False Flag

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A False Flag military operation is one in which the personnel carrying out the action are wearing the uniforms of another nation.In other words: false flag operations are covert operations that are intended to give reason to believe that someone else committed the operation.

In European military history, the use of flags and regimental colours to identify units was paramount. This extensive and well regulated system of signs and symbols to denote nationality, rank, association, etc, seems to have been the culmination of older primitive chivalric heraldry. European wartime conventions made for certain Trans-national agreements regarding not only the treatment of captured soldiers (POWs), but also how a unit was engaged on the battlefield. This meant that so called "regular" troops were treated differently than unallied armed mobs.

In International Piracy, a ship will sometimes display no flag, or fly a 'false flag', in an attempt to lure another ship into close contact. Flying under no flag or a false flag could result in any captured personnel being sumarily executed. For land forces, operating outside of conventional uniform, or disguised as a civilian, could also result in quick execution. One consequence of these conventions is that a spy in foreign territory couldn't be protected by normal practice, or might even have their home nation refuse to recognize them upon capture.

In Iraq in 2005, a small group of British military personnel, disguised as Arabs, engaged in a firefight with Iraqi Police, and were captured. Initial reports indicated that they were carrying explosives. This would be an example of a "false flag operation".

Many have alleged that the September 11 2001 attacks were False Flag operations, carried out by elements of the US government and military-industrial complex, under the guise of being Arabs.

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