Terrorists hold Aleppo civilians as human hostages

As the proxy forces loose more ground in East Aleppo, their patrons (Gulf Monarchies, EU, NATO, 5-Eyes) grind their propaganda machine to lay accusation of war crimes on Russia & Syria...

Terrorists & their paymasters hold Aleppo civilians as human hostages – VA senator

RT : 17 Oct, 2016

The US and its allies could order their terrorist proxies in Aleppo to allow civilians to leave, but instead use them as hostages to escalate anti-Russia rhetoric in a bid to prevent the fall of the rebel stronghold, Virginia Senator Richard Black told RT.

RT: John Kerry has come out and put the blame squarely on just Russia. Do you think it’s a fair comment?

Richard Black: No, I don’t. The fact is when he gave that speech, he was sitting next to Saudi Foreign Minister al-Jubeir, and Saudi Arabia has funded ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and Al-Nusra - which is Al-Qaeda in Syria, a coordinating group within the Aleppo pocket in East Aleppo.

They have forbidden the civilians from leaving, using the civilians as a human shield, because they know that it forces Syria and Russia to be much more cautious with the bombing. You know, the hyperbolic language used by Secretary Kerry is really outrageous, because the United Nations Office of Human Affairs announced that in the two weeks between September 23 and October 8, there have been about 406 civilians killed.

No one wants any civilians killed, but I’ve got to tell you, if you compare that to the American casualty figures during our invasion of Iraq, during that first year period, we killed approximately 100,000 civilians. So you’re talking about 406 versus 100,000. Frankly, I don’t know whether they taught arithmetic at Yale University, but Secretary Kerry, his rhetoric is terribly overblown.

There’s no doubt that the civilians are being killed in the east, there are significant numbers being killed in the west, and the civilians killed in the west are being deliberately killed and deliberately targeted as civilians. Whereas those in the east are simply being killed because they happen to be on the battlefield.

The combatants who are holding out in east Aleppo are financed and controlled by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, and the United States. These powers have the ability to pressure the rebels to, say, get the civilians off the battlefield. Syria has allowed seven exit points, and made it very clear that they will care for, give medical attention, food, housing to all civilians who leave. It is what I call the axis power, the axis of evil - Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar. These are the people who are holding the civilians as human hostages, so that they can force Syria and Russia to take additional casualties as they conquer this final pocket of rebels within Aleppo.

RT: As you mentioned, Senator, it’s civilian deaths on the both sides of Aleppo, which is kind of split into these two areas. Is John Kerry just being willfully ignorant, while putting all the blame on one side, or is he, let’s say, just flat out lying about who’s to blame there?

RB: Secretary Kerry does not have a strong reputation for truthfulness. So I think the things that he says should never be taken at face value. You really need to look at the facts on the ground. And the facts on the ground show that there is no deliberate targeting of civilians by either Russia or by Syria, that in fact they are taking extraordinary pains.

I would tell you, I was a forward air controller in Vietnam with the 1st Marine Regiment, dropped probably 100 tons of bombs easily, thousands of bombs. And I’m sure that I killed many civilians. I never intended to kill a single civilian.

But it is a fact of warfare. When the enemy chooses to fight in urban areas, there are going to be civilians killed – unless those forces tell the civilians to leave. And civilians can leave quite safely. In fact, a group of them tried earlier, after Syria announced free passage and the rebels murdered 26 of them because they will not allow any of them to leave. That’s not Russia’s fault, and that’s not Syria’s fault. It is the rebels’ fault primarily.

But at the same time, you can’t discard the paymasters for the rebels. Who pays ISIS, who pays Al-Qaeda in East Aleppo? They are paid for by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, by the United States, by NATO. These are the people that fund these terrorists, they have got a tremendous investment, and this is why you’re hearing this panicking, hyperbolic language that compares, for goodness sake, Aleppo with the battle for Berlin, where there were, you know, 1.25 million people who died in the battle for Berlin. Give me a break. There's not anywhere even close to that number of civilians even who exist in east Aleppo.

