Amnesty claimt zonder bewijs 13.000 moorden middels massa executies in 'gevangenis Assad.........' Deel 2

Op 13 februari jl. publiceerde ik al een bericht, over de claim van Amnesty International, dat 13.000* mensen in grote hoeveelheden tegelijk werden geëxecuteerd in de Syrische Saydhaya gevangenis. Ik nam toen een artikel over gepubliceerd op Information Clearing House (ICH), geschreven door Moon of Alabama, die uitlegde, dat de hele claim van Amnesty op drijfzand was gebaseerd**.

Vandaag nog een artikel van Moon of Alabama op ICH, over diezelfde claim van Amnesty, die dit keer door de Britse ex-ambassadeur voor Irak, Peter Ford (die de bewuste gevangenis kent), totaal in de grond wordt geboord.......

Hier het artikel, dat als interview door Sputnik werd uitgezonden. Onder het artikel vindt u het hele interview met Ford (25 minuten), let wel, het is geen video, maar een geluidsbestand (van een op de radio uitgezonden interview).

Onder het artikel kan u klikken voor een 'Dutch vertaling':

Amnesty Report on Syrian Prison Deaths Questioned by Ex UK Ambassador to Syria

Amnesty International's latest report on mass extrajudicial killings in Syria would not stand scrutiny, according to former British ambassador to Syria, Peter Ford.

February 19, 2017 "Information Clearing House" - On February 7, the organization issued an explosive report titled ‘Human Slaughterhouse, Mass Hangings and Extermination at Saydhaya prison, Syria,' alleging that the Syrian authorities were responsible of killing 13,000 opponents of President Bashar Assad at the Saydnaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus.

In an interview with Sputnik, Ford pointed out that it was interesting how the report was coincidentally released after the Syrian city of Aleppo was liberated by the government forces two months ago, after successful negotiations in Astana and as it appears that Syria is coming closer to a political solution for the ongoing war.

"It's very strange after this report has been over a year in gestation — you have to ask, why now?" He said.

According to the former Ambassador, there is a number of reasons why the report puts into question the credibility of the human rights organisation. Apart from the fact that it was based on interviews with anonymous witnesses and doesn't provide a hint of evidence, those nameless sources were wrong on ‘basic information', and that naturally puts to doubt the veracity of other claims.

The retired British diplomat had visited Saydnaya numerous times as he served in Damascus from 2003 to 2006. According to Ford, the prison was too small to contain ten to twenty thousand prisoners at one time, contrary to what Amnesty said in the report.

"Ten to twenty thousand is a fair-sized town." He said in an interview. "The building which I saw at Saydnaya could not possibly accommodate more than ten percent of those numbers."

The human rights group also quoted its sources as saying that Saydnaya became the main political prison in 2011, which was just as false.

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* Zo gedegen, dat Amnesty sprak over 5.000 tot 13.000 doden, me dunkt nogal een verschil, 'maar goed....'

** Zie: 'Amnesty claimt zonder bewijs 13.000 moorden middels massa executies in 'gevangenis Assad.........' (In de kop stond een fout: gevangenissen i.p.v. gevangenis)

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Gematigde rebellen in Syrië bestaan niet, een verslag van een republikeinse politicus!!

Wat al lang bekend was, maar wat niet doordrong tot de massa en zelfs niet tot een deel van de politici*, is het feit, dat er in het geheel geen 'gematigde rebellen' hebben gevochten of vechten in Syrië..... Oorzaak van het niet op de hoogte zijn van deze feiten, is de propaganda (nepnieuws) berichtgeving in de westerse reguliere (massa-) media, berichtgeving veelal ingegeven door politici en geheime diensten.......

Al die zogenaamde 'gematigde rebellen' zijn psychopathische moordenaars en verkrachters, die via de sharia en de islam in het algemeen, hun gruweldaden rechtvaardigen, gruweldaden waaronder verder o.a. vreselijke martelingen........

Toch bemoedigend te zien, dat zelfs een republikeinse politicus uit eigen ervaring hetzelfde distilleert........

Op Information Cleariing House gisteren het ontluisterende en ogen openend verhaal van Gabbard, die zelf poolshoogte ging nemen in Aleppo en Damascus. Eerst ziet u een interview met Gabbard en daarna een verslag van Gabbard zelf (u kan voor een 'Dutch vertaling' klikken onder het verslag van Gabbard, al neemt dat wel wat tijd in beslag) :

Just Back From Syria, Rep. Gabbard Brings Message: 'There Are No Moderate Rebels'

By Susan Jones

By Susan Jones | January 26, 2017 | 5:43 AM EST

(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Hawaii Democrat, says she made a secret, four-day trip to Syria -- meeting with ordinary people and even President Bashar al-Assad -- because the suffering of the Syrian people "has been weighing heavily on my heart."

