http://news.antiwar.com/2012/07/26/assad-grants-autonomy-to-kurdish-region-prompting-threats-from-turkey/
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had earlier said that Turkey would not accept an autonomous Kurdish area in Syria, fearing separatist Kurds in Turkey would use it as a safe-haven to launch cross-border attacks.
Erdogan emphasized Turkey’s concern that a Kurdish authority in the north of Syria could provide a sanctuary to Turkey’s own Kurdish separatists for them to possibly launch attacks into Turkey.
http://www.infowars.com/nato-terrorists-execute-civilians-while-waiting-for-syrian-army/
Photo: Images and reportseventually trickled out as NATO-backed genocide unfolded throughout Tripoli’s streets, indicating the destruction of infrastructure and the specific targeting of black Libyans written off by the corporate media as “suspected mercenaries.” Benghazi rebels have been long reported to harbor extremist ideologies and an intense ethnic & racial hatred.
The new closure is a response to the Jamrud attack on Tuesday, in which unknown gunmen attacked a convoy of NATO supply trucks heading to occupied Afghanistan, killing a driver.
AQI fighters attacked an Iraqi Army helicopter, downing it and killing a soldier. Other attacks targeted police in Diyala, reportedly 11 or 12 police were killed in the fighting, which provincial officials termed a “setback” to security in the province.
Assad Grants Autonomy to Kurdish Region, Prompting Threats From Turkey
The PKK will find safe-haven in northern Syria now, which could prompt an attack from Turkey, a NATO member
by John Glaser, July 26, 2012
Syrian President Bashar Assad, amid growing unrest, has granted control of parts of northern Syria over to militant Kurds, long branded as terrorists by Turkey, in a provocation that could lead the conflict to break out internationally.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had earlier said that Turkey would not accept an autonomous Kurdish area in Syria, fearing separatist Kurds in Turkey would use it as a safe-haven to launch cross-border attacks.
Late on Thursday Turkey mobilized and deployed tanks and missile batteries on the Syrian border near the Kurdish region, with Erdogan commenting if the Kurds control these areas, “then intervening would be our most natural right.”
Kurdish control of these border areas are an apparent consequence of the chaos of Syria’s internal conflict, in which the US and its allies are sending aid, intelligence, and weapons to the Syrian rebels, despite numerous crimes and ties to terrorist groups.
Turkish military intervention against the Assad regime came close to being a reality back a few months ago when Syria downed a Turkish fighter jet that went into Syrian airspace. Turkey has shown little hesitation to attack its neighbors if they feel their Kurdish threat demands it, as cross-border attacks into Iraq’s Kurdish region in recent months has shown.
If Turkey, a NATO member, involves itself in the Syrian conflict in a direct and belligerent way, it could have far reaching consequences, with possible implications of a US intervention.
and relations between turkey and Syria get close to a flat out hooting war.....
http://news.antiwar.com/2012/07/26/turkey-says-it-will-not-tolerate-a-kurdish-sanctuary-in-syria/
Turkey Says It ‘Will Not Tolerate’ a Kurdish Sanctuary in Syria
Turkey sent tanks and missile batteries to the border next to Syria's Kurdish region
by John Glaser, July 26, 2012
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he will not tolerate a Kurdish safe-haven in Syria following reports that Kurdish rebels and a Syrian Kurdish political party had taken control of large swathes of territory along the Turkish-Syrian border.
Erdogan emphasized Turkey’s concern that a Kurdish authority in the north of Syria could provide a sanctuary to Turkey’s own Kurdish separatists for them to possibly launch attacks into Turkey.
“We will not allow a terrorist group to establish camps in northern Syria and threaten Turkey,” he said on Thursday. “If there is a step which needs to be taken against the terrorist group, we will definitely take this step.”
Late on Thursday Turkey mobilized and deployed tanks and missile batteries on the Syrian border near the Kurdish region, prompting concern Syria’s internal conflict could spill outside its own borders. Turkey is a NATO member state, so if it decides to engage it could have serious consequences.
But Erdogan’s government has been allowing Syrian rebels to establish bases in Turkey, from which they launch attacks into Syria. Apparently, the Turkish motto is ‘do as we say, not as we do.’