I think the whole thing is a propaganda ploy, I think there’s a sense of desperation that the rebels - the terrorists we have been supporting to try to topple the government - are on their last leg there. And I think diplomatically they are trying to give them every bit of assistance there.

RT: Why do you think the US is assisting Al-Nusra? Why does the US say thousands of terrorists are an “insignificant presence?"

RB: First of all, I think, the numbers that they give are not credible. The heart and soul of the Army of Conquest is Al-Nusra, which is Al-Qaeda in Syria. The Army of Conquest was set up by Saudi Arabia and Turkey, they have joint command headquarters in Idlib, Syria, and they command the whole operation in east Aleppo. If Saudi Arabai and Turkey gave order that the civilians were to leave, then the civilians would be allowed to leave, they would be welcomed by the Syrian government and be cared for.

In fact, President Assad has guaranteed two things. First, if there are rebel soldiers who want to lay down their arms, they will be processed and they will be treated very humanely and reintegrated into Syrian life. On the other hand, where you have the die-hard fanatics of Al-Nusra and ISIS, then those people will be allowed to leave with their weapons and they will be guaranteed safe passage, just as Syria has done previously with rebels who have been leaving the Damascus area.

This is a situation totally under the control of the United States, and particularly, more particularly, under Saudi Arabia and Turkey. They can remove the civilians from east Aleppo at will safely, without any of them being put to risk, but they want to use them as human shields, and that’s why they have ordered the rebels and terrorists in east Aleppo to prevent any of them from leaving at the seven departure points that have been provided by the Syrian government for them to leave in safety.

RT: The latest comments by John Kerry, blaming Russia for the situation in Aleppo, follows threats of new sanctions against Russia. Russia has been invited into Syria by the elected government, and the US is intervening without any invitation or permission. Isn’t it a strong case to argue that these sanctions should be against the US?

RB: First of all, when you look at the law of land warfare, any sovereign nation can invite another nation to come in and assist. So clearly what Russia’s doing is on absolutely sound legal foundation. Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, the NATO states - especially the United States, France, Great Britain - have hired terrorists from across the globe, mercenaries to enter and to slaughter and to kill people throughout Syria. You cannot indirectly do what the laws of war prevent you from doing directly. You cannot directly intervene into another nation’s internal affairs as they all have done, and you certainly cannot land troops there. The United States has boots on the ground in Syria, they do various things. And, God bless them, I love all of our troops, I’ve been there myself, but I think their leadership is utterly depraved and immoral in what they are doing in Syria. And I think their ultimate objective in Syria is to hand it over to a Wahhabi dominated caliphate, and it will be one of the greatest mass slaughters in all history if they’ll be able to topple the Syrian government, which I don’t think they’ll be able to do.

Selected Readers' Comments:

# Aleppo and Mosul are precisely the same situation at this moment . in Aleppo US and CO media is finding fault with anything Russia does , hence all the propaganda against Russia . In Mosul US an CO are praising the same thing that they are demonizing in Aleppo.

# It is hard to believe there are still some sane politician around in America, first time hear someone in America see what it is and say what is. Bravo Sen. Black!

# Ron Paul and Rand.. have been saying this too.. That US is supplying weapons to ISIS And Alqaeda. But Zombie Americans continue to live their lives as business as usual..instead of protest in the millions to demand resignation of their Government and a major investigation for Obama and CLinton factions support for international terrorism and their sponsoring the genocide of millions in another sovereign nation.  In any other nation with Morals and Values , such politicians will have been in jail for lifetime, and not running for any political place but instead in Prison for treason to their nation and mass crime against humanity. No less than the lives of 20 millions of civilians are at risk , If US and NATO continues their not so undercover sponsor of Alqaeda and ISIS in Syria with weapons and training and political backup to Saudi Arabia to continue with their crimes..

