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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: IS leader 'killed in US operation' in Syria
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50200339
What to read out of this Operation?
Definitively a great success, for the US, President Trump, but what do the Tea leaves tell us? That a lot of coordination went down, a lot of lateral conversations, agreements that we don’t know.
Today we get word the Abu Bakrh Al Baghdadi may have been in Idlib province since March of 2019 after loosing the last sliver of territory between the border of SE Syria and NW Iraq.
For those that are not a daily reader of Syrian affairs, or ISIS and terrorist news…. this is important for you to know:
No one would have expected him in this province, some had him still in the Iraq/Syria border or even out of the area.
Based on the official information we got today we can say the following:
This operation was part of a contingent operation that has been planned for the last 5 years since Al Baghdabi went into hiding.
According to President Trump and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper final preparations came in about two plus weeks ago, when several options were set on the table, rehearsals conducted, and the planned selected was a Heliborne operation.
This came about Friday….
They also addressed that the operation was called off at least twice, because of Al Baghdabi’s movements…. which implies (eyes on the ground, being monitored for a while.
We also hear that we received inter agency intelligence (CIA, DIA, NSA, and Kurd as well as Iraqi Intelligence reports) Which tell you of all the background agreements that do exist, but are not known to the common American.
Iraq just recently captured the wife of one of Al Baghdadi assistant as well as his brother in law. These may have been important key information if any source of voice intercept, or communications was ongoing could have nailed him into a certain location.
The Kurds also chimed in and could have gotten the word he was in Idlib since March, they control the bulk of Isis prisoners, and took part of the clearing operations in Deir Al Sur to Al Quim.
We also learned that up to 8 helicopters, (Sec Esper only mentioned CH47 type’s were part of this operation. These helicopters flew into Syrian airspace controlled by Russia, Syria and out of? Turkey of course where US/NATO has several bases.
The operation took over 2 hours on site and implied an one hour flight within Syrian territory protected by Russia’s S400 batteries.
Once again for the Lay person this implies coordination with Turkey, Russia, Syria in order to conduct this mission, that is why the Presidents later thanked Russia, Turkey, Syria and the Kurds.
So we all have a common enemy and we do talk despite our differences and coordinate this high level operations.
there were less than 100 US SF troops and dogs involved so this the the scope of what was part of this force that flew in destroyed air defenses, busted into the walls of the compound and later chased him into a dead end tunnel.
More information that came out was that Al Baghdadi had a suicide vest, and according to Intel reports he slept with it on, this is something verified several years ago, but other sources.
Most importantly is the description of the president of running, crying as he was chased by dogs….once again implying that the dogs had cameras with video and audio feeds.
The mission was to capture or kill Al Baghdadi, but as you already heard ,this irresponsible being took three young children with him to death as he detonated the suicide vest.
So a lot to be said, or known but our Intel system works, that this operation had nothing to do with the pull out of troops from Northern Syria, that the Kurds and US are still collaborating in Intell matters and other parts of Syria.
That consultation with Russia, Turkey and Syria took place to permit entry into this Ungodly province, last bastion of several Islamic terrorist organizations.
That there was another catch of Intelligence captured on site (2 1/2 hour operation) that will also help identifying other members and cells of the ISIS caliphate and their plans to reconsolidate o morph into something else.
his body will receive the same treatment that Osama Bin Laden, buried at sea with a Muslim burial ritual. That the DNA confirmation did come because we did have his DNA when he was in prison in Iraq in 2004.
Once again technology, used for years in our data bases, even further confirmation with three of his dead children.
So when you go out and think about this, there are more back ground treaties, coordinations we care to know, but when things need to happen they happen
Great victory for US Special Forces, Kudos, for the US, the President and the civilized world which this lumpen threatened to destroy.
