"These days the religious teacher who wields most influence over the Turks is Fethullah Gulen," says The Economist.
In 2010, nine Turks, taking supplies to Gaza, were killed by Israeli commandos.
Gulen said it was partly the Turkish side's fault: the flotilla should not have defied Israel.
Gulen lives in America and has been accused of having links to the CIA.
The Gulen movement "forms the apex of a huge conglomerate that includes NGOs, firms, newspapers and college dormitories in Turkey, plus schools across the world."
Several journalists who have tried probing Gulen have found themselves prosecuted or jailed.
People who criticise the movement "can face nasty smear campaigns."
1. "Court records and the testimony of former government officials show that Fethullah Gulen, who presently resides in Pennsylvania, has amassed more than $25 billion in assets from the heroin route which runs from Afghanistan to Turkey.
2. "Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator, testified that the drug money has been channeled into Gulen’s coffers by the C.I.A."
According to Sibel Edmonds: 'A lot of the drugs were going to Belgium with NATO planes.
'After that, they went to the UK, and a lot came to the US via military planes to distribution centers in Chicago, and Paterson, New Jersey.'
"Ms. Edmonds further said that Turkish diplomats, who would never be searched by airport officials, have come into the country 'with suitcases of heroin.'
3. "According to Ms. Edmonds and other government witnesses, Gulen began to receive funding from the CIA in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union when federal officials realized that the U.S. could not obtain control of the vast energy resources of the newly created Russian republics because of deep-seated suspicion of American motives.
"Turkey, the U.S. officials came to realize, could serve as a perfect 'proxy' since it was a NATO ally that shared the same language, culture, and religion as the other Central Asian countries...
"The only way to provide Gulen with sufficient funds to topple Turkey’s secular regime and to conduct education jihad within the Russian republics came from the poppy fields of Afghanistan...
"The Obama administration has opted to turn a blind eye to Gulen and his mountain fortress in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania...
"In his native Turkey, Gulen’s vast fortune has been used to create the Justice and Democratic Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma, AKP), which has gained control of the government...
"Abdullah Gul, Turkey’s first Islamist President, is a Gulen disciple along with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Yusuf Ziya Ozcan, the head of Turkey’s Council of Higher Education...
4. "Gulen has purchased newspapers, television networks, construction companies, universities, banks, utilities, technological outlets, pharmaceutics, and manufacturing firms throughout the country.
"In addition, he has established thousands of madrassahs (Islamic religious schools) throughout Central Asia where students are indoctrinated in the tenets of militant Islam...
5. "But the Gulen movement is not confined to Turkey and Central Asia.
"Eighty-five Gulen schools have been set up in the United States as charter academies funded by public funds.
6. "Is Gulen really affiliated with the CIA?
"In support of his application for permanent residency status, Gulen obtained letters of support and endorsement, from Graham Fuller and other former CIA officials.
"His petition was also endorsed by former Under Secretary of State Marc Grossman, and former Ambassador to Turkey Morton Abramowitz."
He was working "on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration ('DEA'); and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ('FBI'); and the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement ('ICE')."
Niebla is connected to the Gulfstream II jet that crashed on September 4, 2007 with four tons of cocaine on board.
European investigators linked the plane’s tail number, N987SA, to CIA rendition operations.
Reportedly the CIA and its banking friends are the top drugs dealers.
In July 2010, top Mexican drug cartel leader Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel was killed in a raid conducted by the Mexican military.
Coronel’s Yucatan operations included the transportation of narcotics from Colombia to be later smuggled into the United States.
On September of 2007, there was a plane crash in Yucatan.
When authorities arrived at the crash site, they discovered well over 3 tons of cocaine onboard the Gulfstream II aircraft. The narcotics reportedly belonged to the cartel under the local control of Nacho Coronel.
After further investigations into the origins of the aircraft’s markings and registration number (N987SA), it was discovered that the plane was used for CIA rendition flights.
