Hassan Hassan @hxhassan
Fatwa by more than 50 influential clerics says it's haram to fight under a rebel faction in Deraa that doesn't open fronts against Assad.
Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss
Bizarre to see Obama admin deny Iran-AQ connection.
http://tws.io/2a7SC02
They sanctioned this guy in 2011:
Syrian Coalition @SyrCoalition
#Aleppo & #Daraya Are Being Annihilated, Offering of Condolences No Longer Acceptable
http://ow.ly/Op1W302b9eM
From left to right: ShOAB-0.5, PTAB-1, PTAB-2.5 KO, PTAB-2.5M, AO-2.5RT, SPBE submunitions collected in Aleppo
Iran has completely succeeded in Hezbollahizing Iraq. It marks Tehran's strategic victory and the defeat of the US.
Preparations for another military parade tomorrow in Baghdad, Iraq. Iran proxy shia militias clearly warning Sadr.
"Baba, whats the name of the shrine we're liberating in #Aleppo again?"
Article with @bjoernstritzel:
THE ALEPPO APOCALYPSE
10 reasons why the world must act NOW
http://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/s...2136.bild.html …
The #Aleppo Disaster: 10 reasons why the world must act NOW
http://ow.ly/7fxW302cx9E
Aleppo in very very short - and still all its terror.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/mem/...tml?jumpto=5#5 …
Assad just murdered his brother.
https://www.facebook.com/qasioun.new...theater#Rastan …
Not to disclose to much while geo-tagging on the ground, but the #NDZ (#NourIddinZinqi) control center of #Mallah.
Rumours emerging that #AliHabib, #Syrian #Alawite Minister of Defence who defected from #Assad ranks in 2013, will be put in power.Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09
Jaysh Halab commander says Castillo road is still in rebel hands but Russian & regime airstrikes are nonstop
https://youtu.be/qsW7CZzJLa8
Assad regime Lieutenant Jihad Khalid Khamis killed in Aleppo by rebels. He's originally from Deir Ezzor
Hama: Syrian Rebels overrun regime checkpoint in Jidreen killed all fighters and seized their weapons and ammunition.
For those that missed this impressive #drones & #GoPro combat vid
Nusra tank assault #Mallah
https://twitter.com/Interbrigades/st...82874605903872 …
Zengi combat footage storming of #Mallah, insane incoming enemy artillery strikes
https://youtu.be/Vi1Fsv4C1oc
Ahrar al-Sham says it will not take part in Mallah fights to control Castello, chances of success too dim, would be suicidal
Turkey´s PM Yıldırım on #Syria rapprochement: "The oppression should first end. The dictatorial regime should end." http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tur...&NewsCatID=338 …
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Kurds in Sheik Maqsood are crucial for any regime attempt to besiege #Aleppo. #Assad will thank them with war later. https://twitter.com/kreasechan/statu...59098746064896 …
Syria Heavy clashes in Abyad mountains & Jazal oil fields NW of #Palmyra
Interesting:
Most established fighters with M16 (left) - via Turkey or air?!
All new fighters with AK-47 (right).
Footage from #TalRifaat
#SDF graduation ceremony of "Arpad Brigade" fighters with #US arms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOC5G6ZHgDE …
This is going to end well for the UK FP especially since the former PM was actively supporting the anti Assad side.....
The new British Foreign Minister is an outspoken admirer of Vladimir #Putin's policy of helping #Assad in #Syria.
BUT WAIT it gets even worse for the new UK FM.....
A British Foreign Secretary who excuses Russia’s invasion of Crimea?
http://khpg.org http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1468447666 …
The new UK Prime Minister Theresa May doubtless had her reasons for giving leading Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson a cabinet post. Making him Foreign Secretary, however, defies any comprehension. It is especially difficult not to view this as an affront to all those currently facing persecution in Russian-occupied Crimea given his extraordinary attempt to blame Russia’s aggression against Ukraine on the EU. This was only one of a long list of distortions and lies told to encourage Britons to vote to leave the EU, but it is one which makes the new portfolio a matter of immense concern.
