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“In the 1990s Gulen’s Madrasas sheltered 130 CIA agents" in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan”
By Sibel Edmonds, Boiling Frogs Post January 6, 2011 Yesterday Washington Post’s Jeff Stein published a very interesting but incomplete story regarding a recently published memoir by former Turkish Intelligence Chief Osman Nuri Gundes. Here is the title of his post: Islamic group is CIA front, ex-Turkish Intel chief says. For those of you familiar with my case and what I’ve been covering here at Boiling Frogs Post, this exposé is ‘old news’ but nonetheless a vindication. As for those who are first-timers here or not that familiar with my case,this is an opportunity for a bit of background and to learn a few important points and facts that you won’t be getting from this ‘half-picture’ presented by the Washington Post. In his memoir, Gundes claims that Fethullah Gulen’s worldwide Islamic movement based in Pennsylvania has been providing cover for the CIA since the mid-1990s, and that in the 90s, the movement "sheltered 130 CIA agents" at its schools in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan alone. Now, as I’ve done before, I am going to praise Jeff Stain, whom I know and like, for his solid journalistic talent and background and give him a few credits for actually covering this story (it is one of those ‘thou shall not cover’ areas in an agreement between the US mainstream media and the US government), before I bash the piece, its half-a.. coverage, incomplete background, and it’s incredibly lenient treatment of a shady-dubious-charlatan, a major player in this operation yet a major denier when confronted by Stein; Graham Fuller. Again, as before, I am going to blame it on the unfortunate situation of ‘having to sell your journalistic soul to earn your living.’ Let’s start with Gulen. The only background provided on Gulen is the following with only one link which takes you to Gulen’s marketing site: …an influential former Turkish imam by the name of Fethullah Gulen, has 600 schools and 4 million followers around the world. There is no mention of Gulen’s decade-long ‘wanted’ status in Turkey (until recently), no mention of the ban on Gulen and his Madrasas in several Central Asian countries, no mention of various investigations of Gulen by other western countries, no mention of the unknown sources of his billions of dollars…As we all know except for a very few, and by that I mean a number in 100s if that, no one in this country has ever heard of this guy with his billions, with his castle in Pennsylvania, his hundreds of Madrasas, now hundreds of US charter schools, his dubious businesses….Yet, for an article as serious as this (Madrasas and mosques as CIA operation centers in Central Asia), the central figure in the story has been given one sentence; no history, no relevant facts… Those of you who have not read our previous commentaries and updates on this topic can check them out here, here, here, and here, and below is a list of a few Gulen related facts totally (mysteriously?) absent from Washington Post piece: -In 1999 Gulen defected to the US shortly before his scandalous speech, where he is heard calling on his supporters to "work patiently and to creep silently into the institutions in order to seize power in the state", became public. Turkish prosecutors demanded a ten-year sentence for Gülen for having "founded an organization that sought to destroy the secular apparatus of state and establish a theocratic state". Mr. Gulen has not left the United States since. -The Netherlands has taken major steps to cut funding to all Gülen associated organizations and is investigating his operations. The Turkish Fethullah Gülen movement is really an Islamic fundamentalist group, claims Rotterdam council member Anita Fähmel (Leefbaar Rotterdam) on the basis of her own study of the Turkish movement. -The Russian government has banned all Gülen schools and the activities of the Nur sect in Russia. Over 20 Turkish followers of Gulen were deported from Russia in 2002-2004. -In 1999 Uzbekistan closed all Gulen’s Madrasas and shortly afterward arrested eight journalists who were graduates of Gulen schools, and found them guilty of setting up an illegal religious group and of involvement in an extremist organization. -In Turkmenistan, government authorities have placed Gulen’s schools under close scrutiny and have ordered them to scrap the history of religion from curriculums.Now, back to the story and its other major short coming: Apparently Mr. Stein was not able to reach Gulen for comment, so he moved on to his CIA sources with ‘long ties to Central Asia.’ First he quotes his first source, Former CIA operative Robert Baer, chief of the agency’s Central Asia and Caucasus operations from 1995 through 1997, who called the allegations bogus. However, Mr. Baer added: “It’s possible that the CIA turned around this ship after I left.” I don’t have a problem with Baer’s response. Based on what I personally know, US Islamization Operations in Central Asia via Gulen started in late 1997, early 1998. That brings me to what truly set me off, Stein’s second source and actually a character who is pointed to by the new memoir’s author - Graham Fuller: Graham Fuller, a former CIA station chief in Kabul and author of “The Future of Political Islam,” threw cold water on Gundes’s allegations about Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.Next, Jeff Stein very gently confronts Fuller with the fact that according to the memoir and related media coverage Gulen obtained his US residence permit with his (Fuller’s) help, and Fuller denies it and says that’s ‘wrong,’: “What I did do,” Fuller explained, “was write a letter to the FBI in early 2006 …at a time when Gulen's enemies were pressing for his extradition to Turkey from the U.S. In the post 9/11 environment, they began spreading the word that he was a dangerous radical. In my statement to the FBI I offered my views…that I did not believe he posed a security threat of any kind to the U.S. I still believe that today, as do a large body of scholars on contemporary Islam.”First of all, there have been tens if not hundreds of articles establishing Graham Fuller as one of Gulen’s official references to the court for his residency, you can view some of these here, here, here. This quote comes from Foreign Policy Journal: Fethullah Gulen became a green card holder despite serious opposition from FBI and from Homeland Security Department. Former CIA officers (formally and informally) such as Graham Fuller and Morton Abromovitz were some of the prominent references in Gulen's green card application.Next is the question of why. Why and in what capacity has Fuller been this active, this supportive, of Gulen? I am talking about this voluntary ‘I wrote a letter to the FBI on Gulen’ line: …was write a letter to the FBI in early 2006 …at a time when Gulen's enemies were pressing for his extradition to Turkey from the U.S. In the post 9/11 environment, they began spreading the word that he was a dangerous radical. In my statement to the FBI I offered my views…that I did not believe he posed a security threat of any kind to the U.S. I still believe that today, as do a large body of scholars on contemporary Islam.And Stein let that slide?! I’d quickly ask: ‘how often do you write to the FBI on people you think have been unfairly targeted or treated by them?!’ Last but not least on Graham Fuller is my own on-the-record, more accurately, on-the-album, naming of individuals implicated (criminally) in my case, thus protected via invocation of the State Secrets Privilege: Coinciding with the publication of the first article in a series in Britain’s Sunday Times covering some of her allegations, former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds posts a gallery of 18 photos of people and three images of question marks on her website, justacitizen.com. The 21 images are divided into three groups, and the page is titled “State Secrets Privilege Gallery.”… “The third group includes people who all appear to work at think tanks—primarily WINEP, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy”: Graham E. Fuller—RAND Corporation, David Makovsky—WINEP, Alan Makovsky—WINEP, ? (box with question mark), ? (box with question mark), Yusuf Turani (president-in-exile, Turkestan), Professor Sabri Sayari (Georgetown, WINEP), and Mehmet Eymur (former head of the Turkish intelligence agency MIT).I am going to leave you with the following excerpts from my interview with Phil Giraldi for the Am Con Magazine in 2009, on Gulen, CIA Central Asia operations & the use of Islam and Mujahideen there-1997-2001: GIRALDI: You also have information on al-Qaeda, specifically al-Qaeda in Central Asia and Bosnia. You were privy to conversations that suggested the CIA was supporting al-Qaeda in central Asia and the Balkans, training people to get money, get weapons, and this contact continued until 9/11… EDMONDS: I don’t know if it was CIA. There were certain forces in the U.S. government who worked with the Turkish paramilitary groups, including Abdullah Çatli’s group,Fethullah Gülen. GIRALDI: Well, that could be either Joint Special Operations Command or CIA. EDMONDS: Maybe in a lot of cases when they said State Department, they meant CIA? GIRALDI: When they said State Department, they probably meant CIA. EDMONDS: Okay. So these conversations, between 1997 and 2001, had to do with a Central Asia operation that involved bin Laden. Not once did anybody use the word “al-Qaeda.” It was always “mujahideen,” always “bin Laden” and, in fact, not “bin Laden” but “bin Ladens” plural. There were several bin Ladens who were going on private jets to Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. The Turkish ambassador in Azerbaijan worked with them. There were bin Ladens, with the help of Pakistanis or Saudis, under our management. Marc Grossman was leading it, 100 percent, bringing people from East Turkestan into Kyrgyzstan, from Kyrgyzstan to Azerbaijan, from Azerbaijan some of them were being channeled to Chechnya, some of them were being channeled to Bosnia. From Turkey, they were putting all these bin Ladens on NATO planes. People and weapons went one way, drugs came back. GIRALDI: Was the U.S. government aware of this circular deal? EDMONDS: 100 percent. A lot of the drugs were going to Belgium on NATO planes. After that, they went to the UK, and a lot came to the U.S. via military planes to distribution centers in Chicago and Paterson, New Jersey. Turkish diplomats who would never be searched were coming with suitcases of heroin.Wikileaks cables shed some light on the larger picture: Turkey cable: In response, we will take additional steps to protect local contacts and stay vigilant against regime efforts to track our interactions with them, while redoubling efforts to expand the range of Turkey-based contacts willing to share Iran-related insights.According to the source below, included in these Bosnian and Central Asian Islamic fighters were 11 or more of the alleged 9/11 hijackers. And if “elements in the US Government” supported these fighters for some agenda, this seems a lot closer to 9/11 than the 80s in Afghanistan. With regard to what the agenda might have been for these “elements” for the NATO Bosnian war, where these fighters fought the same enemies