Sibel Edmonds on the Boston Bombing: The US roots of "Chechen" terrorism
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0:12 - 0:14Welcome. This is James Corbett
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for BoilingFrogsPost.com. -
0:16 - 0:20And this week we're taking a break
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0:20 - 0:21out of our whistleblower series
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0:21 - 0:22to talk with our friend
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Sibel Edmonds, -
0:27 - 0:30about the breaking news regarding
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0:30 - 0:32the Boston Marathon bombing
and the suspects -
0:32 - 0:36and all of the information that's
swirling around now -
0:36 - 0:39about the Chechnya/Dagestan
/North Caucausus region -
0:39 - 0:40-- which is very interesting,
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0:40 - 0:44because those of you who have
been following our recent Gladio series -
0:44 - 0:46know that this is something that we've
been talking about, -
0:46 - 0:48specifically this region.
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0:48 - 0:50And we've been saying that
this is a region -
0:50 - 0:52that Americans are going to be
more familiar with in the future: -
0:52 - 0:55well, it looks like the future is now,
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0:55 - 0:57as people are now talking about
the North Caucasus region -
0:57 - 0:59and Islamic terrorism there.
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0:59 - 1:01So, Sibel: first of all,
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1:01 - 1:04thank you very much for coming
on the program again today. -
1:04 - 1:05It's always a pleasure to have you here.
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1:05 - 1:07And why don't we jump straight into it
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1:07 - 1:09by talking about the recent post
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1:09 - 1:11that you put up on Boiling Frogs Post
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1:11 - 1:12to let people know a little bit more
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1:12 - 1:14about this region and the terror threat:
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1:14 - 1:18"USA: The Creator & Sustainer
of Chechen Terrorism." -
1:18 - 1:19Why don't you tell us a little bit about
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1:19 - 1:22the connections there between the
USA, Turkey, NATO, -
1:22 - 1:25and the Islamic terrorism in Chechnya?
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1:25 - 1:27Absolutely, James.
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1:27 - 1:28And as you mentioned,
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1:28 - 1:33we have been covering this region
with our series, Gladio series; -
1:33 - 1:36and I have been writing and
talking about it -
1:36 - 1:38for almost 11 years now
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1:38 - 1:40since my FBI whistleblowing days.
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1:40 - 1:43Talking about Central Asia/Caucasus,
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1:43 - 1:45talking about joint operation
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1:45 - 1:49between the CIA, NATO, and the
factions in this region -
1:49 - 1:52-- including, most importantly,
the Chechens. -
1:52 - 1:56So this is something that I have
been pounding and pounding and pounding -
1:56 - 1:57for over a decade.
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1:57 - 1:59And it is so interesting:
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1:59 - 2:02suddenly you wake up and the newspapers,
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2:02 - 2:06the mainstream media, the
quasi-alternative media -- -
2:06 - 2:07suddenly they have discovered
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2:07 - 2:12this never-talked-about-before
region, Chechnya. -
2:12 - 2:14In fact, it was really interesting:
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2:14 - 2:16they started talking about Chechnya,
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2:16 - 2:17and then people
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2:17 - 2:20-- because Americans are not even
famlliar with the region, -
2:20 - 2:21thanks to the mainstream media --
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2:21 - 2:25they started saying "Czech Republic"
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2:25 - 2:28Even the Czech Republic had to come
and say, -
2:28 - 2:32"Look, Chechnya is a different place.
Don't look at us!" -
2:32 - 2:34So it just tells you where American people
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2:34 - 2:35-- we, the Americans --
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2:35 - 2:37are, as far as knowledge
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2:37 - 2:41of this incredibly important region
is concerned. -
2:41 - 2:44And the fact that so much has been brewing
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2:44 - 2:47for the past two-and-a-half decades
in the region; -
2:47 - 2:50and while we have had coverage in Russia,
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2:50 - 2:52in some parts of Europe
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2:52 - 2:55-- in the Middle East, even --
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2:55 - 2:58we have had zero coverage in this region,
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2:58 - 3:01except for positive PR.
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3:01 - 3:05Just like with the mujahideens
in Afghanistan -
3:05 - 3:10in late 1970s and 1980s, we have been
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3:10 - 3:13-- our media, taking their script directly
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3:13 - 3:16from the State Department and the
CIA, our government -- -
3:16 - 3:18been portraying the Chechens
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3:18 - 3:22as freedom fighters, heroic people;
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3:22 - 3:29and Russia as the abusers
in their pursuit of... -
3:29 - 3:33not recognizing their independece,
et cetera, et cetera. -
3:33 - 3:37So, it's been always in a
semi-positive light, -
3:37 - 3:42the portrayal of this region:
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3:42 - 3:43Chechnya, Dagestan.
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3:43 - 3:47And I want to also emphasize
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3:47 - 3:53a very, very powerful lobby group
in the United States -
3:53 - 3:56established by the very, very
powerful people -
3:56 - 3:59to represent Chechnya.
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3:59 - 4:00You would think...
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4:00 - 4:03-- it's not even really a country, OK?
It's a little region within Russia; -
4:03 - 4:08it is within Russian terrrtory:
you're not talking about ex-Soviet Bloc, -
4:08 - 4:10it's in Russian territory --
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4:10 - 4:13yet, there is a lobby group for Chechnya.
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4:13 - 4:17And in my piece, I put a link
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4:17 - 4:20to this organization, to this lobby group.
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4:20 - 4:22But if you just look at
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4:22 - 4:24even the lobby group, this lobby group --
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4:24 - 4:29which is the American Committee
for Peace in Chechnya... -
4:29 - 4:34Chechnya! All these places bogged down
by wars, -
4:34 - 4:36and here are all these powerful people
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4:36 - 4:41such as the former director of the CIA,
James Woolsey. -
4:41 - 4:46He is one of the lobbyists with this
committee for Chechnya. -
4:46 - 4:50Of all the places in the world bogged
down with war -- but Chechnya? -
4:50 - 4:52You have individuals...
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4:52 - 4:56I mean, you have some really big names.
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4:56 - 4:58I don't want to take up a lot of time
here, -
4:58 - 5:01and people can go and read my
article on this, -
5:01 - 5:05but you have people like Richard Perle --
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5:05 - 5:08remember Richard Perle, Pentagon advisor?
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5:08 - 5:12You have Ledeen, you have Frank Gaffney.
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5:12 - 5:15I mean, if you look at this lobby,
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5:15 - 5:16Chechen lobby group
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5:16 - 5:18-- the American-Chechen lobby group --
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5:18 - 5:26you will see CIA, DIA, NATO,
and the very well-known -
5:26 - 5:29-- all the well-known, actually;
the top-tier -- -
5:29 - 5:30neocons.
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5:30 - 5:32The major players,
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5:32 - 5:33even during the previous administration.
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5:33 - 5:36So that tells you about what Chechnya was
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5:36 - 5:40to the US media and to our government.
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5:40 - 5:42And now, suddenly,
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5:42 - 5:44the mainstream media with this incident
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5:44 - 5:46started pairing up the region
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5:46 - 5:52as the hottest spot currently for al-Qaeda
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5:52 - 5:55and radical Islamic activities
and terrorism. -
5:55 - 5:57Just overnight:
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5:57 - 6:00up until this point, it was
never mentioned -
6:00 - 6:04in light of that kind
of strategic importance: -
6:04 - 6:06"OK, they are radical."
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6:06 - 6:07No, it was not.
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6:07 - 6:08And now, suddenly it became.
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6:08 - 6:09So, what happened?
