Saturday, October 10, 2015

RANG Undang-undang pembiayaan Pentagon atas meja Obama: $ 600 Juta kepada pemberontak Syria, $ 300 Juta ke Kiev . . .


A member of the US Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade (C) trains Ukrainian soldiers at the military training area in Yavoriv, outside Lviv, Ukraine (Seorang ahli 173 Airborne Briged Tentera AS (C) melatih tentera Ukraine di kawasan latihan tentera di Yavoriv, di luar Lviv, Ukraine) © Oleksandr Klymenko/Reuters

hafizinAlif Rang undang-undang pembiayaan pertahanan bagi 2016 termasuk beberapa sokongan mewah kepada pemberontak di Syria dan bantuan maut kepada kerajaan Ukraine semasa. Walaupun Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama bertelagah dengan penggubal undang-undang ke atas beberapa peruntukan, mereka mungkin kekal.

Obama telah mengancam untuk veto $612 billion Negara Akta Pertahanan Kebenaran - juga dikenali sebagai House Resolusi 1735, atau NDAA - kerana ia mengandungi peruntukan yang menyekat rancangan untuk menutup kem tahanan di pangkalan Amerika Syarikat di Teluk Guantanamo, dan kerana ia mengelakkan yang had maksima bagi perbelanjaan pertahanan oleh padding akaun khas yang disediakan untuk bankrolling peperangan. Dewan Negara lulus NDAA pada Rabu dengan majoriti veto-bukti.

Walaupun White House dan penggubal undang-undang berada di dalam pertikaian ke atas butir-butir, mereka kelihatan dalam perjanjian kepada usaha-usaha untuk menghantar bantuan ketenteraan kepada rejim di Ukraine dan sukar difahami "pemberontak sederhana 'di Syria.

Sesetengah $600 juta telah diperuntukkan untuk program untuk menyokong "sewajarnya disemak" pemberontak Syria, menentang kedua-dua kerajaan di Damsyik dan Negara Islam (IS, juga dikenali sebagai ISIS dan ISIL).

Seksyen 1225 daripada NDAA memperuntukkan $531.5 juta terus kepada program Train Syria dan Equip, dan mengarahkan tambahan $25.8 juta kepada Tentera Amerika Syarikat dan $42.8 juta  kepada Tentera Udara Amerika Syarikat, untuk menampung kos penyertaan mereka.

Versi 2015 daripada NDAA memperuntukkan $ 500 juta untuk melatih dan melengkapkan Walaupun Pentagon berharap untuk mempunyai kuasa 5,000 pejuang pada akhir tahun 2015, program ini telah menghasilkan hanya segelintir "pemberontak sederhana." - Harfiah. Atas pegawai tentera Amerika Syarikat mengakui hanya "5 atau 6" pemberontak kekal dalam pertempuran selepas kumpulan pertama telah berselerak dengan pengganas Al-Nusra pada bulan Julai. Kumpulan kedua pemberontak menyerah diri kepada Al-Nusra bulan lalu, dengan semua gear Amerika Syarikat yang mereka disediakan.

Pentagon funding bill on Obama’s desk: $600 mln to Syrian rebels, $300 mln to Kiev . . .

The defense funding bill for 2016 includes some lavish support to rebels in Syria and lethal aid to the current Ukrainian government. Although President Barack Obama is at loggerheads with lawmakers over some of the provisions, they are likely to remain.

Obama has threatened to veto the $612 billion National Defense Authorization Act – also known as House Resolution 1735, or the NDAA – because it contains provisions blocking the plans to shut down the detention camp at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, and because it avoids a cap on defense spending by padding a special account reserved for bankrolling wars. The Senate passed the NDAA on Wednesday with a veto-proof majority.

While the White House and the lawmakers are in dispute over the details, they appear to be in agreement on continuing to send military aid to the regime in Ukraine and the elusive “moderate rebels” in Syria.

Some $600 million has been earmarked for a program to support the “appropriately vetted” Syrian rebels, fighting against both the government in Damascus and Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS and ISIL).

