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Title: Marines hold eight days of drills with militants in southern Syria
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URL Source: https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018 ... /US-drill-Syria-militants-tanf
Published: Sep 14, 2018
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Post Date: 2018-09-14 05:49:18 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... US marines have held eight days of unprecedented military exercises with US-backed militants in southern Syria in an attempt to send a “strong message” to Iran and Russia, a senior military official said. Colonel Sean Ryan, a US military spokesman, described the drills as “a show of force,” saying that the Pentagon had notified Russia through “deconfliction” channels to prevent “miscommunication or escalate tension”. “The exercise was conducted to reinforce our capabilities and ensure we are ready to respond to any threat to our forces within our area of operations,’” he noted. The eight days of drills ended this week at the US military outpost in Tanf, located 24 km to the west from the al-Tanf border crossing between Syria and Iraq in Homs Governorate, said Colonel Muhanad al Talaa, the commander of the US-backed Maghawir al Thawra militant group. He told Reuters the war games were the first such exercises with live-fire air and ground assault, involving hundreds of US troops and militants operating against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. Thawra claimed the drills were meant to send what he described as "a strong message to Russia and Iran" that the Americans and the militants intended to stay and confront any threats to their presence. The US presence in Tanf military base is illegal and lacks the permission of the Syrian government. Damascus, Moscow, and Tehran have repeatedly denounced the American military presence in Syria and called on the US to withdraw its marines from the base. However, the US has so far refused to pull its forces out, and even moved to deploy hundreds of more marines in Tanf earlier this month. Read more: US sends reinforcements to its Syria base after Russia warning of attack The new forces have reportedly joined “special operations troops already based in the garrison” and are going to participate in the drills amid an escalation of US-Russian tensions in Syria and Russia’s military exercises in the Mediterranean. PressTV-Russia conducts military exercises in Mediterranean Russia is conducting large-scale military drills which are said to be the largest in fifty years. Meanwhile, the CNN cited several US military officials as saying last Friday that Russia had warned the Pentagon twice in the past weeks that its forces, together with Syrian troops, were prepared to wage an attack on terrorists in the area where dozens of US troops are stationed - including those in Tanf garrison. Reacting to Moscow’s warnings, US military officials “bluntly warned Russia and Syria not to go forward with an attack within a 35-mile-wide security zone that the US maintains around Tanf,” Task & Purpose further reported. The US illegally built the military outpost in early 2016 under the pretext of fighting Daesh terrorists, but it has declared a 55 km-radius “deconfliction zone” off-limits to others, providing a safe haven for at least 50,000 militants and their families in the Rukban camp that lies within it. This is while US President Donald Trump had previously stated that he wanted American troops out of Syria as soon as possible and has also called for redirecting millions of dollars meant to help rebuild Syria to other military projects. Russian and Iranian military forces are in Syria at the official request of the Syrian government. This is while the US has involved itself in the Syrian conflict through an overt campaign meant to train and support anti-Damascus terrorists. The government of President Bashar al-Assad has repeatedly denounced the American military presence in the country and called on Washington to end what it has described as an "uninvited aggression" against Syria. Poster Comment: US presence in Syria likely demanded by Israel to preclude Arabs from routing the trouble-making squatters from Palestine.
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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
All of the trouble we see in the Middle East today has one source. It originated with the Balfour Declaration, and that trouble has been continual since the end of WW II. Need I mention any names of countries? I think not, since we all know who the real trouble makers are. ;)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡ "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson
The Mujahedeen in Afghanistan are like cousins of AQ. Those tunnels out there in the mountains were built by the CIA. We dropped a blockbuster on them but not sure what good it did, if any. ;) Wikileaks: ‘Those Tunnels The U.S Is Bombing In Afghanistan? They Were Built By The CIA’ "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡ "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson
Russia needs to announce that they are going to aid their ally Syria and wipe out the terrorists and criminals, including those from the USA that have illegally invaded Syria. Russia should allow the terrorists two weeks to leave and then using overwhelming force kill them all unless the marines and other terrorists surrender. In the UN Russia should make a speech announcing that for ten years Russia has wanted peace and attempted to be friends with the USA. Instead the USA is full of lose cannons that have broken every promise and are planning a first strike on Russia. Therefore, our nuclear bombers are in the air 24/7, our nuclear subs head for the East and West coasts of the USA and our ICBM are armed, targeting the USA and all USA military bases, and on hair trigger alert. Russia does not want war, but if that is the choice of the USA, upon their first use of nuclear weapons, the USA will cease to exist. Russia should use social media to let all Americans that they are going to die unless they have a bomb shelter stocked with a 60 day supply of food and water. Russia should short the stock market because it would crash and unless things calm down, 20 million American would spend $1 trillion building bomb shelters. After which the economy would crash. That would put the fear of god into the American public and since they would oppose war with Russia so it is doubtful that the USA would risk war by using any Nuclear weapons and they cannot win a conventional war that close to Russia.
I wonder how the guys who signed up to fight terrorists feel about fighting FOR the terrorists, training them, and being used as human shields to protect them..
#2. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
#3. To: ghostdogtxn (#2)
AQ never stopped being our boys after the Afghan war.
#4. To: BTP Holdings (#3)
#5. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
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#6. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
"After tomorrow those SOB's will never embarrass me again. That’s not a threat. That’s a promise.” – LBJ to his mistress Madeleine Brown on the eve of JFK assassination 
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