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[vaughanwilliams]

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish ... 5876.shtml

WMR has learned from U.S. and Middle East intelligence sources that the Obama administration has authorized an increase in signals intelligence (SIGINT) gathering directed against Turkey and Brazil. Both nations are acting as intermediaries with Iran to hammer out a deal to swap uranium for Iran's low-enriched uranium used for its nuclear power generating needs for nuclear fuel from abroad.

To quote Lynden B. Johnson, speaking about J. Edgar Hoover:

"Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in."

[vaughanwilliams]

Looks like some scary people gathering outside the tent.

http://www.worldbulletin.net/author_art ... hp?id=2169

[Lit]

Iran reached a surprise nuclear agreement with Brazil and Turkey on Monday, a deal that threatens to undermine the Obama administration's efforts to stem the Iranians' nuclear ambitions -- and, more broadly, the U.S. diplomatic strategy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... eheadlines

[B25]

I for one am pleased that this deal was struck.

It will change the focus of the Yanks towards Turkey, the very country they have been feeding, nuturing and now it has turned and bittedn the hand that feeds them. Serves the fuckers right for trusting the Turks.

Then we have the israeli who may be pissed off. Given the recent Turket - Israel heated exchanges, this must put israel on orange alert now.

So, al in all, we can now readily make 2 new powerful friends.

The consequences are far reaching and this my dear fellows GCs and TCs, could well be the changing of the balance of power.

Time will tell.

[vaughanwilliams]

I for one am pleased that this deal was struck.

It will change the focus of the Yanks towards Turkey, the very country they have been feeding, nuturing and now it has turned and bittedn the hand that feeds them. Serves the fuckers right for trusting the Turks.

Then we have the israeli who may be pissed off. Given the recent Turket - Israel heated exchanges, this must put israel on orange alert now.

So, al in all, we can now readily make 2 new powerful friends.

The consequences are far reaching and this my dear fellows GCs and TCs, could well be the changing of the balance of power.

Time will tell.

"It will change the focus of the Yanks towards Turkey"
How do you see this "change" manifesting itself?

[vaughanwilliams]

Talk of Turkey's “axis shift” away from the West has prompted European Union officials to reconsider whether continuing Turkey's EU membership process at the lowest possible speed is a useful policy.


EU members have started to question whether they risk losing Turkey following the latter's vote against a US-backed UN Security Council resolution for tougher sanctions on Iran, adopted on June 9, and its harsh reaction against the May 31 raid by Israeli naval forces that led to the deaths of 9 people in an aid flotilla in the eastern Mediterranean.

Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, ruled by Hamas, topped the agenda of a foreign ministerial meeting of the 27-nation bloc, joined by both EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Tony Blair, the Middle East envoy representing the quartet of international powers -- the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia -- seeking Mideast peace. The meeting was to discuss a strategic perspective on Turkey, yet due to long debates on Gaza this discussion was shorter than planned.

Two approaches to Turkey’s vote against the Iran sanctions emerged during the meeting, diplomatic sources told Today’s Zaman. While one group, angry with Turkey’s vote, argued that the process of Turkey’s EU bid should be “frozen,” another group argued that it was the EU’s fault for leading Turkey to move away from the bloc due to its inappropriate approaches toward the candidate country.

The first group is not numerous, but their voices are “loud,” diplomatic sources highlighted. EU diplomats told Today’s Zaman that a longer debate was expected to be held on Turkey and its membership process during a foreign ministerial meeting next month. Last week Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini stated that there is a need to “reflect” on the errors made by Europe in relation to Turkey. One of them is the “pushing the Turks away towards the East instead of trying to attract them towards us,” Frattini said in an interview with the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.



18 June 2010, Friday

[Nikitas]

"the Obama administration has authorized an increase in signals intelligence (SIGINT) gathering directed against Turkey "

Oh shit! Guess which is the most reliable signals base in the M.E.!! You know who will pay the price, again.

[BirKibrisli]

We live in interesting times,Nikitas....As the Chinese curse says...

[Paphitis]

"the Obama administration has authorized an increase in signals intelligence (SIGINT) gathering directed against Turkey "

Oh shit! Guess which is the most reliable signals base in the M.E.!! You know who will pay the price, again.

They already have Agios Nickolaos.

If we do not hinder them, then we will be OK.

In fact, we should endeavor to make things easier for them, since Turkey is now the country under the microscope. This will win us some good friends which are powerful enough to swing the pendulum in our favour.

I bet some of the intelligence gathered will be shared with Mossad. Israel is behind this for sure.

It's getting quite serious now.

[vaughanwilliams]

"the Obama administration has authorized an increase in signals intelligence (SIGINT) gathering directed against Turkey "

Oh shit! Guess which is the most reliable signals base in the M.E.!! You know who will pay the price, again.

They already have Agios Nickolaos.

If we do not hinder them, then we will be OK.

In fact, we should endeavor to make things easier for them, since Turkey is now the country under the microscope. This will win us some good friends which are powerful enough to swing the pendulum in our favour.

I bet some of the intelligence gathered will be shared with Mossad. Israel is behind this for sure.

It's getting quite serious now.

So now you are happy to have the AN listening post?
"This will win us some good friends which are powerful enough to swing the pendulum in our favour." I realy don't know where you get jems like these from.