Syria in 2017 (April-December)

[Azor]

AND for every killed by US and CENTCOM non member of IS in Raqqa you will have a new IS member as that their way to fight back against the US for killing their family members....

IF you check one of the statements made by the Manchester bomber...he did it for the killing by US of Syrians...

Muslim supremacists always have excuses for why they want to kill or forcibly convert others. All supremacists claim that they are victims and acting defensively.

Perhaps the angry Muslims in the West can return to their prosperous, free and secure homelands and take out their frustrations on those that oppress their co-religionists i.e. other Muslims. Now that is a radical idea...

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Muslim supremacists always have excuses for why they want to kill or forcibly convert others. All supremacists claim that they are victims and acting defensively.

Perhaps the angry Muslims in the West can return to their prosperous, free and secure homelands and take out their frustrations on those that oppress their co-religionists i.e. other Muslims. Now that is a radical idea...

AGAIN you truly miss the point.....I saw this up close and personal WHICH you have not...in Iraq a large number of normally apolitical Sunnis joined either the Islamic Army of Iraq IAI or AQI simply out of nationalistic reasons...the US invaded my country OR out of hatred for US killing family members...OR the US kicked me out of the Iraqi Army thus I did not get my military pension that I was working towards OR they destroyed by bombing the factory where I worked and now I have no job......

That has nothing to do with your incorrect use of a newly minted right wing term "Muslim supremacists".....

Notice you rarely use the term "white nationalists and or white supremacists" when referring to say a Bannon, Miller who sit in the WH and or Trump with many of his blatantly racist comments towards say Mexicans and or Muslims....AND more recently Federal judges...

Your comments sometimes swing in a wide arch of the political spectrum do they not????

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US-led airstrikes in Syria killed 300 civilians, including 200 inside a school, & displaced 160,000, UN panel says.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/w...smid=tw-share#

So Azor...you are a combat aged Syrian husband who has not up to now fought for any side and attempted to remain neutral and protect his family...basically trying to survive......you come home and see your house destroyed and your family killed by US bombs...and your response it what...????

You will in the situation equate Assad, Putin and Trump as one and the same and you will listen intently to what IS or the FSA says....

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HOW is that new Trump FP for Syria and Qatar working out these days??

SecDef Mattis says "pro regime" forces that have moved into S. Syria near #AnTanf base are actually #Russian ...

[Azor]

Earlier you claimed:

...for every killed by US and CENTCOM non member of IS in Raqqa you will have a new IS member as that their way to fight back against the US for killing their family members...IF you check one of the statements made by the Manchester bomber...he did it for the killing by US of Syrians...

In response, I will guide you to today’s quote on the front page of SWJ from Alaa al-Ameri:

Abedi was not disenfranchised. He was not rejected by British society. He was taught to reject and hate it, despite everything it gave him and his family. His older sister has reportedly said that Abedi was looking for ‘revenge’ for the ‘ill-treatment’ of Muslims in the UK and Syria. This is the circular logic of the Islamist victimhood narrative that almost every Muslim growing up in the UK will have been exposed to at one time or another. Western governments, and therefore Western societies, are to blame for all instances of intervention in Muslim majority countries, and are equally culpable should they fail to intervene.

This was excerpted from al-Ameri’s article at Spiked: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite...6#.WULJB9crKUk

Your discussion of the folly of de-Ba’athification is wholly irrelevant here. The Sunni Arab Iraqis who turned on U.S. forces – following their dismissal from the military, police and civil service, their political marginalization by way of an imposed democratic structure (facing a possibly tyranny of the Shia majority), and their consequent loss of the spoils of oil and gas in Kurdish and Shia hands – did so in Iraq.

The term “Muslim supremacism” is one that I began using because we do not refer to “White terrorism” or “White-ism”.

The worst Muslim supremacist terrorist attack on U.S. soil was prior to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Libya. Even if the U.S. withdrew from the Middle East, its support for Israel would be enough for Muslim supremacists to regard Americans as aggressors.

