IN SIBEL'S CROSSHAIRS: FETHULLAH GÜLEN, CENTRAL ASIA, AND BEYOND

Friday, July 11, 2008
IN SIBEL'S CROSSHAIRS: FETHULLAH GÜLEN, CENTRAL ASIA, AND BEYOND
http://rastibini. blogspot. com/2008/ 07/in-sibels- crosshairs- fethullah-
glen.html

"After 911, the US Government engaged in mock investigations and
shut down many small Islamic charities and organizations, giving the
appearance of action in the so-called 'War on Terror.' Why did they
harbor, support and resource Fethullah Gulen's $25 billion madrassa-
and-mosque-establis hment efforts throughout the Central Asian region
and the Balkans?"
~ Sibel Edmonds.

Luke Ryland does it again, at Let Sibel Edmonds Speak.
http://letsibeledmo ndsspeak. blogspot. com/2008/ 07/court- documents-
shed-light-on- cia.html
In this new post, we have more from Sibel Edmonds' "state secrets"
information connecting Fethullah Gülen to those in the American Deep
State, Central Asia and beyond. I'm stealing the whole thing from
Luke because it's all too important not to.

************

Court Documents Shed Light on CIA Illegal Operations in Central Asia
Using Islam & Madrassas - Sibel Edmonds State Secrets Gallery
Connects Pipeline Politics, Madrassas & the Turkish Proxies

In a recent immigration court case involving Turkish Islamic Leader,
Fetullah Gulen, US prosecutors exposed an illegal, covert, CIA
operation involving the intentional Islamization of Central Asia.
This operation has been ongoing since the fall of the Soviet Union
in an ongoing Cold War to control the vast energy resources of the
region - Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan -
estimated to be worth $3 trillion.

Court Case
The scene for these dramatic disclosures was an application for a
Green Card in the Eastern District Court in Philadelphia
by "controversial Islamic scholar" Fetullah Gulen. Gulen, who has
been living in the United States since 1998, argued that he
qualified for the Green Card as "an extraordinarily talented
academic."

The court case was covered extensively by the Turkish press. Leading
Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported:
http://www.turkishd ailynews. com.tr/article. php?enewsid= 108281

"Gülen's financial resources were detailed in the public
prosecutor's arguments, which claimed that Saudi Arabia, Iran, the
Turkish government, and the Central Intelligence Agency, or CIA,
were behind the Gülen movement. It stated that some businessmen in
Ankara donated 10 to 70 percent of their annual income to the
movement and that it corresponded to $20,000 to $300,000 per year
per person. It added that one businessman in Istanbul donated $4-5
million each year and that young people graduating from Gülen's
schools donated between $2,000 and $5,000 each year."

Another leading Turkish newspaper reported (translated by Rastibini)
http://rastibini. blogspot. com/2008/ 06/glen-cia- and-american- deep-
state.html

Among the reasons given by the US State Department's attorneys as to
why Gülen's permanent residence application was refused, is the
suspicion of CIA financing of his movement.

[ . . . ]

"There is even CIA suspicion"

"Because of the large amount of money that Gülen's movement uses to
finance his projects, there are claims that he has secret agreements
with Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkic governments. There are
suspicions that the CIA is a co-payer in financing these projects,"
claimed the attorneys.

[ . . . ]

Among the documents that the state attorneys presented, there are
claims about the Gülen movement's financial structure and it was
emphasized that the movement's economic power reached $25
billion. "Schools, newspapers, universities, unions, television
channels . . . The relationship among these are being debated. There
is no transparency in their work," claimed the attorneys."

Who is Gulen?
Fetullah Gulen is "a 67-year-old Turkish Sufi cleric, author and
theoretician, " according to a recent profile in the UK's Prospect
magazine.
http://www.prospect -magazine. co.uk/article_ details.php? id=10263
Prospect ran a public poll last month to find the world's greatest
living intellectual. Gulen 'won' the poll after his newspapers
alerted readers to the poll's existence. Gulen is also the leader of
the so-called 'Gulen Movement' which claims to have seven million
followers worldwide. The Gulen Movement has extensive business
interests, including "publishing activities (books, newspapers, and
magazines), construction, healthcare, and education."
http://www.fethulla hgulen.org/ content/view/ 2442/53/

