Led by US mafia, 17 nations illegally smuggled several billion dollars in weapons to jihadists in Syria from 2010-2017. This renders laughable the US lie that it was ever a “civil war,” much less grassroots locals seeking democracy-Voltaire, 2017, 2018

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Silk Way Airlines is an Azerbaïdjan public company of cargo planes. 

12/14/2018, “Operation “Timber Sycamore” continues,” Voltaire, Thierry Meyssan 

“Operation “Timber Sycamore.” initiated by President Barack Obama was privatized a little before the election of President Donald Trump. It is now coordinated by the investment fund KKR (established by Henry Kravis and whose military activities are led by the former head of the CIA, General David Petraeus).

“Timber Sycamore” is the most important arms trafficking operation in History. It involves at least 17 governments. The transfer of weapons, meant for jihadist organizations, is carried out by Silk Way Airlines, a Azerbaïdjan public company of cargo planes. 

In the week 27 November-2 December 2018, eight of this company’s cargo planes landed at Aden (Yemen), Erbil and Bagdad (Iraq), Beirut (Lebanon), Djibouti (Djibouti), Kabul and Bagram (Afghanistan) and Tripoli (Libya).”…
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7/18/2017, “Billions of dollars in arms against Syria,” Voltaire, Thierry Meyssan [google translation from French]

“An arms trafficking network involving at least 17 states.”  

“Over the past seven years [2010-2017], several billion dollars in arms have been smuggled into Syria; a fact which suffices to contradict the narrative according to which this war would be a democratic revolution. Numerous documents attest that this traffic was organized by General David Petraeus, first in a public capacity from the CIA of which he was director, then in a private capacity from the financial company KKR with the help of senior American officials and international, including the UN Deputy Secretary General, Jeffrey Feltman. Thus, the conflict, which was initially an imperialist operation of the United States and the United Kingdom, turned into a private capitalist operation, while in Washington the authority of the White House was contested by the deep state. New elements highlight Azerbaijan’s secret role in the evolution of this war. 

How were the Aleppo jihadists supplied with Bulgarian weapons?

During the liberation of Aleppo and the taking of the Saudi staff there, the Bulgarian journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva noted the presence of her country’s weapons in nine warehouses abandoned by the jihadists. She carefully noted the indications on the cases and, upon returning to her country, investigated how they arrived in Syria.

Since 2009 – with the brief exception of the period from March 2013 to November 2014, Bulgaria has been governed by Boïko Borissov, a colorful figure from one of the main European criminal organizations, the SIC. Let us recall that Bulgaria is both a member of NATO and the European Union and that neither of these two organizations has expressed the slightest criticism against the coming to power of a mafia chief identified for a long time by the international police services. 

It is therefore clearly by putting their lives on the line that Dilyana Gaytandzhieva went up the industry and that the editorial staff of Sofia’s daily newspaper, Trud, published her dossier [ 1 ]. While Bulgaria has been one of the main arms exporters to Syria, it has benefited from assistance from Azerbaijan. 

The gigantic CIA arms trade against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and India 

Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, a gigantic arms trade has been organized by the CIA and the Pentagon in violation of numerous resolutions of the UN Security Council. All the operations that we are going to recap here are illegal under international law, including those organized publicly by the Pentagon. 

In arms trafficking, even when individuals or private companies serve as screens, it is impossible to export sensitive materials without the consent of the governments concerned.

All the weapons we are going to talk about, except the electronic intelligence systems, are of the Soviet type [meaning made by Bulgaria as stated later in the article, as opposed to “NATO type” weapons]. By definition, even if it is claimed that armies equipped with NATO-type weapons are the final recipients of these deliveries, it is impossible. These armies are just used to cover the traffic.

We already knew that the CIA had called on the SIC and Boïko Borissov to make an emergency Captagon for the jihadists in Libya, then in Syria. Since the investigation of Maria Petkova published in Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), we knew that the CIA and SOCOM (Special Operations Command of the Pentagon) had bought for 500 million dollars of arms from Bulgaria, between 2011 and 2014, for the jihadists. Then that other weapons were paid for by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and transported by Saudi Arabian Cargo and Etihad Cargo [ 2 ]. 

According to Krešimir Žabec of the Zagreb daily Jutarnji list, at the end of 2012, Croatia delivered 230 tonnes of weapons to Syrian jihadists worth $ 6.5 million. The transfer to Turkey was carried out by three Iliouchins of the Jordan International Air Cargo company, then the weapons were parachuted by the Qatari Army [ 3 ]. According to Eric Schmitt of the New York Times, the whole of this device had been imagined by General David Petraeus, director of the CIA [ 4 ]. 

When in 2012 Hezbollah attempted to uncover CIA and SOCOM traffic, an attack was carried out against Israeli tourists at Burgas airport, the nerve center of traffic. Against the investigation by the Bulgarian police and the findings of the medical examiner, the Borissov government attributed this crime to Hezbollah and the European Union classified the Lebanese Resistance as a “terrorist organization“ (sic). It was not until the temporary fall of Borissov that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kristian Vigenin, stressed that this accusation is without foundation. 

