Russia has begun its military intervention in Syria - Plan attacks against Rebels and ISIS

[Kamanda wa Kweli]

Is that so boss???? Hahaha....me nacheki hii movie tuu

 

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http://app.debka.com/n/article/2488...-predated-Russia¡¯s-military-buildup-in-Syria

 

[Kibanga Ampiga Mkoloni]

[h=1]Putin's offer to shield & develop Israel's gas fields predated Russia's military buildup in Syria[/h]

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More than a fortnight ago, Russian President Vladimir put a proposition to Israel for Moscow to undertake responsibility for guarding Israel's Mediterranean gas fields, along with the offer of a Russian investment of $7-10 billion for developing Leviathan, the largest well, and building a pipeline to Turkey for exporting the gas to Europe, debkafile reports. The offer was made to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in confidential phone conversations and through quiet envoys.
At the time, Putin did not share with Netanyahu his plans for an imminent buildup of marines, air force units, warships and missiles in Syria, although the plan had been worked out in detail with Tehran in late July. The Russian ruler put it this way: Leviathan abuts on the fringes of Lebanon's economic water zone and is therefore vulnerable to potential sabotage by Iran, Syria or Hizballah, whether by commando or rocket attack.
A multibillion Russian investment in the field would make it a Russian project which neither Syria nor Hizballah would dare attack, even though it belongs to Israel.
But now the situation has assumed a different face. Russian forces are streaming to Latakia, and Moscow has declared the area from Tartous, Syria up to Cyprus closed to shipping and air traffic from Sept. 15 to Oct. 7 in view of a "military exercise including test firings of guided missiles" from Russian warships.
When he offered a shield for Israeli gas fields in late August, The Russian ruler knew that implementation would rest with Russian military forces on the spot, rather than Iranian and Syrian reluctance to harm Russian interests.
Then, on Aug. 30, Netanyahu discussed the new Russian proposition with Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi when they met in Florence, in the context of the former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's involvement in Middle Eastern and European energy business and his close ties with Putin.
Berlusconi and Netanyahu are also good friends.
The Israeli prime minister never explicitly confirmed to Putin that he would consider the Russian transaction.
He hesitated because he sensed that a deal with Moscow for gas projects would be unacceptable to Washington and Noble Energy of Texas, which holds a 39.66 percent share in the consortium controlling Leviathan, as well as stakes in the smaller Tanin and Tamar gas wells.
Meanwhile, two Israeli ministers, Moshe Kahlon, finance, and Arye Deri, economy, consistently obstructed the final government go-ahead for gas production, tactics which also held Netanyahu back from his reply to Putin.
But when the fresh influx of Russian troops and hardware to Syria became known (first revealed by debkafile on Sept.1), Netanyahu began to appreciate that, not only had Israel's military and strategic situation with regard to Syria and the eastern Mediterranean been stood on its head, so too had foreign investment prospects for development projects in Israeli gas.
Israel's strategic landscape had in fact changed radically in four respects:
1. Its government can no longer accept as a working hypothesis (which never, incidentally, held up) the short term expectancy of the Assad regime. The injection of Russian military might, combined with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards forces, have given Assad a substantial lease of life.
The Israel Defense Forces must therefore revamp its posture on the Syrian front, and reassess its sponsorship of the select rebel groups which are holding the line in southern Syria against hostile Iranian or Hizballah cross-border attacks on northern Israel.
The changing attitude was suggested in views heard in the last couple of days from top Israeli security officials, who now say that leaving Assad in office might be the better option, after all.
2. The new Russian ground, air and sea buildup taking shape in Syria provides a shield not just for the Assad regime but also Hizballah. This too calls for changes in Israel's military posture.
3. The Russian military presence in Syria seriously inhibits Israel's flexibility for launching military action against Iranian or Hizballah targets when needed.
4. Three aspects of the new situation stand out prominently:
a) The Russian air force and navy are the strongest foreign military force in the eastern Mediterranean. The US deplloys nothing comparable.
b) Israel's military strength is substantial but no one is looking for a military clash with the Russians, although this did occur four decades ago, when Israel was fighting for its life against Russian-backed Arab invasions.
c) In view of the prevalence of the Russian military presence in the eastern Mediterranean, it is hard to see any foreign investor coming forward to sink billions of dollars in Israeli gas.
d) Although Russia called Saturday, Sept. 12, for "military-to-military cooperation with the United States" to avert "unintended incidents" amid its naval "exercises" off the coast of Syria, the tone of the call was cynical. It is more than likely that Moscow may revert to the original Putin offer of a Russian defense shield for Israeli gas fields. But with such strong Russian cards in place in Syria, he may well stiffen his terms for this deal.

