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Syria-Iraq – U.S. Coddles ISIS – Others Plan For The Final Fight
OIR Spokesman Verified account @OIRSpox – 15:02 UTC – 24 Apr 2018
#Iraq's strike on a known Daesh HQ in Syria was planned/conducted by the Iraqi Security Forces, w/ support from @CJTFOIR. This strike shows Iraq's willingness to do what's necessary to secure its citizens as well as their important role in the Global @Coalition to #defeatDaesh
The above tweet by the spokesperson for the U.S. Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) against ISIS is extremely misleading if not false. The U.S. is trying to take some credit for a strike which was done without its consensus. The attack against ISIS was initiated by an anti-U.S. alliance as a warning against further U.S. shenanigans with ISIS.
The U.S. military in Syria has refrained from fighting ISIS for months. The map of the territory held by ISIS (grey) at the Syrian-Iraqi border in the U.S. controlled zone north of the Euphrates (yellow) has not changed since November 2017.
 
Livemap: Nov 30 2017, Apr 24 2018 – bigger, bigger
(The yellow corridor going south east towards Iraq on the map is misleading. The U.S. has no forces there and ISIS crossed it several times to attack Syrian forces (red) across the river.)
The British group Airwars documents the U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria. U.S. strikes on ISIS in Syria are down to one per day or less:
Source: Airwars – bigger
The U.S. strikes hit, if anything, only very minor targets. From OIR's weekly summary from March 30 to April 5 (Syria only):
Between March 30 and April 5, Coalition military forces conducted nine strikes consisting of 11 engagements in Syria and Iraq.
There were no reported strikes conducted in Syria on April 5, 2018.
There were no reported strikes conducted in Syria on April 4, 2018.
There were no reported strikes conducted in Syria or Iraq on April 3, 2018.
There were no reported strikes conducted in Syria on April 2, 2018.
On April 1 in Syria, Coalition military forces conducted one strike consisting of three engagements against Daesh targets.
• Near Abu Kamal, one strike engaged a Daesh tactical unit and destroyed a Daesh vehicle.
On March 31 in Syria, Coalition military forces conducted one strike consisting of one engagement against Daesh targets.
• Near Abu Kamal, one strike engaged a Daesh tactical unit.
On March 30 in Syria, Coalition military forces conducted one strike consisting of one engagement against Daesh targets.
• Near Shadaddi, one strike engaged a Daesh tactical unit and destroyed a Daesh vehicle.
Two cars and three assumed militants (aka 'tactical units') targeted in one week is not a fight at all. The total number of ISIS fighters in the area is estimated between 5,000 and 12,000. The current U.S. strikes are not even pinpricks.
It is obvious that the U.S. wants to keep ISIS alive and well to again use it, if need be, against the Syrian and Iraqi government. Then Secretary of State Kerry as well as then President Obama admitted that they used ISIS to put pressure on the Syrian President Assad and then Prime Minister of Iraq Maliki:
The reason, the president added, “that we did not just start taking a bunch of airstrikes all across Iraq as soon as ISIL came in was because that would have taken the pressure off of [Prime Minister Nuri Kamal] al-Maliki.
We now see a repeat of such 'games'. ISIS was given time to rest. It is regaining capacities especially in Iraq's Anbar province where it is moving between villages and threatening the inhabitants. It is issuing new strategic instructions to its followers and calls on them to attack or sabotage the upcoming elections in Iraq.
As the U.S. is unwilling to fight ISIS, the governments of Iraq, Syria, Iran and Russia (+ Hizbullah) decided to again take the issue into their own hands. On April 19 the 4+1 met for coordinating their future campaigns.
Patch of the 4+1 op-room – via @IraqiSecurity – bigger
Military officials from Iraq, Syria, Iran and Russia meet in their Baghdad operations room to coordinate the further fight against ISIS. Note the four flags on the head table.
Source: @IraqiSecurity – bigger
Source: @IraqiSecurity – bigger
The Iranian Minister of Defense Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami attended the op-room meeting and held additional meetings with leaders of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) or Hashd al-Shaabi. (IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani, a red rag for all anti-Iranian forces, is now intentionally kept out of sight.)
