Bharat Rakshak

please read this article carefully

Al Arabiya reports Syrians were surprised to find the number of Uighurs in their midst increasing dramatically over the past year. The new arrivals are very different from the older, much smaller Uighur contingent, which was largely allied with al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front, and has played an important role in Nusra’s military gains, at a heavy cost in casualties. Al Arabiya notes the Uighur fighters are viewed more favorably by Syrian civilians than the Islamist gang’s regular forces because they are not involved in shaking the locals down for money or imposing Islamic law.

There are said to be thousands of Uighurs in the northern Idlib province of Syria now, and they look a lot more like settlers, with their families in tow. Some of them are quoted in the article declaring they made a one-way trip to Idlib, selling their homes in China and along the Afghan-Pakistan border to make the perilous journey.

“I tell you, this is a Zionist-American plot. The entire region is being reconstructed. The plan is clear and is written in the Torah and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” fumed Egyptian professor Azza Heikal, only to be topped by an Egyptian television host who charged the Syrian people were being tricked into migrating out of the war zone into Europe, so the sinister Zionists could colonize abandoned Syria with Uighurs.

Chinese Uighur Settlers Flow into Syria, Replacing War Refugees

http://www.breitbart.com/national-secur ... -refugees/

Just out of curiosity. Are the One Community in the Cash-More Valley Sunni or Shia? Maybe that "SN-MB Bus" concept could be greatly expanded and combined with the GOI's generous once/yr subsidy, turned into a once-total, one-way free ticket

the part near kargil is shia and are allied to iran. the cashmere valley itself is mostly if not wholly sunni.

the TSP northern area of kashmir is shia. zia ul haq launched a brutal crackdown on some uprising there and iirc even musharaff was in some way involved. a shia airman is said to have planted the mango crate.

Habal told ya in the other forum. population itself a weapon which our dimwit/dharmic leaders have seldom used effectively on our periphery

BD should be shivering in their lungis about indian refugees and have nots overrunning them and not the other way around. not once in history has a 1.5 billion souls country shivered as much as we do.
its like the cowardly tiger in 'he man and the masters of the universe' or scooby doo.

btw due to internally displaced people the pop of afrin canton has gone from 80% kurd to 80% arab-who are peaceful and enjoying ypg protection - for now....later, who knows...?

Kurdistan is a must. No two ways about it.

musharraff and al-qaeso combined to suppress the shia rebellion in gilgit-baltistan
fairly well documented

So I went and looked at the russian doom and gloom situation again. Irrespective of syria, it hasnt gone anywhere. Ruble has lost most of its value, sanctions persist, the dollar reserve is drawing down, oil is much worse than expected.

Just because they arent out of SWIFT doesnt make russia situation wonderful. Yes, syria is a temporary distraction, so is the election. But this doesnt look like a short term or party line thing. Presumably regular programming would resume sooner than later.

What am I missing?

Shreeman wrote:So I went and looked at the russian doom and gloom situation again. Irrespective of syria, it hasnt gone anywhere. Ruble has lost most of its value, sanctions persist, the dollar reserve is drawing down, oil is much worse than expected.

Just because they arent out of SWIFT doesnt make russia situation wonderful. Yes, syria is a temporary distraction, so is the election. But this doesnt look like a short term or party line thing. Presumably regular programming would resume sooner than later.

What am I missing?

Rouble is a free floating and fully convertible currency ( the only in BRICS ) so it devaluates or rises depending on Oil Price , Central Bank has moved to Inflating Targeting ( http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/RUCPIYOY:IND )

from dirty pegging Rouble in a narrow corridor as used to be the case before

http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/USDRUB:CUR

Sanctions are good and hope they dont remove them for a long time , that helps Russia to integrate its economy from EU to Asia , many in EU wants to remove it but hope it stays and stays long , A lot of Russian Oligarch would like to suck up to EU and are lobbying equally hard to remove sanction.