When Syria began to descend into extreme violence, Turkey gave shelter to the Syrian rebel fighters and eventually provided them with lethal and non-lethal aid, despite their having ties to terrorist groups and having committed serious crimes themselves. That Turkey would complain about Syria committing to the mirror image of its own policies is embarrassing.
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been fighting for autonomy in southeast Turkey for decades, has been condemned as a terrorist group by Turkey, the European Union and the United States. During the 1990s, Washington supported Turkey major atrocities in the southeast Kurdish region, leaving the countryside devastated with tens of thousands killed and millions displaced.
and note western media witnessing and then offering media spin for apparent war crimes by the chosen rebel side.....
NATO Terrorists Execute Civilians While Waiting for Syrian Army
Tony Cartalucci
Infowars.com
July 27, 2012
Infowars.com
July 27, 2012
For many months, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has depicted the militants creating havoc across his nation as “armed gangs,” “foreign terrorists,” and simply just, “terrorists.” During a 2011 interview in Damascus with Barbra Walters, Walters feigned indignation when hearing these labels, insisting that these were people simply seeking “democracy” and “freedom.”
It turns out months later, it was President Assad who has been vindicated, and Walters’ disrespectful, curt condemnation exposed as the same brand of war propaganda that has mired the West in over a decade of ceaseless, bloody, bankrupting wars and interventions.
The FSA are Terrorists
AFP now reports that the so-called “Free Syrian Army” (FSA) militants who had attempted to overrun the city of Aleppo in Syria’s north on July 17, in coordination with an assassination bombing and a similar militant attack on Damascus, are now trapped in the city center, awaiting Syrian Army reinforcements expected to close in and neutralize them. An AFP correspondent embedded with the terrorists reported that, “two men, accused of belonging to pro-government “shabiha” militia, were summarily dispatched in the street, each with a bullet to the head.”
By this of course AFP means, two civilians were rounded up and shot in the head – killed in cold blood in the streets.
BBC’s Ian Pannell also rode in with FSA terrorists during the initial attack on Aleppo, which is by all accounts a pro-Army, pro-Syrian city. Pannell described scenes of FSA militants “seeking revenge” as they too rounded up men “suspected” of being “shabiha.” The men were unarmed, terrified, and had weapons discharged at their feet as they knelt on the ground. Pannell doesn’t tell us if this group of men were “dispatched” as well, preferring to paper over what appeared to be an atrocity in the making by stating, “there is little justice on either side.”
It appears the term suspected “shabiha” has become analogous of the Western media’s use of the term “African mercenaries” in Libya during NATO destabilization and regime change operations there last year. These “African mercenaries” were lynched, beheaded, shot, burned, and hacked to pieces, just as the FSA is now doing to suspected “shabiha.”
Photo: Images and reportseventually trickled out as NATO-backed genocide unfolded throughout Tripoli’s streets, indicating the destruction of infrastructure and the specific targeting of black Libyans written off by the corporate media as “suspected mercenaries.” Benghazi rebels have been long reported to harbor extremist ideologies and an intense ethnic & racial hatred.
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It would later turn out these black Africans were not mercenaries, but citizens who had lived in Libya for generations fighting desperately for their lives against sectarian extremists intolerant of their complexion and creed. Likewise, suspected “shabiha” are Syrians unwilling or unable, because of their ethnicity or creed, to capitulate to roving bands of foreign-armed sectarian extremists.
The FSA Include Foreign-Fighters
CNN, whose Ivan Watson also accompanied FSA terrorists over the Turkish-Syrian border and into Aleppo revealed that indeed foreign fighters were amongst the militants. It was admitted that:
Meanwhile, residents of the village where the Syrian Falcons were headquartered said there were fighters of several North African nationalities also serving with the brigade’s ranks.
A volunteer Libyan fighter has also told CNN he intends to travel from Turkey to Syria within days to add a “platoon” of Libyan fighters to armed movement.
On Wednesday, CNN’s crew met a Libyan fighter who had crossed into Syria from Turkey with four other Libyans. The fighter wore full camouflage and was carrying a Kalashnikov rifle. He said more Libyan fighters were on the way.The foreign fighters, some of them are clearly drawn because they see this as … a jihad. So this is a magnet for jihadists who see this as a fight for Sunni Muslims.
