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An interesting article on Mossad passing themselves of as CIA operatives to recruit Jundallah terrorists targeting Iran. The Americans were not too happy about it - though not enough to do anything about it really.
False Flag - By Mark Perry | Foreign Policy
Buried deep in the archives of America's intelligence services are a series of memos, written during the last years of President George W. Bush's administration, that describe how Israeli Mossad officers recruited operatives belonging to the terrorist group Jundallah by passing themselves off as American agents. According to two U.S. intelligence officials, the Israelis, flush with American dollars and toting U.S. passports, posed as CIA officers in recruiting Jundallah operatives -- what is commonly referred to as a "false flag" operation.
"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense." - Chapman Cohen.
Now in Haaretz:-
'Israeli Mossad agents posed as CIA spies to recruit terrorists to fight against Iran' - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
The report sparked White House concerns that Israel's program was putting Americans at risk," the intelligence officer told Perry. "There's no question that the U.S. has cooperated with Israel in intelligence-gathering operations against the Iranians, but this was different. No matter what anyone thinks, we're not in the business of assassinating Iranian officials or killing Iranian civilians."
The Irish are not a serious people. Colm McCarthy to Miriam O'Callaghan.
"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense." - Chapman Cohen.
What haaretz is doing here is really shocking. In that link it did not use any named sources. That's bad enough, but today they print another story using another unnamed source denying the so called facts in the first story. And what is worse in today's story it refers to yesterdays story, saying the writer, "Perry quoted a number of American intelligence officials ....." which is a blatent lie.
Israeli official: Report of Mossad agents posing as CIA spies 'absolute nonsense' - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Now in neither story was any named sources used. The essence of good journalism is to avoid doing things like this and to tell it as it is, without editorializing and sensationalizing. Any headline story, or any reported story for that matter, should have at least two named sources. Haaretz, in the accusation story and the denial story don't quote even one named source. What Haaretz is actually doing is making up news and getting a couple of bites at the cherry in the process. And what Haaretz is doing, ironically, is threatening press freedom. It gives ammunition to the government, if the government wanted to impose statutory controls on the media.
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Opinion pieces are different. Someone like Kevin Myers (only using him as an example) gives his opinion. Now that opinion can be anything the journalist wants to say. But news stories should really have named sources. But when stories quote unnamed sources the reader has no way of knowing what the sources are. The sources could have been the cleaner in the government dept, or it could have been made up by the journalists to give the impression that the journalist is in the thick of the story and has the ear of high ranking officials. The reader has no way of knowing. Also today Haaretz also published a story saying "Iran: We have evidence U.S. killed nuclear scientist in Tehran". It quotes Iranian TV saying it has "evidence", but no evidence is given and any such evidence is allegidely "documents" which were not shown. So now Haaretz has three news stories. One says Israel is involved. Another denies Israel is involved. The third says America is involved. The fourth news story is going to most likey be some unnamed American source denying this accusation. And yet each of the stories tell us nothing that is backed up with sources. Haaretz seems to be just shovelling it all in. The only facts each story actually gives is that an Iranian scientist was killed and each article is just a rehash of that story.
It's always better to name sources for newspaper reports. Otherwise how is the reader to genuinely know if the story isn't made up and all subsequent stories are just giving lots of different angles the journalists overheard in a pub? How is the reader to know that a journalist hasn't just sat in front of a computer and googled opinion and just manipulated material from one story or another and cobbled them together to make a different story.
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We don't know for sure YET, but if it looks like a fish, smells like a fish, then it's probably fishy!The assassination in Dubai, using passports
from around the world, was proven Mossad. The Lavon Affair. Suez '56 collusion. Assassination squads after Munich that murdered an
innocent waiter (that one left out by Speilburg!) As usual L'Chaim speaks for TelAviv central. Anyone fancy a long bet? £50 it's Mossad!