Just what is a false flag attack? Here is an explanation on Wikipedia: “covert operations which are designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though 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.”

Here are just a few examples, including a couple involving the US. Many historians have even come to the conclusion that the Gulf of Tonkin Incident was a false flag attack orchestrated by the US, using old, empty destroyers as the targets, as a justification for the war in Vietnam. To my knowledge, this conclusion is unconfirmed, but being that the intelligence itself was skewed with documented proof of this fact, it seems at least possible these accusations could prove to be true.

The most interesting and quite startling false flag attack plan by the US that was thankfully never implemented was Operation Northwoods. When you read the information from that plan (PDF), you won’t believe your eyes.

In the 1931 Mukden incident, Japanese officers fabricated a pretext for annexing Manchuria by blowing up a section of railway. Six years later they falsely claimed the kidnapping of one of their soldiers in the Marco Polo Bridge Incident as an excuse to invade China proper.

In the Gleiwitz incident in August 1939, Reinhard Heydrich made use of fabricated evidence of a Polish attack against Germany to mobilize German public opinion and to fabricate a false justification for a war with Poland. This, along with other false flag operations in Operation Himmler, would be used to mobilize support from the German population for the start of World War II in Europe.

On November 26, 1939 the Soviet Union shelled the Russian village of Mainila near the Finnish border. The Soviet Union attacked Finland four days after the Shelling of Mainila. Russia has agreed that the attack was initiated by the Soviets.^[4] Also, the nearest Finnish artillery pieces were well out of range of Mainila.^[5]

In 1953, the U.S. and British-orchestrated Operation Ajax used “false-flag” and propaganda operations against the formerly democratically elected leader of Iran, Mohammed Mosaddeq. Information regarding the CIA-sponsored coup d’etat has been largely declassified and is available in the CIA archives.^[6]

In 1954, Israel sponsored bombings against US and UK interests in Cairo aiming to cause trouble between Egypt and the West.^[7] This operation, later dubbed the Lavon Affair, cost Israeli defense minister Pinhas Lavon his job. The state of Israel (where it is known as “The Unfortunate Affair”) finally admitted responsibility in 2005.^[8]

The planned, but never executed, 1962 Operation Northwoods plot by the U.S. Department of Defense for a war with Cuba involved scenarios such as hijacking a passenger plane, sinking a U.S. ship, burning crops and blaming such actions on Cuba. It was authored by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, nixed by John F. Kennedy, came to light through the Freedom of Information Act and was publicized by James Bamford.

Former GRU officer Aleksey Galkin,^[9] former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko^[10] and other whistleblowers from the Russian government and security services have asserted that the 1999 Russian apartment bombings that precipitated the Second Chechen War were false flag operations perpetrated by the FSB, the successor organization to the KGB. Galkin has since recanted his accusations, which were made while he was a prisoner of Chechen rebels. However, there are other theories that the FSB engineered this incident.

In a study published in April of this year, a group of scientists claim to have found active thermitic particles in several separate  World Trade Center (WTC) pyroclastic dust samples (the white dust resulting from the collapse of the two towers). What is thermite, you ask? Well, just go here (wikipedia) or watch a video here and here to see what it does. I have sent this research paper to a friend of mine attending Georgia Tech to send on to the School of Chemistry there to check on 1) the respectability of the journal in which this study was published, 2) if this is a real or fake study, and 3) whether or not the science in this study is valid at all.

I’m not smart enough with chemistry or the scientific processes used here to determine the legitimacy of this information, which is why I forwarded it on to have it examined. Of course, everyone and their dog, with the exception of those in the 9/11 Truth Movement, are going to blast this study as fake, absurd, pushing an agenda, etc. I mean, how outrageous and nonsensical of a proposition is it that our own government would conspire to attack us, the people of the United States (continue reading below on Operation Northwoods)? But I just wanted to check on what a top tech school would have to say about all of this, trying to approach this critically.

If this information is true and can be verified by third-party sources performing their own studies on the same (or different) samples of dust from the WTC towers, it would be quite a game-changer on the official story of why the WTC towers collapsed, maybe. Maybe not.

If true, at the very least, this adds more to the official story than was told to us and means the terrorists were even smarter than we thought in their master plan, smart enough in fact to make sure the towers fell by planting some sort of military-grade explosive materials in the buildings prior to the attacks, in order to ensure structural failure, which seems unlikely.

At the most though and in a worst-case scenario of what the actual, top-secret official story is, it means there’s something bigger going on than we were told, something in the likeness of a plan from 1962 that was fortunately never enacted pertaining to Cuba: Operation Northwoods (PDF). Just read pages 8 through the end (page 15). It sounds hauntingly familiar to 9/11, though I’m in no way saying or claiming that this is what happened, merely saying it appears oddly similar in pattern.

