Boston and the CIA `Snafu’ Part II:
Monday, May 20th, 2013 | Posted by F. William Engdahl
The grey eminence behind Turkey’s Erdogan and AKP
By F. William Engdahl
The open press statement of denial by senior reportedly former CIA
official Graham Fuller in April of a link between the Boston Bombings
and the CIA, labeling the reports `absurd,’ may go down in history as
one of the worst intelligence blunders in the past century. The public
admission by Fuller, on a website reported tied to the CIA, of his
relationship to the Uncle of the alleged but not ever convicted Boston
bombers [1] opened a can of worms the CIA might well wish never had
been opened.
In the first part, we discussed the role of CIA’s Fuller in creating
the policy of using angry Jihadist Muslims as trained terrorists in
Afghanistan and elsewhere against the Soviet Union.
A deeper look into Fuller’s role reveals him to be a key figure in
what FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds terms American Deep State
rogues. Edmonds worked as an FBI translator from Turkish, Azerbaijani
and Farsi languages during and after September 11, 2001 when she
uncovered damning email and other evidence of criminal networks
linking the actors of 911, drug networks out of Turkey and terrorists
in and around Al Qaeda together with senior Pentagon and other US
Government officials.[2]
Fuller A Deep State Rogue
As later identified, among the people uncovered by Edmonds’
translation efforts at FBI were notorious neoconservative Richard
Perle, Iraq war architect who headed Bush’s Defense Policy Board
advisory committee in 2001; Douglas Feith, neocon Under-Secretary of
Defense under Bush-Cheney; Anwar Yusuf Turani,[3] key figure in the
anti-Beijing Uygur separatist operations under the name East Turkistan
National Freedom Center in Washington DC. East Turkistan is their name
for China’s Xinjiang Province where Uygur riots took place several
years ago. Turani modestly calls himself President-in-exile, East
Turkistan (Xinjiang), though it’s by no means clear who if anyone
elected him.
In her classified translations Edmonds discovered that a criminal
network had penetrated the highest levels of the US Government
including Pentagon and FBI, and were engaged in illegal sales of
weapons, including nuclear, of drugs and more. Criminal activities
were being protected by claims of State Secrets, she asserted.
Repeated attempts to call attention inside the FBI to what she was
convinced was a conspiracy against the United States from within came
to no avail. Her gripping account to bring attention to an alarming
rogue network inside Washington is the subject of her autobiography,
Classified Woman ` The Sibel Edmonds Story. [4]
Attorney General John Ashcroft went all the way to the Supreme Court
to muzzle her under a little-used Doctrine of State Secrets. Edmonds,
suffering under an unprecedented Bush Administration gag order, was
banned from revealing the complicity of high-ranking US and Turkish
figures uncovered by her and duly reported at FBI before she was fired
in 2002 for `blowing the whistle.’ She partly got around the
Government gag by posting photos with no comment on her website.
Others filled in the names.[5]
Graham Fuller was one of the 21 American Deep State rogues Edmonds posted.
Graham Fuller seems to be in center of every CIA operation involving
`political Islam’
In 1995, according to investigative journalist Daniel Hopsicker, the
uncle of the alleged Boston bombers, Ruslan Tsarnaev, `incorporated
the Congress of Chechen International Organizations in Maryland, using
as the address listed on incorporation documents 11114 Whisperwood
Lane, in Rockville Maryland, the home address of his
then-father-in-law.’ [6] Father-in-law was Graham Fuller whose
daughter was married to Uncle Ruslan.
Chechnya, an autonomous province of Russia deeply involved in oil
pipelines from the Caspian Sea, has been the scene of Islamic jihad
terrorists since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. In 1995
when Uncle Ruslan founded the Congress of Chechen International
Organizations from Graham Fuller’s home, the Islamist Jihad terror war
against Moscow was raging full-force in Chechnya. Putin and Russian
intelligence have repeatedly claimed the terrorism was being fed from
outside.
As more is coming out on the role of Fuller, the evidence points to
the conclusion that the Chechnya terrorists were also a project
bearing the footprints of the `former’ CIA political Islam expert,
Graham Fuller. By 1988 Fuller had formally moved from a very senior
post at CIA to the neo-conservative think tank, RAND Corporation,
where he officially worked on the `Middle East, Central Asia, South
and Southeast Asia, and problems of ethnicity and religion.’ [7]
While at RAND Fuller played a key role gaining asylum for a Turkish
national in the USA. Fetullah Gülen, a Turkish national who was forced
to flee in 1999 and seek asylum, won his US residence permit due to
the intervention of two senior CIA or former men. One was Graham E.
Fuller. [8]
Foreign Policy Journal describes the role of Fuller and the CIA in
getting indicted Turkish fugitive Gülen asylum in the USA: `Fethullah
Gülen became a green card holder despite serious opposition from FBI
and from Homeland Security Department. Former CIA officers (formally
and informally) such as Graham Fuller and Morton Abromovitz were some
of the prominent references in Gülen’s green card application.’ [9]
Jihad Spreads to Central Asia
>From his new luxurious heavily-guarded estate in Saylorsburg, a remote
part of eastern Pennsylvania, Gülen launched a series of
fundamentalist Salafist mosques and madrasses, not only in his native
Turkey where he was the alleged power behind Turkey’s AKP regime of
Recep Tayyip ErdoÄ?an, himself a product of Gülen’s schools, but across
the Islamic regions of Central Asia as they separated from the Soviet
Union in the chaos after 1991.[10]
According to Edmonds, an authority on the subject, `US Islamization
Operations in Central Asia via Gülen started in late 1997, early 1998.
