Syyrian sisällissota/ISIS -ketju

[Lasse]

Kohta jotakuta sattuu leukaan, kun tarpeeksi kikkaillaan:

F/A-18s tried to stop Russian Su-34s from bombing U.S.-back Syrian rebels
http://alert5.com/2016/06/19/fa-18s-tried-to-stop-russian-su-34s-from-bombing-u-s-back-syrian-rebels/

U.S.-backed Syrian rebels stationed near the border with Jordan was pounded by a pair of Russian Su-34 fighters last week. The Pentagon quickly diverted two F/A-18s to the scene to stop the air strikes but the Russians resume their bombing once the jets left for refueling.

[MustaLeski]

Tämä on ihan mengelemeininkiä. Ihmiskokeita. Näitä heppuja on sitten aikapommeina Euroopassakin. Mutta tärkeintä on, ettei anneta pelolle sijaa ja tehdään heille parempaa ruokaa ja järkätään ilmaiset punttisalit ja karatekurssit.

En usko, että ns. normaalisti, asioihin sen enempää perehtyvä, uutisia seuraavalla ihmisellä on kunnollista käsitystä siitä millainen ryhmä Daesh loppupeleissä on. Kaikki historian kauhut koottu yhden lipun alle, uusia mielikuvituksen ylittäviä metodeja lisäten.

Ja miksi tulin ketjuun:

Escaped ISIS sex slave tells Congress of horrors

Washington (CNN)A former ISIS sex slave urged Congress Tuesday to more aggressively fight the terror group and offered her condolences for the massacre in Orlando, saying she's not surprised by it.

Nadia Murad, a Yazidi who escaped captivity in 2014, told the Senate Homeland Security committee that "the USA must act. We must terminate Daesh (ISIS) and all such terror."

"Daesh will not give up their weapons unless we force them to give up their weapons," she testified, with the assistance of a translator. "The Yazidi people cannot wait."

Murad called on the U.S. and other countries "to establish a safe and protected zone for Iraqi and Syrian religious minorities," which President Barack Obama has repeatedly rejected.

She also expressed her condolences for the attack in Orlando that left 49 dead but said she was not surprised it happened.
"I knew if ISIS were not stopped, they would deliver their crimes everywhere," she told lawmakers.

Speaking about the Middle East's Christians, Yazidis, and other minorities, she warned that "if they are not protected they will be wiped out."
Yazidis are ethnically Kurdish members of an ancient religion who live mostly in Iraq.

Murad detailed how she and thousands of Yazidi women and girls were enslaved and raped by their ISIS captors. She recounted how six of her brothers and her mother were executed by ISIS in a single day.

Murad said she escaped to Mosul where a Muslim family helped her obtain fake Islamic identification that enabled her to escape ISIS territory.

"I was freed, but I do not (have) the feeling of the freedom because those who have committed these crimes have not been held accountable," she said.

A UN report released last week estimated that ISIS holds about 3,500 slaves and that the terror group continues to subject women and children to sexual violence, particularly in the form of sexual slavery. The report said ISIS' actions "may, in some instances, amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide."

Secretary of State John Kerry said in March that the U.S. had determined that ISIS' brutality constituted genocide.
With the genocide designations, Murad called on the international community to take ISIS to the international criminal court.
Murad also called on the Islamic community around the world to do more to denounce ISIS.

"What has been happening has been happening under the name of Islam," she said. "The Muslims must be the first ones to resist this ... We have not seen that Daesh have been labeled as an infidel group within Islam by any Muslim country."

When asked by Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware whether the U.S. should accept more refugees from the region, Murad responded, "Every country has the right to protect itself and its borders but the people who are escaping from the religious discrimination and genocide should not face closed doors.

Linkissä myös video: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/21/politics/escaped-yazidi-slave-isis-us-fight/

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Weapons shipped into Jordan by the Central Intelligence Agency and Saudi Arabia intended for Syrian rebels have been systematically stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms merchants on the black market, according to American and Jordanian officials.

Some of the stolen weapons were used in a shooting in November that killed two Americans and three others at a police training facility in Amman, F.B.I. officials believe after months of investigating the attack, according to people familiar with the investigation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/world/middleeast/cia-arms-for-syrian-rebels-supplied-black-market-officials-say.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

[Nuivanlinna]

Nyt jotain tapahtumassa Turkissa?

Turkin presidentti pyytää anteeksi Putinilta
http://www.iltasanomat.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000001208904.html
Anteeksipyynnön syynä on se, että Turkki ampui venäläisen sotilaskoneen alas viime vuonna.

Turkin presidentti pyytää anteeksi presidentti Vladimir Putinilta sitä, että Turkki ampui venäläisen sotilaskoneen alas viime vuonna.

Israel vahvistaa: Turkin ja Israelin suhteet normalisoidaan
http://www.iltasanomat.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000001208675.html
Israel vahvistaa, että sen ja Turkin suhteet normalisoidaan. Asiasta kertoo Israelin pääministeri Benjamin Netanjahu.

