Royal Air Force Tornado jet aircraft ©
David Moir/Reuters
g2 - Lebih
awal daripada undi untuk mengembangkan operasi udara di UK terhadap Negara
Islam (IS) ke Syria, Setiausaha Pertahanan British berkata serangan pengganas
sama ke Paris dan Brussels boleh 'mudah berlaku di London. Beliau menyeru
serangan udara pencegahan pengganas di Syria.
Dalam
temu bual eksklusif dengan Telegraph, Britain Setiausaha Pertahanan Michael
Fallon berkata: "Ancaman ke UK adalah sangat tinggi. Serangan besar
kemungkinan jadi kita perlu bertindak balas."
"Apa
yang berlaku di Paris dan Brussels dengan mudah boleh berlaku di London,"
kata Fallon, sambil menambah bahawa ia boleh juga menjadi Manchester atau
Glasgow.
Setiausaha
Pertahanan menggesa terhadap menarik tumbukan terhadap Negara Islam (IS, bekas
ISIS/ISIL) pengganas.
"Ini
bukan orang yang anda boleh berunding dengan. Anda hanya boleh berurusan dengan
mereka dengan kekerasan, "katanya.
Danger is imminent, we need to
bomb Syria - UK defense secretary . . .
Ahead of
the vote on expanding the UK’s air operation against Islamic State to Syria, the
British defense secretary said terror attacks similar to Paris and Brussels
could ‘easily happen’ in London. He called for preventive airstrikes on
terrorists in Syria.
In an
exclusive interview with the Telegraph, Britain’s Defence Secretary Michael Fallon
said: “The threat to the UK is extremely high. An attack is highly likely so we
have to respond.”
“What
happened in Paris and Brussels could easily happen in London,” Fallon said,
adding that it could as well be Manchester or Glasgow.
The
defense secretary urged against pulling punches against Islamic State (IS,
former ISIS/ISIL) terrorists.
“These
aren't people you can negotiate with. You can only deal with them by force,” he
said.
Britain's Secretary of State for Defence Michael
Fallon (Setiausaha Britain Negara bagi Pertahanan Michael Fallon) © Stefan
Wermuth/Reuters
Tentera
Udara Diraja (RAF) telah pun "membuat perbezaan di Iraq," kata
Fallon, sambil menambah "kita perlu hentam ISIL lebih keras dan menangani
kultus kematian ini sekali dan untuk semua."
Wawancara
itu Setiausaha Pertahanan datang sehari selepas "Jangan Mengebom
Syria" bantahan besar-besaran di London, di mana beribu-ribu penunjuk
perasaan turun ke jalan untuk menyuarakan pendapat mereka dalam perhimpunan
yang dianjurkan oleh hentikan gabungan Perang.
The Royal
Air Force (RAF) is already “making a difference in Iraq,” Fallon said, adding
“we need to hit ISIL harder and deal with this death cult once and for all.”
The
defense secretary’s interview comes a day after “Don’t Bomb Syria” mass
protests in London, where thousands of protesters took to the streets to make
their voices heard in a rally organized by the Stop the War coalition.
READ
MORE: Don’t Bomb Syria! Thousands protest against proposed UK military action http://on.rt.com/6xvi
Perdana
Menteri, David Cameron telah merancang untuk bom Syria untuk bulan2 sekarang,
tetapi ia adalah pemimpin Buruh Jeremy Corbyn yang mungkin mencuri guruh
Perdana Menteri.
Corbyn
telah menentang inisiatif Tory ini untuk memberi tumpuan semula usaha Britain
dalam gabungan Negeri diketuai Amerika Syarikat yang anti-Islam dari Iraq ke
Syria, dengan harapan untuk meyakinkan Ahli Parlimen Buruh menentang
pengembaraan tentera kerajaan Cameron di undi dalam Commons minggu depan. Walau
bagaimanapun, ramai ahli Buruh kelihatan bersedia untuk menyebelahi kerajaan.
