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Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 07:47
by UlanBatori
invade Tunisia and Algeria
They won't go into Algeria any more than US will go into Somalia or Vietnam. :eek:

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 07:52
by member_22733
UB saahib,

I know. Algerian war for independence was a bloody and ruthless affair with a fully racist French brutalizing a dehumanized colonized people. I was just throwing out names of countries that France has "unfinished bizness" with. It was 90% sarcastic (10% not because I am not sure what a crazy Euro can do).

The last time US was mad (because of 9/11) the neo-cons hijacked the anger and finished some unfinished bizness in eye-raq.

This time, the French are mad. You can bet that their "anger" will be hijacked by vested interests.

Remains to be seen which country will be attacked :)

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 07:57
by krishna_krishna
LokeshC wrote:They did not do jack when their Engineers working on scorpene (IIRC) were halaaled. If it is indeed ISI, nothing much will happen, infact I doubt if anything will happen to the jarnails.
I disagree they halalad the guys who did it and admiral from ISI who ordered/planned it was tortured and made sure that he needs wheelchair for rest of his ugly life, french are equally bad and revenge is paid back in kind no fanfare.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 08:03
by member_29247
France has declared policy that it may use nukes (retaliation)in case of terrorist attacks .
If Article 5 is I ok'd then Ombaba will be in big fix

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 08:30
by Satya_anveshi
French officials think as many as 20 plotters may be behind Paris attacks - WaPo - Nov 15, 2015
A senior official familiar with the investigation said authorities suspected that as many as 20 people in Europe had been involved in planning, supporting and executing the attack.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 08:39
by Satya_anveshi
If Paris did not happen, entire G20 would have focused on Russian plane bombing and Russia would have come out like a big victim justified in bombing the sheet out of all remaining jihadis. Now G20 mostly focuses on Paris and France gets to encroach more of Syrian territory as a negotiation lever for the West's idea of end state and against Assad's/Russia's idea of end state.

Theatrics (pun intended) do matter in international diplomacy.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 08:45
by Vayutuvan
LokeshC wrote:... unfinished some unfinished bizness in eye-raq.
FTFY :mrgreen:
LokeshC wrote:This time, the French are mad. You can bet that their "anger" will be hijacked by vested interests.
Remains to be seen which country will be attacked :)
Combodia? I hope not. I haven't visited the most magnificient hindu temple in the world.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 08:46
by member_22733
^^^^ I dont think they are that powerful. That era is long gone.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 08:52
by Neshant
Backlash has begun.. in Canada of all places.

____

Mosque in Peterborough, Ont., deliberately set on fire, police say

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/mosque-peterb ... -container

Just a half hour before their mosque was set ablaze on Saturday, members of the Kawartha Muslim Religious Association were in the building celebrating the birth of a baby, said the president of the association, Kenzu Abdella.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 08:54
by Satya_anveshi
and consider this:
French Interior Minister Vows to Close Hate-Preaching Mosques
In June, Cazeneuve stated that some 40 foreign imams had been deported from France for preaching hatred in the past three years.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 09:00
by Singha
>>admiral from ISI who ordered/planned it was tortured and made sure that he needs wheelchair for rest of his ugly life

any sources?

>>some 40 foreign imams had been deported from France for preaching hatred in the past three years.

that would be 39 more than UK did, I think they only managed to deport the Abu bakri back to lebanon.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 09:26
by vijaykarthik
IMO, one country apart from US which has the scrotal fortitude to get "stuff" done is France. In the NATO* group, I mean.

*Otherwise, we can include Israel / Russia etc.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 09:29
by Singha
let us wait and watch.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 09:30
by Satya_anveshi
yeah..if donkeys (or their intellectual equivalents) can get to attend G20 why not cats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lnNX6dND5k

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 09:39
by sum
Singha wrote:>>admiral from ISI who ordered/planned it was tortured and made sure that he needs wheelchair for rest of his ugly life

any sources?
This seems to suggest the same:
A fable of blood and bribes
The most thrilling details cited in the Nautilus whose author has been identified as Claude Thevenet, a former agent of the DST, French intelligence agency, is the revenge of the French.