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6:09 - 6:12Because what we covered during
our series was -
6:12 - 6:14-- and this is both from my first-hand
experience -
6:14 - 6:17and all the research, everything
we put together for the series -- -
6:17 - 6:23but since early 1990s after the fall
of the Soviet Union, -
6:23 - 6:27how the United States, NATO
had been carrying out -
6:27 - 6:31this second phase of Operation Gladio
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6:31 - 6:35specifically targeting that region:
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6:35 - 6:37and that is Central Asia and Caucasus.
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6:37 - 6:39You know, Uzbekistan
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6:39 - 6:40-- all the 'stans --
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6:40 - 6:41Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan.
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6:41 - 6:43And if you look at the region saying...
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6:43 - 6:45well, the success stories:
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6:45 - 6:46well, we are looking at Georgia;
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6:46 - 6:48we are looking at Azerbaijan
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6:48 - 6:50-- it's almost a NATO member.
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6:50 - 6:55And then you're looking at some brand-new
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6:55 - 6:56-- since 1990 --
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6:56 - 6:59created Islamic factions
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6:59 - 7:02that have been growing in the region,
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7:02 - 7:06receiving fundings from United States,
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7:06 - 7:09Saudi Arabia, Turkey,
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7:09 - 7:10the United [Arab] Emirates.
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7:10 - 7:13And with the US, as always,
it's not direct: -
7:13 - 7:14they are not sending checks.
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7:14 - 7:15We are not
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7:15 - 7:16-- our government is not --
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7:16 - 7:17sending checks to them.
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7:17 - 7:20It's usually done, as always,
through proxies, OK? -
7:20 - 7:22Either through illegal activities,
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7:22 - 7:24CIA's heroin operations,
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7:24 - 7:30or it is through proxies by NATO
member, partner, Turkey -
7:30 - 7:32-- right there with the Turkic language.
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7:32 - 7:35Well, when we talk about the
United [Arab] Emirates, -
7:35 - 7:36what are we talking about?
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7:36 - 7:40United [Arab] Emirates is our very
direct puppet there in the region. -
7:40 - 7:43So we have been carrying these operations,
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7:43 - 7:45and our series covered that;
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7:45 - 7:48and now, suddenly, we have this situation.
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7:48 - 7:50We have this so-called terror incident,
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7:50 - 7:52and suddenly this becomes the hot region.
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7:52 - 7:59And the first question people should
be asking in this latest is, "Why?" -
7:59 - 8:00You know, I see...
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8:00 - 8:04the first two, three days of this
terror incident, -
8:04 - 8:06I did not post anything.
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8:06 - 8:08I didn't even include it in my
nightly news, -
8:08 - 8:09because I know what happens:
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8:09 - 8:13you get lots of info, a lot of it
false info; -
8:13 - 8:17a lot of it contradicting,
conflicting stories. -
8:17 - 8:18And it's really a waste of time
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8:18 - 8:20trying to focus on those little details
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8:20 - 8:24and not to take a deep breath, step back,
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8:24 - 8:26and say, "Let's take a look at this."
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8:26 - 8:28I mean, let's take a look at it
as a whole, -
8:28 - 8:32and let's wait and put together
some of this information, -
8:32 - 8:34at least those that we deem credible.
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8:34 - 8:37And I guess we have enough to run
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8:37 - 8:39this particular episode on this.
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8:39 - 8:41And actually, the article I posted
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8:41 - 8:44had a new introduction based
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8:44 - 8:47on the latest so-called terror incident,
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8:47 - 8:50but the rest of it was what I wrote
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8:50 - 8:51and published two years ago:
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8:51 - 8:54and talking about the Chechen group,
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8:54 - 8:56talking about our operations,
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8:56 - 8:59and talking about the region brewing
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8:59 - 9:02with these factions and Islamizations,
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9:02 - 9:04and the Chechens being funded.
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9:04 - 9:06Actually, the headquarters
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9:06 - 9:08of the top Chechen terrorist leaders
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9:08 - 9:13-- I'm not talking about the little
peons, the pawns; but the leaders -- -
9:13 - 9:16are, have been, in Turkey.
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9:16 - 9:19And we talked about, during one
of our episodes, -
9:19 - 9:22about the latest assassinations in Turkey,
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9:22 - 9:24where the Russian FSB have been going
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9:24 - 9:27and taking out these Chechen
terrorist leaders. -
9:27 - 9:32One incident happened in Qatar,
and we listed that. -
9:32 - 9:36In Dubai, the bank accounts
that they used: -
9:36 - 9:39they are in Dubai and they are in Cyprus.
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9:39 - 9:40So this was written two years ago,
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9:40 - 9:43and then -- well?
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9:43 - 9:46As we predicted and as we expected,
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9:46 - 9:47now it is happening.
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9:47 - 9:50So the question is what is happening,
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9:50 - 9:51why it's happening,
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9:51 - 9:54what kind of implications
we are looking at, -
9:54 - 10:01and how it fits within this entire
Great Game context. -
10:01 - 10:05Well, you are exactly right that
there's all sorts -
10:05 - 10:07of conflicting information coming out now
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10:07 - 10:09about the Tsarnaev Brothers
and their travels, -
10:09 - 10:11and what they were involved in
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10:11 - 10:12and what they weren't involved in.
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10:12 - 10:15And as you say, it's very difficult
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10:15 - 10:16-- if not impssible, at this point --
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10:16 - 10:18to sort through all of that conflicting
information. -
10:18 - 10:20But something, a little nugget
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10:20 - 10:23that came out last week that was
extremely important, -
10:23 - 10:27was RT's interview with the
brothers' mother -
10:27 - 10:32where she asserted that her
sons were innocent, -
10:32 - 10:33that they were being set up,
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10:33 - 10:36and they had been in contact with the FBI
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10:36 - 10:38for three, five years.
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10:38 - 10:41So, there is some problems there in terms
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10:41 - 10:42of exactly what she was saying;
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10:42 - 10:44but at any rate, RT aired that interview;
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10:44 - 10:47and afterwards, the FBI confirmed
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10:47 - 10:48that they had, in fact,
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10:48 - 10:50talked to the brothers earlier.
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10:50 - 10:51So that was an important piece
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10:51 - 10:53of this puzzle that came out.
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10:53 - 10:55And let's talk a little bit about
that information -
10:55 - 10:57and what that may or may not indicate
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10:57 - 10:59about what was actually happening there.
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10:59 - 11:03I believe that is the most important clue,
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11:03 - 11:05piece, that we have so far.
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11:05 - 11:09Because what happened was,
as you just said, -
11:09 - 11:10this is what the parents said.
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11:10 - 11:13And FBI was denying, and later
they came and said, -
11:13 - 11:16"Oh, well, in 2011 a foreign government,"
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11:16 - 11:20"a foreign nation, tipped us
about these individuals." -
11:20 - 11:24And this would be, actually,
mid- to late-2011. -
11:24 - 11:27And at that point I
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11:27 - 11:28-- right away I predicted --
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11:28 - 11:32I said, "That is Russia that provided
that tip through the FBI." -
11:32 - 11:35But if you compare the timelines,
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11:35 - 11:37the parents keep talking about three
to five years ago: -
11:37 - 11:41well, the first tip didn't come
until two years ago. -
11:41 - 11:42It's actually less than two years ago.
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11:42 - 11:46And now we find out that a second tip came
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11:46 - 11:48after one of the brothers supposedly
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11:48 - 11:50came back from Dagestan region,
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11:50 - 11:55and Russia provided the second tip
in late 2012 -
11:55 - 11:56-- which would be about five months,
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11:56 - 11:58six months before this incident.
