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		<title>Jihad Jane Was A CIA Actor Working For The FBI To Generate Internet Terror Fear</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Haluk Demirbag</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An arab foreigner CIA agent made dual citizen with a fraudulent white citizen personality created by the FBI staging false flag terror attacks against America with a full media circus...]]></description>
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<strong>An arab foreigner CIA agent made dual citizen with a fraudulent white citizen personality created by the FBI staging false flag terror attacks against America with a full media circus to hype it.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Jihad Jane was given a deal by Eric Holder to stage a fake terror threat on the internet so Eric Holder and Obama could look like good terrorism fighters and create a diversion from the trillions in wealth being given away free to insiders.</strong></p>
<p>I covered this story well on one of my older suspended accounts. It was an obvious fake FBI job from the start, they admitted she worked for almost a year with them before her &#8220;arrest&#8221;. They forgot to tell us she was Nada. I have videos of her mental patient FBI patsy fake mom actor. Her fake boyfriend said she just disappeared. It was all an act, fake. Fake with fake media lies on top of it. She was in an FBI office getting va paycheck for months before we heard of it all over CBS and ABC as a real deal. We were conned and the news never said a word. I would not trust this CIA FBI actor trying to sell a book after stabbing her country in the back with a f<strong>ake false flag terrorism scare that was used to steal real taxdollars.</strong> The FBI stages fake terrorism and the fake is used as a real attack for political and financial gain. Its extortion, Eric Holder runs Al-Qaeda in America, planning the next fake FBI attack to scare you into giving up your rights and wealth. Obama ran this whole operation, he is Al-Qaeda, literally. They dont exist without him running fake Mohammed cartoon, underwear, and Portland Christmas tree attacks on you. This was timed with the MUmbai David Headley trial in Chicago, both accused of fake cartoonist scares. They staged a fake Mohammed scare trial to protect Headley from a real trial in India and summary execution for the attacks he planned. Eric and Obama protected the Mumbai mastermind in a fake show trial tied to Jihad Janes fake cartoon internet scare. All timed coinciding with policy or budget needs in DC. Fake terrorism against Americans is planned in the White House. Did I say fake enough times? Obama is staging terror attacks against America, period. He is using the fear from the attacks for political gain, a terrorist by the purest definition of the word.</p>
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		<title>Al Qaeda planned to bomb churches in Turkey’s capital</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compass Direct News reports that 11 Al Qaeda militants planned to destroy all churches in Turkey’s second largest city. An article in the daily Taraf newspaper says a home-grown terrorist...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Compass Direct News reports that 11 Al Qaeda militants planned to destroy all churches in Turkey’s second largest city. An article in the daily Taraf newspaper says a home-grown terrorist cell allegedly made plans to attack churches and Christian clergy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ankara.png"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-49320" title="ankara" src="http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ankara.png" alt="" width="320" height="163" /></a>The Special Prosecutor’s Office investigated various documents and CDs that contained revised jihadist plans. The new jihad plan was allegedly to focus attacks in Turkey before moving on to other countries including the United States.</p>
<p>Among the plans and sketches seized earlier this year was a list of Christian workers living in Ankara. Christian leaders in the area were shocked when they heard.</p>
<p>“No one has had any news about this until now,” said one Christian worker.</p>
<p>The Taraf reports that some of the militants were tracked for as long as six months. Along with detailed maps, assault rifles, and ammunition, over 1,500 pounds of explosives were seized over the course of the investigation.</p>
<p>Members of the terrorist group were instructed by Al Qaeda not to enrol in Turkey’s military, send their children to public schools, or recognize the authority of Turkish courts. There were also guidelines for what to do if arrested.</p>
<p>For more information, read Compass’ article here. For more information on the trials Christians face in Turkey, click here.</p>
<p>via The Voice of the Martyrs Canada: Al Qaeda planned to bomb churches in Turkey’s capital.</p>
