12 Dead in Daytime Paris Attack at Satirical Magazine

[David Guyatt]

The strategy of tension in the 21st century.

Faceless and nameless killers and 24 hour news channels with their scripts and cinematics all in place ala sandy hook.

As always you have to ask Cui Bono? That's deep political science student basics.

When you see there hasn't been an attack on Europe in a while, France's deal with Russia for the warboats, the reluctance to back more Russian sanctions and the recognition of Palestine.

The picture becomes clearer

France is being punished by them.

And at the same time the public perception gets another big push towards restlessness at the "bloody muslims".

Even though the vodka drinking, strip club attending mercenaries of ISIS aren't anything resembling a genuine muslim.

I concur with this analysis.

I'm not convinced. Further, I would caution against seeing EVERY event as part of a grand conspiracy, especially for critical thinking skills as well as how it reflects on the research/monitoring community, such as this Forum. Yes, MANY events are false-flag and staged - not what they seem to be - however, NOT ALL are, and I think one must critically analyze which are and which are not using detailed critical thinking, not a reflex to seeing all as part of a grand conspiracy. It is easy in our gloom over the MANY to go overboard and see ALL as such. Not every plane crash, not every suicide, not every mass murder is the work of the hidden hands of secret governments, intelligence and Gladio-like organizations, even if I would agree that all too many have been. I think we loose our validity in the eyes of most if we are seen to view everything as a grand conspiracy.....again, even if many to more than not may well be. Each needs to be dissected and analyzed on its own merits and demerits, IMHO. To me, this seems to be more what it was presented as - even if I see elements of the Police lying about some things [such as who started the final firefight first]. The phone calls to journalists just before they died would not IMO be done by false-flag operatives. These men were reacting, if irrationally by most standards, to the many assaults on the Middle East and the Muslim world, generally. By NO means do I agree with the 'West's' analysis and reaction to events such as this. Yes, it plays into the hands of those leading the war OF terror - but once such 'wars' are set in motion [often with false flag ops and wars, etc.] things can take on a momentum of their own and not all actions and all persons acting are directly actors working for or controlled by those forces that set this situation in motion. While those in power will misuse this incident, at this time, I don't see it as a Gladio-type action. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise, if the evidence warrants. Many other operations I do see as provocations cooked up by elements of the ostensible 'targets', but not yet with this one. Boston bombing - most likely; 911 - definitely..etc..but here it seem to me most likely to be 'blowback' from earlier false-flag operations and wars, not one in and of itself [with the information we now have - this could change if, for example, I found out that French or other intelligence were baiting or leading on these men]. It is complex, as many in power thought they say this is their worst nightmare, really treasure such events to more quickly bring on their police state and greater political and economic control of their own and all societies. That said, some people and some actions are done for other reasons, even if they benefit those who on the surface, and to most unwary observers, are the targets. I may agree on 'who benefits' here...but that is a tool - not an acid test of who was the instigator. In the final analysis, I think there is a problem of over-simplifyication in the deep political community, as there is in our nemesis' propaganda. ::drwho::

I'm not convinced either. But there are elements to the event that remain suspicious, I think, and therefore worth deeper consideration.

The two shooters filmed outside the Charlie Hedbo offices were clearly trained and their identity concealed behind balaclavas. They obviously didn't want to be identified. And yet one of them was stupid enough to leave his ID card - no less - in their abandoned getaway car. They also had petrol in the car and police concluded this way to make a bomb. But it seems just as likely that it might have been intended to burn the car to destroy all forensic traces that might identify them, which is standard practise, even by petty criminals, who steal cars. However, almost everything else about their getaway was very sloppy, including holding up the petrol station in Picardy for petrol and food. Doh! Did they really have no deeper or resilient plan for escaping after such a high profile attack? And yet the attack itself seemed to be precision itself. Precision and intelligence versus Homer Simpson like post event planning. Maybe they wanted to be found, I don't know. But if so why the balaclavas?

For me this is wholly incongruous.