FAKE TERROR

From Xymphora:

Professor Torture himself, John Yoo, is advocating that the United States set up a phony terrorist organization in order to assist in fighting the 'war on terror'. I thought the United States already had such an operation. I think it's called something like 'al Qaeda'. By the way, advocating some kind of intelligence operation in a newspaper article when the author has lots of ways to suggest it to the proper authorities through the regular channels is itself evidence that the article is intended to do something different than what it suggests.

John Yoo: “It could have its own websites, recruitment centers, training camps and fundraising operations. It could launch fake terrorist operations and claim credit for real terrorist strikes, helping to sow confusion within Al Qaeda’s ranks, causing operatives to doubt others’ identities and to question the validity of communications.”

I wonder if Yoo knows that such an organisation is aleady in place, it's called P2OG and is designed to “to bring together CIA and military covert action, information warfare, intelligence and cover and deception,” as David Isenberg writes. “P2OG would launch secret operations aimed at ’stimulating reactions’ among terrorists and states possessing weapons of mass destruction, meaning it would prod terrorist cells into action, thus exposing them to ‘quick-response’ attacks by US forces. The means by which it would do this is the far greater use of special operations forces.”

Frank Morales comments: “Bush’s war on terrorism could be the ultimate manifestation of the provocateur state; carrying out of clandestine ‘executive actions’ and ’special operations’ directed against populations, including our own, who are truly ignorant of the real ‘enemy’ in the face of the ever-present manufactured one, traumatized by strategic terror designed to engender fear and acquiescence to further ’security measures’—thereby enriching the military, police agencies, and munitions and nuclear business enterprises.”

Europe already had such groups. Remember the italian P2 Network which tried to convince the italian public that communism was a bad thing with bombing the bologna trainstation in the 80's and blaming it on the Red Brigades City Guerilla. P2 was part of the secret Gladio "Stay Behinf" Network. Most of European countries had such "stay behind" units operating without the knowledge of Parliments. In Switzerland it was called "P26" in France it was called "Glaive", Austias Unit was named "Schwert" and so on.

Daniel Ganser a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich wrote a book about it.