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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Europa & Palestine News « Kawther Salam « Mossad

Mossad

Does Israel know that the mossad offers free lessons in international organized terror and crimes to all rebels and radical movements, and that through their terror actions they are teaching them how to kidnap and murder Israelis in retaliation for the operations carried out by Israel in several countries of the world?

A series of terrorist operations have been carried out by Israel throughout the world alongside the israeli occupation crimes against the Palestinians which have lasted for over 63 years. The Israeli crimes in the Western world and the violation of the sovereignty and borders of other countries all pass in the silence of the world, the Security Council and the International community, exactly as if everyone is deaf, blind and dumb whenever Israel commits a new crime and terror.

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To illustrate the Israeli terrorism, I present the following summary of some crimes and terror that were recently perpetrated by Israel in Western countries. The crimes were perpetrated under silence from the international and global World. The summary is followed by questions that need answers and clarifications from the Security Council and the governments that claim to be fighting against terrorism and International Organized Crimes. The questions are also addressed to the International public, the people who represent the future in their countries. It is also addressed to everyone who seeks the truth without deception or evasion. To these people who are interested in knowing the truth I would suggest that they submit these questions to their governments first, and secondly to the Israeli embassies in their countries.

Lesson of Terror & Organized Crime in Sudan: On Tuesday April 5, 2011, the Sudanese government filed a complaint against Israel with the United Nations Security Council over the airstrike near the Port of Sudan which killed two people who were in a car. According to Sudanese sources, a foreign aircraft entered the African nation’s airspace from the Red Sea. In January 2009, Israeli aircraft hit a convoy of what they claimed were “arms smugglers” headed for Gaza.

Lesson of Organized Crime in Georgia: On April 1, 2011, Georgia sentenced two Israelis to jail, Ron Fuchs (פוקס רון) for seven years, and Zeev Frenkel (פרנקל זאב) for six and a half years, for bribing the Georgian deputy finance minister with seven million dollars. Ron and Zeef met with the deputy minister and offered him a bribe in exchange for convincing the government ministers not to oppose the results of the arbitration process in which Ron and Zeev were awarded nearly $100 million, but the Georgian government challenged the decision and did not transfer the money to the Israeli businessmen.

Lesson of Terror & Organized Crime in Ukraine: On 18, February 2011, the Israeli intelligence service mossad abducted in Ukraine Dr. Dirar Abu-Sisi. 42 years, the director of the Gaza power plant. The Ukrainian security services aided in the abduction operation and were conniving with the mossad. On Monday April 4, 2011, Abu Sisi was charged with being a “close confidant of the Hamas military leaders and instrumental in developing their rockets, including increasing their range and ability to pierce steel so as to penetrate armored vehicles and thus strike at soldiers”.

Engineer Abu Sisi is not a war criminal or a terrorist. In my opinion he is one of the victims of Israel. Far more likely than him taking part in activities related to weapons is that he simply was abducted in order to hinder provision of electric energy to the Gaza strip, an act of collective punishment against the population of the Gaza strip. The real war criminals and terrorists are the mossad agents who kidnapped the engineer, drugged him, transported him to Tel Aviv and subjected him to all kind of torture to extract confessions in illegal and immoral ways. The affiliation of Abu Sissi to Hamas is not a crime which warrants putting him in prison. In 2006 more than half of Palestinians in the occupied territories, in the West Bank and Gaza voted for Hamas during the Legislative Council elections. This does not mean that those Palestinians belong to a terrorist organization and therefore should be arrested and imprisoned.

Abu Sisi strongly denied in court the Israeli allegation and charges of developing the missiles of Hamas. His denial came even after he was severely tortured at the hands of Israeli interrogators. In Israel there are thousands of Israeli engineers and war criminals who are working in the arms industry, and they develop advanced missiles and aircraft which are capable of destruction of the entire Middle East, not a tank!!

Furthermore, the Israelis war criminal experts developed more than 300 nuclear warheads at Dimona in “the Negev”, (al-Naqab). These missiles can kill millions of human beings in one second. Palestine suffers a significant risk of radiation because of Israel’s possession of nuclear reactors including the Dimona reactor, which has ended its useful life, and which will expose Palestine and the Palestinian people and neighboring countries to the serious dangers of radiation. Palestinian farmers from Yatta village south of Hebron in the West Bank have revealed that the Israeli military continues to bury nuclear waste in their farmlands at Al-Masafer near the armistice line in the West Bank.