Turkin ja Israelin suhteet jäätyivät vuonna 2010, kun yhdeksän turkkilaista kuoli Gazaan menevän avustuslaivan valtauksessa Israelin hyökättyä laivalle.

Turkkilaislehti Hürriyet Daily Newsin mukaan sopimus suhteiden palauttamisesta on tarkoitus allekirjoittaa ensi kuussa. Mailla on kuitenkin erimielisyyksiä koskien avustuskuljetuksia palestiinalaisalueille.

[Griffinvaari]

Erdogan: Syyrian pakolaisille voidaan myöntää Turkin kansalaisuus

http://www.ts.fi/uutiset/maailma/2708958/Erdogan+Syyrian+pakolaisille+voidaan+myontaa+Turkin+kansalaisuus

Avaakohan tämä niille esteettömän pääsyn saksaan, joka on jo täynnä halpaa turkkilaista siirtolaista.

[Nationalisti]

Erdogan: Syyrian pakolaisille voidaan myöntää Turkin kansalaisuus

http://www.ts.fi/uutiset/maailma/2708958/Erdogan+Syyrian+pakolaisille+voidaan+myontaa+Turkin+kansalaisuus

Avaakohan tämä niille esteettömän pääsyn saksaan, joka on jo täynnä halpaa turkkilaista siirtolaista.

Nerokasta! Turkkihan on saamassa viisumivapauden EU:iin.

[Unelma Sirpaleina]

Venäjän suurin lentotukialus lähtee Välimerelle lokakuussa.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1384059/vladimir-putin-to-deploy-russias-largest-warship-to-decimate-isis-once-and-for-all/

Russian rampage Vladimir Putin to send Russia's largest warship to Syria to destroy ISIS once and for all
President authorises navy ship to transport 30 fighter jets & attack choppers to the Med in bid to rid the world of death cult
VLADIMIR Putin is to send Russia's largest battleship to Syria in a bid to crush ISIS once and for all.

The Russian president is to dispatch the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier plus 30 jet fighters and attack helicopters to the war-torn country in an attempt to destroy the terror group for good.

The Kremlin strongman's decision came in the wake of ISIS atrocities in Bangladesh – where it murdered 2o hostages in a restaurant in the capital Dhaka – and Baghdad, Iraq, where a car bomb killed 125 shoppers.
55,000 tonne ship will be deployed in the Med from October until January

[Nuivanlinna]

Ankara could let Russia use its Incirlik airbase to fight ISIS – Turkish FM
https://www.rt.com/news/349413-turkey-russia-incirlik-airbase/
The statement came from Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu during his interview with TRT channel.
The top diplomat has acknowledged that Moscow might be given the green light to use Turkey's Incirlik airbase to engage Islamic State targets in Syria. As of now, Russian aircraft make their sorties from Khmeimim airbase in Syria's Latakia province.

Hupsista keikkaa!

[törö]

A team of militants linked with ISIS were paid 600,000 euros to carry out a bombing campaign at 50 locations in Tehran and other big cities in Iran, according to a documentary aired on Iranian state TV on Monday. 

read more: http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran/1.728921

[MustaLeski]

Vastenmielistä. Linkissä video ja kuvamateriaalia.

Isisin seksiorjat: Kauppaa käydään Whatsappissa - "Neitsyt. Kaunis. 12-vuotias."

Terroristijärjestö Isisillä on arviolta 3 000 seksiorjaa ja ryhmä kiristää otettaan heistä, uutistoimisto AP kertoo.

Isis myy sieppaamiaan naisia kuin karjaa pikaviestipalvelu Whatsappissa ja Telegramissa.

- Neitsyt. Kaunis. 12-vuotias... Hänen hintansa on noussut 12 000 dollariin, ja hänet myydään pian, Telegramilla lähetetyssä ja aktivistin uutistoimistolle jakamassa mainoksessa sanotaan.

Ryhmässä, johon viesti on lähetetty, on satoja jäseniä. AP:n näkemässä Whatsapp-keskusteluryhmässä puolestaan myytiin esimerkiksi äitiä ja tämän kolmevuotiasta lasta sekä seitsemänkuukautista vauvaa hintaan 3 700 dollaria.

Myytävät naiset on puettu koruihin, ja osalla on paksut meikit. Moni on hädin tuskin teini-ikäinen, kukaan ei näytä yli 30-vuotiaalta. Yksi heistä on jesidityttö Nazdar Murat, joka oli 16-vuotias, kun hänet siepattiin kaksi vuotta sitten. Isis vyörytti pienen vähemmistökansan jesidien asuinalueen Irakissa kesällä 2014 ja otti tuhansia naisia vangiksi.

Nazdar on tuon jälkeen onnistunut puhumaan äitinsä kanssa puhelimitse kerran, noin puoli vuotta sitten.

