Turkey's pro-AKP theologians, authors & activists asking for liberation of Jerusalem & Aqsa.

Turkey's pro-AKP theologians, authors & activists asking for liberation of Jerusalem & Al Aqsa.

#Turkey's pro-gov't theologians, authors & activists issued a statement, asking for liberation of #Jerusalem & #Aqsa pic.twitter.com/ksz2aNCVtz

— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) January 20, 2016

They said opposed to #Turkey's rapproachment with #Israel if that does not serve in helping liberate #Palestine, #Gaza, #Jerusalem

— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) January 20, 2016

Among signatories included Hayrettin Karaman, known as #Turkey president #Erdoğan's chief fatwa (religious edict)-giver & #IHH president

— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) January 20, 2016

#Turkey PM @Ahmet_Davutoglu dines with #Hamas leader Khaled Mashal for 2.5 hours in Çankaya office in Ankara. Dec.20 pic.twitter.com/PErIBoRNti

— Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) December 23, 2015

Video - Smugglers tried to sell radioactive material to IS and other terrorists.

Smugglers allegedly shopped radioactive material to IS and other terrorists. Read the full story here.


Related: IS Claims to Have Constructed ‘Dirty Bomb’ After robbing 40 Kg of Uranium.

Video - Jeremy Corbyn explains why he described the Islamist terrorist organisations Hamas and Hezbollah as "friends"

Video - Jeremy Corbyn explains why he described the Islamist terrorist organisations Hamas and Hezbollah as "friends". Read the full story here.

'US did nothing to stop Ramadi fall to ISIS , This is complicity in [a] conspiracy' : Iranian Commander Soleimani

"US did nothing to stop Ramadi fall to ISIS, This is complicity in [a] conspiracy' : Iranian Commander Soleimani." (Presstv).

Iranian commander Major General Qassem Soleimani has slammed the United States over the recent fall of the Iraqi city of Ramadi to the Takfiri ISIL terrorist group.

Soleimani, who is the commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ Quds Force, said that while the Ain al-Asad air base hosting US fighter jets was very close to Ramadi, the American military forces took no action to stop the ISIL militants fighting to take over the Iraqi city.

“This is not but complicity in [a] conspiracy,” he said during a Sunday gathering of the veterans of the eight-year Iraqi-imposed war against Iran in the southeastern Iranian city of Kerman.

“There is no will to fight the ISIL,” Soleimani said in a reference to the US-led coalition that purports to be targeting ISIL targets inside Iraq and Syria.

He also described the ISIL terror group as a “great plague,” which should be countered.

The group, whose members slaughter human beings in cold blood while chanting religious slogans, is a big threat, he said.

On May 17, the ISIL militants managed to bring Ramadi under their control.

The Popular Mobilization forces, one of the volunteer groups who have joined the Iraqi army, were dispatched to Anbar after Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi called on them to join the fight to drive the Takfiri militants out of Ramadi.

Adrian Edwards, a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said on Friday that around 55,000 people had fled Ramadi since mid-May.

Iraq’s former national security advisor told Press TV on Sunday that most US fighter jets deployed to bomb terrorists in the Arab country return to their bases without engaging terrorist positions.

Mowaffak al-Rubaie sharply criticized the US-led airstrikes against the ISIL as ineffective, saying, "from where I sit in Baghdad, eight out of each 10" aircraft loaded with ammunition return to their bases without striking their targets.

Elsewhere in his remarks, General Soleimani said, “Today, no one stands to take up the fight against this dangerous phenomenon (ISIL) but the Islamic Republic.”

Since August 2014, the US and some of its allies have been conducting airstrikes against what they say are ISIL positions in Iraq. Some members of the US-led coalition also started bombarding ‘ISIL targets’ inside Syria in September last year without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate.

This is while many of the countries joining the so-called anti-terror coalition, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have been the staunch supporters of the Takfiri elements.

