The Russian/Syrian connection thread

[2tallbill]

Rise of ISIS women: 10 of 71 recruits arrested in U.S. are female



read all about it here
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/dec/5/rise-isis-women-10-71-recruits-arrested-us-are-fem/

[2tallbill]

Some recent articles

With Few Signs Of Progress, Russia's Putin Warns Of Long Fight In Syria
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/12/04/458503922/with-few-signs-of-progress-russias-putin-warns-of-long-fight-in-syria

Russia ratchets up war rhetoric - and not just in Syria
A rock band sings about taking Berlin; politicians and the media threaten a nuclear attack. The war rhetoric in Russia is impossible to ignore. But there's a different mood within Russian society.
http://www.dw.com/en/russia-ratchets-up-war-rhetoric-and-not-just-in-syria/a-18896274

[2tallbill]

Russia's 5 Next Big Moves in Syria
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/russias-5-next-big-moves-syria-14519



Top IDF officer: In our nightmares, we never saw Russia’s S-400 in SyriaStill,
General Staff member says missile defense system, which can reach as far as Ben Gurion Airport, is not currently a threat to IsraelBY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF
Judah Ari Gross contributed to this report

http://www.timesofisrael.com/top-idf-officer-in-our-nightmares-we-never-saw-russias-s-400-in-syria/


Russia sends its most advanced tanks to Syria frontline
Deployment of T-90 tanks is latest sign that Kremlin is being forced to escalate its intervention from an air to a ground war


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/12034237/Russia-sends-its-most-advanced-tanks-to-Syria-frontline.html


Russia’s Big Guns Reach Syria’s Front Lines


http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/russias-big-guns-reach-syrias-front-lines-14513

[Brasscasing]

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I'd suggest this is a staged photograph in that the first two women in this image (can't see the third) have never fired an AK-47.

1) The young woman in the fore ground would fire that assault rifle once and be yelping in pain. It is a common error (and not normally corrected by RSOs as it's considered a 'life lesson' for young soldiers) for recruits firing large caliber assault rifles to hunch their shoulder and lean their cheek waaay over the rifle butt. The resulting recoil (push) mimics a wee poke to the cheek form a professional boxer and you'll only do it once.

2) The young women in the middle ground is holding the rifle on (or more accurately 'off') her shoulder in such a way that if she did shoot the weapon the recoil would seriously bruise or even break her collar bone.

Not really normal stances for anyone with weapons training even if just posing for a pic. They may be ISIS recruits but they haven't been on the ranges yet, imo.

Brass

[2tallbill]

I'd suggest this is a staged photograph in that the first two women in this image (can't see the third) have never fired an AK-47.

I had found the photo separate from the article. I doubt that many people notice
this but I often try to find a better photograph for an article, or if they used a
Getty images photo then I replace it with something else.

If you ever watched Saving Private Ryan. The sniper was shooting left handed with
a right handed bolt action rifle and he sometimes winked his eye and other times
he didn't. Looking through the scope never looks like it does on TV.

While, I've never been a sniper, I know that they don't try to shoot from a different
position and body angle every single time they fire a gun.

[mendeleyev]

Brass and Jone, etal:

I find this to be frighteningly accurate:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/04/is-the-worst-still-to-come-with-vladimir-putin.html

[fathertime]

Brass and Jone, etal:

I find this to be frighteningly accurate:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/04/is-the-worst-still-to-come-with-vladimir-putin.html

Quite a few here continue to insist it is about rebuilding the Soviet Union...the author of the article disagrees, and so have I...although on slightly different grounds.
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[AkMike]

Ex-FSB officer to TSN.Tyzhden: Russia involved in London, Paris attacks, ISIS

07.12.2015 | 05:00

The TSN.Tyzhden weekly TV program has broadcast an interview with former Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officer, which may trigger a real spy scandal. It has been speculated for long that the Kremlin's puppeteers are behind terrorist attacks in Europe and the United States, but no confirmation has been presented. The experienced agent, former FSB officer specializing in terrorist organizations and counter-terrorism is now giving his testimony.

Such an interview is an extremely dangerous step for the FSB agent with high-level access, alias Yevgeniy, but he has decided to break with the past. The reason why he fled Russia is not that ideological, it is rather personal, according to TSN.Tyzhden.

Ukrainian experts have checked his statements with the use of a polygraph twice, and the results are clear: everything he tells the journalist is true. Yevgeniy claims that radical Islamist groups are staffed with Russian agents and Moscow has a real impact on their activity.

