Anonymous ID: b9a073 Nov. 30, 2018, 10:30 a.m. No.4086932   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6948 >>6970

Report: California-Based Communist Group Encouraging Migrants to ‘Remove’ Trump

 

The caravan of migrants that traveled from Honduras to Mexico includes foreign nationals pledging to abolish the U.S. immigration authorities, openly discussing their intent to illegally enter the U.S., and reading communist literature about overthrowing President Donald Trump, according to an in-depth report by journalists on the ground in Tijuana for the Epoch Times.

 

It said a Los Angeles-based group called Al Otro Lado (“To the other side”) is guiding migrants and its litigation director, Erika Pinheiro, is on the scene telling the migrants how to make sure they don’t just get into the U.S., but get as many benefits from its government as possible.

 

But she advised that criminals and previous deportees in the group can still get a different status, called “withholding of removal status,” in which “you won’t be deported but it doesn’t have many benefits.”

 

The night many migrants rushed the border, they received a flier by a California-based Communist group known as BAMN — whose slogan is “Trump must go or be removed BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY” — saying “Open it up or we’ll shut it down! Everyone must be let in!”

 

“Let’s organize active solidarity and defense against any nationalist or government attack,” another flier from the Communist Party of Mexico in Baja California said.

 

It blamed America for conditions in Latin America and said it’s “not enough to just leave the country, but to also organize ourselves to fight in a revolutionary way to transform our place of residence.”

 

Leaders of the overwhelmingly male caravan were positioning children on the front:

 

A video posted on the Netnoticias.mx Facebook page on Nov. 25, shows a Mexican police officer pleading with migrants not to listen to caravan leaders—who were telling them to put the kids on the front line.

 

“Don’t let them fool you! Don’t let them lie to you! These leaders; the only thing they’re doing is risking that something bad happens to your families. Because they say ‘go to the front,'” the officer is heard saying in Spanish. “Do not trust the leaders. They are brainwashing you.”

 

María Luisa Cáceres, who said she joined the caravan with her 15-year-old special needs son, told the paper “we are forced to” join the protests even though she did not plan to. Caceres was sleeping in a tent that said “Abolich ICE” and declined an offer of asylum by Mexico.

 

But she blamed the large number of male migrants who stormed past police at the border for creating a confrontation that led to her being tear gassed.

 

“There are people who only think about themselves, they don’t think about the mothers with kids, they think about nothing,” she said.

 

Guatemalan Luis Conde, 48, has been in Tijuana for about two weeks. He said he doesn’t intend to apply for asylum in the United States, because “they’re not going to give it to me.”

 

“If they don’t give papers, well to hell, I’m going to jump—there’s no doubt about that,” he said on Nov. 26. “If one is an opportunist, you have to grab the chances that come, and when they come and when you see that it’s not dangerous, bam, you’re there.”

 

Honduran Marco Gómez, 26, said he’d enter illegally as part of a large swarm of people because applying legally is “a waste of time. It’s a process that takes months and years — it’s a long time.”

 

https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/29/california-communist-group-migrants-trump/

Anonymous ID: b9a073 Nov. 30, 2018, 10:31 a.m. No.4086947   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7418 >>7587

Child Sex Offenders, Gang Members Arrested near Texas Border

 

Rio Grande Valley Sector agents arrested multiple sex offenders and violent gang members during a two-day period beginning on November 26. Those included two MS-13 members, an 18th Street member, an alleged sex offender with an active warrant, and two men convicted for other sexual offenses.

 

On the morning of November 26, McAllen Station agents apprehended a group of eight suspected illegal immigrants near Abram, Texas. The agents took the subjects into custody and transported them to the station for processing. All arrested migrants go through a biometric background investigation to determine criminal and immigration history and gang membership.

 

During the investigation, the agents determined one of the men to be a Salvadoran national who admitted to being an active Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) member, according to Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol officials.

 

Later that evening, agents patrolling near Roma, Texas, came upon another group of five who appeared to have illegally crossed from Mexico. During a background check, the agents learned that one of the men, a U.S. citizen, has an active warrant from Tarrant County, Texas, for an allegation of aggravated sexual assault of a child. The agents turned the U.S. citizen over to the Starr County Sheriff’s Office where he will be held pending transfer to the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office, officials stated.

 

The following day, agents patrolling near Mission, Texas, apprehended a Mexican national for illegal entry into the U.S. The agents processed the man and learned he has a previous arrest and conviction for indecency with a child by sexual contact. The court sentenced the man to spend five years in prison.

