http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Kurdish Tue, 21 May 2013 19:34:16 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Kurdish Tue, 21 May 2013 04:24:34 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aa9_1369123928 BrooklynJAH 1) There's little support for it in Turkey The Syrian civil war has spilled over into Turkey on a number of occasions - in addition to the recent bombings in Reyhanli, there was a car bomb at a Turkish border crossing in February that killed 14; and last June Syria shot down a Turkish reconnaissance jet off the Syrian coast. However, despite these seeming acts of aggression, there has been little appetite among average Turks for an incursion into Syria, says Amir Hassanpour, a retired professor of Mideast affairs at the University of Toronto. The main reason for this, he says, is that Turks are tired of bloodshed. Not only has Turkey recently come through a three-decade civil war of its own with Kurdish rebels, which claimed 40,000 lives, it has also witnessed at close hand the bloody, chaotic outcomes of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. "Public opinion doesn't really like Turkish involvement in wars in the region," 2) The Turkish leadership has domestic demands The other factor here is that Prime Minister Erdogan is preoccupied with two equally pressing domestic issues -- forging a peace agreement with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and reaching consensus on a new constitution -- observes Reva Bhalla, vice-president of global analysis for the Texas-based consultancy Stratfor. Turkey's 30-year battle with Kurdish rebels, which are located largely in the southeastern party of the country bordering Iraq, came to an end in March when jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan announced a truce. Since then, the Turkish government has been working to solidify the peace, and part of that is enshrining rights for Kurds in a new constitution. "This is a very sensitive political time for the ruling party, as Erdogan is trying to cobble together a whole series of constitutional revisions and at the same time negotiate a comprehensive peace deal with the PKK - and those two issues are intertwined," 3) Military intervention could threaten a PKK peace deal The PKK has links to Kurdish populations not only in Turkey, but in northern Iraq and northern Syria, areas where Turkish forces and Kurdish rebels have clashed repeatedly in the last three decades. While Turkey still classifies the PKK as a terrorist organization, the government is allowing PKK members, under the current peace negotiations, to withdraw from Turkey to return to northern Iraq. Bhalla says that if Turkey were to jump into the fray in Syria, it would likely galvanize Kurdish fighters living in northern Syria, and could unravel the delicate peace that the two sides have managed to achieve in recent months. Something the Turks do not want to see. 4) Confrontation with Iran "When you talk about Syria, you are also talking automatically about Iran," says Raboudi. Iran and Syria have enjoyed a long-standing friendship, not least because they both aim to counteract the influence of the U.S. and Israel in the region. Throughout the current crisis, the Iranian leadership has supported Syria's embattled Assad politically as well as militarily (often transporting arms through Iraqi airspace). The Sunni-led government of Turkey has had reasonably good relations with the Shia theocracy of Iran. But if Turkey were to intervene in Syria, Raboudi says it's possible that it could spur Iran, one of the region's biggest powers, to become more actively involved - and turn an already messy sectarian battle into an even bloodier conflagration. 5) The Americans are reluctant to fight While Turkey has an estimable army, Bhalla says the country would only act militarily if the U.S. took the lead and provided the majority of weaponry and tactical support. "Turkey is not going to intervene militarily in Syria on a meaningful scale without the United States playing that primary role," says Bhalla. Despite strong criticism of the Assad regime, the Obama administration has been reluctant to commit to any kind of military force in Syria. One reason is that U.S. intervention could ignite a war with Iran, says Hassanpour. Plus, there's the unhappy legacy of recent U.S. wars in the region, which weighs heavily on the American public. "The United States cannot engage in another war - it has already lost the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq," says Hassanpour. