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by Tyler Durden The last time famed US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh made news in the global media was with his massive, 5000-word expose from December of 2013 " Whose sarin ?" revealing the true motives behind the Syrian near-war of 2013 including what we had said from the very beginning: the very professionally created YouTube clips showing the consequences of what was said to have been an Assad poison gas attack, were nothing but a fake (subsequent reports identified the propaganda source as Rami Abdul Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, whose entire operation has been funded by an unidentified European country.) Fast forward to today when in a report whose word count doubles his previous record for the London Review of Books, Hersh targets a topic near and dear to the hearts of many Americans: the story of the capture and death of Osama bin Laden. Or rather the completely false and, according to Hersh, fabricated story, one made up entirely by the...

Update: to nobody's surprise, moments ago the Turkish police is said to have denied such reports of an "imminent attack." * * * Whether credible, or the latest in a long line of false flag events to spread panic and fear and further cement Erdogan's authoritarian power, moments ago newswires reported that people are being evacuated form the Turkish parliament building as there has been information about an imminent attack on the building, the Cumhuriyet newspaper reported on Monday. "We have been informed of an attack. The Meclis is being evacuated," the newspaper quotes member of the Peoples’ Democracy Party Ziya Pir. 5 h Michael Horowitz   @michaelh992 Seems to be related to a suspicious person, not a serious threat, more like a security precaution  # Turkey  Follow Michael Horowitz   @michaelh992 Picture of one of the entrances to the Parliament in  # Ankara , buses blocking it  # Turkey   pic.twitter.com/lh8W6D6Ew4 ...

Overnight Turkish president Erdogan's counter-coup witch hunt continued, when thousands of police officers were suspended on Monday, widening a systemic purge of Erdogan's enemies first in the armed forces and then judiciary after a failed military coup, now focusing on the interior police force, and raising concern among European allies that it was abandoning the rule of law. Turkey's state-run news agency says the nation has detained or suspended 20,000 personnel across the country, following Friday's foiled coup attempt. Anadolu Agency says a total of 8,777 employees attached to the ministry were dismissed, including 30 governors, 52 civil service inspectors and 16 legal advisers Thirty regional governors and more than 50 high-ranking civil servants have also been dismissed, CNN Turk said. Thousands of members of the armed forces, from foot soldiers to commanders, were rounded up on Sunday, some shown in photographs stripped to their underpants and handcuffed on the...