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Turkey’s Syrian Jihadists Take Over Syria: Kurds, Half a Million Christians Under Intolerable Threat by Uzay Bulut
December 16, 2024 at 5:00 am
- A former branch of Al Qaeda, in 2018, HTS [Hayat Tahrir al-Sham] was officially designated a terrorist organization by the US government. HTS, which cooperates with the Turkish military and Turkish-backed groups in Syria, is committed to establishing an Islamist state across Syria, at least for a start.
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Al-Jolani are now making all sorts of human-rightsy promises that they know the West likes to hear – just as Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini did before he took over Iran, and as the Taliban did before they quickly demolished 20 years of US human rights progress in Afghanistan.
- Just as Iran is the Shiite “head of the octopus” whose tentacles consist of Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and other assorted militias, so Erdogan is the Sunni “head of the octopus” in Syria. While everyone is busy staring at rival terrorist groups in Syria, it is crucial not to forget for a minute the country backing them: Turkey.
- Erdogan’s dream has always been “the liberation of Jerusalem”…. A Sunni jihadi Syria provides a conveniently straight path to fulfill that long-term dream.
The Assad family’s rule of Syria, which lasted more than 50 years, collapsed on December 8. Jihadist forces took control of Damascus after President Bashar al-Assad escaped to a luxurious life in Moscow. Today, roughly half a million Christians and 2.5 million Kurds in Syria face a future of persecution and abuse at the hands of jihadist terrorists.
The offensive launched by the jihadists of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), formerly the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, began on November 27. These terrorists, backed by Turkey, first captured Aleppo and a string of other towns and cities in a matter of days, before converging on Damascus.
Since 2017, HTS has been the dominant Islamist militia in Syria. A former branch of Al Qaeda, in 2018, HTS was officially designated a terrorist organization by the US government. The group’s name, Hayat Tahrir al Sham, means “Organization for the Liberation of the Levant,” meaning much of the Middle East, including Israel, Lebanon and Jordan. Since 2019, HTS, working with Turkey, has controlled northern Idlib through the so-called “Syrian Salvation Government” (SSG). Now, as Turkey and the HTS plan to “reshape Syria,” both Kurds and Christians find themselves under siege.
HTS, which cooperates with the Turkish military and Turkish-backed groups in Syria, is committed to establishing an Islamist state across Syria, at least for a start. The founder and current leader of HTS is Ahmed Hussein Al-Shara, better known as Abu Mohammed Al-Jolani, Before founding HTS, Jolani led Jabhat Al-Nusra, a Syrian al Qaeda affiliate.
In a 2019 report on terrorism by the US State Department, HTS/Al-Nusrah Front is described as one of “the world’s most active and dangerous terrorist groups”.
In 2022, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) held a hearing on religious freedom in Syria, and stated:
“The al-Qaeda offshoot Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) continues to brutalize and displace religious minority communities in the northwestern region of Idlib, and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has increased its presence in eastern Syria, waging almost daily attacks and destabilizing the region for religious minorities. Opposition groups leverage their Turkish financing and military support to wage campaigns of religious and ethnic cleansing in Afrin.”
During the jihadi offensive that began last month, HTS was supported on the northern front by the Syrian National Army (SNA), a coalition of a dozen Islamist armed groups largely financed, equipped and trained by Turkey.
According to a 2022 report by the US State Department, at the time, most Syrian Christians lived in and around Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Latakia and Hasakah.
All these areas except for Hasakah (the majority of which is currently under Kurdish control) fell to Turkish-backed jihadists beginning on November 27.
According to the human rights organization Open Doors, there are around 579,000 Christians in Syria. Many of them fled cities and villages seized by jihadists, to take refuge in the formerly government-controlled Wadi al-Nasara (“Valley of Christians”). With the collapse of the Assad regime, the Valley has fallen to jihadists, and the lives of those Christians are in danger.
