15 Signs The Charlie Hebdo Attack Was A

False Flag
January 14, 2015

Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post

In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo massacre and as more and

more information comes to light surrounding the details of the
attacks as well as the connections between the perpetrators,
groups, and NATO-based intelligence agencies, the suggestion that
the attacks were, in reality, of the false flag nature, is being proven
more and more valid by the hour.

As is to be expected, the xenophobic pro-war right is using the

attack as an example of how all Muslims are terrorists and how their
total annihilation and implementation of police state tactics are the
only solution. On the one hand, the pathetic left-wing attempts to
blame the victim for incitement and focuses on the need to become
more politically correct, self-censoring, and linguistically minimal.
The vast majority in the middle, however, believe the official
mainstream version of events, quake in their boots, and move on to
the next form of entertainment provided to them by the culture
creators without a second thought.

Yet, as is almost always the case, there is much more to the story
than is being reported by mainstream outlets. There exist a number
of questionable details regarding the Charlie Hebdo attack, as well
as the relatively open control over terrorist groups and Islamic
jihadists by the French intelligence apparatus, the US, and NATO.

While random acts of violence certainly do occur – some motivated

by religious extremism and some not – it is important to examine all
of the facts surrounding these acts before coming to a judgment
regarding the nature of them. We cannot simply engage in knee-jerk
reactions labeling every act of violence as a “false flag” yet we
cannot ignore the history of such acts and the prevalence of false
flags in recent times.

However, as the evidence surrounding the Charlie Hebdo massacre

and the concurrent Kosher grocery store attacks comes to light, we
are presented with the distinct possibility that these acts are not of
the “lone wolf” variety but that they were indeed carefully
coordinated false flag incidents.

Below are a number of reasons that the Charlie Hebdo and Kosher
grocery store attacks are most likely false flag attacks, thus putting
the responsibility and guilt for their deployment on the backs of
French intelligence and their counterparts in the UK, US, and NATO
structure.

1.) The suspects had traveled to Syria in order to fight

against the secular government of Bashar al-Assad.

Both Cherif and Said Kouachi were veterans of the NATO/Western-

backed invasion of terrorist proxies fighting against the Assad
government. Not only was Cherif arrested in 2005 and sentenced to
3 years in prison for attempting to join jihadists fighting in Iraq, but
he and his brother eventually made their way to fight in Syria
alongside the same terrorist networks being armed, funded, trained,
and directed by the United States, UK, France, and NATO. The
Kouachi connection to terrorist networks and jihadist forces fighting
inside Syria thus put the likelihood of they and their acts being
entirely controlled by the United States, UK, France, and the rest of
NATO at much higher odds due to the fact that these terrorist
networks are entirely controlled by Western intelligence agencies.[1]

2.) France itself is responsible for arming, training, and

directing the very terrorist organizations fighting against
the secular government of Bashar al-Assad.

If the attackers were indeed members of one of the myriad terrorist

groups documented to be under the direction and control of Western
powers, France itself is to be implicated in the cause and execution
of the attacks. As Tony Cartalucci of Land Destroyer Report writes in
his own article, “France Armed Terrorists That Struck Paris,”

France, as part of a NATO-led coalition, has been arming, funding,

aiding, and otherwise perpetuating Al Qaeda terrorists for years,
beginning, on record in Libya with the overthrow of Libyan leader
Muammar Gaddafi and continuing until today with NATO’s arming,
harboring, and backing of Al Qaeda terrorists including the so-called
“Islamic State” (ISIS) within and along Syria’s borders.

With the recent attack in Paris likely the work of the very
terrorists France has been arming and backing across North Africa
and the Middle East, the French government itself stands
responsible, guilty of the continued material support of a terrorist
organization that has now killed French citizens, including two police
officers, not only on French soil, but within the French capital itself.

In his article “Timeline: Where’d Paris Shooters Get Their Weapons?”

Cartalucci also provides a timeline of assistance, aid, and arms
provided to Islamic terrorists since 2011. He writes,

2011 – France supplying weapons to Libyan rebels, London

Telegraph:

A French military spokesman, Colonel Thierry Burkhard, said it

had provided “light arms such as assault rifles” for civilian
communities to “protect themselves against Col Gaddafi”.

But the decision to arm the rebels is a further move towards

direct involvement in the land war on top of the air war against Col
Muammar Gaddafi. The Nafusa rebels have come closest to
breaking through to Tripoli itself of any of the front lines of the
conflict, while three months of Nato bombing have failed to dislodge
Col Gaddafi from power.

Le Figaro, the French newspaper which first reported the air

drops, said the shipment included rifles, machine guns and rocket-
propelled grenades, along with Milan anti-tank missiles.

2011 – Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-

Qaeda links, London Telegraph:

Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the Libyan rebel leader, has said jihadists

who fought against allied troops in Iraq are on the front lines of the
battle against Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.

2012 – France to push for arming Syria’s opposition coalition, the

BBC:

France’s foreign minister has said he will discuss supplying arms

to the Syrian opposition coalition with European partners.

The government plans to push for a relaxation of the EU arms

embargo to Syria to enable “defensive arms” to reach opposition
fighters.

2013 – Syria crisis: France and Britain move a step closer to

arming rebels, the London Guardian:

France and Britain have moved a step closer to arming the

opposition to the Assad regime in a radical move aimed at tipping
the balance in the two-year civil war while also ignoring European
policy on Syria.

