donderdag 26 november 2015

Vluchtelingenstroom 30

Inmiddels weet het westerse publiek dat de 'NAVO pal achter Turken' staat, nadat deze bondgenoot een Russisch gevechtsvliegtuig, dat geen enkel gevaar voor Turkije vormde, had neergeschoten, omdat het '17 seconden' boven Turks grondgebied zou hebben gevlogen, tijdens gevechtsacties tegen terroristen in Syrië. Met andere woorden: de NAVO staat 'pal,' oftewel 'onwrikbaar,' achter Turkije, dat volgens betrouwbare bronnen al geruime tijd de terreurorganisatie ISIS logistiek steunt. Nog anders gesteld: ook de NAVO ondersteunt ondermeer daardoor de terreurgroep ISIS, en is zelfs bereid een oorlog te beginnen tegen de Russische Federatie zodra Moskou besluit zich tegen de Turkse agressie te verdedigen. Artikel 5 van het NAVO-Handvest bepaalt namelijk dat 

De partijen overeen[komen] dat een gewapende aanval tegen een of meer van hen in Europa of Noord-Amerika als een aanval tegen hen allen zal worden beschouwd; zij komen bijgevolg overeen dat, indien zulk een gewapende aanval plaatsvindt, ieder van hen de aldus aangevallen partij of partijen zal bijstaan, 

Daarom is het belangrijk te beseffen wat de NAVO allemaal weet over de nauwe samenwerking tussen Turkije en ISIS. Welnu, het militair bondgenootschap is op de hoogte van onder andere het volgende:

A senior Western official familiar with a large cache of intelligence obtained this summer from a major raid on an ISIS safehouse told the Guardian that 'direct dealings between Turkish officials and ranking ISIS members was now "undeniable."'

Daarnaast weet de NAVO dat:

The same official confirmed that Turkey, a longstanding member of NATO, is not just supporting ISIS, but also other jihadist groups, including Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria. 'The distinctions they draw [with other opposition groups] are thin indeed,' said the official. 'There is no doubt at all that they militarily cooperate with both.'

Bovendien weet de NAVO, die overigens zonder de parlementen van de aansloten lidstaten te hebben geraadpleegd bereid is om een oorlog tegen Rusland te beginnen, ook het volgende:

In a rare insight into this brazen state-sponsorship of ISIS, a year ago Newsweek reported the testimony of a former ISIS communications technician, who had travelled to Syria to fight the regime of Bashir al-Assad.
The former ISIS fighter told Newsweek that Turkey was allowing ISIS trucks from Raqqa to cross the 'border, through Turkey and then back across the border to attack Syrian Kurds in the city of Serekaniye in northern Syria in February.' ISIS militants would freely travel 'through Turkey in a convoy of trucks,' and stop 'at safehouses along the way.'

De NAVO weet tevens dat

The former ISIS communication technician also admitted that he would routinely 'connect ISIS field captains and commanders from Syria with people in Turkey on innumerable occasions,' adding that 'the people they talked to were Turkish officials… ISIS commanders told us to fear nothing at all because there was full cooperation with the Turks.'

Dat:

In January, authenticated official documents of the Turkish military were leaked online, showing that Turkey’s intelligence services had been caught in Adana by military officers transporting missiles, mortars and anti-aircraft ammunition via truck 'to the al-Qaeda terror organisation' in Syria.

En voorts dat:

According to other ISIS suspects facing trial in Turkey, the Turkish national military intelligence organization (MIT) had begun smuggling arms, including NATO weapons to jihadist groups in Syria as early as 2011.

Eveneens weet de NAVO dat

The allegations have been corroborated by a prosecutor and court testimony of Turkish military police officers, who confirmed that Turkish intelligence was delivering arms to Syrian jihadists from 2013 to 2014.

En dat:

Documents leaked in September 2014 showed that Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan had financed weapons shipments to ISIS through Turkey. A clandestine plane from Germany delivered arms in the Etimesgut airport in Turkey and split into three containers, two of which were dispatched to ISIS.
report by the Turkish Statistics Institute confirmed that the government had provided at least $1 million in arms to Syrian rebels within that period, contradicting official denials. Weapons included grenades, heavy artillery, anti-aircraft guns, firearms, ammunition, hunting rifles and other weapons — but the Institute declined to identify the specific groups receiving the shipments.

