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Dec 23, 2015 Battleground Syria: Saudi Arabia & Turkey Seeking to 'Spark New Oil War'

TEHRAN (FNA)- King Salman and Turkish President Erdogan are about to spark a new war for control over Middle Eastern oil but the plan, which was in fact devised by Washington, will ultimately backfire, F. William Engdahl asserted.

Riyadh, assisted by Qatar and Turkey, is striving to bring oil fields and pipeline routes in Iraq and neighboring Syria "under direct Saudi control," the expert on oil politics noted, Sputnik reported."Unfortunately, as in all wars, there will be no winners," Engdahl wrote in an opinion piece for New Eastern Outlook. He also named the EU, the Iraqis, Syrians and Kurds as the main losers.The historian named four key groupings, which will be involved in the upcoming conflict. Sunnis, including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Daesh and the recently formed Saudi-led anti-terrorist coalition, make up the first group. The second one consists of Syria, Iran, Iraq and Hezbollah, with Russia also being a factor. The analyst named Israel as the third player.Engdahl maintains that the fourth group, led by the United States, is "playing the most sly, deceptive role" at the moment."Washington is preparing a devastating trap that will catch the foolish Saudis and their Turkish and other Wahhabi allies in a devastating defeat in Syria and Iraq that will no doubt then be proclaimed as a 'victory over terrorism' and a 'victory for the Syrian people,'" the historian assumed.Daesh, according to Engdahl, is instrumental to the Saudi plan. The oil kingdom wants the group to perform "ethnic cleansing of the legitimate Syrian populations" living in oil-rich regions so that it would then be able to transport fuel from Qatar and Saudi Arabia to Turkey through Syria."Erdogan's Turkish military and most especially his Turkish intelligence, MIT, headed by close crony, Hakan Fidan, is playing a key role in the planned Saudi-Turk-Qatari coalition's move to destroy the regime of Assad and at the same time seize control for them of the rich oil fields of Iraq between Mosul and Kirkuk," the historian explained.Although many see the recently-adopted UN Security Council resolution on Syria as an achievement that will help to bring lasting peace to Syria, Engdahl views the document as a "a near-perfect deceptive maneuver" designed by Washington to "set the stage for the imminent Saudi-Turk oil wars and subsequent debacle in Syria and Iraq."The agreement paves the way for a ceasefire, which is expected to be followed by the UN-supervised free and fair presidential election."That ceasefire excludes Saudi and Turkey-backed Daesh, and the al-Qaeda affiliate, al-Nusra Front. At the same time, it calls for an immediate, simultaneous start of a 'political

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transition' which means completely contradictory things for the United States, Germany, France and the UK as it does for Syria, Iran, and Russia," Engdahl warned.The expert maintains that Russia, Damascus-led forces, Hezbollah and Iran will abide by the resolution, while Daesh and the like will "have free reign to grab the oil riches" in Iraq and Syria. "At that point, the trap will have been set and Washington will no doubt spring it, with Russia, Iran and Assad … able to do little to prevent it," he observed.

TEHRAN (FNA Dec 23)- The Russian and Syrian fighter jets, in two joint operations, tracked two long convoys of ISIL's oil tankers in the Central Homs province and bombed them heavily. "The first convoy of the ISIL with at least eight oil tankers and some other military vehicles was targeted by the Russian and Syrian air attacks near the ancient city of Palmyra (Tadmur)," army sources said Tuesday, adding, "Almost the entire oil tankers were destroyed and tens of the militants accompanying the convoy were killed in the attack.""The joint squadron of the Russian and Syrian bombers also targeted 14 oil tankers of the ISIL near Sukhnah in the Eastern part of Homs province, which ended in complete destruction of the convoy and the killing or wounding of its guards," the sources said.Homs, which is a Central province and home to Palmyra, plays a pivotal role for the government forces to drive their military machine on a correct way and distribute forces across the country as best as possible, that's why the Syrian forces are operating against the terrorist groups in different parts of the province to route out militancy in the Central part of the country. A report said on Monday that the Russian and Syrian fighter jets carried out tens of combat sorties over ISIL's defense lines across the Central Homs province, specially those near Maheen town. "The Russian and Syrian air forces have mostly carried out their anti-terrorism combat sorties separately, but in some cases they have conducted joint operations against the militant groups' positions in Homs province," the army informed."The Russian bombers hit heavily the ISIL centers near the ancient city of Palmyra (Tadmur), Quaryatayn and Maheen over 20 times, inflicting very large damage on the militants' sites," the army said."The Syrian fighter jets, for their part, raided the ISIL headquarters and defense lines near the newly liberated village of al-Hadath and the big village of Hawareen," the army added."The ISIL sustained a heavy death toll and their military and machinegun-equipped vehicles and ammunition depots were destroyed in the Syrian air attacks," the army said."The Syrian and Russian bombers carried out a joint combat operation over the ISIL sites near Maheen and targeted them heavily," the army added. "The ISIL positions in the surroundings of al-Sharifa near Palmyra, and villages of Ghunaiman, Tafha and Ghziyla in the Eastern side of the ancient city, were massively bombed by the Syrian warplanes," the army added. "Scores of the militants were killed or wounded in the air attacks near Palmyra," the army added. "In the meantime, the positions of al-Nusra Front were destroyed in airstrikes in Tair Ma’ala village North of Homs province," the army said.