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		<title>Bin Laden honored in Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aira</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISTANBUL. &#8211; The demonstration dedicated to 18 Turkish Taliban members, who died at the U.S. operation on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, took place in Istanbul’s Fatih mosque. The Reuters presented this...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ISTANBUL. &#8211; The demonstration dedicated to 18 Turkish Taliban members, who died at the U.S. operation on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, took place in Istanbul’s Fatih mosque. The Reuters presented this event as “Taliban photos from Istanbul”, the Turkish Posta informs.</p>
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<p>In one of the photographs presented by the media people carry a poster with Bin Laden’s photograph.</p>
<p>“Martyr, your way is also our way,” reads the poster.</p>
<p>The 18 Taliban members, who died on November 16 during the U.S. military operations, were Turks.</p>
<p>via Bin Laden honored in Turkey (PHOTOS) | Armenia News &#8211; NEWS.am.</p>
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		<title>George Tenet Faces Indictment For Pre-9/11 Coverup</title>
		<link>http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/2011/09/22/george-tenet-faces-indictment-for-pre-911-coverup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Haluk Demirbag</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recordings released yesterday and earlier in August, Richard Clarke, the former White House Director of Counter-Terrorism alleges that top CIA officials including George Tenet intentionally withheld crucial intelligence from...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/George-Tenet.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-44292" title="George Tenet" src="http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/George-Tenet.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="204" /></a>In recordings released yesterday and earlier in August, Richard Clarke, the former White House Director of Counter-Terrorism alleges that top CIA officials including George Tenet <em>intentionally withheld crucial intelligence from the FBI concerning known Al Qaeda operatives in the US before September 11 which could have possibly prevented the attacks.</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong>This is only the most recent reason to immediately indict Tenet as he is also proven to have lied before the joint congressional inquiry after 9/11 by stating that he did not meet with Ex-President Bush in August of 2001 when CIA records later proved that they met twice; once in Crawford, Texas on August 17th and again in Washington on August 31.</strong></p>
<p><strong>The identities of other officials involved in the coverup include Alfreda Frances Bikowsky, the current Director of the CIA Global Jihad Unit, CTC Director J. Cofer Black and Richard Blee of Alec Station.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Holding a top U.S.A. intelligence position does not give anyone the right to purger themselves in congressional hearings.  These actions classify as obstruction of justice and need to be brought to national attention and courts immediately.</strong></p>
<p>Sources:  <strong>CSPAN | George Tenet Lied Before The 9/11 Commission</strong> | www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF_Y4oRsDqE</p>
<p>www.secrecykills.com</p>
<p>www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/09/21/bfp-breaking-news-confirmed-identity-of-the-cia-official-behind-911-rendition-torture-cases-is-revealed/</p>
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		<title>FBI organizes almost all terror plots in the US</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Haluk Demirbag</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Bureau of Investigation employs upwards of 15,000 undercover agents today, ten times what they had on the roster back in 1975. If you think that’s a few spies...]]></description>
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<div id="attachment_44227" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 380px"><a href="http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/fbi-almost-organizes-all-terror-plots-in-the-US.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-44227" title="fbi-almost-organizes-all-terror-plots-in-the-US" src="http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/fbi-almost-organizes-all-terror-plots-in-the-US.jpg" alt="" width="370" height="277" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">FBI organizes almost all terror plots in the US</p></div>
<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation employs upwards of 15,000 undercover agents today, ten times what they had on the roster back in 1975.</p>
