Operation Featherweight: Month 21, Week 2, Day 3.

Yesterday (3/4/16) I wrote about the international backlash over Turkish President/Prime Minister/Emperor Recep Tayyip Erdogan's week long visit to the United States. I also detailed the reasons behind that backlash.

The centrepiece of Erdogan's visit was supposed to be him and US President Barack Obama opening the "Diyanet Cultural Centre" Mosque in Lanham, Maryland on Saturday (2/4/16). Fortunately I found out about this plan far in advance and made it quite clear that I would be making an issue out of it.

As a result Obama did not attend the opening. Sadly though this was only to avoid negative coverage rather than an understanding of why it was a bad idea.

The other big issue of the visit was whether Erdogan would be granted a private audience with Obama at the White House and whether this was made public. Although the meeting which took place on Thursday (31/3/16) evening was extremely low key with only official photographs being made available after the event I don't think that it was ever in doubt.

However giving the impression that an audience with Obama was not an automatic right of Erdogan's did seem to spur Turkey into action. On Thursday (31/43/16) afternoon they finally arrested Alparslan Celik for effectively violating the terms of his parole relating to previous offences of counterfeiting and fraud offences. The specific violations were the possession of guns and ammunition.

You may remember that Alparslan Celik was the spokesman for the Syrian Turkmen Brigades (STB) who claimed credit for the shooting down of a Russian Su-24 military jet over Syria on November 24th 2015 (24/11/15). He took great pride in announcing how the STB had murdered one of the pilots - Oleg Peshkov - as he parachuted to back to earth. A clear war crime.

The fact that Celik is not just Turkish rather than Syrian but is actually the son of the former Mayor of the Turkish city of Gaziantep has been a long standing source of embarrassment for Turkey.

Their embarrassment grew on January 24th (24/1/16) when the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) liberated the town of Rabia marking the complete liberation of Latakia province - the stronghold of the STB. Despite claiming that he would fight to the death to defend Latakia it soon emerged that Celik had fled Rabia to hideout in Istanbul, Turkey.

On December 23rd 2015 (23/12/15) Russia duly issued an international arrest warrant for Celik for murder and war crimes. The fact that Turkey has continued to harbour this known fugitive has been a major source of tensions between Russia and Turkey.

It also highlights the way that Turkey supports groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and associated groups such as Al Nusra Front (ANF) and The Islamic Movement of the Freemen of the Levant/Harakat Ahrar ash-Sham al-Islamiyya (Ahrar al-Sham) by granting their fighters safe haven within Turkey.

As such the arrest of Celik was intended to give the entirely false impression that Turkey is going to end its support for terror groups. It also seems intended to give the equally false impression that Turkey was ending its hostility towards Russia. After all we are all waiting to see whether Celik will now be extradited to Russia to finally face justice.

In terms of using the visit to exert pressure on Erdogan and Turkey the only effort the US seemed to make was Obama's attendance at the National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit on Tuesday (29/3/16) in Atlanta, Georgia. This addressed not only Heroin addiction but also the US growing epidemic of addiction to prescription (Rx) opiates such as Oxycodone.

Although its been overtaken recently by Afghanistan in the public consciousness Turkey has long been a major Opium producer. There's actually an entire Turkish province - Afyonkarahisar - named Black Opium Castle. 

The big shift came in 1960 when Turkey's third President Mahmut Celal  Bayar refused US requests to end Opium production. Shortly afterwards Bayar was removed from power in Turkey's first military coup. This was recently touched on the Oscar winning movie "Bridge of Spies."

As such the Atlanta Summit provided lots of opportunity to talk about how the US needs to cure itself of its dangerous and destructive addiction and Obama needs to lead that effort. In response the Turkish military were forced to publicly deny that they were planning to remove Erdogan from power.

