Military Bosses Warned Generalissimo Pigfinder About His Hot Air

[bryant.coleman]

Putin for PM: 4 out of 5 say they would prefer Russian president than Cameron as UK leader

It was an internet poll on a right-wing daily, so I don't think that the results represent the general population. Most of the voters were White, educated and male. That said, the ordinary British don't share the amount of Russophobia, which is being shown by American puppet Cameron and the remaining members of his government.

[galdur]

Yes, I know, it´s an internet poll. But it´d be interesting to see polls of the general populations both sides of the Atlantic. But of course we won´t see that, it would be too embarrassing.

What I find especially encouraging in this growing popularity of Mr. Putin here in the west is that the garbage media isn´t feeding the masses so well anymore. People are using more reliable sources nowadays to form their opinions.

[bryant.coleman]

What I find especially encouraging in this growing popularity of Mr. Putin here in the west is that the garbage media isn´t feeding the masses so well anymore. People are using more reliable sources nowadays to form their opinions.

A large part of the population in Western nations such as the United Kingdom no longer trusts these mainstream media sources, such as the BBC News and the Telegraph. They are tired of all the pro-NATO crap and therefore they are depending on social media to get the accurate and up to date information. Only the pensioners and the less educated are depending on the mainstream media right now.

[galdur]

Tony Blair and crap of the same ilk around him is normally only to be used as counter-indicators, but in this I think they have some valid points. And they´re probably not less reliable than the current deviant junk in charge there in London.

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Think Tank: Most Syrian Rebel Groups Ideologically Similar to ISIS
Tony Blair-run Group Warns 15 Major Rebel Factions Could Replace ISIS

by Jason Ditz, December 20, 2015

A new report from the Centre on Religion and Geopolitics, a think tank that is part of the “Tony Blair Faith Foundation,” is warning that the military defeat of ISIS, while nominally desirable in and of itself, will do materially nothing to stop the Islamist takeover of the region.

The report says a third of the rebel factions, representing roughly 60% of rebel fighters, are ideologically similar to ISIS, and that 15 different rebel factions would eagerly step in and fill the vacuum if ISIS was defeated militarily.

Exactly how broadly they define “ideologically similar” is unclear, but the report appears to focus on Salafist movements, which would include several major rebel factions, including al-Qaeda’s Jabhat al-Nusra and the Saudi-backed Ahrar al-Sham.

Ironically, at times a lot of these Salafist groups have been presented by Western officials as “moderates,” and as the allies who could be used to defeat ISIS. While that may be technically true, the think tank warns the defeat of ISIS doesn’t really end anything, but simply props up another, ideologically compatible faction in their place.

http://news.antiwar.com/2015/12/20/think-tank-most-syrian-rebel-groups-ideologically-similar-to-isis/

[galdur]

Pigfinder in mourning, this little piggy moderate terrorist got vaporized

Zahran Alloush: Top Syrian rebel leader killed in Damascus air strike

A top Syrian rebel leader and head of the most powerful insurgent group in the eastern suburbs of Damascus has been killed in an aerial raid that targeted the group's headquarters, rebel sources and the Syrian army say.

The death of Zahran Alloush, head of Jaysh al Islam (Army of Islam) is a big blow to rebel control of the rural eastern suburban area of Damascus known as al Ghouta, the rebels said.

Defence experts said the disarray among the rebel forces could also consolidate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's control over the rest of the area.

Several rebel leaders have been killed since Russia began an aerial campaign on September 30 in support of its ally Mr Assad, although Moscow has insisted that it is concentrating its attacks on Islamic State.

The rebel sources said that in the raid Russian planes targeted a secret headquarters of the group, which is the largest rebel faction in the area and has about 15,000 to 20,000 fighters according to Western intelligence.

Jaysh al Islam has effectively been running the administration of the Eastern Ghouta area since 2013, when the group was formed from an amalgamation of scores of rebel brigades.

The rebels said Alloush was killed while holding a meeting with other rebel leaders in the Marj area in al-Ghouta that has been the target of a major Syrian assault in the last few weeks.

Jaysh al Islam was one of the main rebel groups that attended a recent Saudi-backed opposition meeting in Riyadh and will be negotiating with Mr Assad's government in Geneva. ...

[bryant.coleman]

Pigfinder in mourning, this little piggy moderate terrorist got vaporized

Oh... I see, Zahran Alloush from the Army of Islam. This is the same group which threatened to exterminate all the Shiites, Jews, and Christians residing in Syria. According to Zahran Alloush, the Syrian Shiites are more "infidel" then the Jews and the Christians. Good riddance of deviant scum by the Syrian Air Force.

