"The story of Turkish involvement in transnational jihadism is one of the best kept stories of the war on terror." Brian Glyn Williams, associate professor who "has tracked the movement of jihadis for the U.S. military's Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.
A newly released AP article notes that al-Qaida is recruiting many foreign fighters - from Turkey, Central Asia, Chechnya and the Middle East - for the war in Afghanistan. According to the article,
"Turkey appears to have emerged as a source of recruits. Williams estimated as many as 100 Turks had made their way to Pakistan to join the fight in Afghanistan."
This story directly links to a 1998 DIA report on Al Qaeda's Central Asia activities obtained by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch which calls the following disclosure a "stunning information point":
"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" "
In a related article in November 2007, UK Times covers the case of Turkish Al Qaeda operative, Louai Al-Sakka, an "al-Qaeda Kingpin" who trained the 9/11 hijackers. The article highlights the key role played by Turkey as a center of al-Qaeda-related activities:
"(Sakka's) ability to keep providing high-quality forged papers made Turkey a main hub for Al-Qaeda movements," his lawyer says.
Sakka's lawyer said: "Just like there is money laundering, there is also terrorist laundering and Turkey was the centre of this.""
As mentioned in my earlier piece, a large number of detained and captured terrorists have had Turkish passports - both real and fake. Here is a list of just a few of many documented cases of Turkish terrorists:
* Turkish citizen Soitekin Ollu admitted that he was an active member of an al-Qaeda linked organization from 2001-2005 and had operated in Chechnya (source)
* A German man with a Turkish passport, Zafer Sari, and Turkish-born Adem Yilmaz, both "accused conspirators" in a bomb-making plot in Germany, had received training in Pakistan "to prepare chemical explosives and military-grade detonators" (source)
* Egyptian man, Wael Abdel Rahman Kishk, arrested in 2002 with "a fake Egyptian pilot's uniform, phony documents identifying him as a pilot and a forged certificate from a Florida flight school" had a fake Turkish passport (source)
* Turkish citizen, Genan Ahmet, was convicted "for organizing several terrorist acts" in Kyrgyzstan in 2000. (source)
Well-Guarded Secrets Turkey's involvement in nuclear black-market, illegal weapon trafficking, narcotics, the Islamization of Central Asia, and illegal activities within the US Government are also very well-guarded secrets.
Turkey's Lead Role in Afghan Heroin Trade is One of the Best Kept Stories of the Wars on Terror & Drugs
According to the State Department's Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs' 2006 Report:
* Turkey is a major transit route for Southwest Asian opiates to Europe, and serves as a base and refining center for major narcotics traffickers and brokers....
* Turkey is also a base of operations for international narcotics traffickers and associates trafficking in opium, morphine base, heroin, precursor chemicals and other drugs. The majority of these opiates originate in Afghanistan, and are ultimately trafficked to Western Europe.
* Turkey remains a major route, refining center and storage, production and staging area, for the flow of heroin to Europe. Turkish-based traffickers and brokers operate in conjunction with narcotics smugglers, laboratory operators, and money launderers in and outside Turkey. They finance and control the smuggling of opiates to and from Turkey. Afghanistan is the source of most of the opiates reaching Turkey.
* Opiates and hashish also are smuggled to Turkey overland from Afghanistan via Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
In 1997, British Home Office Minister Tom stated that 80% of the heroin seized in Britain came from Turkey, and that his government was concerned by reports that members of the Turkish police, and even of the Turkish government, were involved in drug trafficking.
(1). As usual the West Point Expert has not been named so for me Luke is is the 'expert' and the name Luke qualifies for dual Israeli-US nationalities. (2). West Point is at the pinnacle of the Military Establishment whose brass have direct interest in amplifying and selling the fake global Islamic terror threat to Civilized nations. (3). Even as far back as the 4 years of World War I, Istanbul has been known for its high quality forgerers, traffickers, mafias etc. In fact the birth of the so called Islamic 'parties' in Turkey was in direct response to such groups' highjacking of Turkey and turning it into a corrupt police-military state during the Kemalist years. (4). The post Soviet insurrection in Chechenya was not the first against the Russians. Chechen resistance started the day the Czars conquered Chechenya in the late 19th Century. It was as bloody then as it has been since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Religion, culture, vernacular and national pride have always been the rallying points of Resistance in all Empires, only the Russians have been more brutal than other Empires like the British. (5). Guerrillas every where and throughout History have welcomed HELP from any source willing and able to assist them but 100 Turkish 'volunteers' or like numbered Muslim 'fighters' elsewhere are no match for the number of 'volunteers' that the US sent to Central and South America in the 20th Century; state sponsored, state armed and state paid. (6). The ART of demonizing has been perfected by the WHITE MAN over the past 3 Centuries and Mr. Luke Ryland is doing just that in this West Point Terrorism Expert report. He and the likes of him will not desist up and until all Americans voluntarily surrender their minds, their civil rights and their lives to the Military-Oil-Industrial-Neocon-Evangelist-Red Neck-AIPAC Establishment which runs America. (7). Wake up America or you will get what you deserve when the American clock goes back to 1984.
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on Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 7:17:42 AM