Forex has increased since 2014 , If Memory serves me right the current Forex reserves is at $370 plus Billion
http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/RUREFEG:IND

CB is purchasing more Gold ......It seems Russia has more Gold Now then SU did ( may be because of command economy SU didnt pay much attention to Gold )

turkish PM lands on state visit to iran

about a year ago this was the map of the caliphate and its vassals

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ccuvtr_UAAA_sn5.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ccuvtr3UsAAON7b.jpg

Hassan Ridha ‏@sayed_ridha 8h8 hours ago
An anti-#IS #FSA group backed by #Jordan & #US have claimed control of Tanf border crossing on #Syria - #Iraq border

ÊzîdîPress ‏@EzidiPress 12h12 hours ago
#BREAKING: #YPJ/#YPG & #YBŞ forces freed 31 enslaved #Ezidi women & children near #Shadadi town in #Syria today

Hassan Ridha ‏@sayed_ridha 17h17 hours ago
Al-Khefsah pump station in east Aleppo countryside flows water to #Aleppo city after being blocked by #IS for 48 days

Austin wrote:

Shreeman wrote:So I went and looked at the russian doom and gloom situation again. Irrespective of syria, it hasnt gone anywhere. Ruble has lost most of its value, sanctions persist, the dollar reserve is drawing down, oil is much worse than expected.

Just because they arent out of SWIFT doesnt make russia situation wonderful. Yes, syria is a temporary distraction, so is the election. But this doesnt look like a short term or party line thing. Presumably regular programming would resume sooner than later.

What am I missing?

Rouble is a free floating and fully convertible currency ( the only in BRICS ) so it devaluates or rises depending on Oil Price , Central Bank has moved to Inflating Targeting ( http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/RUCPIYOY:IND )

from dirty pegging Rouble in a narrow corridor as used to be the case before

http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/USDRUB:CUR

Sanctions are good and hope they dont remove them for a long time , that helps Russia to integrate its economy from EU to Asia , many in EU wants to remove it but hope it stays and stays long , A lot of Russian Oligarch would like to suck up to EU and are lobbying equally hard to remove sanction.

Forex has increased since 2014 , If Memory serves me right the current Forex reserves is at $370 plus Billion
http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/RUREFEG:IND

CB is purchasing more Gold ......It seems Russia has more Gold Now then SU did ( may be because of command economy SU didnt pay much attention to Gold )

austin,

your chart shows the same thing i noticed, ruble went to 1 cent and change from several cents losing two thirds or more of value. good+forex went from 500B to 350B in a short period. precious metals are no better protected than minerals from manipulation. By every count in a short span of time the currency is practically useless for import (lower than the ₹) and they have eaten through 33% of their reserve. The saudis are diversified, integrated in world economy and have most of western leaders in their pockets and their numbers were around 700B. And they are in deep doodoo if oil does not recover.

Russia has certainly stopped the drop in forex recently, but for how long? This is not a rosy story from any angle. Only the forex is keeping them afloat as long as non-oil imports have no substitution. Also, why isnt india settling in rupees/rubles at this favorable a rate. They expect ruble to sink further?

ok Shreeman it's all over, waqt kee baat hain bas.
it can happen anytime now.
as per western statistics.

This is by far the best pic of the day, SAA and NDF overlooking Jisr al Shughour. The day for the liberation of Jisr is coming.

https://twitter.com/AboZain6/status/705813842635395073

great battles of free stupid army

Great battles of free stupid army
Sheikh Miskin


Daraa

Used like condoms and abandoned once outlived utility

Sdf who will occupy all of Syria East of Euphrates is the new Western darling

Images!

