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"I provided examples related to our data on the financing of Islamic State units by natural persons in various countries. The financing comes from 40 countries, as we established, including some G20 members," Putin told reporters following the summit.

The fight against terrorism was a key topic at the summit, according to the Russian leader.

"This topic (the war on the terror) was crucial. Especially after the Paris tragedy, we all understand that the means of financing terrorism should be severed," the Russian president said.

Russia has also presented satellite images and aerial photos showing the true scale of the Islamic State oil trade.

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"I've demonstrated the pictures from space to our colleagues, which clearly show the true size of the illegal trade of oil and petroleum products market. Car convoys stretching for dozens of kilometers, going beyond the horizon when seen from a height of four-five thousand meters," Putin told reporters after the G20 summit.

The Russian president also said that Syrian opposition is ready to launch an anti-ISIL operation if Russia provides air support.

"A part of the Syrian opposition considers it possible to begin military actions against ISIL with the assistance of the Russian air forces, and we are ready to provide that assistance," the Russian president said.

If this happens, the army of Syrian President Bashar Assad, on the one hand, and the opposition, on the other hand, will fight a common enemy, he outlined.

Cooperation With the US

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday that the United States has shown a certain willingness to resume cooperation with Russia in several areas.

"It seemed to me that, at least at an expert level, at the level of discussing problems, there was, indeed, a clear interest in resuming work in many areas, including the economy, politics, and the security sphere," Putin told reporters.

Vladimir Putin said that Russia needs support from the US, Saudi Arabia and Iran in the fight against terrorism.

"It's not the time to debate who is more effective in the fight against ISIL, what we need to do is consolidate our efforts," president Putin added.

The Russian president hopes that the work with the G20 colleagues in the fight against terrorism will continue.

"I think that cooperation in fighting terrorism is very important," Vladimir Putin told reporters.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) speaks with Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron (R).

Putin, Cameron Stress Cooperation in Fight Against Islamic State Only Option

The work to create the list of terrorist organizations in Syria is being carried out on the level of foreign ministers, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday.

"With regard to Syria, here we should, first of all, decide, and now the foreign ministers are working on this, what groups we consider to be terrorist organizations, and which can be attributed to the armed, but still ‘healthy’ part of the Syrian opposition," Putin told reporters following the G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey.

A321 Crash in Sinai

Paris, A321 Crash 'Bear Hallmark of Islamic State' - CIA Director

Answering the question about A321 crash in Sinai, the Russian plane crash in Egypt are still being considered, and it is too early to draw a final conclusion, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday.

"With regard to the crash of our airplane: this is hugely painful for all of us, for the entire Russian people, whatever the cause may be," Putin told reporters.

"All versions are being considered. Final conclusions can be made after examinations have been carried out and completed. What examinations? If there was an explosion, traces of explosives must remain on the airliner, on passengers' belongings," the president added.

Russia Proposes Better Debt Restructuring Option for Ukraine Than IMF

Russia has proposed Ukraine a better option for its $3 billion debt than just moving the pay date, as suggested by the IMF, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday.

"In order not to put Ukraine in a difficult situation, we made, I believe, an unexpected offer to our partners. We not only agreed to the restructuring of Ukraine's debt, but we offered better conditions than the International Monetary Fund asked for. We were asked to move the payment to next year, I said that we were ready for a deeper restructuring," Putin told reporters.

"We are ready not to receive any money this year, but get a billion next year, in 2016, another billion in 2017, and another billion in 2018," the president added.

End of ISIS? Putin 'sending 150,000 soldiers to Syria to WIPE OUT evil Islamic State'

VLADIMIR Putin is preparing to send 150,000 troops to Syria in a bid to wipe out the evil Islamic State once and for all as he hints at joining the West following the Paris attacks.

By SCOTT CAMPBELL

PUBLISHED: 03:43, Tue, Nov 17, 2015 | UPDATED: 08:55, Tue, Nov 17, 2015

Putin is reportedly ramping up his military mission in Syria

The Russian leader is reportedly mounting an enormous military mission to take control of the terror group's stronghold of Raqqa.

