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CHARLIE HEBDO -- PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
January 13, 2015 | Categories: Articles & Columns | Tags: | Print This Article
Charlie Hebdo
Paul Craig Roberts
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-year-old-charlie-hebdo-suspect-surrenders-police-claims-alibi/
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.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/13/charlie-hebdo-paul-craig-roberts/
January 13, 2015 | Categories: Articles & Columns | Tags: | Print This Article
Charlie Hebdo
Paul Craig Roberts
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-year-old-charlie-hebdo-suspect-surrenders-police-claims-alibi/
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.
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/13/charlie-hebdo-paul-craig-roberts/