Hit those history books, people. All great nations have a history of faking everything, including terrorism, in order to achieve a strategic advantage and lull the populace into war.
Former ABC News investigative journalist, Greg Bramford, wrote a great book on the National Security Agency called "Body of Secrets". He was the first to uncover government plans that called for acts of terrorism. The gulf of tonkin incident that started America's involvment in the Vietnam War (vietcong said to have bombed US navel vessel) was faked by the Pentagon.
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