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On November 25 Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed Turkish convoy arrived in border Syrian town Azaz from Turkey. Azaz is under control of pro-Turkish terrorist groups. According to reports, Russian warplanes destroyed 20 trucks and 7 militants, 10 militants wee injured.
The Russian Air Force increased number of airstrikes over the Turkmen Mountains, Kurdish Mountains, and the Prophet Jonah Mountains of northern Latakia. According to the field reports, the Russian warplanes and their helicopter gunships have already conducted three dozen airstrikes in this area.
Meanwhile, Moscow is ready to defend its military grouping in Siria. Russian guided missile cruiser «Moskva» joint with escort ships arrived at the shore zone of Northern Latakia near Turkish border to defend Russian Air Forces from any threats. S-400 Triumf anti-aircraft weapon systems are deploying at the Russian Air Force base in Latakia.
In turn, Turkey started a military build up at the Syrian border. According to the media report, Anakra moved at least 20 additional battle tanks from the western provinces to the border with Syria.
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in coordination with the National Defense Forces (NDF) and the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA) seized the strategic Marj Al-Sultan-Hawash Al-Nawlah road that leads to the village of Marj Al-Sultan.
This success came after a series of intense firefights with the Jaysh Al-Islam and Al-Nusra terrorist groups. The terrorists retreated to the village of Marj Al-Sultan. Now, the pro-government forces are advancing to the village of Marj Al-Sultan.This point is important to launch full-scale military operations in the sector.
The pro-government forces’ mop-up operations inthe Eastern countryside of Aleppo have successfully ended in the liberation ofall the villages and farms and in the recapturing of the Aleppo-Raqqa highwaynear the Kuweires airbase. The Syria forces completely cut off the ISIS supplyroute from Raqqa.
A Prayer for Soldiers: Brave warriors, should fate find us in battle, May our cause be just. May our leaders have clear vision. May our courage not falter. May we be triumphant an earn victory as we show mercy to our enemies. May our efforts bring lasting peace. May our sacrifice be always appreciated by those we serve. May we return to our loved ones unharmed. Should we be harmed, may our wounds heal. Should we perish in the struggle, may God embrace us and find for us a place in His Kingdom.
Ejected Su-24 Pilot Was Hunted by Militants Equipped With Modern Bearings
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/military/20151126/1030814989/su-24-pilot-modern-bearings.html#ixzz3scm8DVvT
Besides obvious special forces hunting the Russian air crew, the following is another indication this provocation was a joint effort of Israel, USA, nato, and turkey.
“Representatives of the Turkish General Staff have stated that they did not share such material with the media. If so, this confirms yet again that the recordings of the Turkish pilots’ contacts with our crew that emerged today are another fake,” Maj. Gen. Konashenkov told reporters.”
Chances are the faked recordings were zionazi manufactured like most of the faked materials the zio-media has hyped in the last few years.
If you listen to the broken transmission on western MSM, particularly at the end, it sounds like it was made in a telephone scam boiler-room.
This is another version supposedly on the military emergency frequency of 243.0 MHz which is much clearer and lacks the boiler-room chatter background.
Strange, is it not, that there are two quite different versions of the same supposed radio call?
http://theaviationist.com/2015/11/24/audio-tuaf-warns-ruaf-su-24/
Also, nobody so far as I know has independently correlated the time of said transmission with the time of the SU-24 shoot down.
If you listen to the broken transmission on western MSM, particularly at the end, it sounds like it was made in a telephone scam boiler-room.
This is another version supposedly on the military emergency frequency of 243.0 MHz which is much clearer and lacks the boiler-room chatter background.
Strange, is it not, that there are two quite different versions of the same supposed radio call?
http://theaviationist.com/2015/11/24/audio-tuaf-warns-ruaf-su-24/
Also, nobody so far as I know has independently correlated the time of said transmission with the time of the SU-24 shoot down or its geographic broadcast origin. UHF 243.0 MHz is line of sight so limited in receiving range to anything but a satellite.
Terrorists in Su-24 search operation area killed – Russian Defense Ministry
“The moment our pilot was in safety the area was heavily bombed by the Russian Air Force and shelled by Syrian government forces artillery,” ministry spokesman General-Major Igor Konashenkov told a media briefing.
