{"id":20321,"date":"2010-07-02T06:43:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T04:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=20321"},"modified":"2023-04-05T00:18:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T21:18:21","slug":"operation-cage-a-case-study-in-israeli-false-flag-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/07\/02\/operation-cage-a-case-study-in-israeli-false-flag-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Cage: a case study in Israeli false flag tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Wayne Madsen<\/strong><br \/>\nOnline Journal Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p><strong>(<\/strong><strong>WMR<\/strong><strong>)\u00a0&#8212; <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Top Turkish government and intelligence sources told WMR in Ankara and Istanbul that Turkish intelligence has obtained evidence that Israeli intelligence is squarely behind repeated Ergenekon \u201cdeep state\u201d plots aimed at overthrowing the Turkish government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, including Operations Sledgehammer and Cage.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Israeli special operations personnel have also been discovered by Turkish intelligence providing support for Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) terrorist attacks aimed at Turkish army and navy per<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">s<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">onnel.<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"> Israeli forces, operating from northern Iraq, are believed to have provided support for a recent PKK attack on a Turkish army post near the town of Semdinli. <\/span><em>Ironically, Turkish forces used an Israeli-supplied Heron unmanned aerial vehicle system to track down the PKK in Iraq and identify their Israeli support team.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Mossad support for the Cage Operation Action Plan, hatched within the ranks of the Turkish Naval Forces Command, is a textbook lesson in Mossad false flag operations around the world.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As reported by <\/strong><em><strong>Today\u2019s Zaman, <\/strong><\/em><strong>Cage plans were found on a CD last year in the office of retired Major Levent Bektas, who was linked to caches of buried weapons in Istanbul. <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Cage plans called for the assassination of non-Muslim figures in Turkey and then casting the blame on Erdogan\u2019s Justice and Development Party (AKP).<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal\"> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Cage was actually implemented in the assassinations of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, Catholic Father Andrea Santoro, and three Christian missionaries in Malatya. <\/span><em>Behind these assassinations of gentiles was the hidden hand of the Jewish state\u2019s intelligence service, Mossad, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">according to informed Turkish sources.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Cage also targeted school children.<\/span> TNT was have to been placed in a submarine on display\u00a0at the Rahmi M. Koc museum in Istanbul and detonated at the same time a group of school children were due to visit the site. According to <\/strong><em><strong>Today\u2019s Zaman<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>,<\/strong><\/em><strong> Cage was divided into four parts: \u201cPreparation,\u201d \u201cRaising Fear,\u201d \u201cShaping Public Opinion,\u201d and \u201cAction.\u201d The similarities between Cage and the well-documented Israeli pre- and post-involvement in the 9\/11 attack on the United States are stark, particularly the \u201cpreparation\u201d phase involving hundreds of Israeli \u201cart students\u201d and furniture movers who were, in reality, Mossad and Israeli Defense Force special operations personnel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The \u201cAction\u201d phase included assassinations and kidnappings of major non-Muslim figures in Turkey, as well as the planting of bombs near non-Muslim targets and arson attacks on their homes and offices. The \u201cAction\u201d plan also called for placing propaganda in key media outlets, including pre-designated web sites, blaming the terrorist attacks on Erdogan\u2019s AKP government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Previously published in the<\/em> <em>Wayne Madsen Report<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright \u00a9 2010 <\/em><em>WayneMadenReport.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and nationally-distributed columnist. He is the editor and publisher of the <\/em><em>Wayne Madsen Report<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/onlinejournal.com\/artman\/publish\/article_6030.shtml\"><\/span>, Jun 23, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Wayne Madsen Online Journal Contributing Writer (WMR)\u00a0&#8212; Top Turkish government and intelligence sources told WMR in Ankara and Istanbul that Turkish intelligence has obtained evidence that Israeli intelligence is squarely behind repeated Ergenekon \u201cdeep state\u201d plots aimed at overthrowing the Turkish government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, including Operations Sledgehammer and Cage. 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