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 ...
Hi lovely Lady.
Here is a conspiracy theory for ya...Valarie Jarrett is the CIC. She answers to Soros.
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YEP! You saw how zero suddenly went limp about a month ago, depressed-looking, disengaged... he was given his pink slip.
I know I have felt a lot better recently since they unplugged that a$$hole.
And of course, it was Putin not Obama that got Assad to give up the chem weapons although Obama very recently took absolute and FULL credit.
That’s what people say.
Nah, just elections. Hillary needs the money.
YEP! You saw how zero suddenly went limp about a month ago, depressed-looking, disengaged... he was given his pink slip.
I know I have felt a lot better recently since they unplugged that a$$hole.
Yep, he got the pink slip, at least on some things. He’s been relegated to playing more golf.
It’s going to be interesting to watch because he’s been more and more obstinate and now he’s going to pout more.
And of course, it was Putin not Obama that got Assad to give up the chem weapons although Obama very recently took absolute and FULL credit.
Right. and with damage control being implemented, he’ll continue to take credit for whatever goes right despite what he would prefer to transpire.
I’m interested in how our military - those ‘retired’ and those active - are going to handle VJ who treats them as waiters in the WH.
Great move, but why can’t they shut up about it?
Unless we’re going to announce a Grand Alliance that unites Russia, Israel, and Europe (and some of the Mideast countries that will ultimately be threatened by ISIS) why talk about it?
I’m interested in how our military - those ‘retired’ and those active - are going to handle VJ who treats them as waiters in the WH.
Good thought but how will we ever find out?
I still think it’s possible he will be made into a martyr.
It's too complicated for her, or Psaki. Let the Press Secretary (Earnest now) handle it... or Hagel.
she seems to personify earnest cluelessness.
The major BS factor in the whole story is that Syria might still have a useful air force. Remember it was Basher’s guys who were rolling barrels of HE out of helicopters? Or is the Grand Kenyan gonna send them a new squadron of fighters?
There are secular Syrian opposition forces such as FSA whom the US and other Western nations have assisted.
There are Islamist Syrian opposition forces whom the US and other Western nations have not assisted.
You have never acknowledged this distinction and cavalierly jump between the two groups in your citations and reasoning in order to craft the argument that the US armed and trained ISIS. If some FSA units ‘pledged allegiance’ to ISIS that is an ex post facto action of any training or support they received from the West and does not in any way make the West culpable for the actions of ISIS.
It’s called tribalism. Alliances come and go based upon relative strengths and weaknesses.
And your implication that the CIA trained ISIS is complete crap. Why would the CIA teach ANYONE how to evade US ISR? And ISIS isn’t evading anything. In fact they’re getting drone-bombed out of northern Iraq straight back to Syria. Do you think the Iraqis are doing that? So the Iraqis are using drones to protect the Kurds?
Your reasoning behind US culpability for ISIS is as mind boggling as it is repulsive.
Could be Valerie Jarettes doing. This moron has always been an Iranian apologist and Assad is an Iranian ally.
But ISIS demons have gotten everyone worried
The lesser Satan
OK ,so you have no interest in reading, just spewing your funny crap.
And in other news, US will NOT be sharing intelligence with Mossad.
Add Hitlary Clinton to that list.
“There’s a different leader in Syria now. Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he’s a reformer.” – March 2011
“Assad must go.” – April 1, 2012
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