LTC. O. Perez
US Army Retired
Read this to get more insight into Idlib province
Background:
Since the war in Syria started, Bashar Al Assad military operations throughout Syria 2012-2017; took a course of sending its Armies to enclaves of dissident groups, or Islamic opponents with brutal forces and negotiating a withdrawal to the Idlib Province which was later designated (De Escalation zone) under a treaty by Russia, Turkey and Iran 06-04-2017, in those five years of operations he has concentrated a vast groups of militias in the province (which fight amongst each other for control and power. This would ultimately become the last pocket, the one kill zone to concentrate all his forces since he could not realistically spread them to combat Kurds in the East, Caliphate in the North East and others in the North.
with the fall of the last major city of Aleppo, on July 2016, Bashar Al Assad now had all he wanted and reorganized to start the battle of this last kill zone Idlib. He understood that he could not combat the Isis caliphate, that the Americans and Kurds would be taking care of that and that the only worth saving part of his country was all major cities, the Capital of Damascus, and the province of Latakia (The seat of his Allawite power) with only one impediment: The province of Idlib.
With the advent of the Russian air support after August of 2015 and troops. Assad started pounding this province and has continued to do so since then, the Treaty of Idlib demilitarization signed on September 2018 just served as a temporary halt to operations but since January of 2019, the attacks on selected areas has been careless hitting hospitals, civilian markets and housing.
Idlib demilitarization (2018–present)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Idlib demilitarization is an ongoing agreement between Turkey and Russia to create a demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Syria's rebel held Idlib Governorate, to be patrolled by Russian and Turkish militaries. On 17 September 2018, the Russian president Vladimir Putin and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, reached an agreement to create a buffer zone in Idlib.[19] The DMZ is also referred to as the "Putin-Erdogan area" by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.[20][21]
Syria's 'de-escalation zones' explained
Deal signed by Russia,Turkey and Iran calls for end to hostilities between rebel and government forces in four regions. 4 Jul 2017
A deal aimed at reducing violence in Syria is again in the news, as regional powers meet in Kazakhstan for a a fifth found of talks aimed at ending a bloody war now in its seventh year.
The agreement - signed in May by government backers Iran and Russia, and rebel ally Turkey in the Kazakh capital, Astana - is the latest in a series of ceasefire proposals aimed at ending Syria's war.
The plan calls for the cessation of hostilities between rebel groups and forces fighting on behalf of Bashar al-Assad's government in four so-called de-escalation zones in mainly opposition-held areas of the country, with Russia, Turkey and Iran to act as guarantors.
The deal covers four general areas:
Zone 1: Idlib province, as well as northeastern areas of Latakia province, western areas of Aleppo province and northern areas of Hama province. There are more than one million civilians in this zone and its rebel factions are dominated by an al-Qaeda-linked alliance
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¿Qué leer de esta operación?
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¿Qué leer de esta operación?
Definitivamente un gran éxito para los Estados Unidos, el presidente Trump, pero ¿qué nos dicen las hojas de té? Que se hubo mucha coordinación, muchas conversaciones laterales, acuerdos que no conocemos.
Hoy recibimos la noticia de que Abu Bakrh Al Baghdadi puede haber estado en la provincia de Idlib desde marzo de 2019 después de perder la última franja de territorio entre la frontera del sureste de Siria y el noroeste de Irak.
Para aquellos que no son lectores diarios de asuntos sirios, o ISIS y noticias terroristas ... Es importante que sepa esto:
Nadie lo hubiera esperado en esta provincia, algunos todavía lo tenían en la frontera entre Irak y Siria o incluso fuera de la zona.
Según la información oficial que obtuvimos hoy, podemos decir lo siguiente:
Esta operación fue parte de una operación contingente que se planificó durante los últimos 5 años desde que Al Baghdabi se escondió.
Según el presidente Trump y el secretario de Defensa Mark Esper, los preparativos finales llegaron hace más de dos semanas, cuando se pusieron varias opciones sobre la mesa, se llevaron a cabo ensayos y el plan seleccionado fue una operación de Helicópteros Aerotransportados.