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<p><!--RTEditor:genereated--><!--RTEditor textarea-->If you think that’s a few spies too many — spies earning as much as $100,000 per assignment — one doesn’t have to go too deep into their track record to see their accomplishments. Those agents are responsible for an overwhelming amount of terrorist stings that have stopped major domestic catastrophes in the vein of 9/11 from happening on American soil.</p>
<p>Another thing those agents are responsible for, however, is plotting those very schemes.</p>
<p>The FBI has in recent years used trained informants not just to snitch on suspected terrorists, but to set them up from the get-go. <strong>A recent report put together by Mother Jones and the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkley</strong> analyses some striking statistics about the role of FBI informants in terrorism cases that the Bureau has targeted in the decade since the September 11 attacks.</p>
<p>The report reveals that the FBI regularly infiltrates communities where they suspect terrorist-minded individuals to be engaging with others. <strong>Regardless of their intentions, agents are sent in to converse within the community, find suspects that could potentially carry out “lone wolf” attacks and then, more or less, <em>encourage them to do so</em>. </strong>By providing weaponry, funds and a plan, FBI-directed agents will encourage otherwise-unwilling participants to plot out terrorist attacks, only to bust them before any events fully materialize.</p>
<p><strong>Additionally, one former high-level FBI officials speaking to Mother Jones says that, for every informant officially employed by the bureau, up to three unofficial agents are working undercover.</strong></p>
<p>The FBI has used those informants to set-up and thus shut-down several of the more high profile would-be attacks in recent years. <strong>The report reveals that the Washington DC Metro bombing plot, the New York City subway plot, the attempt to blow up Chicago’s Sears Tower and dozens more were all orchestrated by FBI agents.</strong> In fact, reads the report, only three of the more well-known terror plots of the last decade weren’t orchestrated by FBI-involved agents.</p>
<p><strong>The report reveals that in many of the stings, important meetings between informants and the unknowing participants are left purposely unrecorded, as to avoid any entrapment charges that could cause the case to be dismissed. Perhaps the most high-profile of the FBI-proposed plots was the case of the Newburgh 4. Around an hour outside of New York City, an informant infiltrated a Muslim community and engaged four local men to carry out a series of attacks. Those men may have never actually carried out an attack, but once the informant offered them a plot and a pair of missiles, they agreed. Defense attorneys cried “entrapment,” but the men still were sentenced to 25 years apiece.</strong></p>
<p><strong><em>&#8220;The problem with the cases we&#8217;re talking about is that defendants would not have done anything if not kicked in the ass by government agents,&#8221;</em> </strong>Martin Stolar tells Mother Jones. Stolar represented the suspect involved in a New York City bombing plot that was set-up by FBI agents. <strong><em>&#8220;They&#8217;re creating crimes to solve crimes so they can claim a victory in the war on terror.&#8221;</em> </strong>For their part, the FBI says this method is a plan for <em>&#8220;preemption,&#8221; &#8220;prevention&#8221;</em> and<em> &#8220;disruption.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>The report also reveals that, of the 500-plus prosecutions of terrorism-related cases they analyzed, nearly half of them involved the use of informants, many of whom worked for the FBI in exchange for money or to work off criminal charges. Of the 158 prosecutions carried out, 49 defendants participated in plots that agent provocateurs arranged on behalf of the FBI.</p>
<p>Experts note that the chance of winning a terrorism-related trial, entrapment or not, is near impossible<em>. &#8220;The plots people are accused of being part of — attacking subway systems or trying to bomb a building — are so frightening that they can overwhelm a jury,&#8221; </em>David Cole, a Georgetown University law professor, tells Mother Jones. Since 9/11, almost two-thirds of the cases linked to terrorism have ended with guilty pleas. <em>“They don&#8217;t say, &#8216;I&#8217;ve been entrapped,&#8217; or, &#8216;I was immature,’”</em> a retired FBI official remarks.</p>
<p>All of this and those guilty pleas often stem for just being in the right place at the wrong time. Farhana Khera of the group Muslim Advocate notes that agents go into mosques on “fishing expeditions” just to see where they can get interest in the community. <strong><em>&#8220;The FBI is now telling agents they can go into houses of worship without probable cause,&#8221; </em></strong>says Khera.<strong> <em>&#8220;That raises serious constitutional issues.&#8221;</em></strong></p>
