Russia's and Assad's War Crimes in Syria

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How is Powell's experience not evidentiary?

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
These are some of the things Powell said about Flynn:
“I spoke at DIA last month,” Powell wrote in a July 19 email exchange with his son. “Flynn got fired as head of DIA. His replacement is a black Marine 3-star. I asked why Flynn got fired. Abusive with staff, didn’t listen, worked against policy, bad management, etc. He has been and was right-wing nutty every [sic] since. I watched about five minutes on line of his talked [sic] and switched off.” While Powell admitted in an Aug. 10 email to a Washington Post reporter that he never “knew or served with Flynn,” he still sounded off on the Trump adviser. “Talking to people in the know, his real problem was leadership and management issues at DIA. Senior staff was in incipient revolt,” Powell wrote. “He has been over the top in his comments, conduct unbecoming. But he is unchained.”

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WHAT SPECIFICALLY in Powell's experience gives him SPECIFIC knowledge of Flynn? After all, that's what we're talking about. Powell made very SPECIFIC comments about Flynn. So, to repeat - WHAT SPECIFICALLY in Powell's experience gives him SPECIFIC knowledge of Flynn? Or, is he just making things up or repeating gossip?

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Originally posted by G:
SPECIFICALLY his EXPERIENCE gives him SPECIFIC knowledge of Flynn.
Hey! Wait a sec! You're being stupid again! You almost got me Kiki!
http://uproxx.com/news/michael-flynn-arabic-signs-border/
Ever since President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for National Security Advisor, retired Gen. Michael Flynn, was connected to several social media posts regarding the Pizzagate conspiracy theory, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency has come under fire.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/05/did-michael-
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Michael Flynn’s tweet wasn’t actually about #PizzaGate ...

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Originally posted by G:
According to CNN, Flynn made a rather dubious claim in August about “Arabic” signs located sporadically along the U.S.-Mexico border that were meant to guide “radicalized Muslims” into the country illegally. To support his claim, which Flynn made during an interview with Breitbart News on SiriusXM Radio, he referenced anecdotal information received by friends on the Border Patrol and photos he’d allegedly seen ...

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/08/politics/kfile-michael-flynn-arabic-sign
s-on-border/index.html A CNN KFile review of available information about the terror threat along the US-Mexico border could not corroborate Flynn's claim. CNN's KFile asked Flynn for clarification about the Arabic signs, but received no reply. A Trump transition spokesman declined to comment. A spokesperson for the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) "respectfully" declined to comment.
Earlier in the interview, Flynn discussed Hezbollah activity with drug smugglers in South and Central America. The Drug Enforcement Administration in February announced that Hezbollah was working with South American drug cartels to move drugs into the US. A series of arrests, the DEA said, was meant to stop the organization from using millions in drug money to fund terrorist activity in Syria and Lebanon.

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And what does this have to do with Powell's comments?

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How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?

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GSTRING, you claim to be a manager.

Well, I don't know how much of a manager you are, but in government agencies, you have to provide SPECIFIC EVIDENCE of how someone is fucking up. You can't just say that someone is "insubordinate", you have to provide the times, dates, and instances where a person was directed (and re-directed) to do something by a certain time and either outright verbally refused or simply failed to perform the task in a timely manner, and that it was not due to safety concerns or lack of training.

Similarly, you can't just say that someone is "incapable" you have to provide the times and dates of training logs, and demonstrate that training was attempted several times with several people.

I addressed this in another post already.

I guess YOUR problem is you (STILL!!!) can't separate "allegation" from "evidence". Saying someone is "abusive" or "working against policy" is an allegation ... i.e. it's an ACCUSATION unsubstantiated by EVIDENCE: times, dates, places, and descriptions documented by testimony from multiple people, or physical evidence such as missing data files, emails sent and received, bruises, broken parts or what-have-you. Now, I realize that for perfectly valid personnel reasons (something you may not know anything about) that specific evidence won't be forthcoming. But that that all means is that whatever Colin Powell said is just so much vapor: it's strictly hearsay (what someone told Powell, not what he witnessed directly), lacking corroborating evidence, and can't be used to judge Flynn's military performance because the allegations could all be purely political. So we will have to go on what Flynn says or tweets directly, plus historical fact.

FACT: Flynn co-wrote the military's counterinsurgency manual.