- Puhuimme joitakin sekunteja. Hän sanoi olevansa Mosulissa, Nuri Murat sanoo AP:lle.

- Joka kerta kun joku tulee takaisin, kysymme mitä hänelle on tapahtunut eikä kukaan tunnista häntä. Jotkut ovat sanoneet minulle, että hän on tehnyt itsemurhan.

Hiljattain Nazdar oli kaupan. Bisnes käy kuumana ja sen estämiseksi on huonosti keinoja.

Huffington Postille asiaa kommentoinut Whatsappin edustaja sanoo, että heillä on nollatoleranssi kyseisen kaltaiselle toiminnalle. Telegram puolestaan kertoo poistavansa yhtenään Isisin käyttämiä julkisia kanavia. Kummatkin viestipalvelut ovat salattuja ja luottavat käyttäjien ilmiantoihin.

Salakuljetus kallista ja vaarallista

Joitakin Isisin sieppaamia tyttöjä on päässyt pakoon salakuljettajien verkoston ja aktivistien avulla. Salakuljettajat ovat ottaneet palveluksistaan jopa 15 000 dollarin palkkion. Jotkut perheet ovat maksaneet suoraan yksittäisille Isis-taistelijoille. Kurdistanin aluehallinto on auttanut asiassa joitakin köyhiä jesidiperheitä rahallisesti.

Avustusjärjestö Yazdan edustajan Andrew Slaterin mukaan seksiorjien vapauttaminen on muuttunut aiempaa vaikeammaksi.

- Pelastustahti hidastuu ja on loppumassa. Ihmisiltä loppuvat rahat. Tiedän kymmeniä perheitä, joilla on kymmenientuhansien velat, Slater sanoo AP:lle.

Rahanpuutteen ohella Isis on tiukentanut otettaan. Orjatytöistä on olemassa Isisin tarkistuspisteille jaettu kuvallinen tietokanta, jossa kerrotaan myös "omistajan" nimi. Isis on alkanut pysäyttää salakuljettajia ja kiinni jääneet surmataan. Pakoa yrittänyttä orjaa odottaa brutaali pahoinpitely, raiskaus tai joukkoraiskaus. Vain ääritapauksissa pakenija tapetaan, sillä naiset ovat arvokkaita.

Alkuvaiheessa salakuljettajat saivat keskimäärin 134 naista ja tyttöä vapaaksi kuukaudessa, toukokuussa Isis otti uudet toimintatavat käyttöön ja kuuden viime viikon aikana vain 39 on saatu Kurdistanin aluehallinnon mukaan vapaaksi.

Loput linkistä: http://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/2016070621853670_ul.shtml

[yks vaan]

^^ todellinen ongelma on, että naiset tekevät täällä vähemmän töitä ja saavat sen takia vähemmän palkkaa.

[MustaLeski]

Why Isis has just made a potentially calamitous mistake

Savage attacks in Turkey, Bangladesh, Iraq and Saudi Arabia should convince Muslim nations and the West that they share a common enemy

In the global revulsion at the past week's terror attacks in four Muslim countries, the United States and its allies have a new opportunity to build a unified command against Isis and other extremists.

But as the US seeks to broaden this counter-terrorism alliance, it should be careful about partnering with Russia — unless Moscow distances itself from a Syrian regime that many Sunni Muslims despise.

The savage attacks in Turkey, Bangladesh, Iraq and Saudi Arabia should convince Muslim nations and the West that they share a common enemy in extremist groups such as Isis.

What they need now is a shared command-and-control structure, like what the US and Britain forged in December 1941, after the shock of Pearl Harbor. Merging military and intelligence resources wasn't easy, even for longstanding partners in Washington and London. But Prime Minister Winston Churchill knew that once America had fully joined the battle, the allies' eventual victory was certain.

Similar confidence would be inspired by a command structure that truly fuses the resources of the US, Europe, Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Pakistan and the many other nations that have been targeted by Islamic State terrorists.

A sign of how unpopular these attacks are with Muslims is that Isis isn't taking credit for the attacks in Turkey and Saudi Arabia — even though it's widely seen as the likely perpetrator — and that other Islamist groups are condemning the violence, especially the bombing in the holy city of Medina.

Linkki: Independent UK.

Ramadi Devastation Revealed in New ICRC Footage

Ramadi has been reduced to rubble.

New aerial footage released by the International Committee of the Red Cross shows widespread devastation in the Iraqi city, which the organization called a "ghost town."

Linkki: NBC.

'They abused, cut up corpses': Escaped ISIS fighter shares his horrors from Syria (RT EXCLUSIVE)

He spent a year in Syria, protecting one of Islamic State's most wanted leaders, but later managed to escape. Hiding his identity and in fear for his life, the former fighter sat down with RT and recounted the terror he witnessed.

