U.S., allies demand Russia halt Syria strikes outside IS areas

Reuters, via Yahoo News ^ | Oct 2, 2015 | Tom Perry and Lidia Kelly

[ETL]

BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia bombed Syria for a third day on Friday, mainly hitting areas held by rival insurgent groups rather than the Islamic State fighters it said it was targeting and drawing an increasingly angry response from the West.

The U.S.-led coalition that is waging its own air war against Islamic State called on the Russians to halt strikes on targets other than Islamic State.

"We call on the Russian Federation to immediately cease its attacks on the Syrian opposition and civilians and to focus its efforts on fighting ISIL," said the coalition, which includes the United States, major European powers, Arab states and Turkey.

"We express our deep concern with regard to the Russian military build-up in Syria and especially ‎the attacks by the Russian Air Force on Hama, Homs and Idlib since yesterday which led to civilian casualties and did not target Daesh," it said.

ISIL and Daesh are both acronyms for Islamic State, also known as ISIS, which has set up a caliphate across a swathe of eastern Syria and northern Iraq.

In Syria, the group is one of many fighting against Russia's ally, President Bashar al-Assad. Washington and its Western and regional allies say Russia is using it as a pretext to bomb other groups that oppose Assad. Some of these groups have received training and weapons from Assad's foreign enemies, including the United States.

[Pearls Before Swine]

... yawn....

[dp0622]

This is getting dangerous.

Maybe Putin gambled that we wouldn’t do anything and now we might?

[WilliamIII]

Sounds like the Russians must be making some headway against the “good” terrorists that US and its allies are backing.

[WilliamIII]

Maybe Putin gambled that we wouldn’t do anything and now we might?

Will Obama go to war to save the “good” terrorists, so they can keep fighting to bring down Assad? Hope not, but he’s getting a lot of pressure to do so, from McCain, Carly, and the like.

[griswold3]

A stern warning followed by a harsh worded letter...

[ETL]

Sounds like the Russians must be making some headway against the “good” terrorists that US and its allies are backing

And it sounds like you are another Putinista BS artist. What about the guys your boy Putin is backing in Iran, the world's leading state sponsor of islamo-terrorism. The guys who have repeatedly threatened to wipe Israel off the map.

[ETL]

Trump: Iran Deal Requires U.S. Protecting Iran in Event of Israeli Strike

by Jacob Kornbluh
Sept 2, 2015

In a phone interview with CNN Tuesday evening, Trump claimed that there’s “something in the Iran deal” that “people don’t understand” saying if someone attacks Iran, “we have to come to their defense.”

“Does that include Israel?” Trump asked. “And most people say yes, they don’t have an exclusion for Israel. So if Israel attacks Iran, according to that deal, I believe, the way it reads, unless they have a codicil or they have something to it, that we have to fight with Iran against Israel.” ..."

Trump was most probably referring to language highlighted by the opponents of the deal. On page 142, the deal includes a clause that states, “Co-operation through training and workshops to strengthen Iran’s ability to protect against, and respond to nuclear security threats, including sabotage, as well as to enable effective and sustainable nuclear security and physical protection systems.”

Washington-based Center for Security Policy asserted that Annex III appears “to commit the United States and other world powers to the defense of Iran’s nuclear program.”

http://jpupdates.com/2015/09/02/trump-iran-deal-requires-u-s-protecting-iran-in-event-of-israeli-strike/
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Aug 2015...

[massgopguy]

The Russians took out an ISIS C&C Center. How come they knew where it was?

[ETL]

Russian build-up in Syria part of secret deal with Iran’s Quds Force leader

September 11, 2015
Jennifer Griffin, Lucas Tomlinson
FoxNews.com

As the Pentagon warily eyes a Russian military build-up in Syria, Western intelligence sources tell Fox News that the escalated Russian presence began just days after a secret Moscow meeting in late July between Iran’s Quds Force commander — their chief exporter of terror — and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Fox News has learned Quds head Qassem Soleimani and Putin discussed such a joint military plan for Syria at that meeting, an encounter first reported by Fox News in early August. ...”

The Quds Force is the international arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, involved in exporting terrorism to Iran’s proxies throughout the Middle East including Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. ...”

Officials who have monitored the build-up say they’ve seen more than 1,000 Russian combatants — some of them from the same plainclothes Special Forces units who were sent to Crimea and Ukraine. Some of these Russian troops are logistical specialists and needed for security at the expanding Russian bases.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/11/russian-build-up-in-syria-part-secret-deal-with-irans-quds-force-leader/

[RummyChick]

Putin isnt going to kowtow to wimpy Muslim lover Obama

[100American]

Put down whatever you are smoking or kick down and share...

Bam is all talk and if Russia is in there now he has NO FEAR of what Obama and our “allies” say

Do you really think there are countries in the world who will line up behind HIM against the Russians?????

Think before posting, Bam is dead wrong and of all the groups in the world only Putin has the stones to move ahead and give Barky the finger...

[100American]

I will predict here and now IF the US tries to intervene against Israel on behalf of Iran there will be a Military coup in the US or an outright refusal to attack Israeli troops

Crisis and Down goes Bamster...

Watch and see...

[paratrooper82]

The Russians collectively laughed at Obama and told the little bitch to sit down and shut up . . . . . and Obama quickly complied . . . asking of Putin, may I please have some more sir.

[griswold3]

The Russians are working with Iranian troops with boots on the ground. (?)
The Obama administration is only going through the motions. They have no desire to get mixed up in the ME.

[dp0622]

Think before posting?

lol, that’s overdoing it a little.

You are probably right.

have a nice day FRiend.

[Popman]

-——Maybe Putin gambled that we wouldn’t do anything and now we might?———

Putin is playing chess....Obama is not even playing checkers.

He playing with himself....hoping nobody notices...

A guy who ran on and claimed to have ended two wars is now going to start a semi hot war with Putin because he is bombing our supplied and paid for terrorist...?

That would play well to the American people...!!!

[Norm Lenhart]

Considering the United states under Obama and the GOP armed terrorists that killed Americans and slaughtered christians to further a caliphate pipe dream, you might wanna get off the high morality horse sport. “OUR” hands are dirtier than Putins right now. And one does not need to be a Putin supporter to accept the reality of that.

Besides, this is the ‘lesser evil’ so many idiots demanded writ large.

[Autonomous User]

“Maybe Putin gambled that we wouldn’t do anything and now we might?

You Never send a ferret like Obama to do a the work a weasel like Putin can do.

[dp0622]

yeah, you’re right. But it’s REALLY bad to demand someone to stop doing something, and when they dont, you do nothing.