The ISIL terrorists currently control swathes of territory across Syria and Iraq. They have committed terrible atrocities in both countries, including mass executions and beheading of local residents as well as foreign nationals. Hmmmm......Obama: 'The future does not belong to those that slander the prophet'.

Air sortie logs issued by Pentagon show we provided almost no air support leading up to the fall of #Ramadi despite Intel of #IS moving in.

— Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) May 24, 2015

Poor Intel: 75 percent of U.S. air combat missions in Iraq and Syria return to base without having fired a weapon or dropped a bomb.

— Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) May 24, 2015

Major General Qassem Soleimani: "Obama has not done a damn thing so far to confront Daesh."

— Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) May 25, 2015

Iran II - 'Islamist' Turkey’s Energy Min refuses to deliver int’l report on Akkuyu nuclear plant to court.

Iran II - 'Islamist' Turkey’s Energy Min refuses to deliver int’l report on Akkuyu nuclear plant to court. (TZ).

Turkey's Energy Ministry has refused to deliver an international infrastructure report on the country's much-debated Akkuyu nuclear power plant on which construction has started in the country's southern province of Mersin to a court, saying the report concerns the security or interests of the state, a Turkish daily reported.

According to a Hürriyet daily main story published on Thursday, the Turkish government asked the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to prepare a report on Turkey's planned first nuclear power plant.

Turkey Atomic Energy Agency head Zafer Alper and Energy Ministry Undersecretary Metin Kilci received the “Integrated Nuclear Infrastructure Review” report prepared by the IAEA in February 2014; however, the Turkish government did not make the report public as is common practice in other states such as Poland, the United Arab Emirates and Belarus.

The report, which only Turkey is authorized to publicize as part of the agreement between Turkey and the IAEA, reportedly contains 24 pieces of advice and 15 suggestions for the Turkish government on the controversial nuclear project. Hmmm......'State secret'. Read the full story here.

Related: Turkey secretly working on the Nuclear bomb?

IS terrorist leader Baghdadi married German teen in Nineveh?

IS terrorist leader Baghdadi married German teen in Nineveh? (IN).

A local source in Nineveh province announced on Wednesday, that the leader of the ISIS organization Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has married German girl in Nineveh court amid intense secrecy.

The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has gotten married to a German girl at the Diwan of judiciary in Nineveh,” noting that, “The German girl had first arrived in Syria then moved to Nineveh.”

The source, who requested to remain anonymous, added, “Al-Baghdadi tried to keep his marriage a secret,” noting that, “The German woman monitors ISIS women’s affairs in the organization.”

The source stated, “It remains unknown whether al-Baghdadi and his wife are in Nineveh or they’ve moved to Syria.”

It is noteworthy that last June the ISIS organization seized a number of provinces in central and northern Iraq and has committed crimes against humanity in these areas against the population of religious and ethnic minorities, and claimed that it came to restore “the Islamic caliphate” and set its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi himself “Caliph of Islam.” More here.

Nuclear arms race is on - Turkey launches construction of first nuclear power plant

Nuclear arms race is on - Turkey launches construction of first nuclear bomb power plant. (DS).

ANKARA: Turkey launched Tuesday the construction of its first nuclear power plant, a controversial $20 billion project slammed by ecologists which Ankara hopes will begin a new era of greater energy self-sufficiency.

The nuclear power station, in Akkuyu in Mersin province on the shores of the Mediterranean is being built, like Iran's first nuclear power plant, by Russia's nuclear agency Rosatom.

"Development cannot happen in a country without nuclear energy," said Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz at a ceremony attended by the head of Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko and other top officials.

It is the first of three nuclear power plants Turkey currently plans to build to reduce its dependence on importing energy from exporters like Russia and Iran.

The Turkish authorities have swatted away concerns that the Akkuyu facility lies in a seismic zone, saying it can resist quakes registering up to nine on the Richter scale. 

However the Akkuyu plant has become a bete noire for environmentalists who have raised alarm about safety issues and the building of the power station in an area rich in wildlife.