Israel is a racist terrorist and zionist organization which occupies the Palestinian, Golan heights and Arab lands, and continues committing war crimes and aggression against the Arabs in Lebanon and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Israel uses internationally prohibited weapons such as white phosphorus and cluster bombs, weighing tons. The sophisticated weapons of Israel are not comparable to the “advanced humble rockets” of Hamas that could be compared to the rockets used in the age of cavemen.

  • So who deserves a trial and criminalization, the electrical engineer Abu Sisi who insists on his innocence, or the Israeli generals, the war criminals and terrorists who killed thousands of civilians by dropping sophisticated bombs?

It is unfortunate that the civilized world keeps silent on kidnapping Abu Sissi, who was visiting his brother in a state that considers itself an “independent, civilized State.” The kidnapping of people is not characteristic of civilized nations and States, but it is a characteristic of terrorist states that behave like the mafia.

Whatever justification the Ukrainian government gives for its “help” by allowing the Israeli Mossad to kidnap Abu Sisi and use its country to commit a terrorist crime, the government is involved in the terror crime itself, and the officials of Ukraine must be treated in accordance to the provisions of international law relating to the crimes of international terrorism.

Lesson of Terror & Organized Crime in Emirats: Last year, on January 20, 2010, the mossad assassinated Hamas member Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in the Al-Bustan Rotana hotel in Dubai, and the assassination put dirt on the names of several countries. It is known, but denied by the respective authorities, that the mossad operates freely in the EU and other western countries. The assassination of Mohmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai was not the first International crime which Mossad death squads committed by using the fake or stolen European passports.

The Israeli mossad has long history of desecrating the laws of many European countries, where they have committed many assassinations using fake passports, and sometimes real ones. About 350,000 Israelis have double citizenship and hold EU and Israeli passports at the same time. The zionists of Israel have received logistical support from all the European and Western countries in which the mossad death squads have committed their crimes in the past cases.

Lesson of Terror & Organized Crime in Austria: In the early nineties of the last century, on May 27, 1993, two elements of a mossad kidon unit (death squad) were killed in a motorcycle accident in Vienna while they were on a surveillance mission trailing the Iranian deputy minister of defense at that time, head of Iran’s “chemical warfare project”, Dr. Majid Abasfur, who was in Vienna carrying documents for an impending arms deal with an Israeli partner, Manbar, and a briefcase with money and documents about the missing Israeli air force pilot Ron Arad. The plan of the mossad death squad was to kill Dr. Abasfur, steal the documents and the money, and prevent the signing of the agreement for supplying Iran with tanks and chemical substances, which was supposed to be signed at the Vienna Marriot hotel that day.

Lesson of Terror and Organized Crime in New Zealand: On March 23, 2004, New Zealand authorities captured two Israeli intelligence agents, Uriel Kelman (Urie) and Eli Cara, for trying to obtain a New Zealand passport. On July 15, 2004, they were sentenced to six months and were sent to Mt Eden Prison. The prisoners completed one-third of their six-month sentence in jail, and then were released and deported to Israel in October 2004. Both Kelman and Cara were members of the israeli intelligence service Mossad.

Lesson of Organized Crime in Kosovo: the Council of Europe accused the prime minister of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, of leading a group linked to organized crime and who is related to human rights violations and arms trafficking, as well as trafficking drugs and bodies. A number of Israelis who were involved in the group are wanted for international crimes in the trafficking of human organs.

Lesson of Terror & Organized Crime in Libya and Africa: Rafael “Rafram” Haddad, 35, is a spy agent from Efrat squatter colony in the West Bank. He is a yeshiva (an extremist religious school) student and resident of the Efrat squatter colony and a military police officer in the Israeli army. He was asked in 2009 by the Jewish Agency, the so called “Orr Shalom”, center to go to places where smaller Jewish communities had existed in Libya and which his predecessors (other Israeli spies) had been unable to reach. The jewish Agency had sent some weeks earlier a French citizen in the same mission in Libya.

Haddad was warned by the Libyan intelligence to stop filming and to leave Libya, but he was caught in the same place a week after he had been warned off. The French jew had been arrested some weeks before the arrest of Haddad. French President Nicolas Sarkozy intervened to release the French citizen. He was released about two weeks after Haddad was arrested, and he informed the family of the Israeli spy Haddad in the Efrat squatter colony about his arrest.

According to the Israeli Hebrew newspapers, another Israeli spy was also arrested in the same mission in northern Africa. It appeared in the newspapers that the “Or Shalom” zionist organization accused the israeli foreign ministry of having leaked the arrest of Haddad in northern Africa, but the foreign ministry said that the leak of this information had come from Haddad’s family.

