, CIA and CENTCOM choose unwisely????????

AND YPG is not a terrorist organization?...and since when does the US actively feed, arm and funded terrorist activities?????

Great summary via @nytimes on US tangled relations with Turkey and Kurds, in the wake of #AnkaraBombing -
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/wo...T.nav=top-news

"Tangled is a bad choice of words...."disastrous relations" is a better one.....and all the Biden calls in this world is not going to repair this damage for months to come if at all before Obama leaves office in about 300 days....

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The last paragraph of the article is the critical piece of the article that truly depicts the Obama WH failure...they have placed all their "faith into the Kurds" AND basically ignored the Syrian Sunni's in the FSA that have just as effectively been fighting Assad AND IS for the last two years pushing them out of long held areas NOT out of Kurdish territories BUT Syrian territories....TOTALLY ignored by this Obama WH...

If the Obama WH had really looked around and had a true Syrian strategy he would not in the jam he is in now.......failed Munich 1938, failed Geneva and over all a total Syrian failure...on his legacy watch.....

BTW...the NYTs did not go deeply into the true ties of the YPG to the PPK that many ME analysts state is in fact a given......

Russian contracted planes will soon be dropping food aid to trapped Syrians in an operation partly financed by the U.S and UN...but not Russia.
http://nyti.ms/20HGmoW

For those SWJ readers that do not believe Russia has gone full in with Iran ie forming a transnational Shia jihadist front against anything that is Sunni think again...this is about as clear as you can get it....

While Russia threatens the Turks.......it does have an inherent feeling the Saudi's are also about to move....thus the floated "lead balloon" about the King coming to see Putin about Syria...not ever going to happen in Putin's lifetime.

In Russia and really worth translating it in full......

"Turkey runs the risk of a full-fledged war" over #Syria against both Iran+Russia, says top Kremlin pol http://vz.ru/news/2016/2/15/794349.html …

If Erdogan expects US & NATO to adopt the AKP's position on the Kurds, Ankara better be prepared to wait a very long time.

"The perpetrator is the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union (PYD) and the YPG. We have no doubt about that"
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ank...&NewsCatID=338 …

“We’re in no position to confirm or deny assertions made by the Turkish government with respect to responsibility" http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/us-...&NewsCatID=510 …

Kremlin signaling doesn't get much clearer than this, peeps.
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