Source: IRNA via @Sadattawa – bigger
The high level operations room meeting agreed upon future operations and strikes. Before the meeting military intelligence officials of the 4+1 had identified a potential target for a common operation. An attack was planned and designed to give the new combat phase some fresh impetus. It was also intended to be a warning to the U.S.
Shortly after the meeting the Iraqi air force hit an ISIS command and control center in east-Syria near Abu Kamal within the nominally U.S. controlled zone:
According to an Iraqi military spokesperson, the operation was fully coordinated with the Syrian army.
The Iraqi Ministry of Defense distributed video of the successful strike on a three story villa. Iraq later announced that 36 ISIS fighters, including high ranking ISIS commanders, were killed in the strike.
After the strike had happened the U.S. Operation Inherent Resolve tried to take credit for the attack by claiming that its was involved.
SOUTHWEST ASIA – The Iraqi air force conducted an air strike near Hajin, Syria, against Daesh terrorists operating near the Iraq-Syria border on April 19. The strike was approved by the Iraqi Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Dr. Haider Al Abadi.
The strike demonstrates Iraq’s commitment to destroy Daesh remnants who continue to threaten their citizens. The operation was planned and executed by the Iraqi Joint Operations Command with intelligence support from the Coalition.
“This operation highlights the capabilities of Iraq’s armed forces to aggressively pursue Daesh and to maintain their country’s internal security,” said Brig. Gen. Robert B. Sofge, deputy commanding general of operations, Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve.
The Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve’s mission is to defeat Daesh in designated areas in Iraq and Syria, and sets conditions for follow-on operations to increase regional stability.
My sources say that the U.S. claim is misleading if not completely false. After the four commanders in the Baghdad op-room decided on the strike, the Iraqi command initiated the pre-planned attack. The Iraqis informed the U.S. OIR command that a strike would happen but gave only a rough description of the target area. Said differently – no time was given to the U.S. to warn ISIS. The U.S. "intelligence support" for the operation consisted of keeping its planes out of the way.
The tweet by the OIR spox quoted above is a repeat of the statement the OIR command issued on April 19. It is claiming credit where non belongs.
While the U.S. coddles with ISIS in Syria to again use it for its own purpose, the 4+1 plan for a larger common operation to finally destroy the Takfiri menace. I expect that operation to begin only after the Iraqi parliament election on May 12 is over and a new Iraqi government is in place. Enough forces will have to be prepared on the Syrian as well as the Iraqi side of the border. On the Syrian side a military bridge to cross the Euphrates has recently been rebuild by the Syrian military and new equipment is arriving in the area. The meeting of the Iranian defense minister with the PMU hints at a strong role for these units in the upcoming fight.
Will the U.S. try to prevent or undermine the plan or will it stay out of the way?
No, not the US cuddling ISIS but the UK-Rothschild ‘Octopus’ Cabal and it’s minions. Recall it is Mike Pompeo who has been responsible for the effort to stop CIA support for ISIS, on directions from Donald J. Trump and the Pentagon faction which essentially controls the White House.
Mike Pompeo was President of Sentry International, an oilfield equipment company and close partner of Koch Industries. Also recall the recent meeting between the heads of the FSB and SVR, Alexander Bortnikov and Sergey Naryshkin, received by Pompeo, then director of the CIA, and Dan Coats, director of National Intelligence.
Alexander Bortnikov and Sergey Naryshkin Secretly Received in the United States
http://www.voltairenet.org/article199603.html
In hindsight this meeting appears to have been a strategy session conducted by extremely important high level individuals from Russia with their ‘partners’ in the United States.
The meeting occurred immediately before the firing of Rex Tillerson, an agent of the UK-Rothchild ‘Octopus,’ which effectively controls Exxon-Mobil (the Rockefellers sold their interest several years ago) of which Tillerson was formerly head. Tillerson, who once ran the foreign policies of multiple countries dominated by Exxon-Mobil including Qatar, was said to have been caught red-handed by the NSA under James Kelly, of assisting the UK conspiracy to launch a chemical false flag attack in Eastern Ghouta, the discovery of which led to Tillerson’s unceremonious dismissal by Donald Trump via Twitter, a truly unprecedented way to fire a US Secretary of State.