 

[Kibanga Ampiga Mkoloni]

[h=1]Russia eludes US ban on NATO airspace by roundabout route to Syria via Iraq and Iran[/h]

Moscow has opened a new roundabout route for its ongoing military airlift from Sevastopol in Crimea and other bases in southern Russia to the Syrian Mezze Airbase in Damascus, debkafile’s exclusive military and intelligence sources disclose.
This route runs over the Caspian Sea and northern Iran and Iraq and terminates with deliveries at Damascus and the new Russian air and ground base at Jablah, near the Syrian port of Latakia.
The Russians have in this way circumvented the strong US applications to Turkey, Greek, Bulgaria and Cyprus, to close their airspace to Russian shipments for its military buildup in Syria.
Washington’s actions had two results – one less and the other more desirable.
1. Tehran and Baghdad have both been pulled into directly supporting the Russian military interventkion in Syria, after Iraq was bullied by Iran to turn down the US request to close its northern skies to Russian shipments.
Washington refrained from addressing this request to Iran, in keeping with its policy of avoiding strains on relations until the nuclear deal was endorsed in Washington and Tehran.
As a result, heavy Russian transports are flying over parts of Iraq where US forces, including ground intelligence teams for guiding US air strikes against ISIS, are deployed. This makes accidental collisions in the sky a real danger. The Americans have therefore slowed down their aerial war on ISIS.
2. The need for a roundabout air route to Syria has substantially raised the cost of the Russian military expedition. A direct flight over the Mediterranean spans 1,025 km, which the Russian AN-124 (Condor) can cover in two hours. The long way round is three times as long – more than 2,900 km – and takes six hours.
Washington’s challenge to Moscow over air routes to Syria is their first military confrontation over Syria and the new Russian military buildup.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest warned Tuesday night, Sept. 8: “The Russian military buildup would risk confrontation with the counter-ISIL coalition that included the United States.”
He was repeating a similar warning issued a few days ago by Secretary of State John Kerry.
Explicit American threats of a military showdown with Russia over the Middle East is the sort of language not heard for four decades since the 1973 Yom Kippur War which Israel fought against Egypt and Syria.

 

[Kibanga Ampiga Mkoloni]

[h=1]Russian submarine with 20 ICBMs and 200 nuclear warheads is sailing to Syria[/h]

The world's largest submarine, the Dmitri Donskoy (TK-208), Nato-coded Typhoon, has set sail for the Mediterranean and is destined for the Syrian coast, debkafile reports exclusively from its military and intelligence sources. Aboard the sub are 20 Bulava (NATO-code SS-N-30) intercontinental ballistic missiles with an estimated up to 200 nuclear warheads. Each missile, with a reported range of 10,000km, carries 6-10 MIRV nuclear warheads.
The Russian sub set sail from its northern base on Sept. 4, escorted by two anti-sub warfare ships. Their arrival at destination in 10 days time will top up the new Russian military deployment in Syria.
President Vladimir Putin's introduction of a nuclear force opposite Syrian shores builds up what first looked like an operation to fortify Assad's regime in Damascus into a military expedition capable of an air and sea confrontation with US forces in the Middle East.
US Secretary of State John Kerry suggested as much Saturday, Sept. 5, when he expressed concern over reports of Russia's "increasing military build-up in Syria" in a phone call to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The State Department reported: "The Secretary made clear that if such reports were accurate, these actions could further escalate the conflict, lead to greater loss of innocent life, increase refugee flows and risk confrontation with the anti-ISIL coalition operation in Syria."
Kerry was referring to potential Russian interference with US-led coalition air strikes against the Islamic State in Syria.
debkafile's sources in Washington and Moscow report that the dispatch of a nuclear sub to Syrian waters is taken as a strong message that the Kremlin will not let the US impede its military intervention in the Syrian conflict and will go to extreme lengths to keep the way open for the flow of Russian troops to the war-torn country.
This situation has gone a long way beyond Obama administration intentions when US-Russian talks were initially held for US forces posted in Turkey and Iraq, together with the Russian troops arriving in Syria, to launch a combined effort against the Islamic State. Those talks came to naught.
In its coming issue out Friday, Sept. 11, DEBKA Weekly 678 will reveal for the first time how Putin intends to array the Russian forces he is consigning to Syria, their operational planning, their military coordination with Iran and, above all, how the new Russian intervention in Syria may impact US Middle East policy and Israel.
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[Kibanga Ampiga Mkoloni]

