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CIA Behind France Attacks, Says Ex White House Official

  • Armed French intervention police are seen at the scene of a shooting in the street of Montrouge near Paris January 8, 2015.

    Armed French intervention police are seen at the scene of a shooting in the street of Montrouge near Paris January 8, 2015. | Photo: Reuters

Published 11 January 2015
Opinion

Paul Craig Roberts, wrote on his blog Thursday that the atrocities were a "false flag" operation, similar to those carried out after WW II to frame communists.

Attacks carried out by alleged Islamic gunmen in France last week that left 17 dead were the work of the CIA, “designed to shore up France’s vassal status to Washington,” a former White House official has claimed.

Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and editor of the Wall Street Journal, Paul Craig Roberts, wrote on his blog Thursday that the atrocities were a “false flag” operation, similar to those carried out after World War II to frame communists.

“Muslims are going to be framed for an inside job designed to pull France firmly back under Washington’s thumb,” he wrote.

The tragedy began when two heavily armed brothers burst into the Paris office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo Wednesday, killing 12. The drama continued with the murder of a policewoman, and two concurrent sieges, one in a kosher supermarket.

As evidence for his theory, Roberts drew on the revelation that the ID of gunman Said Kouachi was found on the scene, comparing it to the “undamaged passport of one of the alleged 9/11 hijackers (found) among the massive pulverized ruins of the twin towers,” another attack he claims the U.S. intelligence agency was behind.

Read more: France Hit by Charlie Hebdo Tragedy

The ex-Washington insider suggested that the motive could be to create greater dependence on the U.S. from France, whose president this week called for an end to Washington-imposed sanctions against Russia.

“This is too much foreign policy independence on France’s part for Washington,” Roberts wrote.

The publication of this version of events comes as Wikileaks posted a text Saturday that appears to be written by its founder, Julian Assange, which says the failure of the French authorities in the Charlie Hebdo massacre is so conspicuous, that questions about government links to the killers must be asked.

Among the author’s questions are: Why weren’t the  Kouachi brothers, both known to have extremist ties, not under surveillance?; Why were the Charlie Hebdo offices not better protected, given that the magazine regularly and strongly criticizes Islam?; and just how did two known terrorists get hold of semi-automatic weapons?

“Cherif Kouachi had already been convicted of terrorism offences and served 18 months in prison for it. Both brothers were already on terrorism lists. Far from hiding messages under rocks or using encryption, the alleged conspirators communicated hundreds of times before and during the attacks — on regular phones,” the article states.

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