The French president, François Hollande, went into an EU summit

in Brussels with a dramatic appeal for Europe to join Paris and
London in lifting a European arms embargo, but the sudden policy
shift was certain to run into stiff German opposition.

2013 – Syrian rebels pledge loyalty to al-Qaeda, USA Today:

A Syrian rebel group’s April pledge of allegiance to al-Qaeda’s

replacement for Osama bin Laden suggests that the terrorist group’s
influence is not waning and that it may take a greater role in the
Western-backed fight to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The pledge of allegiance by Syrian Jabhat al Nusra Front chief

Abou Mohamad al-Joulani to al-Qaeda leader Sheik Ayman al-
Zawahri was coupled with an announcement by the al-Qaeda
affiliate in Iraq, the Islamic State of Iraq, that it would work with al
Nusra as well.

2014 – France delivered arms to Syrian rebels, Hollande confirms,

France 24:

President Francois Hollande said on Thursday that France had

delivered weapons to rebels battling the Syrian regime of Bashar al-
Assad “a few months ago.”

3.) Both the suspects had been on the radar screen of

French intelligence for a number of years. Their terrorist ties
did not come as a surprise.

Cherif Kouachi, one of the brothers allegedly responsible for the

Hebdo massacre, was arrested in 2005, charged, and convicted of
“association with wrongdoers with the intention of committing a
terrorist act” although his sentence was suspended. Slate magazine
writes that

Kouachi was arrested in January 2005, accused of planning to join

jihadists in Iraq. He was said to have fallen under the sway of Farid
Benyettou, a young “self-taught preacher” who advocated violence,
but had not actually yet traveled to Iraq or committed any acts of
terror. Lawyers at the time said he had not received weapons
training and “had begun having second thoughts,” going so far as to
express “relief” that he’d been apprehended.

In 2010, Kouachi was again arrested and charged in an attempt to

break Algerian Islamist and Paris commuter rail bomber Smain Ait
Ali Belkacem, from jail. The plot failed but Kouachi was caught. The
charges were eventually dropped.

According to CNN, Cherif had a “long history of jihad and anti-

Semitism.” His terrorist aspirations were also well-known for some
time prior to the Hebdo attacks.

CNN reports that,

In a 400-page court record from 2007, Kouachi was described as

wanting to travel to Iraq “to go and combat the Americans.”

Kouachi stated in a deposition, “I was ready to go and die in

battle,” and “I got this idea when I saw the injustices shown by
television on what was going on over there. I am speaking about the
torture that the Americans have inflicted on the Iraqis.”

Said Kouachi, left, and Cherif Kouachi are suspects in the Paris
attack.

Kouachi was raised in orphanages and foster homes from a young

age, and became involved in a group in Paris’ 19th arrondissement,
or district, the court papers said.

Prosecutors outlined strong details of Kouachi’s interest in jihad,

martyrdom and links to anti-Semitism, according to documents CNN
obtained in conjunction with French newsmagazine L’Express.

The group to which Cherif was affiliated, known as the 19th

Arrondissement Network (named for the neighborhood it was based
out of), was involved in recruiting French Muslims to fight for al-
Qaeda in Iraq. As is typical in Western-backed terrorist operations,
the group preyed on poor, disenchanted, struggling, and working-
class young men.

After procuring the necessary manpower, the group would then

organize for weapons training and provide the necessary travel
arrangements.

Although convicted in 2008, police had arrested Cherif in 2005, just

days before he planned to travel to Syria.

Cherif fits the profile of a target for terrorist recruits. He was Muslim,
had left school, and was working a dead-end job as a pizza delivery
man. He was decidedly lower working class.

The narrative that was subsequently constructed was that a gullible

young man then fell under the spell of charismatic “street preacher”
known as Farid Benyettou, who trolled the East Side of Paris. It is
implied that Beneyettou, who was also convicted on terrorism
charges, played a role in setting up Cherif with the terrorist
organization he eventually joined and his subsequent travels to
Syria to slaughter innocent people ultimately for the benefit of the
geopolitical goals of NATO, France, and the United States.

It should be noted that, during the course of the trial, Beneyettou

was responsible for recruitment only. Out of the entire membership
of his network, he was the only one not slated to travel to Iraq.

Also noteworthy is the fact that, in 2005, it was revealed that some
members of the 19th Arrondissement Network had affiliations with
the ad-Da’wa mosque,[2] one of the largest mosques in Paris.

CNN suggests that much of the training received by Kouachi from

Benyettou involved the study of how to use Kalashnikovs. The news
agency reports,

Kouachi stated that “the wise leaders in Islam told him and his
friends that if they die as martyrs in jihad they would go to heaven”
and “that martyrs would be greeted by more than 60 virgins in a big
palace in heaven,” said documents in a section entitled “Motivations
of Influence.”

The documents also said, “(F)or him any place on earth where
there is such an injustice is justification for jihad; what was going on
Iraq was in his eyes such an injustice.”

This information, of course, was a matter of law enforcement and

court records.

Kouachi’s behavior, much like that of Mohammed Atta, did not

match up with the notion of a Muslim fundamentalist.[3] CNN writes,

Court records show Kouachi said he didn’t consider himself a

good enough Muslim, and said he had only been to the mosque two
or three times before he met Benyettou, and he had been smoking
cannabis.

Kouachi told investigators he committed himself to the idea of

jihad during Ramadan in 2004. He told his friends he was going to
Syria to fight.

