Everyone’s Talking about “False Flags … Isn’t that Another Bogus Historical
Conspiracy Theory?
Posted on April 25, 2013 by WashingtonsBlog
Forget Boston, 9/11 and Oklahoma City … Is False Flag Terror Even a REAL
Historical Concept?
More people are using the term “false flag” than ever before.
Some claim that the Boston marathon bombing, 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombing
were false flag attacks.
Others claim that anyone who uses the phrase “false flag” is a nut conspiracy
theorist.
This post does not discuss Boston, 9/11 or Oklahoma City. It simply looks at
whether there is any real historical concept regarding false flags.
What Is False Flag Terror?
“False flag terrorism” is defined as a government attacking its own
people, then blaming others in order to justify going to war against the people
it blames. 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, instead of the flag of the real country
of the attacking ship, was hung, it was called a “false flag” attack.
Indeed, this concept is so well-accepted that rules of engagement for naval,
air and land warfare all prohibit false flag attacks.
Leaders Throughout History Have Acknowledged False Flags
Leaders throughout history have acknowledged the danger of false flags:
“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first
appears he is a protector.”
>- Plato
>“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of
>fighting a foreign enemy.”
>- U.S. President James Madison
>“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
Governments from Around the World ADMIT that they Carry Out False Flag Terror
But don’t take our word for it.
Governments from around the world admit they carry out false flag terror:
* 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. Nazi general Franz Halder also testified at the
Nuremberg trials that Nazi leader Hermann Goering admitted to setting fire to
the German parliament building, and then falsely blaming the communists for the
arson
* 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
* Israel admits that 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 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 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” (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
* As admitted by the U.S. government, recently declassified documents
show that in the 1960′s, 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.
* 2 years before, American Senator George Smathers had suggested that
the U.S. make “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]“.
* And Official State Department documents show that – only nine months
before the Joint Chiefs of Staff plan was proposed – 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 3
plans were not carried out, but they
were all discussed as serious proposals
* 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
* 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)
* Senior Russian Senior military and intelligence officers admit that
the KGB blew up Russian apartment buildings and falsely blamed it
on Chechens, in order to justify an invasion of Chechnya (and see this report
and this discussion)
* 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.
* The well-respected former Indonesian president also admits that the
government probably had a role in the Bali bombings
* As reported by BBC, the New York Times, and Associated Press,
Macedonian officials admit that 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”.
* 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
* 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.”
* 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.
* Quebec police admitted that, in 2007, thugs carrying rocks to a
peaceful protest were actually undercover Quebec police officers
* 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
* 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
* 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
The Bottom Line
The bottom line is that governments from around the world have – according to
their own admissions – carried out false flags.
Any discussion about a specific terrorist attack cannot start with the
assumption that it couldn’t be a false flag attack, or that it must be a false
flag attack.
The facts of each attack must be examined on their own merits before reaching
any conclusion.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/forget-boston-911-and-oklahoma-city-is-false-flag-terrorism-even-a-real-concept.html
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