De NAVO bezit tevens de volgende informatie:

Information of that nature emerged separately. Just two months ago, Turkish police raided a news outlet that published revelations on how the local customs director had approved weapons shipments from Turkey to ISIS.

Ook over deze kennis beschikt de NAVO:

Turkey has also played a key role in facilitating the life-blood of ISIS’ expansion: black market oil sales. Senior political and intelligence sources in Turkey and Iraq confirm that Turkish authorities have actively facilitated ISIS oil sales through the country.

En ook deze informatie heeft de NAVO:

Last summer, Mehmet Ali Ediboglu, an MP from the main opposition, the Republican People’s Party, estimated the quantity of ISIS oil sales in Turkey at about $800 million — that was over a year ago.

By now, this implies that Turkey has facilitated over $1 billion worth of black market ISIS oil sales to date.

En tenslotte weet de NAVO het volgende:

There is no 'self-sustaining economy' for ISIS, contrary to the fantasies of the Washington Post and Financial Times in their recent faux investigations, according to Martin Chulov of the Guardian:

'tankers carrying crude drawn from makeshift refineries still make it to the [Turkey-Syria] border. One Isis member says the organisation remains a long way from establishing a self-sustaining economy across the area of Syria and Iraq it controls. "They need the Turks. I know of a lot of cooperation and it scares me," he said. "I don’t see how Turkey can attack the organisation too hard. There are shared interests."'

Senior officials of the ruling AKP have conceded the extent of the government’s support for ISIS.


Kortom, de NAVO weet dat het NAVO-lid Turkije nauwe banden onderhoudt met de terroristische organisatie ISIS, en desondanks, of beter nog, juist daarom staat de 'NAVO pal achter Turken,' en wel omdat dit militair bondgenootschap de belangrijkste pilaar is van het westerse militair-industrieel complex, waarvoor al in 1961 de oud-opperbevelhebber van de Geallieerde Strijdkrachten in Europa, Dwight Eisenhower, in zijn afscheidsrede waarschuwde, toen hij verklaarde:

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government… we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together…

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose. Because this need is so sharp and apparent I confess that I lay down my official responsibilities in this field with a definite sense of disappointment. As one who has witnessed the horror and the lingering sadness of war -- as one who knows that another war could utterly destroy this civilization which has been so slowly and painfully built over thousands of years -- I wish I could say tonight that a lasting peace is in sight.

Hoeveel 'unwarranted influence' dit militair-industrieel complex inmiddels bezit blijkt uit het veelzeggende feit dat na de val van de Sovjet-Unie en de opheffing van het Warschau Pact de NAVO daarentegen qua ledental bijna is verdubbeld, terwijl het bondgenootschap almaar oostwaarts oprukt waardoor de Russische Federatie nu geheel omsingeld is door NAVO-bases. Bovendien spendeert de NAVO tenminste 11 keer meer aan bewapening dan Rusland, hoewel opiniemakers als Geert Mak, Henk Hofland en Sven Kockelmann, om slechts drie propagandisten te noemen, publiekelijk verkondigen dat 'meneer Poetin' Europa 'dwingt om meer aan defensie uit te geven,' want de 'meeste Europese landen besteden véél te weinig aan hun defensie-uitgaven,' en je 'defensie niet helemáál' kunt 'afbreken,' integendeel, het 'is dus noodzaak voor het Westen om grenzen aan de Russische expansie te stellen,' aangezien 'We het stadium [naderen] waarin van Poetin alles te verwachten valt.' De gerimpelde impotente mannen willen oorlog, zodat ze zich weer jong en viriel kunnen voelen. Ze vervelen zich, willen in het centrum van de belangstelling blijven staan. Zelfs de 'beste journalist van de twintigste eeuw,' Henk Hofland, heeft niets van de twee wereldoorlogen in de vorige eeuw geleerd, en op de drempel van zijn eigen dood wil hij nog graag wat vuurwerk zien van de NAVO, die van geen defensieve organisatie meer is, maar een offensieve die overal ter wereld kan worden ingezet om de elitebelangen te verdedigen. 