An Internet information site Mediapart spoke to Thevenet. The DGSE would have organised a special operation with French commandos (Service Action), specialised in clandestine operations outside French territory. One Pakistani officer would have been killed and three admirals would have ended with broken knees. 'On ne fait pas chanter la France! (One does not blackmail France!)'. Karachi had tried to blackmail the French government refusing to pay the promised commissions.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 09:39
by member_29172
As usual Islamists are running around with #Notallmuslims tags, just like they did on 26/11, 9/11, '93 blasts and so on. This is what needs to be debated. Open islam for criticism that's what has never happened...

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 09:55
by Philip
Finally! Having scorned the UN for ages,the US and co. have now swallowed their pride and want the UN to negotiate a deal between Assad and his opponents.No more crap about regime change and Assad going first! The spin is as if Russia has climbed down. The West is running scared and defecating simultaneously after Friday the 13th at Paris.

You sow the wind,now reap the whirlwind". Western destruction of Middle eastern civilisations and states like Iraq,Libya,and attempts to do the same in Syria,have led to the "war against terror" (Islamist terror vs state terror) coming home to roost. Russia's entry into the mess made by the West has rectified to a great extent in focusing the spotlight onto who is the real enemy,ISIS and its covert backers,not Assad and the Syrian state. The growing rapproachment between the US and Russia must be pushed to a firm understanding and cooperation between the two.Once that is achieved,the rest of the players will fall in line. ISIS and the Saudis,etc.,has been mollycoddled by the West for far too long. Analysts in the media are now for the first time openly mentioning the Saudis in the aftermath of Paris,but more needs to be done.

Nuking Raqqa is only attacking the symptom of the disease.It is Saudi Arabia,where the daughter of Wahaab married into the Saudi royalty ages ago,which is the key core culprit,spreading surreptitiously Wahhabi jihadism that has given birth to ISIS and along with its protégé Pak,is Islamic terror HQ.Unless these two states are dealt with decisively,Islamic terror will continue unabated across the globe,and eventually nukes may truly come into play as Pak is building more nukes per year than any other N-weapons nation,enough for itself,the Saudis and ISIS.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/n ... transition
G20: Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin agree to Syrian-led transition
Presidents of US and Russia meet at leaders’ conference and agree to have the UN negotiate a peace deal between the opposition and the Assad regime
Katharine Murphy in Antalya, Turkey

Sunday 15 November 2015
The United States and Russia have reached consensus at the G20 on the need for “a Syrian-led and Syrian-owned political transition” following a sidelines meeting between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin on Sunday.

G20 to discuss threat of Isis infiltrators among EU migrants after Paris attacks

A White House official said Obama and Putin had agreed the United Nations would mediate negotiations between the Syrian opposition and the regime after a ceasefire.


The thaw between Obama and Putin came in the lead-up to the summit’s working dinner, where G20 leaders were due to focus on strategies to counter violent extremism.

Earlier in the day, the US president used his opening remarks at the summit to declare America would intensify efforts to “eliminate” Islamic State and also bring about a “peaceful transition” in Syria.

The Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, had a brief discussion with president Obama before the leaders gathered for the G20 “family photo”.

Turnbull and Obama will meet for longer talks at the Apec summit in Manila on Tuesday.

In addition to pushing a political solution for Syria, officials told the Guardian, Obama used interventions during summit sessions on Sunday to urge leaders to produce a strong communiqué on climate change as a precursor to the UN-led climate talks in Paris next month.

Turnbull also made a couple of interventions during Sunday’s sessions, noting the Antalya summit would not meet the economic growth targets set last year in Brisbane to raise collective gross domestic product by more than 2%.

