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In New Video, A Grateful Al-Qaeda Thanks US For Supplying Anti-Tank Missiles
On September 30, just hours after a three star Russian general strolled into the US embassy in Baghdad and told the staff to inform Washington that Moscow would begin airstrikes in Syria “in one hour”, the Western media was alive with accusations that The Kremlin wasn’t targeting ISIS, but rather other, US and Saudi-backed rebel groups fighting Assad’s depleted SAA. Here’s what WSJ said at the time:
“Among seven areas that Syrian state media listed as targets of Russian strikes, only one—an area east of the town of Salamiyah in Hama province—has a known presence of Islamic State fighters. The other areas listed are largely dominated by moderate rebel factions or Islamist groups, such as Ahrar al-Sham and the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front.”
Yes, “moderate rebel factions such as the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front.”
Put simply, the US had become so desperate to preserve whatever was left of the strategy to overthrow Assad, that Washington had the mainstream media floating trial balloons to see if the public would accept the characterization of al-Qaeda as “moderate.”
Generally speaking, most Americans didn’t notice, presumably because they were too busy ogling at Russian fighter jets and/or Islamic State’s latest Hollywood special (which at the time was a clip of an SAA fighter being run over by a tank), but for anyone who did pick up on the fact that the mainstream US media had just officially (and posthumously) labeled Osama Bin Laden a “moderate”, the farce was complete.
To anyone who frequents these pages - and to anyone who has endeavored to question the official narrative - the fact that the US now counts al-Nusra as a de facto ally came as no surprise. The Saudis and Qatar have backed al-Nusra virtually from the beginning, and the US is all for anything that destabilizes Assad, even if it means funneling guns and money to the very same group that flew passenger jets into skyscrapers on American soil. And let’s not forget that this wouldn’t be the first time Washington has backed al-Qaeda. The US has had lots of practice in getting arms to the Mujahideen - see the Soviet-Afghan war, for example.
None of this is a secret, which is what makes it so astonishing that the Western public is largely clueless despite the efforts of people like Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and Georgia Republican Austin Scott.
Of course Washington isn’t as vocal in its support of al-Nusra as it is in its enthusiasm for the “moderate” opposition group of choice, the Free Syrian Army. As we’ve documented extensively, the FSA has received anti-tank weapons from The Pentagon over the past two months so that they may counter the advance on Aleppo by Hezbollah and the IRGC. Given that the very same Iran-backed Shiite militias the FSA is fighting in Syria are also fighting ISIS in Iraq, the fact that the US is supplying the FSA with weapons to kill them is nothing short of ridiculous. Here’s how we described the situation last month:
The US is now supplying anti-tank weapons and other munitions to the rebels fighting in Aleppo and those weapons are being used to kill these very same Shiite militiamen who are driving US tanks, fighting alongside the Iraqi army, and indirectly receiving US assistance just across the border in Iraq.
So thanks to Washington's twisted foreign policy, they are friends on one side of the Syria-Iraq border and mortal enemies on the other.
Well now, in what can only be described as an embarrassment of truly epic proportions, al-Qaeda has released a video thanking the FSA for supplying al-Nusra with American-made TOWs. Here’s Sputnik:
The Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, has released a grateful video, where they openly thank the Free Syrian Army (FSA), which the US has touted as a “moderate opposition group”, for supplying them with US-made anti-tank TOW missiles (“Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided").
A recently released video shows an Al-Nusra Front field commander thanking the FSA commanders for giving his forces TOW missiles, according to a report released by the Iranian news agency FARS.
The agency reminds readers that the two groups, the Al-Nusra and the FSA, formed an alliance in March, the Army of Conquest, or Jaish al-Fatah in Arabic, to fight against the forces of President Assad.
Since then, they have fought together “at almost every single battle in Aleppo, Lattakia, Hama, and Idlib Governorates of Syria.”
Through this alliance several militant groups like the Al-Nusra Front and the Ahrar al-Sham movement have been given access to FSA's US-made heavy weaponry, which has been supplied to the militant group by the US, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
According to the agency’s estimates, Saudi Arabia sent 500 TOW missiles to Al-Nusra directly last month.
