wrong headline
I usually do not make this kind of comment. But WTF.
The headline is correct. Flynn, as part of his work for the Turkish government was supposedly offered money to arrange to kidnap Gulen and return him to Turkey.
Wow. Assassination attempt made by Mr Erdogan?
It’s hard to imagine why some random stranger would try to enter Fethullah Gulen’s remote compound uninvited for any other reason.
It is correct NOW. It was not correct when it was atop a rather long story about Administration plans to penalize immigrants who have to resort to any form of housing subsidy or public assistance.
Good people on both sides…
But no, the US isn’t supposed to be a place where other countries fight battles in their civil wars.
It could be a domestic anti-Muslim terrorist. There have been plenty of attacks on US Mosques. And would a government assasin approach the gate with a visible weapon and during daylight? Maybe a really stupid one.
Once it was known there was a $15 Million dollar price tag on Mr. Gulen this was inevitable.
No conspiracy is necessary, freelancers and soldiers of misfortune will try (and die) then try to collect.
Erdogan is counting on greed and numbers to do his work then shell out cash quietly afterwards…
He lives not far from me. From what I have read, he is like a muslim Unitarian–i.e., moderate and secular. Why Erdogan hates him so much is unclear. I’m sure glad Flynn did not succeed in his plot.
There is nothing good about Erdogan and he is in control of more than 30 NATO nuclear warheads on one of his airbases.
Certainly no fan of Erdogan here, and we have no idea who may have tried to enter the compound. But two things. 1. It is absurd to characterize Mr. Gulen as one kind of Unitarian. He is the other side of the coin from Erdogan, and during the interval when the Gulenists held power in the Turkish judiciary, they were just as ruthless as Erdogan is now. Propaganda is one thing, but facts are another. 2. Regardless of who is the worse villain in modern Turkish politics, it is wholly inappropriate for American taxpayers to pay for the large network of charter schools run by the inner ring of Mr. Gulen’s ambiguous-by-design organization. Never in American history has a less supervised vector of public finance conjoined with a more secretive society, devoted to a religious-political protagonist in a foreign crisis. We will be lucky, in the end, if the charter schools themselves do not attract more of Mr. Gulen’s enemies, who are by no means limited to Mr. Erdogan’s devotees.
I think erdogan hates him because he’s moderate and secular and popular—and unafraid to challenge Erdogan. Kind of like his benefactor to the east, that way.
I’d think a terrorist would typically target something more visible like a public Mosque than a remote compound on a sprawling estate. But sure that is possible too but I did see this in another AP report:
The Alliance of Shared Values statement included a passage that pointed out the attempt to enter the compound “comes on the heels of Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin speaking recently that Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization would launch overseas ‘operations’ against supporters of Mr. Gulen.”
Assuming that’s accurate, it seems like too much of a coincidence to be just some random terrorist.
http://www.poconorecord.com/news/20181003/psp-search-for-attempted-intruder-at-gulen-compound