Turnbull, at his first international summit since taking over as prime minister from Tony Abbott, introduced himself to his G20 counterparts by delivering a well-worn stump speech about the importance of agility and innovation, and referring to his domestic policy agenda to boost urban infrastructure.

Turnbull quoted the mayor of Bogota: “A developed coun­try is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use pub­lic trans­port.”

G20 honours victims of terrorism

The opening G20 session on Sunday paused for a minute’s silence to honour the 129 victims of Friday’s terror attacks in Paris, and the 102 people who died in Ankara in October when two bombs were detonated outside the railway station.

The G20 host, Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said terrorism was a threat to the world’s peace and security. There was a link between the global economy, the core focus of the G20 grouping, and security, he said.

With the summit overshadowed by the shocking events in Paris, Turnbull used a bilateral meeting with the French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, to reiterate Australia’s support. “We are utterly shoulder to shoulder with you in the fight against terrorism,” Turnbull said.
David Cameron arrives in Turkey for very different G20 summit

Fabius, who is standing in at the G20 for president François Hollande, told Turnbull the Paris attack had been a shock to his country.

He said extremists were provoking “civil war” by trying to divide his country against Muslims who are “not at all terrorists”.

Fabius said the attacks were deliberate strikes against French values and the French way of life – not a protest against military actions in Syria and Iraq. “What they do not accept is, it is not our actions – it is what we are.”

Fabius said the terrorists deliberately targeted a nightclub district because they “don’t accept the fact that we dance”.

“They want the majority of the population to equate Muslims to terrorism in order to have some sort of civil war,” he said.

European leaders at the summit rejected calls by right wing populist parties and governments in the EU to drastically overhaul migration rules in the wake of the Paris attacks.

The European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, said refugees fleeing Syria were trying to escape extremism, not perpetrate it.

“Those who organised, who perpetrated, the attacks are the very same people who the refugees are fleeing, and not the opposite,” Juncker said in a press conference. “And so there is no need for an overall review of the European policy on refugees.”

Turnbull focused on trade talks
The prime minister pushed on with a program of bilateral meetings at the Antalya summit on Sunday.

Australia to launch free trade talks with EU in 2017
Early in the day he secured agreement from the leadership of the European Union to begin negotiations on a free trade agreement between Australia and the EU in 2017.

Turnbull had previously secured the backing of the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, during their meeting in Berlin on Friday to pursue the free trade agreement with the EU.

Later on Sunday, Turnbull met the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, to press for the conclusion of a bilateral trade deal with New Delhi. Turnbull told Modi Australia was “very keen” to progress trade talks.

Modi said Australia and India were “very close friends and forging ahead as strategic partners.”

Turnbull was due to meet the president of China, Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of the G20 summit on Monday morning before leaving Turkey for the Apec summit.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 09:57
by Satya_anveshi
(I think) Jordan is tasked to identify good vs bad terrorists and good ones to be included in political process...not sure what made Russians/Iranians to trust Jordan for this.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 10:15
by Singha
only consensus is nusra and isis are blacklist.

that leaves some 100+ other formations incl saudi munna al-shams. might be a carrot to wean them away from nusrah and sit out the rest of it in turkey while SAA and RuAF hammer the nusrah in idlib region.

after all why fight when your post-war say is guaranteed?

a ceasefire between whitelist parties could be a few weeks away...but end of offensive ops could be earlier if track2 channels work.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 10:22
by Satya_anveshi
So, AlQ's rebranded version of IS/ISIL/ISIS will likely be gutted. We need to carefully observe whom does 'the west' glorify again. My gut feel is AlQ will be rejuvenated again. If there are videos of Zawahiri asking volunteers to join his fight with his visuals at shooting range and jihadijohns (I mean western media jihadis) jumping up and down we know which way investment is headed.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 10:25
by Singha
yeah looks like end of the line for ISIS. its been 'decided' by various deep states to let them go looking at cost-benefit eqns.

look for american bombing to become heavy and ramadi offensive to be stepped up.