RT had to change the man's voice and keep him anonymous: A year on from fleeing Syria, he still fears revenge from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). Calling himself Zurab, he says he was initially seduced by the slick propaganda videos that ISIS spread all over the internet.

Linkki: RT.

Video 'shows ISIS fighters laughing and joking while a woman is heard screaming as she is being raped nearby


Harrowing footage from a dead terrorist's phone appears to show ISIS fighters laughing and joking while a woman can be heard being raped in the background. One suspected ISIS fighter sits in the middle of the floor playing with his friend's underwear and sipping from a small glass in what appears to be a living room. Two far affiliates sit on a large sofa laughing at the seated man as he gestures with the clothing and a fourth man can be seen milling around in the room. All the while, a woman can be heard wailing nearby, but the pictures are not picked up on video.

Linkki: DailyMail.

[törö]

Why Isis has just made a potentially calamitous mistake

Savage attacks in Turkey, Bangladesh, Iraq and Saudi Arabia should convince Muslim nations and the West that they share a common enemy

Kisastudiossa ei nyt käsitetä lainkaan ongelman luonnetta. Tässä vaiheessa pyritään luomaan kaaosta, joka saa tavikset järjestäytymään geneeristä heimosotaa varten, ja seuraavaksi kuolemanpartiot alkavat harventaa väliportaan johtoa.

Hyvin on toiminut muuallakin ja tulee toiminaan Saudeissakin.

[MustaLeski]

Kisastudio on niin vakuuttunut olevansa voitolla, että pystyy ohittamaan kaikki viitteet siitä, että Daesh etenee kirjattujen suunnitelmiensa mukaisesti, paremmin kuin keskitasoisesti.

[MustaLeski]

Analysis: Month of Terror During Ramadan Shows ISIS's New Phase


ISTANBUL, Turkey — Muslims around the world on Wednesday were celebrating Eid, the holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. But this year, the end of the month of fasting brings special relief because ISIS turned Ramadan — a time of prayer, charity and self-restraint — into a month of terror.

The terror group used Ramadan as a rallying cry for violence.

But was the wave of attacks — from Turkey to Bangladesh, Baghdad to Medina — a sign of ISIS strength or weakness? The answer may be a bit of both.

Many Iraqis believe the latest Baghdad bombing was ISIS's revenge for Iraq's much-celebrated victory in Fallujah.

The Iraqi army, backed by Shiite militias, defeated ISIS in battle and drove the militants out of one of their key strongholds, so ISIS militants responded by driving a truck bomb into the Shiite community's soft underbelly, destroying a shopping street in Karada — one of Baghdad's more upscale neighborhoods, home to many Shiites and considered relatively safe.

In Istanbul, ISIS commandos rampaged through the airport on June 28, killing 45 and scaring off tourists before the summer rush, which is vital to the local economy. The Turkish government had long turned a blind eye to ISIS, treating the militants more or less the same way it treated Syrian opposition groups that seemed to share Turkey's officially stated goal of toppling Syrian President Bashar Assad.

But Turkey has recently been cracking down on ISIS, tightening controls along the Syrian border and allowing the United States to carry out more airstrikes and surveillance missions from Turkish soil. One might say ISIS struck Turkey out of weakness, too — the attack perhaps designed to send a message to the Turkish government that ISIS will burn down the country unless things go back to the way they were.

Loput linkistä: NBC.

ISIS is entering its fourth phase of development:

Phase 1: ISIS insurgency. A decade ago, the group, which was then-known as al Qaeda in Iraq, was an anti-American insurgency that gained valuable military experience fighting American forces mainly in western Iraq.

Phase 2: ISIS dormancy: A U.S. troop surge, helped by an alliance with Sunni tribes, relentlessly fought the insurgents in Iraq and ultimately succeeded in driving them out of their strongholds. The group was reduced to a small core that was largely dormant, a seed waiting for water, soil and light.

Phase 3: ISIS caliphate: The chaos in the Middle East following the Arab Spring revolts and Syria's civil war allowed ISIS to regenerate. The group's expansion was rapid after it captured the Iraqi city of Mosul and seized huge stockpiles of U.S.-made, Iraqi-owned weapons and tens of millions of dollars in cash.

Phase 4: ISIS the international terrorist group: The ISIS footprint is shrinking as the group is under pressure in Iraq and Syria from a bizarre mix of adversaries who themselves are at odds with each other and include the United States, independence-seeking Kurds, Russia, the Iraqi government, the Syrian Regime, Iraqi Shiite militias, Iran and Hezbollah. ISIS is trying to stay relevant and conceal its losses by striking out with high-profile terrorist attacks, anywhere and everywhere it can. A high-profile attack in the United States would be the ultimate prize.

[MustaLeski]

Grand Theft Auto ISIS.

ISIL Modifies Computer Games to Recruit Children, Young Adults

TEHRAN (FNA)- The ISIL has resorted to new methods for communication with children and young adults in order to attract and recruit them by changing computer games, media reports said.