Obviously, this is the very definition of absurdity. It would be bad enough if the US were supplying TOWs to anyone in Syria. But this is Washington and Riyadh handing anti-tank missiles to forces that are firing them at the Iranians who are operating under cover of Russian airstrikes. Just to drive that home: the US is waging war against Iran and Russia with but one degree of separation.
That's the big picture.
But as mentioned above, this is also ridiculous because The Pentagon is killing the same people in Syria that the US-trained Iraqi army depends on to rout ISIS across the border in Iraq. And when we say "the same people", we mean the exact same Shiite militias. Every Iran-backed militiaman that's killed in Syria by a US-made weapon is one less militiaman that will return to Iraq to fight ISIS, which is of course fine with Saudi Arabia and Qatar because they're opposed to Iranian influence in Baghdad in the first place.
Finally, the idea that the US is fighting al-Nusra in Syria is not only untrue, it's actually the complete opposite of what's really going on on the ground.
Hopefully no one from al-Qaeda ends up firing a TOW at a Paris cafe.
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TROLL - Progressive a-hole. Both are the same.
The US has to arm the enemy with something reasonable before they can beta test new technologies on live targets.
al-queda/hamas and the rest of the sand apes - useful idiots for US weapons technologies testing.
The guy firing the canon is too big to be anything but American or Euoprean; I suspect a US mercenary.
http://www.isis-online.org/
Another - job description opening is first link by another mercenary company, then the second link is the job description. (note the location and what it is and where they operate as described)
https://academi.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/341
http://www.recruit.net/job/experienced-scaneagle_afghanistan_jobs/1C40F9...
BTW - following these types of rabbit trails gives you some detailed inside information on how these covert operations are done.
Just found this one going down a rabbit trail - no one would ever know about this company otherwise.
http://www.soc-usa.com/
Mean time:
Russia Drops White Phosphorus on ISIS in Syria (REAL FOOTAGE)Russian radio chatter between the pilots and their bases was intercepted by local activists, Ahmed claimed.
He said the two villages targeted were full of civilians, and located at least 40 miles from the nearest militant positions. Video posted online purported to show the attacks.
It is not white phosphorus. It is a magnesium/thermite mix designed to burn through metal and destroy ammuntion without causing explosions. Note the lack of smoke.
White phosphorus produces dense white smoke when exposed to the atmosphere, hence its use by the military as a smokescreen.
There are plenty of videos of your Nazi buddies in Ukraine dropping white phosphorus on civilian targets to show the difference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TXHIF7E-0o
Also a very good chance this was the Syrian Army using multi barrel rocket artillery. Not Russian Air Force bombs.
Two things.
1) The video I watched was at night. Smoke?
2) So, its ok to drop magnesium/thermite which will apparently "burn through metal" indiscrimanently over a civilian town?
Umm... Maybe you should be careful to what your admitting too... But hey, if you want to admit it, note taken...
Yup activists listening to radio contacts between military ? LOL UK msm can't even spin facts now ? Really they have been spinning facts but reporting such deluded stuff is sane only for people like you.
I think its time for you to make another email-id Latvian genius.
Stick potato in your ass "message".
This makes me ashamed to be American. At least I'm not doing anything whatsoever to support the status quo.
Maybe "being an American" shoukld be your first priority...
It certainly not your priority, parroting talk points of occupational government Vichy DC.
As they say in Syria, "may the lips of John McCain's mother press softly against the buttock of the camel".
WHERE'S THE FUCKING VIDEO??!!
There is no video... Thats the point.
Furthermore, read the article. It says Al-Nusra made this supposed video. Al-Nusra is NOT Al Qaeda so the whole thing is just a bizarre bunch of shit...
Tell these stories to your grandmother.
Al Nusra is al Qaeda. Don't lie about what you do not know.
and you're still missing the point which is that this is a taunt from the american MIC to those russian t-90s, which have been recently spotted around Latakia...
It is on liveleak and on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDknTFk-HXE
You are going to have to trust the written translation. I don't speak terrorist so I have no idea what they are saying. It does show somebody blowing somebody in a Grand Cherokee right the fuck up so it is entertaining at the very least.
Does this mean the president should be arrested under The Patriot act?
Citizens' arrest? I'm game.
They didn't blow that Jeep up
That was a faulty airbag
Ha ha!