A-10 planes in action @ Sinjar.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 10:28
by member_29172
ISIS is more or less a collaboration between middle western mullas and western munnas. The main question is what the f*ck are these morons trying to do? arming syrian rebels who were also radical muslims with latest western weapons, letting in hordes of syrians, pukies, banglas etc. into europe.. is it all being done just for votes and corporate profits? What's the end game here?

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 10:30
by Singha
not sure there is grand plan...people make up rules as they go along.

ISIS/Nusra = agent smith@matrix. started as a munna to curb shia power and take out assad, but went feral and cloned themselves all over and 'system' unable to cope.

so reset button will be pressed or some Neo will be created for the task.

a lot of western jihadis drawn like moths to the flame will also be killed...a net gain for the west.

'power' is all about starting these periodic fires . 'managing' the flames and then finally mediating an end to the flame.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 10:35
by johneeG
Alka_P wrote:ISIS is more or less a collaboration between middle western mullas and western munnas. The main question is what the f*ck are these morons trying to do? arming syrian rebels who were also radical muslims with latest western weapons, letting in hordes of syrians, pukies, banglas etc. into europe.. is it all being done just for votes and corporate profits? What's the end game here?
Middle-east starts and ends with just one thing: oil.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 10:38
by member_29172
johneeG wrote:
Middle-east starts and ends with just one thing: oil.
That's obvious but why are they promoting islam in their own countries? is saudi barbaria really that influential? And then unkil already has amassed a fairly large oil reserve why kiss the arabian a$$ now?

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 10:44
by hnair
Singha wrote:>>admiral from ISI who ordered/planned it was tortured and made sure that he needs wheelchair for rest of his ugly life

any sources?
Nautilus Report :D DGSE cracked the knee of one of the targeted three admirals and the brave baki-fauj fell in line

Le Monde

rediff
The most thrilling details cited in the Nautilus whose author has been identified as Claude Thevenet, a former agent of the DST, French intelligence agency, is the revenge of the French.

An Internet information site Mediapart spoke to Thevenet. The DGSE would have organised a special operation with French commandos (Service Action), specialised in clandestine operations outside French territory. One Pakistani officer would have been killed and three admirals would have ended with broken knees. 'On ne fait pas chanter la France! (One does not blackmail France!)'. Karachi had tried to blackmail the French government refusing to pay the promised commissions.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 10:51
by chetak
hnair wrote:
Singha wrote:>>admiral from ISI who ordered/planned it was tortured and made sure that he needs wheelchair for rest of his ugly life

any sources?
Nautilus Report :D DGSE cracked the knee of one of the targeted three admirals and the brave baki-fauj fell in line

Le Monde

rediff
The most thrilling details cited in the Nautilus whose author has been identified as Claude Thevenet, a former agent of the DST, French intelligence agency, is the revenge of the French.

An Internet information site Mediapart spoke to Thevenet. The DGSE would have organised a special operation with French commandos (Service Action), specialised in clandestine operations outside French territory. One Pakistani officer would have been killed and three admirals would have ended with broken knees. 'On ne fait pas chanter la France! (One does not blackmail France!)'. Karachi had tried to blackmail the French government refusing to pay the promised commissions.
when it comes to money and only money, the french are always the most coureageous and they call the british, a nation of shopkeepers.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 10:57
by johneeG
Alka_P wrote:
johneeG wrote:
Middle-east starts and ends with just one thing: oil.
That's obvious but why are they promoting islam in their own countries? is saudi barbaria really that influential? And then unkil already has amassed a fairly large oil reserve why kiss the arabian a$$ now?
Israel occupied Golan Heights from Syria during the six-day war in 1967. This is a disputed territory between Syria and Israel. Recently, oil has been discovered in Golan Heights. Israel is the ally of west. Syria is the only proper ally of Russia in middle-east. So, the syrian conflict seems to be connected to that oil discovery in some way.

