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United States and NATO inspired 'psychological warfare operations' against the 'Kurdi
"All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
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"All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
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Attack Traces to a Gladio-like Organization
By Erdal Sen, Ankara
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zaman.com
Dark relationships relating to the attack on the State Council are being revealed one by one, and statements made by Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Ali Sahin focus the issue towards a new point.
State Minister Sahin said the point reached reminds of “Gladio” and highlighted the existence of groups in Turkey who consider themselves more authorized than the legitimate state forces.
Sahin, the first government member to visit the crime scene after the attack, said, “Be ready for some surprises,” and highlighted another point while “the news implied the attack was in reaction to a court decision” was being reported in the media.
Minister Sahin gave Zaman his assessment on the latest situation during his return flight from the US.
The minister, explaining that what he meant by “surprises” can now be better understood, said the following: “During the Cold war period, there were Gladio-like organizations especially in NATO countries. Many countries dissolved these organizations. However, in Turkey, it seems there are still illegal individuals and groups who still operate in this way, and consider themselves more authorized than the legal state forces and act as they were the true owners of this country.”
Sahin, stating that they must uncover the organization, considers the developments, “as an opportunity to rid the country of these types of illegal organizations.”
“We are moving towards a point where groups that committed such crimes in the past will not be allowed to do so in the future. Now, things are not that so easy,” Sahin said.
The state minister highlighted that such groups organized existed in Turkey owing to the tolerance shown by government authorities in interim regimes:
“There are some organizations assuming they should protect the state, the republic and the regime, and there are others exploiting these groups. No one has charged these groups with such a task. They consider everything legal in order to achieve their aims, and they commit murders and assassinate people to get what they want. These crimes are committed in consideration of protecting the state. Today we came face to face with them as they committed such an act, and this is why I gave the example of Gladyo, based on this fact.”
Sahin said the attack targeting the State Council was aimed at pushing the country into a chaotic situation.
“The aim of the attack was to create trouble and tension in the country. The organization responsible for the attack planned to form a new political structuring around their political goals. Their target was to arouse indignation against the government.”
Asked what would have happened if the attacker had not been caught, Sahin responded by saying: “The attack would have had very deep and widespread effects. Obviously, the attack was undertaken to see if Turkey could be driven to an early election or if the government could be prevented from carrying out its responsibilities to some extent.”
Law expert Mehmet Ali Sahin also spoke about the groups involved in the incident.
“They believe that they are doing very important things for the good of the country,” he said.
Yet, these opinions do not come out in democratic and open societies, he emphasized.
“I would like to say that there is no need for these kinds of organizations in democratic society. In addition, we have to define these organizations and inform the public about them.”
Minister Sahin gave a clear response to “concerns about whether the government will lend sufficient support to public officials in shedding light on the incident”.
“The security forces should know that we, as the people in power, are determined. They should be comfortable with this; our support will be always behind them. The government will give all the support we can to enable the security forces to bring suspects to justice. A very serious effort is being carried out; the security forces making progress step by step, staying in constant communication by phone and using technology.”
Minister Sahin interprets the State Council attack as “an important turning point” and had a strong message to those who would attempt similar attacks: “Everybody should know that we are going towards a platform where it will no longer be possible for people and groups to conduct these attacks. We will prove to those who think that it is business as usual, that things will not be as easy. For there is a political power brave enough to face any dark activity in Turkey. In that respect, we are at a turning point for Turkey.”"All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
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What and where is Ergenekon?
A non-government information center on Turkey - Un centre d'information non-gouvernemental sur la Turquie
The name Ergenekon and various documents related to this organization have been around for a while. Some of these documents are related to security intelligence and others are simply unknown sources.
This organization, and its structure, as explained in the documents are indeed horrific.
However, it is not beyond the realms of believability. We live in a country which has been through blood and aggravation centered developments, has paid heavily for the affects of Cold War, and established illegal mechanisms within the state under the pretext of war against communism. . .
Those searching for Ergenekon do not need to look too far.