According to Peter Dale Scott (Kyrgyzstan, America and the Global Drug Trade: Deep Forces, Coups ...), "The more than doubling of Afghan opium drug production since the U.S. invasion of 2001 merely replicates the massive drug increases in Burma, Thailand, and Laos between the late 1940s and the 1970s.
"These countries also only became major sources of supply in the international drug traffic as a result of CIA assistance to what would otherwise have been only local traffickers."
In August 1996, investigative journalist Gary Webb, in the San Jose Mercury, wrote the following about the CIA's involvement in the drug trade (Is the CIA behind Mexico's Bloody Drug War?):
"For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a Mercury News investigation has found.
"This drug network opened the first pipeline between Colombia's cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles, a city now known as the "crack'' capital of the world. The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America and provided the cash and connections needed for L.A.'s gangs to buy automatic weapons.
"It is one of the most bizarre alliances in modern history: the union of a U.S.-backed army attempting to overthrow a revolutionary socialist government and the Uzi-toting "gangstas'' of Compton and South-Central Los Angeles." ("America's 'crack' plague has roots in Nicaragua war", Gary Webb, San Jose Mercury News)
The MAFIA-FASCISTS appear to be pulling the strings within certain governments.
Reportedly, the CIA and NATO want to use the Taliban to help them obtain military bases throughout Central Asia. Reportedly, the CIA has long had friendly relations with certain Taliban figures, and, with the heroin trade.
We are not supposed to know too much about all these mad Muslims who work for the CIA and its friends.
These camps sent tens of thousands of mujahideen guerrillas into battle against the Soviets.
Among his students was an Afghan called Mullah Omar.
Mullah Omar became head of the Afghan Taliban and came to power in Afghanistan in 1996.
Tarar was Pakistan intelligence's link with the Afghan Taliban.
Both the CIA and its subsidiary ISI (Pakistan intelligence) were friends of the Taliban.
In 2001, the USA, fell out with the Afghan Taliban and decided to attack Afghanistan.
Tarar returned to Pakistan but allegedly continued to act as a link between the ISI and the Taliban.
Reportedly the CIA hopes to use the Afghan Taliban to balkanise certain neighbouring countries. And hopes to use the Pakistan Taliban to balkanise Pakistan.
In 2010, Tarar was kidnapped and in 2011 he died in captivity.
When Tarar was kidnapped, he had been hoping to gain an interview with the Pakistan Taliban leader, Hakimullah Mehsud.
Allegedly, the CIA is using the Pakistan Taliban to break up Pakistan.
Gordon Duff, of ‘Veterans Today’, revealed in a recent interview: "The Pakistani Taliban is in close cooperation with India and Israel who supply, finance, arm and train them to attack Pakistan."
Tarar was with Khalid Khawaja, a former ISI spy.
The kidnappers were led by a 'militant' called Usman Punjabi.
Punjabi's group claimed Khawaja was an ISI and CIA agent who had betrayed 'extremists' during the Red Mosque siege in Islamabad in 2007.
Also with Tarar was Asad Qureshi, a British film-maker making an independent film for the UK's Channel Four.
Qureshi was released by his kidnappers.
Punjabi was killed in a shootout with a local tribal commander, and Tarar was handed over to Hakimullah Mehsud's Pakistan Taliban.
Tarar may have known too much about CIA links to the Pakistan Taliban.
On 7 January 2011, Mullah Omar reportedly had a heart attack and was treated for several days in a Karachi hospital with the help of Pakistan's spy service the ISI.
According to The Washington Post, a private intelligence firm, the Eclipse Group, was the source of this information.
And the Eclipse Group got its information from a doctor in a Karachi hospital.
The doctor said he saw Mullah Omar.
The New York Times reports that the man who runs the Eclipse Group is former CIA officer Duane R. Clarridge.
He may or may not be telling the truth.
After many years "the world has witnessed that neither Mullah Omar nor Bin Laden have been captured.
