Comment on YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba
brownsugga@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoAt no point was Israel or the US pretending to be a country they weren’t, ie using a “false flag”
“False flag” operations intend for the blame or legal consequence of the operation to be placed on the the people/country that the perpetrator is pretending to be so in the case of Northwoods, Cuba
Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
israel tried pretending to be egypt when it attacked the USS Liberty killing US servicemen with the hope it would trigger the US to join their war against egypt
brownsugga@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I wasn’t alive then – but none of the sources I’ve read mention anything other than Israel being fully responsible, and the only debate being whether the attack was deliberate or not
Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67958260
Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair
brownsugga@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is an example of a false flag, yes
Upgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident#NSA_ta…
brownsugga@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes, everything I saw regarding this incident, the one I was responding to, indicates that Israel engaged the Liberty; their account said they thought the American ship was Egyptian, they never claimed to be Egyptian firing on the US