Pentagon
Orders Hundreds Of Military Families To Evacuate Turkey
28
March, 2016
Has
the US finally had enough of its "ally" Erdogan?
Moments
ago the DOD
announced that
the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of
State, has authorized the ordered departure of all DoD dependents not
assigned to Chief of Mission authority from Adana (to include
Incirlik Air Base), Ismir, and Mugla, Turkey. This
decision allows for the deliberate, safe return of family members
from these areas due to continued security concerns in the region.
It
adds that while "this step does not signify a permanent decision
to end accompanied tours at these facilities", the evacuation
"is
intended to mitigate the risk to DoD elements and personnel,
including family members, while ensuring the combat effectiveness of
U.S. forces and our mission support to operations in Turkey. The
United States and Turkey are united in our common fight against ISIL,
and Incirlik continues to play a key role in counter-ISIL
operations."
“The decision to move our families and civilians was made in consultation with the Government of Turkey, our State Department, and our Secretary of Defense,” said Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, Commander, U.S. European Command. “We understand this is disruptive to our military families, but we must keep them safe and ensure the combat effectiveness of our forces to support our strong Ally Turkey in the fight against terrorism.”
The Pentagon is ordering the evacuation of nearly 700 military family members from Incirlik Air Base and two smaller military installations in Turkey because of concerns over the deteriorating security environment there.
Families are expected to begin leaving Turkey on Wednesday, stopping first at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, before continuing on to the States or other duty locations, U.S. European Command told Stars and Stripes.
“We understand this is disruptive to our military families, but we must keep them safe and ensure the combat effectiveness of our forces to support our strong ally Turkey in the fight against terrorism,” EUCOM chief Gen. Philip Breedlove said Tuesday in a statement.
The mandatory departure order, announced by the State Department, affects nearly all Defense Department dependents assigned to Incirlik, as well as those at smaller bases in Izmir and Mugla.
About 670 dependents are expected to be evacuated, along with 287 pets. About 770 dependents, most from Incirlik, are currently in Turkey, EUCOM spokeswoman Julie Weckerlein said. Those allowed to stay are the family members of mission-essential personnel.
This
is all taking place one
day after the Turkey Foreign Ministry,
outraged by a satirical clip making fun of the Turkish President and
his recent policies that was broadcast on German television, summoned
the German Ambassador for official explanations. Following the
broadcast of the satirical piece titled “Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan”
on NDR show titled “Extra 3” on March 17, German Ambassador
Martin Erdmann was summoned up several days later to officially
explain “in length” the reasons for the broadcaster’s behavior,
Der Speigel has learned.
The
one minute and 52 second long satire package showing footage from
recent history in Turkey criticized Erdogan's increased crackdown on
the freedom of the press and hostile policies in the region,
including Turkey’s alleged support for Islamic State (IS, formerly
ISIS/ISIL) fighters in neighboring Syria.
The video also focused on the lavish living of the Turkish president and his multibillion euro deals with the Europeans to keep migrants at bay. The broadcast on German television comes at a time when Germany, as part of EU is actively seeking closer ties with Turkey to help tackle the migrant crisis in Europe.
Erdogan’s
crackdown on journalists and restrictions on freedom of speech have
been repeatedly criticized by the international community, along with
Ankara’s controversial anti-terrorists campaign against Kurdish
militants which inflicted much suffering on Turkey’s minority
population.
The
day the satirical piece was aired, RT launched a petition calling for
a UNHRC-led investigation into claims of alleged mass killing of
Kurdish civilians committed by the Turkish military during Ankara’s
crackdown on Kurds in the country's southeast.
The
video is below:
Turkey 'demands deletion' of German video mocking Erdoğan
Ankara
summons German envoy to explain song lampooning Turkish president,
according to reports
Why
can’t Europe protect itself from terror attacks – does Brussels
have misplaced priorities? Also, Russia as universal bogeyman –
when the U.S. and the EU stare failure in the face blaming Russia is
the first excuse of convenience. And is Trump on to something –
should there be a serious re-think about the necessity of NATO? And
finally Ukraine again – Crimea’s democratic return to Russia two
years on...