[h=1]Four parties caused Syria's genocidal calamity. Should Israel get involved?[/h]

Chapter by chapter, a long list of the guilty parties must bear responsibility for the Syrian catastrophe hacking the ruined country into bleeding parts.
1. The first culprit is undoubtedly its insensate president Bashar Assad and his close family, who have had no qualms about spilling the blood of some 300,000 men, women, children and old people – some estimate as many as half a million – and making some 11 million people homeless, to keep himself in power. No one has ever counted the number of people maimed and crippled by the war, but they are conservatively estimated at one million.
These figures add up to genocide or serial mass murder, which has been allowed to go into its fifth year.
2. Iran warrants second billing for this mass crime.
Tehran has laid out the stupendous sum of some $40 billion to keep the mass marderer Assad in power with total disregard for his methods of survival. The motives behind the ayatollahs' military and political boost are well recorded. Worth mentioning here is that Tehran not only pressed its Lebanese proxy, the Shiite Hizballah group, into service alongside Assad's army, but sent its its own generals to orchestrate the war, led by the Al Qods Brigades chief Qassem Soleimeni.
We can reveal here that 22 Iranian generals have died fighting for the Assad cause.
3. The third place belongs to the United States and President Barack Obama. His refusal to put American boots on the ground may have been the correct decision for the US, but it had four direct consequences:
a) The slaughter of the Syrian people continued unchecked. Even after President Obama declared that chemical warfare was a red line, he backed down at the last minute against intervening and ordered the US fleet to draw back from the Syrian coast.
To this day, Assad continues to use chemical weapons to poison his enemies.
b) Obama and his Secretary of State John Kerry let Iran use its military backing for Assad as a high card in the negotiations for a nuclear accord. Instead of making it a condition for a deal against the lifting of sanctions, Washington allowed Tehran to come away from the table with US non-intervention in Syria as one of its concessions for buying Iran's assent to the Vienna deal.
Tehran, in a word, won Washington's tacit approval for propping up the atrocious Syrian ruler.
c) The rest of the world, including the United Nations and the European Union, followed the Obama administration's lead and stood aside as at least 11 million Syrians became homeless refugees.
The lifeless body of a three-year old Syrian child washed up from the sea has figured in the Western media as a symbol of the tragic fate of Syria's refugees. However, his tragedy came after the hair-raising atrocities endured by millions of those refugees for nearly five years.
Many families were forced to sell their daughters as sex slaves to buy food, their young sons to pedophile predators. The slave markets were centered on the Persian Gulf. Young Alan Kurdi died aged three. Many thousands of Syrian refugee children still live in appalling circumstances. No humanitarian organization has started an outcry or a campaign to rescue them.
d) US refusal to intervene in the most savage humanitarian tragedy the world has seen for many decades opened the door to the belligerent branch of al Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, to march into the vacuum. The videotaped records of beheadings, the massacre of the Iraqi Yazdi people, the enslavement of its women and the burning alive of "apostates," followed in quick succession.
The strongest nation in the world fought back with an ineffective trickle of air strikes on ISIS targets, allowing the group to go forward to conquer terrain and gain in strength.
4. Russia bears a heavy weight of guilt - and Israel would do well to watch its cynical conduct and draw the right conclusions. Like the ayatollahs, President Vladimir Putin led the second world power to total commitment for keeping Bashar Assad in power. Among other motivations, Putin pursued this policy to settle a score with Obama for the overthrow of Libya's Muammar Qaddafi.
With one world power on the sidelines and a second jumping in with two feet, the Syrian imbroglio was bound to have devastating historical repercussions.
Throughout the Syrian conflict, Israel refrained from interfering, with only one exception: It supported Syrian rebel groups holding a strip of southern Syria, as a buffer against Iranian, Hizballah and Syrian army encroachment on its northern borders.
More than a thousand injured Syrians were treated and their lives saved in Israeli hospitals after receiving first aid at a field hospital on the Israeli-Syria border.
The esteemed Israeli historian Prof. Shlomo Avinery said Sunday, Sept 6, that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu did the right thing in steadfastly keeping Israel out of the Syrian conflict. He very much doubted that Syrian refugees would seek asylum in a country they regard as the Zionist enemy.
Israel's opposition leader Isaac Herzog nonetheless urged the government to take in a limited number of Syrian asylum seekers from among those flooding into Europe, and not to forget that "we are Jews."
One wonders why he never had a word to say about US dereliction when Assad committed his atrocities across Israel's border.
Herzog's favorite advice to Netanyahu is to go to Washington right now, beard President Obama in the Oval Office and hammer out an agreed policy on Iran.
Netanyahu referred to the Syrian refugee crisis at the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday: "While Israel is not indifferent to the human tragedy of refugees from Syria and Africa, it is a small country that cannot throw its doors open to them," he said.
"We have conscientiously treated thousands of wounded from the fighting in Syria, and we have helped them rebuild their lives," the prime minister recalled. "But Israel is a very small country, with neither demographic nor geographic depth, and therefore we must control our borders."
Regarding a visit to Washington, the prime minister has a problem: Just as President Obama has not invited any Syrian refugees to come to America, he has not issued Netanyahu with an invitation to come to DC, whether to discuss the Iranian or the Syrian questions.

