The Rossland Telegraph: Uighur Nationalism, Turkey, and the CIA

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Uighur Nationalism, Turkey, and the CIA
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Submitted by David Livingstone on Mon, 2009-08-03 20:04   

Much was made in the news, earlier this month, of the series ofviolent clashes that erupted between Uighurs, a Turkic, andpredominantly Muslim, minority ethnic group in China, the Chinese state police, and Han Chinese residents in the the province of Xinjiang, innorthwestern China.

But the media's recent attention to the matter should be seen in light of a larger geo-political strategy,involving Turkey and the CIA, in ongoing furtherance of The Bernard Lewis Plan. Originally implemented under the supervision of ZbigniewBrzezinski during the Carter administration, the plan was based on Lewis' idea of an "Arc of Crisis", created around the southern bordersof Soviet Union, by empowering Muslim radicals to rebel against the communists, to bring about the fall of the Soviet Empire. The keyaspect of this strategy, over the last 30 years, as revealed in thebook and movie, Charlie Wilson's War, began with support for the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, which became the CIA's largest covert operation ever.

As outlined in Brzezinski's Grand Chessboard,control over central Asia, which in addition to Afghanistan, comprisesthe five former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, is a key factor in mastery of all ofEurasia, and thereby, the world.

This is because, as is popularlyknown, Central Asia holds vast stores of energy resources. Less known,however, is its role in the drug trade. Since the implementation ofBernard Lewis' Plan, and the US's involvement in Afghanistan, thecountry now accounts for almost 95% of the world's opium production.And it is profits arising mostly from this illicit trade that golargely to financing the deliberate spread of a fabricated brand ofIslamic fundamentalism.

As mentioned by noted whistleblower SibelEdmonds, "You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you havemoney laundering activities, drug related activities, and terroristsupport activities converging at certain points and becoming one."

Despiteyears of her testimony being suppressed by the State Secrets Privilege,it is her revelations, discovered in the course of her work for theFBI, that now help explain the significance of the immigration caseagainst Turkish religious leader, Fethullah Gulen, living inself-imposed exile in the Pennsylvania, and explodes this entirecomplex of American foreign policy in the Middle East and Central Asia,and its broader implications for the Islamic world.

FethullahGulen, while also leading the movement behind Turkey's current Islamicrenaissance, is one of the key operatives who have been fronting forthe CIA in the radicalization of Central Asia, involving drugtrafficking, money laundering, and the nuclear black market, andfalse-flag terrorism.

A number of sources reveal that the Gulenorganization has been used as a tool for the Special OperationsDepartment of the Turkish police force, which evolved from theCounter-Guerrilla, the Turkish branch of Operation Gladio. OperationGladio was a clandestine initiative backed by the United States, whichafter WWII employed former SS to create 'stay-behind' anti-communist.It was responsible for the infamous "Strategy of Tension" in Italyduring the 70s, which used false-flag terror operations, like that ofthe Red Brigade, to destabilize the country.

In Turkey, there isa popular belief that the Counter-Guerrilla are responsible fornumerous unsolved acts of violence, and have exerted great influenceover the country's Cold War history, most notably for engendering themilitary coups of 1971, and 1980.

Among the documents that theattorneys for the State Department presented, in favor of rejectingGulen's application for a permanent visa, there are claims about theGulen movement's financial structure, it being emphasized that itseconomic power reached $25 billion. The lawyers state:

Because of the large amount of money that Gulen's movement uses to finance hisprojects, there are claims that he has secret agreements with Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkic governments. There are suspicions that the CIAis a co-payer in financing these projects.

Most incriminating is the list of references that Gulen provided in anapparent effort to bolster his application, namely George Fidas, GrahamFuller, and Morton Abramowitz.

Graham Fuller happens to be listedas one of the American Deep State rogues on Sibel Edmonds' StateSecrets Privilege Gallery. Graham E. Fuller is an American author andpolitical analyst, specializing in "Islamic extremism". Formerlyvice-chair of the National Intelligence Council, he also served asStation Chief in Kabul for the CIA. A think piece that Fuller wrote forthe CIA was identified as instrumental in leading to the Iran-contraaffair. The Iran-Contra affair was that network of activity wherebyIsrael sold weapons to Iran on behalf of the Americans, to fund theContras, and then where a large-scale drug-smuggling operation,involving cocaine from Nicaragua, was used to fund the Mujahideen inAfghanistan.

