Illegitimate Transfer of Inalienable European Rights via Convention(s) & Supranational Bodies Establishment of Sovereignty-Usurping Supranational Body Dictatorships Enduring Program of DEMOGRAPHICS WAR on Europeans Enduring Program of PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR on Europeans Enduring Program of European Displacement, Dismemberment, Dispossession, & Dissolution
No wars or conditions abroad (& no domestic or global economic pretexts) justify government policy facilitating the invasion of ancestral European homelands, the rape of European women, the destruction of European societies, & the genocide of Europeans.
U.S. RULING OLIGARCHY WAGES HYBRID WAR TO SALVAGE HEGEMONY [LINK | Article]
Who's preaching world democracy, democracy, democracy? —Who wants to make free people free?
Target Islamic State Oil Assets in #Syria
--> over 380 UK targets, in over 1yr
[Comment: bet they're Bullsh*t claims. Must have been targeting Assad for over a year, because ISIS went on selling oil to Turkey & whoever else is in on the finance-the-terrorists scheme to take down Syria]
a) rapid population growth
b) 'youth bulge'
c) internal economic inequalities
d) political frustrations
e) sectarian tensions
f) water shortages - environment
Syria
= pipeline geopolitics
/ Assad refused to sign Qatar pipeline deal 2009
re supply Europe via Syria
ie. bypassing Russia
Note that British plan for invasion Syria 2009
coincides w/ Assad refusal of Qatar pipeline deal
to supply gas to Europe
Nabucco pipeline
backed by
USA & European Union
parties:
Austria-UAE Hungarian Romania Bulgaria Turkey Germany*
-------------------- ie
OMV - Austria-UAE {Romania Turkey Hungary interests} MOL - Hungarian Transgaz - Romania Bulgargaz - Bulgaria BOTAS - Turkey RWE - Germany, big / largest investor Egypt -- 2015 sale oil & gas unit to: Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman RWE operates: Europe, Middle East & Africa RWE partnership w/ British & Netherlands re Urenco Group uranium enrichment plants: in Germany, Netherlands,USA & UK -- supplies nuclear power stations in 15 countries -- sale of depleted uranium tails -- Russia owns radioactive waste -- waste transported to Seversk
[wikipedia]
Middle East interests in the Nabucco Qatar LNG pipeline proposed route:
Russia wasn't buying what assurances of the Saudi
/ stuck w. #Syria
Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline plan = slap in face of #Qatar
Putin refusal to take bait & sell out #Syria Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan vowed military action.
Saudi Arabia Intelligence Agency
Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan
director general: Saudi Intelligence Agency
2012 to 2014
--> supporters: Chechen terrorists
Bandar bin Sultan
confrontational re USA
--> Replaced by: Prince Muhammad bin Nayef
head Saudi intel
Muhammad bin Nayef
Head of Saudi Arabia Intelligence
--> escaped x4 assassination attempts
--> incl. rectum bomb { ... lol, always get a laugh out of that detail }
ALSO pulling strings in Middle East oil-focused US policy in Syria:
Qatar +
Saudi Arabia
aim: pliable Syria opposition
Writer concludes Assad is 'war criminal'
[comment:
--> but USA a pre-eminent war criminal & Ghouta was a false flag by USA-Gulf proxies.]
The stakeholders in the Nabucco pipeline gets complicated, once you start looking at the companies. eg. Austrian stakeholder itself has a United Arab Emirates stakeholder. So working out who's really who would take more time, patience and focus than I have. Above is just a rough, surface sketch re the companies.
The US military guy's audio was kind of cool. He's anticipating a Turkey military coup against Erdogan. I don't know if he might be a bit melodramatic there or not, as I'm not that knowledgeable or experienced. At this stage, it sounds good but far-fetched to me.
Key info re Syria (now superseded by further info indicating 2006 planned attack):
Former French foreign minister Roland Dumas Britain planning covert invasion / attack on Assad as early as 2009 WikiLeaks Stratfor e-mails confirm US-UK training Syria 'opposition' since 2011 to collapse Assad from within British attack coincides w. Assad rejection of Qatar pipeline deal 2009 in favour of Russian interests NB Qatar pipeline deal 2009 benefits USA & European Union
US 4-Star General, General Wesley Clark (Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1997 to 2000) confirms a serial conquest strategy for region (7 countries).
NOTE ALSO:
Julian Assange: US & Israel Planned To Overthrow Assad In 2006
Cables reveal that before the beginning of the Syrian revolt and civil war, the United Stateshoped to overthrow Assad and create strife between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.
By Kit O'Connell
@KitOConnell | September 14, 2015
LONDON — Speaking from Ecuador’s embassy in London, Julian Assange revealed that the United Statesplanned to overthrow the Syrian government as far back as 2006, several years before the start of the current crisis. ... The ongoing threat to his freedom hasn’t kept Assange from continuing his work revealing the dirty secrets of world governments. His latest revelations come in a Wednesday interview with RT in support of his new book, “The WikiLeaks Files,” published late last month.
The United States and its allies in the Middle East, including Turkey and Israel, have been frequently accused of contributing to the ongoing destabilization of Syria in the wake of the uprising and subsequent civil war which began in 2011. But according to cables from the WikiLeaks archive, discussed in the Syria chapter of Assange’s book, plans to deliberately destabilize the region go back at least five years further. “In that chapter is a cable from US Ambassador William Roebuck, who was stationed in Damascus, which apparently discusses a plan for the overthrow of the Assad government in Syria,” RT reported.
[ ... ] The cable also details plans to foster sectarian strifein the region and make Iran appear like a larger threat to Assad than it really was, Assange continued:
“In particular, to take rumors that are known to be false … or exaggerations and promote them – that Iran is trying to convert poor Sunnis, and to work withSaudi and Egypt to foster that perception in order to make it harder for Iran to have influence, and also harder for the government to have influence in the population.”
WikiLeaks cables reveal that these plans came from the Israeli government, and show that the U.S. government intended to work with Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar and Egypt to encourage the breakdown of the Assad regime as a way of also weakening Iran and Hezbollah.
“[I]f Syria sufficiently destabilized, it might be in a position where it can keep the Golan Heights forever, or even advance that territory,” Assange said.
According to Assange, the cable illuminates how the current Syrian crisis reflects U.S. influence on the Middle East, particularly the ways it has used its allies to put pressure on the country. “Part of the problem in Syria is that you have a number of US allies surrounding it, principally Saudi and Qatar, that are funneling in weapons,” Assange noted, adding that it shows how the U.S. uses its over 100 army bases and network of embassies to further its imperialist interests. CONTINUES http://www.mintpressnews.com/julian-assange-us-israel-planned-to-overthrow-assad-in-2006/209493/
As the article re the WikiLeaks cable indicates, the plan to take down Syria began even earlier than indicated by the former French Foreign Minister: it was outlined in 2006 US cables.