Dec 22, 2015 Saudi Arabia's Aramco Oil Company Comes under Yemen's Ballistic Missile AttackTEHRAN (FNA)- The Yemeni army and popular forces targeted Saudi Arabia's Aramco Oil Company in the Southern province of Jizan with Qaher-I ballistic missiles."The (Qaher-I) missile precisely hit Aramco oil company on Monday night," the Arabic-language media outlets quoted Yemeni Army Spokesman Brigadier General Sharaf Luqman as saying on Tuesday. He reiterated that the Yemeni missile attack came in





retaliation to the Saudi-led aggressors' violation of UN-sponsored ceasefire, but did not give further details about the damages caused on the Aramco Company.On Sunday, the Saudi airstrikes continued against civilian targets in different regions of Yemen's Sa'ada province in violation of the seven-day ceasefire announced earlier.The Saudi-led coalition fired 40 rockets on the regions of Al-Zaher and Shada in Sa'ada province concurrent with the sixth day of peace talks in Switzerland. Warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition also pounded Ta'iz province in violation of the truce. The Saudi warplanes also hit the Western parts of the city of Sana'a on Sunday.Saudi Arabia's violation of the ceasefire comes while the peace negotiations were underway in Switzerland.Ryiadh has been violating the truce ever since it came into force 6 days ago. In response, the Yemeni army and popular forces respond to Saudi Arabia's daily violations with missile fires. On Sunday, the Yemeni army and popular forces destroyed the Saudi military positions in the province of Ma'rib with their new Qaher-I ballistic missiles, killing tens of the kingdom's forces.The first Qaher-I missile hit Al-Tawwal border crossing in Saudi Arabia and the second missile targeted the Saudi-led special forces' military base, destroying several Apache helicopters and spying drones in Safer region of Ma'rib province.The Saudi-led forces' drone control unit and several armored vehicles were destroyed during the Yemeni missile attack.On Saturday, the Saudi-led Coalition Forces and pro-Hadi militias suffered another devastating blow when a Tochka ballistic missile hit their camp in Ma'rib province, and killed over 180 troops, including Saudi and UAE officers.An ammunition depot and two Apache helicopters of the pro-Saudi aggressors were also destroyed in the Yemeni ballistic missile strikes in Southern Yemen that came in response to airstrikes on residential areas by the Saudi-led coalition warplanes on Friday and Saturday.At least 180 Saudi and UAE military men as well as forces loyal to the former fugitive president Mansour Hadi were killed in the attack on Saudi-led forces' military camp in the Ma'rib province. Also on Friday, the Yemeni army and popular forces conducted several retaliatory missile attacks against Saudi Arabia's Key military bases and positions in Jizan province, inflicting heavy losses on the kingdom's forces.Yemen's Tochka ballistic missiles hit the Saudi army's gathering centers in Jizan province.The Yemeni forces also fired a Qaher-I missile at Saudi forces' bases in Najran on Friday.The missile attacks came in response to the violation of truce by the Saudi bomb strikes.On Tuesday, the Yemeni missiles destroyed the command center of Saudi border guards in Asir province.Meantime, the Yemeni missiles hit the Saudi governmental buildings in al-Rabou'a region of Asir province. The Yemeni army also fired 52 rockets at the border regions of Alab, al-Sheibani, al-Hazar and al-Thurein in Asir province.On Monday, Yemeni forces hit Jizan airport in Southern Saudi Arabia with their new surface-to-surface ballistic missiles. "The Qaher-I missile precisely hit the target, the Jizan airport; the third such missile used in the past 24 hours to target military positions in Southern Saudi Arabia," Yemeni military sources told FNA.The first Qaher-I ballistic missiles targeted Khalid bin Abdulaziz air base in Asir province in Southwestern Saudi Arabia on Sunday.The second ballistic missile hit the Saudi-led coalition's command headquarters in Sha'ab al-Jen region near Bab al-Mandeb in Ta'iz province. Over 150 coalition servicemen, including 23 Saudi troops, 9 UAE officers and soldiers, seven Moroccan officers and 42