"I wanted to see if there was in some small way, a way that I could express the love and the aloha and the care that the American people have for the people of Syria, and to see firsthand what was happening there, to see that situation there," Gabbard told CNN's "The Lead" with Jake Tapper on Wednesday.

She returned with a message:

"I'll tell you what I heard from the Syrian people that I met with, Jake, walking down the street in Aleppo, in Damascus, hearing from them.

“They expressed happiness and joy at seeing an American walking through their streets. But they also asked why the U.S. and its allies are providing support and arms to terrorist groups like al-Nusra, al-Qaida or al-Sham, ISIS who are on the ground there, raping, kidnapping, torturing and killing the Syrian people.

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"They asked me, why is the United States and its allies supporting these terrorist groups who are destroying Syria when it was al Qaida who attacked the United States on 9/11, not Syria. I didn't have an answer for them,” Gabbard said.

“The reality is... every place that I went, every person that I spoke to, I asked this question to them, and without hesitation, they said, there are no moderate rebels. Who are these moderate rebels that people keep speaking of?

Regardless of the name of these groups, the strongest fighting force on the ground in Syria is al Nusra, or al Qaida and ISIS. That is a fact,” Gabbard said.

“There is a number of different, other groups -- all of them essentially are fighting alongside, with, or under the command of the strongest group on the ground that's trying to overthrow Assad.

“The Syrian people recognize and they know that if President Assad is overthrown, then al Qaida -- or a group like al Qaida, that has been killing Christians, killing people simply because of their religion, or because they won’t support their terror activities, they will take charge of all of Syria.

“This is the reality that the people of Syria are facing on the ground, and why they are pleading with us here in the United States to stop supporting these terrorist groups. Let the Syrian people themselves determine their future, not the United States, not some foreign country.”

Gabbard said initially, she didn't plan to meet with President Assad: "When the opportunity arose to meet with him, I did so because I felt it's important that if we profess to truly care about the Syrian people, about their suffering, then we've got to be able to meet with anyone that we need to if there is a possibility that we could achieve peace, and that's exactly what we talked about."

Tapper noted that Assad is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of people being forced from their homes and even their country during the five-year civil war:

"Did you have any compunctions about meeting with somebody like that, giving him any sort of enhanced credibility because a member of the United States Congress would meet with someone like that?" Tapper asked.

"Whatever you think about President Assad, the fact is that he is the president of Syria,” Tulsi replied. “In order for any peace agreement, in order for any possibility of a viable peace agreement to occur, there has to be a conversation with him,” Gabbard said.

“The Syrian people will determine his outcome and what happens with their government and their future, but our focus, my focus, my commitment is on ending this war that has caused so much suffering to the Syrian people.”

In a speech on the House floor earlier this month, Gabbard criticized America’s “interventionist wars.”

“Our limited resources should go toward rebuilding our communities here at home, not fueling more counterproductive regime change wars abroad.”

She urged her fellow lawmakers to support her bill, the “Stop Arming Terrorists Act,” legislation that would stop the U.S. government from using taxpayer dollars to directly or indirectly support groups allied with terrorist groups such as ISIS and al Qaeda in their war to overthrow the Syrian government.

“The fact that our resources are being used to strengthen the very terrorist groups we should be focused on defeating should alarm every American,” Gabbard said.

 I urge my colleagues to support this bipartisan legislation and stop this madness.” 

Gabbard supported Sen. Bernie Sanders for president, but after the election, she was one of many people invited to meet with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York.

"President-elect Trump asked me to meet with him about our current policies regarding Syria, our fight against terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS, as well as other foreign policy challenges we face," Gabbard said about the meeting.

“I felt it important to take the opportunity to meet with the President-elect now before the drumbeats of war that neocons have been beating drag us into an escalation of the war to overthrow the Syrian government -- a war which has already cost hundreds of thousands of lives and forced millions of refugees to flee their homes in search of safety for themselves and their families.”

The Syrian People Desperately Want Peace

By Tulsi Gabbard

As much of Washington prepared for the inauguration of President Donald Trump, I spent last week on a fact-finding mission in Syria and Lebanon to see and hear directly from the Syrian people. Their lives have been consumed by a horrific war that has killed hundreds of thousands of Syrians and forced millions to flee their homeland in search of peace.


It is clear now more than ever: this regime change war does not serve America’s interest, and it certainly isn’t in the interest of the Syrian people.