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11:58 - 12:01And the parents are talking about
the US government, -
12:01 - 12:02the FBI being in touch,
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12:02 - 12:08working with the two brothers three
to five years ago. -
12:08 - 12:13So we have that very, very big
discrepancy here. -
12:13 - 12:17And the other most important thing is
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12:17 - 12:22-- and I want to emphasize, especially
with people with second language, -
12:22 - 12:25English as second language, and I'm
really familiar with that; especially -
12:25 - 12:28people who come from that part of the
world, whether it's the Middle East -- -
12:28 - 12:31usually, you have one intelligence agency.
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12:31 - 12:33You know, it's either KGB,
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12:33 - 12:33or
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12:33 - 12:34-- in Turkey --
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12:34 - 12:35it's MIT.
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12:35 - 12:36That's how it works.
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12:36 - 12:38You don't have all these different players
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12:38 - 12:40like it is in the United States
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12:40 - 12:42or is in the United Kingdom.
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12:42 - 12:45You don't have the CIA and FBI and DIA;
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12:45 - 12:48you just have one government
intelligence agency. -
12:48 - 12:55So in this case, I am not sure what,
exactly, they meant -
12:55 - 12:56-- the parents.
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12:56 - 12:59Did they mean the government was in touch
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12:59 - 13:02-- the government people, the
intelligence agencies were in touch -- -
13:02 - 13:03with the brothers?
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13:03 - 13:06Or were they specifically shown
the FBI badge -
13:06 - 13:08three to five years ago?
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13:08 - 13:10And were these people really FBI?
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13:10 - 13:14Because my inclination would be that,
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13:14 - 13:17considering the linguistic abiliities
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13:17 - 13:20and the roots of the brothers
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13:20 - 13:21-- especially the older brother --
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13:21 - 13:23being from the very important area...
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13:23 - 13:25and we don't have many people
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13:25 - 13:26from the Caucasus in the United States.
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13:26 - 13:30And here is this individual who
speaks fluent Russian; -
13:30 - 13:33he speaks fluent Chechen;
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13:33 - 13:35familiar with Turkic languages;
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13:35 - 13:36speaks fluent English;
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13:36 - 13:38been here long enough:
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13:38 - 13:43he would be the perfect target to approach
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13:43 - 13:46to recruit for the State Department,
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13:46 - 13:49or CIA a.k.a. State Department.
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13:49 - 13:51It happened to me in 1997
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13:51 - 13:54while I was studying in
George Washington University: -
13:54 - 13:57one of my professors tried to recruit me
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13:57 - 13:59for the CIA/State Department.
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13:59 - 14:03Why? Farsi, Turkish, the background,
Azerbaijani, et cetera. -
14:03 - 14:10So I could see as a pretty plausible
hypothesis here -
14:10 - 14:16the CIA/State Department approaching
and recruiting the brothers, OK? -
14:16 - 14:21And then FBI later, in 2011,
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14:21 - 14:23getting a tip from the Russians.
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14:23 - 14:24And you know, FBI is domestic.
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14:24 - 14:28FBI doesn't send people overseas
to go to Dagestan -
14:28 - 14:32to collect information and play as assets.
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14:32 - 14:34That is not the way FBI operates.
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14:34 - 14:37They do a lot of screw-ups around,
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14:37 - 14:39but that is not one of them.
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14:39 - 14:41A lot of stuff that I've described here
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14:41 - 14:43fits wtihin the recruitment
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14:43 - 14:45from the CIA, State Department
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14:45 - 14:47for the overseas operation.
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14:47 - 14:49This also fits with the trip
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14:49 - 14:51-- or the trips, plural --
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14:51 - 14:53that their older brother took
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14:53 - 14:54and went to the region.
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14:54 - 14:57Now FBI, unaware of these,
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14:57 - 14:59may have received, as they say
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14:59 - 15:01-- and it's probably correct --
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15:01 - 15:02a tip from the Russians,
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15:02 - 15:04the Russian intelligence services.
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15:04 - 15:06And they went and followed up,
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15:06 - 15:09and then they were told by the CIA
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15:09 - 15:11to close and just zip-zip and go away,
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15:11 - 15:14because those guys were under
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15:14 - 15:17-- or at least one of them was under --
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15:17 - 15:19the CIA control: assets, operatives.
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15:19 - 15:21Because you can't get this tip...
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15:21 - 15:23the story doesn't add up.
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15:23 - 15:26They go look and they find nothing,
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15:26 - 15:29and yet the brother goes to the region,
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15:29 - 15:31supposedly, in 2012;
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15:31 - 15:32then Russia contacts them again.
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15:32 - 15:35And again, I believe Russia knows a lot;
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15:35 - 15:38and right now Russia has been
very, very quiet. -
15:38 - 15:40If Russians, the Russian government,
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15:40 - 15:44the Russian intelligence agency wanted to,
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15:44 - 15:46right now, you would be finding
a lot of answers. -
15:46 - 15:48They could give us a lot.
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15:48 - 15:50Right now, they are not playing
any of those cards; -
15:50 - 15:51they are sitting in silence.
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15:51 - 15:54Which brings us to that next issue:
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15:54 - 15:57and that is why this is happening,
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15:57 - 16:02and what are the factors behind
this entire -
16:02 - 16:06badly-scripted, B-grade scripted incident.
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16:06 - 16:09Well, that's exactly right.
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16:09 - 16:11But before we get to that part,
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16:11 - 16:12which extremely important:
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16:12 - 16:14just dwelling on the brothers
for a moment, then. -
16:14 - 16:15So, what
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16:15 - 16:17-- I realize this is speculation --
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16:17 - 16:19but what would be a hypothesis
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16:19 - 16:21for how that would play out
if they were... -
16:21 - 16:23for example, had been contacted
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16:23 - 16:25and recruited by the CIA earlier?
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16:25 - 16:27What would be the point of using them
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16:27 - 16:29in an operation like this?
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16:29 - 16:31Are they simply patsies in this operation
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16:31 - 16:34that have been framed for this
as convenient tools? -
16:34 - 16:37Were they consciously set up
for something like this? -
16:37 - 16:41What is the point of using assets
like this in an operation -
16:41 - 16:43-- if that is, in fact, what took place?
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16:43 - 16:46Sometimes it's easier, actually, to look
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16:46 - 16:48and say it could be all of the above.
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16:48 - 16:50For example, if
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16:50 - 16:52-- which I still believe is very likely --
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16:52 - 16:54CIA recruited them
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16:54 - 16:55and this is why they went to the region...
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16:55 - 16:58one of the things, maybe, we will do later
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16:58 - 17:00is we will show the graph of the violence
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17:00 - 17:02and terrorism in the region
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17:02 - 17:04-- and this is Dagestan and Chechnya.
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17:04 - 17:07And if you look at the peak period,
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17:07 - 17:09which would be up until 2002,
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17:09 - 17:13and if people go and just do their
own little research -
17:13 - 17:15from a lot of scholarly papers,
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17:15 - 17:17the Chechen leaders
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17:17 - 17:21-- not the anti-Russian, but the ones
that are more dialogue-oriented -- -
17:21 - 17:25they make semi-peace with
Russian government. -
17:25 - 17:28And if you look at the violence level,
you see that... -
17:28 - 17:37you see a drop from 2002 until
about mid- to end of 2010. -
17:37 - 17:41It actually was a pretty, fairly
quiet period -
17:41 - 17:47compared to what we had in the
late 1990s until 2002, 2003. -
17:47 - 17:50So, and then you would see another peak
-
17:50 - 17:53going up starting in 2010, the incidents.
-
17:53 - 17:55And you see, actually, a lot of it
-
17:55 - 17:57happening in Dagestan, OK?