Israel could be a driving force in for US foreign policy in the Middle Eastern region. As in, the article states:
"WikiLeaks cables reveal that these plans came from the Israeli government."
Think I might simplify things too much. There's a combination of things going on. It's not just a single driving factor.
I'll probably never understand what's going on.
Just read some Forbes article on Russian billionaires having been bought out of Russia's Rosneft (state oil company), and it's a struggle to understand how anyone can have so much money and how the entire thing works, so what hope is there of understanding politics without understanding of the money men? lol I'm really disheartened ... and I can't comprehend why anyone would spend $14 million on a frigging mammoth. Apparently, it's a gilded skeleton. Intended as a good deed for an AIDS charity. Just looked up the artist:
won the Turner Prize. New York public health officials banned Two Fucking and Two Watching featuring a rotting cow and bull, because of fears of "vomiting among the visitors" [here]
Well, now I'm sure I'll never understand anything on this planet. Who the f*ck considers a rotting cow art? This hilarious. The fellow behind this is the "richest living artist to date." Guess the 'Virgin Mother' would have taken some effort and talent to produce. That anyone actually bought the finished product is mind-boggling. I'd definitely go the mammoth. ;)
Western firms plan to cash in on Syria’s oil and gas ‘frontier’
by Nafeez Ahmed
US, British, French, Israeliand otherenergy interests could be prime beneficiaries of military operations in Iraq and Syria designed to rollback the power of the ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS) and, potentially, the Bashar al-Assad regime.
A study for a global oil services company backed by theFrench government and linked toBritain’s Tory-led administration, published during the height of the Arab Spring, hailed the significant “hydrocarbon potential” of Syria’s offshore resources.
The 2011 study was printed in GeoArabia, a petroleum industry journal published by a Bahrain-based consultancy, GulfPetroLink, which is sponsored by some of the world’s biggest oil companies, including Chevron, ExxonMobil, Saudi Aramco, Shell, Total, and BP.
'Britain is on the verge of entering into a long war in Syria based on wishful thinking and poor information...'
Patrick Cockburn was invited by Jeremy Corbyn to brief MPs on the facts about today’s Common’s vote on air strikes in Syria. This is his briefing to you
Patrick Cockburn
@indyworld
31 minutes ago
Britain is on the verge of entering a conflict in Syria in which its political and military strategy is based on wishful thinking and poor information. British air strikes in Syria will be too few to make much difference to Isis, but are important because they signal Britain’s entry into what may be a long war.
In one crucial respect, David Cameron’sapproach is similar to that which saw Britain fight two small but unsuccessful wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003, in both cases without an effective local partner on the ground. Similarly inSyria, Britain will be at the mercy of events which are being shaped by the numerous other players in the conflict, all of whom have their own highly contradictory agendas.
Much of the debate around the feasibility of the British strategy has focused on Mr Cameron’s statement that we do indeed have a partner, of whose existence few were previously aware. He said that there are 70,000 “Syrian opposition fighters on the ground who do not belong to extremist groups”. The impression given is that there is a “third force” in Syria which will provide a powerful ally for the US, France and Britain.
This would be very convenient but, unfortunately, its existence is very debatable. “The notion that there are 70,000 moderate fighters is an attempt to show that you can fight Isis and [President Bashar al] Assad at the same time,” says Professor Joshua Landis, the director of the Centre for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma and an expert on Syrian politics. But he is dismissive of the idea that such a potential army exists, though he says there might be 70,000 Syrians with a gun who are fighting for their local clan, tribe, warlord or village. “The problem is that they hate the village down the road just as much they hate Isis and Assad,” he said.
The armed opposition to President Assad is dominated byIsis, the al-Qaeda affiliateJabhat al-Nusraand the ideologically similarAhrar al-Sham. Some of the smaller groups, once estimated by the CIA to number 1,500, might be labelled as moderate, but only operate under license from the extreme jihadists. Aymenn al-Tamimi, a fellow at the Middle East Forum and an authority on the Syrian armed opposition, says that these groups commonly exaggerate their numbers, are very fragmented and have failed to unite, despite years of war.
He recalls that one group he met during a recent visit to Latakia province in north-west Syria claimed to have 2,000 fighters, but probably numbered only 500.
He warns that they pretend to the outside world that they are more moderate than they really are, speaking of “the equality of all Syrians before the law” when they are outside Syria or communicating with people who have never been to the country, but express “hatred for Shia and Allawites” on all other occasions.
Mr Tamimi says that the smaller armed groups, which sometimes have good weapons supplied by the Americans, had acted as auxiliaries to Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham when they captured Idlib City in fierce fighting with the Syrian army in May.
Even if such groups are not extreme Islamists, they do not have the strength to refuse to cooperate. This will make any ceasefire very difficult to arrange because such moderate fighters as there are who might be willing to accept a truce, are intermingled withpowerful Nusra forces which will not do so.
Moreover, radical Islamic ideology has been gaining ground in all parts of the Syrian opposition. James Harkin, the author of Hunting Season about the kidnapping of foreigners in Syria and a frequent visitor to opposition-held areas, says that it is important to grasp that “none of these people [the armed opposition inside Syria] like us”.
They see the US, Britain and France as enemies.This includes the non-jihadists, whom the West hopes to enlist, who suspect they will be used as cannon fodder and then discarded.
The one group that has some claim to be non-sectarian, secular and a powerful fighting force is the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) who claim to number 50,000, but probably total half that. It has been the most effective anti-Isis ground force and, heavily supported by US air strikes, its territory now stretches across northern Syria between the Tigris and Euphrates.
It claims to be non-sectarian and that it does not persecute Sunni Arabs, but sectarian fear and hatred is today so deep in Syria – partly but not entirely because of the atrocities of Isis – that people flee the attack of every other sectarian or ethnic group different from themselves. The Sunni population in Raqqa, Isis’s Syrian capital, or in Mosul in Iraq, may dislike Isis, but they are even more terrified of the Kurds or the Shia militias.
Britain is entering a war against the self-declared “Islamic State”, probably the most dangerous and violent organisation in the world, but without a realistic policy to win that war. Mr Cameron stresses the limited nature of the engagement, but Britain will be fighting a state that is also a ferocious sect, does not negotiate and may well retaliate with some atrocity similar to Paris. This is not an argument for rejecting military action against Isis, but it is one for thinking very carefully what we are doing because the only exit strategy will be military victory.
