Isis in Syria: A general reveals the lack of communication with the US - and his countrys awkward relationship with their allies-by-default The leading Syrian army officer, who requested anonymity, takes a shrewd view of events - and history - and clearly had no objection to Americas air strikes on Isis targets in his country, although he viewed them dispassionately. “Our army doesnt know where or when these strikes are going to happen,” he said. “We see aircraft on our radar - we can see everything - but if our checkpoints (on the front) see the strikes, it is only by chance. We and the Americans are not sharing information with each other. The Americans just do it. Its natural. They decide in the UN that they are going to do these strikes. Syria says yes. We are fighting Daesh (Isis) and the other terrorist groups. But America never asked us about their targets.” Isis, Jabhat al-Nusra and other Islamist groups are one and the same - he dismisses the Free Syrian Army (FSA) so beloved of President Barack Obama and US Republicans as more of a fantasy army than a reality - and insists that the strategy of Isis and Jabhat al-Nusra is the same wherever the Syrian army fights them. “Its the same plan, the same orders, and we are using the same tactics in fighting them. There is a priority for the Syrian army - to know where they have to fight. I cant say that in all the military operations that the Syrian army is taking the upper hand. War is not just about victory. There are winners and losers. That is the nature of war.”
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 06:32:01 +0000
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