Psychopaten en sociopaten zijn onverzadigbaar en vormen een gevaar voor de mensheid. Grootscheeps en desastreus geweld, waarbij onvermijdelijk de 'veiligheid en vrede' van de burgers op den duur geschonden zullen worden. Dit lijkt in tegenspraak met de officiële en belangrijkste doelstelling van de NAVO, te weten: 'het garanderen van veiligheid en vrijheid van de bondgenoten met behulp van politieke en militaire middelen.' Ik stel met nadruk: lijkt, aangezien uit de formulering duidelijk op te maken valt dat het allereerst en exclusief draait om de 'veiligheid en vrijheid' van de 'bondgenoten.' In de praktijk betekent dit de 'veiligheid en vrijheid' van de ongeveer 20 procent van de wereldbevolking die 86 procent van de geproduceerde goederen op aarde bezit en met geweld een neoliberaal systeem in stand houdt dat 85 miljardairs zo rijk heeft gemaakt dat zij nu evenveel bezitten als de helft van de mensheid. Ondertussen moet iedere  arme van één tot twee dollar per dag zien te overleven, terwijl 'some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. That's about one in nine people on earth.' Daarnaast is 'one in four of the world's children stunted (onvolgroeid. svh),' en veroorzaakt 'poor nutrition nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five.' https://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats Juist daarom beweren westerse propagandisten van het Atlantisch Verbond dat 'De NAVO een belangrijke rol [speelt] in het handhaven van vrede in de internationale gemeenschap.' 

In werkelijkheid is het Westen de afgelopen vijf eeuwen de grootste veroorzaker geweest van oorlogen, is de VS momenteel de grootste producent en exporteur van wapens, en zijn drie van de vijf grootste wapenexporteurs, NAVO-landen: 

According to research institute, SIPRI, the volume of international transfers of major weapons in 2010–14 was 16 per cent higher than in 2005–2009. The five biggest exporters in 2010–14 were the United States, Russia, China, Germany and France, and the five biggest importers were India, Saudi Arabia, China, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Pakistan. The flow of arms to Africa, the Americas, Asia and Oceania, and the Middle East increased significantly between 2005–2009 and 2010–14, while there was a notable decrease in the flow to Europe.

SIPRI has identified 60 countries as exporters of major weapons in 2010–14. The top 5 exporters during the period were responsible for almost 74 per cent of all arms exports… The top 5 exported 14 per cent more arms in 2010–14 than the top 5 in 2005–2009.

De realiteit van het militair-industrieel complex is de werkelijke drijfveer van de NAVO, bij

het garanderen van veiligheid en vrijheid van de bondgenoten met behulp van politieke en militaire middelen.

Voor een geïnformeerd mens is duidelijk dat de westerse 'veiligheid en vrijheid' alleen in stand kan worden gehouden door het uitoefenen van zoveel mogelijk terreur overal ter wereld waar de belangen van de westerse elite in het bijzonder en van de westerse bevolking in het algemeen moeten worden afgedwongen. Zo werd woensdag 25 november 2015 het volgende bekend: 

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 
JOINT PRESS RELEASE

Yemen: Coalition used UK cruise missile in unlawful airstrike
UK should stop selling air-to-ground munitions to Saudi Arabia-led forces

The Saudi Arabia-led coalition used a British-made cruise missile to destroy a Yemeni ceramics factory, a civilian object, on 23 September, 2015, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today, based on field research and interviews with eyewitnesses at the scene.

The attack on the factory in the Sana’a governorate, which appeared to be producing only civilian goods, killed one person, and was in apparent violation of international humanitarian law (IHL), the laws of war.

This strike, using a British missile supplied in the 1990s, undermines the claim of Ministers that the Saudi Arabia-led coalition’s use of UK military equipment is consistent with IHL, and that the UK monitors such compliance 'very carefully.' The organizations are unaware of any credible coalition investigation into this or other apparently unlawful airstrikes for possible IHL violations.

'The UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond claims he favours ‘proper investigations’ into possible breaches of the laws of war in Yemen. This strike provides a perfect test case –- the UK should urgently press the Saudi Arabia-led coalition to open a credible investigation into this strike, as well as others that appear to have violated the laws of war,' said Lama Fakih, Senior Crisis Advisor at Amnesty International.

