False Flag Advisory -- Bush and Israel : AZ IMC

False Flag Advisory -- Bush and Israel

By Major William B. Fox
and Captain Eric H. May

From Alert to Advisory

Last week we published "False Flag Alert -- April 7-11" to the American people on the Internet. Since Israel was running its largest-ever domestic military exercises during the week, everything necessary for a false flag attack was ready. A "false flag" refers to an attack carried out by one government to be blamed on another, usually in order to create an excuse to start a war.

We pointed out the numerous and substantial indicators from both the United States and Israel that a war with Iran might be in the works. Since current US public opinion will not support a unilateral war against Iran, we focused on the distinct possibility that Israel or the Bush administration might manufacture public support for a war by carrying out a false flag attack against the US military target abroad or a US civilian target at home.

Israel has finished its national war games, meaning that it is no longer on an active war footing. While the immediate and extreme danger inherent in the Israeli war games is over, there is still an ongoing and considerable danger of war. Israel's preparations demonstrate that it is preparing for war. In the last few days, Israeli officials have made public threats to destroy Iran utterly. Concurrently, US General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker have named Iran as an overt, active and increasing threat to the US.

Accordingly, we are downgrading our one-week "alert" to an "advisory" enduring for the remaining nine months of the Bush presidency. We consider this not merely a prudent precaution but an utterly necessary step.

Sources both inside and outside of the White House are speculating that George W. Bush has promised Israel a war with Iran before he leaves office. They include Pat Buchanan, in his article today, Petraeus Points to War With Iran. He starts with "The neocons may yet get their war with Iran," and he ends with "No, it is not Iran that wants a war with the United States. It is the United States that has reasons to want a short, sharp war with Iran." http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=12673

False Flag Facts

Both the US and Israel have planned or carried out well-documented false flag attacks.

In 1962, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff proposed Operation Northwoods to President John F. Kennedy. In it, they recommended a false flag attack to manufacture a pretext for an invasion of Castro's Cuba:

"We could blow up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba. Casualty lists in US newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation." -- ABC News: US Military Wanted to Provoke War with Cuba abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=92662

Israel attempted to sink a Navy ship, the USS Liberty, during its 1967 Middle East war. Their false flag attack, carried out in collaboration with the Johnson administration, was intended to provoke the American people into supporting a US entry into the war against the Arabs, on whom the attack was to be blamed. For half a day the Israeli Air Force and Navy strafed and torpedoed the Liberty. When the Liberty radioed for help, the Johnson administration ordered the rest of the Navy not to render assistance. He even recalled aircraft that had been scrambled from a carrier to assist the Liberty.

Eventually word of the ongoing Israeli attack leaked out worldwide, bringing it to a halt. Afterwards, the Johnson administration dispersed the ship's crew and threatened them with imprisonment -- or worse -- if they embarrassed Israel by telling the truth about what happened. Admiral John McCain -- father of the Republican presidential candidate -- led a sham Navy investigation that labeled the entire incident a case mistaken identity by Israel.

For more details, refer to The Strike on the USS Liberty (Chicago Tribune) http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-liberty_tuesoct02,0,66005.story?page=1

Cheerleader in Chief

Bush's "Iraq war" speech yesterday should remove any doubts about his belligerence toward Iran. It speaks for itself as an echo of pre-Iraq war saber rattling.

"The regime in Tehran has a choice to make: It can live in peace with its neighbor, enjoy strong economic and cultural and religious ties, or it can continue to arm and train and fund illegal militant groups which are terrorizing the Iraqi people and turning them against Iran.

"If Iran makes the right choice, America will encourage a peaceful relationship between Iran and Iraq. If Iran makes the wrong choice, America will act to protect our interests and our troops and our Iraqi partners...

"Iraq is the convergence point for two of the greatest threats to America in this new century: Al Qaeda and Iran. If we fail there, Al Qaeda would claim a propaganda victory of colossal proportions and they could gain safe havens in Iraq from which to attack the United States, our friends and our allies.

"Iran would work to fill the vacuum in Iraq and our failure would embolden its radical leaders to fuel their ambitions to dominate the region."

Applauding All Americans

We believe that our mission of conscience to alert the American people has been successful so far. Indeed, Internet editors, researchers and activists have posted a thousand publications of our alert, and we hope that they will create as many more of this, our extended advisory.

Needless to say, in this most interactive medium there have been thousands upon thousands of comments agreeing with or arguing against our reasoning. We salute all those -- on all sides -- who have weighed in on the issues. Citizens engaging in this salutary public debate nurture our republic and honor the ideals of our Founders.

