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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 8/25/2016 11:51:32 AM
	Turkey Invades Syria, Backed By U.S. AUGUST 24, 2016 By Brandon Turbeville On Wednesday morning, Turkey abruptly launched an all-out military assault on Syria, sending in tanks, troops, and engaging in airstrikes, in concert with airstrikes from the United States, to the northern portions of Syria near the Turkey-Syria border under the guise of combating ISIS forces. At this time, the military operations seem focused around Jarablus. According to the BBC, “A dozen Turkish tanks and other vehicles have rolled across the Syrian border after heavy shelling of an area held by so-called Islamic State (IS). Military sources told Turkish media 70 targets in the Jarablus area had been destroyed by artillery and rocket strikes, and 12 by air strikes.” For those who may be wondering exactly what the Turkish goal might be, two points must be mentioned in regards to Turkey’s actions which should go some length to demonstrate that the Turks are still focused on destroying the Syrian government as well as preventing the establishment of a Kurdish enclave either in Syria or Turkey. First, the Turkish military is acting as the frontal assault for “moderate” rebel forces like the FSA who are marching in directly behind the Turkish military to hold territory conquered by the Turks. Any association with the Free Syrian Army, a gaggle of Western-backed extremists indistinguishable from ISIS, should be a major warning sign to any informed observer that the goal is not to aid in the destruction of terrorist forces in Syria or to assist the Syrian government in its goal to do so. Second, the Turkish invasion was accompanied by American airstrikes which clearly indicates that the Turks are operating closely with the United States, which has been chomping at the bit to either directly destroy the Syrian government via military invasion or to create “buffer zones” and “safe zones” in the country to act as forward operating bases for future terrorist proxy operations. Al-Masdar reports on the progress of the Turkish military offensive by writing: The Turkish Special Forces, alongside the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and Faylaq Al-Sham, reportedly captured their first village during this new offensive dubbed “Operation Euphrates Shield.” According to Faylaq Al-Sham’s official media wing, their forces captured the village of Tal Katlijah after the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) terrorists quickly abandoned the area in order to reinforce Jarabulus. ISIS has mostly abandoned the small area between Jarabulus and the Turkish border, leaving only small units to resist the advancing Turkish-backed rebels. The Turkish-backed rebels are now attacking the hilltop village of Tal Sha’er, which is along the road to Jarabulus. The Turk agenda here is also two-fold: On one hand, Turkey’s Erdogan wants to continue to work with NATO and the United States to destroy the secular government of Bashar al-Assad while, on the other hand, Turkey needs to do all it can do to prevent an autonomous Kurdish enclave on its border with Syria. An effective way to do this is to create a “buffer zone” between the Kurds and Turkey while, at the same, making sure that the dimensions of the “buffer zone” are the same as the “safe zone” desired by NATO two years ago in order to keep terrorist supply lines moving through Turkey and in to Syria. That narrow and porous jihadist corridor has become known as the Jarablus corridor, the same areas which the Turks are now invading and filling up with terrorists as we speak. For its part, the Syrian government has condemned the Turkish invasion. As ABC News reports, Syria’s government has denounced Turkish military incursion, describing it as Turkey’s “blatant violation” of Syrian sovereignty. In a statement reported by state-run news agency SANA on Wednesday, the government says that “any move to combat terrorism on Syrian territories should have been coordinated with the Syrian government and army.” The statement also calls for an immediate end to the Turkish “aggression,” which it says is being carried out under the pretext of fighting terrorism. It says: “Fighting terrorism cannot be undertaken by ousting Daesh and replacing it with other terrorist organizations directly backed by Turkey.” Daesh is the Arabic language acronym for IS. The YPG has likewise condemned the Turkish involvement in Syria, labeling it a “blatant aggression in Syrian internal affairs.” Turkey’s move raises even more questions now regarding the nature of its recent “failed” coup as well as its relationship with Russia and the United States. A troubling new dimension has also been added to the Syrian crisis as the Turks have now officially invaded a sovereign country in an already volatile region. Undoubtedly, we will be watching these events closely. This article may be freely shared in part or in full with author attribution and source link. (activistpost.com)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 8/25/2016 3:03:57 PM