<p>From the set-up to the big finish, the whole sting operation is ripe with constitutional issues such as that. A decade since 9/11, however, the FBI is reaching through whatever means it can pull together to keep terrorists — or whom they think could someday become one — from ever hurting America.</p>
<p><!--/RTEditor textarea-->www.rt.com, 09 September, 2011</p>
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		<title>U.S. Ambassador to Syria in charge of recruiting Arab/Muslim death squads</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Haluk Demirbag</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Wayne Madsen WMR has been informed by reliable sources that the U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert S. Ford, is the key State Department official who has been responsible for recruiting Arab...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_43838" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 210px"><a href="http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ROBERT-FORD.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-43838" title="ROBERT-FORD" src="http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ROBERT-FORD.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="200" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Robert Ford, US Ambassador to Syria</p></div>
<p>by <a title="Posts by Wayne Madsen" rel="author" href="http://www.opinion-maker.org/author/wayne-madsen/">Wayne Madsen</a></p>
<p><strong>WMR has been informed by reliable sources that the U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert S. Ford, is the key State Department official who has been responsible for recruiting Arab &#8220;death squads&#8221; from Al Qaeda-affiliated units in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and Chechnya to fight against Syrian military and police forces in embattled Syria. </strong>Ford served as the Political Officer at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad from 2004 to 2006 under Ambassador John Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985. Negroponte was a key figure in the covert U.S. program to arm the Nicaraguan contras and his support for vicious paramilitary units in El Salvador and Honduras earned him the nickname of <strong>&#8220;Mr. Death Squad.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Negroponte tasked Ford with implementing the &#8220;El Salvador option&#8221; in Iraq, the use of Iraqi Shi&#8217;a irregulars and Kurdish Pesh Merga paramilitary forces to target for assassination and kidnapping/torture Iraqi insurgency leaders in Iraq and across the border in Syria. </strong>The operation was named for Negroponte&#8217;s death squad operation in Central America in the 1980s.</p>
<p>Ford has become the point man in the recruitment of Arabs and Muslims from the Middle Eastand beyond to battle against the security forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad. <strong>The U.S.-backed terrorists have not only carried out attacks on Syrian security forces but have also massacred civilians in &#8220;false flag&#8221; operations later blamed on Syrian government forces. WMR has been informed that Ford&#8217;s operations in Syria are being carried out with the assistance of Israel&#8217;s Mossad.</strong></p>
<p>The &#8220;El Salvador&#8221; option has also been used in Libya, where Al Qaeda irregulars, drawn from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yemen, have been carrying out murders of Libyan civilians, especially black Libyans and African guest workers, on behalf of the Libyan rebel government. Some of the murders of civilians have been blamed on pro-Muammar Qaddafi forces but they have, in fact, been carried out by Al Qaeda units fighting with the rebels and which are being directed by CIA and MI-6 advisers. <strong>Ford has been providing advice to the Libyan rebels on how to carry out their death squad attacks.</strong></p>
<p>From 2006 to 2008, Ford served as U.S. ambassador to Algeria, a nation that opposes the Libyan rebel government and a nation that has begun to see a re-surgence of &#8220;Al Qaeda&#8221; terrorist attacks against Algerian government targets. In fact, Algeria is viewed as the next domino to fall as the U.S. seeks to establish total military and political hegemony over North Africa.</p>
<p><strong>WMR has learned from a source who was recently in Libya that the Libyan rebel transitional government has agreed to allow the U.S. to establish permanent military bases in Libya, including on the Algerian border.</strong> The rebels have also agreed to permit an American to serve as the chief political officer for the planned Libyan transitional advisory body due to be organized by NATO and the United Nations. The body will be modeled on the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.opinion-maker.org/2011/09/u-s-ambassador-to-syria-in-charge-of-recruiting-arabmuslim-death-squads/#">www.opinion-maker.org</a>, 12. Sep, 2011</p>