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Officials still claim that drones over US are no threat, yet they have no answers for their source By Charlotte Hazard
A New Jersey sheriff has sent his own private drone to follow the drones to see if he can get any more information.
December 14, 2024 5:08 pm ET Just The News – White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby told Fox News on Friday that the government has no definitive answers regarding the source of drones and other objects flying over New Jersey, New York and other states as concerns and frustration continue to grow.
“Many of the corroborated sightings have turned out to be piloted aircraft. I didn’t say all of them, and what I said was those are the ones we were able to corroborate,” Kirby said on Fox News. “There certainly is ones that we have not been able to, and we don’t know the answer to it, and I strongly recommend that for folks that are seeing these things and documenting them to share that as they can with the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.”
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday that the mysterious drones that have been caught hovering over New Jersey are not a threat.
“We know of no threat or nefarious activity, and I want to repeat…..that if we learn of any cause for concern, we will be transparent in our communication,” Mayorkas said during a CNN interview, according to The Hill.
Rep. Chris Smith, R-NJ, said that he spent Monday night on a beach where he spoke with several individuals, including a U.S. Coast Guard commanding officer stationed nearby. Smith told Fox News that the commanders said a Coast Guard vessel had been closely followed by more than a dozen drones the previous night.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) last week issued two flight restrictions on the area surrounding President-elect Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf club in New Jersey, following questionable drone activity. The drone sightings were first reported on Nov. 18, but still continue this week.
Federal officials have claimed that they do not know much about the drones, but have assured the public that there has been no threat to the American people as a result of the activity. The Pentagon also said they have not found any evidence that a foreign entity is behind it.
A New Jersey sheriff has sent his own private drone to follow the drones to see if he can get any more information.
“If this is not our military, then it’s even more scary,” Ocean County Sheriff Michael Mastronardy said, according to the New York Post. “These things look like they are fixed-wing and they have multiple lights. I’m not really sure how to process what I saw last night. Both the photographer and I were kind of stunned.”
New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy sent a letter to the Biden administration, demanding more action and answers.
New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul on Saturday said that everything going on with the drones has gone “too far.”
The runways of Stewart International Airport were shut down for an hour due to the drones. Hochul called on Congress to take action, according to the New York Post.
[Ed.: If Mayorkas says it’s not a threat he knows two things that we don’t know. One, that they are not from Iran, and two that they are US drones. Therefore we know that for sure, the drones are indeed a threat!]
President Trump Reveals “Outside Govt – President’s Intelligence Advisory Board” Headed by Chairman Devin Nunes Sundance
December 14, 2024 THE LAST REFUGE – President Donald Trump has revealed something very important to those who fully understand the nature and construct of the DC Silo system. An outside government “Intelligence Advisory Board,” perhaps the ultimate cross-silo information system.
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The approach of an Intelligence Advisory Board has the possibility to fracture the mechanism used by the DC Intelligence Community to isolate the president.
Within the various intel agencies, they use a process of building silos of information that are not shared outside the origination agency unless certain rules are followed. This is a mechanism to retain control.
One of these control mechanisms is found in the classification process. Each agency (colloquially called a ‘stakeholder’) has unilateral control over their unique contribution to a collective document or intelligence product. Unless every stakeholder agrees to the declassification, the intel product is withheld and remains “siloed”. That’s just one example, there are hundreds more.
An Intelligence Advisory Board is essentially the Bullshit Calling Committee, that can help the President determine which parts of the intelligence information are factually likely and which parts are transparently political.
NOVEMBER 14th REMINDER:
Almost every day an intelligence community overview assessment is compiled, it’s called the Presidential Daily Briefing or PDB.
The PDB contains content primarily produced by the CIA. However, in the modern era, the PDB is assembled and enhanced by adding information from other intelligence agencies (silos). The Director of National Intelligence assembles it; the position Tulsi Gabbard has recently been nominated for.
The DNI (now Tulsi) compiles the information, then delivers the PDB to the President, the National Security Advisor (now Mike Waltz) and the list of people assigned by the President to review it.
