Dr. Paul Craig Roberts says US special forces carried out Paris attack, not Kouachi brothers

PressTV-US special forces struck Paris last week

A former White House official says the January 7 terrorist attack that killed 12 people in Paris was carried out by highly trained special forces from the United States, not by the two “bumbling” brothers who were later killed by the French police.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, who was Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury Department in the Reagan Administration and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, made the remarks in an article published on Tuesday.

He said that “yet the suspects who were later corralled and killed seemed bumbling and unprofessional. It is like two different sets of people.”

He wondered how the so-called Islamic terrorists were “prepared to die in the attack; yet the two professionals who hit Charlie Hebdo were determined to escape and succeeded, an amazing feat.”

A spate of violent incidents, including the attack at the Paris office of the controversial magazine Charlie Hebdo, left at least 17 people dead last week in the French capital.

Two days after the Charlie Hebdo attack, Said and Cherif Kouachi were killed after being cornered at a printing workshop in the French town of Dammartin-en-Goele.

Dr. Roberts stated that the terrorist attack in Paris was certainly a false flag operation, which was carried out by the CIA with the collaboration of French intelligence since the US spy agency “has more control over French intelligence than does the President of France.”

He slammed the US media for its lack of journalistic objectivity and said it is “serving as a ministry of propaganda for Washington” instead of investigating Washington’s faulty version of the Paris incident.

The widely read American columnist criticized US citizens for their gullibility, saying, “Americans are a pitifully misinformed people. All of history is a history of false flag operations. Yet Americans dismiss such proven operations as ‘conspiracy theories,’ which merely proves that government has successfully brainwashed insouciant Americans and deprived them of the ability to recognize the truth.”

Elsewhere in his remarks, he also questioned the veracity of the September 11, 2001 attacks that left about 3,000 people dead in the United States.

“If we believe the official story, the 9/11 attack on the US shows that 19 Muslims, largely Saudis, without any government or intelligence service support, outwitted not only all 16 US intelligence agencies, the National Security Council, Dick Cheney and all the neoconservatives in high positions throughout the US government, and airport security, but also the intelligence services of NATO and Israel’s Mossad,” he said.