Twee
Russisch-Syrische journalisten, die embedded werkten, hebben een
vernietigend rapport samengesteld waarin de ware bedoeling van de
geheime VS operatie in al-Tanf (zuiden van Syrië) wordt uitgelegd. De Russische
generale staf beschuldige de VS vorige maand van het trainen van IS
terroristen in Al-Tanf…….. Aldus een bericht op Information Clearing House van  afgelopen maandag, het origineel is van Sputnik en werd een dag eerder gepubliceerd.

Een
Pentagon woordvoerder liet snel weten dat deze beschuldiging vals en
absurd zijn, immers de VS zou juist vechten tegen IS en hen juist uitschakelen….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Er zijn intussen zoveel bewijzen voor VS bemoeienis met IS, dat je de verdediging van het Pentagon als vals en absurd kan noemen!

Igor
Petrashevich and Roman Martynovich, de twee eerder genoemde journalisten, hebben zich op
een onderzoek gestort n.a.v. deze zaak, lees hun ontluisterend
verhaal over VS manipulaties waar de honden geen brood van lusten:

Russian
Journalists Blow Lid Off Alleged US Terrorist Training Network in
Syria

January
15, 2017 “Information
Clearing House” – Two Russian Syria-embedded
journalists have put together a damning firsthand report on the true
purpose of the secrecy-laden US military mission at At-Tanf, southern
Syria.

The
Pentagon was forced to go into full public relations mode
late last month amid fresh allegations by the
Russian General Staff that US instructors were providing training
assistance for some 350 ex-Daesh (ISIS) militants at the US
Army’s al-Tanf garrison in the southern Syrian province of Homs.
Chief of Staff General Valery Gerasimov accused Washington
of intending to use the militants to create a
so-called ‘New Syrian Army’, a military formation aimed at further
destabilizing the war-torn country after Daesh had been
defeated.

A
Pentagon spokesperson soon responded, telling
Sputnik that
Moscow’s allegations were “false and absurd,” and stressing
that the US and its allies engage in capturing and killing
Daesh, not training them.

In
a special investigative report for Russia’s
Federal News Agency, embedded Syria correspondents Igor Petrashevich
and Roman Martynovich made their way south to try to figure
out what was really going on in the US-occupied area
with their own eyes.

Al-Tanf,
a settlement situated near Syria’s border with Iraq and
Jordan, is one of three official border crossings between Syria
and Iraq, and the main border checkpoint along the
Damascus-Baghdad highway. Intense fighting for the area took
place in the spring and summer of 2017, as US-allied
militia attempted to solidify their foothold in southern
Syria. However, a Syrian Army counteroffensive backed by Russian
air power stopped the militants’ advance, prompting them and their
US-led coalition allies to secure a patch of territory
running about 55 km deep into Syria.

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serem00@Serem001

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this is the at tanf border crossing… an important crossing to iraq not mutch more.. the blue pocket are us forces together with thier jihadi buddy’s (still) thier mission is fighting isis… as you can see they are surounded by the syrian army… so why are they there?

1:17 PM – Jan 6, 2018

Late
last month, General Gerasimov pointed to al-Tanf as being
one of two staging areas for the continuation of an
armed struggle against the Syrian government by the
jihadists, with the other located at Shaddadi camp,
under the control of Kurdish forces operating in Syria’s
north. According to the general, the al-Tanf militants, many
former members of Daesh, were brought into the area by US
special forces from Deir ez-Zor province, where Daesh had
suffered total defeat.

According
to Petrashevich and Martynovich, the presence of these
former Daesh fighters made local residents wary of helping them
to make their way into the US military-administered
enclave. “A young man named Marshod warned our correspondents
about this and said that two of his own attempts to make
his way to a nearby village beyond the line of demarcation
led to threats against his life from militants
guarding the enclave’s inner perimeter.”

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Undeterred,
the journalists continued their investigation via interviews
with eyewitnesses and representatives of the Syrian
military stationed in the region.

There
May Be Close to Four Times as Many Militants as Previously
Estimated

Although
the Russian military conservatively estimated the presence of roughly
350 Daesh militants at al-Tanf, Syrian military sources speaking
to Patrashevich and Martynovich explained that the number may,
in fact, be upwards of 1,200 fighters, some 200 of them
Daesh jihadis brought to the area by US special forces,
mostly from Deir ez-Zor province. Other forces include the
so-called ‘New Syrian Army’, the Forces of Martyr Ahmad al-Abdo
(formally part of the Free Syrian Army), and the Martyrs
of Islam Brigade (an Islamist group). According to the
Syrian military, these forces’ armament includes large-caliber
mortars, anti-tank missiles, tanks and other heavy weaponry.

The
New Syrian Army, commanded by one Mekhenda Talla, reportedly has
a strained relationship with the other formations, who cooperate
with his forces only on a for cash basis.

“In
general, the relationship between the militants from the
individual groups is quite tense, as civilian testimony makes
clear,” Patrashevich and Martynovich wrote. “One local, a
man named Amjad Sahim, who managed to escape the US-controlled
territory to neighboring Damascus Governate, told us that he and
his brothers witnessed clashes between the NSA forces moving
toward the border and former Daesh fighters attempting to leave
the area into Jordanian territory. As a result of the
clashes, the small group of Daesh terrorists was completely
wiped out.”

Robert Postings@SciOfDiscontent

A new base has been set up by #US forces and rebels 70km east of At Tanf in southern #Syria

3:00 PM – Jun 4, 2017

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Furthermore,
the journalists’ Syrian Army source said that other members of the
US-led coalition were also deployed in the area, with about
400 mercenaries, intelligence operatives and members of the
special forces of the UK, France, Jordan, and possibly other
countries, operating in the region. These forces’ arsenal
includes HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, as well
as anti-aircraft artillery, tasked with defending the US
base.

