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MESOP: GERMANY’S STEINMEIER (AND HIS MASTERMIND VOLKER PERTHES) – THE IDIOTS OF THE WEEK
GERMAN FOREIGN OFFICE TWITTER – FM #Steinmeier: There won’t be a military solution to the conflict in #Syria. We have to find the entry point to politically defuse conflict – www.mesop.de
MESOP TODAYS QUOTATION : 2. HUH? / Pentagon Boss Believes Russians
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said, “I take the Russians at their word” after he was asked at a press conference Wednesday whether Moscow was being straightforward about their air strikes in Syria. Carter had said no Russian air strikes were observed in ISIS-controlled areas, contrary to Vladmir Putin’s recent excuse that he would help Bashar al-Assad fight the Islamic State. Carter continued, saying that the Russians had only said they would deploy and use military force in Syria. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=65475
MESOP TODAYS NEWS DESK (CLICK FOR FULL TEXTS)
Russia Confirms Its Carrying Out Air Strikes in Syria – Haaretz. Israel.
US Doubts Russian Airstrikes Targeted ISIS Areas – Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Czech Republic.
Russia Gave Israel Advance Notice of Its Air Strikes in Syria – Haaretz. Israel.
World Bank: ‘High Risk’ Of Renewed Middle East Conflict – The Middle East Online. England.
ANALYSIS. Putin Takes Center Stage at UN, in Syria
TODAYS MESOP THINK TANK RESEARCH (Click for full texts)
Cold War Split in Europe over Refugee Crisis – New Eastern Europe. Poland. 30 Sep 2015.
A Primer on the Capabilities of Russia’s Armed Forces
Council on Foreign Relations. United States. 30 Sep 2015.
Syria: The Assad Conundrum – Atlantic Council. United States. 30 Sep 2015.
UN Summit: Countering ISIL and Violent Extremism – United States. PRESS RELEASE. 30 Sep 2015.
MESOP : NO REAL PROGRESS IN KOBANE
Kobane rebuilding efforts strained by major challenges http://www.aljazeera.com/…/kobane-rebuilding-efforts-strain…
MESOP TODAYS RELEVANT TWEETS & SHORT CUTS
Clear support from Western coalition for Pesh advances: Near Al Huwayjah, eight airstrikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL staging area, 45 ISIL fighting positions, two ISIL buildings, six ISIL vehicles, an ISIL trailer, and denied ISIL terrain (source: 30 Sept CJTF OIR News Release – Military Airstrikes) www.mesop.de
MESOP : OBAMA IS ON “PAUSE”
Pentagon: We have ‘paused’ receiving new recruits for Syria training program http://thehill.com/…/255396-pentagon-we-have-paused-receivi…
U.S. Turns to ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Writer for Anti-ISIS Propaganda http://www.thedailybeast.com/…/u-s-turns-to-zero-dark-thirt…
MESOP : A CORRECT POSITION OF KRG – South Kurdistan Iraq
In addition to having its own oil policy, Kurdistan region of #Iraq now pursuing their own foreign, defence policies – Ministry of Peshmerga: we’re not a part of the coalition formed by Iraq, Iran, Russia and Syria to exchange of intelligence information. www.mesop.de
MESOP : WATCH PICS !
