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2015-11-27 The Grand Turk

US journalist killed in Turkey for exposing Turkey using WFP trucks to give weapons to ISIS

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Posted by anon1 2015-11-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 This US journalist plus the two locked up yesterday, are not the only ones

this British journo killed in mysterious circumstances at Turkish airport last month.

the kicker? she spoke arabic and was researching

international development support to female media professionals in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2003 and 2013 and she had been carrying out field work in Irbil, Iraq, since July.

That means there was a good chance she found out about Turkey using WFP trucks being used to ferry weapons to ISIS and was coming back to the ANU in Australia where she might tell everyone about it.

So, like the US journalist Serena Shim, she was executed. This time made to look like *suicide* which her colleagues do not believe.

Posted by anon1 2015-11-27 01:05|| 2015-11-27 01:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Regretfully, anytime I see a movement suggesting 'regime change' somewhere in the world [Syria, Libya, or elsewhere], I default to a single, three letter agency as either advocate or on some occasions, the contradictory agent of the suggested change. Seldom does there appear to be a neutral setting.

I would offer the ill-fated Kurdish effort to establish a sovereign nation in their homeland as a proof of my theory of default. The Obama regime shares company with both Turkey and Iran in opposition to the Kurdish sovereignty effort.

As far as this video goes, a template for a potential WFP fraud is clearly evidenced in the old UN 'Food for Peace' programme of the mid-1990's, headquartered in the Baghdad Canal Hotel. Other more recent frauds might well include large outlays [$500 million for example] for the training of 5 'Islamic moderate' host nation anti-ISIS fighers.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-11-27 01:20|| 2015-11-27 01:20|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh my god $500 million to train 5 people???

Posted by anon1 2015-11-27 02:14|| 2015-11-27 02:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, but they are very "well" trained.

Posted by Steven 2015-11-27 04:28|| 2015-11-27 04:28|| Front Page Top

#5 http://time.com/4102375/syria-rebels-training-program-pentagon-cost-2-million/

Posted by Betty Hitler2611 2015-11-27 05:56|| 2015-11-27 05:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Besoeker, can you elaborate on your comment re WFP and Iraq? Was it related to the oil for food program?

Posted by Spomong Bourbon8696 2015-11-27 10:23|| 2015-11-27 10:23|| Front Page Top

#7 another bit of Turkey info i just found

Turkey last year had 49 people taken hostage by ISIS - and they were freed with no fuss. They were embassy staffers.

Turkey is TOTALLY the ally of ISIS

everyone else they capture gets crucified, beheaded, shot, burned to death, drowned in a cage, sold into sex slavery or any other of 100 nasty medieval dispatches.

Posted by anon1 2015-11-27 11:05|| 2015-11-27 11:05|| Front Page Top

#8 I always found it rather peculiar that the Turkish ambassador to Libya was one of the last people to meet our Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2015-11-27 13:40|| 2015-11-27 13:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Remember, though, this journalist worked for Press TV, the mouthpiece for Iran, and hardly the most trusted name in news reporting.

Posted by JC 2015-11-27 18:54|| 2015-11-27 18:54|| Front Page Top

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