'The latest revelations show UK policy to be both misleading and seriously ineffective. Despite multiple, well-documented cases of violations of the laws of war by the Gulf coalition in Yemen, UK Ministers have consistently refused to acknowledge this. The UK should suspend further sales of aerial munitions to coalition members pending a thorough investigation into this case, and other apparently unlawful air strikes,' said David Mepham, UK Director at Human Rights Watch.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/11/yemen-coalition-used-uk-cruise-missile-in-unlawful-airstrike/

Het resultaat van door het Westen gesteunde Saoedische oorlogsmisdaden in Yemen, waarbij bevolkingscentra worden getroffen.

Dankzij het Westen kunnen deze oorlogsmisdaden ongestoord worden voortgezet. Er worden ontelbare miljarden geofferd aan de moloch van de oorlog, en ontelbare miljarden worden aan bloedoffers verdiend. Een willekeurig voorbeeld dat op 23 augustus 2013 bekend werd:

U.S. Selling Cluster Bombs Worth 641 Million to Saudi Arabia

WASHINGTON, Aug 23 2013 (IPS) - Arms control advocates are decrying a new U.S. Department of Defence announcement that it will be building and selling 1,300 cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, worth some 641 million dollars.
The munitions at the heart of the sale are technically legal under recently strengthened U.S. regulations aimed at reducing impact on civilian safety, but activists contend that battlefield evidence suggests the weapons actually exceed those regulations…

Opponents say the move runs counter to a strengthening push to outlaw the use of cluster bombs around the world while also contradicting recent votes by both the U.S. and Saudi governments critical of the use of these munitions.

'Both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have recently condemned the use of cluster munitions by the government of Syria – that’s ironic given this new sale, because a cluster munition is a cluster munition, no matter what kind it is,' Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, a watchdog group here in Washington, told IPS.

He was referring to the May 15 vote before the U.N. General Assembly in which both the United States and Saudi Arabia joined 105 other countries in strongly condemning Syria’s use of cluster bombs.

'To my knowledge, the sale of cluster munitions by the United States is infrequent today, so this sale is surprising in the sense that this is a very sophisticated, controversial system because these are cluster bombs,' Kimball continues…

Related IPS Articles


Cluster bombs are air-dropped munitions meant to open in mid-air and release hundreds of additional 'bomblets,' thus significantly expanding the potential damage inflicted in the attack. Yet for years global sentiment has coalesced against the use of cluster bombs due to the fact that some of the bomblets invariably fail to explode, resulting in lingering danger for civilians long after conflicts end.

As of 2011, 39 countries were dealing with the after-effects of cluster bomb use, according to the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines, an advocacy group. The group says that list includes Saudi Arabia.

'Cluster munitions stand out as the weapon that poses the gravest dangers to civilians since antipersonnel mines, which were banned in 1997,' the Campaign states on its website.

'Israel’s massive use of the weapon in Lebanon in August 2006 resulted in more than 200 civilian casualties in the year following the ceasefire and served as the catalyst that propelled governments to secure a legally binding international instrument tackling cluster munitions.'

In 2007, 47 governments endorsed a binding agreement, the Convention on Cluster Munitions, to outlaw the production, use or even transfer of cluster bombs. Some 112 countries have now signed the convention, and 83 have ratified it.

In mid-September, more than 100 countries will meet in Zambia to discuss progress in implementing the accord.

Neither the United States nor Saudi Arabia has signed onto the convention, however, which means that the newly announced sale is legal. According to reports, the U.S. has also continued to make irregular sales of cluster munitions to India, South Korea and Taiwan.

'Cluster munitions have been banned by more than half the world’s nations, so any transfer goes against the international rejection of these weapons,' Sarah Blakemore, director of the Cluster Munition Coalition, a London-based advocacy group, said in a statement.

'We are disappointed with the U.S. decision to export cluster bombs to Saudi Arabia, as both countries acknowledge the negative humanitarian impact of these weapons on civilians. The U.S. should acknowledge the treaty’s ban on cluster munition exports and re-evaluate the criteria for its export moratorium so that no cluster munitions are transferred.'

