9-11 - LOOKING GLASS NEWS | |
Israeli links to 9/11? |
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from AlJazeera.com
Entered into the database on Thursday, January 05th, 2006 @ 18:04:23 MST |
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On the day of the September 11, 2001 attacks, former Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked how they could affect Israeli-U.S. relations.
His quick reply was: "It's very good…….Well, it's not good,
but it will generate immediate sympathy (for Israel)". An article by reporter Jim Galloway, published on The Austin American-Statesman
on Nov. 25, 2001, stated that the FBI had evidence suggesting that the Mossad,
the Israeli intelligence, along with some rogue American and foreign spy agencies,
may be deeply involved in or even entirely responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks
as well as other acts of terrorism against the United States. According to Galloway, 100 of the 1,100 foreigners arrested by the FBI for
suspicion of involvement in the 9/11 attacks were Israeli Jews. In fact, a Mossad
surveillance team made quite a public spectacle of themselves on the day of
the attacks. Five of the Israelis 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."
One witness told police at the time that the men “were like happy, you
know … They didn't look shocked to me.” According to ABC's 20/20, when police stopped the cheering Israelis,
one of them told the officers: "We are Israelis. We are not your problem.
Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are your problem”. One of the five Israelis had a German passport in addition to his Israeli passport.
Another had an international flight booked to Thailand on September 13, two
days after the attacks. The FBI also found out that one of them was a former
paratrooper, assigned to an elite Israeli defense forces unit. Two more Israelis were caught in a truck on Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania,
near the site of the crash of American Airlines flight 93. Police became very
suspicious when they found maps of the city with certain locations highlighted,
box cutters (like the ones used by the hijackers), along with other incriminating
evidence. Police also said that bomb sniffing dogs reacted as if they smelled
explosives when they were brought to the Israelis’ truck. The FBI believes that most of the arrested Israelis belong to an Israeli intelligence
unit operating outside New Jersey, near where the Anthrax letters were mailed.
They all worked for a U.S.-based company known as Urban Moving Systems. An editorial on whatreallyhappened.com states that an FBI SWAT team
raided the New Jersey warehouse of the Urban Moving Systems and confiscated
a number of computer hard drives and files. It further adds that the Israeli
owner of the company, Dominick Suter, closed his business days after the Sept.
attacks and returned to Israel. He was in such a hurry that some of Urban Moving
System's customers were left with their furniture stranded in storage facilities.
Behind closed doors, Israeli authorities were doing all what they can to get
the men released and the FBI probe closed. Israeli lawmakers contacted their
“friends” in the U.S. Congress, and the Mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud
Ohmert personally called the New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and asked him
to intervene. An article on Power of Prophecy reported that a war brewed inside
the FBI between the agents conducting the probe and their superiors, who warned
that involving the Israelis in the attacks could be an "explosive political
volcano." But the lower-level agents didn’t buy it. They believed
that the arrested Israeli Jews might just hold the key to the whole 9/11 debacle.
"These Israeli guys knew what was coming down," one FBI veteran was
quoted as saying. "We would be fools if we let them just fade away into
the sunset and pretend they weren't involved." It was later confirmed that the five detained Israelis were in fact Mossad
agents. However, FBI and Justice Department superiors succeeded in pushing aside
the local FBI agents and the Israelis were released after spending just 71 days
in U.S. custody. "Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified.
I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information,”
a U.S. official told Fox News at the time. The compliant mainstream media completely ignored the Israeli connection. Rather
it immediately blamed OSAMA
BIN LADEN even though he had no record of doing anything on this scale.
On the day of the attacks, CIA Director George Tenet said "You know, this
has bin Laden's fingerprints all over it." But a number of intelligence officials have raised questions about BIN
LADEN's capabilities. "This guy sits in a cave in Afghanistan and he's
running this operation?" one CIA official said at the time. "It's
so huge. He couldn't have done it alone." BIN LADEN himself
denied any involvement in the attacks. The BBC published his denial in which
he clearly stated: "I was not involved in the September 11 attacks in the
United States nor did I have knowledge of the attacks. There exists a government
within a government within the United States. The United States should try to
trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself…” (Most of
us never heard that quote on our nightly newscast). To date, the only shred of "evidence" against bin Laden is a barely
audible fuzzy amateur video that the Pentagon just happened to find "lying
around" in Afghanistan. U.S. intelligence analysts believe that Israel benefited most from the September
11 attacks. Israel has been widely criticized by the West for its aggression
against the Palestinians. Israeli occupation soldiers were, and still are, shown
on international TV news in heated exchanges with Palestinian youths armed with
nothing more than stones. Israeli tanks bulldoze Palestinian farms and homes,
and human rights groups complain that Palestinian detainees are tortured and
abused in Israeli jails. But after 9/11, things changed dramatically. Sympathy for the Palestinians
vanished. The Arabs were universally portrayed as the "bad guys."
Israeli Prime Minister ARIEL
SHARON reportedly said: "Now we and the Americans are in the same fight."
An article by political analyst Richard Becker published on Jan. 9, 2003 on
the Workers World newspaper states that “SHARON
and other Israeli leaders aspire to fulfill what the goals of the political
ZIONIST movement
have been since its origin a century ago: to turn all of historic Palestine
into an exclusively Jewish state. A central tenet of the ZIONIST
ideology is expressed in the racist slogan, 'A land without people for a people
without a land.'" The implication of the Arabs in the 9/11 attacks provided the Israelis with
a golden opportunity to achieve the above-stated goals because the world would
view the Palestinians as terrorists. Blaming the horrible attacks on the Arabs was the best thing that has even
happened to Israel. Now Washington, once again, solidly stands in the pro-Israeli
camp, and "Palestinians be damned!" |