The American troops where seriously thinks of firing back at the Turk’s which h would been a problem for both sides….
The Pentagon confirmed Friday that US troops in Syria “came under artillery fire from Turkish positions” and demanded that Turkey halt all operations that could require the US to take “immediate defensive action.”
“US troops in the vicinity of Kobani came under artillery fire from Turkish positions at approximately 9 p.m. local Oct. 11,” Navy Capt. Brook DeWalt, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement. “The explosion occurred within a few hundred meters of a location outside the Security Mechanism zone and in an area known by the Turks to have U.S. forces present.”
The Pentagon’s confirmation stands in stark contrast with the Turkish Defense Ministry’s comments on the incident. The ministry issued a statement late Friday night denying that its forces had fired on US troops in Syria and instead said Turkish troops were targeting Kurdish fighters nearby.
The Defense Ministry added that Turkey “did not open fire at the US observation post in any way” and that “all precautions were taken prior to opening fire in order to prevent any harm to the U.S. base.” Turkish forces, however, “ceased fire upon receiving information from the U.S.,” the ministry said, adding, “We firmly reject the claim that U.S. or Coalition forces were fired upon.”
Possibly deliberate
US officials CNN spoke to are divided as to whether the shelling was deliberately aimed at pressuring US forces to leave the area or was a genuine targeting mistake by the Turkish military.
DeWalt said that “the United States remains opposed to the Turkish military move into Syria and especially objects to Turkish operations outside the Security Mechanism zone and in areas where the Turks know US forces are present.”…
They helped Trump win Michigan, then his immigration crackdown split their [Chaldean Chrisian] community
By Liz Goodwin
[Boston Globe]
MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich. — The kettle steamed in the background as a familiar yet painful argument began to boil over between father and daughter in the Slewo home last Inauguration Day.
“My president is going to be good for the Christians and the economy,” Warda Slewo, an ardent Donald Trump fan, told his daughter, Ashourina Slewo, in her small kitchen in the northeastern suburbs of Detroit on Jan. 20, 2017.
“Your president is a racist,” Ashourina shot back. “I can’t look at your face when you’re saying that his plan for the economy outweighs the horrible things he’s saying about humans.”
The argument got so heated that Ashourina’s big sister Ashley physically inserted herself between the two, telling her father to leave the house while everyone cooled down.
Warda later apologized to his daughter, and the two made up.
But just a few months later, Ashourina’s worst fears about what Trump’s election would mean for their Iraqi Christian family came true. On a hot Sunday in June, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents fanned out in the Detroit suburbs, picking up more than 100 Iraqi immigrants as they made their way home from churches or family lunches. One of them was Ashourina’s father…
http://apps.bostonglobe.com/nation/politics/2019/10/voters-2020-election/michigan/madison-heights/
Governor
3741 of 3934 precincts reporting – 95%
absentee reporting – 61 of 64 parishes
Votes
579,045 John Bel Edwards (DEM) 46%
10,221 Oscar “Omar” Dantzler (DEM) 1%
346,554 “Eddie” Rispone (REP) 28%
298,609 Ralph Abraham (REP) 24%
10,286 Patrick “Live Wire” Landry (REP) 1%
9,396 Gary Landrieu (IND) 1%
Total:
1,254,111
Down ballot, the race for Sec. of State will go to a runoff, while absolute majorities (requiring no run-off) were won by the Republican candidates for Lt-Gov, Atty-Gen.. Treasurer, Commissioner of Insurance and Commissioner of Agriculture & Forestry.