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2015-10-27 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Russia Ups The Ante In Syria, Deploys Top Secret Kill Squad

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I would be surprised to learn that Russian special forces were not already in Syria before this summer.

Posted by badanov 2015-10-27 00:57|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2015-10-27 00:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Starting the countdown for the first of several senior ISIS leaders going Tango Uniform from ambushes...

Actually, they were the first guys off the plane when Russia jumped in, how do explain the accuracy and effectiveness of the Russian air campaign without some forward positioned eyes?

Posted by Mystic 2015-10-27 01:23|| 2015-10-27 01:23|| Front Page Top

#3 See also BIGNEWSNETWORK > EX-RUSSIAN OFFICIALS:[Economic] STAGNATION, DECLINING LIVING STANDARDS LOOM FOR RUSSIANS.

Artic read, RUSSIA INCREASINGLY VULNERABLE TO JIHADI/HARD BOY ATTACKS.

Besides historical reasons, Struggling Russia is hard-pressed to fight agz Islamist-Jihadist Militant pressure on two flanks, the ME + Central Asia, LET ALONE HARD BOY DESTABILIZATION OF NUKE-ARMED CHINA + INDIA, ETC. - PUTIN IS SECURING THE ONE TO DEAL WID THE OTHER.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-10-27 01:34|| 2015-10-27 01:34|| Front Page Top

#4 SMERSH?

Posted by Nguard 2015-10-27 01:49|| 2015-10-27 01:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Who said they ever left?

Posted by newc 2015-10-27 02:39|| 2015-10-27 02:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Soon the joint Zasion+Delta exercises will make the news.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-10-27 09:18|| 2015-10-27 09:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Very super secret?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-10-27 09:49|| 2015-10-27 09:49|| Front Page Top

#8 It's unclear how close the American and Russian units are in the region.

At least an Elbe's width. Hey, ISIS, the new Nazis that can get antithetical powers to cooperate in killing them. What is old is new again.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-10-27 10:07|| 2015-10-27 10:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Who cares how close together they are. Whats the chances of them just happening to run into one another? About a snowballs chance in hell.

Posted by chris 2015-10-27 11:52|| 2015-10-27 11:52|| Front Page Top

#10 One would expect a bit of professional courtesy to prevail.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-10-27 16:35|| 2015-10-27 16:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Looks like #6 is the Winner ...

* See BIGNEWSNETWORK . US PENTAGON CHIEF [Ashton Carter]: US TO INCREASE AIR, GROUND RAIDS ON ISLAMIC STATE [ISIS/ISIL/Daesh].

ARTIC > USDOD CHIEF CARTER > proclaims US to focus on "3 R's" in its new "Return to Iraq", i.e. "RAQQA [Syria], RAMADI [Iraq], + RAIDS [US SPECOPS, Joint Ops].

US-RUSSIA-IRAN SPECOPS EFFORTS AGZ ISIS???

* SAME > [Daily Star.LB] IRAN HAS OVER 1000 TROOPS IN SYRIA, LESS THAN 2000 IN IRAQ, US GENERAL SAYS.

Incoming USJCS Chair MGEN. Joseph Dunford, USMC.

VERSUS

* FREEREPUBLIC > [Defense Watch] SAVING THE US ARMY [US Army incapable of fighting even ONE = ANY Major War].

IOW, THE "WEAK/DECLINING", EX-SOLE-SUPERPOWER SOON-TO-BE-ONE-OF-MANY-OWG-CO-SUPERPOWER US oAMERIKA M-U-S-T RELY ON ITS CO-SUPERPOWER SIBLINGS RUSSIA, CHINA, + IRAN, ETAL. - NOT ITSELF - AS DESIRED BY THE ANTI-US OWG GLOBALISTS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-10-27 23:07|| 2015-10-27 23:07|| Front Page Top

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