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		<title>Bay: Turkey, not al-Qaida, provides model</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By AUSTIN BAY Global media report militant Islamists associated with the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s extremist factions and al-Qaida intend to subvert the Egyptian and Libyan Arab Spring revolts. Concern is legitimate....]]></description>
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<p>Global media report militant Islamists associated with the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s extremist factions and al-Qaida intend to subvert the Egyptian and Libyan Arab Spring revolts.</p>
<p>Concern is legitimate. International diplomatic, intelligence and economic action to support liberalizing revolutionaries is absolutely necessary.</p>
<p>In the context of 9/11, however, news of attempts at covert militant subversion of the Arab Spring 2011 instead of out-front leadership is another indication of al-Qaida&#8217;s great ideological failure and decline.</p>
<p>A decade after 9/11, al-Qaida and its affiliates are not leading these revolutions, but tagging along, as destabilizers-come-lately. That was not how it was supposed to be. In 2001, militant Islamists billed their movement, and themselves, as the strong horse, empowered by God&#8217;s divine sanction. In 2011 the violent extremists are, at best, a dark horse, if not a near-dead horse surviving on a life support system hooked to Iran&#8217;s robed tyrants. That&#8217;s ironic. Iran&#8217;s Islamic revolution is a miserable, impoverished failure, and its dictators confront their own revolutionaries.</p>
<p>For many reasons, militant extremists now must hide behind a veil. Arab Spring involves issues of cultural and political identity, but pragmatic demands for jobs, education and individual rights are also driving energies. In a world where every teenager wants a cellphone, savvy futurists bet that these are the decisive demands. Al-Qaida has little to say about jobs, education and how to expand and sustain a society&#8217;s material well-being.</p>
<p>This is why many democratic revolutionaries look to contemporary Turkey, the political legacy of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (arguably the 20th century&#8217;s most successful revolutionary), as a model for development.</p>
<p>American grit and perseverance also deserve credit. In al-Qaida&#8217;s millennialist narrative, America was a weak horse, a nation of godless hedonists and gutless libertines unable to sustain the global, long slog of a war Osama bin Laden planned. Blast the World Trade Center, smoke the Pentagon, and Yankee couch potato psyches would shatter.</p>
<p>A decade proved otherwise. America took the war to Afghanistan, al-Qaida&#8217;s chosen battlefield. B-52s and Green Berets drove al-Qaida and the Taliban into the hills. Divine sanction became a question mark. In the turmoil of Iraq, al-Qaida made another great strategic mistake, but one which anarchistic sociopaths in any culture are prone to commit. Terror in New York might elicit jigs on a Palestinian Arab Street, but the daily mass murder of fellow Muslims in Baghdad slowly eroded, death by death, al-Qaida&#8217;s reputation. Divine sanction? Does God support murder of the faithful?</p>
<p>Loss of divine sanction played a major role in al-Qaida&#8217;s decline, but so did the utter failure of The Blame Game. Al-Qaida blamed America for Muslim social, political, and economic ills. Its real target, however, was modernity, with America as its grandest embodiment.</p>
<p>2011, however, is not about blame. Arab populations slipping the psychological bonds of blame and fear, then taking responsibility for their own political situations, is one of 2011&#8242;s most promising indicators, a sign that these revolutions can lead to systemic and productive modernization rather than the imposition of another dystopian tyranny.</p>
<p>Which is why the Turkish model attracts Arab Spring modernizers. Turkey, however, is the product of 90 years of trial and error, with the structure Ataturk left evolving into a democracy. The democratic process, of course, is never finished. The moderate Islamist political party now governing Turkey, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), is testing Ataturk&#8217;s secular model. Its critics argue that under the guise of extending democracy, the AKP is destroying pluralism. Others argue Ataturk&#8217;s system is now so strong it has turned Turkish Islamists into committed supporters of democracy.</p>
<p>Still, Turkey provides a compelling &#8211; though sobering &#8211; example of how to systematically modernize a Muslim society. The complex process requires discipline and flexible leadership backed by soldiers committed to defending pluralism. Ataturk was a pragmatist who believed a broadly based educational system (spreading literacy and promoting scientific inquiry) and a dynamic economy were essential features of a modern state. He separated mosque from state by eliminating the Islamic caliphate, one of several fossilized Ottoman Empire institutions that stifled creativity and thus condemned Turks to economic and political backwardness. The subservience of women denied society half of its intellectual resources, so Ataturk&#8217;s reforms included emancipating Turkish women. Remaining modern requires adaptation. Ataturk saw parliamentary democracy as the political system best suited to sustaining social and economic creativity.</p>