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aa9_1369123928 BrooklynJAH 5 reasons Turkey will not go to war with Syria Syria, Turkey, Israel, Bashar Assad, Syrian, Arab, Army, SAA, Freedom, FSA, Terrorist Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:29 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0dc_1368719886 omniradar More of the Things You Aren't Supposed To Know By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor It is time we differentiated hard intelligence and rational analysis from conspiracy theory addiction. Remember, it was Fox News and the Limbaugh crowd that created the addiction for wild conspiracies and fabrication. They, of course, did so out of knowing treason, as time has proven out rather conclusively. Let's look at what we know, what we can prove and, especially, what can never be published. A reader coined our media here in the west, the "LSN" (Lame Stream News). That one may stick. The shame is even Colbert, Maher and Stewart are shamefully dim witted and gutless. They make me sick. BUGGING THE PRESS, OR AT LEAST THE "ASSOCIATED PRESS" The AP or "Associated Press" is hardly real press. Why shouldn't the government bug the press? We pay the government to protect us from dangerous criminals. In recent years, those who aren't wearing uniforms or badges, carry press passes often as not. First of all, at VT, we have certainly been bugged all along by a dozen governments. We get followed and a few claim that helicopters are over their homes continually. I am not so sure about that but we have endless evidence of continual infiltration attempts by paid informants and petty "terrorist groupies," all pretending to be activists of members of the "alternative press." We have had several of our editors and correspondents imprisoned, including a UN Ambassador and member of congress and one who served as White House intelligence chief. Their crimes? One tried to tell Bush his Iraqi WMDs didn't exist. The other refused to assign a huge amount of money belonging to the people of the United States to the Bush family. That got him a 22 year sentence. These moves "on the press" were done by two "Bush league" presidents. Another VT correspondent in Britain is under indictment for, and you will love this, reporting a terrorist threat to an intelligence agency that may well have been fully complicit in planning what was to be an act of false flag terrorism. "Let no good deed go unpunished." The lesson, if you are going to report terrorists, please ask them if they are working for the Mossad, CIA or MI-6 beforehand. If they say no, they are with the Department of Homeland Security, America's answer to Al Qaeda. Bush and Cheney ordered the assassination of another of our editors, Gwyneth Todd, a member of the National Security Council. "Gw" escaped to Turkey and then to Australia. The attempt on her life was featured in a five page Washington Post article and is mentioned, with some regularity, on television in Australia. Todd, while at the White House, was privy to some of America's darkest secrets, not just the illegal invasions but broad spying by AIPAC and even planning of the 9/11 attack as well. Three VT contributors have been killed while reporting in zones of conflict. One was kidnapped and tortured by Israelis, an issue now before the International Criminal Court at The Hague. Another, an Israeli citizen of Jewish ethnicity, is under "sentence of death for honesty in journalism," a common form of recognition in Israel. As for the AP and "others," we are fully behind government efforts to investigate them. We have found the "Lame Stream News" isn't quite so innocent. Minimally, anyone who hasn't been living under a rock knows the news delivered to the undiscerning American, Brit, German, Canadian or what have you is pure propaganda. What few realize is that the acts of domestic terrorism know openly accepted as "false flag attacks," certainly Sandy Hook and Boston, and 9/11 most of all, would be impossible without full complicity by the press. If the government wants to stop domestic terrorism, they are going to have to wiretap the LSN, catching the text messages, emails and phone calls from the spy organizations and terrorist groups that we believe are regularly in contact with the press. Key press assets are notified in advance of attacks so that stories can quickly be "spun" to blame the "favor of the month" patsy and to cover up blunders. On 9/11, when Building 7 collapsed though undamaged, the BBC had predicted that collapse 20 minutes in advance by mistakenly getting the timing of the demolition schedule wrong. They had been notified in advance. To any idiot, this has to be obvious: The BBC was working directly with the terrorists. No other explanation is possible. If you can think of one, let me know. It is impossible to defend the United States from terrorism and espionage without running surveillance on terrorist groups and foreign spies. America's press qualifies on both counts. There is more than conclusive evidence that the press takes direction from AIPAC/ADL, long under investigation/indictment for espionage. Eighty five percent of America's press is controlled by corporations involved in war profiteering. 