09 May 2010 By Stephen Lendman
On May 1, New York Times
writers Al Baker and William Rashbaum headlined,
"Police Find Car Bomb in Times Square," saying:
"A crude car bomb of
propane, gasoline and fireworks was discovered in a
'smoking' Nissan Pathfinder in the heart of Times
Square on Saturday evening, prompting the evacuation
of thousands of tourists and theatergoers on a warm
and busy night."
Mayor Michael Bloomberg
claimed "We were very lucky. We avoided what could
have been a very deadly event."
For much of the evening,
Midtown New York, from 43rd - 48th streets, was
closed, heightening fear reported for hours on cable
news shows, including statements by Bloomberg,
Governor David Paterson, Police Commissioner Raymond
Kelly and Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne, saying the
bomb "appeared (to be) in the process of detonating,
but it malfunctioned."
Good luck or something
else? We've seen this too often not to be suspicious.
This one, like others, has all the earmarks of a false
flag, more likely given its coverage and location in
Times Square on Saturday night, followed by a May 2
video saying the Pakistani Taliban claimed
responsibility.
Who could imagine they had
a branch office in New York, and no one even noticed.
At least that's the impression from media
disinformation, hyped to spread fear and prepare the
public for what's to come, perhaps something much
worse.
In addition, like previous
times, a suspect is already in custody, a Muslim, of
course, as part of the anti-Islamic post-9/11 rage,
and given how abusively he may be treated (including
frightening threats of life in prison or the death
penalty), perhaps will confess to anything or make it
appear that he did so headlines can blare it.
According to Reuters, a statement on an Islamic web
site (http://www.muslm.net/vb/showthread.php?t=387309)
said:
"The Pakistani Taliban
announces its responsibility for the New York attack
in revenge for the two leaders al-Baghdadi and al-Muhajir
and Muslim martyrs."
Videos are easy to fake,
including strategically timed bin Laden ones, exposed
by digital experts as fakes, aside from convincing
evidence he died in 2001.
See David Ray Griffin's
important book titled, "Osama Bin Laden: Dead or
Alive?" In his latest April 30 article, "Did Osama Bin
Laden Confess to the 9/11 Attacks, and Did He Die in
2001," Griffin notes his book's convincing evidence of
his death, that if so, proves all subsequent video and
audio tapes attributed to him are fakes.
According to Hactor
Factor's Neal Krawetz, bogus ones are characterized by
low quality visual and audio splices and more. His
analysis of a September 2007 video showed bin Laden's
beard black when in earlier images it's gray. It also
had him dressed in a white hat, shirt and yellow
sweater, precisely the same attire as in October 2004.
In addition, the background, lighting, desk and camera
angle were the same.
Most obvious were the
edits, showing obvious splices, at least six video
ones and even more for audio that appeared to be words
and phrases spliced together.
Videos like these are easy
to make as are special effects clever enough to make
anyone look like bin Laden, convincingly enough to
fool the public, especially when media reports hype
them.
Post-9/11, it's vital to
remind the public by strategically timed "Enemy Number
One" bin Laden incidents and the "security threat" he
represents. If he didn't exist, he'd have to be
invented so why not perpetuate the myth, omitting that
he was a CIA asset and likely remained one until his
death.
Noteworthy is that CBS News
anchor Dan Rather reported that he was admitted to a
Rawalpindi, Pakistan hospital on September 10, 2001,
and France's Le Figaro said:
"Dubai....was the backdrop
of a secret meeting between Osama bin Laden and the
local CIA agent in July (2001). A partner of the
administration of the American Hospital....claims that
(bin Laden) stayed (there) between the 4th and 14th of
July (and) received visits from many members of his
family as well as prominent Saudis and Emiratis.
(During the same period), the local CIA agent, known
to many in Dubai, was seen taking (the hospital's)
main elevator (to) bin Laden's room." Why not if he
was a valued asset.
