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‘Brennan’s crocodile tears over scorched Syria give hypocrisy a bad name’

Gepubliceerd op 4 jan. 2017

Accusing Russia of practicing a ‘scorched-earth policy’ in Syria is utterly hypocritical of CIA Director John Brennan who himself is largely responsible for nursing ‘moderate’ rebels and plunging the country into chaos, former CIA officer Ray McGovern has told RT.

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UK Column News – 5th January 2016 duurt 50 minuten.

Gepubliceerd op 5 jan. 2017

Mike Robinson and Vanessa Beeley discuss the latest news from Syria, including a critique of continuing mainstream media coverage, witness testimony from Aleppo and the disruption of water supplied to five million people in Damascus.

The Channel 4 Jon Snow interview mentioned in the programme can be seen here: https://www.channel4.com/news/aleppo-syrian-mp-fares-shehabi

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Inquiry Points Toward a Pentagon Plot to Subvert Obama’s Syria Policy

By Gareth Porter

January 06, 2017 “Information Clearing House” – “Truth Dig” –

Airstrikes by the United States and its allies against two Syrian army positions Sept. 17 killed at least 62 Syrian troops and wounded dozens more. The attack was quickly treated as a non-story by the U.S. news media; U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) claimed the strikes were carried out in the mistaken belief that Islamic State forces were being targeted, and the story disappeared.

The circumstances surrounding the attack, however, suggested it may have been deliberate, its purpose being to sabotage President Obama’s policy of coordinating with Russia against Islamic State and Nusra Front forces in Syria as part of a U.S.-Russian cease-fire agreement.

Normally the U.S. military can cover up illegal operations and mistakes with a pro forma military investigation that publicly clears those responsible. But the air attack on Syrian troops also involved three foreign allies in the anti-Islamic State campaign named Operation Inherent Resolve: the United Kingdom, Denmark and Australia. So, the Pentagon had to agree to bring a general from one of those allies into the investigation as a co-author of the report. Consequently, the summary of the investigation released by CENTCOM on Nov. 29 reveals far more than the Pentagon and CENTCOM brass would have desired.

Thanks to that heavily redacted report, we now have detailed evidence that the commander of CENTCOM’s Air Force component attacked the Syrian army deliberately.

‘Who is in charge in Washington?’

Gen. Harrigan’s strike worked like a charm in terms of the interests of those behind it. The hope of provoking a Syrian-Russian decision to end the cease-fire and thus the plan for the JIC was apparently based on the assumption that it would be perceived by both Russians and Syrians as evidence that Obama was not in control of U.S. policy and therefore could not be trusted as a partner in managing the conflict. That assumption proved correct. When Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, spoke to reporters at a press briefing outside a U.N. Security Council emergency meeting on the U.S. attack on Syrian troops, he asked rhetorically, “Who is in charge in Washington? The White House or the Pentagon?”

Seemingly no longer convinced that Obama was in control of his own military in Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin pulled the plug on his U.S. strategy. Two days after the attacks, Syria announced, with obvious Russian support, that the cease-fire was no longer in effect.

The political-diplomatic consequences for Syrians and for the United States, however, were severe. The Russian and Syrian air forces began a campaign of heavy airstrikes in Aleppo that became the single focus of media attention on Syria. In mid-December, Secretary of State Kerry recalled in an interview with The Boston Globe that he had had an agreement with the Russians that would have given the United States “a veto over their flights. …” He lamented that “you’d have a different situation there now if we’d been able to do that.”

But it didn’t happen, Kerry noted, because “we had people in our government who were bitterly opposed to doing that.” What he didn’t say was that those people had the power and the audacity to frustrate the will of the president of the United States.

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Demining Aleppo: Barrel bombs & shells found in militant HQ

US fighting ISIS alone, Russia doing ‘virtually zero’ in Syria – Pentagon

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Dit staat al enige dagen in de wachtrij:

Gepubliceerd op 5 jan. 2017

“War Diary” project | Aleppo, Syria | January 2017

White Helmets – The Mask of Terror ( by Anna News) duurt 18 minuten.

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Syrian Military Liberates Wadi Barada, Restores Water Supplies To Damascus
gepubliceerd op 30 januari

Amerikaans congreslid vallen in Syrië de schellen van de ogen

Het Hawaiiaanse congreslid Tulsi Gabbard reisde onlangs voor een week naar Syrië en Libanon om met eigen ogen te zien hoe Syrië ervoor staat. Een fact-finding mission om rechtstreeks te zien en te horen hoe het gaat met de mensen in Syrië. “Hun leven is vernietigd door een verschrikkelijke oorlog die honderdduizenden levens heeft gekost en miljoenen heeft gedwongen om te vluchten op zoek naar vrede” aldus Gabbard, die bij terugkomst in de Verenigde Staten het Congres en de regering Trump oproept om het vredespleidooi van de Syrische bevolking te beantwoorden en haar wetsvoorstel (Stop Arming Terrorists Act) te ondersteunen.