Syrian terrorists being trained by US

I think it's probably because Americans do not realize that they also get propaganda like the rest of the world.

http://news.sky.com/story/1586777/jihadi-john-strike-us-says-we-got-him

'Jihadi John' Strike: US Says 'We Got Him'
Eyewitnesses tell Sky News the main hospital in Raqqa has been closed to the public - suggesting the death of a senior IS leader.

An airstrike targeting the British IS militant known as "Jihadi John" has been carried out in Syria - and the US is "99% sure we got him".

Activists in the IS stronghold said they counted 14 airstrikes between 11.51pm and midnight on Thursday.

They reported that one of the first missiles targeted a car near the city's Islamic court - but the area was closed off by militants to prevent anyone from approaching.

Eyewitnesses in Raqqa told Sky News Jihadi John - real name Mohammed Emwazi - was taken to hospital after the strike, with IS claiming he was injured but still alive.

Although the official line from IS leaders is that Emwazi survived, locals told Sky the hospital has since been closed to the public and claimed this only happens when a senior militant has been killed.

Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook confirmed the strike was directed at Emwazi but said it was not clear whether he had been killed.

We are assessing the results of tonight's operation and will provide additional information as and where appropriate," he said.

However, a senior US defence official told Fox News: "We are 99% sure we got him. We were on him for some time."

Another source told ABC News Emwazi was blown up in a "flawless" and "clean hit".....etc.

What, no wedding parties? That'll make a nice change. I am afraid that the Pentagon says has as much credibility as Kiev says or North Korea says.

Pics and REAL evidence, or it didn't happen.

Agree, Bonny.  

This annotated image posted online by anti-ISIS activists Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently claims to show where Emwazi is believed to have been killed (circled), just yards from the group's headquarters in Raqqa

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Excuse me, but why isn't 'ISIS Main HQ' a pile of dust and rubble?

Good question Bonny. 

I see Corbyn's made an ar@e of himself yet again:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jihadi-john-dead-labour-mps-welcome-killing-of-isis-militant-in-backlash-over-jeremy-corbyn-comments-a6733761.html

Jihadi John 'dead': Labour MPs welcome 'killing' of Isis militant in backlash over Jeremy Corbyn comments
Labour MP goes on sarcastic Twitter rant after Labour leader said it would have been 'far better' if Mohammed Emwazi had been put on trial

I am not surprised the semi-sane Labour MPs are furious with their leader - the man's a dangerous idiot.

He is a severely out-of-touch immature person.  He probably would be happier in a sit-in somewhere.

Corbyn's never progressed from '70's student politics, Lily.

I don't give a flying one if the scumbag is dead - I just hope he really is, and that this isn't just hot air. If he really is dead, I hope his last moments were truly terrible and full of fear. But hey, that's just me!

Can't fault that!  

http://news.sky.com/story/1588256/france-drops-20-bombs-on-is-stronghold-raqqa

France Drops 20 Bombs On IS Stronghold Raqqa
French fighter jets drop 20 bombs on the Islamic State (IS) stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria.

French fighter jets have dropped 20 bombs on the Islamic State (IS) stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria.

The planes hit a jihadi recruitment centre, training camp and arms depot run by the group, according to the French defence ministry.

The bombing raid follows Friday's terror attacks which left 132 people dead in the French capital.

IS fighters said they carried out the gun and bomb attacks on busy bars, restaurants and a music venue.

More follows...

Again - why has it taken so long to attack ISIS HQ?

I can think of a few things but will keep them to myself for a while.

I am glad that they dropped the bombs.

https://www.rt.com/news/322305-isis-financed-40-countries/

President Vladimir Putin says he’s shared Russian intelligence data on Islamic State financing with his G20 colleagues: the terrorists appear to be financed from 40 countries, including some G20 member states.
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During the summit, “I provided examples based on our data on the financing of different Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) units by private individuals. This money, as we have established, comes from 40 countries and, there are some of the G20 members among them,” Putin told the journalists.

Putin also spoke of the urgent need to curb the illegal oil trade by IS.