The story of Turkish Gladio, starting from the killing of Abdi Ipekci[ well known journalist killed in the 70s by the assassin of Jan Paul II], the massacre of 16 March, Susurluk and possibly the recent shooting in the Council of State, is the story of Ergenekon. And this story contains the darkest and bloodiest pages in Turkish political history.
However, it is not only all about a dark and a bloody story.
It also reveals the “deep picture” of our mentality of administration which portrays the Susurluk and 28 February [soft military coup which brought down Erbakan government] as the two sides of a coin, and integrates the attack against the Council of State with attacks against civil politics.
The situation we face today can best be explained with reference to Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express”. In this novel, a detective is looking for a murderer but at the end he realizes that all passengers on the train have some how put a knife to the victim. There is not one murderer or a suspect but everyone were partners in the crime.
When the issue of lifting the immunity of Mehmet Agar was discussed in the Turkish Grand National Assembly in 1997, Mehmet Agar gave a speech to his party group members, the DYP (True Path Party) MPs. He said: "Whatever I did I have done with the knowledge of the military and senior state officials.”
Agar’s protective umbrella has been very beneficial to him.
During those days Turkish public opinion has came to see the exchange of messages between the JITEM, MIT and other intelligence personnel through the press, court statements and Parliamentary discussions.
Public opinion assumed that some light was being shed onto the situation. However, in fact the realities were all covered up through reciprocal threats and warnings.
Today Mehmet Agar as the leader of the DYP is a strong contender for power in the next general elections.
What Mr Elkatmis, as the Chair of the Susurluk Investigation Commission, has said still goes without notice. He said in a manner of questioning our “bloody history”:
"There are three bases to the [organized] gang. First is the police, second is the [state] bureaucrats and third is the military. We can question the police and some of bureaucrats, but we cannot question the military. I™brahim S¸ahin [police officer involved in Susurluk] was accused of setting up an illegal gang based on his photographs with Abdullah Catli [Turkey’s most wanted assassin killed in Susurluk crash]. We also have documents proving that Brigadier General Veli Kucuk made several telephone calls to Abdullah Catli. Why weren’t these documents accepted as evidence and there has not been an investigation against Veli Kucuk. Who ever finds him/herself in a difficult situation can claim that it is national security and would not turn up to give a statement in a court. Only if some people speak in Turkey can we get to the bottom of the investigation”. . .
Ibrahim Sahin was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment, but Brigadier General Veli Kucuk was promoted to Major General in August, the same year.
At the same time newspapers published pages long transcripts of telephone conversations of Yesil [Mahmut Yildirim, whose ID was revealed during Susurluk incident. He is claimed to be behind extrajudicial killings and is still missing]. Yesil, who was referred to as “the killer of Vedat Aydin and Cem Ersever” by Kutlu Savas, made numerous telephone calls to gendarmerie units and even to military headquarters in Ankara.
This was never investigated.
It only remained as a newspaper report.
The activities of Cem Ersever [well known senior JITEM personnel] and his death also went uninvestigated. Officially JITEM has never existed but its existence was proven with dozens of documents.
Why, we must ask? What and where is Ergenekon? ([email protected] - http://www.yenisafak.com.tr , Translated from Turkish original by PUIK, June 6, 2006)"All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
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Hundreds employed to spy for Ergenekon
Ergenekon document reveals MİT’s assassination secrets
Abdullah Çatlı - Haluk Kırıcı - Oral Çelik
A new document from the Ergenekon archive has revealed that the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) paid regular salaries to ultranationalists to carry out illegal operations.
Ergenekon is a shadowy criminal network with links to the bureaucracy, state security forces and other agencies whose members are accused of orchestrating various murders and attacks so as to create chaos and trigger a coup d’état against the government.
The information about MİT has been suspected for a long time, but this is the first time a document will appear in court that exposes the details of an episode in which some members of the Nationalist Movement Party’s (MHP) extreme nationalist groups, also known as the Grey Wolves, were armed and funded by the state to carry out political murders.