There are multiple examples to demonstrate the involvement of Israel in international organized crimes and terror, and the questions are:

  • Does the Israeli “state” stand at the forefront of International terrorism and organized crimes, leading and financing the abductions, political assassinations, sea piracy, trafficking human organs, arming gangs, death squads, mafia and drugs?
  • Who is the next victim listed on the Israeli plan of abduction after Dr. Dirar Abu-Sisi, 42 years, the director of the Gaza power plant who was kidnapped on February 18, 2011, in Ukraine?
  • Who is the next victim listed on the Mossad plan of assassination after the International terror assassination of Hamas leader, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh who was murdered on January 20, 2010, in the Al-Bustan Rotana hotel in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates?
  • In which state will Israel implement its new crime of terror, and under which names and nationalities will they commit the crime after several European citizens were listed on the Interpol-issued arrest notices as wanted by Dubai for the killing Al-Mabhouh?
  • Which is the next European country that will violate international law, allowing and helping mossad agents to commit a new terror crime and murder in their country?
  • Which state will have its airspace violated by Israel in order to bomb innocent citizens after Khartoum where the Israeli airstrike carried out its terror operation? Killed two and terrorized how many?
  • Which is the next State after the State of Georgia that Israel plans to bribe in order to withdraw a new government project that does not serve the interest of Israel, and how many millions or billions will they pay?
  • Which countries are the next targets of Israel where the Israeli Mossad will implant their agents in order to carry out different organized crimes, terror, assassinations, and espionage after dismantling the Israeli Mossad network groups in Lebanon, Egypt, Jordan and Syria, the largest spy networks known in history?
  • Does Israel take into account the results and consequences of its terror operations within the borders of other states where several decent Jewish communities live, and where the Israeli “tourists” and thieves spread like garbage?

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Stop terminator-like killer robots now, says British scientist - Birmingham Mail - Technobabble

Stop terminator-like killer robots now, says British scientist - Birmingham Mail - Technobabble

Stop terminator-like killer robots now, says British scientist

By Ben Hurst on Aug 3, 09 02:28 PM

A BRITISH boffin [British slang for Scientist] today called for urgent action on a global scale to curb the development of military killer robots that think for themselves.

"Terminator"-style machines that decide how, when and who to kill are just around the corner, warns Noel Sharkey, Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at the University of Sheffield.

"I do think there should be some international discussion and arms control on these weapons but there's absolutely none," said Prof Sharkey.

"The military have a strange view of artificial intelligence based on science fiction. The nub of it is that robots do not have the necessary discriminatory ability. They can't distinguish between combatants and civilians. It's hard enough for soldiers to do that."

Iraq and Afghanistan have both provided ideal "showcases" for robot weapons, said Prof Sharkey.

The "War on Terror" declared by President George Bush spurred on the development of pilotless drone aircraft deployed against insurgents.

Initially used for surveillance, drones such as the Predator and larger Reaper were now armed with bombs and missiles.

The US currently has 200 Predators and 30 Reapers and next year alone will be spending 5.5 billion dollars (£3.29 billion) on unmanned combat vehicles.

"The next thing that's coming, and this is what really scares me, are armed autonomous robots," said Prof Sharkey speaking to journalists in London. "The robot will do the killing itself. This will make decision making faster and allow one person to control many robots. A single soldier could initiate a large scale attack from the air and the ground.


"It could happen now; the technology's there."

Even with human controllers, drones were already stacking up large numbers of civilian casualties.

As a result of 60 known drone attacks in Pakistan between January 2006 and April 2009, 14 al Qaida [editor note - CIA assets] leaders had been killed but also 607 civilians, said Prof Sharkey.

In the wake of Terminator: Salvation, the potential threat of appalling films about the threat of future killer robots might need addressing too.


See this:

See here for the real predator: Tech_Journal: Predator RQ-1 / MQ-1 / MQ-9 Reaper - - Airforce Technology




Saturday, November 5, 2011

Yakuza

Yakuza

From CIA Freedom of Information Act website:

PLAN FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLOITATION OF STALIN'S DEATH. (WITH ATTACHED COVER MEM
Title: PLAN FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLOITATION OF STALIN'S DEATH. (WITH ATTACHED COVER MEM
Abstract:
Pages: 0023
Pub Date: 3/23/1953
Release Date: 8/23/1999
Keywords: PSYCHOLOGICAL|STALIN|DEATH|EXPLOITATION
Case Number: F-1989-01999
Copyright: 0
Release Decision: RIFPUB
Classification: U



