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US Sends 400 Troops, Patriot Missiles To Turkey In Preparation Of Syrian Hostilities Escalation
Update: the logical response did not take long. From moments ago: Iranian Army chief says Patriot missiles in Turkey would set stage for "world war" - ISNA News Agency. We now await a response from Russia, China and other regional powers who may not be quite as comfortable as Turkey with having yet another branch of US liberating forces (especially when it has implications on Russian and Qatari gas pipeline plans) operating in their back yard.
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Even as the Nobel peace prize award-winning administration has been vocally partially withdrawing, but never fully, US troops from various middle eastern nations over the past several years, it appears that it has decided to open up a brand new military front, and position US soldiers in yet another hotspot, which is sure to escalate in the future, namely Syria, where yesterday, quietly in the media blanket coverage of the Newtown tragedy, the Pentagon said that some 400 US troops and several Patriot missile batteries would be stationed as part of a NATO force to protect Turkey from "potential Syrian missile attack."
As the AP reports, "Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed a deployment order en route to Turkey from Afghanistan calling for 400 U.S. soldiers to operate two batteries of Patriots at undisclosed locations in Turkey, Pentagon press secretary George Little told reporters flying with Panetta." As is well known to those who follow the local conflict, the traditional narrative is that the US is supporting the oppressed Syrian rebellion, which has been fighting the Assad regime as glorious guerrilla freedom fighters. What is less known is that parts if not all of the Syrian rebellion have an "explicit stamp of approval" from Al Qaeda, the same Al Qaeda, which when useful, is carted out to justify US foreign, and at times very domestic, interventions, and the trampling of all civil liberties (see U.S. Terrorism Agency to Tap a Vast Database of Citizens) , in various other parts of the world.
During a brief stop at Incirlik Air Base, Panetta told U.S. troops that Turkey might need the Patriots, which are capable of shooting down shorter-range ballistic missiles as well as aircraft.
He said he approved the deployment "so that we can help Turkey have the kind of missile defense it may very well need to deal with the threats coming out of Syria," he said.
The U.S., Germany and the Netherlands are the only NATO members who have the upgraded PAC-3 missiles, capable of missile interception. Each battery has an average of 12 missile launchers, a NATO official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because alliance regulations do not allow him to speak on the record.
In a statement issued Friday NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said "the deployment will be defensive only."
"It will not support a no-fly zone or any offensive operation. Its aim is to deter any threats to Turkey, to defend Turkey's population and territory and to de-escalate the crisis on NATO's south-eastern border," Lungescu said.
Panetta did not mention how soon the two Patriot batteries will head to Turkey or how long they might stay.
Earlier this week in Berlin, German Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Link told lawmakers that current plans call for the missile sites to be stationed at Kahramanmaras, about 60 miles north of Turkey's border with Syria. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Thursday that the Netherlands, Germany and the U.S. are working closely with Turkey "to ensure that the Patriots are deployed as soon as possible." But he predicted they would not become operational before the end of January. Turkey joined NATO in 1952, three years after the alliance was formed.
At Incirlik Air Base, about 60 miles north of the Syrian border, an Air Force member asked Panetta what the US would do if Syria used chemical or biological weapons against the rebels. Panetta said he could not be specific in a public setting, but added, "we have drawn up plans" that give President Barack Obama a set of options in the event that U.S. intelligence shows that Syria intends to use such weapons.
What was not asked is how NATO and the US would react if instead of the Assad regime, a false flag "attack" was launched by the Al Qaeda controlled Syrian rebels, always willing to escalate the conflict. From the NYT:
The lone Syrian rebel group with an explicit stamp of approval from Al Qaeda has become one of the uprising’s most effective fighting forces, posing a stark challenge to the United States and other countries that want to support the rebels but not Islamic extremists.
