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Nusra On The Run – Trump Induces First Major Policy Change On Syria
The people loyal to the Syrian government are happy with Donald Trump winning the U.S. election:
At the passport counter, a Syrian officer’s face lit up when he saw an American traveler.
“Congratulations on your new president!” he exclaimed, giving an energetic thumbs up. Mr. Trump, he said, would be “good for Syria.”
The first significant step of the new administration comes while Trump is not even in offices. Obama, selfishly concerned with his historic legacy, suddenly makes a 180 degree turn and starts to implement Trump polices. Lets consider the initial position:
Asked about Aleppo in an October debate with Clinton, Trump said it was a humanitarian disaster but the city had "basically" fallen. Clinton, he said, was talking in favor of rebels without knowing who they were.
The rebels fighting Assad in western Syria include nationalists fighting under the Free Syrian Army banner, some of them trained in a CIA-backed program, and jihadists such as the group formerly known as the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.
The Obama administration, through the CIA led by Saudi asset John Brennan, fed weapons, training and billions of dollars to "moderate rebels". These then turned around (vid) and either gave the CIA gifts to al-Qaeda in Syria (aka Jabhat al Nusra) or joined it themselves. The scheme was no secret at all and Russia as well as Syria pointed this out several times. The Russian foreign Minister Lavrov negotiated with the U.S. Secretary of State Kerry who promised to separate the "moderate rebels" from al-Qaeda. But Kerry never delivered. Instead he falsely accuse Russia of committing atrocities that never happened. The CIA kept the upper hand within the Obama administration and continued its nefarious plans.
That changed the day the president-elect Trump set foot into the White House. While Obama met Trump in the oval office, new policies, prepared beforehand, were launched. The policies were held back until after the election and would likely not have been revealed or implemented if Clinton had won.
The U.S. declared that from now on it will fight against al-Qaeda in Syria:
President Obama has ordered the Pentagon to find and kill the leaders of an al-Qaeda-linked group in Syria that the administration had largely ignored until now and that has been at the vanguard of the fight against the Syrian government, U.S. officials said.
That shift is likely to accelerate once President-elect Donald Trump takes office. … possibly in direct cooperation with Moscow.
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U.S. officials who opposed the decision to go after al-Nusra’s wider leadership warned that the United States would effectively be doing the Assad government's bidding by weakening a group on the front line of the counter-Assad fight.
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Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter and other Pentagon leaders initially resisted the idea of devoting more Pentagon surveillance aircraft and armed drones against al-Nusra.
al-Qaeda hears of Clinton's defeat, haz a sad (illustrative pic)
Ash Carter is, together with John Brennan, the major anti-Russian force in the Obama administration. He is a U.S. weapon industry promoter and the anti-Russia campaign, which helps to sell U.S. weapons to NATO allies in Europe, is largely of his doing. He saw al-Qaeda in Syria as a welcome proxy force against Russia.
But Obama has now shut down that policy. We are not yet sure that this is for good but the above Washington Post account is not the only signal:
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action today to disrupt al-Nusrah Front’s military, recruitment, and financing operations. Specifically, OFAC designated four key al-Nusrah Front leaders – Abdallah Muhammad Bin-Sulayman al-Muhaysini, Jamal Husayn Zayniyah, Abdul Jashari, and Ashraf Ahmad Fari al-Allak – pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, which targets terrorists and those providing support to terrorists or acts of terrorism.
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These designations were taken in coordination with the U.S. Department of State, which today named Jabhat Fath al Sham as an alias of al-Nusrah Front – al-Qa’ida’s affiliate in Syria.
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Abdallah Muhammad Bin-Sulayman al-Muhaysini was designated for acting for or on behalf of, and providing support and services to or in support of, al-Nusrah Front.
This is a major change in U.S. policy. Nusra will from now on be on the run not only from Russian and Syrian attacks but also from the intelligence and military capabilities of the United States.
The newly designated Al-Muhaysini, a Saudi cleric, is Nusra's chief ideologue in Syria. Some considered him the new Osama Bin-Laden. Here he is, on the left, arm in arm with chief al-Qaeda in Syria propagandist and "journalist" Hadi Abdullah.