The conflict with Iran is connected to Arab. Now, Saudis are the allies of West and Iran is the pro-Russia. Iran is Shia and Saudi is Sunni. So, that conflict is connected to leadership of the ummah thing. But, recently, Obama sealed a deal with Iran which the republicans don't seem to like.

Radical jihadhis have always been used by the money bags as a tool against the opponents. Bhest is particularly adept at this game.
hnair wrote:
Singha wrote:>>admiral from ISI who ordered/planned it was tortured and made sure that he needs wheelchair for rest of his ugly life

any sources?
Nautilus Report :D DGSE cracked the knee of one of the targeted three admirals and the brave baki-fauj fell in line

Le Monde

rediff
The most thrilling details cited in the Nautilus whose author has been identified as Claude Thevenet, a former agent of the DST, French intelligence agency, is the revenge of the French.

An Internet information site Mediapart spoke to Thevenet. The DGSE would have organised a special operation with French commandos (Service Action), specialised in clandestine operations outside French territory. One Pakistani officer would have been killed and three admirals would have ended with broken knees. 'On ne fait pas chanter la France! (One does not blackmail France!)'. Karachi had tried to blackmail the French government refusing to pay the promised commissions.
And we have been tortured by terrorism from these pakistani idiots. It is about time that India also send similar message.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 11:00
by Satya_anveshi
Singha wrote:not sure there is grand plan...people make up rules as they go along.
There is grand plan siree...put most simplistically...some of the major drivers (interlinked with one another)

- Securing energy supplies to centers of gravity (Europe and Asia); This includes changing current boundaries of Syria and Iraq (could have affected Turkey but being a Pukistan it joined them) and expanding Israel's.
- Strengthening $ and ensuring no alternative (not even Euro if it sufficiently threatens ) exists to challenge it
- Removing China as challenger and road to that *necessarily* goes from Russia.

Make no mistake about these 3.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 11:11
by Philip
J,Syria is sitting on a huge qty of oil/gas,more than Kuwait,found initially by Norwegian experts.That's why the Saudis ,Yanquis and co. have wanted to dislodge Assad,so that Saudi oil exports to Europe do not suffer if Syrian oil comes into the EU market at cheaper rates. As it is Fracking oil has finished off the Saudi oil bonanza.The US is now relatively self-sufficient,no longer dependent upon the oily-cracies of the ME.

Paris Friday the 13th is a defining moment for Europe and the West just as 9/11 and 26/11 was for the US and India.The roots are the same.Wahaabi jihadism promoted by the Saudis and Pakis.Unless both nations are "sanitised",the Islamic jihadis will find other means of striking again and again. They have openly declared war on the "Crusaders" and crusader nations,as well as India,considered a Hindu nation. The victims of such Islamist terror will have to unite to destroy the monster.One or two nations cannot do it alone.It requires cutting off weapons,financial resources and money spinning entities like captured oilfields,etc.,sharing of intel and striking without mercy at ALL Islamic fundoos since there is considerable networking between say Paki terrorism and ISIS,Al Q etc. Even the Western backed Syrian "opposition",in reality a CIA force of rag-tag mercenaries,have passed on their weaponry to ISIS! Putin tore away the Syrian "bluff",the veil masking the actual bogus war against ISIS,which was a Western/US/Saudi/Gulfie attempt at regime change using any means to do so. With ISIS backstabbing their sponsors,the game has changed.paris is the defining moment.

LIve updates here:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2 ... syria-live
Paris attacks: anti-terrorism raids across France as hunt for Salah Abdeslam continues – live

Strikes target Islamic State stronghold in Raqqa
Police raids taking place in Toulouse, Grenoble, Jeumont and Bobigny
Paris death toll stands at 129, with 352 wounded
Who was Paris attacker Omar Ismail Mostefai?