95% of the individuals who manage our news are either Israeli citizens or qualify for Israeli citizenship. This is not to say that all are controlled but as the truth never gets out and wrongdoers are openly assisted and covered for by the press, perhaps its time we took a look at them. TEA PARTY IRS TROUBLES Let's face it, the Tea Party is funded by money laundered into the country through "Citizens united." The funding that put Tea Party candidates in office was money from international criminal cartels, drugs, prostitution, human trafficking, human organ theft and their cut of the massive financial crimes that their policies defend while they sit on their fat behinds in congress. As for domestic contributions, most come from Sheldon Adelson, the gambling boss, likeable old character though he is, and the ultra-evil Koch brothers, some of the biggest market scamsters in the world. It doesn't take a genius to note that the Tea Party serves and agenda that demonstrates ties to organized crime, terrorist organizations and that it is broadly aligned with financial wrongdoing. This is exactly the kind of group I want the IRS investigating. They are only being rational: "Where there's smoke, there's fire." NUTTY CONSPIRACY FREAKS Let's face it, the LSM or LSP, (Lame Stream Media or Lame Stream Press, pick one), is not worth defending. They are enemies of the United States, work directly with the groups that have destroyed much of the world and, were I to have my way, I would put many in prison or worse. There is no major news agency that isn't openly complicit in acts of treason. As for the Tea Party, the Wall Street dominated attempt to derail any legitimate attempt to restore democracy in America, who cares if the IRS goes after them. They are drowning in dirty money and should well be paying taxes or doing jail time for tax evasion. What I would like to know is this, why does anyone care when our government finally starts going after the people all of us really hate? It makes me happy. You say going after them is "fascism?" Where did you read this, the Lame Stream Press? Anyone wonder why my next words are "Too Stupid to Live." SYRIAN NUKE On or about May 4, 2013, we have conclusive evidence that a nuclear weapon was used against Syria. Sources tell us that it was one of two nuclear "bunker buster" weapons illegally transferred to Israel, stolen by agents of the Department of Homeland Security. (If only I were kidding...) The last statement, however, is NOT confirmed, not the use of the these particular weapons nor that Israel was responsible for the attack. However, the nuclear attack was concurrent with an Israeli artillery barrage against Syrian forces. The confirmed nuclear attack, a weapon that could have been easily delivered by a number of platforms, was against an underground facility. Syria has gone to considerable lengths to deny an attack that was filmed and that there is medical confirmation of as well. We then ask, what was the facility and why the silence? STRANGE BRITAIN On January 18, 2013, a double-lorry stopped outside a pub in Somerset. The name on the side said Insight Trans Logistics. The pub is a known "watering hole" for a major arms trafficker known to trade in nuclear technology and worse. The cargo was identified as containers for two nuclear weapons. The cargo was to be loaded for shipment to Gibraltar. When this incident was reported to the security services, the individual reporting, someone with decades of experience handling nuclear weapons, was told to remain silent. I leave the "dots" unconnected. SYRIAN VOTE IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY However the conflict in Syria began, the situation there has deteriorated into something "unholy." I have deep respect for legitimate opposition forces that wish for a change in the Syrian government. Toward that end, I have worked with others to organize a strong delegation to Damascus to begin a peaceful reconciliation, one that is "reality based" and is respectful of the survival of all the Syrian people. Others want Syria to go the way of Iraq or worse. Syria is to be a platform for isolating and crushing Lebanon, for destabilizing Iraq under the guise of Kurdish nationalism (a people I care deeply for) and imposing a region-wide tyranny, financed by reactionary Arab royalty and managed by Zionist fanatics. World war will be the result. The vote in the UN General Assembly, pushed by Qatar and the Saudi's, a vote even Israel refused to take part in, was a shameful attempt to push forward a sick agenda by the same nations that sent tanks into Bahrain to suppress freedom loving people fighting against a vicious and tyrannical state. No rational person could look on the goals of an Israeli-Saudi coalition and not be more than a bit dismayed to find two supposed enemies have been working together for decades. Imagine the mischief the LSM has had to cover up for this "axis of evil." Anyone that thinks Russia and China will watch Syria be taken down, them and then Iran, must know something the rest of us don't. NIGERIA In 2011 I