Ajnad al-Sham artillery "before the battle" today -- note the nasty sky
http://www.mgm.gov.tr/en-us/forecast-sds.aspx …
Aleppo: #Assad regime attacking #Aleppo City with barrel bombs now.Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Ajnad al-Sham artillery "before the battle" today -- note the nasty sky
http://www.mgm.gov.tr/en-us/forecast-sds.aspx …
Paris was hit by false-flag jihadist terrorism in 1995 -- did it happen again in 2015? Here's what know so far:
http://observer.com/2016/05/the-worl...last-november/ …
False-flags happen. We need to take that term away from the tinfoilers and discuss some difficult realities.
Reports Jaish al-Fath coalition launch a new offensive south Aleppo to take Barnah, Khan Tuman & Khalsa villages from Assad & IRGC militias.
Well Kerry can now pack it in and leave his 5 Star hotel in Geneva......his so called "Aleppo ceasefire" is DOA.........
Russia'n warplanes bombing a dozen villages in southern #Aleppo now
Syria 15 Pro-regime (asian) mercenaries captured by rebels in southern #Aleppo outskirts today- some captured
JN with what seems to be a captured Afghan Liwa Fatemiyoun fighter (#Iranian proxy) in southern #Aleppo.
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Assad forces and allied militias now trapped in Khan Tuman south Aleppo requesting air cover to retreat.
So what does Kerry say now........??
Video from the IDP camp housing mostly women and children targeted by Assad/Russia warplanes
https://youtu.be/dMnOCgWCFvg
The moment a suspected #Assad jet hits a @Refugees camp in #Idlib province today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CREhxuyCXns …
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Warplane reportedly Russian attacked IDP camp outskirts Sarmada village near Turkish borders killed at leat 4 ppl.
Airstrikes on #refugee camp in Sarmada #Idlib today
70+ dead
Jund al-Aqsa claims large parts of Khan Touman taken
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Vid of rebels storming family house Aleppo 2days ago. Regime airstrike missed them by meters
https://youtu.be/6AHdm2uwynI
Jabhat al-Nursa suicide attack inside Khat Tuman village held by Iranian militias south #Aleppo.
Aleppo rebels in control of "bulgur factory" one of the most important points from #Assad's forces in #KhanThoman
Reports from battle at southern outskirts of #Aleppo today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0cYnLC04OY …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98xE2n6OjGU …
Russia'n warplanes bombing a dozen villages in southern #Aleppo now
Rebels claim entire control of Khalidiya in southern #Aleppo
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36...44182&z=15&m=b …
FSA retook Dudiyan from #IS in northern #Aleppo
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36...89228&z=14&m=b …
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From the #RussianArmy (via #Assad) to #ISIS:
A #KamAZ-5350 General Utility Truck.
Just a note....JaN really does understand how to use armor in a major assault.....
Jabhat al-#Nusra T-55, T-72 and BMP-1 that took part in the offensive on #KhanTuman today.
Footage
#Assad heli drops bombs on rural #Aleppo. Only field hit this time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc1msumXDfw …
FSA TOW vs. #Assad regime BMP-1 in #Hama province.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XZX0QurhqY …
The #Saramada #IDP shortly ago.
#Assad is like #cancer for #Syria.
#ISIS the metastasis ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seRhM9zipyQ …
BreakingFootage
At least 30 killed in #Assad air force massacre in the #Sarmada #IDP camp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBP5ugAI1B0 …
Footage
Suicide car bombing vs. #Assad position in #KhanTuman south of #Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOKbthoap0A …
Looks like Assad knows that the only way for him to stay is if he keeps the conflict going.
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SyriaCeasefire +30 dead in Assad airstrikes on IDP camp in #Idlib + airstrikes in Hraytan, Khan al-Asal, Kafrhamra & Castello Rd. in #Aleppo
Syrian Rebels capture Khalidiyeh village after clashes with Assad regime killing dozens
Syrian Rebels repel ISIS from Gara village on border with Turkey killing at least 10
Syrian Rebels have recaptured Dudyan from ISIS.
ISIS tried to target them with suicide bomber
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Irony: @RT_com propaganda uses @infowars psuedo-analyst to proclaim US propaganda conspiracy over #Aleppo
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/341934-sy...eement-carter/ …
Remember when Zarif claimed that Khamenei doesn't deny Holocaust?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s7BOJ6A9v4Q …
Watch Iran's SL #Khamenei doubts Holocaust happened: "It's not clear whether it's real or not"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHcnCFM8VNw …
#Idlib: Brave #Syria|n man curses #Assad, #Russia and #Iran after the #Sarmada Refugee Camp massacre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urm6YdLbhls …
Amazing Assad resupply run for IS......
