Turkey could cut off Islamic State’s supply lines. So why doesn’t it?

David Graeber,the guardian

Western leaders could destroy Islamic State by calling on Erdoğan to end his attacks on Kurdish forces in Syria and Turkey and allow them to fight Isis on the ground

In the wake of the murderous attacks in Paris, we can expect western heads of state to do what they always do in such circumstances: declare total and unremitting war on those who brought it about. They don’t actually mean it. They’ve had the means to uproot and destroy Islamic State within their hands for over a year now. They’ve simply refused to make use of it. In fact, as the world watched leaders making statements of implacable resolve at the G20 summit in Antalaya, these same leaders are hobnobbing with Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a man whose tacit political, economic, and even military support contributed to Isis’s ability to perpetrate the atrocities in Paris, not to mention an endless stream of atrocities inside the Middle East.

How could Isis be eliminated? In the region, everyone knows. All it would really take would be to unleash the largely Kurdish forces of the YPG (Democratic Union party) in Syria, and PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ party) guerillas in Iraq and Turkey. These are, currently, the main forces actually fighting Isis on the ground. They have proved extraordinarily militarily effective and oppose every aspect of Isis’s reactionary ideology.

But instead, YPG-controlled territory in Syria finds itself placed under a total embargo by Turkey, and PKK forces are under continual bombardment by the Turkish air force. Not only has Erdoğan done almost everything he can to cripple the forces actually fighting Isis; there is considerable evidence that his government has been at least tacitly aiding Isis itself.

It might seem outrageous to suggest that a Nato member like Turkey would in any way support an organisation that murders western civilians in cold blood. That would be like a Nato member supporting al-Qaida. But in fact there is reason to believe that Erdoğan’s government does support the Syrian branch of al-Qaida (Jabhat al-Nusra) too, along with any number of other rebel groups that share its conservative Islamist ideology. The Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University has compiled a long list of evidence of Turkish support for Isis in Syria.

And then there are Erdoğan’s actual, stated positions. Back in August, the YPG, fresh from their victories in Kobani and Gire Spi, were poised to seize Jarablus, the last Isis-held town on the Turkish border that the terror organisation had been using to resupply its capital in Raqqa with weapons, materials, and recruits – Isis supply lines pass directly through Turkey.

Commentators predicted that with Jarablus gone, Raqqa would soon follow. Erdoğan reacted by declaring Jarablus a “red line”: if the Kurds attacked, his forces would intervene militarily – against the YPG. So Jarablus remains in terrorist hands to this day, under de facto Turkish military protection.

How has Erdoğan got away with this? Mainly by claiming those fighting Isis are “terrorists” themselves. It is true that the PKK did fight a sometimes ugly guerilla war with Turkey in the 1990s, which resulted in it being placed on the international terror list. For the last 10 years, however, it has completely shifted strategy, renouncing separatism and adopting a strict policy of never harming civilians. The PKK was responsible for rescuing thousands of Yazidi civilians threatened with genocide by Isis in 2014, and its sister organisation, the YPG, of protecting Christian communities in Syria as well. Their strategy focuses on pursuing peace talks with the government, while encouraging local democratic autonomy in Kurdish areas under the aegis of the HDP, originally a nationalist political party, which has reinvented itself as a voice of a pan-Turkish democratic left.

They have proved extraordinarily militarily effective and with their embrace of grassroots democracy and women’s rights, oppose every aspect of Isis’ reactionary ideology. In June, HDP success at the polls denied Erdoğan his parliamentary majority. Erdoğan’s response was ingenious. He called for new elections, declared he was “going to war” with Isis, made one token symbolic attack on them and then proceeded to unleash the full force of his military against PKK forces in Turkey and Iraq, while denouncing the HDP as “terrorist supporters” for their association with them.

There followed a series of increasingly bloody terrorist bombings inside Turkey – in the cities of Diyarbakir, Suruc, and, finally, Ankara – attacks attributed to Isis but which, for some mysterious reason, only ever seemed to target civilian activists associated with the HDP. Victims have repeatedly reported police preventing ambulances evacuating the wounded, or even opening fire on survivors with tear gas.

As a result, the HDP gave up even holding political rallies in the weeks leading up to new elections in November for fear of mass murder, and enough HDP voters failed to show up at the polls that Erdoğan’s party secured a majority in parliament.