To sum up Operation Northwoods, in 1962 our military leaders concocted a plan, approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to stage “false flag” attacks on U.S. soil (even going so far as to involve civilians in these staged attacks). In doing so, the plan was to get overwhelming public support to preemptively engage Cuba militarily, in order to thwart the growing threat of the Communist build-up in that nation, that would eventually lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of the same year. Fortunately, JFK shot the plan down, no pun intended. Head-spinning stuff and an interesting history lesson. All that to say, I was a bit dumb-founded when I read that document.

How does Operation Northwoods relate to this study? Well, it doesn’t directly, except that it is historically instructive about top-secret military plans going on the behind the scenes, and that if (if, if, if, if, if) this study is valid, the government has some more explaining to do about 1) why there were thermitic materials in the dust 2) how did they get there, and 3) for what purpose?

But back to the issue at hand. If the study is false, it means 1) the science is completely bogus, 2) the science is good, but thermitic particles were placed in the dust samples as “evidence”, 3) these scientists’ careers are over, though that appears to be the case anyway ever since they began investigating all of this several years ago, and 4) if the science journal in which this study was published ever had any respectability or credibility, well, now it doesn’t. All of this if the study is false.

However, if this study is true, the 9/11 Commission, the FBI, NIST, the military, the CIA, and the government at large has some explaining to do on what the true story is. Military-grade explosives don’t just show up during an alleged “surprise” terrorist attack. That’s of course, if this is all true, don’t misunderstand me.

It is possible (and likely) this is a fake study and created merely to affirm conspiracy theories which would bode well for publicity in the 9/11 Truth movement. But I also see very little neutral chatter on the internet that coolly and scientifically discusses their findings in detail, apart from the conspiracy theorists of course, using this study as further evidence of their theories, as well as those seeking to refute them.

So far, the only news article I saw when searching under Google news for the word ‘thermitic’ that attempts to refute the study is this. And in another result that pulled up, an article was published on a news site on June 14 of this year, the Berkshire Eagle, discussing the findings of the scientists, but was later removed (archived evidence of the removal), entitled, “Unanswered questions about 9/11,” probably for fear the news sites’ reputation was on the line for even bringing up what is assumed to be a bogus scientific study (or something more sinister, like censoring, that is of course if the study is true and there was government involvement).

Regardless, these are some very interesting developments pertaining to 9/11 if found to be true.

Here is a video of Dr. Steven E. Jones talking about his initial findings in 2006, one of the scientists who helped with the recent study, who used to be a professor at BYU:

In addition, here is another one of the scientists, Niels Harrit, who also participated in the study:

(Archived): http://www.westerfunk.net/archives/terrorism/Two%20ex-Guantanamo%20inmates%20appear%20in%20Al-Qaeda%20video/

You see? This is what happens when you let terrorists go that were in your custody. The fundamental problem with the West is that we do not understand the Islamic, Middle Eastern worldview. And I think this is true for those on the left and the right. On the right, we presume we can impose a Western style government upon an already existing theocracy (such as in Iraq). On the left, we think that simply being nice and kind will win them over. But we are all projecting a postmodern, Western ideology and worldview upon their thinking and worldview when this is simply not how they live or make decisions. We think we can give them the benefit of the doubt, but then, just like this, they’ll turn around and try to kill us again. Unfortunately, these people only understand a bullet. They are ruthless and cannot be reasoned with. Give them an inch, and they’ll slash you with the extra room. They are, as the Psalms describes of men thirsty for blood, brute beasts. And sadly, as much as I hate it myself, that means war.

I honestly think Obama’s actions now on Gitmo and other decisions he’ll make in the near future will send a signal to the terrorists that we’re weak and they will plot all the more to destroy us. But, hey, I could be wrong. I hope I’m wrong actually. I do know one thing: in the eight years after 9/11, we weren’t attacked once while under Bush’s leadership. That doesn’t mean there weren’t things that should have been done differently, but not attacked once? That’s saying something. I hope the same holds true under Obama.

If you want to see a picture of the future of Europe, then read this and watch the video. It is disturbing to say the least and has some cursing and violence in it so proceed with caution … just warning you in advance.

I post this because the video is such a very clear portrayal, from Muslims themselves who shot it during some recent riots in London, of the threat we face in the short and long term, and the impotence of the West to deal with the threat brewing from within its own borders. It apparently does not take much for a Muslim to go from moderate to radical. This video makes that abundantly clear.

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of Rome’s decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.” – Will Durant on the history of Rome

May we learn from history. Rome was great … and it fell