HAPPENING NOW: Heavy smoke following 1st air strikes of Russian air force in Syria, dozens dead including children. www.mesop.de
#BreakingNews #Russia announced to the #US, it would bomb #Homs, one hour prior the raids. 65 deaths so far. #PutinAtWar
MESOP : 1. ESCALATING – Putin Orders U.S. Out of Syria, Starts Bombing
Vladimir Putin allegedly ordered U.S. planes to leave Syrian territory on Wednesday, just hours before Russian airstrikes began, a senior U.S. official told Fox News. CNN reported that Russian jets began bombing targets in Syria Wednesday. Earlier Wednesday, lawmakers in Moscow approved Putin’s request to use armed forces abroad, but Kremlin Chief of Staff Sergey Ivanov said the move referred only to the use of Russia’s air force in Syria. “The operation’s military goal is exclusively air support of the Syrian armed forces” and their battle against ISIS, Ivanov said, according to Russian news agency TASS. Read more : http://www.mesop.de/?p=65463
MESOP RESEARCH : THE FATAL WEAKNESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN SYSTEM
“Not Likely to Go Home: Syrian Refugees and the Challenges to Turkey — and the International Community” (Elizabeth Ferris and Kemal Kirisci, Brookings Institution)
“There is clearly an urgent need to revisit the issue of burden-sharing. Enhanced levels of funding are going to be necessary and a greater effort will need to be made to meet the funding targets of the UN’s 3RP 2015-2016 budget. Greater support is needed to help Turkey integrate refugees, especially with respect to their education, access to the labor market and health needs.’ Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=65452
MESOP: THE SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPMENT OF ISLAMIZATION IN EUROPE / CENSORS PRO IS IN UK
By Johanna Markind – 2015-09-29 – MESOP – Two events last week crystallized the grave danger facing freedom of speech in the United Kingdom. – Warwick U. Students’ Union Censors Speaker against Radical Islam, Then Caves
Miryam Namazie is a human rights campaigner, critic of Islamism, and member of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. Warwick Atheists, Secularists and Humanists Society (WASH) invited her to speak at Warwick University in Coventry, England on October 28. The university’s students’ union then rescinded the invitation on the stated grounds that Namazie was “highly inflammatory” and could spread hatred and intolerance against Muslims. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=65454
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP Warning Update: Russia Expanding Facilities at Tartus Naval Base
By Christopher Kozak with Hugo Spaulding and Daniel Urchick (ISW) 1 Oct 2015 – Recent indicators suggest that Russia intends to upgrade its naval facility in the Port of Tartus along the Syrian Coast in tandem with its ongoing air operations based out of Bassel al-Assad International Airport in neighboring Latakia Province. On September 28, Russian media sources reported the deployment of at least two repair and supply vessels to Tartus with an onboard escort of “anti-terror group” Naval Infantry personnel. The deployment of these vessels comes in ostensible support of recently-announced naval exercises in the eastern Mediterranean Sea involving several warships from the Russian Black Sea Fleet, including the guided missile cruiser Moskva, the destroyer Smetlivy, and the tank landing ship Saratov. Nonetheless, the two repair vessels are designed to equip military ports by installing mooring buoys, breakwaters, and floating landing stages or docks – making them valuable assets in efforts to modernize the base at Tartus. Read more: http://www.mesop.de/?p=65494
MESOP REPORT BY Welati: Agreement Reached Between US, Peshmerga, and YPG to Take Jarabulus and Raqqah (ARABIC)
اتفاق كوردي – أميركي على تحرير الرقة وجرابلس وعودة بيشمركة روجآفا 2015-09-28
هوشين عمر – قهرمان سروجي – شبكة ولاتي Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=65457
MESOP UP TO DATE : Russia’s first airstrikes in Syria hit opposition groups, not ISIS / FIRST DAY RESULTS
Although Russian President Vladimir Putin has portrayed Russia’s latest military buildup as an effort to combat ISIS, Russia’s first airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday targeted opposition groups fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad instead, killing at least 36 civilians. The Russians notified the US about their plans only an hour before their airstrikes and asked the US to get out of Syrian airspace. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=65469
MESOP : POLICY ALERT FROM THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY / INITIAL RUSSIAN STRIKES IN SYRIA ARE NOT TARGETING ISIS
By Fabrice Balanche – September 30, 2015 – The first wave of Russian airstrikes seemed to focus on rebel areas that threaten the Assad regime’s Alawite heartland, showing that Moscow is more focused on seizing the mantle in Syria’s war than fighting terrorists.Earlier today, the Russian air force, in cooperation with the Syrian army, led its first bombing runs in three of the country’s provinces. According to a Syrian security source who spoke with Agence France-Presse, “The Russian and Syrian planes have conducted several raids today against terrorist positions in Hama, Homs, and Latakia, in the northwest and center of the country.” Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=65473
Press Conference held by the Syrian Coalition about the latest Russian airstrikes in Syria at the UN
Media Advisory Syrian Coalition – New York, USA – September 30, 2015
New York, USA – The National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces invites you to a press conference today on September 30th, 2015 in UN press conference room about Russian airstrikes in Syria.