was in Nigeria for the inauguration of Goodluck Jonathan. While there, Harry Erivona and I and our associates met with the president and the Chief of Security, top police and counter-terrorism officials and leaders in banking and the national oil companies. We had been invited to lay out plans for modernizing Nigeria, uniting the country and preventing the civil war now ravaging the nation. Our concerns weren't just for Nigeria or making money, the real reason Nigeria has been targeted. Oh, you might ask who has targeted Nigeria? Civil war in Nigeria is big business, a civil war planned and executed with full complicity by many of those now in Abuja working to supposedly help protect Nigeria from, well, from those Nigeria is paying endless millions to for "counter-terrorism" assistance. Key officials in Nigeria were informed, very specifically, of the timeline for terrorist bombings, training and supplying Boko Harum and flooding the region with jihadists. We had been in Nigeria before, same message, 2008. Nigeria is a great country, the real key to African security and, with that, very much the real security of the United States. We watched intelligence agencies from Europe and "elsewhere" flood into Niger under the guise of dealing with the conflict in Mali. While there, they were pouring weapons into Nigeria and supporting terror cells throughout the country. Then, of course, the same groups were also sitting in hotels in Abuja, with suitcases of cash to bribe officials, ready to take fat contracts to fight the terrorists they had sent. I do so love it when a plan comes together. Southern Sudan, Uganda and Kenya are next on the list. The hotels are filling up with "doctors" who bring the disease with them. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0dc_1368719886 omniradar More of the Things You Aren't Supposed To Know!!!! By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:23:31 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1bd_1366751013 burn_khameneis_beard About KLF The Kurdistan Liberation Front focuses on creating more awareness for the Kurdish cause. We cover everything that is related to the Kurdish culture, history, politics and struggle for independence. Follow us on Facebook and LiveLeak for the latest updates! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KurdistanLib... LiveLeak: http://www.liveleak.com/c/KLF About this Video The Kurdish Peshmerga army prepares for a new war as the Iraqi Arab central government provokes the Kurdistan Regional Government. They do not want to implement Article 140 of the constitution which decides about the fate of the disputed territories, which are oil rich. The majority of the population in these areas is Kurdish and the Arabs are afraid to lose these oil rich cities. The KRG has given the Arabs an ultimatum and has send tens of thousands of Peshmerga forces to these areas to confront the Arab army if needed. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1bd_1366751013 burn_khameneis_beard <span class="highlight">Kurdish</span> Army prepares for a new WAR ! kurdish, army, prepares, for, a, new, war, kurdistan liberation front, klf, peshmerga, iraq, iran, turkey, syria, arab Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:59:45 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a3c_1366656218 burn_khameneis_beard About KLF The Kurdistan Liberation Front focuses on creating more awareness for the Kurdish cause. We cover everything that is related to Kurdish culture, history, politics and struggle for independence. Follow us on Facebook, YouTube and LiveLeak for the latest updates! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/KurdistanLiberationFront YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/KurdistanLF About this video Shot in early 2003 - in the Kurdistan Regional Government (South-Kurdistan, Northern Iraq) Event: Kurdish Peshmerga forces during a military operation against the Ansar Al-Islam (Jund Al-Islam) terrorist units. The Ansar Al-Islam was the branch of Al-Qaeda which tried to infiltrate the Kurdistan Region. This organization was wiped out in early 2003. The Kurdish Peshmerga and the United States special forces worked together in order to defeat the Ansar Al-Islam. Most of the Ansar-Al Islam members were killed, some of them managed to escape to Iran. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a3c_1366656218 burn_khameneis_beard KLF - <span class="highlight">Kurdish</span> Forces eliminate Al-Qaeda Units kurd, kurdish, kurdistan, kurdistan liberation front, klf, iraq, iran, syria, turkey, united states, special forces, peshmerga, army, ansar al islam, jund al islam, al-qaeda, islam, terrorist, kurdistan regional government, krg, middle east, war, assad, f Fri, 10 May 2013 20:14:24 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=147_1368231097 trustedsource11 location Syria-Aleppo... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=147_1368231097 trustedsource11 18+------FSA <span class="highlight">kurdish</span> militant killed by the SAA...Before and after.... syria fsa saa kurdish Tue, 07 May 2013 06:50:56 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b7b_1367923767 Bideux Not bad http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b7b_1367923767 Bideux The Precision of the <span class="highlight">Kurdish</span> Fighters The Precision of the Kurdish Fighters Fri, 10 May 2013 09:50:16 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b73_1368193769 GLEISE581 PKK Kurdish deal with Turkey may worry Iran and SyriaBy Guney YildizBBC Turkish This image shows a PKK fighter in the Turkish mountains Continue reading the main storyRelated StoriesFighters face life after withdrawal Turkish media on historic move Profile: The PKK Rebels of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have begun leaving south-eastern Turkey for their main bases in northern Iraq, but there is no talk of disarmament yet. Instead, several top commanders of the PKK have said they will keep and even consolidate their forces. So what will the thousands of well-trained militants in Qandil, Zap and other PKK-controlled areas of northern Iraq do, as the truce with Turkey holds? This is probably the question the Iranian and Syrian governments have been asking since the imprisoned leader of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, who is negotiating a peace deal with Turkey, urged militants to withdraw from inside Turkey. The group has two sister parties in Iran and Syria with their own armed wings: the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), which is fighting against Iran, and the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which holds the reins of power in Kurdish areas of Syria. Both have many fighters from Turkey's Kurdish areas. "Iran's main concern is whether the PKK fighters will be joining forces with PJAK or not," says Mehdi Talati, a Swiss-based Iranian security analyst. "PJAK, with its current strength, does not represent a strong challenge to the Iranian army, but it could pose a significant threat with reinforcements from the PKK." SurpriseOnly two years ago, Iran and Turkey were conducting joint military operations against the PKK's main bases in the Qandil Mountains. The PKK's Murat Karayilan says he would like to see the truce between PJAK and Iran continueProf Nader Entessar of the University of South Alabama in the US argues Iran was taken by surprise by the peace process in Turkey: "The Iranian government doesn't appear to have foreseen this and developed a plan B for this situation yet; we may say that they were caught off-guard." A ceasefire has been in place between the PKK's Iranian offshoot and Tehran since the autumn of 2011. Although the PKK has shown its resilience in the face of joint military operations from Turkey and Iran, the group has sought to avoid fighting on two fronts whenever it can. PKK executive leader Murat Karayilan has tried hard to establish a ceasefire between PJAK and Iran in order to focus on the fight against Turkey. He recently reiterated that he would like to see the truce between PJAK and Iran continue. However, Abdullah Ocalan has talked about the possibility of PKK militants joining forces with the PYD and PJAK. "I don't believe that our guerrilla force will when we withdraw - there are Syria and Iran," he was quoted as saying in leaked meeting notes with three MPs of the pro-Kurdish BDP, who went to meet him at Imrali Prison where he is being held. BackfiringAnother potential loser in a peace deal between the PKK and Turkey could be Syria. Continue reading the main storyThe PKKThe PKK took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984, demanding greater autonomy for Turkey's Kurds, who are thought to comprise up to 20% of the population Since then, some 40,000 people have died in the conflict It is regarded by Turkey, the US and European Union as a terrorist organisation because of its attacks on Turkish security forces and civilians Syria's policy towards the PKK has fluctuated over the last decades. Seeing the PKK as a counterbalance against Turkey, the late President Hafez al-Assad harboured the group up until 1998, when his government forced the PKK leader out of the country under pressure from Turkey and the US. Relations between Turkey and Syria became friendlier in the following years, and Assad's son and incumbent president, Bashar, reiterated Syria's full support for Turkey's war with the PKK. In a bid to retaliate against the shifting position of the Syrian government, Abdullah Ocalan decided, in the last few days of his stay in Syria, to establish a separate Kurdish group to fight against the Syrian government. This move now gives Mr Ocalan one of his strongest cards in Imrali prison as he negotiates a peace deal with Turkey. The PYD, re-established in 2003 after the failure of the first attempt, now holds the reins of power in most of the Kurdish areas