Unfortunately Obama used his visit to the summit to announce plans to massively increase the use of a specific synthetic Opiate - Buprenorphine - to wean addicts of drugs like Heroin. The problem is that in my house at least Buprenorphine is famous as part of a cocktail of drugs that were used to poison my grandmother as part of the UK's campaign against me and anyone associated with me.

The particularly cruel thing is that they weren't actually trying to kill her. Instead they were trying to destroy her physically and mentally and then hold her in that state. I would then be billed for her constant care destroying me economically. Plus coming to count your grandmother's death as a victory is somewhat emotionally draining. 

Therefore Obama announcing during Erdogan's visit that he massively supports the widespread use of Buprenorphine is a very strong statement against me and in the support of Erdogan. The fact that the rise of ISIL has led to an uneasy truce between myself and the UK should tell you something about just how bad the situation is.

Sadly though I genuinely think that Obama didn't have a clue why he was being invited to address the Atlanta summit let alone support the use of Buprenorphine.

Seemingly oblivious to the pressure of the Atlanta summit or calculating that it was outweighed by all of Obama's support Turkey has continued its terror campaign unabated.

On Tuesday (29/3/16) a roadside bomb targeted a police convoy in the Russian Caucus region of Dagestan killing one police officer and wounding four others. On Wednesday (30/3/16) a suicide bomber blew himself up at a police checkpoint in Dagestan killing another Russian police officer. Both of these attacks have been claimed by local Islamist terror groups who have pledged allegiance to ISIL.

Personally I think the designation by the US and the European Union (EU) of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is excessively harsh. Although the group do use violence they consider themselves to be the legitimate military force of the Kurdish nation fighting against the Turkish invasion and occupation of Kurdistan. 

As such the PKK only conduct operations against what they see as legitimate military targets such as the Turkish military and security forces alongside strategic assets. They certainly have no interest in killing large numbers of civilians and to put them on a par with Turkish backed groups such as ISIL and Al Qaeda is ridiculous. 

It is even more ridiculous to say that we can't work with any Kurdish group because of the PKK.

The attacks in Dagestan were straight out of the PKK's playbook. As such they were intended to be viewed not just as Turkish attacks against Russia but Turkish attacks to punish Russia for it's non-existent support for the PKK. It was a particular reference to an incident a couple of days before when a local Turkish politician was killed by the PKK when they hijacked his car in an effort to escape the Turkish army.

The most important element of the Dagestan attacks though was to set the stage for a fictious Russian/PKK retaliation against Turkey that would convince the US that they couldn't work with any Kurdish group. 

That attack duly arrived on Thursday (31/3/16) when a roadside bomb hit a police convoy - just like in Dagestan - in the city of Diyabakir which is considered a Kurdish stronghold within Turkey. Seven Turkish police officers were killed in the attack and a further 20 people were injured.

This is of course far from the first time that Turkey has tried pulling this stunt. You may remember that on February 17th (17/2/16) Turkey staged a suicide bombing against a military convoy in the capital Ankara that killed 26 soldiers. Initially this attack was blamed on the PKK and then the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK). 

The problem was that it was so blatantly not the work of a Kurdish group it produced howls of laughter and derision from the international intelligence community. Realising their mistake Turkey carried out a bombing the following day (18/2/16) in Diyabakir.

The Turks have clearly taken the lessons onboard taking steps to make their fake attacks less obvious to spot. As such Thursday's (31/3/16) attack in Diyabakir was harder to identify as a fake. Having just got back from the barbers when I heard the news I didn't immediately identify it. That is despite warning on Wednesday (30/3/16) afternoon that Turkey would be faking a PKK attack in the coming days. I did though rapidly correct myself.

The situation was confused further by the fact that on Friday (1/4/16) the PKK decided to falsely claim the attack. The PKK view themselves as the protectors of the Kurdish people. Nine months into Turkey's war against its Kurdish population the PKK have rather failed in that self appointed task. 

