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Russia says to step up air strikes in Syria
Reuters ^ | October 3, 2015 | Alexander Winning and Suleiman Al-Khalidi

Posted on 10/03/2015 11:27:41 AM PDT by JPX2011

Russia said on Saturday it will step up air strikes in Syria, escalating a military intervention which Moscow says is weakening Islamic State militants but which Western powers say aims to support President Bashar al-Assad.

A senior Russian military officer said Russian jets based in western Syria had carried out more than 60 sorties in 72 hours across Syria. "We will not only continue strikes... We will also increase their intensity," said Andrei Kartapolov from the Russian army General Staff.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: isis; russia; syria
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To: cuban leaf

How the world has changed - when the Russian leader is the one fighting for stability and to protect Christians, a d the U.S. President is the one simply sowing chaos


21 posted on 10/03/2015 12:15:34 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: cuban leaf
.......Russian Air Strikes in Syria to Last Three to Four Months ......and 'will intensify', the head of the lower house of the Russian parliament’s foreign affairs committee announced on Friday.

......Syria will take part in UN talks aimed at launching formal negotiations on ending its four-year war but will not be bound by their outcome, Foreign Minister Walid Moallem said Friday.


22 posted on 10/03/2015 12:16:31 PM PDT by caww
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To: PGR88
....”How the world has changed - when the Russian leader is the one fighting for stability and to protect Christians, and the U.S. President is the one simply sowing chaos”.....

We are certainly seeing geopolitical events unfolding in a way consistent with Ezekiel 38-39....that's not to say this is it..but it is how it would look....

Russia aligning with Iran and other ME nations could not be supported, as we see happening among the people, IF the US wasn't weakened.....Sometimes God lets nations be run in tyranny, or something similar to that...in order to bring about his plans.

THE US had to be weakened in order for things to line up in the East and Europe as we see them doing now.

23 posted on 10/03/2015 12:36:21 PM PDT by caww
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To: Berlin_Freeper
If the US thought they were blind sighted by Russia's moves into Syria...(Which they weren't at all)...imagine what the terrorists are thinking since Putin had obvious intelligence from Assad's army and being on the ground with his spy's...as to where these terrorists were located and their arsenals......

More news.....

.......Al-Qaeda Affiliate Issues Bounty for Capture of Russian Soldiers in Syria .....................The two bounty posters show the reward of one million Syrian pounds in Arabic, Russian and English............ The poster on the left shows a picture of Abu Hassan Al-Kuwaiti, the Nusra Front's spiritual leader.


24 posted on 10/03/2015 12:49:42 PM PDT by caww
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To: JPX2011
Take note that Tartous is where Putin has his port...which he's going to protect....also he'll break up the terrorist groups who have infiltrated the Rebel groups in Homs as he did and will continue to do to break the log jam throughtout Syria where Putin stands to loose his won interests as well as Assads.


25 posted on 10/03/2015 12:58:19 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww
And here's what's what in Iraq with iran coming into their nation.......


26 posted on 10/03/2015 1:01:56 PM PDT by caww
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To: 100American
Putin gets this one!

Apparently the leader of the "Army of Islam", Sheikh Zahran Alloush who declared war on Russia was killed today...


27 posted on 10/03/2015 1:11:36 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Enjoy your virgins, baby!


28 posted on 10/03/2015 1:13:07 PM PDT by nascarnation (C. Edmund Wright says I'm a moron)
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To: MichaelCorleone
4 Russian SU-30 intercepted 4 Israeli F-15 entering Syrian airspace, were made to turn around.......'NO FLY ZONE' now in place in Syria....


29 posted on 10/03/2015 1:18:36 PM PDT by caww
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To: nascarnation
Knocking them off one by one!....

Not confirmed yet... but Chinese warplanes to join Russian air strikes in Syria


30 posted on 10/03/2015 1:21:01 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

The Putinator understands what they are and how they think..

These folks play for keeps and do not care about collateral damage to achieve their goals...

Putin puts them down, hard, fast and brutally

There is no such thing as reasoning with a terrorist, it is an infection of the mind and soul

Brings to mind the song “Get Ready cause here I come!”

Watch and See...


31 posted on 10/03/2015 1:23:42 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: 100American
..."The Putinator understands what they are and how they think.....Putin puts them down, hard, fast and brutally".... Oh of course...that's why they're all running...HAHAHA! The Islamists know Putin doesn't give a crap about anything but getting the job done , then he will apologize for mishaps later...maybe.

Interesting is that just one day after Obama, Kerry and the Pentagon lecture Putin about indiscriminate airstrikes in Syria ...they bomb the ONLY hospital that can do surgery on major injuries in Afghanistan!!!!!

33 posted on 10/03/2015 1:45:28 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Stupid is

Is Stupid does..

As I have alluded to in prior posts the plan is not going at all as expected by the few at the top of The Pyramid, and everything rolls downhill as they are protected at all costs from below...

Watch and See...


34 posted on 10/03/2015 1:47:38 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: caww

These Iranians look FABULOUS! If you know what I mean... thank you as always for all the pics.


35 posted on 10/03/2015 1:52:20 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: 100American

Nothing left but to shake our heads because this is going to continue until this nation on a whole gets it’s act together...and I don’t see that happening. Just the opposite....we are a doomed civilization if this keeps up and people vote for the next “star” in the show!


36 posted on 10/03/2015 2:31:25 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Reagan was an actor and they ran this position up and down the flagpole as well

You give up too easy

Watch and See...


37 posted on 10/03/2015 2:49:18 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: txhurl

38 posted on 10/03/2015 2:56:07 PM PDT by caww
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To: 100American

Well we shall certainly see, but I have no reason to trust the American people after Obama’s election...they knew what they were buying into and still they voted for him.


39 posted on 10/03/2015 2:57:47 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

Heavy vote fraud but essentially you are right

The wheel has turned a lot since then and it is no where near the same playing field it has been and they counted on

Watch and See...


40 posted on 10/03/2015 3:01:32 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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