What is False Flag terrorism?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag

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.

http://www.wanttoknow.info/falseflag

False Flag Terrorism
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"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, 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 was hung instead of the flag of the real country of the attacking ship, 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 report). 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 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.

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 documented 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 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."

Moreover, recently declassified U.S. Government documents 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 astonishing Operation Northwoods, see the ABC news report; the official declassified documents; and watch this interview with James Bamford, the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. One quote from the Northwoods documents states: "A 'Remember the Maine' incident could be arranged: We could blow up a US ship 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 documentary 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 report.

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 Washington 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 purportedly 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 support 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."

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(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 Washington 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."

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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 document 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.

 

the name false flag terrorism kina explains itself eh? lol.......

verry nice info tho.............

verry nice

 

It's all about marketing people, and this administration has polished it to an extreme, we won't totatlly understand for generations.

 

Amazing isn't it that we are spending trillions every year in Iraq, we executed or watched botched executions of people that weren't responsible for the Twin Towers bombings. We've given up on trying to capture Bin Laden, because our administration no longer sees him as a risk, yet we are threatening war with Iran and bombing Syria, while gas at the pump skyrockets. Who actually is benefitting?

 

Actually we have not spent trillions in IRAQ its in the Billions. let me know how have we gave up on capturing Bin Laden ? Do you think we should roll are Military into Waziristan and invade Pakistan where he is hiding ? How should we go about going after him. The last I knew the US captured the master mind behind the 911 attacks Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

 

Yes shocbomb all of that is true but the point is the US is bad whine whine blah blah blah.

 

Unfortunately you still seem to believe in the official conspiracy theory (OCT) spewed by the U.S. government and its complicit media.

The point of this thread, which you seem to have missed, is to illuminate the fact that the attacks of 9/11 were a FALSE FLAG OPERATION, planned and conducted by rogue (traitorous, treasonous) elements within the U.S. command. Namely, the White House, the Pentagon, and the intelligence agencies such as the CIA and FBI. Following this act of treason was the still on-going (yet unraveling) coverup by the corporate media as well as the Congressional majority.

Check out www.911proof.com www.911truth.org www.truthmove.org www.911blogger.com www.911weknow.com www.patriotsquestion911.org

 

Are you kidding me is this really one of those crazy ass conspiracy theory post where people think that the U.S goverment planned the 911 attacks. If so some of you really need to get a life. Do you really believe that or is it just good conversation. Let me guess you also think it was not Japan that Bombed pearl Harbor it was a US attack so we could enter WW2.

 

Does it really matter if the US has killed millions in Iraq, or most of the US military are felons, or the Iraq war has cost trillions? Who cares about the details right?

About the original post, 9/11 was not a PSYOP. There were entirely too many loose ends for an op of this magnitude. Loose ends need to be trimmed in order to prevent exposure and sustain the influence on the target. Since 9/11 there has been no solid substantial evidence showing that 9/11 was an inside job.

 

Yea, baby! We all be nuttier than fruitflies on an apple...

Well, here's one for you, have a good laugh.

The MOMENT I heard about the 9-11 thing, right after it happened that morning in fact, I thought to myself, oh my god, what has our government done. No question, no doubt. Nobody even had time to THINK about it yet, or to grasp it completely, yet I KNEW what happened. I thought it was THAT obvious! Sort of like the old saying "if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and quacks like a duck"....

No, I don't think GEORGE is smart enough to come up with the most AMAZINGLY WELL PUT TOGETHER and PERFECTLY THOUGHT OUT PHOTO OP of our time, designed for maximum effect. But I am CERTAIN he was a co-conspirator. I suppose they paid somebody a LOT of money to design the attack...

I did wonder, when the US FIRST ATTACKED Iraq, they found locked bunkers just FULL of MILLIONS of US bucks.....Where'd it come from, where'd it go, where'd it come from, Cottoneye Joe...

 

So sorry to see that you choose to go along with the herd and believe the corporate (government run) media's story that Osama Bin Forgotten and his 19 cave-dwellers were able to out-trick our trillion dollar military industrial complex using nothing more than box-cutters. I suggest you look into the evidence YOURSELF. But then, that would require you to use *your own* mental faculties. Most Americans, yourself included apparently, are too...LAZY to do such things...aren't you.

There are tens of millions of us by now...across the globe. Do your homework. Look at recent polls taken. And uh...check out the links I provided above, lazy boy.

