734 Thierry Meyssan & Jean-Marie Le Pen support Conspiracy theory of Charlie Hebdo massacre

Thierry Meyssan & Jean-Marie Le Pen support Conspiracy theory of Charlie
Hebdo massacre

Newsletter published on 27 January 2015

(1) Thierry Meyssan & Jean-Marie Le Pen support Conspiracy theory of
Charlie Hebdo massacre
(2) Thierry Meyssan: Charlie Hebdo attack probably sponsored by an
Intelligence Agency
(3) Jean-Marie Le Pen says French terror attacks were work of Western
intelligence
(4) Police Suicide, while investigating Charlie Hebdo attacks, blacked
out in Media
(5) Jonathan Cook on Execution video: bullet missed Merabet's head, but
perhaps fragments hit him
(6) Policeman's brother berates Media coverage of Execution
(7) Man who filmed Execution said putting it online was a "stupid reflex"
(8) Fake "BBC" story on Charlie Hebdo massacres
(9) Hamas & Palestinians condemn Charlie Hebdo attack
(10) Pope warns of limits to freedom of expression - religions should
not be ridiculed
(11) ISIS magazine says terrorists will 'conquer' Rome
(12) UKIP's Farage: Multiculturalism is creating a 'Fifth Column' in the
West
(13) Charlie Hebdo considered 'Leftist'?
(14) Left & Right share anti-religious, anti-national values of leftist
Charlie Hebdo -
(15) French soldiers desert to fight for Islamic State
(16) Charlie Hebdo did not demean Jehovah/YHWH as it did Islam and
Catholicism
(17) Charlie Hebdo's Communist Culture War on Tradition & Religion "is
Jewish"
(18) Murdoch tweet blaming all Muslims for France terror attacks

(1) Thierry Meyssan & Jean-Marie Le Pen support Conspiracy theory of
Charlie Hebdo massacre - by Peter Myers, January 27, 2015

Many dissidents who were aware that 9/11 was an Inside Job, and that the
  London Tube bombings (7/7) were probably so, felt the same about the
Charlie Hebdo massacre.

That may well be, but evidence is lacking.

We only knew that the hijacking of the Achille Lauro had been ordered by
Mossad when Ari Ben-Menashe revealed it in his book Profits of War. He
explained that Mossad recruited Palestinian terrorists who thought they
were working for Sicilian dons.

"the group picked on an elderly American Jewish man in a wheelchair,
killed him, and threw his body overboard. They made their point. But for
Israel it was the best kind of anti-Palestinian propaganda." (p. 122)
http://mailstar.net/vanunu.html

It is one thing to suspect the same about the Charlie Hebdo massacre; it
is another to provide proof.

Claims centre on an ID card left by one terrorist in a black Citroen;
and on the video of the terrorists killing a police officer.

There were only two persons in the Citroen - the two terrorists; earlier
reports that there was a third person, a driver, were later corrected.
It is hard to believe that one of the two left the card by mistake,
because it would help police track him down. Surely it could not have
been left deliberately, as a Calling Card? Or could it have been planted
by one of the police who discovered it?

I watched the execution video weeks ago. Liveleak - terrorists kill a
police officer:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc6_1420632668

But the claims about it are overstated. Jonathan Cook, a reliable writer
on the Middle East, refuted them (item 5).

If the event was "False Flag", it would not mean that the two gunmen
were not guilty of the massacre. It would merely mean that some boss
higher up, who ordered the whole thing, was a Mossad mole.

In the case of both 9/11 and the London Tube bombings (7/7), a rehearsal
drill was under way at the time. Those running the drills were not the
guilty parties. Rather, others who knew about the drills (an
intelligence agency, probably Mossad) decided to make the drills go "live".

(2) Thierry Meyssan: Charlie Hebdo attack probably sponsored by an
Intelligence Agency

http://www.voltairenet.org/article186441.html

A French September 11th? Who ordered the attack against Charlie Hebdo?

by Thierry Meyssan

While many French react to the attack against Charlie Hebdo denouncing
Islam and demonstrating in the streets, Thierry Meyssan points out that
the jihadist interpretation is impossible. While it would be tempting
for him to see it as an Al Qaeda or Daesh operation, he envisages
another, much more dangerous hypothesis.

Voltaire Network | Damascus (Syria) | 10 January 2015

In this report, France 24 edited the video so that we do not see the
attackers execute a fallen police officer.

On January 7, 2015, commandos erupted in Paris, in the premises of
Charlie Hebdo and murdered 12 people. 4 more victims are still in
serious condition.

On the videos, the attackers are heard shouting "Allah Akbar! and
"avenge Muhammad”. One witness, a Coco designer, said they proclaimed
affiliation with al-Qaeda. That's all it took for many French to
denounce it as an Islamist attack.

However, this assumption is illogical.

The mission of this commando had no connection with jihadist ideology

Indeed, members or sympathizers of the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda or
Daesh would not be content to just kill atheist cartoonists; they would
have first destroyed the archives of the newspaper on site, following
the model of all their actions in North Africa and the Levant. For
jihadists, the first duty is to destroy the objects that they believe
offend God, and to punish the "enemies of God."

Similarly, they would not have immediately retreated, fleeing the
police, without completing their mission. They would rather have
completed their mission, were they to die on the spot.

In addition, videos and some evidence shows that the attackers are
professionals. They wielded their weapons expertly and fired advisedly.
They were not dressed in the fashion of the jihadists, but as military
commandos.

How they dispatched a wounded policeman who posed no danger to them,
certifies that their mission was not to "avenge Muhammad" because of the
crass humor of Charlie Hebdo.

The video censored by French TV

This aims to create the beginning of a civil war

The fact that the assailants speak French well and are probably French
does not necessarily indicate that this attack is a Franco-French
episode. Rather, the fact that they are professional forces one to
distinguish them from possible sponsors. And there is no evidence that
these are French.

It is a normal reflex, but intellectually wrong to consider, when one is
a victim of an attack, that one knows his attackers. This is most
logical when it comes to normal crimes, but it's wrong when it comes to
international politics.