<p>Arab Spring revolutionaries do not have nine decades to succeed. Ataturk&#8217;s visionary policies, however, do offer guidance. Contemporary Turkey, with its vibrant civil society, expanding middle class, democratic elections, and lively media, is an example of a modernizing vision made concrete. Its dynamism stands in stark contrast to the fossilized answers of Iranian ayatollahs and al-Qaida caliphs whose future is the same old impoverishing tyranny.</p>
<p>Bay&#8217;s new book is &#8220;ATATURK: Lessons in Leadership from the Greatest General of the Ottoman Empire.&#8221; Bay, a Rice University graduate, will be appearing at Houston&#8217;s Brazos Bookstore on Sunday, Sept. 11, at 2 p.m.</p>
<p>via Bay: Turkey, not al-Qaida, provides model &#8211; Houston Chronicle.</p>
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		<title>Full text of a CIA document indicating UK role in rendition of a terror suspect</title>
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		<dc:creator>Haluk Demirbag</dc:creator>
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<p>&#8220;Our service has become aware that last weekend LIFG deputy Emir Abu Munthir and his spouse and children were being held in Hong Kong detention for immigration/passport violations. We are also aware that your service has been cooperating with the British to effect Abu Munthir&#8217;s removal to Tripoli, and that you had an aircraft available for this purpose in the Maldives.</p>
<p>Our understanding is that the Hong Kong special wing (SW) originally denied permission for your aircraft to land in Hong Kong to enable you to assume control of Abu Munthir and his family. However, we believe that the reason for the refusal was based on international concerns over having a Libyan-registered aircraft land in Hong Kong. Accordingly, if your government were to charter a foreign aircraft from a third country, the Hong Kong government may be able to coordinate with you to render Abu Munthir and his family into your custody.</p>
<p>If payment of a charter aircraft is an issue, our service would be willing to assist financially to help underwrite those costs. Please be advised that if we pursue that option, we must have assurances from your government that Abu Munthir and his family will be treated humanely and that his human rights will be respected; we must receive such assurances prior to any assistance being provided.</p>
<p>For your information, the Hong Kong special administrative region is governed by a variety of legal constraints regarding deportation and custody of aliens. Accordingly, we believe that you will need to provide significant detail on Abu Munthir (eg, his terrorist/criminal acts, why he is wanted, perhaps proof of citizenship). It is also our understanding that Hong Kong officials have insisted that prior to turning Abu Munthir over to your custody, they must receive clear assurances from your government that Abu Munthir and his family will be treated humanely and in accordance with human rights.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>MI5 former chief decries &#8216;war on terror&#8217;</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller uses BBC lecture to criticise &#8216;unhelpful&#8217; term, attack Iraq invasion and suggest al-Qaida talks</strong></p>
<p><a rel="author" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/richardnortontaylor">Richard Norton-Taylor</a></p>
<div id="attachment_43389" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 470px"><a href="http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/BBC-Reith-lectures.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-43389" title="BBC-Reith-lectures" src="http://www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/BBC-Reith-lectures.jpg" alt="" width="460" height="276" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">MI5&#39;s former director general Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller during her 2011 BBC Reith lecture. Photograph: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA</p></div>
<p><strong>Lady Eliza Manningham-Buller, the former head of <a title="More from guardian.co.uk on MI5" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/mi5">MI5</a>, delivered a withering attack on the invasion of <a title="More from guardian.co.uk on Iraq" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iraq">Iraq</a>, decried the term &#8220;war on terror&#8221;, and held out the prospect of talks with al-Qaida.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Recording her first BBC Reith lecture on the theme, <em>Securing Freedom</em>, she made clear she believed the UK and US governments had not sufficiently understood the resentment that had been building up among Arab people, which was only compounded by the war against Iraq.</strong></p>