 

Later that day, agents working near the border town of La Joya, Texas, apprehended another Salvadoran national. Court records revealed the illegal immigrant has a previous arrest and conviction from a court in Concord, California. The court found the man guilty of sexual battery, officials reported.

 

Breitbart News has reported extensively on previously deported sex offenders and other criminal aliens who are stopped by Border Patrol agents from successfully re-entering the United States.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2018/11/30/child-sex-offenders-gang-members-arrested-near-texas-border/

Anonymous ID: b9a073 Nov. 30, 2018, 10:33 a.m. No.4086962   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7199 >>7267 >>7536

500 Million Affected In Massive Marriott Data Breach; Names, Passport Numbers Stolen By Hackers

 

This is terrible news for Marriott shareholders (and great news for the VC backers of Airbnb).

 

Marriott shares have fallen more than 2% in premarket trading after the hotel chain announced news of a massive data breach of its guest registration system at Starwood hotels, the hotel chain that it purchased in September 2016.

 

According to a press release, Marriott believes the compromised database had information on up to 500 million guests who had made a reservation at a Starwood property. The information compromised includes sensitive details including their passport numbers (for those who booked at foreign hotels) as well as name, date of birth, dates of their reservation, email address and mailing address. The infiltration dates back to at least September 2014 - before Starwood was purchased by Marriott - and continued through September of this year. Payment card numbers and payment card expiration dates belonging to some of those affected were also stolen, but the payment card numbers were encrypted using Advanced Encryption Standard encryption.

 

https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/69493/500-million-affected-in-massive-marriott-data-breach-names-passport-numbers-stolen-by.html

Anonymous ID: b9a073 Nov. 30, 2018, 10:37 a.m. No.4086990   🗄️.is 🔗kun

KERCH BRIDGE PROVOCATION: A Psyop Needed by the Ukrainian President, British Intel Community and U.S. Military Industrial Complex

 

QUI BONO? Why Ukraine & US Desperately Need the Black Sea/Azov Provocation!

 

KIEV JUNTA BLACK SEA PROVOCATION: WHAT HAPPENED & HOW

 

Yesterday three Ukrainian navy boats in the Black Sea illegally crossed Russian maritime border near Crimea in the vicinity of the Crimean Bridge, attempting to break through into Azov Sea.

 

The area around the Crimean Bridge was restricted at the time, and this was done in accordance with the international marine laws, per Russian government’s official statement. The Ukrainian vessels took off all their Ukrainian markers and flags so that to try to approach the Crimean Bridge unidentified. This speaks of premeditated actions and deliberate provocation in order to stir up trouble. On previous occasions, Ukraine navy boats requested permission and were allowed to cross into Azov without problems.

 

IT’S PAINFUL DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN

 

The whole provocation reminds me of Saakashvili’s actions in S. Ossetia in 2008, when he dared to attack for two reasons: 1. his US sponsors convinced him that Russia won’t respond, as ‘Russian Army’s capacity was nil,’ and 2. he was sure US/West will be fully behind him. It was a big shock to him to find that Russia did respond by giving formal independence not only to S. Ossetia, but also to neighboring Abkhazia, and moreover, that no one in the West would go to war with Russia over Georgia.

 

The Kiev junta and Poroshenko are stepping on the same rake. They are yet to find out the same. The problem with Poroshenko and the junta is that they don’t care about their country of Ukraine, nor about its people. They only care about personal enrichment and survival, and they are ready to sacrifice their country for their personal gain. In my Quantum Calibration theory this denotes an extremely low calibration, and this will be discussed in my future book.

 

On LadaRay.com!

 

This new development speaks of how desperate Poroshenko is, as his junta regime descends into new crisis. The religious schism he planned together with his US handlers has failed – See Podcast 4 and Patreon reports! His ratings are tanking and he is desperate.

 

As far as Ukrainian sailors’ actions go, their seemingly nonsensical push to get through the Crimean Bridge reeks of Kiev’s blatant disregard for the human life. They were ready to sacrifice these sailors for Poroshenko and ukro-nazis’ hateful ambitions, like they are ready to sacrifice millions of peaceful citizens of Donbass, whom they bomb daily. Basically, the sailors were given a kamikaze suicide mission. What were they trying to prove? Were they promised a lot of money for their families, should they lose their lives?

