The Levant crisis.(Israel,SYRIA,Lebanon,etc)

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 24 Oct 2015 22:00

So ISIS sells its oil to Turkey, and exactly how is that oil delivered? They vaporize it in Aleppo and put it in a magic carpet that then materializes in Ankara? Oil worth $50M/day at $15 /barrel means, by my madarssa math, at least 3.3 MILLION barrels a day - how many tanker trucks or rail cars is that? And the poor, poor USAF with all its satellites and its drones and its SR-71s is unable to see these conveys, right?

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 24 Oct 2015 22:02

So Gunther, Allies of the US are the ones behind ISIS. And they are protected by NATO and the US is most of NATO as far as power is concerned. Thank you.

If the US were to withdraw NATO protection for Turkey for, say a month, the ISIS and Turkey would both be finished. Comrade Putin would send the Kurds and the Armenians marching through Ankara.

By the way, all that genocide and rape and sex slavery of the Yazidis - all making the American taxpayer feel real proud, I hope? The mass executions of the Christians, the Shia, the Kurds, the Yazidis... After all, Regime Change in Syria is worth all of that, isn't it?

When the bastar** in DupleeCity look in the mirror, don't they see a pretty face looking back at them?

How now do you rebut the reality - that the United States of America is behind the worst genocidal monsters of the 21st century?

deejay · Post by **deejay** » 24 Oct 2015 22:12

UlanBatori wrote:So ISIS sells its oil to Turkey, and exactly how is that oil delivered? They vaporize it in Aleppo and put it in a magic carpet that then materializes in Ankara? Oil worth $50M/day at $15 /barrel means, by my madarssa math, at least 3.3 MILLION barrels a day - how many tanker trucks or rail cars is that? And the poor, poor USAF with all its satellites and its drones and its SR-71s is unable to see these conveys, right?

My point exactly. The location of the oil wells are known, the trucking routes are known, the US had a complete year of total air dominance, the best intel agency CIA, the best bombs, best planes. best UAVs, best Sat imagery, best UCAVs and all the air bases in and around with a US $ 500 billion defence budget.

Damn! those ISIS ba$tard$ are good, they beat the US all this while.

TSJones · Post by **TSJones** » 24 Oct 2015 23:32

Yeah, yeah, please notify me when Boss Putin bombs Assad's ISIS controlled oil fields. And I mean the oil wells, not the primitive oil collection system I've seen videos of them using (which can be easily replaced by ISIS).

And if and when Putin does bomb the oil wells? Rest assured the US is not going to pay to restore them.

deejay · Post by **deejay** » 24 Oct 2015 23:46

^^^ And that justifies US allowing the illegal oil trade for more than a year? Anyway, US in not going to pay a dime to Syria or its people though it has been the single biggest architect of the mess.

Satya_anveshi · Post by **Satya_anveshi** » 24 Oct 2015 23:48

UlanBatori wrote: How now do you rebut the reality - that the United States of America is behind the worst genocidal monsters of the 21st century?

This is where US stands today and is spectacularly exposed (not that some

didn't know this from get go). Entire generation was fed on freedom and democracy jihad of US vs primitive Islamic Jihad. And now, a generation later, US is adopting the same method and means of Islamic jihadis.

At the same time, there is no islamic country adopting or showing signs of even appreciating freedom and democracy jihadi values of US.

So, who won?

It can still rescue itself by blaming all this on that perpetual loser McCain and set the house in order.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 25 Oct 2015 01:48

TSJones wrote:Yeah, yeah, please notify me when Boss Putin bombs Assad's ISIS controlled oil fields. And I mean the oil wells, not the primitive oil collection system I've seen videos of them using (which can be easily replaced by ISIS). And if and when Putin does bomb the oil wells? Rest assured the US is not going to pay to restore them.

Understandable. Why enable competition when the spot market is this low? And particularly since the US is not paying to rebuild the hospitals, water supplies, dams and power plants and kindergartens that NATO/USAF has bravely bombed - OIL FIELDS? Naw, one can always send US companies to 'discover' them later, when prices are up again.

Maybe Putin is bombing the terrorists, not the food, water, fuel sources and hospitals of the people?

I know, this sounds like a silly military strategy - actually attack the combatants, not the civilians! What (now Obama-trained, Obama-equipped, Obama-protected) ISIS rapist/ murderer would accept that strategy?

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 25 Oct 2015 01:51

And now, a generation later, US is adopting the same method and means of Islamic jihadis.