It is not only in Syria that Britain lacks a powerful local partner. In Iraq, its ally will be the Iraqigovernment and army,neither of which has recovered from their defeats by Isis over the past two years. “Syria is a nightmare and Iraq is becoming a nightmare,” said the Iraqi political scientist and activist Ghassan al-Attiyah. If the present government of Haider al-Abadifalls it is likely to be replaced by one closer to the Iranian-backed Shia militias that are more numerous and better armed than the Iraqi army.
The US-led air campaign has already launched around 8,300 air strikes against Isis which have slowed up its advance, but without bringing it to its knees. Professor Landis says that the difficulty is that the three powers in Syria capable of winning the war are Isis, a Jabhat al-Nusra led alliance or Mr Assad but “the US doesn’t want any of these to win”. He cites three attempts by the US to create a moderate armed opposition which have humiliatingly failed and, on each occasion, extreme jihadists have captured quantities of modern American weapons.
The British Government has shared in a widespread but ill-founded belief over the past four years that the Assad government was about to collapse. But of the 22 million Syrian population, 4 million have fled abroad and are refugees, and about 12 million are in government-controlled areas. Though exhausted and after suffering heavy casualties, including 47,000 dead, the Syrian army is still the largest military force in the country.It now has the support of the Russian air force and is not going to lose the war, though it is not strong enough to win it.
This is the terrible conflict in which Britain is about to engage, but with only limited understanding of the dangers that lie ahead.
I had no idea that there were so many killed in Syria -- 47k dead.
It's frustrating seeing this happening and being unable to do anything but watch what happens next.
What the West has done is disgusting. A functioning state has been overrun by terrorists armed and backed by the West, a country has been ripped to bits, 47,000 people are dead -- and it looks like the Shia and Allawite populations will be slaughtered if Assad and Russia don't prevail.
The West doesn't care what happens. The more destruction the more profitable it will be rebuilding the place and they probably figure that whoever eventually prevails will be desperate and ready to cooperate with Western interests.
This is unbelievable.
--------------- It took me forever doing my own lame notes about the video. Tired so I kind of zoned out here and there. It's funny how I didn't really connect the oil with the terrorism. I think it was mentioned in the news, but it didn't mean anything to me. It was just like, yeah, that's what they do.
But it's mind-blowing knowing that Turkey, Syria's neighbour, is actually responsible for financing terrorism and that the European Union (who would be aware of Turkey's terrorist sponsoring activities, seeing both the US and Germany spy on Turkey) has given Turkey $3.2 billion to supposedly keep Middle Eastern invasion/immigration at bay.
So what's going on here? Why not walls and military response instead? Is the EU laundering money via Turkey to fund Middle Eastern terrorism?
Although I'm forever looking at news, until Turkey shot the Russian bomber down, I wasn't aware how messed up Turkey is. I thought their messed up is limited to imprisoning journalists (wholesale), and killing Kurds.
Turkey:
imprisons journalists
oppresses Kurdish minority
bombs Kurds (who are fighting ISIS)
likely killed Serena Shim, journalist
shot down Russia bomber & killed Russian pilot
has armed, trained & supported jihadists in Syria
has trained the chemical attackers in Ghouta, Syria
buys stolen oil
finances international terrorism (via buying stolen oil)
is rewarded by the EU @ $3.2-billion
PS - I was inclined to believe ISIS was fake (Hollywood, US-CIA production), until the Russians confirmed they're real & terrorism is real.
A leaked conversation between Turkey's intelligence chief and the war roomreveals plot to create a casus belli for war with Syria by using ISIL, an alQaedaoffshoot, to threaten a Turkish shrine Suleiman Shah Tomb.
Turkey has blocked youtube in order to cover up the leaks. Turkish Foreign Ministry confirmed the recording of planning for a military incursion into Syria adding that a 'network of treason' was responsible for leak. Part two of the leaked conversation implicates John KerryUS secretary of state in the plot.
Syria has called on the United Nationsto investigate a leaked file containing discussions by top Turkish authorities on how to fabricate an attack in order to justify a military operation against Damascus.
"I'd like to refer once again to this audio tape leak by the Turkish foreign minister and the deputy chief of staff of the Turkish army," Syrian Ambassador to the UNBashar al-Jaafari said on Friday, adding that the Turkish officials talked about an attack by "sending a terrorist group inside the Syrian territory."
"And then this group is supposed to launch eight missiles within the Turkish territory and it would be a justification for further Turkish aggression against Syria," the Syrian envoy stated.
He also denounced some members of the UN Security Council and its secretariat for refusing to hear the truth about the situation inSyria, saying those countries themselves are "deeply involved" in "spreading terrorism" across the Arab country.
The audio file uploaded on YouTube is a recording of Turkey's intelligence chiefHakan Fidan, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Deputy Chief of Military Staff Yasar Guler, and other senior officials discussing the possible assault.
Ankarareacted to the anonymous posting by blocking users' access to YouTube throughout Turkey, saying the leaking of the controversial recording had created "a national security issue."
Davutoglu also on Thursday condemned the leak as a "declaration of war" against the Turkish government and nation, stressing, "A cyber attack has been carried out against the Turkish Republic, our state and our valued nation."
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan earlier described the recording as "villainous".
The YouTube ban came a week after the government imposed a ban on Twitter, accusing the social networking website of violating Turkey's laws.
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LMAO ... the only thing that's 'villainous' is Erdogan and his government.
This is hilarious. They're pointing the finger & squealing that this leak is a 'declaration of war', but it's Turkey that was trying to declare war on Syria through dastardly, illegitimate, faked means!
OMG! It says John Kerry, US Secretary of State, was also implicated.
Need to maybe confirm this elsewhere. Wow, I didn't know about this.
Don't know how I missed this. What was I looking at?
Turkey YouTube Ban: Full Transcript of Leaked Syria 'War' Conversation Between Erdogan Officials
Jack Moore
By Jack Moore
March 27, 2014 16:57 GMT
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ban of YouTube occurred after a conversation was leaked between Head of Turkish Intelligence Hakan Fidan and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğluthat he wanted removed from the video-sharing website.
Full transcript (translated by @castizbey):
Ahmet Davutoğlu:
"Prime Minister said that in current conjuncture, this attack (on Suleiman Shah Tomb) must be seen as an opportunity for us."
Hakan Fidan:
"I'll send 4 men from Syria, if that's what it takes. I'll make up a cause of war by ordering a missile attack on Turkey; we can also prepare an attack on Suleiman Shah Tomb if necessary."
