US special forces carried out Paris attack, not Kouachi brothers: Dr. Roberts

[oberliner]

A former White House official says the January 7 terrorist attack that killed 12 people in Paris was carried out by highly trained special forces from the United States, not by the two “bumbling” brothers who were later killed by the French police.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, who was Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury Department in the Reagan Administration and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, made the remarks in an article published on Tuesday.

He said that “yet the suspects who were later corralled and killed seemed bumbling and unprofessional. It is like two different sets of people.”

He wondered how the so-called Islamic terrorists were “prepared to die in the attack; yet the two professionals who hit Charlie Hebdo were determined to escape and succeeded, an amazing feat.”

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/01/14/393096/US-special-forces-struck-Charlie-Hebdo

[Turbineguy]

1. Reminding us

that not all Reagan administration people were convicted of crimes. After all, there's no law against being stupid.

[oberliner]

2. Amen

He is a regular with his crackpot theories.

[Ilsa]

3. The stupidity and lies are stunning.

His analysis is nonsense, but his audience probably lapped it up.

[jakeXT]

4. If you look at the French Gladio, there is no need for US Special Forces

Involvement into Gladio

In an Interview with Le Monde at the height of the Gladio scandal in Europe in November 1990 Melnik stated, that when he started his service in 1952, he had heard of such an organisation.5 He was officially informed about the network when becoming new security adviser for the de Gaulle government in 1959 and was asked to disband it. Melnik, who had just worked six years in France for the RAND Corporation, says de Gaulle's intelligence chief, Paul Grossin, told him the French government felt threatened by the network, some of whose members supported a group of generals who were resisting, sometimes violently, de Gaulle's attempts to negotiate Algerian independence and end the war there. "Any group with radios and training would be very dangerous for the security of France," Melnik said in an interview with the Nation6. According to Melnik, he disbanded the network, yet according to Remy Calandra, Defense Ministry spokesman for the Mitterrand administration, the program continued until the early ninenties, when Gladio became knewn throughout Europe. Calandra denies any misconduct by the secret army in France though. And also Giulio Andreotti dismantled the lie saying with amusement on November 10, 1990, that France had also participated in the most recent meeting of the Gladio command in Mons, Belgium, on October 23, 1990

http://operation-gladio.net/constantin-melnik

http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2006/10/119640.pdf

[jberryhill]

5. You gotta admire the consistency of some folks

[oberliner]

6. Are those pine cones?

What an odd photo!

[jberryhill]

7. 11th Google Image search result for "cuckoo clock"

I chose it because of the prominent cuckoo.

You know the expression that a stopped clock is right twice a day? A cuckoo clock is cuckoo all day long.

But pine cones as the weights seems to be a common theme for cuckoo clocks if the image search results are any indication.

[oberliner]

8. Gotcha

I like it!

[Nuclear Unicorn]

9. Isn't PCR often cited as a source for those defending the Russian invasion of Ukraine?

[Behind the Aegis]

10. YUP!