Thread by @drbairdonline

In a 93-tweet thread I made the case there NEVER was an "Operation Northwoods" back in 1962. In this continuation thread I argue "Operation Northwoods" was PROPAGANDA designed in 2001 to divert attention from ISRAELI complicity in both JFK & 9/11
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In the previous thread, I showed how Oliver Stone's JFK (1991) popularized idea JFK was assassinated by "the military-industrial complex" (MIC) b/c he refused to invade Cuba in 1962, was set to withdraw from Vietnam & wanted to end the Cold War. LBJ gave MIC what it wanted!
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James Bamford's Body of Secrets came out in April 2001 - five months BEFORE 9/11 - introducing the world to “Operation Northwoods” that Bamford claimed “may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government"
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Bamford described "Operation Northwoods" as planned false-flag attacks in which US civilians would be killed - approved by Joint Chiefs of Staff chaired by Gen Lyman Lemnitzer - to be blamed on Cuba as pretext to invade Cuba & take down Castro, only prevented by JFK opposition
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It didn't take long for followers of the "military-industrial complex" (MIC) "conspiracy theory" of the #JFKAssassination to recognize that Bamford's "Operation Northwoods" supported their view, including James Douglass in his influential book JFK and the Unspeakable (2008).
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After 11 Sep 2001 it didn't take long for some to see a connection btwn "Operation Northwoods" & 9/11. If JCS could have planned such horrendous "pretexts" in 1962 to justify invasion of Cuba, they certainly could have done so in 2001 to justify war w/Afghanistan, Iraq, etc
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Leaders of the incipient #911Truth movement like Thierry Meyssan, Barrie Zwicker, Michael Ruppert, Webster Tarpley, Alex Jones & Jim Marrs saw "Operation Northwoods" as a precedent for 9/11 suggesting MIC or "deep state" behind 9/11.
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But it would be w/release of 2nd edition of the video Loose Change in 2006 - with JCS & "Operation Northwoods" given pride of place in the opening sequence - that "Operation Northwoods" will go VIRAL as central to unlocking the "truth" of 9/11
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As to how this idea of "Operation Northwoods" promoted by Bamford, Douglass, Loose Change & all the other #911Truthers was a LIE, I will refer you to my previous thread. In this thread I am interested in HOW & WHY this LIE was PROPAGANDIZED.
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I believe part of the answer as to HOW & WHY the lie was propagandized is that the people who promote "Operation Northwoods" NEVER question Bamford's work and they NEVER consider the solid evidence pointing the finger at Israel for orchestrating both JFK & 9/11
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Since 2018 I have posted many tweets encouraging people to read Michael Collins Piper's book Final Judgment which, based on my decades of research into the JFK assassination, I consider hands down the best book on the subject and starting place for any serious investigation.
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I have also long urged people to read Laurent Guyenot's excellent work on the JFK & RFK assassinations that confirms what Piper earlier concluded about the role of Israel in both assassinations.
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As for 9/11, numerous writers like Piper, Guyenot, Alan Sabrosky, Alan Hart, Christopher Bollyn, James Perloff & Ron Unz have provided tons of evidence for their belief that "9/11 was an Israeli job!"
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For my part, I posted two long connected threads back in October 2019 that made the case based on a close look at the the day's TV coverage that the Israeli hand was all over writing in advance “the 9/11 script” that was played out on 9/11
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In addition, I've gone way beyond other "Israel did 9/11!" in confirming Aussie online investigator Joe Vialls's (1944-2005) reports of an Israeli nuclear terrorism/extortion racket that led to numerous #FalseFlag attacks all over the world employing Dimona mininukes
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I would also have to name Israel Number 1 suspect in the Aug 2020 Beirut blast, a subject I've written much abt since Day One. Altho nowhere near as complex as WTC destruction on 9/11, it's hard to imagine anyone but Israel being able to pull it off.
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So what role did "Operation Northwoods" play in all this? I believe it was simply part of Israel's "9/11 script" planned ahead of 9/11, "evidence" planted to steer those who started to question the "official story" toward the Military-Industrial Complex "conspiracy theory"
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Do you honestly think that if the 9/11 perps were powerful enough to pull off 9/11 & then sustain the "official" BS narrative for over 20 years, they wouldn't have planned for the #ControlledOpposition & been powerful enough to sustain that opposition for over 20 years?