The document, found in Ergenekon archives and presented to a civil court of law last month along with the indictment against the group’s suspected members, revealed a deal made between various ultranationalists who had fled the country as fugitives after being involved in a number of acts of political violence in the prelude to the violent coup on Sept. 12, 1980, most significantly the murder of Milliyet newspaper Editor-in-Chief Abdi İpekçi (1977) and the brutal killings of seven left-wing university students (1978).
These nationalists -- including Abdullah Çatlı, Oral Çelik and Mehmet Şener, who are all publicly associated with such activities as the drug trade, extortion, and the kidnappings and murders of southeastern businessmen -- were hired to assassinate targets, mostly members of Armenian terrorist organization the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA), which frequently attacked Turkish diplomatic targets abroad in those days. Later, some of them were brought back to Turkey to stage illegal operations against the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
An earlier record of evidence of shadowy MİT operations only included the names of Çatlı and Haluk Kırcı. The secret archive document from the Ergenekon investigation was found at the office of the Workers’ Party (İP), a small neo-nationalist party whose leader is currently in jail over alleged Ergenekon membership. It lists the names of everyone on the assassination team and reveals that Çatlı acted as the group’s leader, or “reis” in Grey Wolf jargon.
According to the Ergenekon document titled “The Armenian Question 2000-2002,” the administrators in power in 1982 -- the generals who staged the Sept. 12 coup -- decided to retaliate against ASALA’s terrorist attacks. MİT’s Deputy Regional Director Metin Günyol was assigned to lead the operation. He quit his position at MİT in order not to expose his true identity and flew to Europe under the name Veli Özpınar. Once in Europe, Günyol contacted former Grey Wolf Cengiz Cömert.
Cömert was later mentioned in a parliamentary commission report prepared after the Susurluk affair of 1996 -- a car accident that exposed for the first time the shadowy relations between state security forces and the criminals they were employing for operations outside the law -- as being linked to the murder of southeastern businessman Mehmet Ali Yaprak, who was kidnapped and then killed.
Günyol, after his initial contact with Cömert, set up a team of 12 individuals, including Abdullah Çatlı (using the name Mehmet Sarol), Oral Çelik (Atilla Çelik) and Mehmet Şener (Durmuş Unutmaz); others included former nationalist club leaders Ramiz Ongun, Enver Tortaş, Tevfik Esensoy, Bedri Ateş (Uğur Özgöbek), Rıfat Yıldırım, Türkmen Onur and Üzeyir Bayraklı.
MİT initially allocated $320 monthly to this group from the state’s discretionary funds for fighting terrorism; later they increased the amount to $4,700. The group was supplied with five 7.65 mm Belgian Brownings, five nine mm Brownings, two Kalashnikovs, nine blocks of TNT, five blocks of plastic explosive and other ammunitions delivered by couriers.
The group bombed the Armenian genocide memorial in Alfortville, Paris, on May 3, 1984. The French police soon discovered that the operation was commanded by the Turkish MİT.
The indictment against Ergenekon argues that based on information from the group’s archive, the network planned to “learn” from MİT’s “experience against ASALA.” Ergenekon’s plan was to turn Turkey’s economy into a narcotics-based industry, which would erode American support for Turkey and at the same time “end peace and stability in Armenia completely and until the end of time.”
19 August 2008, Tuesday
TODAY’S ZAMAN İSTANBUL"All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
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Mossad implicated in a coup plot in Turkey
Mossad implicated in a coup plot in Turkey, a NATO country; CIA fingerprints also found on attempt
Dec 4, 2008, 00:20
(WMR) -- Fresh from revelations, reported by WMR, that Israel’s Mossad and Chabad House-based criminal syndicates were targets in a criminal gangland retribution attack by a notorious Muslim gang in Mumbai, comes word that Mossad has, once again, been implicated in an intelligence and criminal network, this time in Turkey.
What makes this latest example of Israel’s failure to stem the criminal activities of its intelligence service and criminal syndicates worse is that Turkey, unlike Israel, is a NATO ally of the United States and, therefore, the United States is bound by treaty to protect NATO allies from aggression by non-NATO states, including Israel.
