NEO – Ceasefire of the Absurd Ends – Battle for Aleppo Begins

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The northern Aleppo front on October 02, 2016 - Syrian army is clearing the Castello Road and the main north-south road to be able to shift forces quickly and bring humanitarian supplies in
The northern Aleppo front on October 2, 2016 — Syrian army is clearing the Castello Road and the main north-south road to be able to shift forces quickly and bring humanitarian supplies in

Ceasefire of the Absurd Ends – Battle for Aleppo Begins

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.” ― Mark Twain

[ Note: As you are reading this, a very dangerous gamesmanship dance is going on, where the US is using veiled language to demand the Syrian coalition stop its plans to clear the terrorists out of Aleppo, a city in Syria’s own country, because to clear it involves killing American proxy terror forces.

This is how far we have sunk as a country — that not only would this be being done by Mr. Nobel Peace Prize, but that our military and all of the veteran orgs would go along with it without a whimper.



I hate to overuse the 1984 cliche of everything being turned upside down, with “war is peace, and bad is good”, but it certainly seems to fit. All of the outside countries fighting inside Syria without the government’s permission are in violation of their being signatories of the UN charter.

Kerry was caught telling the Free Syrian Army shills that the US being in Syria, as are the others, is illegal… but we are using the “War on Terror” hot pursuit shtick as a thin veil cover. That was pitiful, as the US claims the FSA thugs are not terrorists and we are supporting them to overthrow the Assad regime, which sits in the UN; and no country has ever shown Syria in violation of holding its seat.

And the US has both its feet in concrete now, by having mixed the FSA in with the al-Nusra people for their enhanced fighting capabilities, and then claiming that Assad and the Russians are not focusing on the terrorists but the FSA.

And yet on another day, the US claims it does not have control over all the opposition groups it supports and obviously cannot separate them, and also cannot stop the Saudis and Qatar from supplying them arms and money, or even MANPADS. After years of the US pathologically lying about Syria, it still wants to delude itself that we have not figured the scam out.

Dear Mr. Kerry and Mr. Obama, We figured out the Iran nuclear hoax a long time ago, and the Syrian one was much easier. It is not we who are in denial, but you. It is not Damascus who is killing the Syrian people but you, along with the CIA and outside contractors who played a major role in creating the jihadi express, with almost 100 countries contributing young Muslim male cannon-fodder into this crime against humanity in Syria… JD ]

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The Aleppo southern front - 09-3016
The Aleppo southern front – 09-30- 16  … the black unit flags are al-Nusra

– First published  … October 03,  2016

The Battle for Aleppo is fully engaged, with the US pretend-a-ceasefire in the rearview mirror. After several days of targeted bombing attacks and several more days of probing attacks on East Aleppo’s flanks, September 28th was announced to begin the full scale offensive.

The "Citadell pocket" inside central Aleppo
The “Citadel pocket” inside central Aleppo

With pressure on multiple points on the jihadis’ lines, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) attacked in central Aleppo near the citadel to close a deep insurgent pocket extending into the old city.

With the SAA attacking at the base of the pocket, the jihadis were forced to do a quick fighting withdrawal to avoid being cut off, saving its fighters for prepared defenses that they have had a long time to plan for.

We are watching the roll out of a well thought out campaign that is taking advantage of Damascus’ extensive on the ground eyes and ears in Aleppo, and that knew the complete disposition of all the opposition forces there. The VT team was privy to see some of the jihadi order of battle during our Syrian trip last fall, just before the Russian air campaign was unleashed.

The initial Syrian bombing campaign was concentrated on the opposition command and logistics centers, with the Russian command stating that only precision-guided munitions were being used on those targets.

Flexible battle tactics

The Syrian coalition is using multi-pronged attacks to spread the opposition forces out, while defending their perimeter and burning up ammunition that cannot be resupplied as easily as in the past. The Syrian coalition began by advancing from the south into the Sheik Saeed district, flanking opposition forces to their west to encourage them to pull back or risk being cut off.

In north Aleppo, the Handarat Palestinian refugee camp was attacked and cleared, but drew the opposition into a counterattack, which might have been the diversion that the Syrians wanted. Wednesday morning found the Syrian forces battling once again for the destroyed camp that is of no strategic importance at all, other than pulling reserves away from its attack on the Old City jihadi pocket.

Another joint Syrian-Kurdish force began moving north from Aleppo’s Kurdish district toward the forces that initially took Handarat and cut off opposition forces in the NE corner of Aleppo. These initial battles consolidated the SAA interior lines of movement, while observing the opposition’s movements via drone surveillance.

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Western media declares war on Syria

President Assad meets with Syrian troops
President Assad meets with Syrian troops

While bullets and bombs fly all across Aleppo, barbed words are flying in national press conferences and electrons in cyberspace, with Western media trying to portray the Syrian coalition as if it were invading a neighboring country to loot and pillage, as opposed to driving terrorists out of its own territory.

We have seen all of the old anti-Damsacus propaganda smears in action, including the age-old barrel bomb and gas attack stories, with the usual jihadi false flag executed ones, where they rush in to shoot media for the press.

But the Syrian coalition is not flinching. The bitter taste of US duplicity still remains after its total failure to control its opposition and terrorist proxies as it had pledged in the agreements with Russia, and as we could read in the full report released on Tuesday.

The US-sponsored insurgents refused to disengage from their former al-Nusra compatriots, including those that signed onto the ceasefire for the expected air cover it would provide them. It did not take long to learn that FSA and former al-Nusra people fighting under the Army of Conquest black flag were not about to disengage from each other. That idea has been a bad joke, and is now exposed to the world.