The city is the self-declared capital of ISIS in Syria and is patrolled by as many as 5,000 jihadi members.

Putin is set to mobilise 150,000 reservists who he conscripted into the military in September.

Yesterday, following the Paris attacks, Putin hinted he was ready to join forces with the West to tackle Islamic State.

He told David Cameron: "The recent tragic events in France show that we should join efforts in preventing terror."

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ISIS could now face elimination from hundreds of thousands of Russian troops

This is fast becoming a race to Raqqa
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An insider revealed: "It is very clear that Russia wants to sweep up the west of the country, taking Raqqa and all the oil and gas resources around Palmyra.

"This is fast becoming a race to Raqqa – to secure the oil fields they need to cleanse the region of insurgents, and the IS capital is vital to do that."

In a show of strength, Russian jets have previously obliterated nine ISIS outposts in just 24 hours using bunker-busting bombs.

Russian jets pounded terrorist targets and blew up a command centre, potentially killing dozens of fighters.

Confirming the successful raids, Andrei Kartapolov from the Russian army vowed to ramp up the pressure, saying: "We will not only continue strikes... We will also increase their intensity."

Speaking at the time of the attacks, in October, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said: "Over the past 24 hours, Sukhoi Su-34 and Su-24M fighter jets have performed 20 sorties and hit nine Islamic State installations.

Russian plane carries out an air strike in Syria

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A Russian jet carries out an air strike in Syria

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Russia said it had carried out 20 air strikes in just 24 hours

“A bunker-busting BETAB-500 air bomb dropped from a Sukhoi Su-34 bomber near Raqqa has eliminated the command post of one of the terror groups, together with an underground storage facility for explosives and munitions.

"These and other highly exact means of attack in recent days have been used to target objects of Islamic State terrorists.

"Command posts, stores of weapons and oil products, workshops where weapons of suicide bombers are made."

Meanwhile a terrorism expert revealed to Express.co.uk ISIS have vastly exaggerated their military strength and called on Western leaders to launch a co-ordinated fightback which would obliterate the hate group.

Dr Afzal Ashraf said ISIS has become its own worst enemy with its campaign of terror against the West, which has prompted an international backlash.

He said: "This mythical state will disappear in a matter of hours once the international community decides to act.

"It won't take very long at all to drive them, if not out of all of Iraq or Syria, then certainly the majority of their territories.

"They will hide in towns, but I would say do not to follow them as they would use innocent civilians as human shields."

David Cameron initially gave the Russian air strikes a cautious welcome and said the UK would need to look "very carefully" at Putin's operations.

Following the Paris terror attacks which killed at least 129 people, David Cameron said he was hoping to convince Parliament to support air strikes against ISIS.

He told the BBC: "I have always said I think that it is sensible that we should, ISIL [ISIS] don't recognise a border between Iraq and Syria and neither should we but I need to build the argument, I need to take it to parliament, I need to convince more people.

"We won't hold that vote unless we can see that parliament would endorse action because to fail on this would be damaging, it is not a question of damaging the government it is a question of not damaging our country and its reputation in the world."

He has already pledged to "beef up" the SAS and double the number of British drones to combat ISIS militants in an interview ahead of today's Conservative conference.

The Prime Minister said investment in special forces and surveillance was essential to meeting the terrorist threat facing the UK.

He revealed the UK will buy a fleet of 20 new Protector drones capable of targeting IS extremists in Iraq and Syria.

(http://www.express.co.uk/)