Section 1225 of the NDAA allocates $531.5 million directly to the Syria Train and Equip program, and directs an additional $25.8 million to the US Army and $42.8 million to the US Air Force, to cover the costs of their participation.

The 2015 version of the NDAA allocated $500 million for the training and equipping of “moderate rebels.” Though the Pentagon hoped to have a force of 5,000 fighters by the end of 2015, the program has produced only a handful – literally. Top US military officials admitted only “five or six” rebels remained in combat after the first group was scattered by Al-Nusra terrorists in July. The second batch of rebels surrendered to Al-Nusra last month, with all their US-provided gear.


US-trained Syrian rebels with weapons end up in hands of Nusra jihadists (Amerika Syarikat melatih Pemberontak Syria dengan senjata berakhir di tangan jihad Nusra) http://on.rt.com/6s0n 

Teks bil sebagai mendamaikan antara Dewan Rakyat dan Dewan Negara menggariskan syarat-syarat untuk bantuan itu, termasuk peruntukan bahawa Pentagon perlu menghalang senjata, peluru dan bekalan diberikan kepada pemberontak daripada jatuh ke tangan IS, Al -Nusra, Al-Qaeda, Kumpulan Khorasan, "mana-mana organisasi pelampau ganas yang lain," dan juga "Syrian Arab Tentera atau mana-mana kumpulan atau organisasi yang menyokong Presiden Bashir [sic] Assad."

Washington menegaskan bahawa kerajaan Presiden Assad adalah "punca segala kejahatan" di Syria dan bahawa perubahan rejim di Damsyik perlu diteruskan selari dengan perjuangan menentang Negara Islam.

Satu lagi $ 715 juta diperuntukkan bagi program kereta api-dan-memperlengkapi di Iraq, yang bertujuan untuk tentera Iraq dan juga militia Kurdish dan puak menentang IS.

Walaupun gabungan itu diketuai Amerika Syarikat di 62 buah negara telah pengeboman IS di Syria dan Iraq selama lebih setahun, dengan jumlah kos sebanyak $ 4 bilion dan pengiraan, kumpulan ini telah berkembang dalam kekuatan dan memperluaskan capaiannya. Pada 30 September, Rusia mula kempen udara sendiri terhadap IS, dalam kerjasama dengan kerajaan Syria, Iraq dan Iran.

BACA LAGI: bercakap kurang, tindakan yang lebih: jet Rusia memusnahkan ISIS HQs, kereta kebal, depot munisi - semua dalam masa 1 minggu (READ MORE: Less talk, more action: Russian jets destroy ISIS HQs, tanks, munition depots – all in just 1 week)

Satu lagi peruntukan dalam NDAA memberikan Jabatan Negara Pentagon dan tarikh akhir enam bulan melaporkan mengenai kemungkinan mewujudkan dan mengekalkan zon larangan terbang "ke atas sebahagian besar atau semua Syria" dan "satu atau lebih selamat zon di Syria bagi orang-orang pelarian atau bagi memudahkan bantuan kemanusiaan. "

Rancangan untuk mewujudkan zon larangan terbang dan "tempat selamat" telah diapungkan oleh bekas pengarah CIA dan Tentera Amerika bersara Jeneral David Petraeus dan dengan pesaing untuk pencalonan presiden Demokrat Hillary Clinton.

"Bantuan Lethal" ke Ukraine

Seksyen 1250 daripada NDAA memperuntukkan $ 300 juta untuk "Ukraine Inisiatif Bantuan Keselamatan," yang bertujuan untuk menopang kerajaan di Kiev. Rang undang-undang mengarahkan Pentagon untuk menyelaras dengan Jabatan Negara untuk "menyediakan bantuan keselamatan yang sesuai dan sokongan perisikan, termasuk latihan, peralatan, dan sokongan logistik, bekalan dan perkhidmatan, untuk pasukan keselamatan tentera dan lain Kerajaan Ukraine."

Penggubal undang-undang telah memperuntukkan tidak kurang daripada $ 50 juta untuk "bantuan Lethal seperti sistem anti-perisai senjata, mortar, senjata krew layan dan peluru, pelancar bom tangan dan peluru, dan senjata kecil dan peluru."