Gulen and the CIA
The fact that the prosecutors in the court cite documents that claim
that Gulen has been financed in part by the CIA is remarkable for a
number of reasons, even though there have been strong suspicions
about the CIA's involvement in the Gulen Movement for years. The
Russian intelligence agency, the FSB, has repeatedly taken action
against the Gulen movement for acting as a front organization for
the CIA. In December 2002, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported:
http://www.turkishd ailynews. com.tr/archives. php?id=30463

"Russian secret service claims: Turkish religious brotherhood works
for CIA

The FSB, the Russian intelligence organization formerly called the
KGB, has claimed that the 'Nurcus' religious brotherhood in Turkey
has engaged in espionage on behalf of the CIA through the companies
and foundations it has founded. FSB head Nikolay Patrushev has
mentioned the names of these companies and foundations, saying, 'The
brotherhood engages in anti-Russian activities via two companies,
Serhad and Eflak, as well as foundations such as Toros, Tolerans and
Ufuk.' Patrushev has accused the brotherhood of conducting pan-
Turkish propaganda, of trying to convert Russian youths to Islam by
sowing the seeds of enmity, and of engaging in certain lobbying
activities. These companies and foundations have turned up in the
internet site of Fethullah Gulen [alleged leader of the Nurcu
religious community currently living in the United States who is a
defendant in several court cases in Turkey, accused of engaging in
anti-secularist activities.] ""

Russia has banned all of Gulen's madrassas, and in April of this
year, banned the Nurcu Movement completely.
http://www.turkishd ailynews. com.tr/article. php?enewsid= 101560

Gulen's Madrassas

The Gulen Movement founded madrassas all over the world in the
1990's, most of them in the newly independent Turkic republics of
Central Asia - Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and
Kyrgyzstan - and Russia.
http://www.fethulla hgulen.org/ content/view/ 2442/53/

These madrassas appear to be used as a front for enabling CIA and
State Department officials to operate undercover in the region, with
many of the teachers operating under diplomatic passports.
http://www.acikisti hbarat.com/ Haberler. asp?haber= 5420

Why Central Asia?

Central Asia, with its vast energy wealth, is of major interest to
US oil and gas companies. The region is also of key strategic
interest in the 'Great Game' as Russia, China and the US compete for
dwindling energy supplies. The US government has been using Turkey
as a proxy to gain control over Central Asia via Pan-Turkic
nationalism and religion.
http://www.iiss. org.uk/whats- new/iiss- in-the-press/ press-coverage-
2005/november- 2005/struggle- for-influence- in-central- asia-/

Sibel Edmonds Case

Twenty six people wrote reference letters supporting Gulen's
application for a Green Card - most notably ex-CIA agent George
Fidas, former Turkish ambassador Morton Abramowitz, and former CIA
Deputy Director Graham Fuller who appears in Sibel Edmonds' State
Secrets Privilege Gallery.
http://www.justacit izen.com/ images/Gallery% 20Draft2% 20for%20Web. htm

I called Sibel Edmonds to comment on the latest revelations. She
said:

You've got to look at the big picture. After the fall of the Soviet
Union, the super powers began to fight over control of Central Asia,
particularly the oil and gas wealth, as well as the strategic value
of the region.

Given the history, and the distrust of the West, the US realized
that it couldn't get direct control, and therefore would need to use
a proxy to gain control quickly and effectively. Turkey was the
perfect proxy; a NATO ally and a puppet regime. Turkey shares the
same heritage/race as the entire population of Central Asia, the
same language (Turkic), the same religion (Sunni Islam), and of
course, the strategic location and proximity.

This started more than a decade-long illegal, covert operation in
Central Asia by a small group in the US intent on furthering the oil
industry and the Military Industrial Complex, using Turkish
operatives, Saudi partners and Pakistani allies, furthering this
objective in the name of Islam.

This is why I have been saying repeatedly that these illegal covert
operations by the Turks and certain US persons dates back to 1996,
and involves terrorist activities, narcotics, weapons smuggling and
money laundering, converging around the same operations and
involving the same actors.

And I want to emphasize that this is "illegal" because most, if not
all, of the funding for these operations is not congressionally
approved funding, but it comes from illegal activities.

And one last thing, take a look at the people in the State Secrets
Privilege Gallery on my website and you will see how these
individuals can be traced to the following; Turkey, Central Asia,
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia - and the activities involving these
countries.

Many of the people in Sibel's State Secrets Privilege Gallery are
closely connected to Gulen, and each other, as well as the
operations that Sibel mentions. Many of them have actively advocated
for using Muslims to further their own needs - from Turkistan to
Albania and Central Asia.

