False Flag Terror “Has Succeeded
For Millennia, To Compel War”
By WashingtonsBlog
Painting
by
Anthony Freda
Presidents, Prime
Ministers, Congressmen, Generals, Spooks,
Soldiers and Police ADMIT to False Flag
Terror
September
14, 2016 "Information
Clearing House"
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In the
following instances, officials in the government
which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed
an attack) admit to it, either orally, in
writing, or through photographs or videos:
(1) In
1697, native American conspirators
admitted in court that Iroquois leaders
convinced a Piscataway tribesman to murder an
Englishwoman in Virginia for the purpose of
igniting a war between the English and the
Piscataway – thus weakening both parties – and
allowing the Iroquois to seize Piscataway lands.
(2)
Japanese troops set off a small explosion on a train
track in 1931, and falsely blamed it on China in
order to justify an invasion of Manchuria. This is
known as the “Mukden Incident” or the
“Manchurian Incident”. The Tokyo International
Military Tribunal
found: “Several of the participators in the
plan, including Hashimoto [a high-ranking Japanese
army officer], have on various occasions
admitted their part in the plot and have stated
that the object of the ‘Incident’ was to afford an
excuse for the occupation of Manchuria by the
Kwantung Army ….” And see
this, this and this.
(3) A major
with the Nazi SS
admitted at the Nuremberg trials that – under
orders from the chief of the Gestapo – he and some
other Nazi operatives faked attacks on their own
people and resources which they blamed on the Poles,
to justify the invasion of Poland.
(4) The
minutes of the high command of the Italian
government – subsequently approved by Mussolini
himself –
admitted that violence on the Greek-Albanian
border was carried out by Italians and falsely
blamed on the Greeks, as an excuse for Italy’s 1940
invasion of Greece.
(5) Nazi
general Franz Halder also testified at the Nuremberg
trials that Nazi leader Hermann Goering
admitted to setting fire to the German
parliament building in 1933, and then falsely
blaming the communists for the arson.
(6) Soviet
leader Nikita Khrushchev
admitted in writing that the Soviet Union’s Red
Army shelled the Russian village of Mainila in 1939
– while blaming the attack on Finland – as a basis
for launching the “Winter War” against Finland.
Russian president Boris Yeltsin
agreed that Russia had been the aggressor in the
Winter War.
(7) The
Russian Parliament, current Russian president Putin
and former Soviet leader Gorbachev all
admit that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered
his secret police to execute 22,000 Polish army
officers and civilians in 1940, and then falsely
blamed it on the Nazis.
(8) The
British government
admits that – between 1946 and 1948 – it bombed
5 ships carrying Jews attempting to flee the
Holocaust to seek safety in Palestine, set up a fake
group called “Defenders of Arab Palestine”, and then
had the psuedo-group falsely claim responsibility
for the bombings (and see
this,
this and
this).
(9) Israel
admits that in 1954, 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, and several of the Israelis later
confessed) (and see
this and
this).
The U.S.
Army does not believe this is an isolated incident.
For example, the U.S. Army’s School of Advanced
Military Studies
said of Mossad (Israel’s intelligence service):
“Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target
U.S. forces and
make it
look like a Palestinian/Arab act.”
(10) The
CIA
admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to
pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in
order to turn the country against its
democratically-elected prime minister.
(11) The
Turkish Prime Minister
admitted that the Turkish government carried out
the 1955 bombing on a Turkish consulate in Greece –
also damaging the nearby birthplace of the founder
of modern Turkey – and blamed it on Greece, for the
purpose of inciting and justifying anti-Greek
violence.
(12) The
British Prime Minister
admitted to his defense secretary that he and
American president Dwight Eisenhower approved a plan
in 1957 to carry out attacks in Syria and blame it
on the Syrian government as a way to effect regime
change.
(13) The
former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and
the
former head of Italian counterintelligence admit
that
NATO, with the help of the Pentagon and CIA, carried
out terror bombings in Italy and other European
countries in the 1950s through the 1980s and blamed
the 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” …
so that “a state of emergency could be declared, so
people would willingly trade part of their freedom
for the security” (and see
this) (Italy and other European countries
subject to the terror campaign had joined NATO
before the bombings occurred). And watch
this BBC special. They also allegedly carried
out terror attacks in
France, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, the
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the UK, and other
countries.
