Journalist Interrogated, Fired For Story Linking CIA And Syria Weapons Flights

[goldenequity]

Finally. A thoroughly written headline piece.

Naming Countries, methods, shipping manifests and US front 'contractors':
Silk Way
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Journalist Interrogated, Fired For Story Linking CIA And Syria Weapons Flights (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-28/journalist-interrogated-fired-story-linking-cia-and-syria-weapons-flights)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-28/journalist-interrogated-fired-story-linking-cia-and-syria-weapons-flights

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This comes as the original report is finally breaking into mainstream international coverage.

Investigative reporter Dilyana Gaytandzhieva authored a bombshell report for Trud Newspaper, based in Sofia, Bulgaria, which found that an Azerbaijan state airline company was regularly transporting tons of weaponry to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Turkey under diplomatic cover as part of the CIA covert program to supply anti-Assad fighters in Syria. Those weapons, Gaytandzhieva found, ended up in the hands of ISIS and al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

While it's long been understood that the US-Gulf-NATO coalition arming rebels inside Syria facilitated the rapid rise of the Islamic State as the group had steady access to a "jihadi Wal-Mart" of weapons (in the words of one former spy and British diplomat), the Trud Newspaper report is the first to provide exhaustive documentation detailing the precise logistical chain of the weapons as they flowed from their country of origin to the battlefield in Syria and Iraq. Gaytandzhieva even traveled to Aleppo where she filmed and examined labeled weapons shipping containers held in underground jihadist storehouses.

The Bulgaria-based journalist obtained and published dozens of secret internal memos which were leaked to her by an anonymous source as part of the report. The leaked documents appear to be internal communications between the Bulgarian government and Azerbaijan's Embassy in Sofia detailing flight plans for Silk Way Airlines, which was essentially operating an "off the books" weapons transport service (not subject to inspections or tax under diplomatic cover) for the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), Saudi Arabia, Israel, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. Silk Way Airlines has been the subject of other recent investigations involving weapons supplies for the Saudi war on Yemen. In addition, the military monitoring site Balkan Insight has exposed similar weapons cargo flights in and out of neighboring Serbia.

DIPLOMATIC COVER

Diplomatic flights are exempt of checks, air bills, and taxes, meaning that Silk Way airplanes freely transported
hundreds of tons of weapons to different locations around the world without regulation.
They made technical landings with stays varying from a few hours to up to a day in intermediary locations
without any logical reasons such as needing to refuel the planes.

Silk Way Airlines offered diplomatic flights
from the US, Balkans, and Israel private companies and arms manufacturers ,

to the militaries
of Saudi Arabia, UAE, and US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM),
and the military forces
of Germany and Denmark in Afghanistan
and of Sweden in Iraq.

much more.. (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-28/journalist-interrogated-fired-story-linking-cia-and-syria-weapons-flights)

broke Sunday...
AlJazeera
Report: Saudi, UAE weapons end up with armed groups
Investigative journalist says Azerbaijan-owned carrier used to move large quantities of heavy weapons to conflict zones.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/saudi-arabia-uae-implicated-arms-transfers-170827115154085.html




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"Afterwards it landed in Congo and Burkina Faso. A week later, there was an attempted military coup in Burkina Faso."

[enhanced_deficit]

Let's wait till investigations are completed and all the facts come out.
Claims in this PSN article does not seem to have been confirmed by MSM yet.


Documents reveal Obama/McCain giving ISIS weapons through Silk Way Airlines (http://www.puppetstringnews.com/blog/documents-reveal-obamamccain-giving-isis-weapons-through-silk-way-airlines)








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Remember when the Obama DOJ dropped charges against military weapons contractor Marc Turi back in early October? Well Marc Turi seems to be connected to John McCain and Silk Way Airlines...A Middle Eastern cargo carrier very involved in weapon shipments. Well In May 2016, the defense put together a slideshow for Justice Department lawyers, outlining reasons the case should be dismissed.
​ The presentation stressed that Turi had pursued the Libya transaction openly, ultimately received a permit for the Qatar shipment, and had even contacted Arizona Sen. John McCain’s office for support. One slide featured a March 2011 message from Turi to a McCain staffer describing his company as “the single largest private supplier of weapons and ammunition into Afghanistan.” Turi explained that Libyan fighters were requesting firepower, and he was seeking State Department licenses “to begin delivery immediately. … We feel this option provides an avenue to limit U.S. involvement while supporting the opposition forces.”


http://www.puppetstringnews.com/blog/documents-reveal-obamamccain-giving-isis-weapons-through-silk-way-airlines

[goldenequity]

Let's wait till investigations are completed and all the facts come out.
.......article does not seem to have been confirmed by MSM yet.

ha. I know you didn't MEAN it as /sarc... that's why I'm still laughing in complete RAGE. (and I'm known for my patience).
I will wait w/ you. sigh.
thnx for the article. :)

[Jamesiv1]

this "diplomatic cover" stuff is insidious. No checks, no manifests, no nothing.

[Jamesiv1]

this "diplomatic cover" stuff is insidious. No checks, no manifests, no nothing. Planes and boats accepted.