-
17:57 - 17:59So, keep that in mind.
-
17:59 - 18:02And then take a look at, like --
-
18:02 - 18:04OK, I'm aware of two trips
-
18:04 - 18:06that I'm being told the brothers took:
-
18:06 - 18:09that there was one short trip in 2010,
-
18:09 - 18:12but there was another longer trip in 2012.
-
18:12 - 18:15Now, I'm waiting for further confirmation
on this; -
18:15 - 18:20but again, that goes along with
what we have been discussing. -
18:20 - 18:23That is bad business for us, our operation
-
18:23 - 18:26-- by us, I mean CIA, NATO, the West --
-
18:26 - 18:28and what they would like to see
-
18:28 - 18:29on the ground in Russia.
-
18:29 - 18:34They like this territory to be sliced up
-
18:34 - 18:36and taken away from the Russians.
-
18:36 - 18:38We want to get closer and closer
to the region. -
18:38 - 18:41This is why it would be great to have
our map -
18:41 - 18:44and look at Dagestan and look at Chechnya.
-
18:44 - 18:48Also, remember what happened
and what took place in 2008. -
18:48 - 18:52In 2008 we had the Georgian-Russian
wars, remember? -
18:52 - 18:54And you're looing at South Ossetia,
-
18:54 - 18:55and you're looking at Abkhazia.
-
18:55 - 19:00So... and again, this is all basically
same region: -
19:00 - 19:04Chechnya, Dagestan, South Ossetia,
and Abkhazia. -
19:04 - 19:06So, we have Georgia in our hand;
-
19:06 - 19:07we have Azerbaijan.
-
19:07 - 19:11And then you take a look at what has
been happening -
19:11 - 19:13-- but again, I'm gonna go back again
-
19:13 - 19:14to what you said about the hypothesis.
-
19:14 - 19:20So, with the linguistic abilities,
with their roots -
19:20 - 19:22-- they still had their own foreign
passports; -
19:22 - 19:25they didn't have... and in fact, this guy
-
19:25 - 19:26didn't even have US passport:
-
19:26 - 19:27supposedly, it was rejected.
-
19:27 - 19:32So, it's one thing for an English-speaking
-
19:32 - 19:37American blue-eyed blond guy from CIA
-
19:37 - 19:41to go to the region to organize some
of these factions -
19:41 - 19:44-- whether it's the Chechens
or other factions, Islamic factions -- -
19:44 - 19:47that we have been training
and we have been arming, -
19:47 - 19:48we have been putting in place.
-
19:48 - 19:53It would be far better to implement
some of those tasks -
19:53 - 19:57through the lower-level but local people.
-
19:57 - 20:00And here you have a perfect...
-
20:00 - 20:04I mean, you have a perfect operative
here in your hands, -
20:04 - 20:07someone that you can have
implement this stuff. -
20:07 - 20:09And again, you look at the violence level
-
20:09 - 20:12going up starting in mid-2010,
-
20:12 - 20:14in that particular region
we are talking about. -
20:14 - 20:16So this is happening, OK?
-
20:16 - 20:20And of course, our foreign
policy sometimes -
20:20 - 20:21-- no: all the time, actually --
-
20:21 - 20:24changes based on what is taking place.
-
20:24 - 20:26In 2010, we didn't have the Syria thing.
-
20:26 - 20:29Maybe we had, in 2011, Libya.
-
20:29 - 20:33But with what's happening right now
with Syria, -
20:33 - 20:36and Russia being the major obstacle
-
20:36 - 20:38-- the only obstacle, roadblock --
-
20:38 - 20:39for our invasion...
-
20:39 - 20:41Even though we've been really closing in,
-
20:41 - 20:42we've been building up our troops:
-
20:42 - 20:45Jordan, Tunisia, Turkey.
-
20:45 - 20:49The only reason we haven't
done the final cut, -
20:49 - 20:51the final invasion,
-
20:51 - 20:53is Russia. That's the only reason.
-
20:53 - 20:56So with that brewing in the background...
-
20:56 - 20:57so, we have that.
-
20:57 - 21:00Two, we have had the Russians
-
21:00 - 21:04shutting down the NGOs in Russia.
-
21:04 - 21:05These are, most of them, US NGOs;
-
21:05 - 21:07and we know that a lot of these NGOs
-
21:07 - 21:09are the extension of the CIA.
-
21:09 - 21:11This is one way to get into Russia.
-
21:11 - 21:16And then we have this whole thing
of Americans, US government, -
21:16 - 21:20sanctioning 18 Russians recently
in retaliation. -
21:20 - 21:22And then, also
-
21:22 - 21:23-- just a few weeks ago --
-
21:23 - 21:29Russia sent a very, very strong
message, response, -
21:29 - 21:32to the latest joint military exercise
-
21:32 - 21:35between the United States and Georgia, OK?
-
21:35 - 21:37And they said, "We don't like this."
-
21:37 - 21:39And based on their intelligence,
-
21:39 - 21:42things were not as innocent
-
21:42 - 21:45as the US wanted to portray
-
21:45 - 21:47-- which was, this was geared
towards Afghanistan. -
21:47 - 21:49It was far more than that,
-
21:49 - 21:51and it has been far more than that
with Georgia. -
21:51 - 21:54And again, let's recall 2008:
-
21:54 - 21:55Georgian-Russian War.
-
21:55 - 21:58So with all these things,
-
21:58 - 21:59the scenario can change.
-
21:59 - 22:00These guys could have been assets.
-
22:00 - 22:03FBI gets the tips from the Russians,
-
22:03 - 22:05then they get a tip again
-
22:05 - 22:06for the second time from the Russians.
-
22:06 - 22:10Then the question becomes, well,
-
22:10 - 22:11how have things changed
-
22:11 - 22:13between 2009, 2010, to 2012?
-
22:13 - 22:16"How to get rid of them?" OK?
-
22:16 - 22:18-- possibility.
-
22:18 - 22:21Two, "How to get rid of them
-
22:21 - 22:26while we achieve several other
objectives." -
22:26 - 22:29And one of those objectives may be
-
22:29 - 22:30-- we will get into it --
-
22:30 - 22:31what is going on with Syria.
-
22:31 - 22:33Is there a possibility that we
want to actually, -
22:33 - 22:36maybe, give some deals to the Russians
-
22:36 - 22:38or leeways with the Chechens?
-
22:38 - 22:38Is it the time?
-
22:38 - 22:40We have done it a lot.
-
22:40 - 22:41You know, mujahideens are our best friends
-
22:41 - 22:43and then our worst enemies.
-
22:43 - 22:44We did it in the Balkans:
-
22:44 - 22:46KLAs were terrorists;
-
22:46 - 22:48then they were our freedom fighters,
-
22:48 - 22:49our friends;
-
22:49 - 22:50then they were put back again.
-
22:50 - 22:52So, Chechens have been our
freedom fighters, -
22:52 - 22:54our friends, our operatives.
-
22:54 - 22:56We have been doing, arming them.
-
22:56 - 22:58So, for a while, we may call it
off and say, -
22:58 - 22:59"Chechens are terrorists;
-
22:59 - 23:01there are a lot of radicalization
going on there; -
23:01 - 23:03they are working with the al-Qaeda."
-
23:03 - 23:04And three years down the road,
-
23:04 - 23:06we may bring them back as friends again
-
23:06 - 23:10and lift the terrorist adjective
or title from them: -
23:10 - 23:11that's a possibilit.
-
23:11 - 23:13And meanwhile, give time to Russians
-
23:13 - 23:17to do... to achieve certain objectives
in the region -
23:17 - 23:21when it comes to the problem
with Dagestan and Chechnya, -
23:21 - 23:22and in return maybe
-
23:22 - 23:24-- get their wars --
-
23:24 - 23:27to back off from the Syria situation.