The Turkish and other Middle East media are reporting that the Mossad has been fingered in connection with a right-wing Turkish criminal and intelligence gang, known as Ergenekon, that stands accused of attempting to overthrow Turkey’s democratically-elected Justice and Development (AKP) Party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul. Several Turkish papers have named a Turkish rabbi, Tuncay Guney, aka Daniel T. Guney and Daniel Levi and code-named “Ipek” or “Silk,” as having served as a double agent for the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT) tasked with infiltrating the shadowy but powerful “state within a state” group Ergenekon. Guney had been arrested by Turkish authorities in 2001 for distributing fake drivers’ licenses and phony license plates for luxury cars. A document recently uncovered by the Turkish press revealed that Guney had also infiltrated a police intelligence unit (JITEM) working with Ergenekon to destabilize Turkey. Guney was exfiltrated to the United States and he now heads up the B’nai Yaakov Synagogue and Community Center in Toronto, Canada. Guney has denied that he has been an agent for Israel, Turkey or the United States but the MIT has confirmed the document identifying Guney as an agent for MIT is authentic.
The Turkish daily Hurriyethas reported that Guney served in MIT’s Counter-terrorism Unit (CTU) and in the MIT unit that monitors Iran. Hurriyet also reported that Guney had developed a contact at the Iranian consulate in Istanbul, Muhsin Karger, the consulate’s political affairs undersecretary.
Guney also has claimed to be a journalist and it is also alleged that he was a member of the PKK. Silvyo Ovaydo, the leader of the Turkish Jewish community, called Guney a fraudulent rabbi and said he was not even registered as a rabbi at the B’nai Yaakov synagogue in Toronto. Guney is said to have once worked for Islamist media organizations in Turkey but suddenly converted to Judaism and became an “instant rabbi” in Toronto.
At the heart of the Ergenekon story lies Mossad and its reported attempts to turn Turkey into another Lebanon or West Bank/Gaza, a country wracked by internal strife and constant warfare that would usher into power a strong right-wing military dictatorship. In the trial of one of the accused murderers of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, the lawyer for one of the accused murderers asked another accused murderer, Erhan Tuncel, a one-time police informer like Guney, if he had an Israeli girlfriend. Tuncel refused to answer the question, citing an invasion of his privacy. However, it was clear that what the lawyer was driving at was a Mossad connection to the murder of Dink, a murder that was being pinned on Turkish anti-Armenian nationalists by the corporate and heavyily Israeli Lobby-influenced media in the West.
When 89 suspects were named in a 2,455-page indictment by a criminal court in Istanbul last July, many retired Turkish army officers, the neocon network, especially in Washington, which is their major citadel, along with Jerusalem and London, began to throw cold water and the term “conspiracy theory” around charges in the Turkish indictment that Ergenekon played a major role in the formation of several Turkish terrorist groups to disrupt Turkish politics, including the illegal Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Turkish Hizbollah (Party of God), the Marxist-Leninist People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP-C), and the little-known Islamic Great East Raiders Front (IBDA-C). The neocon Jamestown Foundation in Washington called the indictment’s links between Turkish military elements and radical terrorists a “conspiracy theory.” Organizations like Jamestown have no other choice. If it were also proven, as it was in Turkey, that various terrorist groups like “Al Qaeda,” “Deccan Mujaheddin,” and others exist courtesy of the nurturing and support by American, Israeli, and other Western military-intelligence structures, groups like Jamestown would lose their reasons for existence -- to make propaganda and receive funding in order to keep the terrorist bogeymen, the actual “Emmanuel Godsteins,” alive.
Guney is reported to be the 86th suspect in the indictment of Ergenekon. Guney is believed to have revealed the initial detailed information on the existence of Ergenekon in order to avoid being charged in the case.
