- "ICTS is also linked with Israeli espionage against
the United States. An ICTS board member, retired Major General Amos Lapidot,
served as commander of the Israeli Air Force and authorized Israeli Air
Force Colonel Aviem Sella, operating under official cover at the Israeli
Consulate General in New York, and Rafael Eitan, head of LAKAM, an Israeli
military technical intelligence gatherer, to accept U.S. Navy intelligence
official Jonathan Pollard's offer to spy for Israel."
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- December 26-29, 2009 -- Who let security fail at Schiphol
Airport and why?
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- Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the University College London
student from Nigeria accused of trying to detonate a mixed liquid-powder
device on a Northwest Airlines/Delta Airbus 330, flight 253, as it approached
Detroit from Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Christmas Day appears to have
received some special treatment from security at the Amsterdam airport.
The Mutallab case also resembles that of another attempted plane bombing,
that of the hapless "shoe bomber" Richard Reid.
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- It has also been revealed that Mutallab is the son of
Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, the former chairman of First Bank of Nigeria. According
to This Day of Lagos, the elder Mutallab claims he reported the extremist
views of his son to Nigerian security agencies, as well as to the U.S.
embassy in Abuja, yet no attempt was made to prevent the radically-inclined
Nigerian student to board the plane in Schiphol. The attempted plane bomber
was schooled at the British International School in Lome, Togo and attended
college in London and moved to Egypt and Dubai. The elder Mutallab is a
frequent visitor to the United States and he is married to a Yemeni woman.
...
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- For a number of years, passengers at Schiphol flying
to the United States have been subjected to intense grilling by security
personnel linked to an Israeli firm. In fact, these procedures were
in effect even prior to the 9/11 attacks and many were put into place after
the Pan Am 103 bombing in December 1998. U.S.-bound passengers at Schiphol
are asked a number of personal questions, including where they have stayed
either in the Netherlands or in their country of origin. Hotel receipts
are routinely requested by security personnel and the addresses of private
temporary residences are recorded. Mutallab boarded a KLM flight in Lagos
for Schiphol where he transited for his onward flight to Detroit on Northwest/Delta.
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- Six months prior to Reid's near shoe bombing of American
Airlines flight 63 from Paris to Miami in December 2001, while memories
of 9/11 were still fresh in everyone's mind, Reid attempted to board an
El Al flight from Schiphol to Tel Aviv. Reid was taken aside by El Al security
and identified as a terrorist suspect. Reid paid for a one-way ticket with
cash and would not reveal what he planned to do in Israel. However, rather
than turning Reid into Dutch security for further action, he was allowed
to board the El Al flight by Israel's Shin Bet security so his movements
during his five days in Israel could be monitored. Six months later, Reid
attempted to ignite his shoe on the flight from Paris to Miami. Israel
had not informed British, American, or any other security agency of the
concerns about Reid. Reid's aunt, Claudette Lewis who raised Reid in south
London, was quoted as saying she believed her nephew had been "brainwashed."
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- Reid later said El Al failed to detect that he had explosives
in his shoes on the flight to Tel Aviv, an amazing revelation considering
the Israeli airline's tight security. .. The links between El Al security
and Mossad are extremely close with abundant cross-pollination of senior
personnel back and forth.
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- The security company that allowed Reid to board American
Airlines 63 at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris was ICTS (International
Consultants on Targeted Security) International. ICTS's senior management
are all ex-Israeli security officials, many of whom worked for El Al security.
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- In 2003, ICTS's chairman, Ezra Harel, and director
Menachem Atzmon were detained and questioned by police in a criminal investigation
of Harel's business dealings. Harel was accused of paying bribes to Israel
Electric Corporation (IEC) director Dan Cohen, an Israeli attorney who
subsequently fled to Peru, for a lucrative contract involving Harel's company
Rogosin Industries and IEC. The illegal deals involved off-shore entities
created by Cohen in the Channel Islands, Velsheda, CN, Cusley International
Ltd. and APK Ltd. and Cobalt, an entity created by Harel to launder money
through Bank Leumi in New York. Harel and Atzmon were also involved in
a questionable deal in acquiring the port of Rostock, Germany through an
entity called Kent Investment Holding Ltd. Atzmon operated through a number
of entities, including Harmony Ventures, BV, Albermale Investment, Ltd.,
and Seehafen Rostock, the company that was managing the operations of thr
port of Rostock.
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- ICTS's president was Lior Zouker. Zouker stepped down
in 2004. Harel, who started ICTS in 1982, retired in 2003 and was replaced
by Elie Housman. Harel, a U.S.-Israeli dual citizen, died shortly after
retiring. Harel for years had used Delawar-based corporations to conduct
his worldwide business activities while his Israeli banking partner, Atzmon,
was based in Zurich.
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- It was ICTS that largely developed the passenger "profiling"
procedures used at Schiphol and other airports around the world through
its subsidiary, ICTS Holland Products BV.
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- A significant shareholder in ICTS is an entity called
"Everest Special Situations Fund LP" of Platinum House, 21 Ha'arba'a
St.. Tel Aviv. According to Securities and Exchange Commission filings,
the Everest entity is also financially linked to Metro One Telecommunications
of Beaverton, Oregon; Simon Worldwide, an advertising firm in Los Angeles;
Gyrodyne of New York City, a non-residential building operator; and Concord
Camera Corporation, which, significantly, was headquartered at 4000 Hollywood
Boulevard, Presidential Circle, 6th Floor, North Tower, Hollywood, Florida.
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- ICTS is also linked with Israeli espionage against the
United States. An ICTS board member, retired Major General Amos Lapidot,
served as commander of the Israeli Air Force and authorized Israeli Air
Force Colonel Aviem Sella, operating under official cover at the Israeli
Consulate General in New York, and Rafael Eitan, head of LAKAM, an Israeli
military technical intelligence gatherer, to accept U.S. Navy intelligence
official Jonathan Pollard's offer to spy for Israel.
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- ICTS International, headquartered in Amstelveen, Netherlands,
is also involved in providing various security controls at Schiphol airport.
ICTS has a major presence around the world in airport security with contracts
at Hong Kong, Bangkok, Suva, Auckland, Singapore, Macau, Chicago O'Hare,
London Gatwick, Newark, Los Angeles, and Belfast. In 1999, Detroit airport
abruptly canceled its security contract with Argenbright Security Inc.
and replaced it with Huntleigh of St. Louis. Huntleigh had recently been
purchased by ICTS. In December 2001, Huntleigh/ICTS screeners at San Diego
Interntional Airport placed a dummy "test" grenade in the carry-on
baggage of an unwitting Chicago-bound passenger. Huntleigh/ICTS also provided
"security" at Boston's Logan Airport on September 11, 2001.
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- In June 2009, ICTS was reportedly teetering on the brink
of bankruptcy and was attracting a number of potential buyers.
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