Sponsors for the attack knew it would cause a divide between French
Muslims and French non-Muslims. Charlie Hebdo had specialized in
anti-Muslim provocation and most Muslims in France have been directly or
indirectly their victims. Though the Muslims of France will surely
condemn this attack, it will be difficult for them to experience as much
pain for the victims as felt by the readers of the newspaper. This will
be seen by some as complicity with the murderers.

Therefore, rather than seeing this as an extremely deadly Islamist
attack of revenge against the newspaper that published the Mohammed
cartoons and multiplied front page anti-Muslim headlines, it would be
more logical to consider that it is the first episode of a process to
trigger a civil war.

The strategy of "the clash of civilizations" was designed in Tel Aviv
and Washington

The ideology and strategy of the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda and Daesh
does not advocate the creation of civil war in the 'West', but on the
contrary to create it in the "East" and hermetically separate the two
worlds. Never has Sayyid Qutb, nor any of his successors, called to
provoke confrontation between Muslims and non-Muslims in the territories
of the latter.

On the contrary, the strategy of the "clash of civilizations" was
formulated by Bernard Lewis for the US National Security Council then
popularized by Samuel Huntington not as a strategy of conquest, but as a
predictable situation. [1] It aimed to persuade NATO member group
populations of the inevitability of confrontation that preventively
assumed the form of the "war on terrorism".

It is not in Cairo, Riyadh or Kabul that one advocates the "clash of
civilizations", but in Washington and Tel Aviv.

The sponsors of the attack against Charlie Hebdo did not seek to satisfy
jihadists or the Taliban, but neo-conservatives or liberal hawks.

Let's not forget the historical precedents

We must remember that in recent years we have seen the US or NATO
special services: - Testing the devastating effects of certain drugs on
the civilian population in France [2]; - Supporting the OAS to try to
assassinate President Charles de Gaulle [3]; - Carrying out false flag
attacks against civilians in several NATO member states . [4]

We must remember that since the break-up of Yugoslavia, the US joint
chiefs of staff practiced and honed its “dog fight” strategy in many
countries This consists of killing members of the majority community,
and also members of minorities, then placing the blame on each of them
back-to-back until everyone is sure they are in mortal danger. This is
the way Washington caused the civil war in Yugoslavia as well as
recently in Ukraine. [5]

The French would do well to remember also that it is not they who took
the initiative in the fight against the jihadists returning from Syria
and Iraq. To date, moreover, none of them has committed any attack in
France, where the case of Mehdi Nemmouche is not that of a lone
terrorist, but of an agent tasked with executing two Mossad agents in
Brussels [6] [7]. It was Washington who, on February 6, 2014, convened
the interior ministers of Germany, the US, France (Mr. Valls was
represented), Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom in order to make the
return of European jihadists a matter of national security. [8] It was
only after this meeting that the French press addressed this issue, and
that the authorities began to react.

John Kerry spoke in French for the first time to send a message to the
French. He denounced an attack against freedom of expression (while his
country since 1995 has continued to bomb and destroy the television
stations that were dissing him in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq and
Libya) and celebrated the struggle against obscurantism.

We do not know who sponsored this professional operation against Charlie
Hebdo, but we should not allow ourselves to be swept up. We should
consider all assumptions and admit that at this stage, its most likely
purpose is to divide us; and its sponsors are most likely in Washington.

   On the same subject, read: "According to McClatchy, Mohammed Mehra
and the Kouachi brothers are linked to the French secret services",
Voltaire Network, January 9, 2015.

Thierry Meyssan

Translation Roger Lagassé

(3) Jean-Marie Le Pen says French terror attacks were work of Western
intelligence

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-attacks-jeanmarie-le-pen-says-french-terror-attacks-were-work-of-western-intelligence-9985047.html

The Independent - Saturday 17th January 2014

Paris attacks:
Jean-Marie Le Pen says French terror attacks were work of Western
intelligence

by John Lichfield

The Charlie Hebdo massacre may have been the work of an “intelligence
agency”, working with the connivance of French authorities, according to
Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the far right Front National.

In an interview with a virulently anti-Western Russian newspaper, Mr Le
Pen, 86, gave credence to conspiracy theories circulating on the
internet suggesting that the attack was the work of American or Israeli
agents seeking to foment a civil war between Islam and the West.

His comments – only partially retracted in an interview with the French
newspaper Le Monde today – provoked outrage amongst French politicians.
They will also infuriate Marine Le Pen, his daughter, and successor as
leader of the FN, who has been trying to distance the party from her
father's extreme and provocative remarks.

Mr Le Pen stood down as FN leader three years ago but remains
President-for-life. He made the comments in an interview with
Komsomolskaïa Pravda, a newspaper which had already blamed the United
States for the terrorist mayhem in France.

“The shooting at Charlie Hebdo resembles a secret service operation but
we have no proof of that,” the newspaper quoted Mr Le Pen as saying. “I
don't think it was organised by the French authorities but they
permitted this crime to be committed.  That, for the moment, is just a
supposition.”

To justify his comments, Mr Le Pen pointed to the fact that one of the
Kouachi brothers
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/charlie-hebdo-attacks-new-video-emerges-showing-kouachi-brothers-escaping-police-9976573.html>
, who carried out the Charlie Hebdo massacre, left his identity card in
a crashed getaway car. He compared this to the “miraculous fact” –
beloved by conspiracy theorists – that one of the passports of the 9/11
hijackers was found on the ground in New York after two planes collided
with the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in 2001.

Mr Le Pen made two other provocative remarks in the interview. He said
that the 1,500,000 who marched “against hatred” in Paris last Sunday
were not “Charlies” but “Charlie Chaplins” (ie clowns). He also said
that there were 15,000,00 to 20,000,000 Muslims in France – three or
four times the generally accepted figures of 5,000,000 people who are
practising Muslims or have Muslim backgrounds.

In an interview with Le Monde today, Mr Le Pen repeated his suspicions
about the identity card but said he “could not recall” talking about
“secret services” to the Russian newspaper.

Mr Le Pen's original quoted remarks run directly counter to the official
line of his daughter and his party. They have suggested that the attacks
on Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket are the final proof that
France faces an  “enemy within”, which has been created by immigration
and open EU borders.

