MESOP FACING KOBANE : THE FAKE TRAIN AS A GHOST TRAIN / Fotos oder Videos gibt es von dem türkischen Zug keine
Michael Martens recherchiert – sein Kollege Markus Bickel nimmt Propaganda direkt entgegen
Michael Martens (FAZ) 27-9-2014 – (…) Ein anderer Flüchtling, der behauptet, in Kobane als Polizist gearbeitet zu haben, bestätigt derweil die Geschichte mit dem Zug, die schon die Männer in Sibedi erzählt haben. „Ich habe selbst gesehen, dass ein Zug gekommen ist mit Kisten, die ausgeladen wurden.“ Er kann Ort, Tag und sogar die Uhrzeit des vermeintlichen Geschehens genau angeben, berichtet auch detailliert davon, wie nach der Abfahrt des Zuges die IS-Kämpfer gekommen seien und die Kisten auf ihre offenen Lieferwagen gestemmt hätten. Er habe das gemeinsam mit 20 anderen kurdischen Polizisten beobachtet. Merkwürdig daran ist nur, dass offenbar kein einziger der Zeugen auf die Idee kam, das Geschehen zu fotografieren oder zu filmen, obwohl selbst die Flüchtlinge hier im Zeltlager fast alle ein Smartphone besitzen. Auch das kurdische „Zentrum für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit“ in Frankfurt, das Journalisten mit Informationen aus Kobane versorgt, konnte zu den Vorwürfen auf Anfrage am Freitag nur mitteilen, es gebe dazu „leider kein Bildmaterial“. Der Zug mit türkischen Waffen für den IS scheint ein Geisterzug zu sein. http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/ausland/europa/die-kurden-in-der-tuerkei-und-der-islamische-staat-in-syrien-13176015.html?printPagedArticle=true#pageIndex_2
TODAY’S MESOP COMMENTARY : AFTER PYD MADE COMPLIMENTS TO FSA & U.S THE ISIS “TEST” FOLLOWED
‘Islamic State attacks test Kurdish-Syrian alliance‘ (Mohammed al-Khatieb, Al Monitor)
“The Islamic State (IS) attack on the area of Kobani – also known as Ayn al-Arab – on the Turkish border north of Aleppo raises a lot of questions about the ability of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) to prevent IS from reaching one of its main strongholds, as IS sweeps through dozens of Kurdish villages. The ongoing IS advance on the ground has also tested the newly formed Joint Operations Room set up Sept. 10 between the YPG and several rebel brigades. According to Amer Hasan, director of the Dawn of Freedom Brigades’ media office, rebel factions there ‘are doing their best’ to support the YPG. It seems that the new alliance provoked IS to launch a pre-emptive assault against Kobani days following its formation and amid US plans to provide more support for the ‘moderate Syrian opposition’ to fight IS.”
MESOP TODAY’S SENSATIONAL QUOTATION : PKK (PYD/YPG) THANKS TO WASHINGTON et.al.!
#KobaneDirenyor Actuell statement from YPG-Speaker Redur Xelil via twitter:”
….The airstrikes on ISIL bases by U.S. and their alliance was of great importance and really necessary although it came late. The attacks that we carry out on ISIL bases wasn’t effective enough because they have all around Kobane with heavy weapons. Although the bases of ISIL and all the heavy weapons, vehicles and equipment’s are in air and visible to everyone but yet, they haven’t being targeted by the airstrikes. This is the reason for us to say if the U.S. and their alliance are serious to target the bases of ISIL on the front of Kobane and the areas around Kobane we are willing to cooperate with U.S. and their alliance by giving them the position and very important informations about ISIL and their movements. And also the ISIL bases that had been shelled were already abounded by ISIL.”
MESOP FACING KOBANE TODAY : Kurdish fighters capture 30 ISIS militants near Syrian border city
ARA News – 25-9-2014 – Kobane, Syria – On Wednesday the Kurdish forces of the Popular Protection Units (YPG) captured 30 militants of the Islamic State (IS/ISIS), an al-Qaeda offshoot, and destroyed one of the IS tanks during their attack on al-Iza’a hill in the western countryside of Kobane (Ain al-Arab) in Aleppo province, northern Syria.