"I’ve shown our colleagues photos taken from space and from aircraft which clearly demonstrate the scale of the illegal trade in oil and petroleum products," he said.

“The motorcade of refueling vehicles stretched for dozens of kilometers, so that from a height of 4,000 to 5,000 meters they stretch beyond the horizon," Putin added, comparing the convoy to gas and oil pipeline systems.




It’s not the right time to try and figure out which country is more and which is less effective in the battle with Islamic State, as now a united international effort is needed against the terrorist group, Putin said.

Putin reiterated Russia’s readiness to support armed opposition in Syria in its efforts to fight Islamic State.

"Some armed opposition groups consider it possible to begin active operations against IS with Russia's support. And we are ready to provide such support from the air. If it happens it could become a good basis for the subsequent work on a political settlement,” he said.

“We really need support from the US, European nations, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran,” the president added.




Putin pointed out the change in Washington’s stance on cooperation with Moscow in the fight against the terrorists.

"We need to organize work specifically concentrated on the prevention of terrorist attacks and tackling terrorism on a global scale. We offered to cooperate [with the US] in anti-IS efforts. Unfortunately, our American partners refused. They just sent a written note and it says: ‘we reject your offer’,” Putin said.

“But life is always evolving and at a very fast pace, often teaching us lessons. And I think that now the realization that an effective fight [against terror] can only be staged together is coming to everybody,” the Russian leader said.


Suddenly, they're all desperate to be seen with Putin, after all the hot air and bombast at the previous G20.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/11/16/obama-facing-criticism-for-push-to-contain-isis/

Obama: Paris terror rampage a ‘setback’
Published November 16, 2015FoxNews.com

Three days after teams of Islamic State terrorists brazenly carried out raids across Paris that left 129 people dead, President Obama labeled the slaughter a "setback" in responding to questions about his policies.

"There will be setbacks and there will be successes. The terrible events in Paris were obviously a terrible and sickening setback," Obama said Monday.

The president spoke at a contentious and lengthy press conference on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Turkey, as he faces tough criticism from Capitol Hill -- for saying the morning before the attack that ISIS had been "contained" in Iraq and Syria, and for sustaining a military strategy that critics deem insufficient.

Jesus H. Christ.

Over the last few weeks, we've had British holidaymakers gunned down in Tunisia, we've had a Russian airliner brought down, and now the Paris slaughter - and that's without the numerous suicide bombings by ISIS in the Middle East itself.

And that's all he can say? No wonder everyone's desperate to talk to Putin - at least he has a backbone, and there's no doubt about whose side he's on.

I keep saying he is embarrassing.... and it is going deeper and deeper.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/11/this-is-just-sad-putin-seen-laughing-off-obama-at-g20-summit/

The Obama White House is said to have reached out to Putin staffers wanting to have a quick sit-down moment just prior to the beginning of the G20 Summit hosted this week by Muslim Brotherhood advocate and Turkish Dictator President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It was a blatant attempt at a photo-op said to have been suggested and strongly pushed for by longtime Senior White House Adviser, Valerie Jarrett.

Regardless of personal views world leaders might have of his tactics, Russia’s Putin is now seen as the single most influential player in the war on Islamic terror and the Obama White House was desperate to try make itself appear equally worthy of the fear and respect the world has for Putin’s determination to wipe ISIS off the face of the planet.

The result was this photo being aggressively pushed for widespread publication by the Obama White House.

What the White House won’t be pushing is the apparent reaction Putin had to Barack Obama’s self-serving overtures. He was seen laughing among his staff shortly after the already famous “coffee table” moment, and looking over at Mr. Obama with what is being described as “dismissive derision.”

When images of Barack Obama shaking hands with President-host Erdogan flashed across one of the many monitors placed throughout the G20 summit it proved further fodder for rebuke by the Russian strongman, who then pointed to a monitor while shaking his head at the sight of the widely smiling and seemingly passive American president.


the fear and respect the world has for Putin’s determination to wipe ISIS off the face of the planet

One suspects that the days of social justice warrioring, hopey-changing, and general wetness and appeasement, are very rapidly coming to an end.

Putin need not worry as Obama has said he is too busy.  Otherwise, he had better look out.  