The exact relationship between Erdoğan’s government and Isis may be subject to debate; but of some things we can be relatively certain. Had Turkey placed the same kind of absolute blockade on Isis territories as they did on Kurdish-held parts of Syria, let alone shown the same sort of “benign neglect” towards the PKK and YPG that they have been offering to Isis, that blood-stained “caliphate” would long since have collapsed – and arguably, the Paris attacks may never have happened. And if Turkey were to do the same today, Isis would probably collapse in a matter of months. Yet, has a single western leader called on Erdoğan to do this?

The next time you hear one of those politicians declaring the need to crack down on civil liberties or immigrant rights because of the need for absolute “war” against terrorism bear all this in mind. Their resolve is exactly as “absolute” as it is politically convenient. Turkey, after all, is a “strategic ally”. So after their declaration, they are likely to head off to share a friendly cup of tea with the very man who makes it possible for Isis to continue to exist.

Naoružani napadači, za koje se sumnja da su džihadisti kidnapovali su goste jednog hotela u Maliju, prenose agencije. Prema prvim izveštajima, otmičari drže 170 ljudi kao taoce, od čega je 140 gostiju, a 30 članova osoblja.


Naoružani napadači napali su hotel Radison Blu u centru Bamaka, prestonice Malija, navode svedoci. Za sada je poginulo najmanje troje.

 
"Očigledno se radi o pokušaju da se uzmu taoci. Policija se nalazi na licu mesta. Oni su zarobili oko 140 gostiju i oko 30 radnika. Hotel je blokiran i nema mogućnosti da neko izađe ili uđe", rečeno je agenciji Rojters iz policije.
 
Kako prenosi francuski RFI radio, napad su izvela trojica džihadista, koji su u hotel ušli tako da su se dovezli u automobilima s diplomatskim registarskim oznakama.

 
- Sve se događa na sedmom spratu. Džihadisti pucaju niz hodnik - rekao je za AFP neimenovani zvaničnik.
 
Pucnji iz automatskog oružja mogu se čuti iz hotela koji ima 190 soba, navodi AFP. Ovaj hotel popularan je među zapadnim državljanima koji rade u Maliju.
 
U avgustu mesecu islamisti su ubili 13 osoba, uključujući i zaposlene Ujedinjenih nacija, tokom talačke krize u hotelu u gradu Sevar u Maliju.
 
Vojna intervencija, na čelu sa Francuskom, početkom 2013. potisnula je većinu ekstremista. Međutim, neke oblasti, uglavnom na severu Malija, i dalje nisu pod kontrolom vlasti i stranih trupa.
 
Uskoro opširnije..

Izvor: Blic

Mali: Specijalci čiste hotel sprat po sprat

Specijalne snage Malija čiste hotel u Bamaku sprat po sprat nakon što su naoružani napadači upali i kao taoce uzeli 170 ljudi. Čuje se sporadična pucnjava.

Izvor: B92 petak, 20.11.2015. | 10:08 -> 13:13

Osim toga, navodi se da je ubijeno devet osoba, kao i da je 80 talaca oslobođeno.

Grupa džihadista, koja je na mesto napada došla vozilom sa diplomatskim talblicama, upala je jutros oko deset časova u luksuzni hotel Radison u kojem uglavnom odsedaju stranci. Postoje oprečne informacije o tome koliko ih ima, svetski mediji prenose od dvoje do 20.

"U ranim jutarnjim satima čula se pucnjava. Po svemu sudeći, u pitanju je pokušaj otmice. Policija je na listu mesta", javila je agencija Rojters, pozivajući se na bezbednosne izvore.

Nakon nekoliko sati talačke situacije, bezbednosne snage krenule su na hotel i akcija čišćenja hotela je u toku. Osim toga, UN su poslale pojačanje, a na lice mesta uputila se i elitna francuska jedinica.

Prema navodima svedoka napadači su govorili engleskim jezikom.

Rojters, pozivajući se na bezbednosne izvore, javlja da je jedan napadač ušao u hotel, pucao i vikao "Alahu ekber", kao i da su povređena dva radnika obezbeđenja.

Britanska agencija prenosi i da su napadači u jednom trenutku pustili iz hotela neke taoce, među kojima su oni koji znaju da recituju delove Kurana.

