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EXCLUSIVE: TURKISH NGO RECRUITING MUSLIM ALBANIANS FOR WAR IN SYRIA
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TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkish charity organization, IHH, has recruited hundreds
of Muslim Albanians and sent them to Syria after military trainings
in Turkey to take part in the armed struggle against the Damascus
government, informed sources said.
"The IHH, which operates under the cover of relief and charity
activities and acts in full coordination with Turkish Foreign
Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and extremist Saudi Wahhabi groups, has so
far recruited and transferred a number of 769 Albanians to Syria to
join the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA)," an informed source who
asked to remain anonymous for fear of his life, told FNA on Wednesday.
The source, who has defected the program after two weeks of war in
Syria, added that those recruited by the IHH "have been transfered
to Turkey via Tirana and undergone military trainings by retired US
officers stationed in Reyhanli military base in the Southern Turkish
province of Hatay".
"The last one of these recruited groups comprised 90 Albanian nationals
who were flown to Istanbul from Tirana on Turkish Air flight no. 1078
on June 30, 2013," he continued.
Asked about the cause of his defection, the source said, "Despite
IHH's efforts to recruit the said people for the FSA, around 450 of
these Muslim Albanians have defected the FSA after a few weeks of
war and joined al-Qaeda-linked groups, specially the al-Nusra Front"
as al-Qaeda groups enjoy better supplies, backup and organization
and lead the war of insurgency in Syria.
The source said he returned to Albania after he had seen the war
crimes committed by the terrorist groups against civilians in Syria.
He said he did not meet his family after returning to Albania as
he was deeply fearful of the reaction of the Turkish intelligence
officers and their mercenaries in Albania, adding that his family
joined him only after escaping Tirana.
In June, tens of retired US Army officers accompanied by a military
cargo infiltrated into Syria through Turkey's Hatay province.
"An American C-130 plane carrying a cargo of hi-tech telecommunications
equipment and devices and 57 retired US officers landed in Turkey's
Hatay province this morning," an informed source, speaking on condition
of anonymity, told FNA on June 23.
"The US officers crossed the border with Syria via Reyhanli (in Hatay
province) and their goal is to take charge of the central command of
all military activities of armed rebels in Syria," added the source.
He mentioned that the military cargo, containing the telecommunications
equipment, left Reyhanli for the border crossing after the US officers
arrived at their destination in Northern Syria.
Also in June, a report said that the US spy agency was gearing up
to send weapons to insurgent groups in Syria through secret bases in
Turkey and Jordan.
"The bases are expected to begin conveying shipments of weapons and
ammunition within weeks," the US daily, The Washington Post, reported
in June, quoting unnamed American officials as saying.
The IHH was established in Istanbul in 1991 by advocates of Turkey's
Welfare Party founded by former Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin
Erbakan. It played a positive role in supporting Bosnian Muslims
during the Bosnia War (1992-1995).
Throughout the coming years, IHH distanced itself from Turkey's Welfare
and Felicity Parties. After the outbreak of unrests in Syria in March
2011 it actively took part in helping the Syrian opposition groups.
IHH was supposed to provide humanitarian relief in case of outbreak
of war, earthquake, hunger or conflict. Current president of the IHH
is Fehmi Bulent Yildirim, but his deputy Osman Atalay is practically
in charge of IHH's affairs.
Atalay acts in full coordination with Davutoglu, Salafis and Wahhabis,
and is engaged in humanitarian relief operations on the surface.
According to the Foundation of Islamic Brotherhood, there is
corroborative evidence that IHH (under the cover of humanitarian aid)
is providing the terrorists in Syria with heavy weaponry, including
anti-aircraft missiles and Turkish newspapers and western officials
in Syria have mentioned this help to the Syrian rebels.
In October, IHH sent heavy weaponry to Syrian rebels under the guise
of humanitarian relief aid.
"We have relationships today in Syria that we didn't have six months
ago," US President Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser
Benjamin J. Rhodes said during a White House briefing.
US officials announced in June that Obama had authorized sending
weapons to the militants in Syria 'for the first time.'
In mid-June 2012, American newspaper USA Today quoted Christopher
Harmer, an analyst with the Institute for the Study of War, as saying
that the US is vetting to use Turkey's Incirlik Air Base, which is
technically a NATO air base, as a hub for supplying militants in
Syria with weapons.
Reports had also earlier revealed that Turkish Air has been transiting
Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants from North Waziristan in Pakistan to
the Turkish borders with Syria.
"The Turkish intelligence agency sent 93 Al-Qaeda and Taliban
terrorists from Waziristan to Hatay province near the border with
Syria on a Turkish Air Airbus flight No. 709 on September 10, 2012
and via the Karachi-Istanbul flight route," the source told FNA in
September, adding that the flight had a short stop in Istanbul.
