- "Put together, the facts do appear to indicate that
Israel knew that 9/11, or at least a large-scale terror attack, was about
to take place on American soil, but did nothing to warn the USA."
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- There was ruin and terror in Manhattan, but, over the
Hudson River in New Jersey, a handful of men were dancing. As the World
Trade Centre burned and crumpled, the five men celebrated and filmed the
worst atrocity ever committed on American soil as it played out before
their eyes.
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- Who do you think they were? Palestinians? Saudis? Iraqis,
even? Al-Qaeda, surely? Wrong on all counts. They were Israelis ñ
and at least two of them were Israeli intelligence agents, working for
Mossad, the equivalent of MI6 or the CIA.
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- Their discovery and arrest that morning is a matter of
indisputable fact. To those who have investigated just what the Israelis
were up to that day, the case raises one dreadful possibility: that Israeli
intelligence had been shadowing the al-Qaeda hijackers as they moved from
the Middle East through Europe and into America where they trained as pilots
and prepared to suicide-bomb the symbolic heart of the United States. And
the motive? To bind America in blood and mutual suffering to the Israeli
cause.
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- After the attacks on New York and Washington, the former
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was asked what the terrorist
strikes would mean for US-Israeli relations. He said: "It's very good."
Then he corrected himself, adding: "Well, it's not good, but it will
generate immediate sympathy [for Israel from Americans]."
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- If Israel's closest ally felt the collective pain of
mass civilian deaths at the hands of terrorists, then Israel would have
an unbreakable bond with the world's only hyperpower and an effective free
hand in dealing with the Palestinian terrorists who had been murdering
its innocent civilians as the second intifada dragged on throughout 2001.
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- It's not surprising that the New Jersey housewife who
first spotted the five Israelis and their white van wants to preserve her
anonymity. She's insisted that she only be identified as Maria. A neighbour
in her apartment building had called her just after the first strike on
the Twin Towers. Maria grabbed a pair of binoculars and, like millions
across the world, she watched the horror of the day unfold.
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- As she gazed at the burning towers, she noticed a group
of men kneeling on the roof of a white van in her parking lot. Here's her
recollection: "They seemed to be taking a movie. They were like happy,
you know ... they didn't look shocked to me. I thought it was strange."
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- Maria jotted down the van's registration and called the
police. The FBI was alerted and soon there was a statewide all points bulletin
put out for the apprehension of the van and its occupants. The cops traced
the number, establishing that it belonged to a company called Urban Moving.
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- Police Chief John Schmidig said: "We got an alert
to be on the lookout for a white Chevrolet van with New Jersey registration
and writing on the side. Three individuals were seen celebrating in Liberty
State Park after the impact. They said three people were jumping up and
down."
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- By 4pm on the afternoon of September 11, the van was
spotted near New Jersey's Giants stadium. A squad car pulled it over and
inside were five men in their 20s. They were hustled out of the car with
guns levelled at their heads and handcuffed.
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- In the car was $4700 in cash, a couple of foreign passports
and a pair of box cutters ñ the concealed Stanley Knife-type blades
used by the 19 hijackers who'd flown jetliners into the World Trade Centre
and Pentagon just hours before. There were also fresh pictures of the men
standing with the smouldering wreckage of the Twin Towers in the background.
One image showed a hand flicking a lighter in front of the devastated buildings,
like a fan at a pop concert. The driver of the van then told the arresting
officers: "We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems
are our problems. The Palestinians are the problem."
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- His name was Sivan Kurzberg. The other four passengers
were Kurzberg's brother Paul, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari.
The men were dragged off to prison and transferred out of the custody of
the FBI's Criminal Division and into the hands of their Foreign Counterintelligence
Section ñ the bureau's anti-espionage squad.
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- A warrant was issued for a search of the Urban Moving
premises in Weehawken in New Jersey. Boxes of papers and computers were
removed. The FBI questioned the firm's Israeli owner, Dominik Otto Suter,
but when agents returned to re-interview him a few days later, he was gone.
An employee of Urban Moving said his co-workers had laughed about the Manhattan
attacks the day they happened. "I was in tears," the man said.
"These guys were joking and that bothered me. These guys were like,
'Now America knows what we go through.'"