<p>Before an audience which included Theresa May, the home secretary, she also said the 9/11 attacks were<em><strong> &#8220;a crime, not an act of war&#8221;</strong>. <strong>&#8220;So I never felt it helpful to refer to a war on terror&#8221;.</strong></em></p>
<p>Young Arabs, she said, had no opportunity to choose their own rulers. &#8220;For them an external enemy was a unifying way to address some of their frustrations.&#8221;They were also united by the plight of Palestinians, a view that the west was exploiting their oil and supporting dictators. <strong>&#8220;It was wrong to say all terrorists belonged to al-Qaida,&#8221; </strong>added Manningham-Buller.</p>
<p>Pursuing a theme which some in the audience may have been astounded to hear from a former boss of MI5, she said terrorist campaigns – she mentioned Northern Ireland as an example – could not be solved militarily. She described the invasion of Iraq as a<strong> &#8220;distraction in the pursuit of al-Qaida&#8221;</strong>. She added: <strong>&#8220;Saddam Hussein was a ruthless dictator but neither he nor his regime had anything to do with 9/11.&#8221; </strong>The invasion, she said,<strong> &#8220;provided an arena for jihad&#8221;</strong>, spurring on UK citizens to resort to terror.</p>
<p><strong>September 11</strong> was a &#8220;monstrous crime&#8221; but it needed a considered response, an appreciation of the causes and roots of terrorism, she said later in answers to questions. She said she hoped there were those – she implied in western governments – who were considering having <strong>&#8220;talks with al-Qaida&#8221;</strong>.</p>
<p>Some way must be found of approaching them, she suggested, though she said she did not know how, at the moment, that could be done.</p>
<p><strong>Manningham-Buller, who retired in 2007, attacked the invasion of Iraq in an interview with the Guardian in 2009. However, she has never before expressed such <em>antipathy towards the prevailing policies and rhetoric of the government</em> which she had to endure when she was in office. The lecture is to be broadcast on Radio 4 on 6 September, and entitled Terror.</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/sep/02/mi5-war-on-terror-criticism" target="_blank">www.guardian.co.uk</a>, 2 September 2011</p>
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		<title>CIA shifts focus to killing targets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Greg Miller and Julie Tate Behind a nondescript door at CIA headquarters, the agency has assembled a new counterterrorism unit whose job is to find al-Qaeda targets in Yemen. A corresponding...]]></description>
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<p><strong>Behind a nondescript door at CIA headquarters, the agency has assembled a new counterterrorism unit whose job is to find al-Qaeda targets in Yemen. A corresponding commotion has been underway in the Arabian Peninsula, where construction workers have been laying out a secret new runway for CIA drones.</strong></p>
<p>When the missiles start falling, it will mark another expansion of the paramilitary mission of the CIA.</p>
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<p>In the decade since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the agency has undergone a fundamental transformation. Although the CIA continues to gather intelligence and furnish analysis on a vast array of subjects, its focus and resources are increasingly centered on the cold counterterrorism objective of finding targets to capture or kill.</p>
<p>The shift has been gradual enough that its magnitude can be difficult to grasp. Drone strikes that once seemed impossibly futuristic are so routine that they rarely attract public attention unless a high-ranking al-Qaeda figure is killed.</p>
<p>But framed against the upcoming 10th anniversary of the 2001 attacks — as well as the arrival next week of retired Gen. David H. Petraeus as the CIA’s director — the extent of the agency’s reorientation comes into sharper view:</p>
<p>●The drone program has killed more than 2,000 militants and civilians since 2001, a staggering figure for an agency that has a long history of supporting proxy forces in bloody conflicts but rarely pulled the trigger on its own.</p>
<p>●The CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, which had 300 employees on the day of the attacks, now exceeds al-Qaeda’s core membership around the globe. With about 2,000 on its staff, the CTC accounts for 10 percent of the agency’s workforce, has designated officers in almost every significant overseas post and controls the CIA’s expanding fleet of drones.</p>