-
23:27 - 23:29And if that's the case...
-
23:29 - 23:31for example, if this hypothesis
-
23:31 - 23:33-- and I'm emphasizing hypothesis --
-
23:33 - 23:34if that's accurate,
-
23:34 - 23:37then within the next week or so,
-
23:37 - 23:40we are going to see a change
-
23:40 - 23:43in the Russians' attitude with Syria.
-
23:43 - 23:45They may back off,
-
23:45 - 23:49and the invasion of Syria
may come into fruition. -
23:49 - 23:52And if that is the case,
-
23:52 - 23:57if this prediction comes true and
becomes a reality, -
23:57 - 23:59then we would have to go back
-
23:59 - 24:01-- because the mainstream media
is not going to do it, James -- -
24:01 - 24:03would have to come back and bring...
-
24:03 - 24:04extract this, and say,
-
24:04 - 24:09"This happened, that; and within
two weeks, Russia backed off. Why?" -
24:09 - 24:12OK? This is how a lot of these foreign
games, -
24:12 - 24:14especially within this zone,
-
24:14 - 24:15gets to be played.
-
24:15 - 24:19Again, the public are always kept
outside of it. -
24:19 - 24:22The mainstream media, they only
get their script, -
24:22 - 24:24take their script from the
State Department. -
24:24 - 24:25Their transcript, they just run it there.
-
24:25 - 24:27So, that's one possibility.
-
24:27 - 24:29The other possibility,
-
24:29 - 24:31if it's not Syria,
-
24:31 - 24:37it would be what we have been
doing with Georgia. -
24:37 - 24:41Because after the election of
Ivanishvili, -
24:41 - 24:43things have been a bit different.
-
24:43 - 24:44I mean, people have been saying
-
24:44 - 24:45he's siding with the Russians
-
24:45 - 24:48because he was Russian-educated.
-
24:48 - 24:50But on the other hand, we know about
-
24:50 - 24:53all his accounts in the British
Virgin Islands. -
24:53 - 24:57We know he has actually become
-
24:57 - 24:58much closer to our side.
-
24:58 - 25:00And if you look at the latest
-
25:00 - 25:03joint NATO and Georgia agreements,
-
25:03 - 25:05and operations, and communications,
-
25:05 - 25:07and et cetera,
-
25:07 - 25:09you will see that Georgia
-
25:09 - 25:11-- especially in the past year or so --
-
25:11 - 25:13hasn't been very close to the Russians.
-
25:13 - 25:15It's been slipping away.
-
25:15 - 25:18And we may see a repeat
-
25:18 - 25:22of what we saw in 2008
-
25:22 - 25:23between Georgia and Russia
-
25:23 - 25:26over the South Ossetian, Abkhazia region.
-
25:26 - 25:30The third possibilty would be using this,
-
25:30 - 25:33what has been created and scripted here,
-
25:33 - 25:35and by making it...
-
25:35 - 25:37it gets repeated enough times
with the media -
25:37 - 25:39in the next three, four weeks,
-
25:39 - 25:42nobody will even utter a word
-
25:42 - 25:43when we come and say,
-
25:43 - 25:47"We need to focus our attention
in the region, -
25:47 - 25:49the new hotbed for al-Qaeda,
-
25:49 - 25:50which is the Caucasus."
-
25:50 - 25:52What do we do when that's the case, right?
-
25:52 - 25:57We want to have more
intelligence-gathering power, -
25:57 - 25:58power on the ground:
-
25:58 - 26:01and you are looking at inside
Russia's territory. -
26:01 - 26:02I don't know:
-
26:02 - 26:04I don't think it's very likely,
-
26:04 - 26:07but it's a possibility that
I would keep in mind. -
26:07 - 26:08Well, then, let's talk about
Russia's role in this. -
26:08 - 26:11Because as you indicated,
-
26:11 - 26:14the FSB did contact the FBI, allegedly,
-
26:14 - 26:17in 2011 to investigate these brothers
-
26:17 - 26:19for their potential links to terrorism
-
26:19 - 26:23-- which indicates that they were
on the radar two years ago, -
26:23 - 26:26even before their second, longer
trip to Dagestan. -
26:26 - 26:30So that must be significant,
at the very least, -
26:30 - 26:32in terms of... even if they were,
for example, -
26:32 - 26:36CIA assets in some way creating a legend,
-
26:36 - 26:39at the very least they were getting
the attention -
26:39 - 26:40of the FSB and others.
-
26:40 - 26:43What does that indicate about
what was known, -
26:43 - 26:44or potentially known,
-
26:44 - 26:45about these brothers,
-
26:45 - 26:47and how that information was passed on
to the FBI? -
26:47 - 26:49What can we derive from that,
-
26:49 - 26:50and what does that mean about
-
26:50 - 26:53what Russia may or may not have up
their sleeve -
26:53 - 26:54regarding these brothers?
-
26:54 - 27:00Well, my position is they have a lot
up their sleeves: -
27:00 - 27:03because they know what's going on.
-
27:03 - 27:07We covered this whole thing with
Zawahiri, for example, from 1990s. -
27:07 - 27:09I mean, this is very important.
-
27:09 - 27:10And people say, "What is the relation?"
-
27:10 - 27:12There are so many parallels here.
-
27:12 - 27:15They kept them in jail, in Russia.
-
27:15 - 27:17And guess where he was travelling,
Zawahiri? -
27:17 - 27:20Dagestan. Dagestan, OK?
-
27:20 - 27:22He had the laptop... we covered all this.
-
27:22 - 27:28Now, with these brothers, all
these operations -
27:28 - 27:30that we are conducting in the region:
-
27:30 - 27:31they are all within
-
27:31 - 27:33the Russian intelligence, FSB's, radar.
-
27:33 - 27:34They know what's going on.
-
27:34 - 27:39And as I have mentioned in the
past episodes, -
27:39 - 27:41for me that is the most puzzling thing:
-
27:41 - 27:45and that is Russia's utter silence.
-
27:45 - 27:48And we also talked about having
-
27:48 - 27:50an episode on Putin, because...
-
27:52 - 27:56one of... the psychology of the political leaders in this region
-
27:56 - 27:58-- and not only Russia, but even in
Turkey. -
27:58 - 28:01Like, in Turkey, Erdogan,
the Prime Minister, -
28:01 - 28:04has to really talk tough when
it comes to Israel. -
28:04 - 28:05Well, with the Muslim population,
-
28:05 - 28:10people being really anti-Zionist
in Turkey... -
28:10 - 28:14and so, on the other hand,
in the background, -
28:14 - 28:16they are completely the
United States' puppet. -
28:16 - 28:18And everybody
-
28:18 - 28:19-- all the actors, players --
-
28:19 - 28:20they are aware of this.
-
28:20 - 28:24Now, with Putin, that is another question.
-
28:24 - 28:30Because again, I am never
100 percent certain -
28:30 - 28:33of where Putin is in all this.
-
28:33 - 28:35On the one hand,
-
28:35 - 28:37we know that if it were to be obvious,
-
28:37 - 28:40if it were to get out... let's say,
if Putin -
28:40 - 28:45is behind the scenes very close
to our players -
28:45 - 28:47-- to our side, to the Western side.
-
28:47 - 28:49Then you have the nationalists in Russia,
-
28:49 - 28:51you have all the other factions:
-
28:51 - 28:53Putin will be a goner, OK?
-
28:53 - 28:57He's enjoying his support mainly because
-
28:57 - 29:00he's also seen as, number one,
Russian and pro-Russia; -
29:00 - 29:02and he has to play tough.
