Wars With Manufactured Incidents
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Wars With Manufactured Incidents 30 Iraq surge 2007 success attributed to troop increase later analysis showed Sunni Awakening was prima
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET In the six months before the 2007 U.S. troop surge in Iraq, violence in Anbar Province fell by 80%. The surge began in January 2007; the drop in atta…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 29 Kosovo air campaign NATO bombing presented as humanitarian post-war analysis showed civilian casualt
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET NATO’s 1999 air campaign over Kosovo, presented as a humanitarian intervention to prevent ethnic cleansing, killed at least 495 civilians—nearly half…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 28 Tonkin Gulf Resolution gave president unlimited war powers based on incident that did not occur
THE TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION: THE WAR POWERS GRANTED ON A LIE THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On August 4, 1964, the U.S. destroyer Maddox reported a second attack by North Vietnamese…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 27 United Fruit Company and Guatemala 1954 CIA manufactured communist threat to justify coup protecting
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In 1952, the U.S. State Department’s Policy Planning Staff concluded that Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz’s land reform posed no threat to America…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 26 Operation Ajax 1953 CIA and MI6 staged riots to justify coup against Iranian Prime Minister Mosaddeg
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On August 19, 1953, the CIA’s Tehran station chief, Kermit Roosevelt Jr., handed $10,000 in cash—equivalent to roughly $110,000 today—to a mob leader…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 25 Bay of Pigs 1961 CIA told Kennedy air cover would be sufficient knowing it would not be
THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET On April 12, 1961—five days before the Bay of Pigs invasion—CIA Deputy Director for Plans Richard Bissell sent a memo to President Kennedy’s national…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 24 Iraqi army throwing babies from incubators repeated by seven senators on Senate floor entirely fabri
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On October 10, 1990, a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl named Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ testified before the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus that she had witne…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 23 Kunduz hospital bombing 2015 MSF hospital bombed by US for 30 minutes after repeated calls to milita
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET At 2:08 a.m. on October 3, 2015, a U.S. AC-130 gunship circled the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, for 30 minu…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 22 Douma chemical attack 2018 OPCW internal dissent about findings suppressed whistleblowers went publi
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In May 2019, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) suppressed an internal engineering report that concluded the chlorine cy…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 21 Salisbury poisoning 2018 used to justify diplomatic expulsions full intelligence basis never made pu
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On March 4, 2018, British authorities detected a military-grade nerve agent—Novichok—on the door handle of Sergei Skripal’s home in Salisbury, Englan…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 20 Second Lebanon War 2006 Israeli internal inquiry found Hezbollah kidnapping used to justify pre-plan
THE SECOND LEBANON WAR: THE DOCUMENT THAT CHANGED THE STORY THE ONE FACT THEY WON'T FORGET On 12 July 2006, Hezbollah fighters crossed into Israel, killed three soldiers, and captu…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 19 Afghanistan October 2001 Taliban offered to surrender Bin Laden to third country offer rejected inva
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On October 14, 2001—seven days after the U.S. began bombing Afghanistan—the Taliban’s acting foreign minister, Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, formally offer…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 18 Curveball single Iraqi defectors uncorroborated testimony became cornerstone of WMD case CIA knew it
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In February 2003, the U.S. Secretary of State stood before the United Nations and described Iraq’s mobile biological weapons labs in granular detail—…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 17 Niger uranium documents forged documents cited in Bush State of the Union source never definitively
THE NIGER URANIUM DOCUMENTS: THE FORGERY THAT NEVER DIED THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In October 2002, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency received a copy of a forged document—a…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 16 Kosovo liberation army designated terrorist organisation by US State Department became US ally withi
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In October 1998, the U.S. State Department designated the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) a terrorist organization, citing its use of “terrorist action”…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 15 Grenada 1983 Reagan cited threat to American medical students Grenadian government disputes characte
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On October 23, 1983—two days before the U.S. invasion of Grenada—a U.S. State Department cable, later declassified, reported that the American medica…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 14 Panama invasion 1989 Noriega indicted after he was no longer useful invasion justified by exaggerate
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On December 15, 1989—five days before the U.S. invasion of Panama—General Manuel Noriega declared a state of war with the United States. The next day…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 13 Tonkin follow-up after first incident was real second incident that triggered congressional resoluti
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On the night of August 4, 1964, the U.S. Navy destroyer Maddox and its companion ship Turner Joy reported being attacked by North Vietnamese patrol b…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 12 Syria chemical weapons 2013 Obama administrations case for intervention later disputed by Seymour He
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On August 21, 2013, U.S. intelligence agencies intercepted communications between Syrian military officials discussing the logistics of a chemical we…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 11 Libya 2011 intelligence assessments of Gaddafi planning massacre of civilians later found to be exag
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In March 2011, U.S. intelligence agencies assessed that Muammar Gaddafi was not planning a massacre of civilians in Benghazi, Libya—contrary to the j…