The documents say when police interviewed his accomplices,

they stated that Kouachi “said he was ready to firebomb and to
destroy Jewish shops in Paris.”

When officials confronted Kouachi with that information, he told

them “that’s not exactly what I said. … I don’t hide having proposed
anti-Semitic ideas, but I would note that I never really would have
done that.”

Kouachi’s lawyer, Vincent Ollivier, painted a different picture of

his client in the 2005 incident.

The attorney said at the time that his client’s profile was more
“pot smoker from the projects than an Islamist.”

“He smokes, drinks, doesn’t sport a beard and has a girlfriend

before marriage,” Ollivier told the French newspaper Libération the
month after his client’s arrest.

A report from the TV network France 3, which apparently first

aired in 2005, described Kouachi as a young fan of rap more
interested in chasing girls than going to the mosque.

According to the report, all of Kouachi’s interests changed when he

met Benyettou.

Much less is known about Said Kouachi, especially in terms of his

connections to terrorism, terrorist cells, and other terrorist cases.
Said’s name has repeatedly appeared on the outskirts of terrorism
trials in France but never as the focal point of the investigation.

In regards to Said, CNN writes,

A French official told CNN that Said Kouachi received training in

Yemen. The official did not give details about when the trip occurred
or how long it lasted.

A U.S. official says the United States was given information from
the French intelligence agency that Said Kouachi traveled to Yemen
as late as 2011 on behalf of the al Qaeda affiliate there.

His time in Yemen is corroborated by a Yemeni journalist, who

says that he saw Said there — and that Said claimed to have briefly
been a roommate of Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the convicted
would-be “underwear” bomber who tried but failed to detonate a
device aboard a U.S. airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009.

Yemeni journalist and researcher Mohammed al-Kibsi told CNN

that he saw Said Kouachi twice in the old city of Sanaa, Yemen, in
2011 and 2012. Al-Kibsi said was researching AbdulMutallab’s
background in mid-January 2011 when he came across Kouachi
unintentionally. He said Kouachi was friendly and used to walk
around the old city, hence how he met al-Kibsi.

Kouachi said that he and AbdulMutallab used to pray together at

Yemen’s al-Tabari School, and that they shared an apartment for one
to two weeks in Yemen. Kouachi was studying Arabic grammar at
the Sanaa Arabic Grammar Institute, al-Kibisi said.

Al-Kibsi said he saw Kouachi again in 2012, in the old city of

Sanaa at another Arabic language center.

CNN does not have official confirmation that Said Kouachi knew
AbdulMutallab, a Nigerian national who, authorities said at his U.S.
trial, told the FBI that he that he had links to Yemen-based al Qaeda
in the Arabian Peninsula. Last month, AQAP released a video
apparently showing AbdulMutallab with the group’s leader, Nasir al-
Wuhayshi.

The U.S. official who said Said Kouachi had traveled to Yemen said
the man had received a variety of weapons training from al Qaeda
in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) — the al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen.

It is also possible Said Kouachi was trained in bombmaking, a

common jihadist training in Yemen.

In addition to Said’s travel to Yemen, it is also known that at least

one of the brothers had recently traveled to Syria for the purpose of
acting as NATO’s proxy army in the fight against the secular
government of Bashar al-Assad.

Indeed, USA TODAY has reported that both brothers had returned
from Syria this summer while CNN, somewhat more vague, cites a
French intelligence source as putting at least one of the brothers in
Syria earlier in the year.

With all of this information available to both the American and

French government and intelligence apparatus, it is thus clear that
Cherif and Said’s terrorist tendencies and subsequent risks of
committing a terrorist attack inside France were well known.

Thus, we are expected to believe that one of the suspects was

arrested on terrorism charges twice, both suspects repeatedly
expressed interest in and desire for jihad, one traveled to Yemen for
training, rooming with a known terrorist who committed one of the
most publicized terrorist attacks in recent years and meeting with
one of the most notorious terrorist leaders of recent years (Anwar al-
Awlaki), and at least one had traveled to Syria to fight with ISIS
terrorists – all the while being monitored by French and US
intelligence – yet the Charlie Hebdo attacks were somehow
unforeseen.

Indeed, if Kouachi could have been arrested for “association with

wrongdoers with the intention of committing a terrorist act” in 2005,
then why could he not be arrested for the same in 2015? Why could
he not have been arrested for doing the same abroad in Syria? Why
were they not arrested immediately upon returning to France – from
either Syria or Yemen – for receiving training from a terrorist
organization, committing terrorist acts, or even known association
with these organizations?

As Tony Cartalucci of Land Destroyer writes in his article “Paris

Shooting Suspects Under French Radar for YEARS,” “It is a narrative
that begs to be believed – considering the brothers had already
tangled with the law, already traveled to Yemen to receive training
from Al Qaeda, and with evidence suggesting they were indeed still
being tracked since it is now known they have recently returned
from Syria.”

Cartalucci further explains in his article how French intelligence, as

well as their American counterparts, were well aware of the Charlie
Hebdo attackers. He writes,

To explain how terrorists well-known to France’s legal system and

intelligence community could simply “disappear,” the Wall Street
Journal in an article titled, “Overburdened French Dropped
Surveillance of Brothers,” would attempt to claim:

The terror attacks in Paris that have killed 17 people over three
days this week represent one of the worst fears—and failures—of
counterterrorist officials: a successful plot coordinated by people
who had once been under surveillance but who were later dropped
as a top priority.