of NATO, was an interview with Prof. Chomsky who says that the justification for this war to “stop a genocide” was wrong, the genocides pointed to by his reading of the media at the time started after the NATO bombing. The real reason for this war in his opinion is that Serbia “was the last corner of Europe which has not subordinated itself to the US-run neoliberal programs, so it had to be eliminated.” A definite alternate agenda seems likely if he is right about the genocide starting after the bombings even if his opinion on the reasoning for the war is wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEhgwdJldeU http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a96hijackerschechnya#a96hijackerschechnya Court Documents Shed Light on CIA Illegal Operations in Central Asia Using Islam & MadrassasSibel Edmonds State Secrets Gallery Connects Pipeline Politics, Madrassas & the Turkish ProxiesBy lukery.blogspot.com July 10, 2008 In a recent immigration court case involving Turkish Islamic Leader, Fetullah Gulen, US prosecutors exposed an illegal, covert, CIA operation involving the intentional Islamization of Central Asia.This operation has been ongoing since the fall of the Soviet Union in an ongoing Cold War to control the vast energy resources of the region - Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan - estimated to be worth $3 trillion. Court Case The scene for these dramatic disclosures was an application for a Green Card in the Eastern District Court in Philadelphia by "controversial Islamic scholar" Fetullah Gulen. Gulen, who has been living in the United States since 1998, argued that he qualified for the Green Card as "an extraordinarily talented academic." The court case was covered extensively by the Turkish press. Leading Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported: "Gülen's financial resources were detailed in the public prosecutor's arguments, which claimed that Saudi Arabia, Iran, the Turkish government, and the Central Intelligence Agency, or CIA, were behind the Gülen movement. It stated that some businessmen in Ankara donated 10 to 70 percent of their annual income to the movement and that it corresponded to $20,000 to $300,000 per year per person. It added that one businessman in Istanbul donated $4-5 million each year and that young people graduating from Gülen's schools donated between $2,000 and $5,000 each year."Another leading Turkish newspaper reported (translated by Rastibini) Among the reasons given by the US State Department's attorneys as to why Gülen's permanent residence application was refused, is the suspicion of CIA financing of his movement.Who is Gulen? Fetullah Gulen is "a 67-year-old Turkish Sufi cleric, author and theoretician," according to a recent profile in theUK's Prospect magazine. Prospect ran a public poll last month to find the world's greatest living intellectual. Gulen 'won' the poll after his newspapers alerted readers to the poll's existence. Gulen is also the leader of the so-called 'Gulen Movement' which claims to have seven million followers worldwide. The Gulen Movement has extensive business interests, including "publishing activities (books, newspapers, and magazines), construction, healthcare, and education." Gulen and the CIA The fact that the prosecutors in the court cite documents that claim that Gulen has been financed in part by the CIA is remarkable for a number of reasons, even though there have been strong suspicions about the CIA's involvement in the Gulen Movement for years. The Russian intelligence agency, the FSB, has repeatedly taken action against the Gulen movement for acting as a front organization for the CIA. In December 2002, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported: "Russian secret service claims: Turkish religious brotherhood works for CIARussia has banned all of Gulen's madrassas, and in April of this year, banned the Nurcu Movement completely. Gulen's Madrassas The Gulen Movement founded madrassas all over the world in the 1990's, most of them in the newly independent Turkic republics of Central Asia - Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan - and Russia. These madrassas appear to be used as a front for enabling CIA and State Department officials to operate undercover in the region, with many of the teachers operating under diplomatic passports. Why Central Asia? Central Asia, with its vast energy wealth, is of major interest to US oil and gas companies. The region is also of key strategic interest in the 'Great Game' as Russia, China and the US compete for dwindling energy supplies. The US government has been using Turkey as a proxy to gain control over Central Asia via Pan-Turkic nationalism and religion. Sibel Edmonds Case Twenty six people wrote reference letters supporting Gulen's application for a Green Card - most notably ex-CIA agent George Fidas, former Turkish ambassador Morton Abramowitz, and former CIA Deputy Director Graham Fuller who appears in Sibel Edmonds' State Secrets Privilege Gallery. I called Sibel Edmonds to comment on the latest revelations. She said: You've got to look at the big picture. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the super powers began to fight over control of Central Asia, particularly the oil and gas wealth, as well as the strategic value of the region.Many of the people in Sibel's State Secrets Privilege Gallery are closely connected to Gulen, and each other, as well as the operations that Sibel mentions. Many of them have actively advocated for using Muslims to further their own needs - from Turkistan to Albania and Central Asia. Marc Grossman, former State Department #3 and former Turkish ambassador, and one of the key named individuals in Sibel's case, is currently receiving $1.2 million per annum from Ihlas Holding, a Gulen-linkedTurkish conglomerate. Sibel has previously referred to Ihlas as 'semi-legitimate' and 'alleged shady' - and emphasized that Grossman's current payoff is a result of services performed while he was in office. Grossman's predecessor as ambassador in Turkey was Morton Abramowitz - in fact, Grossman actually worked under Abramowitz in Ankara for a number of years. During that period, the US opened an espionage investigation into activities at the embassy involving Major Douglas Dickerson, a weapons procurement specialist for Central Asia. Dickerson and his wife, an FBI translator, later became famous when they tried to recruit Sibel to spy for this criminal network. Abramowitz, who is not listed in Sibel's State Secrets Privilege Gallery, wrote a letter in support of Gulen for his immigration case. He has long advocated the use of Islamic fighters in furtherance of US interests, including the Afghan mujaheddin against the Soviets and the Kosovo Liberation Armyduring the war in the Balkans, acting as an advisor to the Kosovar Albanians. Another player from Sibel's Gallery is Enver Yusuf Turani - Prime Minister of East Turkistan, a 'country' recognized by only one country, the United States. East Turkistan, aka Xinjiang, is officially a part of China, and home to the Uyghur people and the "Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement," a UN-nominated terrorist organization "funded mainly by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network and received training, support and personnel from both the al-Qaeda and the Taliban regime of Afghanistan." In fact, the Uyghurs constitute a significant percentage of detainees - at least 22 - at Guantanamo Bay since 2001. Five of those have been set free, and were eventually sent to Albania, amid muchcontroversy. According to TurkPulse: "One of the main tools Washington is using in this affair in order to get Turkey involved in the Xinjiang affair is some Turkish Americans, primarily the Fetullah Gulen team who are prosecuted in absentia in Turkey for trying to found a theocratic State order in this country because he runs his activities from the United States, his protégé. Another Turk used in this affair is Enver Yusuf Turani, who is the self styled Foreign and Prime Minister of the East Turkistan Government in exile. He has been an American citizen since 1998. Enver Yusuf is in close cooperation with Fetullah Gulen... Their activities for the government in exile are based on a report entitled “the Xinjiang Project” drafted by Graham Fuller in 1998 for the Rand Corporation and revised in 2003 under the title “the Xinjiang Problem.” It emphasises the importance of the Xinjiang Autonomous region in encircling China and provides a strategy for it."In fact, Abramowitz and Fuller were key players in the establishment of 'East Turkistan,' "proclaiming the government in exile within 4-5 months, starting in May (2004) and completing the proclamation in mid- September. The ceremony was held at Capitol Hill under American flags in Washington."Two others from Sibel's gallery, Sabri Sayari and Alan Makovsky, have been similarly involved with Gulen, Fuller, and Abramowitz - co-authoring books and articles, making joint appearances, dinners etc. Illegal Operations Earlier I quoted Sibel saying "And I want to emphasize that this is "illegal" because most, if not all, of the funding for these operations is not congressionally approved funding, but it comes from illegal activities."Where does this funding come from? Narcotics trafficking, nuclear black market, weapons smuggling, and terrorist activities. As Sibel makes clear in her The Highjacking of a Nation article, the management of the heroin industry from the farms in Afghanistan to the streets of London and elsewhere "requires highly sophisticated networks," from the protection of the convoys from Afghanistan through Central Asia to their final destination, to the laundering of the billions of dollars in proceeds in Central Asian casinos and financial institutions in Dubai and Cyprus. "So, who are the real lords of Afghanistan’s poppy fields?" Sibel asks. The heroin trade finances al-Qaeda and the Taliban, but they aren't the real lords of the poppy fields. Journalist Ahmed Rashid, author of "Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia " and other similar books about these issues recently noted on Democracy Now that a "cartel" controls Afghanistan's heroin, which supplies 93% of global heroin supply. Sibel has been trying to tell us about these operations for years, but has been gagged by the State Secrets Privilege which was invoked citing certain 'sensitive foreign diplomatic and business relationships.'These 'sensitive relationships' have now been exposed to a degree, thanks to the immigration case against Mr Gulen - one of the Turkish operatives who have been fronting for the CIA in the Islamization of Central Asia, incorporating drug trafficking, money laundering, and the nuclear black market, and the convergence with terrorism. One Last Question At the end of our interview, Sibel asked me to leave you with this question: "After 911, the US Government engaged in mock investigations and shut down many small Islamic charities and organizations, giving the appearance of action in the so-called 'War on Terror.' Why did they harbor, support and resource Fethullah Gulen's $25 billion madrassa-and-mosque-establishment efforts throughout the Central Asian region and the Balkans?"Related: The Illuminati is Fomenting World War Three by Stirring Up Conflict Between Political Zionists and the Leaders of the Muslim World; Their End Goal is the Destruction of Both Christianity and Atheism and the Universal Manifestation of the Doctrine of Lucifer Posted by magiclougie at Sunday, April 03, 2016