‘Passive
Reserve’ of 5,000 More Jihadists

Local
freelance journalists told Patrashevich and Martynovich that
in addition to the so-called ‘active reserve’ of militants,
the US and its allies also has a passive one.

“While
the main jihadists are based at the US Armed Forces base and
receive a monthly allowance, another 5,000 Islamists reside at the
Rukban refugee camp, some still armed and in contact with their
field commanders. Last November, militants began voicing their
dissatisfaction with the noticeable decline in US funding.
As a result, the al-Tanf base’s command, fearing military
insurrection, decided to pay out a severance payment
of several thousand dollars to each fighter, and gave them
the right to remain inside the enclave in the tent
camp zone.”

As
for the New Syrian Army, their job, according to a Syrian
Army serviceman stationed near the front line, includes guard
duty at checkpoints along the makeshift border, and defense
of the perimeter of the al-Tanf base and the Rukban camp.
Talla’s troops maintain discipline over the other units
via payments the performance of various duties.

Life
in Region a Living Hell for Civilians

Speaking
to locals, Patrashevich and Martynovich were told that the
jihadists’ presence in the region has had a severe impact
on civilian life. In the town of Al-Qaryatayn, the
correspondents met with Farah Alhamsih, a young woman who had
lived outside al-Tanf before managing to escape the
area once it fell under US and jihadist control. 

According
to Alhamsih, while some militants engaged in “building
homes or carried out shooting practice, most of them, left
almost without a livelihood, robbed local houses, or trucks
passing along the Damascus-Baghdad highway.” According
to the eyewitness, while US forces first tried to exert
pressure on the radicals or even evict them from the Rukban
camp, they eventually gave up, closing their eyes to their
criminal activities.

Last
fall, a group of some 300 Daesh militants carried
out an offensive toward Al-Qaryatayn,
successfully avoiding the Syrian Army’s hidden outposts using
coordinates Moscow and Damascus later alleged were obtained
through aerial reconnaissance provided by the US. Although
the offensive was stopped, the Syrian military has concerns that new
attacks may be in the offing. Furthermore, US and jihadi
occupation of the area put important roads, including the
Homs-Deir ez-Zor and Damascus-Palmyra highways, as well
as strategically important oil and gas fields, under threat.

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At Tanf is a strategic point on the Baghdad-Damascus highway. The US wants to block this vital artery between Iraq and Syria:

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Russian
officials have also voiced concerns about the state of the
Rukban refugee camp, the Russian Center for Reconciliation
describing the situation there as being close to ‘catastrophic,’
and the US military closing access to the camp to the UN
and other humanitarian organizations. Thus far, Patrashevich and
Martynovich recalled, “any attempts by Syrian government
convoys or pro-Russian forces to come close to the enclave
have been met with airstrikes by the US coalition.”
This includes incidents in May
and June 2017.

Sahim,
the local man now living in Damascus Governate, confirmed to the
journalists that the humanitarian situation in the US-occupied
territory is approaching desperate, with basic foodstuffs and
other necessities unavailable, while militants have seized local
wells, selling water to locals at marked up prices.

“When
I was very thirsty, I had to spend a fortune. A bottle of water
which could earlier be bought for 50 lira is sold by the
terrorists for 500. And people buy it. What else could they do?
Many parents tried to save their children. I know several local
families who gave away their girls for marriage just to get
them out of the area,” Sahim recalled.

The
eyewitness added that when locals tried to organize to get
the attention of US military command about arranging the
supply of necessities, their requests fell on deaf ears.
This, combined with the lack of any effort to rein
in the militants, has given rise to anti-American
sentiments, as well as hopes for cooperation with the
Syrian government or even representatives of the Russian
military.

The
Russian Center for Reconciliation has offered to assist
refugees from the Rukban camp. Despite the absence of any
security guarantees from the US side, and the presence
of roaming jihadist militants in the region, last month,
Center representatives assisted in the evacuation of a
small group of refugees from the camp. The reporters
captured the evacuation on video.

For
now, Patrashevich and Martynovich noted, the fate of the
occupied Syrian enclave is in American hands. So long as the
illegal US occupation of the border area continues, Damascus
will not be able to rest easy with regard to the
security of its southern territories.

This
article was originally published by Sputnik –

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U.S.-led
coalition helps to build new illegal force in Syria, angering
Turkey: Syria’s
government decried the “blatant attack” on its sovereignty,
and Russia warned it could lead to partition.

Erdogan
claims that he could attack Washington’s allied militias at any time

US
military admits training Syrian militants, says they do not care if
fight with terrorist organizations

Russia
Knows Perpetrators of Attack on its Syrian Bases, It’s Not Turkey –
Putin

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‘VS steunt terreurgroepen als ISIS in Syrië………..‘

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‘Syrië: verslaggever Bartlett prikt leugens reguliere media door‘

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‘Syrië: nieuwe gifgasaanval als ‘false flag’ operatie tegen Syrisch bewind in voorbereiding……..‘

‘Assad heeft geen gifgas gebruikt tegen de Syrische bevolking!‘

‘VS geeft toe dat er geen bewijs is voor het gebruik van gifgas ‘door Assad’, ofwel: alweer ‘fake news’ van de massamedia doorgeprikt!‘

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‘Israël bewapent minstens 7 terreurgroepen in Syrië…….‘

‘VS trainingsnetwerk voor terroristen in Syrië…….‘

‘Obama wist van bewapenen en ondersteunen terroristen in Syrië…….‘

PS: kan niet terugvinden of met al-Tanf en At Tanf dezelfde plaats wordt bedoeld; lijkt me wel, maar ik kan me vergissen. Weet je hoe het zit, meld dit dan ajb.