CrossTalking
with Patrick Henningsen, Dmitry Babich, and Xavier Moreau
Syrian soldiers celebrating their victory on ISIS in Palmyra
The
Russian Special Forces officer who was killed during the operation to
liberate Palmyra from the Daesh terrorist group has been named as
25-year-old Alexander Prokhorenko, who ordered air forces to strike
his position after he was discovered by Daesh terrorists.
A
Russian Special Forces Officer called the "Russian Rambo"
by the international press for his act of heroism in Syria has been
named as 25-year-old Alexander Prokhorenko.
Vladimir
Putin and Bashar al-Assad Have Liberated Syria from the USA and
“Jihadist Alliance”
Eric
Zuesse
Uprooted
Palestinian
29
March, 2016
It
has been an alliance between the leaderships of U.S., Turkey, Saudi
Arabia, Qatar, and UAE; but, regardless of whether it’s called “the
U.S. alliance” or “the Saudi alliance,” or even (possibly) “the
Turkish alliance” (and it could be called by any of those three
names), it’s the jihadist alliance, and it now seems to be near its
final defeat, by, quite clearly, the Russian alliance: Russian air
power has enabled the Syrian army (called the SAA or “Syrian Arab
Army”) of Bashar al-Assad, plus Lebanon’s Shiite warriors (called
“Hezbollah”), plus organization by Iran’s generals, to
exterminate thousands of ISIS jihadists. The pro-Syrian alliance,
under Russian air-power, are now making final preparations to finish
the job, in the Syrian headquarters of ISIS — the city of Raqqa,
where ISIS’s “Caliph” is, who could soon be meeting his end.
This
major military victory, in Palmyra — the
center of the Jihadist-controlled region of Syria (and located south
of Raqqa, separated from it only by desert) —
was announced on Easter Sunday, 27 March 2016, by the website Syrian
Perspective (one of the world’s two great news-sites covering the
Syrian war, the other being Al
Masdar News),
as they headlined, “Palmyra
Liberated! General Ayyoob Reviews Troops in Aftermath of Enormous
Victory; What’s Next?” Reporter Ziad
Fadelopened:
HOMS:
The rats inside were finally given the go-ahead to withdraw
to Al-Sukhna, Al-Raqqa and Dayr El-Zor, but not by the
rodent commanders in Al-Raqqa. This was a desperate order by
Abu-Ihaab Al-‘Iraaqi, the local commander who, evidently,
values his life on earth a lot more than what was promised to him by
the shamans of ISIS This morning at 5:00 a.m., the SAA
had confirmation from sources inside the city that the piece-meal
escape was taking place. The Syrian high command ordered troops
to stand down until the last rodent had left, after which time
the SAAF and RuAF would take to the skies to see how many of the
stragglers could be exterminated. It’s over.
The
Syrian and Russian Air Forces have been directed into the air to
block any movement of terrorist ISIS rodents to any area
considered a stronghold.
This means that no deal was ever struck between the army and the
murderers inside the city. Instead, what happened was the army
was commanded to permit a withdrawal with the understanding that
escaped rats would still be targets once the city was liberated. As I
write, SAA engineers are everywhere inside the city removing
IEDs, booby-traps and mines. It’s a thankless task replete with
danger, but, it must be done in order to return the population
to a safe city.
He
went on to explain that the head of SAA’s Special Forces unit,
called “Tiger Forces,” “is very keen on being the leader of the
force which will liberate Al-Raqqa and his forces to the east of
Aleppo are preparing for exactly that.”
The
key question now is whether a deal can be reached with Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi, ISIS’s leader or “Caliph,” in Raqqa — a deal
which won’t require the entire population of Raqqa to be massacred,
in order for the Russian alliance to eliminate all of ISIS’s
leadership, and all of its jihadists there. Ideally,
some way will be found to salvage at least some of the civilian
population who are being held, essentially as slaves, by ISIS.
However, Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, has stated, on several
occasions, that what’s most essential is for the jihadists in
Syria, and in Iraq, to be killed where they are — not allowed to
escape to become terrorist cells in Russia or anywhere else (as has
been happening, though not on the huge scale that would result if
Baghdadi and his jihadists are allowed to escape.
In
a related event that also signals the defeat of the terrorist
alliance, Middle East Eye, yet another of the key independent
reporting sites regarding the war in Syria — and specializing on
the entire Middle Eastern region — headlined on Friday the 25th of
March, “Jordan’s
King Accuses Turkey of Sending Terrorists to Europe,” and
David Hearst reported:
King
Abdullah of Jordan accused Turkey of exporting terrorists to Europe
at a top level meeting with senior US politicians in January, the MEE
can reveal.
The
king said Europe’s biggest refugee crisis was not an accident, and
neither was the presence of terrorists among them: “The fact that
terrorists are going to Europe is part of Turkish policy and
Turkey keeps on getting a slap on the hand, but they are let off the
hook.”
Asked
by one of the congressmen present whether the Islamic State group was
exporting oil to Turkey, Abdullah replied: ”Absolutely.”
In
other words: the U.S. alliance is coming apart, at least at the
edges, when the reality becomes revealed — despite the long hiding
of this fact on the part of Western ‘news’ media — that the
U.S.-Saudi-Qatari-Turkish-UAE-Israeli alliance has been supporting
jihadist Sunni groups in order to weaken the only non-Sunni-run
nations in the Middle East, Syria and Iran, both of which (and
Syria’s government is more properly to be
called non-sectarian than
Shiite, because the Ba’athist Party, which has been leading Syria
since the 1950s, is ideologically committed to secularism and against
sectarianism of
any type,
neither Shiite nor Sunni nor any) have allied themselves with Russia,
instead of with the U.S.
The
origin of the CIA aspect of this operation was well covered in an
extraordinary BBC documentary in 1992,
and the broader aristocratic operation was reported in my
article, “The
Two Contending Visions of World Government.” During
Obama’s Presidency, one of the major physical battlefields in this
global war has been in Syria; another, in Ukraine,
Obama’s coup there,
was well covered here.
Investigative
historian Eric
Zuesse is
the author, most recently, of They’re
Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records,
1910-2010, and
of CHRIST’S
VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
The
original source of this article is Global Research
Vladimir
Putin and Bashar al-Assad Have Liberated Syria from the USA and
“Jihadist Alliance”
Eric
Zuesse
Uprooted
Palestinian
29
March, 2016
It
has been an alliance between the leaderships of U.S., Turkey, Saudi
Arabia, Qatar, and UAE; but, regardless of whether it’s called “the
U.S. alliance” or “the Saudi alliance,” or even (possibly) “the
Turkish alliance” (and it could be called by any of those three
names), it’s the jihadist alliance, and it now seems to be near its
final defeat, by, quite clearly, the Russian alliance: Russian air
power has enabled the Syrian army (called the SAA or “Syrian Arab
Army”) of Bashar al-Assad, plus Lebanon’s Shiite warriors (called
“Hezbollah”), plus organization by Iran’s generals, to
exterminate thousands of ISIS jihadists. The pro-Syrian alliance,
under Russian air-power, are now making final preparations to finish
the job, in the Syrian headquarters of ISIS — the city of Raqqa,
where ISIS’s “Caliph” is, who could soon be meeting his end.