Esto ocurrió el viernes ...
También abordaron que la operación se suspendió al menos dos veces, debido a los movimientos de Al Baghdadi ... lo que implica (ojos en el suelo, monitoreados por un tiempo.
También escuchamos que recibimos inteligencia interinstitucional (CIA, DIA, NSA y Kurdos, así como informes de inteligencia Iraquí) que le informan sobre todos los acuerdos de fondo que existen, pero que el estadounidense común no conocida
Irak recientemente capturó a la esposa de uno de los asistentes de Al Baghdadi y a su cuñado. Esta puede haber sido información clave mas importante si alguna fuente de interceptación de voz, o si las comunicaciones estaban en curso podrían haberlo triangulado en un lugar determinado.
Los kurdos también intervinieron y podrían haberse enterado de que estaba en Idlib desde Marzo, ya que controlan la mayor parte de los prisioneros de Isis y participaron de las operaciones de limpieza en Deir Al Sur a Al Quim.
También descubrimos que hasta 8 helicópteros (Sec. Esper solo mencionó que el tipo CH47 era parte de esta operación. Estos helicópteros volaron al espacio aéreo Sirio controlado por Rusia, Siria y entraron desde Turquía, por supuesto, donde EE. UU./ OTAN tiene varias bases).
La operación duró más de 2 horas en el sitio e implicó un vuelo de una hora dentro del territorio sirio protegido por las baterías S400 de Rusia.
Una vez más para el laico, esto implica coordinación con Turquía, Rusia, Siria para llevar a cabo esta misión, por eso el Presidentes luego agradecieron a Rusia, Turquía, Siria y los Kurdos.
Entonces, todos tenemos un enemigo común y hablamos a pesar de nuestras diferencias y coordinamos estas operaciones de alto nivel.
Hubo menos de 100 soldados y varios perros de las Fuerzas Especiales involucrados, por lo que este es el alcance de lo que era parte de esta fuerza que voló, destruyo las defensas aéreas, estalló en las paredes del complejo y luego lo persiguió hasta un túnel sin salida.
Más información que salió fue que Al Baghdadi tenía un chaleco suicida, y de acuerdo con informes de Intel que dormía con el puesto, esto es algo verificado hace varios años, por otras fuentes.
Lo más importante es la descripción del presidente de correr, llorando cuando fue perseguido por perros ... una vez más, lo que implica que los perros tenían cámaras con video y audio.
La misión era capturar o matar a Al Baghdadi, pero como ya escucharon, este ser irresponsable se llevó a tres niños pequeños con él cuando detonó el chaleco suicida.
Hay tanto que decir, o saber, pero nuestro sistema Intel funciona, que esta operación no tuvo nada que ver con la retirada de las tropas del norte de Siria, que los Kurdos y los Estados Unidos todavía están colaborando en asuntos de Intell y otras partes de Siria.
Esa consulta con Rusia, Turquía y Siria tuvo lugar para permitir la entrada en esta provincia último bastión de varias organizaciones terroristas Islamicas.
Que hubo otra captura de material de inteligencia en el sitio (operación de 2 1/2 horas) que también ayudará a identificar a otros miembros y células del califato de ISIS y sus planes para reconsolidar o transformarse en otra cosa.
Su cuerpo recibirá el mismo trato que Osama Bin Laden, enterrado en el mar con un ritual de entierro musulmán. Que la confirmación de ADN llegó porque teníamos su ADN cuando estaba en prisión en Irak en 2004.
Una vez más, la tecnología, utilizada durante años en nuestras bases de datos, confirma aún más con tres de sus hijos muertos.
Entonces, cuando sales y piensas en esto, hay más tratados de fondo, coordinaciones que nos interesa saber, pero cuando las cosas necesitan suceder, suceden
Gran victoria para las Fuerzas Especiales de EE. UU., Kudos, para los EE. UU., El Presidente y el mundo civilizado que este lumpen amenazó con destruir.
