Israeli officer embedded with Qaeda affiliates killed in Syrian air-strike

Syria

An Israeli military officer has been killed in a Syrian airstrike during a meeting with a group of high-ranking members of foreign-sponsored militant groups operating inside Syria.

The slain officer, known by the nickname Johnny, was conferring with the militants, among them representatives of the so-called Free Syrian Army, as well as a Jordanian military figure, when he came under attack in the area on Friday afternoon, Lebanon’s Arabic-language newspaper al-Akhbar reported.

The report, however, did not provide any information about the fate of the Jordanian officer and the militant commanders.

It added that the meeting had been planned in order to explore avenues aimed at slowing the Syrian army’s advances in the strategic south-western city of Quneitra, situated some 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of the capital, Damascus, as well as the city of Dara’a.

The Israeli officer was reportedly from a technical unit in the Givati Brigade. He is said to have been in collaboration with the Takfiri terrorist groups in Syria, and helped them acquire modern communications equipment.

Photos recently obtained by a Press TV correspondent in Syria show Takfiri terrorists from the al-Nusra Front next to Israeli soldiers, who are speaking face-to-face with terrorists in Golan.

The pictures further prove Tel Aviv’s support for al-Qaeda-linked terrorists, especially al-Nusra Front, which have been wreaking havoc in Syria.

Israel is known to have been providing medical, intelligence and military support for terrorists operating to topple the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria. A number of terrorist commanders, wounded in government attacks on terrorists, have reportedly been hospitalized in the occupied territories.

The Israeli military’s close cooperation with the terrorists also assisted the regime’s bombing of a convoy belonging to the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, on January 18.

Hezbollah later announced that the attack was coordinated between Tel Aviv and the al-Nusra terrorists.

Late last year, a UN report confirmed contact between terrorists in Syria and the Israeli military across the Golan ceasefire line, especially during heavy clashes between the terrorists and the Syrian troops.

The report also confirmed that terrorists had been taking their wounded comrades into the Israeli-occupied part of Golan for treatment.

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PRESSTV wrote:The report also confirmed that terrorists had been taking their wounded comrades into the Israeli-occupied part of Golan for treatment.

Clever. Also good of the Israelis.

A report from an Arab news source, yes, of course.

Iran is saving our ass by providing boots on the ground against ISIL, as we speak.

US, Iran both want to defeat ISIL: Kerry

US Secretary of State John Kerry says the United States and Iran both have a "mutual interest" in defeating the ISIL terrorist group but the two countries are not cooperating with each other in this regard.

"They are totally opposed to ISIL and they are in fact taking on and fighting and eliminating ISIL members along the Iraqi border near Iran and have serious concerns about what that would do to the region," Kerry told a US Senate committee on Wednesday.

"So we have at least a mutual interest, if not a cooperative effort," he stated.

The top US diplomat added that Washington had not requested Tehran to get involved in the battle against the terrorist organization.

The ISIL terrorists, many of whom were initially trained by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, now control large parts of Iraq and Syria. They have been engaged in crimes against humanity in the areas under their control.

They have been carrying out horrific acts of violence such as public decapitations and crucifixions against all communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.

Iran has repeatedly said that it will not interfere militarily in Iraq and Syria, but that Tehran will continue to provide support for both countries against ISIL in the form of defense consultation and humanitarian aid.

nicko wrote:A report from an Arab news source,    yes,  of course.

I bet you can't tell a mosque from a temple Nicko:


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Original Quill wrote:

PRESSTV wrote:The report also confirmed that terrorists had been taking their wounded comrades into the Israeli-occupied part of Golan for treatment.

Clever.  Also good of the Israelis.

You do realise those terrorists are Al Qaeda affiliates?

If the US wants to defeat ISIL, it needs to start talking to Iran

It is more than three weeks since the United States and its allies began air strikes against the jihadists of ISIL in Syria. It is estimated that the US has already spent $1 billion in this fight and, if it lasts three years, the total will be at least $30 billion.

Even at this early stage it is worth asking what has been achieved. Not very much to judge by the facts on the ground. ISIL is still fighting on two fronts – gaining ground in Iraq’s Anbar province, where an army base fell on Monday, as well as fighting its way into the Kurdish town of Kobani on the Turkish border.

In the words of General John Allen, the retired US general who is leading the international coalition against ISIL, the jihadists still have “tactical momentum”. While the general says it is too early to declare who is winning, this has not stopped the Iranians abandoning their usual secrecy about their activities in Iraq and Syria to declare that the Americans are doomed to fail.

Ali Larijani, speaker of the Iranian parliament, told CNN that guerrilla fighters would not be destroyed by “dropping bombs on their heads”. While modestly claiming that he did not like to boast, he said it was Iran that had saved Baghdad from the onslaught of ISIL. Only Iran, he said, had the experience to fight terrorism.

Mr Larijani is not alone in Iran’s new PR campaign. The man who pulls Iran’s strings in Iraq, General Qassem Suleimani, has emerged from the shadows to pose in a photo opportunity with Kurdish fighters. He is commander of Iran’s Al Quds force, a special operations unit of the Revolutionary Guards, and was memorably described by General David Petraeus, the former commander of US forces in Iraq, as “a truly evil figure”.

As befits an accomplished spymaster, in the new photographs he comes across as a shy, grandfatherly man, not someone determined to use every means – military and political – to keep Iraq weak and dependent on Tehran.

The Iranian message is clear: Iran is the only country that can defeat ISIL. At the same time the message from ISIL’s propaganda is that only they have the strength and determination to roll back Iranian influence in Iraq and Syria.

The attacks ordered by Barack Obama have so far failed to assure America’s allies that Washington has a strategy to confront the ISIL threat while containing the Syrian civil war. The immediate effect has been to raise the profile of Iran and of ISIL.

It is possible that constant pressure from the air will in time weaken ISIL. But it is hard to find analysts who believe that this is the solution. There are several paradoxes at the heart of the US plan.

So long as the US and its allies are not prepared to send ground troops to Syria – and there are excellent reasons why the Pentagon should not – then the question remains who is going to finish off ISIL. The subtext of Mr Larijani’s statement is that the boots on the ground are those allied to Tehran – the Syrian army and the Hizbollah forces in Syria.

The US response is that the so-called moderate rebels allied to the Syrian National Coalition are being armed and equipped to become a true fighting force to unseat the Assad regime. But this ignores the reality that these rebel groups were formed as local self-defence units and fight best on home turf. Without a national leader or inspiring ideology, they have no reason to take the fight to the enemy, whether it is ISIL or the Syrian regime.

Would you like to start a new thread on that, as it has nothing to do with this one. Plus, you are the one who demonised Iran every chance you got and didn't want the talks with them to go ahead. This thread is about the Israeli's working with terrorists affiliated to Al Qaeda. Thanks very much.

risingsun wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

Clever.  Also good of the Israelis.

You do realise those terrorists are Al Qaeda affiliates?

ISIL is made up of the remnants of al Qaeda. It is inevitable.

Nevertheless, medical treatment is humanitarian in nature.

Jackanory yet again.
Is this reported in the following:
Reuters?
Al Jazeera?
Haaretz?
BBC?
ITV?
SKY?


No, hence why such articles should be taken with a pinch of salt.