Calling us "conspiracy theorists" means nothing. YOU are a conspiracy theorist if you buy into the official story. Luckily, your numbers are dwindling as more and more people are learning to think for themselves. But...ignore everything I just said and swallow your blue pill. You know you will...

Edit: there are 9/11 victim's family members who are calling for a NEW, independent investigation into the crime of 9/11. Ever heard of the "Jersey Girls"? I imagine you haven't. How could someone who in all likelihood doesn't do much other than watch CNN, sports, and play their X-Box?

 

Sorry buddy, you're just wrong. You haven't done your own homework. You allow the powers that be to do your thinking for you.

Read David Ray Griffin's book "Debunking 9/11 Debunking". You'll finally learn something.

Oh, and...just to nip it in the bud first before some idiot brings it up, nobody in the 9/11 truth movement claims that George W. Bush masterminded the attack. He was nothing more than a willing puppet, as that's the purpose he serves.

 

So if A US city gets attacked Buy VX gas and thousands die and 30 minutes later good old OSAMA is on TV bolstering and Bragging about why he attacked the U.S will that be a U.S attack also on its own people and all bullshit in your mind? Its unreal what some of you people think its blows me away. But I don't think you really so belive that shit eather you just say you do to be different thats all, you will do anything to be different. You know dam Well it was Osama its just a good way to bash the US goverement and the Bush white House.But even most people who bash the US and hate BUSH on the left would think most of you people are out there and nuts. I guess Bin Laden is not that Dangerous at all right ? So let me know did he do any terrorist attacks at all in this world or are they all done buy the CIA and then made to look like a attack buy osama buy the evil goverment ran media. ? I know OSAMA is really just a allie and good friend of the Bush white house made up to put fear into the public so we can fight a war for Oil in the Middle east. Osama and Gerorge in truth are great buddies who smoke Blunts togetehr and play Poker all the time right. Islamic terrorism is all a made up buy the right !!! I bet some you you really do belive this shit!!! LOL

PS-Please ExposeTheTruth let me know who was behind the 911 atttacks was it big foot or maybe even a Alien conspiracy. Or a real good one was it the Israeli goveremnt ?And the Jersey girls do not think 911 was a conspiracy please go read about them they are just left winged puppets who seem to enjoy there husbands death. But Ann Coulter shut there asses up pretty quick.Buy the way please let me know who you you people think killed Kennedy. I can't wait to hear this answer ! Shit if you think BUSH is BAD I would lock all you crazy ass people up in Gitmo. LOL

 

ENJOY!!!??? I dare you to say that publicly...out in the open. And yes, the Jersey girls DO suspect foul-play concerning the 9/11 attack. You don't offer much in the way of a real debate, do you shoc. And the proper spelling for "there" in the context you used is "their". Perhaps you should take an English course before purporting yourself to be an authority on ANY subjectmatter.

I was going to answer your reply point by point, but seeing as though you're pulling the Bill O'Reilly-type ad hominem BS (aliens, Bigfoot, etc), I've decided that your very existence isn't worth anything, let alone a well thoughtout reply to you. And you actually have the nerve to cite Ann Coulter as a legitimate counter-argument to our claims? Even most moderate republicans nowadays laugh at her.

You're a much sorrier sort that I previously imagined. Absolutely pathetic. Thanks for exposing yourself for the stupid character that you are.

 

I just noticed in your profile that you're an insurance sales man. I guess that by itself is a good indicator on what a repulsive person you are. Go figure lol. You also sell baseball cards? How deep!! I also find it quite amusing that you stress that fact that you're a "white-male". Yet another one giving us all a bad name.

 

Exposethetruth now that you want to get personal we will. I don't even have to look at your profile or a picture of you to know what you are like. let me Guess you are into Hackey Sack,vegetarian food, Nature, and loving your fellow man ? Dam does that sound GAY.You are a person you grew up a rich spoiled brat who wanted to rebel against your rich ass Mommy and Daddy and the kids in your private school so you became a left winged nut who trys to be different and go against the norm of society to prove some point that no one but yourself and people on crazy ass message boards care about. You know better then anyone that all your claims are false and sound idiotic but they make you feel like you have a purpose in life when in fact you know you don't. If you really do belive them then I really do feel sorry for you !!! But on the other hand I love how most if not all left winged environmentalist nuts who want to help the poor in every 3rd world country and want to hug trees all day long and lets not forget save the world from the big bad U.S goveremnt are the ones who have benefited the most from capitalism from your Mommy and Daddys trust funds and stock portfolios.It makes me laugh so much that You think buy driving your Hybrids and being vegetarians eating soy burgers that you are doing something for this world. When in fact you are the ones poisoning it !!!! But you know what I do respect your crazy ass thoughts, Thats what makes America so Great. people no matter how crazy there opinion sounds have the right to express that. You hate America so much go try expressing your crazy thoughts in pre war IRAQ under Saddam or some other Dictators regime in power right now. You know dam well what Happend in IRAQ under saddam to people who spoke out and is still happening in countries still under Dictators. Thats a whole different story all who hate the Iraq War have no better option. Do you really think IRAQ was peaceful under the control of Saddam. He only killed over 300,000+ of his own people and started 3 wars that killed millions more why he was in power ??? THATS ALL. I guess you like having people in power like that ?

