[Daily Caller] Doctors Without Borders flew no internationally-recognized medical insignia on the rooftop of its Kunduz, Afghanistan, hospital that was mistakenly attacked October 3 by U.S. military aircraft, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation.
The relief group -- also known as Medecins Sans Frontiers -- failed to display a Red Cross, Red Crescent or Red Lion and Sun, the universally recognized medical emblems since 1949 that identify buildings that must be protected to attacking aircraft during wartime under Article 38 of the Geneva Accords.
"Doctors Without Borders marked the roof of the building in the week prior to the Oct. 3 airstrikes," said Tim Shenk, a DWB press officer. "The markings are hospital flags with the MSF logo."
The DWB hospital flag with the organization's logo is not among the internationally recognized emblems that warn attacking pilots to avoid the marked structure.
The DWB refused to produce any aerial photos of the building or describe the size of the purported flags.
An earlier aerial photo taken months before the attack shows a barren rooftop without any medical emblem or insignia.
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Just for reference, here is what a MSF logo flag looks like: http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/131010175518-14-nobel-peace-horizontal-gallery.jpg
I went looking on Google for aerial view images of red "thingy" emblems on hospital roofs - and there is nary a one such image - although there are some images of US military tents with big red crosses.
If I worked in or near a hospital anywhere in the Middle East, I would make damn sure that it had a red SOMETHING on its roof. Failing to do so is basically equivalent to asking for a Darwin Award.
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Meh. Providing aid to unlawful combatants is a war crime. They're lucky not to be declared enemies of all mankind.
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I think they were helping the bad guys and got righteously blasted but when it comes to civilian casualties so the state department started pissing themselves.
[Guardian] Five people, including two RAF personnel, have died following a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, officials from the Ministry of Defence and the Nato-led Afghan training mission Resolute Support have said.
Five other occupants of the aircraft, which was carrying 10 people in total, were injured, a Resolute Support statement said.
The UK Puma Mk 2 helicopter crashed on Sunday while attempting to land at the Resolute Support headquarters in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Helo reportedly become entangled in an aerostat balloon tether line.
[AnNahar] A Taliban suicide boom-mobileer struck a British forces convoy in central Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the World and didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... Sunday, triggering a powerful kaboom in an attack that comes two weeks after the resurgent turban group overran a key northern city.
The rush-hour bombing, which sent a plume of smoke into the sky, maimed at least three civilians including a child, as the Taliban ramp up attacks on government and foreign targets.
The intensity of the blast sent an armored vehicle crashing into a sidewalk, its front end badly mangled, and left the area littered with charred pieces of twisted metal.
"The incident took place while a suicide boom-mobileer detonated an explosive-packed car in the Joy Shir area... of Kabul city," the interior ministry said.
"The target of the attacker were the foreign forces convoy."
Security forces cordoned off the area as ambulances with wailing sirens rushed to the scene, but the ministry said the human toll of the blast was limited.
"The ministry of interior condemns in the strongest terms the suicide kaboom which resulted in the wounding of three civilians," it said.
The Kabul police said the maimed included a woman and a child.
The British defence ministry confirmed that their military convoy came under attack in Kabul but said the kaboom was caused by an improvised bomb.
"There were no (British) casualties," it said in a statement.
The emboldened bully boyz have stepped up attacks around Afghanistan since they launched their annual summer offensive in late April.
The Taliban captured the northern city of Kunduz on September 28, their most spectacular victory since being toppled from power in a 2001 U.S.-led invasion.
The seizure of the scenic provincial capital for three days was a stinging blow to Western-trained Afghan forces, who have largely been fighting on their own since the end of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... 's combat mission in December.
The Taliban said Sunday's bombing was carried out to avenge the recent "barbaric bombardment in Kunduz that martyred our civilians and doctors."
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NATO forces are under fire after a U.S. air strike on October 3 pummeled a hospital in Kunduz run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), killing at least 12 staff and 10 patients.
The medical charity shut down the trauma center, branding the incident a "war crime" and demanding an international investigation into the incident, which sparked an avalanche of global condemnation.
