08.01.2015 Author: Tony Cartalucci
Column: Politics
Region: Europe
In an
all too familiar pattern and as
predicted, the shooters involved in the attack in Paris
Wednesday, January 7, 2015, were French citizens, radicalized in Europe and
exported to Syria to fight in NATO’s proxy war against the government in
Damascus, then brought back where they have now carried out a domestic attack.
Additionally, as have been many other domestic attacks, the suspects were long
under the watch of Western intelligence services, with at least one suspect
having already been arrested on terrorism charges.
USA Today would
report in an article titled, “Manhunt
continues for two French terror suspects,” that:
The suspects are
two brothers — Said, 34, and Cherif Kouachi, 32, both French nationals — and
Hamyd Mourad, 18, whose nationality wasn’t known, a Paris police official told
the Associated Press. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not
authorized to speak publicly.
USA Today would
also report (emphasis added):
The brothers
were born in Paris of Algerian descent. Cherif was sentenced to three
years in prison on terrorism charges in May 2008. Both brothers returned from
Syria this summer.
The implications
of yet another case of Western-radicalized terrorists, first exported to fight
NATO’s proxy war in Syria, then imported and well-known to Western intelligence
agencies, being able to carry out a highly organized, well-executed attack, is
that the attack itself was sanctioned and engineered by Western intelligence
agencies themselves,. This mirrors almost verbatim the type of operations NATO
intelligence carried out during the Cold War with similar networks of
radicalized militants used both as foreign mercenaries and domestic
provocateurs. Toward the end of the Cold War, one of these militant groups was
literally Al Qaeda – a proxy mercenary front armed, funded, and employed by the
West to this very day.
Additionally, in
all likelihood, the brothers who took part in the attack in Paris may have been
fighting in Syria with weapons provided to them by the French government
itself. France 24 would report last year in an article titled, “France
delivered arms to Syrian rebels, Hollande confirms,”
that:
President
Francois Hollande said on Thursday that France had delivered weapons to rebels
battling the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad “a few months ago.”
Deflecting blame
for the current attack on “radical Islam” is but a canard obscuring the truth
that these terrorists were created intentionally by the West, to fight the
West’s enemies abroad, and to intimidate and terrorize their populations at
home.
We Must Sidestep
the Canards
As with any
false flag attack engineered by a government for the purpose of manipulating
public perception and pushing through otherwise unjustifiable policy both
foreign and domestic, a series of canards are erected to distract the public
from the true nature of the attack.
In the recent
attack in Paris, France, the canards of “free speech,” “condemning radical
Islam,” “tolerance,” and “extremism” have all taken center stage, displacing
the fact that the terrorists who carried out the attack were long on the leash
not of “Islamic extremists” but Western intelligence agencies, fighting in a
Western proxy war, as a member of a well-funded, armed, and trained mercenary
force that has, on record since as early as 2007, been an essential component
of Western foreign policy.
Indeed, Al Qaeda
and its various rebrandings are not the creation of “Islamic extremism,” but
rather Western foreign policy using “extremism” as part of indoctrinating
the rank and file, but directed by and solely for the purpose of serving an
entirely Western agenda.
As exposed by
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in his 2007
article, “The
Redirection: Is the Administration’s new policy benefiting our enemies in the
war on terrorism?” it was stated explicitly that (emphasis
added):
To undermine
Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in
effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the
Administration has coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni,
in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite
organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in
clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these
activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a
militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.
To this day, the
US, its NATO partners including Turkey, and regional partners including Israel,
Saudi Arabia, and Qatar are arming,
funding, harboring, training, and otherwise perpetuating these
“Islamic extremists” within and along both Syria and now Iraq’s borders.
In reality,
without Western backing, “laundered” through the Persian Gulf autocracies and
manifesting themselves in a global network of mosques jointly run by Persian
Gulf and Western intelligence agencies, there would be no “Islamic extremism”
to speak of. To focus on “extremism” as a cause, rather than as a means used by
the true perpetrators of this global-spanning campaign of Western-sanctioned terrorism,
is not only to perpetuate such canards, but to invite the perpetuation of this
very terrorism we are shocked and horrified by.