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Hadi Abdullah, friend of the designated al-Qaeda terrorist Muhaysini, just received the 2016 Press Freedom Price from the CIA/Soros financed "regime change" influence operation Reporters Without Borders. Might this mean that Hadi Abdullah is himself a CIA assets? He would not be the first such "journalist" in Syria.
Obama, obviously as a direct consequence of the Trump election, now ordered the Pentagon to wage war on al-Qaeda in Syria just as the Russians do. This after five years of nearly unlimited U.S. support for al-Qaeda and its "moderate" Syrian affiliates. It is not yet know what new orders, if any, Obama gave to the CIA. Will the CIA follow these policies or will it (again) try to counter the Pentagon policies in Syria? It is unusual that the WaPo report above about this new direction includes no commenting voice from the CIA. Why is such missing?
Russia and Syria will welcome the new Obama policies should they come to fruit on the ground. Hillary Clinton had planned and announced to widen the conflict in Syria and with Russia and Iran. Obama would surely not have acted against such policies if she had been elected. But with Trump winning and thereby a new policy on the horizon he now changed course to a direction that will provide "continuity" when Trump takes over.
Not only is Trump kicking a black family out of its longtime limewashed home, he also ends U.S. government support for the disenfranchised Jihadis in Syria and elsewhere. This even months before taking office. He really is the menace we have all been warned about.
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UPDATE:
This interview in today's WSJ confirms that Trump is still in the pro-Syrian/anti-Jihadist camp that is opposed to Obama's original policy:
Donald Trump, in Exclusive Interview, Tells WSJ He Is Willing to Keep Parts of Obama Health Law
He said he got a “beautiful” letter from Russian President Vladimir Putin, adding that a phone call between them is scheduled shortly.
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Although he wasn’t specific, Mr. Trump suggested a shift away from what he said was the current Obama administration policy of attempting to find moderate Syrian opposition groups to support in the civil war there. “I’ve had an opposite view of many people regarding Syria,” he said.
He suggested a sharper focus on fighting Islamic State, or ISIS, in Syria, rather than on ousting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “My attitude was you’re fighting Syria, Syria is fighting ISIS, and you have to get rid of ISIS. Russia is now totally aligned with Syria, and now you have Iran, which is becoming powerful, because of us, is aligned with Syria. … Now we’re backing rebels against Syria, and we have no idea who these people are.”
If the U.S. attacks Mr. Assad, Mr. Trump said, “we end up fighting Russia, fighting Syria.”
Peter AU@150 – I guess there’s at least three different ‘SF-type’ organizations operating in/from the UAE.
UAE Presidential Guard
It looks like the guy I was referring to in the previous post was a former Aussie SAS/SF guy: Major General Mike Hindmarsh. He is now (by his own admission) “a serving officer in the UAE Armed Forces” and is listed as Commander of the Presidential Guard.
