1. Heroic whistleblower Sibel Edmunds has posted part two of her excellent work "The Hijacking of a Nation." The first part concentrated on Saudi Arabia; in this installment, she talks Turkey.
Since the 1950s Turkey has played a key role in channeling into Europe and the U.S. heroin produced in the "Golden Triangle" comprised of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. These operations are run by mafia groups closely controlled by the MIT (Turkish Intelligence Agency) and the military. According to statistics compiled in 1998, Turkey’s heroin trafficking brought in $25 billion in 1995 and $37.5 billion in 1996. That amount makes up nearly a quarter of Turkey’s GDP. Only criminal networks working in close cooperation with the police and the army could possibly organize trafficking on such a scale. The Turkish government, MIT and the Turkish military, not only sanctions, but also actively participates in and oversees the narcotics activities and networks.Her work actually dovetails rather well with the following...
In July 1998, Le Monde Diplomatique reported that in an explosive document made public at a press conference in Istanbul, the MIT, Turkish Intelligence Agency, accused Turkey’s national police, of having “provided police identity cards and diplomatic passports to members of a group which, in the guise of anti-terrorist activities, traveled to Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Hungary and Azerbaijan to engage in drug trafficking”. MIT provided a list of names of some of the traffickers operating under the protection of the police. The Turkish police returned the compliment and handed over a list of named drug traffickers employed by the MIT!
2. Daniel Hopsicker's latest is, as always, convoluted and mind-blowing. We've been hearing a lot of about Russian assassination plots lately, especially if you've been following the excellent work of Larisa Alexandrovna. The one about the mammoth cloner surprised even me. But Hopsicker has also uncovered some Russian mobsters who appear to have 9/11 connections.
Drugs, as always, are key, in both the Edmunds tale and in Hopsicker's reportage. The poppies were grown in Afghanistan, which means that Osama Bin Laden was the king of junk. Which means that lots of interesting and powerful people had to do covert business with him...
2 comments:
OBL was king of junk? Hmmm... I don't think that's right at all.
First, he wasn't in control of Afghanistan whatsoever. He was a somewhat unwelcome guest there of the Taliban, controlling no more than his enclaves, and the Taliban themselves only controlled some 80%-85% of Afghanistan.
As I understand it, the controllers of the rest of the country, and continuing as rebels against the Taliban, were the so-called Northern Alliance group. They are constantly identified by the term 'drug lords,' and I believe it was they who ran the opium. Recall that the last position of the Taliban toward opium was that they wanted it eradicated, and succeeded in wiping out an entire crop in the country.
Larisa. NATO spy?
Her take on the Italian is just sad.
Go here instead.
http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2006/11/19/20439/209
Post a Comment