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Re: Gulen movement: Turkey's third power In Turkey, the FGC appeals to students across various educational |
It is possible to think of the FGC structure as three concentric circles comprising of sympathisers, members and workers. The outermost circle has sympathisers, including people who attend weekly discussion sessions held at FGC homes and others, such as the high school students, who receive FGS services and charity benefits. The middle circle has members, including businessmen whose donations support the outer circle's activities, as well as pay for the salaries of the inner circle. This inner circle includes workers, such as teachers, journalists, lobbyists and executives who work in FGC schools, think-tanks, lobby and business groups, and media arms, among others. The workers are mostly committed members of the movement. Some of them seem to have joined the FGC through the group's cramming schools, high schools and boarding homes in the 1970s and the 1980s when Gulen was a preacher in Turkish mosques. Known as the Altin Nesil (Golden Generation), this group can be considered Gulenist disciples. The three circles are enmeshed into one another. For example, FGC businesses advertise heavily on FGC media, while FGC-owned media runs human interest stories and profiles of FGC sympathisers, businesses and schools. FGC members and sympathisers take holidays in FGC-owned hotels and shop at FGC-owned stores and invest in FGC financial institutions. Graduates of FGC cramming schools funded by FGC businesses often serve as teachers in FGC schools overseas. Finally, FGC media, funded by FGC businesses, reacts sharply to any criticism directed at Fethullah Gulen. One voice, two messages The FGC rose to global prominence in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks in the US. The movement takes pride in promoting tolerance towards and inter-faith dialogue with Christianity and Judaism, which are considered by Muslims as faiths of the book - religions recognised by Islam. The FGC relays its brand of tolerance and ecumenical dialogue through conferences at prestigious institutions, FGC and non-FGC alike, as well as coverage in FGC media and through meetings between Gulen and Jewish and Christian religious leaders. The FGC takes the Islam-wide characteristic of tolerance towards Christianity and Judaism, marketing it as an exclusive trademark of the movement. The FGC's three messages of ecumenism, interfaith dialogue and tolerance matured after Gulen left Turkey for the US to escape political persecution. Since then, the movement has explicitly stayed away from anti-Americanism, a telltale sign of Islamist movements globally. The movement's three messages, communicated through English language outlets such as Today's Zaman have been welcome in the West, including in the US and the UK. The FGC promotes inter-faith dialogue and ecumenism also in Turkey, sometimes to the ire of hardline Islamists. However, the movement's English language outlets serving the West, such as Today's Zaman, and Turkish language press outlets serving Turkey, such as Zaman, have different editorial lines on the FGC messages. While Today's Zaman stays loyal to this message, Zaman often strays away from it. For example, on 15 October 2008, Zaman ran a news story alleging that the current global economic downturn started when USD40 billion was transferred from Lehman Brothers to Israel. Although Zaman and Today's Zaman are twin papers, this important allegation did not find room in Today's Zaman. In this regard, examples hinting at two FGC voices, an external one for the West, and an internal one for Turkey, are plenty. On 8 November 2008, Zaman ran a story about a Jewish family in Istanbul that has converted to Islam. The story suggested that the family had been painfully ostracised from the Turkish Jewish community, casting that community in an unsympathetic light. That story was also not featured in Today's Zaman read in the West. Likewise, the two papers diverged in their coverage of the 2008-09 Israel-Gaza war. On 31 December 2008, Zaman ran a story with the headline: Children hauling garbage are being targeted with missiles, while this headline or its story was entirely missing from Today's Zaman on the same day, or subsequent days. FGC, AKP and the military Traditionally, the FGC has supported many political parties and stayed non-partisan. However, since 2001, following the establishment of the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi: AKP), the movement has provided solid support to the AKP. While this has led many people to associate the movement with the AKP, that appears to be a false premise. Although the AKP and FGC both stand for socially conservative values and mix Islam and politics, they are competing political organisations. Moreover, there seems to be at least some ideological competition between the AKP and FGC. The AKP cadres view the FGC's singular emphasis of ecumenism and inter-faith dialogue as insincere, while FGC members view the AKP as a coarse movement. Still, the goal of holding political power in Turkey unites the FGC and the AKP in an alliance of convenience. For analytical purposes, it could be said that currently the AKP and the FGC are in a symbiotic co-existence. The AKP provides the FGC with an important asset, a ruling party that facilitates the appointment of FGC members to key bureaucratic positions, as well as the sheltering of FGC institutions. For example, during his term as Turkey's foreign minister, President Abdullah Gul issued a classified circular to Turkish diplomatic posts, encouraging them to attend events at FGC institutions and help such organisations. Meanwhile, the FGC provides the AKP with money, media support and voter mobilisation. Since the AKP came to power in 2002, FGC members and sympathisers are known to have been appointed to a number of important positions in Turkish government, including ministries, as well as key positions in the Turkish police, while many lower level and non-strategic positions in Emniyet remain in the hands of non-FGC people. In this regard, some in Turkey believe the FGC controls the technologically apt intelligence branch of the police, as well as the strategic personnel and overseas relations departments. The FGC's influence in the Emniyet and a significant part of Turkish domestic intelligence apparatus is a contentious issue, challenging the movement's claim to be a spiritual organisation. Critics and opponents of the FGC and the AKP, even some top brass in the Turkish military, fear that they are under surveillance by the FGC through the Turkish police. Giving credit to such claims, intelligence leaks involving the Turkish military often start in FGC-owned newspapers, such as Zaman. Meanwhile, some alarmist secular Turks assert without proof that the FGC is funded by the CIA to promote moderate Islam in Turkey as well as in Central Eurasia - it is interesting to note that in 2007, Russia started a crackdown on FGC infrastructure for its 'extremist' nature. The FGC has a tense relationship with the Turkish military. Despite its presence in the Emniyet and across the Turkish bureaucracy, the FGC lacks representation in the Turkish armed forces. This is because the Turkish military bi-annually reviews its staff, discharging personnel associated with Islamist groups and tariqats, most notably the FGC. The military's hardnosed attitude to FGC members has turned the FGC into its critic. Since 2007, FGC-owned media has been lambasting the Turkish military. This media has been prominently featuring allegations against the military, as well as leaks from Emniyet about the likely involvement of retired and active duty military personnel in a coup plot against the AKP government in the Ergenekon case, an investigation of the clandestine nationalist Ergenekon organisation that is currently being reviewed in a Turkish court. In July 2008, using intelligence files leaked from Emniyet, Zaman and other FGC-owned media gave prominent coverage to Ergenekon-related news, implicating the military's hand in the alleged coup plot. Turkey's third force Lately, while pro-AKP newspapers have shunned criticising the military, the FGC-owned media continues to take issue with it. This suggests diverging views of the Turkish military between the AKP and FGC. Whereas common wisdom suggests thinking of Turkey as a bipolar world of the 'Islamist block' led by the AKP and the 'secularist block' led by the military, it might be useful to think of Turkey as a three-pronged country composed of the military, the AKP and the FGC. The consolidation of political and economic power in the FGC's hands and the movement's evolving relationship with the AKP and the Turkish military make such an analytical view more plausible. With its own growing base, the FGC might soon feel comfortable to rethink its seven-year symbiotic relationship with the AKP. The FGC seems to want a bigger share of Turkey. The movement will keep confronting the military more vigorously until it manages to get its members and sympathisers into the military. On the other hand, there are at least some signs that on the eve of Turkey's nationwide local elections to be held in March 2009, the FGC might extend limited support to parties other than the AKP in an effort to re-diversify its political base as a choice political strategy should the AKP slip politically. However, this does not mean the FGC will burn bridges with the AKP. Rather, looking at the benefits of a symbiotic relationship with a powerful political party, the movement will continue to support the AKP. In fact, in the unlikely event of a future showdown between the military and the AKP, the FGC would quickly close ranks with the AKP as it did in 2007 when the military issued a warning against the AKP on its website. The FGC is perhaps the best organised grass roots movement in Turkey. Moreover, the group has a vast social and economic organisation, intelligence assets, a global network and a message that appeals to the West, even if that message appears to be mostly for international consumption. The FGC is effectively a third force in Turkish politics, and the world will hear a lot about it in the years to come. -- C. Emre Dogru STRATFOR Intern emre.dogru@stratfor.com +1 512 226 3111 |
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 Wayne Madsen Report: Erdogan behind "false flag" coup |
July 16-18, 2016 -- SPECIAL REPORT. Turkish sources: Erdogan behind "false flag" coup
In orchestrating the coup, Erdogan combined a bit of Adolf Hitler's strategy. Hitler ordered the burning of the Reichstag, blaming it on "Communists," in order to abrogate the German Weimar constitution and grant more powers to himself. By waiting to see who joined the false flag coup, Erdogan also borrowed a page from Hitler after the Operation Valkyrie attempt to kill the fuehrer in a remote control bombing. Hitler waited to address the nation until all the supporters of Valkyrie made themselves known. It was then that Hitler ordered their arrests and executions. Erdogan is now operating as Hitler did in 1944 from East Prussia. Erdogan is ordering the arrests of all those involved in or suspected to have been involved in the coup that was destined to fail. And that makes Erdogan infinitely more dangerous than any actual military junta that would have taken over Turkey to restore secular rule and steer the country away from Erdogan's delusion of Ottoman grandeur. |