Correction: the Obama-US is adopting the Islamic Jihadi ~~rapist-murderers~~. I mean Freedom Fighters, of course. They have total freedom of choice of method and means.

TSJones · Post by **TSJones** » 25 Oct 2015 03:22

UlanBatori wrote:
TSJones wrote:Yeah, yeah, please notify me when Boss Putin bombs Assad's ISIS controlled oil fields. And I mean the oil wells, not the primitive oil collection system I've seen videos of them using (which can be easily replaced by ISIS). And if and when Putin does bomb the oil wells? Rest assured the US is not going to pay to restore them.
Understandable. Why enable competition when the spot market is this low? And particularly since the US is not paying to rebuild the hospitals, water supplies, dams and power plants and kindergartens that NATO/USAF has bravely bombed - OIL FIELDS? Naw, one can always send US companies to 'discover' them later, when prices are up again.

Maybe Putin is bombing the terrorists, not the food, water, fuel sources and hospitals of the people? I know, this sounds like a silly military strategy - actually attack the combatants, not the civilians! What (now Obama-trained, Obama-equipped, Obama-protected) ISIS rapist/ murderer would accept that strategy?

heavens to betsy! Putin done some darn good shootin'......

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/o ... octors-say

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/23/middleeas ... ck-russia/

Satya_anveshi · Post by **Satya_anveshi** » 25 Oct 2015 03:49

Can US and UK be made liable for war crimes aiding and abetting genocide and pay for reconstruction of Iraq and Syria?

I'm sorry: Blair takes blame for Iraq War and admits conflict caused the rise of ISIS in astonishing apology in US TV show

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 25 Oct 2015 03:58

But.. was Putin's hospital attack nearly as effective as Obama's hospital attack? Did Putin send the tanks in to bust through the hospital gates and finish the job like BO did? In ur dreams! The Russkies ain't got what it takes!

Satya_anveshi · Post by **Satya_anveshi** » 25 Oct 2015 06:07

Erdogan says Turkey won’t let Kurds ‘seize’ northern Syria - Oct 25, 2015

Turkish police on alert to capture four ISIL members prepared for attacks in Turkey - Oct 24, 2015

Satya_anveshi · Post by **Satya_anveshi** » 25 Oct 2015 07:17

Iraq authorises Russia to strike Islamic State inside country - Oct 24, 2015

Iraqi security officials have told MEE that US-led coalition strikes, which follow a stringent protocol, have been too slow, ineffective.

The Iraqi government authorised Russia to target Islamic State group convoys coming from Syria, a senior Iraqi official said.

The authorisation for Russia to target IS inside Iraq comes amid security coordination between Iraq, Russia, Iran and Syria.

Hakem al-Zamli, chief of the Iraqi parliament’s security and defense committee, told Anadolu Agency on Friday that the measure contributed to weakening IS by cutting off its supply routes.

Earlier this month, Iraqi security officials told MEE that Russia would likely be invited to bomb IS within their country because the US-led coalition air strikes have proved slow and ineffective, largely because stringent protocols were followed.

"They [the US-led coalition] refuse to strike private cars, mosques, bridges, schools despite the fact Daesh militants are mainly using these places as headquarters," a senior military officer, who declined to be named, told MEE, using an Arabic acronym to refer to IS.

The US-led rules, which enforces verification of targets, regularly give IS militants time to save their supplies, equipment and fighters, they said.

"This is an exceptional war and our enemy has no rules," one of the officers said. "How [can] you ask me to stick to the rules while my enemy is brutally killing my people every day, enslaving my sisters and destroy my towns and cities?

"Russians have no red lines, no complicated and restricted rules, so it would be easy for us to deal with them," he said.

Russia, an ally of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, began carrying out air strikes in Syria on 30 September. According to the Kremlin, the strikes are aimed at weakening the IS militant group, an avowed enemy of the regime.

Turkey and several Western countries, however, accuse Russia of targeting rebel groups in Syria opposed to Assad, many of which enjoy the support of Ankara and Washington.

Iraq has been gripped by a security vacuum since June 2014, when IS stormed the northern city of Mosul and declared a self-styled caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria.