The involvement of extreme right-wing Turkish military and intelligence officials and Turkish organized crime networks, with Mossad and, possibly, CIA agents acting in concert with a suspected CIA-funded Turkish Islamic charismatic madrassaand Islamic centers’ chief named Fethullah Gulen -- whose activities parallel pan-Turkic/Eurasianist (re: George Soros) goals of Ergenekon -- is similar to the scenario now playing out in India where a little known group called “Deccan Mujaheddin” may have been created as a ruse by Indian right-wing military and intelligence officers, allied with Mossad and CIA agents, to sow discord in India and bring about a right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena Hindu government.
Gulen owns a number of media and business interests in Turkey and runs Islamic centers throughout central Asia and even in Russia.
In polls, some one-third of the Turkish public believe Islamist Nurcu sect charismatic leader Grand Hodja Fethullah Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania, is part of a movement that aims to seize control of the Turkish state and a little over a third believe that Gulen is funded by “international powers.” After he was acquitted in Turkey of attempting to overthrow the secular state with his religious organization, Gulen was first denied a Permanent Resident Card or “Green Card” to remain in the United States by the U.S. Distrrict Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania but then an appeals court granted Gulen a Green Card. In October of this year, a federal appellate court found that U.S. immigration authorities improperly rejected Gulen’s request for a Green Card. The appeals court ruled that Gulen was “an alien of extraordinary ability,” a decision that saw approval of Gulen’s residency status. Observers of the case suspect the CIA intervened with the court on Gulen’s behalf. Gulen’s support for the AKP government may be an insurance policy by the CIA to maintain a close relationship with the “Islamist tendency” AKP government in Ankara. The Bush administration, after seven years of trying to deport Gulen to Turkey, suddenly dropped its opposition to his permanent residency status.
The public prosecutor in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) case against Gulen’s permanent residency status argued in filed documents that Gulen’s movement was financially supported by Saudi Arabia, Iran, the Turkish government, and the “Central Intelligence Agency.” The deposition stated that some Ankara businessmen donated up to 70 percent of their income to Gulen’s movement.
If Gulen’s operations are funded by the CIA that means the “Agency” may be linked to Ergenekon. With the U.S. having a mutual defense treaty with Turkey’s recognized government that puts the CIA potentially in violation of U.S. law. And Israel’s connections with Ergenekon means that the United States is bound by treaty to protect its ally Turkey from Israeli covert or overt aggression.
There is an element of “McCarthyism” in the Ergenekon case. Some well-meaning officials have been subjected to being tainted by the broad brush of being associated with Ergenekon. One is Asil Serdar Sacan, the former head of the Istanbul organized crime department, who was the first to confiscate documents on Ergenekon in 2001 and broadened his investigation to include both Ergenekon and the Gulen organization. Sacan, who investigated the murder of Turkey’s “King of Casinos” Omer Lutfu Topol, successfully beat attempts to smear him, being acquitted of 36 criminal charges brought against him and being reinstated six times to his police position. Sacan is currently in jail as an Ergenekon suspect but his only “crime” appears to have exposed Guney as a possible triple agent for the MIT, Mossad, and CIA. In 2001, Guney was spirited out of Turkey thanks to an agreement between MIT’s undersecretary Senkal Atasagun and the CIA. Guney was given a 10-year U.S. visa thanks to the CIA’s intervention.
In fact, Ergenekon and its “deep state” players in Turkey and Shiv Sena and its extremist Hindu “deep state” allies in India, backed by elements of Mossad and the CIA, appears to be a replay of the CIA’s secret “Gladio” network in Europe that placed weapons caches in the hands of fascists and neo-Nazis groups to take up arms in the event of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.
The use of “false flag” terrorist attacks in Western Europe by Gladio units were blamed on Communists in an effort to forestall Communist-Socialist coalition governments in Western Europe, particularly in Italy and France.
Similarly, Ergenekon stands accused of inciting conflicts between Turks and Kurds to create anarchy in the country with the aim of having Ergenekon seizing control of the Turkish government and re-cementing close ties with the United States and Israel.
