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Clueless: Pentagon Loses Count of Arms Supplied to ISIL
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13941104001579
It is no mystery that the United States and its rogue partners have been supplying weapons and ordnance to various terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria for years.
What’s new is that the Pentagon no longer has any clue how many arms have ended up in the hands of its hard-core jihadists. More so, the Pentagon conveniently overlooks the fact that much of it have been supplied to the terrorist outfits by its regional partners in crime.
While it is true that ISIL has captured some US-made weapons and ordnance from the Iraqi army, there have been repeated reports of the CIA, Qatar and Saudi Arabia covertly arming the militants. Although the regime changers claim these weapons are being supplied to “moderate” opposition groups like the Free Syrian Army, much of it ultimately ends up in the hands of extremist outfits. This is because the imaginary “friends of Syria” and “moderate” head-choppers have all joined the proscribed terrorist groups of ISIL and Al-Qaeda.
According to corporate media reports, Turkish intelligence has also been supplying militants fighting against the Syrian government with arms and ammunition. A recent testimony from Turkish military officers in court documents published by the media reveals that rocket parts, ammunition and semi-finished mortar shells are being carried in trucks accompanied by state intelligence agency officials to parts of Syria under ISIL control. Silly enough, the Pentagon officials insist US-supplied arms and other supplies that fall into the hands of militants do so due to shoddy recordkeeping by the Iraqi army!
As is, international law bars the United States and its allies from providing arms to terrorist groups committing human rights violations and genocide in Syria. Despite that, significant amounts of US-made arms are still being deliberately diverted to the terrorist groups there, largely thanks to the CIA-Turkish-Saudi-Qatari patchwork supply system.
This contradicts the official line of US government on its policy in Syria. Together, the regime changers are using the burgeoning threat of ISIL to justify the bogus War on Terror, trigger arms race in the region, and uphold excessive mass surveillance and crackdowns on civil liberties at home.
Meanwhile - back in the States ......
Louisiana Truck Spills Tomahawk Cruise Missiles Onto Roadway After Crash (Video)
http://investmentwatchblog.com/louisiana-truck-spills-missiles-onto-roadway-after-crash/
January 24th, 2016 - According to KNOE.com, the truck that overturned on Highway 167 was carrying explosives, and not just any kind of explosives but KNOE confirms the truck was carrying missiles for the Department of Defense.
The fact that missiles actually fell off the truck and had to be ‘accounted for’ before the highway was reopened may have been the least of our problems with this story; according to the person who was on scene, the missiles that fell off the truck were Tomahawk Cruise Missiles.
We’re aware that nearby Fort Polk in Louisiana has a nuclear support team and we understand that it’s not uncommon for such military items to be transported within the state.
Update: Highway 167 re-opens after truck overturns
http://www.knoe.com/home/headlines/Rollover-closes-Hwy-167-Truck-may-be-carrying-rockets-and-other-explosive-items-366200341.html?device=phone&c=y
Update: January 22, 2016 at 3:15pm:
Fort Polk officials confirms that there were missiles that fell off of the truck.
No injuries were reported from the accident and there was no damage to the truck.
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Update: January 22, 2016 at 12:15pm:
Danny Smith of the Union Parish Homeland Security confirms it was explosives on the truck.
Officials from Fort Polk are in route to gather the materials.
Original Story:
A rollover involving an 18 wheeler has closed both lanes of Hwy 167 for several hours, just north of Bernice. State Police are investigating the crash and say no one is hurt.
The 18 wheeler has a hazmat placard on it. Louisiana State Police is trying to figure out what the truck is carrying.
The Farmerville Gazette is reporting the following:
"Early reports indicates a vehicle hauling rockets and other explosive items was involved in the accident. Information from Louisiana State Police indicates the trailer carrying the explosives became separated from its tractor and spilled its contents onto the roadway.
Union Parish Sheriff Dusty Gates said his deputies, troopers from the Louisiana State Police and representatives from the U.S. Department of Defense are either on the scene or en route.'
Gates said a company from Missouri has been dispatched to assist in the cleanup. He indicated the roadway may be closed for a good period of time until all the spilled items are recovered."
