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US Gives Intelligence To Assad For Targetting Isis Commanders
IBTimes Co., Ltd. ^ | August 23, 2014 15:58 BST | Tom Porter

Posted on 08/23/2014 9:10:15 AM PDT by GonzoII

Western intelligence agencies have been assisting the Syrian government of Bashar al Assad fight militants of Isis (now called the 'Islamic State'), by providing details on the location of militant leaders for targeted air strikes.

The information was passed to Assad's government by German intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), which acted as an intermediary, a source told the Independent...

In recent weeks, Syrian forces have launched a series of airstrikes against Islamic State commanders and headquarters, as they battle to halt the advance of jihadist forces from their stronghold in the east of the country.

The Assad regime has been accused of covertly supporting Islamic State in the belief that it would swallow up other rebel groups, but Islamic State militants have scored a series of victories against the Syrian army, forcing Assad to step up his campaign against them.

In July and August Islamic State drove jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra from the oil-rich province of Deir Ezzor, and took key Syrian army bases in Raqqa province and Hasakh.

Currently, the Syrian army is engaged in a fierce battle to hold Tabqa airbase in Raqqa province. Its fall would lead Hama, Syria's fourth largest city, open to attack from Islamic State fighters.

Islamic State is also poised to cut off supply lines between Turkey and rival rebel groups in Aleppo, after seizing territory in the north, compromising the Syrian army's attempts to retake the city.

US 'must attack Syria' to defeat Islamic State

On Thursday, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, said that US forces would have to attack Islamic State forces in Syria, as well as Iraq, to defeat it.

US forces have been launching airstrikes in northern Iraq to support beleaguered Kurdish peshmerga, after Islamic State forces seized swathes of northern Iraq.

(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Germany; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: assad; election2012; flipflop; humanrights; iraq; isis; islamicimperialism; islamonazism; jayvee; johnkerry; leadingfrombehind; obama; obamadoctrine; obamaforeignpolicy; obamalegacy; obamascandals; proislamist; syria; waffle; warcrimes; yoyo
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To: Cap Huff

People need to understand the big picture...and not be clouded by politics....this is about killing a monster.


21 posted on 08/23/2014 9:24:04 AM PDT by Dog (Founding member of the Osama Bin Laden was alive the whole time club..)
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To: GonzoII

Mind boggling!!!


22 posted on 08/23/2014 9:24:05 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: realcleanguy
There you go again saying we created Al Qaeda-in-Iraq ne: Al Nasirayah ne: ISIS. All because what, you saw a blog pimp website's .jpg with a circle around a guy next to McCain saying he's ISIS spokesman? Well, that's it! An internet .jpg is all the proof you need!

Here's another one, proof the Ferguson police are using monsters:


23 posted on 08/23/2014 9:24:10 AM PDT by Justa
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To: VerySadAmerican

Right you are. Obama and Jarrett are not happy to see ISIS attacked.


24 posted on 08/23/2014 9:24:46 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: GonzoII

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy?

No wonder the ME is screwed up.

Add John ‘I started a joke about kids serving in Iraq’ Kerry and Barry ‘I am late for my T-off’ Obama, and no wonder the ME is screwed up even more.

Carter created turmoil in the ME that has lasted for decades. The Obama team has surpassed his mess.


25 posted on 08/23/2014 9:25:18 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: laplata
Somebody must be overruling Obama.

The thought certainly crossed my mind.
26 posted on 08/23/2014 9:26:26 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: GonzoII

Obama and Kerry acted stupidly.


27 posted on 08/23/2014 9:27:11 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: GonzoII
Related:

US Seeks Help From Former Saddam Minister

28 posted on 08/23/2014 9:27:25 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: No One Special
So why is this in the news media? Shouldn’t it be classified?

Trial balloons are intentionally 'leaked' by anomymous sources.


29 posted on 08/23/2014 9:27:47 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: GonzoII

30 posted on 08/23/2014 9:28:22 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: laplata

If the Saudis feel threatened, they will overrule Obama or any other likely US president who would like to butt out.


31 posted on 08/23/2014 9:28:26 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: VerySadAmerican
Did they get McCain’s permission?

The score card for the ME is definitely complicated beyond common understanding.

That is why Obama stays on the greens: that score card is easy to maintain -- I am president, so I win.
32 posted on 08/23/2014 9:29:58 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: cripplecreek

Somebody must be overruling Obama.

The thought certainly crossed my mind.


People who realize the threat ISIS poses are taking over foreign policy in the ME. Maybe domestic policy is next. Obama might be relegated to playing a lot more golf.


33 posted on 08/23/2014 9:30:07 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: GonzoII

The cross channel invasion is scheduled for June 6’th.

Mark your calendars everyone.


34 posted on 08/23/2014 9:30:17 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Justa

My name....is Horace!


35 posted on 08/23/2014 9:30:50 AM PDT by jimmyo57
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To: GonzoII

Hands up! Don’t shoot. No justice, no peace!


36 posted on 08/23/2014 9:31:44 AM PDT by jimmyo57
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To: jjotto

If the Saudis feel threatened, they will overrule Obama or any other likely US president who would like to butt out.


Right you are. Obama is such a disaster in every area that he is going to be relegated to playing a lot more golf.


37 posted on 08/23/2014 9:31:54 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: cripplecreek

‘’The enemy of my enemy is my friend’’. Beside, nations don’t have allies they only have interests.


38 posted on 08/23/2014 9:33:27 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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39 posted on 08/23/2014 9:34:48 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: GonzoII
Well, this is only the third time Bathhouse Barry has done something that resembles "presidential."

The other two I just faintly remember.

40 posted on 08/23/2014 9:34:54 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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