UPDATED THURSDAY - JUNE 17, 2010 (5770)
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Turkey closes airspace to Israel Air Force, Jerusalem declares IHH terrorists
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 17, 2010, 11:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
Tags: Israel-Turkey 
Turkish boycott campaign US
Turkish airspace closed to Israeli Air Force
Turkey launched a plan Wednesday night (June 16) to campaign on all fronts for a worldwide boycott of Israel and decided to introduce sanctions leading to the severance of bilateral relations. Its pretext was the absence of a formal apology from Jerusalem for the naval commando raid on the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara ("Blue Marmara"), which left 8 activists dead, and its rejection of an international inquiry of the incident.
In Washington, early Thursday morning (June 17), Democratic and Republican members of Congress announced at a press conference that there would be price to pay if Ankara continued its hate campaign against Israel and tight ties with Tehran.
Rep. Mike Pence, the third-highest ranking Republican, said: "There will be a cost if Turkey stays on its present heading of growing closer to Iran and more antagonistic to the state of Israel." Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel called Turkey's actions "disgraceful."
debkafile's sources in Washington note that while the House and the Senate are getting ready for an active response against Turkey for its deteriorating relations with Israel, the Obama administration is standing still, possibly tied down by friendship with the two contestants in Jerusalem and Ankara. The president may also be influenced by some of his closest aides, who are sympathetic to the policies pursued by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and support his aspirations in the Middle East and in the Muslim world.
The most prominent member of the pro-Erdogan faction ion the White House is the president's personal adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, who does not share the conviction that the Turkish aid society, the IHH, is in fact a terrorist organization, as Israel declared Thursday, June 17 - although more than one European terrorist expert is of that opinion.
The way this declaration was aired by the Netanyahu government was harshly criticized by Israel's security and intelligence sources as too hesitant and uncertain to attract notice, debkafile's sources in Jerusalem report. It was not sourced to any defense ministry official and only appeared in a low spot on a local Channel 2 TV news bulletin.
"If Israel accuses an organization of terrorism, it should do so loud and clear," they said. "We must offer the kind of proof that reverberates strongly around the world. Instead, the information was released almost by stealth and therefore ignored by the international media."
In fact, debkafile's intelligence and counter-terror sources stress the inconspicuous news item was pretty sensational. By listing as terrorists the IHH (Insani Yardim Vakfi), a key component of Erdogan's pro-Islamic AKK government's support system, Israel henceforth defines the group as a target for Israel's covert and military operations and exposes its leaders to retaliation for continuing violence against Israel and its interests.
IHH activists were responsible for the violence aboard the Turkish ship leading the blockade-busting flotilla on May 31. Wednesday, IHH headquarters in Istanbul scheduled the launch of an even bigger flotilla for Gaza some time in July. Its new designation empowers Israel's covert agencies and navy to go for its members and ships - at sea and in Turkish ports.
Still hesitant, Israel has started hitting back at Turkey by escalating its military and intelligence responses to Erdogan's provocations.
The day before, the level of confrontation was ramped up by several notches in Ankara, when the Turkish Defense Industry Implementation Committee – SSIK, in a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Erdogan, decided to freeze 16 security and military agreements signed with Israel.
They include permission for Israel warplanes to use Turkish airspace and apply to intelligence-sharing arrangements and cooperation in combating terrorism and suspend the longstanding, close military and intelligence cooperation between Turkey and Israel.
The two erstwhile allies are left glaring at each other as antagonists, just one step short of declared enemies.
Ankara nonetheless left a narrow opening - whether to appease the military for its loss of a valued strategic partner or to tempt Israeli leaders to continue to delude themselves that Turkey is not a write-off.
Thursday morning, in a briefing to Turkish journalists, sources close to the Turkish prime minister and the SSK exhibited a very long list of the Israeli and Turkish military projects they had cancelled, including the purchase of advanced Israeli Arrow anti-missile missiles. However, Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul commented: "Despite the fact that the decision on the shelving of military agreements had been left to the command of the Foreign Ministry, it would not be proper for the ruling administration to decide on the actions of military companies in both countries."