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Major William B. Fox is a former Marine Corps officer with experience in logistics, public affairs, and military intelligence. He is an honors graduate of the Harvard Business School and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from the University of Southern California. He is also the publisher of America First Books: http://www.amfirstbooks.com/

Captain Eric H. May is a former Army military intelligence and public affairs officer, as well as a former NBC editorial writer. His essays have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Houston Chronicle and Military Intelligence Magazine. For his most recent articles and upcoming interviews, refer to his home site: http://www.spiritone.com/~pazuu/pow-mia/Ghost_Troop_Captain_Eric_H_May.htm

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Writers' note: to read our original "False Flag Alert -- April 7-11" refer to http://www.amfirstbooks.com/IntroPages/ToolBarTopics/Articles/Featured_Authors/may,_captain_eric/May_works/May_2008_01-06/Capt._Eric_H._May_20080407_with_Major_William_B._Fox;_False_Flag_Alert--April_7-11.html

So the American people who are forced to have dealings with Zionists by those Americans who have dealings with the Zionists giving away cash for camp-pains don't actualy like Zionists and HATE kissing Zionist ass.

http://www.standwithus.com/app/iNews/view.asp?ID=357

Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza, is engaged in the broadest and most significant military buildup in its history with help from Syria and Iran. It adds that Hamas is restructuring more hierarchically and using more and more powerful weapons, especially longer-range rockets against Israel's southern communities.

The study, by an independent research group with close ties to the Israeli military establishment, says that though the buildup will take some years to complete, it is in an intensive phase that has already led to better infiltration into Israel and a rise in the breadth and precision of rocket fire.

“This is the first comprehensive analysis of the Hamas buildup,” said Reuven Erlich, a retired colonel in military intelligence who heads the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, the institute that produced the study. “It is based on a wide range of sources. And what is very clear is that Hamas, like Hezbollah in Lebanon, is aiming to use rocket fire to draw the Israeli military in.”

The 52-page study, to be released publicly on Thursday, says that after Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2005, Hamas began a consolidation of power. It won the Palestinian elections against the more secular Fatah party in 2006, after sharing power uneasily with Fatah, then routed Fatah forces from Gaza last summer.

A copy of the study was provided to The New York Times.

According to a report by the Shin Bet internal security services quoted in the study, Hamas has smuggled at least 80 tons of explosives into Gaza since last summer. That smuggling accounts for more than half the amount moved into Gaza since Israel’s withdrawal, evidence of the intensification, the study asserts.

The study also says Hamas has obtained advanced anti-tank devices like those used by Hezbollah against Israel in its war in 2006, as well as powerful roadside bombs for use in border areas where Israeli vehicles might be expected to pass in pursuit of rocket launchers. It added that hundreds of fighters had been trained in Iran, Lebanon and Syria. The study cites few sources other than several media reports, but Israel is known to be engaged in intelligence collection in Palestinian areas.

Israel is engaged in an internal debate about whether to pursue a truce with Hamas, whose charter calls explicitly for Israel’s destruction but some of whose leaders say they want a mutually agreed period of calm.

Some Israeli analysts say that is what Israel should do. The study, however, asserts that any kind of truce would allow Hamas to build its military structure further, although it also says Hamas’s big worry is that Israel will reinvade Gaza. Such a concern is one motivation for the buildup, the study says.

A senior Israeli official in the prime minister’s office, who agreed to speak only on the condition of anonymity, said that what he took from the report was that when there was relative quiet in Gaza, Israel ran the risk of playing into Hamas’s hands by allowing it to continue its military buildup.

Asked about the study’s assertions, a senior Hamas leader in Gaza, Khalil al-Hayya, called them “an exaggeration, a clear step aiming to scare the region by selling an image of Gaza as a military place.

“The aim,” he continued, “is to employ all in the region to support an Israeli assault.”

He said some assertions in the study as described to him were correct but misunderstood. The training abroad, for example, was for police and administrative skills, not for combat, he said.

“It is a fact that our defensive tactics are developing, and it is not a secret,” he said. “But such tactics can be learned from books and the Internet.”

The study says Hamas has about 20,000 men it can mobilize under arms, about half from its military wing, the Izzedine al-Qassam, which, it says, includes a special suicide bomb unit. The other half consists of a combination of police and other internal security services and other militant groups, like Islamic Jihad, that take part in big operations. The core of armed men is several hundred.

It also says the military buildup is being run largely from Damascus, where Hamas has a base, because there is better access there to Syrian and Iranian money and weapons. Nonetheless, it says, political power within Hamas is increasingly moving to the Gaza Strip.

One focus of the study is the improved nature of the rockets available in Gaza as a result of smuggling through Egypt and dozens of underground tunnels leading from Egypt into Gaza. The report does not accuse Egypt of cooperating in the smuggling, only of ineffectiveness in stopping it.

Some rockets, it says, are clearly made outside Gaza, factory-produced with larger diameters and ranges, probably in Iran. Israel has been very worried by rockets that can reach into major population centers in the south like Ashkelon and Ashdod. Simpler rockets are made in Gaza from material, like piping, that is brought in legally or illegally from Israel or Egypt.

The study also says Hamas has gotten more clever at hiding rockets in densely populated neighborhoods. Its tactic, the study suggests, will be to fight only lightly when Israeli units enter Gazan territory, then lure them into the heavily populated areas where booby-traps and roadside bombs will be waiting.