False flag
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Overview
A false flag is any operation carried out in such a way that it appears to have been perpetrated by a different government (under a "false flag").
Issuepedia Usage
In the years after the 9/11 attacks, the term false flag has been increasingly used to refer to any deadly event, not necessarily directly perpetrated by the "flagging" government but possibly merely encouraged or permitted by them, and then carefully blamed on a particular target (government or other threat) so as to build domestic support for a war on the blamed party. Issuepedia uses the term engineered provocation for this meaning, as there may or may not be an actual "false flag" involved.
Related Pages
- False Flag attack on USA on or around 9/21 (aka The Kennebunkport Warning): this doesn't seem to have happened. It may have been a complicated hoax designed to discredit genuine warnings in the future, or it may have been an overreaction to available data, or there may have been a genuine risk of an attack which luckily didn't happen for whatever reason.
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- Wikipedia
- Conservapedia
: stub article dKosopediano article as of 2008-01-10SourceWatchno article as of 2008-01-10
Articles
- the Lavon Affair: is history repeating itself?: Argues that Israel has a history of planting false flags with the intent of blaming Arabs, and gives some further arguments for 9/11 being another such Israeli-Arab frameup.