



A bizarre case of assassination shook the world of investigative journalism. The Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Galizia was killed recently by a car bomb in Malta. Most of the mainstream media connected the assassination with a fuel-smuggling network or money laundering.





However, the independent news media, Newsbud , supports another theory, which relates the assassination with an updated Operation Gladio by the US intelligence that is still active.





As NewsBud reports:





The story connects to Malta's role as one of the main hubs for offshore banking and money laundering for Operation Gladio B. Also connects to Malta's connection with Azerbaijan and its role in heroin trafficking and weapons trafficking, supplying weapons to terrorist groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda under the CIA and NATO's Operation Gradio B. The story also connects to the Panama Papers and much more.





Whistleblower and investigative journalist, Sibel Edmonds, who is the one that first shed light on the Operation Gladio B, reveals:





Beginning in 2005-06, I began exposing not only Azerbaijan's role, but the three main offshore banking centers for operation Gladio B: Cyprus, Dubai and Malta. In some ways, the Panama Papers partially exposed Malta's role as a banking center for money laundering. However, Panama Papers doesn't even begin to touch the real role of Malta for almost two decades as part of Operation Gladio B, operating as the financial money laundering center along with Dubai and Cyprus.





I see that the mainstream media report so far - from what we have seen - focuses on Daphne Galizia's exposure of the local politicians, including the PM of Malta, but this case goes way beyond corruption. Daphne got too close to the heart of Operation Gladio B's operations. And this is right after the exposure that we covered at Newsbud, dealing with Azerbaijan's role and Silk Way, and this was something that Operation Gladio B could not tolerate.





With this, we have been seeing the most drastic measure that can be taken against any investigative journalist, and this is a plain assassination using car bomb to blow up a journalist that got just too close to the heart of the Operation Gladio B. With this assassination, what we are looking at, is a chilling message from the Operation Gladio B to any investigative journalist, or investigative blogger that dares to get too close to this operation and its exposure.









It makes sense someone to suspect that such a mafia-style assassination of an investigative journalist is related to something quite deeper than simple political corruption and money laundering, or even fuel smuggling, which are things that have become almost ordinary cases in our days.





According to Edmonds , "Operation Gladio B" is an FBI codename adopted in 1997 for ongoing relations between US intelligence, the Pentagon, and Al Qaeda. The name refers to the original Operation Gladio, in which US intelligence had established groups (stay-behind forces) in Europe in preparation for a Soviet invasion.





According to Edmonds, Gladio B identified, among other things, regular meetings between senior US intelligence and current leader of Al Qaeda Ayman al-Zawahiri at the U.S. embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan between 1997 and 2001, with al-Zawahiri and other mujahideen being transported by NATO aircraft to Central Asia and the Balkans to participate in Pentagon-backed destabilisation operations.





She added that in 1997, NATO asked Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to release from prison Islamist militants affiliated with Ayman al-Zawahiri. They were flown by U.S. intelligence orders to Turkey for training and use in operations by the Pentagon.





Additionally, she reported that an Al-Qaeda leader had been training some of the 9-11 hijackers at a base in Turkey. These and related allegations were seemingly confirmed by Sunday Times journalists in 2008 who spoke to Pentagon and MI6 sources. However, according to Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, the journalists were prevented from publishing many of these allegations when the second half of their four-part series was dropped, possibly due to pressure from the U.S. State Department.