Feridun Sinirlioğlu:
"Our national security has become a common, cheap domestic policy outfit."
Yaşar Güler: "It's a direct cause of war. I mean, what're going to do is a direct cause of war."
--------
FIRST SCREEN:
Ahmet Davutoğlu: I couldn't entirely understand the other thing; what exactly does our foreign ministry supposed to do? No, I'm not talking about the thing. There are other things we're supposed to do. If we decide on this, we are to notify the United Nations, the Istanbul Consulate of the Syrian regime, right?
Feridun Sinirlioğlu: But if we decide on an operation in there, it should create a shocking effect. I mean, if we are going to do so. I don't know what we're going to do, but regardless of what we decide, I don't think it'd be appropriate to notify anyone beforehand.
Ahmet Davutoğlu: OK, but we're gonna have to prepare somehow. To avoid any shorts on regarding international law. I just realised when I was talking to the president (Abdullah Gül), if the Turkish tanks go in there, it means we're in there in any case, right?
Yaşar Güler: It means we're in, yes.
Ahmet Davutoğlu: Yeah, but there's a difference between going in with aircraft and going in with tanks...
SECOND SCREEN:
Yaşar Güler: Maybe we can tell the Syrian consulate general that, ISIL is currently working alongside the regime, and that place is Turkish land. We should definitely...
Ahmet Davutoğlu: But we have already said that, sent them several diplomatic notes.
Yaşar Güler: To Syria...
Feridun Sinirlioğlu: That's right.
Ahmet Davutoğlu: Yes, we've sent them countless times. Therefore, I'd like to know what our Chief of Staff's expects from our ministry.
Yaşar Güler: Maybe his intent was to say that, I don't really know, he met with Mr. Fidan.
Hakan Fidan: Well, he did mention that part but we didn't go into any further details.
Yaşar Güler: Maybe that was what he meant... A diplomatic note to Syria?
Hakan Fidan: Maybe the Foreign Ministry is assigned with coordination...
THIRD SCREEN:
Ahmet Davutoğlu: I mean, I could coordinate the diplomacy but civil war, the military...
Feridun Sinirlioğlu: That's what I told back there. For one thing, the situation is different. An operation on ISIL has solid ground on international law. We're going to portray this is Al-Qaeda, there's no distress there if it's a matter regarding Al-Qaeda. And if it comes to defending Suleiman Shah Tomb, that's a matter of protecting our land.
Yaşar Güler: We don't have any problems with that.
Hakan Fidan: Second after it happens, it'll cause a great internal commotion (several bombing events is bound to happen within). The border is not under control...
Feridun Sinirlioğlu:I mean, yes, the bombings are of course going to happen. But I remember our talk from 3 years ago...
Yaşar Güler: Mr. Fidan should urgently receive back-up and we need to help him supply guns and ammo to rebels. We need to speak with the minister. Our Interior Minister, our Defense Minister. We need to talk about this and reach a resolution sir.
Ahmet Davutoğlu: How did we getspecial forces into action when there was a threat in Northern Iraq? We should have done so in there, too. We should have trained those men. We should have sent men. Anyway, we can't do that, we can only do what diplomacy...
Feridun Sinirlioğlu: I told you back then, for God's sake, General, you know how we managed to get those tanks in, you were there.
Yaşar Güler: What, you mean our stuff?
Feridun Sinirlioğlu: Yes, how do you think we've managed to rally our tanks into Iraq? How? How did we manage to get special forces, the battalions in? I was involved in that. Let me be clear, there was no government decision on that, we have managed that just with a single order.
FOURTH SCREEN:
Yaşar Güler: Well, I agree with you. For one thing, we're not even discussing that. But there are different things that Syria can do right now.
Ahmet Davutoğlu: General, the reason we're saying no to this operation is because we know about the capacity of those men.
Yaşar Güler: Look, sir, isn't MKE (Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation) at minister's bidding? Sir, I mean, Qatar is looking for ammo to buy in cash. Ready cash. So, why don't they just get it done? It's at Mr. Minister's command.
Ahmet Davutoğlu: But there's the spot we can't act integratedly, we can't coordinate.
Yaşar Güler: Then, our Prime Minister can summon both Mr.Defence Minister and Mr. Minister at the same time. Then he can directly talk to them.
Ahmet Davutoğlu: We, Mr. Siniroğlu and I, have literally begged Mr. Prime Minster for a private meeting, we said that things were not looking so bright.
FIFTH SCREEN:
Yaşar Güler: Also, it doesn't have to be a crowded meeting. Yourself [Foreign Minister], Mr. Defence Minister, Mr. Interior Minister and our Chief of Staff, the four of you are enough. There's no need for a crowd. Because, sir, the main need there is guns and ammo. Not even guns, mainly ammo. We've just talked about this, sir. Let's say we're building an army down there, 1000 strong. If we get them into that war without previously storing a minimum of 6-months' worth of ammo, these men will return to us after two months.
Ahmet Davutoğlu: They're back already.
Yaşar Güler: They'll return to us, sir.
Ahmet Davutoğlu: They've came back from... What was it? Çobanbey.
Yaşar Güler: Yes, indeed, sir. This matter can't be just a burden on Mr. Fidan's shoulders as it is now. It's unacceptable. I mean, we can't understand this. Why?
SIXTH SCREEN:
Ahmet Davutoğlu: That evening we'd reached a resolution. And I thought that things were taking a turn for the good. Our...
Feridun Sinirlioğlu: We issued the MGK (National Security Council) resolution the day after. Then we talked with the general...
Ahmet Davutoğlu: And the other forces really do a good follow up on this weakness of ours. You say that you're going to capture this place, and that men being there constitutes a risk factor. You pull them back. You capture the place. You reinforce it and send in your troops again.
Ahmet Davutoğlu: Right? That's how I interpret it. But after the evacuation, this is not a military necessity. It's a whole other thing.
SEVENTH SCREEN
Feridun Siniroğlu: There are some serious shifts in global and regional geopolitics. It now can spread to other places. You said it yourself today, and others agreed... We're headed to a different game now. We should be able to see those. That ISIL and all that jazz, all those organisations are extremely open to manipulation.Having a region made up of organisations of similar nature will constitute a vital security risk for us. And when we first went into Northern Iraq, there was always the risk of PKK blowing up the place. If we thoroughly consider the risks and substantiate... As the general just said...
Yaşar Güler: Sir, when you were inside a moment ago, we were discussing just that. Openly. I mean, armed forces are a "tool" necessary for you in every turn.
