The mainstream media is now acknowledging "Operation Northwoods" [see link at bottom of page], a (declassified) secret plan to kill innocent civilians in the US: The objective was to "create a useful wave of indignation", blame Fidel Castro for the civilian deaths, with a view to building a pretext to invade Cuba. Terrorist Attacks on Cubans and American Citizens. -This sounds familiar does it not? Was Operation Northwoods a dress rehearsal? On September 11, 2001, "a mass casualty producing event" as it is described in military-intelligence circles was used to galvanize public support for a war on Afghanistan. That war, which was already in the advanced planning stages was launched less than a month after 9/11, on October 7, 2001. While 911 researchers have extensively analyzed the logic of Operation Northwoods, and its role in the construction of the "Global War on Terrorism" the mainstream media has largely remained silent.