Money flows to the group, the Nusra Front, from like-minded donors abroad. Its fighters, a small minority of the rebels, have the boldness and skill to storm fortified positions and lead other battalions to capture military bases and oil fields. As their successes mount, they gather more weapons and attract more fighters.
The group is a direct offshoot of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Iraqi officials and former Iraqi insurgents say, which has contributed veteran fighters and weapons.
“This is just a simple way of returning the favor to our Syrian brothers that fought with us on the lands of Iraq,” said a veteran of Al Qaeda in Iraq, who said he helped lead the Nusra Front’s efforts in Syria.
Basically, the US is implicitly supporting Al-Qaeda, even as it dispatches of its leader in a quiet burial at sea, witnessed by what appears to be absolutely nobody.
Unexpectedly, someone did ask Panetta the right question: i.e., how Syria would respond to what is obviously an offensive escalation by NATO (and US) forces. The answer confirmed that when it comes to playing its now obsolete role of Globocop, it's fire "defensive" missiles first, ask questions later:
Asked by another Air Force member whether he thought Syria would "react negatively" to the Patriot deployments, Panetta said, "I don't think they have the damn time to worry" about the Patriots since the regime's leaders are struggling to stay in power.
He indicated that Syria's reaction to the Patriots was not a major concern to him.
Separately, NATO will deploy its Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft, or AWACS, to Turkey on a training exercise this month, the NATO said.
He said the exercise was not connected to the deployment of the Patriots.
The aircraft, which can detect launches of ground-to-ground missiles, will exercise command and control procedures as well as test the connectivity of various NATO and Turkish communications and data sharing systems, the official said.
Clearly, the US military is finally preparing for a major push in hostilities against the Assad regime, and as a result we expect the amount of false flag developments will surge. We don't expect the mainstream media to dare to ask why the US is - openly - supporting an Al Qaeda funded and organized resistance.
What certainly will not be asked by anyone is how Russia and China will respond to what is a clear escalation in the redrawing of geopolitical balance of power vis-a-vis what has become the most divisive military hotspot currently in the world.
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I would love to be a fly on the lense of a Russian/Chinese Recon. Satellite, right about now...
Why do you think NATO is not bombing the shit out of Asad's regime right now........... simple, they are scared of Russia. This Patriot missile system is for the Russians, Syria is no threat to anyone.
Al Qaeda hates [ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/04/middleeast/04brotherhood.html?ref=scot... ][ can't get the link--- google: 'In Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood Steps Up, but Role is Uncertain' by scott shane 2/3/11 ] the Muslim Brotherhood-- they despise their passiveness. Perhaps, this is why [ desposed Hosni Mubarak- brain dead?-- gone forever in Egyptian politics] Mohamed Morsi [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Morsi ] has made a 1800 turn?
Remember this... the French once ruled Syria and Lebanon as their own [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Mandate_for_ Syria_and_the_Lebanon ] !
also, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon could be a flash-point for a U.S./NATO false flag as we ZH'ers have known from the beginning [jmo?] ... [ http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/middle-east-north-africa/egypt-syr...
Ps. there is nothing in my mind to deny the the evil that america's `cfr' would do for a handful of oligarchies prosperity to rule the entire 'nwo' for themselves. sadly, as they [nwo] take all that american's can give... their allegiance, or better said 'new idiot' will most likely be china!
Ps2. The 'NWO' hates Russia, for many a reason,... but, not the time to discuss-- just remember that it was russia that saved the north from defeat by the south in the civil war?
thankyou tyler
Speaking of the US arming Syria, this is just breaking....
Clinton Faints, Suffers Concussion, Won’t Testify to Congress on Benghazi Scandalhttp://www.silverdoctors.com/clinton-faints-suffers-concussion-wont-test...
How convenient.
Sorry dude I basically stated the same thing you did at the same time. Either great minds think alike or two retards posting with hot pockets. Probably 6 of one, half a dozen of the other.
Coulda called that one. Hmmm, selective amnesia is surely part of her symptoms.