The U.S. provided France with intelligence showing that the

gunmen in the Charlie Hebdo massacre received training in Yemen
in 2011, prompting French authorities to begin monitoring the two
brothers, according to U.S. officials. But that surveillance of Said and
Chérif Kouachi came to an end last spring, U.S. officials said, after
several years of monitoring turned up nothing suspicious.

[…]

France reportedly has over 1,000 citizens under surveillance who

have recently traveled to Iraq and Syria, believed to have fought
alongside terrorists France itself has been arming. In an NBC article
titled, “French Intelligence Is Tracking 1,000 Who Have Been to Iraq,
Syria: Expert,” it is reported that:

“French intelligence is mostly focused today on more than

1,000 French citizens that traveled to Syria and Iraq since 2012,”
said Jean-Charles Brisard, the author of “Zarqawi: The New Face of
Al-Qaeda.”
 He added that one-fifth of them were being tracked around the
clock. “This is a problem of resources,” he added. “We cannot follow
everyone.”

Brisard said the brothers had been “well known to French

intelligence [for] several years now.”

It is almost certain that the suspects were not only being tracked
by French and US intelligence, but selected as prime candidates for
pulling off the provocative attack in Paris last week – as part of a
greater agenda of manipulating public perception to further crush
civil liberties at home and expand hegemonic wars overseas. France
is already occupying several of its former colonies in Africa, had
participated in the destruction of Libya and its subsequent handover
to Al Qaeda terrorist, who with NATO backing, used it as a
springboard to attack Syria.

In fact, it is now confirmed that France had provided weapons to

terrorists fighting the Syrian government since 2011. France 24
would report last year in an article titled, “France delivered arms to
Syrian rebels, Hollande confirms,” that:

President Francois Hollande said on Thursday that France had

delivered weapons to rebels battling the Syrian regime of Bashar al-
Assad “a few months ago.”

It is likely that if the Paris shooters were indeed in Syria, they may
likely have been holding French-supplied weapons as they honed
their skills later to be used to spill French blood in Paris.

4.) Kouachi’s ties to Anwar Al-Awlaki

As mentioned above, an interview published in the UK Mirror

entitled, “Paris Shootings: Listen To Terrorist Amedy Coulibaly’s
Bizarre Conversation With Hostage During Supermarket Siege,”
quoted Kouachi as telling journalists that “We are just telling you we
are the defenders of the prophet and that I Chérif Kouachi have
been sent by Al Qaida of Yemen and that I went over there and that
Anwar Al Awaki financed me.”

Said Kouachi’s trip to Yemen has been largely documented by claims

coming from both US and French intelligence agencies. Quoting US
intelligence agency sources, CNN reports that the “The United
States is now working on the assumption that Charlie Hebdo
attacker Said Kouachi met American terrorist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki
at some point in Yemen and received orders from al Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to carry out an attack, a U.S. official tells
CNN.”
Anwar al-Awlaki is known to have links to a number of high-profile
terrorists including Nidal Malik Hasan of the Ft. Hood Shootings,
Umar Farouk Adbulmutallab aka the “underwear bomber,” Nawaf al-
Hazmi, Khalid al Midhar and Hani Hanjour of the 9/11 attacks and a
number of others.

Awlaki’s connections to such a high number of high profile terrorist

attacks as well as his connections to US intelligence was what led
Webster Tarpley to label him as “an obvious US double agent who
has been used to give the Al Qaeda seal of approval to dozens of
terrorists.”

It is also important to note that, in the months after 9/11, Awlaki had
dined at the Pentagon. As CBS News reported in its article, “Qaeda-
Linked Imam Dined at Pentagon after 9/11,”

Anwar al-Awlaki – the radical spiritual leader linked to several

9/11 attackers, the Fort Hood shooting, and the attempted
Christmas Day bombing of an airliner – was a guest at the Pentagon
in the months after 9/11, a Pentagon official confirmed to CBS News.

Awlaki was invited as “…part of an informal outreach program” in

which officials sought contact “…with leading members of the
Muslim community,” the official said. At that time, Awlaki was widely
viewed as a “moderate” imam at a mosque in Northern Virginia.

At the same time, the FBI was also interviewing Awlaki about his
contacts with three of the 9/11 attackers – Nawaf al-Hazmi, Khalid al
Midhar and Hani Hanjour – who were all part of the crew of five that
hijacked the American Airlines jet that hit the Pentagon.

5.) Kouachi lived with Abdulmutallab, the Underwear

Bomber, in Yemen.

In its article, “Paris Attacker Said Kouachi Knew Convicted Nigerian

Airline Bomber,” the Wall Street Journal reveals the fact that Said
Kouachi once lived across the hall from famed Underwear Bomber
Umar Faruk Abdulmutallab. The report states,

On Said Kouachi’s road to radicalization, one key stop was a four-

story dormitory of an Arabic-language school in the Yemeni capital.

There he lived across the hall from a man with whom he studied
and visited the mosque in the Old City of San’a: a Nigerian
handpicked by an al Qaeda cleric to try to bring down a U.S.-bound
airliner later that same year with a bomb in his underwear.

Former neighbors and Yemeni officials said the older of the two
Kouachi brothers—both killed by French police on Friday after a
three-day terror rampage across Paris—spent close to two years in
Yemen, the base of al Qaeda’s most dangerous offshoot. His
younger brother Chérif also spent time in Yemen in 2011, according
to U.S. and French officials.