West Apparently Maintaining Domestic Radicalization/Recruitment Centers
The recent Sydney cafe
hostage crisis featuring an Iranian dissident granted Australian asylum
and featured in anti-Iranian propaganda, exposed a vast network of radicalization and
recruitment run in the Australian city of Sydney, used to organize support and
fighters to be sent to the West’s proxy war in Syria. The network included
many notorious individuals, well known to Australian
law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and many of whom had
traveled to Syria, taken part in fighting alongside known terrorist
organizations, and were allowed to return and continue their political
activities in Australia.
The Daily Mail’s
article, “Why did police
ask former terror suspect for an ISIS flag?” would state:
Counter
terrorism police have contacted Sydney man and one time terror accused Zaky
Mallah and asked him for an ISIS flag.
Just over four
hours into the Martin Place siege, officers the NSW Police Joint Counter
Terrorism Team and asked him if he could give them an ISIS flag.
Zaky Mallah, 30,
from Westmead in western Sydney offered the Counter Terrorist police the flag
that hangs on the wall of his apartment, the moderate Islamic Front flag, but
‘they weren’t interested’.
The article
would also state:
Two years ago Mr
Mallah travelled to Syria and lived with the FSA rebels engaged in the bloody
civil war against Muslim hardliner President Bashar el Assad ‘before it got
crazy over there’. After returning home, he encouraged young people to go to
Syria and engage in jihad to experience the freedom fight taken up against El
Assad…
As in Australia,
France apparently also has a stable of former terrorists who had traveled to
Syria and returned, all while on their watch lists – and in Australia at least
– some of these terrorists are literally on security agency speed dials and are
clearly a part of a network the intelligence community both monitors and in
fact, maintains.
Such networks
have turned out thousands of recruits to fight in NATO’s war in Syria. The BBC
would report in an article titled, “Islamic State crisis: ‘3,000
European jihadists join fight’,” that:
The number of
Europeans joining Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq has risen to more than
3,000, the EU’s anti-terrorism chief has told the BBC.
Gilles de
Kerchove also warned that Western air strikes would increase the risk of
retaliatory attacks in Europe.
How exactly is
the public expected to believe that such a vast number of terrorists can
migrate overseas to fight alongside terrorist forces the West is currently,
allegedly, fighting, without the West being able to stem such a tide? Clearly,
just as arming Al Qaeda in Syria was done intentionally, so to have the floodgates
been open, allowing European terrorists to both join NATO’s proxy war in Syria,
and to return home and join NATO’s growing war against its own people.
Operation Gladio
on Steroids
Such networks
don’t just mirror NATO’s “stay behind networks” formed during the Cold War,
supposedly created to activate in the wake of a full-scale Soviet invasion of
Western Europe, but instead used as a covert front of political and terroristic
provocation – such networks today are a continuation of NATO’s
secret armies.
NATO’s
provocateurs used during the Cold War were a mixture of nationalists,
anti-communists, former Nazi SS officers, and extremists of every stripe. Their
particular beliefs were, however, ultimately irrelevant since they were used
for a singular agenda defined not by these beliefs, but by NATO’s own agenda.
Many of the
militants and extremists NATO used were liquidated upon the completion of the
many false flag attacks NATO organized at the cost of hundreds of innocent
European lives. Likewise, today, many of the gunmen or bombers involved in the
long string of suspicious domestic attacks carried out by NATO’s modern “stay
behind network” are either killed on sight, or imprisoned and forgotten.
While NATO’s
Cold War operations appeared confined to conducting terrorism upon its own
people, today’s networks are used to carry out both proxy wars overseas as well
as to carry out terrorist attacks at home. The expansive nature of this network
and the threat it poses to global peace and stability should be at the center
of the Paris attack debate – not the alleged beliefs, religion, or supposed
agenda of the attackers who, just like their Cold War counterparts, were
nothing more than patsies and pawns amid a much larger and insidious game.
Tony Cartalucci,
Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online
magazine“New Eastern Outlook”.
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