-
29:02 - 29:05And there are other factions within Russia
-
29:05 - 29:06that would gain the momentum,
-
29:06 - 29:07and that would be the end of it.
-
29:07 - 29:11And then you come in to this
reverse-psychology thing, -
29:11 - 29:13even during the elections.
-
29:13 - 29:16If you want the Russians to increase
their faith -
29:16 - 29:20or maintain their faith in a leader
like Putin, -
29:20 - 29:21what do you do?
-
29:21 - 29:23You play as if you don't want Putin
to be elected, -
29:23 - 29:27or you are actually disputing
the elections process. -
29:27 - 29:31All it does is, it actually gives
more power -
29:31 - 29:34and strengthens the position
of your puppet there. -
29:34 - 29:36We used to do that with Bashar Assad.
-
29:36 - 29:39Before all the stuff with Assad,
-
29:39 - 29:43even though Axis of Evil and all this
stuff were being talked about, -
29:43 - 29:48FBI was closely working with
Assad's intelligence after 9/11. -
29:48 - 29:52Even, we sent our detainees to Syria
to be tortured. -
29:52 - 29:55So a lot of BS, but our puppet:
-
29:55 - 29:57we want the people there to keep him,
-
29:57 - 29:59we don't want any revolution there.
-
29:59 - 30:03So it must look like he's tough on us,
and we don't like him. -
30:03 - 30:06That's... in reverse psychology,
it's a very, very simple concept. -
30:06 - 30:09So I don't know how much of it is
due to Putin; -
30:09 - 30:11and one of the things I am hoping
to achieve -
30:11 - 30:13with everything we are doing here
-
30:13 - 30:14is for other factions
-
30:14 - 30:18-- there are other, semi-other political
parties there -- -
30:18 - 30:19to put the pressure
-
30:19 - 30:20to put out more information
-
30:20 - 30:22on what's going on.
-
30:22 - 30:26Because that information is also
extremely important -
30:26 - 30:29for our people here, for us,
for the rest of the world, -
30:29 - 30:32on all these operations:
-
30:32 - 30:33creation of terror;
-
30:33 - 30:35training of terrorism;
-
30:35 - 30:38arming, financing the terrorism
-
30:38 - 30:39by the United States.
-
30:39 - 30:43And the other thing I want to mention
in this is this... -
30:43 - 30:44and I keep hearing
-
30:44 - 30:48from some of the more awake people
in the United States, -
30:48 - 30:51alternative -- real alternative -- media:
-
30:51 - 30:54they keep going back to this theory
-
30:54 - 30:56or hypothesis of blowback, OK?
-
30:56 - 30:58You can't do that.
-
30:58 - 30:59It gets old after a while.
-
30:59 - 31:06It's like, "Fool me once, shame on you;
fool me twice, shame on me." -
31:06 - 31:08You can't use that and say, well,
-
31:08 - 31:12"OK, with Afghans it was a blowback
-- was 9/11," right? -
31:12 - 31:13Well, don't we learn?
-
31:13 - 31:14If that's the case, you want
-
31:14 - 31:17-- like, you don't want to ever commit
that, right? -
31:17 - 31:18What have we been doing in Syria?
-
31:18 - 31:22We are creating and using a radical
faction, -
31:22 - 31:24working with them,
-
31:24 - 31:26and that's what we want to plant there.
-
31:26 - 31:27Same thing with Egypt.
-
31:27 - 31:30Same thing with Central Asia/Caucasus
-
31:30 - 31:32and even after 9/11.
-
31:32 - 31:34So if it was for the first time
-
31:34 - 31:39-- as it was the case with Afghanistan,
with Taliban, with al-Qaeda -
31:39 - 31:45in Afghanistan and supposed Bin Laden
plan, and putting 9/11 on that -- -
31:45 - 31:47I can understand people doing it once.
-
31:47 - 31:50But once you see this as a repeated thing,
-
31:50 - 31:53no matter what the consequences
-
31:53 - 31:55-- or maybe the consequences are
not relevant; -
31:55 - 31:58maybe the consequences are
not the consequences -- -
31:58 - 32:01then stop talking about blowback.
-
32:01 - 32:03Because I know that a lot of people
-
32:03 - 32:05within the intelligence agencies,
-
32:05 - 32:07especially the FBI: they are idiots, OK?
-
32:07 - 32:09And I'm not saying in a derogatory way:
-
32:09 - 32:11not the smartest people.
-
32:11 - 32:16Not the most critical-thinking, alert,
or educated people. -
32:16 - 32:20But you can't put that all these people
in the CIA, -
32:20 - 32:22all these analysts, all these neocons,
-
32:22 - 32:23all of these people are stupid:
-
32:23 - 32:24"They keep doing the same thing,"
-
32:24 - 32:25"they get blowback,"
-
32:25 - 32:27"and then they go and do it again."
-
32:27 - 32:31So I'm kind of sensitive to that
characterization of, -
32:31 - 32:33"Well, maybe this was another case of: "
-
32:33 - 32:34"we work with these people,"
-
32:34 - 32:36"we train them, we put them in there;"
-
32:36 - 32:37"it came back and haunted us."
-
32:37 - 32:39And that just doesn't add up.
-
32:39 - 32:40It doesn't wash.
-
32:40 - 32:41It... after 9/11,
-
32:41 - 32:44I hope I won't hear this [laughs]
more and more, -
32:44 - 32:47because... and unfortunately,
I'm hearing from those people -
32:47 - 32:53who are actually not buying the
mainstream media line of reporting, -
32:53 - 32:55and they are coming with their own version
-
32:55 - 32:58-- but then they put this label of
"blowback" again. -
32:58 - 33:01And that is, sure is, the CIA's
favorite lines. -
33:01 - 33:03Come and point at them;
-
33:03 - 33:04say, "Yeah, we did that
-
33:04 - 33:06-- and then it came back and haunted us."
[laughs] -
33:06 - 33:10I think we are all a bit sick of that
particular line of reasoning -
33:10 - 33:15and how it's trotted out every time
that the connections are inevitably found -
33:15 - 33:17between the intelligence agents and
these types of events. -
33:17 - 33:22But I think we should also keep room
for some skepticism -
33:22 - 33:23over the entire story that's being
presented, -
33:23 - 33:27including whether or not these
brothers were in any way involved: -
33:27 - 33:29whether they actually were guilty of this.
-
33:29 - 33:32And just the latest on that, for example:
-
33:32 - 33:35The Blaze has a story up about
Governor Deval Patrick, -
33:35 - 33:38who apparently was talking about
the video -
33:38 - 33:41showing the bombing suspects
dropping their bags and taking cover, -
33:41 - 33:42and he described it as "chilling."
-
33:42 - 33:45And then down in the fourth or fifth
paragraph of that story, -
33:45 - 33:48they admit that in fact he hadn't seen
the videotape: -
33:48 - 33:50he was just describing what had
been described to him. -
33:50 - 33:54So again, we still haven't seen the
evidence -
33:54 - 33:56that would even truly indicate
they were involved. -
33:56 - 33:57You're absolutely right.
-
33:57 - 33:59And I know we are mostly focusing
here, now -
33:59 - 34:00-- with our coverage --
-
34:00 - 34:03on the international aspects:
-
34:03 - 34:06the Great Game and what we have
been covering. -
34:06 - 34:09And then I was talking about
various objectives -
34:09 - 34:11that could be achieved with this.
-
34:11 - 34:13It's like, "Why?" OK?
-
34:13 - 34:15So we know that it's not true
what happened. -
34:15 - 34:17This is, one way or another...