Ahmet Davutoğlu: Of course. I always tell the Prime Minister, in your absence, the same thing in academic jargon, you can't stay in those lands without hard power. Without hard power, there can be no soft power.
EIGTH SCREEN
Yaşar Güler: Sir.
Feridun Sinirlioğlu: The national security has been politicised. I don't remember anything like this in Turkish political history. It has become a matter of domestic policy. All talks we've done on defending our lands, our border security, our sovereign lands in there, they've all become a common, cheap domestic policy outfit.
Yaşar Güler: Exactly.
Feridun Siniroğlu: That has never happened before. Unfortunately but...
Yaşar Güler: I mean, do even one of the opposition parties support you in such a high point of national security? Sir, is this a justifiable sense of national security?
Feridun Sinirlioğlu: I don't even remember such a period.
NINTH SCREEN:
Yaşar Güler: In what matter can we be unified, if not a matter of national security of such importance? None.
Ahmet Davutoğlu: The year 2012, we didn't do it 2011. If only we'd took serious action back then, even in the summer of 2012.
Feridun Sinirlioğlu: They were at their lowest back in 2012.
Ahmet Davutoğlu: Internally, they were just like Libya. Who comes in and goes from power is not of any importance to us. But some things...
Yaşar Güler: Sir, to avoid any confusion, our need in 2011 was guns and ammo. In 2012, 2013 and today also. We're in the exact same point. We absolutely need to find this and secure that place.
Ahmet Davutoğlu: Guns and ammo are not a big need for that place. Because we couldn't get the human factor in order...
Bernard-Henri Levy is a French philosopher and writer.
Why Obama and Hollande Are Right on Syria Posted: 06/11/2015 03:49 AEST Updated: 06/11/2015 04:59 AEST
BASHAR AL ASSAD
Forget principles and morality. Forget, or try to forget, the quarter-million deaths for which Bashar al-Assad is responsible, directly or indirectly, since choosing to respond with violence to a peaceful uprising of the Syrian people. Set aside the fact that Assad's forces have caused 10-15 times more civilian deaths thus far than the Islamic State, whose horrific execution videos have overshadowed the Syrian dictator's invisible massacres. But even if you can purge all of this from your thoughts, a policy for Syria that posits Assad as an "alternative" to the Islamic State is simply not viable. [Comment: Regime change is sought by international banker controlled USA, its neocon supporting intelligentsia, its allies (European & Arab oil) ... & this desperation for regime change in Syria is mirrored in froggy France, while the anti-Assad neocon interests serving propaganda straddles two continents separated by the Atlantic. Wow, that sounds almost like WWII.]
Assad, after all, unleashed the Islamic State's current savagery: In May 2011, he released hundreds of Islamic radicals from prison, quickly supplying the infant group with fighters and leaders. He then methodically shelled positions held by moderate rebels, while no less methodically sparing the Islamic State's stronghold in Raqqa. And then, in mid-2014, he allowed Iraqi elements of the Islamic State to find sanctuary ineastern Syria. [Comment: 'Moderate rebels' are Western & Gulf Oil proxies in Syria and beyond, who are aligned with al-Qaeda, or al-Nusra Front who are aligned with al-Qaeda, or something like that. Some have defected to Islamic State, but Islamic State is also a proxy, so it's all 'good'.]
In other words, Assad created the monster that he is now pretending to fight. Is all that not a little much for a potential ally? Can working with Assad possibly provide a sound basis for what is supposed to be a common effort? [Comment: Preposterous frog propagandist. ISIS is the proxy army of Saudi Arabia, allied Gulf States, allied USA (and European powers), as well as Israel, as I understand -- all of whom seek regime change in Syria (and destruction of Syria has been a long-time ambition of both Israel and USA), as the Syrian government is independent of the West, does not serve the Israeli, US, Saudi and allied European agenda.]
The bottom line is that Assadhas no interest in winning. The man who now holds himself up as civilization's last bulwark against the Islamic State is also the last man who wants to see it eliminated.
After all, does a chess player, even a bad one, intentionally sacrifice his most powerful piece? Do any of us ever tear up our insurance policies? Do we really believe that Assad and his cronies are too stupid to have realized that their political survival depends on that of the Islamic State and on maintaining themselves as the keepers of the gate through which the rest of us must pass to wage war against it? [Comment: Keepers of the gate? Errr ... that's called a sovereign nation ... & the US, CIA, EU and Israel (especially Israel) have no respect for that Syrian sovereign nation. The lot of them come and go as they please, without consent of the Syrian sovereign state. Everybody knows that ISIS is the Arab States', US, Israel & EU proxy. Why is he wasting his breath? Is he insane? Plus, he neglects to mention that these Western aggressors have prevented the Assad government from effectively handling this extremist threat, and have refused to cooperate with the Assad government, towards jointly tackling the extremists (who are the West's proxies).]
"Of course not," the advocates of working with him concede. "But let's take a two-step approach. Let's defeat the Islamic State and then worry about Assad." [Comment: Yeah, whatever. But right now (10-days since this publication), David Cameron is begging Vladimir Putin not to strike their ISIS proxy, so what does that tell you, froggy?]
But this approach, too, assumes that dictators are more stupid than they really are. Worse, it ignores that politics follows its own logic, or at least its own dynamics. What the sorcerer's apprentices who want to work with Assad ignore is that they would most likely have a great deal of trouble, when the time comes, distancing themselves from an ally who would not be shy about claiming his share of the victory. As a result, jihadism would rush back in, though perhaps in a different guise. [Comment: This old man is off his head. Jihadism is there because the US & its allies have always backed Islamic militants, including the nuclear armed terrorist central, Pakistan; and they've supported Afghanistan jihadist Mujahidin (now Taliban) when the Soviets were fighting there ... they've since backed the Saudi-funded extremists in Africa and the Middle East, who have defected to the Caliphate (but it's all the same deal), and the whole lot are CIA-US and allied puppet proxies in the region.
The 'sorcerer's apprentice' is Saudi Arabia, & the Gulf Oil States, USA-Israel, the Ango-SaxonWest and their European counterparts, who support terrorist networks abroad.
They're also sending a deluge of their cousins to Europe, to meet international banker demand for economic growth in step with their greed for profit and concern for integrated markets, to keep the American economic and banking house of cards from coming undone, because it's based on the fraud of a debt-based fractional-reserve currency system, that's going to go under big time because it's a sinking ship. Oh, and they invite plenty of domestic blowback upon a defenceless public, as consequence of aggression and meddling in the Middle East and in Africa.]
