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Turkey Enabling ISIS
NATO member Turkey has been busted supporting ISIS.
The Guardian reported this week:
US special forces raided the compound of an Islamic State leader in eastern Syria in May, they made sure not to tell the neighbours.
The target of that raid, the first of its kind since US jets returned to the skies over Iraq last August, was an Isis official responsible for oil smuggling, named Abu Sayyaf. He was almost unheard of outside the upper echelons of the terror group, but he was well known to Turkey. From mid-2013, the Tunisian fighter had been responsible for smuggling oil from Syria’s eastern fields, which the group had by then commandeered. Black market oil quickly became the main driver of Isis revenues – and Turkish buyers were its main clients.
As a result, the oil trade between the jihadis and the Turks was held up as evidence of an alliance between the two.
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In the wake of the raid that killed Abu Sayyaf, suspicions of an undeclared alliance have hardened. One senior western official familiar with the intelligence gathered at the slain leader’s compound said that direct dealings between Turkish officials and ranking Isis members was now “undeniable”.
“There are hundreds of flash drives and documents that were seized there,” the official told the Observer. “They are being analysed at the moment, but the links are already so clear that they could end up having profound policy implications for the relationship between us and Ankara.”
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However, Turkey has openly supported other jihadi groups, such as Ahrar al-Sham, which espouses much of al-Qaida’s ideology, and Jabhat al-Nusra, which is proscribed as a terror organisation by much of the US and Europe. “The distinctions they draw [with other opposition groups] are thin indeed,” said the western official. “There is no doubt at all that they militarily cooperate with both.”
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One Isis member says the organisation remains a long way from establishing a self-sustaining economy across the area of Syria and Iraq it controls. “They need the Turks. I know of a lot of cooperation and it scares me,” he said. “I don’t see how Turkey can attack the organisation too hard. There are shared interests.”
While the Guardian is one of Britain’s leading newspapers, many in the alternative press have long pointed out Turkey’s support for ISIS.
And experts, Kurds, and Joe Biden have accuses Turkey of enabling ISIS.
Has Turkey Changed Its Ways?
On Tuesday, Turkey proclaimed that it will now help to fight ISIS.
Don’t buy it …
Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson – former chief of staff to Colin Powell, and now distinguished adjunct professor of Government and Public Policy at William & Mary – asked yesterday:
What is [Turkish president] Erdogan’s ultimate purpose? He hates Assad. He’d love to bring him down. Is that why he’s doing this?
There’s also the Kurds …
As Time Magazine pointed out in June:
Ethnic Kurds—who on Tuesday scored their second and third significant victories over ISIS in the space of eight days—are by far the most effective force fighting ISIS in both Iraq and Syria.
And yet Turkey is trying to destroy the Kurds. Time writes:
Since [Turkey announced that it was joining the war against ISIS] it has arrested more than 1,000 people in Turkey and carried out waves of air raids in neighboring Syria and Iraq. But most of those arrests and air strikes, say Kurdish leaders, have hit Kurdish and left wing groups, not ISIS.
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Kurds are an ethnic minority that live in parts of Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran. They have been persecuted for decades — from Turkey’s suppression of Kurdish identity and banning of Kurdish language to Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons on Kurdish communities. Their leaders, from the numerous different parties and rebel groups that represent them, have long sought an independent Kurdish state encompassing that territory and have fought against their respective governments to try to achieve that.
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Hoshang Waziri, a political analyst based in Erbil, says the Kurds’ recent territorial gains in Syria along Turkey’s border and their increasing political legitimacy in the eyes of the West, have made the Kurds a bigger threat to Turkey than ISIS. “The fear of the Turkish state started with the Kurdish defeat of ISIS in Tel Abyad,” says Waziri.
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“The image in the West of the Kurds as a reliable ally on the ground is terrifying for Turkey,” says Waziri. “So before it’s too late, Turkey waged its war — not against ISIS, but against the PKK.”
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Some see the war against ISIS simply as a cover for an attack on Kurdish groups. Of the more than 1,000 people Turkey has arrested in security sweeps in recent days, 80% are Kurdish, associated either with the PKK or the non-violent Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), says ?brahim Ayhan, a member of parliament for the HDP.
