[R-P] (Inglés) Lo mando así, con breve resumen inicial

[Nestor Gorojovsky]

Parece ser que en EE.UU. se impuso el "alerta naranja" (entre otras 
cosas, el pianito electrónico y la foto a los sudacas y otros seres 
inferiores)  a partir de una impostura informativa.  Ya van...
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Chossudovsky - "Orange Code Terror Alert
based on Fabricated Intelligence"

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[ "Fox News pointed to the possibility that al Qaeda
was "trying to plant disinformation, among other
things to cost us money, to throw people into panic
and perhaps to probe our defenses to see how we
respond?" (Fox News, 28 December 2003). The fact
that Al Qaeda remains a CIA "intelligence asset",
involved in US sponsored covert operations, is not
deemed relevant." ]

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Centre for Research on Globalisation
Centre de recherche sur la mondialisation

GLOBAL RESEARCH (CANADA) : FEATURE ARTICLE

Orange Code Terror Alert based on Fabricated Intelligence
by Michel Chossudovsky

The URL of this article is:
<http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO401A.html>http://globalresearch.ca/art
icles/CHO401A.html

On December 21st, the country was put on High
Terror Alert by the Department of Homeland Security.

Based on "credible" intelligence sources, presumed
Al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists were planning to
hijack an Air France plane and "crash it on US soil
in a suicide terror strike similar to those carried out
on September 11, 2001."

Air France Christmas flights out of Paris were
grounded. F-16 fighters were patrolling the skies.

Following the investigation by the French authorities,
the Al Qaeda terrorists turned out to be a five year old
boy, an elderly Chinese lady and a Welsh insurance
salesman.

A routine case of "mistaken identity" had contributed
to breaking the Spirit of Christmas, across the Land.

Based on erroneous intelligence, an entire Nation had
been brought under Orange Code terror alert.

Was it incompetence or was it deliberate? Either way,
a public inquiry into the workings of the Homeland
Security Department is long overdue.

*     *     *

It is now official: the stand down orders on Air France's
Christmas flights from Paris to Los Angeles were
based on fabricated information. The latter was used to
justify Code Orange Alert during the Christmas holiday.

Prime Minister Raffarin had ordered the cancellation
of the Christmas flights following pressures from
Washington .

In fact Colin Powell had called up his French counterpart
Minister Dominique de Villepin, who then communicated
with Prime Minster Jean Pierre Raffarin.

But the whole thing turned out to be a hoax.

According to the official version of events, Washington
had identified six members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban
on the Air France passenger list:

"U.S. counter-terrorism officials said their investigation
was focusing on the "informed belief" that about six
men on Air France Flight 68, which arrives in Los
Angeles daily at 4:05 p.m., may have been planning to
hijack the jet and crash it near Los Angeles, or along the
way.

That belief, according to one senior U.S.
counter-terrorism official, was based on reliable and
corroborated information from several sources. Some
of the men had the same names as identified members
of al-Qaida and the Taliban, a senior U.S. official said.

One of the men is a trained pilot with a commercial
license, according to a senior U.S. official.

U.S. law-enforcement officials said the flights were
canceled in response to the same intelligence that
prompted the federal Department of Homeland
Security last week to ratchet up the nation's
terror-alert level to orange, the second-highest level.

Other U.S. law-enforcement officials said authorities
at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris detained some
of the 200 passengers and crew from Flight 68 for
questioning. There were conflicting reports about
whether any were arrested.

High-ranking U.S. government officials have held
near round-the-clock meetings in recent days to
sift through intelligence reports that suggest the
possibility of terrorist activity in the United States
this holiday week. U.S. officials, saying California
is the location of highest concern, expressed fears
over the use of a range of devices that included
biological or chemical weapons, and a radiological
or "dirty bomb."

U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity,
said investigators became interested in Flight 68
after intercepted "chatter" among suspected terrorists
led U.S. intelligence to believe an attack might be
imminent. The chatter included a specific reference
to the flight, according to one federal law-enforcement
source.


With that information, U.S. authorities contacted
French intelligence about the possibility that
suspected terrorists might be on the flight. They
prevailed upon Air France to cancel Flight 68, as
well as others bound for Los Angeles International
Airport (LAX), because the original intelligence
information warned of more than one flight being
commandeered. " (Seattle Post Intelligencer, 25
December 2003)

Meanwhile, orange code terror alert stories had
been fed into the news chain.

The Washington Post reported on Christmas day
that there "may have been a plot to hijack an Air
France plane and crash land it in Vegas."