Girls in Afghanistan in the 1960s, before the CIA started building up the extremist Moslems. Photo from O'Bannon article
In 1978, the government in Afghanistan was peaceful, moderate, progressive and non-communist.
The US government wanted control of Afghanistan.
The CIA decided to finance some extremist Moslems and put them into power in Afghanistan.
According to Andrew Gavin Marshall, at Global Research, 5 September 2010, (The “Arc of Crisis”):
Brzezinski said in a 1998 interview:
"It was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the .... regime in Kabul.
"And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention."
Brzezinski said he "Knowingly increased the probability that (the Soviets) would invade."
The US government plans to balkanise and control the oil rich parts of the world.
Peter Dale Scott pointed out, in The Road to 9/11, that "billions of CIA and Saudi dollars would ultimately be spent in programs that would help enhance ... Wahhabistic jihadism...."
In 1979, Hafizullah Amin, who was reportedly a CIA asset, carried out a coup in Afghanistan.
Amin "halted the reforms, and murdered, jailed, or exiled thousands of (moderates) as he moved toward establishing a fundamentalist Islamic state." (Michael Parenti, Afghanistan, Another Untold Story. Global Research: December 4, 2008: globalresearch.9)
The Soviets intervened in order to replace Amin. The Soviet invasion took place in 1980.
Reportedly, the US plans to break up Saudi Arabia, and several other oil-rich countries.
The USA took the side of the Moslem extremist Afghan Mujahideen.
In 1981, CIA Director Casey worked with Saudi Prince Turki bin Faisal and the Pakistani ISI "to create a foreign legion of jihadi Muslims."
This idea had "originated in the elite Safari Club," a coalition of intelligence agencies, which included the CIA and French intelligence.
More than 100,000 Islamic militants were trained in Pakistan, in camps overseen by the CIA and MI6.
Britain's SAS training future al-Qaida and Taliban fighters in bomb-making and other black arts.
Future al-Qaeda leaders were trained at a CIA camp in Virginia.
This was called Operation Cyclone.
It continued after the Soviets left Afghanistan in 1989.
Drugs money was used to finance the Afghan Mujahideen.
When Britain was in India, Britain's East India Company turned opium into India's main export.
According to Alfred W. McCoy, in The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, "CIA activities in Burma helped transform the Shan states ... into the largest opium-growing region in the world."
In the 1960s and 1970s, the CIA promoted the drugs trade in Laos and Vietnam.
In the 1980s that the CIA turned Central Asia into a major supplier of heroin for the world market.
The CIA helped Afghanistan's heroin to reach Europe and America. (Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade.)
CIA money went to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghanistan’s leading mujahideen drug lord.
Between 1979 and1980, drug-related deaths in New York City rose 77%.
The bin Ladens are old friends of the Bush family. Above, Wafah bin Laden.
In the 1980s, the CIA financed Mujahideen propaganda in textbooks for Afghan schools.
In the early 1990s the Taliban emerged, and it was supported by the CIA.
"Between 1994 and 1996, the USA supported the Taliban politically through its allies Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, essentially because Washington viewed the Taliban as anti-Iranian, anti-Shia, and pro-Western." (Robert Dreyfuss, Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam.)
Selig Harrison, a scholar with links to the CIA, said that the CIA worked with Pakistan to create the Taliban.
(Reportedly the CIA hopes to use the Afghan Taliban to balkanise certain neighbouring countries.)
Reportedly:
1. The USA uses profits from heroin to pay for its presence in Afghanistan.
2. The USA set up the Taliban and it still hopes to make use of the Taliban.
3. The USA would like to use the Taliban to destabilise Central Asia.
4. The USA's eventual aim is to have military bases throughout Central Asia.
In this article, the main points made by General Mahmut Gareev, a commander during Russia's time in Afghanistan, are as follows:
1. When General Gareev was in Afghanistan, in 1989 and 1990, the production of heroin almost ceased, apart from in certain areas.