| WMR DC sources: U.S. will never extradite Turkish billionaire to Turkey |
| January 27-28, 2015 -- DC sources: U.S. will never extradite Turkish billionaire to Turkey WMR's sources in the Washington, DC foreign press and Congress have informed us that the threat by the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to have the United States extradite the self-exiled Pennsylvania-based Turkish billionaire and moderate Islamic religious leader Fethullah Gulen to Turkey is a non-starter. Although Erdogan intends to have INTERPOL issue an international "Red Notice," or arrest warrant, for Gulen and then seek to have the U.S. Justice Department arrest the Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania resident and extradite him to Turkey, Gulen reportedly has the firm support of "50 members of Congress" who stand ready to fight any attempt by the Obama administration to send the exiled religious and business leader back to Turkey. Among Gulen's chief supporters are Pennsylvania's two Senators, Democrat Bob Casey and Republican Pat Toomey. Also in Gulen's court are Democratic Senators Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Robert Menendez of New Jersey, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Mark Warner of Virginia, and Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Republicans Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Daniel Coats of Indiana. Representatives supporting Gulen include Democrats Debbie Wasserman-Schultz of Florida and Loretta Sanchez of California and Republicans Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida and Dana Rohrabacher of California. An emphatic U.S. "no" to Erdogan's request for Fethullah Gulen's [above] extradition Gulen and Erdogan had been political allies of convenience before Gulen-owned newspapers in Turkey, including Zaman, began criticizing Erdogan's authoritarian and fundamentalist Islamist ways. |
| WMR Gulen charges Ergenekon tied to Afghan heroin smuggling and Cheney |
April 6-7, 2010 -- Gulen charges Ergenekon tied to Afghan heroin smuggling and Cheney Dateline Istanbul -- WMR was told by representatives of the charismatic Turkish Islamic leader Fethullah Gulen, currently living in exile in Pennsylvania in the United States, that the wide-ranging Ergenekon "deep state" in Turkey that has permeated the military, media, and judiciary, has funded itself through the trade in heroin from Afghanistan, through Turkey, to the West. The drug smuggling operation, according to the Gulen circles, has been carried out with the participation of the Turkish Worker's Party (PKK), the Kurdish insurgent group often credited with carrying out terrorist attacks in Turkey that were actually, in many cases, done by Turkish intelligence and military agents in the Ergenekon operation. The Gulen representatives also revealed that it was not possible for the PKK to smuggle drugs from Afghanistan without the active help of the Turkish "police and bureaucracy." Gulen, who WMR has reported to have had his own close dealings with American intelligence and players in the Turkish bureaucracy, is the leader of an Islamic group that is a hybrid of U.S.-style charismatic evangelism in the mold of Billy Graham but with the extensive media and business holdings in the mode of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. Gulen, who preaches love, interfaith dialogue, and non-violence, is a popular figure among the rank-and-file of Turkey. Gulen fled to the United States in 1997 and was later charged by the Turkish government with running a terrorist network. Gulen denied the charge and the case was dismissed in 2007. The President, Prime Minister, and Justice Minister cleared Gulen of all charges brought against him. However, Gulen has chosen to remain in the United States. His supporters claim that Gulen has made a concordat with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) and both Gulen and Erdogan realize that any return of Gulen to Turkey will take attention away from the AKP's agenda. Part of that agenda is to eliminate the last vestiges of Ergenekon, a leftover from what the Gulen representatives claim is the Gladio network in Turkey. Gladio was a NATO operation designed to leave armed "stay behind" networks in NATO and neutral European states in the event of a Soviet invasion and occupation. In Italy, West Germany, Belgium and other nations, Gladio networks were discovered to have been involved in several "false flag" terrorist attacks that were later blamed on leftist elements. On April 5, Turkish police arrested 86 people suspected of being involved in Ergenekon's 2003 plot, code named Operation Sledgehammer, to overthrow Erdogan's government by staging false flag attacks on mosques and shooting down a Turkish jet fighter and blaming the incident on Greece. WMR has learned that Mossad elements were involved heavily in the operation to overthrow Erdogan. Gulen also believes if he were to return to Turkey, his supporters would be targeted by Ergenekon. Relations between Gulen and Erdogan were not always so close. For example, early in his political career, Erdogan was said by the Gulen representatives to have embraced the Islamic concept of suffering of the oppressed rather than freedom. The Gulen camp believes that the suffering of the oppressed is a concept originating in Saudi Arabia among the Wahhabist branch of Islam. However, Erdogan and Gulen now find themselves on the same page politically and in matters of religious tenets. Gulen believes that the AKP is the only party that defends democratic values and that there is no alternative and that the AKP, which Gulen believes has gravitated to his ideas, now stands alone in defending democratic values. On August 6, 2009, WMR reported on the deposition of former FBI Turkish translator Sibel Edmonds. In her testimony, Edmonds described Turkey's "Deep State" intelligence apparatus in the United States. WMR reported, "The Turkish Deep State involves shadowy organizations, including the Fetullah Gulen Islamic movement, which was linked to the CIA by Justice Department prosecutors; Ergenekon, a Turkish intelligence operation that is accused of carrying out false flag terrorist attacks in Turkey and which has been linked to Israel's Mossad, and the right-wing Grey Wolves, a group that, along with Ergenekon, appears to have grown out of America's 'Gladio' Cold War-era 'stay behind' network." There is some background that suggests that the Gulen movement was involved to some degree with the Turkish Deep State. The Gulenists are an outgrowth of the Said Nursi movement. Nursi was another charismatic Islamic figure who preached against materialism but also against communism. During the Cold War, the Nursi sect attracted the attention of the CIA, which found an ally in pushing for Turkey's membership in NATO, CENTO, and participation in the Korean War. On December 2, 2008, WMR reported: "In polls, some one-third of the Turkish public believe Islamist Nurcu sect charismatic leader Grand Hodja Fethullah Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania, is part of a movement that aims to seize control of the Turkish state and a little over a third believe that Gulen is funded by 'international powers.' After he was acquitted in Turkey of attempting to overthrow the secular state with his religious organization, Gulen was first denied a Permanent Resident Card or 'Green Card' to remain in the United States by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania but then an appeals court granted Gulen a Green Card. In October of this year, a federal appellate court found that U.S. immigration authorities improperly rejected Gulen's request for a Green Card. The appeals court ruled that Gulen was 'an alien of extraordinary ability'" a decision that saw approval of Gulen's residency status. Observers of the case suspect the CIA intervened with the court on Gulen's behalf. Gulen's support for the AKP government may be an insurance policy by the CIA to maintain a close relationship with the 'Islamist tendency' AKP government in Ankara. The Bush administration, after seven years of trying to deport Gulen to Turkey, suddenly dropped its opposition to his permanent residency status.The public prosecutor in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) case against Gulen's permanent residency status argued in filed documents that Gulen's movement was financially supported by Saudi Arabia, Iran, the Turkish government, and the 'Central Intelligence Agency.' The deposition stated that some Ankara businessmen donated up to 70 percent of their income to Gulen's movement." In discussions in Istanbul on April 5 with members of the Gulen organization, it was revealed that Gulen blames his U.S. green card rejection squarely on then-Vice President Dick Cheney and the Department of Homeland Security, then headed by the pro-Israeli Michael Chertoff. Gulen believes that Cheney, because of his own ties to Ergenekon, put pressure on Homeland Security to reject Gulen's application for the extraordinary talent residency permit. Apparently, Gulen still has enemies in the United States. Since Erdogan's rift with Israel, Gulen has stated that the "neocons and Ergenekon" are giving him trouble. Gulen appears to have a point. Based on seized Ergenekon documents, Gulen and his movement, since their concordat with Erdogan and the AKP, has figured high on the Ergenekon hit list. WMR has obtained an English translation of an article that appeared in the Istanbul daily Tarafon June 12, 2009 that outlines Ergenekon's plans to disrupt the Gulen movement (and includes textbook examples of media disinformation and psychological warfare operations campaigns): APPENDIX III PLAN TO FINISH OFF AKP AND GÜLEN Taraf has uncovered a new “Action Plan to Combat Reactionaryism”, which belongs to the Office of the Chief of Staff. According to the plan, emphasis would be made that the officers arrested as part of Ergenekon investigation were “innocent” and propaganda would be staged that AKP has eventually aimed at introducing “a regime taking religious principles as a basis”. It is uncovered that the Office of the Chief of Staff has prepared a new action plan titled, “combating reactionaryism”. The plan prepared by Naval Infantry Staff Senior Colonel Dursun Çiçek in April 2009 clearly voices concern over Ergenekon investigation. A call is made to stage actions “before the agenda of Ergenekon investigation is changed” as it is aimed at giving high profile to those news articles that the active and retired officers arrested under Ergenekon have been put in jail just because they were fighting reactionary Islam. The new plan belonging to the Office of the Chief of Staff, that was seized in the office of Lawyer Serdar Öztürk, a former officer now practicing as a lawyer, who was arrested as part of Ergenekon investigation, were taken down under minutes and are now expected to incorporated into the third indictment on Ergenekon. At the same time, Öztürk was acting as the attorney for Colonel Levent Göktaş, a member of the Special