ISIS/ISIL conflict in Syria/Iraq (No OpEd, No Politics)

delft said:

I have now read the Reuters' article and it clearly says these are all allegations. No proof is given or at least pointed to. And of course if the Syrian government profits from some connection with Daesh USAF would have bombed it out of existence long ago.

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I'm not going to post about Mr. Hasmani anytime soon, so let me just say I'm glad somebody who's recently built a factory on ISIL territory is now banned by the EU and the US, as I'm not inclined to believe his business activities ... I've read he's a Christian, I'm a Lutheran of Augsburg Confession, and he looks pretty much like a man who two minutes ago sat at the next table in the mall where I'm now

(that's a picture of Haswani, not of that customer LOL) so I'm talking just business

Jura said:

I'm not going to post about Mr. Hasmani anytime soon, so let me just say I'm glad somebody who's recently built a factory on ISIL territory is now banned by the EU and the US, as I'm not inclined to believe his business activities ... I've read he's a Christian, I'm a Lutheran of Augsburg Confession, and he looks pretty much like a man who two minutes ago sat at the next table in the mall where I'm now

(that's a picture of Haswani, not of that customer LOL) so I'm talking just business

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As I read it he built the plant in an area that now is controlled by Daesh, but it doesn't say that was the case when he built it. Do you have the date of that building operation?

Jura said:

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The navigator managed to hide, was found by SF of the Syrian Army, returned to the base ...

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... and most recently they received some Russian award; from the pictures I can read out just Excerpt From Order, but not the order itself:
and the source

doesn't give any details, not even the number of SF members awarded

delft said:

As I read it he built the plant in an area that now is controlled by Daesh, but it doesn't say that was the case when he built it. Do you have the date of that building operation?

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heck delft I already quoted the following sentence from the article you later said you had read:

Haswani told Reuters his company was currently building a gas installation in an area of central Syria that falls under Islamic State influence, adding "this is maybe how these fantasies were constructed".

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and that article is dated
Mar 8, 2015
so considering

Jura said:

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(from what I figured, that factory is in

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which was lost by Government to ISIL after

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last Summer)

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... as of Mar 8, 2015, according to his words, delft (I put one fragment in boldface):

Haswani told Reuters his company was currently building a gas installation in an area of central Syria that falls under Islamic State influence, adding "this is maybe how these fantasies were constructed".

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and, again, considering the place has fallen to ISIL in Summer of 2014, not 2015, delft ...

I'm done here.

S400 in Syria

Jura said:

https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/is...no-oped-no-policis.t6913/page-226#post-374647

... and now see numerous counter-strikes in this area:

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if I find any "independently confirmed" details (which is going to be even more difficult than usually is), I'll post

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was Tuesday at 7:21 AM and I haven't seen anything credible since then, actually I haven't seen pretty much anything describing what's going on the ground and confirmed by at least one more independent link, as my Russian sources like switched to Turkey-threat-to-Russia topics, which is understandable ...
I even started to check Farsnews and it appears the situation is complicated for the Government Forces in that area, for example

On Friday, the Syrian troops killed and injured at least 17 Takfiri terrorists in Zitan village, 16 km South of Aleppo city.

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Zitan is a village between "M5" and Al-Hadher, and this sentence from this source likely means Zitan was lost; be warned the link to this contains the picture of a dead body right after you open it:

Iraq's spec forces attacking Ta'mim, Ramadi, yesterday

Jura said:

... now the sad part:
... a Marine, a member of the rescue team, Sailor Alexandr Mikchailovich Pozynich)

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... was buried yesterday in (presumably his hometown)

He was 29 years old. He had been in combat before: in Chechnya. His tour in Syria should have ended in the end of this year ... all according to

where you can play a video from the funeral showing the widow, the mother ... I noticed tears even in the eye of another Marine ... so consider if you're sure you want to see it

Turkey is increasing the number of F16 on patrol on the border area close to where Su24 was downed from 12 to 16 units

M60 tanks seen loaded on a train heading for the border towards Syria

Turkish tanks loaded on train towards Syria