The Takfiri terrorists modify the electronic and computer games in their own interest.

By making changes to the games that have been specially designed for over 18-year-old users, the ISIL is recruiting Arab children and young adults.

The ISIL looks at children and young adults as human shields to achieve its barbaric goals in Syria and Iraq.

In mid-June, local sources in Raqqa revealed that the ISIL forcefully takes children who are under 14-year-old from their families to recruit them as soldiers for the war against the Syrian forces.

The sources added that the ISIL has set up special institutes under the cover of religious training schools and uses them as its own base to recruit children.

According to the sources, the ISIL training has three stages of religious training to familiarize them with the terrorist group's special approach, preparing the children for hard situations by physical training and teaching them how to use weapons and spiritual training which means preparing the children for different crimes, including beheading.

They added that the ISIL has formed a full brigade of 140 children in Raqqa and intends to send them to the battleground.

Linkki: Fars.

[MustaLeski]

Islamic State expands in Europe, Mideast, North Africa, Asia

Two years since it shifted from terrorist group to governing organization holding territory, the Islamic State is expanding to seven emerging areas of Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, according to a State Department security report.

Loput linkistä: The Washington Times

ISIS opens new global terror front after battlefield losses

It has been a bloody Ramadan around the world, mainly due to the provocations by the militant Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and its supporters.

The spate of attacks began on June 12, when a gunman stormed a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and killed 49 people.

On June 27, suicide bombers killed dozens of civilians in Yemen and in a Christian village in Lebanon. The next day, militants attacked Istanbul's largest airport, killing 45 people, in the deadliest terrorist strike on Turkey's largest city this year.

On Friday last week, militants laid siege to a restaurant in the diplomatic quarter of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, and began a 12-hour stand-off with security forces, killing 20 patrons, most of them foreigners.

On Sunday, a massive car bomb attack in Baghdad killed more than 200 people, in one of the deadliest attacks in the Iraqi capital since the United States invasion in 2003.

And in the last week, there were attacks carried out in Malaysia and Indonesia that were also linked to ISIS. All the attacks were inspired, loosely organised or carried out directly by ISIS and its leaders.

As the extremist group loses territory in Syria and Iraq under pressure from Western bombing and local military forces, it is trying to project strength by organising or inspiring attacks around the world.

Loput linkistä: TheStraitsTimes

[Porcius]

Jenkit haastatelleet Assadia.

http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/watch-full-exclusive-interview-with-syrian-president-bashar-al-assad-724734019921

[Hamsteri]

Ankara could let Russia use its Incirlik airbase to fight ISIS – Turkish FM
https://www.rt.com/news/349413-turkey-russia-incirlik-airbase/
The statement came from Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu during his interview with TRT channel.
The top diplomat has acknowledged that Moscow might be given the green light to use Turkey's Incirlik airbase to engage Islamic State targets in Syria. As of now, Russian aircraft make their sorties from Khmeimim airbase in Syria's Latakia province.

Hupsista keikkaa!

Siis hetkonen uutinen on ennen (Jenkkien) vallankaappausyritystä?

[törö]

U.S. Doctor: 300,000 Face Death or Starvation in Aleppo, Syria

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-doctor-300-000-face-death-or-starvation-aleppo-n609151

[MW]

U.S. Doctor: 300,000 Face Death or Starvation in Aleppo, Syria

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-doctor-300-000-face-death-or-starvation-aleppo-n609151

Ja paksut pojat täällä: "This food for dogs... women"  Ai että minä tunnen.

[Lasse]

Maltilliset päänleikkaajat:

Allahu akbar – ja pikkupojalta pää irti!
http://mvlehti.net/2016/07/19/allahu-akbar-ja-pikkupojalta-paa-irti-tata-on-islam-video-kuvat-k-18/

Ikävii kuvei - ei kande kattoa...

[Kyklooppi]

^ Obaman tukemia ?

[Lasse]

^ Obaman tukemia ?

Jesh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harakat_Nour_al-Din_al-Zenki

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.
--George W. Bush

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Toukokuussa sattui samalla tavalla nolo tapaus, jossa USA:n tukemat jihadistit toteuttivat itseään hyökkäämällä alaviittikylään tappaen siviileitä ja ottamalla heitä ilmeisesti myös mukaansa. US State Departmentin lausumat asiaan liittyen kertovat hyvin, missä mennään. Tilaisuudessa kysymyksiä esittää toimittaja Matt Lee.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DW5Fkq2MPQY (05:10)

ALAWITE CIVILIANS 'KILLED IN HOMES' IN OPPOSITION ATTACK ON HAMA VILLAGE - 13 May - Syrian opposition fighters from groups including Ahrar al-Sham and the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front have shot dead 19 civilians from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority in their own homes after seizing a village in central Syria, a monitor said on Friday.
Other villagers were kidnapped following the assault in which eight pro-government militiamen were killed trying to defend Al-Zara in Hama province, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
"During the attack, they entered houses and opened fire on families, killing at least 19 civilians, including six women," said observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman.
The observatory listed the groups involved in the attack as Ahrar al-Sham, the Nusra Front, Ahl al-Sunna battalions, the Homs Corps and Ajnad Hom.