Blackwater troops were killed in the second attack.Qaher-I is an updated version of a Russian-made surface-to-surface missile.The burnt bodies of 146 Saudi-led military troops have been transferred to the city of Aden and Saudi Arabia has sent a warship to Ta'iz to transfer the wounded from Bab al-Mandeb region.The Saudi-led forces sustained heavy casualties in the Yemeni army's missile attack on the Bab al-Mandeb region in Southwestern Yemen. Last Friday, the Yemeni army and popular forces conducted several retaliatory attacks against key military bases and positions in two Saudi provinces, inflicting heavy losses on the kingdom's forces.Yemeni forces fired 13 missiles at al-Jamarak region in the Saudi province of Jizan, killing at least two Saudi military men. On December 9, the Yemeni forces launched missile attacks on the Saudi military bases in Jizan province with their new home-made missiles named 'Cry'. The Yemeni missiles destroyed al-Ain al-Harreh and al-Salah military bases in Jizan province, inflicting heavy losses on the Saudi army.The Yemeni army and popular forces also hit al-Ramzeh military center in Jizan province, killing tens of Saudi military men and their vehicles.The Yemeni forces also hit several Saudi military centers in the Southern parts of Al-Khuba region.On December 5, the Yemeni army and popular forces destroyed a large number of military posts and centers in three provinces in Southern Saudi Arabia. The Yemeni forces' missile and artillery fire has destroyed tens of Saudi military sites in Najran, Jizan and Asir provinces in the last three days.A large number of Saudi troops have been killed and many more wounded in the Yemeni forces' retaliatory attacks on their positions. Also on December 5, FNA dispatches said that the Yemeni army and popular forces continued their nonstop advances on the Saudi soil and seized several military bases and sites in Saudi Arabia's Southern provinces after heavy clashes with the kingdom's troops.The Yemeni forces captured a number of Saudi military bases in Jizan province, Yemeni Army Commander Ebrahim Moussa al-Hamdani told FNA. Al-Hamdani noted that the army and popular forces also seized the Riyadh government's strategic military positions in Najran province after several hours of clashes with the Saudi forces, seizing heavy machinery and a large cache of weapons and military tools, including mortar-launchers.

Wed Dec 23, 2015Anonymous Declares War on Turkey over Alleged Support for ISILTEHRAN (FNA)- Hacktivists launched digital blitzkreig and vowed to wipe out the systems which power the Turkish banks, airports and military facilities.Anonymous has blasted Turkey with a massive cyber-attack after accusing the Islamic nation of supporting ISIL. Last week, hacktivists fired the opening salvos in their war, bringing down up to 40,000 Turkish websites.Now Anonymous has threatened to take down the vital systems which power the country's airports, banks and government facilities, as well as the "root servers" which are the foundation of Turkey's entire digital infrastructure, mirror reported.

In a statement, Anonymous said: "Turkey is supporting Daesh by buying oil from them, and hospitalizing their fighters. "We won’t accept that Erdogan, the leader of Turkey, will help ISIL any longer. "If you don’t stop





supporting ISIL, we will continue attacking your internet."Last week, hacktivists clobbered Turkey with a massive "DDoS attack" and has threatened to launch even more intense assaults. "Stop this insanity now Turkey," Anonymous added."Your fate is in your own hands."

Regards Cees***In late October, we noted that for the second time this year, Russia overtook Saudi Arabia as the biggest exporter of crude to China.Russia also took the top spot in May, marking the first time in history that Moscow beat out Riyadh when it comes to crude exports to Beijing. “Moscow is wrestling with crippling Western economic sanctions and building closer ties with Beijing is key to mitigating the pain,” we said in October, on the way to explaining that closer ties between Russia and China as it relates to energy are part and parcel of a burgeoning relationship between the two countries who have voted together on the Security Council on matters of geopolitical significance. Here’s a look at the longer-term trend: You may also recall that Gazprom Neft (which is the number three oil producer in Russia) began settling all sales to China in yuan starting in January. This, we said, is yet another sign of the petrodollar’s imminent demise.On Monday, we learn that for the third time in 2015, Russia has once again bested the Saudis for the top spot on China’s crude suppliers list. “Russia overtook Saudi Arabia for the third time this year in November as China’s largest crude oil supplier,” Reuters writes, adding that “China brought in about 949,925 barrels per day (bpd) of Russian crude in November, compared with 886,950 bpd from Saudi Arabia.” This is an annoyance for Riyadh. China was the world’s second-largest oil consumer in 2014 and closer ties between Moscow and Beijing not only represent a threat in terms of crude revenue, but also in terms of geopolitics as the last thing the Saudis need is for Xi to begin poking around militarily in the Arabian Peninsula on behalf of Moscow and Tehran.