George Fidas worked thirty-one years for the CIA,while Morton Abramowitz was also deeply involved with Afghan Mujahideenand Kosovo rebels.
Abramowitz was succeeded by Marc Grossman asambassador in Turkey, after working under him in Ankara for a number ofyears. During that period, the US opened an espionage investigationinto activities at the embassy involving Major Douglas Dickerson, aweapons procurement specialist for Central Asia. Dickerson and hiswife, an FBI translator, later became famous when they tried to recruitSibel to spy for this criminal network. Grossman is currently receiving$1.2 million per annum from Ihlas Holding, a Gulen-linked Turkishconglomerate.

With regards to the separatist moves over Xinjiang,according to TurkPulse. "One of the main tools Washington is using inthis affair in order to get Turkey involved in the Xinjiang affair issome Turkish Americans, primarily the Fetullah Gulen."

AnotherTurk used in this affair is Enver Yusuf Turani, also featured inSibel˙s Gallery, who is Prime Minister of Xinjiang, with the US beingthe only country to recognize it as "East Turkistan". East Turkistan isthe home of the "Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement," a UN-nominatedterrorist organization funded mainly by Osama bin Laden˙s al-Qaedanetwork and received training, support and personnel from both theal-Qaeda and the Taliban regime of Afghanistan." The Uighurs constituteas many as 22, of the Guantanamo Bay detainees. Five of those have beenset free, and were eventually sent to Albania, amid much controversy.

Infact, Abramowitz and Fuller were key players in the establishment of"East Turkistan", proclaiming the government in exile within 4-5months, starting in May, 2004 and completing the proclamation inmid-September. The ceremony was held at Capitol Hill under Americanflags in Washington.
The FSB, the Russian intelligenceorganization formerly called the KGB, has repeatedly taken actionagainst the Gulen movement for acting as a front organization for theCIA. The FSB has claimed that the "Nurcus" religious brotherhood inTurkey has engaged in espionage on behalf of the CIA, through thecompanies connected with Fethullah Gulen. Russia has banned all ofGulen˙s madrassas, and in April of this year, banned the Nurcu Movementcompletely.

The Gulen Movement founded madrassas all over theworld in the 1990˙s, most of them in the newly independent Turkicrepublics of Central Asia, including Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan,Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. The madrassas, says onewriter named Lukery, "appear to be used as a front for enabling CIA andState Department officials to operate undercover in the region, withmany of the teachers operating under diplomatic passports."
Lukery called Sibel Edmonds to ask her to comment on the latest revelations. She said, in full:

You'vegot to look at the big picture. After the fall of the Soviet Union, thesuper powers began to fight over control of Central Asia, particularlythe oil and gas wealth, as well as the strategic value of the region.
Giventhe history, and the distrust of the West, the US realized that itcouldn˙t get direct control, and therefore would need to use a proxy togain control quickly and effectively. Turkey was the perfect proxy; aNATO ally and a puppet regime. Turkey shares the same heritage/race asthe entire population of Central Asia, the same language (Turkic), thesame religion (Sunni Islam), and of course, the strategic location andproximity.

This started more than a decade-long illegal, covertoperation in Central Asia by a small group in the US intent onfurthering the oil industry and the Military Industrial Complex, usingTurkish operatives, Saudi partners and Pakistani allies, furtheringthis objective in the name of Islam.
This is why I have beensaying repeatedly that these illegal covert operations by the Turks andcertain US persons dates back to 1996, and involves terroristactivities, narcotics, weapons smuggling and money laundering,converging around the same operations and involving the same actors.
AndI want to emphasize that this is "illegal" because most, if not all, ofthe funding for these operations is not congressionally approvedfunding, but it comes from illegal activities.
And one lastthing, take a look at the people in the State Secrets Privilege Galleryon my website and you will see how these individuals can be traced tothe following; Turkey, Central Asia, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia - andthe activities involving these countries.