Conspiracy theories of the kind espoused by the elder Le Pen sprang up
on the internet within hours of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. They have
been repeated in recent days by some – not all - young Muslims in
France,  torn between identifying with the Kouachi brothers and
insisting that they were stooges of the French authorities, Washington
and Israel.

The  French “pope of conspiracy theories”, Thierry Meyssan, now based in
Damascus, insisted that the Charlie Hebdo massacres were “ordered by US
neo-cons and liberal hawks”. An American conspiracy site, McLatchy, has
claimed that the Kouachi brothers were working for French intelligence.

(4) Police Suicide, while investigating Charlie Hebdo attacks, blacked
out in Media

http://www.globalresearch.ca/police-commissioner-involved-in-charlie-hebdo-investigation-commits-suicide-total-news-blackout/5424149

Police Commissioner Involved in Charlie Hebdo Investigation “Commits
Suicide”. Total News Blackout

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky

Global Research, January 11, 2015

Police Commissioner Helric Fredou,  Number Two Police Officer of the
Regional Service of France's Judicial Police (JP), Limoges,
(Haute-Vienne), “committed suicide on the night of Wednesday to Thursday
at the police station.”

Commissioner Helric Fredou was part of the police investigation into the
Charlie Hebdo terror attack.

Terror suspects Cherif and Said Kouachi who were shot dead by police on
  January 9, spent their high-school years in the Limoges region. No
doubt this was the object of Fredou's police investigation. Yet police
and media reports state that on that same Wednesday he was involved in a
meeting with the family of one of the Charlie Hebdo victims.

On Wednesday, as part of the Charlie Hebdo investigation, he dispatched
a team of police officials under his jurisdiction. He is reported to
have waited for the return of his team for a debriefing.  Immediately
following the police debriefing, he was involved in preparing his police
report.

According to media reports, he committed suicide at around 1am on
Thursday, within hours of the police debriefing. He used his own police
  weapon, a SIG-Sauer to “shoot himself in the head”.

At the time of his death, police claim to have not known the reason for
his alleged suicide. This was reflected in their official statements to
the media: “It is unknown at this time the reasons for his actions”.

However, a back story appears to have been inserted simultaneously, most
likely from the very same police media liaisons, who then told the press
that Fredou was 'depressed and overworked'. For any law enforcement
officer in France, it would seem rather odd that anyone would want to
miss the biggest single terror event of the century, or history in the
making, as it were. (21st Century Wire,)

”An autopsy was performed at the University Hospital of Limoges,
“confirming the suicide”

There has been a total news blackout.

The French media decided or was instructed not to cover the incident.
Not news worthy? So much for “Je suis Charlie” and ”Freedom of
Expression” in journalism.

Likewise, the Western media including all major news services (AP, AFP,
Reuters, Deutsche Welle, etc)  have not covered the issue.

One isolated report in Le Parisien presents the act of suicide as being
totally unrelated to the Charlie Hebdo investigation.

While described as being  depressive and suffering from a burnout,
police reports state that Helric Fredou's suicide was totally unexpected.

Moreover, it is worth noting that, according to reports, he committed
suicide in his workplace, in his office at the police station.

Did he commit suicide? Was he incited to commit suicide?

Or was he an “honest Cop” executed on orders of  France's judicial police?

Has his report been released?

These are issues for France's journalists to address. It's called
investigative reporting. Or is it outright media censorship?

(5) Jonathan Cook on Execution video: bullet missed Merabet's head, but
perhaps fragments hit him
http://www.globalresearch.ca/what-the-charlie-hebdo-execution-video-really-shows/5424505

What the Charlie Hebdo Execution Video Really Shows

By Jonathan Cook

Global Research, January 13, 2015

I am well aware that I'm stepping into a hornet's nest by posting this
video, which is going viral. Those who wish to silence all debate have
an easy card to play here, accusing me of buying into a conspiracy
theory. There's only one problem: unlike the video-maker, I have few
conclusions to draw about what the significance of this video is in
relation to the official story. That is not why I am posting it.

But it does, at least to my mind and obviously a lot of other people's,
judging by how quickly it's spreading, suggest that Ahmed Merabet, the
policeman outside the Charlie Hebdo office, was not shot in the head, as
all the media have been stating.

That said, it does not prove much more. It doesn't prove that Merabet
did not die at the scene. Maybe he bled to death there on the pavement
from his earlier wound. It certainly doesn't prove that the Kouachi
brothers were not the gunmen or that the one who fired missed on
purpose. Maybe he just missed.

Nor does the video's removal from most websites prove that there is some
sort of massive cover-up going on. Ideas of good taste, especially in
the immediate aftermath of a massacre close to home (ie here in the
West), can lead to a media consensus that a video is too upsetting. That
can occur even if it does not show blood and gore, simply because of
what it implies. Herd instinct in these instances is very strong.

But the unedited video clip does leave a sour taste: because unless
someone has a good rebuttal, it does indeed seem impossible that an
AK-47 bullet fired from close range would not have done something pretty
dramatic to that policeman's head. And if the video is real – and there
doesn't seem much doubt that it is – it clearly shows nothing
significant happened to his head either as or after the bullet was fired.

So what points am I making?

The first one is more tentative. It seems – though I suppose there could
be an explanation I have overlooked – that the authorities have lied
about the cause of the policeman's death. That could be for several
probably unknowable reasons, including that his being executed was a
simpler, neater story than that he bled to death on the pavement because
of official incompetence (there already seems to have been plenty of
that in this case).

The second point is even more troubling. Most of the senior editors of
our mainstream media have watched the unedited video just as you now
have. And either not one of them saw the problem raised here – that the
video does not show what it is supposed to show – or some of them did
see it but did not care. Either way, they simply regurgitated an
official story that does not seem to fit the available evidence.

That is a cause for deep concern. Because if the media are acting as a
collective mouth-piece for a dubious official narrative on this
occasion, on a story of huge significance that one assumes is being
carefully scrutinised for news angles, what are they doing the rest of
the time?