According to a source close to the PKK, in May and June 2014, the Turkish secret services chartered special trains to deliver to Rakka, that is to say what was then called the Islamic Emirate in Iraq and Syria and which is known today as Daesh [ISIS], Ukrainian weapons paid for by Saudi Arabia and more than a thousand Toyota Hilux (double cab pickup) specially arranged to withstand the sands of the desert. According to a Belgian source, the purchase of the vehicles had been negotiated with the Japanese Toyota by the Saudi company Abdul Latif Jameel. 

According to Andrey Fomin of the Oriental Review, Qatar who did not want to be outdone bought for the jihadists from the Ukrainian state-owned company UkrOboronProm the most recent version of the Air Missile Defense Complex “Pechora-2D”. 

The delivery was made by the Cypriot company Blessway Ltd [ 5 ]. According to Jeremy Binnie and Neil Gibson of the arms magazine Jane’s , the US Navy Military Sealift Command launched in 2015 two tenders to transport weapons from the Romanian port of Constanta to the Jordanian port of Aqaba. The contract was won by Transatlantic Lines [6 ]… 

According to Pierre Balanian of Asia News, this system continued in March 2017 with the opening of a regular shipping line of the American company Liberty Global Logistics connecting Livorno (Italy) / Aqaba (Jordan) / Jeddah (Arabia) Saudi Arabia) [7 ]. According to geographer Manlio Dinucci, it was mainly intended for the delivery of armored vehicles to Syria and Yemen [8]. 

According to Turkish journalists Yörük Işık and Alper Beler, the last contracts of the Obama era were carried out by Orbital ATK which organized, via Chemring and Danish H. Folmer and Co, a regular line between Burgas (Bulgaria) and Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). For the first time, we are talking here not only of weapons produced by Vazovski Machine Building Factory (VMZ) (Bulgaria), but also by Tatra Defense Industrial Ltd. (Czech Republic) [ 9 ]. 

Many other operations have taken place secretly as evidenced by the cases of the freighter Lutfallah II, boarded by the Lebanese navy on April 27, 2012, or the Togolese cargo ship, the Trader , boarded by Greece, on March 1, 2016. 

The total of these operations represents hundreds of tons of weapons and ammunition, perhaps thousands, mainly paid for by the absolute monarchies of the Gulf, supposedly to support a “democratic revolution”. In reality, petro-dictatorships only intervened to exempt the Obama administration from reporting to the US Congress (Operation Timber Sycamore) and make it mistake bladders for lanterns [10 ]. All of this traffic was personally controlled by General David Petraeus, first from the CIA of which he was the director, then from the financial investment company KKR which he joined. He benefited from the help of senior officials, sometimes under the presidency of Barack Obama, then overwhelmingly under that of Donald Trump. 

[US] Operation Timber Sycamore is the largest arms trafficking case in history.

Azerbaijan’s previously secret role 

 

According to former FBI official and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, Sibel Edmonds, from 1997 to 2001, President Heydar Aliyev’s Azerbaijan hosted in Baku, at the request of the CIA, number 2 of Al-Qaeda, Ayman el-Zawahiri. Although officially wanted by the FBI, the then number 2 member of the global jihadist network traveled regularly by NATO plane to Afghanistan, Albania, Egypt and Turkey. He also received frequent visits from Prince Bandar ben Sultan of Saudi Arabia. [11 ]  

 

To his security relations with Washington and Riyadh, Azerbaijan-whose population is however mainly Shiite-adds Ankara the Sunni who supports him in his conflict against Armenia over the secession of the Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).

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When Heydar Aliyev died in the United States in 2003, his son Ilham Aliyev succeeded him. The USA-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce becomes the backyard of Washington with next to President Aliyev, Richard Armitage, James Baker III, Zbigniew Brzeziński, Dick Cheney, Henry Kissinger, Richard Perle, Brent Scowcroft and John Sununu. 

According to Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, the Minister of Transport, Ziya Mammadov, made available to the CIA in 2015 the state-owned Silk Way Airlines at the expense of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, the very unscrupulous Elmar Mammadyarov, sends requests to several of his embassies for approval of “diplomatic flights”, which prohibits their searches under the Vienna Convention. In less than three years, more than 350 flights will have this extraordinary privilege. Although, according to international treaties, neither civil aircraft nor diplomatic aircraft are authorized to transport military equipment, requests for recognition as “diplomatic flights” make explicit mention of the cargoes transported. However, at the request of the US State Department, at least Afghanistan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Bulgaria, Congo, the United Arab Emirates, Hungary, Israel, Pakistan, Poland, the Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Turkey and the United Kingdom turned a blind eye to this violation of international law as they had ignored CIA flights between their secret prisons. 

