The FBI now believes that
Israel intelligence, working closely with rogue
U.S. and other foreign intelligence units, may
be responsible for or otherwise deeply involved
in the World Trade Center implosions and other
acts of terrorism against the United
States.
Newsman Jim Galloway, in The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (reprinted in The
Austin American Statesman, November 25, 2001,
pg. A-11), reported that of the 1,100 foreigners
arrested by the FBI for suspicion of involvement
in the September 11 incidents, 100 are Israeli
Jews.
Five of the Israelis, say Galloway,
were arrested after "Angry witnesses had seen
the five at a waterfront park in New Jersey
apparently laughing and clowning, and
photographing themselves in front of the burning
towers." An FBI surveillance team had been
monitoring the five and took photographs
of their activities.
One of the five
Israelis had assumed a first name of Omer, which
is close to the Arabic name Omar. Another had a
German passport in addition to his Israeli
passport. A third had an international flight
booked to Thailand for September 13-two days
after the hijackings. Yet another of the five
Israelis was discovered by the FBI to be a
former paratrooper, assigned to an elite Israeli
defense forces unit.
Two more Israeli
Jews were arrested in a truck on Interstate 80
in Pennsylvania, near the site of the crash of
American Airlines flight 93.
A box
cutter like the ones used in the airliner
hijackings was found in their truck along with
other incriminating evidence.
Dummy
Moving Company
FBI investigators believe
that most of the 100 men detained are part of an
Israeli intelligence unit operating out of New
Jersey, near where the Anthrax letters were
mailed. What appears to be a dummy, front
company, Urban Moving Systems, of Weehawken,
N.J., had been set up and claimed to be
"employer" for all of the detained Israelis.
Themen, most with bogus or expired travel
documents, were able to travel freely by truck
throughout the U.S.A.
According to the
news report, after the arrests an FBI SWAT team
raided the New Jersey warehouse of the Urban
Moving Systems operation and seized and carried
away a dozen computer hard drives and
files.
Behind the scenes, the Israeli
government is reported as jumping through hoops
trying to get the men released and the FBI
investigation shut down. Members of the Israeli
parliament called on "friends" in the U.S.
Congress. The Mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Ohmert,
personally called New York City Mayor Rudy
Giuliani and asked him to
intervene.
Meanwhile, Israeli officials
are desperately trying to paint the incident as
a "mere mistake"-just some silly young men
clowning around, unconnected to an official
intelligence group. "That's why the five laughed
at the collapse of the World Trade Center
buildings," says Mayor Ehud Ohmert. "They were
just being immature and
irresponsible."
A War
Brewing
I am hearing that a war is
brewing inside the FBI between the FBI agents
conducting the investigation and their
higher-up, politically-connected superiors. The
higher-ups warn that the Israeli thing is "too
hot"-an "explosive political volcano." But the
lower-level agents aren't buying it. They
maintain that the arrested Israeli Jews might
just hold the key to the whole September 11th
debacle.
"These Israeli guys knew what
was coming down," says one embittered FBI
veteran. "We would be fools if we let them just
fade away into the sunset and pretend they
weren't involved."
Who
Benefits?
U.S. Intelligence analysts
point out how much the nation of Israel has
benefited from the September 11th attacks. For
over a year, Israel had been widely criticized
in the U.S. and in the Western world for its
brutal suppression of the Palestinians. Israeli
uniformed soldiers, tanks and helicopter
gunships were regularly shown on the
international TV news in heated exchanges with
Palestinian youths armed with nothing more than
stones and sticks. Israeli tanks bulldozed
Palestinian farms and homes, and humanitarian
groups complained that captured Palestinians
were being tortured and abused in Israeli prison
cells. A recent U.N. conference focused on
Jewish racism and
discrimination.
But after September
11, sentiment changed dramatically.
Sympathy for the Palestinian cause evaporated.
The Arabs were universally portrayed as the
evil-doers, the "bad guys." Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon stated, "Now we and the
Americans are in the same fight."
The
blaming of radical Islamic terrorists for the
horrible crimes was the best thing that's
happened for Israel in years.
Now the
American people are, once again, solidly in the
pro-Israel camp, and "Palestinians be
damned!"