3. Since then, it has increased by 44 per cent.
4. 80% of the world’s drugs are produced in Afghanistan.
5. The Americans themselves admit that drugs are often transported out of Afghanistan on American planes.
6. "Drug trafficking in Afghanistan brings them about 50 billion dollars a year – which fully covers the expenses tied to keeping their troops there."
7. The US military "don’t have any planned military action to eliminate the Mujahideen.
"Rather, they want to make the situation more unstable and help the Taliban to be more active.
"They even started negotiations with them, trying to direct them to the Central-Asian republics, to destabilize the whole region and set up their bases there."
Both the Bush and Zine Ben Ali families have been linked to the heroin trade.(Website for this image)In 1992, in Paris, Moncef Ben Ali was sentenced in absentia to ten years imprisonment in connection with drug trafficking. But, while the level of drug taking in the USA is rated very high, the level in Tunisia is rated LOW.
It is our belief that most world leaders have things to hide.
It's a matter of relativity. Who was worse: the Shah or the Ayatollahs?
It is our belief that the CIA and its friends toppled the Shah, Suharto, Marcos, Saddam, Ben Ali and many others.
None of these leaders were saints; some were gangsters and war criminals; all were close friends of the CIA at one time or another.
The toppling of these leaders generally made things worse rather than better.
Tunisia under French rule.
The toppling of theShah led to a long and bloody war with Iraq, an increase in the heroin trade and women being stoned to death.
The toppling of Suharto has simply led to another Suharto general taking over, and the rich taking more of the land of the poor.
In the Philippines, the oligarchs are still in charge, after the fall of Marcos.
Tunisia 24 January 2011
Remember that Saddam was put into power by the CIA.
And Saddam offered to leave Iraq to prevent a war.
And the invasion of Iraq has made things very much worse for the average Iraqi.
But remember that very many governments and top people are involved.
Moncef Ben Ali, also known as Habib Ben Ali, was murdered in 1996.
He was the elder brother of former President Zine Ben Ali.
Both Moncef and Zine have been linked to criminal activity.
On 30 November 1992, in Paris, "Moncef" was sentenced in absentia to ten years imprisonment in connection with drug trafficking.
Moncef's lawyer stated that there had been political manipulation and that there was "no physical evidence" that Moncef Ben Ali was involved in "laundering" money derived from trafficking.
Demand and trafficking of drugs globally. Tunisia is rated LOW
The Tunisian authorities have reportedly taken a hard line against drugs.
But, things are changing in Tunisia, as result of the 'CIA-NATO coup' of January 2011.
According to the UN, "In only five years, Sub-Saharan Africa has become the new hub for drug cartels from Latin America trying to gain entry into Europe.
"North Africa has not been spared from the drug trade as terrorist groups seek to take advantage of the growing phenomenon."
"You have terrorist networks, smuggling networks, human trafficking networks, and there are points of contact, coordination between all these nice people," said one diplomatic source in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott.
"We know that AQIM (Al-Qaeda-CIA in North Africa) people have been involved in the drug trade, but as freelancers," he added.
"Some are members of AQIM and of criminal gangs at the same time."
Michael Braun, the US Drug Enforcement Administration's former head of operations, said the "Colombian cartels have established business relations with AQIM."
"They are using long-established AQIM smuggling routes to North Africa and Southern Europe, moving tons of arms or tons of cocaine: it's the same route."
Nor was it the first time the Colombians had set up this kind of route, he said.
"The gossip on the street, going well beyond the observable facts, has the Rafsanjanis stashing billions of dollars in bank accounts in Switzerland and Luxembourg; controlling huge swaths of waterfront in Iran's free economic zones on the Persian Gulf; and owning whole vacation resorts on the idyllic beaches of Dubai, Goa and Thailand." (Millionaire Mullahs - Forbes.com) (Author of "Millionaire Mullahs" Shot Dead )
Website for this image 1.In 1996, Tunisian Minister of Justice Sadok Chaabane said that Tunisian Islamists get their funding and political support from (1) Iran (2) Saudi Arabia.