INSURGENTS SEIZE SYRIAN ALAWITE VILLAGE, KILLING 19: OBSERVATORY - 13 May - (excerpt) Dozens of people are still missing, believed to have been abducted from the village, which lies close to a main highway linking the western cities of Homs and Hama, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday.
The Observatory said the attackers included Islamist rebel group Ahrar al-Sham and the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front.
An Ahrar al-Sham spokesman said: "Civilians were not targeted. On the contrary factions made great effort to spare civilians and deal with prisoners humanely."
The Observatory cited sources saying the 19 dead, who included six women, were from families of fighters loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and were killed as rebels stormed houses during their attack on al-Zara.

U.S., BRITAIN, FRANCE BLOCK RUSSIA BID TO BLACKLIST SYRIA REBELS - 11 May - (excerpt) Russia's Foreign Ministry has long said that Jaish al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham should not be involved in Syria peace talks.
Ahrar al-Sham is an ultra-orthodox Salafist group and has fought as part of a military alliance including the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, which was not part of a cessation of hostilities agreement brokered in February.
Ahrar al-Sham, whose late leader fought alongside Osama bin Laden, last year denied sharing al Qaeda's ideology or having organizational ties to the group.

[xor_rox]

Presidentti Obama on viime aikoina puhunut mahdollisesta yhteistyöstä Venäjän kanssa Syyrian kriisin ratkaisemiseksi. Syitä voi vain arvailla, mutta joidenkin arvioiden mukaan Obama ei halua jättää presidenttikautensa perinnöksi nykyisen kaltaista kaaosta. Hän lähettikin ulkoministeri Kerryn Moskovaan sopimaan tästä yhteistyöstä. Sattumaa tai ei, Turkissa tapahtui vallankaappausyritys juuri Kerryn vierailun aikaan. Jos USA oli vallankaappausyrityksen takana, lienee Kerry samalla tiedottanut Lavrovia asiasta, mutta tiedä sitten.

Yhteistyö USA:n ja Venäjän välillä näyttää kuitenkin nyt hyvin todennäköiseltä ja onkin mahdollista, että Syyrian kriisin ratkaisemiseksi syntyy erittäin vahva koalitio. Venäjä on jo ilmaissut rivien välissä, että jännitteen nostaminen NATOn toimesta Itä-Euroopassa riittää, mikäli yhteistyötä halutaan tehdä. Mikäli oikein tulkitsen, tämä on Venäjän puolelta aika lailla tiukka ehto, johon länsimaat ovat ehkä nyt suostuneetkin. Päättelen asian siitä, mitä kuuluu nyt Britanniasta, joka on ollut Venäjä-vastaisen rintaman etulinjassa Ukrainan kriisin alettua. Ranska lienee hyvin yhteistyöhaluinen viimeisen puolentoista vuoden tapahtumien jälkeen.

Let's deal with the Devil: we should work with Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad in Syria

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/12036184/Lets-deal-with-the-Devil-we-should-work-with-Vladimir-Putin-and-Bashar-al-Assad-in-Syria.html

It is time to set aside our Cold War mindset and stop being picky about our allies if we are to defeat Isil before they kill thousands more


In the last couple of days, young people have been coming up to me in the street and asking in an accusing way: "Oi, Boris, why did you vote for war?" And I try as ever to explain that I was not voting for war. There currently is a war that is taking place in Syria.

That bestial conflict has already claimed a quarter of a million lives. I was voting to stop the war. I was voting for peace. "Yeah," they say, "but what about the bombing? What about all the innocent people who will die? It will be their blood on your hands."

To which I respond that innocent lives are being lost now: tens of thousands of people butchered just because they are women, or disabled, or gay, or because they belong to the wrong strand of Islam. I don't want to have them on my conscience, and I don't want these sickos from Daesh/Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) to continue to exult in their so‑called caliphate, and to be allowed indefinitely to promote their terrorist campaigns.

When the House of Commons finally gave the go-ahead for air strikes last week, no one cheered; no one even hear-heared. No one is approaching this with the slightest sense of jingo or enthusiasm. We want to get on with whatever is the best and fastest way to bring peace to Syria. And since we all know that cannot be achieved by bombing alone, we need to think much more creatively about the coalition we could build.

That brings us to Vladimir Putin. I was in Paris at the end of last week, and the Russian leader's face glowered sulkily from every billboard. "Poutin", said the headline, "Notre nouvel ami". Many French people think the time has come to do a deal with their new friends the Russians – and I think that they are broadly right.

