Redacción
Según un observador militar, el principal objetivo de la “batalla del botín” era controlar el paso fronterizo de Kasab, así como la región que lleva el mismo nombre, considerado estratégico a nivel militar. Este “deseado control” tenía el fin de abrir un paso hacia el Mediterráneo, mediante la conquista de la localidad de Samra, ubicada en la costa, para así tener una vía que conecte con la región de Salma, de importancia estratégica y militar ya que controla las zonas de Idlib y del interior sirio. No obstante, el plan ha fracasado.
Fuentes militares han asegurado a Alahednews que “los atacantes no han conseguido su propósito, las fuerzas del Ejército Sirio han contenido el ataque y están empleando tácticas que les permite llevar la iniciativa en la batalla librada una semana después de duros enfrentamientos”.
Frente al-Nusra pierde a su Emir
De otra parte, los milicianos de los grupos terroristas “Frente al-Nusra” y “Frente Islámico” se desmoralizaron tras la caída de un gran número de muertos entre sus filas por los continuos bombardeos o los choques directos.
“Frente al-Nusra” que había anunciado en los primeros días de la batalla la muerte de su “Emir”, uno de los más destacados y peligrosos de los emires de Al-Qaeda, Snafi al-Nasr al-Sharej, también anunció la muerte de otros Emires de Al-Nusra, Abu Suhaib al-Turkomani y Mohamed al-Tuwaijari, este último de nacionalidad saudí.
El grupo “Ahrar al-Sham”, por su parte, también perdió durante estos siete días de enfrentamientos un alto número de sus jefes militares.
Ejército Árabe Sirio toma la Colina Observatorio 45 en Latakia. Prosigue la lucha en Kassab
En la provincia de Latakia continúan los combates desde que fue lanzada una ofensiva en el norte de la provincia, fronteriza con Turquía, por parte del Frente al Nusra, el brazo de Al Qaida en Siria, y la Brigada Tauhid, vinculada a los Hermanos Musulmanes. Ellos se apoderaron de la localidad fronteriza de Kassab y de algunas otras posiciones en la ofensiva inicial.
El miércoles, el Ejército sirio logró recuperar la estratégica Colina Observatorio 45 después de combates encarnizados con los grupos armados. Según el OSDH, con sede en Londres, “el régimen no esperaba esta ofensiva sorpresa en uno de sus feudos, pero no va a dejar a los rebeldes tomar el control”.
Por su parte, la cadena Al Alam dijo que el Ejército ha matado a 60 milicianos en la batalla por la colina y ha destruido varios misiles allí. Entre los muertos figura el líder de la Brigada al Mustafa, vinculada al Frente al Nusra.
La cadena afirma que un globo espía turco dotado de cámaras de vigilancia fue abatido por encima de la localidad de Salmah.
Varios enfrentamientos violentos tuvieron lugar también en la franja fronteriza con Turquía, en las proximidades de Kassab.
Kassab: una batalla difícil
Según el sitio Al Hadath, el Ejército sirio ha retomado la iniciativa y avanza al oeste de la ciudad de Kassab, donde continúan los enfrentamientos. El Ejército sirio emplea artillería y lanzacohetes y mucho menos la aviación, debido al terreno escarpado, y ésta se limita a atacar a los milicianos que entran a través de la frontera turca.
Según el corresponsal de Al Alam la batalla parece difícil porque la artillería turca ayuda a los insurgentes. Ella intervino al inicio del ataque abriendo fuego contra las posiciones del Ejército sirio para facilitar la entrada de los milicianos en el territorio sirio. También se ha producido una implicación saudí en los últimos hechos en Latakia al aprovisionar a los grupos armados con dinero y armas.
Movilización y refuerzos
En el momento en que las milicias cruzaron la frontera con Turquía se produjo una movilización general en varias regiones sirias para ayudar a las fuerzas gubernamentales que actúan en Latakia.
Jóvenes sirios originarios de Alepo, según Al Hadath News, están uniéndose a las filas de las Fuerzas de Defensa Nacional. Él OSDH ha hablado, por su parte, de “un encuentro de alauíes sirios” en este sentido afirmando que estos jóvenes son originarios de la provincia de Latakia.
Leak Audio revela la conversación entre el Jefe de Inteligencia de Turquía y el subsecretario ministerial para atacar suelo propio suelo e iniciar una guerra con Siria
Como ya informamos, una nueva fuga de audio revela conversaciones secretas que presuntamente tuvieron lugar entre el jefe de inteligencia de Turquía Hakan Fidan, el Ministro de Exteriores, Ahmet Davutoglu, su subsecretario Feridun Sinirlioglu y el general Yasar Güler. En el audio filtrado hablan de armar a los rebeldes sirios y atacar suelo turco para crear un casus belli.