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- Vince Cannistraro, former chief of operations for counter-terrorism
with the CIA, says the red flag went up among investigators when it was
discovered that some of the Israelis' names were found in a search of the
national intelligence database. Cannistraro says many in the US intelligence
community believed that some of the Israelis were working for Mossad and
there was speculation over whether Urban Moving had been "set up or
exploited for the purpose of launching an intelligence operation against
radical Islamists".
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- This makes it clear that there was no suggestion whatsoever
from within American intelligence that the Israelis were colluding with
the 9/11 hijackers ñ simply that the possibility remains that they
knew the attacks were going to happen, but effectively did nothing to help
stop them.
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- After the owner vanished, the offices of Urban Moving
looked as if they'd been closed down in a big hurry. Mobile phones were
littered about, the office phones were still connected and the property
of at least a dozen clients were stacked up in the warehouse. The owner
had cleared out his family home in New Jersey and returned to Israel.
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- Two weeks after their arrest, the Israelis were still
in detention, held on immigration charges. Then a judge ruled that they
should be deported. But the CIA scuppered the deal and the five remained
in custody for another two months. Some went into solitary confinement,
all underwent two polygraph tests and at least one underwent up to seven
lie detector sessions before they were eventually deported at the end of
November 2001. Paul Kurzberg refused to take a lie detector test for 10
weeks, but then failed it. His lawyer said he was reluctant to take the
test as he had once worked for Israeli intelligence in another country.
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- Nevertheless, their lawyer, Ram Horvitz, dismissed the
allegations as "stupid and ridiculous". Yet US government sources
still maintained that the Israelis were collecting information on the fundraising
activities of groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Mark Regev, of the Israeli
embassy in Washington, would have none of that and he said the allegations
were "simply false". The men themselves claimed they'd read about
the World Trade Centre attacks on the internet, couldn't see it from their
office and went to the parking lot for a better view. Their lawyers and
the embassy say their ghoulish and sinister celebrations as the Twin Towers
blazed and thousands died were due to youthful foolishness.
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- The respected New York Jewish newspaper, The Forward,
reported in March 2002, however, that it had received a briefing on the
case of the five Israelis from a US official who was regularly updated
by law enforcement agencies. This is what he told The Forward: "The
assessment was that Urban Moving Systems was a front for the Mossad and
operatives employed by it." He added that "the conclusion of
the FBI was that they were spying on local Arabs", but the men were
released because they "did not know anything about 9/11".
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- Back in Israel, several of the men discussed what happened
on an Israeli talk show. One of them made this remarkable comment: "The
fact of the matter is we are coming from a country that experiences terror
daily. Our purpose was to document the event." But how can you document
an event unless you know it is going to happen?
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- We are now deep in conspiracy theory territory. But there
is more than a little circumstantial evidence to show that Mossad ñ
whose motto is "By way of deception, thou shalt do war" ñ
was spying on Arab extremists in the USA and may have known that September
11 was in the offing, yet decided to withhold vital information from their
American counterparts which could have prevented the terror attacks.
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- Following September 11, 2001, more than 60 Israelis were
taken into custody under the Patriot Act and immigration laws. One highly
placed investigator told Carl Cameron of Fox News that there were "tie-ins"
between the Israelis and September 11; the hint was clearly that they'd
gathered intelligence on the planned attacks but kept it to themselves.
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- The Fox News source refused to give details, saying:
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell
you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information."
Fox News is not noted for its condemnation of Israel; it's a ruggedly patriotic
news channel owned by Rupert Murdoch and was President Bush's main cheerleader
in the war on terror and the invasion of Iraq.
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- Another group of around 140 Israelis were detained prior
to September 11, 2001, in the USA as part of a widespread investigation
into a suspected espionage ring run by Israel inside the USA. Government
documents refer to the spy ring as an "organised intelligence-gathering
operation" designed to "penetrate government facilities".
Most of those arrested had served in the Israeli armed forces ñ
but military service is compulsory in Israel. Nevertheless, a number had
an intelligence background.
