Title: Deadly 'Occupation': Video Shows Moment Syrian Villagers Open Fire On US Patrol Source:
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A new video from the Al-Qamishli countryside was released this afternoon following a skirmish between the U.S. Armed Forces and residents of the Syrian village of Khirbat Amo, east of Qamishli in Syria's northeast.
According to a report from the Al-Hasakah Governorate, the residents of Khirbat Amo attempted to block the U.S. Armed Forces from bypassing a checkpoint belonging to the National Defense Forces (NDF) in the southern countryside of Al-Qamishli.
Below is the video of the gunfire exchange from Khirbat Amo on Wednesday:
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Al-Hasakah (Arabic: الحسكة,[1] Kurdish: Hesîçe ,حەسیچە[2][3]) also known as Al-Hasakeh, Al-Hasaka or simply Hasakah, is the capital city of the Al-Hasakah Governorate and it is located in the far northeastern corner of Syria.[4] With a population of 188,160 residents in 2004, Al-Hasakah is among the ten largest cities in Syria and the largest in the governorate. It is the administrative center of a nahiyah ("subdistrict") consisting of 108 localities with a combined population of 251,570 in 2004.[5] The NDF is the Syrian National Guard. But these people are a mixture of Kurds and others. They were ruled by Kurdish YPG until the settlement put Turks in and YPG out. The US needs to leave. Al-Hasakah has an ethnically diverse population of Kurds, Arabs and Assyrians and a smaller number of Armenians.[6][7] The Khabur River runs through Al-Hasakah and the rest of the governorate. Al-Hasakah is 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of the Turkish border-city of Qamishli. The Khabur River, a tributary of the Euphrates River flows through the city, downriver from Ras al-Ayn, another border town. The Jaghjagh River flows into the Khabur River at Al-Hasakah
The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said at least one resident of Khirbat Amo was wounded during the brief exchange. This was later updated to one civilian killed by U.S. gunfire, according to ABC News.
I got an email from a woman who was on a joint U.S./U.N. mission in Syria. She told me her team uncover a hoard of cash in U.S. Dollars. Her share was $2 Million and she said she needed help to get it out of the country. I smelled a scam coming on so I deleted the message. She did send a few nice pics of her holding a bull pup rifle. :-/
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
That's a chestnut which has made the rounds so often that almost no one bothers to respond to it.
In actuality, the US has done much to set the Kurds on their feet and to such an extent that it's now the Kurds that are pumping and making the dough off of the delapidated oil fields in the east of Syria where most of the petroleum is at.
The way things stand at this point, Erdogan can't rip product off and truck it through Turkey where his kids can offload it, at a handsome profit, to waiting tankers on the Med coast. That makes the quasi-Ottoman dictator wanna tear his hair out.
Ada, you're a nice person, and you are welcome to parrot whatever gratuitous statements the president might make.
Although we protect that ground for the Kurds, in no wise do we pump, distribute, or process that oil.
We have tons of the stuff, and what comes out of the ground in Syria is produced in relatively primitive circumstances and in low quantities.
It does keep our friends afloat there though, and a good case can be made that the Kurds have some rights to those assets when you come right down to it.
"We took the oil” is a well known and very creaky bromide for the kind of shit Erdogan was up to, which was stealing and reselling the oil.
We do help the Kurds hold the territory in question, which business I don't cotton to at all except insofar as it keeps our NATO partner, Erdogan, on a short leash.
Jesus H. He's letting the Russians run a gas pipeline through Turkey, and had bought their S-400 anti-aircraft systems in lieu of making a deal with his biggest NATO partner.
He's placing himself in opposition to his benefactors on both sides in Libya. Soon he will be squashed between the two large beasts that he is toying with.
He is an Islamic megalomaniac. With most his air force in prison following the '16 coup attempt he is going to have a hard time toughing it out against Putin in Syria.
He has certainly pissed Washington off. Sometimes I think they are just stringing him along until he does something so stupid that he is deposed or otherwise disposed of.