LABOR MATTERS - KSMERALDITE LABOR REPORT
Title: LABOR MATTERS - KSMERALDITE LABOR REPORT
Abstract: (BEST COPY AVAILABLE)
Pages: 0005
Pub Date: 11/12/1953
Release Date: 4/16/2003
Keywords: PBSUCCESS|GUATEMALA 1954 COUP|ASSASSINATION PLANNING|GUATEMALA 54 COUP
Case Number: SS-2003-00002
Copyright: 0
Release Decision: RIPPUB
Classification: U



(EST PUB DATE) PRINCIPAL ASPECTS OF SOCIALISM IN LATIN AMERICA
Title: (EST PUB DATE) PRINCIPAL ASPECTS OF SOCIALISM IN LATIN AMERICA
Abstract:
Pages: 0108
Pub Date: 10/1/1958
Release Date: 2/13/2001
Keywords: DULLES PAPERS|DULLES ALLEN|DULLES COLLECTION
Case Number: F-1985-00856
Copyright: 0
Release Decision: RIPPUB
Classification: U



SOVIET BLOC AID TO CIVIL AIR ACTIVITIES OF UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES (S-717)
Title: SOVIET BLOC AID TO CIVIL AIR ACTIVITIES OF UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES (S-717)
Abstract:
Pages: 0008
Pub Date: 1/2/1962
Release Date: 11/18/1999
Keywords: SOVIET AVIATION ANALYSIS|tgdnotsu
Case Number: CSI-2000-00005
Copyright: 0
Release Decision: RIPPUB
Classification: U



CIVILIAN FRONT WITH LABOR AND STUDENT SUPPORT TO OPPOSE MILITARY JUNTA
Title: CIVILIAN FRONT WITH LABOR AND STUDENT SUPPORT TO OPPOSE MILITARY JUNTA
Abstract:
Pages: 0003
Pub Date: 7/19/1962
Release Date: 2/14/2001
Keywords: LABOR|SUPPORT|PERU|STUDENT|MILITARY JUNTA|CIVILIAN FRONT
Case Number: EO-2000-00227
Copyright: 0
Release Decision: RIPPUB
Classification: U




JAPAN'S PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
Title: JAPAN'S PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
Abstract: (BEST COPY AVAILABLE)
Pages: 0022
Pub Date: 10/9/1963
Release Date: 2/29/2000
Keywords: PROBLEMS|PROSPECTS|MILITARY|ECONOMIC|POLITICAL|JAPAN|INTERNATIONAL|NIE 41-63
Case Number: EO-1994-00323
Copyright: 0
Release Decision: RIFPUB
Classification: U




KOMEITO SEEKS THE MIDDLE ROAD IN JAPANESE POLITICS
Title: KOMEITO SEEKS THE MIDDLE ROAD IN JAPANESE POLITICS
Abstract:
Pages: 0009
Pub Date: 11/15/1968
Release Date: 4/17/2001
Keywords: COMMUNIST CHINA|JAPAN|SOKA GAKKAI|JAPANESE POLITICS|KOMEITO
Case Number: EO-2000-00715
Copyright: 0
Release Decision: RIFPUB
Classification: U




NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE, NUMBER 41-70; JAPAN IN THE SEVENTIES: THE PROBL
Title: NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE, NUMBER 41-70; JAPAN IN THE SEVENTIES: THE PROBL
Abstract:
Pages: 0026
Pub Date: 6/25/1970
Release Date: 11/7/2000
Keywords: POLITICS|PROBLEM|JAPAN|SOCIAL ISSUES|PACIFIC|NATIONAL POWER|EAST ASIA|ECONOMIC ISSUES|WAMPLER ROBERT|NIE 41-70|SEVENTIES|WORLD ROLE
Case Number: F-1998-00963
Copyright: 0
Release Decision: RIFPUB
Classification: U




TERRORISM REVIEW FOR 13 JANUARY 1987
Title: TERRORISM REVIEW FOR 13 JANUARY 1987
Abstract:
Pages: 0037
Pub Date: 1/13/1987
Release Date: 7/7/1999
Keywords: ROMANIA|KUWAIT|ITALY|TERRORISM|FRANCE|EL SALVADOR|IRAQ|LEBANON|AFRICA|REVIEW|ETHIOPIA|PAKISTAN|PERU|SWEDEN|SPAIN|GREECE|COLOMBIA|HOSTAGE|LARF|PORTUGAL|HIZBALLAH|ISLAMIC JIHAD|ANDERSON TERRY J
Case Number: F-1992-01432
Copyright: 0
Release Decision: RIPPUB
Classification: U

End of excerpt from CIA Freedom of Information Act website.


