{"id":71308,"date":"2013-05-19T10:48:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T10:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=71308"},"modified":"2013-05-26T07:46:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T07:46:29","slug":"why-was-a-sunday-times-report-on-us-government-ties-to-al-qaeda-chief-spiked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=71308","title":{"rendered":"Why was a Sunday Times report on US government ties to al-Qaeda chief spiked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal<\/w:View> <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser \/> <\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Nafeez Mosadeq Ahmed &#8212; Ceasefire Magazine May 16, 2013<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Sibel-Edmonds-Ceasefire-Magazine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-71310\" title=\"Sibel Edmonds. Click to enlarge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Sibel-Edmonds-Ceasefire-Magazine-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Sibel-Edmonds-Ceasefire-Magazine-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Sibel-Edmonds-Ceasefire-Magazine.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A whistleblower has revealed extraordinary information on the U.S. government\u2019s support for international terrorist networks and organised crime. The government has denied the allegations yet gone to extraordinary lengths to silence her. Her critics have derided her as a fabulist and fabricator. But now comes word that some of her most serious allegations were confirmed by a major European newspaper only to be squashed at the request of the U.S. government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In a recent \u00a0book Classified Woman, Sibel Edmonds, a former translator for the FBI, describes how the Pentagon, CIA and State Department maintained intimate ties to al-Qaeda militants as late as 2001. Her memoir, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.classifiedwoman.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Classified Woman:<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>The Sibel Edmonds Story<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/em>, published last year, charged senior government officials with negligence, corruption and collaboration with al Qaeda in illegal arms smuggling and drugs trafficking in Central Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In interviews with this author in early March, Edmonds claimed that Ayman al-Zawahiri, current head of al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden\u2019s deputy at the time, had innumerable, regular meetings at the U.S. embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, with U.S. military and intelligence officials between 1997 and 2001, as part of an operation known as \u2018Gladio B\u2019. Al-Zawahiri, she charged, as well as various members of the bin Laden family and other mujahideen, were transported on NATO planes to various parts of Central Asia and the Balkans to participate in Pentagon-backed destabilisation operations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesundaytimes.co.uk\/sto\/\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Sunday<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Times<\/strong><\/span><\/em> <\/a>journalists speaking on condition of anonymity, this and related revelations had been confirmed by senior Pentagon and MI6 officials as part of a four-part investigative series that were supposed to run in 2008. The <em>Sunday Times<\/em> journalists described how the story was inexplicably dropped under the pressure of undisclosed \u201cinterest groups\u201d, which, they suggest, were associated with the U.S. State Department.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Shooting the Messenger<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ceasefiremagazine.co.uk\/whistleblower-al-qaeda-chief-u-s-asset\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;amp;amp; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">Continues &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only did the Times shelve an article that revealed high-level U.S. contacts with al-Qaeda, Murdoch&#8217;s paper also expects you to pay for its online articles   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,42,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_war_on_terror","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71308"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71745,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71308\/revisions\/71745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}