 

[GeniSys101]

mwaka 2011 tulibishana sana humu,watu wakawa wanadai assad amekwisha ,hana mda atapigwa chini,tukawambia syria ya assad ni muhimu sana kwa russia,na hatakubali assad aangushwe,leo mwaka wa 5 mambo ndio yanaanza kuwa mambo,,,,,,,

Wamarekani wanataka Assad aondoke kwa sababu anatia mguu kati kupitishwa kwa bomba la gesi toka qatar na nchi nyingine za iliyokuwa urusi ya kisovieti (kama sijakosea) lengo ikiwa ni kuuwa monopoly ya urusi(Gazprom) kwenye gesi soko la ulaya na hivyo kuisambaratisha urusi kiuchumi. Jambo hili huyu nguli Vlad Putin hakubaliani nalo hata kidogo… ngoja wakubwa wapimane ubavu kidogo tuone inakuaje

 

[GeniSys101]

Mtasubiri sana Russia kuwa mbabe kwa USA

Kwa hali ilivyo sasa Urusi hawezi kuwa mbabe kwa mmarekani. Lakini pia mmarekani hawezi kumgusa mrusi moja kwa unless its the last option kwa sababu urusi ndo nchi pekee yenye uwezo wa kuifanya marekani yote kuwa majivu

 

[Kibanga Ampiga Mkoloni]

Kwa hali ilivyo sasa Urusi hawezi kuwa mbabe kwa mmarekani. Lakini pia mmarekani hawezi kumgusa mrusi moja kwa unless its the last option kwa sababu urusi ndo nchi pekee yenye uwezo wa kuifanya marekani yote kuwa majivu

Wamarekani wanataka Assad aondoke kwa sababu anatia mguu kati kupitishwa kwa bomba la gesi toka qatar na nchi nyingine za iliyokuwa urusi ya kisovieti (kama sijakosea) lengo ikiwa ni kuuwa monopoly ya urusi(Gazprom) kwenye gesi soko la ulaya na hivyo kuisambaratisha urusi kiuchumi. Jambo hili huyu nguli Vlad Putin hakubaliani nalo hata kidogo… ngoja wakubwa wapimane ubavu kidogo tuone inakuaje

Na kwa mujibu wa Article hapo juu, Hii ya kuruhusu marekani kuweka kibaraka wao Syria itakuwa ni optional ya mwisho , bora kupigana na watu wafe kuliko mrusi kuruhusu Ulaya ipate gas na mafuta kutoka Uarabuni.

Pia kuna issue ya Mafuta Israel kisma kilichopo kwenye eneo la bahari la lebanon, hili pia hakuna wa kuwekeza hapo maana labanon lazima ataharibu tu na atakaye ekeza atapata hasara.

 

[kilwakivinje]

Hii kitu nzito sana

 

[Awadh Samuel Kiwelu]

Vita vya kimaslahi.