Nicherin Sho-shu and Soka Gakkai. (Please bear with this in the first five paragraphs of history; beginning with the sixth paragraph are the current events of matter now.) They are a much more dangerous cult than some might know. The real history of this very dangerous cult is as follows – in the Kamakura era of Japan’s history, in the 13th century A.D., Nicherin, a proponent of his own brand of esoteric/exoteric Mahayana Buddhism formulated his own sect of Hokke (“Lotus” teaching) Buddhism; since that time called Nicherin Shu or Nicherin Sho-shu. It was based loosely on the (called Tien-Tai or in Japanese Tendai) school of the Chinese monk Chih-i. This and other related schools of Buddhism were brought from Chang’an, China by Dengyo Daishi (Saicho) and Kobo Daishi (Kukai) in the 9th Century A.D. During Nicherin’s life he preached to a group of Samurai families who at that time were Yakusa. The priests and others of these families formed the core of this cult. By the time of the 16th century A.D. they had been deep into the Imperial politics of Japan under the shogunates for three centuries. By the end of the 16th century/beginning of the 17th century they had convinced the Shoguns (especially Tokugawa Ieyasu in about 1601 A.D.) that Christians were to be exterminated. Ieyasu undertook the remainder of this with the “Japanese Proscription”. Christians had been in Japan since the Heian Dynasty and the Nara era (8th century A.D.) and even before that, 6th/7th century A.D. . (I and friends of mine have personally been in Nara and seen the dwellings of the Christians of that time). Part of the martyrdoms instigated by Nicherin’s followers are recounted in the following:
THE MARYRS OF JAPAN (From Fr. Alban Butler’s Lives of the Saints) ABOUT forty years after St. Francis Xavier's death a persecution broke out in Japan, and all Christian rites were forbidden under pain of death. A confraternity of martyrs was at once formed, the object of which was to die for Christ. Even the little children joined it. Peter; a Christian child six years old, was awakened early and told that he was to be beheaded, together with his father. Strong in grace, he expressed his joy at the news, dressed himself in his gayest clothing, and took the hand of the soldier who was to lead him to death. The headless trunk of his father first met his view; calmly kneeling down, he prayed beside the corpse, and, loosening his collar, prepared his neck for the stroke. Moved by this touching scene, the executioner threw down his sabre and fled. None but a brutal slave could be found for the murderous task; with unskilled and trembling hand he hacked the child to pieces, who at last died without uttering a single cry. Christians were branded with the cross, or all but buried alive, while the head and arms were slowly sawn oft with blunt weapons. The least shudder under their anguish was interpreted into apostasy. The obstinate were put to the most cruel deaths, but the survivors only envied them. Five noblemen were escorted to the stake by 40,000 Christians with flowers and lights, singing the litanies of Our Lady as they went. In the great martyrdom, at which thousands also assisted, the martyrs sent up a flood of melody from the fire, which only died away as one after another went to sing the new song in heaven. Later on, a more awful doom was invented. The victims were lowered into a sulphurous chasm, called the "mouth of hell," near which no bird or beast could live. The chief of these, Paul Wiborg, whose family had been already massacred for the faith, was thrice let down; thrice he cried, with a loud voice, "Eternal praise be to the ever-adorable Sacrament of the Altar." The third time he went to his reward.
After these martyrdoms recounted by Fr. Butler, about forty plus years later, under Ieyasu's Proscription, the Tokugawa shogunate martyred another thirty thousand plus Christians. The Nicherin Buddhists built the “Five Storied Pagoda” at their head temple Taisekiji to comemorate their successful murdering of Japan’s Christians and said that the pagoda symbolized that their Buddhism would conquer the West and destroy the Christian faith and all other religions and Japan would rule the world.
After this, the Proscription held until 1868, when Admiral Perry reopened Japan, and Christians were again allowed to preach and worship the true God there.
The last part of the 19th Century A.D., in Japan, saw the Meiji restoration, which albeit short lived, saw a revival of cultic pagan worship of the Emperor. The 1890’s were the Edo period and saw the building and ascension of modern day Tokyo. The shogunate warlords took over again in the 20th century and that saw the rise of anti-western Imperialism.
After World War II a hoodlum (amidst all the other post war cults that arose in Japan), named Jogei Toda (who later renamed himself Josei Toda) took over a Hokke Nicherin society that Tsunesaburo Makiguchi had formed in the 1930’s. This was the beginning of what became Nicherin Sho-shu Soka Gakkai. Later, after Daisaku Ikeda had taken over from Toda, it became the Soka Gakkai International. Masayasu Sadanaga brought this cult to the United States in the early 1960’s. Sadanaga changed his name to George M. Williams and his wife’s to Virginia and claimed he was the reincarnation of George Washington.
After numerous money grubbing and high pressure tactics and an ever changing pseudo-theology (including a book werein Sadanaga-Williams claimed that Billy Sunday paved the way for him to proselytize the United States) the disaffected left in even greater numbers. In the early days in the U.S., a great number of the Americans that came to be members of this cult were married to Japanese women they met in Japan. The Americans were American service men and usually hard drinking amoral types. The Japanese women nagged their half sloshed husbands into joining.
Ikeda has a total megolamaniac mental composition. He believes that he sums up all of Buddhism and all Buddhas, including Nicherin (supposedly the Buddha of the later day) in his embodying the law of Buddhism. He also stated in the late 1980’s that Jesus Christ had failed in his mission to mankind and that now people needed to turn to him (Ikeda) for salvation. The result of his blaspheming the true God by his comments concerning Jesus Christ led to a result totally unforeseen by this pathetic little paper hanging would be tyrant. The High Priest of Nicherin Sho-shu together with the head temple, Taisekiji, for their own reasons, split with Ikeda (and thus the whole pseudo-theological base of the Soka Gakkai vanished), and now Ikeda is basically a has been cult leader with just enough danger left in him to do something nasty, if he can.
Here in the United States, in the past, Sadanaga-Williams’ people have threatened murder (in southern California, USA, Dede Miller in the 1980’s was certainly murdered by them).
They have people under their mind control or vice versa, including, it would seem by the comments he made to a friend of mine, a retired Military Intelligence Officer-Operative who said that the Japanese should control the world. When my friend totally disagreed with this person, he first had his gardener, and then he himself did, threaten the life of my friend’s mother and my friend’s life; this person, repeatedly threatened their lives.
In summation, they have one goal, that Sadanaga-Williams used to lecture on incessantly, to use their false religion to take over the whole world, especially politically, with everyone bowing in obedience to Daisaku Ikeda. Underneath all of this is their long time CIA connection and to various shadowy figures such as Manuel Noriega the Panamanian drug dealer and dictator when he was still in power.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Centre for Research on Globalisation

