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After Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced new rules of engagement, Turkey deployed missile batteries, rocket launchers, and anti-aircraft weapons close to Syria's border.
About 30 military trucks arrived in Iskenderun. From there, they moved toward Syria's border 30 miles away.
Armored military vehicles also headed for Sanliurfa and Reyhanli in Southern Turkey's Hatay Province.
On June 29, Reuters headlined "Syrian tanks amass near Turkish border, FSA (Free Syrian Army) general says."
According to General Mustafa al-Sheikh, Syria deployed around 170 tanks north of Aleppo within 19 miles of Turkey's border. No independent confirmation was provided.
Speaking to Reuters by phone, al-Sheikh said:
Tanks from the 17th Mechanized Division "are now at the Infantry School. They're either preparing to move to the border to counter the Turkish deployment or attack the rebellious (Syrian) towns and villages in and around the border zone north of Aleppo."
On Thursday, Turkey belligerently sent troops and weapons close to Syria's border. Damascus perhaps reacted defensively.
Expect no imminent attack by either side. Ankara won't act without orders from Washington. It hasn't come, but could given escalating violence and rhetoric.
Saber rattling suggests public opinion is being conditioned for war. On June 28, Ankara's National Security Council (MSK) said:
Turkey will act with determination and make use of all its rights within international law against this hostile act.It referred to Syria downing its aircraft. It provocatively entered its territory low and fast. Damascus was blamed for Ankara's belligerence. Expect more provocations to follow.
Meanwhile, Mossad-connected DEBKAfile (DF) headlined "Saudi forces mass on Jordanian, Iraqi borders. Turkey, Syria reinforce strength," saying:
(H)eavy Saudi troop movements (headed) toward the Jordanian and Iraqi borders (with Syria) overnight and up until Friday morning....after King Abdulah put the Saudi military on high alert for joining an anti-Assad offensive....Units include tanks, missiles, special forces and anti-air batteries. Two units were deployed. "One will safeguard Jordan's King Abdullah against potential Syrian or Iranian reprisals from Syria or Iraq."
The second will cut north through Jordan to enter southeastern Syrian, where asecurity zone will be established around the towns of Deraa, Deir al-Zour and Abu Kemal – all centers of the anti-Assad rebellion.
DF said Western forces reported Jordan "on war alert."Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and other regional states know Syria poses no threat. If confirmed, deploying Saudi troops to Syria's border escalates tensions. It may also reflect belligerent intent.
On June 28, Assad was interviewed on Iran's IRIB channel 4. He blamed Turkey for inciting violence. He's hopeful military action won't follow.
Libya's model isn't "a solution to be copied because it took (the country) from one situation into a much worse one. We all now see how the Libyan people are paying the price," he said.
"The policies of the Turkish officials lead to the killing and bloodshed of the Syrian people," he added.
He said reports about Iranian and Hezbollah forces aiding Syria are false.
This is a joke that we hear many times in order to show that a rift has been created within the army and that therefore there is not an army.Pointing fingers at Washington, he said:
The colonialist nature of the West has not changed. From the colonialist standpoint, regional countries should not move according to their national interests and if any country moves against their (Western) values and interests, they say no, like what happened in the case of Iran’s nuclear program.
Western states are opposed to Iran’s access to nuclear knowhow; they are more fearful of Iran’s expertise in the nuclear field than what they claim to be a nuclear bomb.He also called insurgents "gangs of mercenaries and criminals." Outside forces are directing them.
For them and their sponsors, "reforms are not important, since the very forces that claimed (a lack of) reforms were the problem. They never benefited from them...all they wanted was (continued) unrest."
He heavily criticized Arab League states. Their policies harm their own people. They supported NATO's war on Libya.
Syria was the only country that opposed the move and therefore we had to pay the price for this policy."Consequently, immediately following our decision," Western states "acted through the Arab League to put the attack on Syria on their agenda."
"This has been the Arab League reality in the past, as it is at present."
He acknowledged that Western-instigated violence ravages Syria. Thousands of ceasefire violations occurred. He has no information about planned military attacks. However, some countries "are making efforts to guide the situation toward" one.
The West expresses support for the Annan Plan on the one hand, while on the other hand, they seek a plan to overthrow (the government).
This is the same double standard (approach) and political hypocrisy.