Just imagine that you are part of a jury every time an accusation comes up, and you have to decide whether the evidence supports the accusation. (And, no, repeating the accusation a few hundred times doesn't raise it to the level of evidence. Although it DOES raise the allegation to the level of "propaganda". That's what KRAPO does, and he's quite proud of it, he even says so in his signature, but it's still just allegation and propaganda.)



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So, since it's apparently OK to deal in allegations,

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‘Moderate Rebels’ Executed Hostages before Leaving East Aleppo (Graphic Photo 18+)

According to reports from the field, the so-called ‘moderate’ opposition massively executed captured soldiers of the Syrian Army before to leave the last neighborhoods of the city of Aleppo this week. Various pro-government sources claim that the number of killed Syrian soldiers reached 100 people. However, this information still has not been confirmed. At the same time, pro-opposition sources do not comment on the situation.

Reportedly, the massacre was committed by the Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki and Jaish al-Fatah groups in Sukkari and Bustan Al-Qasr districts of the city. The victims were mainly young men between the ages of 18-25.

A video, published online, presumably shows a Syrian soldier, captured, according to the voiceover, by members of the al-Din al-Zenki group. We also can see the same soldier in one of the photos, showing killed servicemen. So, it is clear that namely al-Din al-Zenki committed the murder of this soldier, as well as of others people in the picture.

https://twitter.com/walid970721/status/812441818797371392/video/1
PT Video w/ sub-titles. Voice says that Ahrar&Zinki r holding the prisoners who we know r now dead. So it wasn’t JFS who killed them #Syria pic.twitter.com/XHhnP0V3AL
— Walid (@walid970721) December 23, 2016


The photos below were published by pro-government journalists, reporting from eastern Aleppo. The soldiers, presented in the photos, still have not been identified. According to some reports, a large number of the executed soldiers were beheaded by jihadists. However, there is no confirmation of this information.


Photo: twitter.com / Gjoene


Photo: twitter.com / Gjoene

According to some reports, the High Command of the Syrian Army demanded to free these soldiers before jihadists left eastern Aleppo. However, militants denied the fact that they have any hostages.

Meanwhile, the Sputnik news agency also reported that Syrian servicemen discovered bodies of people, executed by terrorists, in one of the schools in Sukkari district. According to attorney of the Syrian military police, Samer Yousef, there were children among the killed people. Reportedly, characteristic traces of an execution, “including severed heads and poked out eyes,” were on the bodies of the victims. Some of them were shot dead at close range. Yousef added that soon, the DNA samples will be taken in order to identify the victims. According to the attorney, the execution occurred about 4-5 days ago.

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https://southfront.org/moderate-rebels-executed-hostages-before-leavin
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/world/middleeast/aleppo-syria-evacua
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Turning Point in Syria as Assad Regains All of Aleppo

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/world/middleeast/for-liberated-iraqi
-christians-still-a-bleak-christmas.html
For Liberated Christians, Still a Bleak Christmas

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How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?

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My xmas gift to you: Logic Tape to fix your broken logic.

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And a merry Xmas to you, too! But better keep that for yourself. Here, let me use some on you:

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You are wrong of course in so many ways.

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Allegation

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If someone I trust

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That's your first problem right there. Trust has to be earned, and it should be able to be lost, too. But you keep "trusting" "sources that let you down with bad info, over and over. Hillary was going to win. Qaddafi was a terrible threat. The USA didn't interfere with elections in Ukraine. Russia committed terrible war crimes in Syria. There were WMD in Iraq. Twitter is never manipulated, and events are never staged. Logic should lead you to consider that MAYBE your "sources" aren't trustworthy.

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tells me they worked with you

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So you're trying to say that by analogy you trust Colin Powell

WHY? Wasn't he the one who made that dog-and-pony show before the UN, where he publicly prostituted himself about Iraq's so-called WMD?

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and that he worked with Flynn

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FACT-FAIL. Colin never worked with Flynn, everything he knows about Flynn is, literally, hearsay.

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It's something we all do

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No, "we" don't "all" do it. Having been a team leader, supervisor, and manager for many years, I have HAD to learn to set aside hearsay: It's not like there isn't backbiting and cliquishness going on, and people can say all kinds of nasty things about each other with NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER. Stop defending your lack of objectivity ... and I hope you stop being such a terrible manager, too.