Centre for Research on Globalisation

Drugs, the CIA and Faustian Alliances

by John Stanton www.globalresearch.ca 28 June 2004

The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/STA406B.html


Drugs, Faustian Alliances and Sibel Edmonds

Taking Turkey as the focal point and with a start date of 1998, it is easy to speculate why Sibel Edmonds indicated that there was a convergence of US and foreign counter-narcotics, counter-terrorism and US national security and economic interests all of which were too preoccupied to surface critical information warning Americans of the attacks of September 11, 2001. After all, who would have believed drug runners operating in Central Asia? And besides, President Clinton was promoting Turkey, one of the world’s top drug transit points, as a model for Muslim-Western cooperation and a country necessary to reshape the Middle East.

The FBI’s Office of International Operations, in conjunction with the CIA and the US State Department counter-narcotics section, the United Kingdom’s MI6, Israel’s Mossad, Pakistan’s ISI, the US DEA, Turkey’s MIT, and the governments and intelligence agencies of dozens of nations, were in one way or another involved in the illicit drug trade either trying to stop it or benefit from it. What can be surmised from the public record is that from 1998 to September 10, 2001, the War on Drugs kept bumping into the nascent War on Terror and new directions in US foreign policy.

It’s easy to imagine the thousands of drug couriers, middlemen, financiers and lab technicians moving back and forth between Pakistan and Turkey, and over to Western Europe and the United States, and the tidbits of information they gleaned from their sponsors as they traveled. As information gathering assets for the intelligence agencies of the world, they must have been invaluable. And given the dozens of foreign intelligence services working the in the counter-narcotics/terrorism fields, the "chatter" that just dozens of well-placed operatives may have overheard about attacks against Western targets must have found its way into the US intelligence apparatus. But, again, who could believe the audacity of non-state actors organizing a domestic attack against the supreme power of the day, the USA? Implementing a new strategic direction and business deals may have overcome the wacky warnings from the counter-narcotics folks.

Back in the late 1990’s and early 2000, who would have believed the rants of a drug courier from Afghanistan saying that some guy named Bin Laden was going to attack America, particularly if it involved America’s newest friend, Turkey? Or that a grand design to reshape Central Asia and the Middle East with Turkey and Israel as pivot points was being pushed by the Clinton Administration as a matter of national policy.