The text of the bill as reconciled between the House of Representatives and the Senate lays out the conditions for the aid, including the provision that the Pentagon must prevent the weapons, ammunition and supplies given to the rebels from falling into the hands of IS, Al-Nusra, Al-Qaeda, the Khorasan Group, “any other violent extremist organization,” as well as“Syrian Arab Army or any group or organization supporting President Bashir [sic] Assad.”

Washington insists that the government of President Assad is the “root of all evil” in Syria and that regime change in Damascus should be pursued parallel to the struggle against Islamic State.

Another $715 million was allocated for the train-and-equip program in Iraq, aimed at the Iraqi military as well as the Kurdish and tribal militias fighting against IS.

Though the US-led coalition of 62 countries has been bombing IS in Syria and Iraq for over a year, at a total cost of $4 billion and counting, the group has grown in strength and expanded its reach. On September 30, Russia began its own air campaign against IS, in cooperation with the governments of Syria, Iraq and Iran.


Another provision in the NDAA gives the Pentagon and the State Department a six-month deadline to report on the possibility of establishing and maintaining a no-fly zone “over a significant portion or all of Syria” and “one or more safe zones in Syria for internally displaced people or for the facilitation of humanitarian assistance.”

Plans to establish a no-fly zone and “safe areas” have been floated by former CIA director and retired US Army General David Petraeus and by contender for the Democratic presidential nomination Hillary Clinton.

"Lethal assistance" to Ukraine

Section 1250 of the NDAA allocates $300 million to the “Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative,” aimed at propping up the government in Kiev. The bill instructs the Pentagon to coordinate with the State Department to “provide appropriate security assistance and intelligence support, including training, equipment, and logistics support, supplies and services, to military and other security forces of the Government of Ukraine.”

Lawmakers have allocated no less than $50 million for “Lethal assistance such as anti-armor weapon systems, mortars, crew-served weapons and ammunition, grenade launchers and ammunition, and small arms and ammunition.”


US lawmakers ban aid to Ukraine neo-Nazis (Undang-undang Amerika Syarikat mengharamkan bantuan kepada Ukraine neo-Nazi) http://on.rt.com/qrdywx 

Tentera Amerika Syarikat telah menjalani latihan tentera kerajaan Ukraine pada Yavoriv, di barat Ukraine, sejak musim bunga ini. Walau bagaimanapun, ini adalah kali pertama bahawa Washington telah membenarkan bantuan maut untuk Kiev. Program ini juga termasuk pesawat - digambarkan sebagai "udara tanpa pemandu sistem pengawasan taktikal" - "Perisikan diambil tindakan" serta keupayaan peperangan elektronik dan siber dan “perisikan diambil tindakan”

Versi akhir rang undang-undang tersebut tidak menyatakan apa yang dimaksudkan oleh "pasukan keselamatan lain." Selain ketenteraan negara, rejim Kiev telah menggunakan yang baru ditubuhkan Pengawal Kebangsaan dan sukarelawan batalion seperti 'Azov,' yang dinyatakan oleh undang-undang Amerika Syarikat sebagai "secara terbuka neo-Nazi" dan "fasis."

US troops have been training Ukrainian government soldiers at Yavoriv, in western Ukraine, since this spring. However, this is the first time that Washington has authorized lethal aid for Kiev. The program also includes drones – described as “unmanned aerial tactical surveillance systems” – as well as electronic and cyber warfare capabilities and “actionable intelligence.”

The final version of the bill does not specify what it means by “other security forces.” In addition to the state military, the Kiev regime has used the newly formed National Guard and volunteer battalions such as ‘Azov,’ described by US lawmakers as “openly neo-Nazi” and “fascist.”

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PANGGILAN Ulama ARAB untuk berjihad menentang Rusia di Syria - untuk menyokong ISIS ??? . . .