This was immediately followed by the clumsily arranged response of the UK-Rothchild ‘Octopus’ government of Theresa May, with accusations made that Russia poisoned British spy Segey Skirpal and his daughter minutes away from UK chemical and bio weapons research facility at Porton Down, most likely in an effort to embarass Trump away from cooperating with Russia and to head off the Rockefeller-Koch faction’s plan to make good on Trump’s pledge to withdraw from Syria.
Fred C. Koch, founder of Koch Industries, the second largest privately held company in the United States and now run by his sons David and Charles, are well known players on the US political scene and especially in the Republican Party, and according to Wikipedia, developed an innovative crude oil refining process which threatened existing (Rothschild ‘Octpopus’ controlled) oil companies, who forced the company out of business in the United States.
n 1925, Fred C. Koch joined MIT classmate Lewis E. Winkler at an engineering firm in Wichita, Kansas, which was renamed the Winkler-Koch Engineering Company. In 1927, they developed a more efficient thermal cracking process for turning crude oil into gasoline. This process threatened the competitive advantage of established oil companies, which sued for patent infringement.[16] Temporarily forced out of business in the United States, they turned to other markets, including the Soviet Union, where Winkler-Koch built 15 cracking units between 1929 and 1932. During this time, Koch came to despise communism and Joseph Stalin’s regime.[16][17] In his 1960 book, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch wrote that he found the USSR to be “a land of hunger, misery, and terror.”[18] According to Charles Koch, “Virtually every engineer he worked with [there] was purged.”[16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries
Not only are the Kochs enemies of the Rothschilds but they also have a history of working with the Soviet Union since the time of Joseph Stalin, who gifted the oilfields in the vicinity of Baku to the Rockefellers (now Rockefeller-Kochs) for development, including the construction of multiple refineries for the Soviet Union. By this arrangement the Soviet Union funded it’s 5 year development plans under Stalin.
The relationship between Rockefellers and the Soviet Union is legendary within the alternative history community, including the story of the visit of David Rockefeller to the Soviet Union immediately prior to the removal of Khrushchev for what Brezhnev famously described as “hare-brained schemes,” after the Cuban Missile Crisis effectively turned the US and Soviet Union into confirmed enemies in line with the long term objective of the UK-Rothschild ‘Octopus’ Cabal, to disrupt and destroy Russia according what is sometimes called the Mackinder Doctrine.
Before the Cuban Missile Crisis relations between the US and Soviet Union had warmed significantly under President Kennedy and there was talk at the time of a massive reduction of nuclear weapons by both sides, with the final nail driven into the coffin of this plan for de escalation occurring with the murder of JFK in Dallas by agents of — you guessed it — the UK-Rothschild ‘Octopus’ Cabal.
Slowly but surely the whole of the history of the world during the 20th century is coming into view.
To reiterate and make clear, there are two Deep States invloved in this struggle for supremacy in the Anglo-American space, and although heavily intertwined, they are the Rothschild-UK ‘Octopus,’ which by some estimates controls 40% of all corporate wealth in the world, and the much smaller US-centric Rockefeller-Kochs, perhaps less than 1/10 the size of their UK based but truly global Anglo-American rivals and competitors.
Watch this short video where Andrei Fursov discusses the relationship between the Rothschilds and Rockefellers.
Rothschild vs. Rockefeller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBw6ZKg3b14
Trump is attempting to steer his way through the minefiled created by the Deep State War between the UK-Rothschild ‘Octopus’ Cabal and their US-centric Rockefeller-Koch competitors. Donald Trump, via the Kochs and Mike Pompeo, is clearly tied to the latter group which includes Militarist-Nationalist Pentagon Generals who see the Rothschild ‘Octopus’ plan to destroy the US dollar and replace it with a Chineses fiat as profoundly threatening to the US ability to spend over 1 trillion dollars annually on defense.
A reconnection of interests between sovereignty oriented Eurasianists in Russia and the US forms the basis of the alliance between Vladimr Putin and the White House of Donald J. Trump.
Finally, everytime you see someone in alternative media blame solely the United States for anything that is occurring with respect to the Empire of Chaos, and who simultaneously lets the UK based Rothschild Deep State ‘Octopus’ crime family off the hook, you are witnessing strategems of people who most likely work for the ‘Octopus’ Cabal and are attempting to scapegoat the US government for their own perfidious acts and devious deeds.
