"...Veli Kucuk, a retired major general, was allegedly plotting to
kill (Turkish author) Pamuk, Turkish newspapers reported. Kucuk is
suspected of running a secret unit within police forces that
carried out bombings and killings for which other groups were widely
blamed. Also arrested was Kemal Kerincsiz, a nationalist
lawyer responsible for numerous cases against Pamuk, Dink and other
intellectuals. None of the suspects have spoken about the charges.
...
Most Turks have long suspected the existence of a covert web of elements
within the security forces and bureaucracy who act outside the law
to uphold their own political ends. There is even a household name
for it: the "deep state," referring to a state within
the state.
Newspapers have suggested that this network is the Turkish
remnant of Gladio, a Cold War-era program, orchestrated by the U.S.
in several NATO countries, to create a covert paramilitary force to
counter Communist activities.
...
But the audacity and sheer scope of the allegations raises the unsettling
question of whether the individuals arrested might just be the tip
of the iceberg. "Who gave the orders? Who protected them for this
long?" says Altinay. "We are faced with the possibility that
this network existed. And, even worse, that it might still exist."
Although TIME won't say it, the Turkish network was framing Muslims;
The detention in Istanbul last week of alleged members of a shadowy
Turkish ultranationalist group has revived charges that elements within
the Turkish security apparatus have long tried to destabilize the
country through a campaign of bombings and assassinations. These allegedly
include false flag operations that have been attributed to
Kurdish separatists and violent Islamists.
Framing Muslims sure is trendy these days. In December of 2007, the
BBC* program Newsnight exposed British think tank "Policy Exchange"
fabricating evidence tying Muslim owned bookstores to "extremist" literature,
you can view the broadcast on YouTube;
Policy Exchange immediately tried
to spin the story... bad move. The Newsnight editor, Peter Barron,
went on the attack;
In October Newsnight had been due to run an exclusive report on the
findings and Policy Exchange had given us the receipts to corroborate
their claim that a quarter of the 100 mosques their researchers had
visited were selling hate literature.
On the planned day of broadcast our reporter Richard Watson came
to me and said he had a problem. He had put the claim and shown a
receipt to one of the mosques mentioned in the report - The Muslim
Cultural Heritage Centre in London. They had immediately denied selling
the book and said the receipt was not theirs.
We decided to look at the rest of the receipts and quickly identified
five of the 25 which looked suspicious. They appeared to have been
created on a home computer, rather than printed professionally as
you would expect. The printed names and addresses of some of the mosques
contained simple errors and two of the receipts purportedly from different
mosques appeared to have been written by the same hand.
...
In the days that followed we focused further on the five receipts
about which we had concerns and eventually asked a forensic scientist
to analyse them. This is what we found.
1. In all five cases the mosques involved said the receipts
did not belong to them.
2. The expert analysis showed that all five had been printed
on an inkjet printer - suggesting they were created on a PC.
3. The analysis found "strong evidence" that two of the receipts
were written by the same person.
4. The analysis found that one of the receipts had been written
out while resting on another receipt said to be from a mosque 40 miles
away.
Mr Godson says he stands by his report 100%. I also stand
by our report 100%. I don't think we can both be right.
Busted.
Earlier in December, Egypt stood accused of fabricating
the "Victorious Sect" terror group. A bunch of patsies were rounded
up, and tortured until they signed "confessions".
"...Like many other alleged extremists who have been targeted by
the authorities, Shareef didn't know that his brand-new friend —the
eager co-conspirator drawing him ever further into a terror plot —was
actually an informant for the FBI...
...The expenditure of such massive resources to find would-be terrorists
inevitably requires results. Plots must be uncovered. Sleeper cells
must be infiltrated. Another attack must be prevented —or, at least,
be seen to be prevented. But in backwaters like Rockford,
the JTTFs don't have much to do. To find threats to thwart, the task
forces have increasingly taken to using paid informants to
cajole and inveigle targets like Shareef into pursuing their harebrained
schemes...
...In Rockford, "Jameel" repeatedly urged Shareef to dream up gory
details of the havoc they would cause at the mall. Chrisman had received
a call, he told Shareef, from a man he called "Cap" —a contact willing
to sell them weapons. They could buy "pineapples" —code for hand grenades
—from Cap for fifty bucks each. Cap, of course, was an undercover
agent...
...On the following Saturday, as snow blanketed Rockford, Chrisman
and Shareef engaged in the ritual of suicide bombers, recording
video statements of each other reciting their last wills and testaments.
The JTTF's affidavit doesn't reveal whose idea it was to stare into
the camera and swear vengeance against America, but the prejudicial
impact it would have on a jury was huge...
An FBI informant helping out with the production of infamous "last
will" radical Muslim videos. How charming. It puts the 7/7 suicide bomber
videos under a new light,
doesn't it?
Jose Padilla, the first United States citizen in the “War on Terror”
to have his constitutional rights stripped from him by a stroke
of George W. Bush’s pen, was sentenced today to 17 years
and four months in Miami by Federal Court Judge Marcia Cooke, five
and a half years after his arrest. The charges—this time—were that
he and two others conspired to murder, kidnap and maim individuals
in a foreign country, as well as conspiracy to provide material support
to terrorists, and providing material support to terrorists. The
prosecution never named any specific individual or nation where this
violence was to have occurred.
...
The Padilla case is central to the question of whether President
Bush, CIA chief George Tenet and others lied when they said “the United
States does not torture.” Judge Cooke, a protégé of both Jeb and George
Bush, refused to allow the showing of videotapes of Padilla being
questioned and probably tortured during his three and a half
years in solitary confinement in a Naval brig in Charleston,
South Carolina...
Prior to the start of the trial, the prosecution revealed it had
78 videotapes of Padilla’s interrogation in the Naval brig; although
the final tape, the 78th, according to the prosecution, had
somehow turned up “missing.” Despite the current controversy
over the CIA’s destruction of tapes showing severe “interrogation
techniques” (a k a “torture”) used on two Al Qaeda suspects—one of
whom, Abu Zubaydah, was said to have named Padilla as a terrorist
in training—Cooke was only mildly distressed about the missing tape.
Though she had the option of insisting the Government produce
the tape or dismiss one or more of the charges against Padilla,
she never exercised it. She also threatened harsh sanctions against
defense attorneys caught leaking the contents of any of the 77 tapes.
Cooke did, however, exercise her judicial discretion to prevent
psychiatric defense experts from fully explaining the extent of the
damage to Padilla’s mental health.
Government-funded research over the past half century has shown that
sensory deprivation is a technique that produces a near-psychotic
break, sometimes in less than 24 hours. Padilla experienced
such conditions for three and a half years. His defense attorneys,
based on expert psychiatric evaluations, argued that such a duration
of relentless questioning and isolation—which included extreme sensory
deprivation—had driven him to a state where he could not assist
his attorneys in his defense.
If radical Islamists are such a scourge, why the hell are governments
around the world, (and right-wing outfits like Policy Exchange), exagerrating
and flat-out faking the threat?
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