In less than three years, Silk Way Airlines has transported arms worth at least $1 billion.  

Bit by bit, journalist Dilyana Gaytandzhieva has updated a vast system which also supplies jihadists not only in Iraq and Syria, but also in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Congo, always at the expense of the Saudis and the Emiratis. Some weapons delivered to Arabia were redirected to South Africa. 
 
The weapons transported to Afghanistan are said to have reached the Taliban, under the control of the United States, which claims to be fighting them. Those delivered to Pakistan were probably intended to carry out Islamist attacks in India. It is not known who are the final recipients of the weapons delivered to President Sassou N’Guesso’s Republican Guard in Congo and to President Jacob Zuma’s South Africa. The main traders were the American firms Chemring (already mentioned), Culmen International, Orbital ATK (also already mentioned) and Purple Shovel. 

In addition to the Soviet-type weapons produced by Bulgaria, Azerbaijan bought stocks under the responsibility of the Minister of Defense Industry, Yavar Jamalov, in Serbia, the Czech Republic and incidentally in other states, each time declaring to be the final recipient of these purchases. Regarding electronic intelligence equipment, Israel made available to the firm Elbit Systems which claimed to be the final recipient, Azerbaijan not having the right to purchase this type of equipment. These exceptions attest that the Azerbaijani program, if required by the United States and Saudi Arabia, was controlled end-to-end from Tel Aviv. 

The Hebrew state, which claims to have remained neutral throughout the entire Syrian conflict, has however repeatedly bombed the Syrian Arab Army. Whenever Tel Aviv has recognized the facts, it has claimed to have destroyed weapons intended for Lebanese Hezbollah. In reality, all of these operations, except perhaps one, were coordinated with the jihadists. We therefore learn today that Tel Aviv supervised the arms deliveries to these same jihadists, so that if Israel was content to use its Air Force to support them, it actually played a central role in war. 

According to international conventions, the falsification of final delivery certificates and the sending of weapons to mercenary groups, whether they overthrow legitimate governments or destroy recognized states are international crimes. 

Operation Timber Sycamore, in its various aspects, is the most important criminal arms trafficking case in history. In the updated parts, it involves at least 17 states and represents several tens of thousands of tonnes of weapons for several billion dollars.” 

[ 1 ] “350 diplomatic flights carry weapons for terrorists ”, Dilyana Gaytandzhieva, Trud , July 2, 2017.
[ 2 ] “ War Gains: Bulgarian Arms A]dd Fuel to Middle East Conflicts ”, Maria Petkova, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network , December 21, 2015.
[ 3 ] “ TAJNA LETOVA JORDANSKIH AVIONA S PLESA Sirijski pobunjenici dobivaju oružje preko Zagreba! ”, Krešimir Žabec, Jutarnji list , 23 veljača 2013.“ TRANSFER HRVATSKOG ORUŽJA POBUNJENICIMA U SIRIJI Sve je dogovoreno prošlog ljeta u Washingtonu! “, Krešimir Žabec, Jutarnji list , 26 veljača 2013.” VIDEO: JUTARNJI OTKRIVA U 4 mjeseca za Siriju sa zagrebačkog aerodroma Pleso otišlo 75 aviona sa 3000 tona oružja! ”, Krešimir Žabec, Jutarnji list , 7 ožujak 2013.“ PUT KROZ ASADOVU SIRIJU Nevjerojatna priča o državi sravnjenoj sa zemljom i njezinim uništenim ljudima: ‘Živote su nam ukrali, snove ubiliji …’ , ožujak 2013.
[ 4 ] “In Shift, Saudis Are Said to Arm Rebels in Syria ” and “Airlift To Rebels In Syria Expands With CIA’S Help ”, CJ Chivers & Eric Schmitt, The New York Times , February 26 and March 25, 2013.
[ 5 ] “ Qatar and Ukraine come to deliver Pechora-2D to ISIS ”, by Andrey Fomin, Oriental Review (Russia), Voltaire Network , 22 November 2015.
[ 6 ] “ US arms shipment to Syrian rebels detailed ”, Jeremy Binnie & Neil Gibson, Jane’s , April 7th, 2016.
[ 7 ] “ Jordan strengthens military presence on border with Syria and Iraq ”, Pierre Balanian, AsiaNews , April 11, 2017.
[ 8 ] ” From Camp Darby, US weapons for the war against Syria and Yemen “, by Manlio Dinucci, Marie-Ange Patrizio Translation, Il Manifesto (Italy), Voltaire Network , April 18, 2017.
[ 9 ] “ The Pentagon is continuing the arming contracts of the Obama era jihadists “, Voltaire Network , May 28, 2017.
[ 10 ] “ US Relies Heavily on Saudi Money to Support Syrian Rebels ”, Mark Mazzetti & Matt Apuzzojan, The New York Times , January 23, 2016.
[ 11 ] Classified Woman. The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir and The Lone Gladio , Sibel Edmonds.

 

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