Said, a French citizen of Algerian descent, befriended Umar

Farouk Abdulmutallab in Yemen before the Nigerian left the country
in December 2009 with a sophisticated bomb given to him by al
Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP.

He tried to detonate the explosives hidden in his underwear on a

Detroit-bound aircraft on Christmas Day the same year. But the
attack failed when the explosives malfunctioned, and he was
convicted in the U.S. in 2012 on terrorism offenses

The Nigerian was one of a handful of foreign-born jihadists who

met extensively with Anwar al-Awlaki, the charismatic, U.S.-born
preacher and recruiter for AQAP who groomed men for terror acts
abroad. Mr. Awlaki was killed in a U.S. drone strike in September
2011.

Mr. Abdulmuttalab’s meetings with Mr. Awlaki took place during

2009, the same year when he and Said were studying at the San’a
Institute for the Arabic Language. The school was frequented in part
by foreign-born Muslims who were trying to improve their language
skills and knowledge of the Quran while living in what they
considered a more religiously pure society than their homelands.

Said’s education in jihad also appears to have corresponded to

Mr. Abdulmutallab’s. There is no evidence that the older of the two
brothers ever met with Mr. Awlaki, as Mr. Abdulmutallab did. But it is
clear that the lives of Said Kouachi and Mr. Abdulmutallab
overlapped in other respects during their time in Yemen, according
to former neighbors and Yemeni officials.

CNN provides a parallel description of Said and Adbulmutallab’s

relationship in a way that indicates they were more acquainted that
having merely lived across the hall from one another. The article
states,

A U.S. official says the United States was given information from
the French intelligence agency that Said Kouachi traveled to Yemen
as late as 2011 on behalf of the al Qaeda affiliate there.

His time in Yemen is corroborated by a Yemeni journalist, who

says that he saw Said there — and that Said claimed to have briefly
been a roommate of Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the convicted
would-be “underwear” bomber who tried but failed to detonate a
device aboard a U.S. airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day in 2009.

Yemeni journalist and researcher Mohammed al-Kibsi told CNN

that he saw Said Kouachi twice in the old city of Sanaa, Yemen, in
2011 and 2012. Al-Kibsi said was researching AbdulMutallab’s
background in mid-January 2011 when he came across Kouachi
unintentionally. He said Kouachi was friendly and used to walk
around the old city, hence how he met al-Kibsi.

Kouachi said that he and AbdulMutallab used to pray together at

Yemen’s al-Tabari School, and that they shared an apartment for one
to two weeks in Yemen. Kouachi was studying Arabic grammar at
the Sanaa Arabic Grammar Institute, al-Kibisi said.

Al-Kibsi said he saw Kouachi again in 2012, in the old city of

Sanaa at another Arabic language center.

CNN does not have official confirmation that Said Kouachi knew
AbdulMutallab, a Nigerian national who, authorities said at his U.S.
trial, told the FBI that he that he had links to Yemen-based al Qaeda
in the Arabian Peninsula. Last month, AQAP released a video
apparently showing AbdulMutallab with the group’s leader, Nasir al-
Wuhayshi.

The connections to Addulmutallab are important due to the fact that

the Underwear Bomber’s attempt to detonate a bomb aboard an
airliner was itself a false flag event aided by the US State
Department and Western intelligence agencies. The links to this
terrorist and to the individual who masterminded this attack (along
with a number of other false flag events) thus provide more
evidence that the Charlie Hebdo attacks themselves were of the
false flag variety.

6.) The Charlie Hebdo attackers were apparently part of an

organized network.

According to a detailed article by Henry Samuel and Patrick Sawer

for the Telegraph entitled, “Charlie Hebdo attack: the Kouachi
brothers and the network of French Islamists with links to Islamic
State,” the Kouachi’s had ties to a number of other known terrorists,
themselves belonging to organizations funded and directed by
Western intelligence.

For instance, it was noted by Samuel and Sawer that, during his
2005 prison stay, Cherif Kouachi came to meet Djamel Beghal (aka
Abou Hamza), a terrorist serving a 10-year sentence for a plot to
blow up the US embassy in 2001. Hamza also maintained links to
the Finsbury Park Mosque in London – a notorious intelligence
operation used to create, recruit, and maintain Islamic terrorism.

Beghal was serving a 10-year sentence for plotting to blow up the

US embassy in Paris in 2001. It transpires he also had links to
London’s Finsbury Park mosque, a once notorious breeding ground
for Islamist radicals.

In addition, the report states that “French intelligence agents

photographed Chérif playing football with Beghal in Murat, in the
Cantal region of central France, where he was on house arrest, in
2010. Two other Islamists were present: Ahmed Laidouni and Farid
Melouk.”

Samuel and Sawer also write,

Chérif would later meet an even more notorious figure: Salim

Benghalem, a Frenchman of Algerian descent who is among
America’s most wanted international terrorists.

Benghalem met and befriended Chérif’s friend, Bouchnak, while

the pair shared a cell in 2008 in Fresnes prison following his
conviction for attempted murder. After his release, Beghalem
extended his influence to the other members of the Buttes-
Chaumont network, according to intelligence sources cited by Le
Monde.