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	Now confirmed Russia: Plane brought down by homemade explosive device By LYNN BERRY1 hour ago FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015 file photo provided by Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, Egyptian Military on cars approach a plane's tail at the wreckage of a passenger jet bound for St. Petersburg in Russia that crashed in Hassana, Egypt. The Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt was brought down by a homemade bomb placed on board in a "terrorist" act, the head of Russia's FSB security service told President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015. (Maxim Grigoriev/Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations via AP, File) View Gallery MOSCOW (AP) — A homemade explosive device brought down a Russian passenger plane over Egypt last month, the head of Russia's FSB security service said Tuesday, telling President Vladimir Putin it's now clear the bombing that killed 224 people was a "terrorist" act. Related Stories The Latest: US officials: Russia attacks IS stronghold Associated Press Russia: Crash Of Passenger Plane In Egypt Was 'Terrorist Act' Huffington Post Russia confirms bomb attack brought down Egypt plane, vows revenge AFP Putin vows payback after Kremlin confirms bomb downed Russian plane over EgyptReuters Bomb on Russian plane is 'highly possible scenario': US official AFP Credit Cards Now Offer 0% Intro APR Through 2017CompareCards.com Sponsored  Putin vowed to hunt down those responsible for the attack, which the Islamic State group claimed to have carried out. Two U.S. defense officials said Russia struck Raqqa, the Islamic State group's self-declared capital in Syria, with cruise missiles and bombs on Tuesday. The FSB offered a $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible, appealing to the "Russian and international communities for cooperation in identifying the terrorists." The FSB specified that the reward would be paid in dollars. "According to our experts, a homemade explosive device equivalent to 1 kilogram of TNT went off onboard, which caused the plane to break up in the air, which explains why the fuselage was scattered over such a large territory. I can certainly say that this was a terrorist act," FSB head Alexander Bortnikov said. He said tests showed the explosives had been produced outside of Russia, but gave no further details. All of the people on board, most of them Russian tourists, were killed when the Metrojet Airbus 321-200 crashed over the Sinai Peninsula on Oct. 31, about 23 minutes after taking off from the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh. The plane was headed to St. Petersburg, where most of the passengers were from. View gallery FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015 file photo, a Russian investigator walks near wreckage a day aft … In Cairo, there was no immediate comment on the news from the Egyptian government. State-owned television carried the news from Moscow, but had no official comment either. Egypt had resisted British and U.S. assertions that an explosive device was the likely cause of the Russian plane's crash. Later, government officials and the pro-government media shifted their focus away from the cause of the crash to speculating on what they called a Western conspiracy against Egypt and the crushing impact of the crash on the country's vital tourism industry. Putin said Russia would be relentless in hunting down those responsible for the attack. "There's no statute of limitations for this. We need to know all of their names," Putin said. "We're going to look for them everywhere wherever they are hiding. We will find them in any place on Earth and punish them." The Islamic State group had claimed responsibility in written statements, as well as video and audio messages posted on the Internet following the crash. It said the attack was retaliation for Russia's air campaign against IS and other groups in Syria, where Moscow wants to preserve the rule of President Bashar Assad. View gallery Russian President Vladimir Putin, third left, observes a minute of silence with Russia's Federal … One of the U.S. defense officials said the Russians gave prior notification of their attacks on Raqqa by communicating with the U.S.-led coalition's air operations center at al-Udeid air base in Qatar. The official said this was in accordance with protocols worked out by U.S. and Russian officials in October. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss non-U.S. military operations, provided no details on targets or the scale or outcome of the attacks. Putin said Tuesday that Russia's air campaign in Syria "should not only be continued but should be intensified so that the criminals realize that retribution is inevitable." He instructed the Defense Ministry and General Staff to present their suggestions on how Russia's operation in Syria could be modified. Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the president's order didn't mean that Russia was considering sending ground troops to Syria. View gallery FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015 file photo, Russian investigators walk near debris, luggage and … Putin's meeting with Bortnikov and other senior officials was held late at night, shortly after the president returned from meetings with other world leaders in Turkey. The leaders from the Group of 20 rich and developing nations had vowed to work together to combat the Islamic State group. "In this work, including the search to find and punish the criminals, we are relying on all of our friends," Putin said. "We will act in accordance with the U.N. Charter's Article 51, which gives each country the right to self-defense. Everyone who tries to aid the criminals should understand that they will be responsible for giving them shelter." Putin was unusually somber. After Bortnikov pronounced it a terrorist act, Putin asked the other officials around the table to stand for a moment of silence. IS has warned Putin that it would also target him "at home," but did not offer any details to back its claim. While releasing specifics would add credibility, the group may be withholding because its claim is false, because doing so would undermine plans for similar attacks in the future, or because the aura of mystery might deepen its mystique among die-hard followers. IS has also claimed responsibility for Friday attacks in Paris that killed 129 people and wounded 350 others. ___ Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow, Hamza Hendawi in Cairo and Robert Burns in Washington contributed to this story. ___ A previous version of this story has been corrected to show that the spelling of the Egyptian resort city is Sharm el-Sheikh, not Sharm al-Sheikh.
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Jim 5802 11251 Holiday	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 11/17/2015 2:43:47 PM
	I call BS as all along the claim was it was some sort of hi-tech device, hardly a description for a home made bomb, I would think. "home made" implies anyone could manufacture and or assemble such a device. Do you really believe this tripe? Quote: "According to our experts, a homemade explosive device equivalent to 1 kilogram of TNT went off onboard, which caused the plane to break up in the air, which explains why the fuselage was scattered over such a large territory. I can certainly say that this was a terrorist act," FSB head Alexander Bortnikov said. He said tests showed the explosives had been produced outside of Russia, but gave no further details. Quote: Now confirmed Russia: Plane brought down by homemade explosive device By LYNN BERRY1 hour ago FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015 file photo provided by Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, Egyptian Military on cars approach a plane's tail at the wreckage of a passenger jet bound for St. Petersburg in Russia that crashed in Hassana, Egypt. The Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt was brought down by a homemade bomb placed on board in a "terrorist" act, the head of Russia's FSB security service told President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015. (Maxim Grigoriev/Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations via AP, File) View Gallery MOSCOW (AP) — A homemade explosive device brought down a Russian passenger plane over Egypt last month, the head of Russia's FSB security service said Tuesday, telling President Vladimir Putin it's now clear the bombing that killed 224 people was a "terrorist" act. Related Stories The Latest: US officials: Russia attacks IS stronghold Associated Press Russia: Crash Of Passenger Plane In Egypt Was 'Terrorist Act' Huffington Post Russia confirms bomb attack brought down Egypt plane, vows revenge AFP Putin vows payback after Kremlin confirms bomb downed Russian plane over EgyptReuters Bomb on Russian plane is 'highly possible scenario': US official AFP Credit Cards Now Offer 0% Intro APR Through 2017CompareCards.com Sponsored  Putin vowed to hunt down those responsible for the attack, which the Islamic State group claimed to have carried out. Two U.S. defense officials said Russia struck Raqqa, the Islamic State group's self-declared capital in Syria, with cruise missiles and bombs on Tuesday. The FSB offered a $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible, appealing to the "Russian and international communities for cooperation in identifying the terrorists." The FSB specified that the reward would be paid in dollars. "According to our experts, a homemade explosive device equivalent to 1 kilogram of TNT went off onboard, which caused the plane to break up in the air, which explains why the fuselage was scattered over such a large territory. I can certainly say that this was a terrorist act," FSB head Alexander Bortnikov said. He said tests showed the explosives had been produced outside of Russia, but gave no further details. All of the people on board, most of them Russian tourists, were killed when the Metrojet Airbus 321-200 crashed over the Sinai Peninsula on Oct. 31, about 23 minutes after taking off from the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh. The plane was headed to St. Petersburg, where most of the passengers were from. View gallery FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015 file photo, a Russian investigator walks near wreckage a day aft … In Cairo, there was no immediate comment on the news from the Egyptian government. State-owned television carried the news from Moscow, but had no official comment either. Egypt had resisted British and U.S. assertions that an explosive device was the likely cause of the Russian plane's crash. Later, government officials and the pro-government media shifted their focus away from the cause