Sibel Edmonds

After years of trying to expose 9/11 cover-ups, Sibel Edmonds is tired of being gagged by the US courts and ignored by the media.

"A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets," reports Great Britain's Sunday Times in the lede of their front page exclusive, headlined "For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets."
In the article, just filed tonight, [Sibel] Edmonds reveals details overheard on wiretaps she translated during her time at the FBI, just after 9/11. Her disclosures to the Times reveal a maze of nuclear black market espionage involving U.S. Defense and State Department officials, that resulted in the sale and propagation of nuclear secrets to Turkish and Israeli interests. In turn, that information was then sold to Pakistan and used by A.Q. Kahn for development of nuclear weapons. The secrets were subsequently proliferated to Iran, Libya, North Korea, and potentially al-Qaeda's Osama bin Laden, just weeks prior to September 11th, 2001.
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In late October, Edmonds had told The BRAD BLOG she was prepared to reveal the information to any major U.S. broadcast media outlet, after feeling that she had exhausted all efforts to see the disturbing information properly investigated by U.S. Government agencies.
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Despite broken promises for hearings on her case by U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA), support from Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Patrick Leahy (D-MI), and a number of mainstream exposés several years ago detailing aspects of her story before she was willing to break her unprecedented "States Secrets Privilege" gag order, none of the American broadcast media outlets took her up on her offer.
"She has now decided to divulge some of that information after becoming disillusioned with the US authorities' failure to act," reports the Sunday Times tonight...
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"What I found was damning," Edmonds tells the Times about the information she learned while at the FBI concerning the nuclear blackmarket activities and proliferation of several government agencies, including her own unit at the FBI. "While the FBI was investigating, several arms of the government were shielding what was going on."
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In a 15-page 2005 exposé in Vanity Fair, concerning yet another, if perhaps-related, aspect of Edmonds' allegations, British reporter David Rose detailed charges of nearly $500,000 in bribes from Turkish interests, said to have been prepared for former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL). His attorney has denied those allegations, though, in another BRAD BLOG exclusive, Edmonds challenged specific details of the denial. Hastert recently resigned from Congress, sparking speculation for his sudden departure after reports by ABC News in 2006, that he was under DoJ investigation for bribery charges related to convicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
In our October story, Edmonds had told us that, in addition to Hastert, she was prepared to name and give details of corruption involving at least "two other well-known" members of Congress. She told us at the time that they are both Republicans from the U.S. House and "one of them is recently no longer there."
  Brad Blog

You should read this article. You aren’t going to be getting any news on Sibel Edmonds from the mainstream. I personally am surprised she hasn’t met with an accident yet.
In these revelations, Edmonds claims that high-level US officials in the State Department and Pentagon were bribed in order to have the US military and nuclear organizations infiltrated, and to steal nuclear documents. This could be one of the reasons that Pakistan’s A.Q. Khan, who was busted for selling nuclear secrets, was protected by Musharraf and left alone by the US.
Read the Times article: For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

UPDATE 2/20/18:  Glenn Greenwald Twitter thread regarding Sibel Edmonds, calling her a "pathological liar and an insane person."

Kurdistan

Turkey is continuing its bombing missions into Iraq.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

That Turkey Incursion

Little by little, the information seeps out. It seems that Turkey's crossing into Iraq was in bomber planes. No wonder it didn't take more than 15 hours. The U.S. is "angry" that Turkey didn't give us warning. But Turkey said it was in "hot pursuit". Yeah. Whatever to both.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

Okay, What's Going On?

Now the report is that the Turkish troops (post below) were only in Iraq for 15 hours. The new AP article says U.S. officials "said they provided Turkish officials with intelligence for airstrikes Sunday in northern Iraq against rebel positions, but also asked them to limit their operations."

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

Expanding

About 300 Turkish troops crossed the border [into Iraq's Kurdish territory] at 3 a.m., said Jamal Abdullah, a spokesman for the regional Kurdistan government. He said the region was a deserted mountainous frontier area.

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"They are going there as reinforcements, they are not returning," the official said on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to the media.

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[Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh] said the Iraqi government was given no warning about the incursion.

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Abdullah, the spokesman for the regional Kurdish government, also criticized the operation and cautioned that Turkish forces should "be careful not to harm civilians" who might be living in the area.

"If the Turkish military conducts limited operations against the rebels, this is a problem of their concern," he said. "But if this ... leads to harm for civilians, we will absolutely be against that and reject that

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Turkey said Sunday's attack used U.S. intelligence and was carried out with tacit American approval.

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The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad declined to comment on reports of the Turkish operation.

  MSNBC [AP]

Perhaps we’re not so opposed to Turkey’s incursion into Iraq as George would have us believe.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

About Turkey

You probably know that there is some stink about a resolution to condemn the WWI era genocide of Armenians because of our need not to offend Turkey. What's every bit as interesting a dilemma for us, however, isn't likely to cause much if any internal conflict: Turkey may be preparing to attack the Kurds in Northern Iraq, and we don't want them to.

We could attack Iraq without any provocation from that country, but Turkey, currently enduring Kurdish raids into its territory, is being warned against taking any serious retaliatory action.

President Bush said the U.S. was making clear to Turkey that it should not stage a major army operation in the Iraqi north, much of which has escaped the sustained violence and political discord common in the rest of Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

  Yahoo

Some nerve. Turkey should refrain from causing any unrest in a country we've mucked up beyond repair because, frankly, we aren't equipped to handle any more. The fact that Turkey actually has some reason to cross the border is beside the point. How handy for the Kurds that we have Iraq FUBAR and intend to keep Turkey on a leash.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

Fueling Armageddon

From the website Kurdistan - the Other Iraq:

Have you seen the Other Iraq?

It's spectacular.
It's peaceful.
It's joyful.
Fewer than two hundred US troops are stationed here.
Arabs, Kurds and westerners all vacation together.

Welcome to Iraqi-Kurdistan!

I wouldn't get my tickets just yet if I were you.

Several thousand Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish guerrillas early yesterday. The incursion, though limited in scope, gives the crisis in Iraq a new twist.

  UK Independent

I wonder if that had anything to do with Iraq's president al-Maliki refusing to sign a treaty with the Turks.

Four suicide bombers hit Kurdish Yazidi communities in northwest Iraq with nearly simultaneous attacks on Tuesday, killing at least 175 people and wounding 200 others, the Iraqi military said.

  TPM

Surely there's a good excuse to invade Iran mixed up in there somewhere.