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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Erdogan: US Has No Clear Idea How to Liberate Syria’s Raqqa From ISIL
2017-03-03
[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] The Turkish president said Ankara has not seen that Washington had any clear plan of liberating the ISIS-occupied Syrian city of Raqqa.

The United States does not yet have a clear plan for the liberation of the Syrian city of Raqqa from the ISIS terrorist group (outlawed in Russia), Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
said Thursday.

"I cannot say that the new [US] leadership has a clear plan regarding Raqqa. During the visits to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
of the head of the US Joint Staff and the director of the CIA, steps, which we can call preliminary, have been taken in this process," Erdogan said, as quoted by the Haber7 broadcaster.

He added that the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) should not participate in the operation, calling it "unacceptable."

On Wednesday, the commander of the US-led coalition against ISIS said he expected Syrian Kurds to take part in the liberation of Raqqa.

The city of Raqqa is the ISIS stronghold in Syria. Turkey and the Kurdish troops have voiced their plans to liberate the ISIS-occupied city.

Posted by:Fred

#2  Why should we have a "clear plan", O Wise Sultan? Isn't our real objective the attrition of ISIS assets? Occupying land and/or determining who rules Syria when the dust settles, not so much...
Posted by: magpie   2017-03-03 15:47  

#1  I think there is a clear plan but some hesitation in applying the ceramic glaze.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-03-03 09:11  

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