The CIA
also stressed to the head of the Italian program
that Italy needed to use the program to
control internal uprisings.
False flag
attacks carried out pursuant to this program include
– by way of example only:
(14) In
1960, American Senator George Smathers
suggested that the U.S. launch “a false attack
made on Guantanamo Bay which would give us the
excuse of actually fomenting a fight which would
then give us the excuse to go in and [overthrow
Castro]”.
(15)
Official State Department documents show that, in
1961, the head of the Joint Chiefs and other
high-level officials
discussed blowing up a consulate in the
Dominican Republic in order to justify an invasion
of that country. The plans were not carried out, but
they were all discussed as serious proposals.
(16) As
admitted by the U.S. government, recently
declassified documents show that in 1962, the
American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan
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. See the following
ABC news report;
the official documents; and watch
this interview with the former Washington
Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News Tonight
with Peter Jennings.
(17) In
1963, the U.S. Department of Defense wrote a paper
promoting attacks on nations within the
Organization of American States – such as
Trinidad-Tobago or Jamaica – and then falsely
blaming them on Cuba.
(18) The
U.S. Department of Defense also
suggested covertly paying a person in the Castro
government to attack the United States: “The only
area remaining for consideration then would be to
bribe one of Castro’s subordinate commanders to
initiate an attack on Guantanamo.”
(19) A U.S.
Congressional committee
admitted that – as part of its “Cointelpro”
campaign – the FBI had used many
provocateurs in the 1950s through 1970s to carry out
violent acts and falsely blame them on political
activists.
(20) A
top Turkish general
admitted that Turkish forces burned down a
mosque on Cyprus in the 1970s and blamed it on their
enemy. He
explained: “In Special War, certain acts of
sabotage are staged and blamed on the enemy to
increase public resistance. We did this on Cyprus;
we even burnt down a mosque.” In response to the
surprised correspondent’s incredulous look the
general said, “I am giving an example”.
(21) A
declassified 1973 CIA document
reveals a program to train foreign police and
troops on how to make booby traps, pretending that
they were training them on how to investigate
terrorist acts:
The
Agency maintains liaison in varying degrees with
foreign police/security organizations through
its field stations ….
[CIA
provides training sessions as follows:]
a.
Providing trainees with basic knowledge
in the uses of commercial and military
demolitions and incendiaries as they
may be applied in terrorism and industrial
sabotage operations.
b.
Introducing the trainees to commercially
available materials and home laboratory
techniques, likely to he used in the
manufacture of explosives and incendiaries by
terrorists or saboteurs.
c.
Familiarizing the trainees with the concept of
target analysis and operational planning
that a saboteur or terrorist must employ.
d.
Introducing the trainees to booby trapping
devices and techniques giving practical
experience with both manufactured and
improvised devices through actual
fabrication.
***
The
program provides the trainees with ample
opportunity to develop basic familiarity and use
proficiently through handling, preparing and
applying the various explosive charges,
incendiary agents, terrorist devices and
sabotage techniques.
(22) The
German government
admitted (and
see this) that, in 1978, the German secret
service detonated a bomb in the outer wall of a
prison and planted “escape tools” on a prisoner – a
member of the Red Army Faction – which the secret
service wished to frame the bombing on.
(23) A
Mossad agent
admits that, in 1984, Mossad planted a radio
transmitter in Gaddaffi’s compound in Tripoli, Libya
which broadcast fake terrorist transmissions
recorded by Mossad, in order to frame Gaddaffi as a
terrorist supporter. Ronald Reagan bombed Libya
immediately thereafter.
(24) The
South African Truth and Reconciliation Council
found that, in 1989, the Civil Cooperation
Bureau (a covert branch of the South African Defense
Force) approached an explosives expert and asked him
“to participate in an operation aimed at
discrediting the ANC [the African National Congress]
by bombing the police vehicle of the investigating
officer into the murder incident”, thus framing the
ANC for the bombing.
(25) An
Algerian diplomat and several officers in the
Algerian army
admit that, in the 1990s, the Algerian army
frequently massacred Algerian civilians and then
blamed Islamic militants for the killings (and see
this video; and Agence France-Presse, 9/27/2002,
French Court Dismisses Algerian Defamation Suit
Against Author).