Austin · Post by **Austin** » 25 Oct 2015 07:45

^^ Looks like PR type news fed by West , If Russia was ready to bomb School Mosque etc then they would have done that in Syria , we have seen videos of ISIL moving its asset near mosque which Russians havent bombed

Satya_anveshi · Post by **Satya_anveshi** » 25 Oct 2015 09:55

deejay · Post by **deejay** » 25 Oct 2015 13:44

Austin wrote:^^ Looks like PR type news fed by West , If Russia was ready to bomb School Mosque etc then they would have done that in Syria , we have seen videos of ISIL moving its asset near mosque which Russians havent bombed

Just give it enough time and some truths will emerge. Just like the Chemical weapons this may turn out to be the work of ISIS / Al Nusra / FSA (If it exists) or even the US. But till then blame the evil Russians.

US has anyway gone full Paki - Good terrorist - Bad Terrorists or Moderate Terrorists - Extreme Terrorists. Americans are really learning from the masters of the game in double speak.

With Pakis teaching the Americans how soon will we see US wailing - "US itself is the biggest victim of ... US"

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 25 Oct 2015 16:00

FSA says they are willing to talk with russia in cairo
https://www.rt.com/news/319622-fsa-russia-talks-cairo/

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lavrov has said ruaf will support anyone that fights ISIS

Bhurishrava · Post by **Bhurishrava** » 25 Oct 2015 17:40

I do not know why RT.COM is seen as an honesty ridden source of information. The very first thing to refute from the utter propaganda is that the US supports ISIS, or that the US does not kill ISIS goons.

You read NYT or WP and you know its all propaganda and no news. America`s credibility is 0. And its going downhill since long. What with those WMDs and good taliban/bad taliban.
In hunger for truth people have turned to RT. Its viewership is rising even in the west. Perhaps US is not helping ISIS but common sense suggests that fall of Assad can and will only help ISIS. Of course Americans want the rest of us all on this planet not exposed to NYT to put our brains aside and buy whatever snake oil they peddle.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 25 Oct 2015 18:59

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/25/middl ... index.html

seems 40 kurdish troops who went in to rescue the hostages got overwhelmed so 30 accompanying delta force unit went in to help and win the fight. thats the official line.

there is a helmet cam video in above link

deejay · Post by **deejay** » 25 Oct 2015 23:36

This is good TFTA propaganda kind of video - you might have seen it already but if not, have a look - Oh! NSFW use your discretion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqj4WzgnxDc

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 26 Oct 2015 00:42

Meetings inside the Pentagon must be very interesting these dins. Orders for furniture repair, furniture upholstery cleaning, Rolaids, Pepto Bismol and uniform laundry must have spiked. From what I have heard, a 3-star Jarnail physically dragging and throwing out a less-than-satisfactory aphsar, is not at all unknown.

The Spin Industry must be operating at very high rpm. Question is, which Brejidenshial Candy-Date will be the first to break down and start

All keeping Stiff Uppah Lip and Chin Up etc. very bravely so far.

Satya_anveshi · Post by **Satya_anveshi** » 26 Oct 2015 03:28

^^ unfortunately the SNAFU at Pentagon is not going to be an electoral issue. The reason being both sides have been *proven* to be deep in doo doo.
Bush's SNAFU in the first term was covered by buying people off via stimulus checks, more freedom hashish and more democracy ganja. He won second term by fraaad interpreting postal ballots, non votes, and new fingerprint reading non-technology.

Public was so fed up with bush and his cronies that even an donkey ~~(correct word is chimpanzee but people may take it mean a racist comment and hence refraining)~~ would have won with promise of exiting Afghanistan and Iraq and getting economy back on track. Hope and Change promised by Obama turned out to be Dope and No Change. He replaced military involvement with mercenary terrorist methods in Iraq and reneged on promise of exit in Afghanistan altogether.

In this situation the debate can only be about who f'up more and if anything, one has to hand it to US politicos or wannabe politicos, that, that cannot be a good issue convincing public if you are better than the other guy/gal.

Satya_anveshi · Post by **Satya_anveshi** » 26 Oct 2015 07:51

As neutral third party observer, posting this US's hostage rescue operation from ISIS prison but to my eyes this is still not a clean operation...Just enough to give folks like youknowwho to troll internet and keep pushing propaganda.

Big banner in the main room is to suggest (or shout at you) that it is ISIS. No lights. No peshmarga folks seen but only US men.
Iraq: 70 hostages freed from IS prison in US-Peshmerga operation

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 26 Oct 2015 08:52

Another PR exercise like the one ,where the truth was somewhat different,rescuing a female US grunt,Jess. Lynch.