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Earlier you claimed:



In response, I will guide you to today’s quote on the front page of SWJ from Alaa al-Ameri:



This was excerpted from al-Ameri’s article at Spiked: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite...6#.WULJB9crKUk

Your discussion of the folly of de-Ba’athification is wholly irrelevant here. The Sunni Arab Iraqis who turned on U.S. forces – following their dismissal from the military, police and civil service, their political marginalization by way of an imposed democratic structure (facing a possibly tyranny of the Shia majority), and their consequent loss of the spoils of oil and gas in Kurdish and Shia hands – did so in Iraq.

The term “Muslim supremacism” is one that I began using because we do not refer to “White terrorism” or “White-ism”.

The worst Muslim supremacist terrorist attack on U.S. soil was prior to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Libya. Even if the U.S. withdrew from the Middle East, its support for Israel would be enough for Muslim supremacists to regard Americans as aggressors.

Azor.....I really find it interesting that as someone who was never ever been in either Iraq and or AFG and or talked directly with just captured jihadis and then spent hours talking with them...you feel qualified to make these comments????

You really do not know what you are talking about....and this single sentence reflects that.....

If you took the time to read historically speaking everything printed back to the Ottoman empire and WW1 you might then understand that this underlying idea that the West has been beating up on Muslims and the West did not want us to be great nation states is a theme that is still there today.

IF you had talked with a former Iraqi ISI COL and Army officer who lost his salary and pension because of the US decision to disband the Army and Iraqi government organizations and now you have no money and no way to make money to support an extended family of say 14 and no food and then comes along a Sunni insurgent group and or AQI who offers you 1400 USDs per month to fight Americans..all you ask is where do I sign the contract.....I do not know how many jihadis who fought for AQI had little to no understanding of the Koran and or the Sunnahs and or the Shuras..but fighting for AQI at 1400 per month....was a go....

So before you race to such comments think it through and then ask yourself was I ever in the ME during the fighting and have I ever talked face to face with hardened jihadis.....

BTW a Ansar al Sunnah group leader a 26 year old Baghdad University trained vet who spoke a beautiful Arabic and perfect English led a 40 man group (Arab Sunni and Kurdish Sunni) that we rolled all up.... told me after talking with me for hours....

"Just because I talk with you and just because you do understand me and why I am fighting if I see you on the streets of Baqubah in the future I will kill you...."

BTW he was deadly serious....

Now lets compare experiences....and then lets see "who sees and understands"....

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Russian Mod is claiming in a Russian airstrike on Raqqa they killed Al-Baghaddi....

BUT no gun camera or drone footage to back this claim up with...

BREAKING: US-led coalition says there is no way to confirm Russian claim it may have killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi

Seriously doubt the claim as Baghdadi has been rumored to have left Raqqa weeks ago....and since the man works only face to face and via paper notes and personal couriers seriously doubt Russia could pinpoint his location...

He survived fives years of US prison at Bucca and has survived to now .....seriously doubt he lets the Russians know where he is....

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The Russian army publishes a wild, unverified and very unlikely claim and global media turns into parrots.

We MSM really don't learn ...

Russian version of MOD statement suggests the info on al-Bagdadi death (in Russian) "is being verified" bad English translation in their use of "is verified"...

[Azor]

Azor.....I really find it interesting that as someone who was never ever been in either Iraq and or AFG and or talked directly with just captured jihadis and then spent hours talking with them...you feel qualified to make these comments????

You really do not know what you are talking about....and this single sentence reflects that.....

If you took the time to read historically speaking everything printed back to the Ottoman empire and WW1 you might then understand that this underlying idea that the West has been beating up on Muslims and the West did not want us to be great nation states is a theme that is still there today.

