F William Engdahl: The Greater Middle East Energy War!

On October 3, 2012 the Turkish military launched repeated mortar shelling inside Syrian territory. The military action, which was used by the Turkish military, conveniently to establish a ten kilometer wide no mans land buffer zone inside Syria, was in response to the alleged killing by Syrian armed forces of several Turkish civilians along the border. There is widespread speculation that the one Syrian mortar that killed five Turkish civilians well might have been fired by Turkish backed opposition forces intent on giving Turkey a pretext to move militarily, in military intelligence jargon, a false flag operation. Turkey's Muslim Brotherhood friendly Foreign Minister, the inscrutable Ahmet Davutoglu, is the governments main architect of Turkey's self defeating strategy of toppling its former ally Bashar Al-Assad in Syria. According to one report since 2006 under the government of Islamist Sunni Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his pro-Brotherhood AKP party. Turkey has become a new center for the Global Muslim Brotherhood. A well informed Istanbul source relates the report that before the last Turkish elections, Erdogans AKP received a donation of $10 billion from the Saudi monarchy, the heart of world jihadist Salafism under the strict fundamentalist cloak of Wahabism. Since the 1950's, when the CIA brought leading members in exile of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood to Saudi Arabia, there has been a fusion between the Saudi brand of Whabism and the aggressive jihadist fundamentalism of the Brotherhood. The Turkish response to the single Syrian mortar shell, which was met with an immediate Syrian apology for the incident, borders on a full scale war between two nations which until last year were historically, culturally, economically and even in religious terms, closest of allies. That war danger is ever more serious.