Rambo image was based on lie, says US war hero Jessica Lynch
· Tale of heroics was untrue, Congress hearing told · Dead corporal's brother says military misled public
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/apr/25/iraq.usa1
Ewen MacAskill in Washington
Wednesday 25 April 2007

A female US soldier who came to personify the US invasion of Iraq yesterday appeared before a Congressional hearing to reject the Pentagon's portrayal of her as "Rambo from West Virginia", shot down in a blaze of glory.

Appearing as a witness at the Congressional committee investigating military misinformation from the battlefield, Jessica Lynch said: "Tales of great heroism were being told. My parent's home in Wirt county [West Virginia] was under siege of the media all repeating the story of the little girl Rambo from the hills who went down fighting. It was not true."

Ms Lynch was a 19-year-old private captured by Iraqis in an ambush at Nassiriya in the opening days of the war and subsequently rescued by US forces.

She told the committee: "I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspire our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.

"However, I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were, in fact, legendary." She said the US people did not need to be told "elaborate tales". She concluded: "The truth of war is not always easy to hear but it always more heroic than the hype."

When she was captured at Nassiriya, the US military told the media she had been wounded but carried on firing until the end.

She had in fact been riding in a truck and had not been firing a weapon. The US military also presented her escape as a heroic feat, ignoring the role of friendly Iraqi medical staff in the rescue.

Ms Lynch said she was not politically motivated and supported the troops in Iraq. But she added: "I believe this is not a time for finger pointing. It is time for the truth, the whole truth, versus misinformation and hype."

The House committee on oversight and government reform, chaired by the energetic Democrat Henry Waxman, is focusing on two incidents, Ms Lynch's capture and rescue, and the death of an army corporal, Pat Tillman, a former football star, in Afghanistan in 2004. Corporal Tillman's death attracted media attention because he had turned down a $9m (£4.5m) football contract to volunteer for service.

Mr Waxman accused the government of inventing "sensational details and stories" about Cpl Tillman and Ms Lynch.

Although the US defence department reported Cpl Tillman had been killed by enemy combatants while leading an attempt to rescue US troops, five weeks later it finally emerged he was killed by friendly fire.

His younger brother, Kevin, also giving evidence yesterday, accused the US military of "intentional falsehoods" and "deliberate and careful misrepresentations" in portraying his death as the result of heroic engagement with the enemy.

"We believe this narrative was intended to deceive the family but more importantly the American public," he said. "Pat's death was clearly the result of fratricide [friendly fire]."

Kevin, who had been in a convoy behind his brother, said the heroic account was to distract attention from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and other setbacks in Iraq. "Revealing that Pat's death was a fratricide would have been yet another political disaster in a month of political disasters ... so the truth needed to be suppressed."

He said the military attempted to give the killing "a patriotic glow", awarding his brother a Silver Star and concocting a story that was complete fiction.

In Iraq yesterday, the US military said that nine paratroopers had been killed in a suicide attack on army outpost at Diyala, north of Baghdad, one of the most lethal attacks on US personnel since the invasion.

Suppression of the truth is the US's most busy activity in the Pentagon and State Dept.

Philip · Post by **Philip** » 26 Oct 2015 09:01

It's War. The US and its Soothi ally,the despotic Saudi regime,patron of ISIS and Islamic wahaabi fundamentalism worldwide,have entered into a satanic pact to get rid of Assad,in reality,to wage a proxy war against Russia.All fig leaves have been taken off.It is now a fight to the finish with devastating consequences for the region and greater global good.

US and Saudis vow to step up war on Assad in defiance of Russia
Two countries agreed to increase support to Syria's moderate opposition while seeking a political resolution of the four-year conflict
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... ussia.html

By Louisa Loveluck
25 Oct 2015

The United States and Saudi Arabia have dramatically responded to Russian air-strikes in support of the Assad regime by agreeing to boost their own military and diplomatic support for the Syrian rebels.

John Kerry, the US secretary of state, the King Salman of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh for talks over the weekend. Despite Russian leaders saying they had extracted promises of fresh elections from President Bashar al-Assad, Mr Kerry and the Saudi ruler presented a common front in agreeing to hit the regime harder.

“They pledged to continue and intensify support to the moderate Syrian opposition while the political track is being pursued," the State Department later said in a statement.

• Syria's doctors 'utterly abandoned' after Russian air strikes hit hospitals

The statement was the first public acknowledgement of a surge in the number of anti-tank missiles that have been passed to specially-vetted rebel groups from the Free Syrian Army since Russian jets joined Syria's skies at the end of September.