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GSTRING, you claim to be a manager. (eh?)
Well, I don't know how much of a manager you are, but in government agencies, you have to provide SPECIFIC EVIDENCE of how someone is fucking up. You can't just say that someone is "insubordinate", you have to provide the times, dates, and instances where a person was directed (and re-directed) to do something by a certain time and either outright verbally refused or simply failed to perform the task in a timely manner, and that it was not due to safety concerns or lack of training.- SIGNY

Well shoot, that's wrong. You're not thinking things through (or you're lying again). Let's get out the LT: You don't have to "provide the times, dates, and instances where a person was directed (and re-directed) to do something by a certain time and either outright verbally refused or simply failed to perform the task in a timely manner," unless you are going to file a formal charge or complaint against said person because almost all gov agencies are over stuffed, over cautious, OCD, bureaucracies managed by red tape. More to the point: you also don't have to do any of those things to KNOW if someone is a nut or a fuck up. -GSTRING

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Well, YOU'RE wrong. YES, I have to do these things... not to "file formal charges" against someone (BTW, where are these "formal" charges "filed" anyway? With the police department?) but simply in order to discipline someone ... time off without pay, all the way up to firing someone. Because if I "know" someone is a nut or a fuckup ... I mean REALLY know it, like based on direct experience ... I have to DO something about it.

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Similarly, you can't just say that someone is "incapable" you have to provide the times and dates of training logs, and demonstrate that training was attempted several times with several people.- SIGNY

Flynn was fired - that's evidence of his being incapable.- GSTRING

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That may also be evidence of him pissing people off - not because he was wrong, but because he was factually correct but politically out-of-step. Unlike Colin Powell, who was politically tuned in, but factually oh-so-very-wrong!

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I guess YOUR problem is you (STILL!!!) can't separate "allegation" from "evidence".- SIG

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1KIKI

Monday, December 26, 2016 2:46 AM

The idea that there might be signs in Arabic on our southern border seems ridiculous on the face of it. But one thing need to be noted:
No less agency than the DEA stated in February that Hezbollah was working with South American drug cartels to move drugs into the US and use the profits to fund terrorist activities.

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/08/politics/kfile-michael-flynn-arabic-sign
s-on-border/index.html Earlier in the interview, Flynn discussed Hezbollah activity with drug smugglers in South and Central America. The Drug Enforcement Administration in February announced that Hezbollah was working with South American drug cartels to move drugs into the US. A series of arrests, the DEA said, was meant to stop the organization from using millions in drug money to fund terrorist activity in Syria and Lebanon.

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It isn't a big stretch of the imagination to think other terrorist organizations would work with South and Central American drug cartels for other terrorist purposes.

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How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?

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So, you know what sources I trust? Even after I said years ago I don't trust any source? So go ahead, name them.

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GSTRING: You post very little of what you "believe", but your beliefs are outlined by what you fight against, and you fight viciously. Basically, you're a dingleberry on KRAPO's ass: you believe what KRAPO believes. And KRAPO believes the mainstream press.

And in addition, as far as I can tell you're a gutless wonder. No courage to your convictions.


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Since we're apparently all good with allegations in this space:

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Mass graves of tortured civilians found in Aleppo – Russian MoD

Mass graves with dozens of bodies of civilians subjected to brutal torture have been discovered in Aleppo neighborhoods left by militants, the Russian Defense Ministry said Monday.

Many of the corpses were found with missing body parts, and most had gunshot wounds to the head, according to a statement by Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov.

“The completion of a uniquely large-scale humanitarian operation by the Russian Center for Reconciliation in Aleppo will destroy many of the myths that have been fed to the world by Western politicians,” Konashenkov said in a statement. “The results of only an initial survey of Aleppo neighborhoods abandoned by the so-called ‘opposition’ will shock many.”

In addition to the massacres on militant-held territory, the area had been extensively mined

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Which is why sappers were sent in

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streets, cars, the entrances to buildings and even children’s toys had been booby-trapped.

In one small area, three tanks, two cannons, two multiple rocket launchers and numerous homemade mortars were found.

Seven huge warehouses filled with ammunition and supplies were also discovered, Konashenkov said.

