BREAKING: Book by well-respected @nytimes journalist reveals that in 2002 Sec Def Donald Rumsfeld used secret #terrorist group created by Pentagon to plant car bombs in Iraq to provoke Saddam to use terrorism vs US to give US excuse to invade in name of fight vs terrorism! 1/
This secret terrorist group used car bombs/truck bombs/bombs hidden in baskets to kill hundreds of Iraqi civilians over 4 years. Acc to one US officer quoted in book, ISIS learned about efficiency of car bombs from this group! 2 US journos broke story in 2002 but were CENSORED 2/
PRECISELY as he was conducting this secret & deadly terrorist campaign vs Iraq, Donald Rumsfeld took the pages of the @NYTimes to write an OpEd CONDEMNING the absolute evil of the terrorism practiced by Al Qaeda & Saddam, those "uncivilized others" from the Middle East 3/
In this OpEd, Rumsfeld CONTRASTED the methods used by the evil terrorists (& their inhuman, bloodthirsty obsession with targeting civilians) with those used by US forces. Remember: he wrote this ONE FULL YEAR after starting his own car bombing terrorist campaign in Iraq! 4/
Those car bombing were claimed by a mysterious group calling itself the Front for the Liberation of Iraq from Foreigners (FLIF). At the time, countless Iraqis insisted the US was behind the bombings. The US always rejected such claims & insisted this was "Arab v Arab violence" 5/
As this new book by well-known @nytimes journalist demonstrates, these accusations WERE correct. FLIF WAS created & ran by Pentagon. Over 4 years its bombs killed hundred of civilians. US officer is quoted in book as saying ISIS learned about efficiency of car bombs from FLIF 6/
2 US journos were about to break the story in 2002. US Military Censor killed the story however. The claim, as always in those cases, was that story would damage national security. So the story never came out. The FLIF kept on killing. The US invaded Iraq. You know the rest 7/
Now back to reality: The real story takes place in early 1980s. Rumsfeld is played by Ariel Sharon. Iraq is in fact Lebanon. The FLIF is called FLLF. It is Hizbollah (not ISIS) that learned lessons from seeing these car bombings. It is the Israeli censor that killed the story 8/
The book is Rise & Kill First. It is a huge international bestseller by @nytimes journalist @ronenbergman . It has received RAVE reviews everywhere. But in US media, and since 2018, not a WORD has been published about his revelations re: the FLLF. THREAD