In 2004, Ergenekon attempted three military coups against the AKP government. They were code-named Eldiven (The Glove”), Sarikiz (“The Blond Girl”), and Ayisigi (“Moonlight’).
Ergenekon has been cagily kept off the newspaper pages and TV news screens in the United States. To investigate Ergenekon and Gulen in Turkey is to peel away at an onion that could expose some other “unpleasantness” for certain quarters.
On January 10, 2007, WMR reported: “According to Federal law enforcement sources, two influential businessmen -- Turkish Sunni Muslim Fetullahci charismatic leader Fetullah Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania after being acquitted in Turkey in 2006 of plotting against the secular republic, and Saudi BMI Islamic investment chief investor Yasin Qadi, a major investor in Turkey who was named in October 2001 by President Bush as a Special Designated Global Terrorist -- were both involved with the CIA in the late 1990s in funneling weapons and other support to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an Albanian terrorist group operating in the former Yugoslavia. The KLA was allied with the Clinton administration and supported by leading neocons such as Richard Perle, whose lobbying firm, International Advisers, Inc., counts Turkey as its major client. Gulen’s books have been translated into Albanian. BMI’s founder, Soliman Biheiri, also helped to start PTech, a Braintree, Massachusetts-based firm that had active software contracts with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Pentagon on 9/11. PTech’s offices were raided by federal authorities in December 2002 after it came under suspicion for terrorist financing. Qadi is suspected of using a series of northern Virginia-based businesses and charities to fund ‘Al Qaeda’ activities in Bosnia. Osama Bin Laden was granted a special passport by the Bosnian government in 1993. Qadi was reportedly a business partner of Turkish businessman Cuneyd Zapsu, an adviser to the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Justice and Reconciliation Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi, AKP).”
The dramatic revelations about Ergenekon coming out of Turkey also points to the reasons why the neocons in Washington were keen to stymie the work of FBI Turkish translator Sibel Edmonds and the CIA’s non-official cover agent Valerie Plame Wilson, both of whom had smuggling and other activities in Turkey high on their priority lists. On January 18, 2008, WMR reported: “WMR has learned that former CIA covert agent Valerie Plame Wilson, whose covert status was leaked by the Bush White House, and former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, who was focused on a major covert network involving Turkish, Israeli, and key members of the Bush administration and Republican Party and weapons and drug smuggling, were essentially looking at the same network. The nexus of Turkey with both the covert CIA Brewster Jennings and Associates operations and the Turkish-Israeli network of influence active within the Defense and State Departments, is the key factor in understanding the complicated counter-espionage operation conducted by both the FBI and CIA.” It now appears that the Washington-connected criminal network being looked at by Edmonds and Plame was, in fact, closely linked to the Ergenekon network in Turkey.
WMR’s January 18, 2008 report continued: “Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald was also, according to our sources, well aware of the massive conspiracy to cover-up the smuggling of weapons of mass destruction components from former Soviet Central Asian states, as well as Ukraine, Moldova, and Ukraine, to the international weapons bazaar. The Abdul Qadeer Khan (A Q Khan) network based in Pakistan was a major beneficiary of the weapons smuggling operation that used Turkey as a pass-through. Rather than expand his investigation, Fitzgerald demurred on looking at the activities of the American Turkish Council, Turkey’s influential lobbying group in Washington, and its parallel symbiotic organization, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Turkey and Israel are close military and intelligence partners.”
Illinois Democratic Senator xxxx Durbin has called on President-elect Barack Obama to reappoint Fitzgerald as U.S. Attorney for Northern Ilinois. If Obama does so, it means that the network being investigated by Edmonds and Plame, one that stretches to Ergenekon and the Gulen network in Turkey, has its hooks deep into the future Obama administration.
Previously published in the Wayne Madsen Report.
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Originally posted by Gavur View PostErgenekon played a major role in the formation of several Turkish terrorist groups to disrupt Turkish politics, including the illegal Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Turkish Hizbollah (Party of God), the Marxist-Leninist People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP-C), and the little-known Islamic Great East Raiders Front (IBDA-C).
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