Marc Grossman, former State Department #3 and former Turkish
ambassador, and one of the key named individuals in Sibel's case, is
currently receiving $1.2 million per annum from Ihlas Holding, a
Gulen-linked Turkish conglomerate. Sibel has previously referred to
Ihlas as 'semi-legitimate' and 'alleged shady' - and emphasized that
Grossman's current payoff is a result of services performed while he
was in office.

Grossman's predecessor as ambassador in Turkey was Morton
Abramowitz - in fact, Grossman actually worked under Abramowitz in
Ankara for a number of years. During that period, the US opened an
espionage investigation into activities at the embassy involving
Major Douglas Dickerson, a weapons procurement specialist for
Central Asia. Dickerson and his wife, an FBI translator, later
became famous when they tried to recruit Sibel to spy for this
criminal network.

Abramowitz, who is not listed in Sibel's State Secrets Privilege
Gallery, wrote a letter in support of Gulen for his immigration
case. He has long advocated the use of Islamic fighters in
furtherance of US interests, including the Afghan mujaheddin against
the Soviets and the Kosovo Liberation Army during the war in the
Balkans, acting as an advisor to the Kosovar Albanians.

Another player from Sibel's Gallery is Enver Yusuf Turani - Prime
Minister of East Turkistan, a 'country' recognized by only one
country, the United States. East Turkistan, aka Xinjiang, is
officially a part of China, and home to the Uyghur people and
the "Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement," a UN-nominated terrorist
organization "funded mainly by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network
and received training, support and personnel from both the al-Qaeda
and the Taliban regime of Afghanistan. " In fact, the Uyghurs
constitute a significant percentage of detainees - at least 22 - at
Guantanamo Bay since 2001. Five of those have been set free, and
were eventually sent to Albania, amid much controversy.

According to TurkPulse:
http://www.turkpuls e.com/turkish16. htm

"One of the main tools Washington is using in this affair in order
to get Turkey involved in the Xinjiang affair is some Turkish
Americans, primarily the Fetullah Gulen team who are prosecuted in
absentia in Turkey for trying to found a theocratic State order in
this country because he runs his activities from the United States,
his protégé. Another Turk used in this affair is Enver Yusuf Turani,
who is the self styled Foreign and Prime Minister of the East
Turkistan Government in exile. He has been an American citizen since
1998. Enver Yusuf is in close cooperation with Fetullah Gulen...
Their activities for the government in exile are based on a report
entitled "the Xinjiang Project" drafted by Graham Fuller in 1998 for
the Rand Corporation and revised in 2003 under the title "the
Xinjiang Problem." It emphasises the importance of the Xinjiang
Autonomous region in encircling China and provides a strategy for
it."

In fact, Abramowitz and Fuller were key players in the establishment
of 'East Turkistan,'

"proclaiming the government in exile within 4-5 months, starting in
May (2004) and completing the proclamation in mid- September. The
ceremony was held at Capitol Hill under American flags in
Washington."

Two others from Sibel's gallery, Sabri Sayari and Alan Makovsky,
have been similarly involved with Gulen, Fuller, and Abramowitz - co-
authoring books and articles, making joint appearances, dinners etc.

Illegal Operations

Earlier I quoted Sibel saying

"And I want to emphasize that this is "illegal" because most, if not
all, of the funding for these operations is not congressionally
approved funding, but it comes from illegal activities."

Where does this funding come from? Narcotics trafficking, nuclear
black market, weapons smuggling, and terrorist activities. As Sibel
makes clear in her The Highjacking of a Nation article, the
management of the heroin industry from the farms in Afghanistan to
the streets of London and elsewhere "requires highly sophisticated
networks," from the protection of the convoys from Afghanistan
through Central Asia to their final destination, to the laundering
of the billions of dollars in proceeds in Central Asian casinos and
financial institutions in Dubai and Cyprus. "So, who are the real
lords of Afghanistan' s poppy fields?" Sibel asks. The heroin trade
finances al-Qaeda and the Taliban, but they aren't the real lords of
the poppy fields. Journalist Ahmed Rashid, author of "Taliban:
Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia" and other
similar books about these issues recently noted on Democracy Now
that a "cartel" controls Afghanistan' s heroin, which supplies 93% of
global heroin supply.
http://www.democrac ynow.org/ 2008/6/10/ descent_into_ chaos_ahmed_ rashid
_on

Sibel has been trying to tell us about these operations for years,
but has been gagged by the State Secrets Privilege which was invoked
citing certain 'sensitive foreign diplomatic and business
relationships. ' These 'sensitive relationships' have now been
exposed to a degree, thanks to the immigration case against Mr
Gulen - one of the Turkish operatives who have been fronting for the
CIA in the Islamization of Central Asia, incorporating drug
trafficking, money laundering, and the nuclear black market, and the
convergence with terrorism.