Aquí está la transcripción completa en inglés:
PART 1
Ahmet Davuto?lu: “Prime Minister said that in current conjuncture, this attack (on Suleiman Shah Tomb) must be seen as an opportunity for us.”
Hakan Fidan: “I’ll send 4 men from Syria, if that’s what it takes. I’ll make up a cause of war by ordering a missile attack on Turkey; we can also prepare an attack on Suleiman Shah Tomb if necessary.”
Feridun Sinirlio?lu: “Our national security has become a common, cheap domestic policy outfit.”
Ya?ar Güler: “It’s a direct cause of war. I mean, what’re going to do is a direct cause of war.”
FIRST SCREEN:
Ahmet Davuto?lu: I couldn’t entirely understand the other thing; what exactly does our foreign ministry supposed to do? No, I’m not talking about the thing. There are other things we’re supposed to do. If we decide on this, we are to notify the United Nations, the Istanbul Consulate of the Syrian regime, right?
Feridun Sinirlio?lu: But if we decide on an operation in there, it should create a shocking effect. I mean, if we are going to do so. I don’t know what we’re going to do, but regardless of what we decide, I don’t think it’d be appropriate to notify anyone beforehand.
Ahmet Davuto?lu: OK, but we’re gonna have to prepare somehow. To avoid any shorts on regarding international law. I just realized when I was talking to the president (Abdullah Gül), if the Turkish tanks go in there, it means we’re in there in any case, right?
Ya?ar Güler: It means we’re in, yes.
Ahmet Davuto?lu: Yeah, but there’s a difference between going in with aircraft and going in with tanks…
SECOND SCREEN:
Ya?ar Güler: Maybe we can tell the Syrian consulate general that, ISIL is currently working alongside the regime, and that place is Turkish land. We should definitely…
Ahmet Davuto?lu: But we have already said that, sent them several diplomatic notes.
Ya?ar Güler: To Syria… Feridun Sinirlio?lu: That’s right.
Ahmet Davuto?lu: Yes, we’ve sent them countless times. Therefore, I’d like to know what our Chief of Staff’s expectations from our ministry.
Ya?ar Güler: Maybe his intent was to say that, I don’t really know, he met with Mr. Fidan.
Hakan Fidan: Well, he did mention that part but we didn’t go into any further details.
Ya?ar Güler: Maybe that was what he meant… A diplomatic note to Syria?
Hakan Fidan: Maybe the Foreign Ministry is assigned with coordination…
THIRD SCREEN:
Ahmet Davuto?lu: I mean, I could coordinate the diplomacy but civil war, the military…
Feridun Sinirlio?lu: That’s what I told back there. For one thing, the situation is different. An operation on ISIL has solid ground on international law. We’re going to portray this is Al-Qaeda, there’s no distress there if it’s a matter regarding Al-Qaeda. And if it comes to defending Suleiman Shah Tomb, that’s a matter of protecting our land.
Ya?ar Güler: We don’t have any problems with that.
Hakan Fidan: Second after it happens, it’ll cause a great internal commotion (several bombing events is bound to happen within). The border is not under control…
Feridun Sinirlio?lu: I mean, yes, the bombings are of course going to happen. But I remember our talk from 3 years ago…
Ya?ar Güler: Mr. Fidan should urgently receive back-up and we need to help him supply guns and ammo to rebels. We need to speak with the minister. Our Interior Minister, our Defense Minister. We need to talk about this and reach a resolution sir.
Ahmet Davuto?lu: How did we get specials forces into action when there was a threat in Northern Iraq? We should have done so in there, too. We should have trained those men. We should have sent men. Anyway, we can’t do that, we can only do what diplomacy…
Feridun Sinirlio?lu: I told you back then, for God’s sake, general, you know how we managed to get those tanks in, you were there.
Ya?ar Güler: What, you mean our stuff?
Feridun Sinirlio?lu: Yes, how do you think we’ve managed to rally our tanks into Iraq? How? How did manage to get special forces, the battalions in? I was involved in that. Let me be clear, there was no government decision on that, we have managed that just with a single order.
FOURTH SCREEN:
Ya?ar Güler: Well, I agree with you. For one thing, we’re not even discussing that. But there are different things that Syria can do right now.
Ahmet Davuto?lu: General, the reason we’re saying no this operation is because we know about the capacity of those men.