We met these children at a shelter in Aleppo, whose families fled the eastern part of the city. The only thing these kids want, the only thing everyone I came across wants, is peace. Many of these children have only known war. Their families want nothing more than to go home, and get back to the way things were before the war to overthrow the government started. This is all they want.


I traveled throughout Damascus and Aleppo, listening to Syrians from different parts of the country. I met with displaced families from the eastern part of Aleppo, Raqqah, Zabadani, Latakia, and the outskirts of Damascus. I met Syrian opposition leaders who led protests in 2011, widows and children of men fighting for the government and widows of those fighting against the government.


I met Lebanon’s newly-elected President Aoun and Prime Minister Hariri, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Elizabeth Richard, Syrian President Assad, Grand Mufti Hassoun, Archbishop Denys Antoine Chahda of Syrian Catholic Church of Aleppo, Muslim and Christian religious leaders, humanitarian workers, academics, college students, small business owners, and more.


Their message to the American people was powerful and consistent: There is no difference between “moderate” rebels and al-Qaeda (al-Nusra) or ISIS — they are all the same. This is a war between terrorists under the command of groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda and the Syrian government. They cry out for the U.S. and other countries to stop supporting those who are destroying Syria and her people.


I heard this message over and over again from those who have suffered and survived unspeakable horrors. They asked that I share their voice with the world; frustrated voices which have not been heard due to the false, one-sided biased reports pushing a narrative that supports this regime change war at the expense of Syrian lives.


I heard testimony about how peaceful protests against the government that began in 2011 were quickly overtaken by Wahhabi jihadist groups like al-Qaeda (al-Nusra) who were funded and supported by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, the United States, and others. They exploited the peaceful protesters, occupied their communities, and killed and tortured Syrians who would not cooperate with them in their fight to overthrow the government.


I met a Muslim girl from Zabadani who was kidnapped, beaten repeatedly, and raped in 2012, when she was just 14 years old, by “rebel groups” who were angry that her father, a sheep herder, would not give them his money. She watched in horror as masked men murdered her father in their living room, emptying their entire magazine of bullets into him.


I met a boy who was kidnapped while walking down the street to buy bread for his family. He was tortured, waterboarded, electrocuted, placed on a cross and whipped, all because he refused to help the “rebels” — he told them he just wanted to go to school. This is how the “rebels” are treating the Syrian people who do not cooperate with them, or whose religion is not acceptable to them.


Although opposed to the Assad government, the political opposition spoke strongly about their adamant rejection of the use of violence to bring about reforms. They argue that if the Wahhabi jihadists, fueled by foreign governments, are successful in overthrowing the Syrian state, it would destroy Syria and its long history of a secular, pluralist society where people of all religions have lived peacefully side by side. Although this political opposition continues to seek reforms, they are adamant that as long as foreign governments wage a proxy regime change war against Syria using jihadist terrorist groups, they will stand with the Syrian state as they work peacefully toward a stronger Syria for all Syrians.


Originally, I had no intention of meeting with Assad, but when given the opportunity, I felt it was important to take it. I think we should be ready to meet with anyone if there’s a chance it can help bring about an end to this war, which is causing the Syrian people so much suffering.



I met these amazing women from Barzi, many of whom have husbands or family members who are fighting with al-Nusra/al-Qaeda, or with the Syrian army. When they come to this community center, all of that is left behind, as they spend time with new friends, learning different skills like sewing, making plans for their future. They were strangers before coming to this community center whose mission is empowering these women, and now they are “ sisters” sharing laughter and tears together.
I return to Washington, DC with even greater resolve to end our illegal war to overthrow the Syrian government. From Iraq to Libya and now in Syria, the U.S. has waged wars of regime change, each resulting in unimaginable suffering, devastating loss of life, and the strengthening of groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS.


I call upon Congress and the new Administration to answer the pleas of the Syrian people immediately and support the Stop Arming Terrorists Act. We must stop directly and indirectly supporting terrorists — directly by providing weapons, training and logistical support to rebel groups affiliated with al-Qaeda and ISIS; and indirectly through Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, and Turkey, who, in turn, support these terrorist groups. We must end our war to overthrow the Syrian government and focus our attention on defeating al-Qaeda and ISIS.


The U.S. must stop supporting terrorists who are destroying Syria and her people. The U.S. and other countries fueling this war must stop immediately. We must allow the Syrian people to try to recover from this terrible war.