Posted by: C I eh? | Apr 25 2018 1:35 utc | 43
OJS @63–
Thanks, I asked and you provided. You bring up some valid points. But based upon statements by Russia’s MoD and their actions leads me to believe they care quite a lot about the lives of Syrians, which is in stark contrast to the pro-Terrorist coalition; their attitude toward Raqqa and the recent bill passed by US Congress denying any funds to help Syrian people repair the damage done by Outlaw US Empire terrorists to their nation prove my point very well. General Rudskoy: “Had the Syrian facilities attacked by the US, UK and France indeed been chemical plants and labs, tens of thousands of people would’ve died. It is obvious there were no chemical weapons there. but such disregard for the lives of Syrians is perplexing.” The whole concept of establishing deconfliction zones as a way to protect/limit civilian casualties was developed by Russia and is something none of the Western states would ever dream of since they view themselves superior to any native within their own nation–and their track record is long and coated with the blood and body parts of tens of millions of innocents: a “value” also shared by Zionists.
I don’t know if you read The Saker’s blog, but he’s advanced several excellent arguments as to why Russia has managed its engagement in Syria, most of which I agree. As I’ve written on many occasions, IMO a Hybrid Third World War has already begun as the Outlaw US Empire continues its attempt to attain Full Spectrum Dominance over the planet and its resources but has encountered the newly formed Multipolar Alliance consisting of dozens of nations spread out globally as epitomized by the BRICS trade bloc, where Brazil’s undergone a hybrid assault and a concerted attempt was made to woo India away in order to destabilize the bloc. But when looked at closely, the attempt failed. Neocons were licking their chops at the prospect of renewed border war between India and China, but the SCO and other multilateral mechanisms where used to diplomatically solve the problem; and eventually–sooner than many think–the SCO will solve the Afghan problem and NATO’s exit. Yes, one must keep tabs on what’s happening globally along with events in the Hot Zone of Southwest Asia to get an accurate assessment of how the Hybrid War’s proceeding. Yes, the reading list is long and consumes several hours each day, so it’s fortunate I have the time. This source rises above others and he also posts consolidated updates at SyrPers. Here’s another recap that deals with the topic at hand: Where will the next big offensive occur:
“By early 2018 there were 5 terrorist pockets in Syria, East Ghouta, Southern Damascus, Eastern Qalamoun, Rastan and Homs desert.
“With East Ghouta and now Southern Damascus completely liberated (there may be few terrorists on both pockets hiding or to attempt to do what they are good at, terrorize and steal, but they do pose any threat for the Gov’t anymore), these victories unleashed a fresh breath of hope to the Syrians in and around Damascus not only on safety issues but trade, fresh fruits and produce from East Ghouta will hit Damascenes table in no time bringing inflation down and easing Syrians budget constrains.
“With TF moving into the kill in Southern Damascus pocket, it may be an indication that this pocket will be sorted out in weeks and not months.
“Then there will be Rastan pocket, which recently did not accept an agreement, this pocket is vital to return and M5 linking to southern Syria and Hama to full use, besides railroad and many other aspect of safety for Homs and Hama cities. This pocket is deeply linked to the terrorists in northern Hama, so it is only natural to see NATO backed terrorists in northern Hama to try offensive 10.0 there in a futile attempt to shift key forces on the ground.
“No matter what, Rastan pocket will go down by mid 2018, flat lands do help Syrian elite forces, so clearly, with proper forces to this offensive, the terrorists there have no chance at all.
“The lack of forces applied to eliminate ISIS in Homs pocket may indicate ISIS has only hit & run groups and not a real force to threat the Gov’t infra structure, so remain to be seeing whether the SAA will give any priority to eliminate ISIS for good from Homs desert or not, but it may be a slow cooking effort for the militias.
“With all pockets cleared, the Syrian High Command and allies will have to look to the next offensives, and that is what is shifting lately, from Jisr al Shoughur to Daraa to eastern Euphrates, moving pieces and shifting sands…but it seems Daraa is gaining ground lately.”
Note how that goes against what I surmised since Daraa is next to Golan, although its getting secured would be required with any operation to secure the borders with Jordan and Iraq and stop infiltration from Saudi and Jordan. We shall soon find out, only to speculate again as to what will then occur.
Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 25 2018 18:05 utc | 82
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