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German troops heading to Turkey-Syria border
Published: 6 Dec 12 11:26 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20121206-46609.html
The German government said Thursday it had approved participation in a NATO mission to deploy Patriot missiles to help member state Turkey defend its border against Syria and will send up to 400 troops.
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NATO on Tuesday approved Turkey's request for Patriot missiles to defend its border against Syria following a series of blunt warnings to Damascus not to use chemical weapons.
German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the troop deployment would help stabilize the region. "The deterrent serves to ensure that the [chemical] capability does not become an intention," he told reporters.
NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance's decision reflected a "steadfast commitment" to preserving the security of its 28 member states.
The alliance said that Germany along with the Netherlands and the United States have agreed to provide the Patriot missile batteries, which would come under the command of the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR).
"Turkey is currently the most-affected partner in the Syria conflict. It is exposed to a potential threat from Syria," the ministries said. "The deployment of Patriot air defence systems in close cooperation with the Netherlands and the US underlines Germany's reliability as an ally."
Turkey is a vocal opponent of the regime in Syria, where monitoring groups say over 41,000 people have been killed in almost 21 months of conflict.
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I don't really think that the Syrians want to attack Turkey, that is just dumb. They might over-pursue people running from their military, though.
Good work by the German leaders in making a point without exacerbating the touchy situation.
Quit foolin` round with dictators! Gotta show Mr assad we ain`t playin.
Yeah! Git some! Ya`ll git some!!
PS Yo, good to see Germans n Mrs Murkal is steppin up n doin whats right to help freedom over in terkey.
You go, girl. :)
(sarcasm!)
Are you effing retarded?
What war? these missiles can't be used aggressively or am I as stupid as a republican voter?
Rep-Dem fake paradigm Red Herring. Both Demo-rats and Republi-cons are for the AF-Pak-Iraq-Libya-Syria-Iran military campaign, regardless of "War Protesters". Both parties together are the war party. We all know that Mittens would be doing the same thing right now.
@Der Grenadier
Immigrant/wedge issue Red Herring. Germany as a member of NATO crime syndicate is obliged to defend fellow member Turkey under Article 5 of the treaty.
@Englishted
Turkey is the staging area for Al-Qaeda and other Saudi and Qatar financed Islamist terrorist franchises that are being used by NATO to overthrow Assad. The Patriot Missile defensive posture must be viewed within the whole context, which is an offensive foreign insurgency attack on the sovereign nation of Syria.
Come on Peeples, once more from the top:
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.de/2012/02/empires-double-edged-sword-global.html
2012 sees the involvement of Germany and other nations being used under the NATO banner in the name of protecting the Turkish People. I'm afraid that having been in a similar boat 18 years ago i can't pull myself to believe that Turkey has any other agenda than to again step foot in northern Syria. Not to help the syrians but to again try and gain a foot hold in the kurdish regions for it's own evils.
Thanks for your personal input.
I think that you are spot on regarding the Turks and their motives regarding Syria and its Kurdish territories. We can only speculate what the powers that be have promised the Turks in exchange for their co-operation in this NATO-Salafi Jihad insurgency op. The question is, what have the Kurds been offered? And not only the Kurds in Syria but Iraq as well. Will this all blow-up in the Turks` face? Somebody is going to be double-crossed.
You and others might like this article by Pepe Escobar on the "Kurdish Spring":
http://www.voltairenet.org/article175214.html
Peace
Now the Germanic/Ottoman links are set in platinum, Turkey is forcing a win win situation. NATO is damned now if it does and damned if it doesn't.
@Leostrauss-Instead of your sarcasm, why don't you offer a serious alternative to the things you are criticizing? The usual European mantra of dialogue and engagement...or what?
My first post on this thread was sarcastic, but usually I am trying to point out the contradictions, fallacies and outright propaganda of the mainstream media/PSY OP narrative. In my other posts on this thread I have linked to articles that shed some more light on the Syrian crisis, and I hope that the TL Peeples will check them out in order to get a little more background on this topic.
I find it surreal that on the one hand, we are asked to give up our civil rights and liberties in order to gain security through the War on Terror; while on the other hand NATO has always been allied with Al Qaeda and other Salafist terrorist groups and is supporting them now in Syria. So I`m going through the TSA naked body scanner because of Al Qaeda, but.....hmmmmmmm.
So, how about ending the fake War on Terror, for starters?
Here`s another link for ya:
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/
So waddya THINK? :)
You obviously make a great point. Can't argue with logic like that.
A desert shield is ok but no desert storm please.