[galdur]

Pigfinder in mourning, this little piggy moderate terrorist got vaporized

Oh... I see, Zahran Alloush from the Army of Islam. This is the same group which threatened to exterminate all the Shiites, Jews, and Christians residing in Syria. According to Zahran Alloush, the Syrian Shiites are more "infidel" then the Jews and the Christians. Good riddance of deviant scum by the Syrian Air Force.

Yeah, he headed one of the biggest terrorist shitpiles that garbage media and political nutcases call "moderate opposition".

[galdur]

Je Ne Regrette ISIS: Cameron Stands By Failed Libya Intervention

by BREITBART LONDON26 Dec 2015



Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron has doubled down on his decision to use British military assets to intervene, alongside France, in Libya in 2011.

The intervention toppled the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, leading to the death of the one-time fair-weather friend of the United Kingdom and United States.

Arguably however, the intervention also gave way to the takeover of Libya by Islamic State terrorists, and prompted major, trans-Atlantic incidents such as the Benghazi scandal, and contributed to Europe’s migrant crisis.

But Mr. Cameron appears to have no regrets about his major role in sparking these crises. In an interview with the Spectator magazine’s Christmas edition, he claimed: “I would say that Libya is better off without Gaddafi. What we were doing was preventing a mass genocide.”

And despite taking to the streets of Benghazi to celebrate in September 2011, Mr. Cameron now claims: “It takes time. There just aren’t any easy answers with any of these things. Whether you are looking at Libya or Syria or Iraq or Nigeria or Somalia, you have to try and build governance and government.”

He was asked: “Knowing what you know now, would you have gone ahead with the Libyan operation?” to which he replied, “Yes because Gaddafi was going to massacre his own people.”

The Spectator noted:

Libya has been in the news again over Christmas: the UN Security Council has endorsed a new government but as Peter Oborne found out when he visited Benghazi, the city that David Cameron addressed after his 2011 bombing campaign (video above), there isn’t much government to speak of. The World Food Programme says that 2.4m Libyans will need humanitarian assistance; the country’s population is 6.2m. Its economy shrank by 25pc last year alone and private enterprise is collapsing: the state now employs 80pc of Libyans. At the height of the 2011 uprising there were about 17,000 militiamen: today they number in the hundreds of thousands and they’re tearing Libya apart.

His comments haven’t been received well by readers of the magazine, traditionally a Conservative Party supporting audience.

One Facebook user responded: “Self- justification. Ask Blair and Bush whether it was right to invade Iraq and Afghanistan and you know what the answer is going to be”, while another added: “Cameron, Blair…both unprincipled, treacherous cowards.”

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/12/26/je-ne-regrette-isis-cameron-stands-by-failed-libya-intervention/

[galdur]

UK Government attempting to keep details of secret security pact with Saudi Arabia hidden from public

Exclusive: Theresa May agreed to ‘memorandum of understanding’ with Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef last year

The British Government signed a secret security pact with Saudi Arabia and is now attempting to prevent details of the deal from being made public.

The Home Secretary Theresa May agreed to the so-called ‘memorandum of understanding’ with her Saudi counter-part Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef during a visit to the Kingdom last year.

The Home Office released no details of her trip at the time or announced that the deal had been signed. The only public acknowledgement was a year later in a Foreign Office report which obliquely referenced an agreement to “modernise the Ministry of the Interior”.

But now following a Freedom of Information request from the Liberal Democrats, who were in Government at the time, it has emerged that the agreement is far wider than has been acknowledged.

In its grounds for refusing to publish details of the memorandum the Home Office has admitted it “contains information relating to the UK’s security co-operation with Saudi Arabia”.

Releasing the document it says “would damage the UK’s bilateral relationship” with the Kingdom and potentially damage Britain’s national security. ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-government-attempting-to-keep-details-of-secret-security-pact-with-saudi-arabia-hidden-from-a6783376.html

[galdur]

ISIS PR mocks Pigfinder.

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Video shows IS fighters killing 5 'spies' for Britain

Associated Press By BRIAN ROHAN
13 hours ago

BEIRUT (AP) — A video circulated online Sunday purported to show the Islamic State group killing five men accused of spying for Britain in Syria.

The high-quality footage bore the markings of the IS media wing, and shows five men "confessing" to filming and photographing sites in exchange for money within Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State group's self-declared caliphate. It could not be independently verified.