This just in: Hillary Clinton can't testify on Bengahzi due to concussion. How convenient to quote the Church lady.
Congress has no balls.
They allow the administration free range to conduct operations with uncertain objectives without so much as asking why?
I do not know if these are 'good wars' or if we are fighting the 'bad guys'. I do not think anyone does except those who make these plans in secret.
God help whoever gets posted to that site - an attack on it (by 'terrorists' or CIA agents sent by Panetta) would provide a very good excuse to escalate things.
False flag bullseye on this place - whoever takes the assignment is likely to come home wrapped in a flag, killed by the scum who run the place so they can have their wars - while they shed fake tears and talk of bloody revenge.
Russians don't need defensive space-age technology, they have something called Winter...
I guess when you win the Nobel Peace Prize you don't need to consider diplomacy before unleashing the bombs and bullets
I wonder if the U.S. government realizes that a vast majority of "U.S. citizenism" is against poking our noses where they don't belong? Especially when it's dealing with inconsequential "back water" Dictators!
We have enough problems to deal with domestically, and families are tired of seeing their loved one come home in body bags or maimed for life! I supect this is bipartisan in nature, being that I'm conservative leaning. Sending our loved ones to fight never ending conflicts in areas of the world that have subsisted in controlled chaos for millenia is absurd!
If Washinton was smart they would pay more attention to the Homeland. That is the governments real "Trojan Horse" to contemplate...
+1000
+ 1,000,000,000,000
+1000 seems so insignificant in this day and age.
'it only takes another '911' to wrap the american flag around the 'sheeple-shearing-pins [all 315 million]'-- made in a bloodied brothel of oligarch gryphon's, weft`ting at warp'd speed... spinning and a weaving as the golden distaff vulcanizes the encumbered loom-doom!'
There is a reason there is no draft.
So, I'm no military strategist by any stretch of the imagination and I don't want any of our military men and women in Turkey or anywhere nearby....but 400 troops? Really?
If things go horribly wrong, are we not setting up these 400 brave souls for a tragic event (false flag or otherwise)? 400? If a leader was sincere - would he not send over a sufficient number of troops for safety and for strategy?
This.
Which may kind of tie to this fascinating analysis. Has it come down now to jockying for leverage at the table? Will Bashar and the lovely missus once again be welcome in the halls of the playahs? Is Ghawar drier than anyone knew? Is this the sad end of party time for the House of Saud? Meyssan is usually pretty astute, guess we'll have to see...
The NoWO Chaosists sent 400 mercinaries dressed as US Troops to kill Arab families. Has nothing to do with the people of the US. The NWO banksters will choose the US next if necessary.
I have to admit q99x2 , I wouldn't put it past them if the serfs go native/
One thing is for sure... My weapon will be pried from my dead rotting corpse!
There are a HELL of a lot more than 400 US troops in Turkey, both accounted for and covert.
There was a quick smash n grab media hit last week when news sources flahsed headlines that apparently twisted words of a Russian Minister "confirming that Assad would fall". The next day Russia denied it.
"The Daily Star"--- from politics to the middle-east [great site navigator for today's latest breaking news / Caveat emptor?/ .lb = lebanon]
'Hezbollah and Hamas vis-a-vis the Israelite's'
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2012/Nov-24/196073-hezbollah-h...
Ref: Middle east top bar... fwiw__ kinda easy to see where its going? jmo
thankyou tyler
Ps. sites down... i fucking give up!!!
Briliant move -of course Syria will take advantage of this Nato induced civil war to attack Turkey -and most likely Israel too, as well as all the other Nato countries -and after they conquer Turkey and Israel, they will most certainly use their captured nukes and technolgy to conduct a nuclear attack on both Israel and the United States. It's clear that we have no choice but to plan for a preemptive invasion and/or attack on Syria. Our survivel as a nation depends on it. There's no doubt about it. The evidence is quite clear.