The 93 terrorists transited to the Turkish border with Syria included
Al-Qaeda militants from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen, Pakistan,
Afghanistan and a group of Arabs residing in Waziristan, he added.
FNA dispatches from Pakistan said new al-Qaeda members were trained
in North Waziristan until a few days ago and then sent to Syria, but
now they are transferring their command center to the borders between
Turkey and Syria as a first step to be followed by a last move directly
into the restive parts of Syria on the other side of the border.
The al-Qaeda, backed by Turkey, the US and its regional Arab allies,
had set up a new camp in Northern Waziristan in Pakistan to train
Salafi and Jihadi terrorists and dispatched them to Syria via Turkish
borders.
"A new Al-Qaeda has been created in the region through the financial
and logistical backup of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and a number of
western states, specially the US," a source told FNA in September.
Ali Mahdian told FNA that the US and the British governments have
been playing with the al-Qaeda through their Arab proxy regimes in
the region in a bid to materialize their goals, specially in Syria.
He said the Saudi and Qatari regimes serve as interlocutors
to facilitate the CIA and MI6 plans in Syria through instigating
terrorist operations by Salafi and Arab Jihadi groups, adding that
the terrorists do not know that they actually exercise the US plans.
"Turkey has also been misusing extremist Salafis and Al-Qaeda
terrorists to intensify the crisis in Syria and it has recently
augmented its efforts in this regard by helping the new Al-Qaeda branch
set up a camp in Northern Waziristan in Pakistan to train Al-Qaeda
and Taliban members as well as Turkish Salafis and Arab Jihadis who
are later sent to Syria for terrorist operations," said the source.
He said the camp in Waziristan is not just a training center, but a
command center for terrorist operations against Syria.
Yet, the source said the US and Britain are looking at the new Al-Qaeda
force as an instrument to attain their goals and do not intend to
support them to ascend to power, "because if Salafi elements in
Syria ascend to power, they will create many problems for the US,
the Western states and Turkey in future".
"Thus, the US, Britain and Turkey are looking at the Al-Qaeda as
a tactical instrument," he said, and warned of the regional and
global repercussions of the US and Turkish aid to the Al-Qaeda and
Salafi groups.
"Unfortunately, these group of countries have just focused on the
short-term benefits that the Salafis and the Al-Qaeda can provide for
them and ignore the perils of this support in the long run," he said.
"At present, the western countries, specially Britain which hosts and
controls the Jihadi Salafi groups throughout the world are paving
the ground for these extremists to leave their homes - mostly in
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
as well as those who live in Europe and the US - for Waziristan,"
the source added.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920523000421
TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkish charity organization, IHH, has recruited hundreds
of Muslim Albanians and sent them to Syria after military trainings
in Turkey to take part in the armed struggle against the Damascus
government, informed sources said.
"The IHH, which operates under the cover of relief and charity
activities and acts in full coordination with Turkish Foreign
Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and extremist Saudi Wahhabi groups, has so
far recruited and transferred a number of 769 Albanians to Syria to
join the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA)," an informed source who
asked to remain anonymous for fear of his life, told FNA on Wednesday.
The source, who has defected the program after two weeks of war in
Syria, added that those recruited by the IHH "have been transfered
to Turkey via Tirana and undergone military trainings by retired US
officers stationed in Reyhanli military base in the Southern Turkish
province of Hatay".
"The last one of these recruited groups comprised 90 Albanian nationals
who were flown to Istanbul from Tirana on Turkish Air flight no. 1078
on June 30, 2013," he continued.
Asked about the cause of his defection, the source said, "Despite
IHH's efforts to recruit the said people for the FSA, around 450 of
these Muslim Albanians have defected the FSA after a few weeks of
war and joined al-Qaeda-linked groups, specially the al-Nusra Front"
as al-Qaeda groups enjoy better supplies, backup and organization
and lead the war of insurgency in Syria.
The source said he returned to Albania after he had seen the war
crimes committed by the terrorist groups against civilians in Syria.
He said he did not meet his family after returning to Albania as
he was deeply fearful of the reaction of the Turkish intelligence
officers and their mercenaries in Albania, adding that his family
joined him only after escaping Tirana.
In June, tens of retired US Army officers accompanied by a military
cargo infiltrated into Syria through Turkey's Hatay province.
"An American C-130 plane carrying a cargo of hi-tech telecommunications
equipment and devices and 57 retired US officers landed in Turkey's
Hatay province this morning," an informed source, speaking on condition
of anonymity, told FNA on June 23.
"The US officers crossed the border with Syria via Reyhanli (in Hatay
province) and their goal is to take charge of the central command of
all military activities of armed rebels in Syria," added the source.
He mentioned that the military cargo, containing the telecommunications
equipment, left Reyhanli for the border crossing after the US officers
arrived at their destination in Northern Syria.
Also in June, a report said that the US spy agency was gearing up
to send weapons to insurgent groups in Syria through secret bases in
Turkey and Jordan.