Militant Islamist fighters wave flags as they take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province (Pejuang militan Islam menggibar bendera kerana mereka mengambil bahagian dalam perarakan tentera di sepanjang jalan-jalan di wilayah Raqqa utara Syria) © Stringer/Reuters

hafizinAlif Berpuluh-puluh ulama Arab Saudi tidak rasmi bergabung dengan Riyadh telah menyeru umat Islam untuk menyokong perjuangan "jihat suci" terhadap kerajaan Syria dan sekutu Iran dan Rusia itu. Ulama sedang marah dengan pengeboman Rusia Negara Islam (IS).

BACA lagi: jet Federation melanda 12 sasaran ISIS di Syria, menyebabkan panik di kalangan pelampau - Kementerian Pertahanan (READ MORE: Russian jets hit 12 ISIS targets in Syria, cause panic among extremists – Defense Ministry)

55 ulama Arab 'pembangkang' dan ahli akademik, termasuk beberapa gerakan Islam yang terkenal, telah menandatangani satu kenyataan bersama talian menggesa "Islam sebenar" untuk "memberi semua moral, material, politik dan ketenteraan" sokongan kepada perjuangan menentang tentera Presiden Syria Bashar Assad dan juga tentera Iran dan Rusia.

Kenyataan itu susulan bermulanya setiap hari serangan udara Rusia di Syria menyasarkan pengganas Negara Islam (IS, yang sebelum ini ISIS/ISIL). Bertentangan kepada orang ramai terhadap kempen ISIS Riyadh, panggilan ulama 'nampaknya menggambarkan pengganas 2 sebagai "pembela" iman.

"Pahlawan-pahlawan suci Syria mempertahankan negara Islam (IS) keseluruhan. Mempercayai mereka dan menyokong mereka . . . kerana jika mereka dikalahkan, Allah melarang, ia akan menjadi pergantian satu negara Sunni demi satu, "panggilan itu berbunyi, seperti yang dipetik oleh Reuters.

BACA lagi: ISIS di Syria menggunakan masjid sebagai tempat perlindungan, orang awam sebagai perisai - Kementerian Pertahanan Rusia (READ MORE: ISIS in Syria using mosques as shelters, civilians as shields – Russian Defense Ministry)

Kumpulan itu jenama penglibatan Rusia sebagai "perang salib ortodoks" dan menyeru pejuang anti-Assad untuk "menyatukan hadapan mereka" dan tinggal di Syria. Ia juga menggunakan istilah mazhab Iran dan mazhab Syiah Alawi yang Assad dimiliki.

"Pakatan Barat Rusia dengan Safavids [Iran] dan Nusairis [Alawites] membuat perang sebenar terhadap rakyat Sunni dan negara-negara mereka," kata teks.

Kenyataan mazhab bercanggah dengan retorik kerajaan Arab Saudi dan undang-undang negara. Secara rasmi, Riyadh melakukan segala yang boleh untuk menghalang rakyat daripada peribadi membiayai militan di luar negara dan meninggalkan negara ini untuk menyertai pertempuran di Syria.

Tahan lama konflik berdarah di Syria, yang beberapa pandangan dalam konteks Islam Sunni Arab Saudi dan Iran Syiah berjuang untuk dominasi di rantau ini, telah mencetuskan sentimen mazhab.

Pada bulan Mac 2014, jemputan untuk menyertai konflik diharamkan di Arab Saudi oleh perintah yang meletakkan kumpulan pengganas seperti Negara Islam (IS) dan Al-Qaeda al-Nusra dalam senarai dilarang. Sesiapa sahaja melanggar undang-undang yang menghadapi hukuman penjara yang lama.

Rusia mula beroperasi anti-IS di Syria minggu lalu berikutan permintaan daripada Presiden Bashar Assad. Serangan ini bertujuan memberikan sokongan udara kepada tentera kerajaan Syria, yang telah gagal membendung penyebaran militan jihad di negara yang dilanda perang. Lebih 3,000 militan, termasuk pengganas IS, dilaporkan meninggalkan Syria berikutan bermulanya kempen Rusia.

