Posted on 02/02/2016 7:47:35 AM PST by BeadCounter
Russian warplanes in Syria are targeting civilian oil refineries and trucks while deliberately ignoring ISIS facilities to allow the extremist group to continue its oil trade with the Assad regime, local activists claim.
Citizen journalists from the Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently group claimed Russia's airstrikes are aimed at destroying local oil facilities which are mostly owned by the local population 'and have no direct links with ISIS'.
Oil trucks that move between the ISIS-held cities of Deir Ezzor and Raqqa, owned by civilians, are also targeted by Russian jets.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Too bad, ISIS is not being fought.
"a recent investigation conducted by Novaya Gazeta, one of the few independent newspapers left in Russia, complicates this cozy tale of counterterrorist cooperation. Based on extensive fieldwork in one village in the North Caucasus, reporter Elena Milashina has concluded that the "Russian special services have controlled" the flow of jihadists into Syria, where they have lately joined up not only with ISIS but other radical Islamist factions.
In other words, Russian officials are adding to the ranks of terrorists which the Russian government has deemed a collective threat to the security and longevity of its dictatorial ally on the Mediterranean, Bashar al-Assad."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/23/russia-s-playing-a-double-game-with-islamic-terror0.html
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Understanding Provocation [Provokatsiya]
One of the most powerful tools the Kremlin has in its secret arsenal of Special War is provocation, what they call provokatsiya.
While Moscow cannot claim to have invented this technique, which has existed as long as there have been secret services, there's no doubt that Russians have perfected the art and taken it to a whole new level of sophistication and deviousness. At times, it can become a strategy all on its own (not always, mind you, with edifying results).
Provokatsiya simply means taking control of your enemies in secret and encouraging them to do things that discredit them and help you. You plant your own agents provocateurs and flip legitimate activists [in this case, dupe actual Jihadis -ETL], turning them to your side.
When you're dealing with extremists to start with, getting them to do crazy, self-defeating things isn't often difficult. In some cases, you simply create extremists and terrorists where they don't exist. This is causing problems in order to solve them, and since the Tsarist period, Russian intelligence has been known to do just that.
While this isn't a particularly nice technique, it works surprisingly well, particularly if you don't care about bloody and messy consequences. ..."
http://20committee.com/2014/03/29/understanding-provocation/
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In other words, it's like starting a fire, or pouring gasoline on a fire, in order to be the 'big hero', being first on the scene to put it out. Except in this case, you get to grab control over the buildings and town you helped 'saved' from the fire you helped to start.
Posted By: TRT NEWS October 31, 2015
Prague, Czech Republic - Russia is orchestrating, coordinating, and funding the ongoing invasion of European countries by Muslim, military-age males, the Czech Defense Minister shared with IDNES.cz on October 10th, 2015.
According to Martin Stropnicky, the Defense Minister for the Czech Republic, he was informed by the Hungarian Defense Minister Istvan Simicsko that Russia was financing the busing of military-age Islamic males across the borders of the Balkan nations.
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Speculation has been rife for some time now that Russian forces have been plotting a ground invasion to retake the former satellite states of the Soviet Union, and eventually capturing the European capitals.
The overwhelming of these nations' borders, social services, and law enforcement mechanisms would destabilize and weaken the internal security controls when Russian military units would make their move.
"The Russian Federation does not desire a unified and cohesive European Union," Stropnicky said in the interview. "I do not envision the current invasion ceasing anytime soon."
As the Russian Federation has modernized its military forces and transformed its military theory to a hybrid combination of special forces, infantry, and airpower, it has made impressive advances in its latest generation tank and fighter jet, both of which purportedly claim to be superior to American counterparts. ..."
We didn’t destroy oil infrastructure in IRQ, but we did target delivery outlets- to strangle the IRQ army and degrade their mobility. If RUs has some collusion going on with Assad ( of course right) keeping SYR/IRQ oil facilities intact is in their future interests. Strangling the trans capability and by extension the revenue end is a wise strategy. Recovery later for both gov and civ concerns is expedited by protecting infrastructure, we do the same.
I am so glad I am not running for President. I would be bald from the stress.
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Sounds like anti-Assad propaganda. The Catholic Patriarch of Syria thanked the Russians publically.
They will get around to ISIS (the article says that even now 30% of Russian airstrikes are against ISIS), but their priority is the rebel groups in the West (which are closer to unseating Assad).
The Russians are fighting at the strategic level - to cut off all the rebels (including ISIS) from their Turkish support first. When the supply lines are cut, it will be much less costly to overrun ISIS positions (while they are out of ammo and suffering desertions).
The Russians also know that if they take out ISIS first, the Turks, Saudis and Obama will be back to supporting the other groups to overthrow Assad. So they plan to defeat those forces first, and save ISIS for later.
“Czech Defense Minister: “Russia is Orchestrating Muslim Invasion of Europe””
Wasn’t the Soviets responsible for creating the PLO?
Well gosh, if Syrian activists say this is true, then it must be. LOL
This is retarded, if ISIS controls an area every drop of oil produced there is theirs. The Russian bombing is the only thing that has hurt them. Now it has provoked some fun British propaganda.
“Oil trucks that move between the ISIS-held cities of Deir Ezzor and Raqqa, owned by civilians, are also targeted by Russian jets.”
The transport trucks attacked by the P-47 Thunderbolts yesterday as they were moving between Munich and Berlin were actually owned by private companies.
“local activists claim”
Dude, why you blowed up my truck. No warning pamphlets were dropped either.