LTC. O. Pérez
Ejército de los EE. UU. Retirado
Antecedentes:
Desde que comenzó la guerra en Siria, las operaciones militares de Bashar Al Assad en toda Siria 2012-2017; tomó el curso de enviar sus ejércitos a enclaves de grupos disidentes u opositores islámicos con fuerzas brutales y negociar una retirada a la provincia de Idlib, que más tarde fue designada (zona de escalada) en virtud de un tratado por Rusia, Turquía e Irán 06-04-2017 , en esos cinco años de operaciones, ha concentrado un vasto grupo de milicias en la provincia (que luchan entre sí por el control y el poder. Esto finalmente se convertiría en el último bolsillo, la zona de una muerte para concentrar todas sus fuerzas ya que no podía Difundirlos de manera realista para combatir a los niños en el este, el califato en el noreste y otros en el norte.
Con la caída de la última gran ciudad de Alepo, en julio de 2016, Bashar Al Assad ahora tenía todo lo que quería y se reorganizó para comenzar la batalla de esta última zona de exterminio Idlib. Comprendió que no podía combatir el califato de Isis, que los estadounidenses y los Kurdos se encargarían de eso y que lo único que valía la pena salvar a una parte de su país eran todas las ciudades importantes, la capital de Damasco y la provincia de Latakia (El asiento de su poder allawita) con un solo impedimento: la provincia de Idlib.
Con el advenimiento de la fuerza aérea y las tropas rusas en Septiembre del 2015. Assad comenzó a golpear esta provincia y ha continuado haciéndolo desde entonces, la desmilitarización del Tratado de Idlib firmada en septiembre de 2018 solo sirvió como un alto temporal a las operaciones, pero desde enero de 2019, los ataques en áreas seleccionadas han afectado descuidadamente a hospitales y mercados civiles. y vivienda.
Desmilitarización Idlib (2018-presente)
De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre La desmilitarización de Idlib es un acuerdo en curso entre Turquía y Rusia para crear una zona desmilitarizada (DMZ) en la gobernación rebelde de Idlib en Siria, para ser patrullada por los militares rusos y turcos. El 17 de septiembre de 2018, el presidente ruso Vladimir Putin y el presidente turco Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, llegaron a un acuerdo para crear una zona de amortiguamiento en Idlib. [19] La DMZ también se conoce como el "área de Putin-Erdogan" por el Observatorio Sirio de Derechos Humanos [20] [21].
Zonas de desescalada' de Siria explicadas
El acuerdo firmado por Rusia, Turquía e Irán exige el fin de las hostilidades entre las fuerzas rebeldes y gubernamentales en cuatro regiones. 4 julio 2017
Un acuerdo destinado a reducir la violencia en Siria vuelve a ser noticia, ya que las potencias regionales se reúnen en Kazajstán para un quinto de las conversaciones destinadas a poner fin a una guerra sangrienta ahora en su séptimo año.
El acuerdo, firmado en mayo por los partidarios del gobierno de Irán y Rusia, y el aliado rebelde Turquía en la capital de Kazajstán, Astana, es el último de una serie de propuestas de alto el fuego destinadas a poner fin a la guerra de Siria.
El plan exige el cese de las hostilidades entre los grupos rebeldes y las fuerzas que luchan en nombre del gobierno de Bashar al-Assad en las llamadas zonas de desescalada en áreas del país principalmente controvertidas por la oposición, con Rusia, Turquía e Irán para actuar como garantes
El acuerdo cubre cuatro áreas generales:
Zona 1: provincia de Idlib, así como áreas del noreste de la provincia de Latakia, áreas occidentales de la provincia de Alepo y áreas del norte de la provincia de Hama. Hay más de un millón de civiles en esta zona y sus facciones rebeldes están dominadas por una alianza vinculada a Al Qaeda.