-
34:17 - 34:19and I don't buy the FBI's creation
on this, -
34:19 - 34:21even though I know they do a lot
-
34:21 - 34:23of false flag in their different ways.
-
34:23 - 34:27This has the footprint of the other
-
34:27 - 34:30[laughs] the real evil, evil agency
-
34:30 - 34:32-- is... the domestic objectives.
-
34:32 - 34:34And that is, we...
-
34:34 - 34:36they implemented very successfully
-
34:36 - 34:40the martial laws there in Boston.
-
34:40 - 34:41And it was very...
-
34:41 - 34:44-- I mean, truly disgusting --
-
34:44 - 34:47to see how successful it was
-
34:47 - 34:49for the United States government.
-
34:49 - 34:51You mean, you are looking at
one teenager dead, -
34:51 - 34:54the other one on the run: a 19-year-old
-
34:54 - 34:56that has no paramilitary training,
-
34:56 - 34:57no military training.
-
34:57 - 35:00A 19-year-old boy running around loose,
-
35:00 - 35:02and they lock down;
-
35:02 - 35:04they... the retails;
-
35:04 - 35:07and they go and they invade
people's homes. -
35:07 - 35:11And it achieved another...
-
35:11 - 35:14I mean, domestically it achieved
several objectives. -
35:14 - 35:16And one of them is
-
35:16 - 35:17-- that is the most important one --
-
35:17 - 35:20is basically the graduation,
I would call it: -
35:20 - 35:24the graduation of our police state status.
-
35:24 - 35:27Meaning: we were climbing,
climbing, getting in there; -
35:27 - 35:29and basically, this was graduation.
-
35:29 - 35:32And I was really disgusted:
-
35:32 - 35:34I was truly disgusted.
-
35:35 - 35:37Very successful for the government.
-
35:38 - 35:40It was a great success for the
police state. -
35:40 - 35:44And it was a... it's huge blow to us.
-
35:44 - 35:47And also, with all that brewing there,
-
35:47 - 35:51no emphasis was placed on CISPA,
which was happening. -
35:51 - 35:56So, domestic agendas that were
achieved automatically... -
35:56 - 35:58so, I don't know if those were the
positive externalities: -
35:58 - 36:01"As part of it, we get this thing, too;"
-
36:01 - 36:02"so it's a win-win situation."
-
36:02 - 36:05As far as the international objectives
-
36:05 - 36:10-- what is going to be achieved with
this, by this -- -
36:10 - 36:14I would say the next ten days to
two weeks going to show us. -
36:14 - 36:17I will keep a close watch on Syria
-
36:17 - 36:21and what's going to happen with
Russia's position on Syria. -
36:21 - 36:24I will also watch very closely the region
-
36:24 - 36:27as far as one of the players there,
Georgia -
36:27 - 36:29-- one of our current puppets --
-
36:29 - 36:33Georgia, there, within that region;
and Ossetia. -
36:33 - 36:37We may be seeing something very
close to 2008, -
36:37 - 36:40Georgian-Russian incidents,
-
36:40 - 36:41and I wouldn't be surprised.
-
36:41 - 36:45And that, paired up with the new
hotbed for al-Qaeda, -
36:45 - 36:49we want to use all this
-
36:49 - 36:53to get closer and closer and closer
to our objective -
36:53 - 36:56of, as we said, basically surrounding
this region. -
36:56 - 36:59To a certain degree, we are doing it
with China; -
36:59 - 37:02much bigger degree with Russia.
-
37:02 - 37:04Considering the importance of the region
-
37:04 - 37:07for our natural resources
-
37:07 - 37:09-- gas, oil, minerals --
-
37:09 - 37:13and... far more important than the
entire Middle East -
37:13 - 37:14as far as the future is concerned.
-
37:14 - 37:17And for decades,
-
37:17 - 37:19it's been within the plans,
the objectives. -
37:19 - 37:21It's the region we've been...
-
37:21 - 37:23our government has set its sight
-
37:23 - 37:27-- the real government, the top ones --
-
37:27 - 37:29on this particular region.
-
37:29 - 37:33Can you spell out, in some more detail,
-
37:33 - 37:36how you think this might play
into the Syria situation? -
37:36 - 37:39Because my understanding would
be something along the lines -
37:39 - 37:43of the US, perhaps, threatening Russia
-
37:43 - 37:46to move into the North Caucasus
region more -
37:46 - 37:48unless they got some pay-for-play with
-
37:48 - 37:50-- leeway on -- Syria?
-
37:50 - 37:51Is that what you're talking about,
-
37:51 - 37:52or would there be some other kind of...
-
37:52 - 37:54I don't think that would be very likely.
-
37:54 - 37:56Because one thing...
-
37:56 - 37:57I mean, we have Syrian side.
-
37:57 - 37:59We have Iran there, that...
-
37:59 - 38:01its turn is coming; it hasn't come yet.
-
38:01 - 38:05I don't think we want to have that kind
of, really, confrontation -
38:05 - 38:07-- direct confrontation --
-
38:07 - 38:08with Russia.
-
38:08 - 38:10But as far as, you mean...
-
38:10 - 38:13not "the bribery." The "carrots dangling?"
-
38:13 - 38:14Is that what you're asking?
-
38:14 - 38:16It's... as I said, it's...
-
38:16 - 38:20we had a drop in violence,
-
38:20 - 38:21terrorism incidents in the region,
-
38:21 - 38:23Dagestan and Chechnya, in 2000
-
38:23 - 38:26-- between 2002-2003, and 2010,
-
38:26 - 38:28since the semi-peace accord
-
38:28 - 38:33between the more dialogue-oriented
Chechens -
38:33 - 38:35and the Russian government.
-
38:35 - 38:39And then in 2010 we start seeing the
graph going up. -
38:39 - 38:42Now, even though...
-
38:42 - 38:45I mean, especially from economic aspects
as well, -
38:45 - 38:49because Russia also has pretty
economically-important relationship -
38:49 - 38:50with the entire Europe as well,
-
38:50 - 38:56it has acted as a restraint on Russia
to really tackle... -
38:56 - 38:59because there are cells there,
a lot of them. -
38:59 - 39:01These are our creation, cells.
-
39:01 - 39:06And I keep saying, The United States
of America, NATO, Operation Gladio: -
39:06 - 39:10in the region, and with Chechens.
-
39:10 - 39:11Because we have been arming them;
-
39:11 - 39:12we have been protecting them.
-
39:12 - 39:16And there is also the PR aspects
of it worldwide: -
39:16 - 39:19and that is, if Russia responds
as is required for -
39:19 - 39:22this radical terrorism inside
-
39:22 - 39:28-- even though it's within its borders
in Dagestan and Chechnya -- -
39:28 - 39:31there will be our mainstream media
everywhere. -
39:31 - 39:32Europe, United States:
-
39:32 - 39:34"The Russians abusing it..."
-
39:34 - 39:41"This is the suffocation of the minority
in Russia." -
39:41 - 39:44And it can get, really, portrayed awfully.
-
39:44 - 39:47And that provides more excuse, reason,
-
39:47 - 39:51for us in the region to try to interfere.
-
39:51 - 39:54You're gonna start seeing Amnesty
International and the United Nations. -
39:54 - 39:57This is something that Russia doesn't
want, OK? -
39:57 - 39:59They just don't want that.
-
39:59 - 40:01They want more free hand to do it
-
40:01 - 40:05with lesser degree of international
bad PR. -
40:05 - 40:08So it is possible that by now
-
40:08 - 40:11-- as I said, being our friends,
freedom fighters for a while -- -
40:11 - 40:14the United States would declare that area
-
40:14 - 40:17-- Dagestan and Chechnya, and Chechens --
-
40:17 - 40:18as the real bad guys:
-
40:18 - 40:20"There are some al-Qaeda cells there."