Environmental campaign group Greenpeace in January lodged a complaint in court against the awarding of an environmental impact licence to the plant and says it should not be built.

"Turkey is not ready to build nuclear reactors - the country is still missing the key pieces of necessary legislation," Jan Beranek, the director of Greenpeace Mediterranean, told AFP, saying that the seismic assessment had been "totally inadequate."

The project is strongly backed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as part of his plan to make Turkey one of the world's top ten economies. Hmmmm.....What Erdogan wants is nuclear weapons.....period.

Related: Turkey secretly working on the Nuclear bomb?

EU Keeps terrorist group Hamas on Terror List despite Court Ruling.

EU Keeps terrorist group Hamas on Terror List despite Court Ruling. (Naharnet).

The European Union kept Hamas on its terrorism blacklist Friday despite a controversial court decision ordering Brussels to remove the Palestinian Islamist group from the register.

Brussels has lodged an appeal against a December ruling by the bloc's second highest court that Hamas should be delisted for the first time since 2001.

"Hamas stays on list during Council's appeal to December judgment," Susanne Kiefer, a spokeswoman for the European Council said on Twitter.

The appeal process is expected to take around a year and a half.

Two other groups have however been withdrawn since the last EU list was published in July 2014: the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which U.S. officials have accused of funneling money to Hamas, and al-Takfir and al-Hijra, an Egyptian Islamist group.

An EU official said the relevant member states that originally put the groups on the list had "changed their minds," adding that Italy had requested the listing of the Holy Land Foundation and Britain had sought the inclusion of al-Takfir and al-Hijra.

Hamas' military wing was added to the EU's first-ever terrorism blacklist drawn up in December 2001 in the wake of the September 11 attacks on the United States. The EU then blacklisted the political wing of Hamas in 2003.

But the General Court of the European Union ruled last year that the Hamas blacklisting was based not on sound legal judgements but on conclusions derived from the media and the Internet. Hmmmm....I wonder how long before the Obama 'admin' will object ? Read the full story here.

Video - 'All quiet at the ISIS Front" - Russian-speaking ISIS member gives tour of "liberated" Mosul. English & Arabic subtitles

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Russian-speaking #ISIS member gives video tour of "liberated" Mosul. English & Arabic subtitles. https://t.co/bcFC6ynhX9

— Lucy Kafanov (@LucyKafanov) March 27, 2015

'Islamist' Iran accuses 'Islamist' Turkish leader Erdogan of fomenting regional strife.

'Islamist' Iran accuses 'Islamist' Turkish leader Erdogan of fomenting regional strife. (Reuters).

Iran's foreign minister accused Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday of fomenting strife in the Middle East, rebuffing his accusation that Iran was trying to dominate the region.

"It would be better if those who have created irreparable damages with their strategic mistakes and lofty politics would adopt responsible policies," Mohammad Javad Zarif was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars news agency.

"Under the current circumstances, all countries must work toward establishing stability and preventing the spread of insecurity in the region," Zarif, who is attending negotiations on Iran's disputed nuclear program in Switzerland, added. Hmmm.....Glad to see Iran notices what kind of 'Ally' Turkey is, you don't need enemies with Obama's BFF as ally.Read the full story here.

Turkish parliament grants 'Islamist' Pres Erdoğan secret discretionary fund & personal Intell org.

Turkish parliament grants 'Islamist' Pres. Erdoğan secret discretionary fund and the right to establish his own intelligence org. (Bugun).

For the first time in Turkish history, the president has been granted a secret discretionary fund that doesn't require disclosure, a fund normally reserved for only the prime minister.

Early on Friday morning parliamentarians from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) passed a last minute amendment to a contentious omnibus bill granting the president a secret discretionary fund like that of the prime minister. The political opposition is up in arms over the move, saying it is a violation of the constitution which explicitly states that the president doesn't have executive powers and therefore should not be able to utilize such a fund.