This years hot Christmas gift. Camo pajamas...
BTW. Those guys are in a boys band. One Direction is that you? This looks just like a false flag FSB operation filmed in a coutryard at the Kremlin. Gimme a fucking break. Those guys had drawn on beard stubble and fake mustaches. I mean really, You can see the trees and even the rocks in the background moving around. If you slow it down you can see its just some dudes wearing rock and tree suits!
BBBWWWAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!
Actually, this video was filmed in a public park in Flint, MI.
My Syrian is a bit rusty, but basically they were thanking Chief Jihadi Obama for the first-class airfare and the free trip to Disneyland, and for the medical plan with dental benefits.The Title 8 housing was an unexpected treat.
They also greatly appreciated the weapons systems. The Jeep Cheroke they whacked was a Pizza Hut delivery guy who happened to be in the wrong place in the wrong time. Practice makes perfect, one of them explained.
Obama has scheduled a press conference and plans to use these immigrants as an example of assimilation under his jihadi relocation executive order.
A whole battalion of T-90As seen near Aleppo.
"We had rumors recently about fresh SAA units being armed and trained in the background. It looks like it is showtime"
http://www.russiadefence.net/t4693p330-russian-military-involvement-and-...
already in aleppo?
will they be in raqqa or mosul after hollande's meeting with putin thursday?
were all fuked
This may be why Obama kept saying 'no boots on the ground' - because he knew that any tanks we sent in could be disabled by the same weapons we gave out!
enemy alien President
they look pretty sophisticated to use, did they include an instruction manual in Arabic too?
"... so astonishing that the Western public is largely clueless ..."
The "Western public" has become the victims of the most scientific psychological techniques that money could buy to for generation after generation. The GREAT PARADOX of human intelligence is that the ruling classes have used theirs to make those they rule over stupider. That has been getting worse for thousands of years. Recent political events tend to make that become more blatantly obvious to those few who continue to have enough education, intelligence and imagination to somewhat perceive the degree to which civilization is being controlled by the abilities of the ruling classes to ENFORCE FRAUDS against those they rule over, where the social success of those FRAUDS (despite being FALSE) requires that the majority of people become sufficiently stupid that they do not understand THAT, because they have been successfully conditioned for generation after generation to not want to understand THAT.
In my view, the main reason for most reasonably being pessimistic about the future is due to the degree to which the vast majority of people have been successfully conditioned to live inside of Wonderland Matrix Bizarro Worlds, where everything is absurdly backwards as possible, because everything is based upon the social successfulness of being able to continue to ENFORCE FRAUDS, despite those being FALSE.
The notions of any constitutional democracy, or a democratic republic operating through the rule of law. are now pretty well 99% DEAD, due to the degree to which "the Western public is largely clueless," and feel like they want to stay that way! The more one learns about that, the worse it gets, due to the discovery of the degree to which there is almost nothing but the core groups of organized crime, operated by the ruling classes, through bankster controlled governments, being surrounded by almost nothing which is publicly significant than controlled opposition. The excessively successfully controlling civilization by applying the principles and methods of organized crime has resulted in civilization becoming runaway criminal insanities. One of the most important ways that manifested is the degree to which IT IS "so astonishing that the Western public is largely clueless!" Hence, the people who are ruled over have nowhere to turn, other than to controlled opposition groups, who continue to operate within the same frame of reference originally developed by the ruling classes, to enable them to become better professional hypocrites.
The people who are ruled in the "Western public" are especially "clueless" regarding the degree to which the apparent public opposition is controlled by the people who rule over them, so that there is nowhere to turn where one will not be told the same basic bullshit by the basically the same kinds of professional hypocrites, throughout BOTH the core organized crime groups, AND the controlled opposition groups. Indeed, the vast majority of content published on Zero Hedge fits within the ironic observation made by Cognitive Dissonance that: "The absolute best controlled opposition is one that doesn't know they are controlled."
The degree to which "the Western public is largely clueless" is WAY WORSE than their superficial ignorance regarding the deeper realities behind current political events. In general, "the Western public" has been so totally brainwashed to believe in the biggest bullies' bullshit world view, based upon the dualities of false fundamental dichotomies and the related impossible ideals, that it is NOT POSSIBLE for them to become any less "clueless" regarding that.
