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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Erdogan: Russian bombs in Syria hit moderate opposition
2015-10-04
[AA.TR] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
has said Russian Arclight airstrikes in Syria have targeted moderate opposition forces, not Daesh.

Erdogan made the remarks in a televised interview with Al-Jazeera
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
late on Friday.

Russia began Arclight airstrikes on Wednesday to bolster the regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
. Moscow insists the strikes are targeting Daesh and affiliated terrorist groups, but Western countries and their Gulf allies believe moderate opponents of Assad and civilians are bearing the brunt of Russian bombing.

Erdogan said: "We learned that 65 people died during the ongoing Russian operations. Where? Around Hama, Homs and Aleppo. It is too significant. Because Russia expressed [to] our embassy in a written statement that it will struggle against Daesh here.

"But, it [Russia] did not make this against Daesh; literally it made this against moderate opposition, which has been resisting the regime. Civilians were killed. They ignore the killing of civilians."

The U.S. and several of its allies, including The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, issued a joint statement Thursday expressing concern over the Russian Arclight airstrikes.
Posted by:Fred

#1  And now they're moldering opposition.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-10-04 02:46  

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