The amendment was proposed by the recently-appointed Interior Minister Sebahattin Öztürk on the grounds that the presidency needed a secret discretionary fund “to provide covert intelligence and covert defence services, meet the needs of national security and higher interests and preserve the dignity of the state, serve political, social and culture goals and provide extraordinary services.”

During his 11 years as prime minister, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spent TRY 7.09 billion (USD 2.7 billion) from the prime ministry’s discretionary fund. What started as a TRY 100 million annual fund when Erdoğan took power in 2003 ballooned to TRY 1.24 billion a year by 2013, a twelve-fold increase in just eleven years. (So did increase ME Terrorism)

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Group Deputy Chair Akif Hamzaçebi noted that the constitution did not authorize the president to act as an executive or issue orders regarding covert intelligence activities, “with this amendment the parliamentary system has been put on hold, this is a coup against the constitution.” 

He added that by giving President Erdoğan a secret discretionary fund, the amendment was designed to make it easier than ever for the National Intelligence Agency (MİT) to operate on nothing more than Erdoğan’s orders without any oversight. Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Group Deputy Chair Oktay Vural similarly slammed the amendment, adding that the provision was tantamount to a coup. Hmmmm.....Someone planning to organize and fund ISIS II?

Flashback: 2,72 Billion Dollars used by Erdoğan from 'discretionary funds’

Serious question: Does the black fund allocated for RTE have a territorial exception; meaning can it be used domestically?

— Aaron Stein (@aaronstein1) March 27, 2015

Unveiling of Map of proposed 'Syrian Kurdistan' provoke questions.

Unveiling of Map of proposed 'Syrian Kurdistan' provoke questions. (Zamanalwsl).

HT:

Ambitious map of proposed #Syria-n #Kurdistan provoke questions https://t.co/ryIXod27jN pic.twitter.com/pIZ0W5zJOB— маяковский (@moscow_ghost) February 22, 2015

A map was published by Nori Brimo, the Member of the National Kurdish Council which shows the area of Syrian Kurdistan, has provoked countless queries among observers, who expressed their worries of the unpredictable fate of non-Kurdish residents in Northern Syria.

The map with a draft of rules of procedures have shown that the Kurdish forces in the Kurdish National Council, an important bloc in the Coalition, would share the Democratic Union Party “PYD” in ruling regions under the party’s control in Northern Syria beside the tendency of those parties to found Syrian Kurdistan.

Aziz Biro, an organizer of “No strife Campaign” told Zaman al-Wasl that publishing the map was an attempt to initiate troubles and strives. He demanded questioning Nori Brimo for his childish act.

Nori Brimo refused to talk to Zaman al-Wasl about the matter, all he said: “I do not want more than highlighting that sensitive subject which is explained by the document the Kurdish political references have accredited”

Linda Ellie said that there has been an international will to divide Syria and the region, and the map was just to “test the water”, as they use Kurds to create another entity like Israel to initiate sectarian and national wars and conflicts.

Ellie requested all Syrians to face those opportunists and get rid of them.

“The map has joined half of Aleppo’s Western North Countryside, all Northern and Eastern countryside to Syrian Kurdistan”, Mohammed al-Sheikh, a Journalist explained to Zaman al-Wasl and added that Kurds had planned to divide Syria and separate since the beginning of the Syrian Revolution, as rebels found ID cards were issued by so called “Syrian Kurdistan, Aleppo State” with many Kurdish parties’ members in Minbij and Jarablus.

Al-Sheikh added that implementing the map would be difficult as the new entity would occupy all the borders between Syria and Turkey, and more than 70% of Syrian northern villages would go to the Kurdish entity.