"The bases are expected to begin conveying shipments of weapons and
ammunition within weeks," the US daily, The Washington Post, reported
in June, quoting unnamed American officials as saying.
The IHH was established in Istanbul in 1991 by advocates of Turkey's
Welfare Party founded by former Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin
Erbakan. It played a positive role in supporting Bosnian Muslims
during the Bosnia War (1992-1995).
Throughout the coming years, IHH distanced itself from Turkey's Welfare
and Felicity Parties. After the outbreak of unrests in Syria in March
2011 it actively took part in helping the Syrian opposition groups.
IHH was supposed to provide humanitarian relief in case of outbreak
of war, earthquake, hunger or conflict. Current president of the IHH
is Fehmi Bulent Yildirim, but his deputy Osman Atalay is practically
in charge of IHH's affairs.
Atalay acts in full coordination with Davutoglu, Salafis and Wahhabis,
and is engaged in humanitarian relief operations on the surface.
According to the Foundation of Islamic Brotherhood, there is
corroborative evidence that IHH (under the cover of humanitarian aid)
is providing the terrorists in Syria with heavy weaponry, including
anti-aircraft missiles and Turkish newspapers and western officials
in Syria have mentioned this help to the Syrian rebels.
In October, IHH sent heavy weaponry to Syrian rebels under the guise
of humanitarian relief aid.
"We have relationships today in Syria that we didn't have six months
ago," US President Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser
Benjamin J. Rhodes said during a White House briefing.
US officials announced in June that Obama had authorized sending
weapons to the militants in Syria 'for the first time.'
In mid-June 2012, American newspaper USA Today quoted Christopher
Harmer, an analyst with the Institute for the Study of War, as saying
that the US is vetting to use Turkey's Incirlik Air Base, which is
technically a NATO air base, as a hub for supplying militants in
Syria with weapons.
Reports had also earlier revealed that Turkish Air has been transiting
Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants from North Waziristan in Pakistan to
the Turkish borders with Syria.
"The Turkish intelligence agency sent 93 Al-Qaeda and Taliban
terrorists from Waziristan to Hatay province near the border with
Syria on a Turkish Air Airbus flight No. 709 on September 10, 2012
and via the Karachi-Istanbul flight route," the source told FNA in
September, adding that the flight had a short stop in Istanbul.
The 93 terrorists transited to the Turkish border with Syria included
Al-Qaeda militants from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Yemen, Pakistan,
Afghanistan and a group of Arabs residing in Waziristan, he added.
FNA dispatches from Pakistan said new al-Qaeda members were trained
in North Waziristan until a few days ago and then sent to Syria, but
now they are transferring their command center to the borders between
Turkey and Syria as a first step to be followed by a last move directly
into the restive parts of Syria on the other side of the border.
The al-Qaeda, backed by Turkey, the US and its regional Arab allies,
had set up a new camp in Northern Waziristan in Pakistan to train
Salafi and Jihadi terrorists and dispatched them to Syria via Turkish
borders.
"A new Al-Qaeda has been created in the region through the financial
and logistical backup of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and a number of
western states, specially the US," a source told FNA in September.
Ali Mahdian told FNA that the US and the British governments have
been playing with the al-Qaeda through their Arab proxy regimes in
the region in a bid to materialize their goals, specially in Syria.
He said the Saudi and Qatari regimes serve as interlocutors
to facilitate the CIA and MI6 plans in Syria through instigating
terrorist operations by Salafi and Arab Jihadi groups, adding that
the terrorists do not know that they actually exercise the US plans.
"Turkey has also been misusing extremist Salafis and Al-Qaeda
terrorists to intensify the crisis in Syria and it has recently
augmented its efforts in this regard by helping the new Al-Qaeda branch
set up a camp in Northern Waziristan in Pakistan to train Al-Qaeda
and Taliban members as well as Turkish Salafis and Arab Jihadis who
are later sent to Syria for terrorist operations," said the source.
He said the camp in Waziristan is not just a training center, but a
command center for terrorist operations against Syria.
Yet, the source said the US and Britain are looking at the new Al-Qaeda
force as an instrument to attain their goals and do not intend to
support them to ascend to power, "because if Salafi elements in
Syria ascend to power, they will create many problems for the US,
the Western states and Turkey in future".
"Thus, the US, Britain and Turkey are looking at the Al-Qaeda as
a tactical instrument," he said, and warned of the regional and
global repercussions of the US and Turkish aid to the Al-Qaeda and
Salafi groups.
"Unfortunately, these group of countries have just focused on the
short-term benefits that the Salafis and the Al-Qaeda can provide for
them and ignore the perils of this support in the long run," he said.
"At present, the western countries, specially Britain which hosts and
controls the Jihadi Salafi groups throughout the world are paving
the ground for these extremists to leave their homes - mostly in
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
as well as those who live in Europe and the US - for Waziristan,"
the source added.