The Pentagon announced Saturday it would make compensation payments for those killed or injured in the strike, while suggesting that U.S. forces in Afghanistan could also pay for repairs to the hospital.
But MSF Sunday said it had officially not received any compensation offer, adding that it would not accept funds for repairs in line with its policy of rejecting support from governments.
"The offer of compensation at this stage cannot preempt the result of present and future investigations, nor preclude any further claims or rights of those affected by the U.S. Arclight airstrike," the charity said.
"MSF reiterates its call for independent investigation."
President Barack Obama Because I won... has apologized over the strike, with three different investigations -- led by NATO, U.S. forces and Afghan officials -- currently under way.
The Afghan government claims to have wrested back control of Kunduz city but sporadic firefights continue with pockets of bully boyz as soldiers, backed by NATO special forces, conduct door-to-door clearance operations.
As fighting spreads in neighboring Badakhshan, Takhar and Baghlan provinces, concerns are mounting that the seizure of Kunduz was merely the opening gambit in a new, bolder strategy to tighten the insurgency's grip across northern Afghanistan.
Most NATO combat troops pulled out of Afghanistan last year but a small contingent focused on training and counter-terrorism operations remains, including roughly 10,000 American soldiers.
Several people have been killed and number of others wounded in an explosion in Burdhubo town in Somalia’s Gedo region, reports said.Initial reports said that an improvised explosive device which recovered by Ethiopian troops has exploded on Burdhubo Bridge in the town.
Some of Ethiopian soldiers under African Union Mission for Somalia (AMISOM) were killed or injured in the explosion but Shabelle Media could not verify it independently
In an interview with Shabelle Media, Hassan Muhumut Ali, district commissioner of Burdhubo has denied that blast was roadside bomb explosion and targeted to the soldiers. But he stressed that the blast has been recovered in a sidewalk and then exploded by soldiers at an area in the town.
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[AnNahar] Twin suicide kabooms killed at least nine people and injured 29 others on Sunday in far northern Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , a region that has been repeatedly hit by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... jihadists, security and local authority sources said.
The sources said the attacks in Kangaleri village, around 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the town of Mora, were carried out by twojacket wallah'> exploding trollop female suicide bombers.
Nine people died when the first woman detonated a bomb in a tiny milk and donut restaurant. The second suicide bomber killed only herself, a local authority official said.
Many of the injured were "very badly" hurt, added the official, who asked not to be identified.
The blasts come three weeks after another twin suicide kaboom in Mora that left at least three people, including a police officer, dead.
They are the 14th and 15th suicide attacks attributed to Boko Haram in far northern Cameroon since July, causing more than 100 deaths.
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[RFE/RL]Russian officials say they have arrested a group of people planning to carry out a terrorist attack in Moscow. The National Antiterrorism Committee said that "criminals" were arrested at an apartment in western Moscow, where security forces found and defused an improvised explosive device. It is not yet clear what, if any, broader organization the suspects might belong to.
Putin has cited the dangers of Daesh militants attempting terrorist attacks in Russia in defending his decision to carry out air strikes in Syria. He said in a television interview broadcast on Russian television that the threat of terrorism in Russia "had already existed" before Moscow began bombing targets in Syria.
[AnNahar] Two Turkish soldiers were killed in eastern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... in an attack blamed on Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) murderous Moslems, a day after the rebel group declared it suspended all offensive operations, media said.
The soldiers were killed during festivities with PKK turbans in the Senkaya district of Erzurum province, the Dogan news agency said, citing the local governor's office.
A wide-scale operation was launched to capture the murderous Moslems, it added.
The PKK announced it would suspend all attacks -- except in self defense -- after months of attacks in Turkey, a move seen as an attempt to help the pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party (HDP) boost its score in the upcoming election on November 1.
The announcement came shortly after twin kabooms in Turkey's capital Ankara on Saturday that killed at least 95 people who had gathered for a peace rally organized by leftist and pro-Kurdish opposition groups.
[Rudaw] Turkish SWAT teams jugged Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! 14 alleged members of 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.... group (ISIS), including a woman, during raids Sunday in Konya and Roha, the DHA news agency reported.
It said that important documents also were seized during the operations.