(26) In
1993, a bomb in Northern Ireland killed 9 civilians.
Official documents from the Royal Ulster
Constabulary (i.e. the British government)
show that the mastermind of the bombing was a
British agent, and that the bombing was designed to
inflame sectarian tensions. And see
this and
this.
(27) The
United States Army’s 1994 publication Special
Forces Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques
and Procedures for Special Forces – updated in
2004 –
recommends employing terrorists and using false
flag operations to destabilize leftist regimes in
Latin America. False flag terrorist attacks were
carried out in Latin America and other regions as
part of the CIA’s “Dirty
Wars“. And
see this.
(28)
Similarly, a CIA “psychological operations” manual
prepared by a CIA contractor for the Nicaraguan
Contra rebels
noted the value of assassinating someone on your
own side to create a “martyr” for the cause. The
manual was
authenticated by the U.S. government. The manual
received so much publicity from Associated Press,
Washington Post and other news coverage that –
during the 1984 presidential debate – President
Reagan was
confronted with the following question on
national television:
At this moment, we are confronted with the
extraordinary story of a CIA guerrilla manual
for the anti-Sandinista contras whom we are
backing, which advocates not only assassinations
of Sandinistas but the
hiring of criminals to
assassinate the guerrillas we are supporting in
order to create martyrs.
(29) A
Rwandan government inquiry
admitted that the 1994 shootdown and murder of
the Rwandan president, who was from the Hutu
tribe – a murder blamed by the Hutus on the rival
Tutsi tribe, and which led to the massacre
of more than 800,000 Tutsis by Hutus – was committed
by Hutu soldiers and falsely blamed on the
Tutis.
(30) An
Indonesian government fact-finding team investigated
violent riots which occurred in 1998, and determined
that “elements
of the military had been involved in the riots, some
of which were deliberately provoked”.
(31) Senior
Russian Senior military and intelligence officers
admit that the KGB blew up Russian apartment
buildings in 1999 and falsely blamed it on Chechens,
in order to justify an invasion of Chechnya (and see
this report and
this discussion).
(32) As
reported by the
New York Times,
BBC and
Associated Press, Macedonian officials admit
that in 2001, the government murdered 7 innocent
immigrants in cold blood and pretended that they
were Al Qaeda soldiers attempting to assassinate
Macedonian police, in order to join the “war on
terror”. luring foreign migrants into the country,
executing them in a staged gun battle, and then
claiming they were a unit backed by Al Qaeda intent
on attacking Western embassies”. Macedonian
authorities had lured the immigrants into the
country, and then – after killing them – posed the
victims with planted evidence – “bags of uniforms
and semiautomatic weapons at their side” – to show
Western diplomats.
(33) At the
July 2001 G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy, black-clad
thugs were
videotaped getting out of police cars, and were
seen by an Italian MP carrying “iron bars inside
the police station”. Subsequently, senior police
officials in Genoa subsequently
admitted that police planted two Molotov
cocktails and faked the stabbing of a police officer
at the G8 Summit, in order to justify a
violent crackdown against protesters.
(34) The
U.S.
falsely blamed Iraq for playing a role in the
9/11 attacks – as shown by a
memo from the defense secretary – as one of the
main justifications for launching the Iraq war.
Even after
the 9/11 Commission
admitted that there was no connection, Dick
Cheney
said that the evidence is “overwhelming” that al
Qaeda had a relationship with Saddam Hussein’s
regime, that Cheney “probably” had information
unavailable to the Commission, and that the media
was not ‘doing their homework’ in reporting such
ties. Top U.S. government officials now
admit that the Iraq war was really launched for
oil … not 9/11 or weapons of mass destruction.
Despite previous “lone wolf” claims, many U.S.
government officials now
say that 9/11 was state-sponsored terror; but
Iraq was not the state which backed the
hijackers. (Many U.S. officials have
alleged that 9/11 was a false flag operation by
rogue elements of the U.S. government; but such a
claim is beyond the scope of this discussion. The
key point is that the U.S. falsely blamed it on
Iraq, when it knew Iraq had nothing to do
with it.).
(Additionally, the
same judge who has shielded the Saudis for any
liability for funding 9/11 has awarded a default
judgment against Iran for
$10.5 billion for carrying out 9/11 … even
though no one seriously believes that Iran had any
part in 9/11.)
