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    Syria First proof that #YPG control Jaber castle in #Assad reservoir
    http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35...1073&z=15&m=b#

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    AFP news agency

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    #BREAKING Russia says starting to scale down Syria military deployment: agencies

    WHEN and WHERE....have we heard this before....????

    Looks like Russians read the maps wrong once again, mistakenly moving military equipment to Syria instead of withdrawing it here we go again with more Russian lies....

    They claim the start will be the withdrawal of their very poorly underperforming aircraft carrier that will smoke it's way home with the two tugs in tow.....
    Last edited by OUTLAW 09; 01-06-2017 at 11:02 AM.

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    Stop Fake @StopFakingNews
    How to find information about a website and its owner
    #StopFakeTools

    http://www.stopfake.org/en/how-to-fi...nd-its-owner/#

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    In #Qamishli, 800 more #US-supported ... well ... #SDF ... or #YPG ... or #PKK or something in between ... began their duty.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJnzhhnC97s#

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    CrowBat ......something for you.....

    In the 'Random number generator'-category: #Russia claims 14 aircraft flew an average of 30 combat sorties each
    https://sputniknews.com/military/201...yria-results/#

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    MORE Russian SOF video footage.....

    Russian Special Forces (near the T4 ?) :
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fx7atZNlNc#

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    Russian marines of the 879 Air Assault BN got lost inside Syria instead of being stationed as normal inside Russia proper....


    Marineinfanteristen des russischen 879. Luftsturmbataillons in #Syrien:
    https://informnapalm.org/de/marinein...ns-in-syrien/#

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    Azor...something referring to our discussions of Russian nuclear tactical usage...doctrine.

    Israeli Satellite Imagery Shows Russian Nuclear-Capable Missiles in Syria
    http://ow.ly/Gpx9508i0Jg

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    Social media has long known this SO why did not Obama and Rhodes shout this daily inside the UNSC....

    Russia has done nothing to help defeat Islamic State in Syria, outgoing Defense Secretary Ash Carter tells WSJ
    http://on.wsj.com/2hZQIUX

    Kyle W. Orton ‏@KyleWOrton
    Reported drone strike in Taftanaz against #JFS/#AQ
    Been more strikes recently. Not working, even in narrow CT terms

    Rebels repelled an ISIS attack in E. Qalamoun last night, just when rebels started targeting Dumair & Nasiriya regime airbases in E Qalamoun

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    CrowBat....anything on your end on this rebel defection?

    I guess the defection story in #Wadi_Barada is true, loyalist group reporting the defecting fighters were in militia Dara Qalamoun. #Syria


    Or just proAssad best thinking?????

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    Kyle W. Orton ‏@KyleWOrton
    This is good >> The Soviet Union's unmerciful suppression of Islam led to the radicalization of believers.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.12c353131a4d

    How the USSR’s effort to destroy Islam created a generation of radicals

    Just add: the KGB was all over these radical networks, manipulated them even after USSR fell
    https://goo.gl/OeN03n

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    Check the date of this article.....and the entire western MSM did what with it in 2014....largely ignored it.....to include Obama/Rhodes and Kerry.....


    Kyle W. Orton ‏@KyleWOrton
    #Assad secret police: "We don't attack [jihadis] immediately. Instead, we embed ourselves in [their networks]."

    The Assad Regime’s Collusion With ISIS and al-Qaeda: Assessing The#Evidence
    By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton)#on March 24, 2014

    https://kyleorton1991.wordpress.com/...ad-isis-qaeda/

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    Kyle W. Orton ‏@KyleWOrton
    NEW:

    Obama has tied the hands of his successor on #Syria. Whether he takes that as an indictment or a compliment …

    Analysis: ‘A Counterterrorism Policy in Syria That Helps Terrorists’

    WELL worth reading........
    http://henryjacksonsociety.org/2017/...ps-terrorists/

    The Iran nuclear deal was sold in the “narrowest possible terms” as an arms control agreement, but there were “grander ambitions” behind this well-orchestrated public diplomacy. The reality is that the Iran deal was a facilitation mechanism for a U.S. drawdown in the region. In place of U.S. hegemony would be a self-enforcing concert system. To get there, however, the nuclear issue would have to be neutralized with a paper agreement. Hence, it was Tehran that always seemed to hold the upper-hand in negotiations; the U.S. needed a deal as a gateway to its real ambitions and the Iranians did not.

    The real-world consequences of this policy were that the Iranian revolution was granted “equities” that had to be respected—specifically Syria, which meant building a viable alternative to Iran’s proxy regime was off the table—and the U.S.’s Gulf allies were told to find a way to “share” the region—by definition empowering the Islamic Republic, and Russia into the bargain, which moved to underwrite this Iranian sphere of influence, returning to the Middle East after its eviction in the 1970s.

    The fall of Aleppo to the pro-Assad coalition is by no stretch of the imagination the end of the war, but the objectives of the Syrian revolutionary forces, which the U.S. claimed were its allies and which allied governments supported, have now been defeated. This means that—whatever Donald Trump’s inclinations—Obama has severely limited the President-elect’s options. One wonders only if Obama takes that as an indictment or a compliment.
    NOTE: The fall of Aleppo.....was this fully intended to happen and pushed even by the US.....the defeat of the Syrian "Arab Spring"?????

    APPEARS to be so......
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    Important development between the two.....

    Al-Qaida leader denounces Islamic State 'liars' in new message
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...=share_btn_tw#

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    Rastan in #Homs province was also today shelled by pro-#Assad forces.
    Mortars vs. civilians.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHA9lPPM9lY#…

    Time to say good bye to the apparatus belli that downed twice as many Russian air force jets as ISIS, "Nusra" and Turkey combined.
    Пока!
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    Leaked Kerry tape admits admin saw ISIS growth as leverage to get Assad to negotiations table.
    http://theresurgent.com/john-kerry-a...o-do-nothing/#

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    The nonstop #Assad/#Hezbollah assault on civilians in #WadiBarada continues.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sK3mg4aXgw#…

    A "cluster bomb" attack on a town in #EastGhouta injured several people.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugM25karI1k#…

    The #SyriaExpress over the past 12 hours: An Iranian air force Jumbo from Tehran and an #Assad Ilyushin with a big problem.
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    Forces, identifying themselves as the #YPG, advance under @CJTFOIR air strikes & take Al Dahlan, 32 km N of #Raqqa.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTUA7kaqaFc#…

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    More clearly #US-armed & trained #SDF/#YPG 'hybrid' special forces graduate in northern #Syria.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amTk6oxyQ9M#…
    @CJTFOIR denies it.
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    Kyle W. Orton

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    #Assad supported "Carlos the Jackal" even after the Soviets wearied of him, housed in Mezze, same street as Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner.

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