Tiptoeing through the minefield in the Middle East:
Is Turkey a Friend or Enemy?
I guess it depends on who you ask and on what day…
Tiptoeing through the minefield in the Middle East:
Is Turkey a Friend or Enemy?
I guess it depends on who you ask and on what day…
Turkey has also joined Russia in first joint air strikes against Daesh, according to news reports, and Turkey withdrew its military from Iraq.
Why governments are jockeying for political and military power in the Balkans?
What is the strategic significance of the region?
What is NATO doing?
Is it starting to sound like Turkey may have slipped out of Washington’s orbit?
Criminal charges against Jonathan Banks, the former CIA station chief in Islamabad, were ordered in relation to a December 2009 attack by a US drone which reportedly killed at least three people.
Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of the Islamabad high court also ruled charges should be brought against John A Rizzo, formerly the top CIA lawyer who gave the legal green light for drone strikes.
Banks’s name was first dragged into the public domain in 2010 when a tribesman called Karim Khan began legal action against the supposedly undercover spy chief over an attack by an unmanned aircraft on his home in North Waziristan which he said killed his brother and son.
The extraordinary unmasking of a sitting station chief forced Banks to quit his post and leave the country.
Banks went on to become the head of the Iran operations divisions at the CIA’s headquarters and currently works in the US military’s intelligence wing.
What is going on!
And with oil-prices plunging once again, which means social instability
in the middle east is about to explode…
NOTE: Interestingly planned dates – OPEC meeting in June, 2015, and SDR basket review July 2015. I see hidden plans within international monetary policy plans…
This is by definition a “Price War” that could manipulate the oil market…