IF you had talked with a former Iraqi ISI COL and Army officer who lost his salary and pension because of the US decision to disband the Army and Iraqi government organizations and now you have no money and no way to make money to support an extended family of say 14 and no food and then comes along a Sunni insurgent group and or AQI who offers you 1400 USDs per month to fight Americans..all you ask is where do I sign the contract.....I do not know how many jihadis who fought for AQI had little to no understanding of the Koran and or the Sunnahs and or the Shuras..but fighting for AQI at 1400 per month....was a go....

So before you race to such comments think it through and then ask yourself was I ever in the ME during the fighting and have I ever talked face to face with hardened jihadis.....

BTW a Ansar al Sunnah group leader a 26 year old Baghdad University trained vet who spoke a beautiful Arabic and perfect English led a 40 man group (Arab Sunni and Kurdish Sunni) that we rolled all up.... told me after talking with me for hours....

"Just because I talk with you and just because you do understand me and why I am fighting if I see you on the streets of Baqubah in the future I will kill you...."

BTW he was deadly serious....

Now lets compare experiences....and then lets see "who sees and understands"....

Firstly, are we discussing real or imagined grievances? Are these legitimate (desiring equality) or illegitimate (desiring supremacy)?

Secondly, are we discussing cognitive or emotional biases? Are Islamist terrorists in the West merely mistaken in their understanding of their professed religion or of history? Or do they choose the religious interpretation and historical conclusions that align with their feelings?

Thirdly, there is a vast gulf between a former Ba’athist Iraqi Army officer who lost his socio-political status and living standard due to the CPA, and decides to help take out a U.S. convoy, and the child of a Muslim refugee or migrant in Europe who feels like an outcast, and decides to plant a nail bomb in an open-air market.

Fourth, there is a tendency to equate terrorist violence which should be resisted.

All ideologies that underpin terrorism include egalitarian, supremacist, separatist and integrationist elements. For instance, the Protestant Loyalist/Unionist paramilitaries were both supremacist and integrationist as they did not want to cede their Catholic-inhabited areas to Ireland but also wanted to treat them as lesser citizens. Islamist terrorists tend to be separatist supremacists, given their predilection for killing over converting, and because Qtubis/Takfiris are focused more on “reforming” or revolutionizing Islamic societies than spreading Islam on the whole.

The Provisional IRA’s goals of forcing a British withdrawal from Northern Ireland as well as unification of the island were inherently supremacist given that the Protestants would find themselves facing a tyranny of the majority, in addition to reprisals – official or not – for centuries of injustice. Yet the conflict was ended because the British government forced both sides to accept an egalitarian outcome, and sadly one that “moderate” Catholics had been calling for in the 1960s.

Could Islamist terrorists in the West renounce violence? The issue of disorganization aside (who would one “call” to talk to Islamists in the West?), there is no oppression of Muslims that would warrant the level of terrorism that we are observing. This is the problem with supremacism: the only diplomatic or political “solution” would be to accede to the supremacists’ demands.

In addition, there are differences in how civilians fit into the terrorism: are the civilians the primary targets, incidental to indiscriminate attacks on combatants, or are civilian casualties to be avoided, and to what degree? Despite notable intentional and unintentional atrocities, the Catholic Republicans (specifically the PIRA), killed more combatants (police, military and intelligence) than civilians; the reverse is true of the UDA/UFV. Islamist terrorists in the West, whether affiliated or unaffiliated, tend to deliberately target civilians and seek to maximize civilian casualties.

Lastly, I have never claimed that the solution is to be found within religious texts. I regard “Muslims” as those that identify as Muslims and are widely perceived as such, not specifically those that follow the texts. Theory and practice are very, very different, and Augustine of Hippo noted that there was a “temporal” Christian Church and a “celestial” one, alluding to the Platonic dichotomy of the real and the ideal. The Soviets and Chinese (prior to Jiang) were regarded as Communists, and yet there were massive deviations from the theory of Communism as developed by Marx, to the theory and practice of Lenin, to the theory and practice of Stalin, and to the theory and practice of Mao.