Forces, who was also arrested under Ergenekon. Support Section Directorate No 3 of the Operations Department in the Office of the Chief of Staff is the new title of the Psychological Warfare Department. Any planning made for the Office of the Chief of is now being executed by this section. The new plan belonging to the Office of the Chief of Staff, that was seized in the office of Lawyer Serdar Öztürk, a former officer now practicing as a lawyer, who was arrested as part of Ergenekon investigation, were taken down under minutes and are now expected to incorporated into the third indictment on Ergenekon. THE NAME OF THE MILITARY BEING BLACKENED The part, “Current Status”, of “the Action Plan To Combat Reactionaryism”, which comprises four pages criticizes Ergenekon investigation: “Intensive activities are carried out by the religiously reactionary groups to erode the image of the official institutions of the state, particularly TSK (Turkish Armed Forces) as efforts are under way to blacken the names of retired and active military staff, who have made substantial contributions to TSK, by charging unfounded allegations against them as part of Ergenekon.” “UNFRIENDLY ELEMENTS” ERODING TSK The part, “Unfriendly Elements”, of the plan claims that it is aimed at having “a regime based on religious principles” by eroding TSK: - TSK is regarded as the sole institution that would prevent their aim of establishing a regime based on religious principles by disbanding Atatürk’s Principles and Revolutions and toppling the secular, democratic and social state of law; - They publish any information and documents seized, which erode TSK through the media which support them; - They attempt to prove that the meetings of unity and solidarity in which the public has shown intensive interest have been intentionally planned by Ergenekon; - It is claimed that TSK cooperates with various terror networks including PKK terror network under Ergenekon roof. - False news articles are developed that the top level commanders are Jewish, Armenian, pro-Sebatay, etc.; - They broadcast audio and video recordings which they claim belong to TSK staff in order to keep the public opinion pre-occupied and cause information pollution. “FRIENDLY ELEMENTS” TO BE USED ACCORDING TO A PLAN The plan prepared by Colonel Çiçek also refers to “the Friendly Elements”, which would be used against reactionary Islam. Here are those “friends”: - Propaganda efforts revealing the actual faces of the religiously reactionary groups are carried out via the press and publication organs in an orchestrated manner. - Information activities are executed for TSK staff and their members. - Those members of the staff, who are believed to have been infiltrated into TSK, and their families are followed and placed under control. - Measures are introduced on the issue of computer and document security. MEDIA ACTION PLAN TSK ‘INNOCENT’, ALL THE BLAME ON THE RELIGIOUSLY REACTIONARY STAFF MEMBERS In reference to Ergenekon operation under the part, “Media Activities”, a call is made for preparation of news articles that TSK members are “innocent”: - Persons such as İskender Evrenseloğlu and Ömer Öngüt we keep on hold ready for action will be ordered to stage actions and speeches catching public interest and these persons will be identified with other reactionary Islamist groups, particularly FG followers so that the public opinion may establish analogy between any such groups. - It will be ensured that any TSK staff members seized or agreeing to disclose would make statements in line with the themes determined by us and that such disclosure would have wide coverage in the press. - News articles will be fabricated that TSK staff members arrested under Ergenekon investigation are innocent and that they are slandered just because they effectively fight reactionary Islam. – It will be ensured that figures such as Nurettin Veren would make statements about FG group on TV programs in line with the themes determined by us. - By commissioning news articles that as TSK staff members belonging to other religious societies such as Kurdoğlu, etc., are disassociated with TSK, they have been expelled on ground of their affiliation with FG group so that there would be public opinion that FG group suffered substantial damage. - News articles will be commissioned that no action being staged by PKK terrorist organization against any schools, classrooms and hostels in the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia regions as well as in the north of Iraq, which are owned by FG followers is a clear sign of a link between the two networks and also of an agreement between them. “KURTLAR VADİSİ” MUST BE WRITTEN OFF - Series such as “Kurtlar Vadisi” (The Valley of the Wolves), “Kollama” (Protection) and “Tek Türkiye” (The Only Turkey), which are popularly viewed by the public, misleading the public opinion on the current events must suffer loss of reliability by commissioning adverse news articles on them. - By ensuring an intensive coverage of images and news articles showing the school students belonging to the National Education Ministry as they practice worshipping, the public image of the National Education Ministry will be degraded. - News articles will be commissioned that AKP followers have not given up on their luxurious life styles at a time when the impact of the economic crisis is acutely felt in our country so that the public opinion would be informed of the fact that this situation “conflicts with the Islamic understanding” and further that their approach, “man of the people”, never reflects the reality. - By constantly keeping current any news articles about Armenia and Greece, which would lead to public reaction, expansion of the base of the nationalist parties will be ensured. PLAN TO FINISH OFF AKP “WE’VE GOT A DUTY UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, SO LET’S TAKE ACTION NOW” Noting that a “duty” must be undertaken under the circumstances, the plan says: “to put an end to the hesitancy over this issue by revealing the internal face of the religiously reactionary elements and eradicate public support for such networks. To minimize the impact of the erosive campaigns staged under Ergenekon, to put an end to the negative propagandas carried out against TSK”. This is followed by the part, “execution”, of the plan and these phrases are used: “Information support activities will be executed to bring out to light the facts on the radical religious groups, particularly AKP government promoting the idea of establishing an Islamic state based on Islamic Law by overthrowing the secular and democratic order and various groups and Fetullah Güven group supporting it, to break the public support and put an end to their activities”. - By causing the key communication specialists, who are AKP followers, to make contradictory statements publicly, it will be ensured that there would be public perception that AKP internally experienced serious disagreement and divisions. THE AGENDA FOR ERGENEKON TO BE CHANGED According to the plan, there is a requirement that the activities be put into motion in three parts synchronously with each other. The items required to be done are listed by the part, “Planning and General Activities” as follows: - The propagandas to be executed will focus on the theme that there is no opposition to religion. - Actions: the agenda for Ergenekon case is being changed. PART ON FETULLAH GÜLEN LET’S CONNECT TO LIVE BROADCASTS - It will be ensured that by getting connected to any radio and television programs having a high audience under a different identity during live broadcasting, speeches are made under the disguise of a FG follower, commenting like a teased TG follower: “Yes, brother, anybody causing trouble to us is an Ergenekon sympathizer. It is a big duty for us to cause trouble to them. Nobody would be capable of dealing with us”. LET’S DO “BLACK PROPAGANDA” The conclusive part of the plan covers “Black Propaganda Activities”. Here is that part: - Voice recordings which would be identified as having been broadcast by the religiously reactionary elements and cause listeners to find us justifiable will be arranged in order to create information pollution over the issue of voice recordings which have recently led to considerable repercussions. - It shall be ensured that any staff members captured by fabricating cause publicly in connection with various information and documents would provide statements that they were FG followers and once such staff members were made public by the press, news articles shall be ordered about their morally negative aspects. - It will be ensured with regard to the staff members as identified above that by identifying as their closest associates the most negative person in their circle of friends no matter that person is an ordinary figure, there would be a belief that this was actually the internal face of FG followers. - It will be ensured that any objects associated with any elements (Jews, CIA, MOSSAD, Moon Sect, Houmeini, etc.) through which a link is intended to be established with FG followers, apart from any weapons and munitions there, would be on the same location by causing house raids to be staged on the basis of tips. - It will be ensured that information and documents rekindling the Anti-Alawite feelings would be present in such houses as part of house raids. - It will be ensured that there would be public opinion that FG group suffered substantial damage by commissioning news articles that any TSK members having association with religious societies such as Kurdoğlu, etc., have been expelled from service solely on ground of their association with FG group at the time when they would be disassociated with TSK. The theme, “Fettullah Güven (FG) followers have gotten out of control, directly attacking TSK”, will be covered; in this scope, campaigns will be staged causing the citizens to comment: “This is beyond the limit! We are Muslim like them but FG followers are obviously making provocation to attack TSK”. - Campaigns will be staged tipping on any religiously reactionary officers and non commissioned officers carrying out reactionary activities, who are in the category of objectionable / suspicious staff members and consequently, news articles will be commissioned about their morally negative aspects. - By developing frightening propaganda against any other reactionary TSK staff members who could not be identified under the operation made against reactionary TSK staff members, it will be ensured that such persons would be uncovered by forcing them to make mistakes or would give in voluntarily. - By ensuring that material such as weapons, munitions, plans, etc., would be found as part of the “Işık Evleri” raids to be made under military offenses in line with forming an armed terror network, FG group would be categorized under an “Armed Terror Network” or “Pro-Fettullah Armed Terror Network” (FSTÖ), with any investigation thereof being carried out under the military judiciary. - The issue of moderate Islamist will be particularly emphasized, with the fact that FG followers act under the US guidance and that they aim to degrade the core of Islam being voiced intensively. PLAN TO FINISH OFF FETTULLAH GÜLEN It is now uncovered that the Office of the Chief of Staff has prepared a new action plan titled, “combat reactionaryism”. The new plan