By Paul Craig Roberts
January 14, 2015 "ICH"
- The Charlie Hebdo affair has many of the
characteristics of a false flag operation. The attack on the
cartoonists’ office was a disciplined professional attack of
the kind associated with highly trained special
forces; yet the suspects who were later corralled and killed
seemed bumbling and unprofessional. It is like two different
sets of people.
Usually Muslim terrorists are prepared to
die in the attack; yet the two professionals who hit Charlie
Hebdo were determined to escape and succeeded, an
amazing feat. Their identity was allegedly established by the
claim that they conveniently left for the authorities their
ID in the getaway car. Such a mistake is inconsistent
with the professionalism of the attack and reminds me of the
undamaged passport found miraculously among the ruins
of the two WTC towers that served to establish the identity of
the alleged 9/11 hijackers.
It is a plausible inference that the ID
left behind in the getaway car was the ID of the two Kouachi
brothers, convenient patsies, later killed by police,
and from whom we will never hear anything, and not the ID of
the professionals who attacked Charlie Hebdo. An
important fact that supports this inference is the report that
the third suspect in the attack, Hamyd Mourad, the alleged
driver of the getaway car, when seeing his name
circulating on social media as a suspect realized the danger he
was in and quickly turned himself into the police for
protection against being murdered by security forces as a
terrorist.
Hamyd Mourad says he has an iron-clad
alibi. If so, this makes him the despoiler of a false flag
attack. Authorities will have to say that despite
being wrong about Mourad, they were right about the Kouachi
brothers. Alternatively, Mourad could be coerced or tortured
into some sort of confession that supports the
official story. https://www.intellihub.com/18-
The American and European media have
ignored the fact that Mourad turned himself in for protection
from being killed as a terrorist as he has an alibi. I
googled Hamid Mourad and all I found (January 12) was the main
US and European media reporting that the third suspect had
turned himself in. The reason for his surrender was left
out of the reports. The news was reported in a way that gave
credence to the accusation that the suspect who turned
himself in was part of the attack on Charlie Hebdo. Not a
single US mainstream media source reported that the alleged
suspect turned himself in because he has an ironclad
alibi.
Some media merely reported Mourad’s
surrender in a headline with no coverage in the report. The
list that I googled includes the Washington Post
(January 7 by Griff Witte and Anthony Faiola); Die Welt
(Germany) “One suspect has turned himself in to police in
connection with Wednesday’s massacre at the offices of
Parisian satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo;” ABC News
(January 7) “Youngest suspect in Charlie Hebdo Attack turns
himself in;” CNN (January 8) “Citing sources, the Agence
France Presse news agency reported that an 18-year-old
suspect in the attack had surrendered to police.”
Another puzzle in the official story that
remains unreported by the presstitute media is the alleged
suicide of a high ranking member of the French
Judicial Police who had an important role in the Charlie Hebdo
investigation. For unknown reasons, Helric Fredou, a police
official involved in the most important investigation
of a lifetime, decided to kill himself in his police office on
January 7 or January 8 (both dates are reported in the foreign
media) in the middle of the night while writing his
report on his investigation. A google search as of 6pm EST
January 13 turns up no mainstream US media report of this
event. The alternative media reports it, as do some UK
newspapers, but without suspicion or mention whether his report
has disappeared. The official story is that Fredou
was suffering from “depression” and “burnout,” but no evidence
is provided. Depression and burnout are the standard
explanations of mysterious deaths that have unsettling
implications.
Once again we see the US print and TV media
serving as a ministry of propaganda for Washington. In place
of investigation, the media repeats the government’s
implausible story.
It behoves us all to think. Why would
Muslims be more outraged by cartoons in a Paris magazine than
by hundreds of thousands of Muslims killed by
Washington and its French and NATO vassals in seven countries
during the past 14 years?
If Muslims wanted to make a point of the
cartoons, why not bring a hate crime charge or lawsuit? Imagine
what would happen to a European magazine that dared
to satirize Jews in the way Charlie Hebdo satirized Muslims.
Indeed, in Europe people are imprisoned for investigating the
holocaust without entirely confirming every aspect of
it.
If a Muslim lawsuit was deep-sixed by
French authorities, the Muslims would have made their point.
Killing people merely contributes to the demonization
of Muslims, a result that only serves Washington’s wars against
Muslim countries.
If Muslims are responsible for the attack
on Charlie Hebdo, what Muslim goal did they achieve? None
whatsoever. Indeed, the attack attributed to Muslims has
ended French and European sympathy and support for Palestine
and European opposition to more US wars against Muslims.
Just recently France had voted in the UN with Palestine
against the US-Israeli position. This assertion of an
independent French foreign policy was reinforced by the
recent statement by the President of France that the economic
sanctions against Russia should be terminated.
Clearly, France was showing too much
foreign policy independence. The attack on Charlie Hebdo
serves to cow France and place France back under
Washington’s thumb.
Some will contend that Muslims are
sufficiently stupid to shoot themselves in the head in this
way. But how do we reconcile such alleged stupidity with
the alleged Muslim 9/11 and Charlie Hebdo professional
attacks?
If we believe the official story, the 9/11
attack on the US shows that 19 Muslims, largely Saudis, without
any government or intelligence service support,
outwitted not only all 16 US intelligence agencies, the
National Security Council, Dick Cheney and all the
neoconservatives in high positions throughout the US
government, and airport security, but also the
intelligence services of NATO and Israel’s Mossad. How can such
intelligent and capable people, who delivered the most
humiliating blow in world history to an alleged
Superpower with no difficulty whatsoever despite giving every
indication of their intentions, possibly be so stupid as to
shoot themselves in the head when they could have thrown
France into turmoil with a mere lawsuit?
The Charlie Hebdo story simply doesn’t wash. If you believe it, you are no match for a Muslim.
Some who think that they are experts will
say that a false flag attack in France would be impossible
without the cooperation of French intelligence. To
this I say that it is practically a certainty that the CIA has
more control over French intelligence than does the President
of France. Operation Gladio proves this. The largest
part of the government of Italy was ignorant of the bombings
conducted by the CIA and Italian Intelligence against
European women and children and blamed on communists in order
to diminish the communist vote in elections.
Americans are a pitifully misinformed
people. All of history is a history of false flag operations.
Yet Americans dismiss such proven operations as
“conspiracy theories,” which merely proves that government has
successfully brainwashed insouciant Americans and deprived them
of the ability to recognize the truth.
Americans are the foremost among the captive nations.
Who will liberate them?
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic
Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was
columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service,
and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university
appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide
following. Roberts' latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West and How America Was Lost.
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