Abdul Aziz Khalifa, a member of Hasaka Youth Union, explained that map was published before in Ain al-Arab battles’ in the beginning of 2013, in which Syrian Kurdistan extended from the Iraqi-Syrian boarders to the Mediterranean sea, and Israel was written instead of Palestine, which hinted to the West the new entity’s positive attitude toward Israel. Hmmm......This was to be expected, i presume the 'Neo Ottoman conquerors' have also a map of future 'Dominions'

"New Advanced Democracy" - Turkish intelligence agency to screen telecommunications staff.

"New Advanced Democracy" - Turkish intelligence agency to screen telecommunications staff. (Bugun).

Personnel being hired by private telecommunications firms will now require approval by the Turkish Intelligence Agency.

Minister of Transportation, Maritime Affairs and Communications Lütfi Elvan announced that Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency (MİT) will now be screening personnel hired by private telecommunications firms according to media reports.

“The government will be taking some precautions regarding Turkcell, Avea, Vodafone and Turk Telekom,” said Elvan, adding that anyone to work at GSM operators would be subject to approval by MİT and relevant security agencies. Elvan cited the December 2013 wiretaps that had exposed alleged government corruption as justification for this decision.

Critics are concerned that this degree of intrustion into GSM personnel would give MİT the opportunity to monitor the conversations of anyone with a cell phone in Turkey.

MİT has previously been accused of illegally monitoring the conversations of journalists, including reporters and columnists of Turkish daily Taraf. Hmmm.....It's becoming obvious Islamist Turkey is turning in to a Dictatorship where only 'trusted' AKP members will get a state job.

Obama Asked Erdogan to Help Calm Muslims And Curb Violence In Reaction To "Anti-Muhammad Video".

Obama Asked His BFF PM Erdogan For Help To Calm Muslims And Curb Violence In Reaction To "Anti-Muhammad Video".(Memri).

On February 9, 2015, the Turkish daily Today's Zaman reported that the SEA hackers had posted on their website (leaks.sea.sy) a private letter from President Obama to then-prime minister Erdogan on September 14, 2012, noting:[3]

 "In the letter, which begins 'Dear Tayyip,' Obama voices his concerns about a possible attack on U.S. diplomats following the release of a short video titled 'Innocence of Muslims' [which was being blamed for the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi three days earlier]. The video has anti-Islamic undertones and it is perceived as denigrating the Prophet Muhammad.

"When the 14-minute video was uploaded to the Internet on Sept. 11, 2012 in Egypt, it led to large-scale protests that were also replicated around the world. As a result of clashes with police, about 100 people were injured and 50 died.

"Obama asked Erdoğan to 'speak out immediately and forcefully before people go to Friday prayers': 'I believe that you are one of the most credible voices in the Islamic world today, and that if people hear you calling for calm and condemning violence it will have a real impact,' stated Obama in his letter to Erdoğan, adding: 'It will be important to emphasize that diplomatic personnel and facilities must be respected and that the way to defend religion is through peace rather than violence.

As people of faith, we have an obligation to prevent the people who did this video provoking a cycle of violence that violates the values that undergird our faith.'

"The letter seems to have been sent via e-mail early on a Friday morning in Turkey, just in time for Friday prayers.

"In his letter, Obama also said: 'I understand you are traveling between Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it is just after midnight in Washington. I am writing to you because given what has happened in the last two days, there is a very real danger that there could be an escalation of violence on Friday that would be very damaging to our shared interests.'

"Obama then mentioned the video, saying: 'Let me be clear that the U.S. government had nothing to do with it. We reject its message, which entirely contradicts my personal views and the values that America stands for.' Obama then underscored that the U.S. respects Islam and that it is opposed to efforts that offend Muslims by defaming the Prophet Muhammad.

"He added that they could do nothing to block the video, saying that this was not possible 'in this age of technology,' and noted that they are bound by the commitment to free expression.

'Nevertheless, our embassies across the Middle East are at risk and we are deeply concerned that after Friday prayers our people and installations in the region could be vulnerable to attack. We must not let extremists use this video as a pretext to attack America, or our other allies and partners,' Obama wrote.