The raids follow twin bombings in Ankara that targeted a protest rally against the ongoing conflict between government forces and the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Two kabooms at the peace march in central Ankara on Saturday killed at least 86 people.
For weeks now, Turkish forces have bombed PKK bases in the Kurdistan Region and carried out attacks and raids in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's own Kurdish southeast.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... denounced Saturday's bombing as "this loathsome attack that targeted our unity and our togetherness."
Selahattin Demirtas, co-leader of the pro-Kurdish HDP party, blamed the state for the attack, calling it "a huge massacre." The opposition party has called off all its election rallies.
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[DAWN] KOHAT: A woman was killed when a hand grenade was thrown at a house in Ustarzai Payan here on Sunday.
Nadeem Abbas told the police that Abdul Hassam, Qais Hassan and Ali Raza hurled a hand grenade at his house which went kaboom! with a bang critically injuring Ms Nabeena, 23. She died on way to hospital, police said.
The police after registration of murder case under section 302 of PPC and the Explosives Act launched efforts for the arrest of the culprits.
When contacted, the Ustarzai police said Munir Hussain, father of the dear departed woman, had, a few years back, killed a man from the rival group. They said the man had been declared as proclaimed offender, adding his rivals took the Dire Revenge for the killing by attacking his house.
Meanwhile, ...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38... an alleged terrorist tossed in the calaboose You have the right to remain silent... on late Saturday night has confessed to have criminal masterminded kaboom on taxi stand at Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. Square in the Kohat city, in which many people had been killed and several others injured.
Jameel carried head money of Rs0.5 million announced by the provincial government on his arrest.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: Rangers on Sunday claimed to have detained four suspects, including one allegedly associated with a banned outfit.
A Rangers front man said that the arrests were made in four targeted raids in the Ibrahim Haideri, North Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Mehmoodabad and Bahadurabad areas.
During these raids, four suspects were tossed in the slammer Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! and weapons were also seized from them, he added.
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[DAWN] KARACHI: An improvised bomb was found on the roof of a Gulistan-e-Jauhar house on Sunday, police said.
They said that Hidayat Masih, the owner of the house in Chishti Nagar near Kamran Chowrangi, informed the police that his son went to the rooftop to feed the pigeons when he saw a bottle attached to a battery. He alerted the other family members and neighbours, who informed the police and bomb disposal squad.
Inspector Fakhrul Hasnain of the BDS said that it was a 'bottle bomb', weighing over half a kilogramme.
He said that the BDS managed to "defuse the bomb remotely".
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Islamabad police and Rangers conducted a joint search operation on Sunday in various parts of the city and jugged Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! 26 suspects. They also searched 150 houses and recovered weapons and drugs.
The Islamabad Police and Pak Rangers, in the early hours of Sunday, conducted a search operation in Noon village, the area under Sabzi Mandi cop shoppe and other nearby areas where they searched houses, workshops, markets and under-construction buildings.
The combined force arrested 26 suspects who are being investigated further.
During the operation, two cycle of violences, one 7mm gun, four 12 bore guns, one SMG, eight pistols, 573 bullets, two magazines and 458 grams of narcotics were also recovered.
The operation was part of extensive plans to maintain peace in the upcoming month of Muharram.
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[DAWN] At least 22 'terrorists' were killed in air strikes on their positions in Shawal area of North Wazoo Agency on Sunday, Inter Services Public Relations said.
Military planes bombed targets in areas adjacent to the Afghan border, destroying six hideouts.
The ISPR claimed that 22 bandidosturbans were killed in the assault.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... the claim could not be verified from independent sources.
Security forces have been fighting against local and foreign bandidosturbans in North Waziristan since July 2014. A large area of the agency, including Miranshah ... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas... , its administrative headquarters, has been cleared of Lion of Islams.
An official tally released on the first anniversary of the offensive said that 2,700 bandidosturbans had been killed and many more maimed in combat.
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[Rudaw] A wave of bombings in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Sunday killed or maimed more than a dozen civilians.
"A roadside kaboom detonated in the Mahmoodia neighborhood of southern Baghdad killing two civilians and wounding eight," a source from the Iraqi interior ministry told Rudaw.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said "the second kaboom took place in the neighborhood of Dawanmi in southeastern Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding seven."
