By Sajjad Shaukat
During Bastille Day celebrations,
considered France’s
Independence Day, a terrorist who used a hired lorry killed at least 84
people and injured more than 200 persons on July 15, 2016 in a rampage in the
French city of Nice.
The attack ended when police shot into the truck, killing the driver.
The authorities identified the truck driver
as Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a French national of Tunisian origin. A huge
cache of guns, grenades and larger weapons and the terrorist’s identity papers
were later found inside the lorry.
Western media reported that a poster
apparently created by the Islamic State group (Also known as Daesh, ISIS, ISIL)
supporters have been celebrating the attack, orchestrated to coincide with France’s most
important national holiday—is being shared on Twitter.
Like the previous terror attacks in Europe
and the US,
including some other countries, this new one in Nice is also a false flag
operation, arranged by some state actors and their intelligence agencies in
order to achieve secret aims.
Various acts of terrorism show that without
taking cognizance of the related-developments in the world, the general masses
of a country and even some educated persons start blaming all the Muslims and
the ISIS in this respect. Therefore, we need to go in-depth analysis to know
who is behind the carnage in Nice. In these terms, as part of the secret
strategy of some states, double game and false flag operations are
interrelated.
As regards terrorism, Machiavelli advises
the rulers to have a lion-like image outwardly, and act upon the traits of goat
inwardly. He also suggests them foreign adventures and the use of terror to
obtain their goals. In his sense, a good ruler should be a good opportunist and
hypocrite. While echoing Machiavelli, Morgenthau points out that sometimes,
rulers act upon immoral activities like deceit, fraud, falsehood and even
murder to fulfill their selfish aims.
Indicating double game, Morgenthau, and
Palmer and Perkins opine, “Just as power became the instrument of ambitious
nationalism and state’s leaders, it has now become the tool of ideologies. The
true nature of the policy is concealed by ideological justifications and
rationalization.”
If the double game of President Bush (The
Senior) and George W. Bush franchised Al-Qaeda on global level, President
Obama’s dual policy franchised both Al-Qaeda and ISIS as part of the
anti-Muslim campaign and left no stone unturned in advancing the agenda of the
Zionists, Israeli lobbies and the neoconservatives in the pretext of global war
on terror.
Secretly, President Obama authorized CIA to
create ISIS. His perennial covert support to
the Israeli atrocities on the Palestinians, silence over the supply (Smuggling)
of oil by ISIS to some European countries whose governments have also not taken
action against those companies which were exporting oil from the
ISIS-controlled regions of Iraq, CIA-assisted Al-Qaeda (Al-Nusra Front), ISIS
militants and rebel groups who are fighting to oust Syrian President Assad’s
government to obtain the aims of a greater Israel are part of the double game.
When Russian-led coalition of Iran, Iraq,
the Syrian army-the National Defense Forces (NDF) and Lebanon-based Hezbollah
had broken the backbone of the Mossad-CIA-backed ISIS terrorists, Al-Qaeda’s
Al-Nusra Front and the rebels in Syria
and Iraq.
Israeli Mossad which was already having clandestine contact with the ISIS
directed this outfit to plan the November 13 terror attacks in Paris in connivance with the French
home-grown militants. Similarly, Mossad used the ISIL terrorists who conducted
terror assaults in Brussels
on March 22, 2016.
After the false flag operations of Paris and Brussels,
including the shooting at San
Bernardino, California, Israel achieved its several
sinister designs. Like the drastic aftermath of 9/11 tragedy, rulers and
politicians of the US-led Western countries, especially of Europe,
including their media have been misguiding their general public by creating
chauvinism against the Muslims. They are propagating the so-called threat of
Islamophobia. In one way or the other, the Muslims are being persecuted in the US and other Western countries, particularly in Europe which has been put on high alert, as these
subversive acts were being taken as attacks on the whole continent. Owing to
the irresponsible approach of Western leaders, right-wing parties and “Stop
Islam” movement in the West, especially in Europe
are becoming popular by largely attracting their people. Besides, Muslims in
the continent are facing severe backlash in form of attacks on them and threats
(In some countries) in wake of anti-Muslim protests. Without caring for human
rights, several Muslim refugees have been expelled from various European
countries.
