December 28 brief

[goldenequity]

Good Morning
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►George W. Bush cancels visit to Swiss charity gala over fears he could be arrested on torture charges

Mr Bush was due to be the keynote speaker at a Jewish charity gala in Geneva on February 12.

But pressure has been building on the Swiss government to arrest him and open a criminal investigation if he enters the country.

Criminal complaints against Mr Bush alleging torture have been lodged in Geneva, court officials said.

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GERMANY


►German Bundestag Displeased With NATO Plans to Send Aircraft to Turkey

SOUND FAMILIAR? According to MPs, the German government had to consult the Bundestag before making a decision to deploy German military staff to Turkey.

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CHINA


►Chinese Army Allowed to Carry Out Anti-Terror Operations Abroad

China’s legislature passed the country’s first anti-terrorism law on Sunday, making it legal for the People’s Liberation Army to take part in counter-terrorism missions abroad.

►Chinese Stealth Fighter J-20 Starts Production

The J-20 will give the PLAAF a technological advantage over every other Asian air force. While the J-20 may not be able to supercruise (fly at supersonic speeds without using fuel-thirsty afterburners) with its current Russian AL-31 turbofan engines, its high level of stealth, long range and electronic warfare capabilities will make it a very formidable foe for other fighters.

Black Dragons - "2101", and other LRIP J-20s are going to be similar to the design of the final prototype, "2017", seen here.

►Cuba: First ever direct flight from China to Cuba touches down in Havana




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RUSSIA


►Russian state shipbuilder expected to be able to build aircraft carriers as of 2019

►Russia's S-400 to Be Equipped With High-Tech Communication System

“The new S-400, S-500 and ‘Vityaz’ missiles will have the Tuf-MA and Tuf-M2 systems installed in them. This system will include phased array antennas with digital beamforming, high frequency tuning for the protection against electronic reconnaissance and interference.”

►Russian space agency gets replaced by state corporation - Putin has signed a decree to abolish the Federal Space Agency

Continuity of powers and functions to be handed over from the abolished federal space agency to the Roscosmos corporation

►Egypt to sign contract with Russia on NPP construction in January

A credit to be issued in 2016-2018 will make it possible to finance 85% of the total cost of works to erect the nuclear power plant. The Egyptian side is supposed to provide the remaining 15% out of its own sources. As it was originally announced, the payments will not be made from the state budget. All the expenses will be recovered through real production of electric energy to be generated by the station.

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SYRIA


►Captured ISIS fighter: Turkey safer place to train recruits than Syria




►At Least 30 Killed in Triple Attack in Syria's Homs

The suicide bomber blew himself up, and almost immediately a car bomb exploded, and then another explosive device detonated at the site of the previous attack. According to preliminary data, over 30 were killed

On December 12, terrorists detonated a car bomb near a hospital in the center of the Syrian city of Homs. The attack killed 22 people and injured 10. Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzpQxsXXsIk


►ISIS loses ground at the Al-Sina’a District of Deir Ezzor as the Syrian Army pushes towards the Euphrates


►Massive convoy of Syrian Army reinforcements arrive in northern Daraa to begin the Sheikh Miskeen offensive

JORDAN BORDER REGION
►SAA & #SyAAF after mass morning shelling & bombardment, have begun assault to retake Sheikh Miskeen #Daraa
►SAA took control of 82nd Brigade Base and has captured several buildings in the eastern part of Sheikh Miskeen

►Syria: Rebels evacuated from village of Zabadani in UN-brokered deal

A UN-brokered deal to evacuate militant fighters and civilians from the Syrian village of Zabadani, west of Damascus, was put into effect on Monday, as part of a deal that covers three Syrian towns.

►Russian USO?



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IRAQ


►Iraqi Army Declares Complete Liberation of Ramadi From Daesh

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IRAN


►Iran's President Implicitly Blames Saudi Regime for Crisis in Region



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YEMEN


►7,411 Yemeni civilians reportedly killed by Saudi Arabia this year

A local monitoring group called “Yemen Fights Back” has released a statistical report (March 26th, 2015 – December 12th, 2015):

7,411 Yemeni civilians killed
4,373 men, 1,309 women, and 1,729 children

13,846 men, women and children wounded

900,000 Yemeni civilians displaced

319,957 homes destroyed

The Saudi regime is attempting to reinstall the exiled Yemeni president, ‘Abd Rubbah Hadi Mansour, back into power when they launched this war.

Currently, the Yemeni capital is under full control of the Houthis and the Yemeni Army’s Republican Guard.
They have also entered the southern countryside of Saudi Arabia and seized a number of sites from the coalition forces.

►Yemeni Forces hit Saudi military base in Najran

The Qaher 1 missile hit armories of the base, located in the al-Arissah district of Najran.

Yemeni forces launched missile attacks on a convoy of Saudi mercenaries moving from Yemen’s central province of Ma’rib to the northern province of Jawf destroying 3 vehicles in the attacks.

