By Richard Cottrell
theintelhub.com
A decade ago the Islamist government of Turkey uncovered the now legendary ‘sledgehammer’ – or Balyoz in Turkish – false flag plot hatched by the Turkish High Command to justify a coup d’état.
The plan called for a Turkish fighter plane to be shot down by friendly fire somewhere over the Aegean and the blame then shifted to the Greeks.
It was a blatant attempt by the secular military establishment and their friends in the underground secret state to destabilize the freshly-installed ‘soft’ Islamic AK government before it had time to establish strong roots.
The same plan called for mosques to be bombed during Friday prayers. Military guard posts would be attacked by ’sharia dressed persons.’
As I explain in my new book about NATO Gladio secret armies (see below), elements of Sledgehammer bore a startling resemblance to the US supreme commander General Lyman Lemnitzer’s infamous Northwoods Plot to attack American navy ships and civil airliners and then blame Castro.
There is never anything that is entirely fresh or original in the false flag playbook. So, the downing of a Turkish fighter operating in international air space – we understand by a Syrian missile – served as the excuse for Turkey to summon an immediate conclave of NATO chiefs.
As the Turkish daily Zaman observed in a somewhat under-stated editorial, the attack stoked tensions in the 16-month Syrian crisis to a new level ‘raising the possibility of further measures to internationalize the situation.’
‘Further measures’ sounds fairly soft and imprecise. In fact Turkey immediately invoked the famous all-for-one and one-for-all Article 5, which states that any attack on one member of the alliance is an attack all 27 members of the pact.
It seems incredible, yet the Turkish authorities apparently lifted the essential elements of the original Sledgehammer Plot as an excuse for a full-scale alliance intervention in Syria, even as the culprits named in the original indictments are still on trial in Turkey’s highest criminal court.
True, it appears – at this stage, at any rate – that a Syrian missile did bring down a Turkish warplane, instead of the friendly fire envisaged in the Sledgehammer Plot. But of course this scarcely matters now that the NATO war chiefs are getting ready to shoulder their holsters.
The affair provides the perfect false flag cover to justify a full-scale Libyan-style alliance ‘humanitarian intervention’ in order to get rid of yet another squalid Arab dictator who just happens to be sitting on lakes of oil.
Nor is it any coincidence at all that Sledgehammer Mark Two struck just three weeks after the annual Bilderberg conclave held at Chantilly, Virginia, close to Washington D.C.
Other parallels with the first Sledgehammer scheme are not hard to find, for example measures to destabilize the internal situation inside Turkey with attacks on mosques and army posts. Here an even closer fit is Operation Ajax in 1953, when the CIA and the UK’s MI6 combined forces to overthrow the Iranian government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.
The ouster of Mossadegh was preceded by false flag violence staged by agents operating in the country during the build up to the royal coup by Shah Mohammad-Reza.
This dispute was provoked by imaginary claims that Mossadegh had nationalized the country’s oil industry – what is now British Petroleum – as part of some back door deal with the Russians.
Similarly, it is plainly obvious that western secret services have been actively stoking violence inside Syria which is then blamed on government forces.
This of course is the usual warm-up act for a full scale intervention, as in Libya. But before any sort of intervention can be justified, there has to be a motive.
My impression is that Syria is a tougher nut in many ways than Libya. So, while contingency planners preparing for the intervention could deploy many familiar copy-cat measures – provoking internal strife and instability in general – it might require a larger force should Assad and his supporters decide to make a fight of it.
NATO, remember, did not put boots on the ground in Libya – except clandestine special forces. Similarly, they may not in Syria, at least at first; but they will wallop the country with a massive air assault and then leak ‘peace-keeping forces’ through the frontier with Turkey.
So everyone in the alliance is about to start singing from the same song sheet? Not quite, because Turkey is playing a game of a different order. To understand that it is necessary to understand the complex mind of the Turkish premier, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Erdogan is the living symbol of the modern Ottoman revival which is now under way in Turkey.
Having cemented popular Islamist rule since the first AK victory in 2001, fixed the economy, routed the sulking secular establishment and defanged the whisky generals of the High Command, Erdogan’s main aim is pushing Turkey’s claims right across the Middle East.
Turkey’s moves on the Middle Eastern chess board are designed solely to advance Turkey’s interests so that she emerges as the chief powerbroker in the region.