In particular, he was part of a group of Islamists in a jail-break

plot to free Smaïn Ait Ali Belkacem, sentenced in November 2002 to
life imprisonment for his involvement in the bombing of the
suburban RER train station at Musée d’Orsay in October 1995 in
which 30 people were injured. The name of Chérif’s brother Saïd
cropped up on the sidelines of the investigation but charges against
both brothers were dropped due to lack of evidence.
[…]

Another violently dangerous individual linked to Chérif is

Boubaker al-Hakim, known as Abou Mouqatel. Hakim is a French
Islamist of Tunisian origin, born in 1983, who grew up in the 19th
arrondissement.

It was here that he is thought to have become a key figure in the

Buttes-Chaumont jihadi network, where he met Kouachi..

Hakim is suspected of being deeply implicated in the recruitment

and logistical organisation of French jihadists to fight in Iraq.

He first travelled to Iraq himself in 2002, returning up to four

times and according to Jean-Pierre Filiu, an expert at Sciences-Po
University in Paris, he recruited militants to fight in Fallujah, the Iraqi
city that became an al-Qaeda stronghold in 2004.

In 2008 both Hakim and Chérif were arrested and convicted in

Paris for their role in the network.

Hakim was sentenced to seven years for running a way station in

Damascus for young French Muslims en route to fight US forces in
Iraq.

Mr Filiu said: “Hakim, and no doubt Kouachi, rejoined al-Qaeda’s

Iraqi networks after they were released from prison and
accompanied them in their transformation into Daesh [the Arabic
name for Isil].

“The combat experience they acquired was useful in the cold-

blooded assassinations they have carried out since.”

Hakim’s 2008 arrest and imprisonment was thought to have

broken up the Buttes-Chaumont network.

But in 2013 he appeared in Tunisia, where he murdered two of the

country’s left-wing opposition politicians – Chokri Belaid and
Mohamed Brahmi – on February 6 and July 25, 2013.

Hakim claimed responsibility for the murders in a video on behalf

of isil released last month and filmed in IS territory somewhere in
Iraq or Syria, declaring: “We will return and kill several of you. You
won’t live in peace until Tunisia applies Islamic law.”

Mr Filiu said that Hakim “represents the link between the Kouachi
brothers and [Isial]”, adding: “It is impossible that an operation on
the scale of the one that led to the massacre at Charlie Hebdo was
not sponsored by Daesh”.

CNN further reports the history of Amedy Coulibaly, the individual

who simultaneously held up a Kosher Grocery Store and killed a
police woman and three other people. The agency writes,

Before he was killed, Amedy Coulibaly purportedly told CNN

affiliate BFMTV that he belonged to ISIS, or the Islamic State in Iraq
and Syria, the terror group trying to create a fundamentalist
religious state across Sunni area in those two countries.

CNN has not independently confirmed the authenticity of the

French broadcaster’s recording with Coulibaly.

Coulibaly, 32, was a close associate of Cherif Kouachi, a Western

intelligence source told CNN. Coulibaly went by the alias Doly
Gringny, the source said.

Coulibaly and Cherif Kouachi were involved in the 2010 attempt

to free an Algerian serving time for the 1995 subway bombing.

Coulibaly was arrested May 18, 2010, with 240 rounds of

ammunition for a Kalishnikov, the source said.

He had a photo of himself with Djamel Beghal, a French Algerian

once known as al Qaeda’s premiere European recruiter, who was
convicted of conspiring to attack the U.S. Embassy in Paris.

Coulibaly was indicted May 22, 2010, in connection with the

prison break plot.

Cherif Kouachi was under investigation for the same plot, but
there was not enough evidence to indict him, the source said.

Cherif Kouachi visited Coulibaly during a pre-trial detention. The

prison break plot was known as the BELKACEM Project, the source
said.

Coulibaly shared a residence with Boumeddiene, and they

traveled to Malaysia together, the source said.

Despite all of these known terrorist attempts and connections to

other terrorists and terrorist organizations, it appears that none of
the individuals who were arrested and convicted could secure a
prison sentence longer than some drug offenses carry in the United
States.

The common law wife of Coulibaly, Hayat Boumediene, while still

suspected of having some connection to the Kosher grocery store
attack, was apparently not involved in the actual attack itself –
presumably only taking part in the planning at most. This is
because, as Design and Trend reports,

According to Reuters Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mevlut

Cavusoglu told the state-run Anadolu Agency that Hayat
Boumediene flew into Turkey from Madrid on Jan. 2 and stayed at a
hotel in Istanbul.

“There is footage (of her) at the airport. Later on, she stayed at a
hotel with another person and crossed into Syria on Jan. 8. We can
tell that based on telephone records.”

Once the attack on Charlie Hebdo occurred, she made her way
into Syria through Turkey without a struggle.
ABC News reported that the Turkish media published two videos of
Hayat Boumediene, Amedy Coulibaly’s widow going through
security at a Turkish airport on Jan. 8, a day after the attack on the
Paris-based publication.

With all of this information taken together, it is clear that what we

have is a terrorist cell at work. Thus, these individuals and their
connections to one another point in the opposite direction of the
Charlie Hebdo attacks as one of the “lone wolf” variety. The only
question left is who is ultimately in command of this cell. By
following the tangled strands of connections back to the center of
the web, however, one will not find the spirit of Osama bin Laden
hiding in a cave in Afghanistan but the Anglo-American/Anglo-
European/Western intelligence network that created Islamic
extremist movements to begin with and continue to use them for
their own goals today.

7.) The third suspect.