of Syria. Turkey is keen to see the PYD step up the fight against Syria, and some think they can count on Mr Ocalan to influence the Syrian Kurd position towards Turkey and the Syrian government. The co-chair of the PYD, Saleh Muslim Muhammed, told BBC Turkish in London: "Ocalan is not only the leader of the PKK. He is a leader of the Kurdish people as well. We cannot overlook his opinions." Continue reading the main story"Start QuoteIran may be the only country left with a Kurdish problem" Mehdi TalatiIranian security analystThe Syrian government's hitherto friendly relations with Turkey came to an end in 2011, when the Turkish government declared its open support for the Syrian rebels. In the face of the rebel uprising, Syrian government forces pulled out of Kurdish areas in the north to concentrate on the fighting elsewhere. This move was based on the premise that de facto Kurdish autonomy on the Turkish border would pose a challenge to the Turkish government. But that premise could turn out to be false if a Turkish peace deal with the PKK holds. Boost for TurkeySaleh Muslim Muhammed confirms that the Kurds in Syria have been watching the peace negotiations between the PKK and Turkey with high hopes. "We are ready to talk to Turkey without any conditions and we begin to see indications of a change in the Turkish policy towards us," he said. The conflict with the PKK has effectively challenged Turkey's regional ambitions, especially last year when the militants held ground in Turkey's south-eastern corner for a couple of weeks. Now a halt in the conflict could mean Turkey would be able to free up its military and economic resources and this would result in an increase in Turkey's regional profile, says Mr Talati. On the economic front, the conflict has cost Turkey more than $300bn (lb194bn), according to official figures. Mr Talati adds: "It is too early to decide whether the Turkish government is honest about a political solution to the Kurdish question. But if it reaches its intended conclusion, then Iran may be the only country left with a Kurdish problem." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b73_1368193769 GLEISE581 PKK <span class="highlight">Kurdish</span> deal with Turkey may worry Iran and Syria syria iran turkey Tue, 07 May 2013 01:55:17 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=36f_1367905785 belisarius . . . . . Source : http://syriareport.net/clashes-between-kurdish-and-jihadist-militants/#more-569 Title and full text are as original. Kurdish language news sites are confirming that the Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG) have killed at least eleven insurgents and captured others in fighting close to the cities of Hasaka and Ras al-Ain. Clashes between the YPG and some of Syria's myriad of militant groups are becoming more common. The Democratic Union Party's (PYD) Facebook page recently posted a statement saying: "Since YPGs intervention the FSA has reportedly armed and trained Arab clans in the surrounding areas of Til Temir. Using the pretext that Kurds are seeking to take control of the area and divide Syria these clans have established barriers on roads leading in to Til Temir, effectively cutting off supplies and crucial aid to its inhabitants." Til Temir is a small town of Kurds, Arabs and Assyrians, situated on the road between Ser^e Kaniy^e and Al-Hasakeh. Seemingly, hit and run attacks have resulted in the deaths of YPG members as well as civilians living in the mixed Til Temir, with a population of approximately 7000. Previous battles between the YPG and Jabhat al-Nusra resulted in victory for the Kurdish group. . . . . . http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=36f_1367905785 belisarius Clashes Between <span class="highlight">Kurdish</span> and Jihadist Militants Kurds,FSA,Tal Tamir,Hasaka Sat, 04 May 2013 10:29:28 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6fc_1367676184 MortenHj 1.5.2013 Aleppo governate, Syria Video shows fsa or &quot;mujaheddin&quot; as camera-man calls them, on the road with armors and many people to attack the Kurdish city of Afrin in Syria. In the summer of 2012 Syrian Arab Army withdrew from this village as 1 of the many reforms introduced. YPG quickly took control of the city after the Syrian army had withdrawn. Now the terrorists wants to take it over and they know YPG is a much easier enemy and lightly armed compared to the Syrian Army. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6fc_1367676184 MortenHj Fsa terrorists enroute to attack Afrin and liberate it from its <span class="highlight">Kurdish</span> inhabitants Kurds, Syria, Turkey, fsa, terrorists, aggression, filth, Nato puppets, usa best friends Mon, 13 May 2013 15:01:35 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d27_1368471539 Mustafa JonTurk K Arikan Top government authorities on Monday reiterated accusations that the Syrian regime was responsible for twin car bombs that killed 49 people and wounded many more in Reyhanli, a district of the southern province of Hatay, and denied claims that Syrian opposition forces or refugees had a hand in the blasts. "The incident is certainly linked to the Syrian regime. It has nothing to do with the opposition," stated Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan when speaking to reporters. He also vowed "action" against Syria, but did not elaborate. "The Syrian regime and its extensions in Turkey have a hand in the bombings. We need to be careful ," the prime minister went on. On Saturday, one of the car bombs exploded outside the city hall while the other went off outside the post office in the town of Reyhanli, a main hub for Syrian refugees and opposition activity in Turkey's Hatay province. Forty-nine people were killed and as many as 100 injured in the bombings. The dead bodies of the 46 dead were retrieved from the sites of the bombings on Saturday while the bodies of three other victims were discovered on Monday. Nine people were immediately taken into custody for suspected links to the terrorist attack. All suspects are Turkish citizens. Five of the captured suspects are members of the terrorist Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C) while the remaining four are members of the Acilciler, a splinter faction of the Turkish Peoples Liberation Party/Front (THKP/C) operating in the border provinces of Turkey. The prime minister also said he will travel to Hatay after he returns to Turkey from his US visit. Erdogan is due to meet US President Barack Obama in Washington on May 16. He said last week Turkey would support a US-enforced no-fly zone in Syria and warned that Damascus had crossed Obama's "red line" on chemical weapons use a long ago. A no-fly zone to prohibit Syrian military aircraft from hitting rebel targets has been mentioned by American lawmakers as one option the United States could use to pressure Assad. Many Turkish government officials blamed the attack on a group linked to Syria. Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Deputy Chairman H"useyin Celik categorically denied claims circulating in the Turkish media that some Syrian refugees being hosted in Turkey were involved in the deadly bombings. "Neither the Free Syrian Army (FSA) nor Syrian refugees are responsible for the attack," he stated. The deputy chairman also warned the Turkish public against further acts of provocation aimed to disturb the peaceful atmosphere in the country. "Turkey has entered a process of settlement . There is an atmosphere of peace, but this has disturbed some people. We need to be on alert. They want to disturb this peaceful atmosphere," he told a group of reporters on Monday. In initial comments after the attack on Saturday, Interior Minister Muammer G"uler called the neighboring country's intelligence service and military the "usual suspects." "This incident was carried out by an organization that is in close contact with pro-regime groups in Syria and I say this very clearly -- with the Syrian Mukhabarat ," he said. Similarly, Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said initial findings suggest the attackers came from inside Turkey, but had links to Syria's intelligence service. "We have to a great extent completed our work toward identifying the assailants," he told reporters. "We have established that the assailants have links to the pro-regime al-Mukhabarat organization." Syria, however, denied that it had a hand in the bombings. Attackers planned to hit Ankara firstFootage retrieved from Mobile Electronic Systems Integration (MOBESE) cameras in Ankara suggest that the two bomb-laden vehicles that hit Reyhanli initially planned to strike the Turkish capital, with a much-frequented mosque being the planned target. Footage shows the vehicles patrolling areas close to the Kocatepe Mosque as well as a popular shopping center in Ankara. The nine suspects, who were captured soon after the deadly attack, reportedly confessed to having organized and carried out the attack for money. They told the police that they were ordered to explode the bombs in the vehicles near the mosque and the shopping center in Ankara, but they failed to do so due to the strict security measures in the surrounding areas. The suspects were later told to travel to Hatay, just across the border with Syria, and carry out the attack at the crowded city hall. Some Turkish newspapers reported, citing police sources, that the order for the deadly bombings in Reyhanli came from Mihrac Ural, who is from Turkey, but is living under asylum in Syria. Ural is a long-time fugitive wanted by Turkish law enforcement. He commanded a large-scale massacre committed by Syrian regime forces in Baniyas, a predominantly Sunni city on the Mediterranean coast of Syria. Being a leader of the THKP/C and its deadly splinter faction, Acilciler, which was established in the 1970s, Ural is also remembered as a figure who initiated anti-Turkey meetings