The historical record shows that the US War on Drugs and the nascent War on Terror kept colliding with not only within the US intelligence, policy and business apparatus, but also with European strategic and business interests. Turkey continues its push for entry into the European Union and the USA wants that to happen as the June 2004 meeting of NATO, and President Bush’s attendance under dangerous circumstances, in Turkey demonstrates. Turkey is one of the USA’s and Europe’s top arms buyers and is located near what could be some of the biggest oil and natural gas fields in the world. At this point it’s worth noting that the one of the FBI’s tasks is to counter industrial espionage and to engage in it. Where big arms sales pit the US against its European competitors--as is the case in Turkey (particularly starting in 1998)--the FBI is busy making sure the US gets the edge over its competition. Allies are friends only so far.

Did warnings foretelling of an attack on American soil by Bin Laden’s crew get lost in the War on Drugs or the US national and economic interest in troublesome Turkey? It seems only Ms Edmonds knows.

Turkey Cold to UK and USA Concerns

In 1998, the US Department of State (DOS) was finally forced to admit that Turkey was a major refining and transit point for the flow of heroin from Southwest Asia to Western Europe, with small quantities of the stuff finding its way to the streets of the USA. In that same year, Kendal Nezan, writing for Le Monde Diplomatique, reported that MIT, and the Turkish National Police force were actively supporting the trade in illicit drugs not only for fun and profit, but out of desperation.

"After the Gulf War in 1991, Turkey found itself deprived of the all-important Iraqi market and, since it lacked significant oil reserves of its own, it decided to make up for the loss by turning more massively to drugs. The trafficking increased in intensity with the arrival of the hawks in power, after the death in suspicious circumstances of President Turgut Özal in April 1993. According to the minister of interior, the war in Kurdistan had cost the Turkish exchequer upwards of $12.5 billion. According to the daily Hürriyet, Turkey’s heroin trafficking brought in $25 billion in 1995 and $37.5 billion in 1996...Only criminal networks working in close cooperation with the police and the army could possibly organize trafficking on such a scale. Drug barons have stated publicly, on Turkish television and in the West, that they have been working under the protection of the Turkish government and to its financial benefit. The traffickers themselves travel on diplomatic passports…the drugs are even transported by military helicopter from the Iranian border."

Nowhere is the pain of Turkey’s role in the heroin trade felt more horribly than in the United Kingdom. According to London’s Letter written by a Member of Parliament, "The war against drugs and drug trafficking in Britain is huge. Turkish heroin in particular is a top priority for the MI6 and the Foreign Ministry. During his visit to the British Embassy in Ankara, the head of the Foreign Office’s Turkey Department was clear about this. He reassured an English journalist that the heroin trade was more important than billions of pounds worth off trade capacity and weapons selling. When the journalist in question told me about this, I was reminded of my teacher’s words at university in Ankara ten years ago. He was also working for the Turkish Foreign Ministry. The topic of a lecture discussion was about Turkey’s Economy and I still remember his words today, "50 billion dollars worth of foreign debt is nothing, it is two lorry loads of heroin..."

Afghanistan: Top Opiate Producer and America’s Friend

Both the DOS and the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) described in detail the transit routes and countries involved in getting the goods to Turkey. Intelligence organizations here and abroad must have sanctioned the role that they, and Turkey and Afghanistan, played in the process. "Afghanistan is the original source of most of the opiates reaching Turkey. Afghan opiates, and also hashish, are stockpiled at storage and staging areas in Pakistan, from where a ton or larger quantities are smuggled by overland vehicles to Turkey via Iran. Multi-ton quantities of opiates and hashish also are moved to coastal areas of Pakistan and Iran, where the drugs are loaded on ships waiting off-shore, which then smuggle the contraband to points in Turkey along the Mediterranean, Aegean, and/or Marmara seas. Opiates and hashish also are smuggled overland from Afghanistan via Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Georgia to Turkey.

Turkish-based traffickers and brokers operate directly and in conjunction with narcotic suppliers, smugglers, transporters, laboratory operators, drug distributors, money collectors, and money launderers in and outside Turkey. Traffickers in Turkey illegally acquire the precursor chemical acetic anhydride, which is used in the production of heroin, from sources in Western Europe, the Balkans, and Russia. During the 27-month period from July 1, 1999 to September 30, 2001, over 56 metric tons of illicit acetic anhydride were seized in or destined for Turkey."

The Ankara Pact

The Middle East Report concluded in 1998 that probably the greatest strategic move in the Clinton post-Cold War years is what could be called "The Ankara Pact" -- an alliance between the U.S., Turkey, and Israel that essentially circumvents and bottles up the Arab countries. Earlier in 1997, Turkish Prime Minister Yilmaz visited with Bill Clinton to ensure him that Turkey would attempt to improve its human rights record by slaughtering less Kurds, but also mentioned that if the US pushed too hard on that subject or if the US Congress adopted an Armenian Genocide Resolution, Turkey might award a billion dollar contract for attack helicopters to a Europe or maybe even Russia.

