Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : A Hard Look At Donald Trump -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (17866)	10/19/2019 10:05:01 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46700

This Kurdish woman's death sparked a global outcry. Now we know how she died By Michael Bachelard October 17, 2019 — 5.32pm Duhok: Six days after Donald Trump announced his troops were abandoning the "endless war" in Syria, a Kurdish woman called Hevrin Khalaf was driving along the country's M4 highway when her armoured vehicle was forced off the road by heavy machine gun fire and she and her driver were pulled out. Her autopsy report - translated roughly into English - shows what happened next. Kurdish politician Hevrin Khalaf, secretary general of the Future Party, was killed in a brutal manner.CREDIT:TWITTER "The woman was beaten with a solid body [object] on the head ... and on the bottom of the left leg, which led to the fractures of the two bones of the leg, and also beating by sharp objects on the posterior face of the legs, and dragged from her hair causing the hair to take off ... with the skin from the back of the head. "Then she was hit by gunshot ... in the head from the right front of the body at close range ... After falling to the ground, she was hit by four shots from the back and exited the abdomen at not close range". The cause of death was "severe cerebral haemorrhage following gunshot wounds to the head", according to Dr Tayceer al-Makdesi. Khalaf was not a combatant. She was a Kurdish politician, the head of the Future Party, and a women's rights activist. She once suggested that every internally displaced family be given a small tree to plant in front of their tent at the camp so that, "after they have left ... it will be a beautiful green memory in a land that has grieved them and made them homeless". *A Turkish newspaper, Yeni Safak, described Khalaf's killing as a "successful operation".* The group being blamed for her killing is called Ahrar al-Sharqiya. It's a Sunni Islamist extremist organisation, one of dozens of armed groups that sprang out of the chaos of Syria's civil war. It is now doing the work of Turkey. Elizabeth Tsurkov, a fellow at America's Foreign Policy Research Institute, has posted a number of extremely graphic videos online showing Turkish-backed armed factions, and Ahrar al-Sharqiya in particular, gleefully showing off their field executions, which include riddling already dead bodies with bullets. Turkey could be deemed responsible for summary executions by an affiliated armed group of captured Kurdish fighters and a politician, acts that may amount to war crimes, says the United Nations. "Oh, pigs, we are coming," says one fighter on top of an armoured vehicle, before he uses another slogan: "baqiya" (enduring), which is an Islamic State catch-word. Also among the militants fighting for Turkey are the infamous Jaish al-Islam (the army of Islam) and the Sultan Murad Brigade, named after an Ottoman emperor. Turkey's operation "Peace Spring" is driven by these groups. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ambitions for land in northern Syria - a 30-kilometre strip of the country at the border supposed to act as a buffer against what they believe are Kurdish terrorists - are being enacted by what the Kurds claim are almost 30 different militias claiming the mantle of the "Syrian National Army". Their fighters are paid and supported by Turkey but have been accused of multiple war crimes - murders, executions, kidnappings - where they have previously held sway in the regions of Afrin and Ghouta. Stung by the poor press that these exploits attract, a chat group on the encrypted app Telegram recently asked Turkish-backed factions "not to publish any video filmed during the battles because it distorts our reputation". ...... smh.com.au Turkey enabled ISIS throughout it's existence - selling their stolen oil and taking massive (Erdogan's son, Bilal, profited from this), allowing ISIS fighters to cross Turkey to get to the Islamic State. Now its using the same sorts of "fighters" to massacre Kurds and Christians in a region of Syria that was a haven until Trump okayed Turkey's invasion: Meet The Man Who Funds ISIS: Bilal Erdogan, The Son Of Turkey ... www.mintpressnews.com/211624-2/211624 Tekin adds that Bilal’s maritime company doing the oil trades for ISIS, BMZ Ltd, is “a family business and president Erdogan’s close relatives hold shares in BMZ and they misused public funds and... Erdogan government's role in ISIS oil trade exposed - Nordic ... www.nordicmonitor.com/2019/09/erdogan... In the face of the Russian allegations, the US sent mixed signals on the ties between the ISIS oil trade and Turkey. While defending the Erdogan government in a spirit of solidarity against the barrage of accusations leveled by Russia, US officials did not deny that some of the ISIS oil flowed to Turkey.