Coup Underway in Turkey

[David Guyatt]

Btw, Fethullah Gulen's CIA credentials have been discussed here at DPF for some time. Thanks to Maggie's research efforts the following should be of interest:

Fethullah Gulen

And I was shocked!, yes shocked! to see Graham Fuller's name mentioned in the above from 2013. I was less shocked to note Sibel Edmond's comment from her state secrets privelege case that drugs from Afghanistan were being shipped to Belgium on NATO aircraft.

EDMONDS: Okay. So these conversations, between [B]1997 and 2001, had to do with a Central Asia operation that involved bin Laden. Not once did anybody use the word "al-Qaeda." It was always "mujahideen," always "bin Laden" and, in fact, not "bin Laden" but "bin Ladens" plural. There were several bin Ladens who were going on private jets to [B]Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. The Turkish ambassador in Azerbaijan worked with them.
There were bin Ladens, with the help of Pakistanis or Saudis, under our management. Marc Grossman was leading it, 100 percent, bringing people from [B]East Turkestan into Kyrgyzstan, [B]from Kyrgyzstan to Azerbaijan, from Azerbaijan some of them were being channeled to Chechnya, some of them were being channeled to Bosnia. From Turkey, they were putting all these bin Ladens on NATO planes. People and weapons went one way, drugs came back.
[B]GIRALDI: Was the U.S. government aware of this circular deal?
[B]EDMONDS: 100 percent. A lot of the drugs were going to Belgium on NATO planes. After that, they went to the UK, and a lot came to the U.S. via military planes to distribution centers in Chicago and Paterson, New Jersey. Turkish diplomats who would never be searched were coming with suitcases of heroin.

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So, if anybody wishes to know just how Gulen's network got to be fabulously wealthy... don't ask just snort.

Meanwhile more DPF links on this subject are HERE, HERE & HERE.