One Last Question

At the end of our interview, Sibel asked me to leave you with this
question:

"After 911, the US Government engaged in mock investigations and
shut down many small Islamic charities and organizations, giving the
appearance of action in the so-called 'War on Terror.' Why did they
harbor, support and resource Fethullah Gulen's $25 billion madrassa-
and-mosque-establis hment efforts throughout the Central Asian region
and the Balkans?"

************

You also might be interested to see the comments and discussion of
Luke's article over at Daily Kos.
http://www.dailykos .com/storyonly/ 2008/7/11/ 133249/667
Drop by there, register, and leave your own comments to show your
support for Sibel as she battles the Deep State in America.

Oh, yeah . . . don't expect to see this in the worthless American
media.

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SIbel Edmonds case: Documents Shed Light on CIA Illegal Ops in
Central Asia Using Islam & Madrassas
by lukery

http://www.dailykos .com/storyonly/ 2008/7/11/ 133249/667

Fri Jul 11, 2008 at 11:07:35 AM PDT

Court Documents Shed Light on CIA Illegal Operations in Central Asia
Using Islam & Madrassas

- Sibel Edmonds State Secrets Gallery Connects Pipeline Politics,
Madrassas & the Turkish Proxies

lukery's diary :: ::
In a recent immigration court case involving Turkish Islamic Leader,
Fetullah Gulen, US prosecutors exposed an illegal, covert, CIA
operation involving the intentional Islamization of Central Asia.
This operation has been ongoing since the fall of the Soviet Union
in an ongoing Cold War to control the vast energy resources of the
region - Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan -
estimated to be worth $3 trillion.

Court Case
The scene for these dramatic disclosures was an application for a
Green Card in the Eastern District Court in Philadelphia
by "controversial Islamic scholar" Fetullah Gulen. Gulen, who has
been living in the United States since 1998, argued that he
qualified for the Green Card as "an extraordinarily talented
academic."

The court case was covered extensively by the Turkish press. Leading
Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported:

"Gülen's financial resources were detailed in the public
prosecutor's arguments, which claimed that Saudi Arabia, Iran, the
Turkish government, and the Central Intelligence Agency, or CIA,
were behind the Gülen movement. It stated that some businessmen in
Ankara donated 10 to 70 percent of their annual income to the
movement and that it corresponded to $20,000 to $300,000 per year
per person. It added that one businessman in Istanbul donated $4-5
million each year and that young people graduating from Gülen's
schools donated between $2,000 and $5,000 each year."
Another leading Turkish newspaper reported (translated by Rastibini)

Among the reasons given by the US State Department's attorneys as to
why Gülen's permanent residence application was refused, is the
suspicion of CIA financing of his movement.
[ . . . ]
"There is even CIA suspicion"

"Because of the large amount of money that Gülen's movement uses to
finance his projects, there are claims that he has secret agreements
with Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkic governments. There are
suspicions that the CIA is a co-payer in financing these projects,"
claimed the attorneys.
[ . . . ]
Among the documents that the state attorneys presented, there are
claims about the Gülen movement's financial structure and it was
emphasized that the movement's economic power reached $25
billion. "Schools, newspapers, universities, unions, television
channels . . . The relationship among these are being debated. There
is no transparency in their work," claimed the attorneys."
Who is Gulen?
Fetullah Gulen is "a 67-year-old Turkish Sufi cleric, author and
theoretician, " according to a recent profile in the UK's Prospect
magazine. Prospect ran a public poll last month to find the world's
greatest living intellectual. Gulen 'won' the poll after his
newspapers alerted readers to the poll's existence. Gulen is also
the leader of the so-called 'Gulen Movement' which claims to have
seven million followers worldwide. The Gulen Movement has extensive
business interests, including "publishing activities (books,
newspapers, and magazines), construction, healthcare, and education."