From the U.S. State Department’s Background Notes page:
“… In early 2010, the Presidential Guard (PG) was formed. The PG is comprised of Marines, Reconnaissance, Aviation, Special Forces/Amiri Guard and Mechanized Brigades. PG personnel are conducting operations in Afghanistan (the only Arab personnel undertaking full-scale operations in the country)…”
He was involved in relocating Aussie troops and the AU regional military headquarters from Iraq to the UAE in 2009-2010. There were and are regular AU troops in the UAE now unrelated to Hindmarsh’s current position/activities in the Presidential Guard. From the Middle East Eye last December:
Revealed: The mercenaries commanding UAE forces in Yemen
So there are apparently around 5000 UAE personnel just in the Presidential Guard. Considering that the entirety of the UAE military is just over 20,000 personnel, the so-called Presidential Guard seems pretty beefy. The U.S. Marines have some kind of long-term contract to train the Presidential Guard like Marines. The UAE constitution supposedly forbids UAE military from anything but defensive operations, so I doubt this outfit is involved in any Syrian or Yemeni intrigue. However, the Crown Prince decided to work around the UAE constitution by forming a kind of foreign legion of mercs he could send wherever he saw fit. To build that foreign legion, he hired these guys:
Reflex Response (R2)
This was basically Erik Prince’s (Blackwater/Academi/XE) non-US spin-off – which he swears he has no involvement in [cough!] – based in Abu Dhabi. It seems Mr. Prince’s companies had attracted the attention of U.S. federal law enforcement for their questionable activities around the world. Prince and not-really-his spin-off scurried to the UAE to avoid the prying eyes and legal wrath of the U.S. (but still offer services to them). The fact that he was a trusted merc supplier to the U.S. but was no longer bound by U.S. law made his ‘services’ even more attractive to the CIA and DoD and also gave them an out in case their ‘foreign’ contractor ran afoul of U.S. or international law. His first ‘big’ customer was the Crown Prince of the UAE, but he as since expanded his now non-U.S. business there across the globe. Last I heard, he was building his own ‘special’ kind of air force at the UAE R2 base. And he apparently has a LOT of U.S./NATO, Middle Eastern and Israeli business. R2 was/is supposedly recruiting U.S. JTACs and the pay is phenomenal. Why, if I were younger and a homicidal psychopath… oh, never mind. Hard to say how big of a force he has, but it has to be at least a couple thousand contractors (not all head-choppers). He had to bring over Blackwater/Academi/XE mercs in a trickle lest he be accused of simply transferring his U.S.-based company somewhere else – which is basically what he did.
So the third big organization (Not-Prince’s big UAE contract):
UAE Foreign Legion Mercs (or whatever they call themselves)
This is technically not R2 but a dedicated UAE merc group that reports directly to the Crown Prince. It was created and managed by R2 on behalf of their client: the UAE. These are head-chopper-like mercs (just like regular R2 mercs) that the UAE sends out for its dirty work in Yemen (and Libya, Syria and God knows where else). Not-Prince originally only recruited non-Muslims because he felt a Muslim would be hesitant to kill another Muslim. He recruited mostly from Colombia and South Africa, but attracted plenty of the usual western merc rabble as well. It originally started as a single battalion of 800 and was reportedly expanded to 2,400 (brigade?) a year or two ago. Their base is also in the UAE, but not at the R2 base.
The R2 not-connected-to-Blackwater-in-any-way part claimed by not-Prince and their creation/management of the UAE Foreign Legion confuses everyone. Especially in Yemen where apparently all three of the above operate: the UAE Presidential Guard, R2 mercs and the UAE Foreign Legion. Here is one example of how the press mangles their reports, confusing all three and still often labeling all of them as ‘Blackwater’ troops:
Houthi media: 80 Saudi troops, including 42 Blackwater, killed in Yemen ballistic missile attack
This is a rather interesting piece of info from that article that shows how deep the rabbit hole goes. It details the destruction of a Houthi Tochka ballistic missile fired at Hadi-loyalist forces base:
“…The surface-to-surface missile also destroyed two Patriot missile systems, three Apache helicopters, more than 50 military vehicles, all belonging to the US Blackwater Worldwide security services company…”
So I guess the U.S. sells Patriot missile batteries and Apaches to R2 to kill Yemenis. Who would have thought? See how easy it is for the CIA/DoD to evade the provisions of the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Congressional oversight and International Law? Arm up R2 and contract them to do your dirty work. Maybe the report was inaccurate about who owns what, but it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if R2 actually does have U.S. Patriots and Apaches in Yemen.
Welcome to the new and improved Constitution-free U.S.A. v2.0
Posted by: PavewayIV | Nov 13 2016 5:19 utc | 167
1) Re: GCC SF ebedded with “rebels” in the ME – I wrote about it already months ago. Look carefully at those clips produced by Rita Katz SITE, where the executioners have always similar slim body, dark complexion, and always faces covered – why? As I said before – because they’re NATO, Israeli, GCC commandos, trained specificaly to commit the most heineous atrocities without a sliver of remorse.