The PDB is the Intelligence Community (IC) telling the Office of the President, this is what’s going on. The PDB frames the worldview of the CIA and other agencies.
However, if the CIA/IC wants to frame policy and action to their agenda – and not to the agenda of the president/administration per se’ – the CIA/IC can shape the PDB information toward their own individual objectives. In the past several decades the CIA manipulation of the PDB became obvious.
Because the PDB was no longer considered to be an “independent” finding of fact, and was/is, instead, more of a CIA tool to shape and control the president, it became increasingly useless.
President Obama saw the traps within the CIA/IC use of the PDB and started to ignore it. Obama gave the PDB to almost two-dozen administration officials daily, essentially saying, “here this is what the CIA say is going on – check it out.” Meanwhile Obama did what he wanted to do in shaping policy, often regardless of the PDB content.
With an incoming President Trump administration, the CIA/IC use of the PDB to manipulate outcomes will be even more on display.
With that in mind, here’s one approach that might be worth considering.
Make the CIA/IC (now Ratcliffe/Tulsi) provide a footnote for every assertion of fact within the PDB.
Put the footnotes into a classified appendix that includes sources and methods and give the appendix only to the National Security Advisor, now Mike Waltz. [ie. ‘Review and return’]
Let NSA Mike Waltz then review the attributions of source material in the White House SCIF. Then, if any concerns are noted, Waltz can turn to the National Security Council with a generalized statement describing the concern saying, “check this out.”
The NSC can then dig into the granular details and return with their own independent assessment about the validity of the information.
The National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, can then go question the specific CIA/IC silo about any contradiction that might be at issue.
Do this enough times, and I predict the PDB will quickly change in both tone and content. The originators of the intelligence assessment, the CIA and other agencies, will be on notice that their homework is being checked by the National Security Council.
…. Or maybe, the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board!
Just a thought.
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[Ed.: But sir, those our our own drones paid for with our tax dollars. We can use them to tract down the perps!]
FBI, DHS claim they have ‘no evidence’ drone sightings over NJ are ‘national security threat’ Thomas Stevenson
“We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or public safety threat or have a foreign nexus.”
Dec 13, 2024 The Postmillennial – The FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a statement on Friday about reports of drone sightings in New Jersey and claimed that the agencies have “no evidence” that the drones “pose a national security or public safety threat or have a foreign nexus” and that they were “operating lawfully.”
In a joint statement from both security agencies, the FBI and DHS claimed, “We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or public safety threat or have a foreign nexus.
“The FBI, DHS and our federal partners, in close coordination with the New Jersey State Police, continue to deploy personnel and technology to investigate this situation and confirm whether the reported drone flights are actually drones or are instead manned aircraft or otherwise inaccurate sightings,” the statement added. “Historically, we have experienced cases of mistaken identity, where reported drones are, in fact, manned aircraft or facilities. We are supporting local law enforcement in New Jersey with numerous detection methods but have not corroborated any of the reported visual sightings with electronic detection.”
The agencies went on to claim that many of the reported sightings of the drones were “manned aircraft” and were “operating lawfully.” They added, “There are no reported or confirmed drone sightings in any restricted air space.”
“We take seriously the threat that can be posed by unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), which is why law enforcement and other agencies continue to support New Jersey and investigate the reports,” the agencies added. “To be clear, they have uncovered no such malicious activity or intent at this stage. While there is no known malicious activity occurring in New Jersey, the reported sightings there do, however, highlight the insufficiency of current authorities.”
The joint statement from the FBI and DHS comes as not only New Jersey but also Oregon and New York citizens have reported drone sightings and objects in the sky. President-elect Donald Trump posted about the sightings on Truth Social, “Mystery Drone sightings all over the Country. Can this really be happening without our government’s knowledge. I [don’t] think so! Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, [shoot] them down!”
[Ed.: “No evidence”!! It must be all ‘hearsay’ then? Please read Peg Tierney’s post today: Droning on]
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