Gulen and the CIA
The fact that the prosecutors in the court cite documents that claim
that Gulen has been financed in part by the CIA is remarkable for a
number of reasons, even though there have been strong suspicions
about the CIA's involvement in the Gulen Movement for years. The
Russian intelligence agency, the FSB, has repeatedly taken action
against the Gulen movement for acting as a front organization for
the CIA. In December 2002, Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reported:

"Russian secret service claims: Turkish religious brotherhood works
for CIA

The FSB, the Russian intelligence organization formerly called the
KGB, has claimed that the 'Nurcus' religious brotherhood in Turkey
has engaged in espionage on behalf of the CIA through the companies
and foundations it has founded. FSB head Nikolay Patrushev has
mentioned the names of these companies and foundations, saying, 'The
brotherhood engages in anti-Russian activities via two companies,
Serhad and Eflak, as well as foundations such as Toros, Tolerans and
Ufuk.' Patrushev has accused the brotherhood of conducting pan-
Turkish propaganda, of trying to convert Russian youths to Islam by
sowing the seeds of enmity, and of engaging in certain lobbying
activities. These companies and foundations have turned up in the
internet site of Fethullah Gulen [alleged leader of the Nurcu
religious community currently living in the United States who is a
defendant in several court cases in Turkey, accused of engaging in
anti-secularist activities.] ""
Russia has banned all of Gulen's madrassas, and in April of this
year, bannedthe Nurcu Movement completely.

Gulen's Madrassas
The Gulen Movement foundedmadrassas all over the world in the
1990's, most of them in the newly independent Turkic republics of
Central Asia - Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and
Kyrgyzstan - and Russia.

These madrassas appear to be used as a front for enabling CIA and
State Department officials to operate undercover in the region, with
many of the teachers operatingunder diplomatic passports.

Why Central Asia?
Central Asia, with its vast energy wealth, is of major interest to
US oil and gas companies. The region is also of key strategic
interest in the 'Great Game' as Russia, China and the US compete for
dwindling energy supplies. The US government has been using Turkey
as a proxy to gain control over Central Asia via Pan-Turkic
nationalism and religion.

Sibel Edmonds Case
Twenty six people wrote reference letters supporting Gulen's
application for a Green Card - most notably ex-CIA agent George
Fidas, former Turkish ambassador Morton Abramowitz, and former CIA
Deputy Director Graham Fuller who appears in Sibel Edmonds' State
Secrets Privilege Gallery.

I called Sibel Edmonds to comment on the latest revelations. She
said:

You've got to look at the big picture. After the fall of the Soviet
Union, the super powers began to fight over control of Central Asia,
particularly the oil and gas wealth, as well as the strategic value
of the region.

Given the history, and the distrust of the West, the US realized
that it couldn't get direct control, and therefore would need to use
a proxy to gain control quickly and effectively. Turkey was the
perfect proxy; a NATO ally and a puppet regime. Turkey shares the
same heritage/race as the entire population of Central Asia, the
same language (Turkic), the same religion (Sunni Islam), and of
course, the strategic location and proximity.

This started more than a decade-long illegal, covert operation in
Central Asia by a small group in the US intent on furthering the oil
industry and the Military Industrial Complex, using Turkish
operatives, Saudi partners and Pakistani allies, furthering this
objective in the name of Islam.

This is why I have been saying repeatedly that these illegal covert
operations by the Turks and certain US persons dates back to 1996,
and involves terrorist activities, narcotics, weapons smuggling and
money laundering, converging around the same operations and
involving the same actors.

And I want to emphasize that this is "illegal" because most, if not
all, of the funding for these operations is not congressionally
approved funding, but it comes from illegal activities.

And one last thing, take a look at the people in theState Secrets
Privilege Gallery on my website and you will see how these
individuals can be traced to the following; Turkey, Central Asia,
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia - and the activities involving these
countries.
Many of the people in Sibel's State Secrets Privilege Gallery are
closely connected to Gulen, and each other, as well as the
operations that Sibel mentions. Many of them have actively advocated
for using Muslims to further their own needs - from Turkistan to
Albania and Central Asia.

Marc Grossman, former State Department #3 and former Turkish
ambassador, and one of the key named individuals in Sibel's case,
is currently receiving $1.2 million per annum from Ihlas Holding, a
Gulen-linked Turkish conglomerate. Sibel has previously referred to
Ihlas as 'semi-legitimate' and 'alleged shady' - and emphasized that
Grossman's current payoff is a result of services performed while he
was in office.

Grossman's predecessor as ambassador in Turkey was Morton
Abramowitz - in fact, Grossman actually worked under Abramowitz in
Ankara for a number of years. During that period, the US opened an
espionage investigation into activities at the embassy involving
Major Douglas Dickerson, a weapons procurement specialist for
Central Asia. Dickerson and his wife, an FBI translator, later
became famous when they tried to recruit Sibel to spy for this
criminal network.

