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Syria's Ja'afari says U.S. action on Raqqa would be illegitimate
Rooters World News ^ | March 24, 2017

Posted on 03/24/2017 12:58:57 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

A U.S.- or Turkish-backed attack on Islamic State in the Syrian city of Raqqa would be illegitimate unless coordinated with President Bashar al-Assad's government, the Syrian chief negotiator at peace talks in Geneva said on Friday.

"Any military presence on our territory without the approval of the Syrian government is an illegitimate presence," Bashar al-Ja'afari told reporters after meeting U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura.

French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Friday the battle to recapture Raqqa would restart in the coming days.

Ja'afari said nobody could claim to be fighting Islamic State without coordinating with Iraq and Syria.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: isis
Still trying to kill terrorists with the right hand and kill for terrorists with the left hand.

And not get burned in the process, Christopher Stevens, pick up the white courtesy phone, please.

1 posted on 03/24/2017 12:58:57 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

So attacking ISIS’s capital would be illegitimate? Shows you what side the regime is REALLY on.

Maybe they’re afraid that we’ll discover their chemical weapons, and where they came from. How much mythology would that destroy?


2 posted on 03/24/2017 1:01:30 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Navy Patriot

Is this the bad guy from Aladdin?


3 posted on 03/24/2017 1:03:06 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: TBP
So attacking ISIS’s capital would be illegitimate? Shows you what side the regime is REALLY on.

I think he's hoping for both an attack and a handover of reclaimed Raqqa to Assad's government, rather than to another faction favored by Turkey, the US, or the Kurds.

So, he's jumping one step ahead more than hoping ISIS can hold Raqqa, as its fall is a foregone conclusion now.

4 posted on 03/24/2017 2:06:16 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Navy Patriot

Assad and the Russians, and the Turks all tried to make their move but we beat them to it.

The SDF and our troops are going to do the heavy lifting, real soon.

Look for a partition of Syria into Kurdish, Turkish and Assad/Syrian areas afterwards.


5 posted on 03/24/2017 4:34:44 PM PDT by gandalftb
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The SDF and our troops are going to do the heavy lifting, real soon.

That will require a lot more boots on the ground, and the Russians will not allow air support that targets the Syrian Army loyalists, not even "accidentally".

Therefore, it will have to be a Kurdish autonomous state Federated with Syria, and Turkey locked out, and the US will have to agree to the Russian brokered peace deal.

Our troops will be at serious risk if the Turks try to put a knife in the Kurds backs, or SDF tries to re target Syrian loyalists or Kurds.

This could go very bad very quickly.

6 posted on 03/24/2017 4:57:01 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: Pearls Before Swine; TBP

Ja’afari is a Syrian diplomat speaking at an International Forum, he is just citing International Law, not endorsing ISIS or a city they hold as “legitimate”.


7 posted on 03/24/2017 5:05:16 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: Navy Patriot

The Euphrates valley is no longer Syria


8 posted on 03/24/2017 5:06:51 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (the long night is over)
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To: Thibodeaux
The Euphrates valley is no longer Syria

That may be, the easiest support for the area is from the East, Mosul and Iraqi territory, Syria will get no assistance there even if wiped clean of ISIS.

Southwest from Damascus, difficult and expensive.

9 posted on 03/24/2017 5:25:03 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: Navy Patriot

The Euphrates valley in former iraq is no longer Iraq

There will be Sunni/Kurdish rule

The question will be how far south toward Baghdad does it extend before hitting real Shia resistance


10 posted on 03/25/2017 1:30:15 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (the long night is over)
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