The lesson is that we as news consumers must create our own critical
distance from the “news” because we cannot trust our corporate media to
do that work for us. They are far too close to power. In fact, they are
power.

Official narratives are inherently suspect because power always looks
out for itself. This appears to be a good example – whether what it
shows is relatively harmless or sinister – to remind us of that fact.

UPDATE:

I'm still trying to imagine a plausible explanation for the video. I'm
no ballistics expert, so I'm firmly in the land of conjecture. But I
wonder whether, if the bullet hit the pavement close to Merabet's head,
it might have been possible for bullet fragments to hit him, possibly
killing him.

This possibility (assuming it is one) does not invalidate the point of
my post. If it was indeed the case, certainly no media outlet has
suggested that the gunman missed Merabet and that he died from the
exploding fragments.

This isn't meant to raise technical, or gruesome, details of the case.
It is to suggest that western journalists do not report fearlessly and
independently when they examine events being narrated by official
sources. They mostly regurgitate information on trust, because they
trust the authorities to be telling the truth. They do the same when the
acts of official enemies are being examined - they again turn to
official sources on their side. In short, most journalists have no
critical distance from the events they are reporting on our behalf.

That leaves us, ordinary news consumers, in a position of either blindly
trusting our own officials too or trying to work things out for
ourselves. You would hope that the issues raised by this video get aired
by journalists as part of establishing greater trust in our profession
and proof of our independence. Instead, I expect it will simply be
consigned the "conspiracy theory" bin.

(6) Policeman's brother berates Media coverage of Execution

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/10/charlie-hebdo-policeman-murder-ahmed-merabet

Paris policeman's brother: 'Islam is a religion of love. My brother was
killed by terrorists, by false Muslims'

Ahmed Merabet was the first police officer at the scene of the Charlie
Hebdo attack. He was shot dead in cold blood. Now his brother has
appealed for calm

Malek Merabet said the terrorists who ignored his brother's plea for
mercy as he lay wounded on the street may have shared his Algerian
roots, but had nothing else in common.

Emma Graham-Harrison

Sunday 11 January 2015 09.37 AEST

Ahmed Merabet, the police officer gunned down in the Charlie Hebdo
attack, was killed in an act of barbarity by "false Muslims" his brother
said in a moving tribute on Saturday, where he also appealed for unity
and tolerance.

Speaking for a group of relatives gathered in Paris, Malek Merabet said
the terrorists who ignored his brother's plea for mercy as he lay
wounded on the street may have shared his Algerian roots, but had
nothing else in common.

"My brother was Muslim and he was killed by two terrorists, by two false
Muslims," he said. "Islam is a religion of peace and love. As far as my
brother's death is concerned it was a waste. He was very proud of the
name Ahmed Merabet, proud to represent the police and of defending the
values of the Republic - liberty, equality, fraternity." [...]

Merabet's death was captured in a graphic video, as he was wounded by
one of the two attackers and then shot in the head in cold blood. He is
shot in the groin, then falls to the pavement groaning in pain and
holding up an arm as though to protect himself.

The second gunman moves forward and asks the policeman: "Do you want to
kill us?" Merabet replies: "No, it's OK mate," but the terrorist then
shoots him in the head. {yet no blood or spatter - Peter M}

The images were widely shared online and one was published on the front
page of a national newspaper.

Malek berated media outlets and websites that showed the graphic
content, which he said was extremely painful for the family. "How dare
you take this video and broadcast it? I heard his voice, I recognised
him, I saw him being killed and I continue to hear him every day."

Ahmed's partner, Morgane Ahmad, who said she had watched footage of the
shooting without realising it was him, also appealed for calm.

"What the family and I want is for everyone to be united, we want
everyone to be able to demonstrate in peace, we want to show respect for
all the victims and that the demonstration should be peaceful," she
said. [...]

(7) Man who filmed Execution said putting it online was a "stupid reflex"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/charlie-hebdo-man-regrets-stupid-decision-to-put-video-of-police-officers-death-online-9971750.html

Charlie Hebdo: Man regrets 'stupid' decision to put video of police
officer's death online

Lizzie Dearden

Monday 12 January 2015

A man who filmed the Charlie Hebdo killers murdering an unarmed police
officer in Paris has said putting it online was a "stupid reflex" caused
by years on social media.

Jordi Mir, an engineer in his 50s, told the Associated Press he realised
putting the footage of Ahmed Merabet's death on Facebook was a mistake
within minutes but when he took it down 15 minutes later, it was too
late to stop it spreading around the world.

He did not realise what he was filming at first on Wednesday morning,
when he walked to his window after being disturbed by the sound of gunshots.

Mr Mir initially thought a bank robbery was being carried out and
believed gunmen Said and Cherif Kouachi were part of a police SWAT team,
unaware they had just massacred 11 people at the Charlie Hebdo offices.

"I was completely panicked," he said, being interviewed across the
Parisian boulevard where Mr Merabet was shot dead.

Ahmed Merabet, 42, died outside the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine
after being shot by armed attackers on 7 January 2015 "I had to speak to
someone. I was alone in my flat. I put the video on Facebook. That was
my error."

Less than an hour after he took it down, Mr Mir said he was horrified to
see his footage airing on the television and spreading on YouTube.

The 42-second clip shows two masked gunmen - later revealed to be the
Kouachi brothers - walking towards 42-year-old Mr Merabet as he lay on
the ground injured.

"You want to kill us?" one of the brothers says as he strides toward the
wounded officer.

"No, it's OK, boss," Merabet says, raising his hand in a gesture of
surrender. He was then shot point-blank in the head. {yet no blood or
spatter - Peter M} [...] ==

(8) Fake "BBC" story on Charlie Hebdo massacres

http://www.worldbulletin.net/world/152819/bbc-spoof-web-story-raises-questions-about-hebdo-videos

BBC spoof web story raises questions about Hebdo videos

Phony BBC story on Charlie Hebdo massacres linked to broadcaster's
online service goes viral in cyberattack

World Bulletin/News Desk

12 January 2015 Monday

A story on a BBC-lookalike web page which raises questions about the
authenticity of YouTube footage of the killing of a police officer by a
gunman during the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris last week has gone
viral on social media.