It is noteworthy to mention the fact that there was initially a third

suspect that was allegedly to have been engaged in the Charlie
Hebdo attacks – Mourad Hamyd. However, Hamyd soon after turned
himself into police after seeing his name paraded on social media as
being involved in the attacks. While Hamyd has been exonerated,
the question remains – was there a third shooter? If not, why was a
third individual considered an accomplice to the massacre?

After all, a number of eyewitnesses reported that there was indeed a

third attacker who drove the getaway car.

8.) A second suspect

With all the evidence regarding the involvement of Hayat

Boumediene in the grocery store attacks pointing to the fact that
she was out of the country at the time the attacks were happening,
why were there reports of an accomplice to Coulibaly? Was there a
second individual present at the scene or nearby the scene? Is there
still a “second suspect?” Or did the accomplice simply vanish into
the memory hole now that the main patsy has been eliminated?

9.) Mysterious suicides

Much like the “mysterious suicides” that surround 9/11 and the
Kennedy assassination, already one of the lead French police
investigators of the Charlie Hebdo massacre has committed suicide.
As Sputnik news reported, “Police commissioner Helric Fredou, who
had been investigating the attack on the French weekly satirical
magazine Charlie Hebdo, committed suicide in his office. The
incident occurred in Limoges, the administrative capital of the
Limousin region in west-central France, on Thursday night, local
media France 3 reports.”

As John Vibes comments for the Anti Media,

The strange and high profile death has been all but absent from
the mainstream media, especially locally in Europe, with just one
local report from the publication “Le Parisien.”

All reports have insisted that there was no foul play, but the
bizarre timing and location of the apparent suicide is leaving many
to wonder if there was something more going on behind the scenes.
The police department has been quick to say that he was
depressed, and have speculated that a meeting with one of the
terror victim’s family’s may have set him off.

However, family and friends, along with the police department,

have all said that this was entirely unexpected.

“We are all shocked. Nobody was ready for such developments”,
a representative of the local police union told reporters.

10.) Coulibaly once met Sarkozy.

While this meeting could be considered coincidental and tangential,

it would be difficult to justify leaving out the fact that Coulibaly
actually met former French President Nicolas Sarkozy in person.
According to an article in Le’Parisien,

“[A]n unlikely encounter between Nicolas Sarkozy, the then

French President and Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman suspected of
killing a police woman and of taking five hostages at a kosher
grocery in eastern Paris today.

The meeting took place in 2009 in the Élysée Palace when Mr

Sarkozy met nine young French men who got just jobs in a local
factory. They were all from Grigny, a tough Parisian suburb torn by
riots 10 years ago.”

“Quoting the “terrorist”:

“Sarkozy is not truly popular with the youth in the estates. But
that is nothing personal. In fact it is the case for most politicians,”
said Coulibaly. “The encounter really impressed me. Whether I like
him or not, he is the president after all.”

11.) One of the attackers “left his ID” for the police to find

While one of the alleged attackers, 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad,

turned himself into police late Wednesday afternoon, it was reported
that police were able to identify one of other attackers after he left
his identification papers in the getaway car that the two assailants
ditched.

While dropping one’s ID in the process of a getaway is certainly not

outside the realm of possibility, such a convenience for law
enforcement cannot help but remind informed observers of the
survival of the alleged hijackers’ paper passports on 9/11.

12.) The terrorists have been liquidated.

One of the hallmarks of a false flag operation involve the immediate

liquidation or otherwise incapacitation of the patsies at hand. This
may take the form of a hail of gunfire, drugging, or the destruction
of mental faculties by other means.

If the patsies are not alive to be interrogated (Charlie Hebdo

attackers), if they have been rendered unable to speak (Tsarnaev),
or they have been so discredited and/or exhibit such signs of great
mental instability at the time of the interrogation (Sirhan Sirhan,
James Holmes,) then embarrassing or revealing information will
never be gained during the process of interrogation or trial. If that
information does seep out, the suspect has been so thoroughly
discredited as a mental patient that nothing he says will be taken
seriously.

13.) The publication that was attacked has served to

promote the strategy of tension in the past.

Whether Charlie Hebdo was merely a media outlet who reveled in

irreverence of Islam or whether it is something more sinister, the
magazine is no stranger to controversy. As CBS News writes,

Charlie Hebdo has been repeatedly threatened for its caricatures

of the Prophet Muhammad and other sketches. Its offices were
firebombed in 2011 after an issue featured a caricature of the
prophet on its cover. Nearly a year later, the publication again
published Muhammad caricatures, drawing denunciations from the
Muslim world because Islam prohibits the publication of drawings of
its founder.

Another cartoon, released in this week’s issue and entitled “Still

No Attacks in France,” had a caricature of a jihadi fighter saying
“Just wait – we have until the end of January to present our New
Year’s wishes.” Charb was the artist.

To be sure, the magazine has offended other religions and belief

systems as well. However, it is interesting to note that, while the
magazine and its editors have been allowed to continue operation
despite the violent reactions its statements and cartoons have
produced across the world as well as in France itself, some religions
are apparently considered more equal than others. For instance, in
2009, an 80-year-old columnist for Charlie Hebdo was actually put
on trial on charges of “inciting racial hatred” for making a joke that
then-President Sarkozy’s son was converting to Judaism for financial
gain. Indeed, even the act of “denying the holocaust” is a
punishable thought crime in France.

