I have enormous respect for the work of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. They work in conflict regions to teach the basic principles of journalism to local journalists, including citizen journalists. They really do get right in to the most difficult situations, and have access to knowledge on the ground that western media organisations often lack. I worked closely with their office in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where Michael Andersen did a great job.
The fact that IWPR accesses direct first hand knowledge of what really happens during conflicts, almost certainly holds the key to the death of Jackie Sutton. She was killed for something she knew. The official Turkish story that she killed herself in the airport in despair at missing a connecting flight, is risible.
I cannot claim to any idea at present what it was she knew that caused her to be killed. It follows from that I do not know who killed her. But the speed of the Turkish authorities to promote a suicide narrative must in itself raise suspicions.
Can someone do a deep search of IWPR and all its board members’ and funders connections? One for Lobster magazine or Michael J Barker, perhaps?
Of all their stated goals, ‘driving change’ and ‘creating inclusive societies’ and so on and so forth, I note that ‘critiquing the military industrial complex’ or ‘analysing the aetiology of war’ or ‘penetrating and exposing light on the arms industry’ are not among them. This is typical liberal foundation/NGO stuff. Look – the CIA and Saudi are destroying a country – again – and they are looking at ‘citizen journalists in Syria’. How about some citizen journalists in Langley, and driving change on the Potomac? No, of course, those would be contradictions in terms.
I just think the whole thing – everything, not just her death – about this case seems deeply suspicious.
https://michaeljamesbarker.wordpress.com/
Opaque.
https://iwpr.net/about-us/funding-policy
A whole page with no information.
IWPR INFO.
IWPR was founded in 1991 under the name Yugofax by American Anthony Borden, Ben Cohen and Vanessa Quick, both from the UK, as well as Serbian journalist Miloš Vasić. Yugofax was initially a newsletter that reported on the troubling developments throughout the Balkans from a balanced perspective. As the conflict developed into an all out war, Yugofax newsletter changed its name to Balkan War Report.
Eventually, in late 1995, after the Dayton Peace Accord was signed ending the war in Bosnia, the newsletter expanded its area of focus to other global trouble spots (initially mainly focusing on ex-Soviet republics) and adjusted its name to simply War Report.
In 1998, the newsletter changed its name again, this time to Institute for War & Peace Reporting and registered as a non-governmental organization.
IWPR is registered with charitable status in the United Kingdom (charity reg. no: 1027201, company reg. no: 2744185), in the United States under IRS Section 501(c)(3); and The Netherlands as a charitable foundation.
IWPR is an international network of three partner not-for-profit organisations governed by a Boards of Trustees composed of senior journalists, peace-building and human rights experts, regional specialists, and business and NGO professionals.
The Chairman of the International Board of Directors is Sir David Bell, ex-chairman of the Financial Times. Other members include Christiane Amanpour, Anne Applebaum, George Packer, and Christina Lamb, among others
“I hadn’t thought of voluntarily entering the toilet block in order to have a secret discussion, makes sense though.” Glenn.
Yes, it’s a well-recognised site for espionage-related (or diplomatic or whatever) meetings. I’m sure Craig will know this. As the sadly-missed late Corinne Souza (her father was an MI6 agent – an agent, not an officer, remember the difference) used to advise, ‘the children’s picnic’ is another – one thinks of the Al Hillis, perhaps, in this context.
“Suhayl: You could make a fine living, giving “official sources” the sort of wiggle-room that allows a dismissal of the obvious” Glenn.
Ha! Good one! Make a living this way – I wish. (Not really) 🙂
I watched an interview with ex-Kurdish President Barzanis son, head of Intelligence in Iraqi Kurdistan, dating from about the time that he had flown to Amman to sign for Daish to cross into Iraq for reasons best know to Mossad who own Islamic State.
He said Iraq was on its own, fighting against terror for the whole world and for the survival of the whole region.
The PKK published all the details of the Amman meeting. It included Mullah Krekar, head of Jordan Intelligence, i.e. Mossad and US counterparts. Willaim Hague did not attend, but travelled in person to Erbil 2 weeks later. Jackie Sutton most likely did not know anything that every man woman and child from Kurdistan doesn’t know, that Barzani belongs to Mossad, Iraqi oil is sold illegally through Turkey with false Saudi papers to the UK and Israel.
She was clearly murdered by the Turkish State and ex-president Erdogan who controls Islamic State for Israel. Not for what she knew, because it is common knowledge, but for her high jounalist profile.
Sir David Bell, connections:
He is Chair of the Media Standards Trust,which helps to administer the Orwell Prize.
He is a director of ImagineNations, where he is also Secretary and Treasurer.
He is a Governor at Worth School, a Catholic independent school in Sussex.
Sir David is Chair of Council at Roehampton University.
Sir David is International Chair of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting, iwpr.net.
