1. Introduction
“A false flag operation is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility and pinning blame on a second party. The term is popular amongst conspiracy theory promoters in referring to covert operations of various governments and cabals. The term ‘false flag’ originated in the 16th century as a purely figurative expression to mean ‘a deliberate misrepresentation of someone’s affiliation or motives’. It was later used to describe a ruse in naval warfare whereby a vessel flew the flag of a neutral or enemy country in order to hide its true identity. The tactic was originally used by pirates and privateers to deceive other ships into allowing them to move closer before attacking them. It later was deemed an acceptable practice during naval warfare according to international maritime laws, provided the attacking vessel displayed its true flag once an attack had begun. The term today extends to include countries that organize attacks on themselves and make the attacks appear to be by enemy nations or terrorists, thus giving the nation that was supposedly attacked a pretext for domestic repression and foreign military aggression. Operations carried out during peacetime by civilian organizations, as well as covert government agencies, can (by extension) also be called false flag operations if they seek to hide the real organization behind an operation” (False Flag, 1961).
A few examples of documented false flag operations in history are as follows:
In 1933, the Reichstag Fire event took place when Germany’s parliament known as The Reichtag was set on fire by the Nazis as ordered by Adolf Hitler. The blame was then put on the Communists. This allowed the Reichtag Fire Decree to be established that allowed Hitler to hijack all liberties through his totalitarian regime.
In 1939, the Gleiwitz incident involved Reinhard Heydrich who fabricated evidence of a Polish attack against Germany in order to justify war with Poland. Nazi camp victims dressed as German soldiers were shot by the Gestapo and this appeared that they had been shot by Polish soldiers.
In 1946, the King David Massacre took place when Jewish terrorists blew up a hotel killing 91 British soldiers and laid the blame on the Arabs. When later caught, they said that the British had a list of their Arab spies to be handed over to the Palestinians. The aim was to ignite hatred between the British and Palestinians.
In 1953, there was an Iranian coup d’état that was the result of U.S and British-orchestrated false flag operation, Operation Ajax. This operation used propaganda to depose the democratically elected leader of Iran, Mohammed Mosaddeq.
In 1954, bombs in Egypt were planted in several buildings including a U.S diplomatic facility by agents of an Israeli terrorist cell. This was known as the Lavon affair and they placed incriminating “evidence” for Arabs as the culprits. Their plan was to discredit Egypt’s government. But, one of the bombs detonated prematurely and one of the bombers was successfully captured.
In 1962, Operation Northwoods was planned by U.S Department of Defence but it was never executed. This operation involved dreadful acts of terror and violence. These actions would later be blamed on Cuba and would be a pretext for a U.S military intervention.
2. Conspiracy Theories v/s Conspiracy Facts—World Trade Center 9/11
In the 21st century, a number of conspiracy theories and conspiracy facts have been put forward by conspiracy theorists, analysts, journalists, investigators and intelligence bodies with regard to terrorism. Basically, there are no legal evidences whatsoever to support, authenticate and validate such theories in a Court of Law and Justice.
Even if conspiracy theories on 9/11 terrorist attack are not admissible to a certain extent due to their infuriating nature, they have not been entirely refuted by U.S authorities. In fact, such theories have undeniably given rise to many speculations and rumours which pinpoint this terrible attack on humanity as a false flag operation. For instance, Eckehardt Werthebach, the former president of Germany’s domestic intelligence service, Verfassungsschutz, in the American Free Press argued “that 9/11 could not have been executed without the support of a state secret service…and that ‘the deathly precision’ and ‘the magnitude of planning’ behind the attacks would have needed ‘years of planning’ [and] such a sophisticated operation, would require the ‘fixed frame’ of a state intelligence organization, something not found in a ‘loose group’ of terrorists like the one allegedly led by Mohammed Atta while he studied in Hamburg” (Bollyn, 2001).
