Wars With Manufactured Incidents
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Wars With Manufactured Incidents 10 Srebrenica intelligence Dutch peacekeepers reports about impending massacre ignored by UN command
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On July 6, 1995—five days before the Srebrenica massacre—Dutch peacekeepers in the UN-protected enclave sent a classified cable to their superiors in…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 09 Kuwaiti incubator babies 1990 false testimony by Kuwaiti ambassadors daughter helped justify Gulf Wa
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 08 Racak massacre 1999 disputed incident used to justify NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
THE RACAK MASSACRE: THE DOCUMENTED GAP BETWEEN WAR AND JUSTIFICATION THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On January 15, 1999, the bodies of 45 ethnic Albanians were found in the village…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 07 Operation Northwoods 1962 US Joint Chiefs proposed staging Cuban attacks on Americans to justify inv
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET In March 1962, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff formally proposed a plan to stage or allow terrorist attacks on American soil—including hijacking civil…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 06 Lavon Affair 1954 Israeli intelligence operation planted bombs in American and British targets in Eg
THE LAVON AFFAIR: THE BOMBS THAT WEREN’T EGYPT’S THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On July 2, 1954, a bomb detonated in the U.S. Information Agency library in Alexandria, Egypt—one of…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 05 Mukden incident 1931 Japanese Army staged explosion on Japanese-owned railway to justify invasion of
THE MUKDEN INCIDENT: THE EXPLOSION THAT WASN’T THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On the night of September 18, 1931, Japanese soldiers of the Kwantung Army detonated a small explosive…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 04 Gleiwitz incident 1939 Germany staged attack on its own radio station to justify invasion of Poland
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On the night of August 31, 1939, SS officer Alfred Naujocks led a team of German operatives into the Gleiwitz radio station in Upper Silesia. They br…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 03 Remember the Maine 1898 USS Maine explosion in Havana harbor caused by accident used to start Spanis
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET The U.S. Navy’s 1898 court of inquiry into the USS Maine explosion in Havana harbor concluded that a mine had caused the blast—but the report’s own d…
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 02 Iraq WMDs 2003 935 false statements by Bush administration officials in two years after 911
THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET Between September 2001 and September 2003, the Bush administration made 935 false statements about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and its …
Wars With Manufactured Incidents 01 Gulf of Tonkin 1964 second attack on USS Maddox almost certainly never happened NSA documents confir
THE GULF OF TONKIN, 1964: THE ATTACK THAT WASN’T THE ONE FACT THEY WON’T FORGET On October 30, 2005, the U.S. National Security Agency declassified a 1965 internal study concluding…