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2017-02-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Former US Deputy of State urges Trump to support the YPG against ISIS
[ALMASDARNEWS] Antony J. Blinken, former Deputy Secretary of State in the B.O. regime, called on Trump to directly arm Syrian Kurds to take Raqqa, regardless of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
’s opposition, Ara News reported.

However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
Blinken also urged President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
to help Turkey to take al-Bab city in northern Syria and to kill the leadership of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the report continued.

This is contradicted by the fact that the Syrian Kurds are mostly a part of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) who are the Syrian wing of the PKK.

"The only fighters capable of seizing Raqqa belong to our most effective partner on the ground -- the Syrian Democratic Forces, a mixture of Arabs and Kurds dominated by the People’s Protection Units, a Kurdish militia," Blinken said.

"The SDF can succeed only if it is armed to overcome 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....
’s ferocious urban resistance of snipers, jacket wallahs and improvised bombs," he said.

Posted by Fred 2017-02-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top
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