On May 2, the Israeli news
website Debka.com featured an "Exclusive Report"
saying:
"On April 30, twenty-four
hours before a smoking SUV Nissan containing an
improvised bomb was defused (in) Times Square....the
Pakistani Taliban's top bomb-maker, Qari Hussain
Mehsud, took 'full responsibility for the recent
attack in the USA' in an audiotape with images on a
You Tube website."
Saying no proof of overseas
involvement was forensically found, "DEBKAfile's
counter-terror sources" noted similarities between the
New York bomb and earlier 2005 and 2007 ones in London
and Glasgow, Scotland respectively. In each case, they
used propane and failed to detonate - the Glasgow one,
in fact, causing the car used to burn but not cause a
major catastrophe.
DEBKA also quoted Pakistani
Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud saying on an April 4
nine minute tape that "The time is very near when our
fedayeen will attack the American states in the major
cities." Earlier, Qari Hussein Mehsud "warned NATO
governments to denounce the US and apologize for the
'massacres in Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistani
tribal areas - otherwise be prepared for the worst
destruction and devastation in their own countries.' "
A mid-April Debka report
had Iran threatening to retaliate against US cities
with nuclear weapons if they're used against Iranian
cities or sites.
"For the first time,
DEBKAfile's military sources (IDF and/or Mossad ones
stoking fear) report, Tehran indicated the possibility
of passing nuclear devices to terrorists capable of
striking inside the United States....Although Iran has
yet to attain operational nuclear arms, our military
sources believe it does possess the makings of
primitive nuclear devices or 'dirty bombs.' "
With no supportive
evidence, these type reports hype fear to prepare the
public for what's to come, so if a planned major
terrorist event in a Western city, there's a ready
suspect to blame and popular approval to act.
Noted Previous False Flags
The historic record is full
of false flags, some especially noteworthy. Below are
a few examples:
-- in 1898, America falsely
accused Spain of blowing up the USS Maine in Havana,
Cuba harbor. The Spanish-American war followed;
-- in 1933 Germany, a week
before general elections, the strategically timed
Reichstag fire (home of the German parliament) was
blamed on communists. It got President Paul von
Hindenburg to sign an emergency decree. Civil
liberties were suspended. Weimar Republic democracy
ended, and Hitler assumed fascist powers after enough
Nazis were elected to assure it;
-- on August 31, 1939,
Nazis impersonating Polish terrorists attacked the
Gleiwitz radio station on the border between the two
countries, starting WW II;
-- on December 7, 1941, the
Roosevelt administration succeeded in manipulating
Japan to attack Pearl Harbor, giving FDR the war he
wanted from the early 1930s, but had to convince a
pacifist public of the threat; the fleet was also
tracked across the Pacific, but Admiral HE Kimmel
wasn't warned or given known intelligence to assure
enough mass casualties for congressional and public
support;
-- in 1962, a US Joint
Chiefs of Staff proposed false flag attack never
happened because President Jack Kennedy rejected it;
called Operation Northwoods (a part of Operation
Mongoose), the scheme included sinking US ships,
shooting down US commercial airliners, blowing up
buildings in US cities, attacking America's Guantanamo
base, other incidents, and blaming it on Cuba as a
reason for war;
-- the fake August 1964
Gulf of Tonkin incident initiating full-scale
retaliation against North Vietnam after Congress
passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorizing war
without declaring it; and the seminal event of our
time -
-- September 11, 2001,
clear evidence showing it was a false flag, the Afghan
and Iraq wars made possible by fear-mongering blame on
the Taliban and Saddam Hussein.
