Please see the note, inserted within the text below, about the outrageous self-serving accusations made by Amnesty International against Russia. This disgusting Imperialist NGO, the so-called "Amnesty", should never be given credibility, anywhere. _____
Morning Star.png Unheeded Russian Warnings Could Have Stopped Istanbul Attack James Tweedie, The Morning Star, 7 July 2016 Russia said yesterday the West's failure to heed its warnings on terror suspects may have led to last week's Istanbul airport attack. "Over the past many years, the Russian side has informed our Turkish and European colleagues that persons suspected of being linked to terrorism find shelter both in Turkey and in a number of other European countries," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "In most cases such signals from the Russian side have not been given proper attention or any reaction by our colleagues." The triple suicide bombing at Ataturk airport was led by former Chechen separatist guerilla Ahmed Chataev. Mr Chataev was granted political asylum in Austria in 2008. Amnesty scandal Last week Amnesty International refused to apologise for defending Mr Chataev from extradition from Ukraine to Russia in 2010. Amnesty director for Europe and Central Asia John Dalhuisen said it had opposed the extradition because Russia was "routinely torturing" terrorist suspects and had not expressed an opinion on Mr Chataev's innocence or guilt. [CU note: Amnesty offers no evidence for their self-invented allegation of "routine torture" by Russia. This foul accusation is pulled out of thin air by Amnesty. This is the same, consistently pro-Imperialist NGO that for 28 years refused to assist the campaign to free Nelson Mandela.] Some analysts believe the Istanbul attack was in revenge for Ankara allowing the US to use Syrian and Turkish air bases in its "coalition" bombing of Iraq and Syria. Turkey is erecting a barrier of giant concrete blocks along its 566-mile-long border with Syria - ostensibly to stop Isis smuggling oil, money, recruits and guns across. Turkey helps terrorists across Syrian border Ankara has denied repeated accusations - often accompanied by photographic evidence - that Turkey is allowing terrorists to cross the border at will. But documents leaked to the Associated Press by Syrian opposition news site Zaman al-Wasl tell a different story. The AP analysed 4,037 Isis "entry documents" for recruits entering Syria from Turkey between September 2013 and December 2014. Around three-quarters of them entered through three particular crossing areas. They represent between 25 to 40 per cent of the estimated total of foreign Isis recruits - and may only be the tip of the iceberg. Meanwhile the Syrian government declared a three-day "regime of calm" yesterday, although fighting continued in the village of Madya east of Damascus where the troops were advancing against Syrian rebel group the Army of Islam. From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-a53f-Turkey-Warnings-may-have-stopped- deadly-attack#.V33lnfl9600> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-a53f-Turkey-Warnings-may-have-stopped-d eadly-attack#.V33lnfl9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13764 (20160707) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/005401d1d819%24ce872380%246b956a80%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