	JAPANESE DRIVER KILLS WOMAN WHILE PLAYING POKEMON GO BEHIND THE WHEEL Police say it is the first fatality related to the game in Japan. BY CONOR GAFFEY ON 8/25/16 AT 9:30 AM A Japanese driver who was playing Pokémon Go behind the wheel has killed a woman after hitting two pedestrians with his car. The 39-year-old man has been taken into custody after admitting to not watching the road due to playing the augmented reality game. The other pedestrian was seriously injured. The suspect was named as Keiji Goo, a farmer, while the deceased victim was named as Sachiko Nakanishi, 72, and the injured victim as Kayoko Ikawa, 60, theJapan Times reported. Flowers are laid near the scene where a passer-by was killed after being hit by a driver playing Pokémon Go while driving in Tokushima, Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo August 24. Japanese police said it was the first fatality related to the augmented reality game.MANDATORY CREDIT KYODO/VIA REUTERS Japanese police said on Wednesday that the incident was the first fatality involving the game in the country, the BBC reported. The game’s creators Niantic have reportedly expressed “deep condolences” to the family of the victim. The smartphone game—which allows players to hunt down virtual creatures in a real-world environment—has skyrocketed in popularity since its release in July. But the gaming phenomenon has sparked several controversies including concerns around privacy and issues around inappropriate gaming at historical landmarks such as the site of the former Auschwitz concentration camp. Saudi Arabia’s top clerical body issued a fatwa against the game, saying it featured “deviant” symbols of “international Zionism,” while the Ukrainian Interior Ministry has issued guidelines advising players not to wander into conflict-torn regions such as Donetsk and Luhansk, which have been held by Russian-backed separatists since 2014. Prior to the game’s release in Japan on July 22, the country’s national cybersecurity center issued a set of guidelines to players, while the Japan Railway group has also said it is concerned about increased accidents at train stations. The smartphone app does issue players with a warning if it detects that they might be in a moving vehicle. (Newsweek)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 8/25/2016 5:41:52 PM
	NORTH KOREA TEST FIRED A MISSILE TOWARD JAPAN The distance of the flight indicated the North's push to develop a submarine-launched missile system was paying off. BY REUTERS ON 8/24/16 AT 2:02 AM North Korea fired a submarine-launched missile on Wednesday that flew about 500 km (311 miles) toward Japan, a show of improving technological capability for the isolated country that has conducted a series of launches in defiance of UN sanctions. The missile was fired at around 5:30 a.m. (4:30 p.m. ET) from near the coastal city of Sinpo, where satellite imagery shows a submarine base is located, officials at South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defence Ministry told Reuters. The projectile reached Japan's air defense identification zone (ADIZ), an area of control designated by countries to help maintain air security, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported. The distance of the flight indicated the North's push to develop a submarine-launched missile system was paying off, officials and rocketry experts said. North Korea's "SLBM (submarine-launched ballistic missile) technology appears to have progressed," a South Korean military official told Reuters. The launch comes two days after rival South Korea and the United States began annual military exercises in the South that North Korea condemns as a preparation for invasion, and has threatened retaliation. "I think it was probably successful," said Jeffrey Lewis of the California-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies. "We don't know the full range, but 500 km is either full range or a full range on a lofted trajectory. Either way, that missile works." The U.S. Strategic Command said it had tracked what it believed to be a KN-11 submarine-launched ballistic missile and confirmed it flew about 300 miles. A photo of an underwater test-firing of a strategic submarine ballistic missile released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on April 24.KCNA VIA REUTERS. Joshua Pollack, editor of the U.S.-based Nonproliferation Review, said a claim to having mastered the SLBM technology is as much about prestige as a military breakthrough, a status enjoyed only by six countries including the United States, Russia and China. "I think it's meant foremost as a demonstration of sheer technical capability and a demand for status and respect," Pollack said. The launch came on the same day that the foreign ministers of China, Japan and South Korea were scheduled to meet in Tokyo. "This poses a grave threat to Japan's security, and is an unforgivable act that damages regional peace and stability markedly," Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters, adding that Japan had lodged a stern protest. Growing Isolation North Korea has become further isolated after a January nuclear test, its fourth, and the launch of a long-range rocket in February which brought tightened UN sanctions. It has launched numerous missiles of various types this year, including one this month that landed in or near Japanese-controlled waters. The next step for the North would be to acquire a fleet of submarines large and quiet enough and with a longer range to evade surveillance, experts said. "They keep conducting nuclear tests