WHO: Dr. Khalid Khoja, the President of the Syrian Coalition / WHAT: The Russian airstrikes in Syria. / WHEN: Wednesday 30th September 2015, 16:15 p.m. New York time / Where: UNCA – UN Press Conference Room – For more information, please contact: http://www.mesop.de/?p=65483
MESOP RESEARCH : What Americans really think about the Syrian refugee crisis
A Pew Research Center survey released on September 29 shows a mixed and polarized response among Americans to the Syrian refugee crisis. By a narrow margin of 51 to 45 percent, the public approves of the Obama administration’s decision to accept more refugees. Democrats favor this move by 69 to 29 percent, while Republicans oppose it by a similar margin of 67 to 30. The split among Independents, with 51 percent in favor and 43 percent opposed, closely mirrors the population as a whole. www.mesop.de
MESOP : CAESAR’S DOCUMENTS & PICTURES – France opens probe into Assad regime for crimes against humanity
France has launched a probe into Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime for alleged crimes against humanity, a judicial source said Wednesday, after world powers sparred at the United Nations over the embattled leader’s fate. Paris prosecutors opened a preliminary inquiry on September 15 into alleged crimes committed by the Syrian government between 2011 and 2013, the source told AFP. The French investigation is largely based on evidence from a former Syrian army photographer known by the codename “Caesar,” who defected and fled the country in 2013, bringing with him some 55,000 graphic photographs. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said France had a “responsibility” to take action. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=65492
Shamsah Husayn ʿAntar, teacher: »When we witness sexual assaults, we find the perpetrator and beat him severely«
KURDWATCH, September 30, 2015—Shamsah Husayn ʿAntar was born in 1967 in ʿAmudah and currently lives in al‑Qamishli. She is trained as a child educator and has been working as a teacher for twenty-three years. ʿAntar speaks about the sexual abuse of women and children, which she believes has been on the rise in recent years in the Kurdish regions. The interview reveals the helplessness of educators, teachers, and parents in facing sexual violence, a lack of institutions and NGOs willing to address this issue, and the desolate situation in schools in Syrian-Kurdistan four years after the beginning of the Syrian revolution. Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=65498
THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER
MESOP : UNSERE HISTORISCHE AUFGABE IN DIESEN TAGEN / DIE KOMMODE ISLAMISIERUNG EUROPAS
Saleh: Zusammen mit Türkei europäischen Islam aufbauen
DIE WELT – Istanbul/Berlin – Der Berliner SPD-Fraktionsvorsitzende Raed Saleh hat die Türkei aufgefordert, gemeinsam einen demokratischen europäischen …
Berliner Zeitung / Saleh: Zusammen mit Türkei europäischen Islam aufbauen – Berliner Morgenpost / Abgeordnetenhaus: Saleh: Zusammen mit Türkei europäischen Islam aufbauen – FOCUS Online
….. in seinem Text spricht der SPD-Mann nun auch wieder deutlich und mehrfach von der ehemals als rassistisch verpönten “Leitkultur”, – er darf das, er weiß schließlich genau, was er will.
MESOP : DEUTSCHLAND ÜBER ALLES ! – ‘Germany or Nothing,’ Demands Syrian Migrant Threatening to Return Home
Originally published under the title “‘Germany or Nothing,’ Demands Migrant Threatening to Return to Syria if He Gets Settled Elsewhere.”
Housam Kbieh, who travelled to Europe with his wife and two sons, thinks it’s better back in Syria than in most of Europe. A family of Syrian migrants is demanding to be settled in “Germany or nothing,” refusing to live in any other European country. They have threatened to go back to Syria if they are not settled in Chancellor Merkel’s country, with its handsome state benefits and open-door policy.Housam Kbieh told Sky News that he fled Damascus with his wife and two sons, but rejected the idea of being settled anywhere outside Germany. “I go back to my country, it’s Germany or nothing,” he demanded, adding, “I'[ll] go back [to] my country. Of course.” Read more: http://www.mesop.de/?p=65467
MESOP: KRONZEUGE AHMAD EL RIZ LEBT HEUTE IN BERLIN – WEDER STEINMEIER NOCH PERTHES WOLLEN IHN SPRECHEN
Kronzeuge für Massenmord – Assads blutige Herrschaft / BILDDOKUMENTATION
César war Fotograf bei der Militärpolizei in Damaskus – und musste das Massenmorden Assads dokumentieren. Jetzt interessiert sich Frankreichs Staatsanwaltschaft für die Bilder.
