Posted on 02/16/2016 7:07:42 AM PST by Mariner
Turkey has vowed it will not let the Syrian town of Azaz fall into the hands of Kurdish forces because it lies on a supply route used by Ankara to support Islamic State, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
Turkey accused Russia on Monday of an "obvious war crime" after missile attacks in northern Syria killed scores of people, and warned the YPG Kurdish militia it would face the "harshest reaction" if it tried to capture Azaz near the Turkish border.
"Some of our partners have literally implored us 'not to touch' a corridor which is a bit shorter than 100 kilometers on the Syrian-Turkish border around Azaz," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in official comments, mentioning Washington and its allies also operating in Syria.
"Obviously, this is aimed at ensuring continued daily supplies to Islamic State, Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist groups with weapons, ammunition and food from Turkey via this area, and also to allow it to serve as a passageway for terrorists," she said.
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We're not answering the phone.
I love that turkey lost it’s ISIS supplied oil pipe line:-) We need turkey like a hole in the head!
Who says the crISIS manufactured by Comrade Chairman FlexObumble isn’t paying off?
Without Obama’s “flexibility” - Vlad wouldn’t have had an excuse to “intervene” here, or in Ukraine, or..
Where did all those new Toyota trucks come from?
Are you suggesting the US should have reacted militarily to those moves by Russia?
Japan, via Istanbul.
Though tough, fierce folks, they won't ever get their country as THEY want and they won't take anything less than ALL they want. So, the fighting continues.
It was the same 35 years ago when we lived in the middle east. Not much seems to have changed.
No. I’m saying Russia wouldn’t have had an excuse for these military moves if Comrade Chairman Flex-O-Bumble hadn’t manufactured the crISISes for Russia to “responds” to in the first place.
Exactly.
Good morning.
Happy to be on the same side today.
Toyota sure gets around.
When we lived in the KSA decades ago, we would occasionally fly down to Jeddah from the Eastern Province. One could CLEARLY see the Bedouin encampments from the air. Mind you, we were in an old Fokker one time and thus flew LOW.
We WERE scheduled to fly on the ARAMCO jet but, without warning, our ARAMCO jet TOOK OFF, without us. We learned soon that old Sheik Yamani needed it IMMEDIATELY and we were left with the old Fokker. It had pulled up a few minutes earlier and we all LAUGHED at the old bucket. Little did we know.
So off we went.
A dust storm had started up and the winds and sands were BLOWING. It was like out of a movie. The pilot was yelling: WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST!! My husband hung on to my shoulders and came on WITH me.
I remember the NOISE. Boy, was that old Fokker NOISY.
ANYWAY, the Bedouin camps had tents and TOYOTA pickup trucks, right next to their black tailed sheep and a few goats . It was hilarious. They also had some pretty fancy looking radar or some type of communication stuff.
It was OBVIOUS the the Bedu had choices of where and how to live and SOME of them wanted the desert life...even if it was just for a while.
You KNOW I couldn't have made THAT up. It was surreal.
Seems like those Toyotas came from the US at the hands of the DEPARTMENT OF STATE .
(forgot this excerpt)
The mystery of how hundreds of identical, brand-new ISIS-owned Toyota trucks have made it into Syria is solved. Not only has the US and British government admitted in the past to supplying them, their military forces and intelligence agencies ply the borders of Turkey, Jordan, and even Iraq where these fleets of trucks must have surely passed on their way to Syria – even if other regional actors supplied them. While previous admissions to supplying the vehicles implicates the West directly, that nothing resembling interdiction operations have been set up along any of these borders implicates the West as complicit with other parties also supplying vehicles to terrorists inside of Syria.
http://journal-neo.org/2015/10/09/the-mystery-of-isis-toyota-army-solved/
I wonder at what point will Russia take out the Turkish artillery that is firing into Syria and hitting Kurdish positions?
Not unless Turkey hits Russian forces.
That's why Russia is about to drive under the barrage in broad daylight.
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