Look, I am no particular fan of Vlad. Quite the opposite. Russian-backed forces are illegally occupying parts of Ukraine. Putin's proxy army was almost certainly guilty of killing the passengers on the Malaysia Airlines jet that came down in eastern Ukraine. He has questions to answer about the death of Alexander Litvinenko, pitilessly poisoned in a London restaurant. As for his reign in Moscow, he is allegedly the linchpin of a vast post-Soviet gangster kleptocracy, and is personally said to be the richest man on the planet. Journalists who oppose him get shot. His rivals find themselves locked up. Despite looking a bit like Dobby the House Elf, he is a ruthless and manipulative tyrant.

Does that mean it is morally impossible to work with him? I am not so sure. We need to focus on what we are trying to achieve. Our aims – at least, our stated aims – are to degrade and ultimately to destroy Isil as a force in Syria and Iraq. That is what it is all about.

Our mission is to remove an evil death cult, to deprive their organisation of the charisma and renown that goes with controlling a territory of some 10 million people. We need to end their hideous administration of Raqqa, with its torchings and beheadings. We need them out of Palmyra, because if Syria is to have a future then we must protect its past.

We cannot do that without terrestrial forces. We need someone to provide the boots on the ground; and given that we are not going to be providing British ground forces – and the French and the Americans are just as reluctant – we cannot afford to be picky about our allies.

We have the estimated 70,000 of the Free Syrian Army (and many other groups and grouplets); but those numbers may be exaggerated, and they may include some jihadists who are not ideologically very different from al-Qaeda.

Who else is there? The answer is obvious. There is Assad, and his army; and the recent signs are that they are making some progress. Thanks at least partly to Russian air strikes, it looks as if the regime is taking back large parts of Homs. Al-Qaeda-affiliated militants are withdrawing from some districts of the city. Is that a bad thing? I don't think so.

With Russian air support, the Assad regime is only a few miles from Palmyra – the fabled pink-stoned city of monuments, where Isil decapitated the 82-year-old curator, Khaled Al‑Assad, before beginning an orgy of cultural destruction.

Am I backing the Assad regime, and the Russians, in their joint enterprise to recapture that amazing site? You bet I am. That does not mean I trust Putin, and it does not mean that I want to keep Assad in power indefinitely. But we cannot suck and blow at once.

At the moment, we are in danger of treating our engagement as if it were some complicated three-sided chess game, in which we are trying to neutralise the Islamists while simultaneously preventing Putin from getting too big for his boots. If we try to be too clever, we will end up achieving nothing.

This is the time to set aside our Cold War mindset. It is just not true that whatever is good for Putin must automatically be bad for the West. We both have a clear and concrete objective – to remove the threat from Isil. Everything else is secondary.

Think of all those planes above Syria – some for the Assad regime, some against the regime, some against Isil, some against the non-Isil rebels. It is absurd. The best hope of getting rid of Isil is an agreement between all the powers – America, Russia, France, Britain, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the rest – to take them out, together with a timetable for Assad to step down and a plan for a new Syrian government.

Everyone in Paris last week seemed familiar with one quotation from Sir Winston Churchill. When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, Churchill decided to qualify his lifelong hatred of communism. "If Hitler invaded Hell," said Churchill in 1941, "I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons." And as he foresaw, it was the Russians who did the most to help us win the war.

Johnsonia lainatakseni, en ole mikään Boris Johnson- tai Obama -fani, mutta pidän viime päivien kehitystä silti positiivisena merkkinä, mitä Syyrian ja Lähi-Idän tilanteeseen tulee. Eurostoliiton kriiseihin tällä tuskin on ainakaan positiivista vaikutusta. Itse asiassa päin vastoin, sillä jihadistien pakeneminen Syyriasta ja Irakista yhdistettynä Saksan (ja Suomen) harjoittamaan politiikkaan, voivat ajaa Euroopan kaaokseen, josta ei ole paluuta.

[Nuivanlinna]

^ Obaman tukemia ?

Jesh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harakat_Nour_al-Din_al-Zenki

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.
--George W. Bush

Suomi antaa rahaa ja koulutusjoukkoja Isisin vastaiseen taisteluun
http://yle.fi/uutiset/suomi_antaa_rahaa_ja_koulutusjoukkoja_isisin_vastaiseen_taisteluun/9035111
Puolustusministeri Jussi Niinistö (ps.) osallistuu huomenna ja torstaina Washingtonissa Isisin vastaisen koalition kokoukseen. Niinistö paljastaa kokouksessa Suomen humanitääriseen työhön antaman avun määrän. Terroristijärjestö Isisin vastainen taistelu jatkuu 60 maan voimalla. Puolustusministeri Jussi Niinistö (ps.) matkustaa Washingtoniin kertomaan Yhdysvaltojen johtaman koalition jäsenille, millaisen panoksen Suomi on valmis antamaan Isisin vastaiselle työlle.

