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ISIS update 8\16\2015..Tensions are mounting inside the US-led anti ISIS coalition
Map of the movements of the early days of the war in Syria and the birth and expansion of the Islamic State from March 2011 to August 2015.
Iranian official urges regional countries to prevent US influence
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Backlash Grows in Washington Against ISIS Czar Allen’s Intrigue with Erdogan of Turkey to Create Safe Haven for Terrorists and Decimate Kurdish Fighters
http://tarpley.net/isis-czar-allen%E2%80%99s-intrigue-backfiring/
Tensions are mounting inside the US-led anti ISIS coalition, fueled by the wily warmongers Recep Erdogan and ISIS czar General Allen. Insiders at the Pentagon (which contains a network of military officials that hate General Allen, as we reported in our original expose of his end-run on Obama in July) have leaked to Fox News that military officials at the Combined Air and Space Operations Center (CAOC) are enraged at recent Turkish airstrikes against the Kurds in northern Syria. The CAOC is the centralized headquarter of the allied coalition’s bombing effort against ISIS located in a secret location in the Middle East; recent strikes on Kurdish forces by Turkey were apparently launched without CAOC knowledge or authorization. A military source spoke to Fox News about the events inside the CAOC when the massive Turkish bombing effort went underway on July 24th:
“A Turkish officer came into the CAOC, and announced that the strike would begin in 10 minutes and he needed all allied jets flying above Iraq to move south of Mosul immediately…We were outraged” Lucas Tomlinson and Jennifer Griffin, “Turkey’s strikes on Kurds could drag US into new front, military sources fear,”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/08/10/turkey-strikes-on-kurds-could..., [emphasis added].
This article must be considered a major signal piece, telegraphing for the first time the profound rage inside Pentagon circles against the terrorist safe zone and against the Allen-Erdogan machinations in general.
The military source went on to describe how Turkish officials attempted to shift any blame of potential US casualties onto CAOC and refused to release information about future planned strikes against the Kurds,
‘In addition to targeting forces engaged in the fight against ISIS, U.S. officials believed the Turkish military’s sudden move raised the risk of friendly-fire casualties: “We had U.S. Special Forces not far from where the Turks were bombing, training Kurdish Peshmerga fighters,” the source said. “We had no idea who the Turkish fighters were, their call signs, what frequencies they were using, their altitude or what they were squawking [to identify the jets on radar].”’
The Pentagon is now afraid that Erdogan’s vendetta against the Kurds will not only destroy one of the strongest enemies of ISIS, but will also open a new front in the conflict against the PKK Kurds. The terrorist attacks in Turkey and against the US Consulate on Monday could be the beginning of blowback against the US on the part of Kurdish forces who rightly feel betrayed by the US commanders who had been coordinating closely with them. As Fox writes: By striking the Kurds, NATO-ally Turkey may have opened a new front in the war, against the PKK. U.S. military analysts’ fears that that war could blow back on the U.S. and Turkey may have been realized Monday, when two women opened fire on the heavily guarded U.S. Consulate in Istanbul and a car bomb went off outside a Turkish police station nearby.
It all goes back to the Allen-Erdogan coup of three weeks ago, which announced a safe haven for terrorists against Obama’s wishes: “Critics of the new agreement between the U.S. and Turkey say the deal gives Ankara cover to carry out strike missions against Kurdish fighters in Iraq and even Syria, where Kurds have won hard-fought gains against ISIS,” wrote Fox News.
Another senior defense official told Fox that the bombings and “safe-zone” enacted covertly by Allen and Erdogan were a capitulation in Turkey’s favor in order to stifle the Kurds’ increasing hold over the southern Turkish border.
Critics of Allen’s agreement forged with Erdogan claim it gives Ankara permission to bomb Kurdish fighters from Syria to Iraq and they reject ever agreed to establishing a “safe-zone” in northern Syria. The view of the military is that Turkey has cynically used the US to wage their own war against the Kurds. The military is now protesting the potential that they, and the American people, will be drawn into a new bloodbath in the Middle East if the Kurds can no longer fight ISIS, meaning that US ground troops will be forced to engage against the Caliphate in northern Syria-something Allen – who wanted the US to stay in Iraq—has been striving for all along.