An hour later, the third blast went off within a crowd at a traditional Bazaar in the neighborhood of Nahrawan, resulting in the deaths of two civilians and wounding five others, according to the source.
According to Iraqi Body Count more than 145,000 civilians have died due to violence, boom-mobiles, suicide kabooms and kidnappings across the country, reversing a decline in sectarian bloodshed that had reached a climax in 2006-07.
[Jpost] A suspicion man approached the Lion's Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on his way down from the Muslim cemetery nearby on Monday morning with his hand in his pocket, according to police reports.
Border Police officers stationed in the area ordered the man to stop for inspection. The terrorist approached the officers, pulled a knife from his pocket, and attempted to stab a police officer in the chest.
The terrorist was shot and killed by Border Police. The officer's protective vest prevented any injury to his person.
Palestinian riots continued to rock the West Bank and Gaza Sunday, although the number of participants among them are dwindling as Israeli Security Forces clamp down on unrest.
The Red Moon-Shaped Thingy Crescent, the main emergency medical service organization in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, said that 332 Palestinians were wounded in clashes with security forces on Sunday alone.
All in all, 51 Palestinians in the West Bank were injured by live fire from Israeli security forces, 71 by rubber bullets and six suffered from burns. In the Gaza Strip, 32 people were injured in clashes with security forces.
Hamas senior official, Ismail Radwan, said that his organization was alarmed about the tactics Israeli forces were using to control violent demonstrations in the coastal enclave.
"Israel is committing massacres against the Palestinian people," Radwan said.
Totally uncalled for, since all your people are doing is stabbing Jooz, right?
"An innocent civilian's house was bombed which killed a woman and her child" Radwan added, referencing a retaliatory strike Israel conducted Saturday evening after earlier rocket fire emanating from the Gaza Strip landed in the Ashkelon regional council. No injuries or damage was reported in the attack.
Nur Hassan, 31, along with her infant daughter were both killed in the Gaza strike.
Meanwhile, the Arab League granted a request by the Palestinian Authority and will hold an emergency meeting Tuesday to discuss recent events centering on the West Bank and Gaza Strip. A PA representative who made the request said that discussions will focus on Palestinian grievances, particularity al-Aqsa mosque, in an effort to stop "radical Zionists desecrating it under the auspices of occupation forces."
Arab League Deputy Secretary-General Ahmed Ben Heli said that an important decision will be made during the emergency meeting "in light of the Israeli offensive against the Palestinian people."
He added that "we will discuss what steps should be taken by the Arabs against Israel, which violates Jerusalem's holy sites in an unprecedented way."
I'm sure the Israelis are super-worried about the response of the Arab League...
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"...332 Palestinians were wounded ...51 Palestinians... by live fire.... 71 by rubber bullets... and six suffered from burns.... In the Gaza Strip, 32 people were injured...."
numbers don't add but if you r paleo they don't have to i guess
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six suffered from burns
Hek's boyz imported to throw Molotovs?
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Hek's boyz hired Brandon Weeden to teach them how to throw...
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[Ynet] Rock ambushes, terror attacks and violent confrontations continue to be daily occurrences, as tensions show no sign of easing.
Clashes continued in Israel and the West Bank on Sunday, with violence erupting both between large groups and on an individual scale.
Four Israelis, including two soldiers, were maimed on Sunday evening when a resident of Umm al-Fahm ran some of them over and stabbed others. Earlier in the day, a Paleostinian driver went kaboom! a gas canister at a checkpoint in the West Bank Sunday morning, lightly wounding a police officer who pulled her over.
Overnight on Saturday, an Israeli air strike on a Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, target in the Gazoo Strip following a rocket attack. The strike brought down a nearby house, killing a Paleostinian woman and her daughter. According to Paleostinian reports, a 13-year-old Paleostinian was killed on Sunday.
Clashes and protests
Simultaneously, festivities between Paleostinian and security in the West Bank continued. Paleostinians reported that 13-year-old Ahmed Saraja from Jalazone refugee camp near Ramallah was killed near the Beit El checkpoint.