The web page leads with a story based on comments by Dr. Paul Craig
Roberts - an Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under the Reagan
Administration who helped co-found the "Reaganomics" economic strategy
and an associate editor of the Wall Street Journal - republished from
Press TV.

The spoof BBC page published on Monday led with the republication of a
genuine story on remarks made by Roberts, who has voiced his concern
that the brutal attacks carried out in France may be part of a "false
flag" operation "designed to shore up France's vassal status to Washington".

The website harvests real time content from the BBC News online domain
and looks identical to the authentic BBC website, with the only
noticeable differences being a hyphen being inserted into the news
corporation's URL and a full stop being used in the headline.

The article spread rapidly across the internet as people believed they
were reading a genuine BBC story.

It contained genuine comments written by Roberts saying: "The suspects
can be both guilty and patsies. Just remember all the terrorist plots
created by the FBI that served to make the terrorism threat real to
Americans." [...]

(9) Hamas & Palestinians condemn Charlie Hebdo attack

http://news.yahoo.com/hamas-condemns-charlie-hebdo-attack-140325193.html

Hamas condemns Charlie Hebdo attack

AFP

Jan 10, 2015

Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Palestinian Islamist group
Hamas condemned Saturday the killing of 12 people in an attack on French
satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo's offices by two French Islamists.

A statement in French said Hamas "condemns the attack against Charlie
Hebdo magazine and insists on the fact that differences of opinion and
thought cannot justify murder."

It also rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's comments,
in which he compared the Paris attack to Hamas firing rockets from the
Gaza Strip at civilians in Israel.

"Hamas condemns the desperate attempts by ... Netanyahu to make a
connection between our movement and the resistance of our people on the
one hand and global terrorism on the other," it said.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called France's Francois Hollande to
express condolences, Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki told AFP.

He said that Abbas assured the French president of "the solidarity of
the Palestinian people and leadership with France after this terrorist
attack."

Malki said that a delegation of Palestinian Muslim and Christian clerics
would pay a solidarity visit to France "in the coming days."

The Palestine Liberation Organisation called for a public rally to be
held in Ramallah on Sunday "in solidarity with France against terrorism."

(10) Pope warns of limits to freedom of expression - religions should
not be ridiculed

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/charlie-hebdo-pope-francis-says-those-who-ridicule-others-religions-should-expect-a-punch-9980192.html

Charlie Hebdo: Pope Francis says if you swear at my mother - or Islam -
'expect a punch'

The Pope made the comments in light of Prophet Mohamed cartoons

Lamiat Sabin

Thursday 15 January 2015

Pope Francis has said there are limits to the freedom of expression -
and that anyone who swears at his mother deserves a punch.

Francis spoke about the Paris attacks while on his way to the
Philippines, where around 1,500 Muslims protested yesterday against the
depictions of the Prophet in the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo.

He said that freedom of speech and expression are fundamental human
rights however he added that he believes there should be limits to
offending and ridiculing the faiths and beliefs of others. [...] ==

(11) ISIS magazine says terrorists will 'conquer' Rome

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2791404/now-isis-boasts-invading-vatican-propaganda-magazine-says-terrorists-conquer-rome-break-crosses.html

Now ISIS boasts about invading the Vatican: Propaganda magazine says
terrorists will 'conquer' Rome and 'break your crosses'

By Hannah Roberts for MailOnline In Rome

Published: 05:51 EST, 14 October 2014 | Updated: 20:50 EST, 14 October 2014

Islamic State jihadis today issued a clear threat to the heart of
Christianity, as they published an image of their black flag flying
above the Vatican.

In a picture on the cover of their official magazine showing a mock-up
of Caliphate-controlled Rome, the militants' flag is superimposed on the
obelisk in St Peter's Square.

It is the front cover of the fourth edition of the ISIS online
propaganda magazine Dabiq, which calls in its latest issue for a war
against the Catholic Church. [...]

(12) UKIP's Farage: Multiculturalism is creating a 'Fifth Column' in the
West

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/395914/ukips-farage-multiculturalism-creating-fifth-column-west-brendan-bordelon

UKIP's Farage: Multiculturalism Creating 'Fifth Column' in West

By Brendan Bordelon

January 7, 2015 6:36 PM

In the wake of Wednesday's massacre of twelve people at a satirical
French newspaper by suspected Islamic fundamentalists, UK Independence
Party head Nigel Farage warned that the obsession with fostering a
multicultural society has created a "fifth column" in the West.

As leader of the UK's fastest-growing political party, Farage has pushed
a British exit from the European Union and a reform of Britain's liberal
immigration laws, which his party believes limits economic opportunity
for UK citizens and threatens the nation's social fabric -- even its
physical safety.

Farage told Fox News' Neil Cavuto that, following the attacks in France,
"we must recognize the mistakes of the past. Let's be absolute frank and
honest about this. We now have in many European countries -- dare I say
it, in the USA, too -- a fifth column living within our own countries.
People -- mercifully few in number - but people who are out to destroy
our whole civilization and our way of life."

The UKIP leader singled out "uncontrolled immigration" and "promot[ing]
multiculturalism [and] division in our society" as the chief mistakes
made by the West, suggesting that without assimilation attacks like the
one on Wednesday will become more common.

"Going ahead from here, I think we've got to start being just a bit more
assertive about who we are and who our values are," Farage said. "We
come from countries with Christian cultures and Christian constitutions,
and it's about time we started standing up for that."

(13) Charlie Hebdo considered 'Leftist'?

From: Michael Crighton <micdavid@zo.com.au>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:13:54 +1100
Subject: The Anti-Empire Report #136 – January 20th, 2015 – William Blum

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/136

I present here some views on Charlie Hebdo sent to me by a friend in
Paris who has long had a close familiarity with the publication and its
staff:

“On international politics Charlie Hebdo was neoconservative. It
supported every single NATO intervention from Yugoslavia to the present.
They were anti-Muslim, anti-Hamas (or any Palestinian organization),
anti-Russian, anti-Cuban (with the exception of one cartoonist),
anti-Hugo Chávez, anti-Iran, anti-Syria, pro-Pussy Riot, pro-Kiev … Do I
need to continue?

