Rabat - Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, a former White House official, said that the attack on the Paris offices of satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo was "an inside job designed to pull France firmly back under Washington's thumb."
In an article published on Thursday, Paul Roberts, who was assistant secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, said the terrorist attack was a false flag operation, adding that "it was designed to shore up France's vassal status to Washington."
"The suspects can be both guilty and patsies. Just remember all the terrorist plots created by the FBI that served to make the terrorism threat real to Americans," he wrote.
Comparing Charlie Hebdo with the 9/11 attacks, Dr. Paul Roberts said that "once the authorities discover that the stupid Western peoples will believe any transparent lie, the authorities use the lie again and again."
He stated that French President Francois Hollande this week said that the sanctions against Russia should end. "This is too much foreign policy independence on France's part for Washington."
He added that Washington has resurrected some of the tactics it used against Europeans during the post WW II ear.
"Has Washington resurrected “Operation Gladio,” which consisted of CIA bombing attacks against Europeans during the post-WW II era that Washington blamed on communists and used to destroy communist influence in European elections? He asked.
He noted that "the US Government tells Americans whatever story the government puts together and sits and laughs at the gullibility of the public."