He stressed that terrorists and other “mysterious groups” were killed in the assault.”
https://www.rt.com/news/323578-su24-search-terrorists-killed/
By “mysterious groups”, I take it he is referring to special ops military forces or those of intelligence/security agencies. In which case we all know which countries these would belong too. Look for new memorials to the fallen being erected in tel aviv and Langley soon…
I read that as the syrian-turkmens, led by Turkish nationals who shot down the pilot as he parachuted to saftey. Are there any images of what happened there, does the area still exist? they must have pulverised them. Putin calmly confirmed at his press conference that they had been finished off. To refer to them as Turkmens gives the impression that Turkey has some say in yhe matter, better to call them mysterious groups and finish them.
The Turkish “Sultan” plays the PR game quite cleverly:
“… ANKARA, Nov 26 — RIA Novosti … President Tayyip Erdoğan said that he had proposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet in Paris on 30 November, but had not yet received a reply. …”
http://ria.ru/world/20151126/1329232699.html
“… ANKARA, Nov 26 — RIA Novosti … President Tayyip Erdoğan said that he tried to phone Russian President Vladimir Putin after the incident with Su-24, however, the conversation did not take place. …”
http://ria.ru/world/20151126/1329165390.html
(You see … “the Sultan is magnanimously forgiving the transgressor, while Putin is childishly angry” … or something like that…)
Concerning the many analyses on the background, here is a good one (by Ranj Alaaldin, a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and a Doctoral Researcher at the London School of Economics and Political Science):
Turkey has spent years allowing jihadist groups to flourish – so beware its real reasons for shooting down a Russian plane, http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/turkey-has-spent-years-allowing-jihadist-groups-to-flourish-so-beware-its-real-reasons-for-shooting-a6747161.html
I think this is a very significant development:
Russia Cuts All Military Ties With Turkey
“All military contacts with Turkey have been cut following the downing of Russia’s Su-24 military jet, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday.
“Today, in accordance with a previously made decision, all cooperation channels have been cut between the Russian Defense Ministry and the Turkish Armed Forces,” ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov told reporters.
“This concerns all ties, not just the so-called hotline that was launched in order to avoid possible air incidents during the destruction of terrorist infrastructure in Syria,” he added.”
http://sputniknews.com/military/20151126/1030815285/russia-turkey-military-ties.html
Nations do this when going to a war footing mode with another. I think the unstated meaning of this Russian declaration is that they will treat any potential threat from Turkish forces as a real threat from a nation they are essentially at war with.
IE: the Turks can expect quick retaliation for any future attacks and possibly preemptive Russian actions in situations where a potential Turk attack could materialize, such, for example, as Turk aircraft getting close enough to Russian or Syrian aircraft to be able to attack them.
It is absolutely disgusting to watch how Hollande after the yesterday instructions from Obama and the gang preparing the trap for Russia in Syria.
Cameron is massaging all day the British parliament how it is important “suddenly” to work with Russia!!!!!!!!
It is nothing else just a trap to start the WWIII.
https://www.rt.com/news/323570-hollande-meets-putin-isis/
I hope the clear brain is going to be use in this extremely dangerous game.
Fully agreed. Absolutely nothing good for Russia could come out of its “cooperation” with the Satan. How will Putin conduct himself in this particular respect is even more – in fact far more important than how he handles the isolated Turkish provocation.
listening to his speech, I’m sure he missed out quoting from the UN resolution, the very important bit about acting against ISIS under International Law and the UN Charter……..in otherwords to do what they want with no regard for Syria.
ANOTHER BIG STEP TO A MAJOR WAR- Eric Margolis
Turn to page 214 in the book “War-making for Dummies.” You will find: “plan air operations right on your neighbor’s border, zig in and zag out, make rude gestures at enemy pilots, and shoot them down if you can.”
On Tuesday this week, the inevitable air clash occurred on the Syrian-Turkish border west of Aleppo. From what we know so far, two Russian SU-24 bombers that had been pounding anti-Damascus forces on the border briefly intruded on Turkish airspace for all of 17 seconds.