Achillus ‏@Achillus1 now4 hours ago
#ISIS best friend, #Erdogan (Or other, moderate headchopper):

turkiye is sitting on a civil war on around half its asian side

scenes from nusebin
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ccv68EhW4AAf5yW.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ccv60YbW4AEe95U.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ccv6f3MWIAEP3TG.jpg

with syria and iraq awash in weapons, the kurds should have no difficulty obtaining heavier and portable kit like RPG22+ and Metis/konkurs

IS launched a major attack on peshmerga in iraq, the peshmerga units saw them coming and smacked them back with 100 kia in the red earth

video https://twitter.com/PeshmergaNews/statu ... 3941342208

8 more rats bagged near sinjar

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CcuwB1nWEAEpQ9q.jpg

some peshmerga on a 2 week training camp in germany (germans also train them onsite)
https://twitter.com/DrPartizan_/status/ ... 9666880512

there are reports though that some of fighters sold their weapons like G36 rifle and reflex sight on black market to raise money for the smugglers trip to europe with family

latest map

a very maximised view of IS presence, colouring a lot of uninhabited countryside in black
like the niveveh province

Iraq's forces have attacked villages south of Fallujah with help of local tribes men and have pushed ISIS back towards the city. A similar attack is unfolding from south of Mosul

Haidar Sumeri ‏@IraqiSecurity now4 hours ago
Major ops being conducted by #Iraq's army over the last few weeks, focusing on the corridor between Amiriyat Fallujah and southern Fallujah.

Haidar Sumeri ‏@IraqiSecurity now4 hours ago
1 by 1, #Iraq's army is retaking villages south of Fallujah, used by Da'ish as fortifications to protect the city. Da'ish lines collapsing.

Haidar Sumeri ‏@IraqiSecurity now3 hours ago
1,000 local tribesmen are helping #Iraq's army during ops south of Fallujah. Albu Manahi, Albu Du'aij, Albu Hathal among retaken villages.

ISIS have lost ground to YPG near Al Shaddadi towards Dier Ez Zor; ISIS have lost ground to Peshmarga near Mosul, to Iraqi forces near Fallujah and Samarra, to SAA near Palmyra and have handed over a border crossing with Turkey in Syria to FSA. Another attack at Khanasser failed on 01st Mar while repeated attacks on Dier Ez Zor have not yeilded any ground for ISIS.

The no. of ISIS KIA just yesterday appears to be over 200.

Singha wrote:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ccuvtr_UAAA_sn5.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ccuvtr3UsAAON7b.jpg

Hassan Ridha ‏@sayed_ridha 8h8 hours ago
An anti-#IS #FSA group backed by #Jordan & #US have claimed control of Tanf border crossing on #Syria - #Iraq border

ÊzîdîPress ‏@EzidiPress 12h12 hours ago
#BREAKING: #YPJ/#YPG & #YBŞ forces freed 31 enslaved #Ezidi women & children near #Shadadi town in #Syria today

Hassan Ridha ‏@sayed_ridha 17h17 hours ago
Al-Khefsah pump station in east Aleppo countryside flows water to #Aleppo city after being blocked by #IS for 48 days

It is not FSA, it is an entirely new initiative by the north thunder alliamce calling itself new syrian army or something. They are also heading to doyar ez zor. Everybody is headed there. The eyeEs,
the vaipeeJi, The EsAyeAye, The turkii governmamd, the YouEN, and finally bother sooparpowaj. Big convention when they get there. Free food, book your tickets now.

are they the mysterious League of Shadows who operate in the night, are formless and have been known to assassinate isolated ISIS patrols even in heart of deir azzor leaving graffitti on walls before vanishing.
read about some incidents of that nature.

could be resistance fighter of the Al-shaitat tribe who live along the euphrates from deir right down to iraq border....biding their time and keeping off the radar , until the time is right to slaughter the IS goats with the long knives. lets not forget some 900 members of the tribe were butchered by IS in a single day or so. in the Deir pocket they fight alongside the SAA.

Singha ji putting in extra ordinary efforts here, with maps, too. Who could have imagined a new army, as if conjured magically out of nowhere, AFTER ceasefire is declared! This resource grab of oil and water of Euphrates by ISIL has to be seen to be believed (in maps).

And the line still held...

14 vbied bombs at deir azor yesterday... All out berserk mode melee attack on airport walls but Stalingrad did not fall.