"Being guided by good intentions, human rights activists from Europe would help the people being persecuted in their country to flee. Among them were infiltrators with ready documents and a made-up legend. They would actively infiltrate into Muslim communities. With the support of the security services, they made financial donations, thus acquiring prestige and moving up the hierarchy," Yevgeniy tells TSN journalist Andriy Tsaplienko.
Read more on UNIAN: http://www.unian.info/politics/1204376-ex-fsb-officer-in-tsntyzhden-russia-involved-in-london-paris-attacks-isis.html

[Muzh]

Quite a few here continue to insist it is about rebuilding the Soviet Union...the author of the article disagrees, and so have I...although on slightly different grounds.

“The State Department gets it exactly wrong because they think he’s trying to re-create the former Soviet Union,” she said. “He’s saying Russia is a traditional-values civilization, but it’s special because it’s the only country that has the courage of its convictions to go to war over values. The war in Ukraine is framed in those terms. That’s why it’s so important that they say they’re fighting homo fascism. To interpret that war as territorial is just to get it wrong.”



Fathertime!

I'm not sure what you are getting at.


What I read says the journalist views Putin as another mafyia don. Not too smart, just ruthless.


True the US bogs down on erroneous assessment due to the political hacks that have become the bureaucracy selecting the "right" information to base their decisions. But the reality is that you have a gangster trying to stay alive, not save his country. And I believe she said so in not so many words.

[Brasscasing]

Brass and Jone, etal:

I find this to be frighteningly accurate:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/04/is-the-worst-still-to-come-with-vladimir-putin.html

Indeed. First off, is that young soldier on ceremonial duty Putin's walking by his grandson? ...



...The resemblance is uncanny, lol.

I think Gessen has nailed it with her analysis of the Putin system of keeping the Russian population in a self imposed/inflicted perceived state of ongoing crisis.

Hitler did the same thing in Germany circa '33-'39 with the German population - "We must defend our Fuhrer and the German nation and regain our rightful place in the world" was what the  media and the party propaganda machine drilled into the heads of the German citizen then even though the Nazis were engineering the various conflicts/purges/pogroms to further their agenda of aggression and conquest.

Russian state run media propaganda maintaining the faux heightened state of siege is similar today.

I've always maintained Putin isn't very intelligent he just shows an aptitude for being devious.

Brass

 



 

[jone]

Quite a few here continue to insist it is about rebuilding the Soviet Union...the author of the article disagrees, and so have I...although on slightly different grounds.
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[/size]Fathertime!

Here goes FT again, proving that Size does matter.  Fix your formatting if you're going to post on RWD.

[fathertime]

Here goes FT again, proving that Size does matter.  Fix your formatting if you're going to post on RWD.

Be still silly boy!


Here is the most recent 'mistake' we committed today.  26 civilians killed in Syria through a US airstrike.
I don't think we should be doing all of this!


Air strikes kill 26 civilians in northeast Syria: monitor
Beirut (AFP) - At least 26 civilians were killed Monday in a jihadist-held village in northeast Syria in strikes likely conducted by a US-led coalition, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said......




http://news.yahoo.com/air-strikes-kill-26-civilians-northeast-syria-monitor-180802305.html


Fathertime! 

[2tallbill]

Syria Blames U.S. in Base Bombing, but Americans Blame Russia
By HWAIDA SAAD and ERIC SCHMITT NY Times



read all about it here
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/world/middleeast/syria-airstrikes.html?_r=0

[2tallbill]

Pentagon says Russian — not U.S. — warplanes hit a Syrian army base
By Liz Sly and Dan Lamothe Washington Post


read all about it here
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/us-denies-syrian-accusations-that-its-warplanes-hit-a-syrian-base/2015/12/07/db72a0fb-cc62-49c8-a5ed-997c2e6e1f98_story.html

[2tallbill]

Week Nine of the Russian Intervention in Syria: The Empire Strikes Back

By The Saker
Global Research,

Considering the remarkable success of the Russian intervention in Syria, at least so far, it should not have come as a surprise that the AngloZionist Empire would strike back. The only question was how and when. We now know the answer to that question.

On November 24th the Turkish Airforce did something absolutely unprecedented in
recent history: it deliberately shot down another country’s military aircraft even
though it was absolutely obvious that this aircraft presented no threat whatsoever
to Turkey or the Turkish people. The Russian Internet is full of more or less official
leaks about how this was done.

