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    Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
    All Russian bombs are guided, like everyone killed by Russian bombs are terrorists.
    https://twitter.com/RolandOliphant/s...59216256946177

    Roland Oliphant @RolandOliphant
    Zakharova utterly rejects the outrageous suggestion Russia could possibly be using unguided munitions in Syria.


    RUS paper: Myths about refugees prevent the final victory of Assad (main claim: refugees don't exist)
    http://www.ng.ru/armies/2016-02-10/1_asad.html … v @kkronvall

    BREAKING: #Turkey claims: 34 people including 10 Women & 20 children detained w/ 15kg of explosives, 4 suicide vests at the #Syria|n border

    Today......
    According to the @syriahr, #Russia started its day with bomb attacks on a #school and a #mosque in #Hayyan.#Aleppo #Syria

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    There are two key cornerstones to Russian non linear warfare...
    1.cyber warfare
    2. information warfare ie "weaponization of information"


    Russian cyber warriors take on again social media...
    #Putin's #cyber militia #Cyberberkut hack website of brilliant investigation team @bellingcat. Seems Bellingcat is hitting a nerve!


    Kremlin's pet hackers target @CITeam_en & @bellingcat because they don't want you read this
    https://citeam.org/russia-s-top-bras...ar-in-ukraine/
    pic.twitter.com/npBW2b1IRF
    Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 02-10-2016 at 10:29 AM.

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    “What do you want me to do, go to war with Russia?” As if only US choices are WW3 or standing back from fire http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/10/wo...html?ref=world

    The Moscow Times ✔ @MoscowTimes
    U.S. National Intelligence Director Says #Russia Is Paranoid, Aggressive

    http://tmt-go.ru/559181
    Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 02-10-2016 at 10:28 AM.

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    Appears Turkey has found a legal way to agitate Russia as NATO has left open that it's member nations could in fact arm Ukraine individually...

    Dzhemilev: Turkey is considering arming Ukraine

    http://liveuamap.com/en/2016/10-febr...arming-ukraine
    pic.twitter.com/32JU0a9lnL via @HromadskeTV

    Any SWJ commenter willing to take a chance and defend this Russian FM propaganda statement......or for that matter any western MSM....
    SyrianRefugees are running from terrorists, not #RussiaVsISIL airstrikes - @mfa_russia
    http://sptnkne.ws/aAZw

    Russia is still stating today they are not killing civilians and are not using dumb bombs nor cluster munition on civilians...really.....

    "I don't think we've killed anybody": Moscow's ambassador on civilians killed by Russian bombs in Syria
    https://youtu.be/AqMRGH_UsIc

    Russian FM briefing: Zakharova utterly rejects the outrageous suggestion Russia could possibly be using unguided munitions in Syria.
    BUT WAIT she forgot all those Russian MoD videos depicting those iron dumb bombs being dropped
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    Will #Iran allow #SAA to take part in the #Aleppo battle? Probably not. Too risky.
    http://reut.rs/1V1edrn

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    Putin is actually at war WITH US.
    Great read by @Judy_Dempsey
    http://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/?fa=62692

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    Humor.......
    UN Res 2254 on Syria bans indiscriminate air dropped cluster weapons & shelling. We're complying by using them.
    pic.twitter.com/cOF6bCF3RJ

    Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
    Footage shows a mosque bombed in Hayyan, Syria, are these Russia's guided bombs?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFZTRMQKIz4

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    Russia sets for deploying in Syria large landing ship seized from Ukraine in annexed Crimea - media
    http://www.unian.info/world/1259954-...mea-media.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Yikes......has the Obama WH and Kerry seen the white ghost of the Shia 12th imam......?

    Kerry: Syria plan B is “to lead a coalition against #ISIL and to support the opposition against Assad.”
    http://wpo.st/8CPA1

    Sorry he and Obama both seemed to have had been sleeping walking and missed the imam......

    “What we’re doing is testing [Russian and Iranian] seriousness,” he said. “And if they’re not serious, then there has to be consideration of a Plan B. . . . You can’t just sit there.”

    BUT WAIT is this not the same exact comments just recycled for the Us press that he told the anti Assad opposition and their HNC just before Geneva.....???

    WAIT...it was.....
    Kerry and Obama just keep on getting "strung on by Putin".....

    "In a letter sent to Obama admin this week, Russia proposed to stop bombing on March 1," three weeks from now.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...11b_story.html

    After the constant lies by Putin and his FM concerning their fulfilling Minsk 2 and only entering Syria to destroy IS....the WH now wants to "trust them"...