of the crash to speculating on what they called a Western conspiracy against Egypt and the crushing impact of the crash on the country's vital tourism industry. Putin said Russia would be relentless in hunting down those responsible for the attack. "There's no statute of limitations for this. We need to know all of their names," Putin said. "We're going to look for them everywhere wherever they are hiding. We will find them in any place on Earth and punish them." The Islamic State group had claimed responsibility in written statements, as well as video and audio messages posted on the Internet following the crash. It said the attack was retaliation for Russia's air campaign against IS and other groups in Syria, where Moscow wants to preserve the rule of President Bashar Assad. View gallery Russian President Vladimir Putin, third left, observes a minute of silence with Russia's Federal … One of the U.S. defense officials said the Russians gave prior notification of their attacks on Raqqa by communicating with the U.S.-led coalition's air operations center at al-Udeid air base in Qatar. The official said this was in accordance with protocols worked out by U.S. and Russian officials in October. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss non-U.S. military operations, provided no details on targets or the scale or outcome of the attacks. Putin said Tuesday that Russia's air campaign in Syria "should not only be continued but should be intensified so that the criminals realize that retribution is inevitable." He instructed the Defense Ministry and General Staff to present their suggestions on how Russia's operation in Syria could be modified. Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the president's order didn't mean that Russia was considering sending ground troops to Syria. View gallery FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015 file photo, Russian investigators walk near debris, luggage and … Putin's meeting with Bortnikov and other senior officials was held late at night, shortly after the president returned from meetings with other world leaders in Turkey. The leaders from the Group of 20 rich and developing nations had vowed to work together to combat the Islamic State group. "In this work, including the search to find and punish the criminals, we are relying on all of our friends," Putin said. "We will act in accordance with the U.N. Charter's Article 51, which gives each country the right to self-defense. Everyone who tries to aid the criminals should understand that they will be responsible for giving them shelter." Putin was unusually somber. After Bortnikov pronounced it a terrorist act, Putin asked the other officials around the table to stand for a moment of silence. IS has warned Putin that it would also target him "at home," but did not offer any details to back its claim. While releasing specifics would add credibility, the group may be withholding because its claim is false, because doing so would undermine plans for similar attacks in the future, or because the aura of mystery might deepen its mystique among die-hard followers. IS has also claimed responsibility for Friday attacks in Paris that killed 129 people and wounded 350 others. ___ Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow, Hamza Hendawi in Cairo and Robert Burns in Washington contributed to this story. ___ A previous version of this story has been corrected to show that the spelling of the Egyptian resort city is Sharm el-Sheikh, not Sharm al-Sheikh.
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 11/17/2015 4:28:12 PM
	I guess it depends on the technical ability of the people involved. Remember it was a commercial plane, a highly vulnerable target, they chose to bring down - not any warplane. Quote: I call BS as all along the claim was it was some sort of hi-tech device, hardly a description for a home made bomb, I would think. "home made" implies anyone could manufacture and or assemble such a device. Do you really believe this tripe? Quote: "According to our experts, a homemade explosive device equivalent to 1 kilogram of TNT went off onboard, which caused the plane to break up in the air, which explains why the fuselage was scattered over such a large territory. I can certainly say that this was a terrorist act," FSB head Alexander Bortnikov said. He said tests showed the explosives had been produced outside of Russia, but gave no further details. Quote: Now confirmed Russia: Plane brought down by homemade explosive device By LYNN BERRY1 hour ago FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015 file photo provided by Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, Egyptian Military on cars approach a plane's tail at the wreckage of a passenger jet bound for St. Petersburg in Russia that crashed in Hassana, Egypt. The Russian passenger plane that crashed in Egypt was brought down by a homemade bomb placed on board in a "terrorist" act, the head of Russia's FSB security service told President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2015. (Maxim Grigoriev/Russian Ministry for Emergency Situations via AP, File) View Gallery MOSCOW (AP) — A homemade explosive device brought down a Russian passenger plane over Egypt last month, the head of Russia's FSB security service said Tuesday, telling President Vladimir Putin it's now clear the bombing that killed 224 people was a "terrorist" act. Related Stories