Abramowitz, who is not listed in Sibel's State Secrets Privilege
Gallery, wrote a letter in support of Gulen for his immigration
case. He has long advocated the use of Islamic fighters in
furtherance of US interests, including the Afghan mujaheddin against
the Soviets and the Kosovo Liberation Army during the war in the
Balkans, acting as an advisor to the Kosovar Albanians.

Another player from Sibel's Gallery is Enver Yusuf Turani - Prime
Minister of East Turkistan, a 'country' recognized by only one
country, the United States. East Turkistan, aka Xinjiang, is
officially a part of China, and home to the Uyghur people and
the "Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement," a UN-nominated terrorist
organization "funded mainly by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network
and received training, support and personnel from both the al-Qaeda
and the Taliban regime of Afghanistan. " In fact, the Uyghurs
constitute a significant percentage of detainees - at least 22 - at
Guantanamo Bay since 2001. Five of those have been set free, and
were eventually sent to Albania, amid much controversy.

According to TurkPulse:

"One of the main tools Washington is using in this affair in order
to get Turkey involved in the Xinjiang affair is some Turkish
Americans, primarily the Fetullah Gulen team who are prosecuted in
absentia in Turkey for trying to found a theocratic State order in
this country because he runs his activities from the United States,
his protégé. Another Turk used in this affair is Enver Yusuf Turani,
who is the self styled Foreign and Prime Minister of the East
Turkistan Government in exile. He has been an American citizen since
1998. Enver Yusuf is in close cooperation with Fetullah Gulen...
Their activities for the government in exile are based on a report
entitled "the Xinjiang Project" drafted by Graham Fuller in 1998 for
the Rand Corporation and revised in 2003 under the title "the
Xinjiang Problem." It emphasises the importance of the Xinjiang
Autonomous region in encircling China and provides a strategy for
it."
In fact, Abramowitz and Fuller were key players in the establishment
of 'East Turkistan,'

"proclaiming the government in exile within 4-5 months, starting in
May (2004) and completing the proclamation in mid- September. The
ceremony was held at Capitol Hill under American flags in
Washington."
Two others from Sibel's gallery, Sabri Sayari and Alan Makovsky,
have been similarly involved with Gulen, Fuller, and Abramowitz - co-
authoring booksand articles, making joint appearances, dinners etc.

Illegal Operations
Earlier I quoted Sibel saying

"And I want to emphasize that this is "illegal" because most, if not
all, of the funding for these operations is not congressionally
approved funding, but it comes from illegal activities."
Where does this funding come from? Narcotics trafficking, nuclear
black market, weapons smuggling, and terrorist activities. As Sibel
makes clear in her The Highjacking of a Nation article, the
management of the heroin industry from the farms in Afghanistan to
the streets of London and elsewhere "requires highly sophisticated
networks," from the protection of the convoys from Afghanistan
through Central Asia to their final destination, to the laundering
of the billions of dollars in proceeds in Central Asian casinos and
financial institutions in Dubai and Cyprus. "So, who are the real
lords of Afghanistan' s poppy fields?" Sibel asks. The heroin trade
finances al-Qaeda and the Taliban, but they aren't the real lords of
the poppy fields. Journalist Ahmed Rashid, author of "Taliban:
Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia " and other
similar books about these issues recently noted on Democracy Now
that a "cartel" controls Afghanistan' s heroin, which supplies 93% of
global heroin supply.

Sibel has been trying to tell us about these operations for years,
but has been gagged by the State Secrets Privilege which was invoked
citing certain 'sensitive foreign diplomatic and business
relationships. ' These 'sensitive relationships' have now been
exposed to a degree, thanks to the immigration case against Mr
Gulen - one of the Turkish operatives who have been fronting for the
CIA in the Islamization of Central Asia, incorporating drug
trafficking, money laundering, and the nuclear black market, and the
convergence with terrorism.

One Last Question
At the end of our interview, Sibel asked me to leave you with this
question:

"After 911, the US Government engaged in mock investigations and
shut down many small Islamic charities and organizations, giving the
appearance of action in the so-called 'War on Terror.' Why did they
harbor, support and resource Fethullah Gulen's $25 billion madrassa-
and-mosque-establis hment efforts throughout the Central Asian region
and the Balkans?"