The Fox News signal piece also shows a good understanding that Erdogan and Allen are attempting to prevent the Kurds from cutting the vital ISIS supply lines, without which the Caliphate would be threatened with collapse: “The Turkish government has been concerned that the U.S. fight against ISIS would embolden the Kurds, who now control most of Turkey’s 560-mile border with Syria except for a small 68-mile corridor between the Syrian border towns of Kobani and Azaz, west of the Euphrates River. Should the Kurds gain control of this section of the border they would have unfettered access from Iraq through Syria all the way to the Mediterranean.” Allen and Erdogan are struggling desperately to keep this 68-mile wide door open. Their reason is that the plan to use ISIS against Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Russia, and other targets.
A source quoted by Fox explained: “The ‘safezone’ was Turkey’s way of preventing a complete takeover of the [Turkish-Syrian] border,” said the official. “Turkey doesn’t want to eliminate ISIS, they want to prevent the Kurds from a complete takeover of the border. They need U.S. help to do this.”U.S. officials have rejected Turkish requests to set up a safe zone of any sort in northern Syria.
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UN coordinator for Lebanon welcomes Zarif call for regional cooperation
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Iran Calls for Iraqi Government’s Firm Stance against West’s Plots to Disintegrate Iraq
Iranian First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri called on Iraqi officials and political groups to take firm stance against the US Army Chief of Staff General Raymond Odierno’s remarks for the disintegration of Iraq.
Jahangiri made the remarks in a meeting with his Iraqi counterpart Nouri al-Maliki in Tehran on Sunday and after General Odierno, who used to serve as the top US commander in Iraq, said on Wednesday that partitioning Iraq “is something that could happen and it might be the only solution”.
“All the Iraqi officials and political groups should adopt serious stances against these statements,” the Iranian first vice-president said in reaction to the statements made by Odierno and other western officials on partitioning Iraq.
He pointed to the Baghdad government’s ongoing war against the ISIL Takfiri terrorists, and said, “Safeguarding Iraq’s territorial integrity and national unity is of paramount importance that should receive due attention too.”
The Iraqi vice-president, for his part, pointed to the ineffectiveness of the US-led anti-ISIL Coalition to eradicate the Takfiri terrorist group, and said, “Despite the presence of some 40 to 50 countries in the anti-ISIL coalition, this terrorist group is easily selling crude reserves of Syria and Iraq, and this shows that one cannot be optimistic about the western countries’ determination for real fight against the ISIL.”
Maliki reiterated that some western countries are in favor of Iraq’s disintegration, and said, “They want the problems of Iraq to persist and they prefer Iraq’s partitioning to war against ISIL.”
On Friday, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian lashed out at Odierno’s remarks on disintegration of Iraq, and said Washington’s wrong policies are the main cause of problems in the Arab country.
“The US interventions and its wrong policies in the region and Iraq have resulted in the emergence of serious problems in the country,” Amir Abdollahian said.
Amir Abdollahian renewed Iran’s support for Iraq’s national unity and territorial integrity” and described the US general’s remarks as “provocative” and against peace in the Arab country.
“Iraq’s political system has been clearly defined based on the country’s constitution, and the remarks by the high-ranking US military official are provocative, against the path towards peace and security in Iraq and the region, and are even in contravention of the policies of politicians in his country,” Amir Abdollahian said.
The Iranian deputy foreign minister reiterated that the Iraqi people along with political and religious leaders in the country can well solve their own problems if there is a strong global determination to battle terrorism.
In relevant remarks on Thursday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi strongly condemned the comments by General Odierno as “irresponsible”, and said, “Such statements reflected “his ignorance about the Iraqi reality”.