All of this is an information war. We are actually angry that they are also attacking “our” rebels too. Bear in mind McCains boys are literally Al Qeida. Yes, THAT Al Qeida from 9/11.
The truth is that the Russians are hurting the rebels badly and we and the EU and the Saudis and Gulf states deeply resent it.
COMMUNIST ROOTS OF PALESTINIAN TERROR
As the conflict between the Arab States and Israel hardened after the Israeli War of Independence and throughout the 1950s, Egypt’s President Nasser, the acknowledged leader of the Arab world, came to see that Palestinian nationalism, if carefully manipulated, could be an asset instead of just a threat and an annoyance.
The Egyptian leader saw the value in being able to deploy a force that did his bidding but was not part of Egypt’s formal military — a force that could make tactical strikes and then disappear into the amorphous demography of the West Bank or the Gaza Strip, giving Egypt plausible deniability for the mayhem it had created. But Nasser’s ability to support such a useful homegrown terrorist group was limited by the failed economy over which he presided; and so, in 1964, he was delighted to cooperate with the Soviet Union in the creation of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
As Ion Mihai Pacepa, onetime director of the Romanian espionage service (DIE), later explained, the PLO was conceived at a time when the Soviet KGB was creating “liberation front” organizations throughout the Third World. Others included the National Liberation Army of Bolivia (created in 1964 with help from Che Guevara), and the National Liberation Army of Colombia (created in 1965 with help from Fidel Castro). But the PLO was the KGB’s most enduring achievement.
In 1964 the first PLO Council, consisting of 422 Palestinian representatives handpicked by the KGB, approved the Soviet blueprint for a Palestinian National Charter—a document drafted in Moscow’-and made Ahmad Shukairy, the KGB’s agent of influence, the first PLO chairman. The Romanian intelligence service was given responsibility for providing the PLO with logistical support. Except for the arms, which were supplied by the KGB and the East German Stasi, everything, according to Ion Pacepa, “came from Bucharest. Even the PLO uniforms and the PLO stationery were manufactured in Romania free of charge, as a ‘comradely help.’ During those years, two Romanian cargo planes filled with goodies for the PLO landed in Beirut every week.”
The PLO came on the scene at a critical moment in Middle East history. At the Khartoum conference held shortly after the Six-Day War, the defeated and humiliated Arab states confronted the “new reality” of an Israel that seemed unbeatable in conventional warfare. The participants at the conference decided, among other things, to continue the war against Israel as what today would be called a “low intensity conflict.” The PLO’s Fatah forces were perfect to carry out this mission.
The Soviets not only armed and trained Palestinian terrorists but also used them to arm and train other professional terrorists by the thousands. The International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (CPSU), the Soviet Security Police (KGB), and Soviet Military Intelligence (GRU) all played major roles in this effort. From the late 1960s onwards, moreover, the PLO maintained contact with other terror groups—some of them neo-Nazi and extreme right-wing groups—offering them support and supplies, training and funding.
The Soviets also built Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba People’s Friendship University to serve as a base of indoctrination and training of potential “freedom fighters” from the Third World. More specialized training in terrorism was provided at locations in Baku, Odessa, Simferopol, and Tashkent. Mahmoud Abbas, later to succeed Yasser Arafat as head of the PLO, was a graduate of Patrice Lumumba University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1982 after completing a thesis partly based on Holocaust denial.
Cuba was also used as a base for terrorist training and Marxist indoctrination, part of a symbiotic relationship between its revolutionary cadre and the PLO. The Cuban intelligence service (DGI) was under the direct command of the KGB after 1968. Palestinian terrorists were identified in Havana as early as 1966; and in the 1970s DGI representatives were dispatched to PLO camps in Lebanon to assist terrorists being nurtured by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In late April 1979, an agreement was reached for the PFLP to have several hundreds of its terrorists trained in Cuba, following a meeting between its chief George Habash and Cuban officials.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=780
The larger truth is that it's just part of a long range scheme to restore the Russian empire. Russia is clearly making their anticipated return. They were humiliated during the Reagan years. And with this piece of crap, saboteur-in-chief, Obama in charge, who has appeased the Russians in such critically important areas as missile defense and nukes, including the horrible "New Start" treaty and Obama-Putin Iran (nuke) deal, the last thing we need is another Putin butt kisser in the White House.
Kadyrov posting videos of opposition politicians in gun crosshairs, what a government over there all the way around. Kleptocracy. Gangster government. Check Senator Corker’s remarks too, there will be unrest as Putin’s riches are exposed.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35471246
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6727528/2016/02/01/russia-chechen-crosshairs
http://www.rferl.org/content/caucasus-report-chechens-letter-putin-kadyrov/27527957.html
Moscow Times, Russians fear backlash in answering opinion polls: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/russians-keep-lips-locked-in-opinion-polls-fearing-backlash/556530.html
It’s funny when the Russophiles have to phrase their comments that the rebels are being hit, it somewhat acknowledges and concedes that ISIS is not really being fought. As far as I’m concerned, Assad has largely allowed ISIS free rein.
Always weird when Obama is involved with muslims.
And note the focus on fuel.
A President Bernie Sanders would try to hike up the gas tax like crazy. He might as well just bomb most of our refineries.
And BTW — that was the most vital long term strategic goal of bombers during WWII. An intellectual thought that bombing railways would be more effective at the major hubs. Wrong. Energy is what drives a nation both in war and in peace. Railways can be repaired quickly, but only if you have fuel for your equipment.
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