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On September 2nd 1944 the German occupiers and their "Greek" colleagues conducted one of the most gruesome crimes, killing and burning alive in the village bakery 146 residents of Chortiatis village. 109 of them were women and children.
The massacre took place on the occasion of the attack of Greek rebels of ELAS against passing Germans. Anticipating revenge of the Nazis on the basis of "collective responsibility", the rebel soldiers of ELAS convinced the vast majority of the villagers to hide in the mountains. Those who stayed in the village were killed almost in their entirety.
After the capture of three German soldiers by the Greek People's Liberation Army(ELAS) on mount Chortiatis, the German occupation authorities decided to react immediately with a reprisal operation against the civilian population of the village Chortiatis. About twenty trucks with German soldiers and the paramilitary forceJagdkommando Schubert, named after the Wehrmacht sergeant Friedrich Schubertwho was in command, surrounded the village. They gathered all the people they found in the town square, and began to loot and burn houses down. One group of the civilians was led into the house of villager Evangelos Ntinoudis. They were locked inside and the building was set on fire. They were burnt alive. The other group was locked in the bakery. Schubert's men set up a machine gun and began to shoot them down from a small window in the door. After this they set fire to burn alive those who were not killed by the bursts of the machine gun. Apart from the people who were killed in the two groups, others were raped and killed outside their homes or even the village, while trying to escape. A total of 146 civilians residents of Chortiatis were killed that day. 109 of them were women and girls. 300 homes were burned down.
In France where people are sent to jail for
“Holocaust denial,” considered by law a religious hate crime, it seems
strange then that well timed, raunchy cartoons designed solely to insult
and inflame hate against and amongst Muslims worldwide would be
defended vigorously by French politicians who claim, according to the Christian Science Monitor, that “freedom of the press should not be infringed.”With Neo-Conservative warmongers behind a recent inflammatory film titled, “The Innocence of Muslims,”
and their counterparts amongst radical sectarian extremists leading
violent protests across the Middle East and North Africa, it would
almost seem as if the publication of insulting cartoons by a French
paper, “Charlie Hebdo,” was part of a grander strategy to create a
manufactured conflict between Islam and the West, setting the stage for
more overt military operations to take over faltering covert operations
in Syria and beyond.France (and the West) Are Playing Both Sides It
is a fact that France itself has provided state sponsorship of
terrorism from Libya to Syria, arming, funding, and politically backing
the very groups taking to the streets, burning Western consulates, and
killing bystanders, diplomats, and security forces alike. France had armed, trained, funded, and provided air support for the UN-listed terrorist outfit, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) last year in Libya, in their bid to overthrow the government of Muammar Qaddafi.
Image: Libyan Mahdi al-Harati of the US State Department, United Nations, and the UK Home Office (page 5, .pdf)-listed
terrorist organization, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG),
addressing fellow terrorists in Syria. Harati is now commanding a Libyan
brigade operating inside of Syria attempting to destroy the Syrian
government and subjugate the Syrian population. Traditionally, this is
known as “foreign invasion.” France is one of a handful of nations
currently leading state-sponsorship of terrorist groups like LIFG in
Syria.
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LIFG had merged officially with Al Qaeda, according to a US Army West
Point Combating Terrorism Center report in 2007, long before the French
knowingly aided and abetted these terrorists in their bid to overthrow
and overrun Libya. Currently, the government of France is funding and
arming these very same terrorists, who promptly transferred weapons,
cash, and fighters to Syria to begin terror operations there.
The report titled, “Al-Qa’ida’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq” stated specifically:
The apparent surge in Libyan recruits traveling to Iraq
may be linked the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group’s (LIFG) increasingly
cooperative relationship with al‐Qa’ida, which culminated in the LIFG
officially joining al‐Qa’ida on November 3, 2007. (page 9, .pdf)
France had recently announced its intentions to overtly arm these
terror groups operating in Syria, now exposed by Human Rights Watch as
carrying out systematic and widespread atrocities against the Syrian
population.
The Hindu, in their article, “France to fund opposition in Syria,” reported:
“Reuters quoted a “diplomatic source” as saying France
had started supporting parts of Syria that are apparently being
controlled by the armed opposition. More alarmingly, the report pointed
out that Paris was considering supplying heavy artillery to
anti-government fighters — a move that would harden the possibility of a
full-blown civil war in the country.”
Now France, through its media, and the complicity of its politicians’
tacit support, is providing their new terrorist allies with something
else – a causus belli for confrontation with the West to reinsert in the
public’s mind the adversarial plot device needed to introduce more
direct military intervention where the covert support of
listed-terrorist groups has now seemingly failed.
The Lie We Are Expected to Believe
What we are now expected to believe is that France, the US, UK, and
other nations were benevolently, and unwittingly helping these groups
into power, only to be betrayed by extremists.
In reality, the nature of these militant groups was known years in
advance, these groups specifically chosen to lead the violent subversion
of Western targets across the Arab World – with the possibility of
sectarian genocide and significant blowback acknowledged as an
acceptable risk.
In 2007, an article by Seymour Hersh published in the New Yorker titled, “The Redirection” admitted that:
“To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the
Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its
priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has
coöperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in
clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite
organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in
clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of
these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that
espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and
sympathetic to Al Qaeda.” -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh (2007)
Hersh’s report would also include:
“the Saudi government, with Washington’s approval, would
provide funds and logistical aid to weaken the government of President
Bashir Assad, of Syria. The Israelis believe that putting such pressure
on the Assad government will make it more conciliatory and open to
negotiations.” -The Redirection, Seymour Hersh (2007)