There were of course the massacres in the Cizre district of Sirnak City through January and February. On March 13th (13/3/16) the Turkish military launched an operation against the town of Yuksekova in the Kurdish Hakkari province. Within the past 23 days Turkey claims it has killed 130 PKK terrorists in that town alone. However from his words and actions in Turkey, Iraq and Syria it is clear that Erdogan makes no distinction between PKK fighter and Kurdish civilian.

As such the PKK are currently under tremendous pressure and looking for any victory they can get away with claiming. Personally I think whomever took over when Ocalan went to prison leaves a lot to be desired.

This confusion led to some pretty frantic discussion about who was responsible for the March 31st Diyabakir bombing.

Later on Thursday (31/3/16) a police officer was shot and killed at a bus station in the US state of Virginia. The Diyabakir bomb was hidden in a car parked outside a bus station although it was targeting the passing police convoy rather than the bus station. The state of Virginia surrounds the District of Columbia - Washington D.C - where Erdogan was meeting with Obama at the White House.

Although the information wasn't released for several days the shooter was a black career criminal whose hatred for the police seems to have become acceptable in America as part of Obama's Black Lives Matter (BLM) campaign. BLM have been inspired in part by the Black Panther Party (BPP) of the 1960/70's. They are long term allies of the PKK although its long been accepted that the BPP were certainly the slack in that chain.

It seems odd that Obama is happy to support Erdogan in his opposition to the PKK over their attacks on Turkish police while at the same supporting their BPP allies in their attacks on US police. Amongst people who value loyalty and solidarity it is also particularly tasteless that Obama is happy to use the BPP to distract from the crimes being committed by Turkey in the name of fighting the PKK.

In a similar vein on Saturday (2/4/16) armed members of the New Black Panther Party chased away protesters from a Nation of Islam 'Mosque' in Dallas, Texas. The Nation of Islam have about as much to do with Islam as ISIL. The fact that Obama can't see the connection seems to be a large part of the problem.

On Friday (1/4/16) it was announced that the actual CIA had 'accidentally' left some explosive residue on a Virginia school bus following scent dog training. This seemed to indicate that the US was prepared to accept the idea that the March 31st Diyabakir bombing was the work of Turkish intelligence rather than the PKK. However the main message of the story was worried parents appealing for more information.

Also on Friday the UK chipped in with the news that police in Essex had discovered some World War 2 anti-tank shells next to a bus stop. The fact that were World War 2 weapons seemed to be making the point that Erdogan sounds just like Adolf Hitler when he declares anyone opposed to him to be "Terrorists!"

The Virginia bus station was directly opposite a baseball field that is known simply as; "The Diamond." This seemed to be an attempt by the US to work out whether the World was laughing with them or at them when it comes to Rihanna.

The reason why everyone is laughing at the Americans is because Rihanna's 2013 Diamonds World Tour was a complete failure. So much so that it undermined Thailand's confidence in their government to such an extent that they staged a coup and installed a military dictatorship to repair the damage. As a result they are particularly sensitive to any mention of Rihanna. 

Also due to their large tourism industry Thailand has become something of a transit hub for ISIL recruits travelling from across South-East Asia to Turkey and back again.

So on Sunday (3/4/16) a bus collided with a train at a railway crossing west of the Thai capital Bangkok. The damage to the bus seemed to closely resemble the damage done to the police bus in the March 31st Diyabakir bombing.

In response on Sunday two people were killed when an Amtrak train travelling between the US states of New York and Georgia derailed in Philadelphia after crashing into what most people would refer to as a mechanical digger but Americans call a "Backhoe." In the rap/hip hop world that Rihanna inhabits "hoe" is a derogatory slang term for a prostitute or otherwise sexually promiscuous woman.

So that was the US acknowledging that the world is laughing at them rather than with them when it comes to Rihanna operations that have clearly gone way off track.

Driving home the point the UK responded with a much smaller crash between two trains at Plymouth railway station in Devon. This crash has been described as "Slow Impact" as if to say;

"Yeah, took you long enough(!)"

16:45 on 4/4/16 (UK date).