Anonymous ID: 1d28e3 June 23, 2018, 6:51 a.m. No.1874313   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4346 >>4411

Silk Way Airlines is an Azerbaijani private cargo airline with its head office and flight operations at Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku, Azerbaijan.[1] It operates freight services linking Europe and Asia, United States and Africa, as well as services for government and non-governmental organisations.

 

In July 2017, an investigation[9] by the leading Bulgarian daily newspaper Trud, which has a reputation for investigative crime reporting,[10] revealed how Silk Way Airlines exploited a loophole in the international aviation and transport regulations to offer flights to arms manufacturers and private companies – with much of the cargo heading for known terrorist enclaves in Syria, and also to other conflict zones including Central Asia and Africa. Under the International Air Transport Association (IATA) regulations, the transport of military cargo by civil aircraft is not allowed. To get around this legality, Silk Way Airlines applied for diplomatic exemption for aircraft and their cargo (diplomatic charter flights), through local agencies to transport heavy weapons, ammunition, and white phosphorus across the world to several war zones such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Syria, as well as to African countries like Congo and Burkina Faso

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Way_Airlines

Anonymous ID: 1d28e3 June 23, 2018, 6:54 a.m. No.1874346   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4376

>>1874313

The published documents included correspondence between the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Azerbaijan to Bulgaria with attached documents for weapons deals and diplomatic clearance for overflight and/or landing in Bulgaria and many other European countries, USA, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey and other countries. The documents disclosed that American weapons manufacturers had shipped over $1 billion of weapons through Silk Way Airlines, corporate subcontractors included ″Purple Shovel LLC″ based in Sterling, Virginia, US Department of Defense subcontracting vehicle ″Culmen International LLC″ based in Alexandria, weapons and defense procurement firm ″Chemring Military Products″ based in Perry, Florida

 

When Silk Way Airlines did not have enough available planes, Azerbaijan’s Air Force jets would transport the military shipments. In the investigation, the reporter accused responsible authorities of many countries (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Israel, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, as well as to the militaries of Saudi Arabia, UAE, the military forces of Germany and Denmark in Afghanistan and of Sweden in Iraq, and the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)) to "have turned a blind eye and allowed diplomatic flights for the transport of tons of weapons, carried out by civil aircrafts [sic] for military needs

Anonymous ID: 1d28e3 June 23, 2018, 6:57 a.m. No.1874376   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4772

>>1874346

>corporate subcontractors included ″Purple Shovel LLC″ based in Sterling, Virginia

 

https://www.buzzfeed.com/aramroston/the-secret-arms-deal-behind-americas-syria-fiasco?utm_term=.wq9xyoEr2#.yipRk5Dar

 

At the heart of the high-stakes U.S. program to train and equip Syrian rebels to fight ISIS is a multimillion-dollar arms deal that the Pentagon farmed out to a tiny, little-known private company called Purple Shovel LLC. A BuzzFeed News investigation, based on inside documents and confidential sources familiar with the Syria operation, has found:

 

▸ Purple Shovel, through the subcontractors it selected and oversaw, tried to sell the U.S. thousands of Russian-style rocket-propelled grenades that were considered unreliable because they were manufactured three decades ago, before Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union.

 

▸ The U.S. government rejected them, and that delayed the effort to stand up the Syrian rebel force.

 

▸ An American contractor, 41-year-old Francis Norwillo, was killed in a weapons explosion in Bulgaria while training with such outdated grenades.

 

▸ The U.S. violated its own policy and gave Purple Shovel approval to acquire millions of dollars' worth of high-tech missiles for the rebels from Belarus, a dictatorship that is under sanctions by the European Union. Belarus, which has supplied weapons to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime and is accused of human rights violations, is normally off-limits to U.S. arms dealers. But the U.S. military and State Department agreed to make an exception, allowing 700 powerful anti-tank missiles to be purchased, with U.S. taxpayer funds, for the rebels.

Anonymous ID: 1d28e3 June 23, 2018, 7:08 a.m. No.1874446   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4489

>>1874413

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-worrell-71a2b77

 

Benjamin Worrell

 

CEO at Purple Shovel

Washington D.C. Metro AreaTransportation/Trucking/Railroad

 

Current

Purple Shovel

 

Previous

Office of the Secretary of Defense,

US Government

 

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Anonymous ID: 1d28e3 June 23, 2018, 7:14 a.m. No.1874489   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>1874446

https://visulate.com/rental/visulate_search.php?CORP_ID=L12000146193

 

Purple Shovel, LLC

 

Purple Shovel, LLC is a Florida limited liability company based in Sterling. They registered with the Florida Department of State's Division of Corporations on Nov 19, 2012.