Deze informatie wordt doorgaans verzwegen of voor kennisgeving aangenomen door de westerse mainstream-pers, omdat zij niet past in de officiële propaganda, waarin het Westen met zijn 'tolerantie' en 'openheid tegenover andere culturen' als 'vredestichtend' wordt afgebeeld. Ook het gegeven dat NAVO-bondgenoot Turkije ISIS openlijk steunt, is een zaak die door de polderpers zoveel mogelijk verzwegen dient te worden, en zeker niet in een bredere context moet worden geplaatst. Zo wordt ook de informatie genegeerd die de gezaghebbende Amerikaanse onderzoeksjournalist Seymour Hersh in de London Review of Books van 8 tot 17 april 2014 publiceerde onder de titel 'The Red Line and the Rat Line.' Hersh schreef over 'Obama, Erdoğan and the Syrian rebels' ondermeer het volgende:

In 2011 Barack Obama led an allied military intervention in Libya without consulting the US Congress. Last August, after the sarin attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, he was ready to launch an allied air strike, this time to punish the Syrian government for allegedly crossing the ‘red line’ he had set in 2012 on the use of chemical weapons. Then with less than two days to go before the planned strike, he announced that he would seek congressional approval for the intervention. The strike was postponed as Congress prepared for hearings, and subsequently cancelled when Obama accepted Assad’s offer to relinquish his chemical arsenal in a deal brokered by Russia. Why did Obama delay and then relent on Syria when he was not shy about rushing into Libya? The answer lies in a clash between those in the administration who were committed to enforcing the red line, and military leaders who thought that going to war was both unjustified and potentially disastrous.

Obama’s change of mind had its origins at Porton Down, the defence laboratory in Wiltshire. British intelligence had obtained a sample of the sarin used in the 21 August attack and analysis demonstrated that the gas used didn’t match the batches known to exist in the Syrian army’s chemical weapons arsenal. The message that the case against Syria wouldn’t hold up was quickly relayed to the US joint chiefs of staff. The British report heightened doubts inside the Pentagon; the joint chiefs were already preparing to warn Obama that his plans for a far-reaching bomb and missile attack on Syria’s infrastructure could lead to a wider war in the Middle East. As a consequence the American officers delivered a last-minute caution to the president, which, in their view, eventually led to his cancelling the attack.

For months there had been acute concern among senior military leaders and the intelligence community about the role in the war of Syria’s neighbours, especially Turkey. Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan was known to be supporting the al-Nusra Front, a jihadist faction among the rebel opposition, as well as other Islamist rebel groups. ‘We knew there were some in the Turkish government,’ a former senior US intelligence official, who has access to current intelligence, told me, ‘who believed they could get Assad’s nuts in a vice by dabbling with a sarin attack inside Syria – and forcing Obama to make good on his red line threat.’

The joint chiefs also knew that the Obama administration’s public claims that only the Syrian army had access to sarin were wrong. The American and British intelligence communities had been aware since the spring of 2013 that some rebel units in Syria were developing chemical weapons. On 20 June analysts for the US Defense Intelligence Agency issued a highly classified five-page ‘talking points’ briefing for the DIA’s deputy director, David Shedd, which stated that al-Nusra maintained a sarin production cell: its programme, the paper said, was ‘the most advanced sarin plot since al-Qaida’s pre-9/11 effort.’ (According to a Defense Department consultant, US intelligence has long known that al-Qaida experimented with chemical weapons, and has a video of one of its gas experiments with dogs.) The DIA paper went on: ‘Previous IC [intelligence community] focus had been almost entirely on Syrian CW [chemical weapons] stockpiles; now we see ANF attempting to make its own CW… Al-Nusrah Front’s relative freedom of operation within Syria leads us to assess the group’s CW aspirations will be difficult to disrupt in the future.’ The paper drew on classified intelligence from numerous agencies: ‘Turkey and Saudi-based chemical facilitators,’ it said, ‘were attempting to obtain sarin precursors in bulk, tens of kilograms, likely for the anticipated large scale production effort in Syria.’ […]

Last May, more than ten members of the al-Nusra Front were arrested in southern Turkey with what local police told the press were two kilograms of sarin. In a 130-page indictment the group was accused of attempting to purchase fuses, piping for the construction of mortars, and chemical precursors for sarin. Five of those arrested were freed after a brief detention. The others, including the ringleader, Haytham Qassab, for whom the prosecutor requested a prison sentence of 25 years, were released pending trial. In the meantime the Turkish press has been rife with speculation that the Erdoğan administration has been covering up the extent of its involvement with the rebels. In a news conference last summer, Aydin Sezgin, Turkey’s ambassador to Moscow, dismissed the arrests and claimed to reporters that the recovered ‘sarin’ was merely ‘anti-freeze.’