Thank you,
Tulsi


Congresswoman defends meeting Assad in Syria, says U.S. engaged in ‘counterproductive regime change war’: Our counterproductive regime change war does not serve America’s interest, and it certainly isn’t in the interest of the Syrian people

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* Wat niet wegneemt, dat er voldoende westerse politici moeten zijn, die wel weten, dat er in Syrië geen 'gematigde rebellen' bestaan. Neem alleen al de VS politici die willens en wetens deze gematigde rebellen van wapens hebben voorzien en hen van o.a. Libië en Tunesië naar Syrië hebben laten transporteren. Dit alles daar de VS (en verder o.a. Turkije, Saoedi-Arabië en Groot-Brittannië) Assad weg wilde hebben, de eerste initiatieven daartoe nam de VS al in 2006!!

Klik voor meer berichten n.a.v. het voorgaande op één van de labels, die u onder dit bericht terug kan vinden, dit geldt niet voor de labels: Aoun, Gabbard S. Hariri en S. Jones.

Aleppo en de zaken die u vooral niet mag weten i.h.k.v. de anti-Syrische/ Russische propaganda.......

Het volgende artikel geschreven door Moon of Alabama, komt van Information Clearing House. Hierin de beschrijving van de situatie in Aleppo en een analyse van wat er te komen staat. Feiten die u in de reguliere pers en van politici niet hoort, zoals het feit, dat Syrië en Rusland al 21 dagen lang een wapenstilstand in acht hebben genomen voor Aleppo! Dit terwijl de door het westen gesteunde 'gematigde'  terroristen, die volle 21 dagen zijn doorgegaan met de strijd........ Daarbij vielen een groot aantal burgerslachtoffers in West-Aleppo, o.a. door het beschieten van dit stadsdeel met raketten, geleverd door de VS.........

Om nog maar te zwijgen over de vreselijke terreur, die deze terroristen aanrichten onder de bevolking, in het door hen gecontroleerde Oost-Aleppo....... E.e.a. werd zelfs door de VN-gezant voor Syrië gemeld.

Onder het artikel kan u klikken voor een 'Dutch' vertaling, dit neemt wel enige tijd in beslag.

Syria - Waiting For The Next Moves

By Moon Of Alabama

November 09, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "Moon Of Alabama" - We had expected aSyrian Army "Election Campaign", a large size attack on Al Bab or east-Aleppo. That did not happen despite the right "assets" being in place and I have heard no reason yet why it was delayed. The Russian aircraft carrier group, which was expected last Friday along the Syrian coast, will only arrive this evening. It must have intentionally slowed its travel. There has been no single Syrian or Russian airstrike on east-Aleppo in last 21 days. "Rebel" shelling of west-Aleppo has not stopped for a day and caused many casualties. That will now change. One Russia source claims the Russian fleet will engage immediately. NOTAMs, NOtices To Air Men, about imminent operations on Syria's west-coast have been released. The declared areas and times of operation correspond to a campaign, not a single strike.

After some 12 days of fighting, the second large al-Qaeda campaign to break the siege on east-Aleppo by attacking the south western side of west-Aleppo completely failed. While the first round nearly achieved a break through but was then contained the second attack was only a alibi attempt which never made any progress towards its claimed aim. The Syrian army has recaptured the housing project 1070 and will soon have cleaned all other areas that were shortly in the hands of the Jihadis. The loss in material and men for the Jihadis were immense. The Syrian army has finally learned how to defend against suicide vehicle bombs: have adequate weapons ready in the front line to kill them on their approaches. Of nearly 20 such bomb runs only 3 or 4 reached their targets and losses from those were less sever than from earlier bombs. The Jihadis and their "western" media and "expert" proxies seem to have given up on east-Aleppo. There is no sign that another break through attempt will be launched.

The Obama administration has announced a campaign to encircle Raqqa in center-east Syria. It bought help from the Kurdish YPG to achieve that and has thereby excluded a Turkish campaign. The taking of Raqqa is supposed to be left to some Arab troops in cooperation with the Kurds. But those Arab troops do not yet exist and hiring and training has not even begun. The whole announcement of the beginning of a Raqqa campaign was obviously not serious. The Kurds will take a few small towns and the U.S. will temporarily protect them from sever Turkish interference in their areas in Syria. Raqqa will not be attacked before next years spring.

The Turks are now miffed (though silently relieved) that they were not asked to take part in the Raqqa campaign. They have been promised that they may help to "develop a long-term plan for seizing, holding and governing Raqqa". That means exactly nothing. But the Turks never had a real chance to go and take Raqqa. It is too far from their borders and the imponderables are too big.

In the area around Damascus the Ghouta rebel hold out has been split and reduced to small kettles which will be eliminated within a few days. The Syrian capital is safe for now and its people can livea rather normal life without fear of being killed in the next minute by some random grenade. A significant number of troops will become available when all the small rebel areas around the capital are gone. Those can be used in future campaigns. The frontline strength of the Syrian army in critical areas will increase and its maneuver force will become more powerful and efficient.