belonging to the Office of the Chief of Staff, that was seized in the office of Lawyer Serdar Öztürk, a former officer now practicing as a lawyer, who was arrested as part of Ergenekon investigation, were taken down under minutes and are now expected to incorporated into the third indictment on Ergenekon. At the same time, Öztürk was acting as the attorney for Colonel Levent Göktaş, a member of the Special Forces, who was also arrested under Ergenekon. The conclusive part of the plan covers “Black Propaganda Activities”. Here is that part: - Voice recordings which would be identified as having been broadcast by the religiously reactionary elements and cause listeners to find us justifiable will be arranged in order to create information pollution over the issue of voice recordings which have recently led to considerable repercussions. - It shall be ensured that any staff members captured by fabricating cause publicly in connection with various information and documents would provide statements that they were FG followers and once such staff members were made public by the press, news articles shall be ordered about their morally negative aspects. - It will be ensured with regard to the staff members as identified above that by identifying as their closest associates the most negative person in their circle of friends no matter that person is an ordinary figure, there would be a belief that this was actually the internal face of FG followers. - It will be ensured that any objects associated with any elements (Jews, CIA, MOSSAD, Moon Sect, Houmeini, etc.) through which a link is intended to be established with FG followers, apart from any weapons and munitions there, would be on the same location by causing house raids to be staged on the basis of tips. - It will be ensured that information and documents rekindling the Anti-Alawite feelings would be present in such houses as part of house raids. - It will be ensured that there would be public opinion that FG group suffered substantial damage by commissioning news articles that any TSK members having association with religious societies such as Kurdoğlu, etc., have been expelled from service solely on ground of their association with FG group at the time when they would be disassociated with TSK. The theme, “Fettullah Güven (FG) followers have gotten out of control, directly attacking TSK”, will be covered; in this scope, campaigns will be staged causing the citizens to comment: “This is beyond the limit! We are Muslim like them but FG followers are obviously making provocation to attack TSK”. - Campaigns will be staged tipping on any religiously reactionary officers and non commissioned officers carrying out reactionary activities, who are in the category of objectionable / suspicious staff members and consequently, news articles will be commissioned about their morally negative aspects. - By developing frightening propaganda against any other reactionary TSK staff members who could not be identified under the operation made against reactionary TSK staff members, it will be ensured that such persons would be uncovered by forcing them to make mistakes or would give in voluntarily. - By ensuring that material such as weapons, munitions, plans, etc., would be found as part of the “Işık Evleri” raids to be made under military offenses in line with forming an armed terror network, FG group would be categorized under an “Armed Terror Network” or “Pro-Fettullah Armed Terror Network” (FSTÖ), with any investigation thereof being carried out under the military judiciary. - The issue of moderate Islamist will be particularly emphasized, with the fact that FG followers act under the US guidance and that they aim to degrade the core of Islam being voiced intensively. The religiously fundamentalist media will not be allowed to cover this subject. LET’S CONNECT TO LIVE BROADCASTS - It will be ensured that by getting connected to any radio and television programs having a high audience under a different identity during live broadcasting, speeches are made under the disguise of a FG follower, commenting like a teased TG follower: “Yes, brother, anybody causing trouble to us is an Ergenekon sympathizer. It is a big duty for us to cause trouble to them. Nobody would be capable of dealing with us”. HERE IS THE “PLAN TO FINISH OFF AKP” “WE’VE GOT A DUTY UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, SO LET’S TAKE ACTION NOW” Noting that a “duty” must be undertaken under the circumstances, the plan says: “to put an end to the hesitancy over this issue by revealing the internal face of the religiously reactionary elements and eradicate public support for such networks. To minimize the impact of the erosive campaigns staged under Ergenekon, to put an end to the negative propagandas carried out against TSK”. This is followed by the part, “execution”, of the plan and these phrases are used: “Information support activities will be executed to bring out to light the facts on the radical religious groups, particularly AKP government promoting the idea of establishing an Islamic state based on Islamic Law by overthrowing the secular and democratic order and various groups and Fetullah Güven group supporting it, to break the public support and put an end to their activities”. - By causing the key communication specialists, who are AKP followers, to make contradictory statements publicly, it will be ensured that there would be public perception that AKP internally experienced serious disagreement and divisions. AGENDA FOR ERGENEKON TO BE CHANGED According to the plan, there is a requirement that the activities be put into motion in three parts synchronously with each other. The items required to be done are listed by the part, “Planning and General Activities” as follows: - The propagandas to be executed will focus on the theme that there is no opposition to religion. - Actions: the agenda for Ergenekon case is being changed. - News articles will be commissioned that AKP followers have not given up on their luxurious life styles at a time when the impact of the economic crisis is acutely felt in our country so that the public opinion would be informed of the fact that this situation “conflicts with the Islamic understanding” and further that their approach, “man of the people”, never reflects the reality.
HERE IS THE ACTION PLAN FOR MEDIA UNDER THE PLAN TSK INNOCENT, ALL THE BLAME ON THE REACTIONARY STAFF MEMBERS In reference to Ergenekon operation under the part, “Media Activities”, a call is made for preparation of news articles that TSK members are “innocent”: - Persons such as İskender Evrenseloğlu and Ömer Öngüt we keep on hold ready for action will be ordered to stage actions and speeches catching public interest and these persons will be identified with other reactionary Islamist groups, particularly FG followers so that the public opinion may establish analogy between any such groups. - It will be ensured that any TSK staff members seized or agreeing to disclose would make statements in line with the themes determined by us and that such disclosure would have wide coverage in the press. - News articles will be fabricated that TSK staff members arrested under Ergenekon investigation are innocent and that they are slandered just because they effectively fight reactionary Islam. – It will be ensured that figures such as Nurettin Veren would make statements about FG group on TV programs in line with the themes determined by us. - By commissioning news articles that as TSK staff members belonging to other religious societies such as Kurdoğlu, etc., are disassociated with TSK, they have been expelled on ground of their affiliation with FG group so that there would be public opinion that FG group suffered substantial damage. - News articles will be commissioned that no action being staged by PKK terrorist organization against any schools, classrooms and hostels in the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia regions as well as in the north of Iraq, which are owned by FG followers is a clear sign of a link between the two networks and also of an agreement between them. “KURTLAR VADİSİ” MUST BE WRITTEN OFF - Series such as “Kurtlar Vadisi” (The Valley of the Wolves), “Kollama” (Protection) and “Tek Türkiye” (The Only Turkey), which are popularly viewed by the public, misleading the public opinion on the current events must suffer loss of reliability by commissioning adverse news articles on them. - By ensuring an intensive coverage of images and news articles showing the school students belonging to the National Education Ministry as they practice worshipping, the public image of the National Education Ministry will be degraded. - News articles will be commissioned that AKP followers have not given up on their luxurious life styles at a time when the impact of the economic crisis is acutely felt in our country so that the public opinion would be informed of the fact that this situation “conflicts with the Islamic understanding” and further that their approach, “man of the people”, never reflects the reality. - By constantly keeping current any news articles about Armenia and Greece, which would lead to public reaction, expansion of the base of the nationalist parties will be ensured. |
| WMR Gulen movement backing East Turkestanis |
September 22-23, 2009 -- Gulen movement backing East Turkestanis U.S. and Asian intelligence sources report on close ties between the Uighur separatist movement and U.S. intelligence, including the CIA-supported Turkish Islamist charismatic leader Fethullah Gulen, the U.S.-based leader of an Islamist business and educational empire that extends from Turkey through central Asia. A U.S. intelligence source reports that in 1998, Gulen, who fled Turkey that year for exile in the United States, and Anwar Yusuf Turani, set up the East Turkestan government-in-exile at the U.S. State Department with the support of the CIA, as well as the State Department. The East Turkestan movement wants the Chinese Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) to be an independent Muslim state. The detention of 22 Uighur separatists by U.S. forces in Afghanistan and their transfer to Guantanamo Bay was a political and intelligence embarassment for the CIA and State Department, which covertly support the Uighur independence movement. The State Department and CIA put pressure on Albania, Palau, Bermuda, and Switzerland to accept the Uighurs from detention in Guantanamo. WMR has also learned that Rebiya Kadeer, a former member of the Chinese Communist Party Politburo who now lives in exile in McLean, Virginia in the shadow of the CIA headquarters, has been padding her CIA-supplied payroll with non-existent Uighurs. The CIA launders its financial support for Kadeer, known as the "mother of all Uighurs," through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which is funded by the Congress with taxpayers' money. The Uighurs and their friends in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and in U.S. and Israeli intelligence are also reportedly using the volatile Burmese-Chinese border to funnel poppy resin into China for opium production. The operation is designed to fund covert East Turkestani operations in China and, as a side benefit, set the stage for a "Third Opium War." The CIA has also apparently borrowed a page from the Mossad's playbook. WMR has been told by our intelligence sources in Beijing that a number of CIA covert operatives are flooding the Chinese capital posing as "art experts" selling fake art. In the months prior to 9/11, Israeli Mossad agents, posing as "art students" selling art door-to-door, were involved in casing a number of government and business facilities throughout the United States and appeared to be coordinating their efforts with some of the 9/11 hijackers. Other CIA operatives in Beijing are reportedly posing as professional photographers and even journalists. |
