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False
Flag Terrorism

"False flag terrorism" occurs when elements within a
government stage a secret operation whereby government forces pretend to
be a targeted enemy while attacking their own forces or people.
The attack is then falsely blamed on the enemy in order to
justify going to war against that enemy. Or as Wikipedia

defines it:

False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments,
corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear as
if
they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from
the

military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a
country other than one's own. False flag operations are not limited to
war and counter-insurgency operations, and have been used in
peace-time;
for example, during Italy's strategy of tension.

The
term comes from the old days of wooden ships, when one ship would hang
the flag of its enemy before attacking another ship in its own navy.
Because the enemy's flag was hung instead of the flag of the real
country of the attacking ship, it was called a "false flag" attack.


There
are many examples of false flag attacks through history. For example,
it
is widely known that the Nazis, in
Operation Himmler, faked attacks on their own people and resources
which they blamed on the Poles, to justify the invasion of Poland.
And it has now been persuasively argued — as shown, for
example, in this History Channel video — that Nazis set
fire
to their own parliament, the Reichstag, and blamed that fire on others.
The Reichstag fire was the watershed event which justified
Hitler's seizure of power and suspension of liberties.

And
in the early 1950s, agents of an Israeli terrorist cell operating in
Egypt
planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S.
diplomatic facilities, then left behind "evidence" implicating the
Arabs
as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the
Egyptians to identify the bombers). Israel's Defense Minister was
brought down by the scandal, along with the entire Israeli government.
Click here for verification.

The Russian KGB apparently conducted a wave of bombings in Russia in order to justify war

against Chechnya and put Vladimir Putin into power (see also this short essay and this report). And the Turkish government has been
caught bombing its own and blaming it on a rebel group in
order to justify a crackdown on that group. Muslim governments also play
this game. For example, the well-respected former Indonesian president
claimed that their government had a role in the Bali bombings.

This
sounds nuts, right? You've never heard of this "false flag
terrorism," where a government attacks its own people then blames others
in order to justify its goals, right? And you are skeptical
of the statements discussed above? Please take a look
at these historical quotes:



"If tyranny and oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise
of
fighting a foreign enemy." - U.S. President James
Madison



"Why of course the people don't want war ... But after all it is
the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a
simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a
fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of
the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are
being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." - Hermann
Goering, Nazi leader.

What about the U.S.?

Is
it
logical to assume that, even if other countries have carried out false
flag operations (especially horrible regimes such as, say, the
Nazis or Stalin), the U.S. has never done so?
Well, as documented by the New York Times, Iranians working for the C.I.A. in the 1950's posed
as

Communists and staged bombings in Iran in order to turn the country
against its democratically-elected president (see also this

essay).



And, as confirmed by a former Italian Prime Minister, an
Italian
judge, and the former head of Italian counterintelligence, NATO,
with

the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried out terror bombings in Italy and blamed
communists, in order to rally people’s support for their
governments in Europe in their fight against communism. As one participant in this formerly-secret program
stated:
"You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people,
unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite

simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to
turn to the state to ask for greater security."



Moreover, recently declassified U.S. Government documents show that in
the 1960s, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan
code-named Operation Northwoods to blow up American airplanes (using an
elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to
commit
terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in
order to justify an invasion of Cuba.
The operation was not carried out only because the Kennedy
administration refused to implement these Pentagon plans.

For
lots more on the astonishing Operation Northwoods, see the ABC
news report; the official declassified documents; and
watch this
interview with James Bamford, the former Washington Investigative
Producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. One
quote from the Northwoods documents states: "A 'Remember the
Maine'
incident could be arranged: We could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo
Bay
and blame Cuba. Casualty lists in US newspapers would cause a helpful
wave of national indignation."


What about Al-Qaeda?

You
might think Al-Qaeda is different. It is very powerful, organized, and
out to get us, right? Consider this Los Angeles Times article, reviewing a BBC
documentary entitled The
Power of Nightmares, which shows that the threat from Al Qaeda has
been vastly overblown (and see this article on who is behind the hype). And former
National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski
testified
to the Senate that the war on terror is "a mythical historical
narrative."


And
did
you know that the FBI had penetrated the cell which carried out the 1993 World

Trade Center bombing, but had -- at the last minute -- cancelled the plan
to have its FBI infiltrator substitute fake powder for real explosives,
against the infiltrator's strong wishes (summary version is free; full
version is pay-per-view)? See also this TV news report.

Have
you heard that the CIA is alleged to have met with Bin Laden two months before 9/11? Did you
know that years after 9/11 the FBI first stated that it did not have sufficient evidence to prosecute Bin
Laden for 9/11? The agency apparently still does not have any hard
evidence linking Bin Laden to the crime (see also this partial confirmation by the Washington
Post). And did you see the statement by the CIA commander in
charge of the capture that the U.S. let Bin Laden escape from
Afghanistan?

Have
you heard that the anthrax attacks -- which were sent along with notes
purportedly written by Islamic terrorists -- used a weaponized anthrax
strain from the top U.S. bioweapons facility? Indeed, top bioweapons experts have stated that the anthrax
attack may have been a CIA test "gone wrong." For more on this, see this
article by a former NSA and naval intelligence officer and this statement by a distinguished law professor and
bioterror expert (and this one).

It is
also interesting that the only Congress-members mailed anthrax letters
were key Democrats, and that the attacks occurred one
week before passage of the freedom-curtailing PATRIOT Act, which seems
to have scared them and the rest of Congress into passing that act
without even reading it. And though it may be a coincidence, White
House staff began taking the anti-anthrax medicine before the
Anthrax attacks occurred.

Even
General William Odom, former director of the National Security Agency, said
"By any measure the US has long used terrorism. In ‘78-79 the
Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism, yet in
every version they produced, the lawyers said the US would be in
violation" (the audio is here).