# Senator Black is doing a service for Americans and American soldiers , in preventing them becoming targets when they travel to foreign lands simply because their own government has chosen to act outside international law and to bring death and destruction on a sovereign nation. He is also acting on behalf of the American taxpayer who is fed up with financing foreign wars and particularly meddling in terrorist fiinancing and arms supply. Lastly Senator Black is on the side of the Syrian population , the majority of whom live in Government-controlled areas and are ignored by the MSM. In his own way, Senator Black is a courageous man.

# The US does not care about civilian casualties... They bombed Serbian hospitals and civilian infrastructure in 1999, not to mention the Chinese embassy, they also attacked hospitals in Afghanistan and allow people to suffer for years in Fallujah because of the US depleted uranium munitions... Do you think a country which dropped two atomic bombs on civilians in Japan really cares about Syrian civilians...?

# You should have mentioned, that form more than 8 thousands peoples killed by US in Serbia, only under 300 were military, the rest were civilians, including hundreds of Albans. So USA deliberately targeted civilians, and in no position to speak about disproportionate civilian casualities or war crimes- unless speaking about themselves.

# Well, snap.  A man that hasn't been bought/corrupted. I wonder how long he'll last before he "suicides", or some ridiculous character assassination takes place.

# Basically the US, Pentagon,with their UK and France allies, are providing political backup, and direct military support to terrorism in Syria, by demanding all Russian and Syrian planes to stop bombing, and by accusing them of "War crimes". This is by far the most illegal, shameful and criminal behavior of United States military in history, even more than their war in IRAQ and Vietnam. Because here they are using a quarter of million of civilians as human shields, helping Alqaeda to keep them hostage in order to not allow the city of Syria be liberated from Alqaeda linked forces deployed there. So the monumental lawsuit, that will follow America, when the war is over, for their aid to ISIS and Alqaeda in Syria and other terrorist groups, that are murdering civilians, will eclipse the jewish hollocaust by far, because if US and its allies allowed to do as they pushing, it will strenghten ALqaeda and ISIS and facilitate terrorism and genocide of 20 millions in Syria, if they over run the country as they did in Lybia. So newer generations of American lawmakers and politicians will come, and Obama, Hollande and Boris johnson will have to face legal consequences for their cooperation with Terrorism. Reason why Americans citizens needs to get Trump in power, and be watchful, because the people in power in US will seek to emulate Erdogan, and turn US nation into a a Totalitarian north Korean like dictatorship so that they cannot by prosecuted by new politicians of American citizens.  So Americans will lose their freedom of expression and freedom of information if clinton gets in power and people put in jail for mentioning the scandal of US alliance with Alqaeda in Syria.

# On other news, Hilarious 4 Prisondent has promised to drone a certain senator Black. Later on, Hilarious recanted by saying "she was only joking, Matilde".

# This is so great to see a senator still in office who is willing to take the risk of speaking out for the sake of humanity! Politicions with true conscience & integrity are so scarce these days. Hopefully there will be some more, like Trey Gowdy (Rep. for S.Carolina) who will follow Mr. Black's lead. Bless him for caring enough!!

# Outcome of Syrian crisis will have direct bearing on status of US supremacy in the world. This time , US is using religious militancy as its weapon to neutralize country that may challenge its hegemony in coming future. US and its allies had clear idea that Syrian crisis will destabilize region for decades to come. In the present situation , it is even impossible to install western backed puppet government in Syria. If Assad move out , then Syria will all be painted black and going to ruled by "Khalifa". Sectarian violence will destroy religious tapestry of Syria. Shites, Alawites, christians will be massacred.  Saudi Wahhabism doctrine will be established and Syria is going to become terrorist recruitment ground. These terrorists will be used to destabilize Iran and central Asian countries . Central Asian countries are most vulnerable. Chinese one belt one road initiative , Eurasia Economic Union will suffer. If Central Asian countries fails to defend themselves, then China and Russia are going to witness terrorists attack and insurgency for years. Iran will get surrounded ,Saudi and US backed terrorists group will be attack Iran from its border with Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.   Complete region will get engulfed in conflict.