The men, speaking Arabic, are introduced as "the enemy" and "apostates." Several said they were given hidden cameras with lenses disguised as shirt buttons to provide images and videos to a contact in Turkey. One said he later saw that his videos appearing in international media including Britain's BBC.

He goes on to say he was sent two photos of British Islamic State members and asked to locate them, and also to photograph a former Syrian government building now housing the Islamic State group's "Islamic Courts."

"Don't let them fool you like they fooled us," one of the condemned men said, referring to those seeking to collect information on IS and undermine it.

Another man appeals to people in similar situations to confess and turn themselves in, repeatedly saying "the door to repentance is open."

The video then cuts to the men kneeling, lined up in orange jumpsuits in the desert, where they are shot in the head by masked men.

Before the shooting, a masked man with a British accent mocks British Prime Minister David Cameron, calling him a "slave of the White House," and "mule of the Jews." He describes the men as "spies," and says IS will one day invade Britain and impose their extremist version of Islamic law.

"Only an imbecile would dare to wage war against a land where the law of Allah reigns supreme," he says, referring to Cameron. "The Islamic State, our country, is here to stay. And we will continue to wage jihad, break borders, and one day invade your land, where we will rule by the Shariah."

The Islamic State group has come under pressure in Iraq and Syria. Iraqi government troops last month retook part of the city of Ramadi, the provincial capital of the sprawling Anbar province, Iraq's Sunni heartland, which IS had held since May. And in November, IS lost the town of Sinjar in Iraq, and areas across the border in Syria at the same time.

https://news.yahoo.com/video-shows-fighters-executing-5-spies-britain-171816208.html

[galdur]

Cameron Admits Claims of 70,000 Moderate Rebels False, Insists It Was ‘Best Estimate’
Refuses to Name Source of Figure

by Jason Ditz, January 12, 2016

Though the figure was immediately questioned, British Prime Minister David Cameron used the claim of 70,000 “moderate” Syrian rebels ready to ally with Britain as the centerpiece of his argument to expand the war against ISIS into Syria.

Today, Cameron finally admitted the figure was false, admitting that many of those rebels are “relatively hardline Islamists” and that there “aren’t enough” moderate rebels to actually defeat ISIS in the way Britain planned.

Most of Cameron’s comments appeared centered on shifting blame, however, saying it “wasn’t a figure I invented” but came from intelligence agencies as a “best estimate.” He did, however, refuse to name the agencies that the figure came from.

Cameron insisted it was necessary to keep the bulk of the details about these “moderates” secret, however, on the grounds that the Assad government might use the details to target them, and that Britain could potentially work with even the “relative hardliners” in some cases.

http://news.antiwar.com/2016/01/12/cameron-admits-claims-of-70000-moderate-rebels-false-insists-it-was-best-estimate/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/syria-air-strikes-david-cameron-admits-there-aren-t-enough-moderate-fighters-on-the-ground-and-some-a6808021.html

[galdur]

Well, maybe I should demote him from Generalissimo to Sargeant there in the header. The guy has been a total disappointment. There was great fanfare the first two days of this great campaign of as many as four planes, maybe sometimes six but since then not much and now the yokel is retreating from one fort to the next with his lies.

[galdur]

Russia is getting it RIGHT in Syria, it's the UK getting it WRONG, blasts ex-army chief

BRITAIN is failing spectacularly in Syria by backing the "losing side" and should follow Russia's lead by launching airstrikes in support of the Assad regime, the former head of the army has said.

By TOM BATCHELOR
PUBLISHED: 06:00, Tue, Feb 16, 2016 | UPDATED: 07:37, Tue, Feb 16, 2016
  

General Lord Dannatt, ex-chief of general staff, said defeating Islamic State (ISIS) would only be achieved through military force.

He added airstrikes alone would not yield an end to the five-year long civil war - or finish off the depraved terror group.


The senior official, who led the British army between 2006-2009, said: "It is only going to be one with military defeat. From the air can help, but on the ground is where the decision is going to come.

"Conflicts are only resolved on the ground...it has got to be soldiers acting on the ground that bring a resolution, but within a diplomatic and political framework. That is what is missing in Syria."

Conflict in Syria
Mon, February 15, 2016
As world powers agree on a ceasefire in Syria we take a look at how the people there are coping with life after air strikes in the war against Daesh militants.