 

Were they trying to get to the bridge to blow it up? Was this an order by their cross-Atlantic masters to test Russian defenses and to see how Russians might react (this was one of the goals the US/Saakashvili had in 2008 while attacking S. Ossetia, and we know how much it backfired). Many questions arise.

 

It is well known that Ukraine navy, airforce and army officers and servicemen are often not paid their salaries on time, they often don’t have enough to eat, their families sometimes have no place to call home and live in utter poverty. Unless said officers and servicemen steal whatever they can, including weapons, to sell later on black market… Therefore, they can be easily bought.

 

It’s interesting that one of the captains surrendered voluntarily, probably with much relief that he was spared. It also surfaced that the captain in question went to the Navy college in Crimea. Perhaps he wanted to defect since life in Ukraine for these people is no champagne and roses.

 

PROFESSIONAL AND SURGICAL RUSSIAN ACTIONS AVERTED BIGGER CONFLICT

 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/free-qui-bono-us-22958401

Anonymous ID: b9a073 Nov. 30, 2018, 10:38 a.m. No.4087001   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7065 >>7107 >>7117

Mueller Knowingly Stages Prosecutions Based on “False Statements” to Get Trump

 

President Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen’s decision to plead guilty to lying to Congress about work he did on a Trump real estate deal on Russia shows special counsel Robert Mueller is “making all of his decisions based on false statements,” and that the plea could also mean a perjury trap for the president himself, Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Thursday.

 

“He is admitting to making false statements,” Dershowitz told Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” about Cohen.

 

“His credibility as a witness diminishes. The question is whether he will say what others have said about buildings in Moscow or whether or not that constitutes any kind of criminal activity. I find it very hard to define.”

 

However, Cohen’s plea could even mean a “perjury trap” for Trump himself, Dershowitz added.

 

“They are going to comb through every one of his answers and see if they can come up with anybody who can contradict anything the president said,” said Dershowitz, referring to written answers Trump has given Mueller in the case.

 

“That is why it is called perjury. Even if the president believes what he said was true, if somebody will contradict it, then the president can be charged with lying to government officials, which is the equivalent of perjury.”

 

This makes it dangerous for Trump or anyone who is the subject of an investigation to answer questions from prosecutors, as they can “get evidence that they can use to show contradictions,” said Dershowitz.

 

The professor also added that Thursday’s guilty plea means Mueller’s report is not quite ready to release, if the investigators are still filling blanks.

 

“They have lost Paul Manafort as a witness,” said Dershowitz. “Of course, he is unlikely to be a witness. . . they are probably hustling to try to get a new witness to fill some of those gaps.”

 

Meanwhile, Mueller’s case has never been very strong against the president, said Dershowitz, but Cohen won’t be a good witness because of his own “history of questionable conduct…I think they are going to look to see if they can get some information that can be corroborated.”

 

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/alan-dershowitz-michael-cohen-mueller-trump/2018/11/29/id/892467/

Anonymous ID: b9a073 Nov. 30, 2018, 10:41 a.m. No.4087027   🗄️.is 🔗kun

WATCH Anti-G20 Protests Rock Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

Some activists cited by Al-Jazeera expressed fears that the event might turn violent as earlier in the day the Argentinian security forces have responded to the protestors' activity.

 

Antiglobalist groups have begun a protest in Argentina's capital of Buenos Aires coinciding with the time when the G20 summit leaders gather to discuss some of the most pressing issues facing their countries and the world.

 

The event commenced at 3pm local time (18:00 GMT) and the demonstrators are expected to march through the centre of Argentina's capital, heading towards the site close to Congress.

 

At that area, the protestors have earlier installed a huge blimp caricaturing US President Donald Trump as a spoiled child with a cellphone in his hand, which was reportedly flying over Argentina's National Congress building.

 

Among the organizers of the protest is Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, an organization that unites the mothers whose children disappeared during the dictatorship in Argentina during the 1970s and early 1980s.

 

Participants in the protest include some hundred big and small organizations, leftist parties and activists.

 

The federal authorities announced that some 2000 law enforcement officers will accompany the demonstrators along the protest route.

 

Law enforcement possesses 4 armored vehicles Dongfen, a gift from China, as well as equipment to destroy barricades provided by Belgium.

 

The government proclaimed Friday a non-working day and advised those residents who could leave the city to do so.