That brings me to ¦Graham Fuller.’ [11]
A memoir by former head of Turkish intelligence, Osman Nuri Gundes,
claims that Fethullah Gülen’s worldwide Islamic movement based in
Pennsylvania has been providing cover for the CIA since the mid-1990s,
and that in the 90s, the movement `sheltered 130 CIA agents’ at its
schools in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan alone. [12]
Gülen schools in Russian Chechnya and Dagestan regions, both locations
of fanatical Jihadists since 1991, were ultimately banned by Putin.
The Russian government has banned all Gülen schools and the activities
of the Gülen-linked Nurcu sect in Russia. Over 20 Turkish followers of
Gülen were deported from Russia in 2002-2004. In 1999 Uzbekistan
closed all Gülen’s Madrasas and shortly afterward arrested eight
journalists who were graduates of Gülen schools, and found them guilty
of setting up an illegal religious group and of involvement in an
extremist organization. In Turkmenistan, government authorities placed
Gülen’s schools under close scrutiny and have ordered them to scrap
the history of religion from curriculums.[13]
Responsible Turkish journalists I’ve met with relate that Gülen-loyal
police tied to Edrogan’s AKP have infiltrated the Turkish police,
intelligence services and other key state institution and are
systematically arresting, purging or silencing all nationalist
military, trade union and other secular figues opposed to creation of
an Islamic Sharia state in Turkey, uprooting ninety or more years of
Kemalist legal foundations. More than one hundred Turkish journalists
have been arrested for writing critically about the actions of Gülen’s
AKP.
Gülen’s public profile is as a humble, deeply spiritual Imam of love
and brotherhood. His record in practice is anything but. Gülen once
stated, `You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone
noticing your existence, until you reach all the power centers, until
the conditions are ripe.’ Sounds a bit like Lenin in the old days.
Certain networks in Washington including people in and around Fuller
obviously have no problem with that.
Why would the CIA and US agencies want Central Asia? As Obama adviser,
Zbigniew Brzezinski, notes in his now-famous book, The Grand
Chessboard, `For America, the chief geopolitical prize is
Eurasia¦America’s global primacy is directly dependent on how long and
how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is
sustained¦It follows that America’s primary interest is to help ensure
that no single power comes to control this geopolitical space and that
the global community has unhindered financial and economic access to
it.’
Washington has used Turkey and the AKP fundamentalist networks of
Gülen to wreak havoc across the post-communist oil and mineral-rich
regions of Central Asia. Graham Fuller’s foot prints are all over
those covert operations as are Fetullah Gülen’s. In 2008 Fuller
published a book titled, `The New Turkish Republic: Turkey as a
Pivotal State in the Muslim World.’ As Sibel Edmonds describes, the
process involved using Turkey with assistance from `actors from
Pakistan, and Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia’ as a proxy, which in turn
used Bin Laden and the Taliban and others as a proxy terrorist army
before 911. [14]
Edmonds notes regarding US operations in Central Asia, `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.’
[15]
What did Uncle Ruslan Tsarnaev, uncle of the Boston alleged bombers do
when he was married to Graham Fuller’s daughter? Ruslan worked for
companies connected to Halliburton, doing oil deals in the Caucasus
and as `consultant’ for the U.S. Agency for International Development
(USAID) in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan. Russia barred
USAID from its soil in late 2012, alleging USAID together with CIA was
attempting to influence the internal political processes in the
country.[16]
Some are beginning to ask whether the Boston bombing might have been a
deception operation carried out by the Rogues associated with Graham
Fuller and the network within the CIA and Pentagon, to make it appear
Putin was behind the ghastly events. In any case, when Graham Fuller
went to the press to publicly denounce CIA links to the Tsarnaevs he
made what is likely to go down as one of the greatest snafus in US
intelligence history. He lost his cool, and with it, has put the
spotlight on the entire CIA-sponsored Islamic Jihadist operations run
through Fetullah Gülen across Turkey into Central Asia and Russia and
China.
Endnotes:
[1] Laura Rozen, Former CIA officer: `Absurd’ to link uncle of Boston
suspects, Agency, Back-Channel Al-Monitor, April 27, 2013, accessed in
[2] Daniel Hopsicker, Boston bombers’ uncle married daughter of top
CIA official, April 26, 2013, accessed in
[3] See
[4] Sibel Edmonds, Classified Woman ` The Sibel Edmonds Story, First
Edition, 2012.
[5] Sibel Edmonds, Sibel Edmonds’ State Secrets Privilege Gallery,
accessed in
[6] Daniel Hopsicker, op. Cit.
[7] 2006 Campagna-Kerven Lecture Series, Speaker Bio ` GRAHAM E.
FULLER,
[8] Emine Dilek, The Tale of Uncle Tsarnaev CIA Chief Graham Fuller
and a Turkish Islamist Who Lives in USA, April 27, 2013, accessed in
[9] Sibel Edmonds, Turkish Intel Chief Exposes CIA Operations via
Islamic Group in Central Asia, 6. January 2011, accessed in
[10] Pelin Turgut, The Turkish Imam and His Global Educational
Mission, Time, April 26, 2010
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[11] Sibel Edmonds, Op Cit.
[12] Ibid.
[13] Ibid.
[14] Sibel Edmonds, cited in
[15] Luke Ryland, Court Documents Shed Light on CIA Illegal Operations
in Central Asia Using Islam and Madrassas, July 10, 2008, accessed in
[16] Emine Dilek, Op. Cit
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