 
Lord Dannatt said the Russian's had aptly demonstrated how to counter the extremist threat in Syria by backing the side most likely to win, despite reservations about the reported barrel-bombing of civilian areas by government forces.

He told the BBC: "The Russians are coordinating with the Assad regime and are being very successful. From the air and on the ground, they are working in a coordinating fashion.

"Our problem is that we are working with the losers. Let's work with that regime.

"There may be an element of my enemy's enemy is my friend, and choosing the least worst of several very unattractive options."


Peter Ford, a former British ambassador to Syria, also blasted the UK for backing extremists disguised as moderate rebel fighters.

He argued defence chiefs were intent on removing President Bashar al-Assad despite wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya proving the difficulties in simply toppling a dictator without a comprehensive plan for what could replace them.


He described Britain's actions in the Middle East like "a dog returning to vomit".

The former diplomat said it was time to "get real" and accept that Assad had to remain in power, telling BBC2's The Big Questions: "The West has to stop propping up the moderate opposition, which is not moderate at all.

"It has to allow the Syrian army backed by the Russians to deal with ISIS. It is a local problem that should be dealt with by the local governments."

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/644269/Syria-airstrikes-General-Lord-Dannatt-Britain-copy-Russia-support-Assad

[galdur]

[xht]

If Western leaders still want to maintain the sham of NATO's positive role in the world, they must kick out Turkey, or at least develop enough integrity to condemn Turkey's illegal invasion of Syria and Iraq.

[galdur]

It´s a sham and they´ve relied on the media and obedient politicians to push it as some sort of defense treaty and world saver. But it´s becoming impossible. Social media is too strong, Facebook twitter and more. As for Turkey,
it´s a sore for them but they can´t let it go it´s too strategically important on Russia´s flank. If it goes the Russians will quickly forgive the shooting down of the plane and they´ll become good buddies again. No more Black Sea Troubles to speak of. And a secure flank.

[galdur]

British Brimstone missiles in Syria are yet to kill any terrorists, MoD reveals

Published time: 19 Feb, 2016 10:12

Britain’s sophisticated air-to-surface Brimstone missiles have not killed any terrorists in Syria so far, although at least nine missiles have been fired. A single missile using radar homing and laser guidance technology costs £100,000.
The Huffington Post UK made a freedom of information (FOI) request to the British Defense Ministry and discovered the much-touted Brimstone missiles with promised standalone precision have not claimed any terrorist scalps yet.

After British MPs voted in favor of the Royal Air Force joining the Syria campaign in December, the expensive missiles were held back for at least the first month of operations.

Brimstone’s first recorded deployment took place on January 10, the Independent reports. It was aimed against terrorist supply trucks in Raqqa. By the end of January, Brimstone missiles had been used in nine raids....

https://www.rt.com/news/332970-brimstone-missiles-syria-jihadists/

[bryant.coleman]

As for Turkey, it´s a sore for them but they can´t let it go it´s too strategically important on Russia´s flank. If it goes the Russians will quickly forgive the shooting down of the plane and they´ll become good buddies again. No more Black Sea Troubles to speak of. And a secure flank.

You are being too optimistic. Putin is renowned for having a strong memory. The relations between Russia and Turkey have been irreversibly damaged, and it will take some sort of a miracle to at least partially restore it. And I am sure that it is not going to happen when Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ahmet Davutoğlu is in power.

[galdur]

As for Turkey, it´s a sore for them but they can´t let it go it´s too strategically important on Russia´s flank. If it goes the Russians will quickly forgive the shooting down of the plane and they´ll become good buddies again. No more Black Sea Troubles to speak of. And a secure flank.

You are being too optimistic. Putin is renowned for having a strong memory. The relations between Russia and Turkey have been irreversibly damaged, and it will take some sort of a miracle to at least partially restore it. And I am sure that it is not going to happen when Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Ahmet Davutoğlu is in power.

Those wankers won´t be in power forever. And now NATO is saying that they won´t support them in a war with Russia. Most likely because they´re not interested in World War Three.

The Russians have long memories, sure that´s my point. But they´re also pragmatists. It´s easy to forget when you have reasonable people to deal with.

[bryant.coleman]

Those wankers won´t be in power forever.

Check the results from the last parliamentary election. The Islamist AK party of Erdoğan and Davutoğlu is having more than 40% support now. Also, another Islamist party, the MHP got around 15% of the vote. Their support seems to be increasing. There are no second string leaders in the AKP. Erdoğan and Davutoğlu dictate the affairs within AKP.