Speaking of Kurds & Mossad

[abduLMaria]

In the late 1990's I was working for a defense contractor in San Diego and had gone out with this woman named Michelle.

One day I got a call from one of her friends, who worked for some organization with a relief agency kind of name.  This caller said she had gotten my name from Michelle, and she heard that I had a lot of computers, and would I help her situate a "Kurdish refugee" named Burhan.

I will leave it at that so as to give him his privacy; his last name is a very common one.

One of my first meetings with Burhan was at an estate in North County San Diego.  The house was owned by a Vice President at TRW Avionics, which was subsequently bought by Northrop Grumman.  The guy I met with, who seemed to be hosting the whole affair, claimed to be the brother of the TRW VP.  He was about 6 feet tall, pudgy, with a beard.

Burhan was very slender, and, albino.  Also, vision impaired.

The official story was that they (the brother of the TRW VP) had been "making a movie" in Iraq, and Burhan somehow got on Saddam Hussein's sh*t list.  So they airlifted him out, and brought him to San Diego.

It didn't look like he was going back to Iraq anytime soon.  Burhan also had the unique quality of never stopping talking about computers.  So I gave him a few old ones, a Pentium and an AMD.  He sold the Pentium for $300 and kept the AMD for himself.

One of the other things that was odd about the situation was how fast Burhan got on Social Security Disability.  He applied and received it in about 1 month.  I've met a lot of Americans who get SSD and for them it takes anywhere from 6 months to 2 years to be approved, if they are approved.  Certainly some strings were pulled for Burhan.  He was vision impaired but quite capable with computers.  They didn't give him a lot of money, just enough to live a student life.

He rented a room in downtown San Diego and started taking computer classes at some city college.  He wasn't comfortable travelling to North County and I got tired of driving to downtown so we gradually fell out of touch.

I was reminded of Burhan in one of Daryl/ Ognir/ Mohammed's recent webcasts when they were talking about Israeli interference in Turkey.  Well, the Americans and Israel have been using the Kurds in Iraq for quite a while.  Iran, Iraq, and Turkey all have Kurdish populations.  Basically when England created those nations after WW1 or whatever, they divided them up in such a way that the Kurds were not unified in their own country.

Which has been a sore point ever since, for the Kurds - a sore point which Israel & the US are happy to exploit for their own purposes.

I was introduced to Burhan in about 1996-1997, so it was between the 2 wars.

My read on it - the CIA and/or Mossad was doing something in Iraq, and used the locals, and one of those locals turned out to be Burhan.  They brought him to the US for whatever reason, and I was one of the unwitting people that was asked to help with him without having it explained to me what the bigger picture was.

So, if the question ever comes up, was the US using the Kurds to stir up Sh*t in Iraq in the late '90's - the answer is yes.