Sibel Edmonds updates

Luke Ryland is back to writing about Sibel Edmonds on his blog after being away from it for awhile while travelling. That’s the good news. Other than that, not much coverage, but Luke is always worth reading. His recent pieces are titled (oldest to newest)

Sibel Edmonds’ Kill The Messenger at DOXA festival

Sibel Edmonds Case: Dennis Hastert to receive payoffs for ’services rendered’

Sibel Edmonds Case: ABC News investigates Hastert scandals and the Turkish Connections.

Sibel Edmonds Case: More Destruction of Evidence re Nuclear Black Market

Must read/share interview: Luke Ryland interviews Sibel Edmonds: ‘Buckle up, there’s much more coming.’

Please, please take the time to read and spread this important new interview that Luke Ryland has done with Sibel Edmonds.

Sibel Edmonds: ‘Buckle up, there’s much more coming.’

In the last few weeks, UK’s Times has run a series of articles about the so-called ‘Sibel Edmonds case.’ (’For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets, ‘FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft‘ and ‘Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe‘)

Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds stumbled into a world of espionage, nuclear black market, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, and corruption at the highest levels of the US government.

I interviewed Sibel yesterday regarding the current investigation and reporting by the Times, the failures of the US media, and last week’s decision by the Bush administration to legalize the sale of nuclear technology to Turkey, in an apparent effort to exonerate prior criminal activity by officials in his administration.

Sibel also has some urgent ‘action items’ so that we can stop these dangerous nuclear proliferation activities. I urge you to act on her suggestions.

Read the interview bookmark/share/digg, etc. it

Or alternately/in addition- digg/share the OpEd News version.

Sibel Edmonds’ State Secrets Privilege Gallery

Rather than duplicate Luke Ryland’s efforts in connecting the names with the faces in Sibel Edmonds’ States Secrets Privilege Gallery, I’ll start by posting a link for an archive of Luke’s efforts (just in case something “happens” over at his place). Link is here:

Luke Ryland. Sibel ‘names names’ (in pictures!)  .  2008-01-07. URL:http://letsibeledmondsspeak.blogspot.com/2008/01/sibel-names-names-in-pictures.html. Accessed: 2008-01-07. (Archived by WebCite^® at http://www.webcitation.org/5Uf4hvWoR )

Okay, now let’s add in links for people who have currently merited an entity position on the Cooperative Research pages, shall we? 

The first group contains current and former Pentagon and State Department officials.

Richard Perle SourceWatch

Douglas Feith SourceWatch

Eric Edelman http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eric_Edelman

Marc Grossman (no SourceWatch page yet, but his name appears on several SourceWatch pages, including Future of Iraq Project, American Academy of Diplomacy, Bilderberg, and The Cohen Group, among others)

Brent Scowcroft SourceWatch

Larry Franklin SourceWatch

The second group is current and former congressmen

Dennis Hastert – Ex-House Speaker (R-Il) SourceWatch

Roy Blount – ( R, Mo)

Dan Burton – (R – IN) SourceWatch

Tom Lantos – (D- CA) http://sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Tom_Lantos

Bob Livingston – ex-Speaker of the House (R-LA)  SourceWatch http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1275

Stephen Solarz (D-Ny) SourceWatch

The 3rd group includes people who all appear to work at think tanks – primarily WINEP, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy NameBase’s Social Network Diagram for WINEP SourceWatch

Graham E. Fuller – RAND Graham Fuller SourceWatch

David Makovsky – WINEP David Makovsky (no SourceWatch page, but listed on the WINEP page and as an expert on the MiddleEast and Lebanon on the United States Committee for a Free Lebanon page

Alan Makovsky – WINEP

Yusuf Turani(President-in-exile, Turkistan)

Professor Sabri Sayari (Georgetown, WINEP)

Mehmet Eymur (Former Turkish Spy Chief MIT)

10 out of 18. As to the 3 ? spaces, I would guess perhaps that there was no picture of the individual available online. Another possibility would be that the individual was identified as a code name on the tapes. All sorts of theories are possible, I’m just speculating…

I don’t doubt that Luke will do a much more thorough and well researched and written piece on these names than I could, I just wanted to jump in with a focus on the 9/11 aspect. Luke contends that Sibel’s case is not really about 9/11, but when I start to look at things like Global Guardian and the E-4B and Scowcroft, Sibel’s left out testimony before the 9/11 Commission, Marc Grossman meeting with ISI chief (and alleged Atta money wirer) Mahmood Ahmed during the week of 9/11, etc. I find that I disagree with Luke’s assessment. Sibel’s case is not exclusively or primarily about 9/11, but it is definitely about 9/11.

ETA: screenshots of how the Sibel Edmonds site Just A Citizen appears on this computer and screenshots of the relevant page are below, in case people are unable to view the gallery…

(Brad Friedman has a smaller version of a screenshot a copy of which is posted first below)

Sibel Edmonds to UK’s Times- U.S. officials involved in release of nuke secrets to Turkey, Pakistan, Iran, others, possibly even Al-Qaeda

Former ‘gagged’ FBI whistleblower alleges Pentagon, State Department officials overheard receiving payoffs in exchange for classified info; crimes covered up at highest levels of government | U.S. media scooped again, failed to air claims after offer of disclosure by Edmonds in recent BRAD BLOG exclusives…

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and here is a link for the UK’s Sunday Times story…

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3137695.ece

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