On February 16, 2010, a
Washington's blog web site
(georgewashington2.blogspot.com) article titled,
"Governments ADMIT That They Carry Out False Flag
Terror" listed some examples, including:
-- the CIA admitting its
1950s role in toppling Iran's democratically
government in 1953;
-- Israel admitting a 1954
attack in Egypt, including planting bombs in US
diplomatic facilities, leaving "evidence" of Arab
involvement;
-- Indonesia's former
president, Abdurrahman Wahid, saying the nation's
police or military most likely were involved in the
2002 Bali bombing, killing over 200 people;
-- a former Italian prime
minister, judge, and military counterintelligence
head, General Gianadelio Maletti, saying America's CIA
instigated and abetted right wing terrorist groups in
the 1970s and earlier, including bombing a Milan bank
in 1969, to rally popular anti-communist support in
Italy and other European countries; and
-- many others, including
former Carter administration National Security
Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, telling a Senate
committee that a false flag terror attack on US soil
might occur to blame Iran and justify war.
In his 1997 book, "The
Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its
Geostrategic Imperatives," he said:
"Moreover, as America
becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may
find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on
foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a
truly massive and widely perceived direct external
threat," the kind 9/11 created - predicted, planned,
orchestrated, and carried out to further new world
order dominance globally.
Other False Flag Examples
(1) The March 2004 Madrid
train bombings occurred three days before Spain's
general elections. With no supportive evidence, they
were blamed on Al Qaeda, yet they stoked public fear
and were used to warn that other Western cities were
threatened, including in America.
Nearly always, Muslims are
blamed and arrested, the DEBKAfile citing advance bin
Laden tapes threatening to punish Spain for supporting
the Bush administration. This time, Basque separatists
were also named, again without evidence, and the bin
Laden tapes were fakes.
(2) The July 7, 2005 London
underground bombings (called 7/7) were a series of
attacks on the city's public transport system during
the morning rush hour for maximum disruption and
casualties. At precisely the same time, an anti-terror
drill occurred, simulating real attacks. It was no
coincidence this time or ever, others in America and
Britain coming on the same day as a real event, other
notable ones covered below.
AP reported that the London
Israeli embassy warned Scotland Yard about the 7/7 one
in advance, and Israeli Army Radio reported that
"Scotland Yard had intelligence warnings of the
attacks a short time before they occurred," but didn't
act or issue warnings. In addition, Israel's finance
minister at the time, Benjamin Netanyahu, was told not
to attend an economic conference in the city where he
was scheduled to deliver an address.
Other dignitaries were also
warned, but not the public. Even without smoking gun
proof, the 7/7 attack was a false flag operation to
heighten fear and keep Britain and the West embroiled
in war.
(3) On the morning of the
9/11 attack, the CIA ran a "pre-planned simulation to
explore the emergency response issues that would be
created if a plane were to strike a building." Held at
the Agency's Chantilly, Virginia Reconnaissance
Office, AP reported (on August 22, 2002) that it
simulated "a small corporate jet (hitting) one of the
four towers....after experiencing a mechanical
failure."
Unmentioned at the time was
a later revealed (but unreported) Homeland Security
conference announcement a year later to commemorate
the 9/11 event. Held under the auspices of the
National Law Enforcement and Security Institute, one
of its speakers was John Fulton, CIA Chief of the
Strategic War Gaming Division of the National
Reconnaissance office in charge of the operation.
Another coincidence, or was something more sinister
afoot?
The previous year in
October, the Pentagon simulated a commercial plane
striking the Pentagon, coordinated by its Command
Emergency Response Team and the Defense Protective
Services Police. This and the 9/11 exercises are more
than coincidental, given what's now known and the
fallout.
(4) On June 30, 2007, a
Jeep Cherokee with propane canisters crashed into
Glasgow International Airport's glass doors, the BBC
reporting that it "was in the middle of the doorway
burning....The car didn't actually explode. There were
a few pops and bangs which presumably was the petrol."