Read more at http://theintelhub.com/2012/06/26/sledgehammer-turkeys-false-flag-attack-kicks-off-natos-syrian-invasion/
theintelhub.com
A decade ago the Islamist government of Turkey uncovered the now legendary ‘sledgehammer’ – or Balyoz in Turkish – false flag plot hatched by the Turkish High Command to justify a coup d’état.The plan called for a Turkish fighter plane to be shot down by friendly fire somewhere over the Aegean and the blame then shifted to the Greeks.
It was a blatant attempt by the secular military establishment and their friends in the underground secret state to destabilize the freshly-installed ‘soft’ Islamic AK government before it had time to establish strong roots.
The same plan called for mosques to be bombed during Friday prayers. Military guard posts would be attacked by ’sharia dressed persons.’
As I explain in my new book about NATO Gladio secret armies (see below), elements of Sledgehammer bore a startling resemblance to the US supreme commander General Lyman Lemnitzer’s infamous Northwoods Plot to attack American navy ships and civil airliners and then blame Castro.
There is never anything that is entirely fresh or original in the false flag playbook. So, the downing of a Turkish fighter operating in international air space – we understand by a Syrian missile – served as the excuse for Turkey to summon an immediate conclave of NATO chiefs.
As the Turkish daily Zaman observed in a somewhat under-stated editorial, the attack stoked tensions in the 16-month Syrian crisis to a new level ‘raising the possibility of further measures to internationalize the situation.’
‘Further measures’ sounds fairly soft and imprecise. In fact Turkey immediately invoked the famous all-for-one and one-for-all Article 5, which states that any attack on one member of the alliance is an attack all 27 members of the pact.
It seems incredible, yet the Turkish authorities apparently lifted the essential elements of the original Sledgehammer Plot as an excuse for a full-scale alliance intervention in Syria, even as the culprits named in the original indictments are still on trial in Turkey’s highest criminal court.
True, it appears – at this stage, at any rate – that a Syrian missile did bring down a Turkish warplane, instead of the friendly fire envisaged in the Sledgehammer Plot. But of course this scarcely matters now that the NATO war chiefs are getting ready to shoulder their holsters.
The affair provides the perfect false flag cover to justify a full-scale Libyan-style alliance ‘humanitarian intervention’ in order to get rid of yet another squalid Arab dictator who just happens to be sitting on lakes of oil.
Nor is it any coincidence at all that Sledgehammer Mark Two struck just three weeks after the annual Bilderberg conclave held at Chantilly, Virginia, close to Washington D.C.
Other parallels with the first Sledgehammer scheme are not hard to find, for example measures to destabilize the internal situation inside Turkey with attacks on mosques and army posts. Here an even closer fit is Operation Ajax in 1953, when the CIA and the UK’s MI6 combined forces to overthrow the Iranian government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh.
The ouster of Mossadegh was preceded by false flag violence staged by agents operating in the country during the build up to the royal coup by Shah Mohammad-Reza.
This dispute was provoked by imaginary claims that Mossadegh had nationalized the country’s oil industry – what is now British Petroleum – as part of some back door deal with the Russians.
Similarly, it is plainly obvious that western secret services have been actively stoking violence inside Syria which is then blamed on government forces.
This of course is the usual warm-up act for a full scale intervention, as in Libya. But before any sort of intervention can be justified, there has to be a motive.
My impression is that Syria is a tougher nut in many ways than Libya. So, while contingency planners preparing for the intervention could deploy many familiar copy-cat measures – provoking internal strife and instability in general – it might require a larger force should Assad and his supporters decide to make a fight of it.
NATO, remember, did not put boots on the ground in Libya – except clandestine special forces. Similarly, they may not in Syria, at least at first; but they will wallop the country with a massive air assault and then leak ‘peace-keeping forces’ through the frontier with Turkey.
So everyone in the alliance is about to start singing from the same song sheet? Not quite, because Turkey is playing a game of a different order. To understand that it is necessary to understand the complex mind of the Turkish premier, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Erdogan is the living symbol of the modern Ottoman revival which is now under way in Turkey.
Having cemented popular Islamist rule since the first AK victory in 2001, fixed the economy, routed the sulking secular establishment and defanged the whisky generals of the High Command, Erdogan’s main aim is pushing Turkey’s claims right across the Middle East.
Turkey’s moves on the Middle Eastern chess board are designed solely to advance Turkey’s interests so that she emerges as the chief powerbroker in the region.
Read more at http://theintelhub.com/2012/06/26/sledgehammer-turkeys-false-flag-attack-kicks-off-natos-syrian-invasion/