[goldenequity]

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[Raginfridus]

She and Eva Bartlett are heroes, and the celeb media ignore or defame them.


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[goldenequity]

She and Eva Bartlett are heroes, and the celeb media ignore or defame them.


agree! Vanessa Beally too.

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another AlJazeera followup piece today... more US/Saudi ratline history

Report: Saudi, UAE weapons end up with armed groups
Investigative journalist says Azerbaijan-owned carrier used to move large quantities of heavy weapons to conflict zones.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/saudi-arabia-uae-implicated-arms-transfers-170827115154085.html

'At least 350 diplomatic Silk Way Airlines flights transported weapons for war conflicts across the world over the last 3 years,' says the report [File: AP]

An investigative report by a Bulgarian journalist says Saudi Arabia and the UAE have supplied Eastern European-made weapons to armed groups in Syria and Iraq using different intermediaries and diplomatic cover to mask their points of origin and final destinations.

The report, authored by Dilyana Gaytandzhiev, claims Saudi Arabia, UAE, the US military and several countries have used Azerbaijani state-owned airlines Silk Way Airlines to transport large quantities of weapons that ended up in the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, known as ISIS) group, Kurdish fighters in the Middle East and armed groups in Africa.

"At least 350 diplomatic Silk Way Airlines flights transported weapons for war conflicts across the world over the last 3 years," says the report, published in Trud, Bulgaria's largest circulated newspaper.

"The state aircrafts of Azerbaijan carried on-board tens of tons of heavy weapons and ammunition headed to terrorists under the cover of diplomatic flights."

According to the report, "Saudi Arabia has purchased huge quantities of Eastern European weapons and exported them using Silk Way Airline's diplomatic flights.

"In 2016, 2017 there were 23 diplomatic flights carrying weapons from Bulgaria, Serbia and Azerbaijan to Jeddah and Riyadh".
Diplomatic flights

Gaytandzhiev says in the report: "The Kingdom [of Saudi Arabia] does not buy those weapons for itself, as the Saudi army uses only Western weapons and those weapons are not compatible with its military standard.

"Therefore, the weapons transported on diplomatic flights end up in the hands of terrorist militants in Syria and Yemen that Saudi Arabia officially admits supporting."

Citing leaked documents that detail flight paths and weapons cargo of the diplomatic flights, the report shows one aircraft loaded with mortars and anti-tank grenades including SPG-9 and GP-25 which were later discovered by the Iraqi army a month ago in an ISIL warehouse in Mosul.

Al Jazeera could not independently confirm the claims made in Gaytandzhiev's report.

The US news outlet Buzzfeed published an investigation in 2016 detailing how obscure and small American defence contractors were awarded big contracts by the US military to arm and equip Syrian opposition fighters using Eastern European weapons.

Saudi Arabia has publicly expressed its support for Syrian fighters trying to topple the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad.

Multiple attempts by Al Jazeera by phone and email to reach Silk Way Airlines in Baku for a reaction to the Trud story proved unsuccessful.

Gaytandzhiev said on Thursday in a tweet that she was fired from her job at Trud after she was interrogated by the Bulgarian national security which tried to find out her sources.

She said she first got suspicious of the weapons transferred to Syria when she found Bulgarian-made weapons at the hands "terrorists" in Aleppo while reporting on the Syrian war there.

She said that she then traced those weapons to its Bulgarian manufacturer only to find out that those weapons were legally exported to Saudi Arabia, which in turn supplied it to "terrorists" in Syria.
'Hands of terrorists'

Speaking to Al Jazeera by phone on Sunday from Bulgaria, Gaytandzhiev said: "Saudi Arabia, UAE and the US must stop using the cover of Silk Way Airlines diplomatic flights to supply Eastern European weapons which end up in the hands of terrorists around the world. Diplomatic flights are exempt from checks and inspection."

A joint investigation by Al Jazeera and the New York Times revealed a joint CIA-Saudi operation that supplied weapons to Syrian fighters by shipping through Jordan.

Many of the weapons, the investigation revealed, were stolen by Jordanian officers of the General Intelligence Department.

Some of the stolen weapons were used in a shooting in November of 2016 that killed two Americans and three others at a police training facility in Amman.

Historically, the United States has relied on Saudi Arabia to clandestinely finance weapons shipment to armed groups around the world from the Nicaraguan Sandinistas to Afghan Mujahideen in the 1970s and '80s to more recent and current Syrian and Iraqi fighters.







Just POUNDING this out to International news...

[Champ]

This story is starting to gain steam in non-msm circles. MSM won't be covering this at any point like many other important stories. Far too damaging to the power structure.

Journalist was doing her job investigating (better than 99% of the journalists out there), but she wasn't covering a preapproved story that meets the agenda, so she was fired. Seems reasonable.

[enhanced_deficit]

ha. I know you didn't MEAN it as /sarc... that's why I'm still laughing in complete RAGE. (and I'm known for my patience).
I will wait w/ you. sigh.
thnx for the article. :)

Laughing in rage .. that is classic :)



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