by AlicetheCurious » Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:19 pm
dude h homeslice ix, you should have given this a more informative heading -- this is too important to be buried. Here's an excerpt:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Saturday, October 21, 2006<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Ellsberg: Hastert got suitcases of Al Qaeda heroin cash, should be in jail</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br><br>...Daniel Ellsberg said that Dennis Hastert received suitcases of cash at his home from Turkish heroin money and that Hastert should be in jail, along with his friends.<br><br>He also says that people in the State Department, and in nuclear labs, are paid in 'cold cash' for secrets that are sold on the nuclear black market.<br><br>He also says that a Dem Congress "could be pressed into holding genuine investigations of the torture, of the corruption, getting rid of Hastert, and starting impeachment proceedings." [<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :lol --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/laugh.gif ALT=":lol"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> - <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Alice</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->]<br><br>All errors are mine, some snippage, usual disclaimers, etc.<br><br>---------------------------------<br><br>Kris Welch: I know you just met with Sibel Edmonds - what's the key thing about Sibel Edmonds' case?<br><br>Daniel Ellsberg: For several years, Sibel has been really hoping to get her case into a court, or into a hearing room in Congress. That's pretty well impossible with Republicans in charge of hearings - they won't hold any. She has told her story on a classified basis to several congressional venues, plus the 911 Commission - none of whom have done anything with it so far - it's too hot for them, essentially. You get a pretty good clue as to why the congressional people haven't pressed it in the article about her in the current Vanity Fair issue. Sibel is not yet in a position to tell all, but has been telling more and more.<br><br>Let me suggest two interviews with her that have come out since the VF article that go a good deal further than VF chose to print. VF did print ten pages and they got a lot but there was a lot that the reporter had, David Rose, that didn't get into the article, and a lot of that is in these two other interviews - both at antiwar.com, Chris Deliso and Scott Horton. In those interviews she finally reveals more of what she wished that VF had put out. Namely, if I can summarize it quickly, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Al Qaeda, she's been saying to congress, according to these interviews, is financed 95% by drug money - drug traffic to which the US government shows a blind eye</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, has been ignoring, because it very heavily involves allies and assets of ours - such as Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan - all the 'Stans - in a drug traffic where the opium originates in Afghanistan, is processed in Turkey, and delivered to Europe where it furnishes 96% of Europe's heroin, by Albanians, either in Albania or Kosovo - Albanian Muslims in Kosovo - basically the KLA, the Kosovo Liberation Army which we backed heavily in that episode at the end of the century.<br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>It was known at the time that the KLA consisted largely of drug-dealers, and they still do.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> They're dominating the politics, pretty much, of Kosovo right now. Now, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>all of these people are, for various reasons, allies, or clients, of the US</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> - and the fact that they get a large amount of their income from the heroin trade is something the US just regards as the price of doing business with them. That means that not only is the heroin coming into our markets where it furnishes, according to Sibel based on her FBI experience, some 14% of our heroin - up from 4% before the invasion of Afghanistan.<br><br>The major effect of that is that terrorist gangs are taking a cut of this, including Al Qaeda, which essentially taxes this traffic as it goes through the various lands where each 'band' pays a percentage as they hand it off. In other words, the US is in effect, endorsing - well, 'endorsing' is too strong a word [<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>is it? - Alice</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->] - 'permitting', definitely permitting, or 'not acting against,' a heroin trade - which not only corrupts our cities and our city politics, AND our congress, as Sibel makes very specific - but is financing the terrorist organization that constitutes a genuine threat to us. And this seems to be a fact that is accepted by our top leaders, according to Sibel, for various geopolitical reasons, and for corrupt reasons as well. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Sometimes things are simpler than they might appear</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> [<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>and sometimes they're not - sometimes they are EXACTLY what they appear to be - Alice</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->] - and they involve envelopes of cash. Sibel says that suitcases of cash have been delivered to the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, at his home, near Chicago, from Turkish sources, knowing that a lot of that is drug money.<br><br>....<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/10/ellsberg-hastert-got-suitcases-of-al.html">wotisitgood4.blogspot.com...of-al.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>