The usual suspects were
blamed, Al Qaeda and Islamic terrorists, Prime
Minister Gordon Brown saying:
"We are dealing, in general
terms, with people who are associated with Al Qaeda,"
followed by his initiating draconian security
measures, hyped by the UK Telegraph saying:
An "unknown Al Qaeda
terrorist cell (was) thought to be preparing to launch
a series of Baghdad-style car bombings." Another
Telegraph article mentioned Washington's involvement
with UK authorities in hyping the threat, and an ABC
News report suggested foreknowledge of the incident
based on advance warnings (by unnamed intelligence
officials) of Al Qaeda "target(ing) nightclubs and
other soft targets....All of this comes just three
weeks after what was described as an Al Qaeda
graduation ceremony for suicide bombers at a training
camp in Pakistan."
Fear mongering and false
flags? Draw your own conclusions, understanding the
need to stoke fear to keep public support for the "war
on terror," the loss of civil liberties for
"security," the Afghan and Iraq wars, and whatever
else may be planned.
(5) the Christmas 2009
airliner incident involving Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab,
a Nigerian citizen on an Amsterdam - Detroit bound
flight. US officials claimed he was trained in Yemen
by Al Qaeda, obtained explosive chemicals (PETN), and
tried to detonate them on board.
In a December 29 Russia
Today interview, Webster Tarpley called him a
"protected (CIA) patsy (for a) provocation designed to
facilitate US meddling in (Yemen's) civil war
(pitting) the Saudi-backed central government against
the Iranian-backed Shiite Houthi rebels," being bombed
by US and Saudi air strikes.
Abdulmutallab was denied a
UK entrance visa, wasn't on a No Fly List, paid cash
for a one-way ticket to Detroit, checked no luggage,
had a US visa but no passport, and was helped on board
by a "well-dressed Indian" to facilitate the likely
false flag plot using him as a convenient dupe.
The Wayne Madsen Report
called the incident a false flag operation "carried
out by (the) intelligence tripartite grouping of CIA,
Mossad, and India's Research Analysis Wing (RAW)."
Earlier they conspired with "former Afghan KHAD
intelligence agents to assassinate former Pakistani
Prime Minister Benezir Bhutto....to destabilize
Pakistan" for planned balkanization, the same scheme
planned for Afghanistan and already implemented in
Iraq.
Madsen explained that
Abdulmutallab's PETN was "weak, technically
deficient," failed to go off properly, and if so would
have had the impact of an exploding fire cracker.
Madsen also reported that
the same tripartite CIA, Mossad, and RAW alliance was
behind the November 2008 Mumbai, India attacks,
killing nearly 200 and wounding hundreds more. Webster
Tarpley said almost for certain Pakistan's ISI radical
wing was involved, and that Indian and Mossad
operatives conduct regular cross-border missions into
Pakistan from India and Afghanistan.
(6) Make of it what you
will, but in Miami on January 11, 2010 (one day before
Haiti's earthquake), the Pentagon's US Southern
Command (SOUTHCOM) simulated a hurricane striking
Haiti in preparation for subsequent measures to be
implemented, that, in fact, would be a carefully
planned military operation for occupation, control,
and planned plunder.
Also, Deputy SOUTHCOM head,
General PK Keen, was in Haiti when the quake struck,
ready to assume command when it did and use a
communication tool called the Transnational
Information Sharing Cooperation project (TISC),
linking other nations and NGOs with the Pentagon and
US government to facilitate measures to be
implemented, none to help Haitians.
Final Comments
As long as imperial
ambitions and rogue agencies like CIA and their
foreign counterparts exist, false flag operations will
be commonplace, the May 1 New York one the latest
example, and maybe a forerunner of what's to come -
another 9/11 some believe, far worse than the first
one, perhaps involving a nuclear incident in a US
city. Then using it as a pretext for more war and to
divert attention from America's deepening economic
crisis, likely to erupt in protests because of
Washington's indifference to millions affected.
Whether or not the direst
predictions occur will only be known in the fullness
of time. In the meantime, stay tuned for more updates
as events unfold, and be prepared for the worst.
Stephen Lendman lives in
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