2) Voltairenet cofirms my earlier supposition that Russia had paused its bombing in Syria in order not to influence negatively elections in the US, Preparation to liberate Aleppo
At least 10,000 Al-Qaeda jihadis under the command of the Saudi Sheikh Abdullah al-Muhaysini are currently occupying the Aleppo neighborhoods. Supported by the International Coalition which presents them as “Syrian revolutionaries” or “moderate rebels”, they are besieged by the Syrian Arab Army and Hezbollah, but continued to be supplied with tunnels until last week.
Despite repeated attempts by Russia to open two roads to allow both civilians and fighters to leave the city and retreat to Idleb, no one was able to get out of Aleppo where terror is exercised Of the Islamic Court. Civilians who attempted to join government areas were killed by jihadists.
While his staff was preparing to bomb the jihadists, President Putin asked him not to undertake anything until the end of the election campaign in the United States; With any Russian attack likely to favor the election of Hillary Clinton and thus plunge the world into a Third World Confrontation.
NATO took advantage of this truce to try to break the siege of Aleppo-East and send reinforcements. Located on the communication road, caught between the jihadists of Aleppo and their reinforcements, Hezbollah managed to hold its position.
The Syrian Arab army managed to destroy the tunnels. Jihadists and their civilian hostages no longer have food reserves.
The defense ministers of Syria, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah are expected to meet in the coming days and coordinate the imminent release of Aleppo. Given the kamikaze jihadists, the battle should first take the form of a powerful bombardment, while the land forces should hold their positions and make prisoners, if some jihadists surrender.
The liberation of East Aleppo will be followed by that of Idleb.
The desperation of the cabal, hit hard by Trump’s win, is sensible. Hence so many hasbara, NATO, GCC trolls have been attacking this blog over last few days.
2) Obama, Trump, and Sanders have been working together against Hitlary (to lead her into the trap she had to be 150% convinced she’d win) and her genecidal cabal, that Soros sponsoring the “purple revolution” now in the US aimed at overthrowing democratically elected president (eventhough the cabal rigged popular vote) is part of. We will be seeing more and more confirmations of this, they have to stop together invasion of primitive mob of Killary’s zombies. It’s very serious: Clintons and Soros Launch ‘Purple Revolution’ in America | Memory Hole
Defeated Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is not about to «go quietly into that good night». On the morning after her surprising and unanticipated defeat at the hands of Republican Party upstart Donald Trump, Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, entered the ball room of the art-deco New Yorker hotel in midtown Manhattan and were both adorned in purple attire. The press immediately noticed the color and asked what it represented. Clinton spokespeople claimed it was to represent the coming together of Democratic «Blue America» and Republican «Red America» into a united purple blend. This statement was a complete ruse as is known by citizens of countries targeted in the past by the vile political operations of international hedge fund tycoon George Soros.
The Clintons, who both have received millions of dollars in campaign contributions and Clinton Foundation donations from Soros, were, in fact, helping to launch Soros’s «Purple Revolution» in America. The Purple Revolution will resist all efforts by the Trump administration to push back against the globalist policies of the Clintons and soon-to-be ex-President Barack Obama. The Purple Revolution will also seek to make the Trump administration a short one through Soros-style street protests and political disruption. [..]
It seems that the cabal got even to a prominent anti-imperial blogger AANGIRFAN, who started recently spewing absolutely outrageous, one-sided, brainless verbiage supporting Clinton, who butchered Syria, Libya, Iraq. Unspeakable evil shows its face.
3) @Ghost are you seriously so insane to claim that their polls – after we’ve seen how biased against Trump the lame-scream media have been, how they lied about imperial wars, conflicts, regime change operations – to be trusted ? That’s how milions of people felt just before the Nov 9:
Michael SnyderI hope that I am wrong. On Tuesday night we will find out who our next president will be, and I have a very ominous feeling about what is going to happen. But all around me there are people telling me that Trump is going to win. They tell me to disregard the polls because they cannot be trusted, and that very well may be true. They tell me […]
Posted by: ProPeace | Nov 13 2016 6:41 utc | 171
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