(35)
Although the FBI now admits that the 2001 anthrax
attacks were carried out by one or more U.S.
government scientists, a senior FBI official says
that the FBI was actually
told to blame the Anthrax attacks on Al
Qaeda by White House officials (remember what
the anthrax letters
looked like). Government officials also confirm
that the white House
tried to link the anthrax to Iraq as a
justification for regime change in that country. And
see this.
(36)
According to the
Washington Post, Indonesian police admit that
the Indonesian military killed American teachers in
Papua in 2002 and blamed the murders on a Papuan
separatist group in order to get that group listed
as a terrorist organization.
(37) The
well-respected former Indonesian president also
admits that the government probably had a role
in the Bali bombings.
(38) Police
outside of a 2003 European Union summit in Greece
were filmed
planting Molotov cocktails on a peaceful protester.
(39) Former
Department of Justice lawyer John Yoo
suggested in 2005 that the US should go on the
offensive against al-Qaeda, having “our intelligence
agencies create a false terrorist
organization. It could have its own
websites, recruitment centers, training camps, and
fundraising operations. It could launch
fake terrorist operations and claim
credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow
confusion within al-Qaeda’s ranks, causing
operatives to doubt others’ identities and to
question the validity of communications.”
(40)
Similarly, in 2005, Professor John Arquilla of the
Naval Postgraduate School – a renowned US defense
analyst credited with developing the concept of
‘netwar’ –
called for western intelligence services to
create new “pseudo gang” terrorist groups,
as a way of undermining “real” terror networks.
According to Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist
Seymour Hersh, Arquilla’s ‘pseudo-gang’ strategy
was, Hersh reported,
already being implemented by the Pentagon:
“Under
Rumsfeld’s new approach, I was told, US military
operatives would be permitted to pose abroad as
corrupt foreign businessmen seeking to buy
contraband items that could be used in
nuclear-weapons systems. In some cases,
according to the Pentagon advisers,
local citizens could be recruited and asked to
join up with guerrillas or terrorists…
The new rules will enable the Special Forces
community to set up what it calls ‘action teams’
in the target countries overseas which can be
used to find and eliminate terrorist
organizations. ‘Do
you remember the right-wing execution squads in
El Salvador?’ the former high-level intelligence
official asked me, referring to the military-led
gangs that committed atrocities in the early
nineteen-eighties. ‘We founded them and we
financed them,’ he said. ‘The objective now is
to recruit locals in any area we want. And we
aren’t going to tell Congress about it.’ A
former military officer, who has knowledge of
the Pentagon’s commando capabilities, said,
‘We’re going to be riding with the bad boys.’”
(41) United
Press International
reported in June 2005:
U.S.
intelligence officers are reporting that some of
the insurgents in Iraq are using recent-model
Beretta 92 pistols, but the pistols seem to have
had their serial numbers erased. The numbers do
not appear to have been physically removed; the
pistols seem to have come off a production line
without any serial numbers. Analysts suggest the
lack of serial numbers indicates that the
weapons were intended for intelligence
operations or terrorist cells with substantial
government backing. Analysts speculate that
these guns are probably from either Mossad or
the CIA. Analysts speculate that agent
provocateurs may be using the untraceable
weapons even as U.S. authorities use insurgent
attacks against civilians as evidence of the
illegitimacy of the resistance.
(42) In
2005,
British soldiers dressed as Arabs were caught by
Iraqi police after a shootout against the police.
The soldiers apparently
possessed explosives, and were
accused of attempting to
set off bombs. While none of the soldiers
admitted that they were carrying out attacks,
British soldiers and a column of British tanks
stormed the jail they were held in,
broke down a wall of the jail, and busted them out.
The extreme measures used to free the soldiers –
rather than have them face questions and potentially
stand trial – could be considered an admission.
(43)
Undercover Israeli soldiers
admitted in 2005 to throwing stones at other
Israeli soldiers so they could blame it on
Palestinians, as an excuse to crack down on peaceful
protests by the Palestinians.
(44) Quebec
police
admitted that, in 2007, thugs carrying rocks to
a peaceful protest were actually undercover Quebec
police officers (and
see this).
