Morning Star.png Aleppo the Last Card in Hands of Foreign Aggressors says President James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 23 July 2016 Syrian President Bashar alAssad says the city of Aleppo is the "last card" in the foreign aggressors' hand - and they are betting thousands of their mercenaries on it. In an interview with Cuban news agency Prensa Latina published on Thursday, Mr Assad said Russia's intervention in the war last autumn had turned the tide against proxy forces of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. "The Turks and their allies like the Saudis and Qataris lost most of their cards on the battlefields in Syria," he said. Savagery "So the last card for them, especially for Erdogan, is Aleppo" - where the Turks and Saudis have sent an estimated 5,000 mercenaries, who are now trapped in the besieged east of the city. In a stark illustration of the battle's savagery, the Aleppo extremists detonated a huge tunnel bomb under an army position in central Aleppo on Thursday, claiming to have killed 38. And shelling from east Aleppo killed four civilians and injured 19 in the west of the city. No change in US agenda Asked about the US presidential race, Mr Assad said whoever wins will have to implement the same Establishment foreign policy agenda. "One of them sends his army like Bush and the other one sends mercenaries and proxies like Obama, but all of them have to implement this agenda." Meanwhile the US Treasury Department imposed new sanctions on eight Syrian businessmen and seven firms it claimed were supplying the arms industry. Despite imposing these sanctions Washington has yet to halt arms supplies to the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement in Aleppo, which beheaded a 12-year-old Palestinian refugee boy this week. From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-7780-Syria-Assad-Aleppo-is-the-last-ca rd-in-foreign-aggressors-hand#.V5L_2_l9600> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-7780-Syria-Assad-Aleppo-is-the-last-car d-in-foreign-aggressors-hand#.V5L_2_l9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13847 (20160722) __________ 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/003c01d1e4b2%2461da67b0%24258f3710%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