Israeli-led America
also got the support of its Western allies (NATO) against Russia in
relation to Syrian civil war. As part of the double game, American jet fighters
and those of its Western coalition started targeting the ISIS terrorists in Iraq and Syria
Besides, like France and Belgium, by
ignoring Israeli protest, some EU member states were considering to officially
recognize the a state of Palestine and the EU pressure was growing on Tel
Aviv to restart a negotiation process for the two-state solution of the
Israeli-Palestinian dispute.
Meanwhile, Russian-supported Assad’s forces
have retaken several territories from the control of the rebels and the ISIS
terrorists who are on flee in Syria
and Iraq.
Notably, Israel,
India and Zionist lobbies
which are clandestinely assisting America’s
anti-Muslim, pro-Israeli, pro-Indian and anti-Pakistani Donald J. Trump, the
presumptive Republican presidential nominee want
to see him as the president of the United States. Trump who is
well-known for his anti-Muslim rhetoric not only exploited the terror assaults
of Paris and Brussels,
but also the shooting at the gay night club in Orlando, Florida
which killed at least 50 persons.
This false flag operation was exposed when
on June 28, 2016, The New York Times wrote, “The mass shooting at a gay
nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on June 12 included a curious phrase:
false flag…the victims in the shooting? They were “crisis actors” hired
to promote the story as a pretext to impose tighter gun restrictions, the
theory goes…the term false flag relates to naval warfare when a ship would fly
a flag that would conceal its true identity as a way to lure an enemy closer. Today,
it is commonly a shorthand for an act of deception…conspiracy theorists have
applied the label to high-profile attacks, including the shootings by a husband
and wife last year in San Bernardino, Calif, that killed 14…the phrase has even
been used to doubt the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.”
In an interview with Brazilian TV on June
14, 2016, the ex-wife of the Orlando
shooter Omar Mateen Sitora Yusufiy disclosed that American FBI pressurized her
to keep quiet about his homosexuality. Since the attack, Mateen has been dubbed
an Islamic terrorist by the politicians, senior officials and commentators in
the US,
following reports he had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, as they
wanted to downplay the personal and self-hating nature of the assault.
It is of particular attention that when
acts of terrorism occur in the Islamic countries, Western media and rulers do
not give much importance. Pakistan
has faced several terrorism-related incidents which have killed thousands of
the innocent civilians since 9/11 catastrophe. But, Western media have given
little coverage to any terror-incident of Pakistan.
On July 2, this year, the double game of
the US-led India
exposed a false flag operation when the militants attacked on the Holey Artisan
Bakery (Restaurant) in the diplomatic district of Dhaka and killed at least 20
hostages and two police officers, which includes most of the foreigners.
ISIL claimed responsibility for terror attack on the restaurant. But,
without any investigation, Home Minister of Bangladesh Asaduzzaman Khan accused
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of the restaurant assault by
adding, “There is no IS or al-Qaeda presence in Bangladesh. His statement was
contrary to the country’s top officials who have claimed that ISIL exists in Bangladesh. On
July 7, 2016, terrorists killed two policemen and a woman in an attack at Eid
congregation in Kishoreganj,
Bangladesh. The
incident came, a day after the ISIL video on social media in which, three
Bangladeshi youths appeared, threatening more attacks in the country. It also
proves that Bangladesh’s
home-grown militants have connections with the ISIL. Availing the
opportunity of the Dhaka restaurant attack,
Indian media also began a campaign, accusing ISI. Indian secret agency RAW which
is in collaboration with Bangladesh’s
intelligence agencies and has been using the ISIL terrorists is behind the
Dhaka restaurant attack to distort Pakistan’s image and ISI.
It is noteworthy that irresponsible
approach of the US-led entities as well as double game of Turkey and Saudi
Arabia has made the ISIL, the most dangerous militant
outfit which has rapidly spread its tentacles in the US,
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Middle East and Africa. Apart from previous terror assaults in Turkey, Syria,
Lebanon, Jakarta etc., ISIL
is behind the recent bombings in Saudi Arabia,
Turkey, Yemen and Iraq.