(45) A 2008
US Army special operations field manual
recommends that the U.S. military use surrogate
non-state groups such as “paramilitary forces,
individuals, businesses, foreign political
organizations, resistant or insurgent organizations,
expatriates, transnational terrorism
adversaries, disillusioned transnational terrorism
members, black marketers, and other social
or political ‘undesirables.’” The manual
specifically acknowledged that U.S. special
operations can involve both counterterrorism and
“Terrorism” (as well as “transnational criminal
activities, including narco-trafficking, illicit
arms-dealing, and illegal financial transactions.”)
(46) The
former Italian
Prime Minister, President, and head of Secret
Services (Francesco Cossiga)
advised the 2008 minister in charge of the
police, on how to deal with protests from teachers
and students:
He
should do what I did when I was Minister of the
Interior … infiltrate the movement with agents
provocateurs inclined to do anything …. And
after that, with the strength of the gained
population consent, … beat them for blood and
beat for blood also those teachers that incite
them. Especially the teachers. Not the elderly,
of course, but the girl teachers yes.
(47) At the
G20 protests in London in 2009, a British member of
parliament
saw plain clothes police officers attempting to
incite the crowd to violence.
(48)
Egyptian politicians
admitted (and
see this) that government employees looted
priceless museum artifacts 2011 to try to discredit
the protesters.
(49) In
2011, a Colombian colonel
admitted that he and his soldiers had lured 57
innocent civilians and killed them – after dressing
many of them in uniforms – as part of a scheme to
claim that Columbia was eradicating left-wing
terrorists. And
see this.
(50)
Rioters who discredited the peaceful protests
against the swearing in of the Mexican president in
2012
admitted that they were paid 300 pesos each to
destroy everything in their path. According to
Wikipedia, photos also
show the vandals waiting in groups behind police
lines prior to the violence.
(51) A
Colombian army colonel has
admitted that his unit murdered 57 civilians,
then dressed them in uniforms and claimed they were
rebels killed in combat.
(52) On
November 20, 2014, Mexican agent provocateurs were
transported by army vehicles to participate in the
2014 Iguala mass kidnapping protests, as was
shown by videos and pictures distributed via
social networks.
(53) The
highly-respected writer for the Telegraph Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard says that the head of Saudi
intelligence – Prince Bandar – recently
admitted that the Saudi government controls
“Chechen” terrorists.
(54)
Two members of the Turkish parliament,
high-level American sources and others admitted
that the Turkish government – a NATO country –
carried out the chemical weapons attacks in Syria
and falsely blamed them on the Syrian government;
and high-ranking Turkish government
admitted on tape plans to carry out attacks and
blame it on the Syrian government.
(55) The
Ukrainian security chief
admits that the sniper attacks which started the
Ukrainian coup were carried out in order to frame
others. Ukrainian officials
admit that the Ukrainian snipers fired on both
sides, to create maximum chaos.
(56)
Burmese government officials
admitted that Burma (renamed Myanmar) used false
flag attacks against Muslim and Buddhist groups
within the country to stir up hatred between the two
groups, to prevent democracy from spreading.
(57)
Israeli police were again
filmed in 2015 dressing up as Arabs and throwing
stones, then turning over Palestinian protesters to
Israeli soldiers.
(58)
Britain’s spy agency has
admitted (and
see this) that it carries out “digital false
flag” attacks on targets,
framing people by writing offensive or unlawful
material … and blaming it on the target.
(59) U.S.
soldiers have
admitted that if they kill innocent Iraqis and
Afghanis, they then “drop” automatic weapons near
their body so they can pretend they were
militants
(60)
Similarly, police frame innocent people for crimes
they didn’t commit. The practice is so well-known
that the New York Times
noted in 1981:
In
police jargon, a throwdown is a weapon planted
on a victim.
Newsweek
reported in 1999:
Perez,
himself a former [Los Angeles Police Department]
cop, was caught stealing eight pounds of cocaine
from police evidence lockers. After pleading
guilty in September, he bargained for a lighter
sentence by telling an appalling story of
attempted murder and a
“throwdown”–police slang for a weapon planted by
cops to make a shooting legally justifiable.
Perez said he and his partner, Officer Nino
Durden, shot an unarmed 18th Street Gang member
named Javier Ovando, then planted a
semiautomatic rifle on the unconscious suspect
and claimed that Ovando had tried to shoot them
during a stakeout.
