False Flag Alert

A "Dirty Bomb" False Flag Imminent?

Joaquin Flores

The Times.co,uk used this photo in their 'Rebels to make dirty bomb' piece, though this photo is from 10-20-14 when the nearly the opposite actually occurred: Kiev Junta forces bombed a chemical facility in Donetsk

Fort Russ,

4 August, 2015

Let's look at two significant news pieces, the first that Poroshenko called an emergency session of the war council today, and three days ago that western press starting to create buzz about Novorossiyan 'rebels' creating a 'dirty bomb'.  

It is difficult not to want to put these together and concede the possibility that something is in the works.  

There are good reasons for this, there is not only a precedent for these in this conflict, but they arose at similar times.  The last few times that the US tried this, with the downing of MH-17 and then the 'shelling of Mariupol' false flag, the US felt unable gain the upper hand either through regular proxy combat or its policy of terrorism upon civilians.  

While nothing is guaranteed to happen, this definitely means we should be on the look out for such an event in the very near future.  

Oleg Tsarev of the DPR also expressed similar concerns, in a piece which we translated for Fort Russ - that can be read here: http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/08/why-did-times-publish-article-about.html

Our role as public servants, citizen media, is to inoculate mass publics against any attempt to pin a future 'chemical attack' on the Novorossiyan armies.  Even if nothing comes of it this time, it doesn't rule out that they had something in the works.  Many analysts have indicated that publicizing and 'calling out' such false flag attempts in their early stages can actually hedge the US Empire's bets that they can pull it off.

Of course, the endemically Russophobic and pro-imperialist Times.co.uk  scribbles their piece for good reason; they have a job to do, which is creating near-term expectation that the 'Ruskies' are back to their old evil tricks, and are planning something soon.  

But as we've seen before, the photo used to generate clicks and reads, and to give the veil of 'truth' as in sort of suggesting 'photographic evidence', is not what they are writing about.  Just as in the conflicts in Syria and elsewhere, it depicts the effects of something the US backed side has done.  

We reverse searched this image through Google, and found that it does not depict anything the 'Russians did', but in fact is a photo from October 20th, 2014, of a chemical plant in Donetsk that was shelled by the UAF.  Fancy that. 

Also, Kevin Deikoff notes: "Max Tucker, writer of this piece, is a western intelligence asset. He speaks Russian and studied history for 3 years at the University of Bristol(?). "Articles" by him started appearing in 2013 as he was supposedly working for 3.5yrs exposing human rights abuses in Ukraine and the South Caucasus as Amnesty International's expert in the region. Suddenly, he appears as news editor for the Kiev Post in December 2014. Now he puts together 'pieces' for the Times, News Week, and others. http://ukrcanco.org/maxim-tucker-putin-doesn-t-respond.../ "


"'Max Tucker' has recently added 'media strategist' to his journalist description.'Max Tucker' doesn't seem to have much of a history. Maxim Shkolnik, of Tucker, Georgia, was arrested for trafficking cocaine 01-09-2007 - not that these people are one and the same."

Ukraine rebels ‘building dirty bomb’ with Russian scientists

Rebels in Ukraine are working to develop a radioactive dirty bomb with the help of Russian nuclear scientists, according to a Ukrainian security service dossier obtained by The Times.

Poroshenko urgently convened a meeting of the War Cabinet

http://fortruss.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/poroshenko-urgently-convened-meeting-of.html

Ukrainian President Peter Poroshenko convened an urgent meeting of the War Cabinet. This was announced by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, reports Tass .

"The president immediately convened the War Cabinet" , - he said.

This theme of the meeting was not made public.

The War Cabinet deals with the security of the country in a "special period".

In particular, the War Cabinet decides on general or partial mobilization, demobilization.

Reports of explosions in Iran

Reports of explosions in Iran spooking markets

Forex Live,

7 May, 2013

One of the reasons being tossed around to explain the wave of risk aversion is a report from BBC Persian that three explosions were heard by residents in Tehran.

Three explosions were heard in western Tehran on Tuesday, in an area where Iran carries out missile research and storage.

The market is jittery about the Middle East after Israel attacked Syrian targets on Friday.

I’m a bit skeptical that this is directly the reason for the turnaround in sentiment because the reports have been circulating for more than an hour but it’s one of the ideas that’s out there.

There are also the reports of UN peacekeepers being abducted in the Israel-Syria border region.

BBC reporter: Blasts heard near Tehran arms plant

BBC Persian reporter: Residents heard blasts in Iranian capital in an area where Iran carries out missile research, storage.

Jerusalem Post,

8 May 2013

A BBC Persian journalist wrote Tuesday on the Twitter social media website that three explosions had been heard in western Tehran, in an area where Iran carries out missile research and storage.

It was not immediately clear if there were injuries or damage in the incident.

In January, both Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency denied reports that a blast had hit the Fordow underground uranium enrichment center near Qom.

A mysterious and massive explosion rocked a military arms depot near Tehran in November 2011, killing 17 Revolutionary Guards Corps officers and wounding 17 others.

Iranian officials said the blast was caused by an accident as soldiers moved munitions at the base in Bidganeh, near Shahriar, 45 km. west of the Iranian capital. The base is also believed to be the storage center for some of Iran’s most-advanced long-range ballistic missiles, such as the Shahab 3.

Israel and the United States have been accused over the years of working to sabotage the Islamic Republic’s nuclear and ballistic-missile programs.

