One thing I found of interest was around the 17 or 18 minute mark when OS was contrasting the calmer, more rational, law enforcement approach the European countries took to deal with the terror attacks they experienced during the 70s & 80s compared to the over the top way he believes Bush and the neocons lead the US into responding to the 9/11 terror attacks on NY and Washington.
What's interesting to me is that while he credits rational security measures along with good behind the scenes detective and police work in tracking down and halting the terrorist wave in Europe, he does not mention that much of the terror experienced by the Europeans at the time it was later discovered originated as false flag terror by NATO/CIA/MI6 supplied and sponsored, right wing "stay behind armies". These false flag operations went under the code name Operation Gladio (the name originally used for the Italian branch of this underground army) or "The Strategy of Tension."
Some (by no means all) of these stay behind armies it was discovered went beyond their supposed mandate to stay behind and fight a resistance war against any Soviet invasion force and instead ventured into engaging in terror tactics using the explosives and arms with which they were being furnished under the auspices of NATO . The idea behind these attacks was for the attacks 1) to be blamed on the left with the goal of discrediting communist and leftist politicians and political parties and 2) to encourage a scared and traumatized public to to turn to their governments for protection and in the process willingly giving up their accustomed freedoms and civil rights.
NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe
A digest of the Book "NATO's Secret Armies" By Swiss historian Daniele Ganser
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Judge Felice Casson
The scandal originally came to light in Italy in 1984 when an Italian judge Felice Casson reopened the case of a terrorist car bomb in Peteano in 1972 and uncovered a series of anomalies in the original investigation. The atrocity which had originally been blamed on the communist Red Brigades turned out to be, in fact, the work of a right wing organization called Ordine Nuovo. Following the discovery of an arms cache near Trieste in 1972 containing C4 explosives identical to that used in the Peteano attack, Casson’s investigation revealed that the bombing in Peteano was the work of the military secret service SID (Servizio Informazioni Difesa) in conjunction with Ordine Nuovo. The intention had been to blame the bombing on the extreme left wing militant outfit, the Red Brigades. The right wing terrorist, Vincenzo Vinciguerra was arrested and charged and confessed to planting the bomb.
Judge Casson’s investigation also revealed that the Peteano bombing was the continuation of a series of bombings begun at Christmas 1969, the most well-known of which, on the Piazza Fontane in Milan, killed 16 and injured 80. The bombing campaign culminated on 2 August 1980 with a massive bomb in the waiting room of Bologna railway station which killed 85 and injured 200. It was one of the largest terrorist outrages on mainland Europe in modern times.
The Strategy of Tension
During his trial, Vincenzo Vinciguerra revealed that, in addition to discrediting left wing political groups, there had been a second, even darker aim behind the bombings, namely to inculcate a climate of fear among the general populace. This was known as the ‘strategy of tension’ which was intended to generate a pervasive sense of fear which would encourage the population to appeal to the state for protection.
Vincenzo Vinciguerra claimed during his trial:
‘You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public to turn to the State to ask for greater security.’
In a BBC documentary Gladio, he described the aim as to ‘destabilise in order to stabilise’… ‘To create tension within the country to promote conservative, reactionary social and political tendencies.’
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Operation_Gladio
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