| WMR Mossad unleashed: Implicated in a coup plot in Turkey, a NATO country; CIA fingerprints also found on attempt. |
December 2, 2008 -- Mossad unleashed: Implicated in a coup plot in Turkey, a NATO country; CIA fingerprints also found on attempt. Fresh from revelations, reported by WMR, that Israel's Mossad and Chabad House-based criminal syndicates were targets in a criminal gangland retribution attack by a notorious Muslim gang in Mumbai, comes word that Mossad has, once again, been implicated in an intelligence and criminal network, this time in Turkey. What makes this latest example of Israel's failure to stem the criminal activities of its intelligence service and criminal syndicates worse is that Turkey, unlike Israel, is a NATO ally of the United States and, therefore, the United States is bound by treaty to protect NATO allies from aggression by non-NATO states, including Israel. The Turkish and other Middle East media is reporting that the Mossad has been fingered in connection with a right-wing Turkish criminal and intelligence gang known as Ergenekon that stands accused of attempting to overthrow Turkey's democratically-elected Justice and Development (AKP) Party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul. Several Turkish papers have named a Turkish rabbi, Tuncay Guney, aka Daniel T. Guney and Daniel Levi and code-named "Ipek" or "Silk," as having served as a double agent for the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) tasked with infiltrating the shadowy but powerful "state within a state" group Ergenekon. Guney had been arrested by Turkish authorities in 2001 for distributing fake drivers' licenses and phony license plates for luxury cars. A document recently uncovered by the Turkish press revealed that Guney had also infiltrated a police intelligence unit (JITEM) working with Ergenekon to destabilize Turkey. Guney was exfiltrated to the United States and he now heads up the B'nai Yaakov Synagogue and Community Center in Toronto, Canada. Guney has denied that he has been an agent for Israel, Turkey or the United States but the MIT has confirmed the document identifying Guney as an agent for MIT is authentic. The Turkish daily Hurriyethas reported that Guney served in MIT's Counter-terrorism Unit (CTU) and in the MIT unit that monitors Iran. Hurriyet also reported that Guney had developed a contact at the Iranian consulate in Istanbul, Muhsin Karger, the consulate's political affairs undersecretary. Guney also has claimed to be a journalist and it is also alleged that he was a member of the PKK. Silvyo Ovaydo, the leader of the Turkish Jewish community, called Guney a fraudulent rabbi and said he was not even registered as a rabbi at the B'nai Yaakov synagogue in Toronto. Guney is said to have once worked for Islamist media organizations in Turkey but suddenly converted to Judaism and became an "instant rabbi" in Toronto. At the heart of the Ergenekon story lies Mossad and its reported attempts to turn Turkey into another Lebanon or West Bank/Gaza, a country wracked by internal strife and constant warfare that would usher into power a strong right-wing military dictatorship. In the trial of one of the accused murderers of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, the lawyer for one of the accused murderers asked another accused murderer, Erhan Tuncel, a one-time police informer like Guney, if he had an Israeli girlfriend. Tuncel refused to answer the question, citing an invasion of his privacy. However, it was clear that what the lawyer was driving at was a Mossad connection to the murder of Dink, a murder that was being pinned on Turkish anti-Armenian nationalists by the corporate and heavy Israeli Lobby-influenced media in the West. When 89 suspects were named in a 2455-page indictment by a criminal court in Istanbul last July, many retired Turkish army officers, the neocon network, especially in Washington, which is their major citadel, along with Jerusalem and London, began to throw cold water and the term "conspiracy theory" around charges in the Turkish indictment that Ergenekon played a major role in the formation of several Turkish terrorist groups to disrupt Turkish politics, including the illegal Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Turkish Hizbollah (Party of God), the Marxist-Leninist People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP-C), and the little-known Islamic Great East Raiders Front (IBDA-C). The neocon Jamestown Foundation in Washington called the indictment's links between Turkish military elements and radical terrorists a "conspiracy theory." Organizations like Jamestown have no other choice. If it was also proven, as it was in Turkey, that various terrorist groups like "Al Qaeda," "Deccan Mujaheddin," and others exist courtesy of the nurturing and support by American, Israeli, and other Western military-intelligence structures, groups like Jamestown would lose their reasons for existence -- to make propaganda and receive funding in order to keep the terrorist bogeymen, the actual "Emmanuel Godsteins," alive. Guney is reported to be the 86th suspect in the indictment of Ergenekon. Guney is believed to have revealed the initial detaled information on the existence of Ergenekon in order to avoid being charged in the case. The involvement of extreme right-wing Turkish military and intelligence officials and Turkish organized crime networks, with Mossad and, possibly, CIA agents acting in concert with a suspected CIA-funded Turkish Islamic charismatic madrassaand Islamic centers chief named Fethullah Gulen -- whose activities parallel to pan-Turkic/Eurasianist (re: George Soros) goals of Ergenekon -- is similar to the scenario now playing out in India where a little known group called "Deccan Mujaheddin" may have been created as a ruse by Indian right-wing military and intelligence officers, allied with Mossad and CIA agents, to sow discord in India and bring about a right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena Hindu government. Gulen owns a number of media and business interests in Turkey and runs Islamic centers throughout central Asia and even in Russia. In polls, some one-third of the Turkish public believe Islamist Nurcu sect charismatic leader Grand Hodja Fethullah Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania, is part of a movement that aims to seize control of the Turkish state and a little over a third believe that Gulen is funded by "international powers." After he was acquitted in Turkey of attempting to overthrow the secular state with his religious organization, Gulen was first denied a Permanent Resident Card or "Green Card" to remain in the United States by the U.S. Distrrict Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania but then an appeals court granted Gulen a Green Card. In October of this year, a federal appellate court found that U.S. immigration authorities improperly rejected Gulen's request for a Green Card. The appeals court ruled that Gulen was "an alien of extraordinary ability," a decision that saw approval of Gulen's residency status. Observers of the case suspect the CIA intervened with the court on Gulen's behalf. Gulen's support for the AKP government may be an insurance policy by the CIA to maintain a close relationship with the "Islamist tendency" AKP government in Ankara. The Bush administration, after seven years of trying to deport Gulen to Turkey, suddenly dropped its opposition to his permanent residency status. The public prosecutor in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) case against Gulen's permanent residency status argued in filed documents that Gulen's movement was financially supported by Saudi Arabia, Iran, the Turkish government, and the "Central Intelligence Agency." The deposition stated that some Ankara businessmen donated up to 70 percent of their income to Gulen's movement. If Gulen's operations are funded by the CIA that means the "Agency" may be linked to Ergenekon. With the U.S. having a mutual defense treaty with Turkey's recognized government that puts the CIA potentially in violation of U.S. law. And Israel's connections with Ergenekon means that the United States is bound by treaty to protect its ally Turkey from Israeli covert or overt aggression. There is an element of "McCarthyism" in the Ergenekon case. Some well-meaning officials have been subjected to being tainted by the broad brush of being associated with Ergenekon. One is Asil Serdar Sacan, the former head of the Istanbul organized crime department who was the first to confiscate documents on Ergenekon in 2001 and broadened his investigation to include both Ergenekon and the Gulen organization. Sacan, who investigated the murder of Turkey's "King of Casinos" Omer Lutfu Topol, successfully beat attempts to smear him, being acquitted of 36 criminal charges brought against him and being reinstated six times to his police position. Sacan is currently in jail as an Ergenekon suspect but his only "crime" appears to have exposed Guney as a possible triple agent for the MIT, Mossad, and CIA. In 2001, Guney was spirited out of Turkey thanks to an agreement between MIT's undersecretary Senkal Atasagun and the CIA. Guney was given a 10-year U.S. visa thanks to the CIA's intervention. In fact, Ergenekon and its "deep state" players in Turkey and Shiv Sena and its extremist Hindu "deep state" allies in India, backed by elements of Mossad and the CIA, appears to be a replay of the CIA's secret "Gladio" network in Europe that placed weapons caches in the hands of fascists and neo-Nazis groups to take up arms in the event of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe. The use of "false flag" terrorist attacks in Western Europe by Gladio units were blamed on Communists in an effort to forestall Communist-Socialist coalition governments in Western Europe, particularly in Italy and France. Similarly, Ergenekon stands accused of inciting conflicts between Turks and Kurds to create anarchy in the country with the aim of having Ergenekon seizing control of the Turkish government and re-cementing close ties with the United States and Israel. In 2004, Ergenekon attempted three military coups against the AKP govenment They were code-named Eldiven (The Glove"), Sarikiz ("The Blond Girl"), and Ayisigi ("Moonlight'). Ergenekon has been cagily kept off the newspaper pages and TV news screens in the United States. To investigate Ergenekon and Gulen in Turkey is to peel away at an onion that could expose some other "unpleasantness" for certain quarters. On January 10, 2007, WMR reported: "According to Federal law enforcement sources, two influential businessmen -- Turkish Sunni Muslim Fetullahci charismatic leader Fetullah Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania after being acquitted in Turkey in 2006 of plotting against the secular republic, and Saudi