That is especially the case because of the degree to which all of the publicly significant controlled opposition groups indulge in the same basic dualities, expressed as false fundamental dichotomies and the related impossible ideals. That is why almost all of the content published on Zero Hedge follows the pattern of roughly 90% being relatively good, albeit superficial, analysis of the problems, followed by roughly 10% bogus "solutions" based upon the same old-fashioned impossible ideals, which must necessarily continue to backfire badly, and actually cause the opposite to happen.
Hence, the GREAT PARADOXES that human intelligence has primarily been applied by the ruling classes through backing up deceits with destruction, and enforcing frauds, in order that those they ruled over would become ignorant and afraid, to the degree to which they were afraid to stop becoming so ignorant. The vast majority of "the Western public" were deliberately reduced to Zombie Sheeple, who are so "clueless" that they do not have a clue how clueless they are!
There are no good grounds upon which to base any reasonable hopes that will ever get any better within the foreseeable future, due to the degree that the ruling classes effectively control all of their publicly significant opposition, particularly by controlling the ways that people think, and the language through which they communicate. Overall, we are collectively marching to the orders of the ruling classes, who have become increasingly psychotic psychopaths. However, since there is almost no genuine opposition, there are no good grounds to doubt that will automatically continue to get worse, faster ... "The clueless Western public" have no publicly significant opposition, that does not remain within the same basic bullshit frame of reference. As demonstrated over and over again on Zero Hedge, relatively good, albeit superficial, analysis of the problems with the currently existing combined money/murder systems are never followed by anything but various sorts of old-fashioned bogus "solutions" based upon impossible ideals.
In my view, "the clueless Western public" INCLUDES almost everyone who seems superficially less "clueless," but nevertheless, continues to think using the dualities of false fundamental dichotomies, and therefore, continues to promote bogus "solutions" based upon impossible ideals. From that perspective, almost everyone who publishes material on Zero Hedge is profoundly "clueless" too, in the sense that: "The absolute best controlled opposition is one that doesn't know they are controlled."
From any practical political point of view, Western Civilization is already terminally sick and insane. There are no reasonable ways to save any democratic republic operating through the rule of law. Rather, it is politically impossible to stop the vicious spirals of POLITICAL FUNDING ENFORCING FRAUDS, automatically getting worse faster, and that is most especially true due to the degree to which there is almost NO genuine opposition, but rather, ONLY the on-going situation that: "The absolute best controlled opposition is one that doesn't know they are controlled."
As long as people continue to think about political problems using the dualities of false fundamental dichotomies and the related impossible ideals, then they can NOT resolve those problems any better. The anomalies are accumulating that demonstrate to any well-informed person that governments are the biggest forms of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gangs of criminals, which currently manifest as the bankster controlled governments, which have engaged in series of false flag terrorist events, deliberately designed to drive terrorism to become a more and more self-fulfilling prophesy, because governments are necessarily the biggest terrorists, controlled by the best organized terrorists.
Of course, most of "the Western public" is "clueless" about that! Moreover, that includes that most of the controlled opposition groups to that situation almost always switch from relatively good, albeit superficial, analysis of those political problems, to then promote bogus "solutions" based upon the same old-fashioned impossible ideals, which can never do anything else than continue to backfire badly, and so, cause the opposite to actually happen in the real world. That is because almost all of the publicly significant opposition groups in the Western World are operating as controlled opposition, within the overall situation that: "The absolute best controlled opposition is one that doesn't know they are controlled."
"The Western public" IS CONTROLLED BY THINKING USING THE DUALITIES OF FALSE FUNDAMENTAL DICHOTOMIES, AND IMPOSSIBLE IDEALS, THAT THE RULING CLASSES ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED AS THE BIGGEST BULLIES' BULLSHIT, WHICH ENABLED THEM TO BECOME BETTER PROFESSIONAL HYPOCRITES.
The degree to which the people who are ruled over ARE "clueless" includes that almost all of the publicly significant opposition is controlled by thinking the same basic ways, which results in them actually assisting the bankster dominated governments to operate, rather than more effectively resisting them. Therefore, overall, Western Civilization is drowning under its own bullshit, to the degree to which there are no good grounds to expect that to ever get any better, but rather, more reasonable to expect that we will collectively be going down for the third, and perhaps final, time in World War Three.