"Obama ended his letter by thanking Erdoğan and calling him 'my friend,' adding that he looks forward to 'talking again' in a few days' time – when Erdoğan would return to Turkey from abroad." Read the full story here.

Video - Egyptian TV Host Ibrahim Issa: Nobody Dares to Admit That ISIS Crimes Are Based on Islamic Sources.

Egyptian TV Host Ibrahim Issa: Nobody Dares to Admit That ISIS Crimes Are Based on Islamic Sources.

Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian journalist and TV host Ibrahim Issa, which aired on ON TV on February 3, 2015:

Ibrahim Issa: Whenever ISIS carries out an act of barbarity, such as decapitations, throat slitting, or the burning of a person alive, as they did today, various sheiks tell you – if they even bother to say anything – that this has nothing to do with Islam, that Islam is not to blame, and whatever. But when the people of ISIS perpetrate slaughter, murder, rape, immolation, and all those barbaric crimes, they say that they are relying on the sharia. They say that this is based on a certain hadith, on a certain Quranic chapter, on a certain saying of Ibn Taymiyyah, or on some historical event. To tell the truth, everything that ISIS says is correct.

This should not come as a surprise to anyone, as a surprise to anyone, and nobody should be shocked by what I am saying. All the evidence and references that ISIS provides to justify its crimes, its barbarity, and its horrifying, criminal, and despicable violence… All the evidence and references that ISIS provides, claiming that they can be found in the books of history, jurisprudence, and law, are, indeed, to be found there, and anyone who says otherwise is lying. […]

When they kill a person claiming that he is an infidel, when they rape women, when they kill prisoners, and when they slaughter and decapitate people, they say that the Prophet Muhammad said so. Indeed, the Prophet said so! What was the context? The interpretation? That's a whole different story.

None of those [Al-Azhar clerics] who purport to be moderate, and who were told by President Al-Sisi to change the religious discourse, have the courage – not a single grain of courage – to admit that these things are indeed to be found [in Islamic sources] and are [morally] wrong.

If it is claimed that a certain companion of the Prophet did this or that, you should respond by saying that he was morally wrong. I would like to see a single Al-Azhar cleric in Egypt have the courage to admit that Abu Bakr burned a man alive. That's right. He burned Fuja'ah [Al-Sulami]. This is a well-known historical story. […]

Was Abu Bakr morally wrong to burn that man alive? Nobody dares to say so. So we are left in this vicious circle, and you can expect more barbarity, because all this barbarity is sacred.

It is sacred. This barbarity is wrapped in religion. It is immersed in religion. It is all based on religion. Your mission [as a cleric] is to say that while it is part of our religion, the interpretation is wrong. Do not tell people that Islam has nothing to do with this.

Erdoğan’s authority challenged: “I will carry on this struggle even if I have to walk alone”

Erdoğan’s authority challenged: “I will carry on this struggle even if I have to walk alone”(HD).

It must be very difficult for a leader who likes to exercise authority like Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan to admit publicly that he failed to convince Hakan Fidan, the powerful head of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT), to stay in office.

“Unfortunately,” Erdoğan told reporters accompanying him on his trip to Latin America, “he said he could not continue any longer.”

According to the constitution, the MİT is still under the prime minister, which is one of the reasons why Erdoğan wants it to be formally tied to the presidency in the strong presidential system that he dreams of.

On board the presidential plane, he said something bitter about both Davutoğlu and Fidan, without directly giving their names. “Perhaps he [Fidan] is planning to become a candidate [for parliament] or beyond [like a minister]. Or perhaps he was given certain promises, I can’t know that. But I told him [Fidan] that I did not find his departure from the MİT to be appropriate,” Erdoğan said.

The real source of Erdoğan’s anger must be something else. It could be, for example, a challenge he is facing from his closest circle, from the two men he has been relying on so far. His remark to reporters, “I will carry on this struggle even if I have to walk alone,” says a lot about his psychology.