Despite the uber political correctness, however, France has allowed

the magazine to continue lampooning Islam and Christianity,
obviously acceptable targets of derision and abuse. Of course,
religious organizations from both camps have responded with the
traditional and typical response of fundamentalists the world over –
by attempting to stop the freedom of speech and expression of
those not necessarily convinced by the arguments of the converted
via the government apparatus and any other available means at
their disposal.

To be clear, however, while many Christians and Muslims likely

detest the representation of their faith and religious symbols in such
insulting ways, the overwhelming majority express their discontent
in the same way – by griping to their friends and family, turning on
the game, and moving on. Only a minority are actually moved to
action, and an even smaller minority to violence, the latter generally
encouraged by foundations, NGOs, or intelligence agency-affiliated
religious organizations.

In regards to Christianity and Islam, France has largely sided with

freedom of speech at this point. Still, Charlie Hebdo has served to
act as a catalyst in a number of instances of incitement (though, to
be clear, the magazine itself should not be blamed for the reaction
of others) of the Muslim communities in France and abroad. Is it
possible that the magazine actually serves the purpose of
intentionally inciting these types of religious riots and acts of
violence from fundamentalists brought into France by the French
government and armed by them abroad? Is Charlie Hebdo really a
free and independent magazine, or is it actually a tool of the Anglo-
Americans in their attempt to maintain the strategy of tension
domestically and abroad?

14.) France ordered aircraft carriers to the Gulf in order to

“fight ISIS” nearly a full day before the attacks in France.

While certainly not conclusive evidence that the attack on Charlie

Hebdo was an “inside job,” it is without a doubt very questionable.
After all, it should be remembered that, when the French people and
even some of its parliamentarians were hesitant to engage in
military action in Iraq, ISIS released a video of an alleged beheading
of a Frenchman, which provided justification for French involvement.
This was the third video in a series that prompted justification for
action from each of the “target” countries.

Undoubtedly, such brazen attacks inside France will drum up even

more support for French military action in the Middle East. The fact
that the military action was announced a full day before the attacks
took place will be no matter to the few members of the general
public who discover it.

As Agence France Presse reported on Tuesday January 6,

The deployment of the marine battle group is due to be

announced by President Francois Hollande when he gives his annual
new year’s speech to the armed forces onboard the Charles de
Gaulle on January 14, according to the “Mer et Marine” news site.

The Elysee Palace confirmed to AFP that the carrier would travel
to the Gulf on its way to India, where it is due to take part in
exercises in mid-April.

“The Charles de Gaulle will be available to participate, if

necessary, in all operational missions”, the Elysee spokesman said.

According to Mer et Marine, the Charles de Gaulle carrier will

travel to the Gulf with its fleet of air and naval craft, including Rafale
and Super Etendard fighter jets and an attack submarine, to take
part in the US-led bombing campaign against IS forces in Iraq.

15.) Timing takes place after French government begins to

show signs of opposing Russian sanctions and recognizing a
Palestinian state.

Timing is everything. This phrase is particularly relevant in the field

of propaganda. Because of this, many are now wondering whether
or not the attacks were some false flag type event used as an
attempt to reign in members of the French government who may be
straying off the reservation.

For instance, in December of 2014, the lower house of the French

parliament voted to recognize a Palestinian state. While the vote will
not likely affect France’s foreign policy, it is a powerful symbol of a
changing of the tide in terms of popular opinion regarding the
Palestinian/Israeli conflict.

Likewise, the recent statement by French President Francois

Hollande that the sanctions on Russia must end, could be seen as a
threat to Anglo-American solidarity. Thus, such attacks could serve
as a justification for French military action in the Middle East, a
reminder to some players in the French government not to show
dissension in public.

There is also the potential domestic agenda to be considered. Given

the fact that the attacks are being painted as a fundamentalist
response to the mockery of Islam, it is likely that the agenda will
revolve around the issue of free speech and the police state. With
the meme of “I stand with Free Speech” making its rounds across
the Internet in response to the narrative of the attack, it is more
likely that the attack will be used to increase public support for
military action overseas and acceptance of an even greater police
state at home. The attacks and their subsequent coverage are likely
to be used to engender further hatred and distrust of Islam, thereby
injecting the circle of extremism and hate (Christian to Muslim to
Christian to Muslim and on and on) with fresh fuel. Convincing
Christians that all Muslims are extremists and convincing Muslims
that all Christians are extremists will be a goal of radicalization
made all that much easier with the Charlie Hebdo attacks fresh in
the minds of the French people.

Of course, with the incessant political correctness running rampant

across the entire West, it is also possible that the attacks may be
used to silence criticism – not necessarily of Islam – but of the policy
of unfettered immigration which has contributed to even greater
economic troubles and the destruction of French culture.

Conclusion

Whatever the true nature of the Charlie Hebdo attacks may be –

“blowback” or false flag – there is clearly much more to the story
than what the mainstream press is printing and promoting.

However, as the evidence surrounding the Charlie Hebdo massacre

and the concurrent Kosher grocery store attacks comes to light, we
are presented with the distinct possibility that not only were these
acts not of the “lone wolf” variety but that they were carefully
coordinated false flag incidents.

Regardless, the only thing that we can know with absolute certainty
is that the Charlie Hebdo attacks will be used as propaganda to the
utmost effect by all Western and NATO governments in the push for
further war abroad and an even greater police state at home. This
will not only be the case in France but in the entirety of the Western
world.