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I don't really know what role 9/11 "predictive programming" played in creating #ControlledOpposition but I have tweeted extensively about the pilot episode of The Lone Gunmen that was seen by 13.2 million Americans on 4 March 2001
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The Lone Gunmen pilot - airing just six before 9/11 - was pretty damn PREDICTIVE of MIC conspiracy w/dramatic scene in which a 727 is remotely hijacked by a cabal in US govt with plans to crash the 727 into one of Twin Towers & blame it on Arab terrorists as pretext for war
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Christopher Bollyn strongly suspected media mogul & arch-Zionist Rupert Murdoch - whose Fox News network had broadcast the Gunmen - was behind the "predictive programming" although Bollyn never explains how such programming would help the 9/11 perps
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Curiously the WTC angle got no attn in MSM before 9/11 & very little after 9/11. But one clue how the 9/11 perps intended "predictive programming" to serve #ControlledOpposition is fans primed to believe in govt cabals by watching The X-Files passed around bootlegs copies!
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We might also note in terms of creating #ControlledOpposition that Arnon Milchan, famous Hollywood producer, Mossad agent & "probably [Israel's] largest arms dealer" who has been called "Mr. Israel," was exec producer of Stone's JFK with its prominent MIC "conspiracy theory"
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Arnon Milchan is also famous for producing movies with no link to the Military-Industrial Complex but in which skyscrapers "collapse" due to jets crashing into them like The Medusa Touch (1979) or due to truck bombs like Fight Club (1999)
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"Operation Northwoods" propaganda, on the other hand, played a much more important & open role in so-called "alternative media" in promoting the idea that that Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) could indeed conspire to kill Americans as on 9/11
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As to origins of "Operation Northwoods" propaganda, it was NOT James Bamford. If anything I believe he was picked to sell this strange story - that had nothing to do w/NSA - in part b/c Body of Secrets could be & was seen as anti-Israel due to its revelations abt USS Liberty.
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On the origins of the entire "Operation Northwoods" idea, I would nominate two individuals whose names, as far as I know, have never been publicly associated with Bamford: ARRB member Anna Kasten Nelson (1933-2012) & Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission Philip Zelikow
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There is a lot of BS surrounding Bamford's story about how he obtained the "15 pages" that he calls "Operation Northwoods." In his book, he gives the document a distinct air of mystery claiming "According to SECRET and long-hidden documents OBTAINED FOR Body of Secrets ..."
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But in an ABC interview shortly after the release of his book, Bamford was not so mysterious, saying "a friend on the board [i.e., Assassination Records Review Board] tipped him off to the documents."
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In a 2003 interview w/Newsatelie, Bamford was even less mysterious saying he found the “Northwoods” documents after they had been declassified & released by ARRB to the public in 1997 or 1998
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As to WHO was Bamford's "friend" that "tipped him off", I would suggest Anna K Nelson who in 1994 was nominated by Pres Clinton & confirmed by Senate to represent the AHA on the ARRB
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I believe Nelson played a key role in selecting the actual documents & preparing the press release (in which she is quoted) for the major AARB release of the 1500 pages (within which Bamford's "15 pages" could be found) on 18 Nov 1997
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All major newspapers & press services reported on the 1500 pages but none waded thru all those pages, instead focusing their reporting on the six documents (~60 pages) ARRB selected for them w/arrows for sections "that may be of particular interest"
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Nov 1997 ARRB press release, you can't find the "15 pages" (missing pages, out of order, mixed docs). Nevertheless there was enough for NYTimes' Tim Weiner to come up with basically same story as Bamford - albeit w/NO mention of Northwoods or Lemnitzer
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Bamford's "smoking gun" - JCS Chair Lemnitzer's signature - approving the "pretexts" was right there in the selected docs along with several instances of the unexplained term "Northwoods" but none of them had arrows & no reporter thought them newsworthy
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Weiner shows why in 1997 only flurry of interest b/c even tho JCS approved "plans to concoct a pretext for a military invasion of Cuba" "suitable for planning purposes" simply showed military could "dream up" as "bizarre" plans as CIA & besides no evidence ever carried out
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Nov 1998 as part of CNN's Cold War series "Episode 10: Cuba", CNN's website linked to the part of the "15 pages" w/specifics on plans to stage terrorist attacks (but w/o cover pages) hosted on the official sounding (but not really official) National Security Archive
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Jan 2001 ARRB member Anna Kasten Nelson had an article "Operation Northwoods and the Covert War against Cuba, 1961-1963" published in journal Cuban Studies, the FIRST time the phrase "Operation Northwoods" had EVER appeared in print, three months BEFORE Bamford's Body Secrets
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Whereas Bamford would equate "Operation Northwoods" with the "15 pages", Nelson defined "Operation Northwoods" as "the plans and actions of the military services and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)" for the invasion of Cuba
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This is complete FABRICATION on Nelson's part. Not only, as I've shown in the previous thread, was there NO SUCH THING as "Operation Northwoods", the JCS, as far as I can tell, ALWAYS used the phrase "Cuba Project" in memos on their plans for Cuba in the first half of 1962.
