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Mumbai attack -Is it a false flag operation?.

Akila Weerasekera

About a week ago three men were arrested on suspicion of throwing explosives at the office of the EU Special Representative Peter Feith in Kosovo. The bombing attempt happened just days after Kosovan leaders rejected a plan by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's for the deployment of a 2000 strong EU police and justice mission, EULEX. Later, the men were identified as members of Germany's foreign intelligence agency. Why were these German agents throwing explosives at the EU office? Apparently the bombing was an attempt to create a pretext for EU police to be deployed in Kosovo after government leaders rejected the UN-mandated proposal. This is a classic example of a false flag operation.

False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments or other organizations, which are designed to appear as though they are being carried out by other entities. The Mumbai 'terrorist attack' also bears all the hallmarks of a classic false flag Operation. It has been rumored that Mumbai attack was a covert operation involving the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh - Hindu nationalist organization) with German or Israeli operatives. Whatever the truth might be it is clear that the tactics which the terrorists used in the India attack were also used by the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) in the past and makes one wonder to what extent the RSS has linkages with the LTTE.

Apart from false flag operations some government agencies and militaries are known to be supporting both sides of a conflict area. Between 1978 and 1992, the US government poured at least US$6 billion (some estimates range as high as $20 billion) worth of arms, training and funds to prop up many mujaheddin factions. Also, CIA and MI-6 sponsorship of various rebel groups and governments in Africa has exacerbated the situation and destabilized the regional security.
How was Sri Lanka affected by such covert-activities? First of all it is an open secret that Indian government and Indian RAW agents are supporting the LTTE terrorists while simultaneously supporting the government of Sri Lanka. In the early 1970s, the LTTE with the blessings of the Indian government began establishing training camps and secret arms caches under the cover of a chain of Refugee and Rehabilitation Farms of the Gandhian Society. Funds for the farms came from Oxfam (Oxford Famine Relief), one of the most powerful and secretive British intelligence organizations acting under non-governmental organization cover. John Glover, a British feature writer, wrote to the Western Mail in Wales about how a band of mercenary soldiers recruited in South Wales is training a Tamil army to fight for a separate state in Sri Lanka. It is also a known fact that the British Special Air Services (SAS) firm Keenie Meenie Services, was simultaneously training the Sri Lankan Army and the LTTE.

Victor Ostrovsky, retired Mossad agent and author of By Way of Deception told Indian Abroad news service in 1991 that the Tigers were trained in Israel in 1985. He went onto say that the tamil tigers were trained at the commando naval base in Haifa, learning penetration techniques, mining landings, communications, and how to sabotage ships similar to the Dvora. At the same time Sri Lankan troops were training in Tel Aviv. Ostrovsky said that the arrangement for the training was made by the Mossad liaison in India, who lived there under a British passport. A December 1983 Sunday Mail article reported that the Mossad was arming and training the Tigers, as well as the Sri Lankan Armed Forces.

All this information brings us to another important issue. Are we still being played by these multi-faceted warmonger beasts and are we aware of it? By thinking along this line we might be able to solve the mystery behind recent LTTE purchasing of light aircrafts and maneuvering of these aircrafts. Are LTTE planes piloted by foreign nationals? Could these planes be piloted by Israeli or Indian pilots? Where are these planes coming from? Professor Nalin de Silva is the only person as far as I know who suggested that these air crafts could be coming from outside the country, may be from a ship. Why did we buy the outdated and defective radar system from India instead of buying a more sophisticated 3-D radar system from China? Isn't this similar to the Sinhalese saying "horage ammagen paean ahanawa"? Sri Lanka was interested in purchasing an advance-3-D radar system from China but who opposed? How many times did the Indian radar system fail? Are we not learning from mistakes we made in the past? We should not be victimized anymore by the evil games these so called democratic countries play. It's about time that we recognize friends from enemies and act accordingly. Such covert operations by foreign intelligence agencies have seriously undermined the sovereignty of our countries and weakened both our domestic security and the security of the region. It is our duty to protect the country by being extremely vigilant and keeping a close eye on the international stage and other non-governmental organizational activities.

Akila Weerasekera



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