The momentum in all of west Syria is on the side of the Syrian government. The Jihadists are more and more concentrated in Idleb governate and city. When the surrounded hold outs in its back are eliminated the Syrian army can launch an assault on them. The east is complicate. Deir Ezzor is still surrounded by ISIS and will likely be attacked again soon. Reinforcements for the defenders would be welcome.

The Kurds are playing games and change alliances every now and than. For the time they again bet on the U.S. - a hope that has already been disappointed several times. The U.S. will let them fall as soon as it is convenient. The Kurds will learn again that such a policy does not bear tasteful fruits. There is a common Turkish and Syrian interest in cutting them back to size. In a year from now we may see new surprise alliances in that area.

All the positive developments we have seen especially in west-Syria may be for naught if a new U.S. president decides to throw up the chess board and risk World War III by attacking Syrian and Russian positions. Its about the most stupid thing Washington could do and has thereby a good chance to happen. I hope that the Pentagon will lecture the politicians of the very real consequences such a move would have.

Russian Navy will hit ISIS targets in Aleppo with cruise missiles: The Russian source insisted the missiles will aim for areas surrounding Aleppo to avoid harming the 200,000 civilians still living there.

De video betreft hier een toespraak van Putin, waarin hij zich onder meer richt tot de westerse kijkers, die slapen terwijl hun regeringen bezig zijn een oorlog te ontketenen in Europa, een project waar de NAVO al vanaf 1991 mee bezig is (en dan durven te spreken over Russische agressie..... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!)...
 
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Zie ook: 'Merkel aangestoken door het 'Ruslandisschuldig' virus, opgelopen tijdens een ontmoeting met Clinton......'

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VS rekende op IS voor de verovering van Damascus en omverwerping bewind Assad.........

Het volgende artikel van Alexander Mercouris vond ik op Information Clearing House, hierin aandacht voor de smerige rol die de VS in het Midden-Oosten en m.n. in Syrië speelt. Alexander Yakovenko, de Russische ambassadeur voor Groot-Brittannië, stelt dat de VS vorig jaar plannen had om in de zomer op grote schaal stellingen van het reguliere Syrische leger te bombarderen...... Daarmee zou IS de kans worden geboden Damascus in te nemen en Assad definitief te verdrijven, waarna Syrië opgedeeld kon worden onder de verschillende terreurgroepen ('gematigde oppositie')...........

De VS was al in gesprek met Turkije en Jordanië voor een 'no fly zone' en 'veilige gebieden' in Syrië........ Als de VS spreekt over een 'no fly zone', is dat het teken, dat deze terreur producerende natie voorbereidingen treft voor grootschalige bombardementen, dat heeft de (recente) geschiedenis uit en te na bewezen........... Mercouris betoogt dat het verhaal van Yakovenko bijzonder geloofwaardig is.
U kan voor een vertaling, onder het artikel klikken, dat neemt wel enige tijd in beslag:

Russian Diplomat Drops a Bombshell: US Expected ISIS to Seize Damascus by October

In an article in a British newspaper Russia's ambassador to the UK reveals the Russians were told by the Western powers that after the US proclaimed a no-fly zone ISIS would capture DamascusBy Alexander Mercouris

February 16, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "RI" -  Alexander Yakovenko, Russia’s ambassador to Britain, dropped something of a bombshell on Monday, though one that has gone completely unnoticed.

In a piece in the print edition of the London Evening Standard defending Russian policy in Syria he made the following extraordinary disclosure:

“Last summer we were told by our Western partners that in October Damascus would fall to IS (ie. the Islamic State - AM).  

What they were planning to do next we don’t know.  Probably, they would have ended up painting the extremists white and accepting them as a Sunni state straddling Iraq and Syria”.

The summer - when these conversations between the Western powers and the Russians allegedly took place - was the time when the US was in discussions with Turkey and Jordan about setting up a no-fly zone and safe havens in Syria.  

I discussed in this article how “no-fly zone” is today simply a euphemism for a US bombing campaign.

What Yakovenko is therefore in effect saying is that the US was planning in the summer to start a bombing campaign to overthrow the government of Syria in the knowledge that this would result by October in the victory of the Islamic State and its capture of Damascus.

Russia Insider has previously explained that it was to stop the US proclaiming a no-fly zone - i.e. commencing a bombing campaign aimed at overthrowing the Syrian government - that Russia intervened in Syria.  

The fact Yakovenko says the US told the Russians this would result in the Islamic State capturing Damascus by October explains why the Russians felt they had to act as they did.

Is Yakovenko however telling the truth?