The Latest: US officials: Russia attacks IS stronghold Associated Press Russia: Crash Of Passenger Plane In Egypt Was 'Terrorist Act' Huffington Post Russia confirms bomb attack brought down Egypt plane, vows revenge AFP Putin vows payback after Kremlin confirms bomb downed Russian plane over EgyptReuters Bomb on Russian plane is 'highly possible scenario': US official AFP Credit Cards Now Offer 0% Intro APR Through 2017CompareCards.com Sponsored  Putin vowed to hunt down those responsible for the attack, which the Islamic State group claimed to have carried out. Two U.S. defense officials said Russia struck Raqqa, the Islamic State group's self-declared capital in Syria, with cruise missiles and bombs on Tuesday. The FSB offered a $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible, appealing to the "Russian and international communities for cooperation in identifying the terrorists." The FSB specified that the reward would be paid in dollars. "According to our experts, a homemade explosive device equivalent to 1 kilogram of TNT went off onboard, which caused the plane to break up in the air, which explains why the fuselage was scattered over such a large territory. I can certainly say that this was a terrorist act," FSB head Alexander Bortnikov said. He said tests showed the explosives had been produced outside of Russia, but gave no further details. All of the people on board, most of them Russian tourists, were killed when the Metrojet Airbus 321-200 crashed over the Sinai Peninsula on Oct. 31, about 23 minutes after taking off from the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh. The plane was headed to St. Petersburg, where most of the passengers were from. View gallery FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015 file photo, a Russian investigator walks near wreckage a day aft … In Cairo, there was no immediate comment on the news from the Egyptian government. State-owned television carried the news from Moscow, but had no official comment either. Egypt had resisted British and U.S. assertions that an explosive device was the likely cause of the Russian plane's crash. Later, government officials and the pro-government media shifted their focus away from the cause of the crash to speculating on what they called a Western conspiracy against Egypt and the crushing impact of the crash on the country's vital tourism industry. Putin said Russia would be relentless in hunting down those responsible for the attack. "There's no statute of limitations for this. We need to know all of their names," Putin said. "We're going to look for them everywhere wherever they are hiding. We will find them in any place on Earth and punish them." The Islamic State group had claimed responsibility in written statements, as well as video and audio messages posted on the Internet following the crash. It said the attack was retaliation for Russia's air campaign against IS and other groups in Syria, where Moscow wants to preserve the rule of President Bashar Assad. View gallery Russian President Vladimir Putin, third left, observes a minute of silence with Russia's Federal … One of the U.S. defense officials said the Russians gave prior notification of their attacks on Raqqa by communicating with the U.S.-led coalition's air operations center at al-Udeid air base in Qatar. The official said this was in accordance with protocols worked out by U.S. and Russian officials in October. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss non-U.S. military operations, provided no details on targets or the scale or outcome of the attacks. Putin said Tuesday that Russia's air campaign in Syria "should not only be continued but should be intensified so that the criminals realize that retribution is inevitable." He instructed the Defense Ministry and General Staff to present their suggestions on how Russia's operation in Syria could be modified. Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the president's order didn't mean that Russia was considering sending ground troops to Syria. View gallery FILE - In this Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015 file photo, Russian investigators walk near debris, luggage and … Putin's meeting with Bortnikov and other senior officials was held late at night, shortly after the president returned from meetings with other world leaders in Turkey. The leaders from the Group of 20 rich and developing nations had vowed to work together to combat the Islamic State group. "In this work, including the search to find and punish the criminals, we are relying on all of our friends," Putin said. "We will act in accordance with the U.N. Charter's Article 51, which gives each country the right to self-defense. Everyone who tries to aid the criminals should understand that they will be responsible for giving them shelter." Putin was unusually somber. After Bortnikov pronounced it a terrorist act, Putin asked the other officials around the table to stand for a moment of silence. IS has warned Putin that it would also target him "at home," but did not offer any details to back its claim. While releasing specifics would add credibility, the group may be withholding because its claim is false, because doing so would undermine plans for similar attacks in the future, or because the aura of mystery might deepen its mystique among die-hard followers. IS has also claimed responsibility for Friday attacks in Paris that killed 129 people and wounded 350 others. ___ Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow, Hamza Hendawi in Cairo and Robert Burns in Washington contributed to this story. ___ A previous version of this story has been corrected to show that the spelling of the Egyptian resort city is Sharm el-Sheikh, not Sharm al-Sheikh.
