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MowCowWhoHow III

(2,103 posts) Wed Oct 26, 2016, 09:05 AM Oct 2016

Spain reviewing refueling permission for Russian warships

Source: Reuters

Spain is reviewing a request by a Russian flotilla to refuel in its North African enclave of Ceuta, the foreign ministry said as Madrid drew criticism from NATO allies for assisting warships they believe could be used to target civilians in Syria.

NATO is monitoring the eight-strong carrier battle group from northern Russia on its way to the eastern Mediterranean, where alliance officials fear it will launch fighter bombers to hit rebels in northwestern Syria early in November.

"The latest stopover requests are being reviewed at the moment based on the information we are receiving from our allies and from Russian authorities," the ministry said in a statement.

In Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said it was up to Spain to decide whether to refuel a Russian tanker traveling with the carrier battle group, but that NATO had expressed its concern to allies, including Madrid.

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Spain reviewing refueling permission for Russian warships (Original Post) MowCowWhoHow III Oct 2016 OP

Russia Drops Spain Ship Refueling Request Amid NATO Uproar Eugene Oct 2016 #1

Please don't cooperate with invaders/carpet bombers Spain, you won't be able to hide evidence Sunlei Oct 2016 #2

Eugene

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1. Russia Drops Spain Ship Refueling Request Amid NATO Uproar

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Wed Oct 26, 2016, 01:25 PM

Oct 2016

Source: Associated Press

Russia Drops Spain Ship Refueling Request Amid NATO Uproar

By LORNE COOK, ASSOCIATED PRESS BRUSSELS — Oct 26, 2016, 11:48 AM ET

Russia on Wednesday withdrew a request to refuel a fleet of Russian warships in Spain, as Britain and NATO allies piled pressure on Madrid over concerns that the ships could be used to ramp up air attacks in Syria.

Vasily Nioradze, spokesman at the Russian embassy in Madrid, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the request has been canceled, but he gave no details.

The Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and a task group of support vessels have steamed through the North Sea and English Channel in recent days heading to the Mediterranean Sea. NATO allies, including Britain, had been following the small flotilla. Some of the Russian ships had been due to take on supplies and fuel in Spain's North African enclave of Cueta. It remains unclear how many would have been in real need of fuel.

At talks between NATO defense ministers in Brussels, U.K. Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said Britain "would be extremely concerned if a NATO member should consider assisting a Russian carrier group that might end up bombing Syria."

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Sunlei

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2. Please don't cooperate with invaders/carpet bombers Spain, you won't be able to hide evidence

Reply to MowCowWhoHow III (Original post)

Wed Oct 26, 2016, 02:35 PM

Oct 2016

by 'pretending' you're "neutral" again.

José María Finat y Escrivá de Romaní, Franco's chief of security, issued an official order dated May 13, 1941 to all provincial governors requesting a list of all Jews, both local and foreign, present in their districts. After the list of six thousand names was compiled, Romani was appointed Spain's ambassador to Germany, enabling him to deliver it personally to Himmler. Following the defeat of Germany in 1945, the Spanish government attempted to destroy all evidence of cooperation with the Nazis, but this official order survived.

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