The first thing to say is that the British and US governments have not denied what he is saying.  

That however is not conclusive.  It is not difficult to see why the British and US governments might think that in light of the incendiary nature of what Yakovenko is saying denying it would simply give his comments more publicity if they denied them and that the better approach is silence.

If so, then the fact Yakovenko’s comments have been almost entirely ignored shows this approach has worked.

Is Yakovenko however senior enough to know the details of the discussions that took place in the summer between the Russians and the Western powers as he says?

The answer to that question is almost certainly yes.

Though London is no longer the most important diplomatic posting for a Russian ambassador in Western Europe, it remains an important posting, and any official appointed to be Russia’s ambassador to Britain is by definition a senior official whom Moscow will ensure is kept well-informed. 

If there were discussions of the sort Yakovenko says, he would almost certainly have been fully briefed about them.

What Yakovenko says is also consistent with things we know.  

In the summer - having just captured Palmyra - the Islamic State was on a roll, making it not implausible that it might reach Damascus by the autumn.

The Syrian army in the meantime had suffered a succession of heavy defeats, and had been forced to withdraw from Idlib province.

In light of all this, in the context of a US bombing campaign, it is not implausible the US was telling the Russians in the summer that the Islamic State would seize Damascus by October.

As for the US’s discussions about setting up a no-fly zone and safe havens, there was nothing secret about those, and they were openly acknowledged.

Why however would the US tell the Russians that they expected the Islamic State to seize Damascus by October?

That is not a difficult question to answer.

No-one in the early summer thought there was any likelihood the Russians would intervene militarily in Syria.  The US probably thought it was not risking anything by telling Moscow its military plans and what their likely consequences would be.

Probably what the US expected was that the threat of a bombing campaign leading to the seizure of Damascus by the Islamic State would terrify Moscow and persuade the Russians to force Assad to stand down, which has been the US objective all along.

In that case the US seriously underestimated the Russians' resolve and their willingness to act to prevent what the US was threatening from coming to pass.

Overall Yakovenko’s disclosure makes sense, and is therefore probably true.

What it shows is how reckless the US’s Syrian policy had become.  

At the very time the US was pretending to fight the Islamic State it was in fact preparing steps that it knew would facilitate its victory.

Even if this was intended as a diplomatic play it was an extraordinary thing to do.  

The families of US victims of jihadi terror would surely feel betrayed if they were ever find out about it, whilst it is not difficult to imagine the consternation and recriminations in Washington when the Russians unexpectedly pre-empted the US strategy by intervening in the way they did.

As for the people of Damascus - spared not just US bombing but rule by the Islamic State - and the people of Europe - who would have faced a far bigger refugee flood if what Washington was telling the Russians had come to pass - they both have reason to be grateful to the Russians for making sure that things turned out otherwise.

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Zie ook: 'Koenders steunt 'gematigde Syrische terreur-oppositie' via Saoedi-Arabië'

        en: 'Koenders wil zich bij illegale oorlogvoering in Syrië wel aan het oorlogsrecht houden..... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'

       en: 'Ash Carter's (VS BuZa) leugens over IS olieleveranties aan Turkije'

       en: 'Syrië, de vuile oorlog en alles wat u niet zou moeten weten. Een boek van Tim Anderson'

       en: 'Syrië, de leugens die u op de mouw worden gespeld..... Ofwel: Syrië, de vuile oorlog en........ deel 2'

      en: 'Honderden burgerslachtoffers in Mosul door VS bombardementen, ofwel grootschalige terreur......'

       en: 'Kinderen in Irak vermoord middels VS terreur.......'

       en: 'Syrië, o.a. het waarom van de voortgaande strijd (en de onderhandelingen), plus leugens van Voordewind........'

       en: 'VS rekende op IS voor de verovering van Damascus en omverwerping bewind Assad.......'

       en: 'John Kerry beschuldigt IS van genocide en andere misdaden tegen de menselijkheid........ ha! ha! ha! ha! '

      en: 'Palmyra ontzet, westerse media geven Rusland schoorvoetend 'de eer.....'

      en: 'VS voorziet terreurgroepen in Syrië van 'high tech' wapens en bedreigt Syrië en Rusland daarmee.......'

      en: 'Saoedi-Arabië roept terreurgroepen in Syrië op, de wapenstilstand te schenden..........'

      en: 'John Kerry dreigt Syrië met totale oorlog........'

     en: ''Syrische bombardementen op twee ziekenhuizen', althans volgens de westerse media en politici......'


     en: 'Falluja en Aleppo, twee belegerde steden, een opvallend verschil in berichtgeving door de reguliere media.........'

     en: 'VS steunt 'gematigde oppositie', die door Amnesty als barbaarse terreurgroepen worden aangemerkt......'