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Ayhan says the AKP needs a state of “chaos” to perusade voters that it is the only bulwark against chaos. As of yet no new government has been formed in Turkey and if that doesn’t happen in the next few weeks, new elections will be called. By that time Ayhad fears many of the leaders of his HDP party will be in jail and some even worry the HDP will be outlawed. At the same time, Erdo?an and his AKP hope they will have shown only they can defend Turkey from internal and external threats.
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Turkey’s military activity against Islamic State does not stem from sudden realizations about threats from ISIS but appears designed to elicit international support for its fight against the Kurds.
The Kurdish Workers’ Party, known as the PKK, was locked in a bloody war with the Turkish state from the mid-1980s until 2013. The cease-fire has, for all intents and purposes, been destroyed. Turkey is battling both ISIS and the PKK under the guise of fighting terrorism. Yet Turkish attempts to conflate ISIS and the PKK–even in the wake of the suicide bombing in a Kurdish border town that killed 32 young people–effectively ask people to overlook some salient facts:
The Kurds are Islamic State’s ideological opposites. The Kurds have been fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq for some time; in particular, the Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) in northern Syria has been among the most effective forces at repelling ISIS efforts to take control of the Syrian-Turkish border. Kurdish military resistance in Syria and, to a lesser extent, the Kurdish autonomous government in Iraq have shouldered the lion’s share of the ground conflict against Islamic State, standing their ground at high cost and with limited support from the Western coalition.
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A declaration of a state of emergency in Turkey would give the Justice and Development Party (or AKP), which lost its parliamentary majority in June elections, more flexibility to crack down on political opponents such as the Kurdish majority People’s Democratic Party. More than 1,300 people have been detained recently under the guise of cracking down on domestic PKK and ISIS elements in Turkey.
The AKP has declared the peace process with the Kurdish separatists dead and is trying to discredit the only recognized political representatives of the Turkish left and the Kurdish population; the Kurdish People’s Democratic Party won a 13% share of the Turkish parliament in the June elections–a sign of its rising popularity not only among Kurds but also with increasingly disgruntled Turkish liberals.
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If a governing coalition isn’t formed, early elections will be held. The AKP appears to be hoping for that–under the thinking that a majority of voters would seek to maintain the status quo in a time of uncertainty and potential civil war, and that AKP’s standing in parliament would, in turn, be strengthened.
So Turkey isn’t really going after ISIS … instead, the ruling party is going after its main political threat – the Kurds – and continuing its long-term effort to overthrow Syria’s Assad.
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Not to defend Ergogan in any way (he's a double dealing, stab-anyone-in-the-back to secure power to himself douchebag IMO) but Turkey has always been a crossroads of sorts between East & West.
Makes it a lot easier for him in many ways to "control" western opinion of him (and Turkey) to say he's with the west in attacking ISIS (when he's really not, as long as they stay there, in Syria-Iraq) while he attacks the Kurds which wish for their own homeland again, which is a part of Turkey.
Abraham Lincoln-like, he will do whatever it takes to preserve his "union" ;-)
Abe stank that bad, huh? ;-)
I was with you up to that last sentence though. I think Turkey is, and is going to increasingly be, a serious problem and strategic risk, as an alliance 'partner'; firstly as a security problem (a true snake in the grass), and secondly as a technology risk quandary, as they are and have been getting the latest stuff from the West. I don't trust them with any of it. But only because they keep demonstrating how sly and untrustworthy they are and what a snake Erdogan is. It represents a serious threat to the defense equipment and technology and systems the West has invested in, to be able to win a major conflict. And we have MIC companies that want the money, so do not want such sales questioned, and pet politicians who will do nothing about it until it's to late. And it has reached the point where it is already too late. Iran's Shah in 1978 had three brand new Spruance class DDGs and an air force full of latest F-14s and F-4s with the newest AIM7 and Phoenix missiles. That went well.
'Honest Abe Erdogan' can imagine he's preserving his 'Union', as pragmatically (and religiously conservatively) as he wants, but if he threatens the other Unions ... what should they, who have armed his government, to protect Turkey (and make a dirty buck) ... do about it?
At a minimum I would change the exposure level to Turkey.
I would also make them need us, and not just have us relying on them to behave, or for us to have serious doubts that Turkey will act strategically in mutually beneficial ways. Do we have aligned mutual interests, or not?
