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MESOP : ROUHANI CANCELLED TRAVEL TO VIENNA – DUE TO THE FREEDOM OF DEMONSTRATION
BBC Persian TV: “’It appears their ties to ‘Zionists’ are more important than that with Iran,’ Iranian source tells me”” www.mesop.de
MESOP TODAYS RELEVANT TWEETS & SHORT CUTS
MESOP REPORTS — MIHRAC URAL : PROMINENT SYRIAN REGIME COMMANDER & FORMER CLOSE COMRADE OF ABDULLAH OCALAN KILLED
Reports circulated on Wednesday that a prominent regime commander, Mihrac Ural, has been killed by rebels. Ural, a Turkish Alawite with Syrian citizenship, has been accused of a series of abuses and mass killings during the conflict. Among them is the execution of at least 100 people — including families, women, and children — in Baniyas in western Syria in May 2013.A pro-Assad MP, Ahmad Shlash, wrote on Facebook about Ural’s death. – Watch all : www.mesop.de
MESOP : BIG MISTAKES & ADVENTOURUS POLICY OF PKK LEADERSHIP / AL MONITOR
Some sources familiar with Kurdish politics also cited the comments of Duran Kalkan, a senior PKK official, about the clashes. “The balance sheet has been heavy. We didn’t expect such a response. We made a mistake. We thought our foes were human beings,” Kalkan said. Read more: www.mesop.de
MESOP TODAY AROUND ALEPPO
Anti-ISIS coalition is raining air strikes all over N. Aleppo today. Helping FSA advance from West and SDF/YPG from the East. #Syria
MESOP : HEAVY IRON
Russian Military Orders 10,000 Medals for Troops in Syria http://defnews.ly/1MOfRYy via @defense_news http://defnews.ly/1MOfRYy
MESOP: ONGOING EXTINCTION OF CHRISTIANS
Via @NPR: In Syria, Assyrian Christians Cling On After ISIS Onslaught http://n.pr/1obZIpr
MESOP : TAKE CARE IN ERDOAN COUNTRY !
The Associated Press @AP – US orders families of US diplomats, military personnel to leave posts in southern Turkey due to security fears: http://apne.ws/21RlZpR
MESOP : THE MOSUL CHAOS
Chaos as civilians flee anti-IS offensive near Iraq’s Mosul – See more at:… http://fb.me/17wc2WOKc
MESOP : WAR ON THE ROCKS !
Excellent debunking by @AbuJamajem of the “U.S. proxies at war with each other in #Syria” myth http://warontherocks.com/2016/03/are-cia-backed-syrian-rebels-really-fighting-pentagon-backed-syrian-rebels/ … (h/t @michaeldweiss)
MESOP : DOWN-UNDER !
New from me: Guys, take a breath. Pentagon-backed Syrian rebels are not fighting CIA-backed Syrian rebels, relax. http://warontherocks.com/2016/03/are-cia-backed-syrian-rebels-really-fighting-pentagon-backed-syrian-rebels/ …
MESOP : QUESTION MARK
Will Syrian Kurdish self-rule succeed? http://almon.co/2mhq via @AlMonitor
MESOP BACKGROUNDER : The Neoconservative Case for Negotiating With Iran
A former senior official under George W. Bush argues that Tehran is crucial to stabilizing an out-of-control Middle East. – By Zalmay Khalilzad – March 28, 2016
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http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/iran-negotiation-foreign-policy-middle-east-213772 …
#Iraqi parliament agrees, with apparent support of #Sadrists, to new deadline of Thursday for PM Abadi to announce cabinet shuffle.
Here’s what an advanced Russian tank looks like after getting hit with a U.S.-made missile http://wpo.st/Jw5Q1
Syrian forces pursue campaign against Islamic State after retaking Palmyra http://reut.rs/25s8d1K via @Reuters
MESOP : LAST NOT LEAST !
The American Anti-Vaccine Mom Turned ISIS Superstar http://thebea.st/1RGSBNq via @thedailybeast – more on : www.mesop.de
MESOP INTEL BACKGROUNDER: Isis sent operatives to Europe long before Brussels attacks / ARRIVING AS REFUGEES
Signs of focused terrorist machine directed at Europe were discounted from early 2014
about – By Rukmini Callimachi – THE IRISH TIMES (29 March 2016)
The neighbourhood in Paris that was home to Reda Hame, a French citizen who, according to interrogation records, was trained by Islamic State to strike in Europe. Hame was arrested in August 2015, before he could strike. – The day he left Syria with instructions to carry out a terrorist attack in France,Reda Hame (29), a computer technician from Paris, had been a member of Islamic State for just over a week. His French passport and his background in information technology made him an ideal recruit for a rapidly expanding group within Isis that was dedicated to terrorising Europe. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72624
MESOP TODAYS FOCUS – MEETING BETWEEN BARACK HUSSEIN O. & RECEP TAYYP E. ABOUT KURDISH POLICY
FOUR THINGS TO WATCH DURING TURKISH PRESIDENT ERDOGAN’S VISIT TO WASHINGTON
By Soner Cagaptay – Wall Street Journal – March 29, 2016 – Erdogan’s interactions with President Obama could shed light on long-gestating proposals for retaking ISIS-held areas in northern Syria, as well as the status of recent bilateral tensions and the future of Turkish policy toward the Kurds.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is in Washington this week for a nuclear security summit. Here are four key issues to watch. – COOPERATION ON ISLAMIC STATE : http://www.mesop.de/?p=72618
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP TODAYS COMMENTARY : AT THE END THE US WILL ACCEPT ASSAD & ASSAD WILL BE ACCEPTED BY RUSSIA AND PKK/PYD
Altering the Past to Shape the Prologue – By Frederic C. Hof – Frederic C. Hof is a Resident Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East.