BBBBWWWAAAAAHHHAAAAA!!!!!!
"RADICAL MARIJUANA"
Couldn't make this shit up if It tried...
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So what are you? Bottom of the rung CIA flunkey or the regular Hasbara troll expanding their repertoire? Whatever it is, why do you waste your time here when the vast majority of ZH readers are fully capable of critical thought and see right through you?
You beat me to it: Al Qaeda is a group of "moderate" terrorists? Is this an attempt to cover up a fuck-up. Why is the US so obsessed with Assad?
Clean Break.
That is a rather important document concerning the date it was written and certain geo/political goals.
Three guesses which country it came from.
You could call it, the Father Of PNAC.
The government of the USA is obsessed with regime changes, like overthrowing Assad, because the US government actually works for the international bankers, that recaptured control over the American government more than Century ago:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/09/making-the-world-safe-for-bankste...
Making the World Safe for Banksters: Syria in the Cross-hairsNOTHING THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT DOES MAKES "SENSE," UNLESS ONE RECOGNIZES THAT ABOUT 99% OF ITS POLITICIANS ARE THE BANKSTERS' PUPPETS, WHICH ARE VOTED FOR BY ENOUGH OF THE MASSES OF MUPPETS:
How amazing is that? Can I pick one of those up at my local Gander Mountain........ and these clowns live in the middle of a desert!
Tracking ISIS to Washington, D.C.’s Doorsteps
http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=547468
Terror Junkies: The West’s Addiction to Funding Radical Groups - Steven MacMillan
http://thenewsdoctors.com/?p=547509
That Hawaiian lass(Congresswoman) on Wolf Blitzer the other night,Awesome...
She pointed out how the same media build up happens (orchestrated) before
an assault, invasion,liberation (Iraq,Libya,Syria) .THE MEDIA BUILD-UP IS
THE IMPORTANT THING WHICH PEOPLE ARE MISSING.Attempting to corral or
stampede the US Congress,paint Assad as a murderous Dictator,worse than Hitler,etc.
I wonder how these media writers sleep at night knowing how many people they are
getting killed with their copy.
And what ever happened to that Ukrainian Nurse that Ghaddafi had? Ubi Sunt...
All this Syria stuff goes a long way towards covering up the unfortunate Benghazi business.
Distraction Distraction Distraction
Abso-fuckin-lutely the media coincides all it's "powers" to bullshit the public. NPR is maybe the worst. All those PC poseurs who listen in have a large economic clout as well as a hopelessly clueless voting bloc. I don't even try to persuade them anymore. Total zombie denial. Electric shock treatment might wake some of them up, but they'd probably just cry out about the "social injustice" of it all. Most other folks, many of some financial means, just don't want anything to do with "politics". They don't understand death, other than what happens to the bad guys on TV.
I'm gearing up for some street action once that AUMF comes before Congress. Gathering warm bodies now, though intelligent ones are hard to find. And I'm taking my one year old grand daughter to State Rep. offices. Let 'em coo coo awhile before I tell 'em why we're really there. Expecting some uncomfortable silences. Good. Pain and discomfort might be the only way to snap the populace out of their stupor. Though it's not like we have a draft again, when hometown heroes went off to war, never to return.
That leaves peaceful protest, except the violent ones get the media attention. Guess we'll have to hope that economic pain, right in each person's wallets, will eventually be associated with this Dark State machination. Whatever the motivating perception, there'll be trouble in River Town, but I'll keep trying as long as I can.
Spray and Pray TOWs; these donkeys can neither see straight nor shoot straight.
Al qaeda, Al Nusra, Free Syrian Army, ISIS, ISIL , Taliban.....
All these are creations of Satan America
America is the greatest enemy of humanity
US 'openly' arming rebels/terrorists in Syria to help overthrow the legitimate government = right
Russia 'allegedly' arming rebels/civilians in Ukraine to help defend against indiscriminate shootings, bombings, and artillery fire from a coup-installed junta = wrong
One receives praise while the other gets sanctions.
Does anyone else notice the extreme hypocrisy about this??