Reply #3: commentary

[paulthompson]

I'd like to point out that "sparkles" - a gvmt faking an event such as a terrorist bombing and blaming in on another group, has become so common lately that it's hard to keep track of them all. The Russian gvmt did a really blatant one in 1999 that's openly talked about in the US press, for instance. Yet, despite all this, there are lots of stubborn people at DU who refuse to even consider the possibility that some faction of the US gvmt was involved in 9/11, even though the evidence to that effect constantly grows.

Speaking of the Philippines, a CNN article I read about the military uprising there a few weeks ago, pointed out that President Marcos turned his elected presidency into a dictatorship in the early 1970s by staging a series of terror attacks on his own people, and used that as an excuse to declare martial law and suspend elections.

Yet people think the US is somehow special, and that such a thing has never happened here, and could never happen here. Wake up already! It's happening, and 9/11 was part of it.

In fact, sparkles may already be an open, official part of US policy. A few articles have reported this story, but most people don't seem to know or care (from my 9/11 Timeline):

September 26, 2002 (B): A leaked August 16, 2002 report from Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's influential Defense Science Board 2002 is exposed. (UPI, 9/26/02) The board "recommends creation of a super-Intelligence Support Activity, an organization it dubs the Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group, (P2OG), to bring together CIA and military covert action, information warfare, intelligence, and cover and deception. Among other things, this body would launch secret operations aimed at 'stimulating reactions' among terrorists and states possessing weapons of mass destruction -- that is, for instance, prodding terrorist cells into action and exposing themselves to 'quick-response' attacks by US forces. Such tactics would hold 'states/sub-state actors accountable' and 'signal to harboring states that their sovereignty will be at risk.'" (Los Angeles Times, 10/27/02, Asia Times, 11/5/02) An editorial in the Moscow Times comments: "In other words - and let's say this plainly, clearly and soberly, so that no one can mistake the intention of Rumsfeld's plan - the United States government is planning to use 'cover and deception' and secret military operations to provoke murderous terrorist attacks on innocent people." It is further suggested terrorists could be instigated in countries the US wants to gain control over. (Moscow Times, 11/1/02)