The operation includes propaganda and indoctrination in the form of financing, building and operating madrassas, control of media outlets and publishing houses, financing of terrorist groups, and heroin trafficking, as well as facilitating the requisite money-laundering apparatus. It is this operation that is at the heart of the gagging of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, and many of the names on Sibel's State Secrets Privilege Gallery are associated with this operation.
This modus operandi is not new, of course. A recent New York Times article noted that "Saudi and American money" financed schools in Pakistan which "spread Islamic radicalism" dating back to the 1980s. Students from these schools went on to fight the Russians in Afghanistan alongside other CIA creations such as Osama Bin Laden.
The US government has also previously used Islamic fighters, including Al-Qaeda, in the Chechen and Balkan wars. In these cases, and with the Central Asian operation, we see the same elements - Islamic terrorist groups, drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, and money laundering - converging with the 'foreign policy' objectives of a small group of US officials, and US energy companies. In each case, the activities of the Islamic groups have been facilitated by puppet states of the US; Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey. (IS ALL THIS TRUE?)
Kosovo and Albania In 1999, Washington Times reported that:
"Some members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which has financed its war effort through the sale of heroin, were trained in terrorist camps run by international fugitive Osama bin Laden...
The KLA members, embraced by the Clinton administration in NATO's 41-day bombing campaign... were trained in secret camps in Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina and elsewhere, according to newly obtained intelligence reports.
The reports also show that the KLA has enlisted Islamic terrorists -- members of the Mujahideen --as soldiers in its ongoing conflict against Serbia... [...] The reports said bin Laden's organization, known as al-Qaeda, has both trained and financially supported the KLA. [...] The KLA's involvement in drug smuggling as a means of raising funds for weapons is long-standing. Intelligence documents show it has aligned itself with an extensive organized crime network in Albania that smuggles heroin to buyers throughout Western Europe and the United States.
Drug agents in five countries believe the cartel is one of the most powerful heroin smuggling organizations in the world."
"For the past 10 years, the most senior leaders of al Qaeda have visited the Balkans, including bin Laden himself on three occasions between 1994 and 1996. The Egyptian surgeon turned terrorist leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri has operated terrorist training camps, weapons of mass destruction factories and money-laundering and drug-trading networks throughout Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Bosnia. This has gone on for a decade. Many recruits to the Balkan wars came originally from Chechnya, a jihad in which Al Qaeda has also played a part."
Ayman Al-Zawahiri, of course, is reported to have been the brains behind the September Eleven terrorist attack in the United States. His brother, Muhammad al-Zawahiri, is the head of the Albanian network, according to Yossef Bodansky, director of the House Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare.
In short, at a minimum, the United States, with NATO, were supporting the Kosovo Liberation Army alongside Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda.
Chechnya In Chechnya we see the same pattern of certain US policy elites and al-Qaeda working on the same team.
"Russian intelligence officials assert that Osama bin Laden donated at least $25 million and dispatched numerous fighters to Chechnya, including Ibn Khattab, a Saudi who led one of the best-trained contingents. The United States now agrees that Khattab had al Qaeda ties, and cited those links when it added three Chechen rebel units to its list of terrorist organizations earlier this year.
American officials said that several hundred Chechen fighters were trained at al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and that bin Laden sent "substantial amounts of money" to equip Chechen rebels in 1999."
In fact, a 1998 DIA report (pdf), exposed by the conservative group Judicial Watch in 2004 via a FOIA request in 2000, noted that Khattab was a "personal friend" of bin Laden, and that bin Laden sent Khattab to Chechnya in 1995 to "organize training camps for international terrorists." Three camps were established, and graduations were held every two months.
US support for the Chechens has been well documented. In a September 2004 article in the Guardian, subtitled "The Washington neocons' commitment to the war on terror evaporates in Chechnya, whose cause they have made their own," a group called the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC) is put under the spotlight. It's members include Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, Kenneth Adelman, Frank Gaffney, Michael Ledeen, James Woolsey, Stephen Solarz and Morton Abramowitz.
The Guardian notes:
"The ACPC heavily promotes the idea that the Chechen rebellion shows the undemocratic nature of Putin's Russia, and cultivates support for the Chechen cause by emphasising the seriousness of human rights violations in the tiny Caucasian republic. It compares the Chechen crisis to those other fashionable "Muslim" causes, Bosnia and Kosovo - implying that only international intervention in the Caucasus can stabilise the situation there. In August, the ACPC welcomed the award of political asylum in the US, and a US-government funded grant, to Ilyas Akhmadov, foreign minister in the opposition Chechen government, and a man Moscow describes as a terrorist. Coming from both political parties, the ACPC members represent the backbone of the US foreign policy establishment, and their views are indeed those of the US administration. [...] Allegations are even being made in Russia that the west itself is somehow behind the Chechen rebellion, and that the purpose of such support is to weaken Russia, and to drive her out of the Caucasus. "
The aforementioned Judicial Watch account of the DIA report notes that:
"A good deal of information concerning OBL's and al Qaeda's efforts in Chechnya, the Caucuses, Crimea, and the Central Asian Republics is covered in the (report). The confirmed existence of a [secure, reliable, terrorist-sponsored] "direct route to Chechnya from Pakistan and Afghanistan through Turkey and Azerbaijan" is a stunning "information point" within this (report) – especially in light of the date of the information, 1998."
A 2008 article in the UK Times, "Al-Qaeda kingpin: I trained 9/11 hijackers," about Louai al-Sakka confirms the existence of the terrorist pipeline through Turkey to Chechnya.