All the most basic questions need to be asked and re-evaluated.
Like all collapsed or defeated empires I believe Erdogan waxes nostalgic over the "national loss" much the same as Britain or Spain or Russia (pick any, USA?...lol) do.
The problem with the Turks is they've always been shifty-eyed bastards who I wouldn't trust to walk my dogs, of course my dog's being the astute judges of character they are, would attack them when they approached anyways, so yes, Turkey should be treated the same way as Iran or Egypt or Saudi Arabia IMO.
Untrustworthy, they'll slip a dagger through the rib cage of the Kurds (or anyone else) as soon as they think no ones watching, its no accident the bulk of arms for ISIS came from the north, they are not fan boi's of Assad at all and have their own designs if Syria falls.
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And while I'm fighting below my weight with Fifi the WonderPoodle up thread, I'd like to point out Turkey's attempted annihilation of Armenians beginning in 1915.
The stuff that doesn't work . US must take back its defense shileds from europe since Iran deal is done.
The Ottoman Turks were toppled as a service to Zion, and now the Turks are in the service of Zion.
And around, and around, the turds in Zion's toilet bowl go.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
What is Zion: "Zionism is a fifth-column colonial like system of organized plunder and murder that operates on a national and international level via fraudulent-reserve banks, dependent governments, and connected and derivative firms." A victimized country, society, and people will exhibit either much division, plunder, and murder followed by tyranny, or tyranny followed by much division, plunder and murder.
I agree with what you say about Zionists.
However, the Turks dug their own grave. Specifically, one of the top officials of the Ottomon empire decided to ally with the Nazis. Bad move ...
The allies took on the Ottomons (because they sided with Hitler) and kicked their ass at the battle of Gallipoli.
Oops ... totally wrong. I apologize for my brain fart.
Can't help but wonder, what else did you get "totally wrong" there Georgie boy? Perhaps you should stick to things you actually know? Perhaps... just a thought.
Undoubtedly you got crossed up with the Grand Mufti al-Husseini who sided with Hitler, he also fought against the Ottomans, first and foremost he was an Arab Nationalist, whatever the hell that winds up meaning.
In the ME, alliances have always shifted like the desert sands, to reach some indeterminate goal set forth by all the players, meaning ALL. It's more like a region filled with quicksand sucking in the unwary traveler through it.
As you see ;-)
Again, "facts" pulled from someone ass. Fuck me, where do you cunts get these perversions of reality from?! The Grand Mufti (Haj Amin) Al-Husseini was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who volunteered (key word) to fight with the Ottoman Empire! That's WITH the Ottomans, not against! BTW, the title of Grand Mufti was bestowed upon him by the British High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel in 1920.
He also fought against it, he gathered troops to fight alongside King Faisal AGAINST the Ottoman's in the so-called Arab Revolt 1916-1918.
Perversion indeed or are you pointing people toward the quicksand? ;-)
You can say whatever you want... but, back it up anytime you want and it might actually be credible. Over to you, son...
So you're saying he did not support King Faisal against the Ottomans and was not a Sharifian officer? This will be important information to have at hand while roasting you on a spit...
Oh fuck you. As per usual, you have nothing interesting to say. Is it all just bullshit as per your usual postings mr. nmewn? Link it, or fuck off. Your choice son.
Your simple denial is no way any indication of truth or conclusive evidence to the contrary, so, being as how you personally are opposed to research or reading anything beyond wikipedia I went and found you a "picture book"...lol.
I invite you (and anyone else) to go to pages 100, 106-107 and 160 and tell me who you always see at the hand of King Faisal...
http://btd.palestine-studies.org/node/56#/218/zoomed
...he did in fact desert the Ottoman army in 1917 and joined the Sarafian Army whether you like it or not.
Idiot.
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So, now that I've kicked Fifi the yapping poodle aside, anyone else? I've got some great pics of al-Husseini inspecting SS Handzar Division troops in their cute little fez's, Himmler and al-Husseini, Hitler & al-Husseini etc.
Anyone? ;-)
Oh fantastic, you've directed me to a few pictures in an obscure online book... pictures FFS from the period 1924-1930 roughly.
So where exactly does it state he 'deserted'? Got a page for that, son? The burden of proof is on you, the claim maker.