Regime losses of gear to #IS at Shaer gas company NW of #Palmyra
Footage:
http://amaqvideos.press/v/sr05052016-720.mp4 …
While Russia captured Palmyra IS took the gas and oil fields...where was Putin???
Detainees at Hama's central prison are calling for help, saying they fear Assad forces will soon invade the prison and massacre them all.
Southern #Aleppo: Reports that #Syria|n rebels have captured #Abu_Ruwayl village from pro-#Assad forces.
RuAF Mi-8AMTSh with "Vitebsk" IR CM system now also flying over southern Aleppo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibRhyS-4_o8 …
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The moment Jaish al-Fath trapped and captured IRGC militant near Khan Tuman south Aleppo
https://youtu.be/RrMrCrcS4NI
JaF (Ahrar) claims they destroyed multiple artillery pieces and vehicles in Khalsa front in reef South Aleppo
Unconfirmed reports Jaish al-Fath captured Abu Ruwayl village and few other nearby positions from IRGC south Aleppo.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=35...29154&z=15&m=b …
Aleppo Rebels cut off #Assad-forces in Khan Touman at former "Ammunition Depot"
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=36...58280&z=16&m=b …
No amount of "messaging" can cover up the massive killing of IFPs today in Syria....WHICH reflects a total Obama FP failure as the safe zones were recommended to him years ago ..AND he said no then and again this week.....then the massive killing of defenseless civilians in an IDP camp.........
Obama: Syria safe zone is a "practical problem".
Couple of days later..
White House: no excuse for air strike on Syria refugee camp.
Go back to the SWJ WaPo article where the Obama WH argued that in fact their Syrian/IS strategy was working...it was just you and me we "did not get it" and you and me "just needed MORE messaging" in order to "get it".....
When it is all said and done and the historians get their hands on the Obama period you will be wondering just "how much messaging we have been fed by this WH".....and we are the people who put him in office.....
REFERENCE this messaging campaign of the Obama WH.....directed against US citizens......
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/ma...velist-who-bec...
IT is critical that one read the entire long article.......
The Aspiring Novelist Who Became
Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru
How Ben Rhodes rewrote the rules of diplomacy for the digital age.
By DAVID SAMUELSMAY 5, 2016
Have a high opinion of this writer as I had met him in Iraq were he was war reporter in the thick of things.... and have published two articles via him in the past........and he still writes his column for FP.....Picture him as a young man, standing on the waterfront in North Williamsburg, at a polling site, on Sept. 11, 2001, which was Election Day in New York City. He saw the planes hit the towers, an unforgettable moment of sheer disbelief followed by panic and shock and lasting horror, a scene that eerily reminded him, in the aftermath, of the cover of the Don DeLillo novel “Underworld.”
Everything changed that day. But the way it changed Ben Rhodes’s life is still unique, and perhaps not strictly believable, even as fiction. He was in the second year of the M.F.A. program at N.Y.U., writing short stories about losers in garden apartments and imagining that soon he would be published in literary magazines, acquire an agent and produce a novel by the time he turned 26. He saw the first tower go down, and after that he walked around for a while, until he ran into someone he knew, and they went back to her shared Williamsburg apartment and tried to find a television that worked, and when he came back outside, everyone was taking pictures of the towers in flames. He saw an Arab guy sobbing on the subway. “That image has always stayed with me,” he says. “Because I think he knew more than we did about what was going to happen.” Writing Frederick Barthelme knockoffs suddenly seemed like a waste of time.
“I immediately developed this idea that, you know, maybe I want to try to write about international affairs,” he explained. “In retrospect, I had no idea what that meant.” His mother’s closest friend growing up ran the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which then published Foreign Policy. He sent her a letter and included what would wind up being his only piece of published fiction, a short story that appeared in The Beloit Fiction Journal. It was titled “The Goldfish Smiles, You Smile Back.” The story still haunts him, he says, because “it foreshadowed my entire life.”
It’s the day of President Obama’s final State of the Union address, Jan. 12, and the news inside the White House is not good. Luckily, the reporters on the couch in the West Wing waiting room don’t know it yet. The cream of the crop are here this early p.m. for a private, off-the-record lunch with the president, who will preview his annual remarks to Congress over a meal that is reported to be among the best in the White House chef’s repertoire.
“Blitzer!” a man calls out. A small figure in a long navy cashmere overcoat turns around, in mock surprise.