Westerners speak of human rights but give Israel weapons to kill Palestinians. This Western hypocrisy has not changed and will not change.He holds "outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist gangs" responsible for Syrian violence. He'll continue confronting it responsibly.
On June 30, Hillary Clinton and Sergei Lavrov will discuss Syria in Geneva. Expect no breakthroughs. Washington wants regime change.
Moscow wants Syrians alone to decide who'll lead them. Lavrov and other Russian officials have been firm opposing foreign intervention. Expect neither side to yield on Saturday.
DF sounded an ominous warning, saying:
The failure of (US/Russian) talks "would spell a worsening of the Syrian crisis andprecipitate Western-Arab military intervention, which according to military sources in the Gulf is scheduled for launch Saturday, June 30.Determining when DF is right or wrong isn't easy. The above comment sounds like bluster. It's also about conditioning public opinion for war. Events on the ground bear watching.
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6 comments:
The transparent provocation from Turkey probably means that a mass attack will come from Israel just as soon as Syria has concentrated its defenses on its Turkish border. Tactically, the downed Turkish warplane was a 'feint'.
Syria wil fal, then Iran wil fal, and then Russia wil fal and drag China to down the drain and behold we have a New Amerivan Millenium.
A brand new world, a New Palestina, a world in a cage, and nowhere to run, ohyea, you may be lett tolive in the mountains, a savages(goym), and the Good Goyms wil hunt you, for their masters, the Zionists world goverment, wher blodlines mean everything.
God by world.
The endgame is on and this war wil begine anytime soon, the last peace of pussel lacks, the Black op Operation the one that wil give the western power this uper hand, and "crush" the "evil Muslims", if you Dont see it coming, dont blame anuone but your self, I dont give a shitt, the fight wil go in every corner of the clobe.
The Russians is just a sherade, and wil NEVER leave the side of their masters, the ruling RobberBarons and the Oligarcs, and Chinna.
All controlled by the same force, but Hey, dream on, maybe I am wrong.
peace
Im just waiting.
What??
One thing , other that debka source, any confirmation from other sources?
There is a massive misinformation going on, just like Libya, to demoralise the Syrian soldiers as though ASSAD is beseiged , again reported by Debka, and powerless.
So far outside Debka news , Assad is in full control and there is no civil war.
Just wait for real confirmation.
If this news is true, yes , Assad is in big trouble.
There is no laws when the laws go against US/Nato direction.
That is a fact
Seeing as how nothing or nobody can stop US-Israeli aggression the sooner they come up against a force big enough to stop them the better (Russia, China and a few others). If they think they're too big they should consider where are the Romans, Mongols and Nazis now? They were also too great to stop.
Powerful advanced weapons are advantageous only insofar as they support a superior strategy, and the US failures in Afghanistan and Iraq - where they have air supremacy and not just superiority - demonstrates they haven't got a f**king clue. Mick McNulty. England.
"If they think they're too big they should consider where are the Romans, Mongols and Nazis now? They were also too great to stop."
The Nazi's were never 'too great to stop', not even close.
Until 1942 they only had like 1/3rd the military production of any of the Allied nations, and like 1/40th of the total military production of the Allies as a whole.
Even if they had the man-power for half a billion soldiers and the best technology they wouldn't have lasted long without the industrial production needed to support it, which was firebombed to hell and back by the Allies.
Other than Rommel's surprise insubordination in defying Hitler's orders to retreat in North Africa and turning around and running straight back into the Allies at full speed which caught the Allies by surprise the Nazi's really didn't have any significant military successes to speak of outside of Europe.
The initial invasions of France and Poland were only so successful because of the new Blitzkrieg form of warfare the Germans introduced that caught everyone ill-prepared, though the Russians managed to act quickly and take half of Poland for themselves.
"Fortress Europa" was where the Nazi's earned their reputations as a worthy opponent and serious war machine, but with the assistance of 'home field advantage' and thousands of tons of super-sized concrete bunkers and such.
Outside of "Fortress Europa" and the British islands the Nazi's weren't much to deal with at all.
They couldn't even get across the English Channel to hit their #1 enemy in Britain, how anyone thinks they could have conquered the world is beyond me.
Especially since the British had held military positions all over the world since WWI and were much better prepared for such a massive war than the Germans ever were.
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But I agree that the propaganda images of unstoppable "super powers" are never true, eventually Reality will come along and wipe those retarded notions of supremacy clean out of their diluted Minds.
And it will be a bloody cleansing based on History.
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