CNN’s reports provide bookends to earlier admissions that large numbers of Libyan terroristsflush with NATO cash and weapons had headed to Syria with known terrorist commandersmaking the arrangements.
Western Media is Complicit in Covering Up War Crimes
Not only are these FSA militants committing atrocities, they are doing so in front of representatives of Western media, who are demonstratively excusing, covering up, or downplaying their war crimes. Additionally, these media personalities are attempting to downplay the significant implications of foreign-fighters crossing Syria’s borders and conducting armed attacks on a heavily populated city – implications that run contra to the West’s narrative regarding their support of the FSA against the Syrian state.
By doing so they’ve become accomplices, providing impunity for the actions of terrorists, and allowing the governments of the United States, Britain, France, Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, an ignoble alliance, to continue fueling this violent, foreign-contrived band of militants. And by doing so, these media representatives have undermined their journalistic immunity, putting the lives of real journalists the world over at risk.
Image: An approximation of areas where fighting has been taking place in Aleppo, Syria. Clearly during the initial offensive by the FSA, they came in from 2 of the city’s main highways, both leading to the Turkish-Syrian border. It appears that a large number of fighters have been trapped inside the center of the city, surrounded by Syrian military forces. This was not an “uprising” but rather an invasion by armed militants from across the Turkish-Syrian border. It is unclear whether a significant number of additional militants are on their way.
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And it will be this corps of professional deceivers who continue their efforts to pave way for wider NATO intervention to fulfill US ambitions to carve out “safe havens” in northern Syria form which to prolong the current bloodbath.
Perhaps this is why Russia – condemned by these very nations for its “inaction” in supporting the subversion of Syria – stated quite clearly that the West, specifically the US, was “justifying terrorism against the Syrian government.”
The West is hemorrhaging legitimacy and finds itself in an untenable position where it can neither go forward nor back without incurring tremendous, catastrophic consequences – consequences millions of people across the Middle East as well as across the West will pay for in blood and treasure. It should be remembered who exactly brought us to this precipice and why - corporate-financier interests, their stables of policy makers, and the corporate-media – all for the sake of pursuing narrow-minded, self-serving geopolitical hegemony.
http://news.antiwar.com/2012/07/26/pakistan-cuts-nato-supply-route-again-citing-security-concerns/
Pakistan Cuts NATO Supply Route Again, Citing Security Concerns
Temporary Closure After Attack on Convoy
by Jason Ditz, July 26, 2012
Pakistan had only reopened the border to Afghanistan a few weeks ago, and traffic was just finally starting to approach pre-November levels when Pakistani officials announced another temporary closure today, citing security concerns.
The new closure is a response to the Jamrud attack on Tuesday, in which unknown gunmen attacked a convoy of NATO supply trucks heading to occupied Afghanistan, killing a driver.
Behind the diplomatic tensions and the reliability of the route, this underscores the reason the US was looking to open alternative, more expensive routes to Afghanistan in the first place: Pakistan’s route is enormously dangerous.
Officials say they don’t expect the new closure to last long, but there’s no reason to expect they’ll actually solve the problem either, so brief closures related to security threats, a common occurrence over the past several years, are likely to continue to crop up from time to time.
and....
http://news.antiwar.com/2012/07/26/more-clashes-as-al-qaedas-iraq-surge-escalates/
More Clashes as al-Qaeda’s Iraq Surge Escalates
'Fierce Fighting' Reported in Diyala Province
by Jason Ditz, July 26, 2012
Declared defeated many times over the past few years, al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) is launching yet another major surge this week, with reports of “fierce fighting”continuing today in the Diyala Province.
AQI fighters attacked an Iraqi Army helicopter, downing it and killing a soldier. Other attacks targeted police in Diyala, reportedly 11 or 12 police were killed in the fighting, which provincial officials termed a “setback” to security in the province.
AQI has shown surprising strength in its latest surge, and has been blamed for over 120 deaths over the past few days. The group issued a statement touting its latest return while promising to attack targets inside the United States.
The exact cause of the latest surge in violence from AQI is unclear, but the group has reportedly forged close ties with terror groups inside neighboring Syria which have been involved in the ongoing civil war there. This could suggest that the escalation in Syria’s war is trickling across the border.
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