By this remark, the Turkish defense minister left a small gap for the Turkish government to review each contract separately and to decide whether to implement or revoke it depending on the needs of the Turkish army.
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FROM STEVE QUAYLE
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Major US mortgage fraud arrests begin. On Tuesday 15th June 2010, US federal agents arrested Lee Bentley Farkas, former chairman of Taylor Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corporation. He is charged in a sixteen-count indictment in the Eastern District of Virginia. Farkas and his co-conspirators carried out a massive fraud which resulted in losses of more than $1.9 billion and contributed to the failure of TBW and Colonial Bank, one of the fifty largest banks in the United States in 2009.In 2009, TBW was one of the largest privately held mortgage lending companies in the US. The fraud began in 2002 in an effort to conceal significant TBW operating losses. It then evolved over the course of seven years as Farkas and his co-conspirators sought to misappropriate hundreds of millions of dollars from Colonial Bank and Ocala Funding, a mortgage lending facility which was controlled by TBW and financed by large banks.
Farkas and his syndicate sold Colonial Bank more than $400 million in fake mortgage assets. They also hid hundreds of millions of dollars worth of mortgage loans that were losing value, or had no value, from regulators, auditors, and others in fraudulent transactions designed to give the false appearance that the loans were being sold into the secondary mortgage market when, in fact, they were not. Farkas and his TBW syndicate diverted $1.5 billion from Ocala Funding to cover TBW’s mounting losses.
In late 2008, as TBW’s operating losses continued to grow, Farkas and his co-conspirators, through Colonial BancGroup, attempted to secure additional funding through the TARP program. That application included materially false information, and no TARP funds were released. Farkas and his syndicate went to great lengths to conceal their fraudulent activity and create the appearance that TBW was operating as a legitimate business. In reality, they were stealing massive amounts of money just to keep TBW afloat.
AB comment: What Taylor Bean & Whitaker did reflects, in miniature, exactly what Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and the US Federal Reserve Board did, and are still doing, on a much larger scale. The first shoe has dropped. The second has yet to fall. Compared with Lloyd Blankfein, Ben Bernanke et al, Lee Bentley Farkas may turn out to be just a minor, small town crook, hung out to dry as diversionary cover for the big beasts higher up the food chain. 
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By Michelle Malkin • June 15, 2010 11:25 PM
In his widely-panned, bloodless Oval Office address Tuesday night (did I call this last month or what!?), President Obama tapped his Navy Secretary Ray Mabus as the new oil spill recovery czar. Doesn’t he have enough to do leading the Navy? More to the point, as my latest column below points out, don’t we have enough czars and bureaucrats tripping over each other for Gulf headlines and photo-ops already?
Meanwhile, Mark Knoller reports that Obama is scheduled to finally meet with BP execs tomorrow at 10:15am…for a whopping 20 minutes. Where is the ass-kicking czar?
The speech was a dud, but never fear, Organzing for America is here to exploit the crisis with spam solicitations and a snazzy new green Obama hardhat graphic (soon to be the new oil recover czar’s logo, too?)!
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Psalms Chapter 109 תְּהִלִּים
א לַמְנַצֵּחַ, לְדָוִד מִזְמוֹר:
אֱלֹהֵי תְהִלָּתִי, אַל-תֶּחֱרַשׁ. | 1 For the Leader. A Psalm of David. {N}
O God of my praise, keep not silence;
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| ב כִּי פִי רָשָׁע, וּפִי-מִרְמָה--עָלַי פָּתָחוּ; דִּבְּרוּ אִתִּי, לְשׁוֹן שָׁקֶר. | 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me; they have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
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| ג וְדִבְרֵי שִׂנְאָה סְבָבוּנִי; וַיִּלָּחֲמוּנִי חִנָּם. | 3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
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| ד תַּחַת-אַהֲבָתִי יִשְׂטְנוּנִי; וַאֲנִי תְפִלָּה. | 4 In return for my love they are my adversaries; but I am all prayer.