Sir David is also Chairman of Sadler’s Wells.
Sir David is a trustee of Common Purpose UK.
Sir David was chairman of Crisis UK for 10 years until 2012.
Sir David is an assessor on the Leveson Inquiry.
Sir David Bell has been appointed as the non-executive chair of the steering committee driving the development of the National Equality Standard.
Krekar, whom I have met, represents Ansar al Islam. a CIA insurgency created to release Kurdish oil from the tentacles of Saddam Hussain. The head of Jordan Intelligence is next on the list of attendees of the Amman meeting. Details here:
http://www.voltairenet.org/article184756.html
Christiane Amanpour:
She certainly has the right connections
Amanpour is married to American James Rubin, a former US Assistant Secretary of State and spokesman for the US State Department during the Clinton administration and currently an informal adviser to former US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and President of the United States Barack Obama.
From 2003, re. pre-invasion Iraq.
http://www.navend.de/html/aktuell/irak-krise/IWPR-Reports/IWPR_Iraqi_crisis_report_14.htm
“This project is supported by the Polden Puckham Charitable Foundation and
International Media Support. IWPR also thanks the following for
institutional or development support which has assisted in the launch of
this project: the Dutch Foreign Ministry, the Ford Foundation, the
Ploughshares Foundation.”
Chalabi, the subject of the piece, was the ‘CIA’s man for Iraq’ at the time. And the journalist from IWPR appears supportive of:
1) The impending destruction of Iraq.
2) Chalabi.
A thorough and deep search might uncover much more.
I’m sorry. This woman has died and I am being cynical. But what else can one be? We need to know what she really was before be can surmise why she was killed.
Specific search engines of the deep web sometimes reveal a lot. There is much out there in the public domain – it’s a question of looking for it and establishing connections. It’s almost a kind of comint, really.
IWPR in my experience is an excellent organisation. No spook connections I know of. Liberal in a good way.
Indeed. The great ancient historian Ernst Badian once commented to me how many leading historians had worked in military intelligence.
Like most NGOs they would go from project to project filling in massive amounts of donor paperwork. Like most NGOs they would do this with bullets whistling around their ears, governments banning them left right and centre and with officials trying to rob them blind.
As every global email, phone call, text message and travel plan is intercepted by the US, Russian and Chinese then there is nothing much covert left in the world.
Bloody do-gooders, yes. Shadow agents of the military industrial complex. WTF.
[disclaimer: I am also from ngoworld]
Suhayl
“If Turkey did it, that means NATO/CIA.”
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Why – can you explain your thinking?
Are There Enough Of them..to take out ALL the good souls, No. But they have the Masses under control, which makes the difference. we are all Guilty as fk allowing it.. and even when millions go out on the street… we get the middle finger.
And how they Lie –
At 1;45 –
“As prime minister, without shame, you said you arrested the perpetrator of the Suruc bombing. You stated this an hour ago. You said: “We have arrested Abdurrahman Acikgoz and gave him to the hands of our judiciary system.”
In fact, Abdurrahman Acikgoz, the suicide bomber, blew up into pieces.
Whom did you arrest? To which judicial system did you transfer him?
Is it possible that any good can come from a person who lies like this when addressing the nation?..
At 5;42 –
” Let’s take a look at their rallies. Security measures start taking place from ten streets away.
Today, [it was] as if they purposely let two suicide bombers the crowd who wanted peace. No checking, no security. There was nothing.
Not enough. The suicide bomber exploded himself. There were wounded people on [the] ground. Five hundred people almost. They are not in a position to breathe. The police was given orders to throw gas bombs.
The wounded are close to death. They had to fight against tear gas too. Those who carried the wounded struggled with tear gas. They fought against the pressurized water thrown from police tactical units.
One hundred dead, five hundred wounded on [the] ground and people had to struggle with tear gas and water. Is this your understanding of justice?
Instead of giving an account of what happened, [Davutoglu] appears on TV, starts blaming HDP and Demirtas, avoids their responsibility as government, distorts reality and blames others. What kind of arrogance and irresponsibility is this?
A journalist asked the interior minister whether he will resign, and the [minister] grins. His answer is mixed with a grin.
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100 people lie in the morgue. The appointed minister, so-called justice minister, responds with a grin on his face.”
Video here –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni8W_WT5KDk
Suhayl
And this one as well:
” But these NGOs in eastern Europe, the Middle East and across the world, are basically fronts for imperialism.”
Thanks.
Suhayl
Sorry to disagree, partly. Even Assange has dodgy spooky ozzie history. Maybe you have to be fully baptised, dunked and tainted by the evil NWO system to participate in this level of journalism. You have to know the system in order to stick your neck out and whistleblow.
at the end of the day you sit on your own , knowing the stupidity of a 6 hour transit in Attaturk airport, fearing everything, but taking the risk in order to publicly blow the whistle on the neo-con madness that is Islamic State / Al Qaida. Your purpose is to counter the propaganda against Russia’s destruction of USUKIS assets. Condolesa Rice’s pooh poohing of Russia’s motives as evil imperialism, will not be the last word.