“Strangely enough, the magazine was considered to be 'leftist'. It's
difficult for me to criticize them now because they weren't 'bad
people', just a bunch of funny cartoonists, yes, but intellectual
freewheelers without any particular agenda and who actually didn't give
a fuck about any form of 'correctness' – political, religious, or
whatever; just having fun and trying to sell a 'subversive' magazine
(with the notable exception of the former editor, Philippe Val, who is,
I think, a true-blooded neocon).”

opposing opinion for FYI

Comment (Peter M.):

You can hardly say "without any particular agenda". They were destroyers
of Tradition. As Leftists, they would have looked to the early Soviet
Union, the days when churches were destroyed - not to Stalin or
Gorbachev. After Trotsky's death, Trotskyists split into two main camps
- those who stuck by the Soviet Union, even though branding it a
"degenerated workers' state" (this faction, called "Pabloite",  followed
Michael Pablo) - and those who branded the Soviet Union "state
capitalist" and became its enemies (these were Schachtmanites, after Max
Schachtman).  Schachtmanites said that the Nomenklatura running the
Communist countries were a new kind of Ruling Class - the "New Class".
Schachtmanite Trotskyists supported the fall of the Berlin Wall, and
also opposed Soviet client states such as Cuba, Syria and Libya7777.
Examples of the two groups, in Australia, are Socialist Alternative
(Schachtmanite) and Socialist Alliance (Pabloite). Many "Stalinists" in
the West also support Culture War; they may not realise that during the
1930s Stalin reined it in, and shortened its leaders by a head.

[1] “Who ordered the attack against Charlie Hebdo?”, by Thierry Meyssan,
Translation Roger Lagassé, Voltaire Network, 10 January 2015.

[2] “Imagining a Remapped Middle East”, Robin Wright, The New York Times
Sunday Review, 28 septembre 2013.

(14) Left & Right share anti-religious, anti-national values of leftist
Charlie Hebdo - Thierry Meyssan

http://www.voltairenet.org/article186458.html

Charlie Hebdo has broad shoulders

by Thierry Meyssan

While millions of French just came to stand without hesitation in
defense of freedoms of expression and worship, politicians and the
press, which one and the other constantly undermine them, have seized
the opportunity to recover their virginity. For Thierry Meyssan, the
government has led an extensive manipulation to cast itself at the head
of a great popular event and is now looking for ways to justify a new
military operation in Libya.

Voltaire Network | Hong Kong (China) | 14 January 2015

In three days, in France, a group of four or five people claiming to be
both al-Qaeda in Yemen and the Islamic Emirate (Daesh) massacred the
editorship of Charlie Hebdo and murdered a municipal police officer and
more hostages in three different situations. France, which had not
experienced such violence since the attacks of the OAS, over 50 years
ago, responded while crying "We are all Charlie!" by shooting three
terrorists and organizing a huge demonstration of several million people.

The President of the Republic, François Hollande, hosted the leaders of
the political parties represented in Parliament. He appealed to French
national unity and attended the event, along with fifty heads of foreign
governments.

In a previous article [1], I observed that the mode of operation of the
terrorists had nothing to do with that which is practiced by experienced
jihadists, but rather resembled that of a military commando. I concluded
that, as a result, no matter who they were, the only thing we need to
know is who commanded them. I would like, in this second article, to
return to the reactions aroused by this case. The suspension of the
right to protest

At the moment of the announcement of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, January
7, 2015 at noon, Prime Minister Manuel Valls decided to implement the
Vigipirate attack Plan at Ile-de-France. This comprises a hundred
automatic measures and about two hundred other options. Among the chosen
measures, the Interior Ministry announced the postponement of all
authorized demonstrations. The authorities feared that terrorists might
fire on the crowd.

However, a far-left party called to demonstrate immediately in support
of Charlie Hebdo. After a few hours of hesitation, the Commissioner of
Police authorized a rally that would number 100 000 people. Even
stranger: the Prime Minister declared a national day of mourning for the
next day, January 8th. Many rallies were organized by government to
celebrate a minute of silence. Still more surprising: the Socialist
Party called for a broad national demonstration on Sunday the 11th,
which attracted more than 2 million people in Paris.

Thus, the government could ban demonstrations because they might be
dangerous to their participants, but its members could organize a huge
one, inviting leaders of foreign governments without fear for their safety.

This manipulation confirms that, contrary to its declarations, the
government knew precisely the extent of the threat and knew it did not
concern gatherings.

They thus prefered to retain only this extraordinary popular movement
for freedom.

National Union

In this crisis situation, the right and the left agreed to participate
together in a national event. But for what values or against whom will
they demonstrate?

We discover that the leaders of the left and right shared the
anti-religious, anti-national and anti-militarist values of the very
leftist Charlie Hebdo. We knew that its founder, Philippe Val, was a
friend of the Sarkozys. Suddenly we discover that its new manager,
Charb, was the companion of a right-wing minister, Jeannette Bougrab.

The latter was the guest of TF1's journal. Very moved, she tells of her
love. Then she presents Charb's anti-religious convictions as a secular
commitment in the face of Islamism, before comparing her friend to Jean
Moulin and requesting that he be buried with him in the Pantheon. She
ends by revealing that the couple had thought to leave France and start
a new life elsewhere. We are left stunned. In a few words, Jeannette
Bougrab just showed her contempt for her fellow citizens, assimilated
secularism to the anti-religious struggle and put an anti-national
comedian on an equal footing with the founder of the National Council of
the the Resistance. The Charb family may well protest as it will but
doubt has been cast.

And so that we may well understand what is the "national union", seen
from the right and the left, socialist leaders declared that the
National Front would be excluded from the "republican" demonstration.
Have we really understood the enormity of the proposal? Political
leaders evoke the Republic to exclude their rivals. Ultimately, the FN
joined demonstrations in the provinces. The International Union

By inviting all sorts of Heads of State and government leaders to open
the event with him, President Hollande intended to give it an air of
solemnity.

