EFLtrainer
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 Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject: Sibel Edmonds: US allows Afgh/Turkey to fund A. Q. |
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I've quoted a lot below because the rambling/repetition spreads the context out a lot. Worth a listen if you are concerned about integrity and the rule of law... and just who it is that really wants peace in Iraq...
Video interview:
Sibel outlines the depth and breadth of corruption
Transcripts here
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This case sheds light on several important areas, including our foreign policy, which is hypocrisy-ridden. We�re not talking only about foreign individuals; we�re talking about our own, about U.S. officials who have engaged in actions that are against the American public�s best interests and what we stand for. But the American people still don�t know about this case, and Congress has done nothing despite the fact that they have been fully briefed and have gotten full confirmation...
And I emphasize that this is not about one party, this is not an issue of right wing versus left wing, this is not an issue of one administration against another. Because when you really go deep into these cases, you find that these people�these U.S. entities, U.S. officials�have been misusing and abusing their positions for a while. And we have been looking the other way. And the mainstream media has been looking the other way. These are not top-secret issues. All you have to do is take a look at these people...
Mr. Marc Grossman. He used to be the U.S. ambassador in Turkey and used his position within the State Department to secure future higher-level positions while in office�and I would like to emphasize this�while in office and with several agencies knowing about it. Some people in these agencies wanted to investigate these cases but they were prevented from going forward...
Within a few months after he gave his resignation, he obtained a position with a semi-legitimate Turkish company that is supplying him with a very attractive monetary reward.
And then you can start going around and looking at similar cases, such as Mr. Douglas Feith and Mr. Richard Perle. They were registered as foreign agents for Turkey between 1988 and 1995. These were very lucrative positions, and they were not representing the American government at that point. So once they resumed their high-level positions within the U.S. government in 2000, do you think anything changed in terms of which interests they represented?...
You saw it in the late �80s and early �90s with Congressman Solaris, and again we saw it with Congressman�and later Chairman�Livingston and the position he obtained as a representative of a foreign interest. And we may see it shortly with current Congressmen, such as former chairman Hastert...
There are similar cases we are not hearing about. For example, the Larry Franklin case, with the espionage case that they pursued with AIPAC. And what the American public doesn�t know is the fact that there were other counter-intelligence operations within the FBI that obtained far more information not only limited to Mr. Franklin. Other operations were shut down in 2000 and 2001 because they ended up going to higher levels and involving way too many people. I�m talking about individuals who are breaking the law, misusing the trust and abusing their power, and in some cases I would even say engaging in treason...
We�re talking about people with official positions, whether they were in the State Department or the Pentagon or the U.S. Congress...
...the agents were told to shut down. The people who made that decision were not the Justice Department or the FBI, and that�s what I try to emphasize all the time�they were pressured, they were forced by higher-up forces within the Pentagon and the State Department.
All you have to do is look at the State Department�s own reports on Turkey and opium. Ninety-two percent of the heroin supplied in Europe is coming through Turkey, and it�s being marketed and distributed by Turkish individuals. This is not classified... The poppies are being produced in Afghanistan and Taliban-esque people are getting benefits, and Al-Qaeda people... Have we said �clamp down on these narcotic activities because it�s helping the terrorists, and the terrorists are threats to our national security?� No, we haven�t.
Time Magazine ran a piece about 11 pages long on how the Afghanistan opium production has increased... And there were statements from various Congressmen including Walter Jones who went to Afghanistan saying a lot of it goes to support Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The number was somewhere between $38 billion to $50 billion a year... you�re looking at the Turkish military and the Turkish police... a professor in Turkey issued a documented report saying that a quarter of Turkey�s economy relies on heroin production and distribution. Of course, he had to escape the country...
The Time Magazine article didn�t talk about the main actors, the big people, the powerful ones who are distributing, processing, marketing and laundering the proceeds. Those people are not touched. If you look at the report you�ll see the countries involved�Turkey, Cyprus, the UAE. But they were conveniently left out of the Time Magazine article, leaving any American to conclude that the farmers are making $50 billion a year. Again, the culprit is Time Magazine because that is not the case.
While the report shows Turkish, UAE and Pakistani involvement, we say they are our allies, we don�t want to touch them, we don�t want to turn them off. In fact, we have lots of good business and sensitive diplomatic relations with them, as Don Ashcroft put it... Now if one of them were part of the axis of evil, if one of them was Syria, if one of them was Iran, if one of them was Korea, if it was Saddam, you would see the stink they would raise�how Saddam�s country and people are helping the Taliban with their finances and helping Al-Qaeda with these cases. But there was this big oops! They�re our very close allies, the ones who we are giving billions of dollars of aid to, the ones who come back and buy our weapons. We can�t mess around with things like that. We have too many powerful people, too many powerful companies that are benefiting from this. There is this huge lobby industry that is benefiting from this. |
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