According to these versions, the Turks maintained 12 F-16 on patrol along the border
ready to attack, they were guided by AWACS aircraft and “covered” by USAF F-15s in
case of an immediate Russian counter-attack. Maybe. Maybe not. But this hardly
matters because what is absolutely undeniable is that the USA and NATO immediately
took “ownership” of this attack by giving their full support to Turkey.

Chart of SU-24M Flight Path Released by Russian Ministry of Defense


read all about it here
http://www.globalresearch.ca/week-nine-of-the-russian-intervention-in-syria-the-empire-strikes-back/5494109

[2tallbill]

Note: This is a Russian Opinion/Editorial

NATO’s absurd denials amid acts of war in Syria

read all about it here
http://www.rt.com/op-edge/324992-nato-attacks-syria-war/

[2tallbill]

Turkey angered by serviceman brandishing rocket launcher on Russian ship passing through Istanbul
Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkish foreign minister, accuses Russia of "provocation" as photographs show rocket launcher displayed aboard the Caesar Kunikov as it sails through Bosphorus Strait




read all about it here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/12036531/Turkey-angered-by-serviceman-brandishing-rocket-on-Russian-ship-passing-through-Istanbul.html

[jone]

Very subtle of the Russians.   Right - the oxymoron example is in the previous sentence.

[sleepycat]

Indeed. First off, is that young soldier on ceremonial duty Putin's walking by his grandson? ...

Maybe the botox midget is revealing his fondness of being in proximity to handsome young men in uniform?
 

[2tallbill]

Hopefully they use a different method than team Obama uses with US and Mexico

Anti-IS coalition focusing on sealing Turkish border: U.S. envoy


Read more at Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-islamic-state-idUSKBN0TS0SA20151209#yMAtX4cgYfb7gWYY.99

[2tallbill]

Note: this article has got a lot of propaganda in it, but it does high light some of
the variables and different lines of thinking involved in Syria.

Russia, Israel and Syria: An inconvenient truth

Russia's direct involvement has actually served to highlight its increasingly close ties with Israel. This robust relationship is downplayed by Israel so as not to antagonise the US, by Russia so as not to alienate Damascus and Tehran, and completely ignored by the "axis of resistance" - now minus Hamas - so as to avoid embarrassment. -

See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/russia-israel-and-syria-inconvenient-truth-1997898988#sthash.MadvIEsJ.dpuf

[2tallbill]

Russia Pulls Syrian Rug From Under Iran’s Feet
With Russians replacing Iranians and Hezbollah on the Syrian battle field,
and a Saudi-backed opposition summit, Iran fears its influence could be
waning.


read all about it here: http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-1.690543

[2tallbill]

Turkey PM accuses Russia of wanting 'ethnic cleansing' in Syria
Turkey's prime minister has accused Russia of attempting "ethnic cleansing"
with its air strikes in northern Syria.  Ahmet Davutoglu said Russia's campaign
had targeted Turkmen and Sunni communities around the Latakia region.

read all about it here
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35049591

[2tallbill]

5 Myths: Russia’s False ISIS Narrative In Syria

MYTH 1:  RUSSIA INTERVENED IN ORDER TO DEFEAT ISIS
MYTH 2: RUSSIAN AIRSTRIKES TARGET TERRORIST GROUPS
MYTH 3: RUSSIA WANTS TO WORK WITH THE SYRIAN ARMED OPPOSITION
MYTH 4: RUSSIA’S COALITION-BUILDING EFFORTS ARE ABOUT FIGHTING TERRORISM
MYTH 5: WESTERN COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA WILL DEFEAT ISIS AND THEN THE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR

There is a ton of information follow the link to read all about it
http://www.stopfake.org/en/5-myths-russia-s-false-isis-narrative-in-syria/

[2tallbill]

Somebody is shocked that PBS is biased? what cocoon did they live in?   

PBS Newshour Fails the Public: Biased and Misleading Analysis on Syria, Russia, Turkey

Here are specific points:

PBS Newshour selected two analysts with essentially the same viewpoint:

The analysts make false or exaggerated claims.

The analysts failed to include relevant information

The program fails to consider Putin’s comments

The analysts also ignore Turkey’s economic support of ISIS

The analysts distort facts to support their biases

The analysts are hypocritical about air space violations.

There are a lot more, read all about it here
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/08/pbs-newshour-fails-the-public-biased-and-misleading-analysis-on-syria-russia-turkey/