- Feith Replacement at Pentagon Identified in Libby Indictment.
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy and Plans Eric Edelman has been identified
as "then Principal Deputy" to Vice President Dick Cheney's recently
indicted Chief of Staff Lewis Libby. Edelman replaced Douglas Feith, the
chief architect of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, as Undersecretary
after he was given a recess appointment by President Bush to the Pentagon
post. Edelman left the Vice President's office in June 2003 to take up
his post as ambassador to Turkey. However, the indictment indicates that
Edelman continued to be involved in discussions with Libby after beginning
Turkish language training.
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- Edelman tied to outing of covert CIA Counter-Proliferation
network: More evidence that Libby was protecting global weapons smugglers
tied to his Russian-Israeli Mafia friends
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- According to FBI sources, Edelman used his position as
ambassador to Turkey to cement a triad of weapons and drug smuggling and
money laundering involving Turks, Israelis, and Americans. The CIA and
US Customs Service busted one nuclear smuggling ring involving South African-Israeli
national Asher Karni, a Pakistani businessman named Humayun Khan, and a
Turkish Jew with strong Israeli ties named Zeki Bilmen. The smuggling network
involved companies in Cape Town; Secaucus, New Jersey; and Islamabad, Pakistan.
Karni was convicted by a US court for smuggling nuclear triggers to Pakistan
via South Africa. The identification of Edelman in the Libby indictment
as one of those possibly involved in the outing of a CIA agent and a covert
company bears directly on the use of Turkey as a major facilitator in the
trafficking of WMD components, particularly to the AQ Khan network in Pakistan.
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