Report: ISIL's Foreign Fighters Leaving
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13941105000524
"The ISIL's decision to reduce the salaries of its foreign militants by half has immensely impacted them so much that some of them have left the terrorist group," the Arabic-language al-Sumeria news channel quoted a local source as saying on Monday.
The source reiterated the decline in the number of the foreign ISIL militants shows that their impetus is money and not Islam.
France could lift Russia sanctions if Minsk agreements fulfilled
http://rbth.com/international/2016/01/25/france-could-lift-russia-sanctions-if-minsk-agreements-fulfilled_562211
France is hoping that the sanctions will be lifted from Russia after the Minsk agreements are implemented, French Economy, Industry and Digital Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron said.
"You know, the imposed sanctions were closely connected to certain events and their lifting is linked to the observance of the Minsk agreements. We are hoping that our two countries will promote the observance of the Minsk agreements, and if these agreements are implemented, that position was confirmed by the president of the republic [France] several days ago, one can indeed talk about softening and revision of the current situation," Macron told during a briefing following a meeting of the Russian-French council on economic financial, industry and trade issues held in Moscow on Jan. 25.
Syrian opposition says Kerry applies pressure over peace talks
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-opposition-idUSKCN0V20TW
The lead negotiator in the Syrian opposition said on Sunday it was coming under pressure from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to attend peace talks in Geneva this week in order to negotiate over steps including a halt to air strikes.
The opposition's High Negotiation Committee, which groups political and armed opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, has said it will not attend negotiations until the government halts bombardments, lifts blockades, and releases detainees - steps mentioned in a United Nations Security Council resolution passed last month.
Negotiator Mohamad Alloush said Kerry, who met HNC officials on Saturday, had "come to pressure us to forgo our humanitarian rights ... and to go to negotiate for them".
"There will be a big response to these pressures," he told Reuters, without giving further details. Asked if the peace talks would go ahead this week, he said "we leave this to the coming hours".
The government has meanwhile said it is ready to attend the talks. They had been due to begin in Geneva on Monday, but a Western diplomat said earlier on Sunday that they were unlikely to begin before Wednesday.
Poland clouds NATO's nuanced Russia plan
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nato-poland-analysis-idUSKCN0V01OE
Poland is putting its own spin on a nuanced NATO plan to deter Moscow in eastern Europe without stationing permanent troops on Russia's borders, prompting disquiet from allies including Britain, which needs Warsaw's help in EU reform negotiations.
Poland's defense minister on Thursday seized on Britain's announcement that it is sending troops for exercises in the country, telling local radio that London would station 1,000 military personnel in Poland from next year.
Britain's defense ministry declined to comment, but alliance diplomats say there are no such plans. Britain is providing nearly 1,000 troops for two NATO exercises later this year, as well as 1,000 personnel in four years' time, when Poland will lead the new NATO rapid-reaction spearhead force.
But the subtlety of the language used to promote the new NATO deterrent policy in the east is an opportunity for Poland's new conservative government. Warsaw, which is hosting the NATO summit in July, has called for a permanent NATO troop presence in the past and the new government has intensified those demands.
NATO's current compromise aims to have a "persistent" - rather than "permanent" - military in the east, based on a new network of eight small NATO outposts, more war games, and, if needed, a rapid response force, including air, maritime and special operations components of up to 40,000 personnel. "Some people say 'permanent', others use 'persistent', other people use 'rotation'. In fact we are talking about the same thing," General Petr Pavel, chairman of NATO's military committee, told a news conference on Thursday.
The idea is to reassure the ex-Soviet countries in NATO that they are protected from the kind of annexation Russia orchestrated in February in 2014 in Crimea, while avoiding a return to the Cold War, when the United States had some 300,000 service personnel stationed in Europe.
NATO also wants to keep a 1997 promise to Moscow not to permanently station forces on the Russian border, thereby avoiding antagonizing a newly-assertive Russia and reach a peace settlement in eastern Ukraine, where NATO says Russia supports the rebels with weapons and troops.
Russia responded on Friday by saying it will form four new military divisions this year to strengthen its western and central regions because of the stepped-up exercises, which NATO set out in a calendar published on Thursday.