CENTCOM videos show airstrikes on Islamic State facilities in Syria
MESOP DOCU AIRSTRIKE – CLICK FOR PICS ON BOTTOM LINK
25-9-2014 – US Central Command, or CENTCOM, released three videos of US airstrikes on Islamic State facilities in Syria. The strikes, which are displayed below, are part of the opening salvo of the US air campaign against the Islamic State as well as the “Khorasan group,” a cadre of al Qaeda leaders and operatives who work with the Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda’s official branch in Syria.Earlier today, Lieutenant General William C. Mayville Jr., Director of Operations for the Joint Staff, conducted a briefing on the strikes in Syria. The operations were “organized in three waves,” Mayville said, according a news summary published at the Department of Defense’s website:
MESOP : LONG WAR JOURNAL – Senior al Qaeda strategist part of so-called ‘Khorasan group’
24 Sep 2014 01:00 PM PDT – Al Qaeda’s so-called “Khorasan group,” which was struck in the US-led bombing campaign earlier this week, is run by senior jihadists dispatched to Syria by Ayman al Zawahiri. One member of the group, a veteran al Qaeda operative named Muhsin al Fadhli, has been publicly identified.But several US intelligence officials contacted by The Long War Journal have confirmed that another well-known al Qaeda bigwig, a Saudi known as Sanafi al Nasr, is also a leader in the group. And, like al Fadhli, Nasr once served as the head of al Qaeda’s Iran-based network. In March, The Long War Journal first reported that Nasr is a senior al Qaeda leader. US intelligence officials explained at the time that he was involved in al Qaeda’s strategic planning and policies.
MESOP OPINION : Why Arab States Are Supporting the US in Syria
24 September 2014 – Jane Kinninmont – Deputy Head and Senior Research Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme – Chatham House
The involvement of five Arab countries in the air strikes against Islamic State in Syria is a major new development for the region. It is not yet clear exactly what role they have played in what the Pentagon described as ‘participation and support’ for the operation, but this is about symbolism more than military might.
U.S. Airstrikes In Syria Leave Rebel Allies To Face Extremist Backlash
MESOP :IF YOU WANT TO FINISH WITH ISIS = YOU HAVE TO FINISH WITH ASSAD
“We are afraid that the West doesn’t want to finish this.” Moderate Syrians are worried strikes will leave them vulnerable to extremists.
Mike Giglio – BuzzFeed Staff – 24-9-2014 – ANTAKYA, Turkey — Ahmed Saoud was sitting in the restaurant of a four-star hotel in the Turkish city of Antakya, a short drive from the border with Syria, when he got an alarming call on his cell phone. An American voice was on the line. He said something that seemed to rile Saoud, a colonel who defected from the Syrian army and now commands a battalion of moderate rebels based in the country’s turbulent north.
Syria air strikes: US attacks are failing to slow Isis advance, say desperate Kurds in Kobane
MESOP : AIRSTRIKES NOT ENOUGH ? WHAT MORE SHOULD BE DONE ?
ISABEL HUNTER SURUC 25 September 2014 Independent UK – American air strikes have done little to dislodge Isis fighters trying to take a major Kurdish city on the Turkish border, Kurdish fighters and commanders have said.
MESOP : KURDS & ARABS WELCOME THE AIRSTRIKES OF THE COALITION – Syrian opposition welcomes anti-ISIL operations, demands hitting Assad locations
ARA News – 24-9-2014 – Istanbul, Turkey – The Syrian National Coalition for Revolutionary Forces and the Opposition (SNC) welcomed the anti-IS strikes launched by the international coalition forces on targets belonging to the Islamic State (IS/ISIS), an al-Qaeda offshoot, and al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda branch in Syria.In an official statement, the SNC described the U.S.-led air strikes as helpful for the armed opposition which fights against the regime of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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