[The concerns of Imad Moustapha, Syria's ambassador to China] were echoed by a Washington foreign affairs analyst who has closely followed the passage of jihadists through Turkey and into Syria. The analyst, whose views are routinely sought by senior government officials, told me that ‘Erdoğan has been bringing Uighurs into Syria by special transport while his government has been agitating in favour of their struggle in China.
Uighur and Burmese Muslim terrorists who escape into Thailand somehow get Turkish passports and are then flown to Turkey for transit into Syria.’ He added that there was also what amounted to another ‘rat line’ that was funnelling Uighurs – estimates range from a few hundred to many thousands over the years – from China into Kazakhstan for eventual relay to Turkey, and then to IS territory in Syria. . . . IHS-Jane’s Defence Weekly estimated in October that as many as five thousand Uighur would-be fighters have arrived in Turkey since 2013, with perhaps two thousand moving on to Syria. Moustapha said he has information that ‘up to 860 Uighur fighters are currently in Syria.’[1]Some civil war.
Who is this prick who runs Turkey? And why is Turkey still in NATO, that grossly inflated and out-of-control relic?
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My question is, why was not NATO disbanded after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the USSR? NATO is an organization in search of a reason to exist. I don't care what countries want to kill each other so long as they leave the USA alone. None of our military personal ought to die for the profits of a corporation or a bank.
ReplyDeleteWar, war never changes - it is (still) a racket.
why was not NATO disbanded after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the USSR?
DeleteRead the same somewhere recently.
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I don't care what countries want to kill each other so long as they leave the USA alone.
Yup.
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it is (still) a racket.
Amen.