"Bashar al-Assad is the Syrian state," the same people say. "And we must not commit the fatal error of destroying the state." But this argument is not valid, either. The state has already failed: Assad controls only a fifth of Syria's territory, and the remaining four-fifths will never willingly resubmit to its terrifying control. If Assad's regime prevails, the state's citizens will continue to flee in droves to Turkey, Lebanon and Europe. [Comment: USA & friends funded and supported jihadist terrorists purportedly control a sizeable portion of Syria (thanks to Western backing, which is illegal pursuant to international law). But Russia's air-strikes may alter the stakes and I hope they do.
Mass exodus from Syria is far more likely if the West's Islamic fundamentalist henchmen take over, as there's not been an exodus from Assad's Syria, but rather from Assad's Syria attacked by Western backed fundamentalist terrorists.
Note also: the VAST MAJORITY of the 'Syrian' refugees the Western press has been hyping as the 'refugee crisis' are being shipped to Europe from EVERYWHERE but Syria: reportedly only one in five is 'Syrian' -- and even that is doubtful, given easily obtainable fake IDs and discarded identification among the wave of immigrants storming Europe. The bulk are from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and other Middle Eastern and African countries.
Pakistan is refusing to accept return of their European declined citizens from Europe. But as the immigrants have destroyed their identification and cannot be positively identified, Europe is left holding these fruits of this 'Syrian' 'refugee crisis' by-Merkel-invitation that's swept over the European continent, wherever they come from and whatever their circumstances.
Quite honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Turkey, EU, Soros, international bankers, CIA (and whoever the f*ck else is geared towards regime change and destruction of Syria) is shipping those Middle Eastern immigrants across to Europe, including to an unwilling (and still sane) former eastern bloc Europe (eg Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia etc), and an unwilling European general public (save for the colluding Western intelligentsia, their various propagandists and agenda pushers, the co-opted left, and the brainwashed and brain-dead 'religiously' enthused rent-a-mob).
Unwilling Europeans, rising right, barbed wire, refusals to accept quotas etc, loss of border controls, tent cities, unidentified and unidentifiable aliens, missing aliens, bulk rape and gang rape, violence, riots etc etc ... But the scummy Western European politician banker-lapdogs persist in importing destruction to Europe, in the service of the international banking and corporate agenda. Lapdog-politicians who enable the wholesale rape of European womanhood and European native population displacement, prior to inevitable, slow genocide of the European stock ... which will come to a violent end when the numbers are tipped in favour of non-Europeans.
Philosopher and pen-pusher for the monied elites ignores that when you destroy a state you create a power vacuum, as in Libya (which is a lawless hellhole of terror and destruction 2011 to date) ... the French writer knows, because there's photos of him in Libya with what is presumably France's jihadist proxy there.]
In fact, Assad's regime cares so little for its pseudo-state that it abandons its own soldiers when they venture beyond the territory it controls, as occurred in Tabqa, near Raqqa. Baathist Syria, whatever its friends in the Kremlin and elsewhere say, is dead and buried. And no military trompe l'œil can revive it. [Comment: So why is he even bothering with this propaganda if that is the case? Ten days since the Frenchman's article was published, why is David Cameron begging the Kremlin to stop bombing his boys, ISIS?
Assad's Baathis Syria sounds like the only decent Middle Eastern government there is:
secularism
socialism
pan-Arab unionism / Arab nationalism
the rest are religious dictatorships or Western-backed religious-oil dictatorships.
The West wants to destroy the only secular country in the region, and to replace Syria's government with religious fundamentalists.]
But the supposed realists refuse to accept reality. Just as it was necessary to ally with Stalin to defeat Hitler, they claim, we should not be afraid to play the Assad card to rid ourselves of the Islamic State. Yes, jihadism is the fascism of our day, infected with plans, ideas, and a will to purity comparable to those of the Nazis. I was one of the first to suggest the comparison some 20 years ago. [Comment: This is where the propagandist just paints his paragraph-long smear because he's fond of playing in the muck that is the tool of his trade.]
And yet it is absurd to compare the power of the two phenomena, or to suggest that in the confrontation with the butchers of Mosul and Palmyra the democracies face a strategic challenge analogous to that of the Nazi Wehrmacht. This historical leap is possible only for people whose political irresponsibility is matched by their proclivity for lazy analogy.
[Comment: So, if I have this straight, he's trying to minimise the threat of ISIS, or some kind of Islamic extremist jihadists in the region.
Days after this piece of his, over 150 were killed in Paris & something like 200 were injured.
The same Evil Western Axis that's armed and backed terrorists in the Middle East is currently destroying Europe by flooding Europe with third-world rapists and consumers of state-funded support (together with their eight designated reunion-relatives to arrive in Europe in due course), 'sold' to the unwilling public as potential future wage-slaves and as cultural 'vibrants' (or some such thing), as the radical-right press would say.
Who profits? Probably the international bankers, as generations European natives will be indebted to pay for this non-Europoean invasion ... and for eternity in social and demographic terms, spellingthe destruction of Europeans as a European people. Europe is finished unless Europe goes to war immediately against its elites, which is unlikely. The European people are unarmed and powerless, and Europe is finished.]
Make no mistake: the Islamic State is strong. But it is not so strong as to leave those who would fight it with only the politics of the lesser of two evils.[Comment: Oh, do shut up, froggy. The only evil is: the Evil Western Axis' Syria regime change and destruction agenda.
Hey, that means all Western governments are party to this evil destruction of Europe.
So the West is also collectively responsible for: the rape of all those European women, the destruction of Europe, and what is genocide of the European people that we now witness ... as well as the rise of jihadists and the serial destruction of the entire Middle East. And these are the same Evil Western Axis crew and their colluding press voices that spew lies and hypocrisy, among the stock victors' propaganda about the evil of WWII National Socialists, while politicians predictably perform public worship rituals at the altar of international banker mandated 'multiculturalism', in the aftermath of another round of European blood-letting.]
The West must decide what to do. In the aftermath of last week's peace talks in Vienna, which convened the United States, Russia, Iran, China, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, and key European Union members, that question becomes increasingly difficult. Should we equip what remains of the Free Syrian Army? Should we deal with the few remaining Alawite leaders whose hands are not stained with blood, or those members of Assad's clan who chose exile early and thus were not involved in the massacres? [Comment: Free Syrian Army (FSA) are the Gulf Oil & Western proxy 'moderate rebels' -- ie jihadists of the al-Qaeda affiliation kind.]