The DIA paper took the arrests as evidence that al-Nusra was expanding its access to chemical weapons…

The full extent of US co-operation with Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar in assisting the rebel opposition in Syria has yet to come to light. The Obama administration has never publicly admitted to its role in creating what the CIA calls a ‘rat line,’ a back channel highway into Syria. The rat line, authorised in early 2012, was used to funnel weapons and ammunition from Libya via southern Turkey and across the Syrian border to the opposition. Many of those in Syria who ultimately received the weapons were jihadists, some of them affiliated with al-Qaida…

Turkey’s willingness to manipulate events in Syria to its own purposes seemed to be demonstrated late last month, a few days before a round of local elections, when a recording, allegedly of a government national security meeting, was posted to YouTube. It included discussion of a false-flag operation that would justify an incursion by the Turkish military in Syria. The operation centred on the tomb of Suleyman Shah, the grandfather of the revered Osman I, founder of the Ottoman Empire, which is near Aleppo and was ceded to Turkey in 1921, when Syria was under French rule. One of the Islamist rebel factions was threatening to destroy the tomb as a site of idolatry, and the Erdoğan administration was publicly threatening retaliation if harm came to it. According to a Reuters report of the leaked conversation, a voice alleged to be Fidan’s spoke of creating a provocation: ‘Now look, my commander, if there is to be justification, the justification is I send four men to the other side. I get them to fire eight missiles into empty land [in the vicinity of the tomb]. That’s not a problem. Justification can be created.’ The Turkish government acknowledged that there had been a national security meeting about threats emanating from Syria, but said the recording had been manipulated. The government subsequently blocked public access to YouTube.

Barring a major change in policy by Obama, Turkey’s meddling in the Syrian civil war is likely to go on. ‘I asked my colleagues if there was any way to stop Erdoğan’s continued support for the rebels, especially now that it’s going so wrong,’ the former intelligence official told me. ‘The answer was: “We’re screwed.” We could go public if it was somebody other than Erdoğan, but Turkey is a special case. They’re a Nato ally. The Turks don’t trust the West. They can’t live with us if we take any active role against Turkish interests. If we went public with what we know about Erdoğan’s role with the gas, it’d be disastrous. The Turks would say: “We hate you for telling us what we can and can’t do.”’


Kurdish female fighter beheaded by ISIS jihadi. Onder andere om te voorkomen dat Syrische Koerden de terroristen verslaan, steunt NAVO-lid Turkije ISIS, terwijl de NAVO op haar beurt weer Turkije steunt, in zijn poging president Assad te verdrijven en zodoende Syrië  als soevereine staat te vernietigen. 

Zelfs ondanks het feit dat Turkije betrokken is bij de pogingen van islamitische terroristen om chemische wapens te fabriceren, die ook in Europa kunnen worden ingezet, staat de 'NAVO pal achter Turken.' Ondertussen staat op zijn beurt Geert Mak's Europese Unie van 'Geen Jorwert zonder Brussel' stilzwijgend toe te kijken hoe het militair bondgenootschap een oorlog met Rusland riskeert. De mensheid wordt geregeerd door criminele dwazen. Meer volgende keer. Dan over het Europese front.



4 opmerkingen:

Anoniem zei

In dit verband is het interview (volkskrant) met een Fries die naar Syrie is vertrokken ook nogal illustratief:

http://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/-de-koerden-zeiden-daar-is-de-vijand-ga-je-gang~a4174743/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=free&utm_campaign=shared%20content&hash=5822f3dad714959303ba56b7fcc6c3d399588e70

Anoniem zei

Met name dit fragment:

'Af en toe is het slagveld net als in de Eerste Wereldoorlog, met greppels en al. Zoals bij Serekaniye, aan de Turkse grens. We zagen Daesh gewoon lopen.'

De luchtsteun van de Verenigde Staten? 'Minimaal', zegt Akse. 'Bagger.' De VS claimen IS te willen uitschakelen, maar Akse zegt daar weinig van te merken. 'Meestal raken ze lege gebouwen. De Amerikanen bombarderen voor nep, ze willen Daesh helemaal niet kwijt. De luchtsteun van de Fransen is wel accuraat, een stuk beter dan wat de Amerikanen doen. Frankrijk staat er anders tegenover.'