It is also of particular attention that
since the fundamentalist party BJP led by the Indian Prime Minister Narindra
Modi came to power in India, it has been implementing anti-Muslim and
anti-Pakistan agenda. India which has strategic partnership with Israel has
perennially been manipulating the double game of the US-led West regarding
world phenomena of terrorism in connection with Pakistan and Afghanistan, while
exploiting their anti-Muslim approach to obtain Indo-Israeli clandestine
designs. Both Tel Aviv and New Delhi have been
equating the ‘wars of liberation’ in Palestine
and Kashmir with terrorism. Their main purpose
is to divert the attention of the West from their own atrocities, while
employing delaying tactics in the solution of these issues.
Nevertheless, there is a co-relationship of
the double game and false flag operations, being conducted in the US, Europe, the Middle East, Afghanistan and
elsewhere in the world. In this connection, on January 13, 2015, at least seven
personnel of the Afghan security forces died during the suicide attack which
targeted the Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad. The ISIL claimed responsibility
for the terror assault which coincided with efforts to restart the suspended
peace process with Taliban insurgents. Pakistani sources suggested that Indian
RAW was behind this terror attack to thwart these peace talks. On May 21, 2016,
the CIA-operated drone strike killed the Chief of the Afghan Taliban Mullah
Akhtar Mansour in Nushki, Balochistan province of Pakistan.
After the incident, Afghan Taliban leaders refused to participate in the
US-sponsored talks with the Afghan government. While, in the recent past, with
the help of Pakistan, a series of meetings were held in Islamabad and Kabul
among the representatives of Pakistan, Afghanistan, China and the US to develop
an understanding for the earliest possible resumption of stalled talks between
the Afghan government and the Taliban with a view to ending nearly 15 years of
bloodshed in Afghanistan. It shows that America
is playing double game with Islamabad.
Undoubtedly, secret agents of CIA, Mossad and RAW which are well-penetrated in
the ISIS, the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are using the militants of these
terrorist outfits to destabilize Tibetan regions of China, Iranian
Sistan-Baluchistan, Pakistan’s province of Balochistan and Central Asia. In
this regard, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is their special target.
It is worth-mentioning that the US-led
West, especially Europe has already started a new Cold War with Russia. The US has decided to station permanently additional
troops in Eastern Europe as part of NATO move to defend the continent against
the presumed threat of Moscow.
In response, Moscow
also responded that it would send 30,000 Russian troops along its western and
southern borders. Although Cold War has revived between the US-led West
and Russia, yet some recent
developments have disheartened the Zionist-Israeli-led America.
Britain’s decision to leave the EU after
the referendum (Brexit) of June 24, 2016—UK itself could now break apart, with
the leader of Scotland, where nearly two-thirds of voters wanted to stay in the
EU, saying a new referendum on independence from the rest of Britain was highly
likely. President Obama who was insisting upon London
to keep aligned with the EU, as this separation “threatens to harm the U.S. economic recovery and distract U.S. allies
from global security issues”, as he said on June 24. 2016. On the same day,
Donald Trump stated, British voters just shattered political convention in a
stunning repudiation of the ruling establishment in a referendum…in November, the American people will have the chance
to re-declare their independence. Americans will have a chance to vote for
trade, immigration and foreign policies that put our citizens first…people
want to see borders. They don’t necessarily want people pouring into their
country.”
In wake of the British decision to leave
the EU, it will be much difficult for the European politicians to discourage
the general population, which is fed up with business as usual inside the EU.
Notably, recent violent protests against the labour laws in France might be
cited as instance, though the same were not related to the EU, but displayed
peoples’ anger in relation to economic policies—the divide between the elite
class which run multinational companies with the direct or indirect control of
the Jews and the general masses who are suffering from multiple problems.
Sooner or later, other EU countries which do not want to continue integration
of their states to the European Union could also demand a similar referendum
like that of the UK. People in France,
Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands,
Hungary, Poland and Austria
are reluctant to maintain alignment of their countries with the European Union
in wake of differences on the refugee crisis, Syrian war, Greece’s weak
economy etc. Therefore, the European Union may disintegrate, giving a greater
setback to the US-Europe alliance against Russia.