 

https://sputniknews.com/latam/201811301070291347-protests-buenos-aires/

Anonymous ID: b9a073 Nov. 30, 2018, 10:56 a.m. No.4087167   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7170 >>7216 >>7418 >>7542 >>7587

SYRIA UPDATE

 

Munzer: Syria’s sovereign right over occupied Syrian Golan not up for negotiation, relinquishment, or prescription

Munzer said that Israel is still occupying the Syrian Golan and persecuting its Syrian people, and the occupation has always been trying to change the Golan’s legal and political status using methodical violations of human rights, from its attempts to force the Israeli nationality on the Syrians in Golan, up to its decision to hold the farcical “local councils” elections which the people of Golan have thwarted. He stressed that Israel continues to seize lands and expand settlements in the occupied Golan, stealing its resources, altering its history, stealing its archeological artifacts, planting landmines in it. He went on to note that Israel also preventing the people of the occupied Golan from contacting their relatives in the motherland, from studying Syrian curricula, from having Syrian identities, and from building hospitals in their occupied towns, and all of this is accompanied by policies of terrorism, oppression, racism, and arbitrary detainment against Syrians.

https://sana.sy/en/?p=152431

 

Sabbagh: Western states’ use of OPCW to serve political goals is worrying, undermines future of organization

The Ambassador regretted that Western states led by the US insist on using the OPCW to serve political goals against states including Syria, saying such behavior is worrying and could undermine the future of the organization, citing the failure of the conference to reach consensus on the closing document as an example.

https://sana.sy/en/?p=152425

 

Russian diplomat vows terrorist schemes to derail Idlib agreement bound to fail

Plans of terrorists in Syria to undermine cooperation in the Astana format and derail agreements on Idlib are futile, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Friday.

"Despite the efforts made by Turkey as part of the implementation of the Russian-Turkish memorandum of September 17, the situation there [in Idlib] is explosive. Terrorists are doing their best to derail the implementation of measures to delimitate the so-called moderate forces and create a demilitarized zone. The scale of provocations carried out by them is unfortunately growing," she said. "This work was conducted before to provoke the US-led coalition to carry out massive strikes on the government forces, but now, as we can see, the goal is different: to derail the implementation of the specified Russian-Turkish memorandum and destabilize cooperation in the Astana format, in particular between Russia and Turkey," the diplomat stressed. "Another meeting on Syria in Astana showed that such plans of terrorists are futile."

http://tass.com/politics/1033621

 

Units Of 4th Armored Division Deploy Near Idlib Demilitarized Zone Amid Looming Collapse Of Ceasefire

During the last few days, several units of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) 4th Division were redeployed from the northern al-Suwayda countryside to frontlines in the northern Lattakia countryside and the northwestern Hama countryside, a military source told SouthFront on November 30.

According to the source, the 4th Division is currently preparing for a possible military operation against remaining radical militants within the demilitarized zone around the governorate of Idlib. However, the source noted that the operation is yet to be confirmed.

https://southfront.org/units-of-4th-armored-division-deploy-near-idlib-demilitarized-zone-amid-looming-collapse-of-ceasefire/

 

Syrian War Report – Nov. 30, 2018: 15,000 Al-Qaeda-Linked Terrorists Remain In Idlib Province

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https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-nov-30-2018-15000-al-qaeda-linked-terrorists-remain-in-idlib-province/

 

US-led Coalition Denies Striking ISIS Prison With SDF Members Despite Existing Video Evidence

On November 30, a spokesman for the US-led coalition, Colonel Sean Ryan, denied that coalition warplanes had carried out an airstrike on an ISIS prison in the middle Euphrates River Valley where fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were kept.

“November 28, coalition strikes destroyed 2 operational facilities and killed 4 ISIS terrorists, in al-Khasmah, Syria. In depth monitoring reduced the risk to civilians and CJTF-OIR [the US-led coalition’s mission in Syria and Iraq] rejects any ISIS propaganda claims on striking an ISIS prison,” Col. Ryan said in a short statement on Twitter.

The statement is an obvious attempt to cover the incident as the ISIS-linked news agency, Amaq, had provided a video showing the bodies of SDF fighters who were killed in the coalition airstrike. Many injured SDF fighters also appeared in the video and accused the coalition of trying to “get rid of them.”

https://southfront.org/us-led-coalition-denies-striking-isis-prison-with-sdf-members-despite-existing-video-evidence/

 

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Anonymous ID: b9a073 Nov. 30, 2018, 10:57 a.m. No.4087170   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7179 >>7216 >>7418 >>7542 >>7587

>>4087167

 

Foreign Ministry: Crimes of US-led coalition complete cycle of aggression on Syria

Syria has confirmed that the continuous attacks by the US-led “international coalition” come to complete the cycle of aggression and to converge in its objectives and goals with the repeated Israeli aggressions, the last of which was on Thursday evening on al-Keswa area, south of Damascus.