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 11:16
by A_Gupta
Belgian jihadi base: Molenbeek-Saint Jean
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semp ... lead-.html

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 11:27
by johneeG
Philip saar,
saudis seem to be close to Repubs. That maybe another set of dynamics influencing the equation.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 11:29
by Philip
Bush and Bin Laden families have been bum-chum partners for decades.It explains a lot as to happenings in the ME,Afghanistan,etc.

The way to go! Xcpt. from the Guardian Live.
'Housing blocks are being stormed'

Heavily armed tactical units have launched coordinated operations from Calais to Toulouse, making dozens of arrests in areas linked with radical Islamists who may have helped seven suicide bombers carry out the Paris attacks.

Referring to the RAID and GIPN, anti-terrorist units of the French National Police, one witness in in the Paris suburb of Bobigny said just before dawn: "There are hundreds of them everywhere.

"Housing blocks are being stormed, and doors broken down. They are shouting 'Police, Police!' and pulling suspects away."

Raids were reported in other parts of the Paris suburbs, as well as in Grenoble and Jeamont, close to France's border with Belgium.

It was in the same area that police questioned one of the alleged killers on Saturday morning - but let him go after he showed them his ID card.
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/322194-franc ... ory-syria/
Paris terror: History won’t forgive if West doesn’t learn lessons now
John Wight
Published time: 15 Nov, 2015 15:50

If the recent horror visited upon Beirut and Paris, as Islamic State/Daesh seeks to broaden its war against civilization, does not succeed in re-focusing the mind of the West when it comes to its role in the Middle East, then nothing will.

READ MORE: Paris massacre: World mourns 120+ killed in series of terrorist attacks

For far too long Western governments and ideologues have performed the modern equivalent of fiddling while Rome burns when it comes to the conflict against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and everything it represents. The nadir in this fiddling came just hours after the suicide bombing of southern Beirut, in which 43 people were killed and over 200 injured, with the public display of triumphalism by British Prime Minister David Cameron in response to the US drone strike which killed British IS executioner, Mohamed Emwazi (aka ‘Jihadi John’), in Syria.

In the mind of the British prime minister the killing of this one man, undertaken without the permission, cooperation, or compliance with the Syrian government, was elevated to the status of a major military achievement and victory. In truth it merely highlighted the absurdity of the West’s refusal to coordinate with those engaged in seriously combatting this medieval death cult, and without whose efforts its black flag would now be flying in every part of Syria and all over the region. In other words, it is Russia, Syria, Iran, the Kurds, both in Syria and Iraq, and the Lebanese resistance organization Hezbollah who are taking the fight to IS and Al-Qaeda. The United States, Britain, France up to now have played a subordinate role at best, while at worst hampering the aforementioned governments and forces in their obstinate refusal to heed the necessity of cooperating and uniting with them.

British national Mohammed Emwazi, also known as 'Jihadi John' © SITE Intel Group Was ’Jihadi John’ on Obama’s kill list?

If not now, hopefully in years to come historians and chroniclers of this conflict will pay due homage to the tenacity and courage of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its Hezbollah ally, both of which have held the line on the ground against the forces of hell over a sustained period. This courage was exemplified most emphatically with the recent breaking of the siege of the Kweires airbase in Aleppo province, where Syrian troops had managed to hold out against the jihadists surrounding it. Throughout that time they were supplied with regular airlifts of food, medicines, ammunition and other vital supplies, enabling them to hang on. Their determination in doing so until the siege was finally broken as part of the recent ground offensive mounted by the SAA and its allies, in conjunction with Russian air support, marks just one in a catalogue of heroic actions undertaken by troops whose refusal to break over long years of brutal conflict deserves to be universally acknowledged.

Likewise, Hezbollah has committed thousands of its fighters to Syria, hundreds of whom have been killed with an unknown number wounded. The reasoning behind it entering the conflict is eminently sound. If Syria were to fall then it would only be a matter of time before groups driven by a genocidal hatred of Shia Islam would try to move against them and the Shiite community of Lebanon, leading to Lebanese society being torn asunder.