(Sakka's) story is also one of a globetrotting terrorist in an organisation that is truly multinational. [...] The Chechens needed trained fighters. Sakka was telephoned by Ibn al-Khattab, the late militia leader controlling the foreign fighters against the Russians. Khattab requested that Sakka's trainees should be sent on to Afghanistan for military training because "conditions are tough". [...] One of Sakka's chief roles was to organise passports and visas for the volunteers to make their way to Afghanistan through Pakistan. His ability to keep providing high-quality forged papers made Turkey a main hub for Al-Qaeda movements, his lawyer says. The young men came to Turkey pretending to be on holiday and Sakka's false papers allowed them to "disappear" overseas.
Turkish intelligence were aware of unusual militant Islamic activity in the Yalova mountains, where Sakka had set up his camps. [...] Some of Sakka's account is corroborated by the US government's 9/11 Commission. It found evidence that four of the hijackers – whom Sakka says he trained – had initially intended to go to Chechnya from Turkey but the border into Georgia was closed. [...] Sakka's lawyer said: "Just like there is money laundering, there is also terrorist laundering and Turkey was the centre of this."
In fact, apprehended terrorists often hold Turkish passports - reportedly both fake and real. A quick google search, for example, demonstrates Turkish passports on terrorists captured in New York, Chechnya, Chechnya again and again, Pakistan training camps, and Georgia, Russia, and Kyrgyzstan. Many of the 'detainees' at Guantanamo also hold Turkish passports.
Central Asia Now we come full circle to the current operations in Central Asia which are at the core of the gagging of Sibel Edmonds. As outlined in my recent article, "Court Documents Shed Light on CIA Illegal Operations in Central Asia Using Islam & Madrassas," the CIA has been funding an illegal covert operation to 'Islamicize' the Central Asian region in order to wrest control away from Russia and secure the vast energy resources of the region. The US has been using Turkey as a proxy to carry out this operation, for reasons that Sibel explained:
Given the history, and the distrust of the West, the US realized that it couldn't get direct control, and therefore would need to use a proxy to gain control quickly and effectively. Turkey was the perfect proxy; a NATO ally and a puppet regime. Turkey shares the same heritage/race as the entire population of Central Asia, the same language (Turkic), the same religion (Sunni Islam), and of course, the strategic location and proximity.
Yes, it is a given that drug money finances many CIA projects. What is not examined is just who is doing the transporting to market. The CIA is caught with the goods over and over and no one is ever held accountable....MSM just lets the story die when it is actually one of the biggest scandals our government has ever been a part of. (ok,ok...there IS 911 to consider) Oil is looked at for the motivation for our current wars....personally I think a great by-product is the money being made by American drug kingpins servicing the citizens of this country. Logic demands there are counterparts to the foreign 'Drug Kingpins' we keep hearing about on the news...they must have connections in high places or we would hear more about them. Those kids selling dime bags on the street corner are NOT who we need to find out more about.
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Roger (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 359 comments)
on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 at 5:42:46 PM
You ever notice how back when the main drug that came Afghanistan. Turkey ect was hashish Central Asia was a Exotic cool place to go friendly to forginers THEN CAME OUR WARS ON DRUGS and the crops were destroyed the farmers went broke. Then that harmless herb was replaced by a terrible additive drug that has flourished. Just a thought.
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Keith Hupp (3 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 12 comments)
on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 5:13:53 AM
Central Asia Islamization ? Central Asia had been Islamic from the 8th Century AD right upto its conquest and total subjugation by Czarist & then Soviet Russia plus the advent of Kemal Ataturk, all in late 19th and early 20th centuries during which Islam was prohibited, the learning of Arabic in 'madrassas' (the Arabic word for school) which taught Arabic, the language of the Koran and the Prophet's Tradition, along with science, mathematics, architecture etc. Most of these 'madrassas' were in 'mosque complexes', in their extensions. Go see what is left of these in Tashkent, Bukhara, Konya, Istanbul etc all over Central Asia. It is in these 'madrassas' that the likes of Al Bayrouni, Omar Khayyam, Ibn Sina, Ibn Al-Haitham, Al Zahrawi etc studied, did their research work and taught in. It is the works of such 'madrassa' graduates which reached Europe through Spain and Istanbul without which Europe might still be in the Dark Ages. Heroin? Well, study the history of the Opium Wars which the Brits and the US waged against China and you will be surprised to find that both are still at it. Heroin/opium means MONEY, BIG BIG BIG MONEY! The amount that the Central Asian growers make in Centra Asia is less than 1% of what the BUYERS and RESELLERS, all non-Central Asians, make. This list includes CIA and many American VVVIP's, some of who are the ones running USA through 'paid proxies' at Capitol Hill and the White House. Terrorism? What is termed by the WEST as Islamic TERRORISM is simply counter-terrorism, counter as in RESPONSE to STATE TERRORISM run by USA and Israel. Both are now reaping the harvest from what they sowed and still are sowing! Instead of trying to close down mosques and madrassas in 56 countries why does not the US abandon Imperialism, stop destroying/occupying countries with Oil/Gas reserves, bring the Americans who run worldwide Heroin business from US soil to JUSTICE in the US and stop wearing the Holier Than Thou face masks that the whole WORLD has become sick and fed up with, even those who 'poodle' up to US governments and lick ***!
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syed mahdi (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 125 comments)
on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 5:25:58 AM
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