Other communities in the Arab sector were holding violent protests. Perhaps the main focus was the village of Kafr Kanna, in the Lower Galilee, where dozens, some masked, gathered and burned tires. There was a heavy police presence.
Police were stopping all vehicles arriving at the entrance to the village asking the occupants if they were Jews. If the answer was yes, they ordered them to make a U-turn in order to avoid the scene of conflicts.
Other villages where rioting took place included Reinae, where dozens of tires are burning in the village square. In Tur'an dozens have gathered at the entrance to the village, some of them masked. In Majdal Krum and Daburiya, tires were burning.
Barrage of stones
"If I had not been protecting my head, I do not know where I would be today," Yedidya Zelinger said, recalling the barrage of stones he received on his way to Kiryat Arba on Sunday night. Zelinger and other people, including a tourist, were lightly maimed by stones thrown at them near the village of Beit Ummar.
Zelinger said he saw 20 young Arab men approaching him on Highway 60. "They threw huge blocks at the car at point-blank range," Zelinger said.
"I felt like I was in a shooting range," he said. "They were masked, with death in their eyes. I always thought that throwing rocks was something light, but when it actually happens it's crazy."
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I think its time for Israel to napalm the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip. When the fires die out, plow the area and start selling lots. There are, and should be, consequences for behavior. The more outrageous the behavior, the more dire the consequences should be.
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[AnNahar] Syrian government troops backed by Russian air strikes advanced against rebels Sunday, as a rights group accused Moscow of being behind a new type of cluster bomb in the conflict.
Twelve days into Russia's aerial campaign, the troops were gaining ground on two fronts: in central Hama province around the Damascus-Aleppo highway, and in the northern part of regime stronghold Latakia province.
In Hama, regime forces have taken three villages east of the highway and are now seeking to also secure control of an area to its west.
"This offensive is intended to confront the rebels in the Sahl al-Ghab plain that is at the intersection of Hama, Latakia and Idlib provinces," said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor.
Alawites from the same sect as Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Horror of Homs... live in the south and west of the strategic 1,000 square-kilometer (385 square miles) plain, while the north and east are mostly Sunni.
In recent months, rebels have sought to capture parts of the area, advancing particularly from Idlib province, which is held by the Army of Conquest alliance that includes Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front. Control of the plain would threaten regime-held areas in Hama and also Latakia, which is both a stronghold of the regime and home to Assad's ancestral village.
In northern Latakia meanwhile, regime forces took the village of Kafr Dalba as they pressed a bid to capture a strategic mountainous area in the region, the Observatory and sources on the ground said. Earlier this week, a military source said government troops wanted to seal off Idlib province from Hama and Latakia and prevent rebels from being able to threaten either region.
Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... meanwhile on Sunday accused Russia of being behind the use of new advanced cluster munitions in Syria. The New York-based group said it had obtained photographs showing cluster munitions were dropped on Kafr Halab, a village southwest of Syria's second city of Aleppo, on October 4. It said it could not confirm whether the munitions had been used by Russian forces, or supplied by Moscow but used by Syria.
"It's disturbing that yet another type of cluster munition is being used in Syria given the harm they cause to civilians for years to come," said Nadim Houry, HRW's deputy Middle East director.
"Neither Russia nor Syria should use cluster munitions, and both should join the international ban without delay."
Cluster munitions contain dozens or hundreds of bomblets and are fired in rockets or dropped from the air. They are widely banned because of their indiscriminate nature and the fact that they often maim and kill long after the original attack.
HRW said there was also evidence the munitions had been used in Hama and Idlib provinces.
The Russian air campaign that began September 30 has complicated the efforts of the existing US-led coalition bombing IS in Syria. Washington and Moscow have sought talks on ways to avoid military accidents in Syria's increasingly crowded airspace. On Saturday, Washington said the two countries had made "progress" in the talks and that more discussions were planned.
"The discussions were professional and focused narrowly on the implementation of specific safety procedures," Pentagon front man Peter Cook said after the 90-minute video conference.
Cook disclosed few details, except to say that the discussions took place between U.S. defense officials and their counterparts in Moscow and focused on "steps that can be taken" by Russian and U.S.-led coalition aircraft "to promote safe flight operations over Syria".
