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| Salih Muslim offers Kurdish enclave in Syria as base for coalition operations |
| 2015-09-01 |
| [RUDAW.NET] The leader of a Kurdish enclave in Syria said that the US-led coalition forces fighting the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group (ISIS) can operate from bases in its territory. Saleh Moslem, leader of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) that controls Syria's Kurdish regions, or Rojava, also said that moderate Syrian opposition forces can be trained in its territories, instead of in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . "We would welcome the coalition to operate from Rojava and we would welcome the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) to train there too," Moslem said in an exclusive interview from Brussels with Britannia's Sky News. Ankara has recently actively joined the coalition against ISIS, but Saleh scorned that pledge as "not genuine." While declaring a war against terrorism and jihadis late last month, Ankara turned its guns on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) with a series of air and artillery attacks in Turkey's own southeast and in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, where the group has military camps. The PYD is the Syrian wing of the PKK, which is regarded as a terrorist organization by several Western countries, including the United States. Yet, the PYD's fighting wing, the YPG, has been a strong ally of the US-led coalition against ISIS in Syria and recognized as the most effective force on the ground against the myrmidons. "We favor a democratic decentralized Syria," Moslem said in the interview, adding that the political structures in Rojava are "the example of what the whole country should have." Syria's Kurds have been calling for a federal system in Syria in which different groups can co-exist. That proposal has been opposed by Turkey, which is loath to having an autonomous Syrian enclave on its border, next to its own restive Kurdish-populated areas. Moslem also made a call to train moderate Syrian Arab factions in Rojava. "We can help them, we can train them," said Moslem. "But we are not going to fight their war for them. We will support them all we can but we are not mercenaries for them." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 we need to show up our true enemies in the fighting ISIL ie Turkey and the gulf states. |
| Posted by: paul 2015-09-01 15:34 |