3.In 1980, 30 armed men crossed from Algeria into Tunisia and made their way to the phosphate mining town of Gafsa in central Tunisia.(TUNISIA Plot - TIME)
There they were joined there by 20 other militants.
They tried to seize Gafsa's civil and military installations.
The local people refused to join the revolt.
Tunisian troops defeated the militants. 41 men died. Gafsa
"Police dismantled a 'terrorist' group after separate gun battles with suspects ... and recovered explosives, embassy maps and lists of foreign diplomats...
"The gun-battles ... were with members of a 'Salafist terrorist group' (CIA) comprised mainly of Tunisians...
"'Economic facilities' in resort towns had been targeted for attack by a jihadist group from neighbouring Algeria.
"They said the group was linked to the Al-Qaeda (CIA) affiliate Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, a radical group which aims to create an Islamist state in Algeria.
"The group claimed responsibility for the April 2002 truck-bomb attack on a synagogue in Djerba, which killed 21 people including 14 German tourists." (aangirfan: The CIA, Mossad and the Djerba Bombing.)
Monastir. In the 1980s, a bomb exploded in a tourist hotel in the resort city of Monastir. A British tourist was maimed. 5. Habib Bourguiba, the first president of Tunisia, considered militant Islam a threat to the state.
In 1987, when Ben Ali became president, Islamists were released from jail and allowed to run in the 1989 elections.
Ennahda, or Renaissance, Tunisia's largest Islamist movement, came second to the ruling party.
They won 17% or 35% according to different sources.
Ben Ali reversed his policy.
Ghannouchi, who has been living in London. Ennahda's leader Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi was given protection by Britain..
A bomb that exploded in a tourist hotel in the resort city of Monastir severely maimed a British woman guest.
5. "Many fear that ... extremist ideas will (now) circulate..." as openly and as widely as democratic or secular ideas..." ("What role for the Islamists in the new Tunisia?") 6. Bernard Lewis helped to invent the West's new enemy, known as 'Islam'.
For the British, it was once the Jewish terrorists who were seen as being the enemy.
The phrase "clash of civilizations", was first used by Lewis at a meeting in Washington in 1957. [14]
There has been speculation that Lewis, the intelligence services and people like Brzezinski want to make the Moslem world look bad, so that it can be more easily controlled and exploited.
Much of the world's oil lies in Moslem lands.
How do you make Moslems look bad?
You can finance the extremists and help them into power.
You can carry out false flag operations.
Bernard Lewis argues (Bernard Lewis - Wikipedia) that the Middle East is backward due to its culture and religion.
The alternative view is that a country like Iraq is backward partly because of constant interference by countries such as Britain and the USA.
In his 1982 book Muslim Discovery of Europe, Lewis argues that Moslems behaved badly in the Algerian civil war (1992–98).
David Headley worked for the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
The "close institutional relationship between the DEA and the CIA continues up to the present day". (Alfred W. McCoy)
According to Daniel Hopsicker: Barry Seal "told investigators that between March 1984, and August 1985, he made a quarter-million dollars smuggling up to 15,000 kilos of cocaine while working for the DEA."(Barry Seal)
1.Al Qaeda(CIA) in North Africa ... "appears to be involved in the trafficking of Latin American cocaine through Africa to Spain".
2. Michael Braun, chief of operations at the DEA until 2008, says "There is more clear evidence showing al Qaeda's (CIA's) growing involvement in the Afghan heroin trade on the Pakistan side of the border."
3.Dawood Ibrahim runs a 5,000 member gang involved in narcotics and operates mostly from Pakistan, India and the United Arab Emirates.
According to the US government, Ibrahim shares smuggling routes with al Qaeda (CIA) and has worked with both al Qaeda and its affiliate, Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Lashkar has been blamed for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, possibly with Ibrahim's help.