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- The first glimmerings of an Israeli spying exercise in
the USA came to light in spring 2001, when the FBI sent a warning to other
federal agencies alerting them to be wary of visitors calling themselves
"Israeli art students" and attempting to bypass security at federal
buildings in order to sell paintings. A Drug Enforcement Administration
(DEA) report suggested the Israeli calls "may well be an organised
intelligence-gathering activity". Law enforcement documents say that
the Israelis "targeted and penetrated military bases" as well
as the DEA, FBI and dozens of government facilities, including secret offices
and the unlisted private homes of law enforcement and intelligence personnel.
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- A number of Israelis questioned by the authorities said
they were students from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, but Pnina Calpen,
a spokeswoman for the Israeli school, did not recognise the names of any
Israelis mentioned as studying there in the past 10 years. A federal report
into the so-called art students said many had served in intelligence and
electronic signal intercept units during their military service.
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- According to a 61-page report, drafted after an investigation
by the DEA and the US immigration service, the Israelis were organised
into cells of four to six people. The significance of what the Israelis
were doing didn't emerge until after September 11, 2001, when a report
by a French intelligence agency noted "according to the FBI, Arab
terrorists and suspected terror cells lived in Phoenix, Arizona, as well
as in Miami and Hollywood, Florida, from December 2000 to April 2001 in
direct proximity to the Israeli spy cells".
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- The report contended that Mossad agents were spying on
Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Shehi, two of leaders of the 9/11 hijack teams.
The pair had settled in Hollywood, Florida, along with three other hijackers,
after leaving Hamburg ñ where another Mossad team was operating
close by.
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- Hollywood in Florida is a town of just 25,000 souls.
The French intelligence report says the leader of the Mossad cell in Florida
rented apartments "right near the apartment of Atta and al-Shehi".
More than a third of the Israeli "art students" claimed residence
in Florida. Two other Israelis connected to the art ring showed up in Fort
Lauderdale. At one time, eight of the hijackers lived just north of the
town.
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- Put together, the facts do appear to indicate that Israel
knew that 9/11, or at least a large-scale terror attack, was about to take
place on American soil, but did nothing to warn the USA. But that's not
quite true. In August 2001, the Israelis handed over a list of terrorist
suspects ñ on it were the names of four of the September 11 hijackers.
Significantly, however, the warning said the terrorists were planning an
attack "outside the United States".
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- The Israeli embassy in Washington has dismissed claims
about the spying ring as "simply untrue". The same denials have
been issued repeatedly by the five Israelis seen high-fiving each other
as the World Trade Centre burned in front of them.
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- Their lawyer, Ram Horwitz, insisted his clients were
not intelligence officers. Irit Stoffer, the Israeli foreign minister,
said the allegations were "completely untrue". She said the men
were arrested because of "visa violations", adding: "The
FBI investigated those cases because of 9/11."
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- Jim Margolin, an FBI spokesman in New York, implied that
the public would never know the truth, saying: "If we found evidence
of unauthorised intelligence operations that would be classified material."
Yet, Israel has long been known, according to US administration sources,
for "conducting the most aggressive espionage operations against the
US of any US ally". Seventeen years ago, Jonathan Pollard, a civilian
working for the American Navy, was jailed for life for passing secrets
to Israel. At first, Israel claimed Pollard was part of a rogue operation,
but the government later took responsibility for his work.
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- It has always been a long-accepted agreement among allies
ñ such as Britain and America or America and Israel ñ that
neither country will jail a "friendly spy" nor shame the allied
country for espionage. Chip Berlet, a senior analyst at Boston's Political
Research Associates and an expert in intelligence, says: "It's a backdoor
agreement between allies that says that if one of your spies gets caught
and didn't do too much harm, he goes home. It goes on all the time. The
official reason is always visa violation."
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- What we are left with, then, is fact sullied by innuendo.
Certainly, it seems, Israel was spying within the borders of the United
States and it is equally certain that the targets were Islamic extremists
probably linked to September 11. But did Israel know in advance that the
Twin Towers would be hit and the world plunged into a war without end;
a war which would give Israel the power to strike its enemies almost without
limit? That's a conspiracy theory too far, perhaps. But the unpleasant
feeling that, in this age of spin and secrets, we do not know the full
and unadulterated truth won't go away. Maybe we can guess, but it's for
the history books to discover and decide.
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- ©2003 Newsquest (Sunday Herald) Limited. all rights
reserved.