In October 2010, a similar blast took place at a Revolutionary Guards munitions store in Khoramabad, in western Iran, killing and wounding several servicemen.

Tuesday's report of explosions came days after Israel allegedly carried out two air strikes in Syria over the weekend, targeting Iranian-supplied Fateh-110 surface-to-surface missiles destined for Hezbollah.

Bomb explosion in Cyprus bank

Bomb Explodes in a Bank – Cyprus

Huffington Post,

24 March, 2014

An explosion has occurred outside of a Bank of Cyprus branch in Limassol, according to sources enikos.gr and SigmaLive.

The blast was caused by an "improvised explosive device," according to an English translation of the SigmaLive report. A YouTube video available from NewsitCy Cyprus, available above, appears to show the aftermath of the explosion.

Per an initial Google translation of the enikos.gr article, "the blast destroyed the window of a branch of the Bank and created small fire which katasvistike from the Fire. The area has been blocked by the Cypriot police." The enikos.gr story also reports an additional explosion.

According to The Guardian, there have been "no reports of any injuries." Cyprus yesterday agreed to a levy on some deposits at the Bank of Cyprus, Reuters reports.

NewsitCy Cyprus has more (via a Google translation):

"According to information from our correspondent Elena Georgiou in Limassol, two masked men broke into the main entrance of the bank and threw with Liberian container with flammable material in the branch. Their movements were recorded by closed circuit monitoring of the bank and assessed by the police."

A picture sent from the Twitter account @russian_market claims to show the bank following the blast:

Cyprus Market ‪@russian_market

PHOTO AFTER BOMB EXPLOSION AT BANK OF CYPRUS ‪pic.twitter.com/oigilkBGQZ

11:01 PM - 24 Mar 13

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Syrian war spillover

Car bomb rocks Beirut: At least eight dead, 118 injured

At least eight are dead and 118 wounded after a car bomb rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut, AFP reports. The attack in the majority Christian neighborhood killed a top-ranking security official.

RT,

19 October, 2012

Wissam al-Hassan, the head of the Information Branch of Lebanon's Internal Security Forces, was the target of the deadly attack, security sources told the Daily Star. Lebanon’s Al-Jazed TV reported that Hassan died in the blast.

Crowds took to the streets on Friday evening, blocking the main roads leading into Western Beirut with burning tires to protest the assassination of Hassan. Skirmishes were reported on the dividing line between Sunni and Alawite neighborhoods in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. Security forces have been dispatched to keep the peace.

Protesters in Lebanon’s south have also reportedly attempted to block a highway leading from Damascus to Beirut.

Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri accused Syrian president Assad of orchestrating the assassination of Hassan.

The assassination of Saad’s father and former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri sparked the 2005 Cedar Revolution, which demanded a withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon and the cessation of Syria’s meddling in Lebanon’s affairs.

The blast rocked the city’s Sassine Square in the predominately Christian Ashrafieh neighborhood on Friday. The explosive-laden car was detonated during rush hour at 3:00 p.m. local time as many students were leaving school, the Lebanese Daily Star reports. Plumes of black smoke were seen rising from the eastern part of the city.

At least seven cars were set on fire during the blast, an MTV correspondent on the ground said, and many more were battered by falling bricks. Considerable damage to the surrounding buildings has also been reported, with a tangled mess of wires, railings, and balconies crashing to the ground.

Human body parts were seen scattered on the roads. Flying glass from windows shattered during the blast wounded more than 20 people, the Lebanese National News Agency reports. Four of the wounded transported to the city's Jeitawi Hospital were children. Red Cross workers were seen evacuating bloodied casualties from a burning building.

Wissam Hasan, the head of the police’s Information Branch, was the target of the attack, security sources told the Daily Star. Lebanon’s Al-Jazed TV reported that Hassan died in the blast, though that information has not been confirmed.

The explosion occurred 200 meters from a local Kataeb political headquarters, better known in English as the Phalanges Party. The Phalanges are a right-wing Christian political-paramilitary organization which played a prominent role in the Lebanese Civil War.

The country's Interior Minister Marwan Sharbel arrived at the scene shortly after the blast.

It was the first car bombing to Beirut since January 2008, when Lebanon’s top anti-terrorism investigator was killed along with three others.

Syrian spillover

Oxford historian Mark Almond told RT that there could be many likely perpetrators behind the bombing, but “the most likely explanation is that it’s linked to the Syrian crisis.”

“It’s not just that this is a kind of a natural process that there are overlaps of various groups over the borders of Syria into Lebanon, it’s also that it’s perhaps in the interest of one side to really internationalize this crisis,” he said.

Saying that the opposition has regularly called for international assistance and intervention, Almond believes “the more the neighbors of Syria seem to be destabilized by the fighting inside Syria… the easier it is to make an argument that some kind of international intervention must come about in order to keep the peace.”

The deadly civil war in neighboring Syria has pitted primarily Sunni rebels and the government of President Bashar al-Assad, who is from the Alawite Islamic sect.

Unresolved tensions between Lebanon’s Sunnis and Shiites communities stemming from the 1975-1990 Lebanese Civil War have been inflamed by the Syrian conflict, which had claimed an estimated 30,000 lives.

On Friday Syria condemned "the cowardly terrorist attack" in Beirut.

Here is the al-Jazeera acccount

and commentary from RT