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Israël helpt terreurgroepen in Syrie..........

Kwam gisteren op het blog van Stan van Houcke weer een bericht tegen over de hulp van Israël aan terreurgroepen die in Syrië vechten, dit bericht komt van Press TV. Israël heeft op de bezette Golanhoogten (Golan Hoogvlakte) veldhospitalen ingericht, om gewonde jihadstrijders van de Takfiri terreurgroep uit Syrië (en vele andere landen, zoals nu bekend*) op te lappen.

Het bericht begon met het bericht, dat Israëlische straaljagers doelen in de buurt van het internationale vliegveld van Damascus onder vuur hebben genomen.... Dit heeft afgelopen woensdag plaatsgevonden, afgelopen oktober heeft Israël al doelen van het Syrische leger op de Golanhoogten onder vuur genomen

Daarnaast hebben Syrische troepen grote hoeveelheden Israëlische wapens buitgemaakt, op de terreurgroepen, die zij hebben verdreven. Verder is er andere geavanceerde militair materiaal uit Israël gevonden.......

Volgens de VN zijn er intussen 250.000 mensen omgekomen in Syrië en raakten er meer dan één miljoen mensen gewond............. Een 'mooi' resultaat van het westers stoken, dat in 2011 begon in Syrië, dit alles om Assad weg te krijgen en een pro-VS bewind in het zadel te helpen......

* Het is niet ondenkbaar, dat Nederlandse jihadstrijders, door Israëlische artsen worden opgelapt....!!!

Zie ook: 'Rutte verklaart de oorlog aan IS......... AUW!!!'

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Gasaanval door Syrisch leger nogmaals de grond in geschreven!

Het verhaal dat het bewind van Assad in Syrie gifgas zou hebben gebruikt, is al meermaals als onzin naar de prullenbak verwezen. Dit is echter 'niet doorgedrongen' (lees: het past niet in de anti-Assad porpaganda) tot de reguliere westerse media en de westerse politici.....
Hier nogmaals het ware verhaal op ICH (Interantional Clearing House) van 23 oktober jl.:

Hersh Vindicated? Turkish Whistleblowers Corroborate Story on False Flag Sarin Attack in Syria


By Peter Lee

October 23, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - "Counterpunch" - This is quite the bombshell delivered by two CHP deputies in the Turkish parliament and reported by Today’s Zaman, one of the top dailies in Turkey.
It supports Seymour Hersh’s reporting that the notorious sarin gas attack at Ghouta was a false flag orchestrated by Turkish intelligence in order to cross President Obama’s chemical weapons “red line” and draw the United States into the Syria war to topple Assad.
If so, President Obama deserves credit for “holding the line” against the attack despite the grumbling and incitement of the Syria hawks at home and abroad.
And it also presents the unsavory picture of an al-Qaeda operatives colluding with ISIL in a war crime that killed 1300 civilians.
I find the report credible, taking into full account the fact that the CHP (Erdogan’s center-left Kemalist rivals) and Today’s Zaman (whose editor-in-chief, Bulent Kenes was recently detained on live TV for insulting Erdogan in a tweet) are on the outs with Erdogan.
Considering the furious reaction it can be expected to elicit from Erdogan and the Turkish government, the temerity of CHP and Today’s Zaman in running with this story is a sign of how desperate their struggle against Erdogan has become.  Note that the author is shown only as “Columnist: Today’s Zaman”.
I expect the anti-Erodgan forces hope this will be a game changer in terms of U.S.and European support for Erdogan.
It will be very interesting to see if and how the media in the U.S. covers this story.  In case it doesn’t acquire enough “legs” to make into US media, I attach the full Zaman piece below:

CHP deputies: Gov’t rejects probe into Turkey’s role in Syrian chemical attack

Two deputies from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) have claimed that the government is against investigating Turkey’s role in sending toxic sarin gas which was used in an attack on civilians in Syria in 2013 and in which over 1,300 Syrians were killed.

CHP deputies Eren Erdem and Ali Şeker held a press conference in İstanbul on Wednesday in which they claimed the investigation into allegations regarding Turkey’s involvement in the procurement of sarin gas which was used in the chemical attack on a civil population and delivered to the terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to enable the attack was derailed.

Taking the floor first, Erdem stated that the Adana Chief Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation into allegations that sarin was sent to Syria from Turkey via several businessmen. An indictment followed regarding the accusations targeting the government.

“The MKE [Turkish Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation] is also an actor that is mentioned in the investigation file. Here is the indictment. All the details about how sarin was procured in Turkey and delivered to the terrorists, along with audio recordings, are inside the file,” Erdem said while waving the file.