In a letter addressed on Friday to both UN Secretary-General and the UN Security Council on US and Israeli attacks on the sovereignty of the Syrian Arab Republic, the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said that warplanes of the illegal US-led coalition continued its brutal crimes against innocent civilians. On Friday, November 30, 2018, the coalition committed a new massacre in al-Shaafeh village in Deir Ezzor countryside, claiming the lives of more than 30 civilians, mostly children and women, the ministry said, adding that the death toll is expected to rise as some people remain trapped under the debris of the buildings which collapsed as a result of the shelling. The ministry said that the continuation of these crimes is a clear translation for the United States’ disregard for the values of humanity and disdain for the international law.

https://sana.sy/en/?p=152408

 

Mistura Announces Failure of Talks in Astana

In a statement, Mistura said that this was the last time a meeting would be held in Astana in 2018, and “sadly for the Syrian people, it has been a missed opportunity to accelerate the establishment of a credible, balanced and inclusive, Syrian-owned, Syrian-led, UN-facilitated constitutional committee.”

https://syrianobserver.com/EN/news/47183/mistura-announces-failure-of-talks-in-astana.html

 

Note: The UN's perceived failure is really (((them))) being excluded as they are the problem

 

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Anonymous ID: b9a073 Nov. 30, 2018, 11:02 a.m. No.4087222   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Kunstler Exposes The Dire Quandaries Of The Deep State

 

Watergate had tragic Shakespearean overtones, with Nixon as King Lear, but Russia-Gate - perhaps the last gate America goes through on its giant slalom run to collapse - is but a Chinese Fire Drill writ large.

 

The reason? In 1973, we were still a serious people. Today, the most lavishly credentialed elite in history believe the most preposterous “stories,” or, surely even worse, pretend to believe them for political advantage.

 

Now, an epic battle of wills is setting up as Robert Mueller’s investigation concludes its business and its primary target, the Golden Golem of Greatness, girds his loins to push back. Behind the flimsy scrim of Russia collusion accusations stands a bewildering maze of criminal mischief by a matrix of federal agencies that lost control of their own dark operation to meddle in the 2016 election.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-30/kunstler-exposes-dire-quandaries-deep-state

Anonymous ID: b9a073 Nov. 30, 2018, 11:03 a.m. No.4087228   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7265 >>7509 >>7587

Acting AG Whitaker Accused of Misleading FTC Over Actions at Miami Firm

 

The Deep state has been circling the wagons around Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker since he took over the Mueller probe from DAG Rod Rosenstein.

 

Anyone who dares get in Mueller’s way will be destroyed and forced out of office.

 

The Federal Trade Commission released new FOIA documents Friday suggesting Whitaker misled the agency’s internal investigators about his actions at a Miami firm in 2015.

 

Matthew Whitaker was on the advisory board of World Patent Marketing, a Miami firm accused of an “invention promotion scheme” and “bilking millions of dollars from consumers.”

 

Whitaker previously told FTC investigators he “never emailed or wrote to consumers” during his consulting role at World Patent Marketing.

 

Bloomberg reported that Whitaker actually emailed an angry customer in 2015 who planning on reporting the firm to the BBB:

 

After several attempts to reach Whitaker about the Miami company where he was on the advisory board, the FTC investigator emailed his colleagues to relay that he finally reached Whitaker, who was willing to cooperate and asserted that he “never emailed or wrote to consumers” in his consulting role.

 

That statement to James Evans of the FTC appears to be inaccurate. Whitaker had written a letter in 2015 to a disgruntled customer who planned to report the company, World Patent Marketing, to the Better Business Bureau. In the letter, which was included in the FTC’s disclosure and reported previously by the news media, Whitaker threatened the customer, writing: “I am assuming you understand there could be serious civil and criminal consequences for you if that is in fact what you and your ‘group’ are doing.”

In the letter, Whitaker noted that he was a former U.S. attorney in Iowa and that he was aware that the customer had complained to the company’s chief executive officer, Scott Cooper, in the past. “I am familiar with your background and your history with Scott,” Whitaker wrote. “Understand that we take threats like this quite seriously.”

 

Matthew Whitaker became chief of staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions in October of 2017. All of a sudden the media and Deep State are hammering away it him because he is a threat.

