Mongoose: ISIS Leader “We Are Funded By The Obama Administration”
02 China, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 06 Russia, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 09 Terrorism, 10 Transnational Crime, Corruption, Government, Ineptitude, IO Deeds of War, Military, Officers Call
ISIS Leader: We Are Funded By The Obama Administration
Yousaf al Salafi, a man believed to be the Pakistani commander of Islamic State (ISIS), claims that confessed that he has been receiving money through the United States. Al-Salafi made his claims during an interrogation by the Pakistani government. Salafi confessed that he “received money to recruit young people to fight in Syria and that the United States paid him $600 a head for anyone that joined.” Michael Flynn, former director of Obama’s Defense Intelligence Agency, said in the months following al Salafi’s admission that he warned the Obama administration three years ago that the groups they were funding in Syria were actually Islamic jihadists.
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Robert Young Pelton: Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Immigration, IO Deeds of Peace
I am working on MOAS.EU 59 million people are considered displaced. Lot of people.
Our new ship arrives in the Aegean on the 18th
Europe may turn its back on refugees this winter. But our rescuers won’t
Mongoose: Classifying History for the Wrong Reasons — the Dangers of Secrecy as an Enabler of Inadvertent Nuclear War
04 Inter-State Conflict, 06 Russia, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Security, 11 Society, Corruption, Government, Idiocy, IO Deeds of War, Officers Call, Peace Intelligence[UK] Security chiefs block release of report on 1983 Soviet nuclear scare
Security chiefs are trying to block the release of documents that would shed fresh light on how Britain and the US came close to provoking a Soviet nuclear attack. They are insisting that a report, The Detection of Soviet Preparations for War Against Nato, must remain secret. The report was drawn up by the joint intelligence committee (JIC) after a Nato military exercise codenamed Able Archer 83.
Chuck Spinney: Turks Ambushed Russians – Analysis by Pierre Sprey in Conversation with Andrew Cockburn
04 Inter-State Conflict, IO Deeds of War
While circumstances of the recent shoot-down of the Russian SU-24 by a Turkish F-16 in the border region of Turkey and Syria remain murky, this is best analysis that I have seen to date. Be warned, however: I am biased, both the interviewer and the interviewee are good friends of mine. The map below may help you to follow the discussion.
Pepe Escobar: How Russia is Smashing the Turkish Game in Syria
04 Inter-State Conflict, 06 Russia, 08 Wild Cards
How Russia is Smashing the Turkish Game in Syria
The latest news from Russia’s Defense Ministry has struck like a volcanic eruption; the Erdogan family mob was branded as “criminals”, with Moscow presenting only an appetizer of the all the evidence it has in store.