“You don’t write, you don’t call,” Wolf Blitzer, the CNN anchorman, parries.
“Well, you can call,” shoots back his former colleague Roland Martin. Their repartee thus concluded, they move on to the mutually fascinating subject of Washington traffic jams. “I used to have a 9:30 hit on CNN,” Martin reminisces. “The office was 8.2 miles from my home. It took me 45 minutes.” The CBS News anchor Scott Pelley tells a story about how members of the press destroyed the lawn during the Monica Lewinsky scandal and were told that they would be allowed back once the grass was replanted. The National Park Service replanted the grass outside the White House, but the journalists weren’t allowed back on the lawn.
Unnoticed by the reporters, Ben Rhodes walks through the room, a half-beat behind a woman in leopard-print heels. He is holding a phone to his ear, repeating his mantra: “I’m not important. You’re important.”
The Boy Wonder of the Obama White House is now 38. He heads downstairs to his windowless basement office, which is divided into two parts. In the front office, his assistant, Rumana Ahmed, and his deputy, Ned Price, are squeezed behind desks, which face a large television screen, from which CNN blares nonstop. Large pictures of Obama adorn the walls. Here is the president adjusting Rhodes’s tie; presenting his darling baby daughter, Ella, with a flower; and smiling wide while playing with Ella on a giant rug that says “E Pluribus Unum.”
For much of the past five weeks, Rhodes has been channeling the president’s consciousness into what was imagined as an optimistic, forward-looking final State of the Union. Now, from the flat screens, a challenge to that narrative arises: Iran has seized two small boats containing 10 American sailors. Rhodes found out about the Iranian action earlier that morning but was trying to keep it out of the news until after the president’s speech. “They can’t keep a secret for two hours,” Rhodes says, with a tone of mild exasperation at the break in message discipline.
As the deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, Rhodes writes the president’s speeches, plans his trips abroad and runs communications strategy across the White House, tasks that, taken individually, give little sense of the importance of his role. He is, according to the consensus of the two dozen current and former White House insiders I talked to, the single most influential voice shaping American foreign policy aside from Potus himself. The president and Rhodes communicate “regularly, several times a day,” according to Denis McDonough, Obama’s chief of staff, who is known for captaining a tight ship. “I see it throughout the day in person,” he says, adding that he is sure that in addition to the two to three hours that Rhodes might spend with Obama daily, the two men communicate remotely throughout the day via email and phone calls. Rhodes strategized and ran the successful Iran-deal messaging campaign, helped negotiate the opening of American relations with Cuba after a hiatus of more than 50 years and has been a co-writer of all of Obama’s major foreign-policy speeches. “Every day he does 12 jobs, and he does them better than the other people who have those jobs,” Terry Szuplat, the longest-tenured member of the National Security Council speechwriting corps, told me. On the largest and smallest questions alike, the voice in which America speaks to the world is that of Ben Rhodes.
Like Obama, Rhodes is a storyteller who uses a writer’s tools to advance an agenda that is packaged as politics but is often quite personal. He is adept at constructing overarching plotlines with heroes and villains, their conflicts and motivations supported by flurries of carefully chosen adjectives, quotations and leaks from named and unnamed senior officials. He is the master shaper and retailer of Obama’s foreign-policy narratives, at a time when the killer wave of social media has washed away the sand castles of the traditional press. His ability to navigate and shape this new environment makes him a more effective and powerful extension of the president’s will than any number of policy advisers or diplomats or spies. His lack of conventional real-world experience of the kind that normally precedes responsibility for the fate of nations — like military or diplomatic service, or even a master’s degree in international relations, rather than creative writing — is still startling.
Part of what accounts for Rhodes’s influence is his “mind meld” with the president. Nearly everyone I spoke to about Rhodes used the phrase “mind meld” verbatim, some with casual assurance and others in the hushed tones that are usually reserved for special insights. He doesn’t think for the president, but he knows what the president is thinking, which is a source of tremendous power. One day, when Rhodes and I were sitting in his boiler-room office, he confessed, with a touch of bafflement, “I don’t know anymore where I begin and Obama ends.”
Standing in his front office before the State of the Union, Rhodes quickly does the political math on the breaking Iran story. “Now they’ll show scary pictures of people praying to the supreme leader,” he predicts, looking at the screen. Three beats more, and his brain has spun a story line to stanch the bleeding. He turns to Price. “We’re resolving this, because we have relationships,” he says.
CONTINUED............
tom ricks @tomricks1
If Obama is as smart as he thinks he is, Ben Rhodes will by Monday leave his job to spend more time with his family.
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