4. According to a federal indictment, in 2006 a Pakistani financier for Lashkar-e-Taiba handed David Headley of Chicago $25,000 to conduct video surveillance in India in preparation for the Mumbai attack.
"Arif Qasmani, a chief Lashkar coordinator who has raised funds from crime boss Ibrahim, has been providing al Qaeda with supplies and weapons.
"In return al Qaeda loaned to Lashkar operatives who helped carry out the 2006 train bombings in Mumbai."
"The CIA created a unit in Haiti, whose purported purpose was anti-drug activity, but was in reality 'used as an instrument of political terror', and was heavily involved in drug trafficking.
"The members of the unit were known to torture Aristide supporters... According to one U.S. official, the unit was trafficking drugs and never produced any useful drug intelligence" [11] (CIA drug trafficking - Wikipedia)
According to Peter Dale Scott, Mexico's intelligence agency, the Dirección Federal de Seguridad, was in part a CIA creation.
DFS badges, "handed out to top-level Mexican drug-traffickers, have been labelled by DEA agents a virtual 'license to traffic.'"[7]
Scott says that "The Guadalajara Cartel, Mexico's most powerful drug-trafficking network in the early 1980s, prospered largely because it enjoyed the protection of the DFS, under its chief Miguel Nassar (or Nazar) Haro, a CIA asset."[7](CIA drug trafficking - Wikipedia)
David Headley worked for the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
The "close institutional relationship between the DEA and the CIA continues up to the present day". (Alfred W. McCoy)
According to Daniel Hopsicker: Barry Seal "told investigators that between March 1984, and August 1985, he made a quarter-million dollars smuggling up to 15,000 kilos of cocaine while working for the DEA."(Barry Seal)
1.Al Qaeda(CIA) in North Africa ... "appears to be involved in the trafficking of Latin American cocaine through Africa to Spain".
2. Michael Braun, chief of operations at the DEA until 2008, says "There is more clear evidence showing al Qaeda's (CIA's) growing involvement in the Afghan heroin trade on the Pakistan side of the border."
3.Dawood Ibrahim runs a 5,000 member gang involved in narcotics and operates mostly from Pakistan, India and the United Arab Emirates.
According to the US government, Ibrahim shares smuggling routes with al Qaeda (CIA) and has worked with both al Qaeda and its affiliate, Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Lashkar has been blamed for carrying out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, possibly with Ibrahim's help.
4. According to a federal indictment, in 2006 a Pakistani financier for Lashkar-e-Taiba handed David Headley of Chicago $25,000 to conduct video surveillance in India in preparation for the Mumbai attack.
"Arif Qasmani, a chief Lashkar coordinator who has raised funds from crime boss Ibrahim, has been providing al Qaeda with supplies and weapons.
"In return al Qaeda loaned to Lashkar operatives who helped carry out the 2006 train bombings in Mumbai."
"The CIA created a unit in Haiti, whose purported purpose was anti-drug activity, but was in reality 'used as an instrument of political terror', and was heavily involved in drug trafficking.
"The members of the unit were known to torture Aristide supporters... According to one U.S. official, the unit was trafficking drugs and never produced any useful drug intelligence" [11] (CIA drug trafficking - Wikipedia)
According to Peter Dale Scott, Mexico's intelligence agency, the Dirección Federal de Seguridad, was in part a CIA creation.
DFS badges, "handed out to top-level Mexican drug-traffickers, have been labelled by DEA agents a virtual 'license to traffic.'"[7]
Scott says that "The Guadalajara Cartel, Mexico's most powerful drug-trafficking network in the early 1980s, prospered largely because it enjoyed the protection of the DFS, under its chief Miguel Nassar (or Nazar) Haro, a CIA asset."[7](CIA drug trafficking - Wikipedia)
Gulen and friend.
Obama visiting a Gulen school in Washington.
4. "Gulen has purchased newspapers, television networks, construction companies, universities, banks, utilities, technological outlets, pharmaceutics, and manufacturing firms throughout the country.