Ya?ar Güler: Look, sir, isn’t MKE (Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation) at minister’s bidding? Sir, I mean, Qatar is looking for ammo to buy in cash. Ready cash. So, why don’t they just get it done? It’s at Mr. Minister’s command.
Ahmet Davuto?lu: But there’s the spot we can’t act integratedly, we can’t coordinate.
Ya?ar Güler: Then, our Prime Minister can summon both Mr. Defence Minister and Mr. Minister at the same time. Then he can directly talk to them.
Ahmet Davuto?lu: We, Mr. Siniro?lu and I, have literally begged Mr. Prime Minster for a private meeting, we said that things were not looking so bright.
FIFTH SCREEN:
Ya?ar Güler: Also, it doesn’t have to be crowded meeting. Yourself, Mr. Defence Minister, Mr. Interior Minister and our Chief of Staff, the four of you are enough. There’s no need for a crowd. Because, sir, the main need there is guns and ammo. Not even guns, mainly ammo. We’ve just talked about this, sir. Let’s say we’re building an army down there, 1000 strong. If we get them into that war without previously storing a minimum of 6-months’ worth of ammo, these men will return to us after two months.
Ahmet Davuto?lu: They’re back already.
Ya?ar Güler: They’ll return to us, sir.
Ahmet Davuto?lu: They’ve came back from… What was it? Çobanbey.
Ya?ar Güler: Yes, indeed, sir. This matter can’t be just a burden on Mr. Fidan’s shoulders as it is now. It’s unacceptable. I mean, we can’t understand this. Why?
SIXTH SCREEN:
Ahmet Davuto?lu: That evening we’d reached a resolution. And I thought that things were taking a turn for the good. Our…
Feridun Sinirlio?lu: We issued the MGK (National Security Council) resolution the day after. Then we talked with the general…
Ahmet Davuto?lu: And the other forces really do a good follow up on this weakness of ours. You say that you’re going to capture this place, and that men being there constitutes a risk factor. You pull them back. You capture the place. You reinforce it and send in your troops again.
Ya?ar Güler: Exactly, sir. You’re absolutely right.
Ahmet Davuto?lu: Right? That’s how I interpret it. But after the evacuation, this is not a military necessity. It’s a whole other thing.
SEVENTH SCREEN
Feridun Siniro?lu: There are some serious shifts in global and regional geopolitics. It now can spread to other places. You said it yourself today, and others agreed… We’re headed to a different game now. We should be able to see those. That ISIL and all that jazz, all those organizations are extremely open to manipulation. Having a region made up of organizations of similar nature will constitute a vital security risk for us. And when we first went into Northern Iraq, there was always the risk of PKK blowing up the place. If we thoroughly consider the risks and substantiate… As the general just said…
Ya?ar Güler: Sir, when you were inside a moment ago, we were discussing just that. Openly. I mean, armed forces are a “tool” necessary for you in every turn.
Ahmet Davuto?lu: Of course. I always tell the Prime Minister, in your absence, the same thing in academic jargon, you can’t stay in those lands without hard power. Without hard power, there can be no soft power.
EIGTH SCREEN
Ya?ar Güler: Sir.
Feridun Sinirlio?lu: The national security has been politicized. I don’t remember anything like this in Turkish political history. It has become a matter of domestic policy. All talks we’ve done on defending our lands, our border security, our sovereign lands in there, they’ve all become a common, cheap domestic policy outfit.
Ya?ar Güler: Exactly.
Feridun Siniro?lu: That has never happened before. Unfortunately but…
Ya?ar Güler: I mean, do even one of the opposition parties support you in such a high point of national security? Sir, is this a justifiable sense of national security?
Feridun Sinirlio?lu: I don’t even remember such a period.
NINTH SCREEN:
Ya?ar Güler: In what matter can we be unified, if not a matter of national security of such importance? None.
Ahmet Davuto?lu: The year 2012, we didn’t do it 2011. If only we’d took serious action back then, even in the summer of 2012.
Feridun Sinirlio?lu: They were at their lowest back in 2012.
Ahmet Davuto?lu: Internally, they were just like Libya. Who comes in and goes from power is not of any importance to us. But some things…
Ya?ar Güler: Sir, to avoid any confusion, our need in 2011 was guns and ammo. In 2012, 2013 and today also. We’re in the exact same point. We absolutely need to find this and secure that place.
Ahmet Davuto?lu: Guns and ammo are not a big need for that place. Because we couldn’t get the human factor in order…