On May 9 this year, during questions and answers after a speech on Europe, it transpired that for Johnson it was not Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea and its military aggression in Eastern Ukraine that had caused “real trouble”, but the EU’s actions.
“If you want an example of EU foreign policymaking on the hoof and the EU’s pretensions to running a defence policy that have caused real trouble, then look at what has happened in Ukraine, ” he told reporters.
Johnson later reacted angrily to what he called ‘smears’, denying that he was an apologist for Russian President Vladimir Putin. He did not explain what he had meant, and what, in his view, the EU had done to stoke tensions in Ukraine.
It was hardly surprising, therefore, that his words were taken as justifying Russia’s actions. Johnson was, after all, simply repeating a position first taken by the head of the right-wing UKIP party Nigel Farage in a speech soon after Russia’s invasion of Crimea. In March 2014, Farage accused the EU of having “blood on its hands” for encouraging the turmoil in Ukraine which had supposedly led to Russia’s annexation of Crimea. This was recalled days later when he was reported as saying that “Vladimir Putin is the world leader I most admire”
Farage’s view of Putin and his slanted view of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine are shared by France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen, and in fact most far-right parties in Europe (Hungary’s Jobbik, Bulgaria’s Ataka, Poland’s Falanga and many others). It is their members, including some individuals known for their neo-Nazi views like Luc Michel and Manuel Ochsenreiter, who are regularly invited to act as ‘observers’ rubberstamping Russia’s ‘Crimean referendum’ and ‘elections’ in Donbas.
It was undoubtedly Ukrainians’ support for closer ties to Europe and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s reneging on his pre-election promise to sign the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement that sparked Euromaidan and the end of the Yanukovych regime. Yanukovych had been heavily backed by Putin, and fled to Russia, together with the cronies directly implicated in the gunning down of peaceful protesters.
None of the reasons later given by Putin to justify the seizure of control by Russian troops of Crimea were substantiated. Violent deaths, disappearances and arrests of opponents have all come under Russian occupation. There was no evidence of any such excesses before Feb 27, 2014.
Johnson was likely parroting the line taken by Brexit lobbyists who clearly blamed the EU for somehow encroaching on ‘Russia’s patch’. The Brexit camp, we learned, “believe that the EU’s eastwards expansion into former Warsaw Pact countries, as well as its attempts to reach economic deals with former Soviet states like Ukraine and Georgia, has provoked Russia into adopting a more aggressive military stance in areas like Crimea.”
In a nutshell, they appeared to be saying, Russia was left no alternative but to invade and annex Ukrainian sovereign territory.
This is essentially the line taken by the Kremlin, and all its friends.
It is also, disturbingly, the line which at least in 2014 was taken by the now Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and appears to be held to this day by his close aide Seumas Milne. The bogeyman for them is NATO rather than the EU, though their perceived failure to firmly campaign against Brexit has been presented as the main reason for the leadership challenge currently underway.
Britain, together with Russia and the USA, were signatories to the 1994 Budapest Memorandum which guaranteed Ukraine protection of its sovereignty and territorial integrity in exchange for giving up one of the largest nuclear arsenals in Europe. Neither the UK, however, nor other western countries reacted adequately to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The UK has, however, since taken a strong stand in supporting sanctions against Russia, imposed after Russia’s aggression in eastern Ukraine and the downing by Kremlin-backed militants of the Malaysian MH17 airliner on July 17, 2014.
Britain’s robust position was greatly appreciated, as was its acknowledgement of the grave human rights concerns in Crimea under Russian occupation.
What Johnson thinks appears to depend on the circumstances. Certainly, in an article from December 2015, while advocating fighting on the same side as Putin and Bashar Assad in Syria, he was at least critical of Putin (though later effusive in his praise of Putin’s bloody Syrian campaign which is believed by human rights NGOs, like Amnesty International, to have sometimes targeted civilians).
It is, however, the Johnson of the Leave campaign whom the UK’s new Prime Minister has seen the need to appoint to a high-ranking post in her government, and his position on Ukraine and Crimea are therefore seriously alarming.