Among these present, one counted David Cameron and Benjamin Netanyahu,
whose states wield omnipotent military censorship; or again the US
Secretary of Justice, Eric Holder, whose country loves freedom of
expression so much that it bombed and destroyed numerous TV stations
from that of Belgrade to the Libyan networks; Turkish Prime Minister,
Ahmet Davutoglu, whose country banned the construction of Christian
churches (even if it seems set to soon authorize one); or again Benjamin
Netanyahu who congratulated al-Qaeda fighters treated in Israeli
hospitals; once again without forgetting Eric Holder, Ahmet Davutog?lu
and King Abdullah of Jordan, whose States reorganized Daesh in January,
2014.

So what were these folks doing in Paris? Certainly not defending freedom
of expression and worship which they actually fight. Freedom of expression

It's not only the political class that took the opportunity hog the
blankets. So did the press. It sees in Charlie Hebdo an example of the
very freedom of press it keeps trampling, self-censoring constantly and
always showing solidarity with crimes committed abroad by the government.

The French press is indeed numerous, but extremely conformist and
therefore not pluralistic. This is so right up to the unanimity with
which it presents Charlie Hebdo. For, contrary to what it claims, the
satirical newspaper proclaimed its opposition to freedom of expression,
notably when it was petitionning to ban the National Front or
campaigning for censorship of the internet.

Anyway, we can only be grateful that the press has finally come to the
defense of those who are attacked for what they have said. About the
jihadist trail

Continuing its investigation in the wrong direction, the press provides
a profile of terrorists and forgets to look into their sponsors. Without
cracking a smile, it explained that this wave of attacks is a
collaboration between al-Qaeda members in Yemen and Daesh, even though
the two organizations have been engaged for a year in a fierce war that
has killed at least 3,000 victims in both camps.

On this subject, I am surprised at these references; we should soon find
a new one that connects the attack to Libya. Indeed, if François
Hollande follows in the footsteps of George W. Bush, he should attack
Yemen although France has no great advantage in such a project. However
her personal chief of staff, General Puga, is preparing a new military
intervention in Libya.

This target is much more logical. France could then reap the benefits
that it hoped to obtain from its first intervention. And it would end
the US project of remodeling the "Broader Middle East" as published by
Robin Wright in The New York Times in September, 2013 [2] and begun by
Daesh in Iraq and Syria.

Translation Roger Lagassé

(15) French soldiers desert to fight for Islamic State

http://www.smh.com.au/world/french-soldiers-including-paratroopers-foreign-legionnaires-desert-to-fight-for-islamic-state-20150122-12vl3y.html

French soldiers including paratroopers, foreign legionnaires desert to
fight for Islamic State

Date: January 22 2015

Henry Samuel

Paris: Several former French soldiers have joined the ranks of jihadists
fighting in Syria and Iraq, the country's government confirmed on
Wednesday, as it outlined a series of new anti-terrorism measures
following the Islamist attacks in Paris.

Most of the ex-soldiers, reportedly numbering around 10 and including
former paratroopers and French foreign legionnaires, are said to be
fighting on behalf of the Islamic State.

Most worrying is the reported presence of an ex-member of France's elite
First Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment, considered one of Europe's
most experienced special forces units and which shares the "Who Dares
Wins" motto of the SAS.

The unnamed individual, of North African origin, had received commando
training in combat, shooting and survival techniques. He served for five
years before joining a private security company for which he worked in
the Arabian peninsula, where he was radicalised before heading for
Syria, according to L'Opinion, a news website.

One of the defectors had become the leader of a group of a dozen or so
French-born Islamists operating in the Syrian region of Deir Ezzor who
had all received combat training, reported Radio France International,
or RFI.

Others, apparently in their 20s, were explosive experts. Some were
Muslim converts while others were radicalised French from an
"Arab-Muslim" background, said RFI.

Jean-Yves Drian, the French defence minister, confirmed the existence of
a handful of ex-French military personnel among jihadist fighters in the
Middle East, but tried to play down their presence, saying the
phenomenon was "extremely rare".

However, they will raise fears over the risk of a French version of the
2009 gun rampage at Fort Hood, the US military base in Texas, where
Nadal Hasan, a US army major who turned to radical Islam, killed 13
servicemen scheduled to leave for Afghanistan.

Mr Drian said that the French armed forces' internal security and
protection unit, DPSD, would "reinforce its vigilance and see its means
increased".

News of the defections came as Manuel Valls, the French prime minister,
unveiled anti-terrorism measures worth 425 million euro ($600 million)
after France's worst Islamist attack in which 17 people were killed
earlier this month.

It coincided with a government pledge to cut 7500 fewer defence jobs in
the next five years than previously planned.

Mr Valls said 2680 new jobs would be created to fight terrorism by 2018
- around half in intelligence.

France now had to monitor almost 3000 people involved in "terrorist
networks" following a 130 per cent jump in those linked to jihadists in
Iraq and Syria in the past year, he said.

An extra 60 Muslim clerics would be recruited to work with potential
militants in France's overcrowded prisons, while five units would be
created to isolate radicalised inmates.

Mr Valls said the idea of stripping offenders of certain civic rights -
a measure mirroring a post-war law barring Nazi collaborators from
voting, holding office or working for the state - would be debated.

Telegraph, London

(16) Charlie Hebdo did not demean Jehovah/YHWH as it did Islam and
Catholicism

http://www.rense.com/general96/chardej.html

Charlie Hebdo déjà vú…

By Adrian Salbuchi

1-14-15

After the dreadful terror attack perpetrated last week against the
weekly “Charlie Hebdo” in Paris, global attention continues firmly
centered on France. It was indeed a horrendous act and the West's Media
have whipped up a growing frenzy of anti-Muslim emotion and a desire for
revenge in the hearts of tens of millions in France, Europe and America.
[...]

The Decline of the West

Last but not least, last week's sad events have unmasked just how
thorough and deep the moral decay, cultural bankruptcy, ethical
hypocrisy and Decline the West has undergone, which German philosopher
Oswald Spengler foresaw in 1917.

Charlie Hebdo's twelve victims are presented to the public as “freedom
of the press warriors” thus justifying its horrendously perverse
religious insults and disrespect.