Russia and China have destroyed neo-con evil. They are heroes. Even Rice’s curvy bum will not convince the world that USUKIS are the good guys.
Some addirional selective quoting from IWPR crisis report 2003
http://www.navend.de/html/aktuell/irak-krise/IWPR-Reports/IWPR_Iraqi_crisis_report_1.htm
ANALYSIS: NEO-COLONIAL AMBITIONS By David Hirst in Beirut
Few in the Middle East believe Washington seeks to intervene in Iraq for anything but self-interested reasons.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Guano
” ex-president Erdogan who controls Islamic State for Israel”
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Nice one. It had to be Israel, didn’t it.
“IWPR is fully transparent about its sources of funding, and maintains a diverse international base of private foundations, individuals and government agencies. This broad base has allowed us to refuse funding for any purpose beyond the development of the critical and independent press essential to any healthy civil society.
All donors – whether governmental, private foundations, or individuals – have their own interests, and it is the task of the organization to assess each project on its merits according to its mission and its values.
For example, we will not partner with the U.S. or any other military or with local projects closely associated with the military. Neither would we accept funding from any source that would demand any kind of editorial oversight into our journalistic product.” [from their website]
Yet this is what makes such organisations so effective. They are not obvious. They don’t go around wearing a green beret or muttering into their sleeves. But is not the underlying agenda – beyond the persiflage, the hymns, the sweetness and light – of all of these sorts of organisations is to promote US interests in key strategic regions? Central Asia, Cuba, South Sudan, the Fertile Crescent, Korea. Do they not undertake much of the work which the CIA used to undertake pre-1976 and the Church report?
Hasbara sea-lion
“”Suhayl
And this one as well:
” But these NGOs in eastern Europe, the Middle East and across the world, are basically fronts for imperialism.”
Thanks.”
Very droll ( for a troll ).
Suhayl, see how quickly the hasbara sea-lion tries to pocket your home goal.
“Opaque.
https://iwpr.net/about-us/funding-policy
A whole page with no information.”
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A bit like the preposterously named “global research” then?
Looks like the UK was more to blame than Sweden for Sweden’s failure to interrogate Assange in the embassy in London. The Guardian: UK resisted Julian Assange’s offer to be questioned in London, emails reveal
Documents show CPS told Swedish authorities it would ‘not be prudent’ to interview WikiLeaks founder inside Ecuadorian embassy:
Here’s the L’Espresso article: L’Espresso: Julian Assange, nuovi documenti inediti fanno luce sulle indagini per stupro: I filei ottenuti da l’Espresso grazie al Freedom of Information Act permettono di ricostruire il caso legale contro il fondatore di WikiLeaks. I passi falsi della procura svedese e le interferenze della magistratura inglese.
Further to my comment above I have posted as follows on the site of Amanda Whitley author of the article which has Jacky Sutton telling her life story.
Tony from Australia •
Amanda,
It appears that Jacky Sutton may have been too principled to survive in this world posted and tweeted as follows under my incognito adopted when still an Australian public servant.
Joseph Kurtz @joe_K67 @HerCanberra
AW JSutton apears 2B principld persn but+doer hav post Ur great articl
@CraigMurrayOrg site X-ambsador
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk… …
Craig Murray was an UK Ambassador who was cashiered and smeared for having principles and speaking
“truth to power” which he continues to do. The people who comment on his site range across the spectrum and can be a bit self-righteous and sectarian. However [Making a huge generalisation] most would subscribe to the Chomsky propaganda model and world view.
“The great ancient historian Ernst Badian once commented to me how many leading historians had worked in military intelligence.”
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“Many”, eh?
Did he give you any examples? If so, please share.
hasbitch
You’re on the money. For Israel read USUKIS zionist world hegemonist ne-cons. It gets boring repeating it every time. Readers already know who is, what is, why is, how is Israel.
Do you want a history thesis with every comment on the functions, purposes, crimes, lies of the USUKIS Zionists? This is Sea-lion-free zone.
IWPR may well be an excellent organisation. Then what CIA would do is use it: for expatriate collections under pretext, or to infiltrate NOCs – or to make a mediagenic martyr. Who winds up implicated, that’s the key. Turkey? Then we must ask, Is Turkey perhaps jibbing at its Syrian-war logistic duties? The covert war is getting very dirty as Russia wins the overt one.
Especially now that the covert war is killing many Turkish citizens, by no means all of whom are Kurds.
Hairycrutch
“Did he give you any examples? If so, please share.
told you last time, this is a sea-lion-free zone.”