Friday, October 25, 2019
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Combat Fatigue a chapter of the book the Regiment written back in August 15th 2011 (Translated to the English Language in 2019)
– Combat Fatigue –
While
driving to the airport on Friday at 3.56 AM, I was praying, and in doing so always
using the Rosary. On that moment a thought of my mother came to me, a woman who
was a devoted of the Rosary and prayed it several times a day especially during
the long years of convalescence of multiple sclerosis. It gave me a feeling of guilt to know that
for a day, or several, I hadn't thought of her, and there I jumped to a
historic moment back in December 1990; where we were right in the process of
formulating the attack plans (the entry into Kuwait-Iraq in 1991) which should
have been "... The mother of battles..." Where Saddam Hussein predicted the deaths of
thousands of Americans and a large number of mothers mourning their children
over the bloodshed in that desert
Focusing on
the theme "Combat fatigue" I don't remember the day it was, but after
several planning sessions where the G2-G3 staff considered the kind of forces
to use, movement tables, what engineering equipment to be used at the breach; contingencies
whether we followed in the British or
Egyptians in the attack, depending on where it was most necessary to
"exploit a breakthrough" that
is using the most powerful tank division that would then take the advance and penetrate
with blunt force on the enemy. After
several days of 36-48 hours of continuous working; of planning without sleep,
the night and the day are confused, because in the command post you work with a
black out lights and only when you need to go out to eat and go to the
bathroom, until then you don’t get to find out if it is day or night, hot or cold
or if the is a moonlit night. At that time even the day of the week is
forgotten, every day is the same, contrary to the normal days were we worked
shifts of 12-13 hours since we arrived in Saudi Arabia. Given the need to
complete organizational charts, plans and movement tables, we only worked on
goals imposed for completion by hours or reviews before the next meeting that
took place every 12 hours (during shift
changes). The plans changed every time when another unit arrived, forced to
modify the plan, which put us in check for more than 32 days. And it wasn't
until we were told to stop, that we did and in one of those times that we were
given about 6 hours to sleep, I remember very well the incident that would
change my whole life. It was one of those days between long periods of work
that I woke up, and I was lost, I didn't even know who I was, I asked myself, then
I remember that I had a daughter, that I was married that I had lost a son a
couple of years ago and in the middle of that moment I cried ....without
consolation. It was there that I met (first
person- Myself) what combat fatigue is..... It is what it is to bring the body and
mind to the limit, to the point of total weariness, which lead to the breakdown
of a human being. This happened without firing a shot, long before going into
combat, but given the circumstances and its description it is the same
suffering that many soldiers who have not rested, after long hours and turns
them into non-combatants..... This is the result of a process where there is a
great level of intensity that only keeps one concentrated at that moment by an
event, whether fighting to live or surviving, where everything else takes a
background, and is at that moment by an event, whether fighting to live or
surviving, where everything else takes a background, and is at that moment rest
...that the two meet and you feel guilty.
Today you remember
it and a few tears comes to my eyes, at the time it was despairing and painful,
a feeling of emptiness and loneliness. You look around disoriented, oblivious
to your reality as a result of time and tiredness.
Sometimes I
am accused of being cold, of not feeling or reacting in a certain way. After
that event I am more aware of the stress of each day, of the work, of the
everyday Today is a long day that began at 3:30 AM and possibly will not end until
late tonight. I started driving about 40 miles to the Ft. Lauderdale airport,
flying about 364 miles, loading a truck full of furniture and other things,
I'll drive about 570 miles through four states I'll get to unload the trailer all
by midnight and tomorrow unload the truck and assemble my eldest daughter's
apartment but if I think of my mother, my grandmother, my wife at home, my
little daughter who is on vacation with her uncles, I will also recall that 20
years ago, I forgot who I was during a war and that long periods of work, stress, of the day does
not make me forget everyone whom I have left behind during this weekend so as
long as it lasts.
The Colonel
August 15, 2011 05:45 AM
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
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