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

[General of Darkness]

Wellllll, no shit.

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


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Front National founder gives credence to conspiracy theories in an interview with virulently anti-western Russian newspaper



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Paris

Saturday 17 January 2015

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 (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/charlie-hebdo-shooting-farright-front-national-leader-marine-le-pen-wants-to-offer-france-referendum-on-the-death-penalty-9965607.html), 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 (http://www.kp.ru/) , a newspaper which had already blamed the United States for the terrorist mayhem in France.

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“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.
Read more: Suspected terrorists shot dead in Belgium (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/belgium-terror-raids-suspected-jihadists-shot-dead-wanted-to-launch-attack-on-police-as-second-paris-averted-9981899.html)
A continent on the edge - terror raids across Europe (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/a-continent-on-edge-paris-attacks-leave-europe-on-terror-high-alert-as-police-in-five-countries-arrest-more-than-twenty-extremist-suspects-9984565.html)
Cameron and Obama vow joint anti-terror measures (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/cameron-and-obama-vow-joint-measures-to-tackle-poisonous-and-fanatical-islamists-9984588.html)

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.

[Neuro]

It is a very interesting remark from the retired leader and father of the current leader of a party standing to gain from the belief it was committed by Muslims... Suggests he is more committed to truth than power, which is rare among politicians...

[PatColo]

Front National founder gives credence to conspiracy theories in an interview with virulently anti-western Russian newspaper

^ says independent.co.uk, a virulently anti-western british joooozpaper... :rolleyes: "Flip the Script & Project"

Anyways, a couple new ones from PCR:



Charlie Hebdo: Report from Europe (http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/17/charlie-hebdo-report-europe/)


January 17, 2015 (http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/17/) | Categories: Articles & Columns (http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/17/charlie-hebdo-report-europe/)


Charlie Hebdo: Report from Europe
Paul Craig Roberts
Note: The second video in the URL below has been taken down, but it is the first video which is just
prior to the second one, that has the most visual information.



Here is a video of the execution of Amedy Coulibaly. It is a German website with the actual live French video of the police assault on the deli. There are three videos. The first one repeatedly shows Coulibaly with tied hands containing no weapons shot downand killed when he could easily have been captured. It is as if the order was to make sure that there is no live suspect whose story might have to be explained away. The first video also repeatedly shows the execution in slow motion. Commentary in French accompanies the video. http://alles-schallundrauch.blogspot.co.at/2015/01/amedy-coulibaly-wurde-hingerichtet.html
(http://alles-schallundrauch.blogspot.co.at/2015/01/amedy-coulibaly-wurde-hingerichtet.html)

In response to my Charlie Hebdo update http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/16/charlie-hebdo-update-paul-craig-roberts/ (http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/16/charlie-hebdo-update-paul-craig-roberts/) European readers report that the situation in Europe is much the same as in the US and UK. The “mainstream” print and TV media parrot the official line and raise no unsettling questions. The independent Internet media is where real information is reported.


The German print and TV media have suffered dramatic declines in readers and viewers. This decline accelerated when Udo Ulkotte’s book about CIA penetration of European media was published by Kopp Verlag and became a best seller. Thinking people no longer trust the German media. The German media has lost the intelligent part of the population and only retains the somnolent sheep.


There are efforts to infiltrate the Internet media. Sites funded by money, such as Salon, appear. These sites attempt to discredit all who raise honest and obvious questions. Readers report that the Huffington Post has lost credibility by its move into “respectability.” Salon, apparently, has no more credibility than Fox News or The Weekly Standard.


The view I get from Europe supports my view. The left-wing, or what little remains of a left, supports the official stories of terrorist attacks, For the American left, the stories confirm the left-wing’s emotional need to believe that peoples oppressed by Western colonialism/imperialism are capable and determined and strike back at their oppressors. The left-wing’s sense of justice demands that oppressed and abused peoples don’t just sit there and take it. The French left sees the Charlie Hebdo attack as an effort by obscurantist religion to attack freedom of expression and brings to mind the French left’s anti-Catholic crusade.


