U.S.
Condemns Lebanon For Making Ceasefire Deal
U.S. Made Similar Deal With ISIS
By Moon Of Alabama
August 31,
2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- Last
week the Lebanese Army and Hizbullah defeated
ISIS in the Lebanese-Syrian border area of
Qalamun. A ceasefire was announced and a deal
was made. Lebanon received the bodies of its
army fighters earlier captured and killed by
ISIS. The remaining ISIS fighter and their
families would
disarm and receive free passage
to ISIS held areas in east Syria.
The
U.S. has now launched a media campaign against
this deal. The Iraqi government has joined in.
As noted in the
last Syria Summary
here:
In the
Qalamun area at the Lebanese border the
Lebanese army and Hizbullah attacked the
last ISIS enclave along that border. Today
the remaining 200 ISIS fighters in the area
agreed to lay down arms in exchange for an
evacuation towards east-Syria.
The later announced total of evacuees was higher
with 308 ISIS fighters
and about 500 of their relatives
including kids.
These are transported in 17 buses and several
ambulances across Syria towards the Syrian city
of Abu Kamal (Bukamal) at the Iraqi border.
The
overall military motive is sound. In the end
ISIS will be concentrated and surrounded in the
desert along the Syrian-Iraqi border. Removing
ISIS outposts throughout the country frees up
lots of soldiers for the big fight. Its
concentration in one place also allows to
concentrate forces to fight it. Just like
al-Qaeda in Idleb governate ISIS will have no
way out to leave and can be killed from the air
and from the ground.
The U.S. military threatens
to bomb the convoy:
The
American military coalition strongly
criticized on Wednesday a decision by the
Lebanese Army and its allies to allow
Islamic State fighters safe passage across
Syria, and did not rule out airstrikes
against the convoy, according to the
coalition’s spokesman. “We will take action
where necessary; those would be absolutely
lucrative targets,” Col. Ryan Dillon,
spokesman for the American-led military
coalition in Iraq and Syria, said. “We are
monitoring them in real time.”
...
Colonel Ryan said the agreement
undermined efforts to fight the Islamic
State in Syria.
“The coalition, we are not party to this
agreement between Lebanon, Hezbollah and
ISIS,” he said. “Their claim of fighting
terrorism rings hollow when they allow known
terrorists to transit territory under their
control. ISIS is a global threat, and
relocating terrorists from one place to
another is not a lasting solution.”
The
U.S. envoy for the fight against ISIS chipped
in:
7:20 AM - 30 Aug 2017
- Brett McGurk @brett_mcgurk
Irreconcilable #ISIS terrorists should be
killed on the battlefield, not bused across
#Syria to the Iraqi border without #Iraq's
consent 1/2
Our
@coalition will help ensure that these
terrorists can never enter #Iraq or escape
from what remains of their dwindling
"caliphate." 2/2
This is
ridiculous. Over and over the U.S. gave ISIS all
chances to grow and to escape destruction. It
itself made similar cease fire and retreat deals
with the Takfiris.
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The ISIS core was groomed in a U.S. prison
in Buqqa, Iraq.
It later came
from Iraq into Syria.
Obama as well as then Secretary of State Kerry
are
on the record saying that they intentionally let
ISIS grow to
oust the Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki and the
Syrian President Assad. The U.S. let ISIS flee
from Fallujah and protested when the Iraqi
government
bombed the
escaping ISIS convoys. In the assault on ISIS
held Mosul the U.S. military held open
a corridor towards Syria
to let ISIS fighters escape. When the Kurdish
U.S. proxy attacked Raqqa the front towards
Palmyra was left open to let ISIS flee. Russia
protested.
Recently 1,800 out of
2,000 ISIS
fighters fled from Tal Afar towards Syria before
the Iraqi army assaulted the city. This is why I
could take the city
in just 10 days.
U.S. action was designed to
enable ISIS to take Deir Ezzor
and only a heroic defense by Syrian troops
prevented that.
Moreover in August 2016 the U.S. military itself
made a deal with ISIS
in Manbij, Syria, and gave free passage to
retreating ISIS fighters:
Several hundred vehicles containing 100 to
200 Islamic State fighters were given safe
passage by US-[backed] forces, out of the
northern Syrian city of Manbij, after
surrendering their weapons, according to
defense officials.
...
The 100 to 200 fighters left the
city of Manbij last Friday under watch of
coalition drones to ensure the
militants didn’t regroup and try to return
to the city.
...
Associated Press reported US military
officials said some of the IS fighters had
already made their way into Turkey, and many
were still in Syria.
Another
such deal with ISIS was later made at the Tabqa
dam. It is embarrassing, though not
extraordinary, that U.S. officials now make such
ridiculous remarks.
On
wonders though why the Iraqi prime minister
decided to join in:
The
Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi,
faulted Syria for relocating the Islamic
State fighters to its eastern frontier,
which is the border with Iraq.
“We fight the terrorists in
Iraq,” he said in a speech on Tuesday.
“We do not
send them to Syria — we kill them in Iraq.”
Mr.
Abadi called on the Syrian government to
investigate the decision to relocate the
Islamic State fighters.
Abadi's
claims are
false. The Syrian-Iranian-Russian coalition had
urged Abadi to block ISIS in the Syrian-Iraqi
border area in Anbar province before assaulting
it in Mosul. Abadi did not go along but followed
the U.S. plans. In consequence ISIS fighters
could flee from Mosul to Syria.The Iraqi
government had let them go. Hizbullah leader
Nasrullah explained the Lebanese deal in a
TV speech (vid,
ar) which was also broadcasted in Iraq. Abadi's
voters are informed about the reasonable
Lebanese motives.
What
then does Abadi hope to win with claiming that
Iraq behaved differently than Syria and
Hizbullah did now?
This
article was first published by
Moon Of Alabama
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