BMI Islamic investment chief investor Yasin Qadi, a major investor in Turkey who was named in October 2001 by President Bush as a Special Designated Global Terrorist -- were both involved with the CIA in the late 1990s in funneling weapons and other support to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an Albanian terrorist group operating in the former Yugoslavia. The KLA was allied with the Clinton administration and supported by leading neo-cons such as Richard Perle, whose lobbying firm, International Advisers, Inc., counts Turkey as its major client. Gulen's books have been translated into Albanian. BMI's founder, Soliman Biheiri, also helped to start PTech, a Braintree, Massachusetts-based firm that had active software contracts with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Pentagon on 9/11. PTech's offices were raided by Federal authorities in December 2002 after it came under suspicion for terrorist financing. Qadi is suspected of using a series of northern Virginia-based businesses and charities to fund 'Al Qaeda' activities in Bosnia. Osama Bin Laden was granted a special passport by the Bosnian government in 1993. Qadi was reportedly a business partner of Turkish businessman Cuneyd Zapsu, an adviser to the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Justice and Reconciliation Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP)." The dramatic revelations about Ergenekon coming out of Turkey also points to the reasons why the neocons in Washington were keen to stymie the work of FBI Turkish translator Sibel Edmonds and the CIA's non-official cover agent Valerie Plame Wilson, both of whom had smuggling and other activities in Turkey high on their priority lists. On January 18, 2008, WMR reported: "WMR has learned that former CIA covert agent Valerie Plame Wilson, whose covert status was leaked by the Bush White House, and former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, who was focused on a major covert network involving Turkish, Israeli, and key members of the Bush administration and Republican Party and weapons and drug smuggling, were essentially looking at the same network. The nexus of Turkey with both the covert CIA Brewster Jennings and Associates operations and the Turkish-Israeli network of influence active within the Defense and State Departments, is the key factor in understanding the complicated counter-espionage operation conducted by both the FBI and CIA." It now appears that the Washington-connected criminal network being looked at by Edmonds and Plame was, in fact, closely linked to the Ergenekon network in Turkey. WMR's January 18, 2008 report continued: "Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald was also, according to our sources, well aware of the massive conspiracy to cover-up the smuggling of weapons of mass destruction components from former Soviet Central Asian states, as well as Ukraine, Moldova, and Ukraine, to the international weapons bazaar. The Abdul Qadeer Khan (A Q Khan) network based in Pakistan was a major beneficiary of the weapons smuggling operation that used Turkey as a pass-through. Rather than expand his investigation, Fitzgerald demurred on looking at the activities of the American Turkish Council, Turkey's influential lobbying group in Washington, and its parallel symbiotic organization, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Turkey and Israel are close military and intelligence partners." Illinois Democratic Senator Dick Durbin has called on President-elect Barack Obama to re-appoint Fitzgerald as U.S. Attorney for Northern Ilinois. If Obama does so, it means that the network being investigated by Edmonds and Plame, one that stretches to Ergenekon and the Gulen network in Turkey, has its hooks deep into the future Obama administration. |
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| Sibel Edmonds, tells her whole story no matter what the consequences |
| Sibel Edmonds, the FBI whistle-blower who has been gagged
for years by the Bush administration over intercepts she translated while
at the bureau, was willing to go to prison to get her story told. She
spent years trying to get her day in court, but the State Secrets gag
against her prohibited her from telling her story even to a FISA judge.
After years of trying to fight her way to through the maze of the US court
system, Sibel Edmonds finally decided to tell her story no matter the
consequences and offered to do so to any interested US media outlets. Today, part of that story runs, but not in the United States, where not a single corporate outlet was willing to displease the White House and give Edmonds a platform. The Sunday Times Online, however, proved up to the task - somewhat. Here are the snips from that article: Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency's Washington field office. She approached The Sunday Times last month after reading about an Al-Qaeda terrorist who had revealed his role in training some of the 9/11 hijackers while he was in Turkey. ... However, Edmonds said: "He was aiding foreign operatives against US interests by passing them highly classified information, not only from the State Department but also from the Pentagon, in exchange for money, position and political objectives." Her story shows just how much the West was infiltrated by foreign states seeking nuclear secrets. It illustrates how western government officials turned a blind eye to, or were even helping, countries such as Pakistan acquire bomb technology." Those senior DOD officials who are not mentioned in the Times article, all but one are no longer in government. They are alleged to be Doug Feith, Richard Perle, among others. There is also one person who is part of these allegations, still serving in a high level position at the DOD. His last name begins with an E. I have tried getting someone in broadcast and print media to run this story. My sources did not include Edmonds, but because of the sensitive nature of the information, I was concerned that she would go to jail anyway, unless I proved she was not a source - which would require me to reveal my sources. I thought if I approached a big enough news outlet, the pressure generated by the public response would spare Edmonds jail time and I would not be pressured to reveal sources - something I would not have done anyway. Even a former high ranking CIA officer offered to byline the article with me if that would help sell a broadcaster/publication on running the story. No one was interested. That the Times ran these allegations (she is under a state secrets gag folks, so it is not like she is gagged for lying) is encouraging. But that they omitted all names from the allegations is unethical. The point of a free press is not to protect the powerful against the weak, but to protect the public from the powerful. The Times was willing to stick a toe in, but was not willing to risk upsetting a foreign government (This is, after all, a British paper). There are more names, including members of Congress and people serving in the FBI. This is what happens when basic government services as well as the most sensitive government functions are outsourced to the global marketplace. Back to the Times article, which toward the end illustrates that someone in the editorial offices located a backbone, even if temporarily: "She has given evidence to closed sessions of Congress and the 9/11 commission, but many of the key points of her testimony have remained secret. She has now decided to divulge some of that information after becoming disillusioned with the US authorities' failure to act. One of Edmonds's main roles in the FBI was to translate thousands of hours of conversations by Turkish diplomatic and political targets that had been covertly recorded by the agency. The Turks and Israelis had planted "moles" in military and academic institutions which handled nuclear technology. Edmonds says there were several transactions of nuclear material every month, with the Pakistanis being among the eventual buyers. "The network appeared to be obtaining information from every nuclear agency in the United States," she said. They were helped, she says, by the high-ranking State Department official who provided some of their moles - mainly PhD students - with security clearance to work in sensitive nuclear research facilities. These included the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory in New Mexico, which is responsible for the security of the US nuclear deterrent. In one conversation Edmonds heard the official arranging to pick up a $15,000 cash bribe. The package was to be dropped off at an agreed location by someone in the Turkish diplomatic community who was working for the network. Let me again offer help to the good folks at the Times. The person in question is a Turkish military official who at that time also happened to sit on the board of a particular defense contracting firm. "The Turks, she says, often acted as a conduit for the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's spy agency, because they were less likely to attract suspicion. Venues such as the American Turkish Council in Washington were used to drop off the cash, which was picked up by the official. Edmonds said: "I heard at least three transactions like this over a period of 2½ years. There are almost certainly more." The Pakistani operation was led by General Mahmoud Ahmad, then the ISI chief." Now, who is General Mahmoud Ahmad? "Intelligence analysts say that members of the ISI were close to Al-Qaeda before and after 9/11. Indeed, Ahmad was accused of sanctioning a $100,000 wire payment to Mohammed Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers, immediately before the attacks." You can see why Edmonds had to be silenced for "diplomatic reasons." As though diplomatic (read: business) relationships are more important than national security. Let me give you one more snip from this incredible article (minus the censorship): "Khan was close to Ahmad and the ISI. While running Pakistan's nuclear programme, he became a millionaire by selling atomic secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea. He also used a network of companies in America and Britain to obtain components for a nuclear programme. Khan caused an alert among western intelligence agencies when his aides met Osama Bin Laden. "We were aware of contact between A Q Khan's people and Al-Qaeda," a former CIA officer said last week. "There was absolute panic when we initially discovered this, but it kind of panned out in the end." It is likely that the nuclear secrets stolen from the United States would have been sold to a number of rogue states by Khan. Edmonds was later to see the scope of the Pakistani connections when it was revealed that one of her fellow translators at the FBI was the daughter of a Pakistani embassy official who worked for Ahmad. The translator was given top secret clearance despite protests from FBI investigators. Edmonds says packages containing nuclear secrets were delivered by Turkish operatives, using their cover as members of the diplomatic and military community, to contacts at the Pakistani embassy in Washington. Following 9/11, a number of the foreign operatives were taken in for questioning by the FBI on suspicion that they knew about or somehow aided the attacks. |
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