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13941104001579
It is no mystery that the United States and its rogue partners have been supplying weapons and ordnance to various terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria for years.
What’s new is that the Pentagon no longer has any clue how many arms have ended up in the hands of its hard-core jihadists. More so, the Pentagon conveniently overlooks the fact that much of it have been supplied to the terrorist outfits by its regional partners in crime.
While it is true that ISIL has captured some US-made weapons and ordnance from the Iraqi army, there have been repeated reports of the CIA, Qatar and Saudi Arabia covertly arming the militants. Although the regime changers claim these weapons are being supplied to “moderate” opposition groups like the Free Syrian Army, much of it ultimately ends up in the hands of extremist outfits. This is because the imaginary “friends of Syria” and “moderate” head-choppers have all joined the proscribed terrorist groups of ISIL and Al-Qaeda.
According to corporate media reports, Turkish intelligence has also been supplying militants fighting against the Syrian government with arms and ammunition. A recent testimony from Turkish military officers in court documents published by the media reveals that rocket parts, ammunition and semi-finished mortar shells are being carried in trucks accompanied by state intelligence agency officials to parts of Syria under ISIL control. Silly enough, the Pentagon officials insist US-supplied arms and other supplies that fall into the hands of militants do so due to shoddy recordkeeping by the Iraqi army!
As is, international law bars the United States and its allies from providing arms to terrorist groups committing human rights violations and genocide in Syria. Despite that, significant amounts of US-made arms are still being deliberately diverted to the terrorist groups there, largely thanks to the CIA-Turkish-Saudi-Qatari patchwork supply system.
This contradicts the official line of US government on its policy in Syria. Together, the regime changers are using the burgeoning threat of ISIL to justify the bogus War on Terror, trigger arms race in the region, and uphold excessive mass surveillance and crackdowns on civil liberties at home.
Meanwhile - back in the States ......
Louisiana Truck Spills Tomahawk Cruise Missiles Onto Roadway After Crash (Video)
http://investmentwatchblog.com/louisiana-truck-spills-missiles-onto-roadway-after-crash/
January 24th, 2016 - According to KNOE.com, the truck that overturned on Highway 167 was carrying explosives, and not just any kind of explosives but KNOE confirms the truck was carrying missiles for the Department of Defense.
The fact that missiles actually fell off the truck and had to be ‘accounted for’ before the highway was reopened may have been the least of our problems with this story; according to the person who was on scene, the missiles that fell off the truck were Tomahawk Cruise Missiles.
We’re aware that nearby Fort Polk in Louisiana has a nuclear support team and we understand that it’s not uncommon for such military items to be transported within the state.
Update: Highway 167 re-opens after truck overturns
http://www.knoe.com/home/headlines/Rollover-closes-Hwy-167-Truck-may-be-carrying-rockets-and-other-explosive-items-366200341.html?device=phone&c=y
Update: January 22, 2016 at 3:15pm:
Fort Polk officials confirms that there were missiles that fell off of the truck.
No injuries were reported from the accident and there was no damage to the truck.
___
Update: January 22, 2016 at 12:15pm:
Danny Smith of the Union Parish Homeland Security confirms it was explosives on the truck.
Officials from Fort Polk are in route to gather the materials.
Original Story:
A rollover involving an 18 wheeler has closed both lanes of Hwy 167 for several hours, just north of Bernice. State Police are investigating the crash and say no one is hurt.
The 18 wheeler has a hazmat placard on it. Louisiana State Police is trying to figure out what the truck is carrying.
The Farmerville Gazette is reporting the following:
"Early reports indicates a vehicle hauling rockets and other explosive items was involved in the accident. Information from Louisiana State Police indicates the trailer carrying the explosives became separated from its tractor and spilled its contents onto the roadway.
Union Parish Sheriff Dusty Gates said his deputies, troopers from the Louisiana State Police and representatives from the U.S. Department of Defense are either on the scene or en route.'
Gates said a company from Missouri has been dispatched to assist in the cleanup. He indicated the roadway may be closed for a good period of time until all the spilled items are recovered."