Also, how is it possible to be 'against' something that no longer existed when the photographs were taken? That's the timeframe you're referencing, right?
Looks to me like this "yapping poodle" just bit you on the ass... heh!
I reject you showing me evidence of an intimate nationalistic alliance with King Faisal from some "obscure online book" & demand you provide me evidence from yet another obscure online book!
You've got a fucking computer at your fingertips, use it troll.
Grand Mufti was uncle of Yasir Arafat and Grand Mufti was put in place by first Jewish High Commissioner in Mandate Palestine Baron Samuel who had pushed the Balfour Declaration in 1915
Hmmm, this looks suspiciously like one of those quicksand areas I was warning GW about...lol.
At any rate, he was an Arab Nationalist as many tribes and clans are. They will side short term with whoever & whatever patronage system lends itself most favorable to their claims & ambitions at the time, to give it at least the color of legitimacy, if not indeed fact. It doesn't matter which statist scheme it was or is, British, French, UN, Zionist or Ottoman, their true allegiance remains constant, Pan Arabism and the clan come first.
Not so much different from anywhere else, everyone pretends to be shocked & horrified when one party is stabbed in the back by an ally, then life returns to normalcy.
Completely normal for the ME, only different ;-)
...and I guess Balfour had nothing to do with anything... heh, you sir are the dumbest dumb fuck I've ever had the mispleasure of meeting, online or in RL. Nothing personal, but go fuck yourself :-) ...and I mean that in the most sincere way.
Sorry Georgie, Gallipoli was in WW1, when Der Fuhrer was a lowly nco, long before the National Socialist Party got going.
Wrong war mate.
I can't believe that you are so ignorant as to believe Hitler was in power during WW1, during which the Ottoman Empire was defeated. 1914-18
FYI Hitler was WW2, 1939-45.
BTW the Turks actually won at Gallipoli - ask the ANZACS!!
Sir, with respect, but you are completely incorrect. The Ottomans did not exist come Hitler and WW-II. They existed during WW-I.
Regardless.
Starting at least with Herzl's book in 1896, Zion announced their intentions to take root in Palestine.
In the early 20th. Century the Zionists had a huge obstacle blocking their efforts to securing Palestine, and that was that it was occupied and administered by the Ottomans. These Ottomans were quite partial to the benefits the accrued to them via control of Palestine, and were not open to pissing off the Arabs in the rest of their empire either. The Ottomans were unmovable.
So the Zionists, in cahoots with the Rothschild banksters in Europe, set about creating, in Europe, interlocking alliances, political schemes, and a giant arms build up. A giant arms build up largely funded with fiat-debt from the Rothschild banksters.
Now comes the trigger event (false-flag?) which afterwards had many prominent Zionists and Rothschild banksters whispering into everybody's ear--"Do it. You can take 'em. It will be over in weeks." I do believe the plan was primarily to undermine and weaken the Ottomans, and render them beholden, by way of fiat-debt, to the Zionists' allies, the Rothschild banksters. They could then use the debt and financial weakness of the Ottomans to force open Palestine for their occupation and administration by the victorious Brits.
Didn't work out that way. The Germans had all but defeated France and England by the Fall of 1916. The Brits were even putting out feelers for peace to the Germans. The Zionists then double-down with a plan to speed up their Zionists' and Rothschild's colonization of the American country, further enrich the Rothschild banksters, while also securing Palestine directly for themselves under the Brits' administrations/patronage. The plan was to secure the Brits promise of attacking and taking Palestine from the Ottomans, and then permitting the Zionists to colonize it, in exchange for bringing the US into the war, and bringing victory over Germany to the Brits. The result was the a promise that was then put to paper in 1917--the Balfour Declaration.
Ultimately the Ottomans collapse under the weight of it all, and Zion now has their homeland to steal from the Palestinians with the assistance of the Brits.
Bottom line: Like a lot of things in history, the history of WW-I was not what we were told, or sold, but a war produced by Zion and the Rothschild banksters for plunder, and the colonization of Palestine by Zion.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
Sidenote: The Brits and Zionists needed to placate the neighboring Arabs, so they sent Lawrence, controlled by a Zionist out of Cairo, Aaron Aaronsohn, to further push back and undermine the Ottomans. The Arabs were promised independence, however, when the smoke cleared. the Arabs were sold out, as the Zionists did not desire strong Arab neighbors, and desired most of the Middle-East for themselves anyways (Greater Israel.).