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 11/17/2015 4:36:50 PM
	End of ISIS? Putin 'sending 150,000 soldiers to Syria to WIPE OUT evil Islamic State' VLADIMIR Putin is preparing to send 150,000 troops to Syria in a bid to wipe out the evil Islamic State once and for all as he hints at joining the West following the Paris attacks. By SCOTT CAMPBELL PUBLISHED: 03:43, Tue, Nov 17, 2015 \| UPDATED: 08:55, Tue, Nov 17, 2015 Putin is reportedly ramping up his military mission in Syria The Russian leader is reportedly mounting an enormous military mission to take control of the terror group's stronghold of Raqqa. The city is the self-declared capital of ISIS in Syria and is patrolled by as many as 5,000 jihadi members. Putin is set to mobilise 150,000 reservists who he conscripted into the military in September. Yesterday, following the Paris attacks, Putin hinted he was ready to join forces with the West to tackle Islamic State. He told David Cameron: "The recent tragic events in France show that we should join efforts in preventing terror." Watch video IG ISIS could now face elimination from hundreds of thousands of Russian troops This is fast becoming a race to Raqqa An insider An insider revealed: "It is very clear that Russia wants to sweep up the west of the country, taking Raqqa and all the oil and gas resources around Palmyra. "This is fast becoming a race to Raqqa – to secure the oil fields they need to cleanse the region of insurgents, and the IS capital is vital to do that." In a show of strength, Russian jets have previously obliterated nine ISIS outposts in just 24 hours using bunker-busting bombs. Russian jets pounded terrorist targets and blew up a command centre, potentially killing dozens of fighters. Confirming the successful raids, Andrei Kartapolov from the Russian army vowed to ramp up the pressure, saying: "We will not only continue strikes... We will also increase their intensity." Speaking at the time of the attacks, in October, Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said: "Over the past 24 hours, Sukhoi Su-34 and Su-24M fighter jets have performed 20 sorties and hit nine Islamic State installations. REUTERS A Russian jet carries out an air strike in Syria REUTERS Russia said it had carried out 20 air strikes in just 24 hours “A bunker-busting BETAB-500 air bomb dropped from a Sukhoi Su-34 bomber near Raqqa has eliminated the command post of one of the terror groups, together with an underground storage facility for explosives and munitions. "These and other highly exact means of attack in recent days have been used to target objects of Islamic State terrorists. "Command posts, stores of weapons and oil products, workshops where weapons of suicide bombers are made." Meanwhile a terrorism expert revealed to Express.co.uk ISIS have vastly exaggerated their military strength and called on Western leaders to launch a co-ordinated fightback which would obliterate the hate group. Dr Afzal Ashraf said ISIS has become its own worst enemy with its campaign of terror against the West, which has prompted an international backlash. He said: "This mythical state will disappear in a matter of hours once the international community decides to act. "It won't take very long at all to drive them, if not out of all of Iraq or Syria, then certainly the majority of their territories. "They will hide in towns, but I would say do not to follow them as they would use innocent civilians as human shields." David Cameron initially gave the Russian air strikes a cautious welcome and said the UK would need to look "very carefully" at Putin's operations. Following the Paris terror attacks which killed at least 129 people, David Cameron said he was hoping to convince Parliament to support air strikes against ISIS. He told the BBC: "I have always said I think that it is sensible that we should, ISIL [ISIS] don't recognise a border between Iraq and Syria and neither should we but I need to build the argument, I need to take it to parliament, I need to convince more people. "We won't hold that vote unless we can see that parliament would endorse action because to fail on this would be damaging, it is not a question of damaging the government it is a question of not damaging our country and its reputation in the world." He has already pledged to "beef up" the SAS and double the number of British drones to combat ISIS militants in an interview ahead of today's Conservative conference. The Prime Minister said investment in special forces and surveillance was essential to meeting the terrorist threat facing the UK. He revealed the UK will buy a fleet of 20 new Protector drones capable of targeting IS extremists in Iraq and Syria. (http://www.express.co.uk/)
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End of ISIS? Putin 'sending 150,000 soldiers to Syria to WIPE OUT evil Islamic State'

VLADIMIR Putin is preparing to send 150,000 troops to Syria in a bid to wipe out the evil Islamic State once and for all as he hints at joining the West following the Paris attacks.

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