Report: ISIL's Foreign Fighters Leaving
http://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13941105000524
"The ISIL's decision to reduce the salaries of its foreign militants by half has immensely impacted them so much that some of them have left the terrorist group," the Arabic-language al-Sumeria news channel quoted a local source as saying on Monday.
The source reiterated the decline in the number of the foreign ISIL militants shows that their impetus is money and not Islam.
France could lift Russia sanctions if Minsk agreements fulfilled
http://rbth.com/international/2016/01/25/france-could-lift-russia-sanctions-if-minsk-agreements-fulfilled_562211
France is hoping that the sanctions will be lifted from Russia after the Minsk agreements are implemented, French Economy, Industry and Digital Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron said.
"You know, the imposed sanctions were closely connected to certain events and their lifting is linked to the observance of the Minsk agreements. We are hoping that our two countries will promote the observance of the Minsk agreements, and if these agreements are implemented, that position was confirmed by the president of the republic [France] several days ago, one can indeed talk about softening and revision of the current situation," Macron told during a briefing following a meeting of the Russian-French council on economic financial, industry and trade issues held in Moscow on Jan. 25.
Syrian opposition says Kerry applies pressure over peace talks
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-opposition-idUSKCN0V20TW
The lead negotiator in the Syrian opposition said on Sunday it was coming under pressure from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to attend peace talks in Geneva this week in order to negotiate over steps including a halt to air strikes.
The opposition's High Negotiation Committee, which groups political and armed opponents of President Bashar al-Assad, has said it will not attend negotiations until the government halts bombardments, lifts blockades, and releases detainees - steps mentioned in a United Nations Security Council resolution passed last month.
Negotiator Mohamad Alloush said Kerry, who met HNC officials on Saturday, had "come to pressure us to forgo our humanitarian rights ... and to go to negotiate for them".
"There will be a big response to these pressures," he told Reuters, without giving further details. Asked if the peace talks would go ahead this week, he said "we leave this to the coming hours".
The government has meanwhile said it is ready to attend the talks. They had been due to begin in Geneva on Monday, but a Western diplomat said earlier on Sunday that they were unlikely to begin before Wednesday.
Poland clouds NATO's nuanced Russia plan
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nato-poland-analysis-idUSKCN0V01OE
Poland is putting its own spin on a nuanced NATO plan to deter Moscow in eastern Europe without stationing permanent troops on Russia's borders, prompting disquiet from allies including Britain, which needs Warsaw's help in EU reform negotiations.
Poland's defense minister on Thursday seized on Britain's announcement that it is sending troops for exercises in the country, telling local radio that London would station 1,000 military personnel in Poland from next year.
Britain's defense ministry declined to comment, but alliance diplomats say there are no such plans. Britain is providing nearly 1,000 troops for two NATO exercises later this year, as well as 1,000 personnel in four years' time, when Poland will lead the new NATO rapid-reaction spearhead force.
But the subtlety of the language used to promote the new NATO deterrent policy in the east is an opportunity for Poland's new conservative government. Warsaw, which is hosting the NATO summit in July, has called for a permanent NATO troop presence in the past and the new government has intensified those demands.
NATO's current compromise aims to have a "persistent" - rather than "permanent" - military in the east, based on a new network of eight small NATO outposts, more war games, and, if needed, a rapid response force, including air, maritime and special operations components of up to 40,000 personnel. "Some people say 'permanent', others use 'persistent', other people use 'rotation'. In fact we are talking about the same thing," General Petr Pavel, chairman of NATO's military committee, told a news conference on Thursday.
The idea is to reassure the ex-Soviet countries in NATO that they are protected from the kind of annexation Russia orchestrated in February in 2014 in Crimea, while avoiding a return to the Cold War, when the United States had some 300,000 service personnel stationed in Europe.
NATO also wants to keep a 1997 promise to Moscow not to permanently station forces on the Russian border, thereby avoiding antagonizing a newly-assertive Russia and reach a peace settlement in eastern Ukraine, where NATO says Russia supports the rebels with weapons and troops.
Russia responded on Friday by saying it will form four new military divisions this year to strengthen its western and central regions because of the stepped-up exercises, which NATO set out in a calendar published on Thursday.