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The Russian air campaign that began September 30 has complicated the efforts of the existing US-led coalition bombing IS in Syria.
Seems like the Russians campaign is effective.
If the Russians help end the civil war, will they be given credit for stopping the killing?
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If the Russians help end the civil war, will they be given credit for stopping the killing?
No, because Obama doesn't like Assad and he's just a bit peeved with the Russians for not letting his own $500 million buddies get that credit.
[AnNahar] Russian fighter jets hit 63 targets in Syria in the past 24 hours, the defense ministry said Sunday, as Moscow intensifies a campaign it says is aimed 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.... jihadist group.
"Su-34, Su-24M and Su-25SM planes carried out 64 sorties from the Hmeimim airbase against 63 targets in the provinces of Hama, Latakia, Idlib and Raqa," the defense ministry said in a statement.
The Russian military claimed that the air strikes had destroyed 53 positions used by the "terrorists," as well as a command post, four training camps and seven ammunition depots.
Russia said its campaign in the war-torn country was rattling IS fighters, claiming that radio intercepts showed "growing panic" among them.
On Saturday, the defense ministry claimed that fighters were running low on arms, ammunition and fuel, leading them to abandon their combat positions for the country's east and northeast.
In an interview with a state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
broadcaster Sunday, President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... reiterated that Russia was not planning on sending ground troops to Syria.
"We are not planning on doing this, and our Syrian friends know about this," Putin said.
Putin last month received parliamentary approval to launch an air campaign in the war-torn country, but authorities have staunchly denied they would send any ground troops.
Using modern jets and older Soviet aircraft, Russia has bombed command posts and training camps of what it says are radical "terrorists", backing a ground offensive by the forces of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... Putin said Sunday that the Russian operation's objective was to "stabilize the legitimate authorities and create conditions for finding a political compromise."
Speaking of the weaponry used in the strikes -- including cruise missiles Russia fired from the Caspian Sea at targets more than 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) away -- Putin dismissed the idea that Russia was in a "arms race" with the West.
"This is not about an arms race," he said. "This is about the fact that modern weapons are improving, changing. In other countries, this is happening even faster than here. This is why we have to keep up."
Putin brushed off criticism by the U.S.-led coalition that the Russian air force was not providing it with sufficient advance notice prior to conducting strikes.
"I want to draw attention to the fact that nobody has ever warned us in the planning and beginning of operations of this kind," Putin said. "But we did."
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Russia says "we're killing Islamic extremists". USA says "Russians're killing USA trained freedom fighters".
As I see it, there are four possibilities.
(1) Both are lying.
(2) Russians are lying.
(3) Americans are lying.
(4) Both are telling the truth.
[AnNahar] Several bully boyholy warriors were killed or injured Sunday as the army opened artillery fire at their positions in the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Arsal, state-run National News Agency reported.
It said the shelling targeted bully boy gatherings and movements in Wadi al-Kheil near the al-Qarn Hill.
"The bombardment became much fiercer after the holy warriors started moving in Wadi al-Kheil, Wadi al-Oueini and Tallat al-Furn, where large numbers of al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front and 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.... jihadists are positioned," NNA added.
The army managed to destroy a convoy of military and construction vehicles that were operating in the region, killing and wounding several bully boys, the agency said.
The bully boys' dead and maimed were transferred to field hospitals in Wadi Hmeid and Wadi al-Kheil.
"The army is continuing its artillery bombardment and has brought reinforcements into the town" of Arsal, NNA added.
IS and Nusra holy warriors are entrenched in the mountainous border area near Syria and have used the arid terrain to launch attacks on Lebanese security forces.
[AlAhram] The United States and its allies staged 24 air strikes on ISIS in Syria and Iraq on Saturday, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement on Sunday.
Seventeen of the attacks were in Iraq, targeting ISIS near 10 cities and hitting tactical units, buildings, weapons, fighting positions and other assets, the task force said.
In Syria, seven strikes struck similar targets, as well as a crude oil collection point.
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True, but ours were nuanced and objective, taking into consideration the targets cultural mores and local history, carefully vetted, discussed and signed off on.
No sura nor hadith entrammels
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