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Russian warships on maneuvers, will re-supply in Syria

Published time: July 11, 2012 09:43
Edited time: July 11, 2012 13:43
Udaloy class destroyer Admiral Chabanenko (RIA Novosti)

A dozen Russian warships from three fleets are participating in a joint three-month exercise. The group is to visit the Syrian port city of Tartus, where a Russian base is located. The drills are not related to the Syrian conflict, the military say.

The warships and supply ships are derived from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, Northern Fleet and Baltic fleet, the Defense Ministry said. The exercise’s main goal is to test inter-fleet coordination during the joint maneuvers.

The Northern Fleet is contributing the largest portion of the group, a destroyer, four tank landing ships and two support ships. The vessels have left their base in Severomorsk and are heading to a rendezvous point in the North Atlantic, where they will meet a fellow group from the Baltic Fleet consisting of a corvette and a refueling tanker.

Together they will set sail to the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, meeting two tank landing ships and a corvette from the Russian Black Sea Fleet on their way.

“The inter-fleet group under a single command will perform a number of scheduled combat preparedness tasks while following their route in the ocean zone,” the ministry’s statement says.

The group will visit the Russian naval base in Tartus, Syria, RT’s military source says. The warships will refuel and take additional supplies there.

The movement of the Russian warships is of no concern for Washington, US officials said after unconfirmed reports about the exercise surfaced on Tuesday.

"We currently have no reason to believe this move is anything out of the ordinary, but we refer you to the Russian government for more details," Erin Pelton, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, told AFP.

The drills are not connected to the ongoing crisis in Syria, a diplomatic source assured Interfax news agency.

“We have nothing to hide… It’s a scheduled exercise, a regular trip for our ships, which has nothing to do with the Syrian events,” the source said.

Last week NATO launched its own joint exercise in the Mediterranean. The Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 comprised of Turkish, German and French warships is conducting anti-terrorist drills not far from the Syrian borders.

Comments (105)

Knowthetruth (unregistered) 13.07.2012 12:58

Vikram (unregistered) wrote in #4"Richard (unregistered) " You seem to have both a beef against the west and a higher knowledge of all these supposed shenanigans going on behind the scenes. How do you know? Are you a secret government agent with inside knowledge? .....or are you just paranoid?No hes not paranoid, its just so plain bloody obvious to anybody with even half a brain who hasnt been brainwashed by the propaganda being spewed out by the western media or who hasnt got a vested interest in the crimes being committed by the western governments (i.e. america) what it is they are up to.As the saying goes: there are none so blind as those who refuse to see. The majority of the worlds population have rumbled americas game : http://www.guardi an.co.uk/commentisfr ee/2012/jul/12/syria n-opposition-doing-t he-talking

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Enrique (unregistered) 13.07.2012 01:08

The second (and last part) follows:
    Sabrosky said that if the Americans were told the truth behind the attacks, they did not hesitate to eliminate Israel without any considerations for the associated costs. “If the USA citizens get to know Israel did it, they would take it away from Earth”, he said.
On September 11th 2001 a series of coordinated strikes were carried out in USA, leaving almost 3000 deaths according to some reports. USA government affirmed that nineteen terrorists allegedl y related with this facts, Afghanis from the Al-Qaeda group, hijacked four commercial passenger airplanes to carry on the strikes.
The USA official report on these facts has been, however, amply questioned by several sectors inside the USA and all over the world. USA, under the former president G. W. Bush administration, invaded Afghanistan in 2001, after affirming that 9/11 events were carried out by Al Qaeda members supported by the Afghanistan Taliban regime. The United States of America also did attack Irak in 2003, alleging that the oil wealthy country was in possession of mass destruction weapons (MDW).
On September 22th, 2011, at the UN General Assembly, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked for an independent and international investigation on 9/11 events, arguing that these attacks gave USA a convenient excuse for making war to Afghanistan and Irak.
“Zionists are playing this as a real 'win all' or 'lose all' exercise because, if they lose, if the American people realizes what happened, they will be finished.” Sabrosky ended.

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Enrique (unregistered) 13.07.2012 01:01

Hi
Somebody asked for a translation of the following:
http:/ /falsasbanderas.word press.com/2012/07/10 /veterano-del-cuerpo -de-marines-de-estad os-unidos-la-verdad- detras-del-911-aniqu ilaria-a-israel/
OK, here it is first part:

Uni ted States Body of Marines' veteran: “The truth behind 9/11 would annihilate Israel”

Posted on 10 July, 2012


A veteran from the USA Body of Marines affirms that Israel planned the 9/11 attacks and adds that if the USA citizens were informed about it they would exterminate the Zionist regime.
“I've had long talks with fellows from the Army War College during the last two weeks, in the Marines Body post, and I've been shown completely clear (by guys from both organizations), that 9/11 was a Mossad job, 100 % sure. Period.” Alan Sabrosky , a writer and consulter specialized in domestic and foreign security affairs, said in a clip at You Tube.
Sabrosky said that at first their colleagues react with incredulity to his sayings, but then when he explains to them about the controlled demolition of the buildings incredulity turns into anger. “First it is incredulity and then, when I show them an interview with the danish demolitions expert Danny Jowenko and he explains the images of the falling third WTC building – the WTC7...”    “ What it has to be said to the people is: Three buildings went down and the third one was not hit by a plane, it was connected to the controlled demolition, therefore all the three were connected to it. To this point the reaction is anger. First incredulity, then anger”, he added.

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