Al-Qaeda, a Secret Service Operation?

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Note that this guy is only #5, all the #3s are in Iraq I guess.

A fire in a house near the docks in the southern Turkish city of Antalya has revealed that al-Qaeda was preparing an attack to target Israeli cruise ships. The security operations that followed this fortuitous incident made Turkish security the focus of security agencies all around the world.

Countries facing the al-Qaeda threat are awaiting the intelligence Turkish security is to provide. Amid the smoke from the fortuitous fire emerged the possibility that al-Qaeda may not be, strictly speaking, an organization but an element of an intelligence agency operation. Turkish intelligence specialists agree that there is no such organization as al-Qaeda. Rather, Al-Qaeda is the name of a secret service operation. The concept “fighting terror” is the background of the “low-intensity-warfare” conducted in the mono-polar world order. The subject of this strategy of tension is named as “al-Qaeda.”

Sakra, the fifth most senior man in Osama bin Ladin’s al-Qaeda that has challenged the whole world from a base in the Afghan mountains, is in the hands of Turkish Justice. Sakra has been sought by the secret services since 2000. The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) interrogated him twice before. Following the interrogation CIA offered him employment. He also received a large sum of money by CIA. However the CIA eventually lost contact with him. Following this development, in 2000 the CIA passed intelligence about Sakra through a classified notice to Turkey, calling for the Turkish National Security Organization (MIT) to capture him. MIT caught Sakra in Turkey and interrogated him. Sakra’s protests that, “MIT abducted my wife and interrogated her for 20 days,” as he was brought to Besiktas court in Istanbul for sentencing, seem to confirm these claims.

Sakra was sought and caught by Syrian al-Mukhabarat as well. Syria too offered him employment. Sakra eventually became a triple agent for the secret services. These astounding claims are the outcome of Sakra’s four-day interrogation at Istanbul Anti-Terror Department Headquarters. Turkish security officials, interrogating a senior al-Qaeda figure for the first time, were thoroughly confused about what they discovered about al-Qaeda. The prosecutor too was surprised. A second hearing of the case about the attacks in Istanbul between November 15-23, 2003, is reportedly possible.

Zaman Online

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1. Think they mean the term "secret service" in the generic sense

This article likely was translated from Turkish by a non-native speaker.

The presence within al-Qaeda of double-agents by multiple intel services is common. That organization is riddled with informants, double-agents, and agents provocateur. That's been true for most international terrorist groups for a long time, going back at least to the 19th Century. Read Jos. Conrad's, "The Secret Agent", an 1880s account about how a motley assortment of anarchist bombers in London were actually being run by the Czar's Secret Police (the Okrana) out of the Imperial Russian Embassy.

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2. Yep, can't tell the players without a program.

It is important to remember that governments in general have always been deeply dishonest about this stuff, without necessarily being that competent at it.

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3. Most criminals are not very competent.

But, that can make them even more destructive than intended. Take 9/11, for instance.

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4. Yeh. Or Iraq. nt