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Gepubliceerd op 14 aug. 2015

Professor Edmund Ghareeb, School of International Service-American University/The Historical Dictionary of Iraq joins Thom. With Turkey entering the fight in Iraq and Syria – a new stage in the war against ISIS has begun. But who’s really the target of Turkey’s bombing campaign – ISIS terrorists – or Kurdish nationalists?

Boudine:

US Shows its Real Face in Choosing Turkey over the Kurds

Turkey had finally decided to take the fight to IS after a suicide bomb attack took the lives of 33 young activists in the Turkish border town of Suruc. Turkey, wary of the increasingly close relationships between the US and the YPG and YPJ in Syria and at the same time worried that its comradely treatment of IS might eventually come back to haunt them, decided that it was the right time to declare war on the terrorists.

However, in a move that surprised friends and foes alike, after a half-hearted attempt at bombing IS positions in Syria it quickly launched an all-out war against the PKK, both in Turkey and northern Iraq. Effectively bombing the precarious peace process that was supposed to bring an end to 35 years of civil war into non-existence, Turkish jets flew thousands of sorties, throwing the country back into the chaos so characteristic of the nineties when the civil war was at its height.

The PKK is internationally recognized as a terrorist organization, and as such its attacks – in many cases mere retaliations for similar acts of violence committed by the Turkish state against its Kurdish citizens – are per definition illegitimate. Both the U.S. and NATO dutifully recognized Turkey’s right to “defend” itself against “PKK aggression”. What is left out of the equation here, however, is that Turkey could hardly do IS a bigger favor than by attacking the Kurdish guerrillas that have proven to be the Islamic State’s most determined opponents.

It was the PKK that fought back IS in Shengal, rescuing tens of thousands of Yezidis, when even the U.S.-backed and armed Peshmergas had left the battlefield with their tails between their legs. The battle-hardened PKK fighters have been integrated in the ranks of the YPG and YPJ, and without them such important victories as the ones in Kobane, Tel Abyad and, most recently, Hassaka would never have come to pass.

Boudine:

De VS “bestrijdt” ISIS tegen Assad:

New Syrian Force:
U.S. Abject Failure or Secret Aid to ISIS

By George Koplan

August 27, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – The U.S. policy in the Middle East has proved unsustainable once again. Pentagon’s first attempt to train Syrian opposition to fight ISIS ended in “an abject failure”, CBS News reported in the early August. The contingent of 54 fighters was trained by the U.S. military at a base in Turkey and sent across the border into Northern Syria. But instead of facing ISIS, they unexpectedly came under attack by Al-Nusra Front. As a result, the American-trained rebels scattered. Some were captured, some fled to Turkey, others were simply missing or likely turned the side and joined the Islamic State.

That was clear from the very beginning that the costly program to train ‘good’ rebels to fight ‘bad’ ones was doomed to failure. The Pentagon planned to spend half a billion dollars on the program. The U.S. has already faced misfortunes like that in its history. As we know, Washington took part in the creation of Al-Qaeda, the largest terrorist organization in the world until now. But as soon as the fighters got stronger they turned their weapons against the Americans.

The same situation is developing around the so called New Syrian Force. Returning to Syria the Pentagon-trained rebels joined the organization they were supposed to fight.

US Intelligence Confirms US Support for ISIS

Boudine:

Russian Military Forces Arrive In Syria, Set Forward Operating Base Near Damascus
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/01/2015

While military direct intervention by US, Turkish, and Gulf forces over Syrian soil escalates with every passing day, even as Islamic State forces capture increasingly more sovereign territory, in the central part of the country, the Nusra Front dominant in the northwestern region province of Idlib and the official “rebel” forces in close proximity to Damascus, the biggest question on everyone’s lips has been one: would Putin abandon his protege, Syria’s president Assad, to western “liberators” in the process ceding control over Syrian territory which for years had been a Russian national interest as it prevented the passage of regional pipelines from Qatar and Saudi Arabia into Europe, in the process eliminating Gazprom’s – and Russia’s – influence over the continent.

Lees vooral verder, want de Russen komen Syrië en Assad een handje helpen!

Russian jets in Syrian skies

Russia has begun its military intervention in Syria, deploying an aerial contingent to a permanent Syrian base, in order to launch attacks against ISIS and Islamist rebels; US stays silent.

Boudine:

Op Het Haagse Complot een artikel over Fréderike Geerdink, een Nederlandse journaliste die in Koerdistan verslag deed van de strijd van Turkije tegen de Koerden. Ze werd beschuldigd van propaganda voor een terroristische organisatie en ten slotte uitgewezen.

Vanmiddag is er daarom een demonstratie bij de Turkse ambassade in Den Haag. Meer gegevens staan in het artikel: HIER