And more than 14 years have passed and the
US-led NATO forces have been facing defeatism in Afghanistan. The ambush attacks on
their military installations and personnel by the Afghan freedom fighters have
continued, particularly, targeting American bases, check posts and armed
persons. Especially, the US military personnel have been demoralized, as they
are well-aware of the facts that they have been sent abroad—Afghanistan, Syria
and elsewhere in the world to maintain the supremacy of Israel, instead of
protecting American national interests. The cost of the endless war is rapidly
increasing, adding to the plight of ordinary citizens of the US and its
Western allies. However, it is owing to the dual strategy of the US-led India, Israel
and some Western countries that RAW, CIA and Mossad are conducting false flag
operations also to divert the attention of American and Western public from
multi-faceted internal problems, which are the result of prolonged war in Afghanistan and
elsewhere in the world.
A rift could be created between the NATO
countries, which will give benefit to Russia, quite contrary to the
Israeli secret interests.
Confused owing to his own double game and
that of the US-led West, on May 8, 2016, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
has kept up his rebuke of European nations, accusing them of dictatorship and
cruelty for keeping their frontiers closed to migrants and refugees fleeing the
Syrian conflict. He clarified that “Turkey would not meet a EU demand
for his country to reform its anti-terrorism legislation.” A rift has been
created between the West and Turkey,
the close ally of NATO. On February 10, 2016, President Erdogan lashed out at
the US over its support for Syria’s main Kurdish
group, saying, “The failure to recognize the Democratic Union Party (PYD) as a
terrorist group is creating a “sea of blood”. He explained, “The PYD, on which
the US relies to battle
so-called Islamic State in Syria,
is an offshoot of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party.”
Meanwhile, a Turkish
military group claimed on July 15, this year that it had taken control of Turkey’s
government, but, on July 16, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim stated that
the alleged coup attempt had been foiled. Almost 200 people, including dozens
of coup backers were killed and 2,839 military personnel were arrested, as
pro-Erdogan forces said. Analysts opine that the rebellion was owing to the
double game and flawed policies of Erdogan in relation to Syria and ISIL.
By neglecting American pressure, Erdogan
who has taken steps in the end of June, this year to improve relations with Russia to strengthen its hand in fighting
against militants, said the attack at the Istanbul
airport should serve as a turning point in the global battle against terrorism.
Reports suggest that Ankara is also considering
a military agreement with Moscow.
Besides, by following the US double game, Syrian rebel groups on April 12,
2016 launched a major offensive on positions of the ISIS in Syria’s northern province
of Aleppo. In
order to show to the international community and Western public that America is fighting against the ISIS terrorists, US has accelerated air strikes on the
ISIS-controlled regions. As per CIA directions, in Aleppo city, shell and mortar attacks by the
Al-Nusra Front, ISIS and the rebel groups have continued on the Kurdish
neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsoud. ISIS has also continued firing rockets across
the border into the Turkish town of Kilis.
In the pretext, the Turkish military is retaliating with shell fire.
Recently, on June 26, 2016, Russian-backed
Iraqi forces have recaptured the city of Fallujah.
Following dual strategy, Pentagon welcomed the retaken of Fallujah, and the US Secretary of State John Kerry has offered Moscow to fight the ISIS terrorists jointly, in case Russia stops
targeting the Syrian rebel groups. Nevertheless, it is due to skillful
diplomacy of the President Putin that very soon, Syria will be liberated from the
hold of the Israeli-led Western powers. Now, the scenario in Syria shows that the CIA-prepared plan-B of Syria’s
partition will also fail.
Even, CIA-Mossad scheme to promote
sectarian violence in Islamic World on larger scale, after creating a rift
between Saudi Arabia and Iran could not succeed, as after the recent bombings
in Saudi Arabia, Saudi people have started thinking about the double game of
America and Israel, though Riyadh is also supporting the ISIL (The Sunni group)
against the Syrian government and Yemen.
Some other developments also frustrated
especially Israeli rulers. In this respect, besides a number of human rights
groups, particularly Amnesty International in its press release on April 1,
2016 criticized, the controversial Turkish-EU refugee deal by pointing out,
“Large-scale forced returns of refugees from Turkey to war-ravaged Syria expose
the fatal flaws in a refugee deal signed between Turkey and the European
Union…all forced returns to Syria are illegal under Turkish, EU and
international law.”
