New Video Emerges Of ISIS Convoys Leaving Raqqa Under US Coalition Watch

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SOURCE: ZERO HEDGE

URL: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-05/new-video-emerges-isis-convoys-leaving-raqqa-under-us-coalition-watch

 by Leith Fadel via Al-Masdar News


New footage has recently emerged which offers further confirmation that the US coalition facilitated the exit of Islamic State terrorists from Raqqa when the city was liberated in October. Fighters of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) confirmed from Raqqa that they had shot the footage showing militants of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS; formerly ISIL/ISIS) peacefully leaving Raqqa on their watch.

Thought to have been filmed towards the end of the battle for Raqqa, the footage shows buses and trucks carrying dozens of IS militants from the embattled city, according to one of the fighters.

“This is the footage we shot. We still keep them,” said the SDF fighter in late November, holding the mobile phone on which the footage was recorded. “We saw them with our own eyes. I was on shift at the Grain Containers turnabout when IS were leaving. There were many of them, we were not afraid of them,” he said.

An investigative report by the BBC in early November alleged a “secret deal” that allowed hundreds of IS fighters to depart embattled Raqqa under the eyes of the SDF in early October, as the fight for the city was drawing to a close in early October.

The new footage was obtained from the SDF and published online a week ago. In the above clip, SDF members also confirm that they filmed the ISIS convoys leaving on their personal cell phones. The BBC also confirmed the deal which even allowed foreign fighters to relocate to different parts of Syria and even neighboring countries like Turkey.

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An investigative report by the BBC in early November alleged a “secret deal” that allowed hundreds of IS fighters to depart embattled Raqqa under the eyes of the SDF in early October,

Only to reappear later in a new killing spree.

[TomSea]

This story has been out about 2 weeks, again, Syria and Russia were also accused of allowing ISIS to flee to avoid a bloodbath, that was probably about 4 months ago.

From the article:

by Leith Fadel via Al-Masdar News

Al-Masdar's coverage focuses largely on conflict zones in the Middle East: Syria, Yemen, and Iraq. Al-Masdar has several Syria-based correspondents, and claims sources within the Syrian military.  Al-Masdar has been described as being pro-president Bashar al-Assad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Masdar_News

Rely on the website if one wants to, the same for Zero-Hedge, sometimes they may be right, at other times, it was already posted here, how they seem to post "Russian agitprop" again per wikipedia.

At the least, this is not CNN, ABC, Fox, etc. and if one finds fault with those news outlets, let's remember, neither Syria nor Russia nor Iran are rated as free countries.

But if one can cast a stone at Trump from news sources such as above, so be it. Some of what the Iranians post is simply laughable.

[TomSea]

Zero or is it Joke Hedge, are they still reporting that the Russians are going to drop A-bombs on Saudi Troops amassed on the Turkish border? 

Let's see the Western press say something like this story.

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Let's see the Western press say something like this story.

Is CBS News "Western" enough for you?

U.S. quietly let hundreds of ISIS fighters flee Raqqa
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-us-allowed-isis-fighters-escape-raqqa-sdf-deal/

How about the BBC (the source CBS News cites)?

Raqqa’s dirty secret
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/raqqas_dirty_secret

The BBC has uncovered details of a secret deal that let hundreds of IS fighters and their families escape from Raqqa, under the gaze of the US and British-led coalition and Kurdish-led forces who control the city.

A convoy included some of IS’s most notorious members and – despite reassurances – dozens of foreign fighters. Some of those have spread out across Syria, even making it as far as Turkey.