and SLBMs together which means they are showing they can arm SLBMs with miniaturized nuclear warheads," said Moon Keun-sik, a retired South Korean navy officer and an expert in submarine warfare. North Korea has claimed this year to have miniaturized a nuclear warhead to fit on a ballistic missile but outside experts have said there is yet to be firm evidence to back up the claim. Tensions on the Korean peninsula were exacerbated by the recent defection of North Korea's deputy ambassador in London to South Korea, an embarrassing setback to the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The North's missile tests this year include a launch from a submarine last month that appeared to have failed, according to South Korea's military. The July launch came a day after South Korea and the United States announced plans for the South to host a sophisticated U.S. anti-missile system. (Newsweek)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 8/25/2016 6:19:53 PM
	Doctors Without Borders Refused to Help American ISIS Hostage Kayla Mueller By JAMES GORDON MEEK MEGAN CHRISTIE BRIAN EPSTEIN BRIAN ROSS Aug 24, 2016, 12:00 PM ET Mueller Family WATCH Why Doctors Without Borders Refused to Negotiate for ISIS Hostage Kayla Mueller Even though she was kidnapped by ISIS from a Doctors Without Borders vehicle, and had helped a friend install equipment at a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Syria, the prestigious humanitarian group refused to help negotiate for the freedom of American hostage Kayla Mueller, her parents tell ABC News. Marsha and Carl Mueller of Prescott, Arizona, said the group refused to speak with them for months and then withheld critical information provided by freed Doctors Without Borders hostages -- information that directly concerned their daughter and was needed in order to begin negotiations for her release. In a phone conversation recorded by the Muellers 10 months after their daughter's kidnapping and provided to ABC News, they asked the group if it would help negotiate for their daughter. "No," the senior official replied. "So, the crisis management team that we have installed for our five people and that managed the case for our people will be closed down in the next week. Yeah? ... Because our case is closed." "They're a fabulous organization, and they do wonderful work," Carl Mueller told ABC News' "20/20" in an interview to be broadcast this Friday, "but somewhere in a boardroom, they decided to leave our daughter there to be tortured and raped and ultimately murdered." Tune in to ABC News' "20/20" Friday, Aug. 26, at 10 p.m. ET for the full Brian Ross report, "The Girl Left Behind." Doctors Without Borders Statement on ABC News '20/20' Kayla Mueller Report TIMELINE: Kayla Mueller in ISIS Captivity Secret Mission to Rescue US Hostages 'Flawless,' Except for the Rescue Mueller was killed in ISIS captivity in February 2015, 18 months after she was taken. She was kidnapped as she accompanied her boyfriend, Omar Alkhani, to Syria to help install communications equipment for Doctors Without Borders, also known by its abbreviation in French, MSF. The organization's top U.S. official said the group had no obligation to help the young American woman because she was not their employee. "I don't think there was a moral responsibility," Jason Cone, MSF's U.S. executive director, said in an interview with ABC News. "We can't be in the position of negotiating for people who don't work for us." Cone said Mueller had not been asked by the group to come to Syria and would have not have permitted her to travel there if it had been asked because of her American citizenship. At least seven staff members of Doctors Without Borders were released by ISIS after the group helped to negotiate ransom payments. But the group refused to include Mueller in the negotiations, or to speak with the FBI case agent handler her case, according to an April 2014 email from a senior Doctors Without Borders official in Brussels provided to ABC News by the family. Chris Voss, a retired FBI chief hostage negotiator who once oversaw hostage recovery operations in Iraq, said he found MSF's decision not to aid Kayla Mueller or her family "stunning." "I think that's totally abandoning someone that you had no reason to abandon. I mean, it sets that person up for incredibly negative, horrific consequences," he told "20/20." "They could've said, 'Yes, you work for us.' And they could've extended her some sort of protection, some sort of legitimacy that would've cost them nothing. And why they leave her out there like that? It's frightening. It scares me." "It's a lack of appreciation for another human being," Voss added. ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Sexually Abused American Hostage Kayla Mueller, Officials Say American Hostage's Mother: US Failed Our Children “If we start engaging in negotiating for the release of non-staff members, we increase the risk to our teams that are already taking grave risks to provide medical care in the some of these same places that Kayla wanted to provide help to,” the Doctors Without Borders executive said. A Doctors Without Borders press release at the time of Mueller's reported death on Feb. 6, 2015, stated, "Despite media reports, MSF wishes to clarify that at no time was Ms. Mueller employed by MSF, either in Syria or anywhere else." The group recently deleted the statement from its website, at the request of the Muellers, because "it was insensitive at a time of incredible grief for them," Cone told ABC News. The young American's horror began on Aug. 3, 2013, with what seemed to be a safe trip from Antakya, Turkey, to Aleppo, Syria, to help Alkhani, who had been hired as a contractor by the group to install a satellite internet device at a hospital run by the group’s Spanish affiliate, according to her family, friends and the FBI. It was late in the day, so the hospital advised they stay overnight. The next day, Aug. 4, Kayla and Omar finished the work and hospital staff put them in an MSF-marked, "locally hired" vehicle to be transported to the Aleppo bus station to return across the Turkish border. But they never made it. A large group of ISIS gunmen stopped the vehicle and took prisoner Kayla, Omar, the hospital's assistant logistics manager and the driver. All were Syrian except Kayla and all were released within weeks -- except the young American. When three female staff members were finally released by ISIS, they had been told to memorize an ISIS email address to give to Kayla’s parents -- but Doctors Without Borders officials failed to tell the Muellers about that for at least seven weeks, until the final two members of its staff were also set free by ISIS. “We had to take a decision in terms of passing the information on that was in the best interest of the two men that were held,” Cone said. The delay in handing over the email address probably angered ISIS, said Voss, the former FBI hostage negotiator who once oversaw hostage recovery operations in Iraq. "Looking at the situation from the adversary's point of view, the Daesh kidnappers, they can't imagine this would happen. This makes no sense to them. They have to be frustrated by this. They have to be kind of confused by it," he said, using an alternative name for ISIS. ABC News' Rhonda Schwartz, Lee Ferran, Matt McGarry, Engin Bass, Mark Dorian, Alex Hosenball and Cho Park contributed to this report. (abcNEWS)
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Luis Miguel 1162 61587 Lima	RE: ARE WE NOW IN THE END TIMES? 8/26/2016 11:18:13 AM
	Western Media Lies About Syria, Uses Dead Children As Propaganda AUGUST 23, 2016 Op-Ed by Afraa Dagher If it is not Baby Aylan, it is little Omran. The Western mainstream media and their outlets will seize upon any tragedy, regardless of who is at fault or what actually caused it, in order to promote war against Syria. For those who are easily swayed by such sad photographs and videos, ask yourself, “Why does the media care more about some stories than others? Why do they care more about some children than they do about other children, some of whom are suffering more than those whom they choose to showcase?” Western media has ignored thousands and thousands of children who have been killed in this Western-backed war against Syria. The children in Ekrima school in Homs, for instance, were killed by twin car bombings conducted by “moderate” rebels, which destroyed the school and killed the children who were gathered there, singing the national anthem in order to start the day. The only thing these children were guilty of was going to school. All of this means nothing to the Western mainstream media. Many Syrians, many children in fact, have been killed in Aleppo by gangs that are classified by the United States and the West as “moderate rebels.” These groups go by the name of Noureddine al-Zenki, Ahrar al-Sham, and Jaish al-Islam, etc. But not a word from the media about the children who were victims of these groups. Not only that, but there are children being killed every day in Yemen. They are being killed by Saudi Arabia, a close friend of the United States and the West. Is this not important to the mainstream media? Are these children not worthy of reporting? Why? Is it true that only two children amongst the tens of thousands are worth talking about? To the Western public, you must ask yourselves these questions? Why do you feel pity for two children but not for ten thousand children? Why do you use only one eye when God gave you two? The reason is because you listen to your media and your media does not tell you the truth. In fact, your media distorts the truth and tells you outright lies. They want you to support war in Syria and they want you to support your government in its effort to stop airstrikes against terrorists. Why? Because the airstrikes are working. Your media and the governments working behind it are allied with terrorists, supporting them every inch of the way and helping them create more victims. Your media is al-Qaeda’s film crew. For the sake of the world, as well as the sake of your own country, you must demand that your media stop acting as the voice of terrorism and that your government end its war of aggression against Syria. Afraa Dagher is a political analyst currently residing in Syria. She has made numerous media appearances commenting on the current state of affairs inside Syria as well as the nature of the current crisis. She has appeared on RT, PRESS TV, and is a regular guest on Activist Post writer Brandon Turbeville’s Truth on the Tracks radio program. Her website iswww.SyrianaAfrona.wordpress.com. (activistpost.com)
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