It is possible that Erdoğan and Davutoğlu will find a way to find common ground, as the June 7 elections are too valuable to risk. But this wound is the kind that can leave a scar on the face, and it is likely to have political consequences - especially within the governing party. Hmmm....They have decided that he has to go, he's damaging the public image of Turkey too much, businesses are loosing investors and money, money talks. Read the full story here.

Total householddebts were 6 billion Turkish lira ($2.4 billion)when AKP came to power 2002. In 2014 it's 345.5 BL Turkish lira $139billion
— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) February 10, 2015

Video - Iraq - U.S. is establishing an air base close to Erbil ( Harir air base 12 yrs ago)

Video - Iraq - U.S. is to establish an air base close to Erbil  ( Harir air base 12 yrs ago) (MYNet).{GoogleTranslate].

US troops in northern Iraq in 2003 air war  Hari in northern Iraq is preparing to use the airport as a base again. In this case, the district administration reported to Aaron, also using this as the site of a Turkish construction company, said he started to evacuate the airport in question. 

US Army, the Baath regime in the Iran-Iraq war in the years 1980- 1988 by military bases used northern Iraq Harun airport, started working again for use as a military base. 

Harr district administration was informed that the place used as a military base again. 

Turkey, Iran, Syria and Iraq because of the proximity of the strategic importance of the base indicated that Aaron is owned by the US in Iraq and Syria is said to be used in the fight against Isidor. 

Hariri had made American army, the 2003 Iraq war on Turkey's land commandos due to consent to go to Iraq Harun northern Iraq had transferred to the airport by lowering the air.

US Army, 173 is down to Hariri thousand commandos parachute from Airborne Division, in which the soldiers had taken control of the airport in Arbil, 65 kilometers north of Aaron.

US military air base Harr was used as the headquarters until the war ended. American soldiers abandoned to fate again with the departure from Iraq Harr base was used as the site of a Turkish construction company. After the agreed will be used as a military base by the US military re-Hariri Turkish companies begin to discharge the base said.  Hmmm.....Message to the Turks...just watch US. Boots are on the ground! Read and see (Video) the full story here.


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#US is to establish a air base close to #Erbil #Iraq #Peshmerga ( #Harir air base 12 yrs ago) http://t.co/YqFhU7lc11 … via @metesohtaoglu
— Elijah J. Magnier (@EjmAlrai) February 10, 2015

US built military bases in Iraq

http://militarybases.com/overseas/iraq/ 

IS fighter currently under trial: "Turkish Intelligence provided weapons to ISIS"

IS fighter currently under trial: "Turkish Intelligence provided weapons to ISIS" (JPost).

According to a story published in the Cumhuriyet daily on Monday, Turkish authorities are trying to divert public attention from the case because the prosecutor's dossier has details which reveal the involvement of MİT in arms smuggling.

Cumhuriyet reported that Aşkar was told by Topalca that the smuggling would not be a problem in Turkey because he had contacts. Aşkar, Topalca and certain other Turkmens then took the arms to a village near the Syrian border in Hatay province. When they reached the village, Turkish gendarmerie teams carrying a jammer device asked them why they were in a military zone. Aşkar quoted Topalca as saying that they had permission to be there.

“Topalca and the gendarmes made some telephone calls that I couldn't hear. Without any checks on my vehicle, which was loaded with arms, we were taken to the border with a military escort,” Aşkar said. He then added that his vehicle, along with another that had joined them on the way, was taken by people who crossed from the Syrian side to collect the vehicles.

According to Aşkar, Topalca told him that there were 100 rifles belonging to NATO in the vehicle and that the smuggling had been conducted with the approval and support of MİT. Hmmm.....No wonder the Turkish state prosecutor asks life imprisonment for the guards that stopped the MIT trucks....Just guess what these guys could reveal. Read the full story here.

U.S. intelligence estimates of ISIL’s membership size are probably way too low.

U.S. intelligence estimates of ISIL’s membership size are probably way too low. (WOR).

