Mr. Hill makes no mention of what signals intelligence revealed about this Syrian Arab Army (SAA) position, occupied for some six months before the "Coalition" attack on it.The [U.S. government report on its bombing on September 17, 2016] then is saying the bloody Deir ez-Zor bombing was not the result of one error, but the result of a very long string of unexplained errors piled on top of each other. At so many steps along the way the planned strike could be recognized as being destined to hit Syrian soldiers but every time a freak mistake interceded.[1]
Let's focus on that.
It beggars the imagination that there was no SIGINT collection activity in Syria or that its requirements would not have included targeting all the areas in and around Deir ez-Zor.
By way of comparison, the Russians and Syrians maintained a SIGINT facility near al-Hara which "was responsible for recording and decrypting radio communications from every rebel group operating inside Syria."[2] Note the use of the language "decrypting," "every," "rebel," and "inside Syria."
Are we to believe that the U.S. has no such capability in Syria and had no interest in radio traffic out of and into the site it struck? This willful ignorance, this supposed ignorance, of the U.S. forces is not believable. That targeted unit sat there for some six months and the U.S. gleaned no information as to its identity from radio traffic, let alone from (a) other photographic evidence and (b) the logical role that unit played in Syrian defenses rather than ISIS defenses? Really? It really struck analysts and commanders as being part of the ISIS dispositions?
And this has implications respecting what we most assuredly know about ISIS and al-Qaida communications everywhere in Syria and, hence, about the dispositions and movements of those swine, and about the clearly pretend war that the U.S. has "waged" against its ISIS and al-Qaida allies in this dirty war. Read the Shane Harris article cited in the notes below and then tell me that ISIS and al-Qaida units cannot and could not be hounded to death by highly targeted "Coalition" military operations. Yet, inexplicably, mysteriously, ISIS lives on and on and on. It's just so hard to find them.
Alternative explanation: The U.S. is lying about not knowing the unit it struck on September 17, 2016 was a unit of the SAA. There was no mistake involved. The U.S. commander intended to attack a Syrian government position.
Notes
[1] "Its Own Report Data Indicates Pentagon's Slaughter of 100 Syrian Troops in Deir ez-Zor Was Deliberate." By Adam Hill, Russia Insider, 12/8/16.
[2] "Captured Russian spy facility reveals the extent of Russian aid to the Assad regime." By Oryxspioenkop, Oryx Blog, 10/6/14.
[3] "How the NSA Became a Killing Machine." By Shane Harris, The Daily Beast, 11/9/14. Money quote: "This was the most sophisticated global tracking system ever devised, and it worked with lethal efficiency."
The only real question regarding this strike is, How high up the chain of command did the order originate? Was the White House involved at all? Or, more likely, was this a decision made by the DOD/CIA to sabotage the US/Russian cooperation agreement. I lean to believing it was a mutiny on the part of the DOD/CIA.
ReplyDeletelast line says it all. they admitted at first having sig int on the site and claimed they intercepted "isil comms planning an attack on fsa/coalition forces nearby." they had to have known who it really was by both they're signals signature and their ground formation. it was determined the syrian garrison was about to annihilate isil's entire hq and staff, so i'm betting obama himself made the call. no one else had authority to order a large scale attack at the time.
ReplyDeleteThis came from the America Hater-in-Chief. As soon as you accept that Obummer hates the US the sooner actions of the last 8 years make sense.
ReplyDeleteIt was indeed to sabotage the deal. I initially thought your position made the most sense Sykes.1 but when I look back on my few years in the military I just can't see that that such a portentous decision to attack would be made independently by a local commander. Thus I think Riverrider and Anonymous are closer to the truth.
ReplyDeleteRr, I missed any admission that we had SIGINT on ISIS. My conclusions still stand because I argued for the certainty of SIGINT on everybody, the concealment of what it showed being the main point. You're not arguing with me, of course, but adding new info. I have my doubts that anything indicated impending decisive SAA action that needed to be halted. The strategy of the SAA appears to me to be to maintain the status quo while the main focus is kept on Aleppo, Damascus, Palmyra, and roads coming from Turkey.
You're right, Anon. If you assume Obama's a patriot and has the interests of the nation at heart, you'll chase your tail trying to understand his actions. Once you realize that Michelle's "for the first time I'm proud of my country" statement is exactly how he views America then it falls into place. Deposing Assad fits with Obama's pro-Muslim (Sunni) agenda. The lack of a declaration of war or a Security Council authorization didn't concern him any more than his indifference to the limits to his power to issue Executive Orders.
col b, roger. the news broke overseas sooner than they wanted so they said they intercepted radio traffic of an eminent attack on friendly forces by isil, but they knew it was syrian/russian forces all along and that any syrian attack on the fsa sight which was really isil would be devastating as all the key isil figures were known to be there at once. that would derail the effort to oust assad forever and allow the russian pipeline to go thru to turkey and on to europe. as always follow the money. i have my sources :)this whole thing is about denying russia the pipeline and getting the saudi one built. hillary owes the saudis billions and she was promised billions more once the gas/oil began to flow. that's what her campaign was really about.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that detail. I think you're right about the pipeline deal. It helps the Qataris and the Saudis with the additional benefit that it weakens Russia's ability to deny gas to Europe as it pleases them. Russia's not shown it lives and breathes to impose hardship on Europe in this way but in the fevered imagination of the anti-Russia hysterics see it differently.
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