Judgement day for the rats swarming the perimeter will come soon one hopes

Im putting in efforts to educate ppl to learn lessons myself and to find ways to retool yourself when locusts reach our door

Will shortly start a thread on it

US Coalition envoy Brett McGurk announces start of operations by #Iraq-i Army & #Peshmerga to take control of #IS held #Mosul

Singha wrote:Im putting in efforts to educate ppl to learn lessons myself and to find ways to retool yourself when locusts reach our door

Will shortly start a thread on it

Agree. This is a possible scenario right at home.

I was trying to find a detailed religious demographic map of Syria and see how the various religious demographics in Syria have received international support.

In Iraq, the Yezidis found themselves friendless and suffered the most horrible of fates. In Syria, each religious / sectarian / ethnic origin pocket seems to have some international backings but who were the weakest and how did they fare - eg: Armenian origin Syrians?

Syria is also an example of modern day equivalent of sub nuclear war by super powers in a nuclear overhang post cold - war. Wherever, the boundaries of tolerance is low, those weapons have been used - eg: Chemical weapons. Interestingly, US ensured the Syrian govt destroyed its Chemical weapons stockpile, while both the Nusra (& associates) plus ISIS have been able to source these.

Territory vs. Resource equation of different battle groups. ISIS in a single minded fashion went for resources as in oil and rivers and the rebels went after population centers. Most of Nusra population centers are also ISIS bread and butter but ISIS did not expand to those areas.

One scenario from both Syria and Iraq which does not appear feasible closer home (as yet) is the split in the military. If those schisms and fault lines are engineered then the colour revolution is a real possibility in India.

Some of the Assyrian and Armenian Christians
Are with ypg peshmerga and pkk. On the coast they are with the govt.

first trickle of water flowing into aleppo

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CcuYN_5WoAE5GWB.jpg

might explain why ISIS is so desperate to capture deir azzor and gain a defensible position before YPG tears into their back lines

I'm Kurdish.Jiyan. ‏@Jiyangerano 18h18 hours ago
Reports of YPG/SDF reaching sherwan village deep in #DeirEzzor province #twitterkurds #YPG

N i d a l ‏@Nidalgazaui 54m54 minutes ago
#SDF captured laqtah village 37Km North East of #Raqqa.

take away from this and a pic I mistakenly posted in L&M thread is anytime you advance the earth moving machinery needs to go along asap to clear rubble, dig trenches, build berms....

https://twitter.com/yunus4akca7/status/ ... 4937684992

Hassan Ridha ‏@sayed_ridha Mar 3
#SDF advance in #DeirEzzor province and have reached Abo Khashab, #IS leader of Deir & #Hasakah "Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Khalifa" has been killed

REbar era ‏@RebarEra Mar 3
it is official. #YPG has entered #DeirEzzor province from Mount Kizwanan/Abdulaziz. for the first time #twiterkurds

dog of war2 : deir azzor

at this rate YPG columns could reach deir azzor in 7-10 days if they have fuel and people...

‘Efficient, accurate’: Russian air warfare in Syria praised in classified NATO report
https://www.rt.com/news/334642-russia-e ... yria-nato/

The Russian task force in Syria has demonstrated remarkable efficiency and professionalism, according to a German magazine citing confidential NATO analysis.

The limited Russian contingent operating in Syria is outperforming the more widespread groupings of the US-led anti-Islamic State coalition, according to Germany’s FOCUS media outlet who came by the classified NATO document, which was prepared by the alliance’s military experts.

The document points out that Russia deployed 40 warplanes, performing some 75 sorties a day (until the ceasefire came into effect on February 27). The airstrikes, usually delivered on several targets during each combat flight, are “accurate and efficient,” the analysis reportedly says.

The US-led counterterrorist coalition, deploying about 180 warplanes against Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL), strikes only about 20 targets a day. The paper says the number of Russian fighter jets on the ground is “clearly inferior in number” to NATO’s group, but the higher frequency of the Russian air raids makes them more effective.