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12th May 2018, 05:20 AM | #321 |
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In my experience, you use Hellfire missiles for something much less complicated: to kill the enemy. They do that nicely. As a 'terrorizing' tool they are not very good.
The scaring of the enemy is left to the Psyops folks, and you can find a few nice examples from the 1991 Desert Storm Operation: using the Blu-82 after using Commando Solo to announce that a big bomb would drop. And one did. That's scaring (or terrorizing) the enemy. I'll allow you to read up on the after action reports, US Third Army published extensive volumes of that, to see if that worked. Do Your Homework! Your fantasy that the Saudis would go along with that is risible. The Saudis pay others to do their dirty work for them in Syria. |
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26th May 2018, 08:42 AM | #323 |
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There is an interesting article about Syria on the internet today which may be true, or may be the usual pack of lies, by Maya Gebeily and Rouba El Husseini. This is part of that article:
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28th August 2018, 09:06 AM | #325 |
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Nice to see Childlike Empress back on this forum, after it seems like about six months. I agree with her that it is possible there will be another chemical attack by Isis in Idlib to incur the wrath of America and Britain, so that it can be blamed on Assad. Sky News can then use it to do sob stories about the White Helmets.
I'm annoyed about Iranian justice at the moment with regard to this British Iranian woman who has being wrongly convicted and imprisoned. It's bad government there. It interferes with international trade and it's not safe for Britishers to go there. To my mind it was better there under the Shah of Iran, even though it looks like the Shah was installed by the CIA. BBC Pravda TV use to complain all the time at that time about the Shah's human rights violations! There is a bit of background at this website: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...zanin-zaghari/ |
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I don't like the way Trump is now cutting off food supplies to the Palestinian and Syrian refugees. Typical Kraut. I suppose he is getting his orders from Israel as usual.
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That yid John Bolton has now just closed the Palestinian consulate in Washington and withdrawn from the International Criminal Court. It's a lack of comprehensive vision and ignorance of international law. Bolton and Israel wanted an Isis government in Damascus, which is ridiculous besides the usual Assad must go policy. It's causing immigration problems in Europe. It looks like war between Israel and Saudi Arabia and Iran is inevitable. It doesn't help to calmly face the future with all this Brexit waffle going on.
There is a bit of background to John Bolton at this website: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...curity-adviser
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Oh, I thought they were intended to flag that up to us?
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16th September 2018, 02:17 AM | #333 |
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The people of Idlib/Idleb are anti-Christian. They are supported by BBC Pravda and ITV Pravda and Sky News, and the head choppers in the Persian Gulf.
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20th September 2018, 02:25 AM | #334 |
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There needs to be sane government not gangster government or corrupt bankers or a kleptocracy and this applies to Syria as well.
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I agree that people need good things and bad things need to be avoided. However I am unclear as to what this has to do with the fact that the Assad regime has been using chemical weapons - including battlefield* nerve agents, as well as less sophisticated chlorine barrel bombs
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I am not sure about these reports of Syrian air force barrel bombs because I have only seen allegations about it in the British biased media. There is proof that the Syrian opposition has used chemical weapons, including chlorine. There is a different point of view to jimbob in this Guardian newspaper article:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...eapons-attacks
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There are several websites that express doubts about chemical attacks by the Syrian army and not all, if any, are Russian backed:
https://www.thenewamerican.com/world...ttack-in-syria
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My first google hit:
http://brown-moses.blogspot.com/2013...-relative.html And this about Russian disinformation https://www.bellingcat.com/news/mena...disinfo-idlib/ Remember you have accepted that Russia was responsible for the Sailsbury attack, and there was similar attempts at obfuscation by Russia there. |
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My understanding is that there are French and British troops in Syria, but they are only training in Jordan and helping to fight Isis, and it's official, and never reported. I'm inclined to agree with the journalist Peter Hitchens about the matter in this recent Mail on Sunday article:
http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co....an-whitak.html There is an intelligent comment on that Mail on Sunday article which makes sense to me:
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I was interested to see on RT today that the Russians, or I suppose the Russian military and Russian journalists, are definitely blaming Israel for that recent loss of life of Russian soldiers on a transport plane. Putin is being absurdly lenient with regard to these numerous Israel bombing attacks on Syria, which hardly ever get reported in the mainstream media, and which I think is the result of international law not being enforced.
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30th September 2018, 08:23 AM | #345 |
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The new female head of the CIA has recently said on TV that Assad used chemical weapons on his own people. There are doubts and inconsistencies about that. There are not the same similar doubts about the use of chemical weapons by the head chopper Saudi supported Islamic extremist opposition, who have committed atrocities in the UK:
https://whowhatwhy.org/2014/12/01/re...weapons-syria/
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I don't like the way the BBC and Foreign Office and Saudi Arabia still support Isis with their 'Assad must go' policy, even though a policeman was murdered by an Isis on Westminster bridge not so long ago, along with others.
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US says Putin is making up Fake News about ISIS taking hundres of hostages in Syria:
Fox News: US officials rebut Putin ISIS hostage claims: 'fake news'. https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-off...aims-fake-news |
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^ thanks, nice item for our news ticker whose readers know about the new ISIS hostages since a couple of days, and of course not from Putin but from the Russian military briefings. The claim about the threats and the daily killings seems to be new, though. Valdai is an important event, after all (link to transcript over there).
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-45586903
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That BBC is spouting junk from clown outlets like SOHR or Brown Noses or HRW? Of course that's not a surprise. The only surprise is how anybody able to tie their shoes is still sucking up the propaganda.
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And it's only co-incidence that the chemical attacks have helped the regime, whilst harming the opposition.
Brown Moses/Bellingcat is significantly more credible than RT for example, which you often seem to take as truthful. We have seen this demonstrated in particular with the Russian claims in relation to the Sailsbury attacks and the information that is now in the public domain about that. |
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^ contrary to your and other people's perception, and I said it so often that I don't think saying it again has any effect on you, I don't read or watch RT or Sputnik on a regular basis. The only exception is with some specific authors who publicize there but whom I follow mostly through their own primary outlets.
Primary sources are what people should always go to in these times of total corporate media corruption. If anybody says Putin or Assad said this or that, go to where they said it. You can see my attempt to live up to that at the news ticker I linked to in #348, which I am the main author of (about 90%). You'll see my sources when it comes to Russian (and other) claims there. Find me the last time I linked to RT or Sputnik for something other than things people writing there have claimed themselves. |
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The BBC supports Isis and Al Nusra and the White Helmets with their 'Assad must go' policy and they hardly ever report the 200 or so bombing raids made by Israel on Syria in the past year or so because they think Israel is above international law. There are still international laws with regard to aviation and seamanship.
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For the first time in quite a while, Assad has given an extensive interview to foreign media. SANA (the state news agency) has published an English-language translation of the originally Arabic-Russian thing which is quite read-worthy and touches on many things like the current Turkish invasion and the death of the "White Helmets" founder, "ex"-MI6 agent James Le Mesurier who "fell from the balcony" of his apartment in Istanbul a couple of days ago. One question picked by me for interesting answer:
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