As we documented in “Saudis Poke The Russian Bear, Start Oil War In Eastern Europe,” Riyadh has begun to encroach on Moscow’s markets in Poland. Here’s what Bloomberg wrote back in October: “Poland has long been a client of Russian oil companies. Last year, about three-quarters of its fuel imports came from Russia, with the rest from Kazakhstan and European countries. Poland, however, is at the center of efforts to reduce the European Union’s dependence on Russian energy.“ A new and reliable supplier is a godsend. As for the Saudis, they need to expand outside Asia where demand is falling. “This could turn





into a more active shoving match between the world’s two biggest oil exporters, which already are at odds over the Syrian conflict.Indeed, one could plausibly argue that one of the reasons the Saudis moved to artificially suppress prices last year was to sqeeze Putin and ultimately force The Kremlin to give up its support for Assad. As The New York Times put it, a dramatic decline in crude prices has certain “ancillary diplomatic benefits.”Unfortunately for Riyadh, the strategy hasn’t worked. In fact, it’s backfired in more ways than one.

First, Saudi Arabia is facing a fiscal crisis as Riyadh’s budget deficit balloons to 20% of GDP, forcing the kingdom to tap the debt market in order to offset the SAMA burn.

Second, Putin not only refused to give up his support for the government in Damascus, he actually doubled down by sending the Russian air force to Latakia. Meanwhile, Russia continued to pump even more oil, and as Bloomberg reports, Moscow is now producing at “the fastest pace since the collapse of the Soviet Union.”

“Russia’s unexpected oil bounty this year is the result not of a new Kremlin campaign but of dozens of modest productivity improvements across the sprawling sector. Even pressured by plunging prices, as well as U.S. and European Union sanctions that cut access to much foreign financing and technology, Russian companies have managed to squeeze more crude out of some of the country’s oldest fields,” Bloomberg writes, before noting that “Bashneft and other Russian companies working fields in the Volga River basin — some of the first to be discovered in Russia early in the last century — are benefiting from Soviet inefficiency as [the old motto was]: ‘whatever we don’t produce will be left for our children.’”For analysts, Russia’s resiliency has come as a surprise. “I know of no one who had predicted that Russian production would rise in 2015, let alone to new record levels,” Edward Morse, Citigroup’s global head of commodities research said.





As for what it would take to curtail

production, Mikhail Stavskiy, head of upstream at Bashneft PJSC which has been “the biggest single contributor to increased crude output this year,” says he doesn’t know. “I don’t know what the oil price would have to fall to for things to change dramatically. We’ve been through $9 a barrel and production continued, so if something like that happens, we know what to do.”Indeed, thanks to the low cost of extracting crude from Russia’s oil fields in West Siberia and the devaluation of the ruble, production costs are rock bottom:But not everyone agrees that this is sustainable. Some say efforts to improve efficiency have run their course and with financing for exploration scarce, further gains may be hard to come by. Interestingly, Bloomberg also notes that because Moscow takes “nearly everything above $30-$40 a barrel” on exports, producers won’t feel the impact of low prices until crude falls substantially below those levels.“Russia will maintain its current oil production levels within the bandwidth of 525 million to 533 million tons next year, as the federal government’s budget is set on such production levels,” Stratfor’s Lauren Goodrich says, presaging more of the same in 2016.The takeaway here is that the Saudi gambit failed to wrench market share away from the Russians and between the conflict in Syria, Moscow’s closer ties with Beijing, and Riyadh’s move to antagonize The Kremlin by encroaching on Russia’s eastern European market share, one shouldn’t expect Putin to back down any time soon. In short, if John

Kerry and Riyadh did in fact plan to bankrupt the Russians by tanking crude prices, the effort was a miserable failure that resulted not only in a 20% fiscal deficit for the Saudis, but also in the destruction of American jobs in the oil patch.We close with a bit of humor from Deputy Energy Minister Kirill Molodtsov:“I will tell you when Russian companies are for sure going to decrease production — when oil costs $0.” The original source of this article is Zero Hedge




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