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/11/he-would-prefer-not-to.php

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Quotable quote: “What I’m not interested in doing is posing or pursuing some notion of American leadership or America winning or whatever other slogans they come up with that has no relationship to what is actually going to work to protect the American people and to protect the people in the region who are getting killed and to protect our allies and people like France. I’m too busy for that.”

OMG. No wonder everyone was laughing at him. He's making Neville Chamberlain look like a warmongering military genius.

Obama Chamberlain.  

Some good photos here of Syrians returning to their battered homes in areas which have now been liberated:

http://sputniknews.com/photo/20151117/1030139510/syria-aleppo-people.html



It's a real mess - but these are surely the people we should be helping, the ones who have stood by their country?

https://www.rt.com/news/322436-russia-strikes-syria-putin/



Russia has deployed its fleet of strategic bombers to double the volume of airstrikes on Islamist targets in Syria, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has announced. Vladimir Putin has ordered a cruiser to coordinate operations with French naval forces in the Mediterranean.
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“We are conducting a mass airstrike campaign against Islamic State targets in Syria. We have now doubled the number of sorties, which is allowing us to conduct operations throughout the length and breadth of the country,” Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said during a Security Council meeting in Moscow chaired by the Russian president.

Shoigu said that Russia’s Tu-95, Tu-22 and Tu-160 strategic bombers have been brought into the operation, while the Air Force command added that the strike group has been bolstered with 37 new planes, including Su-34 bombers and Su-27 fighter jets.

The head of the General Staff reported that the new phase of the anti-ISIS campaign will involve 25 long-range bombers flying out of airfields in Russia.

I am sure the Bear pilots will enjoy that - it will make a nice change from exchanging waves with the RAF.

You can be sure that Syrians want to return to their homes feeling safe.

Totally agree that we should be helping them and I think we will....

https://www.rt.com/news/322536-russia-isis-targets-plane/



A Russian Tupolev 95 long-range bomber launches a massive air strike on the Islamic State infrastructure in Syria. © Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation / RIA Novosti

Russia continues flattening Raqqa. As that hellhole is ISIS central, and the scene of many of their barbarous killings of gays, women - just about anyone - while surrounded by baying, cheering mobs, I doubt if there will be too much concern about 'collateral damage' in this case.

Iranian source:

http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940827001359

TEHRAN (FNA)- Intelligence sources disclosed on Wednesday that ISIL militants are fleeing the Syrian city of Raqqa in hundreds to save their lives after sustaining heavy casualties in the Russian airstrikes and long-range cruse missile attacks form its Mediterranean fleet.
The sources said that the Russian fighter jets have stormed the strongholds of the ISIL militants in Raqqa in recent days in numerous attacks.

Meanwhile, the Russian military launched airstrikes against the ISIL stronghold in Raqqa with cruise missiles from the Mediterranean Sea.

On Tuesday, the France’s Le Monde newspaper, citing a French official, said that the Russian military has launched airstrikes against the ISIL stronghold of Raqqa in Syria with cruise missiles from the Mediterranean Sea.

The information that Russia struck the ISIL positions in Raqqa was also reported by a senior French government source.

US officials also confirmed on Tuesday that Moscow conducted a significant number of strikes in Syria using both sea-launched cruise missiles and long-range bombers.

In the meantime, different sources said that the French fighter jets carried out many sorties over the ISIL positions in recent day and targeted them heavily with scores of bombs and missiles in reprisals for the Paris terror attacks by ISIL.

Also on Tuesday, French President Francois Hollande told the French parliament’s emergency meeting in Versailles that the French nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier will leave the port of registration on November 19 to join the operation in Syria.

Good.  

There was a ticker tape thing on TV today to say "Russia joins US in....." 

Someone's deluding themselves, Lily...

I'm watching Fox just now; they seem awfully frustrated that all this mayhem and shooting is taking place in Paris, and is nothing to do with Washington.

And that Russia, France and others are pulverising ISIS, and it's nothing to do with Washington.

I suspect that those involved in pulverising ISIS don't actually trust the Obama regime - and why should they? No-one in their right mind does.