Operation Northwoods: US Planned Fake Terror Attacks On Citizens To Create Support For Cuban War

Originally posted by Justice11
The attack on the USS liberty was an accident.The same as the bombing of Canadian forces in Afganistan by the US air force.Those links provided are faked since not one of them are a valid news source.I would think that at least one major news network would have carried it but they do not.

OMG Justice11, I don't think I've ever known anyone as brainwashed as you.

Why don't you visit the website created by the survivors of the USS Liberty? Unless you don't believe them?

www.gtr5.com...

USS Liberty Memorial

On June 8, 1967, US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty was suddenly and brutally attacked on the high seas in international waters by the air and naval forces of Israel. The Israeli forces attacked with full knowledge that this was an American ship and lied about it. Survivors have been forbidden for 40 years to tell their story under oath to the American public. This USS Liberty Memorial web site tells their story and is dedicated to the memory of the 34 brave men who died.



The Attack

After surveilling USS Liberty for more than nine hours with almost hourly aircraft over flights and radar tracking, the air and naval forces of Israel attacked our ship in international waters without warning. USS Liberty was identified as a US naval ship nine hours before the attack by Israeli reconnaissance aircraft and continuously tracked by Israeli radar and aircraft thereafter. Sailing in international waters at less than five knots, with no offensive armament, our ship was not a military threat to anyone.
The Israeli forces attacked without warning and without attempting to contact us. Thirty four Americans were killed in the attack and another 174 were wounded. The ship, a $40 Million Dollar state of the art signals intelligence platform, was later declared unsalvageable and sold for scrap.




The Cover Up

Despite a near-universal consensus that the Israeli attack was made with full knowledge that USS Liberty was a US Navy ship, the Johnson administration began an immediate cover-up of this fact. Though administration officers continued individually to characterize the attack as deliberate, the Johnson administration never sought the prosecution of the guilty parties or otherwise attempted to seek justice for the victims. They concealed and altered evidence in their effort to downplay the attack. Though they never formally accepted the Israeli explanation that it was an accident, they never pressed for a full investigation either. They simply allowed those responsible literally to get away with murder.

Here's another one:

afp.google.com...

Report reveals Vietnam War hoaxes, faked attacks
Jan 8, 2008

WASHINGTON (AFP) — North Vietnamese made hoax calls to get the US military to bomb its own units during the Vietnam War, according to declassified information that also confirmed US officials faked an incident to escalate the war.

The report was released by the National Security Agency, responsible for much of the United States' codebreaking and eavesdropping work, in response to a "mandatory declassification" request, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) said Monday.

From the first intercepted cable -- a 1945 message from Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh to his Russian counterpart Joseph Stalin -- to the final evacuation of US spies from Saigon, the 500-page report retold Vietnam War history from the perspective of "signals intelligence," the group said in a statement.

During the war, North Vietnamese intelligence units sometimes succeeded in penetrating US communications systems, and they could monitor American message traffic from within, according to the report "Spartans in Darkness."
On several occasions "the communists were able, by communicating on Allied radio nets, to call in Allied artillery or air strikes on American units," it said.

"That's something I have never heard before," Steven Aftergood, director of the FAS project on government secrecy, told AFP.

But he said that probably the "most historically significant feature" of the declassified report was the retelling of the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident.

That was a reported North Vietnamese attack on American destroyers that helped lead to president Lyndon Johnson's sharp escalation of American forces in Vietnam.

The author of the report "demonstrates that not only is it not true, as (then US) secretary of defense Robert McNamara told Congress, that the evidence of an attack was 'unimpeachable,' but that to the contrary, a review of the classified signals intelligence proves that 'no attack happened that night,'" FAS said in a statement.

"What this study demonstrated is that the available intelligence shows that there was no attack. It's a dramatic reversal of the historical record," Aftergood said.

"There were previous indications of this but this is the first time we have seen the complete study," he said.

And another:

www.salon.com...

The U.S. military inflicts more damage on its own credibility
January 10, 2008

It seems increasingly clear that the U.S. military's initial claims about its interaction with those five Iranian speed boats in the Strait of Hormuz was exaggerated in significant ways, approaching Jessica Lynch/Pat Tillman/Iraq-is-going-great territory. It's impossible to resolve all of the conflicting details of each side's self-serving version, but the most inflammatory facts which the Navy originally asserted, and which the American news media uncritically regurgitated, are quite dubious, if not demonstrably false.

