Coup Underway in Turkey

[Peter Lemkin]

The following just posted by Pepe Escobar on his FB:

Ambassador Bhadrakumar, my former colleague at the defunct Asia Times Online, absolutely KILLS here on the possible Saudi and UAE involvement in the Turkish coup, plus the former emir of Qatar blaming the US, the House of Saud and perhaps France for it. NO question Russian intel knows all this:
"The famous Saudi whistleblower known as Mujtahid' has come out with a sensational disclosure that the UAE played a role in the coup and had kept Saudi Arabia in the loop. Also, the deposed ruler of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani (who is a close friend of Erdogan) has alleged that the US, another Western country (presumably France) had staged the coup and that Saudi Arabia was involved in it. Meanwhile, word has leaked to the media that in a closed-door briefing to the Iranian parliament on Sunday, Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif hinted at Saudi and Qatari involvement in the coup.
Putin's phone call to Erdogan suggests the possibility that Russian and Turkish intelligence are keeping in touch."

The plot and number of possible players thickens! None named above cause me any surprise [if they were in fact involved]. Still a mystery, however, is why the coup collapsed so quickly and so utterly. These players and the CIA, if involved, could surely come up with a better scenario....one that would at least have lasted days or weeks, not just one night - and a half-hearted night at that. Something doesn't figure yet...something is missing in the equation.