Please don’t post large articles as the link is here. It has therefore bee reduced.Mod TR
http://ericmargolis.com/2015/11/another-big-step-to-a-major-war/
The article you have posted is full of MSM tosh. Maybe the author should aquaint themselves with military vs civilian air disasters and why a buffer zone where terrorists can move freely?
“Who is to blame for the latest crisis on the Turkish-Syrian border? Both sides. Neither should have been flying combat patrols over the border region. There should have been a minimum ten km buffer zone on both sides of the sensitive border.”
And give the terrorists a 10KM safe zone to martial and hide in while Turkey denies responsibility since it’s not land under their control? I don’t think so.
So margolis closes to promote zionazi propaganda as part of a supposed alternative view to that of the zio-media buggery. Good to know where he stands.
Another one bites the dust.
Correct on Margolis!
I guess some background info on Margolis would fill in, as he has been here (Canada) spouting off for the past 12-15 years at least from the Mop&Pail (I do believe that’s a Conrad The Black-owned rag).
He claims to be ex-US Marine, IIRC.
And so, what, they couldn’t find some qualified canuck, ex-mil or not , to spout off & get the sheep to bleat on his themes?
Obviously not.
He’s there as an MIC mouthpiece mockingbird, spewing any sh!t they tell him to.
The Grope & Flail is an establishment Conservative rag, for sure. It isn’t owned by Black. Black’s mouthpiece was the National Pest, but he doesn’t own anything any more. It’s interesting to listen to Black these days actually, at least on some subjects–he’s had quite the epiphany on prison and justice system reform ever since he was in the slammer.
Most Canadian papers are now owned by one company, which in turn is owned by an American hedge fund, which is running it into the ground collecting interest on its debts (which were mostly incurred from all the takeovers that led to it owning most Canadian papers). But revenue and circulation are in decline and aggressive staff cuts aren’t coming close to staunching the bleeding. Important parts of the MSM are in crisis.
Indians are familiar with Margolis from his writings on Pakistan. He is rabidly pro-jihadist. (Check out his “War At The Top of the World.”)
Margolis demonstrates a very poor understanding of both the Syrian situation and, surprisingly, geography -namely the location of the Russian air base at Latakia. He also doesn’t quite connect the border importance of a flow of munitions etc. pouring into Syria from Turkey nor the black market oil going in the reverse direction.
I must thank him though for the history lesson as I had no idea Antioch was quite so close by -I immediately went to Google maps in search of the Holy Hand-Grenade of Antioch. No luck.
As for:
“The location of this Russo-Turkish clash was very interesting, though unnoted by western media. It occurred along the southern end of a small, narrow salient of Turkish territory jutting into Syria.
The Turkish territory in question is Hatay Province: it contains the former Crusader stronghold of Antioch and the important port of Iskenderun. Hatay has been the arena of military crises since the first recorded battle there in 853 BC.
Hatay belonged to historic Syria until detached after World War I by Syria’s French colonial masters and handed to Turkey in an attempt to bribe the Turks to become French allies. Syria has long demanded the return of Hatay”
Right, Erdogan, as partial recompense you can hand it back to Syria this instant!
If you read further you will find that the entire area was to be administered by the league of nations and it was not part of turkey as it was a part of Syria.. Once the French left and Turkey got control of it, it became turkey.. Syria still claims it as part of Syria as it is like another Kurdistan where half the people are split between 2 countries.
Well (as you know) I’m not anti-Jewish. But very anti-Zionist. I still must mention that Margolis is a family name almost always of Jewish background. While there are some very important pro-Russian elements of Jewish background. There are far more pro-Zionist and pro-empire among those with Jewish backgrounds. So basically,if you see an anti-Russian report written by a person of Jewish background ,we shouldn’t be surprised at all.
http://thesaker.is/military-review-syria-nov-26-2015/comment-page-1/#comment-179797
This guy sold his soul a long time ago….nfm.
http://m.ria.ru/economy/20151126/1329072808.html :
Russia is preparing economic strike against Turkey in response to the downing of Su-24
This decision regarding Turkey is being taken according to the norms of the Law on special economic measures and will not contravene the norms of the World Trade Organisation.