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| ה וַיָּשִׂימוּ עָלַי רָעָה, תַּחַת טוֹבָה; וְשִׂנְאָה, תַּחַת אַהֲבָתִי. | 5 And they have laid upon me evil for good, and hatred for my love:
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| ו הַפְקֵד עָלָיו רָשָׁע; וְשָׂטָן, יַעֲמֹד עַל-יְמִינוֹ. | 6 'Set Thou a wicked man over him; and let an adversary stand at his right hand.
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| ז בְּהִשָּׁפְטוֹ, יֵצֵא רָשָׁע; וּתְפִלָּתוֹ, תִּהְיֶה לַחֲטָאָה. | 7 When he is judged, let him go forth condemned; and let his prayer be turned into sin.
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| ח יִהְיוּ-יָמָיו מְעַטִּים; פְּקֻדָּתוֹ, יִקַּח אַחֵר. | 8 Let his days be few; let another take his charge. |
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The Daily News reports that a lightning bolt struck the ship siphoning oil from the containment cap above the gushing oil well in the Gulf this morning. Although no one was injured, once the fire was extinguished the ship had to shut down operations for about five hours.
As hard as it may be to fathom, as the Daily News opined, “Things actually can get worse in the Gulf of Mexico.”
This latest setback came just hours before President Obama was scheduled to address the nation about the disaster.
You just can’t fight a curse.
For more information on why the oil spill really happened, read the July 2010 Trumpet cover story by Joel Hilliker and Philip Nice, titled “Yet Another Curse.” •
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................................................................................... Iranian threats over Gaza keep USS Truman carrier in Mediterranean
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report June 16, 2010, 12:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tags: Iranian Speaker Larijani Israel-Turkey Turkish PM
USS Truman on hand for trouble
The USS Harry S. Truman carrier, complete with its strike group of 60 warplanes and 6,000 seamen, has been ordered to turn course from the Persian Gulf and deploy with the US Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean for the time being, debkafile's military and Washington sources report. The administration's decision was prompted by incoming intelligence attesting to heightened marine and military tensions between Israel, Turkey and Iran, in the wake of the Turkish premier Recep Erdogan's determination to give his screws on Israel another turn - or two.
He was solidly backed up from Tehran Wednesday, June 16, by parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani, who threatened military retaliation against Persian Gulf and Mediterranean shipping for any interference with the vessels Iran was sending to the Gaza Strip. He did not specify what kind they were.
In Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman asserted that Israel would no longer respect these vessels as promoted by aid agencies because they were obviously dispatched by outright enemies with hostile intent thinly disguised as humanitarian efforts.
Erdogan is planning more provocative sea convoys for Gaza and the severance of diplomatic relations.
Ankara has set its face implacably toward a full rupture and is determined to breach Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip by force, regardless of the relaxations on the siege restrictions ceded by Israel in consultation with Washington.
Israeli ministers met Wednesday, June 16, to approve these relaxations. The broke for lunch without a decision. Some ministers maintained Israel's ambassador from Ankara should be recalled forthwith without waiting for the Erdogan government to break off ties.
Early Wednesday, debkafile's military sources reported that the Iranian "aid" ships known to be ready to set out for Gaza - or on their way - plan to put in at Turkish ports first and sail to their destination in a joint flotilla with Turkish vessels. Washington is concerned by this development in view of the high risk of a clash with Israel - especially if the Lebanese Hizballah terrorists decide to join the Iranian-Turkish convoy for Gaza.
Such a clash would involve a NATO member-state for the first time.
The USS Truman's current movements are being kept under wraps. Shipping sources told debkafile that the Strike Group was sighted Monday and Tuesday south of Sicily, a convenient spot for a rapid response to flare-ups in any Mediterranean or Middle East arena.
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