BACA lagi: Tentera Udara Rusia memusnahkan 20 kereta kebal ISIS berhampiran Palmyra - Kementerian Pertahanan (VIDEO) (READ MORE:Russian Air Force destroys 20 ISIS tanks near Palmyra – Defense Ministry (VIDEOS)


Russian Air Force hits 50 #ISIS targets over 3 days, ‘significantly’ damaging militants http://on.rt.com/6szl 

Saudi clerics call for jihad against Russia 
in Syria - to back ISIS? . . .

Dozens of Saudi Arabian clerics not officially affiliated with Riyadh have urged Muslims to support the fight of “holy warriors” against Syria’s government and its Iranian and Russian allies. The clerics are outraged by Russia’s bombing of Islamic State.


Fifty-five Saudi Arabian ‘opposition’ clerics and academicians, including some prominent Islamists, have signed a joint online statement urging “true Muslims” to “give all moral, material, political and military” support to the fight against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s army as well as Iranian and Russian forces.

The statement follows the commencement of daily Russian air raids in Syria targeting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists. Contrary to Riyadh’s public anti-ISIS stance, the clerics’ call appears to be portraying the militants as “defenders” of faith.

“The holy warriors of Syria are defending the whole Islamic nation. Trust them and support them ... because if they are defeated, God forbid, it will be the turn of one Sunni country after another,” the call reads, as cited by Reuters.


The group brands the Russian involvement as “an orthodox crusade” and calls on anti-Assad fighters to “unify their front” and stay in Syria. It also uses sectarian terms for Iran and the Shi’ite Alawite sect to which Assad belongs.

“The Western-Russian coalition with the Safavids [Iran] and the Nusairis [Alawites] are making a real war against the Sunni people and their countries,” the text says.

The sectarian statement runs contrary to the Saudi government’s rhetoric and the country’s law. Officially, Riyadh is doing all it can to prevent citizens from privately funding militants abroad and leaving the country to join the fighting in Syria.

The long-lasting bloody conflict in Syria, which some view in the context of Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shi’ite Iran struggling for dominance in the region, has fueled sectarian sentiments.

In March of 2014, invitations to join conflicts were outlawed in Saudi Arabia by a decree that put terrorist groups such as Islamic State and the Al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front on the forbidden list. Anyone breaching the law faces a long prison term.

Russia started its anti-IS operation in Syria last week following a request from President Bashar Assad. The strikes are aimed at providing air support to Syrian government troops, which have been failing to contain the spread of jihadist militants in the war-torn country. More than 3,000 militants, including IS terrorists, reportedly fled Syria following the commencement of the Russian campaign.


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3,000 pengganas meninggalkan Syria berikutan SERANGAN Udara Rusia - sumber tentera . . .


© Stringer/Reuters

hafizinAlif - Dianggarkan 3,000 pejuang Negara Islam (IS) serta militan dari kumpulan pelampau lain telah meninggalkan Syria ke Jordan takut serangan yang diperbaharui oleh tentera Syria di samping serangan udara Rusia, seorang pegawai tentera memberitahu agensi berita RIA.

"Sekurang-kurangnya 3,000 militan dari Negara Islam (IS, yang sebelum ini ISIS/ISIL), al-Nusra dan Jaish al-Yarmouk telah melarikan diri ke Jordan. Mereka takut tentera Syria telah meningkatkan aktiviti dalam semua bidang dan serangan udara Rusia, "kata sumber RIA.

Pegawai itu berkata pada hari Ahad tentera Syria telah menjalankan beberapa serangan ke atas Negara Islam dan al-Nusra pejuang di pinggir Damsyik dan juga di wilayah-wilayah Deir ez-Zor dan Homs.

Di Deir ez-Zor, 160 militan terbunuh dalam serangan tentera yang bertujuan untuk memandu pelampau dari beberapa penempatan.

3,000 terrorists leave Syria following Russian airstrikes - military source . . .

An estimated 3,000 Islamic State fighters as well as militants from other extremist groups have fled Syria for Jordan fearing a renewed offensive by the Syrian army in addition to Russian airstrikes, a military official has told RIA news agency.


“At least 3,000 militants from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), al-Nusra and Jaish al-Yarmouk have fled to Jordan. They are afraid of the Syrian army having stepped up activities on all fronts and of Russian airstrikes,” the RIA source said.