Yemen military forces have fired over 80 Katyusha rockets at Saudi bases in Najran.

Dozens of mercenaries killed after Yemeni fighters fired missiles at a presidential palace in Ma’rib and the al-Amri district of the southwestern province of Taez.

Heavy clashes continue between Ansarullah fighters and Saudi-backed militants in the Dhubab district of Taez.

Similar clashes are underway in the northeastern part of the Yemeni capital, Sana’a.

On Sunday, Saudi warplanes repeatedly bombarded Yemen’s border regions. The jets also pounded the Kataf district in the northern province of Sa’ada.

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TURKEY


►Syrian journalist & filmmaker who exposed ISIS Aleppo atrocities assassinated in Turkey




►17 year-old sent to jail for allegedly insulting Erdogan

The boy, identified as F.E., was detained at his home in western Tekirdag province after someone called the police emergency line to complain about his Facebook posts, Dogan news agency said.

►TURKEY: Presidential Spokesperson says Erdogan will go to Washington to inaugurate Mosque opening in DC
(Let's hope Americans can show the Bastard the 'Welcome' he deserves!!)

►Putin approves extension of economic sanctions against Turkey


►Turkey: Captured ISIS militant claims Turkey trains ISIS fighters in FSA camp
Turkey is training so-called Islamic State (IS, former ISIL/ISIS) militants in a camp allegedly organised for the Free Syrian Army, a captured Syrian IS militant Abdelrahman Abdelhadi said in an interview to a Sputnik journalist from a secure prison in the Rojava region in northern Syria, Sunday.

“They only appear to be enemies, however, they are friends,” the 20-year-old Abdulhadi, whose brother, Til Berak, is still fighting for ISIS told Sputnik Turkey. While Turkish nationals constitute only about“10 percent” of terrorists he had come across, the prisoner said Turkey is actively training ISIS fighters.

"While the camp was officially declared to be one of the training grounds for the Free Syrian Army, the YPG prisoner says, all sixty of those who were there were ISIL members."

Abdulhadi was tasked with escorting Syrians who wanted to join the terrorists.

“After I finished the training, I went to one of the districts in the Turkish town of Adana. My task was to meet the newly arrived recruits from Syria. After the training we sent them to the Turkish town of Urfa. From there the recruits were transferred via Turkey-Syria border crossing back to Syrian Raqqa. And from there further across Syria,”

The prisoner also revealed that ISIS is now receiving ammunition in trucks disguised as non-military cargo. He said that such low-level fighters as him have no idea where the arms come from.

“Weapons were brought to us in civilian cars, not in military ones because fighter jets might have bombed them. ISIL is now mostly using civilian vehicles. I’ve heard they put vegetables on top of boxes with ammunition, so that war planes do not spot them.”

 

[AngryCanadian]

Ukrainian Farmers protest and block Key Kiev's highway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHbMHkC8uHA&feature=youtu.be

 

[goldenequity]

What a disaster Ukraine is.
All they got from EuroMaidan, Porky and the Oligarchs was inflation and more corruption...
and Saakashvili of course

 

[goldenequity]

Ukrainian President Poroshenko's approval rating drops below ousted predecessor's

President Petro Poroshenko is currently less popular with the Ukrainian people than his predecessor Viktor Yanukovich was just before being ousted in an armed coup almost two years ago, a Gallup poll showed.

 

[AngryCanadian]

What a disaster Ukraine is.
All they got from EuroMaidan, Porky and the Oligarchs was inflation and more corruption...
and Saakashvili of course

Yup.
EuroMaidan Gave Ukraine also the following.
-GMO foods, sweets.
-Migrants.
-Debt.

 

[goldenequity]

Some overflow video articles from today...
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►Syria: Terrorists fleeing towards Turkish border - leave behind Chem/Bio Weapon Equipment

The Syrian army says the number of terrorists fleeing towards the Turkish border has doubled.
The military says the mass escape follows gains in several provinces, control of dozens of towns and strategic regions SW Aleppo and Lattakia province.
Equipment for using chemical and biological weapons has been abandoned and seized.
Authorities say the terrorists have been planning chemical or biological attacks to frame the Syrian government for using unconventional weapons.

►SYRIA: Lebanese convoy enters Syria to evacuate militants from Zabadani to Turkey:

Tactical & Military implications discussed

►SOUTHFRONT: Updates

International Military Review – Syria, Dec. 28, 2015


Russia Defense Report - Dec. 28, 2015: Nuclear Triad Modernization


►US pursuing regime change in Iraq, Syria, aiming for Iran - Pres. Candidate Jill Stein




►Russia blames Saudi Arabia for drop in oil prices

 

[Zippyjuan]

►Russian state shipbuilder expected to be able to build aircraft carriers as of 2019

Russia doesn't have any aircraft carriers?

 

[goldenequity]

It has 1.