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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Military moves: Turkey and Saudi Arabia close ranks on Syria
2016-02-20
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Saudi official has confirmed that Riyadh has sent warplanes to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's southern Incirlik airbase, a move considered as preparation for the campaign against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said: "From the very beginning, Turkey 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...
have been in favor of a ground operation in the fight against [ISIS].

"We have been saying in all meetings of the [anti-ISIS] coalition that there should be a comprehensive and outcome-oriented strategy. We have said if such a strategy is implemented, we, as Turkey and Saudi Arabia, can join a ground offensive."

However,
a woman is only as old as she admits...
Turkish Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz on Monday said his country was not considering sending troops.

Cavusoglu says if ISIS is eradicated, the world will not have to accept Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now...
as the lesser of two evils.
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