 

shocbomb, You are outnumbered here. Your attitudes are not appreciated. You are giving a bad name to those who believe as you do. You are making a fool out of yourself. Don't you realize that? You absolutely will never convince anyone to see things your way by acting like an ass.

You are absolutely allowed to believe anything you want, but pulling out the "bigfoot and aliens" card is way too common for folks who don't have anything more useful to say. I think we've all see this reaction more than once, and the type who do it are total bores.

Remarking that we sound "gay" doesn't go very far either. Your prejudice is showing. If you don't like hippys, why are you here? This type of nonsense is typical of trolls.

NOBODY sane is shallow enough to PRETEND to believe 9-11 is an inside job just to be cool. The person who would do something like that has some serious self image issues.

As usual, it is always easier to badmouth someone you don't agree with rather than actually discuss something like an adult. I'm fine with knowing who you are from your profile. If you don't want someone to know FACTS about you, then don't post it. But sitting there INVENTING stories about someone you have never met just to be "smart" is making you look very dumb.

There is NO reason why we should trust our government when we are lied to repeatedly and all the presidential photo ops and news conferences are nothing but a farce. As far as I'm concerned, the folks in power may as well be from Mars. I don't understand them, don't understand their positions or opinions. I am firmly convinced that they are mentally sick. And a person with mental problems might be capable of anything at all. We have grown to expect the worst and usually we are not disappointed. People with your ideas on the other hand, You must ALSO be from Mars, because I can't understand you unless you simply are one of those who gets kicks from arguing with people who you don't know or like because of a self image problem where-in you feel the need to make yourself feel powerful. It is a FALSE power tho.

I'm not trying to be mean, just realistic. You need to either stop with the "I'm so cool and you're so dumb" act or go someplace else where you would fit in better and where there are people who will agree with you.

 

pretty Funny earth mother that I am the one making a fool out of my self I would think 99.9% of the population would say that about your Beliefs. And talk about convincing people you have a better chance of convincing the pope he is Jewish then you do Convincing normal people is society that our own goveremnt had a roll in the biggest terrorist attack out or soil. And buy the Way I did not know you had to belive in crazy ass conspiracy theories now a days to be a Hippie ? If you don't like the U.S and think are goverment is so bad why don't you leave. So live in some 3rd world country under a Dictator ship. See how far you get there speaking out against that goveremnt like you do ours. Do you really think that America is this Evil monster you say it is. Do you know how much aid we give to the World so other country's can feed there population. With out the U.S this world would fall apart. you live in the Best country in the world with the highest standards of living be grateful that you live in the United States. You bash this country so much and call it evil and you have no idea how lucky you our to live hear.when in reality there our goverments in this world that really are Evil and kill there own people. Thats what you should be pissed at and speak out against on hear. Please tell me your thoughts on the rest of the world and there goverments if the U.S is so bad ? I am not saying the U.S is perfect its far from it but it sure is alot better then the Alternatives !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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.


They pointed the finger at Jews. Why ?

 

Earthmother, don't waste your time. He actually does sound like someone from the NY/NJ area (where I grew up) so I'm actually quite accustomed to that kind of voluntary ignorance. The only way we could convince people like this is for them to be strapped down to a chair and literally DE-programmed. It would take months. His brainwashing is so extensive that anything we say, no matter how logical or coherent or even convincing, will simply be met with childlike rants, false concepts, ad hominem attacks, and invented straw-men arguments. He actually would do well as an undercover agent provocateur. Or maybe not, his maturity level wreaks of A.D.D. In a week or so he probably won't even remember that we had this discussion.

Hey Shoc, polls were taken that demonstrate over a third of the U.S. population DO NOT believe the official 9/11 story. I bet you had no clue which wouldn't surprise me in the least.

Oh, and...I was raised by lower middle class parents.