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Indeed, you can see reference to "Cuba Project (TS)" in the "15 pages" part of selected documents from 18 Nov 1997 ARRB press release. In contrast to "Top Secret (TS)" classification of "Cuba Project", the mere filing classification codename "Northwoods" was only "Secret (S)"
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While Anna K Nelson likely seems the ARRB member who pointed James Bamford to the "15 pages" & perhaps got him thinking in terms of "Operation Northwoods", he certainly never mentioned her by name & he totally redefined "Operation Northwoods"
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I have no idea what role a distinguished historian like Anna Kasten Nelson, renowned for her advocacy for declassifying govt docs, might play in Israeli propaganda scheme, but FWIW I can add her parents were Belorussian Jews who moved to US before WWI
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But if "Operation Northwoods" was truly PROPAGANDA designed to divert attn in 2001 from ISRAELI complicity in both JFK & 9/11, it surely involved more than Bamford & Nelson. Indeed, I believe an excellent candidate for having masterminded this propaganda is Philip Zelikow
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If Philip Zelikow, "a self-described expert in 'the creation and maintenance of public myths'" could write the 9/11 Commission Report in chapter outline before even convening, I'm sure he could have written "Operation Northwoods" since he was already an expert on Cuba!
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30 April 2001 National Security Archive press release to promote Bamford's Body of Secrets & announce online publication of complete "Operation Northwoods" document (i.e., Bamford's "15 pages")
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More telling to me than any theories I might have about what individuals might have been behind putting together the false "Operation Northwoods" narrative is the the way the 15 pages were propagandized both before and after 9/11 and continue to be propagandized to this day.
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The fact that wikipedia - which typically is dismissive of all "conspiracy theories" - and wikispooks - whose most popular webpage is "9-11/Israel did it" - can have identical takes on "Operation Northwoods" is pretty telling something is wrong!
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Indeed, as far as I can tell, whether "truther" or "debunker"on either 9/11 or JFK assassination, apart from a couple of individuals discussed below, NOBODY questions the details of Bamford's "Operation Northwoods." The only thing they disagree on is its relevance.
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Jonathan Kay in Among the Truthers (2011) for #911Truthers interviewed "Northwoods consistently served as Exhibit A in Truther argument that Am leaders would be willing to lie to their own citizens & even kill innocent people, as a means toward sparking a military conflict"
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#911Truth debunker Kay notes "tantalizing" similarities of "Operation Northwoods" to Truther 9/11 narrative but "conceived in a climate of perceived urgency", "orders of magnitude less complex & deadly" than 9/11 yet still rejected so never happened, "a mere footnote"
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Noam Chomsky - who seemingly dismisses EVERY "conspiracy theory" - does not question details of "Operation Northwoods" but dismisses it as "meaningless" & "discarded" contingency plan & even if it was taken seriously "wouldn't have even remotely compared with plans for 9/11"
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Many erudite people who, unlike Chomsky, DO challenge the "official" 9/11 narrative nevertheless accept unquestioningly Bamford's "Operation Northwoods" but tend to see as just evidence that US carries out #FalseFlags not necessarily relevant to 9/11
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Among these more erudite #911Truthers who don't question Bamford's "Operation Northwoods" are Peter Dale Scott, Michel Chossudovsky, James Corbett, Daniele Ganser, Paul Craig Roberts & Max Parry.