Here, for instance, was the first paragraph of Tuesday's Washington Post story by Robin Wright and Ann Scott Tyson, highlighting the most dramatic and scariest part of the U.S. military's narrative:

We're coming at you, the Iranian radio transmission warned. Your ships will explode in a couple of minutes.

The next paragraph summarized the Navy's version that "five Iranian patrol boats sped toward the USS Port Royal and two accompanying ships as they crossed the Strait of Hormuz" and then "'maneuvered aggressively' on both sides of the U.S. ships." The next paragraph recounted:

After the radio transmission, two of the Iranian boats dropped "white box-like objects" into the water, [Vice Adm. Kevin J.] Cosgriff said.

Those are the two "facts" that infused the story with such a sinister tone -- explicit threats from the Iranian boats to destroy the American ships, followed by their dropping of unidentifiable boxes, which, one was supposed to infer, could easily have been explosive devices.

But the first "fact" seems almost certainly false, and the second one is highly questionable. Iranian Hooman Majd at The Huffington Post noted that the voices on the tapes issuing the melodramatic threats were unquestionably not Persian. As he put it: "the person speaking doesn't have an Iranian accent and moreover, sounds more like Boris Karloff in a horror movie than a sailor in the elite branch of Iran's military." A regular Iranian commenter at Cernig's blog made the same point. Listen for yourself to the audio and see how credible the threats sound.

Since then, additional facts have emerged strongly negating the claim that that message came from those Iranian boats. The audio of the threats is crystal clear in sound quality, with no ambient noise -- something highly unlikely to be the case if delivered from a small, speeding boat. Moreover, as the New York Times' Mike Nizza reports today, quoting a reader claiming to be a former Naval officer, the channel that was used to convey the transmission is easily accessible to all sorts of private parties and is often the venue for hoaxes, pranks, and false messages.

Even the Pentagon itself is now acknowledging the lack of proof for the initial version, "saying that the voice on the tape could have come from the shore or from another ship." As Nizza put it: "The list of those who are less than fully confident in the Pentagon's video/audio mashup of aggressive maneuvers by Iranian boats near American warships in the Strait of Hormuz now includes the Pentagon itself."

This thread has been hijacked.

Certain posters do not want us to discuss Northwoods.

Cute ploy. I just wonder how many of us will fall for it.

And another:

www.amazon.com...

Day Of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor

From Publishers Weekly


Historians have long debated whether President Roosevelt had advance knowledge of Japan's December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Using documents pried loose through the Freedom of Information Act during 17 years of research, Stinnett provides overwhelming evidence that FDR and his top advisers knew that Japanese warships were heading toward Hawaii. The heart of his argument is even more inflammatory: Stinnett argues that FDR, who desired to sway public opinion in support of U.S. entry into WWII, instigated a policy intended to provoke a Japanese attack. The plan was outlined in a U.S. Naval Intelligence secret strategy memo of October 1940; Roosevelt immediately began implementing its eight steps (which included deploying U.S. warships in Japanese territorial waters and imposing a total embargo intended to strangle Japan's economy), all of which, according to Stinnett, climaxed in the Japanese attack. Stinnett, a decorated naval veteran of WWII who served under then Lt. George Bush, substantiates his charges with a wealth of persuasive documents, including many government and military memos and transcripts. Demolishing the myth that the Japanese fleet maintained strict radio silence, he shows that several Japanese naval broadcasts, intercepted by American cryptographers in the 10 days before December 7, confirmed that Japan intended to start the war at Pearl Harbor. Stinnett convincingly demonstrates that the U.S. top brass in Hawaii--Pacific Fleet commander Adm. Husband Kimmel and Lt. Gen. Walter Short--were kept out of the intelligence loop on orders from Washington and were then scapegoated for allegedly failing to anticipate the Japanese attack (in May 1999, the U.S. Senate cleared their names). Kimmel moved his fleet into the North Pacific, actively searching for the suspected Japanese staging area, but naval headquarters ordered him to turn back. Stinnett's meticulously researched book raises deeply troubling ethical issues. While he believes the deceit built into FDR's strategy was heinous, he nevertheless writes: "I sympathize with the agonizing dilemma faced by President Roosevelt. He was forced to find circuitous means to persuade an isolationist America to join in a fight for freedom." This, however, is an expression of understanding, not of absolution. If Stinnett is right, FDR has a lot to answer for--namely, the lives of those Americans who perished at Pearl Harbor. Stinnett establishes almost beyond question that the U.S. Navy could have at least anticipated the attack. The evidence that FDR himself deliberately provoked the attack is circumstantial, but convincing enough to make Stinnett's bombshell of a book the subject of impassioned debate in the months to come.


Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Feel free to talk about Operation Northwoods all you want.

My point is, this is nothing new.

Originally posted by mrwupy
This thread has been hijacked.

Certain posters do not want us to discuss Northwoods.

Believe me, I'm not trying to hijack my own thread!

If you'll read my posts above, you'll see how they correlate with Operation Northwoods and 9/11.

Almost all war is fabricated.

Northwoods is old news and I see no tie in with other sources other than convoluted logic.

Kind of like NASA has rockets so there must be UFO's.

Originally posted by hinky
Kind of like NASA has rockets so there must be UFO's.

Kinda like I have a brain but some don't use theirs?

How does rockets, UFOs and Northwoods even relate?

How does rockets and UFOs even relate?

How is Operation Northwoods related to 9/11?

Gee, I don't know...



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[edit on 15-6-2008 by GoldenFleece]

reply to post by GoldenFleece


I'm on your side on this. Just to let you know.

I know. My reply was to "hinky."

Your comparing facts to fiction.

You have a fact, Northwoods, and then it goes to crap. Keep it on target, your reaching for something that isn't there.

reply to post by hinky

Fiction according to you.

Any reasonable person who independently investigates 9/11 will quickly conclude that 9/11 is the neocon version of Operation Northwoods: "The New Pearl Harbor" (BTW, FDR not only knew everything about the Japanese plans to attack Pearl Harbor, he provoked them into attacking. See my post above: "Day Of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor.")

reply to post by hinky


I don't believe whatsoever that Northwoods proves 9-11 was done by the government.

What it does do is prove they were capable of it. The reason discussing Northwoods is important is because a huge number of people don't even look at the facts of 9-11, because they don't think the government is capable of something like that, and this is a historical proven incident that proves they are. In fact the reason the MSM gives as to why don't look into the facts of 9-11 is that truthers are crazy, and the government would never do anything to hurt its people.

Originally posted by Grambler
I don't believe whatsoever that Northwoods proves 9-11 was done by the government.

By itself, no.

Originally posted by Grambler
What it does do is prove they were capable of it. The reason discussing Northwoods is important is because a huge number of people don't even look at the facts of 9-11, because they don't think the government is capable of something like that, and this is a historical proven incident that proves they are.

Thank you. My exact point.

reply to post by GoldenFleece


No, it's fact in my world and fiction on planet conspiracy.

You have set an example of stating knowns facts about the government and used those facts as a basis of a conspiracy. Just like NASA and rockets so UFO's must exist. the same logic.

You believe what you want, I will continue to live in the real world. Be sure to look at youtube for the latest internet news and use it for your investigative reports.

Originally posted by hinky
reply to post by GoldenFleece

 

No, it's fact in my world and fiction on planet conspiracy.

You have set an example of stating knowns facts about the government and used those facts as a basis of a conspiracy. Just like NASA and rockets so UFO's must exist. the same logic.

You believe what you want, I will continue to live in the real world. Be sure to look at youtube for the latest internet news and use it for your investigative reports.

Baseballs exist. A round hole is in my window. A baseball went through my window.

False, it was a tennis ball.

Operation Northwoods exists. A terrorist attack like Northwoods occured. 9/11 was an inside job.

True/False, we don't know right now.

NASA uses rockets. I saw something flying in the air. It was a rocket.

True/False. We have no idea what it was.

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No one here has stated that Operation Northwoods proves 9/11 was an inside job, we've merely shown that the government is CAPABLE of committing an act such as 9/11. You are implying that we are stating Operation Northwoods proves 9/11 was an inside job, when clearly no one has done such thing.

reply to post by hinky


Would that be the real world in which Iraq did have WMDs, and was capable of deploying them in 45 minutes, and was going to use them against western countries?

www.washingtontimes.com...

Originally posted by Justice11
The attack on the USS liberty was an accident.

Oh man, I don't think the crew of the USS Liberty agrees or appreciates hearing that.

Originally posted by Alethia
reply to post by hinky

 

Would that be the real world in which Iraq did have WMDs, and was capable of deploying them in 45 minutes, and was going to use them against western countries?

www.washingtontimes.com...

It's not just Operation Northwoods and Iraq.

It's the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, USS Liberty, JFK, RFK, MLK, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Oklahoma City, KAL 007, Pan Am 103, TWA 800, the list is endless...