Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
False flag attacks occur when government engages in covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations seem as if they are being carried out by other entities.
False flag terrorism is a favorite
political tactic used by governments worldwide.
They influence
elections, guide national and international policy, and are cynically
used to formulate propaganda and shape public opinion as nations go to
war.
Nero and the Great Fire of Rome
The Roman consul and historian Cassius Dio, his contemporary Suetonius and others say the Emperor Nero was responsible for the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD.
Legend claims Nero had one-third of the
city torched as an excuse to build Domus Aurea, a 300 acre palatial
complex that included a towering statue of himself, the Colossus of
Nero.
Prior to the fire, the Roman Senate had rejected the emperor’s bid to level a third of the city to make way for a “Neropolis,” an urban renewal project.
The Roman historian Tacitus
wrote that when the population of Rome held Nero responsible for the
fire, he shifted blame on the Christians for “hating the human race” and
starting the fire.
By the late 1800s, the United States was
looking for an excuse to kick Spain out of Cuba. U.S. business was
heavily invested in sugar, tobacco and iron on the Caribbean island.
The U.S.S. Maine
was sent to Havana in January of 1898 to protect these business
interests after a local insurrection broke out. Three weeks later, early
on the morning of February 15, an explosion destroyed the forward third of the ship anchored in Havana’s harbor, killing more than 270 American sailors.
President McKinley blamed Spain after the U.S. Naval Court of Inquiry declared that a naval mine caused the explosion.
American newspapers blamed the Spanish despite a lack of evidence.
William Randolph Hearst told Frederic Remington after the illustrator reported that the situation in Cuba did not warrant invasion.
A number of historians and researchers
later argued that the ship was blown up by the United States to provide a
false flag pretext to invade Cuba and expel Spain.
The United States occupied Cuba from
1898 until 1902, although an amendment to a joint resolution of Congress
forbid the U.S. to annex the country.
Wilson’s Pretext for War: The Sinking of the Lusitania
Nearly two thousand travelers, including one hundred Americans, were killed on May 7, 1915, when a German U-boat torpedoed the RMS Lusitania, a luxury Cunard Line British ocean liner.
Prior to the sinking, the German embassy
in Washington issued a warning. Newspapers in the United States refused
to print the warning or acknowledge the German claim that the ship
carried munitions.
Wilson’s government issued a flurry of diplomatic protests after the sinking and exploited the tragedy two years later as a pretext for America to enter the First World War.
“There were literally tons and tons of
stuff stored in unrefrigerated cargo holds that were dubiously marked
cheese, butter and oysters,” Gregg Bemis, an American businessman who owns the rights to the wreck and is funding its exploration, told The Daily Mail.
Hitler’s Fascist Dictatorship: The Reichstag Fire
In February of 1933, a month after
convincing Germany’s president that parliament must be eliminated,
Hitler and the Nazis instigated the Reichstag fire.
Hitler then urged president Hindenburg to issue an emergency decree
restricting personal liberty, including the right to free expression
and a free press, limitations on the rights of association and assembly,
warrantless searches of homes, property confiscation, and violations of
postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications “permissible beyond
the legal limits otherwise prescribed.”
The Nazis used the decree and cracked down on their political opponents . They worked behind the scenes to force through the Enabling Act, which legally allowed Hitler to obtain plenary powers and establish a dictatorship.
Gestapo Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring
would admit that “the people can always be brought to the bidding of
the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
Prelude to World War: The Gleiwitz Incident
Six years after the Reichstag Fire, the Nazis staged the Gleiwitz incident.
Nazi commandos raided a German radio station in Gleiwitz, Upper
Silesia, Germany. The raid was part of Operation Himmler, a series of
operations undertaken by the SS as Hitler set the stage for the invasion
of Poland and the start of the Second World War.
SS operatives dressed in Polish uniforms
attacked the radio station, broadcast an anti-German message in Polish,
and left behind the body of a German Silesian known for sympathizing
with the Poles. The corpse was then offered to the press as evidence
that the Poles had attacked the radio station.
In 1954, the Israelis activated a terrorist cell
in response to the United States making friends with the Egyptian
government and its pan-Arab leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser. The Israelis
were worried Nasser would nationalize the Suez Canal and continue
Egypt’s blockade of Israeli shipping through the canal.
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion decided a false flag terrorist attack
on American interests in Egypt would sour the new relationship. He
recruited and dispatched a terror cell that pretended to be Egyptian
terrorists.
The plan, however, contained a fatal
flaw. Israel’s top secret cell, Unit 131, was infiltrated by Egyptian
intelligence. After a member of the cell was arrested and interrogated,
he revealed the plot and this led to more arrests. Israeli agents were
subjected to a public trial revealing details of the plan to firebomb
the U.S. Information Agency’s libraries, a British-owned Metro-Goldwyn
Mayer theatre, a railway terminal, the central post office, and other
targets.
In order to deflect blame, the Israeli
government tried to frame its own Defense Minister, Pinhas Lavon, but
the true nature of the plot was eventually made public.
The plan included shooting down hijacked American airplanes,
the sinking of U.S. ships, and the shooting of Americans on the streets
of Washington, D.C. The outrageous plan even included a staged NASA
disaster that would claim the life of astronaut John Glenn.
Reeling under the embarrassing failure
of the CIA’s botched Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, president Kennedy
rejected the plan in March of 1962. A few months later, Kennedy denied
the plan’s author, General Lyman Lemnitzer, a second term as the
nation’s highest ranking military officer.
In November of 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
On August 4, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson went on national television and told the nation that North Vietnam had attacked U.S. ships.
“Repeated acts of violence against the
armed forces of the United States must be met not only with alert
defense, but with a positive reply. That reply is being given as I speak
tonight,” Johnson declared.
Congress soon passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution,
which provided Johnson with pre-approved authority to conduct military
operations against North Vietnam. By 1969, over 500,000 troops were
fighting in Southeast Asia.
Johnson and his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, had bamboozled Congress and the American people.
In fact, North Vietnam had not attacked the USS Maddox, as the Pentagon
claimed, and the “unequivocal proof” of an “unprovoked” second attack
against the U.S. warship was a ruse.
State Sponsored Terror Blamed on the Left
Gladio’s “Strategy of Tension”
was designed to portray leftist political groups in Europe as
terrorists and frighten the populace into voting for authoritarian
governments. In order to carry out this goal, Gladio operatives
conducted a number of deadly terrorists attacks that were blamed on
leftists and Marxists.
In August of 1980, Gladio operatives bombed a train station in Bologna,
killing 85 people. Initially blamed on the Red Brigades, it was later
discovered that fascist elements within the Italian secret police and Licio Gelli,
the head of the P2 Masonic Lodge, were responsible for the terror
attack. Other fascist groups, including Avanguardia Nazionale and Ordine
Nuovo, were mobilized and engaged in terror.
Operation Gladio ultimately claimed the lives of hundreds of people across Europe.
According to Vincenzo Vinciguerra,
a Gladio terrorist serving a life-sentence for murdering policemen, the
reason for Gladio was simple. It was designed “to force these people,
the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security.
This is the political logic that lies behind all the massacres and the
bombings which remain unpunished, because the state cannot convict
itself or declare itself responsible for what happened.”