A very clear and credible account. Thanks
All very true kchrisc, except about T E Lawrence I think.
I read his "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" about 60 years ago in school and subsequently took quite a lot of interest in him.
From all I know he genuinely believed he was fighting for Arab independence and "went native".
He was devastated when the Arabs got sold out, resigned his commission and joined the RAF as an ordinary airman.
He was killed riding his Brough Superior motorcycle and some think it was suicide, not an accident.
In recent years certain archives have opened up and researchers have uncovered more about T.E. Lawrence and his First World War actions in the Middle East. I don't think that the facts bear out that Lawrence was a Zionist himself, but was definitely played like a fiddle at a DMB concert by them.
The Brits were under the influence of Zion, and had made a promise to them that they hoped would allow them to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. They then sent Lawrence to ameliorate and organize the disorganized Arabs into an expanded front against the Ottomans.
In the mean time, Lawrence was meeting with his Zionist handler, Aaron Aaronsohn, in Cairo. Lawrence thought he was doing his "duty" as a Brit soldier, and resisting Zionist intrigue in the Middle East as well. However, he was being played by the Zionists in control of the Brit government, and his Zionist handler in Cairo.
Once the Ottomans collapsed, the Brits reneged on their independence promise, and divided up the oil rich lands between them and the French. The result being that the Arabs were controlled, while the Brits served as Zion's patrons in Palestine.
A good example of Lawrence being played is the "clearing" out of the Jewish Damascus ghetto. Zion wanted and needed colonization of Palestine to begin quickly, especially by the lower farming and trades classes. Lawrence's Zionist handler tells him not to clear out the ghetto, and leave it as, I presume, a check on the Arabs, while at the same time his Zionist controlled Brit government superiors tell him to do so. So he does it. Where do the displaced Jews go? The now open Palestine is where. Check and mate.
Later, the story gets deeper as Zion further colonizes the American country, founds the CIA, and makes the DC US their Plunder and Murder, Inc. But that is a story for another day.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
One of two links discussing books by authors that found the Zionist links: http://desertonfire.blogspot.mx/2007/02/was-te-lawrence-zionist.html
Lawrence was in the region BEFORE WW1 as a Cambridge University archeologist
i agree, Setarcos. 7 Pillars was a great read; Lawerence a great (and sincere) man...but i refuse to believe he committed suicide. maybe just testing the 'edge' and found it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE0DBpw09SU
cheers to a 'funny sense of fun',
janus
Hi janus I don't think he suicided either ... just thought I'd mention it because some thought that his disillusionment might have made his life not worth living.
Thanks for the clip, but it wuld not play for some reason. I'll try again.
yeah, i wanted to back you up for another reason. there is a tendency around here (one of which i am at oft times guilty) to paint all things with the broadest possible brush. did the brits intend to shaft the bedoins? probably. was Lawrence privy to the plan? i will never accept such spurious claims. if Lawrence was in cahoots with british high-command, he pulled-off one of the past century's greatest acts. i've read much of his correspondence, the 7 pillars and the impressions of others who worked with him...truly amazing guy -- 'real' hero.
i think it's difficult for many white-westerners to accept that one of their fellows would fall for the enchantments of arabia...but there's a mystique, beauty and magic to the desert -- at least, for those so inclined. also, i've stumbled across some gorgeous arab chics in my day...there's lots of lust packed tightly in those burkas; at least, for those so inclined.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRjZoRtu0Y
sticks & stones & weed & bones,
janus
Almost there, but don't blame the Brits. We bumbled into Palestine under the League of Nations mandate but woke up eventually. The early-1939 government White paper recommended an end to all further Zionist immigration into Palestine and six months later we had another war on our hands -- it took two world wars to create Israel.
Kchrisc,
Pardon my historical flubb ... and thank you for correcting it, sir!
Peter Weir's "Gallipoli" is a pretty good look at Churchill's misadventure to take the highground controlling the Dardenelles.
Not much historical background but a good look at trench warfare with the enemy holding the heights. Not a great place to be an ANZAC under an untrained and clueless British Officer Corps.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082432/
Excellent summation kchrisc!