The remarks came as a controversial US Congress bill, the draft of which was released in April, proposes the division of Iraq into three states and allows the Kurdish forces and the Sunni tribesmen to be armed directly without Baghdad’s approval.
The bill stipulates that 25 to 60 percent of the 715-million-dollar aid allegedly allocated to Iraq in its war against the ISIL will be directly supplied to the Sunni and Kurdish forces.
Iraqi politicians, including members of the parliament, as well as religious leaders have voiced their opposition to the bill.
Syria in Last 24 Hours: Army Kills 6 ISIL Leaders in Daraa Countryside
The Syrian army pounded the terrorists’ positions in the countryside of Daraa, and killed tens of militants, including half a dozen commanders over the last 24 hours.
The army units killed 6 Takfiri terrorist leaders in heavy clashes in Daraa al-Balad and al-Noaimeh villages in Southern Daraa, and destroyed their DshK-equipped vehicles.
Also in the past 24 hours, the foreign-backed Takfiri militants carried out rockets attacks on several areas in Idlib and Aleppo on Saturday, killing at least 5 civilians.
Terrorists of the so-called “Jeish al-Fath” fired rockets at areas in the countryside of Idlib, and killed a baby girl and her mother and injured 12 other civilians.
Terrorists positioned in the villages of Taaoum and Deir al-Zaghab fired rockets on al-Fouaa and Kefraya village in Idlib, local sources said.
The rocket attacks also caused material damage.
Meantime, media reports said that divisions among Ahrar al-Sham ringleaders and ranking gang members have widened after several senior commanders of the Takfiri terrorist group were killed in a recent suicide attack by the rival ISIL terrorist group.
The ISIL suicide attack that has taken a heavy toll among Ahrar al-Sham commanders has made the rival militant group face a leadership crisis and even stop its military operations in Sahl al-Qab region of Idlib, the Arabic-language Al-Araby al-Jadeed news website reported.
Abu Abdul Rahman Jobas, Mohammad al-Mohammad and Ahmad al-Sharif were among Ahrar al-Sham leaders who were killed in the ISIL’s suicide attack in Idlib countryside
Elsewhere, people in militant-held regions in Damascus and Aleppo countrysides have been out in the streets to shout their protest against the militants.
People continued their protests against the Takfiri terrorists in the Damascus countryside.
Meantime, Takfiri terrorist groups violated their ceasefire with the Syrian army and the Hezbollah troops in the Northwestern parts of Syria once again on Saturday after they fired mortar shells at two towns in Idlib province and killed several civilians.
A 48-hour ceasefire which began at 6 a.m. (03:00 GMT) Wednesday in the city of Zabadani and the towns of Fuaa and Kafraya in Northwestern parts of Syria along the border with Lebanon was extended for another two days on Friday. The truce had been agreed in advance between the Syrian government and Hezbollah forces and militant groups.
Elsewhere, the Syrian Army’s 132nd Brigade of the 5th Armored Division – in coordination with the National Defense Forces (NDF) – launched a counter-assault against the Liwaa Thawar Souriya in the strategic hilltop of Tal Za’tar and retook full control over the area, military sources said.
The sources said that the Syrian army recaptured Tal Za’tar from the rebel group before 4:30 p.m. (Damascus Time) on Friday, forcing the rebels to retreat from the area towards the town of Yadouda in order to evade the aerial assault from the Syrian Air Force.
Tal Za’tar is strategically located to the West of Dara’a City; its proximity to the provincial capital’s Western suburbs makes it an imperative military endeavor for the rebel forces that are attempting to besiege the city of Dara’a from three different flanks (West, South, and East).
Inside Dara’a City, clashes between the 132nd Brigade of the Syrian army and the so-called Free Syrian Army’s “Southern Front Brigades” were reported at the Al-Manishiyah-Dara’a Al-Balad axis; however, there was no change in the ground situation as a result.
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Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2015/08/isis-update-8162015tensions-are.html