-
40:20 - 40:24Give the Russians the, you know,
wink-wink: -
40:24 - 40:26"Here: you have the leeway;"
-
40:26 - 40:29"go and do some of the operations
you like to do." -
40:29 - 40:32And because this is right
after this incident, -
40:32 - 40:35it won't generate that kind of publicity,
-
40:35 - 40:37that kind of bad PR. Because,
-
40:37 - 40:39"Hey! Actually, Russia's doing a
good thing." -
40:39 - 40:42"Those guys, aren't they working
with al-Qaeda?" -
40:42 - 40:43"Good for the Russians!"
-
40:43 - 40:45Suddenly they are not freedom fighters.
-
40:45 - 40:49For a while, we're gonna have Chechens
to be our al-Qaeda: -
40:49 - 40:51bad-bad-boogeyman terrorists, OK?
-
40:51 - 40:53And just like with Mujahideen e-Khalq
-
40:53 - 40:55-- the MEK, KLA --
-
40:55 - 40:56later, we may lift it.
-
40:56 - 40:58And we may say,
-
40:58 - 40:59"Let's go back to normal." [laughs]
-
40:59 - 41:01"And they will be the good guys;"
-
41:01 - 41:04"we'll no longer designate them
as terrorists." -
41:04 - 41:06So if that's the case, Russians would say,
-
41:06 - 41:11"OK, wall torn down on Syria.
Go ahead, do this." -
41:11 - 41:14And this doesn't apply to Iran.
-
41:14 - 41:15And then, Russia:
-
41:15 - 41:18we will be seeing some activities
by Russians there -
41:18 - 41:23conducting operations to clean up
the regions of some of the cells. -
41:23 - 41:26That's a collateral damage for the CIA
and the NATO. -
41:26 - 41:29"They are our guys; but hey, what:
kill thousands of them." -
41:29 - 41:31"We will look the other way."
-
41:31 - 41:34"In a couple of years we can put
to thousand more in place there." -
41:34 - 41:36That's how it's usually played.
-
41:36 - 41:39That is one hypothesis that
I'm leaning towards. -
41:39 - 41:41All right, there is an awful lot
to digest. -
41:41 - 41:44And as you say, this is a
developing story: -
41:44 - 41:46so we will see in the coming weeks
-
41:46 - 41:49how this does play out or does
not play out internationally -
41:49 - 41:50on the geopolitical scene.
-
41:50 - 41:52So we'll have to keep our eye on that,
-
41:52 - 41:54and I would suggest people keep their eye
-
41:54 - 41:56on BoilingFrogsPost.com for more on that,
-
41:56 - 41:58and be following the nightly news
and editorials -
41:58 - 42:01as this continues to play out
in the headlines. -
42:01 - 42:02But before we go,
-
42:02 - 42:05just one other domestic aspect of this
that I wanted to talk about -
42:05 - 42:08is the issue over Mirandizing Dzhokar
-
42:08 - 42:12and whether or not he should have
been Mirandized, -
42:12 - 42:14and the public safety exemption,
-
42:14 - 42:16and all of this that's now raging,
right now. -
42:16 - 42:17What's your take on that?
-
42:17 - 42:23It goes right along with the martial
law that was implemented. -
42:23 - 42:28And this is the test for the designation
of enemy combatants. -
42:24 - 42:28And this is...
-
42:28 - 42:36this is, unfortunately, a very
successful test-drive -
42:36 - 42:40for the police state practices,
-
42:40 - 42:44for what we're gonna be seeing more
and more. -
42:44 - 42:47Because as we know, it doesn't
happen overnight. -
42:47 - 42:51With these two, once they set precedents
-
42:51 - 42:53-- and this is what's going to happen,
it's gonna set precedents -- -
42:53 - 42:56and then we're gonna be seeing
more and more. -
42:56 - 42:58And as we know, the federal courts,
-
42:58 - 43:01they have been hands-off since 9/11
-
43:01 - 43:02with all these issues.
-
43:02 - 43:09And we are not gonna see,
unfortunately, public outcry, outrage. -
43:09 - 43:11As we have seen, they're busy right now
-
43:11 - 43:13singing Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline,"
-
43:13 - 43:15and they thought this was a...
-
43:15 - 43:22unfortunately, they see it as a case
-
43:22 - 43:23of government protecting them.
-
43:23 - 43:25And this is what, exactly, happens
-
43:25 - 43:28in every single instance of a
police state. -
43:28 - 43:30And it goes right there with martial law;
-
43:30 - 43:31and it was successful for them.
-
43:31 - 43:36And I mean, if it would have
happened somewhere in the South, -
43:36 - 43:37I could even understand more.
-
43:37 - 43:41But now I'm thinking Boston's maybe
-
43:41 - 43:44a lesser-degree of libertarian-minded.
-
43:44 - 43:45I'm not talking about libertarian party:
-
43:45 - 43:48you're looking at those Harvard,
Yale guys and women -
43:48 - 43:50and all the manicured people.
-
43:50 - 43:55And so obviously it's happening
in an educated... -
43:55 - 43:58I mean, come on, Boston, OK?
-
43:58 - 44:00You know, Ivy League colleges there.
-
44:00 - 44:05If they can do it and so successfully
implement it in Boston, -
44:05 - 44:09it's going to be slam-dunk in elsewhere.
-
44:09 - 44:12And I'm still keeping some high hopes
-
44:12 - 44:14for more libertarian-minded states
-
44:14 - 44:15where they can say,
-
44:15 - 44:17"You are not getting into my house.
Go, bring your warrant." -
44:17 - 44:20We are not gonna see it in New England,
I guess. -
44:20 - 44:24And we have some very nice supporters,
friends from New England: -
44:24 - 44:26I'm not including you.
-
44:26 - 44:29But I've really never had that much
of high opinion -
44:29 - 44:31of a lot of these analysts that pop out of
-
44:31 - 44:35Boston colleges and
universities there. [laughs] -
44:35 - 44:36Well, they proved themselves;
-
44:36 - 44:40so I think they are busy with their
Neil Diamond and celebrations -
44:40 - 44:42instead of grieving their losses.
-
44:42 - 44:45Absolutely. Well, we will have to...
-
44:45 - 44:47again, we'll have to see if the public
-
44:47 - 44:49will start to question any of
what went on, -
44:49 - 44:52or whether this will all just
become part of the lore. -
44:52 - 44:53At any rate, again,
-
44:53 - 44:55there's an awful lot to go
through in this, -
44:55 - 44:57and we'll have to continue to keep
our eye on it. -
44:57 - 45:00Once again, I recommend
BoilingFrogsPost.com -
45:00 - 45:01for people out there to keep
their eye on all of this, -
45:01 - 45:04and we'll continue to keep in touch
-
45:04 - 45:05on this and other issues.
-
45:05 - 45:07So Sibel, thank you so much
for your time today. -
45:07 - 45:09And thank you, James.
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- Title:
- Sibel Edmonds on the Boston Bombing: The US roots of "Chechen" terrorism
- Description:
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SHOW NOTES AND MP3: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=7316
FBI whistleblower and BoilingFrogsPost.com editor Sibel Edmonds joins us to discuss the recent Boston bombing hysteria and the potential geopolitical implications of the American public's "discovery" of Chechen terror. We discuss Sibel's work exposing the US/NATO roots of so-called Chechen terrorism, and what the FSB's involvement in this twisted tale might mean in terms of future Russian-US relations.
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