It appears that the cross-party support against ErDOGan is growing possibly with the assistance of the cabal who are not slow to realise that they are backing a dictator's demise and thereby sweetening up more liberal elite elements/military in Turkey.
Fingers crossed that Putin has beaten them to the punch bowl and hence Russia and China's investment in the Infrastructure of this country.
The Turks do not wish to be on the wrong side of history again.
Have said from day one and time and time again that the Turks have 3 faces. I could be wrong and it's 4.
So many questions?????
Tony Hayward of BP Gulf of Mexico Infamy has been a leading proponent of siphoning Iraqi Oil to Whom? Turkey? The Cabal? UK? Goldman?
This information has been well known GW and so have ISIS been used by the USSofA to funnel out the Iraqi oil and the Kurds are the New Kids, Partners on the Block?
What about Vlad, Russia/China? Why would he/they be investing in the 3/4 headed wanna be Ottoman Empire?
All stinks of Piss & Shit.
Follow those siphoned Oil Profits to get the REAL STORY.
But, of course, by all means follow the money.
We all knew that Iran and other sanctioned countries were not drinking their oil and pissing hard currency. Foolish me, I told my son that Marc Rich went rogue again because Hitlery could pardon him again. He would have to sweeten (?) the kitty with Slick with a little more of his ex's poonie, though. That is A-OK with all 4 of them I'm sure.
Turkey, huh? Don't get between them and a flaming dollar, I suppose.
You can trust the Turks as far as you can throw them.
"You can trust the Turks as far as you can throw them."
Turkey is only assisting the Americans in overthrowing the Syrian Government.
The root of the problem, not the fringe.
Nobody learns anything from past American operations.
You can trust the Asians as far as you can throw them.
Now, do you see how stupid and completely ignorant that sounds Billy boy?! Learn from it, for fucks sake! You're not a child (or are you?).
My CeyeA handler has disappeared somewhere in Turkey.
I hope he isn’t in some forsaken Turkish prison. If he is, I hope he has someone to bring him some of those foul Turkish cigarettes he used to bring me to soften me up to pump me for industrial secrets.
I really don’t like the arrogant jackass but I do miss having him around to fuck with.
~ DC
correct they will cut your throat
Have you ever even met a true Turk, from Istanbul? I'm betting no. I'm betting you're an ignorant purveyor of bullshit. Are you Latvian? Just curious...
Most Turks hate Erdogan the American Stooge.
Absolutely correct... go figure eh?
...About as far as you can trust an American military contractor, it seems.
You people really must do something about your psychopaths.
New Evidence Reveals Turkish Government Is Directly Funding ISIS
http://www.mintpressnews.com/new-evidence-reveals-turkish-government-is-...
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Jewish Extremists Torch 2 Palestinian Homes, Burning Toddler To Death
http://www.mintpressnews.com/jewish-extremists-torch-2-palestinian-homes...
That toddler would have grown up to not think highly of Jews because he would see Jews killing Palestinian toddlers - so its a good kill.
http://www.loonwatch.com/2011/10/does-jewish-law-justify-killing-civilians/
http://www.alternet.org/books/how-kill-goyim-and-influence-people
"US special forces raided the compound of an Islamic State leader in eastern Syria in May, they made sure not to tell the neighbours."
WTF. American forces in Syria now. Don't these folks take a vow to defend the Constitution and not to obey illegal orders such as taking part in illegal operations.
Then they come home and cry the blues because Americans don't fall all over them as heroes and aren't willing to pay increased taxes to pay for their missing arms and legs.
HOPELESS!
This whole Turkish-NATO-ISIS-Kurdish-Syrian mess reminds me of Catch-22, and specifically Milo Minderbinder and his syndicate. I recall - correctly, I hope - that at one point he hired out some of 'his' bombers to go bomb somewhere and at the same time hired out 'his' AA batteries to defend the target.
Whatever. The war stuff is as confusing as the financial stuff these days. None of it makes sense to a sane mind.
" An 'Isis-free zone' is nothing but a road to US mission creep"
Not "creep" as such, but the basic thrust is right
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/30/isis-free-zone-road...
Right. ISIS was selling Syrian oil to Turkey and the US knew nothing about it.
My credulity is offended, sirs.
I am Chumbawamba.