Estimates of the number of fighters in the ranks of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) are extraordinarily wide-ranging.

On the low end of things, CNN’s Barbara Starr recently reported that “U.S. intelligence estimates that ISIL has a total force of somewhere between 9,000 to 18,000 fighters.”

In late 2014, the CIA’s estimate of ISIL’s numbers was slightly higher, as its analysts assessed that the group had between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters between its Iraq and Syria holdings.

Other estimates are far higher. Rami Abdel Rahman, the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, has said that ISIL has more than 50,000 fighters in Syria alone. The chief of the Russian General Staff recently said that Russia estimates ISIL to have “70,000 gunmen of various nationalities.”

In late August of 2014, Baghdad-based security expert Hisham al-Hashimi claimed that ISIL’s total membership could be close to 100,000.

By November, Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff to Kurdish president Massoud Barzani, told Patrick Cockburn of The Independent that the CIA’s estimates were far too low, and that ISIL had at least 200,000 fighters. 

It still isn’t clear precisely how many fighters ISIL has, but its total force is likely to be closer to 100,000 than to 30,000 (although, unlike the martyrdom-seeking fanatics in its ranks, ISIL’s conscripts are more likely to turn tail and run in a tough situation).

The low-end estimates are simply too low to be realistic, while the high-end estimates—of which many observers are intuitively skeptical—are far more plausible than they first appear once one attempts to break them down more systematically. Hmmm......It seems 'El Pais' their 'estimates could be pretty close to the truth.Read the full story here.

Related: El Pais: "Between 30 - 100k European fighters in Syria and Iraq"

El Pais: "Between 30 - 100k European fighters in Syria and Iraq"

Routes returning fighters use 

El Pais reports Based on research by Spanish Police there are between 30 - 100k European fighters in Syria and Iraq. (ElPais).[GoogleTranslate].

Spain has become a place of settlement trafficking mafias that are used by jihadi veterans to return to Europe.

Those "militants" Europeans who enlisted in the ranks of the Islamic State are now camouflaged among refugees fleeing war in Syria and use the routes created by mafias Spain -and as platform- to return to sneak in their respective countries origin.

So to a report prepared by the Operations Section of Falsified Documents of UCRIF (Central Unit Illegal Immigration Networks and Falsified Documents) in late 2014, before the attacks in Paris . The document identifies three main routes of entry:. African, South American and European Veterans returning -most experienced in handling weapons and explosives constitute a major counter terrorism concerns of European governments.

The "threat" underlined by this report, that figure "between 30,000 and 100,000 militants" from Europe that have joined the caliphate of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (leader EI), is twofold:

the proliferation of trafficking mafias persons before the stampede of civilians and the "terrorists entry and return of European veterans using the same networks."

Last November, police dismantled a network of six people based in Madrid -but with branches in Turkey and Latin America - dedicated to introducing people from Syria in Spain.

And that report states: "The investigations have identified only a month, this group of six people of Lebanese and Iraqi nationality made ​​cash transactions of more than 100,000 euros". He adds: "The final destination of this money is not determined but it is assumed that a portion serves to finance the Islamic State ".

According to researchers, it is "more lucrative then the cocaine trafficking business."

The UN estimates trafficked -the end of September 200,000 people had crossed the borders of Turkey and Lebanon pay between 6,000 and 10,000 euros for the long journey, which usually stop in Athens or Istanbul. 

In these cities, they are providing false documentation, before boarding the plane that will take them downtown or north of Europe, stopping in either Latin America or directly to UK.

The forged passports, "manufactured in Greece or Turkey, which is the Seven 7 of false documents "in the words of the agents, often have Greek, Turkish or Israeli, or UK citizenship if the final destination is there. Read the full story here.(Spanish).

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That would definitely be a massive overestimation. I do believe the @ICSR_Centre numbers are closer to the truth
— Pieter Van Ostaeyen (@p_vanostaeyen) February 7, 2015