Perhaps there is still be time to bring together, on neutral ground, some of the elements that comprised the old Syria. Or perhaps more radical solutions -- of the type implemented in Germany and Japan after World War II -- are now required. [Comment: What's he proposing, an atomic bomb or something? Occupation? Who cares. This Frenchy propagandist lives in Disneyland.]
All of these paths remain open, but they are narrowing. And none of them depends on the political survival of Bashar al-Assad. [Comment: If this is how desperate this master French intelligentsia trans-Atlantic propagandist is to fulfil the agenda of deposing Bashar al_Assad, Assad's bound to be legitimate and deserves support. Long Live Bashar al-Assad!]
Levy's site indicates this was also published on: The World Post (TWP)
-- TWP linked to Huffington Post (which has also published this article)
-- Huffington Post appears to be a shameless neocon rag (to borrow the terminology of a former UK ambassador, I think it was ;) )
-- Huffingon Post in Germany harasses, publicly 'shames' & thereby exposes to all manner of violence and hate crimes from the brainwashed, deranged, and violent left and beyond, the ordinary German public that is opposed to the international banker project: mass third world immigration.
Updated: Israeli General Captured in Iraq Confesses to Israel-Isis Coalition
TIMES OF ISRAEL
Says Otherwise
By Nahed Al-Husaini on October 21, 2015
“There is a strong cooperation betweenMOSSAD and ISIS top military commanders...Israeli advisors helping the Organization on laying out strategic and military plans, and guiding them in the battlefield”
Israeli BrigadierYussi Elon Shahakcaptured by the Iraqi popular army confessed during the investigation that…
“There is a strong cooperation between MOSSAD and ISIS top military commanders,” asserting that “there are Israeli advisors helping the Organization on laying out strategic and military plans, and guiding them in the battlefield.”
The terrorist organization also has military consultants from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Jordan.
Saudi Arabia has so far provided ISIS with 30,000 vehicles, while Jordan rendered 4500 vehicles. Qatar and United Arab Emirates delivered funds for covering ISIS overall expenditure.
Israeli commander working with Daesh arrested in Iraq: Popular forces
TIMES OF ISRAEL
Says Otherwise
Tue Nov 3, 2015 6:45PM
According to a report by Iran’s Fars news agency, sources in Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) say they have arrestedColonel Yussi Elon Shahak during an operation against Daesh.
The report said Shahak was arrested along with a number of key Daesh members, saying he is currently being interrogated by Iraq’s intelligence officials to determine the degree and type of support the Tel Aviv regime has been providing to militants fighting against the Iraqi government.
...
The report by Fars cited military intelligence showing that Shahak is registered with Golani Brigade, an elite force which was formed in 1948 and is known as the 1st Brigade of the regular Israeli infantry. A military registration number was also provided in the report.
The capture could be seen as a major setback for Israel as it has repeatedly denied having links to Daesh. Previous reports from the Golan Heights, an area separating Syria from the occupied Palestinian territories, had shown that foreign-backed Takfiri terrorists had received assistance from the Israeli military. Israelis have openly confirmed that they have hosted some militants in their field hospitals and provided them with medical care.
Official Iranian mouthpiece and others claim former IDF chief caught while aiding Islamic State. Er, no
By Judah Ari Gross October 28, 2015, 8:24 pm
Rumors that a high-ranking IDF officer had been captured while working alongside Islamic State forces began circulating on the Internet last week, beginning on assorted websites dedicated almost solely to starting and perpetuating conspiracy theories and later being picked up by the Iranian government’s official mouthpiece Fars news.
By Stephen Lendman
Global Research, September 05, 2013
It did so formally. It didn’t surprise. It has more than Syria in mind. A previous article explained.
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations wants war. AIPAC is its best known member.
It’s a blight on humanity. It’s an unregistered foreign agent. It operates illegally. It does so destructively.
It promotes war. It deplores peace. It supports the worst of Israeli crimes. It supports its most unprincipled interests.
It controls US administrations and Congress. Edward Said called it “the most powerful and feared lobby in Washington.”
In a matter of hours, he said, it can mobilize unanimous Senate support for Israel. Political Washington bows to its will. It does so disgracefully. It does it destructively.
It’s doing it now. In days, Congress will rubber-stamp Obama’s intended lawless aggression on Syria. He plans mass killing and destruction.
AIPACendorses it. On September 3, it headlined ”Press Statement on Syrian Resolution,” saying:
“AIPAC urges Congress to grant the President the authority he has requested to protect America’s national security interests and dissuade the Syrian regime’s further use of unconventional weapons.”
“The civilized world cannot tolerate the use of these barbaric weapons, particularly against an innocent civilian population including hundreds of children.”
“Simply put, barbarism on a mass scale must not be given a free pass.”
“This is a critical moment when America must also send a forceful messageof resolve to Iran and Hezbollah – both of whom have provided direct and extensive military support to Assad.”
“The Syrian regime and its Iranianally have repeatedly demonstrated that they will not respect civilized norms.”
“That is why America must act, and why we must prevent further proliferation of unconventional weapons in this region.”
“America’s allies and adversaries are closely watching the outcome of this momentous vote. This critical decision comes at a time when Iran is racing toward obtaining nuclear capability.”
“Failure to approve this resolution would weaken our country’s credibility to prevent the use and proliferation of unconventional weapons and thereby greatly endanger our country’s security and interests and those ofour regional allies.”
“AIPAC maintains that it is imperative to adopt the resolution to authorize the use of force, and take a firm stand that the world’s most dangerous regimes cannot obtain and use the most dangerous weapons.”
AIPAC’s one of 51 US Zionist organizations. The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CPMAJO) represents them.
AIPAC’s best known. Both organizations work cooperatively. CPMAJO largely focuses on US administrations. AIPAC mostly lobbies Congress.
They seek unequivocal support for Israel. They’re in lockstep for war on Syria. On September 3, the CPMAJO said:
“The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations said today that the use of chemical weapons violates fundamental international norms and principles.”
“The use of such indiscriminate weapons of mass destruction represents moral challenges that require a strong response. It also poses vital national security concerns to the US and to our interests and to those of our allies in the region.”
AIPAC to Deploy Hundreds of Lobbyists to Push for Syria Action
Reuters Sep 07, 2013 7:33 PM
Pro-Israel lobby says 250 activists will meet with their senators and representatives in Washington in a bid to win support Congressional support for military action in Syria.
The influential pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee will deploy hundreds of activists next week to win support in Congress for military action in Syria, amid an intense White House effort to convince wavering U.S. lawmakers to vote for limited strikes.