Any blinkered presentation of Russia’s invasion of Crimea and the pseudo-referendum used to justify annexation flies in the face of the facts and begs the question of why Russia needed to bring in all its Eurosceptic friends from the far-right and far-left to act as ‘observers’.
The abductions and disappearances began after annexation and are continuing with the latest victim – Ervin Ibragimov – a prominent Crimean Tatar activist.
The Crimean Tatars, the main indigenous people of Crimea, faced persecution from the outset and this has now escalated with the criminalization of the Mejlis, or Crimean Tatar representative assembly. Three Crimean Tatars, including Akhtem Chiygoz, Deputy Head of the Mejlis, have been in detention for well over a year on surreal charges over the pre-annexation demonstration on Feb 26, 2014, which prevented Russia from carrying out a coup and seizure of power without deploying soldiers.
There are a number of Crimean opponents of annexation in Russian prisons, including renowned Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov. In Crimea, 14 Muslims, almost all Crimean Tatars, have so far been arrested and face huge sentences on totally fabricated charges. Other Ukrainians, including Mejlis leader Ilmi Umerov and journalist Mykola Semena are facing prison sentences for what Russia labels as “public calls to violate Russian territorial integrity”, otherwise known as recognizing Crimea as Ukrainian and wanting its return to Ukraine.
All of this, and much more, is the direct result not of the EU’s support for Ukraine, but of Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea.
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While the Obama/Rhodes/Kerry/Russian WH continues to "do nothing stupid"
...Rome is literally burning to the ground....around those "that do nothing stupid"....
Remember the "intl. community" demanding humanitarian access to #Daraya in February?!
It's half its size now due to the regime offensive.
Ariha, #Rastan, #Daraya, #Douma, #Aleppo etc.
#Assad and #Putin caused multiple massacres across #Syria today.
DAY4 of the total #Aleppo siege.
#FOOD markets stay closed.
#FAMILIES use their stocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZokCCpB4OlM …
Most #food shops remain closed in #Aleppo today.
Kilo price for eggplant and tomatoes went up to 2 €.
That's what ppl. earn per day.
Big event for #Assad/#Putin/#YPG-displaced children in #FreeSyria's #Azaz city.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyoXziC36hM …
Also in totally besieged #EastGhouta, ppl try to flee #Assad where there is nowhere to go...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ThY8vt1vO0 …
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SYRIA: US proposes major cooperation with Russia in Syria
Full Text:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/r/201....pdf?tid=a_inl …
If this is in fact implemented then the 2016 National Defense Appropriations Act is triggered which clearly and concisely forbid DoD to participate in any actions with the Russian military...penalty was the cutting of DoD funding and having the SecDef answer about this violation to Congress...
Am honestly surprised that the Obama/Rhodes/Kerry/Russian WH is willing to confront Congress and risk DoD funds getting cut....
WHAT many do not realize is that DoD formally cut all Russian military ties in 2014 after Crimea....hitting hard the Russian MoD prestige event Atlas Vision which was to have a US BCT exercise a peacekeeping exercise in Russia and then a Russian peacekeeping Bde exercise in Germany...
BY deliberating killing civilians under the guise of targeting JaN even in areas where there is no JaN the Russian MoD is trying to force DoD to restart joint Russian US military planning and actions.....THUS giving the Russian MoD a tremendous prestige boost....and showing to the world they are equal to the US in all aspects even militarily thus Russia is an equal superpower.
BUT the US DoD is totally correct in their assessment that the Russians have held to virtually nothing that they tell the US nor have they held to a single point in the Minsk 1&2 agreements....
BUT the Obama/Rhodes/Kerry/Russian WH is so hell bent on achieving "something as a legacy success" they are openly willing to sacrifice Ukrainian and Syrian lives to achieve it.....
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Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss
Obama administration, knowing how Assad's Air Force and military work, is licensing war crimes here:
Just stunning. In this passage US commits itself to the "defense of Syrian government forces"
Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss
Which is not quite "de-conflicting," is it? Obama has shown his true colors. He is rewarding a genocidaire.
