Bush tries to silence FBI translator, Sibel Edmonds

Also, her memoir is well worth reading:

http://www.classifiedwoman.com/

But not too many people seem interested in this sort of testimony:

EDMONDS: Okay. So these conversations, between 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 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 East Turkestan into Kyrgyzstan, 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.

GIRALDI: Was the U.S. government aware of this circular deal?

EDMONDS: 100 percent. A lot of the drugs were going to Belgium with 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.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/whos-afraid-of-sibel-edmonds/

(Actually since I almost never read ILE, I have no idea what the tone is these days in political discussions. I will probably remain forever aggrieved for what I think were unnecessarily harsh comments made in response to my admittedly going off half-cocked about some pretty controversial takes on 9/11. Not that my overall opinions have changed all that much, but the details have changed a lot. I am too thin skinned for ILX I suppose. What did I expect?)

Really good discussion of Operation Gladio (I've only listened to a good chunk of the first part):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AARtO88G5Ag

(Kind of glad nobody ever responded to that last post.)

Recommend me some Israeli music/music in hebrew

Proud anti-Zionist here, buzza.

umm, don't we have some kind of function for this?

btw, that thread was actually about me trying to practice my hebrew because my wife is from Israel and I would like to better be able to communicate with my extended family

It looks like Edmonds is taking down Greenwald:

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/12/11/bfp-breaking-news-omidyars-paypal-corporation-said-to-be-implicated-in-withheld-nsa-documents/

umm, don't we have some kind of function for this?

What was this supposed to mean, contenderizer? Do you not know what the word means?