Turkey Reveals Extent of Illegal US Base Building in Syria
The US has built no fewer than eleven illegal military bases within Syria's borders
Thu, Jul 20, 2017
Turkey's state-owned Anadolu news agency has
the locations of 10 US bases in northern Syria, many of them previously unknown to the wider public.
For Turkey revealing the extent of increased US support for the Kurdish YPG militia—which Turkey insists is one and the same with the Kurdish PKK group it faces at home—serves to mobilize its public against the US. Blowing the cover of the Americans is just a cherry on top.
The angle US media is centering on is just how
for publishing this. Pentagon has asked US outlets not to reprint the information published by Anadolu and claimed doing so would endanger lives of US soldiers.
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Spokesmen for Operation Inherent Resolve, the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS, and for the U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Florida, asked The Daily Beast not to publish the detailed information reported by Anadolu.
“The discussion of specific troop numbers and locations would provide sensitive tactical information to the enemy which could endanger Coalition and partner forces,” wrote Col. Joe Scrocca, coalition director of public affairs.
“Publishing this type of information would be professionally irresponsible and we respectively [sic] request that you refrain from disseminating any information that would put Coalition lives in jeopardy.”
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"While we cannot independently verify the sources that contributed to this story, we would be very concerned if officials from a NATO ally would purposefully endanger our forces by releasing sensitive information."
However, we'd like to point out there is a party that has far more reason to be upset than the US. That would be Syria itself.
Along with
the the US now has at least 11 permanently manned installations on the territory of Syria — all of them illegal.