The right-wing accepts the official stories for two different reasons. The anti-immigrationists among them use the terror attacks as evidence against immigration. The patriotic right can go along with this, but also responds to writers such as myself, who defend the Constitution against the government, with the argument that it is the government’s job to interpret the Constitution and I should not use the Constitution in order to criticize our government. Much of the American right believes that liberals use the Constitution in order to defend criminals and terrorists, who simply should not be tolerated. In other words, the Constitution is seen not as our defender but as a defender of those the right-wing regards as undesirables, such as criminals, terrorists, abortionists, and homosexuals.


The rest of the population has simply succumbed to the many years of demonization of Muslims. Indeed, Israel has been demonizing Muslims for 60 years and has created the image of Muslims as terrorists wearing suicide bombs. If a person has been prepared to regard Muslims as terrorists, the official stories simply fit that already prepared compartment in the brain.


Additionally, although false flag attacks are commonplace and have been used throughout history to advance undeclared agendas, the public has been brainwashed to regard them as “conspiracy theories.” Thus, anyone who raises questions is dismissed as a “conspiracy theorist.” Many Americans do not even understand that the official story of 9/11, for example, is a conspiracy theory. So is the official explanation of the Boston Marathon Bombing and the Charlie Hebdo attack. What it boils down to is that official conspiracy theories are accepted as true, but everyone who questions them is a “conspiracy theorist.”


Readers point out that as stupid as governments are, populations are even more stupid and that governments succeed in brainwashing populations. Many conclude that in the absence of an adversarial media, democracy is a sham as the people have no inclination or means of confronting the government.


The hope appears to be that the mainstream media will continue to diminish and will be replaced by the independent Internet media, thus releasing populations from their brainwashed state. Others think that this hope will come to naught as governments will assert control over the Internet and that governments will make dissent the equivalent of terrorism.


Those who try to suppress dissent might be simply defending a personal bias or they might be agents of a cover-up. Regardless, it comes to the same thing in the end. People who raise dissenting points and honest questions are ridiculed or demonized in efforts to silence or marginalize them. Whether or not truth can actually prevail, it doesn’t usually prevail in time. For example, “Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction” prevailed over truth. After Iraq is destroyed we learn that the basis for the US invasion of Iraq rested firmly on an orchestrated lie.


The culpability of the Western media in lies, death, and destruction is extreme. Consider the Malaysian airliner that went down in Ukraine. The US, UK, EU, and the puppet government in Kiev blamed Russia and forces of the breakaway eastern province for shooting down the civilian airliner. An investigation was convened. It has been six months since the investigation was completed, and the results have not been released.


Clearly, if the investigation supported the Western propaganda, the results would have been released. We can safely conclude that the investigation does not support the West’s propaganda. There has not been one word from the Western media demanding the results of the investigation. The world has forgotten it, but the world remembers the loudly shouted propaganda, and the conclusion, unsupported by any evidence, is that Russia is guilty.


The Western media works the same way when it reports Charlie Hebdo.

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/17/charlie-hebdo-report-europe/


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PCR also points (http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/17/proof-terror-plots-hoax/) us to:

The Proof Is In–Terror Plots are a Hoax
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/16/latest-fbi-boast-disrupting-terror-u-s-plot-deserves-scrutiny-skepticism/




Charlie Hebdo Update — Paul Craig Roberts (http://www.paulcraigroberts.org?wp_cta_redirect_19418=htt p://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/16/charlie-hebdo-update-paul-craig-roberts/&wp-cta-v=0&wpl_id=JkemLpcWArVTuPgXHs6Tsw8yCxo4AkZ6lIv&l_type=wpluid) (1/16/2015)
Suspicions are growing that the French shootings are a false flag operation (http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/11/suspicions-growing-french-shootings-false-flag-operation/) (1/11/2015)

Glenn Greenwald nails the Charlie Hebdo affair (http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/01/11/glenn-greenwald-nails-charlie-hebdo-affair/) (1/11/2015)