A
bizarre case of assassination shook the world of investigative
journalism. The Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Galizia was
killed recently by a car bomb in Malta. Most of the mainstream media
connected the assassination with a fuel-smuggling network or money
laundering.
However,
the independent news media, Newsbud,
supports another theory, which relates the assassination with an
updated Operation Gladio by the US intelligence that is still active.
As
NewsBud reports:
The
story connects to Malta's role as one of the main hubs for offshore
banking and money laundering for Operation Gladio B. Also connects to
Malta's connection with Azerbaijan and its role in heroin trafficking
and weapons trafficking, supplying weapons to terrorist groups like
ISIS and Al-Qaeda under the CIA and NATO's Operation Gradio B. The
story also connects to the Panama Papers and much more.
Whistleblower
and investigative journalist, Sibel Edmonds, who is the one that
first shed light on the Operation Gladio B, reveals:
Beginning
in 2005-06, I began exposing not only Azerbaijan's role, but the
three main offshore banking centers for operation Gladio B: Cyprus,
Dubai and Malta. In some ways, the Panama Papers partially exposed
Malta's role as a banking center for money laundering. However,
Panama Papers doesn't even begin to touch the real role of Malta for
almost two decades as part of Operation Gladio B, operating as the
financial money laundering center along with Dubai and Cyprus.
I
see that the mainstream media report so far - from what we have seen
- focuses on Daphne Galizia's exposure of the local politicians,
including the PM of Malta, but this case goes way beyond corruption.
Daphne got too close to the heart of Operation Gladio B's operations.
And this is right after the exposure that we covered at Newsbud,
dealing with Azerbaijan's role and Silk Way, and this was something
that Operation Gladio B could not tolerate.
With
this, we have been seeing the most drastic measure that can be taken
against any investigative journalist, and this is a plain
assassination using car bomb to blow up a journalist that got just
too close to the heart of the Operation Gladio B. With this
assassination, what we are looking at, is a chilling message from the
Operation Gladio B to any investigative journalist, or investigative
blogger that dares to get too close to this operation and its
exposure.
It makes
sense someone to suspect that such a mafia-style assassination of an
investigative journalist is related to something quite deeper than
simple political corruption and money laundering, or even fuel
smuggling, which are things that have become almost ordinary cases in
our days.
According
to Edmonds, "Operation Gladio B" is an
FBI codename adopted in 1997 for ongoing relations between US
intelligence, the Pentagon, and Al Qaeda. The name refers to the
original Operation Gladio, in which US intelligence had established
groups (stay-behind forces) in Europe in preparation for a Soviet
invasion.
According
to Edmonds, Gladio B identified, among other things, regular meetings
between senior US intelligence and current leader of Al Qaeda Ayman
al-Zawahiri at the U.S. embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan between 1997 and
2001, with al-Zawahiri and other mujahideen being transported by NATO
aircraft to Central Asia and the Balkans to participate in
Pentagon-backed destabilisation operations.
She
added that in 1997, NATO asked Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to
release from prison Islamist militants affiliated with Ayman
al-Zawahiri. They were flown by U.S. intelligence orders to Turkey
for training and use in operations by the Pentagon.
Additionally,
she reported that an Al-Qaeda leader had been training some of the
9-11 hijackers at a base in Turkey. These and related allegations
were seemingly confirmed by Sunday Times journalists in 2008 who
spoke to Pentagon and MI6 sources. However, according to Nafeez
Mosaddeq Ahmed, the journalists were prevented from publishing many
of these allegations when the second half of their four-part series
was dropped, possibly due to pressure from the U.S. State Department.
She
suggests that the objectives of Gladio B are "projecting U.S.
power in the former Soviet sphere of influence to access previously
untapped strategic energy and mineral reserves for U.S. and European
companies; pushing back Russian and Chinese power; and expanding the
scope of lucrative criminal activities, particularly illegal arms and
drugs trafficking." Former FBI special agent Dennis Saccher
states Edmonds's story "should have been front page news"
because it is "a scandal bigger than Watergate".
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