28 March 2016 – Misleading commentary by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov aimed at rewriting history and the failure of his American counterpart to correct the record may indicate an evolving Russian-American understanding that the stated purpose of Geneva peace negotiations—political transition in Syria—has been overtaken by events. If transition is not the aim of the negotiations, one may see in the coming sessions of the Geneva talks a Russian-American attempt to bind the Syrian opposition to a political arrangement falling far short of that which has been mandated by the United Nations. Peace talks are now in recess. – Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72634
MESOP : POLICY FORUM REPORT – THE SYRIAN KURDS: WHOSE ALLY? – March 29, 2016
Featuring Andrew J. Tabler, Soner Cagaptay, David Pollock & James F. Jeffrey
On March 22, Andrew Tabler, Soner Cagaptay, David Pollock, and James Jeffrey addressed a Policy Forum at The Washington Institute. Tabler is the Martin J. Gross Fellow in the Institute’s Program on Arab Politics. Cagaptay is the Beyer Family Fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at the Institute. Pollock is the Institute’s Kaufman Fellow and director of Fikra Forum. Jeffrey is the Institute’s Philip Solondz Distinguished Fellow and former U.S. ambassador to Turkey. The following is a rapporteur’s summary of their remarks. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72628
MESOP Syria Daily: Assad — Palmyra Victory Will Help Secure My Position / OPPOSITION REJECTS RUSSIAN LINE ON ASSAD
March 30 – by Scott Lucas – EAWORLDVIEW –
President Assad has said that last weekend’s victory over the Islamic State in Palmyra, in central Syria, will help secure his position. – Assad told the Russian State outlets RIA Novosti and Sputnik that the advance, enabled by Russian airstrikes and foreign forces, will “lead to the acceleration of the political solution” in talks in Geneva.
The second set of Geneva discussions adjourned last Thursday and are scheduled to resume on April 11. The Assad delegation is insisting that the President’s future cannot be negotiated.In a convoluted extract from the interview, Assad said that the regime had been consistent in its approach to the talks, but that it would be bolstered by the end of the Islamic State’s 10-month occupation of the Roman-era city: Read all : http://www.mesop.de/?p=72644
MESOP : PEACENICK VLADIMIR AS A GIANT ARMSDEALER
Russia’s “Withdrawal” Puts More Military Equipment Into Country
30 March 2016 – by Scott Lucas – eaworldview – On March 14, President Vladimir Putin suddenly announced the withdrawal of “most” Russian forces from Syria after a six-month intervention. But was the declaration — and the show of a few Russian warplanes returning to the homeland — just a cover for an expanded, long-term Russian military presence?
Maria Tsvetkova writes for Reuters:When Vladimir Putin announced the withdrawal of most of Russia’s military contingent from Syria, there was an expectation that the Yauza, a Russian naval icebreaker and one of the mission’s main supply vessels, would return home to its Arctic Ocean port.Instead, three days after Putin’s March 14 declaration, the Yauza, part of the “Syrian Express”, the nickname given to the ships that have kept Russian forces supplied, left the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk for Tartous, Russia’s naval facility in Syria. Whatever it was carrying was heavy; it sat so low in the water that its load line was barely visible. Read more http://www.mesop.de/?p=72636
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
MESOP INSIDER : U.S. Expanding Military Role In Iraq
29 Mar 2016 – MUSINGS ON IRAQ BY JOEL WING – The Americans are sending in more troops to Iraq and expanding their area of operation within the country. That was recently highlighted when a U.S. marine was killed in Ninewa, which led to the revelation of a firebase being set up in the province. This larger involvement is meant to help the Iraqi forces expand their offensive capabilities to clear out Anbar and Ninewa governorates. The idea of sending U.S. forces to more bases in Iraq has been talked about for months. Back in June 2015 when 450 soldiers were being sent to the Taqadum base near Ramadi in Anbar, Reutersreported that the Obama administration were thinking about more such arrangements in the country so that it could expand its advise and assist mission to the Iraqi forces. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=72640
NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)
MESOP INSIDE : Why PKK shifted to urban warfare & MADE SEVERE MISTAKES
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — Turkey has been debating the trench and barricade warfare the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has launched in towns in southeast Turkey. Many couldn’t understand why the organization chose that method of warfare. But there are widespread allegations in the southeast that the organization’s leadership was deceived by reports sent by the PKK rank and file that the people were ready to join a popular uprising. Read ll http://www.mesop.de/?p=72642
THE GERMAN KURDISH CHAPTER
MESOP : BRIEF AN DIE TEHRAN MULLAHS – “WIR BLEIBEN WACHSAM!” / ECHT !