On December 23, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said all militants had been evacuated from Aleppo. This came shortly after the Syrian Army declared the entire city free from anti-government armed groups.

The Russian military is currently involved in minesweeping the liberated areas and providing humanitarian aid to returning residents. On Friday, a Russian military police battalion arrived to help maintain security.
https://www.rt.com/news/371824-aleppo-mass-graves-civilians/

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But where, oh where, is the UN? Just three short weeks after they were wringing their hands about the poor trapped civilians. Now that they can actually HELP them, where is the hot food and hot tea? Where are the emergency shelters? Where are the dry clean clothes? Where is the medical attention? Help re-uniting lost families?

Or were the civilians of East Aleppo of concern - and in the western press - only as long as they could be used as leverage against the Syrian government and its allies?




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Another POV

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There Are No Terrorists? Counterterrorism = Supporting Terrorism? Western Governments Are Supporting Terrorist Organizations Which They are Allegedly Combating

The Western media in chorus is accusing the Syrian government and its allies including Russia and Iran of “crimes against humanity” for having liberated Aleppo from the clutch of Al Qaeda terrorists. “Putin and Assad could face justice for war crimes in Syria” according to the Washington Post.

In the media coverage of Aleppo, the Al Qaeda affiliated terrorists are casually described as opposition “rebels” waging a “revolution” against the government of Bashar al Assad, who is portrayed as a “dictator”.

The media propaganda campaign has gone into high gear. The words “Al Qaeda”, “Al Nusra” or “terrorists” are simply not mentioned in recent media reports. It never happened. “Opposition rebels” committed to democracy have been crushed by the Russians, according to “authoritative” media sources.

According to reports, there were no terrorists in Aleppo. The “rebels” are now being portrayed as the victims of Russian aggression. These are the same terrorists who are the object of Obama’s alleged “counterterrorism” campaign, which is largely intent upon protecting the terrorists.

Lies by Omission

There is no mention of the fact that East Aleppo has been occupied by Al Qaeda affilated entities (which are on the EU and US State Department “terror lists”) and that these terrorists –which are now portrayed as “freedom fighters’– have committed countless atrocities against civilians. And these atrocities are now casually being blamed on the Syrian, Russian and Iranian forces which liberated Aleppo.

For four years East Aleppo has been occupied by Al Qaeda, which had established a regime of terror and destruction. The media has portrayed the terrorists as “the moderate” opposition.

Syria: A US-NATO Sponsored Terrorist Insurrection Initiated in March 2011

The evidence amply confirms that Washington has supported the terrorists from the very outset. The influx of Salafist mercenaries commenced in the Southern city of Daraa on the border with Jordan in mid-March 2011.

Moreover, in an August 2011 report, Israeli intelligence news (Debka) confirmed that NATO and the Turkish High Command were involved in recruiting Mujahideen mercenaries throughout “the Middle East and the Muslim world”, while providing the rebels with an vast array of weapons:

“NATO strategists are thinking more in terms of pouring large quantities of anti-tank and anti-air rockets, mortars and heavy machine guns into the protest centers… ” (Debka) .

The terrorists are the foot-soldiers of the Western military alliance. Al Qaeda is a creation of the CIA. The Islamic State (ISIS-Daesh) was originally an Al Qaeda affiliated entity (Al Qaeda in Iraq) created by US intelligence with the support of Britain’s MI6, Israel’s Mossad, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Saudi Arabia’s General Intelligence Presidency (GIP).

Obama’s Counter-Terrorism Campaign is a Fraud

Obama’s counter-terrorism bombing campaign directed against the Islamic State (ISIS-Daesh) initiated in August 2014 is fake.

If they had wanted to eliminate ISIS-Daesh, they could have bombed their convoys of Toyota pickup trucks when they crossed the desert from Syria into Iraq in June 2014. The Syro-Arabian Desert is open territory. With a fleet of state of the art jet fighter aircraft (F15, F22 Raptor, F16) it would have been –from a military standpoint– ”a piece of cake”, a rapid and expedient surgical operation, which would have decimated the Islamic State convoys in a matter of hours.

The issue mentioned above has never been raised by military analysts. It has never received media coverage.

Needless to say that if they had eliminated the ISIS convoy in June 2014, Obama’s “Counterterrorism” initiative entitled “Operation Inherent Resolve” would not have been required.

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