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
#1: Ada To: Horse (#0)
Ada posted on 2020-02-12 16:32:52 Reply Private Reply
#2: randge To: Horse (#0)
I guess we clipped someone in that exchange.
Seems he didn't make it.
Remind me again WTF we're doing over there.
randge posted on 2020-02-12 16:52:43 Reply Private Reply
#3: Ada To: randge (#2)
Bringing them democracy.
And stealing their oil.
Ada posted on 2020-02-12 17:00:38 Reply Private Reply
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BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-12 17:23:19 Reply Private Reply
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Horse posted on 2020-02-12 18:31:53 Reply Private Reply
#6: randge To: Ada (#3)
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.
But still and all, no reason for us to be there.
randge posted on 2020-02-12 19:40:26 Reply Private Reply
#7: BTP Holdings To: Horse (#5)
OK But this was found money. Finders keepers? ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-12 20:05:17 Reply Private Reply
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Horse posted on 2020-02-12 20:11:24 Reply Private Reply
#9: Ada To: randge (#6)
"We are keeping the oil. We have the oil. The oil is secure. We left troops behind only for the oil." ~ President Trump.
Ada posted on 2020-02-13 10:53:31 Reply Private Reply
#10: randge To: Ada (#9)
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.
randge posted on 2020-02-13 11:43:33 Reply Private Reply
#11: Ada To: randge (#10)
Didn't say we did. We took the oil to prevent the legitimate Syrian government from taking control of it and using it to rebuild their country.
Ada posted on 2020-02-13 14:01:34 Reply Private Reply
#12: BTP Holdings To: Ada (#11)
Where did the oil go once it crossed into Turkey? I'll give you a hint. It went over to that shitty little country. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-13 15:06:43 Reply Private Reply
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Ada posted on 2020-02-13 15:09:26 Reply Private Reply
#14: BTP Holdings To: Ada (#13)
Even if it is by tacit and unlawful conveyance to that SLC? LOL
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-02-13 15:12:56 Reply Private Reply
#15: randge To: Ada (#11)
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.
randge posted on 2020-02-13 17:36:27 Reply Private Reply
#16: Ada To: randge (#15)
Erdogan was flirting with Russia so allowing him to attack Syria was the bribe needed to haul him back.
Ada posted on 2020-02-13 19:20:42 Reply Private Reply
#17: randge To: Ada (#16)
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.
randge posted on 2020-02-14 19:38:25 Reply Private Reply