Take a closer look at some of those Charlie Hebdo cartoon magazine
covers: a Muslim cleric being killed by bullets that are not stopped by
The Koran (which is described as being “Merde” i.e., “s..t”); a drawing
of Mohammed from behind, genitals and all, with a star on his butt; a
drawing of Charlie Hebdo's star cartoonist Stephan Charbonnier
(“Charbo”) delivering a slimy homo kiss to a Muslim cleric… Is this
supposed to be “funny” to France's 4 million Muslims? Has France fallen
to such unfathomable depths that these gross religious insults and
discrimination are branded as “humour”???

Mind you, Charlie Hebdo did not just attack and insult Muslims. One of
its “cute cartoons” shows the Christian God being sodomized by Jesus,
who in turn is sodomized by The Holy Spirit…

Is this cesspool born of sick minds what Western public opinion's “sense
of humour” all about?

Many readers might agree, saying that even such tasteless cartoons must
be passively tolerated in the name of “freedom of the press”.

OK. Then try this one out for size: what would have happened had Charlie
Hebdo run on its cover a cartoon showing Jehovah/YHWH being sodomized by
a “cute Hitler figure” whilst dozens of Swastika-attired SS-henchmen
laugh and clap as they stand next to Auschwitz KZ's “Arbeit Macht Frei”
entrance sign? Not amused?

I'm sure the Anti-Defamation League, AIPAC, World Jewish Congress, B'Nai
B'rith, and their hundreds of very powerful lobby counterparts in
Europe, the UK, Canada, Argentina (DAIA and AMIA) would not have quite
seen the “good humour” behind such a tasteless, aggressive and totally
unacceptable insult. Heads would have rolled for months and months...

And yet those very same Zionist and Jewish lobbies will jump like
boiling water branding anyone and everyone criticizing Israel as
“Anti-Semites” as they wage their global war on “Anti-Semitism” (see my
article: http://rt.com/op-edge/184508-israel-wars-gaza-anti-semitism/),
ensuring that not even academic historical revisionism can enjoy the
least bit of freedom. [...]

(17) Charlie Hebdo's Communist Culture War on Tradition & Religion "is
Jewish"

From: <ak@navtest.com>
Subject: Re: Charlie Hebdo's Communist Culture War on Tradition & Religion
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 22:12:14 -0500

Peter,
thank you for your lucid comments on the 60s movement, but you still
dont get the complete picture:
This is a Jewish war on Values, Culture and Traditions, essentially on
Western traditions.
I dont remember Charlie Hebdo ever mocked Jewish religion.

And no: it didnt start in the 60s. There was Freud, Dadaismn, Feminism
and many other movements, explicitly or implicitly attacking Western values.
And yes: we have been useful idiots in the 60s.

Dont fall for their hipocritical "right to blasphemy": try to ridicule
the holy Holocaust in Europe and you will rapidly end in jail rapidly.

regards
Axel

Comment (Peter M.):

Let's say, instead, that Jews were one major component of it. And not
all factions of Jews - there were Orthodox types who did not take part.

Julian "the apostate" was the last non-Christian ruler of the Roman
Empire. He wished to restore the ancient Roman values and substitute
Neoplatonism for Christianity. To this end he sought an alliance with
the Jews - he would rebuild their temple. That sort of alliance has
re-occurred down to our own time.

At the time of the French Revolution there were French who looked to
Roman Classicism, as a replacement for Catholicism.

In Pre-Revolutionary Russia there were "Russian" revolutionaries like
Bakunin and Gorky; but Jews formed the biggest organized group of
revolutionaries.

So for the 60s Movement. But whereas the non-Jews were not aware of the
Jewish identities of the Jewish participants, the Jews would generally
have known. They probably also had a better sense of where they were
heading. They opposed Western governments, but mosty backed Israel in
the wars of 1967 and 1973.

As for the Nazi Holocaust, can we agree to differ on whether it
happened? We do agree, however, on the uses it's put to, and on the lack
of Free Speech concerning it.

(18) Murdoch tweet blaming all Muslims for France terror attacks

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-11/murdoch-tweet-sparks-angry-reaction-on-social-media/6011288

Murdoch tweet blaming all Muslims for France terror attacks sparks angry
reaction on social media

By Candice Marshall

Updated January 12, 2015 09:45:20

News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch has taken to Twitter to voice his
strong opinion on who should be held responsible for last week's terror
attacks against French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

Murdoch tweeted on Saturday, to his more than 500,000 followers: "Maybe
most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their
growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible".

The tweet had been retweeted almost 4,000 times by Sunday, and
favourited by almost 2,000 people.

But the tweet also sparked outrage and massive backlash on social media.

Much of the criticism argued that an entire religion should not be
blamed for the actions of an extremist minority, as one British blogger
wrote: "'they' as in most Muslims????? You can't hold an entire religion
of billions responsive for the actions of a few".

Other Twitter users rallied with tongue-in-cheek apologies for Murdoch
himself.

Author Matt Haig wrote: "Rupert Murdoch thinks all Muslims should
apologise for terrorism. So on behalf of white people I'd like to
apologise for Rupert Murdoch".

Australian comedian Adam Hills joined the chorus of scathing criticism
with "Oh good, Rupert Murdoch has waded into the Charlie Hebdo debate. I
was wondering what an outdated, bigoted, sociopath might make of it all".

Advocate Akeela Ahmed added "how are 'moslems' supposed to destroy
jihadis, when muslims are biggest victims of terrorism?"

Murdoch later went on to justify his earlier tweet by arguing that
"political correctness makes for denial and hypocrisy".

This is not the first time Rupert Murdoch has caused a stir on Twitter.

Most recently he was heavily criticised for a tweet in which he gloated
that one of his tabloid newspapers, Sydney's Daily Telegraph, was one of
the first media outlets to break the story of the deadly Sydney siege in
December last year.

"AUST gets wake-call with Sydney terror. Only Daily Telegraph caught the
bloody outcome at 2.00 am. Congrats," Murdoch tweeted.

Twitter users reacted with outrage, writing this tweet was insensitive
and "disgraceful".