America is getting ready for another war?
What a shocker! I'm mystified.
Sadly, it's all we have left.
Are manufacturing base is down to war and porno.
The empire is in decline. Perhaps the republic shall fare better.
http://www.angrysinner.blogspot.kr/2012/12/yesterday-i-hiked-ten-miles-through.html
Didn't the local Hess station sell the small replicas of these things this year?
400 is a small group and small groups are treated like what they are ,easy targets for muslims, remember Lebenon. they will be attacked by our "friends".
Patriot missiles for gold.
Those Turkish scumbags are in bed with everyone.
... must .. MUST ... keep ... defense ... stocks ... rising ...
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Let's get something straight about the implications of that; --> IF <-- it is true that these PAC3 missiles are being positioned 60 miles back from the border (which may be partially a deception) then they're absolutely useless for hitting low-level aircraft and helicopters crossing the border area at that range. Long-range SAM max-range flight envelope is always mushroom-shaped, in a vertical profile, thus the missiles can only fly a small fraction of the total max-range, when intercepting a target at low-level. So they will not be able to hit any target near the border at low-level at that range.
Most jets and missiles would enter that airspace near the border, at low-level, if they were in fact going to.
And that means the deployment is for other than defending the border. It is in fact then being deployed in a dedicated strategic defence role, as a missile-shield against intermediate range ballistic missile launches.
That indicates NATO are anticipating that things will realistically escalate into a regional situation that's so dangerous that such missile launches against NATO cities, may occur.
i.e. mainly because NATO has already decided it is going to attack Syria with airpower and missiles, regardless of the UN Security Council. This is exactly the sort of situation that can create a nuclear conflict, and the mechanism implemented to diplomatically manage away that possibility, is just being recklessly cast aside by NATO.
What could possibly go wrong?
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What they probably should have asked is, how the hell Panetta or Obama would ever know they merely 'intended' (i.e. had not even ordered) the use of such weapons? Or are we just going to take their hearsay-based very honourable gentlemanly word for such rank propaganda, again, from quite possibly the most egregious pack of warmongering lying criminal scum the world has ever experienced in all of recorded hystery?
BTW: Turkey has the Wedgetail M-AESA AEW, the newest and most advanced AWACs to enter service in a Western air force, so Turkey does not need NATO AWACs support to defend itself … well, unless NATO wants to act aggressively to remove the Syrian air force and Syrian army helicopters, then some extra E3s might be real nice to have around the place. http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-Wedgetail-Antennas.html
Russia better decide what it wants, Winter has arrived in Europe.
fwiw dept:
'we are fully abreast of the terrorist strategy... and shall turn a blind eye when appropiate?' *history doesn't rhyme in a vacuum?
'the ultimate prize?' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitioning_of_the_Ottoman_Empire [ balfour/rothschilds jewel]
"how can this happen,... how can this be?'
http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/easteurope/turkeycentral.html
http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/MiddleEast/Ottoman.html ^[note: for some reason this link won't run-- must google if at all interested]
'the coin-- yet, with only one side, is a fate one must toss, knowing ones destiny is damn'd for naught... and damn'd by time?'
http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/World/WWI.html
'the rothschild's crossroad... a twofer?'
http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/MiddleEast/Balfour.html
*the genocide of the Armenians ** the Spanish flu pandemic [influenza] of 1918 that took more lives than the entire casualty [death] count of WWI entirety! *** the holy trinity of satan's church that feed off the innocent... the Rothschild's, Rockefeller's and Morgan's
summary: turkey has nothing to offer, period! they're a pawn... a `goad`ted donkey', to 'pin-the-tail-on' if need be! the Ussa wants iran's oil and 'blue gold' [2nd largest wells on the entire planet... and they're all virgin wells!
"BLUE GOLD"!!!
The DoD suffers from Aspergers' syndrome. It wants to start a shooting rampage.
And then it will suicidally turn on the homeland..