Wikipedia
notes:
As part
of his plea bargain, Pérez implicated scores of
officers from the Rampart Division’s anti-gang
unit, describing routinely
beating gang members, planting evidence
on suspects, falsifying reports and covering up
unprovoked shootings.
(As a side
note – and while not technically false flag attacks
– police have been busted
framing innocent people in many other ways, as
well.)
(61) A
former U.S. intelligence officer recently
alleged:
Most
terrorists are false flag terrorists or are
created by our own security services.
(62) The
head and special agent in charge of the FBI’s Los
Angeles office
said that most terror attacks are committed by
the CIA and FBI as false flags. Similarly, the
director of the National Security Agency under
Ronald Reagan – Lt. General William Odom
said:
By any
measure the US has long used terrorism. In
‘78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law
against international terrorism – in every
version they produced, the lawyers said the US
would be in violation.
(audio
here).
(63) The
Director of Analytics at the interagency Global
Engagement Center housed at the U.S. Department of
State, also an adjunct professor at George Mason
University, where he teaches the graduate course
National Security Challenges in the Department of
Information Sciences and Technology, a former branch
chief in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, and an
intelligence advisor to the Secretary of Homeland
Security (J.D. Maddox)
notes:
Provocation is one of the most basic, but
confounding, aspects of warfare.
Despite its sometimes obvious use, it has
succeeded consistently against audiences around
the world, for millennia, to compel war.
A well-constructed provocation narrative
mutes even the most vocal opposition.
***
The
culmination of a strategic provocation
operation invariably reflects a narrative
of victimhood: we are the
victims of the enemy’s unforgivable
atrocities.
***
In the
case of strategic provocation the deaths of an
aggressor’s own personnel are a core tactic of
the provocation.
***
The
persistent use of strategic provocation over
centuries – and its apparent importance to war
planners – begs the question of its likely use
by the US and other states in the near term.
(64)
Leaders throughout history have acknowledged the
“benefits” of of false flags to justify their
political agenda:
“Terrorism
is the best political weapon for
nothing drives people harder than a fear of
sudden death”.
– Adolph Hitler
“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.
“The
easiest way to gain control of a population is
to carry out acts of terror.
[The public] will clamor for such laws if their
personal security is threatened”.
– Josef Stalin
Postscript:
The media
plays along
as well. For example, in 2012, NBC News’ chief
foreign correspondent, Richard Engel, was kidnapped
in Syria. NBC News said that Engel and his reporting
team had been abducted by forces affiliated with the
Syrian government. He reported that they only
escaped when some anti-Syrian government rebels
killed some of the pro-government kidnappers.
However, NBC
subsequently
admitted that this was false. It turns out that
they were really kidnapped by people associated with
the U.S. backed rebels fighting the Syrian
government … who wore the clothes of, faked the
accent of, scrawled the slogans of, and otherwise
falsely impersonated the mannerisms of
people associated with the Syrian government. In
reality, the group that kidnapped Engel and his crew
were
affiliated with the U.S.-supported Free Syrian Army,
and NBC
should have known that it was blaming the wrong
party. See the
New York Times and
the Nation’s reporting.
Of course,
sometimes atrocities or warmongering are falsely
blamed on the enemy as a justification for war …
when no such event ever occurred. This is
sort of like false flag terror … without the terror.
For
example:
- The
NSA
admits that it
lied about what really happened in the
Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 …
manipulating data to make it look like North
Vietnamese boats fired on a U.S. ship so as to
create a false justification for the Vietnam war
-
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind
reported that the White House ordered the
CIA to forge and backdate a document falsely
linking Iraq with Muslim terrorists and 9/11 …
and that the CIA complied with those
instructions and in fact created the forgery,
which was then used to justify war against Iraq.
And see
this and
this
- Time
magazine
points out that the claim by President Bush
that Iraq was attempting to buy “yellow cake”
Uranium from Niger:
had
been checked out — and debunked — by U.S.
intelligence a year before the President
repeated it.
-
The “humanitarian” wars in Syria, Libya and
Yugoslavia were all justified by
exaggerated reports that the leaders of
those countries were committing atrocities
against their people. And
see this
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