This
major military victory, in Palmyra — the
center of the Jihadist-controlled region of Syria (and located south
of Raqqa, separated from it only by desert) —
was announced on Easter Sunday, 27 March 2016, by the website Syrian
Perspective (one of the world’s two great news-sites covering the
Syrian war, the other being Al
Masdar News),
as they headlined, “Palmyra
Liberated! General Ayyoob Reviews Troops in Aftermath of Enormous
Victory; What’s Next?” Reporter Ziad
Fadelopened:
HOMS: The rats inside were finally given the go-ahead to withdraw to Al-Sukhna, Al-Raqqa and Dayr El-Zor, but not by the rodent commanders in Al-Raqqa. This was a desperate order by Abu-Ihaab Al-‘Iraaqi, the local commander who, evidently, values his life on earth a lot more than what was promised to him by the shamans of ISIS This morning at 5:00 a.m., the SAA had confirmation from sources inside the city that the piece-meal escape was taking place. The Syrian high command ordered troops to stand down until the last rodent had left, after which time the SAAF and RuAF would take to the skies to see how many of the stragglers could be exterminated. It’s over.
The Syrian and Russian Air Forces have been directed into the air to block any movement of terrorist ISIS rodents to any area considered a stronghold. This means that no deal was ever struck between the army and the murderers inside the city. Instead, what happened was the army was commanded to permit a withdrawal with the understanding that escaped rats would still be targets once the city was liberated. As I write, SAA engineers are everywhere inside the city removing IEDs, booby-traps and mines. It’s a thankless task replete with danger, but, it must be done in order to return the population to a safe city.
He
went on to explain that the head of SAA’s Special Forces unit,
called “Tiger Forces,” “is very keen on being the leader of the
force which will liberate Al-Raqqa and his forces to the east of
Aleppo are preparing for exactly that.”
The
key question now is whether a deal can be reached with Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi, ISIS’s leader or “Caliph,” in Raqqa — a deal
which won’t require the entire population of Raqqa to be massacred,
in order for the Russian alliance to eliminate all of ISIS’s
leadership, and all of its jihadists there. Ideally,
some way will be found to salvage at least some of the civilian
population who are being held, essentially as slaves, by ISIS.
However, Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, has stated, on several
occasions, that what’s most essential is for the jihadists in
Syria, and in Iraq, to be killed where they are — not allowed to
escape to become terrorist cells in Russia or anywhere else (as has
been happening, though not on the huge scale that would result if
Baghdadi and his jihadists are allowed to escape.
In
a related event that also signals the defeat of the terrorist
alliance, Middle East Eye, yet another of the key independent
reporting sites regarding the war in Syria — and specializing on
the entire Middle Eastern region — headlined on Friday the 25th of
March, “Jordan’s
King Accuses Turkey of Sending Terrorists to Europe,” and
David Hearst reported:
King Abdullah of Jordan accused Turkey of exporting terrorists to Europe at a top level meeting with senior US politicians in January, the MEE can reveal.
The king said Europe’s biggest refugee crisis was not an accident, and neither was the presence of terrorists among them: “The fact that terrorists are going to Europe is part of Turkish policy and Turkey keeps on getting a slap on the hand, but they are let off the hook.”
Asked by one of the congressmen present whether the Islamic State group was exporting oil to Turkey, Abdullah replied: ”Absolutely.”
In
other words: the U.S. alliance is coming apart, at least at the
edges, when the reality becomes revealed — despite the long hiding
of this fact on the part of Western ‘news’ media — that the
U.S.-Saudi-Qatari-Turkish-UAE-Israeli alliance has been supporting
jihadist Sunni groups in order to weaken the only non-Sunni-run
nations in the Middle East, Syria and Iran, both of which (and
Syria’s government is more properly to be
called non-sectarian than
Shiite, because the Ba’athist Party, which has been leading Syria
since the 1950s, is ideologically committed to secularism and against
sectarianism of
any type,
neither Shiite nor Sunni nor any) have allied themselves with Russia,
instead of with the U.S.
The
origin of the CIA aspect of this operation was well covered in an
extraordinary BBC documentary in 1992,
and the broader aristocratic operation was reported in my
article, “The
Two Contending Visions of World Government.” During
Obama’s Presidency, one of the major physical battlefields in this
global war has been in Syria; another, in Ukraine,
Obama’s coup there,
was well covered here.