Erdem also noted that the prosecutor’s office conducted detailed technical surveillance and found that an al-Qaeda militant, Hayyam Kasap, acquired sarin, adding: “Wiretapped phone conversations reveal the process of procuring the gas at specific addresses as well as the process of procuring the rockets that would fire the capsules containing the toxic gas. However, despite such solid evidence there has been no arrest in the case. Thirteen individuals were arrested during the first stage of the investigation but were later released, refuting government claims that it is fighting terrorism,” Erdem noted.

Over 1,300 people were killed in the sarin gas attack in Ghouta and several other neighborhoods near the Syrian capital of Damascus, with the West quickly blaming the regime of Bashar al-Assad and Russia claiming it was a “false flag” operation aimed at making US military intervention in Syria possible.

Suburbs near Damascus were struck by rockets containing the toxic sarin gas in August 2013.

The purpose of the attack was allegedly to provoke a US military operation in Syria which would topple the Assad regime in line with the political agenda of then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his government.

CHP deputy Şeker spoke after Erdem, pointing out that the government misled the public on the issue by asserting that sarin was provided by Russia. The purpose was to create the perception that, according to Şeker, “Assad killed his people with sarin and that requires a US military intervention in Syria.”

He also underlined that all of the files and evidence from the investigation show a war crime was committed within the borders of the Turkish Republic.

“The investigation clearly indicates that those people who smuggled the chemicals required to procure sarin faced no difficulties, proving that Turkish intelligence was aware of their activities. While these people had to be in prison for their illegal acts, not a single person is in jail. Former prime ministers and the interior minister should be held accountable for their negligence in the incident,” Şeker further commented.

Erdem also added that he will launch a criminal complaint against those responsible, including those who issued a verdict of non-prosecution in the case, those who did not prevent the transfer of chemicals and those who first ordered the arrest of the suspects who were later released.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced in late August that an inquiry had been launched into the gas attacks allegedly perpetuated by both Assad’s Syrian regime and rebel groups fighting in Syria since the civil war erupted in 2011.

However, Erdem is not the only figure who has accused Turkey of possible involvement in the gas attack. Pulitzer Prize winner and journalist, Seymour M. Hersh, argued in an article published in 2014 that MİT was involved with extremist Syrian groups fighting against the Assad regime.

In his article, Hersh said Assad was not behind the attack, as claimed by the US and Europe, but that Turkish-Syrian opposition collaboration was trying to provoke a US intervention in Syria in order to bring down the Assad regime.

Peter Lee edits China Matters and writes about Asia for CounterPunch.

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Timmermans riep John Kerry op zijn gore matje

Gisteren in het Radio1 nieuws van 18.00 u., PvdA kleuter Timmermans, die Kerry, de minister van Buitenlandse Zaken van de VS, aansprak over de eventuele aanval op Syrië, Timmermans gaf dit ongeveer zo weer: "Joh, als jij wilt dat we meedoen (met de aanval op Syrië), moet je de bewijzen overgeven, wij kunnen dat niet zelfstandig vaststellen", nou u snapt 't al, dat wil Kerry wel, de 'PowerPoint presentatie is tenslotte bijna in elkaar gefabriekt!!!

De ministers van Buitenlandse Zaken van de EU waren onder de indruk van het betoog van Kerry, over de schuld van het Assad regime, voor de gifgasaanval in de buurt van Damascus, dat was bijzonder geloofwaardig......... Weliswaar geen splinter bewijs gezien, maar ja, de VS kan je blindelings geloven, als zij iets beweren............. Toch....?

Rasmussen heeft 't met z'n eigen ogen gezien, dus bombarderen die Syrische hap!

NAVO secretaris-generaal Rasmussen, het schoothondje van de O-bomb-A regering in de VS, maakte gisteren bekend, dat hij de bewijzen, dat de Syrische Assad regering verantwoordelijk is voor de gifgasaanval in Damascus, met eigen ogen heeft gezien, dus of u als de bliksem maar even wilt instemmen, met het bombarderen van Syrië..... ha!ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! En nee, de details kan Rasmussen niet vrijgeven...... ha! ha! ha! ha!
Je vraagt je werkelijk af, waar deze rare snuiter het vandaan haalt, dat wij hem op de kleur van z'n ogen moeten vertrouwen, Rasmussen, de slippendrager van het militair-industrieel complex, o.l.v. het Pentagon........ Omdat hij secretaris-generaal mag spelen? De titel alleen al..... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Waarom legt hij die bewijzen dan niet open en bloot op tafel?
Wat een hansworst, jezus christus!!!