The rebels' usage of American-made TOW missiles has increased over 800 per cent, slowing regime offensives across the country.

Such a statement would fit previous interventions by the Obama administration, in which commitments to increase supplies to the rebels follow several weeks after the supplies have started to arrive. However, the statement also represents a new determination to take on not only the regime but President Vladimir Putin of Russia.

• 'First Russia casualties' killed fighting alongside government forces in Syria

American and Saudi joint support for rebels, including Islamists, in Afghanistan three decades ago forced Russian troops out and contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, insisted after the meeting that Mr Assad should have no role in Syria's future, adding there had been some progress in international talks on resolving the conflict.

US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets with Saudi Crown Prince and Defence Minister Mohammed bin Nayef (R) in Diriyah Farm on the outskirts of the capital Riyadh

Yet there are few signs that the armed opposition and most of its international backers are ready to come to the negotiating table, a place they have been before without success.

Most of the country has fallen from regime hands during four years of war. More than 250,000 Syrians have been killed, and more than four million have fled abroad, hundreds of thousands now arriving by the boatload on the shores of Europe.

On Sunday, militants fighting near Damascus said they had killed 173 regime soldiers in the space of three weeks. They also claimed to have destroyed a panoply of military hardware, including tanks, bulldozers and drones.

The fighting has been most intense around Aleppo, a city shattered by the war that engulfs it. In its southern countryside, regime troops have made important gains against non-Isil rebels, backed by Russian jets, Iranian ground troops and Shia militia from the Lebanese Hezbollah movement and several other groups recruited abroad.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry waves at the top of the stairs as he boards his plane to head back to the United States, following his visit in Saudi's capital Riyadh
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry waves at the top of the stairs as he boards his plane to head back to the United States, following his visit in Saudi's capital Riyadh Photo: REUTERS

Mr Putin has justified Moscow’s intervention as a strike against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), but analysts say that jihadist groups are now benefiting from its presence.

Isil has flourished on Aleppo’s northern and southern fringes, seizing a key regime supply route into the city and making gains north of the city around Marea, a town that has already endured one of the extremists’ chemical weapons attacks.

Another beneficiary is Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda. As Isil pushes on through the Aleppo countryside, their jihadist rivals have assumed control of local non-Isil strategic operations, raising the spectre of a confrontation between the two groups.

“This is the first sign that Jabhat al-Nusra might be moving towards taking over parts of Aleppo, whether by accident or design,” said Hassan Hassan, an associate fellow at the London-based think tank Chatham House.

On Friday, the group released a video boasting of a surge in membership in recent weeks and depicting Moscow's arrival as an Afghanistan-type invasion.

“The Russian intervention is benefiting these groups at the expense of the other rebels, both now and in the long term,” said Mr Hassan.

The US and Saudis hope that supplies of TOW and MANPADS will stem the tide in favour of ISIS,as the mercenary "moderate Syrians",will actually be coordinating their actions against the Syrian regime along with ISIS.This is only going to widen the conflict with a greater Iranian involvement.

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 26 Oct 2015 14:30

[youtube]L7BpADtYY8Y&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]

100s of IS fighters enter Europe as refugees

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 26 Oct 2015 14:53

shhh..lies all lies...all good old members of the local german soccer club and having beers with the local lads.

Austin · Post by **Austin** » 26 Oct 2015 14:53

deejay wrote:This is good TFTA propaganda kind of video - you might have seen it already but if not, have a look - Oh! NSFW use your discretion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqj4WzgnxDc

Good video beyond MSM stuff.

Its now known that the Chemical Attack near Suburbs of Damascus was a Saudi Blackops they got the chemical weapon and set it off via its affiliates.

The goal was to get US to airstrike Assad and remove from power as in 3 years they couldnt do so via its funded terrorist , US and Russian knew about the blackops and back to back John Kerry and Lavarov made a deal to defang Assad from its CW stockpile in return for not bombing the regiem and US acieved its goal of keeping CW from other terrorist and Assad could no longer use against Israel

Saudi was very furious and started taking on obama left right and center and ex Saudi Intel Chief a well known figure had to loose his job

deejay · Post by **deejay** » 26 Oct 2015 18:25

UR 77 is primarily a minefield clearing weapon from Russia / Belarus. It has been used by Angola and against the Chechens. In Jobar Syria, it was used to clear a neighbourhood of terrorists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvqL0GNl6po

Watch from 1:15 to cut straight to the action till about 2:05. One can see the munition launch, fall, hit the ground and then the whole neighbourhood 'heaves'.