BLUF...is the Obama/Rhodes/Kerry/Russian WH in fact now truly and totally complicit in the war crimes and genocide being carried out by both Assad and Putin.......
Really does create the "perception" that Obama/Kerry fully and completely support war crimes and genocide against the Syrian civil society especially Arab Sunni's....does it not??????
FOR those that do not fully understand the word "complicit"
"choosing to be involved in an illegal or questionable act, especially with others" OR "helping to commit a crime or do wrong in some way" OR
"involved with others in an activity that is unlawful or morally wrong"
Based on this simple definition of "complicit" the Obama/Rhodes/Kerry/Russian WH is currently actually fully "complicit" in Syrian war crimes and genocide as they have full knowledge that it is ongoing YET chose to not take any form of action......
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The new UK FM has definitely a major problem......just how is he going to work with those he has so bitterly critiqued in the past....THE EU and Turkey.
UK’s new foreign secretary wrote a poem about Erdogan, calling him a wanker & a goat f*cker. Should be interesting.
Erdogan took a German comedian to court over far less and won...let's see if he uses the UK laws which are harder than German laws as well against BJ......
A partial list of countries New British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has insulted:
http://slate.me/29EuCWy
When @StateDept heard the news about Boris. If you watch one thing today...
Amazing how many emotions cross his face at once:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c46107...ns-appointment …
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This is Kerry's 2nd visit to Moscow this year, and the 3rd in the past 12 months.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...KCN0ZT2QZ?il=0 …
"It isn't clear why the secretary of state thinks he can enlist the Russians to support the administration's goals in Syria."
"It's a lot of political capital to send the secretary of state if you don't have a clear objective of what you want to accomplish."
AND absolutely nothing has been achieved either in eastern Ukraine and or Syria......
It is all about creating that ever lasting famous Obama/Rhodes WH "legacy".....
BLUF....Kerry got his Russian answer yesterday when the RuAF carpet bombed a Syrian IDP camp and elements of the US supported proxy NSA.....
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-14-2016 at 07:34 AM.
Nusra sneak attacks assadist positions & controls Tel Zuwayqat in Kbanah axis, eliminating soldiers & taking a prisoner #Lattakia
Remember when the President justified inaction on Syria by saying Putin had blundered by entering the war?
So WHY is he so intent on "saving Putin's face" and virtually destroying the entire Assad opposition in the process......
WE have seen the same exact maneuver in eastern Ukraine where is virtually demanding that the "Ukrainians " to give in to all Russian demands in the Russian occupied eastern Ukraine WHILE calling for the Ukrainian sovereignty to be respected...
ANOTHER Russian answer to the Obama/Kerry proposal.....
Air strikes on Aleppo have been non stop this is the heaviest Russian attacks since their intervention, their priority is obviously not ISIS
REMEMBER..but maybe the Obama/Rhodes WH did not get the message...WHEN the Syrian Russian Ambassador recently stated Aleppo was not going to be attacked by Assad....?????
REMEMBER when Assad gave an interview where he stated he was going to recapture all of Syrian including Aleppo and the Russian UN Ambassador waved the comment off??????
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-14-2016 at 08:06 AM.
Despite extensive Russia bombing campaign in Syria, only Americans ever seem able to kill ex-Soviet ISIS commanders https://twitter.com/thomasjoscelyn/s...07858037596160 …
Footage
Russian cluster bomb attacks continue on #Binnish in #Idlib province.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2NlnFr6_zQ …
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-14-2016 at 07:55 AM.
Update
20 #RussianAirstrikes all across eastern #Aleppo during the last 30 minutes.
Pictures and videos to come soon.
BreakingNews
#Russian war planes are attacking at least 6 districts of #Aleppo right now
Iran announced the deaths of 11 more Fatimiyoun and Zainabiyoun members around #Aleppo.
Another useless #Assad interview that provides a facade of legitimacy to the Butcher of Damascus.
https://twitter.com/billneelynbc/sta...17451929182208 …
Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 07-14-2016 at 08:38 AM.
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