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Leading advocates of "Israel did 9/11" like Alan Sabrosky, Alan Hart, Christopher Bollyn, James Perloff, & Ron Unz, as far I can see, have avoided writing or speaking abt "Operation Northwoods" for whatever reason
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Other advocates of "Israel did 9/11" have addressed "Operation Northwoods." Victor Thorn in "9-11 Evil" (2006) believes the 9/11 perps he calls "the Organization" incl "deep-cover Mossad operatives" modeled their 9/11 plans on "Operation Northwoods" (as described by Bamford)
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However in his later book Made in Israel: 9-11 and the Jewish Plot Against America (2011), Thorn NEVER mentions "Operation Northwoods" even though he argues (as I have) that the slogan "9-11 was an inside job" was Israeli propaganda designed to hijack #911Truth movement
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Michael Collins Piper in False Flags (2013) totally follows Bamford's "Operation Northwoods" but argues (ala Thorn) it became "the template for terror" for Israel in JFK assassination, 9/11 & 1995 OKC bombing
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In reality only TWO #911Truthers have seriously challenged Bamford. The first was Carol Valentine in an article "Operation Northwoods: The Counterfeit" posted on her website on 24 Jan 2002. She argued the docs were "counterfeits" due to use of certain "British-isms"
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Valentine claimed "Operation Northwoods" were written by "foreign intelligence service" to put the blame for 9/11 on the Pentagon. She furthermore had a lot of suspicions about the role of James Bamford in all of this.
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Valentine's suspicions abt "Operation Northwoods" quickly fell by the way side in early #911Truth movement, as James Bamford himself commented, no good evidence the docs fakes (a point on which I would agree with Bamford)
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Historian Laurent Guyenot launched a far more serious challenge to the credibility of Bamford's "Operation Northwoods" in Sep 2014 article titled "The 9/11 Triple Cross" that addressed several of the points I have been raising in this & previous thread
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Adding to Guyenot's thesis in JFK-9/11: 50 Years of Deep State (2013) that the 9/11 "masterminds" were "a Zionist network close to the Israeli Likud", he argues (like Thorn) in article "9/11 was an inside job" mantra designed to shield Israel from accusations of complicity
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Israeli hasbara "9/11 was an inside job" basis for #ControlledOpposition that dominated #911Truth movement inc Alex Jones & Luke Rudkowski, featured in Loose Change (2005), Art Olivier's Operation Terror (2012) & David Hooper's The Anatomy of a Great Deception (2014)
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Guyenot notes "one of the smartest ideas of [Loose Change's] three Jewish producers" was opening w/ "Operation Northwoods", esp its convoluted plan to blow up passenger plane (in reality disguised drone) over Cuban waters, a plan that smacked of 9/11 to many #911Truthers
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But Guyenot found timing of release Bamford's "Operation Northwoods" four months before 9/11 quite suspicious, good chance "calculated to predispose truth seekers" to "911 was an inside job" just like The Lone Gunmen pilot shown March 2001 w/cabal crashing plane into WTC
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Indeed Guyenot noted "There is even a reasonable chance that the [Operation Northwoods] document is a forgery, as Carol Valentine has suggested by pointing out a few anachronistic British colloquialisms" & no one inc Robert McNamara seemed to have heard of it before Bamford
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Nevertheless in 2017 ed of JFK-9/11, Guyenot seems to have changed his mind on "Operation Northwoods." Altho he includes same suspicions doc is "forgery" no longer says "a reasonable chance". Indeed, he seems to totally accept Bamford in chapter "The Northwoods Pattern"!
