Global Research, October 11, 2012
On October 3, 2012 the Turkish military launched repeated
mortar shellings inside Syrian territory. The military action, which was
used by the Turkish military, conveniently, to establish a
ten-kilometer wide no-man’s land “buffer zone” inside Syria, was in
response to the alleged killing by Syrian armed forces of several
Turkish civilians along the border.
There is widespread speculation that the one Syrian mortar that
killed five Turkish civilians well might have been fired by
Turkish-backed opposition forces intent on giving Turkey a pretext to
move militarily, in military intelligence jargon, a ‘false flag’
operation.[1]