 

The Deep State was happy to have Jeff Sessions as AG because he recused himself from his job and allowed Rosenstein and Mueller to control the Justice Department.

 

Last Monday, three Senate Judiciary Democrats sued to block Matthew Whitaker from serving as Attorney General.

 

We have a two-tiered justice system in this country where Trump and his associates are harassed and investigated for every move they make, yet corrupt and criminal Democrats can lie, cheat and steal without fear of reprisal.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/11/here-we-go-acting-ag-whitaker-accused-of-misleading-ftc-over-actions-at-miami-firm/

Anonymous ID: b9a073 Nov. 30, 2018, 11:09 a.m. No.4087290   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7330 >>7356

ANON'S

 

UNDERSTANDING ALL PARTS OF THE GREAT AWAKENING

 

We all know, or at least are starting to know, about the stop/fight 'the cabal part of this GREAT AWAKENING' But it goes a lot deeper than that.

 

To begin to address this in a manner which is digestible it is best to realize that the fight is not just one for our countries. We know they want us divided but there is another often overlooked division, that is the division of the mind, body and soul. They have used chemicals in our food supply to condition us to be compliant and to encourage illness. They use other chemicals and heavy metals in our water to dumb us down and cause disease of the mind, they use fluoride, among other things, to shut down our PINEAL GLAND thus shutting off our spiritual connections (SOUL).

 

Brothers and Sisters the other major part of this fight between good v evil is in us all, it is in the hearts and minds of men and women.

 

If we all simply CHOSE to do the right thing evil would cease to exist in an instant.

 

The CHOICE is yours!

 

Peace over war

Right over wrong

Faith over fear

Others over self

Strength over violence

Light over dark

 

Cleanse your mind, body and soul for enlightenment!

 

WWG1WGA

 

GOD WINS

Anonymous ID: b9a073 Nov. 30, 2018, 11:14 a.m. No.4087332   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7368

State Official: ‘Unacceptable’ for Turkey to Attack U.S.-Allied Kurds in Syria

 

A top U.S. Department of State (DOS) official, while testifying before a House panel on Thursday, cautioned Turkey that military action against the American-allied Kurds in northern Syria is “unacceptable.”

 

The comments from James Jeffrey, the State Department’s special representative for Syria engagement, came after a spokesperson for the U.S.-backed Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria reportedly said last week that the group is ready for dialogue with Turkey, which has demanded their removal despite their key role in fighting the Islamic State (ISIS).

 

YPG fighters, who lead the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), have maintained control over large swathes of northern Syria near the Turkish border with the help of the American military.

 

Arguing that the YPG is part of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) terrorist group, America’s NATO ally Turkey has repeatedly attacked the U.S.-allied Kurdish fighters in Syria.

 

Despite Turkey’s concerns about the YPG-PKK link, which the DOS official himself acknowledged earlier this month, the United States continues to support the Kurdish fighters as the most effective force against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

 

U.S. support for the YPG has strained relations between Washington and Ankara.

 

On Thursday, Jeffrey told the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East via written testimony:

 

Turkey points to links between the SDF and PKK, and these unfortunate incidents detract from our efforts to defeat ISIS and coordinate other elements of our overall Syria policy. The United States remains committed to working with Turkey to address Turkish security concerns, including along its borders, and we support Turkey in its fight against the PKK, while attempting to reduce tensions. And as we have said before, uncoordinated, unilateral military action into northeast Syria by any party, particularly where U.S. personnel are present, is of great concern, and any action that endangers U.S. personnel is unacceptable.

 

Ankara’s military advances against the YPG in northern Syria over the past two years have put U.S. troops directly in the path of advancing Turkish troops.

 

Turkey and the United States have been working to avert direct confrontation, even as Turkey aims to crush the U.S.-backed YPG fighters.

 

Jeffrey’s testimony came days after he conceded that the U.S.-backed Kurdish group in Syria is linked to the PKK, a group that the United States and Turkey have designated as a terrorist organization.

 

Hurriyet Daily News quoted Jeffrey as saying during the Dense One Summit on November 15 that the political wing of the YPG, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), is the “Syrian offshoot” of the PKK terrorist group.

 

Nevertheless, Jeffrey acknowledged the Kurdish YPG’s indispensable support for America’s war against ISIS on Thursday.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/11/30/state-official-unacceptable-turkey-attack-u-s-allied-kurds-syria/