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- http://www.sundayherald.com/37707
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- Comment
- From Muehlbauer
- 11-2-3
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- "Five Israelis Were Seen Filming As Jet Liners Ploughed
Into The Twin Towers On September 11, 2001.
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- Were they part of a massive spy ring which shadowed the
9/11 hijackers and knew that al-Qaeda planned a devastating terrorist attack
on the USA? By Neil Mackay"
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- Jeff - The LIE can't wait to be told, so it is -already-
in the title above, the title of the article:
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- "...shadowed the 9/11 hijackers and knew that al-Qaeda
planned a devastating terrorist attack on the USA"
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- Jeff, this is a bullsxxt article, designed to invigorate
the "Terrorist Attack" LIE advanced by the White House. This
is made so clear when we read in the article:
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- "In the car was $4700 in cash, a couple of foreign
passports and a pair of box cutters - the concealed Stanley Knife-type
blades used by the 19 hijackers who'd flown jetliners into the World Trade
Centre and Pentagon just hours before."
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- Really, for every article revealing the truth about 911
in America (another Government/Federal Reserve/Rothschild conspiracy) there
are tens of articles like this one, articles that in the content of themselves
swear Muslim extremist who hated us Americans, because, we are "free"
really did pilot the airplanes and so they smashed into the buildings,
just like President Bush said they did.
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- Are we FREE? Yeah, we're free, free as a farmer's pig
is free...
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- Another quote:
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- "To those who have investigated just what the Israelis
were up to that day, the case raises one dreadful possibility: that Israeli
intelligence had been shadowing the al-Qaeda hijackers as they moved from
the Middle East through Europe and into America where they trained as pilots
and prepared to suicide-bomb the symbolic heart of the United States."
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- For one thing, the World Trade Center was never the "symbolic
heart" of America! Except for the gentile Americans who shopped there
and who were employees of the Banking/Zionist syndicate/cult who really
did/does own the WTC, the janitors, secretaries, security, etc. The vast
part of these Zionist Jews and others having been beforehand warned, did
escape a horrible death: death by crushing, death by leaping, from great
heights. (Let's not forget the large Israeli company that suddenly broke
its WTC lease at great cost, and moved out about a week before September
11...)
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- The author of this article is another de facto agent
of Rabbi Rothschild. Rabbi Rothschild, the bottom line. Rabbi Rothschild,
the head Rabbi of The House Of Rothschild, the Head Rabbi of The Religion
Of Rothschild, wherein the Head Rabbi, Rabbi Rothschild, is The God Of
The Zionist Jews. A religion, a people, for whom death and destruction,
of us, makes for them, the most - MONEY.
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- Most of us after reading this article will come away
with but one thought in mind and that is the Government's story was/is
right...Muslim Extremist really did pilot the planes and the WTC including
Building 7 really did fall down because of fires in them. And it doesn't
matter if Science and The Pictures swear otherwise.
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- What a rip, and, sad too...
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- Muehlbauer
- Orlando, Florida
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- Comment
From Les
11-4-3
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- You got it half right.
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- They were part of a massive spy ring which shadowed the
9-11 "hijackers" and knew that POPPY BUSH'S OCTOPUS *working*
as Al Qaeda ops planned a devestating attack on the USA TO SOLIDIFY HIS,
AND HIS SONS' (PLURAL) PERMANET HOLD ON PUBLIC, as well as private, POWER.
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- *THEREIN* lies the *SOLE* source of Israel's power over
the American Adminstration. For while Israel would get bad PR for not notifying
the proper authorities (Sharon: "Who would we tell? Bush had ops in
the CIA, FBI, NSA, and of course throughout the administration" and
he'd be DEAD RIGHT) the US government would get outright revolution and
piano wire hangings in front of the White House. At the very minimum.
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- The Mossad holds the key (and the proof) required to
*completely* destroy the government of the United States.
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- Unfortunately, there's no way to shake that information
loose, because as long as the payoff money, arms, and dead young men and
women keep flowing to support Israel's and America's fascist theft of oil,
the Mossad will sit on that info.
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- And don't think Putin and China and every other major
leader (except probably Kim) aren't aware of that info as well.
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- Bottom line: when they all decide it's time for America
to go, believe it, America will be GONE, and there's not a Goddamned thing
any of us can do about it.
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- Nothing.
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