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Many people have a hard time getting past the idea that the US government or some agencies or individuals within the government could be in some have intentionally turned a blind eye to the planning of the 911 attacks by the alleged Al Quaida terrorists or, as claimed by many in the 9/11 truth movement, actually participated in the planning and carrying out of the attacks on 9/11. However, going on past history, this might not be as incredible a claim as it sounds on the surface. There is some not very well known evidence that intelligence agencies like the CIA and MI6 and groups within NATO encouraged and assisted underground right wing, fascist groups in Europe to stage murderous false flag terror attacks on European civilians during the Cold War. These attacks were then blamed on radical leftists and communists with the aim of discrediting leftist and communist politicians and preventing them gaining political power by winning elections.<br><br> <b>NATO’s secret armies linked to terrorism?</b><br> by Daniele Ganser<br><br> SNIP<BR><BR> Andreotti revealed that the secret Gladio army had been hidden within the Defense Ministry as a subsection of the military secret service, SISMI. General Vito Miceli, a former director of the Italian military secret service, could hardly believe that Andreotti had lifted the secret, and protested:<br><br> <i>"I have gone to prison because I did not want to reveal the existence of this super secret organization. And now Andreotti comes along and tells it to parliament!"</i><br><br> According to a document compiled by the Italian military secret service in 1959, the secret armies had a two-fold strategic purpose: firstly, to operate as a so-called “stay-behind” group in the case of a Soviet invasion and to carry out a guerrilla war in occupied territories; secondly, to carry out domestic operations in case of “emergency situations”.<br><br> The military secret services’ perceptions of what constituted an “emergency” was well defined in Cold War Italy and focused on the increasing strength of the Italian Communist and the Socialist parties, both of which were tasked with weakening NATO “from within”. Felice Casson, an Italian judge who during his investigations into right-wing terrorism had first discovered the secret Gladio army and had forced Andreotti to take a stand, found that the secret army had linked up with right-wing terrorists in order to confront “emergency situations”. The terrorists, supplied by the secret army, carried out bomb attacks in public places, blamed them on the Italian left, and were thereafter protected from prosecution by the military secret service. <i>"You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game,”</i> right-wing terrorist Vincezo Vinciguerra explained the so-called “strategy of tension” to Casson.<br><br> <i>“The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security. This is the political logic that lies behind all the massacres and the bombings which remain unpunished, because the state cannot convict itself or declare itself responsible for what happened."</i><br><br> How strongly NATO and US intelligence backed and supported the use of terror in Italy in order to discredit the political left during the Cold War remains subject of ongoing research. General Gerardo Serravalle, who had commanded the Italian Gladio secret army from 1971 to 1974, confirmed that the secret army “could pass from a defensive, post-invasion logic, to one of attack, of civil war”.<br><br> The Italian Senate chose to be more explicit and concluded in its investigation in 2000:<i><b> "Those massacres, those bombs, those military actions had been organized or promoted or supported by men inside Italian state institutions and, as has been discovered more recently, by men linked to the structures of United States intelligence." </i></b> (empahsis added). Ever since the discovery of the secret NATO armies in 1990, research into stay-behind armies has progressed only very slowly, due to very limited access to primary documents and the refusal of both NATO and the CIA to comment. On 5 November 1990, a NATO spokesman told an inquisitive press: "NATO has never contemplated guerrilla war or clandestine operations”.<br><br> The next day, NATO officials admitted that the previous day’s denial had been false, adding that the alliance would not comment on matters of military secrecy.......<br><br> <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/GAN412A.html">NATO's Secret Armies Linked to Terrorism</a><br><br> In addition to Operation Gladio, there is also the more well known (although seldom mentioned in mainstream media) Operation Northwoods which were plans formulated by the Pentagon joint chiefs of staff to <a href="http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/northwoods.html">stage terror attacks on US military and civilian targets and Cuban refugees</a> in order to blame Castro and the communist revolutionaries in Cuba and thereby justify to the American public a military invasion of Cuba.<br><br> The old Nazi War Criminal Herman Goering said it best:<br><br> <i> "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."</i><br><br> <a href="http://911blogger.com/node/3526">http://911blogger.com/node/3526</a>

WOW!!
This is the kind of information I so enjoy, and most likily would hardly have come to on my own
Thank you for presenting it
Dio

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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."

William Blake

Well spread it around. We need to counteract the <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/09/05_stepford.html">brainwashing</a> while we still can.

This important article by Nafeez Ahmed called 'Strategy of tension' deals with the same issues. <br />
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He also mentions Daniele Ganser, 'the most authoritative author on the subject of state terrorism' <br />
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Have to go out and get this book!<br />
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<a href="http://nafeez.blogspot.com/2007/05/strategy-of-tension.html">http://nafeez.blogspot.com/2007/05/strategy-of-tension.html</a>