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Guyenot's new positive take on Bamford's "Operation Northwoods" seems driven by his latest conclusion that there actually TWO #FalseFlag attacks on 9/11: a Northwoods-type "Inside Job" on Pentagon that was hijacked by Israeli-type "Outside Job" on WTC
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Guyenot believes smaller Pentagon attack by Am Deep State w/limited goal of justifying regime change in Afghanistan while WTC destruction "an Israeli job in the spirit of the Liberty attack" only 1000x bigger w/aim "total war against Israel’s enemies"
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Guyenot's 9/11 "double-cross" conspiracy is in line with Michael Collins Piper's suggestions that Israel similarly hijacked 1963 "dummy" assassination of JFK & 1995 OKC sting op forcing US officials to tow "official" narrative out of fear their own actions would be exposed
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Guyenot admits that his attempt to distinguish btwn two 9/11 operations may be simplistic, esp since Pentagon heavily infiltrated by "most ardent secret Zionists" but he thinks has value as "working hypothesis" in bridging gap btwn "inside-jobbers" & "Israeli-jobbers"
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The Piper-Guyenot thesis of Israeli-hijacked US plots is intriguing but it hardly seems like a good reason for Guyenot to have abandoned his suspicion of Bamford's "Operation Northwoods" in order to bridge the gap (very unlikely!) with "inside-jobbers"
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In JFK-9/11 (2017), Guyenot FALSELY states "Operation Northwoods PROVES that [the Natl Security State] is capable of false flag terror attacks not unlike 9/11, in the absence of a moral President determined to stand in the way" (199)
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Besides fact NO such thing as "Operation Northwoods" & moot how "moral" JFK or GWB were, nothing in the ARRB shows DoD/JCS ever drew up plans to KILL US citizens in #FalseFlag attack thus VERY UNLIKE 9/11
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I don't dispute US govt capable of killing its own citizens but if some Special Op group back in 1962 asked to devise pretexts for Afghan regime change, they might have come up w/some convoluted scenarios but NONE would have involved killing 125 people at the Pentagon
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Furthermore Israel didn't have to hijack an "inside job" in order to "blackmail" US "into submission to Israel’s agenda." I've previously shown Israel's NUCLEAR EXTORTION explains dramatic pro-Israeli change in US policy after Oct 1983 nuking US Marine barracks in Beirut
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Thus, by no longer questioning the authenticity of Bamford's "Operation Northwoods", Guyenot sees the ONLY difference between a "Northwoods-type" & "Israeli-type" #FalseFlag is simply WHICH COUNTRY happened to be behind the op & how BIG the false flag had to be for the goal
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Guyenot's gutting of the "Israel Did 9/11" thesis can be seen even more starkly in the abandonment of his 2017 interest in finding the "murder weapon" - "the technical means used to destroy the Twin Towers" - that "classically leads to the murderer."
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In JFK-9/11 (2017), Guyenot argued only "mini-nuclear bombs" in core columns could explain "top to bottom" destruction, pulverization of concrete into very fine dust, 1100 bodies never found, GZ 600-1500°F for 6 mos, high % nuclear residuals, GZ workers high rate rare cancers
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Guyenot stated use of "micro-nukes" "fully consistent with other evidence implicating Israel" who never signed Non-Proliferation Treaty so "its nuclear arsenal is not subject to inspection or control" & Joe Vialls reported Israeli micro-nukes suspected in 2002 Bali bombing
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Guyenot noted "just a few individuals" working 2-3 days could have placed "easily disguised micro-nukes no bigger than apples" every 5-10 floors in Twin Towers & later detonated "the explosive sequence." Thus Israel had "means, motive & opportunity" to nuke the WTC.
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As strong a case as Guyenot made for Israel nuking WTC in 2017 book, in his 2018 article "9/11 Was an Israeli Job" at unz.com he does NOT even MENTION micro-nukes or show ANY interest in "murder weapon" as proof that "Israel Did 9/11"!
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In his 2022 article "The 9/11 'Double-Cross' Conspiracy Theory" also at unz.com, Guyenot again does not mention micro-nukes or "murder weapon" but interestingly responds to people who raise these issues in the "Comment Section"
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To Iris who supports Dimitri Khalezov's theory that three large underground nukes caused WTC destruction, Guyenot responds he's "had difficulty with this theory, but it seems more & more plausible to me, since no other explanation really works"
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Guyenot explains "nanothermite is out of the question, mini-nukes seem speculative, Judy Woods’s directed energy is pure fantasy" but acknowledges "strongest objection" to Khalezov's theory "how one charge at the bottom can blow up the floors one by one from top to bottom"?
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Guyenot asks "How can an underground nuke cause the top part of the towers to explode while the rest is still standing with no apparent damage?" And Iris's theory does not explain "the sequence of explosions" that "runs down, not up" that witnesses heard & can see in video
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To j2 who stated it didn't matter whether there were planes or no planes; military explosives, nanothermite, or small nuke; b/c all were possible, Guyenot responded "the question of the murder weapon is not unimportant"
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Guyenot explained "the murder weapon tells you a lot about the murderer" If real planes, were they military planes or drones? "In either case, let’s look for them in the army." But if CGI, then we need to look for who is controlling what we see on TV.
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