Unlike conspiracy theories on 9/11, related conspiracy facts are logical. For example, Elias Davidson (an independent researcher in the fields of human rights and international law) in his article “The Events of 11 September 2001 and the Right to the Truth” has shed light on 9/11 (Davidson, 2001) through his legitimate declarations (that could be considered in an international Court in case of a high-profile trial) such as the following: “…the U.S authorities have failed to prove that the 19 individuals accused of the mass murder of 9/11 had boarded the aircraft, which they allegedly used to commit the crime. No authenticated, original, passenger lists, bearing their names, have been released; no one is known to have seen them board the aircraft; no video recordings documented their boarding; no boarding pass stub exists to document their boarding; and their bodily remains have not been positively identified… The whole official approach to 9/11, including its investigation, has been characterized by secrecy… In the case of 9/11, it was not facially evident who instigated, planned, directed and financed the crime… The 9/11 Commission did not shed any light on the possible motives of the suspects, whoever they might have been… The criminal investigation of 9/11 did not result in the prosecution of anyone who had instigated, planned, directed, facilitated or executed the crime of 9/11… The only person the U.S government attempted to link with the events of 9/11 was Zacarias Moussaoui, a mentally disturbed person who was arrested before 9/11… Although two alleged al Qaeda leaders, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh, officially accused of having masterminded the events of 9/11, have been in U.S custody for more than 4 years, they have neither been charged nor presented before a judge…”.
According to Steven E. Jones (a physicist and professor who retired from Brigham Young University) pre-positioned explosives and not fires from jet fuel provoked the rapid and symmetrical collapse of the World trade Center buildings and a third building, WTC-7. In the seminal article “Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe (2009)”, he and other experts elaborated that dust from the collapsing towers contained a “nano-thermite” material that is extremely explosive. Such an evidence is highly alarming (Jones et al., 2009). Should we tend to believe that the 9/11 destruction and collapse of the WTC towers was part of the US government conspiracy and false flag operation to wage war against Afghanistan?
As to whether Osama Ben Laden is responsible for 9/11 or not, is indeed a dilemmatic question. Since his culpability has not been proved in an International Court before a Judge, merely associating him with 9/11 without any legal evidence would just be a slander culminating into a conspiracy theory. On the contrary, there is strong belief regarding the deliberate attempt to incriminate him in this terrorist attack. According to National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (2004), “Four of the hijackers passports have survived in whole or in part. Two were recovered from the crash site of United Airlines flight 93 in Pennsylvania. These are the passports of Ziad Jarrah and Saeed al Ghamdi. One belonged to a hijacker on American Airlines flight 11. This is the passport of Satam al Suqami. A passerby picked it up and gave it to a NYPD detective shortly before the World Trade Center towers collapsed. A fourth passport was recovered from luggage that did not make it from a Portland flight to Boston on to the connecting flight which was American Airlines flight 11. This is the passport of Abdul Aziz al Omari” (Piper, 2013). How could the passports have survived the terrible crashes and ultimately landed into the debris miraculously, despite the fact that the black boxes have not been found?
In addition to this, the attendance of Georges Bush Sr. and Osama Ben Laden’s Brother [Shafiq Ben Laden] in a meeting at The Ritz Carlton Hotel in NYC one day before 9/11 [that is on September 10 2001] (Truthpeep, 2017) has called into question all the terrorist allegations of 9/11 against Osama Ben Laden and al Qaeda. On top of that, this irony has left many Americans dumbfounded and nobody has dared to comment on it critically! Perhaps this clamour just before 9/11, is one of the most disturbing and untold truths of humanity.
3. Radical Terrorists
Today, terrorisms perpetrated in the name of Islam (which is a religion of peace) by radical terrorists, are characterized by false flag operations. “Like the Taliban itself, Islamic State [ISIS] is a covert and false-flag creation of the US obsession with imposing its military and financial hegemony throughout the world. During congressional hearings in Washington in 2015, then vice-president Joe Biden, senator Lindsey Graham and the former chief of the US armed forces Gen Martin Dempsey confirmed that ISIS was yet another CIA-supported front funded by Saudi Arabia and Qatar to institute the war in Syria” (Browne, 2021).
As to whether this statement is true or not, for sure the barbarous act of beheading of innocent people by this terrorist group is like the sword of Damocles hanging over the whole humanity.