30.09.2015, von MICHAELA WIEGEL, PARIS – FAZ – 1 Okt 2015 – Es ist ein Buch gegen das Vergessen. Die Französin Garance Le Caisne hat den syrischen Militärfotografen aufgespürt, dem die Welt Einblicke in die Tötungsmaschinerie des Regimes von Baschar al Assad verdankt. Insgesamt 55.000 Aufnahmen von Folteropfern hat der Syrer mit dem Decknamen César außer Landes geschmuggelt. Zu Jahresbeginn hat Assad in der Zeitschrift „Foreign Affairs“ behauptet, den Militärfotografen habe es nie gegeben. „Wer hat diese Fotos aufgenommen? Wer ist es? Niemand weiß es. Es sind haltlose Vorwürfe“, sagte Assad. Doch Le Caisne ist es gelungen, César in seinem Versteck im Norden Europas zu treffen und ihn zu befragen. „Operation César – im Herzen der syrischen Tötungsmaschinerie“ hat sie das Buch über ihre Gespräche betitelt, das jetzt in den französischen Buchhandel kommt. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=65465
MESOP : ZUVIEL PAPIER !
Marwan aus dem Irak: „Die Bürokratie in Deutschland! Jeden Monat neue Papiere“
Handelsblatt – 1 Okt 2015 – Ich hab eine Frau und vier Kinder, die alle in einem Flüchtlingslager in Kurdistan sind. Unser Heimatort ist auf einem Berg namens Sinjar an der …
…… die ersten schwerwiegenden Beschwerden !: wo doch in Kurdistan-Iraq alles viel papierloser unbürokratischer abgewickelt wird.
“Die Meisten, die herkommen, denken nicht an Integration”
www.welt.de – 1 Okt 2015 – Hamed Abdel-Samad, gebürtiger Ägypter glaubt nicht, dass die Integration der Menschen, die etwa aus dem Nahen Osten zu uns kommen, problemlos gelingen wird. Er geht sogar noch weiter.
……. um „Integration“ geht es ja auch der Linken & pro asyl gerade eben nicht, sondern die autosuggestive Projektion imaginiert in maßloser Überforderung den Flüchtling als den neuen „Weltgeist-zu-Fuss“, der das alles das schafft, was ihnen nicht einen Zentimeter weit gelungen ist: die Weltveränderung zum Besseren. Endmoränen und Reste der Wahnsinns-Projektionen des 20. Jahrhunderts.
MESOP : …… und von Jan van Aken bis Gregor Gysi – die gesamte Traditionslinke schweigt !
Russland bombardiert in Syrien …. nicht den IS – VON THOMAS VON DER OSTEN-SACKEN
Heute hat die russische Luftwaffe ihre ersten Luftangriffe in Syrien geflogen. Und natürlich ging es nicht etwa gegen den Islamischen Staat, sondern gegen syrische Rebellen. Dazu schreibt Adopt a Revolution:Verdammt! Russland behauptet, in Syrien gegen ISIS vorzugehen. Doch heute morgen wurde ?Talbasieh bombardiert, wo unser Projektpartner aktiv ist. ISIS wurde in der Stadt bislang noch nie gesehen – dafür wir sie vom Assad-Regime belagert.
Und aus dem Guardian:
A Hama local, who identified himself as Muhannad, 25, said on Wednesday night: “The airstrikes aren’t stopping. We have lost count of them. I can tell it is the Russians. They are faster and the sound of the bombs are different from those of the regime. They have bombed Talbeesa, Al Mukarama, Reef Homs al-shamali. All of these areas are mainly under FSA control. We don’t have here any Isis but we have a small number of al-Nusra. We expected this to happen but there is no place to flee to.” (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/30/celebrations-and-fear-in-syria-russian-airstrikes-begin) Read all: http://www.mesop.de/?p=65471
Schamsa Husain ʿAntar, Lehrerin: »Wenn wir sexuelle Übergriffe beobachten, holen wir den Täter und schlagen ihn heftig«
KURDWATCH, 30. September 2015 – Schamsa Husain ʿAntar wurde 1967 in ʿAmuda geboren und lebt derzeit in al‑Qamischli. Sie ist ausgebildete Kindererzieherin und arbeitet seit dreiundzwanzig Jahren als Lehrerin. ʿAntar berichtet über den sexuellen Missbrauch von Kindern und Frauen, der ihrer Einschätzung nach in den vergangenen Jahren in den kurdischen Gebieten zugenommen hat. Das Interview zeigt die Hilflosigkeit von Erziehern, Lehrern und Eltern angesichts sexueller Gewalt, den Mangel an Institutionen und NGOs, die sich dieser Thematik annehmen und die desolate Situation der Schulen in Syrisch-Kurdistan, vier Jahre nach Beginn der syrischen Revolution. Volltext : http://www.mesop.de/?p=65496