The SAA and Hezbollah, along with the Kurds of the PKK/YPG, who staged a heroic defense of Kobani on the Turkish border in 2014, along with Iranian volunteers and troops, are the forces on the ground fighting and dying on a daily basis to halt the progress of a medieval death cult, which is intent on turning not only Syria but the entire region into a mass grave.
U.S. Marines in Operation Allen Brook in 1968 © Wikipedia
U.S. Marines in Operation Allen Brook in 1968 © Wikipedia

While historical parallels can never be symmetrical, they can help us place current events in a context befitting their enormity. When it comes to the Syrian conflict we can introduce two such parallels without any fear of contradiction. The first is in characterizing IS/Daesh as a modern incarnation of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 1970s, which emerged from similar conditions of chaos and destabilization as Islamic State has done. On that occasion those conditions brought about the extension of the US bombing campaign in Vietnam into Cambodia – known as Operation Menu - beginning in 1969 under the Nixon administration. Declassified documents later revealed that the US was bombing Cambodia even earlier under the previous Johnson administration.

Regardless, the monster that emerged to take over the country in 1975, the Khmer Rouge, embarked on a genocidal campaign of wholesale slaughter, torture, and carnage until they were crushed by the armed forces of the People’s Republic of Vietnam in 1979.

The other discernable parallel when it comes to Syria is with the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. This is a conflict that also held wider international consequences, involving the major powers as the dark cloud of fascism descended over Europe. While the Nazis, busy arming and preparing for their war against civilization across Europe, used the conflict in Spain as a testing ground for the pilots of a reconstituted and modernized Luftwaffe, along with Mussolini’s Italy deploying men and materiel in support of the Spanish fascist forces led by General Franco, thousands of volunteers from all over Europe and the US arrived to aid the Republican side, fighting to restore the legitimate Spanish government to its rightful place.

As with Syria today, Russia (then the Soviet Union) was the only major power to support Spain’s legitimate government, while Britain, France and the US sat on their hands, following a policy of a plague on both their houses. The result of this hand wringing was to bolster the confidence, strength and determination of Hitler and his fascist allies, which as history records plunged Europe into an abyss of barbarism the likes of which the world had never seen.

Sadly, when it comes to Syria, up to this point the West has failed or refuses to learn the essential lessons of those prior conflicts involving genocidal movements and ideologies. The horror visited on Paris confirms that it can no longer afford to.
If it continues to history will not forgive.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 11:31
by A_Gupta
Allegations fly:
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semp ... adism.html
- Obama is in Turkey conferring with Erdogan, the Saudi king and the emir of Qatar. as to how to combat IS. This is a joke! All of these are sponsors of IS and the other Sunni jihadi movements. Senator Lindsey Graham just told Tapper that we (the US) should lead an army of Arabs and THE TURKS into the fight. Of course, Graham is a wholly owned property of Izrul. Whatever mind "he" has in regard to the ME was carefully sculpted by them while writing upon the tabula rasa that was his brain before they began their work. But even "he" should know that Erdogan's Turkey is an ally of IS and will never, never participate in a serious move against IS. Actually, Kemalist Turkey is dead and will probably not be seen again
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- At least one (probably three) of the Paris attackers probably entered Europe as part of the migrant flow that passed through Erdogan's Turkey. One man was registered by the Greeks government on Leros and then was again registered in a Croatian refugee shelter. The really operative part of this tale is that this or these people traveled through Turkey unmolested by the Turkish police and security services. I once lived in Turkey and even then these services were ubiquitous and aggressive. So, IMO Erdogan has passed these people through and sent them on their mission. Just look at his face as he walks around at Antalya. That is the cat who has eaten the canary.
* Erdogan's program for a Muslim invasion by inundation of Europe must be ended. Send them back to their home countries

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 11:34
by johneeG
Ok, let me ask a noob question: ISIS which is supposedly on the run due to Russian air-strikes goes all the way to Europe and attacks the French!??! Why? What does ISIS gain by this attack? And why attack France?

