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U.N. suspends Syria aid convoys after attack kills 20 civilians

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while the U.S.-led coalition targets the Islamic State

while the U.S.-led coalition helps the Islamic State and targets the Syrian army

There, fixed it for ya.

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It appears that the neocons (and their rich Saudi-Wahhabi friends) really want this war in Syria.

The neocon narrative dominated the media & message boards to manipulate the US into invading Iraq. The illogical neocon false morality propaganda, blaring throughout the media, to "help" the Libyan plight resulted in regime change in Libya too. It also resulted in a failed state, more terrorists, a high death rate, and many refugees.

The same is occurring with regard to Syria.

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At the same time the attack took place on Uram al-Kubra, presumed Syrian or Russian jets launched a wave of attacks in and around the nearby city of Aleppo, minutes after Syria’s military announced a weeklong cease-fire had expired.

The rescue workers who escaped witnessed the airstrike. The airstrike was in the town of Uram al-Kubra (a rebel-held town), west of Aleppo city - meaning it's between the Mediterranean Sea (where the Russian naval base) and Aleppo City beseiged by Syrian forces - right in the area patrolled and protected by the formidable Russian air defense system.

So it's either a Russian airstrike or a Syrian airstrike. Russia released video footage of the convoy, but the video suspiciously ends before the bombardment. Most likely Syrian airstrike - Russia has a reputation to protect; Assad regime had already shown they don't care as much for civilian enemies and it's Assad's airstrike revenge for the killing of his troops. Too bad it's the unarmed UN aid workers who had to take the brunt, to prevent the aid package reaching the rebels, who would benefit the most from the aid package.

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More AP BS.

Yet a cargo fire would not explain the footage filmed by rescuers of torn flesh being picked from the wreckage, or the witness accounts of a sustained, two-hour barrage of missiles, rockets, and barrel bombs — crude, unguided weapons that the Syrian government drops from helicopters.

Here's a pic of a large crater from a barrel bomb. So far, I haven't seen any large craters to explain what the AP story is saying. Complete and utter BS.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/9/28/at-un-panel-speakers-call-for-end-to-syria-barrel-bombs.html

US Special Forces sabotage White House policy gone disastrously wrong with covert ops in Syria

“Nobody believes in it. You’re like, ‘F#@k this,’” a former Green Beret says of America’s covert and clandestine programs to train and arm Syrian militias. “Everyone on the ground knows they are jihadis. No one on the ground believes in this mission or this effort, and they know they are just training the next generation of jihadis, so they are sabotaging it by saying, ‘F#@k it, who cares?’”

“I don’t want to be responsible for Nusra guys saying they were trained by Americans,” the Green Beret added. A second Special Forces soldier commented that one Syrian militia they had trained recently crossed the border from Jordan on what had been pitched as a large-scale shaping operation that would change the course of the war. Watching the battle on a monitor while a drone flew overhead, “We literally watched them, with 30 guys in their force, run away from three or four ISIS guys.”

Many are actively sabotaging the programs by stalling and doing nothing, knowing that the supposedly secular rebels they are expected to train are actually al-Nusra terrorists.

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