From the EU in Brussels we have comments devoid of any professional discipline, using age old propaganda slogans like, “indiscriminate suffering”, “breach of international humanitarian law”, “fire bombing and shelling”, and “deliberate targeting of an aid convoy last week”. Ouch!

The Dunford Doctrine is born – Guilt by association

This last charge was over the top, as its clear inference was that Syria or Russia were responsible when not only has no proof whatsoever been submitted by anyone to validate the claim, but even the UN people in the convoy claim they cannot say for certain who was responsible.

They were later joined by the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dunford who said he “suspected” that Damascus was responsible, and Russia derivatively so because it supported the Syrians. But with all his high-tech surveillance and intercept tolls, he also had no proof to put on the table.

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This was a huge mistake by Dunford, because the same convenient blame game thinking could easily be used on the US, due to its terrorist proxies being responsible for many atrocities.

The Free Syrian army has been an arms conduit for al-Nusra, with whom they shared their TOW missiles from the US, and as al-Nusra shared the ones it got from the Saudis, Qatar and Turkey, all allies of the US… so the US must be responsible, right?…according to the new Dunford Doctrine?

Threats began leaking out today from unnamed US officials that the Syrian ground assault could trigger the US Gulf State allies to provide advanced weapons to al-Nusra and IS. This was nothing more than a sham to cover that they and Turkey have already been doing that. Where do people think the Jihadi tanks, APC’s and armor piercing munitions have been coming from? Have smugglers been hiding tanks in aid convoys?

It is true that large numbers of MANPADS have not yet been introduced, as the Western coalition knows they would immediately be black-marketed to the highest bidder, and would work their way toward being used against civilian aircraft near any number of airports, especially in Europe.

The State Department’s Mark Toner presented a reasonable press conference appearance by saying that introducing more weapons into Syria was like pouring gas onto a fire. But I am not aware of anyone at State outing the CIA for having provided a weapons UPS delivery service for the Syrian opposition for several years now.

US history of weaponizing insurgents

And certainly, Mr. Toner must know that under Hillary Clinton’s time as Secretary of State, she oversaw a large weapons transfer program from captured Libyan stockpiles via Qatar’s close relations with the al-Qaeda elements in Libya, who helped destroy their own country as soon as Gaddafi was gone.

And when ISIS took Mosul, they spent weeks shifting tons of heavy weapons from captured Iraqi army bases into Syria without one US air attack that we know of, as if the US was pleased to see the Syrian jihadis receiving all of these additional arms.

But right in the middle of this Western crying towel charade about the monstrous Damascus regime, out of the blue came the German newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger interview with an Al-Nusra commander in Syria going by the name ”Abu Al-Ezz”. He revealed that US allies were providing them funding, tanks and artillery, and that they especially appreciated the US TOW missiles.

This news traveled the world over before the day ended, yet the media spinmeisters just pretend it never happened. They stayed on topic and their lies and denials continued, saying that it was Assad mass murdering his own people; nevertheless, it has been the Western sociopaths and their proxies attacking the Syrians.

In all of the coverage I have read since the Aleppo ground offensive began, I have not found a single mention how many foreign jihadis are in Aleppo, like the 2000 Tunisians, for example. These key details are airbrushed out of the story and make a mockery of the West’s free press, which is now a tattered disgrace.

Divide and conquer in Aleppo with a twist of olive branch

The Syrian coalition strategy seems to be one of cutting Eastern Aleppo in half to isolate both parts, while blocking military resupplies and compelling their surrender. While the early stage ground offensive was delayed 20 hours to allow civilians to get out and ethnic Syrian fighters to accept an amnesty, that did not apply to the foreign fighters.

Syria seems to be learning that just “pushing” these insurgents out of one position allows them to continue fighting in a new place after a few days’ rest. When my group of election monitors at the 2012 elections where meeting with the Syrian Speaker of the Parliament, he told us that they were holding jihadis from over 60 countries, which I think must be nearing 100 now.

The big payoff would be threefold if the SAA can retake Aleppo within a reasonable time. The civilians can begin coming back to what is left of their homes before winter sets in, and the Syrian military units can be redeployed to concentrate on the remaining opposition pockets in other areas.

These Pansiki Gorge Chechen Jihadis are some of the baddest boys around, and are Western sponsored to boot
These Pansiki Gorge Chechen Jihadis are some of the baddest boys around, and are Western-sponsored to boot

The remaining insurgents might be much more motivated to partake in a real truce then, and work on a political settlement before the whole country is nothing but rubble, where everyone loses.

The surviving jihadis would then either go back to their home countries to torment their fellow countrymen, or go to work for some Western intelligence agency as a rent-a-jihadi, like the Chechens are for the Americans.

Either way, I am afraid the long suffering civilians of Aleppo are in for some very bad weeks. The jihadis have used them all this time as human shields, and will probably continue to do so as they fight and die along with their dreams of being Aleppo jihadi warlords forever, with plenty of money and a private harem dying with them.

Thousands of Syrian insurgents have taken advantage of Assad’s many past amnesties to stop fighting, and they will be around to play some role in rebuilding Syria. It will need all of its sons and daughters to begin putting the country back together again, a generation actually.

As for the foreign jihadis, I will look forward to their date with the bulldozers and final resting place, and an end to the scourge they have gouged upon this ancient and honored land. I will give the last line to Tolstoy. “If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” – War and Peace

Jim W. Dean, managing editor for VT, producer/host of Heritage TV Atlanta, specially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

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