Oh, btw, another data point: this attack happened just before a G20 meet.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 11:36
by Singha
NYT - refugee wapsi in full swing

12:46 AM ET
Nov 16, 2015

2 U.S. Governors Say They Will Not Allow Resettlement of Syrian Refugees

The governors of Alabama and Michigan said on Sunday they would not allow refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria to be resettled in their states, citing the attacks on Paris.

“As your governor, I will not stand complicit to a policy that places the citizens of Alabama in harm’s way,” Gov. Robert J. Bentley of Alabama, a Republican, said in a statement.

In Michigan, which has a sizable Arab-American population, Gov. Rick Snyder, also a Republican, said his state would not accept Syrian refugees, and he urged the State Department to review its procedures.

Syrians have already settled in Michigan, with one agency relocating about 200 of them in the past year, The Detroit Free-Press reported.

“Michigan is a welcoming state and we are proud of our rich history of immigration,” Mr. Snyder said in a statement. “But our first priority is protecting the safety of our residents.”

Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana has asked White House officials for information on how many Syrian refugees have relocated to his state, The Associated Press reported. Governor Jindal, a Republican, said he sought the information “in hopes that the night of horror in Paris is not duplicated here.”

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 11:38
by Singha
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/ ... 2clu4Pr.97

send back from EU, some afghans prepare to try again

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 12:13
by TSJones
France was chosen for an attack because it was easy to do so. The logistical base near there or in Belgium is there and it's easy to get the AK-47's as well certain explosive materials. I would note that the train terrorist who was stopped and captured by Americans also came from Belgium and and waited until the train crossed into France from Belgium to strike terror.

Something appears to be rotten in Belgium. That country needs an enema. Badly.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 12:15
by Satya_anveshi
johneeG wrote:Ok, let me ask a noob question: ISIS which is supposedly on the run due to Russian air-strikes goes all the way to Europe and attacks the French!??! Why? What does ISIS gain by this attack? And why attack France?

Oh, btw, another data point: this attack happened just before a G20 meet.
Not to troll you or anyone....refer to the 3-pts I mentioned above. Those should explain everything( apparent and real) the events around the world particularly as relates to West Asia, EU, Asia dynamic AND at the same time nothing can be explained if you ignore one of more of those points.

Specifically,
1. depopulation of oil rich territories->refugees/migrants->empty territory->occupy/negotiate->annex
2. Economic growth challenges in EU stressing Eurozone members which are hedging with better relationship with Russia. This is causing stress between US-EU. Further, this has implications for USD-Euro. Russia brings with it Eurasian muscle which potentially makes euro far stronger. In a (presumed) zero sum game, euro gain is USD loss. Closer europeans go towards Russia, farther they go from US.
3. fuked up idea is to spur growth by sending refugees (so europeans agree very reluctantly) but game goes bad as terrorists come in the guise of refugees. So, you will see forces that blame ISIS for Paris and those that try to negate it. Domestic terrorism means no ISIS factor and vice versa. Domestic terrorism means ISIS game goes on. If ISIS is involved, major shift must happen.
4. Question of "what does ISIS gain by the attack" is misnomer...ISIS is a weapon...it does not gain or lose but the wielder of the weapon. Question is whose weapon is ISIS and above theory may explain it.

Re: Terrorist Attack in Paris

Posted: 16 Nov 2015 12:25
by Satya_anveshi
If Belgium is more fkd up, it must be easy to do it there. That does not sound like a convincing reason.

France is UNSC Veto holding member and Belgium is not. France guarantees Minks agreement, which brings lull in the proxy war against russia, against the wishes of American partners. France is affected by sanctions against Russia (particularly due to counter sanctions by Russia). France is part of Vienna talks, Belgium is not. France is conducting operations in Syria/Iraq, Belgium is not.

So there are many reasons for France's 'selection'...'ease of conducting operations in" is not one of them.