“… MOSCOW, 26 November – RIA Novosti. In response to the downing of the Su-24 aircraft by the Turkish military, Russia intends to impose restrictive economic measures against Turkey which may affect the “Turkish Stream” project, the construction of nuclear power plants, the air transportation and the food supplies. …”
Concerning the “Turkish Stream” project:
“… Its construction was scheduled to begin in June, but the project is still under discussion. Russia was waiting for the formation of the government in Turkey, with which it could conduct negotiations on intergovernmental level. The government was formed on 24 November — the day the Russian Su-24 was shot down. …”
Yeah,its very doubtful that project has a future. Even without the shoot-down of the plane I thought it was doubtful. Now I think its totally a “no go”.
The U.S. Government failed to deter them through threats of criminal prosecution, and clumsy attempts to intimidate their families. Now four former Air Force drone operators-turned-whistleblowers have had their credit cards and bank accounts frozen, according to human rights attorney Jesselyn Radack.
For having the courage to come forward and expose the drone program for the indiscriminate murder that it is, 4 vets are under attack from the government they once served.
Elsewhere the former drone operators have described how their colleagues dismissed children as “fun-sized terrorists” and compared killing them to “cutting the grass before it grows too long.” Children who live in countries targeted by the drone program are in a state of constant terror, according to Westmoreland: “There are 15-year-olds growing up who have not lived a day without drones overhead, but you also have expats who are watching what’s going on in their home countries and seeing regularly the violations that are happening there, and that is something that could radicalize them.”
More here:http://thefreethoughtproject.com/drone-pilots-bank-accounts-credit-cards-frozen-feds-exposing-murder/#iocK1H5Z0vU9PStw.99
The news of the actual deployment of s-400 by russian army + video = fact + proving my earlier comment below the false information given by cassad and repeated by thesaker.
I only see 2 launchers unloaded that is 8 missiles, that is not enough to protect against a larger group of turkish fighterjets + turkish/nato revenge strikes, the moskva has a more limited range and will possibly need to leave the area to resupply, and turkish army could possibly start a hround incursion towards russian airbase therefore rusia needs to increase on the ground base security, both passive defenses and more armor.
Russia needs to think ahead and take more precautions also in the political area after isis is destroyed.
Most of the equipment between the 2 are essentially the same and they even use the very same missiles.. The S400 adds only the pantzir and stealth long range missiles which can hit targets up to like 30km.. From what I saw, Russia only brought more missiles and using the same setup they had before..
Pantsir is for base defense not for shooting down turkish fighterjets at the border far away from the base that pose a threat for russian bombers, the range of the moskva s-300 equivalent fort-m has not the same range like s-400 and has to leave the waters to resupply after some time, at that moment if you only have 8 missiles and of that 8 missiles only few are short range, your defense can be overpowered easily by deploying a higher number of attacking fighter jets and turkey has a lot of them
The Terrorists accomplishes have stopped their Syrian bombing runs.. Officially….
The Saudi’s think they can invade Syria.. ROFL!!!!!!!!!!
Ankara has been supporting terrorism and “backstabbing” Damascus for five years, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said commenting on the downing of the Russian Su-24 bomber over Syria by the Turkish Air Force on November 24.
French minister @LaurentFabius has accepted that Syrian Army (#SAA) could be part of the coalition against the #ISIS. #Syria
Hezbollah #SAA and #IRGC are at the door of (south gate) #Palmyra. This is first.
Ankara
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http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151127/1030840917/turkish-aviation-syria-su-24.html
So who is france to decide for syrian (!) army if they are allowed to defend homeland? This is sick! France should first ask permission itself to fly in syrian sky and stop funding terrorists and meddling in syrian politic affairs by demanding assad must go, i absolutely hope that assad gets re-elected by the syrians if only to mock the arrrogant western dictator alliance! Advice for syrians vote for assad.
We have seen how Turkey has once again shown that it does not respect European Values of Accountability, by arresting Journalists who have published Proof that Turkey is supplying ISIL, and this Reminds Decent People of the Shameful Tyrannical Policies of Al Qaeda Anglo-America against the Journalist Julian Assange, and against Edward Snowden who is being Persecuted for being an Patriot for the American Constitution, and it is therefore No Surprise that Al Qaeda Anglo-America has Allies such as Al Qaeda Turkey, Al Qaeda Saudi Arabia, and Terrorist ISIL.
