The
Charlie Hebdo Story Simply Doesn’t Wash
By Paul Craig Roberts
January 14, 2015 "ICH"
- The Charlie Hebdo affair has many of the
characteristics of a false flag operation.
The attack on the cartoonists’ office was a
disciplined professional attack of the kind
associated with highly trained special
forces; yet the suspects who were later
corralled and killed seemed bumbling and
unprofessional. It is like two different
sets of people.
Usually Muslim terrorists
are prepared to die in the attack; yet the
two professionals who hit Charlie Hebdo were
determined to escape and succeeded, an
amazing feat. Their identity was allegedly
established by the claim that they
conveniently left for the authorities their
ID in the getaway car. Such a mistake is
inconsistent with the professionalism of the
attack and reminds me of the undamaged
passport found miraculously among the ruins
of the two WTC towers that served to
establish the identity of the alleged 9/11
hijackers.
It is a plausible
inference that the ID left behind in the
getaway car was the ID of the two Kouachi
brothers, convenient patsies, later killed
by police, and from whom we will never hear
anything, and not the ID of the
professionals who attacked Charlie Hebdo. An
important fact that supports this inference
is the report that the third suspect in the
attack, Hamyd Mourad, the alleged driver of
the getaway car, when seeing his name
circulating on social media as a suspect
realized the danger he was in and quickly
turned himself into the police for
protection against being murdered by
security forces as a terrorist.
Hamyd Mourad says he has
an iron-clad alibi. If so, this makes him
the despoiler of a false flag attack.
Authorities will have to say that despite
being wrong about Mourad, they were right
about the Kouachi brothers. Alternatively,
Mourad could be coerced or tortured into
some sort of confession that supports the
official story.
https://www.intellihub.com/18-year-old-charlie-hebdo-suspect-surrenders-police-claims-alibi/
The American and European
media have ignored the fact that Mourad
turned himself in for protection from being
killed as a terrorist as he has an alibi. I
googled Hamid Mourad and all I found
(January 12) was the main US and European
media reporting that the third suspect had
turned himself in. The reason for his
surrender was left out of the reports. The
news was reported in a way that gave
credence to the accusation that the suspect
who turned himself in was part of the attack
on Charlie Hebdo. Not a single US mainstream
media source reported that the alleged
suspect turned himself in because he has an
ironclad alibi.
Some media merely reported
Mourad’s surrender in a headline with no
coverage in the report. The list that I
googled includes the Washington Post
(January 7 by Griff Witte and Anthony Faiola);
Die Welt (Germany) “One suspect has turned
himself in to police in connection with
Wednesday’s massacre at the offices of
Parisian satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo;”
ABC News (January 7) “Youngest suspect in
Charlie Hebdo Attack turns himself in;” CNN
(January 8) “Citing sources, the Agence
France Presse news agency reported that an
18-year-old suspect in the attack had
surrendered to police.”
Another puzzle in the
official story that remains unreported by
the presstitute media is the alleged suicide
of a high ranking member of the French
Judicial Police who had an important role in
the Charlie Hebdo investigation. For unknown
reasons, Helric Fredou, a police official
involved in the most important investigation
of a lifetime, decided to kill himself in
his police office on January 7 or January 8
(both dates are reported in the foreign
media) in the middle of the night while
writing his report on his investigation. A
google search as of 6pm EST January 13 turns
up no mainstream US media report of this
event. The alternative media reports it, as
do some UK newspapers, but without suspicion
or mention whether his report has
disappeared. The official story is that
Fredou was suffering from “depression” and
“burnout,” but no evidence is provided.
Depression and burnout are the standard
explanations of mysterious deaths that have
unsettling implications.
Once again we see the US
print and TV media serving as a ministry of
propaganda for Washington. In place of
investigation, the media repeats the
government’s implausible story.
It behoves us all to
think. Why would Muslims be more outraged by
cartoons in a Paris magazine than by
hundreds of thousands of Muslims killed by
Washington and its French and NATO vassals
in seven countries during the past 14 years?
If Muslims wanted to make
a point of the cartoons, why not bring a
hate crime charge or lawsuit? Imagine what
would happen to a European magazine that
dared to satirize Jews in the way Charlie
Hebdo satirized Muslims. Indeed, in Europe
people are imprisoned for investigating the
holocaust without entirely confirming every
aspect of it.
If a Muslim lawsuit was
deep-sixed by French authorities, the
Muslims would have made their point. Killing
people merely contributes to the
demonization of Muslims, a result that only
serves Washington’s wars against Muslim
countries.
If Muslims are responsible
for the attack on Charlie Hebdo, what Muslim
goal did they achieve? None whatsoever.
Indeed, the attack attributed to Muslims has
ended French and European sympathy and
support for Palestine and European
opposition to more US wars against Muslims.
Just recently France had voted in the UN
with Palestine against the US-Israeli
position. This assertion of an independent
French foreign policy was reinforced by the
recent statement by the President of France
that the economic sanctions against Russia
should be terminated.
Clearly, France was
showing too much foreign policy
independence. The attack on Charlie Hebdo
serves to cow France and place France back
under Washington’s thumb.
Some will contend that
Muslims are sufficiently stupid to shoot
themselves in the head in this way. But how
do we reconcile such alleged stupidity with
the alleged Muslim 9/11 and Charlie Hebdo
professional attacks?
If we believe the official
story, the 9/11 attack on the US shows that
19 Muslims, largely Saudis, without any
government or intelligence service support,
outwitted not only all 16 US intelligence
agencies, the National Security Council,
Dick Cheney and all the neoconservatives in
high positions throughout the US government,
and airport security, but also the
intelligence services of NATO and Israel’s
Mossad. How can such intelligent and capable
people, who delivered the most humiliating
blow in world history to an alleged
Superpower with no difficulty whatsoever
despite giving every indication of their
intentions, possibly be so stupid as to
shoot themselves in the head when they could
have thrown France into turmoil with a mere
lawsuit?
The Charlie Hebdo story
simply doesn’t wash. If you believe it, you
are no match for a Muslim.
Some who think that they
are experts will say that a false flag
attack in France would be impossible without
the cooperation of French intelligence. To
this I say that it is practically a
certainty that the CIA has more control over
French intelligence than does the President
of France. Operation Gladio proves this. The
largest part of the government of Italy was
ignorant of the bombings conducted by the
CIA and Italian Intelligence against
European women and children and blamed on
communists in order to diminish the
communist vote in elections.
Americans are a pitifully
misinformed people. All of history is a
history of false flag operations. Yet
Americans dismiss such proven operations as
“conspiracy theories,” which merely proves
that government has successfully brainwashed
insouciant Americans and deprived them of
the ability to recognize the truth.
Americans are the foremost
among the captive nations.
Who will liberate them?
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for
Economic Policy and associate editor of the
Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for
Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service,
and Creators Syndicate. He has had many
university appointments. His internet
columns have attracted a worldwide
following. Roberts' latest books are
The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and
Economic Dissolution of the West and
How America Was Lost.