in the southern province of Hatay last year. He is also reported to have led an armed group called "Resistance" inside Syria. He left Turkey for Syria after the 1980 coup d''etat and is reported to have close ties with the Syrian intelligence agency, Mukhabarat, which helped him obtain Syrian citizenship. In addition to his contribution to acts of violence in Syria, Ural spent 19 years having a close association with terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Abdullah "Ocalan in Syria. "Ocalan was captured and brought to Turkey in 1999. He is currently serving a life sentence. News sources claimed on Saturday that around 100 kilograms of TNT explosives were used in the attack. However, police sources said as many as one ton of explosives were used. Ankara police were alerted on May 10 to the possibility of a terror attack in the city. The Ankara Police Department sent urgent notices to all police departments across the province, asking authorities to step up security measures. The warning stated that the THKP/C and Acilciler were planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Ankara with two vehicles loaded with bombs. According to the notice, the explosives were smuggled into Turkey from Syria and they were planted in hidden sections of the vehicles. MOBESA cameras spotted the locations of the two vehicles, but the police were unable to capture them. Camera footage showed that the vehicles drove around the AK Party's headquarters in Ankara's S"og"ut"oz"u neighborhood several times. An investigation is ongoing to find out why the police failed to foil the attacks and capture the assailants before they carried out their plan, said Interior Minister G"uler. According to the minister, the attack and attackers have no links to Syrian refugees being accommodated in Turkey. Violence has spilled over the Turkish-Syrian border before. In February, a minibus blew up at a border crossing near Reyhanli, killing 14 people and wounding dozens more. In October, five Turkish civilians were killed in Akcakale when a mortar bomb fired from Syria landed on their house, prompting Turkey to fire back across the frontier. Opposition delegations inspect sites of explosionSeparate delegations from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) arrived in Reyhanli Monday afternoon to inspect the sites of the bomb blasts. The CHP delegation was headed by the party's Chairman Kemal Kilicdaroglu. Kilicdaroglu was accompanied by deputy chairpersons Nihat Matkap, Faruk Logoglu and Umut Oran and parliamentary group deputy chairwoman Emine "Ulker Tarhan. The delegation first inspected city hall, which was hit by the first explosion and later moved on to the post office, the target of the second explosion. Locals rushed to the area after hearing about the CHP delegation's arrival and met with the various party officials. Deputy Ertugrul K"urkc"u from the BDP delegation spoke to reporters about the bombings and said claims that the Acilciler groups carried out the attack are a mere "fantasy." "There is no concrete evidence to suggest which group is behind the attack," he added. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d27_1368471539 Mustafa JonTurk K Arikan Gov't says Syrian regime to blame for attack, denies opposition hand syria,bombing,turkish,village Sun, 12 May 2013 07:36:54 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=18a_1368358435 belisarius / / / / / Image Source : http://img.ly/uIgZ (LEGEND) Red : SAA Green : Rebels Yellow : Kurdish Forces Blue : Contested Area Karybdamoid is a Canadian Twitterian. He has updated maps related to Syrian civil war since December 2012. This map is more favorable(biased) to rebels than ones by Cedric Labrousse(Refer to my former post). Allow for some distortions. For example, Kesab border post in Latakia Governorate is obviously under SAA control.(Journalist Robert Fisk also visited there recently.) But observers(especially foreign) can roughly catch up the overall situation in Syria at a glance with this map, which offers easier and more detailed geographic identification than Wikipedia. Wiki map(for comparison) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_and_towns_during_the_Syrian_civil_war / / / http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=18a_1368358435 belisarius Military Situation Map of Whole Syria(by Karybdamoid) 11-May-2013 Syrian civil war,map,Karybdamoid Sat, 11 May 2013 06:03:03 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c61_1368265226 belisarius / / Image Source : http://yallasouriya.wordpress.com/tag/aleppo/ (LEGEND) Red : SAA White : YPG(Kurdish Militia) Green : Rebels Orange : Contested Area Note : As yallasouriya is a pro-rebel site, rebel posession in above map might be exaggerated to some degree. Please refer to following Wikipedia map too. / / / http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c61_1368265226 belisarius Military Situation Map of Aleppo 10-May-2013 Syria,Aleppo,map