In materiële zin is de YPG een houtje-touwtjeleger. De strijders beschikken over kalasjnikovs en oude Russische geweren. Geen zware wapens. Materiële steun van andere landen is er niet. Verder moeten de jonge mannen en vrouwen het hebben van hun bezieling, de Koerden zijn uiterst gemotiveerd. Ze beseffen: het is wij of de barbarij.

Op de Facebookpagina 'Trots op Rode Baret', voor oud-leden van de Luchtmobiele Brigade, staat een bijdrage van Akse. 'Ik heb mij aangesloten bij de YPG in de strijd tegen Daesh en heb nog dagelijks profijt van de dingen die ik bij LMB heb geleerd. Hierbij merk ik ook een groot verschil tussen mij en andere westerlingen, die toch duidelijk meer moeite hebben met de dagelijkse gang van zaken. Flexibiliteit, improvisatie en aanpassingsvermogen zijn hier dagelijks terugkerende zaken.'

'We hebben zelfgemaakte tanks', zegt hij, 'met onderdelen van tractors en ander materiaal. De kleine noemen we 'Muis', de grote 'Supermuis'. We hebben maar een paar tanks, dus we doen er voorzichtig mee. Niet aan het front. Het is vooral voor de moraal.

We zagen twee Turkse grenswachten aantekeningen maken. Het was duidelijk dat Daesh en Turkije samenwerkten

'In het begin kregen we bijna elke dag steun van een gunship met zware wapens, die was goed bezig. 'Onze vriend in de lucht', noemden we hem. Wie het waren, weet ik nog steeds niet. Ze waren er alleen 's nachts, op zo'n 15 kilometer van Serekaniye. Tegen een uur of zes, zeven gingen we naar de stelling, dan hoorden we 'Onze vriend in de lucht' al naderen. Je zag de 30 mm's naar beneden komen. Dan sprong Daesh in hun trucks, richting Turkije. We zagen ze gewoon Turkije in rijden!'

Duidelijk is dat Turkije IS lange tijd nauwelijks heeft aangepakt. Er waren zelfs aanwijzingen dat de Turkse regering de extremisten een handje hielp. In juni koos Turkije voor een hardere koers tegen IS, maar de twijfel blijft. De Turken zijn vooral gebeten op de Koerdische PKK. Die is nauw verbonden met de PYD, de partij van de Syrische Koerden.

'Het was duidelijk dat Daesh en Turkije samenwerkten', zegt Akse. 'We zagen twee Turkse grenswachten aantekeningen maken. Even later begonnen dan de mortierbeschietingen. Een pick-up met gewonden van Daesh reed zo Turkije in. De Turken maakten de grens open, lieten Daesh binnen en sloten de overgang weer af.'

Anoniem zei

CHILD was HIDING in corner from airstrike but still died. 1 of 1606 children killed in 8 month #Yemen war Yemen Post Newspaper 'Thanks to the coalition’s embargo, designed to stop Iran sending supplies to the Houthis, only 20% of the usual number of ships are arriving in Aden, for a nation that even before the war relied almost entirely on imports. Some medical supplies, such as dialysis equipment, have run out completely.'
Kinderen sterven er naast het gebrek aan medicamenten die niet voorradig zijn gewoon van honger dorst, in 2016 zal het waarschijnlijk weer nog warmer zijn ten gevolge van el nino, al die foto's van uitgeteerde kinderen doen mij nu alweer aan die uit Biafra '68 denken Wikipedia: 'By 1968, a year after the start of the Nigerian Civil War, large numbers of children were reported starving to death due to a blockade imposed by the Federal Military Government (FMG) and military.[2] By 1969 it was reported that over 1,000 children per day were starving to death.[3] A FMG representative declared, “Starvation is a legitimate weapon of war, and we have every intention of using it.”[4] With the advent of global television reporting, for the first time, famine, starvation and humanitarian response were seen nightly on world television. People around the world demanded action.'

2nd Nov 2015, banned cluster munitions dropped by Saudi led coalition - yemenwarcrimes.blogspot

Anoniem zei

Clustermunitie is het andere woord voor fragmentatiebommen een andere video van hetzelfde incident toont wat lijkt op direct getroffen slachtoffertjes.

Peter Flik en Chuck Berry-Promised Land

mijn unieke collega Peter Flik, die de vrijzinnig protestantse radio omroep de VPRO maakte is niet meer. ik koester duizenden herinneringen ...