"Saya
harap semua Ahli Parlimen akan mencapai berat sehingga hujah-hujah. Mereka
perlu melindungi kita di sini di Britain, untuk bertindak balas kepada resolusi
PBB dan seruan Perancis untuk membantu, "kata Fallon dalam satu wawancara.
BACA lebih
lanjut: Cameron peraturan daripada Pasukan Darat British dalam kes untuk
serangan udara Syria (READ
MORE: Cameron rules out British ground troops in case for Syria airstrikes)
Awal
minggu ini, Menteri Pertahanan Perancis, Jean-Yves Le Drian menggesa London
untuk mengembangkan serangan udara terhadap Negara Islam (IS) ke Syria.
Sehingga kini, pesawat perang British menarik IS di Iraq dalam rangka gabungan
itu diketuai Amerika Syarikat menentang pengganas.
"Kita
perlu keupayaan pertahanan British untuk memenangi peperangan ini. Tentera
Udara Diraja sudah dalam tindakan ke atas Iraq. Penglibatannya atas Syria akan
membuat perbezaan praktikal, "kata menteri Perancis menulis dalam artikel
yang diterbitkan dalam Guardian.
"Adalah
menjadi harapan Perancis bahawa tentera British tidak lama lagi akan berganding
bahu dengan rakan-rakan mereka Perancis untuk mengambil perjuangan ini untuk tengah-tengah
ISIS," kepada "merendahkan dan, akhirnya, untuk memusnahkannya,"
kata menteri itu.
RAF
adalah, sebenarnya, sudah ada dalam ruang udara Syria, dalam bentuk MQ-9 Reaper
Drone Britain Ia telah digunakan untuk menyediakan pengawasan untuk gelombang
serangan udara Perancis di Raqqa di Syria, kubu kuat Negara Islam, di
tengah-tengah Paris serangan, Kementerian Pertahanan UK berkata.
BACA
lebih lanjut: RAF Reaper berdengung menyokong Perancis serangan udara anti-ISIS
di Raqqa (READ MORE:
RAF Reaper drone supports French anti-ISIS airstrikes in Raqqa)
Kementerian
Pertahanan berkata 305 militan Negara Islam (IS) terbunuh dalam UK serangan Drone
di Iraq dalam tempoh 12 bulan lepas.
BACA lebih
lanjut: British tuntutan ketenteraan drones membunuh 305 pejuang ISIS di 1yr,
tiada korban awam (READ MORE:
British military claims drones killed 305 ISIS fighters in 1yr, no civilian
casualties)
Prime
Minister David Cameron has been planning to bomb Syria for months now, but it
is Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn who might steal the PM’s thunder.
Corbyn
has been opposing the Tory’s initiative to refocus Britain’s effort in the
US-led anti-Islamic State coalition from Iraq to Syria, hoping to convince
Labour MPs to oppose the Cameron government’s military adventure in a vote in
the
Commons
next week. However, many Labour members appear to be ready to side with the
government.
“I hope all MPs will weigh up the arguments. They
need to keep us safe here in Britain, to respond to the United Nations
resolution and to France's call for help,” Fallon
said in an interview.
Earlier
this week, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called on London to
expand its air attacks against Islamic State into Syria. As of now, British
warplanes are striking IS in Iraq within the framework of the US-led coalition
against the terrorists.
“We need British defense capabilities to win this
war. The Royal Air Force is already in action over Iraq. Its involvement over
Syria would make a practical difference,” the
French minister wrote in an article published in the Guardian.
“It is France’s hope that British forces will soon
be working side by side with their French counterparts to take this fight to
the very heart of ISIS,” to “degrade and, ultimately, to destroy it,” the
minister said.
The RAF
is, in fact, already present in Syrian airspace, in the form of Britain’s MQ-9
Reaper drone It was used to provide surveillance for a wave of French
airstrikes on Raqqa in Syria, Islamic State’s stronghold, in the wake of the
Paris attacks, the UK Ministry of Defence says.
The
Ministry of Defence says 305 Islamic State militants have been killed in UK
drone strikes in Iraq over the last 12 months.