 

http://search.sunbiz.org/Inquiry/CorporationSearch/SearchResultDetail?inquiryType=DocumentNumber&aggregateId=flal-l12000146193-37f36463-460c-4e8a-a76a-b7e66fd222ab&directionType=Initial&searchNameOrder=PURPLESHOVEL%20L120001461930&searchTerm=L12000146193

Anonymous ID: 1d28e3 June 23, 2018, 7:23 a.m. No.1874553   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4598 >>4772

“Our goal is to deliver what is truly needed to those in need by strategically utilizing our supply chains to stretch the financial donations”

 

http://www.purpleshovel.com/humanitarian-assistance/

 

 

Purple Shovel Exposed in Illegal Weapons Smuggling Operations

 

The story of weapons being smuggled from countries such as Bulgaria and Serbia through western private contractors and by way of Silkway Airlines was first reported on by Bulgarian Trud reporter Dilyana Gaytandzhieva. Dilyana's investigative work was bolstered by leaks made on Twitter by Anonymous Bulgaria.

 

 

v4vapid (70) in weapons-smuggling • 11 months ago

 

https://steemit.com/weapons-smuggling/@v4vapid/purple-shovel-exposed-in-illegal-weapons-smuggling-operation

Anonymous ID: 1d28e3 June 23, 2018, 7:27 a.m. No.1874598   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4772

>>1874553

>https://steemit.com/weapons-smuggling/@v4vapid/purple-shovel-exposed-in-illegal-weapons-smuggling-operation

 

 

Purple Shovel Quick Facts

 

•CEO & Founder: Ben Worrell

•Incorporated in Delaware 2010

•Company designated as SDVOSB - Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

•Company's big break - 2 Major SOCOM contracts in 2014 worth $50 million

 

  1. Equipment and Training - $23.5 million

 

  1. Foreign Weapons and Ammunition -$26.7 million

 

One of the most interesting aspects about Purple Shovel is that the company seems to come out of nowhere and win major contracts with SOCOM despite being an obscure and relatively unknown company. When Purple Shovel won the SOCOM contracts the company had only six employees and an annual revenue of less than $2 million.

 

According to government records from the DoD, it appears that Purple Shovel is the only contractor able to provide the following:

 

•Individual Equipment

•Replenishable field medical kits

•Kits and Outfits

•Hand Tools

 

No bid contracts prevent competitive bidding that usually encourages better pricing for the government. Another item that the company provided to SOCOM as "sole source" was "Arabic keyboards". It's highly doubtful the majority of these items were unavailable from other sources. Furthermore, Federal law usually discourages no-bid contracts.

Anonymous ID: 1d28e3 June 23, 2018, 7:34 a.m. No.1874644   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4711

SOMEBODY HAS DONE A LOT OF RESEARCH ON THINGS

 

Silkway Airlines Diplomatic Flights Used to Ship Billions Worth of Weapons from Eastern Europe to the Middle East

 

https://steemit.com/weapons-smuggling/@v4vapid/silkway-airlines-diplomatic-flights-used-to-ship-billions-worth-of-weapons-from-eastern-europe-to-the-middle-east

 

Shady in Haiti 3 – Diplomat Freight Service, USAID, DynCorp & Dubai

 

https://steemit.com/pizzagate/@v4vapid/shady-in-haiti-3-diplomat-freight-service-usaid-and-dyncorp

 

 

Depleted Uranium & White Phosphorus Part of Massive Weapons Smuggling Operation Involving US Contractors

 

https://steemit.com/weapons-smuggling/@v4vapid/depleted-uranium-and-white-phosphorus-part-of-massive-weapons-smuggling-operation-by-us-contractors

Anonymous ID: 1d28e3 June 23, 2018, 7:43 a.m. No.1874711   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4726 >>4738

>>1874644

>Depleted Uranium & White Phosphorus Part of Massive Weapons Smuggling Operation Involving US Contractorshttps://steemit.com/weapons-smuggling/@v4vapid/depleted-uranium-and-white-phosphorus-part-of-massive-weapons-smuggling-operation-by-us-contractors

 

Summary

 

These US contractors are profiting off the US taxpayer, purchasing and smuggling weapons illegally with the use of civilian aircraft and diplomatic immunity aboard Silkway Airlines. The history of both Orbital ATK and Chemring indicate that the types of undisclosed weapons transported across the Middle East are likely to be Depleted Uranium and White Phosphorus among others.

Anonymous ID: 1d28e3 June 23, 2018, 7:55 a.m. No.1874786   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4793

>>1874726

On June 7, 2018, the acquisition of Orbital ATK was completed and the former company was absorbed in Northrop Grumman as a new business sector called Innovation Systems. [18

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman

Anonymous ID: 1d28e3 June 23, 2018, 8:09 a.m. No.1874890   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>1874823

probably transferred all the pallets of cash too.

 

The money Obama "gave to Iran".

 

I wonder where the money really ended up.

In whose hands?

 

NO way the money was given to Iranians/Persians.

Anonymous ID: 1d28e3 June 23, 2018, 8:14 a.m. No.1874929   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4939 >>4941 >>4942

Maybe Hillary is flying all over to try to clean/cover up illegal Clinton Foundation Donations

 

Ireland, Clinton Foundation Sign $158 … - Kaiser Health News

 

https://khn.org/morning-breakout/dr00018695

 

Ireland, Clinton Foundation Sign $158.2 Million Agreement To Provide AIDS Drugs to Mozambique. Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern on Monday signed an agreement with former President Bill Clinton to donate up to $158.2 million to the William J. Clinton Presidential Foundation for the purchase of antiretroviral drugs for HIV-positive people in …