Der Text könnte von Steinmeier sein, der ihn sich von Volker Perthes hat verfassen lassen:
„Nach den jüngsten iranischen Raketentests haben die USA, Großbritannien, Frankreich und Deutschland den UN-Sicherheitsrat aufgefordert, sich mit dem Thema zu befassen. Der auf Montag datierte Brief ist an den spanischen UN-Botschafter Román Oyarzun Marchesi gerichtet. Ziel des Briefes der vier Länder sei ein Signal an die Iraner, “dass wir wachsam bleiben”, sagte ein UN-Diplomat in New York. Mit neuen Sanktionen sei nicht zu rechnen, weil Russland als Vetomacht im UN-Sicherheitsrat dies ablehne. „
MESOP : WAS DIE DEUTSCHEN OSTERMÄRSCHE GLATT MAL WIEDER ÜBERSEHEN HABEN ! ?
Syrien-Einsatz: Russland erwartet mehr Waffenverkäufe
SPIEGEL ONLINE – 29 März 2016 – Während des Militäreinsatzes in Syrien führte Russland die Produkte seiner Rüstungsbranche vor. Die rechnet deshalb laut einem Bericht mit einem … http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/syrien-einsatz-russland-erwartet-mehr-waffenverkaeufe-a-1084498.html
MESOP METAMORPHOSEN ? – Hitlers „gefährlichster Mann“ Vom SS-Kriegshelden zum Mossad-Killer?
Ein deutscher Raketenforscher verschwindet 1962 spurlos. Das Rätsel um ihn soll nun gelöst sein. Der israelische Geheimdienst habe einen Killer engagiert, berichtet eine Zeitung des Landes. Und wartet mit einer Sensation auf. Mehr Von Lorenz Hemicker 19 31 http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/hitlers-gefaehrlichster-mann-otto-skorzeny-ein-mossad-killer-14149943.html#/elections
MESOP : UNICEF KRITISIERT KINDERSOLDATEN DER PKK/PYD / IN DEUTSCHLAND UNTERSTÜTZT MARTIN GLASENAPP MEDICO INTERNATIONAL DIESE PARTEIEN
Kopfschuss für die kleinen Ungehorsamen
Samstag, 30.05.2015, 00:00 · von FOCUS-Autorin Andrea-Claudia Hoffmann
© UNICEF/Mann Die PKK entführt in Syrien Minderjährige, um sie für den Kampf gegen Islamisten auszubilden. Hier im Bild: Kindersoldaten, die Unicef im Südsudan befreit hat. Kurdische Kämpfer aus Syrien verschleppen Minderjährige und bilden sie für den Kampf gegen die Islamisten aus. Die 14-jährige Norman berichtet über ihre Entführung – direkt vom Schulhof – Eine Konferenz für Kinder sollte es sein. Die Direktorin des Mädchen-Gymnasiums im syrischen Qamishli hatte Norman Ibrahim eingeladen, daran teilzunehmen und bereits alles arrangiert. Ein Mitglied der örtlichen Kurdenpartei, der Partei der Demokratischen Union (PYD), sollte die Neuntklässlerin mit dem Auto dorthin fahren. Doch Norman kam bei der Konferenz nie an. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=72616
MESOP : MOLENBEEKS HUNDERTFACH IN ENGLAND – FRANKREICH – BELGIEN & BRD
Deutsche Migrationsfunktionäre schweigen zu No-Go-Areas in Duisburg– Dortmund oder Hagen – Nicht nur, weil ihnen nichts zu städtebaulichen pro-asyl-Strategien einfällt, sondern vor allem, um beim denkbaren Scheitern nicht verantwortlich zitiert werden zu können.
Hunderte Molenbeeks? In Frankreich
Frankreich hat Angst, dass der nächste Terror-Anschlag aus seinen eigenen Vorstädten kommt.
30.03.2016 – FAZ – Michael Wiegel – Nach den Terroranschlägen in Belgien streiten die regierenden Sozialisten in Paris darüber, ob französische Vorstädte mit dem Brüsseler Stadtteil Molenbeek verglichen werden können.Angestoßen hat die Debatte der sozialistische Minister für Städtebau, Patrick Kanner, der in einem Fernsehgespräch „mögliche Ähnlichkeiten“ mit Molenbeek in etwa „hundert Vierteln in Frankreich“ ausmachte. In Molenbeek wuchsen die Terroristenbrüder Salah und Brahim Abdeslam sowie der mutmaßliche Drahtzieher der Paris-Anschläge, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, auf. Volltext http://www.mesop.de/?p=72632