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    Syria Da'ish targeting/hitting two T-72 MBT with 9M113 Konkurs #ATGM in the area of Tal Maksur, West of #Kweirs AFB

    Russia Defence Ministry pic shows a Russian bomber dropping free-fall bombs in #Syria:@mfa_russia is intoxicated?
    pic.twitter.com/0AnWZVHhlS

    Charles Lister ‏@Charles_Lister
    #Russia strikes (Sept 30 '15-Jan 30 ’16):
    - Killed 3578, inc. 1,380 civilians (38.6%)
    - Hit 15 schools
    - Hit 3 IDP camps
    - Hit 16 hospitals


    Syrians in south Turkey clinics describe impact of Russian airstrikes:
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...n-already.html … (pic: @sam7tarling)

    Regime under heavy Russian air cover is still trying to break into Hirbnafseh, #Hama; heavy clashes continue since the early AM.

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    Latakia: pro Assad forces repelled from Ara & Kafarta in Jabal Akrad & Rebels still in control

    CIA Director testifies: the Syrian Government hit opposition in 2014-2015 with chlorine gas
    http://bit.ly/1TQ8CWq

    Syrian Rebels recapture Mount Al Tamourah in north Aleppo

    Hama: Syrian Rebels ambushed bus carrying pro Assad forces in Al-Mansura front all either dead or captured

    Aleppo: Syrian Rebels recaptured Al Alagamiyah & Al Shil'aa after heavy clashes with YPG & treacherous so called "Jaish Thuwar"

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    Breaking: 5 #Iran|ian vehicles carrying "Fajr-1" rockets has been seen around #Aleppo, #Syria.

    Russia Parachuted Cluster Bombs, killed 7civilians including 5Children
    #Douma #Syria FEB 10
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mlTihkyc3U

    Intense clashes take place at the perimeter of Menagh as YPG attempts to take the airbase

    Before Assad went genocidal Syria had a high level of education for the ME...
    In war-torn Daraya, rebels nurture a 15,000 book library to keep hopes of revolution alive.
    http://www.buzzfeed.com/borzoudaraga...QW#.fv75YYJJl7

    TOW geolocation: Rebels still able to strike #Zahraa. Launch of 3.8 km from Bayanoun to SE suburb of Zahraa #Aleppo

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    CrowBat....this is referencing your comments on this particular ambush.....

    FSA claimed 50 KIAs in a major recent ambush of Shia fighters....

    But proAssad commenters indicate that it was potentially ......

    Acc to Assad soldiers: our estimates were wrong, 3 days ago, the rebels ambush got 180 SAA between killed/captured


    SAA soldiers who survived the JAI ambush in E Ghouta want the officers in Court according to 'Lost heroes' page

    Almost 180 killed and missing ? Wow, most rebel soldiers placed a maximum of 50 killed, even that being a stretch.
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    This is a strange article being carried by the 100% owned Russian propaganda outlet Russia Today......the shrillness about a possible move into Syria is IMO starting to grate of the Russian leadership and they are attempting to build Russian civil society support if in fact the Turks and Saudi's do cross over....as the possible Russian response would be to send more combat troops...and the Russian public in polling shows absolutely no interest in sending troops to Syria.....

    TURKEY: PM Davutoglu pledges to defend their 'Aleppo brothers' in Syria just as they defended Turkish cities in WW1

    https://www.rt.com/news/331968-turke...ention-aleppo/

    Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu pledged to return a “historical debt” to Turkey’s “Aleppo brothers” who helped defend the country in the early 20th century, just days after Russia warned of Ankara’s intentions to invade Syria as the rebels there falter.

    “We will return our historic debt. At one time, our brothers from Aleppo defended our cities of Sanliurfa, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaras, now we will defend the heroic Aleppo. All of Turkey stands behind its defenders,” Davutoglu said at the meeting of the Party of Justice and Development parliamentary faction, which he heads.

    Davutoglu was apparently referring to World War One and subsequent events in the Turkish War of Independence, seemingly glorifying the defense and retaking of Turkish cities from the Allied forces. Yet, he failed to mention that the Turks had been drawn into the war by Ottoman imperial ambitions. Turkey had entered the conflict by shelling the Russian port of Odessa from the sea. It then suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Russian troops in the war’s southern theater, before the Ottoman Empire was occupied and divided by the Allies. At the time, the three cities Davutoglu named saw thousands of Armenians and other minorities slaughtered by Turkish nationalists as part of the Armenian Genocide, which Ankara denies to this day.

    Alarmingly, the statement comes less than a week after Russia’s Defense Ministry warned that Turkey was preparing a military invasion of Syria and is trying to conceal illegal activity on its Syrian border.

    “We have significant evidence to suspect Turkey is in the midst of intense preparations for a military invasion into Syria’s sovereign territory,” Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov told reporters in Moscow.

    Konashenkov also stated that Turkey had canceled an agreed upon Russian observation flight that had been scheduled over its territory because of its illicit activities. “So if someone in Ankara thinks that the cancelation of the flight by the Russian observers will enable hiding something, then they’re unprofessional.”

    Moreover, Konashenkov pointed out that Turkey has already been supplying terrorists in the Syrian cities of Idlib and Aleppo with manpower and weaponry.

    The spokesman showed the media a photo of the Reyhanli checkpoint, saying that “through this very border crossing – mainly at nighttime – the militants, who seized the city of Aleppo and Idlib in northwestern Syria, are being supplied with arms and fighters from Turkish territory.”