During this timeframe, and with approval from the USA, Turkey began to let contracts to Israel to upgrade its F-4, F-5 and F-16 aircraft. Pemra Hazbay, writing in the May 2004 issue of Peace Watch, reported that total Israeli arms sales to Turkey had exceeded $1 billion since 2000. "In December 1996, Israel won a deal worth $630 million to upgrade Turkey's fleet of fifty-four F-4 Phantom fighter jets. In 1998, Turkey awarded a $75 million contract to upgrade its fleet of 48 F-5 fighter jets to Israel Aircraft Industries' Lahav division, beating out strong French competition. In 2002, Turkey ratified its largest military deal with Israel, a $700 million contract for the renovation of Turkish tanks." But that pales in comparison to the $20 billion in US arms exports and military aid dealt to Turkey over the last 24 years.

Then in 1999 came a news item from a publication known as the Foreign Report based in the United Kingdom. That publication indicated that "Israeli intelligence, the Mossad, had expanded its base in Turkey and opened branches in Turkey for other two departments stationed in Tel Aviv. The Mossad carried out several spy operations and plans through its elements stationed in Istanbul and Ankara, where it received support and full cooperation from the Turkish government. According to the military cooperation agreement between the Mossad and its Turkish counterpart, the MIT, signed by former Turkish Foreign Minister Hekmet Citen during his visit to Israel in 1993, the Mossad had provided Turkey with plans aiding it in closing its border with Iraq, as well as being involved in the arrest the chairman of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan." That agreement also included help with counter-narcotics.

Earlier in 1998, Israeli, Turkish and American military forces engaged in exercises in the Mediterranean, according to Reuters and Agencie France Press. ``[These exercises] signal to the radical states in the region that there is a strong alliance between Israel, Turkey and the United States which they must fear, Israeli political scientist Efraim Inbar said. Defense officials said during last month's visit to Ankara that they hoped the Jewish lobby in Washington would help Turkey offset Greek and Armenian influence on Capitol Hill. That's certainly part of this. They expect us to help them and we do help them a bit, said David Ivri, an adviser who directs biannual strategy talks with Turkey." Reports also indicated that the CIA and Pentagon intelligence organizations had regularly chaired meetings of Turkish and Israeli officers in Tel Aviv for years.

DEA & FBI

Prior to the US invasion of Afghanistan, the DEA monitored the Afghanistan drug trade from its two offices in Pakistan: The Islamabad Country Office and the Peshawar Resident Office. In addition to Pakistan and Afghanistan, the DEA Islamabad Country Office also includes in its area of responsibility Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman. Asa Hutchinson, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, testified in October 2001 that DEA intelligence confirmed the presence of a linkage between Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban and international terrorist Osama Bin Laden.

He went on to say that although DEA had no direct evidence to confirm that Bin Laden is involved in the drug trade, the relationship between the Taliban and Bin Laden is believed to have flourished in large part due to the Taliban’s substantial reliance on the opium trade as a source of organizational revenue. "While the activities of the two entities do not always follow the same trajectory, we know that drugs and terror frequently share the common ground of geography, money, and violence. In this respect, the very sanctuary enjoyed by Bin Laden is based on the existence of the Taliban’s support for the drug trade. This connection defines the deadly, symbiotic relationship between the illicit drug trade and international terrorism."

Meanwhile, back at the FBI, the Office of International Operations oversees the Legal Attaché Program operating at 46 locations around the world. The operation maintains contact with Interpol, other US federal agencies such as the CIA and military agencies such as the Defense Intelligence Agency, and foreign police and security officers. Its job is to investigate or counter threats from foreign intelligence, terrorists and criminal enterprises that threaten the national or economic security of the USA. It coordinates its activities with all US and foreign intelligence operations. In 2000, it opened offices in Ankara, Turkey and Almaty, Kazhakstan. Since 1996, it has had offices in Islamabad, Pakistan and Tele Aviv, Israel. In 1997 it opened one in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Combined, these offices monitor the entire Middle East, Persian Gulf and Central Asian threat areas developing thousands of "investigative leads".

Ms Edmonds has given the American people leads that show that they are easily sacrificed for a perceived greater good.

John Stanton is a Virginia based writer specializing in national security and political issues. His forthcoming book is America 2004: A Power But Not Super. He is the author, along with Wayne Madsen, of America’s Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II. Reach him at cioran123@yahoo.com


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The Spoils of War: Afghanistan's Multibillion Dollar Heroin Trade by Michel Chossudovsky, http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO404A.html


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