Ubijena su dva državljana Malija i državljanin Francuske, javio je Gardijan. U hotelu je i sedam zaposlenih u Turkiš erlajnsu od kojih je troje do sada uspelo da pobegne. Kineska agencija Sinhua javlja da među taocima ima i deset državljana Kine. Indija je saopštila da je u hotelu i 20 njenih državljana.

Francuski RTL navodi da je u hotelu zarobljeno 140 gostiju i 30 zaposlenih u hotelu, kao i da su otmičari "odsekli" hotel od spoljašnjeg sveta. AFP navodi da se iz hotela, koji ima 190 soba, povremeno čuju pucnji iz automatskog oružja, a tokom jutra su se čule i detonacije.

I dalje nije poznato ko stoji iza napada.

"Sve se dešava na poslednjem, sedmom spratu, džihadisti pucaju po hodnicima", rekao je izvor iz policije za AFP.

Osim toga, jedan od radnika hotela je za AP rekao da su napadači tokom napada koristili granate, ali i dodao da ne može sa sigurnošću bilo šta da kaže o broju talaca ili napadača.

Hotel "Radison Blu" je luksuzni hotel i jedno od glavnih mesta za okupljanje stranaca u Bamaku.

Vlasnici hotela navode da su njihovi "bezbednosni i korporativni timovi u stalnom kontatku sa lokalnim valstima kako bi im pomogli da uspostave bezbednost u hotelu".

Ovo je drugi napad ovog tipa u poslednjih nekoliko meseci u Maliju. U avgustu je 13 osoba stradalo u obračunu terorista i vojske gradu Sevare, tokom opsade hotela Biblos, u kome su mahom smešteni stranci i pripadnici misije UN.

Za taj napad je odgovornost preuzela Al Kaida.

Izvor: B92

Ovaj... samo ću da ostavim ovo ovde, ne znam (i ne zanima me) koliko je tačno.

Which EU Country Produces The Most ISIS Fighters?

In the aftermath of the recent attacks in Paris, the i100 has comprised an infographic that shows the estimated number of ISIS fighters per capita in 15 different countries.

The data, comprised by Statista, shows that Jordan and Tunisia contribute significantly more fighters per capita than any of the other countries studied. Kosovo, along with Bosnia and Herzegovina, are the top two European countries that have the highest number of ISIS fighters proportional to their population.

Belgium was the highest-scoring EU country in the study – with an estimated 40 ISIS fighters per million people.

The i100 also reported that Belgium's chief police commissioner said that of 474 Belgians linked with the Syrian conflict, more than 200 Belgian nationals are still in Syria. Intelligence agencies believe the recent Paris attacks were devised by Belgium-born Abdelhamid Abaaoud.



Such statistics are not meant to encourage negative attitudes toward any one country, but to help reveal complicated socioeconomic and political factors at play. Many influences such as war and marginalization can push these numbers up. For a more detailed explanation, head over to The Atlantic.

Izvor: I Fucking Love Science

Jbg sad ce izgleda svuda da prave sranja...



Inace znam da nije za sprdnju ali:

"Komunalna policija AKA specijalci Sinise Malog"

Bre ovi muslimani su toliko ljuti da se dižu u vazduh i kad ih pitaš da li imaju dečka/devojku... 



I drugi snimak same eksplozije...

JEZIV SNIMAK Ovo je trenutak smrti džihadistkinje iz Pariza, dok joj telo izleće kroz prozor

Ode Fatima kroz prozor!   

Sa njima se generalno i ne moze boriti, bar je njima licno to win win situacija.
Ako izubija ljude..pobedio, ako ga ubijes ..sto se njega tice poslao si ga u raj da jebe 100 devica.

Inace kad pogledam onaj rezime gore.Malo mi muka ljudi koji nasu policiju krive za ova ili ona reagovanja, a EU odgaja teroriste kao u internatu.
Mislim na onu pricu "Policija je znala ali nije intervenisala...".

Напад на генерала у Мостару: Бомба испред аута
Аутор: мондо.рс,  мондо.ба
20.11.2015. | 22:18  >  23:31 У тунелу "Салаковац" у Мостару вечерас је дошло до експлозије испред возила у којем је био начелник Заједничког штаба Оружаних снага БиХ Анто Јелеч. Приведен осумњичени.

http://mondo.rs/a849921/Info/Ex-Yu/Mostar-bomba-ispred-automobila-generala.html

Путин полива, 600 мртвих.

Moze to bolje.  Novi Krstaski pohod je potreban.