Is this a 'covert cock-up' as Der Spiegel puts it or is the
well known German daily engaged in cover-up and damage control?
I dug these articles up from 2008 because to me they
represent reasonably clear examples of the strategy of tension, false flag
operations and attempts by the US/NATO (in this case via the
Bundesnachtrichtendienst or BND) using terrorism to achieve strategic goals.
The article admits heavy BND activity in Kosovo due to links
between organised criminal links between the two countries. Anyone who's read
anything about intelligence agencies and organised crime will know that an
organisation like the BND will not only look for underworld informants and
assets for dark deeds but they will often work with one criminal faction at the
expense of another.
Assets and missions have to be funded and intelligence
agencies will not only look the other way when crimes are being committed, all
too often they're in on it, providing direct or at the very least logistical
support and providing cover. Prime Minister Hashim Thaci certainly comes to
mind. He's a classic case, a mafia figure with a KLA paramilitary background.
And all too often 'mission creep' sets in. The relationship blossoms and
expands and suddenly the intelligence agency will run mobsters as agents using
them (in this case) across the Balkans, Turkey and even other parts of Europe
and the Middle East. This is hardly controversial.
And yet based on countless examples from the past concerning
MI6, CIA, BND, MIT and other intelligence organisations I don't believe it's a
case of mission creep but unstated official policy.
What of the explosion? Is it possible the BND agents are
innocent? Some have suggested that Thaci and some of the criminal element may
have sought revenge for Germany revealing his Albanian mafia ties. Anything is
possible. It's also possible that the BND was using some bungling
sub-contractors.
But for my part I think a BND attack on an EU office makes
perfect sense. It makes the country look volatile, in need of security and a
strong and stable outside hand. The agenda can then be implemented with an iron
fist. A crackdown would be in order and rival factions can be eliminated as the
criminal act is blamed on them.* The fact that the attack took place on a
German-connected EU building all but guarantees international support.
This tactic has repeatedly been employed throughout Europe as
a means to drive politics to the Right and introduce police-state measures in
order to crush dissent... real or imagined. This is at the heart of the Gladio
revelations in the wake of the Cold War.
The BND agents were subsequently released:
But I am not convinced of their innocence. Once again the
German media seems to be engaged in a cover-up. They reveal just enough to keep
their narrative plausible but further examination reveals they're leaving out
far more than they're revealing. Why is that?
Even if you don't accept that the BND agents were involved in
the bombing, the episode at the very least provides a window in the
intelligence agency/mafia underworld and its many labyrinths.
In many of these cases, as with many of the terrorist
bombings in 1970's and 80's Europe, it becomes difficult to 'prove' who did
what and where the orders came from. This is by design. And yet there's often
enough physical evidence, witness testimony and overwhelming circumstantial
evidence to point an investigator to the target. They may not be able to hit
the bull's-eye but they can probably get close enough to provide an assessment
of the situation. But all too often the Establishment's media machine steps in
and plays the false exposé card.... revealing salacious details
as a bait-and-switch tactic, turning attention away from the real story and
always protecting the powerful people within the state apparatus.
*No one has trouble believing these false-flag tactics are
used in other countries. Western media outlets recently and very cynically
suggested Central Asian regimes will use ISIS as an excuse to crack down on
opponents and dissidents. No controversy there but if you imply that Western
government will use the same tactics... you're a conspiracy theorist.
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