<p>●Even the agency’s analytic branch, which traditionally existed to provide insights to policymakers, has been enlisted in the hunt. About 20 percent of CIA analysts are now “targeters” scanning data for individuals to recruit, arrest or place in the cross­hairs of a drone. The skill is in such demand that the CIA made targeting a designated career track five years ago, meaning analysts can collect raises and promotions without having to leave the targeting field.</p>
<p>Critics, including some in the U.S. intelligence community, contend that the CIA’s embrace of “kinetic” operations, as they are known, has diverted the agency from its traditional espionage mission and undermined its ability to make sense of global developments such as the Arab Spring.</p>
<p>Human rights groups go further, saying the CIA now functions as a military force beyond the accountability that the United States has historically demanded of its armed services. The CIA doesn’t officially acknowledge the drone program, let alone provide public explanation about who shoots and who dies, and by what rules.</p>
<p><strong>“We’re seeing the CIA turn into more of a paramilitary organization without the oversight and accountability that we traditionally expect of the military,”</strong> said Hina Shamsi, the director of the National Security Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.</p>
<p>CIA officials defend all aspects of the agency’s counterterrorism efforts and argue that the agency’s attention to other subjects has not been diminished. Fran Moore, head of the CIA’s analytic branch, said intelligence work on a vast range of issues, including weapons proliferation and energy resources, has been expanded and improved.</p>
<p>“The vast majority of analysts would not identify themselves as supporting military objectives,” Moore said in an interview at CIA headquarters. Counterterrorism “is clearly a significant, growing and vibrant part of our mission. But it’s not the defining mission.”</p>
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<p>Nevertheless, those directly involved in building the agency’s lethal capacity say the changes to the CIA since Sept. 11 are so profound that they sometimes marvel at the result. One former senior U.S. intelligence official described the agency’s paramilitary transformation as “nothing short of a wonderment.”</p>
<p><strong>“You’ve taken an agency that was chugging along and turned it into one hell of a killing machine,”</strong> said the former official, who, like many people interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence matters. Blanching at his choice of words, he quickly offered a revision: “Instead, say ‘one hell of an operational tool.’ ”</p>
<p>The engine of that machine is the CTC, an entity that has accumulated influence, authority and resources to such a degree that it resembles an agency within an agency.</p>
<p>The center swelled to 1,200 employees in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks and nearly doubled in size since then.</p>
<p>The CTC occupies a sprawling footprint at the CIA campus in Langley, including the first floor of what is known as the “new headquarters” building. The chief of the center is an undercover officer known for his brusque manner, cigarette habit and tireless commitment to the job.</p>
<p>A CIA veteran said he asked the CTC chief about the pace of strikes against al-Qaeda last year and got a typically profane reply: <strong>“We are killing these sons of bitches faster than they can grow them now.”</strong></p>
<p>The headquarters for that hunt is on a separate floor in a CTC unit known as the Pakistan-Afghanistan Department, referred to internally as PAD. Within the past year, the agency has created an equivalent department for Yemen and Somalia in the hope that it can replicate the impact of PAD.</p>
<p>Inside the PAD entrance is a photographic tribute to the seven CIA employees who were killed by a suicide bomber in December 2009 at a remote base in the Afghan city of Khost. Two were former targeters who had worked in the CTC.</p>
<p>Beyond that marker is a warren of cubicles and offices. On the walls are maps marked with the locations of CIA bases in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as whiteboards with lists of pending operations and code names of spies. Every paid informant is given a unique “crypt” that starts with a two-letter digraph designating spies who are paid sources of the CTC.</p>
<p>PAD serves as the anchor of an operational triangle that stretches from South Asia to the American Southwest. The CIA has about 30 Predator and Reaper drones, all flown by Air Force pilots from a U.S. military base in a state that The Post has agreed, at the request of agency officials, not to name. The intelligence that guides their “orbits” flows in from a constellation of CIA bases in Pakistan and Afghanistan.</p>
<p>More here &gt;&gt; <a title="MORE HERE" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-shifts-focus-to-killing-targets/2011/08/30/gIQA7MZGvJ_story_2.html" target="_blank">www.washingtonpost.com</a>, 2 September 2011</p>
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