Yhdysvallat on pyytänyt Suomelta rahallista apua humanitääriseen työhön ja jälleenrakentamiseen. Tuore päätös avun antamisesta on tehty, nyt koalitio odottaa tietoa avun määrästä.

– Suomi tulee vastaamaan myönteisesti tähän humanitääriseen apuun ja jälleenrakentamisapuun. YK:n alaisilla rahastoilla ei yksinkertaisesti ole rahaa tähän työhön, ja Isikseltä takaisin vallatut alueet vaativat vakauttamista, joten tämä rahallinen tuki on tarpeellista, perustelee Niinistö panostusta.

Suomi tulee julkistamaan oman määräsummansa Washingtonin kokouksessa. Suomi päätti jo huhtikuussa lisätä sotilaallisten kouluttajien määrää Pohjois-Irakin Erbilin alueella. Suomella on noin 50 sotilasta Pohjois-Irakissa kouluttamassa kurdien Peshmerga-joukkoja ja syyskuusta alkaen suomalaiskouluttajien määrä nousee sataan.
Päätös aseellisen avun antamisesta vaikea

Yhdysvallat on pyytänyt Suomelta myös aseellista apua. Virkamiehet selvittävät asiaa, eikä vastausta pyyntöön odoteta vielä tämän viikkoisessa kokouksessa. Päätös aseellisen avun antamisesta on Niinistön mukaan vaikea.

– Se on epäilemättä harvinaista, ja tämä on asia, jota ulkoasiainhallinnossa joudutaan vakavasti pohtimaan.

Niinistö muistuttaa, että Suomen perinteinen linja on, ettemme ole kuljettaneet aseita sotaakäyviin maihin. Nyt Suomi harkitsee linjasta poikkeamista.

– Tämä on harkinnan paikka. Kyse on terrorisminvastaisesta taistelusta, joten siinä mielessä tilanne on hieman erilainen kuin perinteisesti sotaakäyvän maan suhteen on.

[xor_rox]

Suomelle asetettu vaatimus aseavun antamisesta on todellisuudessa poliittinen ansa, johon J. Niinistö vähääkään ajattelematta astuu. Taloudellisesti sillä ei ole USA:ole tai sen johtamalle koalitiolle mitään merkitystä, mutta poliittisesti se sitoo Suomen osaksi koalition sotilaallisesti aktiivista ryhmää.

[hattiwatti]

^  mielestäni ihan puhdata jatkumoa Afganistaniin poltetuille 500 m eurolla (ja sotilasoperaatioiden oheisvahingoista huolehtimiseen mm. vastaanottamalla matuja tänne). Aloite on mahdollisesti tullut jopa täältä päin, jotta Niinistö pääsee toteuttamaan fantasiaansa sota-ajan johtajuudesta, Jabba saa merentakaisilta ystäviltään vähän lisää taputusta selkäänsä jne. Puolustusministeriö on täynnä porukkaa, jotka haluavat mahdollisimman suurta taakanjako arvoyhteisö-integraatiota, jotta pääsevät kivoihin kansainvälisiin hommiin jne.

Mutta se on todellakin totta, Suomen osuus kaaoksen hallinnassa josta emme ole vastuussa on marginaalinen, sen sijaan tämä on yksi monista pienistä askelista joiden kautta Suomi sitoutetaan transatlantiseen valtablokkiin, eivätkä tulevat operaatiot ja niihin liittyvä taakanjako joko tänne tulevien matujen kustannuksissa tai ulkomailla operaatioihin käytettävän rahan muodossa tule todellakaan jäämään tähän kun on alkuun päästy.

[Nuivanlinna]

^^ Hieman on sotaministeripuolueenkin prioriteetit eksyksissä kun kaiken maailman al Harakat al Pääniirrotus koalitioiden hännystelyyn riittää rahaa, mutta ei niille jotka....

Valtion tuki ei riitä kaikille sotaveteraaneille: sata jäi ilman kuntoutusta Etelä-Karjalassa
http://www.esaimaa.fi/m/Online/2016/05/20/Valtion%20tuki%20ei%20riit%C3%A4%20kaikille%20sotaveteraaneille%3A%20sata%20j%C3%A4i%20ilman%20kuntoutusta%20Etel%C3%A4-Karjalassa/2016520785562/563
Lähes sata sotiemme veteraania ei päässyt hakemaansa kuntoutukseen Etelä-Karjalassa viime vuonna.

Syynä on valtion määrärahan niukkuus.

Tukirahat ovat vähissä muutenkin, kertoo veteraanineuvoja Sanna Nurmiainen Eksotelta.

Kotiin annettavia tukipalveluita ei voida myöntää rahapulan takia läheskään kaikille tarvitsijoille. Jonossa on tälläkin hetkellä liki 50 veteraania.

Tilanne harmittaa veteraanineuvojaa. Hänestä palvelu pitäisi myöntää veteraanin tarpeen, eikä määrärahan riittävyyden mukaan....naps....