Other media confirmed that "the reports gathered
by American agencies were 'very, very precise'"
Meanwhile Fox News pointed to the possibility that
al Qaeda was "trying to plant disinformation, among
other things to cost us money, to throw people into
panic and perhaps to probe our defenses to see how
we respond?" (Fox News, 28 December 2003). The
fact that Al Qaeda remains a CIA "intelligence asset",
involved in US sponsored covert operations, is not
deemed relevant.

(For further details, see How to Unseat the War
Criminals and Reverse the Tide of War? Expose
the Links between Al Qaeda and the Bush
Administration, by Michel Chossudovsky,
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO303D.html )


"Mistaken Identity"

Needless to say these fabricated media reports
served to create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation
during the Christmas holiday. Los Angeles International
airport was on "maximum deployment" with
counter-terrorism and FBI officials working around the
clock.

Yet following the French investigation, it turned out
that the terror alert was a hoax. The information was
not "very very precise" as claimed by Us intelligence.

The six Al Qaeda men turned out to be a five year
old boy, whose name had been mistaken for an
alleged Tunisian terrorist, an elderly Chinese lady
who used to run a restaurant in Paris, a Welsh
insurance salesman and three French nationals.
(Le Monde and RTBF TV, 2 January 2004)

On January 2nd, the French government confirmed
that the intelligence communicated by Washington
was erroneous. The French authorities declared there
"was not a trace of Al Qaeda among the passengers."

But in fact these "inconsistencies" regarding US
intelligence had already been uncovered on the
23d of December by France's antiterrorist services,
which had politely refuted the so-called  "credible
sources" emanating out of the US intelligence
apparatus.

France's counter-terrorism experts were extremely
"sceptical" of their US counterparts:

"we [French police investigators] showed [on 23
December] that their arguments simply did not
make sense, but despite this the flights were
cancelled... The main suspect [a Tunisian hijacker]
turned out to be a child". (quoted in the Le Monde,
3 January 2003).

We really had the feeling of unfriendly treatment
[by US officials] (ils nous appliquent un traitement
d'infamie). The information was not transmitted
through normal channels. It wasn't the FBI or the
CIA which contacted us, everything went through
diplomatic channels..." (Ibid)

In the words of another French investigator:

"how is possible that in such sensitive areas of
intelligence, the Americans were mistaken in
relation to the identity of a relatively large number
of names [of passengers] (quoted in Liberation, 3
January 2003)

In subsequent developments, British Airways
cancelled one of its January 2 flights from London
to Washington, based on "credible" US and British
intelligence information. This followed the escorting
of British Airways Flight BA 223, on New Year's day
into Dulles airport by USAF F16 fighter jets. Flight
223 was seized by the FBI when it landed in Dulles
airport.

Meanwhile, the office of the Mexican president,
issued a communiqué to the effect that "US
intelligence that led to the aborting of two of their
[AeroMexico] services was 'unconvincing'."

Was it Incompetence?

The decision to cancel the six Air France flights was
taken after 2 days of negotiations between French and
American officials.

Had the information been "credible", Air France
would have immediately taken the initiative to
cancel its flights, without further ado. But that is
not what happened.

The flights were cancelled on the orders of the French
Prime minister following consultations with Sec.
Colin Powell. This decision was taken following the
completion of the French investigation, which
demonstrated unequivocally that the US information
regarding the terror suspects on the passenger lists was
inconsistent.

Despite the fact that the information had been refuted,
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge insisted on
maintaining the stand-down order. If Air France had
not complied, it would have been prevented from using
US air space, namely banned from flying to the US.

Needless to say, had the flights not been cancelled,
the Administration's justification for Orange Code
Alert would no longer hold.

In other words, Homeland Security needed to sustain
the lie over the entire Christmas holiday, despite the
fact that "its very very precise information" had been
refuted by French investigators.

It was only on January 2nd, that the US authorities
admitted that they were in error, claiming that it was
a unavoidable case of "mistaken identity." While
tacitly acknowledging their error, Homeland Security
insisted that "the cancellations were based on solid
information."

Meanwhile, a routine case of "mistaken identity" had
contributed  to breaking the Spirit of Christmas, across
the Land.

Based on erroneous intelligence, an entire Nation had
been brought under Orange Code terror alert.

Was it incompetence or was it deliberate? Either way,
a public inquiry into the workings of the Homeland
Security Department is long overdue.

Manufacturing disinformation to create an atmosphere
of fear and intimidation is not only a criminal act, it is
an act of treason because it emanates from the highest
levels of the State.


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