In Sibel's fantastic Highjacking of a Nation series, which outlines the contours of her case, she writes:
Turkey played a major role in Pakistan and Libya's illicit activities in obtaining nuclear technologies. In June 2004, Stephen Fidler, a reporter for Financial Times reported that in 2003, Turkish centrifuge motors and converters destined for Libya's nuclear weapons program turned up in Tripoli aboard a ship (BBC China) that had sailed from Dubai. One of those detained individuals in this incident, a 'respected and successful' Turkish Businessman, Selim Alguadis, was cited in a public report from the Malaysian inspector-general of police into the Malaysian end of a Pakistani-led clandestine network that supplied Libya, Iran and North Korea with nuclear weapons technologies, designs and expertise. According to the report, "he supplied these materials to Libya." Mr. Alguadis also confessed that he had on several occasions met A Q Khan, the disgraced Pakistani scientist who has admitted transmitting nuclear expertise to the three countries. Selim Alguadis remains a successful businessman in Turkey with companies in several other countries. He was released immediately after being turned over to Turkish authorities. His partner, another well-known and internationally recognized wealthy businessman, Gunes Cire, also actively participated in transferring nuclear technology and parts to Iran, Pakistan and North Korea. Although under investigation by several international communities, Alguadis and his partners continued to roam free in Turkey and conduct their illegitimate operations via their 'legit international business' front companies.
Gunes Cire has since died, however his company, ETI Elektroteknik, continues to operate freely, with Cire's son now at the helm. Selim Alguadis is apparently 'under investigation' but neither he nor his company, EKA, appear to be in any trouble three years later.
It's an odd pattern. There's strong evidence of Turkish complicity in the nuclear proliferation network, yet guilty people are allowed to walk free, and Western governments go to great lengths to cover up the facts.
States (cough) Secrets
There are significant parallels between Sibel's case and the recent case of British Customs official Atif Amin. The UK government, desperate to cover its complicity in allowing the AQ Khan network to continue proliferating, is trying to shut Amin down using the Official Secrets Act, the British equivalent of the State Secrets Privilege gag that has been used to shut down Sibel's case. Informedobservers widely recognize that for the Bush administration, the State Secrets Privilege is simply a 'get out of jail free' card to shield themselves when they commit egregious crimes.
The same is true in the UK. An editorial, ', Secrets and lies,' in the Guardian last Friday noted:
"National security is being invoked not to protect us but to shield politicians from embarrassment [...] There are genuine threats to national security and to our public and personal safety. It is a dangerous abuse if a government hoists the flag of national security and deploys the Official Secrets Act when all it is really trying to do is protect itself from embarrassment."
In the US, we've recently seen the State Secrets card played to cover up illegal spying, torture, and any number of other crimes - including complicity in the spread of nuclear weapons to our purported enemies.
Enough is enough.
************************** In case you missed it, the unnamed senior State Department official in last week's Times article is Marc Grossman.
************************* In case you missed it, Sibel found a novel way of exposing the other guilty parties. She posted 18 photos on her website, without explanation. I published the faces along with the names here.
I think we need to act now, we don't want the smoking gun to come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
It should be a simple mater to check the records to verify if Sibel's accusations are true. Let's recheck the conversations Sibel claims to have heard!
Now that this information has oozed out and been made public, a simple Congressional investigation providing some of the long-promised oversight can get to the bottom of this simply and easily. Either Ms. Edmonds made it all up and should be punished accordingly, or the officials protected those selling nuclear secrets. Let's find out, shall we?
Oh, we can't because President Bush says the answer to this alarming accusation is double-super-top secret...
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Gustav Wynn (66 articles, 43 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 304 comments)
on Friday, January 18, 2008 at 8:04:47 PM
IT ALL LEADS BACK TO ISRAEL, THEY WHAT TO CONTROL THE WORLD,ISRAEL HAS 13 IN OUR SENATE, 30 CONGRESSMEN, BRITIAN 56 IN PARLIAMENT, 18 IN THE HOUSE OF COMOMS, FRANCE AND UKRANE 18 EACH LEGISLATORS, RUSSIA 13, BRIZIL 11, CANADA AND HUNGRY 10 EACH, 246 JEWISH LEGISLATORS WORLD WIDE. AND WITH AIPAC, THEY ARE THE REASON WE ARE IN IRAQ, AND MOST LIKELY STRIKE IRAN. HITLER WAS HALF JEW. AND IF WE GET HILLARY AS OUR NEXT PRESIDENT WE WILL HAVE WORLD WAR III.
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RICHARD SHADE (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 460 comments)
on Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 1:37:08 AM
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