I highly doubt that studying Marx and Lenin would have enabled one to develop argumentation that could have moderated Stalin’s policies. He was not suffering a cognitive bias insofar as leading the dictatorship of the proletariat was concerned. Similarly, I highly doubt that a Danish or Norwegian under German occupation during the war could have appealed to the National Socialists’ racial anthropology to withdraw, given the higher frequency of “Aryan” physical characteristics in Scandinavia than Germany.

Scott Atran’s work has already driven home the point that clerical guidance and textual reinterpretation is not the answer to Salafi-Takfiri-Jihadi terrorism. Yet that does not mean that these people are not Muslim. A large number of Muslims are part of a political community that is predicated more upon sect than nationality.

Do Hezbollah members regard themselves as Lebanese or even Arab, or as Shia? Does it surprise you that the Taliban’s Islamism, created for and practiced by Pashtuns, is more popular in southern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan than the Islamism of Al Qaeda or Daesh?

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SW. #Raqqa: pro-Regime forces advanced S. of #Tabqa aiming to block #SDF/#YPG advance, control oil fields and open 2nd front to #DeirEzzor

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HUGE SCOOP: Money Sergei Magnitsky exposed & was killed over has now been linked to Syrian chemical weapons program
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/16/po...ons/index.html

Money flowed from Kluyev's bank to Perepilichnyy's company acct in Switzerland to Cyprus acct of person linked to Syrian chemical weapons

A total of $508 m were "traded" by companies having same address as BALEC...all with Russian and/or Syrian linkage

..and other cash flows ending up in Syria..which corroborates @CNN's scoop. This from a 2015 intelligence memo.

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Christo Grozev‏#@christogrozev

I investigated the bank mentioned here a few years ago. Linked it to cashflow from cigarette contraband to Russian and Bulgarian officials

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HUGE SCOOP: Money Sergei Magnitsky exposed & was killed over has now been linked to Syrian chemical weapons program
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/16/po...ons/index.html

Money flowed from Kluyev's bank to Perepilichnyy's company acct in Switzerland to Cyprus acct of person linked to Syrian chemical weapons

A total of $508 m were "traded" by companies having same address as BALEC...all with Russian and/or Syrian linkage

..and other cash flows ending up in Syria..which corroborates @CNN's scoop. This from a 2015 intelligence memo.

FBME: Assad’s WMD front company implicated in Magnitsky case
http://cyprusbusinessmail.com/?p=46853

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Iran's land bridge project was called a fantasy; now it's being cited by the same people to argue the US should stay out of the way.

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HUGE SCOOP: Money Sergei Magnitsky exposed & was killed over has now been linked to Syrian chemical weapons program
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/16/po...ons/index.html

Money flowed from Kluyev's bank to Perepilichnyy's company acct in Switzerland to Cyprus acct of person linked to Syrian chemical weapons

A total of $508 m were "traded" by companies having same address as BALEC...all with Russian and/or Syrian linkage

..and other cash flows ending up in Syria..which corroborates @CNN's scoop. This from a 2015 intelligence memo.

This explains why Putin ruined relationship with the West over Magnitsky case. Now clear that Sergei stumbled into FSB's black financial ops

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The State Department (#US) doesn't know that the rebels don't attack the #Assad regime since many weeks or why this stupid statement?

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Homs: Photos show #HTS shelling pro-#Assad forces on the
#Salamiyya - #Homs Highway.

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Raqqa: Pro-#Assad forces and #YPG are just a few kilometers away from the strategic #Resafa crossroad.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=de&lat=35...3757&z=13&m=b#

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THIS speaks volumes.

#Russia's "De-Escalation Zones" have brought *0* land-delivered aid.

0!!

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UNCONFIRMED

Breaking : US coalition shoot down a regime warplane who was attacking SDF near Tabqa!

Unconfirmed: #Assad-forces lost Fighter Jet near Rusafa south of Tabqa in #Raqqa province

CIT (en) @CITeam_en
Reports coming of international anti-ISIS coalition downing Assad's air force jet after it bombed Kurdish positions SW of Raqqa