That News Story is on the Telegraph Website, and it is Titled: Turkey arrests editors over reports Ankara supplied weapons to Syrian fighters at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/turkey/12019905/Turkey-arrests-editors-over-reports-Ankara-supplied-weapons-to-Syrian-fighters.html .
We can see how Al Qaeda Turkey wants to re establish the Ottoman Evil Empire of Tyranny and Genocide, and that this time Al Qaeda Turkey has the assistance of the Evil Anglo-American Empire, and both Al Qaeda Turkey and the Evil Anglo-American Empire are the Secret Allies of ISIL.
The other Al Qaeda Countries that are supplying ISIL are Al Qaeda Saudi Arabia and Al Qaeda Qatar, and of course the Evil Anglo-American Empire are also Secretly Supplying ISIL with Money, Weapons, and other Supplies for Terrorism.
The Terrorist Anglo-American Empire has Deliberately Created Wars in North Africa and the Middle East, because they know that this is how to create huge swarms of Refugees into Europe, and this will enable Anglo-America to better Exercise Anglo-America’s Tyranny of Europe in order to Exploit the People of Europe.
The Evil Anglo-American Empire makes the False Claim that it has a War on Terrorism, but the Truth of the matter is that Al Qaeda Anglo-America is waging Wars using Terrorism, and this is why Anglo-America is the Secret Ally of other Terrorists like ISIL and other Terrorist Groups, along with Rogue Nations such as Al Qaeda Turkey, Al Qaeda Saudi Arabia, and Al Qaeda Qatar.
Everyone, including the Evil Anglo-American Empire knows that it is also Terrorism to break International Law, and to Ignore the Sovereignty of other Countries, and this is what Al Qaeda Anglo-America is doing.
Greece is between the Saudi Arabian Allies of Albania and Turkey, and these want to Control the Islamic Sandzak Region in Montenegro and Serbia, because it would link Albanian regions of Serbia’s Province of Kosovo which share a border with Islamic Albania with the Islamic Region of Bosnia Herzegovina, and make a large Eurabian Entity on Continental Europe at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand%C5%BEak .
We know that Islamic Saudi Arabia funds Terrorists, and they have done this in the Balkans, with the Muslim Albanians and the Muslim Bosniaks of Bosnia Herzegovina, and this is Why Anglo-America wants an Independent Kosovo, and a Greater Albania which would include a part of FYROM.
The plan of Terrorist Anglo-America is to give Greece to Al Qaeda Albania and to Al Qaeda Turkey, and this will link the Middle East with the Balkans, and Al Qaeda Saudi Arabia wants to control Iraq and Syria which have a border with Al Qaeda Turkey to create a large Al Qaeda Eurabia.
This is the reason why Al Qadea Saudi Arabia wanted American President Bush to invade Iraq based Entirely on Lies, so that there could be a land link from Al Qaeda Saudi Arabia up to the Balkans at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bush,_House_of_Saud .
This was the reason for the Anglo-American break up of Yugoslavia, because of the Stategic Sandzak Region and the Illegal War on Serbia based Entirely on Lies, using the Corrupt NATO Court at The Hague to try to whitewash their Evil Scheme, and an Honest Article by a British Journalist Proves this Despite the Many Lies, and that Article is Titled: Milosevic: true or false at http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/21/tenquestionsonslobodanmilo , and at http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/feb/12/warcrimes.comment .
Anglo-America have been in Afghanistan and in Iraq for many years, and so this is why Anglo-America created ISIL to change the Legitimate Democratically Elected Government in Syria for their Terrorist Secret Ally of ISIL, even though they knew that Their Terrorism would create huge swarms of Refugees, and the Cost of this would be Paid by the Refugees, Syria, and Europe.
Looks like a 10 ton explosion with a smaller secondary explosion.. Another ammo dump blown up..
Says SAA missile and not RuAF bombing.. reported by SAA so it could be.. But this could be their entire load that came in the last month.
Huge blast follows SAA missile on Al-Qaeda “Rebels” headquarter in Daraa-Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QXeu8fGl6I&feature=youtu.be