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False flags attacks common but rarely reported in the corporate
media
Wayne Madsen
Online
Journal
Friday, Dec 12, 2008
Revelations about a shadowy right-wing group called Ergenekon
participating with Turkish military and intelligence elements
in “false flag” terrorist attacks in order to bring
down the Turkish government are nothing new and are, in fact,
a normal tactic used by intelligence services. However, the term
“false flag” has been irresponsibly relegated to the
arena of “conspiracy theories” by a corporate media
answering to their own hidden agendas.
In 1996, then-South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki told
the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission that the
apartheid government carried out “false flag” terrorist
attacks that were then attributed to the African National Congress
(ANC), which had a policy of not targeting civilians in its battle
with the apartheid regime. The horrible execution method of “necklacing,”
putting a burning tire over the necks of victims that would burn
them to death, was carried out by apartheid agents provocateurs
to damage the reputation of the ANC, Mbeki told the commission.
Some of the gruesome videotaped beheadings carried out on Westerners
in Iraq may also have been carried out by agents provocateurs
on the payroll of U.S. and other intelligence services to generate
sympathy for the U.S.-led occupation of the country and pin blame
on the Iraqi insurgents.
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Many observers point out that Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish national
who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981, may have been
unwittingly used by Western intelligence in order to foment a
Polish insurrection against the Soviet Union. Agca thought at
various times he was working for the Soviets, Bulgaria, or Iran
through the CIA. Turkish Interior Minister Hussan Gunes, who investigated
Agca, said he thought Agca was involved in an attempt to provoke
an uprising in Poland and cut it off from the Warsaw Pact.
The most infamous and documented U.S. false flag operation was
the proposed Operation Northwoods, a plan hatched by the Joint
Chiefs of Staff during the Kennedy administration in 1962 that
included terrorist attacks against ships and passenger planes,
claiming Cuba was behind them and providing a pretext for a U.S.
invasion of Cuba.
In 1967, Israel attacked the National Security Agency intelligence
ship, the U.S.S. Liberty, hoping the Americans would believe Egypt
carried out the attack, prompting a U.S. military strike on Egypt,
with which Israel was fighting the Six Day War. The Israeli operation
was reportedly code-named Operation Cyanide.
More recently, Ikram Yabukov, a former Uzbek National Security
Service (SNB) major, said the government of President Islam Karimov
carrid out a number of false flag terrorist attacks and then blamed
them on Islamist extremists to win support at home and abroad.
Former British ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray validated
Yabukov’s claims. Uzbekistan was an early U.S. coalition
partner in the so-called “Global War on Terrorism”
following the 9/11 attacks.
Yakobov also claimed that many Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan
(IMU) leaders, designated terrorists by the U.S. State Department,
were nurtured by the Uzbek government, which supported their bombings
in Tashkent and the 2005 Andijon uprising, which killed more than
1,500 people. In another false flag, Yakubov said the SNB engineered
a 2004 passenger plane crash in Tashkent that killed senior UN
official in Uzbekistan Richard Conroy. Conroy apparently had information
linking Karimov to trafficking of drugs and women forced abroad
into prostitution.
Last month, three German BND intelligence agents were arrested
by Kosovo authorities after they were accused of throwing a bomb
at the European Union office in Pristina, the Kosovo capital.
The previously unheard of Army of the Republic of Kosovo claimed
responsibility for the attack. The BND believes that their agents
were fingered by corrupt Kosovo politicians who were the actual
perpetrators of the attack on the EU building. The Germans are
aware that the Kosovo government, which is riddled with criminals
of every strike, takes its orders from the United States.
What is certain is that “false flag” operations run
throughout history. There is new evidence that Ergenekon key players
are supported by certain elements in Utah. Ironically, one of
the most dastardly uses of the false flag attack was by Mormon
settlers in Utah who preyed upon California-bound wagon trains.
One such attack, the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, saw 120
California-bound men, women, and children massacred by Mormon
militiamen who left Indian artifacts at the crime scene to make
authorities believe the wagon train had been beset upon by Indians.
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