Exclusive: Military leader of Syrian Kurds tells US 'you are leaving us to be slaughtered'
Source: CNN
By Barbara Starr and Ryan Browne, Updated 12:06 PM ET, Sat October 12, 2019
(CNN)The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces told a senior US diplomat, "You are leaving us to be slaughtered," demanding to know whether the US is going to do anything to protect Syrian Kurds as Turkey continues its military operation targeting America's Kurdish allies in Syria.
"You have given up on us. You are leaving us to be slaughtered," Gen. Mazloum Kobani Abdi told the Deputy Special Envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, William Roebuck, in a meeting Thursday, according to an internal US government readout that has been obtained exclusively by CNN.
"You are not willing to protect the people, but you do not want another force to come and protect us. You have sold us. This is immoral," Mazloum added.
He insisted the US either help stop the Turkish attack or allow the Syrian Democratic Forces to strike a deal with the Assad regime in Damascus and their Russian backers, allowing Russian warplanes to enforce a no-fly zone over northeast Syria, thereby denying Turkey the ability to carry out airstrikes. The US does not want the Kurds turning to the Russians, administration officials say.
"I need to know if you are capable of protecting my people, of stopping these bombs falling on us or not. I need to know, because if you're not, I need to make a deal with Russia and the regime now and invite their planes to protect this region," Mazloum said.........................................
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/12/politics/syrian-kurds-us-turkey-military-operation/index.html
I imagine our troops over there are feeling VERY helpless --and angry. Just my feeling at the moment.
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yaesu
(8,020 posts)New Breed Leader
(623 posts)and you wouldn't be able to blame them.
agincourt
(1,996 posts)will look at the pathetic sack of shit in the White House and think, "We can get away with anything now, just stay at one of his hotels".
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)Remove the trash from the WH
Soph0571
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(43,146 posts)Trump will be remembered for 2 things: lack of action on climate change, and massacre of the Kurds.
This is horrible. It was the Kurds, wasn't it, that opposed Saddam Hussein and were slaughtered in northeastern Iraq? Correct me if memory has fuzzed out.
bluestarone
(16,926 posts)Also the RETHUGS in the senate will be remembered right along with him!
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)have done any of it without the willing support of others of which there were many in Germany.
In this case we with Trump we have many accomplices to what he has done especially the Republicans in the House, Senate and the conservative SCOTUS judges.
I just hope I live long enough to see the start and end of some major criminal trials including maybe some new crimes against humanity trials for those involved in this whole mess.
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When you think of all the people Trump has betrayed in his presidency and his life including all of his wives, its all the more impressive that he has never betrayed Putin.
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