Investigative
historian Eric
Zuesse is
the author, most recently, of They’re
Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records,
1910-2010, and
of CHRIST’S
VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
The
original source of this article is Global Research
U.S. Still Demands Assad’s Removal in Syria
Eric
Zuesse
28 March, 2016
A news
report from Russia’s Interfax News Service quotes “the
press-secretary of the US embassy in Moscow,” whom it identifies as
“William Stevens,” as saying that during a meeting U.S. CIA
Director William Brennan had in Moscow with “Russia officials”
“in early March,” “Director Brennan” chose “to emphasize
with Russian officials the importance of Russia and the Assad regime
following through on their agreements to implement the cessation of
hostilities in Syria” and that, “Director Brennan also reiterated
the US government’s consistent support for a genuine political
transition in Syria, and the need for Assad’s departure in order to
facilitate a transition that reflects the will of the Syrian people.”
All
of this is from Russia’s Sputnik
News, that allegedly “William Stevens told RIA Novosti.”
Western
news services are citing that Russian source as the sole source in
their own reporting of the matter; and no denial has yet been issued
by the U.S. government.
If
the allegation is true, then the U.S., “in early March,” was
demanding “Assad’s departure,” despite there being no
participation of the Syrian people in that decision — no new
election in Syria, much less Assad’s losing any such election; and,
yet, Mr. Brennan was demanding this, “in order to facilitate a
transition that reflects the will of the Syrian people,” somehow
(despite there being no democratic process whatsoever).
Even
Western polling firms have been finding that Assad’s
remaining as Syria’s leader is supported by 55% of Syrians, and
that the
U.S. is blamed by 82% of Syrians as being the source of Syria’s
civil war: “82% agree ‘IS [Islamic State] is US and foreign
made group’.” In other words: Syrians, the most secular, the most
anti-theocratic, people in the entire Middle East, blame people such
as John Brennan as the source of their miseries. This same poll found
that “79% agree ‘Foreign fighters made war worse’.” It also
found: “70% agree ‘Oppose division of country’.”
The
Obama Administration favors breaking Syria up into sectarian
enclaves: Alawite-Shiite, versus Sunni, versus Druze, versus Kurd.
This would be essential in order to permit Saudi Arabia to build an
oil pipeline into Europe through the Sunni part of Syria, and Qatar
also to build a gas pipeline through the Sunni part of Syria, both in
order to get their (U.S.-corporate-backed) oil and gas into Europe,
so as to replace Russia’s main market for its oil and gas, which is
the EU.
The
same poll also found that “65% agree ‘Syrians can live together
again’.”
Clearly,
American involvement in the political process in Syria is unwelcomed,
if not loathed, by the Syrian people. They don’t want the U.S. to
continue supporting the jihadists who are destroying their country;
and they also don’t want the U.S. dictating that Bashar al-Assad
will stop being their leader.
None
of these facts are brought up by any of the moderators in the U.S.
Presidential candidates’ debates. However, some of those moderators
are on my email list for all of my news-reports (which have covered
all of these matters), and therefore it would seem unlikely that the
reason for the matter’s not being covered — at all — is that
they are ignorant of the reality. The explanation must be something
other than ignorance.
Probable Cause with Sibel Edmonds: Syria & the Real Winners of a Synthetic Conflict
In
this episode we are going to briefly discuss synthetic conflicts. In
particular we’ll be looking at the real gains and the real winners-
rather than getting lost in the distortion maze that has been
designed by the deep state, and implemented via their propaganda
tentacles-Media. With all the talk on the ISIL conflict, and with all
the speculations surrounding Russia’s in-and-out of Syria maneuver,
it is time to put aside the lenses provided by the media (aka the
deep state propaganda machine), bring out the magnifier, and search
for the truth of these matters by following the money.
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