False Flag Terrorism

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,
cor****ations, 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 ****ps, when one ****p would hang
the flag of its 
enemy before attacking another ****p in its own navy. Because the enemy's
flag was hung instead 
of the flag of the real country of the attacking ****p, 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 re****t). 
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 dictator****p, or a parliament, or a communist
dictator****p ... 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 do***ented 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
sup****t 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 do***ents 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 astoni****ng Operation Northwoods, see the ABC news
re****t; the official 
declassified do***ents; and watch this interview with James Bamford, the
former Wa****ngton 
Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
One quote from the 
Northwoods do***ents states: "A 'Remember the Maine' incident could be
arranged: We could blow 
up a US ****p 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
do***entary 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
re****t.

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
Wa****ngton 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 pur****tedly 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).

Why Does This Matter?

Please read what the following highly respected people are saying:

Former prominent Republican U.S. Congressman and CIA official Bob Barr
stated that the U.S. is 
close to becoming a totalitarian society and that the current
administration is using fear to 
try to ensure that this happens. Current Republican U.S. Congressman Ron
Paul stated that the 
government "is determined to have martial law." He also said a contrived
"Gulf of Tonkin-type 
incident may occur to gain popular sup****t for an attack on Iran." Former
National Security 
Adviser Brzezinski told the Senate that a terrorist act might be carried
out in the U.S. and 
falsely blamed on Iran to justify war against that nation.

The former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan
administration, Paul Craig 
Roberts, who is called the "Father of Reaganomics" and is a former editor
and columnist for the 
Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Scripps Howard News Service, has
said:

     "Ask yourself: Would a government that has lied us into two wars and
is working to lie us 
into an attack on Iran shrink from staging 'terrorist' attacks in order to
remove opposition to 
its agenda? ... If the Bush administration wants to continue its wars in
the Middle East and to 
entrench the 'unitary executive' at home, it will have to conduct some
false flag operations 
that will both frighten and anger the American people and make them accept
Bush's declaration 
of 'national emergency' and the return of the draft. Alternatively, the
administration could 
simply allow any real terrorist plot to proceed without hindrance."

(see also this even stronger statement).

Retired 27-year CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who prepared and presented
Presidential Daily 
Briefings and served as a high-level analyst for several presidents,
stated that if there was 
another major attack in the U.S., it would lead to martial law. He went on
to say:

     "We have to be careful, if somebody does this kind of provocation -
big violent explosions 
of some kind - we have to not take the word of the masters there in
Wa****ngton that this was 
some terrorist event because it could well be a provocation allowing them,
or seemingly to 
allow them to get what they want."

The former CIA analyst would not put it past the government to "play fast
and loose" with 
terror alerts and warnings and even terrorist events in order to rally
people behind the flag.

General Tommy Franks stated that if another terrorist attack occurs in the
United States "the 
Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of
government." Daniel 
Ellsberg, the famous Pentagon Papers whistleblower, said "if there is
another terror attack, I 
believe the president will get what he wants. And what he wants is a new
Patriot Act, one that 
will make the current Patriot Act look like the Bill of Rights."

Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter stated before the Iraq war
started that there were no 
weapons of mass destruction. He is now saying that he would not rule out
staged government 
terror by the U.S. government. And British Parliament Member George
Galloway stated that "there 
is a very real danger" that the American government will stage a false
flag terror attack in 
order to justify war against Iran and to gain complete control
domestically.

The abundance of reliable information in this essay suggests that not only
has the U.S. in the 
past conducted false flag operations, but there is a possibility that 9/11
involved some 
element of this deceit, and a future false flag operation cannot be ruled
out. Let us spread 
this news to all who care so that we might build the critical mass
necessary to stop these 
secret operations and work together for a more caring civil society.


Special Note: This essay is an edited version of the well researched
do***ent available at 
http://pledgeforamerica.com/2.html.
For a collection of reliable,
verifiable information 
suggesting that 9/11 may have been a form of false flag operation, please
see the 9/11 
Information Center at http://www.WantToKnow.info/911information.