Showing posts with label NGO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NGO. Show all posts

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Killed in Turkey: No investigation two years after suspicious death of American journalist Serena Shim.

Killed in Turkey: No investigation two years after suspicious death of American journalist Serena Shim.

"October 19 marks two years since the very sudden and suspicious death of American journalist Serena Shim near Suruç, Turkey, close to the Syrian border.

Although all signs point to foul play, indeed murder, by Turkish intelligence, until now the US government has neither conducted nor demanded an inquiry into the events of the alleged car accident which Turkish officials say was the cause of Shim’s death, let alone offer condolences to the family.

Serena Shim was at the time reporting on Ayn al-Arab (Kobani), from the Turkish side. She was, in her own words, one of the first, if not the first, on the ground to report on ,“Takfiri militants going in through the Turkish border”. These include not only ISIS but also terrorists from the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA).

As Shim’s sister Fatmeh Shim stated in 2015, “She caught them bringing in ISIS high-ranked members into Syria from Turkey into camps, which are supposed to be Syrian refugee camps.”

Serena Shim’s January 2013 expose, “Turkey’s Pivotal Role in Syria’s Insurgency: PressTV Report from Inside Turkey,” showed footage of what she estimated to be 300 semi-trucks “awaiting militants to empty them out”; included testimony explaining how Turkey enables the crossing of foreign terrorists “freely” into Syria; spoke of the funneling of arms via the Incirlik US Air Base in Turkey to terrorists in refugee camps or on through to Syria; and highlighted the issue of terrorist training camps portrayed as refugee camps, guarded by the Turkish military.

Shim named the World Food Organization as one of the NGOs whose trucks were being used to funnel terrorists’ arms into Syria, and stated this in her last interview, just one day before being killed. Notably, in that interview she also explicitly stated that she feared for her life because Turkish intelligence had accused her of being a spy."
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"...Russia Today (RT) spoke with Shim’s sister, who said:

“There’s so many different stories. The first was that Serena’s car was hit by a heavy vehicle, who proceeded to keep on driving. They could not find the vehicle nor could they find the driver. Two days later, surprisingly, they had found the vehicle and the driver, and had pictures of the heavy vehicle hitting my sister’s car. Every day coming out with new pictures of different degrees of damages that have happened to the car.”

“Serena and my cousin who was the driver of the car were taken to two different hospitals. She was reported first dead at the scene. Then coming out with later reports that she passed away at the hospital 30 minutes later from heart failure?! ” "

Greg Krasovsky: So where is the outrage and demand for answers from Western Mainstream Media?
What's the US State Department doing to investigate this suspicious death? How about the FBI?
Hmm, sounds like Serena Shim was reporting on an inconvenient truth - that Turkish Intelligence and other Western Intelligence Agencies were aiding Syria's "moderate opposition" (i.e. Pro-US and anti-Assad groups, including radical Islamic terrorists).
   
Please read rest of the article at: 
http://theduran.com/killed-in-turkey-no-investigation-two-years-after-suspicious-death-of-american-journalist/

Thursday, November 5, 2015

THE PENTAGON’S MISSIONARY SPIES: U.S. Military Used Christian NGO as Front for North Korea Espionage.


Greg Krasovsky's post on Facebook: 
I have been involved in volunteer disaster aid and humanitarian work since the age of 18 when I started volunteering for The American Red Cross' Disaster Aid Services Division in New York City during my freshman year at Columbia University.
What really makes me upset is to see desperately needed international humanitarian work manipulated and corrupted for economic, political, military and/or intelligence gathering purposes.
Recently, I wrote a Facebook post about. See https://www.facebook.com/gkrasovsky/posts/10153356296538742
Well, it just gets worse, if the below three articles (on NGOs working in Syria in furthering capitalism) weren't bad enough.
Why can't Western democratic government abide by not using humanitarian organizations and their employees & volunteers for intelligence & political work?
Why is it that even The U.S. Peace Corps has been used by the CIA -- including in the former Soviet Union -- despite the clear federal prohibitions against this? See below articles.
How will American volunteer humanitarian workers -- as well as religious missionaries -- be able to do their job abroad when local government and citizenry will suspect and treatment them as potential spies or government agents sent to subvert the local government or promote regime change?
This is as bad as using physicians, lawyers or even journalists-- professionals who have oaths and a duty of loyalty and confidentiality to their clients, patients and sources -- as spies.
Guess how many times people that I know have gotten the smirk or outright comment about being U.S. spies when they told people that they did international humanitarian or disaster relief work?
When will this madness end?
Where's the outrage? Congressional investigations? White House statements and criticism?
Aren't we better than this?
Or am I just beating a dead horse?
What's your opinion?
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Selected Excerpts:

""Before it was finally dismantled in 2013, Hiramine’s organization received millions in funding from the Pentagon through a complex web of organizations designed to mask the origin of the cash, according to one of the former military officials familiar with the program, as well as documentation reviewed for this article.
The use of HISG for espionage was “beyond the pale” of what the U.S. government should be allowed to do, said Sam Worthington, president of InterAction, an association of nearly 200 American NGOs. The practice of using humanitarian workers as spies “violates international principles” and puts legitimate aid and development workers at risk, he argued.
“It is unacceptable that the Pentagon or any other U.S. agency use nonprofits for intelligence gathering,” Worthington said. “It is a violation of the basic trust between the U.S. government and its civic sector.”
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“If true, to use unwitting aid workers on behalf of an intelligence operation, people who genuinely do humanitarian work, to turn their efforts into intel collection is unacceptable,” said Rep. Jan Schakowsky, who served on the House Intelligence Committee from 2007 until this year. Schakowsky said she was unaware of the program, and unaware of any briefings given to the committee chair and ranking members.
“Now we have people who have been hired to do some good work and become unwitting accomplices to an intelligence mission? They can face all kinds of retaliation. It is completely unacceptable,” Schakowsky said.""

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Please read these articles as well:
Syria’s White Helmets: War by Way of Deception – Part I
http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/10/23/syrias-white-helmets-war-by-way-of-deception-part-1/
Part II – Syria’s White Helmets: War By Way of Deception ~ ‘Moderate Executioners’
http://21stcenturywire.com/2015/10/28/part-ii-syrias-white-helmets-war-by-way-of-deception-moderate-executioners/
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