P.S. No wonder the terrorists are running with shaved beards.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 26 Oct 2015 18:40

Used to destroy all mines and ieds in the lane of advance. Looks quite effective . brown pants for any jihadis hiding in woodwork.

sudhan · Post by **sudhan** » 26 Oct 2015 19:01

Hmm.. Line charges for clearing a neighborhood... Pretty effective when the town is already in ruins. No need to worry about saving Infra

Have the Syrians taken back any major city back from the rebels, yet?

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 26 Oct 2015 19:56

Wonder how tough it is to construct "tanks" out of cardboard, put in some big speakers for the noise, and remote-advance them through these nbds to draw out the TOWs - with drones watching overhead and directing the missiles onto the Towheads.
1 tank = 1 TOW Team is not a viable proposition, but 1 cardboard tank = 1 TOW Team is a very happy one. Just the broadcast-quality videocamera that has to go along with each TOW unit will be worth more than the cardboard tanks.

Can they afford to wait until the tank actually shoots? I doubt it.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 26 Oct 2015 20:01

They are trying to clean a region south of Aleppo first not the main city yet. In between Isis also staged an attack on main govt supply route.

deejay · Post by **deejay** » 26 Oct 2015 21:22

Short but interesting video - specially the comments of the Russian soldiers (allegedly). In English.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cyVpPhw8Tc

deejay · Post by **deejay** » 27 Oct 2015 01:11

A video on the truckers in Syria from RT. At the end is an interesting bit from John Kerry. I have heard the Pakis downhill skiing and now I have heard John Kerry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CekPxfCVAD8

Satya_anveshi · Post by **Satya_anveshi** » 27 Oct 2015 02:23

Combat report: Russia fighter jets hit 285 terror targets in Syria in past 3 days - Oct 26, 2015

"Over the past three days, the warplanes of the Russian air group have carried out 164 sorties, hitting 285 targets,” Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, said Monday.

In the past 24 hours, 59 sorties were carried out, targeting 94 terrorist sites in the provinces of Hama, Idlib, Latakia, Damascus, Aleppo and Deir ez-Zor.

Konashenkov said a large ammunition dump belonging to the Jabhat al-Nusra terror group has been destroyed in Syria’s Damascus province. The two metallic hangars were razed to the ground as munitions inside them detonated following a direct hit by a Russian bomber.

Following video's were embedded in the above report:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSdxlRqGly8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8qfdMhCvjk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpIE3B3dKuc

Y I Patel · Post by **Y I Patel** » 27 Oct 2015 06:57

Way too many senior Iranian military officers are getting killed - are they being selectively targeted by ISIS assassination squads? If so, that probably indicates that the Iranians are not as good at this kind of warfare as they would have everyone believe, or that ISIS retains a good intel operation. Or both. Either way, war might not be going as well for the Russian alliance as advertised.

TSJones · Post by **TSJones** » 27 Oct 2015 08:38

Y I Patel wrote:Way too many senior Iranian military officers are getting killed - are they being selectively targeted by ISIS assassination squads? If so, that probably indicates that the Iranians are not as good at this kind of warfare as they would have everyone believe, or that ISIS retains a good intel operation. Or both. Either way, war might not be going as well for the Russian alliance as advertised.

Or, TOW missiles are taking out the vehicles these guys like to ride around in marked by lots of antennas and/or supporting commo gear and other attendant vehicles. Rommel liked to conspicuously ride around the front but he didn't have to worry about highly accurate guided missiles.

Tow missile operational range up to 3,750 meters!

They can also work against bunkers.

Satya_anveshi · Post by **Satya_anveshi** » 27 Oct 2015 08:39

Perhaps they are really leading from front and among very different people than they are trained with.

Syria is our frontline and if resistance is crushed, there will be no security in Iran as well, says Iran's Prosecutor-General Ebrahim Rayeesi. - Oct 13, 2015

Also, per this:

According to Iran's military rules, those missed or killed in operation are promoted to a higher rank and that's why in a few Persian-language sources, Colonel Hasounizadeh has been referred to as a General.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » 27 Oct 2015 08:47

Also looks like Russians are trying to patch things up between Assad and FSA. If this happens then Assad's credibility will increase manifold. Wonder what the west is doing about this.