In a speech to the Israel advocacy group J Street, American Vice President Joe
Biden remarked on April 18, 2016, “I firmly believe that the actions that Israel’s government has taken over the past
several years…the steady and systematic expansion of settlements, the
legalization of outposts, land seizures…are moving us and…Israel in the
wrong direction.”
In wake of the EU rule to boycott goods
produced in Israeli settlements on the West Bank, on March 21, 2016, in a
speech in Utah,
the only Jewish Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders had sparked controversy by
saying, “The US should be even-handed and must not always say that Netanyahu is
right.” He criticized Israel’s
treatment of Palestinians, condemning the expansion of West Bank settlements
and blasting Prime Minister Netanyahu’s withholding of tax dollars from
Palestinian authorities and called for an end to the economic blockade of Gaza. Earlier, in an
interview with the New York Daily News on April 1, 2016, Sanders remarked about
Israel with blood libel in relation to the August 2014 Israeli war in the Gaza
Strip by explaining that Israeli forces bombed apartment houses and hospitals
and “killed 10,000 Palestinian civilians…Israel’s force was more indiscriminate
than it should have been.”
Obama Administration was pressing Israeli
Prime Minister Netanyahu to agree for the two-state solution of the
Israeli-Palestinian dispute. A majority of the intellectuals and analysts of
the West have also been emphasizing upon the settlement of this issue. Even,
non-Zionist Jews have started favouring the two-state solution of the
Israeli-Palestinian dispute.
Although the presidential nominee of the
Democrats Hillary Clinton is also Israeli agent, yet her criticism about
contributions of election-campaign from Wall Street backers, email-scandal etc.
have weakened her position. Therefore, Donald Trump best suits the interests of
Tel Aviv. In an interview with the Daily Mail on May 2, 2016, Trump stated that
Israel should continue
construction of illegal settlements across the occupied West
Bank. Trump is also against the two-state solution of the
Israeli-Palestinian issue.
It is mentionable that France was just
preparing to lift its state of emergency which was put into place in the wake
of the November terror attacks in Paris, and it would have expired later this
month, but Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on July 15, this year that a bill
to extend it would be submitted to parliament by July 16.
French investigating agencies disclosed
that driver Bouhlel’s wife is in police custody, as officers question
her about his alleged Islamist links. Bouhlel was reportedly not on a
terrorist watch list and investigators are seeking to establish
his motive—and are also looking for possible accomplices. Investigating
sources also said that Bouhlel’s last appearance in a criminal court was
as recently as March, when he was found guilty of violent contact. They added
that despite this, he had no known links with terrorism and was not
under surveillance—was an ‘unlikely jihadist’ who flouted every rule of Islam.
Nonetheless, it is owing to the above
mentioned developments—the secret strategy of the US
and Israel
whose intelligence agencies CIA and Mossad have used the ISIL terrorists to
conduct the deadliest terror attack in Nice. Most probably, by availing the
vicious circle of terrorism, Mossad might have alone arranged this mass murder
due to differences among the EU countries, refugee crisis and to fortify the US
alliance with the Western countries, particularly Europe against Russia, to
divert the attention of American public from internal problems, prolonged war
on terror etc., and especially to avoid the solution of the Israeli-Palestinian
issue and to ensure the success of Donald Trump in the US presidential
elections of November.
In fact, fault cannot be laid on the
general masses, a majority of whom are swayed by emotions, stereotypes and
prejudices created by the political leaders who keep on manipulating any crisis
for their own self-interests with the sole aim of getting their sympathies to increase
their vote bank. There are equal strong pressures from religious and
nationalist forces in wake of global war on terror which is dividing the world
on religious lines. Therefore, instead of misguiding the people by creating
phobia of Islam, the rulers and media of the US-led West and peace-loving
people of every religious community, including Jews must show realistic
approach for the peace of entire world. Otherwise, double game and false flag
operations which are interrelated will continue culminating into “clash of
civilizations”, as predicted by Huntington.
Sajjad Shaukat writes on international
affairs and is author of the book: US vs Islamic Militants, Invisible
Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in International Relations
Email: sajjad_logic_pak@hotmail.com
Courtesy Veterans Today
