Mohammed Merah, the suspect in the killing of seven people outside a
Jewish school in Toulouse, France, fits the pattern of an al-Qaeda
intelligence asset. According to the BBC,
he was on the radar of French authorities because of visits he made to
Afghanistan and the “militant stronghold” of Waziristan in Pakistan.
More specifically, Merah was handled by France’s DCRI intelligence service “for years,” according to
Claude Guéant, the interior minister.
Merah, a French citizen of Algerian origin, was arrested on December
19, 2007, and was sentenced to three years in jail for planting bombs in
the southern province of Kandahar in Afghanistan.
In April of 2011, the United States admitted it has operated secret military prisons in Afghanistan where
suspected terrorists are held and interrogated without charges.
The notorious Bagram airbase detention center is operated by the
Joint Special Operations Command and the DIA’s Defense Counterintelligence and Human
Intelligence Center (DCHC).
The DCHC “will be responsible for developing an ‘offensive
counterintelligence operations’… capability for the Department of
Defense, which may entail efforts to penetrate, deceive and disable
foreign intelligence activities directed against U.S. forces,” Secrecy News reported in 2008 after the government
announced the creation of DCHC.
The Pentagon and the CIA specialize in creating terrorists as part of
a so-called covert and unconventional war doctrine dating back to the
end of the Second World War (see Michael McClintock’s Instruments of Statecraft:
U.S. Guerilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and Counterterrorism,
1940-1990 for an in-depth examination).
Although virtually ignored by the corporate media, it is an
established fact that the CIA and Pakistani intelligence created what is
now known as al-Qaeda out of the remnants of the Afghan mujahideen
following the CIA’s covert three billion dollar war against the
Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
It was the so-called Safari Club – organized under the CIA and with
the participation of intelligence agencies in France, Egypt, Saudi
Arabia, Morocco and (under the Shah) Iran – that ramped up the largely
contrived threat of international terrorism prior to and during the
CIA’s manufactured war in Afghanistan (see Peter Dale Scott, Launching
the U.S. Terror War: the CIA, 9/11, Afghanistan, and Central Asia).
Intelligence agencies have specialized in the covert – and not so
covert – creation of terrorists which are then used to provide a cynical
raison d’être for launching military intervention around the world and
also providing a pretext to build and expand a domestic surveillance
police state.
A textbook example of this process is the Christmas Day, 2009,
underwear bomber fiasco – subsequently exposed as a false flag event – that was exploited
to push for installing dangerous radiation-emitting naked body porno
scanners at U.S. airports.
The fact Mohammed Merah was in the custody of the Joint Special
Operations Command in Afghanistan – and his supposed jail break at the
Sarposa Prison was reportedly orchestrated by the Taliban (also cretaed by the CIA and Pakistan’s ISI) – certainly
raises questions about the attack in France, where a national election
will soon be held.
The Telegraph reports that the attacks of the
supposedly al-Qaeda connected Merah will play into the election bid of
National Front candidate Marine Le Pen, who is unlikely to ever become
the president of France.
It has, however, provided Nicholas Sarkozy with a pretext to put the
southern part of the nation on high alert and cancel the campaigns of presidential contenders.
Sarkozy stands to benefit from the terror attacks and play the role of a
strong leader during a national crisis.
“In the short term it is likely that President Nicolas Sarkozy will
benefit. Very quickly he took charge. He rushed to the scene. He
suspended his campaign. He spoke as the president of the republic,”
writes Gavin Hewitt for the BBC.
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