"We plan a major lobbying effort with about 250 activists in Washington to meet with their senators and representatives," an AIPAC source said on Saturday.
Congressional aides said they expected the meetings and calls on Tuesday, as President Barack Obama and officials from his administration make their case for missile strikes over the apparent use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar Assad's government.
The vote on action in Syria is a significant political test for Obama and a major push by AIPAC, considered one of the most powerful lobbying groups in Washington, could provide a boost.
The U.S. Senate is due to vote on a resolution to authorize the use of military force as early as Wednesday. Leaders of the House of Representatives have not yet said when they would vote beyond saying consideration of an authorization is "possible" sometime this week.
Obama has asked Congress to approve strikes against Assad's government in response to a chemical weapons attack on Aug. 21 that killed more than 1,400 Syrians. [Groundless accusation - see MIT research & report (below)]
But many Republicans and several of Obama's fellow Democrats have not been enthused about the prospect, partly because war-weary Americans strongly oppose getting involved in another Middle Eastern conflict. [Not enthused? Got to be kidding. American politicians live for war ... especially on Syria.]
Pro-Israel groups had largely kept a low profile on Syria as the Obama administration sought to build its case for limited strikes after last month's attack on rebel-held areas outside Damascus.
Supporters of the groups and government sources acknowledged they had made it known that they supported U.S. action, concerned about instability in neighboring Syria and what message inaction might send to Assad's ally, Iran.
But they had generally wanted the debate to focus on U.S. national security rather than how a decision to attack Syria might help Israel, a reflection of their sensitivity to being seen as rooting for the United States to go to war. [US national security? It's not Mexico, you know. Syria's in the Middle East ... right up next to Israel.]
A new MIT report is challenging the US claim that Assad forces used chemical weapons in an attack last August, highlighting that the range of the improvised rocket was way too short to have been launched from govt controlled areas.
In the report titled “Possible Implications of Faulty US Technical Intelligence,” Richard Lloyd, a former UN weapons inspector, and Theodore Postol, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), examined the delivery rocket’s design and calculated possible trajectories based on the payload of the cargo.
The authors concluded that sarin gas “could not possibly have been fired at East Ghouta from the ‘heart’, or from the Eastern edge, of the Syrian government controlled area shown in the intelligence map published by the White House on August 30, 2013.”
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Love how Bernard-Henri Levy began with "Forget principles and morality ...". Was he trying to inject some humour into his article?
Bit confused about who did the Paris attack.
If al-Qaeda & ISIS are Western & Gulf State proxies, why are extremists on the payroll attacking Paris? Oh, I remember, they've sort of gone rogue or AWOL now.
UPDATE:
It looks like Hollande publicised in Le Monde in late 2014 delivery of arms to the 'moderate rebels', who are the al-Nusra associated faction (who are an associated al-Qaeda faction), that's in opposition to the ISIS faction ... unless they defect.
“We cannot leave the only Syrians who are preparing a democracy ... without weapons,” he added.
Would ISIS wait a whole year to respond with an attack? It seems too long a wait. Not sure.
I can't figure how the West is getting away with backing terrorists in Syria when it is illegal pursuant to international law to arm (and presumably fund) actors to take down a sovereign government.
Arms reach Syria from Jordan and I'm guessing also Turkey ... and it appears France was openly arming the Syrian opposition as at late 2014.
The 'chemical weapons' thing is similar to the 'weapons of mass destruction' illegal attack that was carried out in Iraq, only in this case the chemicals came from the 'moderate rebels' as the most likely source -- so it was a false flag attack, aiming to make a target of the al-Assad government.
The above 'Israel lobby' article is just a random one that popped up when I searched for "Israel lobby" and "Syria". Wanted to make sure I was right, in making the above statement.
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UPDATED with Times of Israel refuted of captured Israeli Colonel.
Press TV is the official Iranian press agency.
The operators of Veterans Today are unknown to me.
Its site is registered by proxy, but is presumably an American site.
The author of the article would be: Nahed al Husaini Lancaster of Veterans Today.
As the article author appears in this article (here), I'm going to assume that the Veterans Today site is a genuine news outlet. But, yeah, on taking a second look at the VT article, it is rather odd. I think I just skimmed over that first part, but I'm not sure why.
The Israeli article goes on to discuss the photograph regarding the 'captured Colonel' who isn't a colonel and hasn't been captured.
So is there a captured Israeli of any description in Iraq, or what?
PressTV I'd trust.
Fars News, not so much. Especially as there's yet another proxy registration.
Not sure why PressTV would print something that might be dodgy.
Popular Mobilization Forces (Iraq) is a Shia militia umbrella group drawn together to defend against ISIS - here.
If they really did have an Israeli military guy, I suppose there might have been a bit more fanfare than this. As in, you'd think there'd be a huge press conference or something to mark the occasion.
PS
Some reading for those that think my predictions for Europe are exaggerated. Article was enough for me, but there's a video also. Just one report of multitudes of horrifying reports of dramas etc in Europe -- and the politicians, the liberal left network, and the wider intelligentsia and the media continue to push an unsound ideology (and consequences) on the public:
WATCH: Journalist Stoned While Trying To Film In Swedish No Go Zone
by Liam Deacon | 27 Oct 2015
A Swedish journalist attempting to make a movie about the residents of a Swedish no go zone and their habit of throwing stones at police has herself been attacked and had stones thrown at her as she attempted to film.
“They thought we crossed the limit and that we were standing on their land,” journalist Valentina Xhaferi told Swedish newspaper Expressen.
Ms Xhaferi planned on investigating police reports that any officer trying to patrol the Stockholm district of Tensta – with its foreign born population now over 70 per cent – would be pelted with rocks. She wanted to get behind the black headlines and find out what was really troubling the poor residents.
[ ... ]
But as they waited, another man, who appeared to be upset, approach to ask why they were filming. He went away only to return with his gang.
“Then he became very, very angry and said he’ll get stones and show us what stoning is. When I saw that he was armed with a stone I just wanted to get out of there,” said Ms Xhaferi.
At this point more three men appeared from a subway and demanded to know what they were doing. The camera was recording, and captured the moment the men kicked the equipment to the floor, shouted insults at Ms. Xhaferi and poured coffee on the cameraman before running off.
“It was impossible to calm them down. I pulled back and tried to calm down everyone, while trying to get my colleague and myself out of there.
Police estimate that there are around 55 such areas in Swedensimilar to the Tensta no go zone, which was the site of a riot in 2012, and which boasts a 95-100 per cent foreign origin rate for children living there.
EU-NATO IMPERIALISM ❌ 