    The alarming new developments come as jihadi forces fighting President Bashar Assad’s army in northern Syria are suffering losses and retreating to the Turkish border.

    Moscow had provided the international community earlier with video evidence that Turkish artillery had fired on populated Syrian areas in the north of Latakia Province.

    Meanwhile, Turkey has denied any plans to invade Syria. “Turkey doesn’t have any plans or intentions to begin a military campaign or ground operations on Syrian territory,” Reuters cited a senior Turkish government official as saying.

    This is not the first time alleged plans by Turkey to invade Syria have been reported. In 2014, Turkey shut off access to YouTube after an explosive leak of audiotapes revealed that its ministers had been discussing how to stage a provocation that could justify a military intervention in Syria.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Eliot Higgins @EliotHiggins
    All Russian bombs are guided, like everyone killed by Russian bombs are terrorists.
    https://twitter.com/RolandOliphant/s...59216256946177

    Roland Oliphant @RolandOliphant
    Zakharova utterly rejects the outrageous suggestion Russia could possibly be using unguided munitions in Syria.


    RUS paper: Myths about refugees prevent the final victory of Assad (main claim: refugees don't exist)
    http://www.ng.ru/armies/2016-02-10/1_asad.html … v @kkronvall

    Today......
    According to the @syriahr, #Russia started its day with bomb attacks on a #school and a #mosque in #Hayyan.#Aleppo #Syria
    BreakingNews
    During the #GenevaTalks, #Putin and #Assad killed 1,380 civilians and injured 5,789
    - UK Special Rep. for Syria @garethbayley

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    SOHR confirms Rebels shelled Qardaha (Assad hometown) yesterday with Grad rockets and killed 13 people.
    http://www.syriahr.com/en/?p=44002

    Was reported to have happened during the funeral of Assad's mother....killing several relatives....

    Free Syrian Army's @alsham2136 firing on regime foreign Shia militia in AlGhab Plain #Idlib countryside

    FSA #Southern_Front is braced&fearless in #Daraa ready for the regimes cowardly militia operation under the cover of #Russia strikes

    Free Syrian Army's @alsham2136 hitting regime Shia militia gangs in northern #Aleppo countryside
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    Interview with Hezbollah prisoners captured in Syria in English ...interview was done first in Arabic and then released on youtube because Hezbollah complained to MTV....

    Well worth reading....and watching...

    The Syrian Observer ‏@observesyria
    Lebanese journalist interviews Hizballah 'prisoners' held by Nusra Front in #Syria

    http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/blo...by-nusra-front

    Hezbollah captives in #Syria condemn the organization’s involvement in Syria
    http://ow.ly/Y9z3q
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    Orient News English ‏@OrientNewsEn
    #Obama stands by silently as #Russia continues its onslaught in #Syria

    http://ow.ly/Y9zRG

    TOW Analysis. Rebels on the offensive: 4 #TOW past 48hrs pounded #Zahraa SW fortifications & barriers. N. #Aleppo.
    Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 02-10-2016 at 04:11 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
    Orient News English ‏@OrientNewsEn
    #Obama stands by silently as #Russia continues its onslaught in #Syria

    http://ow.ly/Y9zRG
    An extraordinary new crisis is beginning to unfold in Syria, a country that already has suffered through some of the worst war crimes, humanitarian depredations and refu¬gee flows in recent history.

    Russia, Iran and the Assad government are conducting a major offensive aimed at recapturing the city of Aleppo and the opposition-held territory that connects it to the border with Turkey. They have cut one supply route to the city and are close to severing another, trapping opposition forces along with hundreds of thousands of civilians. Tens of thousands have fled to the border, where Turkey is denying them entry, The Washington Post reported.

    This campaign is being waged in open defiance of a U.N. Security Council resolution adopted in December, which required the Assad government to provide humanitarian access to areas under siege and demanded an end to the shelling and bombing of civilian areas.

    Russia, which voted for the resolution, is indiscriminately bombing civilian targets in the Aleppo area, using banned cluster munitions, according to Human Rights Watch. Iranian commanders are on the ground, directing attacks by Shiite fighters from Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan.

    In the face of this onslaught, which promises to destroy any chance of an acceptable end to the Syrian war, the Obama administration has been a study in passivity and moral confusion. President Obama is silent. Secretary of State John F. Kerry has been reduced to reading the text of Resolution 2254 aloud, as if that would somehow compel a change in Russian behavior. Mr. Kerry on Tuesday faulted Moscow for “making it much more difficult to be able to come to the table” for the peace talks he has been trying to broker, which were stillborn last week in Geneva.

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    Noticed the Russian FM spokeswoman forgot to mention the RFuAF flying CAS for the YPG.....attacking the FSA....

    5 RuAF airstrikes reported on rebels positions in Menagh airbase in support of YPG assault.
    https://www.facebook.com/HalabTodayT...9323299085105/

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