The official added that on Sunday the Syrian army had carried out a number of attacks on Islamic State and al-Nusra fighters on the outskirts of Damascus as well as in the provinces of Deir ez-Zor and Homs.

In Deir ez-Zor, 160 militants were killed in an army assault that aimed at driving extremists away from several settlements.

READ MORE: Russian Air Force destroys 20 ISIS tanks near Palmyra – Defense Ministry (VIDEOS)  (BACA lagi: Tentera Udara Rusia memusnahkan 20 kereta kebal ISIS berhampiran Palmyra - Kementerian Pertahanan (VIDEO)


Sky-high videos of Russian Su-24M dropping bombs on #ISIS in Syria (Video langit tinggi Su-24M Rusia menjatuhkan bom di #ISIS di Syria) http://on.rt.com/6t59 

Di dalam wilayah Homs, tentera memusnahkan 2 konvoi IS berhampiran bandar Palmyra dan 17 pengganas dilaporkan terbunuh dalam serangan meriam.

Meriam Syria juga menyerang beberapa kumpulan pelampau, termasuk al-Nusra, di wilayah Homs di mana, menurut sumber tentera, konflik antara pejuang Syria dan asing meletus. Militan Syria berkeras berundur dari beberapa penempatan takut serangan besar-besaran oleh tentera Syria dan serangan udara Rusia, manakala warga asing enggan menarik diri.

In the province of Homs, the army destroyed two IS convoys near the city of Palmyra and 17 terrorists were reported killed in an artillery barrage.

Syrian artillery also attacked several extremist groups, including al-Nusra, in the province of Homs where, according to the military source, a conflict between Syrian and foreign fighters erupted. Syrian militants insisted on retreating from a number of settlements fearing a large-scale offensive by the Syrian army and Russian airstrikes, while the foreigners refused to withdraw.

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Operasi ketenteraan Rusia di Syria telah menimbulkan reaksi yang kuat dari kumpulan-kumpulan pengganas, Menteri Penerangan Syria Omran al-Zoubi berkata, seperti yang dipetik oleh TV Syria.

Russia’s military operation in Syria has provoked a strong reaction from the terrorist groups, Syrian information minister Omran al-Zoubi has said, as cited by the Syrian TV.


A tale of two strategies: Russia destroys ISIS command, US hits Afghan hospital (Op-Edge) (Sebuah kisah 2 strategi: Rusia memusnahkan arahan ISIS, US sasar hospital Afghan (Op-Edge) http://on.rt.com/6t2j 

"Serangan udara Rusia telah membawa kepada kenyataan yang kukuh dari kumpulan-kumpulan pengganas dan penyokong mereka. Pada masa yang sama kumpulan pengganas berkata apa-apa apabila gabungan itu melancarkan operasi diketuai Amerika, "kata beliau. Beliau juga menambah bahawa serangan udara Amerika Syarikat terhadap IS tidak berkesan sebagai "gabungan itu mahu pengganas untuk tinggal di Syria selama mungkin".

“Russian airstrikes have led to strong statements from terrorist groups and their backers. At the same time terrorist groups said nothing when the US-led coalition launched its operation,” he said. He also added that the US airstrikes against the IS are not effective as “the coalition wants terrorists to stay in Syria as long as possible”.

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Rusia melancarkan operasi ketenteraan terhadap IS dan kumpulan pengganas lain atas permintaan kerajaan Syria pada 30 September Ia telah menjalankan serangan udara dengan kerjasama rapat dengan tentera Syria untuk memastikan serangan adalah maksima berkesan.

Russia launched its military operation against IS and other terrorist groups at the request of the Syrian government on September 30. It has been carrying out airstrikes in close cooperation with the Syrian army to ensure the attacks are maximally effective.

READ MORE: Turkey says ‘no tension’ after Russian airspace violation mistake, NATO cries foul (BACA lagi: Turki berkata 'tiada ketegangan selepas ruang udara Rusia melanggar kesilapan, NATO menangis buruk)

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