 

[ikisimama panda]

togwa limeingia nzi

 

[Sexer]

mwaka 2011 tulibishana sana humu,watu wakawa wanadai assad amekwisha ,hana mda atapigwa chini,tukawambia syria ya assad ni muhimu sana kwa russia,na hatakubali assad aangushwe,leo mwaka wa 5 mambo ndio yanaanza kuwa mambo,,,,,,,

Huyo assad kwa sasa anatawala kata moja tu kuke syria

 

[Kiyoya]

For the wellbeing of third world countries I would rather wish Russia to win this war

 

[SirChief]

syria ipo na itakuwepo,hii si vita ya kwanza syria,uwepo wa syria hautegemei uwepo wa asad

Majibu mepesi ayo yasiyozingatia uhalisia.....Syria ya wakati huo iliyokuwa inaitishia had israel sio hii....imekwisha kabisa,ni magofu tu na jina ndo vilivyobaki

 

[SirChief]

Hivi Kuna ushahidi unaojitosheleza ambao unathibitisha serikali ya Assad kutumia ile sumu ya chlorine? Kwa aliyetumia hiyo sumu hakika kafanya unyama usiostahili kuvumiliwa machoni kwa wapenda amani na haki kwa hii dunia.

bbc na aljazeera walitangaza witness walizungumza pia....helcopta ya serikali ilipita baada ya muda flani watu walikufa bila kuwa na majeraha yyte ya mabomu....thats means ile helcopta ilimwaga chlorine na wataalam walithibitisha ilo

 

[Econometrician]

bbc na aljazeera walitangaza witness walizungumza pia....helcopta ya serikali ilipita baada ya muda flani watu walikufa bila kuwa na majeraha yyte ya mabomu....thats means ile helcopta ilimwaga chlorine na wataalam walithibitisha ilo

BBC na Aljazeera haviwezi kuwa sahihi vipo bias,kwa masilahi na U.S.A,EUROPE NA BAADHI YA NCHI ZA KIARABU

 

[Elungata]

Russian elite units on the land of Zabadani, Homs, Hama and Aleppo
19/09/2015 4:45 am
*.Moscow began “quiet support” to the Syrian regime
*.A Russian “stormy support” would follow to regain the initiative on the ground and recovery main cities
http://www.alraimedia.com/ar/article /special-reports/2015/09/19/620996 /nr/syria
Damascus – Elijah J. Magnier:
“Al-Rai” learned that “Special Elite Russian combat forces arrived to Hama, Aleppo, Homs, Damascus, as well as Zabadani to monitor, participate and study the military map on the field and suggest future workflow Combat plans. These Special Forces submit to the operating room suggestions to determine the full plan to start the flow of further Russian special combat forces and troops on the battlefield all over the Syrian map where it is necessary”.
This development will be the largest Russian external military intervention since Afghanistan in 1979.
A very senior field commander around Zabadani city said that “there are small Russian combat units, mostly sniper unit that we call the “Ivan unit”, another reconnaissance unit, a unit of urban warfare, and advanced missiles unit in the area of ​operations run by the Syrian Army. ”
Ivan and Yulia belong to a Russian sniper unit that came recently to Zabadani. At the end of the day, the team left after shooting 4 deadly bullets. “I return to Aleppo where there is more action than Zabadani. Here there isn’t much left”, said Yulia before leaving Zabadani, according to the source.
“Russia is beginning with what we define as a” quiet support ” supplying advanced technology and preparing a spearhead force before reaching a further level we call the” stormy Support “. We expect a large presence of troops that will be supported by Russian Air Force. There are around 2500 Russian fighters, military expert and consultant in Syria. The number is expected to go much higher in the near future “, confirm the source that is in contact with the Russian units on the Syrian ground

 

[Elungata]

Hii kitu nzito sana

ni nzito sana,Netanyau anakwenda moscow kesho kujaribu kumbembeleza putin asilete wanajeshi wake kwani wanufaika ni hizbullah na wanaweza kutumia silaha dhidi ya israel,lakini wiki moja iliyopita putin alitoa offer kuvilinda visima vya gase vya israel dhidi ya hizbullah iwapo israel itakubali kuiachia russia iwekeze katika visima hivyo na pia watajenga bomba la gase kutoka visima hivyo mpaka europe iwapo tui israel itakubali russia ndo wawe wawekezaji.
kwani ikionekana warusi ndo wanalinda eneo hilo la gesi hizb hawawezi kushambulia...
kumbuka eneo hilo la gase israel imelipora toka lebanon,na hezb wanadai ni eneo la lebanon

 

[Elungata]

Israel troubled by potential conflict with Russian forces in Syria | The Times of Israel