As far as terrorisms carried out in the name of Zionism (which is a nationalist and political movement) are concerned, we rarely and hardly hear anything about them in the media nowadays. Throughout the globe our attention has been focalised, concentrated and diverted only on terrorisms involving radical terrorist groups such as al Qaeda, Hamas and ISIL. A scrutiny of the history of Zionism is imperative at this juncture, since it imparts to us a clear picture of the scenarios based on false flag operations. According to Fuerza (2013), in “Masters of Deception: Zionism, 9/11 and the War on Terror Hoax”, “Jewish extremists have engineered a plethora of false flag attacks as a means of deceptively disguising their crimes as the work of others” (Fuerza, 2013). He also points out that the Zionist program of terror, deception and myth-making is outlined in The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, which highlights that: “…IT IS FROM US [Zionists] THAT THE ALL-ENGULFING TERROR PROCEEDS.” (Protocols of Zion 1:3; 1:23; 9:4). Some concrete and famous examples of Zionist terrorisms involving false flag operations are the King David Hotel explosion in 1946, The Lavon Affair in 1954, La Belle Discotheque bomb attack in 1986 and the First bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993.
4. Role of Hucksters
On the one hand, it is with great incomprehension that we find cases where some Jews have embraced Islam and some of them have even joined al Qaeda, and now they purport to be more fundamentalist, fanatic, anti-Semitic and extremist than the radical terrorists themselves. One such shocking example is that of Adam Gadahn, a Zionist huckster (Jewish name: Adam Pearlman) who embraced Islam and became a spokesman of al Qaeda. As reported in The Huffington Post (Lohr, 2017), Gadahn in 2011 issued a call to arms for U.S Muslims and urged them to start killing Americans. The sole motto of such proselytes could be the promotion of the political and social interests of radical Zionism on the international scene by spoiling the very reputation of Muslims and further demonizing Islam. In particular, they are undermining the genuine cause of Palestine to seek a free and democratic statehood in West Bank & Gaza vis à vis Israel and the whole world. Another example is that of Salahuddin al Britani (British name: Richard Dart), a British huckster and proselyte of Islam who was arrested by the police in London in 2012 (Dart, 2013) for planning a terrorist attack in the UK (Davis, 2013). Salahuddin al Britani pleaded guilty of terrorism charges and was sentenced to jail for six years by Justice Simon who said that he and his co-conspirators (Jahangir Alom and Imran Mahmood) were committed fundamentalists (Davis, 2013).
On the other hand, it is with great surprise that we also encounter Zionist agencies which are recruiting Arabs and Muslims. Recently, it has been reported in “Mumbai Attacks Expose Mossad-CIA Plan to disrupt, Balkanize and Enslave India and Pakistan!” (Markam et al. 2009), that there is solid evidence concerning the recruitment of “Shia Muslims” and the financial support for “Muslim Extremists” by the Mossad (National Intelligence Agency of Israel). In the 1950s, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency—ISA) recruited a secret unit of young Jews and trained them to behave as Arabs, and they were given fake identities as stated in Piper (2013) “False Flags: Template for Terror”. The last but not the least, there is the recruitment of Mosab Hassan Yousef who is a Palestinian and son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef (a Hamas founder and leader) by the Shin Bet. It is clear cut that such Muslim hucksters are also being used for clandestine campaigns by Zionists.
5. Conclusion
False flag terrorisms have been used to wage war by one nation against another and more categorically as subterfuge for military intervention, infiltration, political motives and conquest of power. We should avoid being islamophobic or anti-Semitic, if we want to understand the true mechanism behind false flag terrorisms involving violence, mass murder, bloodbaths and crimes at the global level. In addition to that, false flag terrorisms carried out in the name of Islam and Zionism are two sides of the same evil coin, and they are not opposed diametrically and radically to one another.
We also find that many so-called terrorist acts to some degrees do have features of false flag even if they are dismissed as elements related to conspiracy theories. For instance, the Charlie Hebdo attack where the ID card of Said Kouachi was found in the getaway car, bizarrely bears a strong resemblance with the 9/11 where undamaged passports of Satam al Sukami, Ziad Jarrah, Abdul Aziz al Omari and Saeed al-Ghamdi were found. Such scenarios of false flag do reveal the truth, although certain controversial inquiries with respect to “planted evidence” remain unexplained.
To sum up, it could be said that the masterminds who orchestrate and plot international terrorisms of false flag nature are the real enemies of humanity. An international counter-terrorism strategy is essential in order to expose, arrest and prosecute such dangerous freaks.
NOTES
*https://moabmc.org/malala-yousafzai.