Indications of Israeli Involvement on 9/11 posted by Kevin Barrett, Part II

[James H. Fetzer]

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The Jerusalem Post later reported that a white van with a bomb was stopped as it
approached the George Washington Bridge, but the ethnicity of the suspects was not
revealed. Here's what the Jerusalem Post reported on September 12, 2001:
American security services overnight stopped a car bomb on the George Washington
Bridge. The van, packed with explosives, was stopped on an approach ramp to the bridge.
Authorities suspect the terrorists intended to blow up the main crossing between New
Jersey and New York, Army Radio reported. (13
a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/jpost.html">http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/jpost.html> )

"...two suspects are in FBI custody after a truckload of explosives was discovered
around the George Washington Bridge ... The FBI ... says enough explosives were in the
truck to do great damage to the George Washington Bridge." WMV video download (545kB)
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It was reported the van contained tonnes of explosives (14
a href="http://archives.tcm.ie/breakingnews/2001/09/12/story23429.asp">http://archives.tcm.ie/breakingnews/2001/09/12/story23429.asp> ).
What's really intriguing is that ABC's 20/20 (15
a href="http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123885&page=1">http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123885&page=1> ), the New York Post (16
a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/forget.html">http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/forget.html> ), and the New Jersey Bergen
Record (17 a href="http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/01/12/WTC_Mysteries3.html">http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/01/12/WTC_Mysteries3.html> ) all clearly and
unambiguously reported that a white van with Israelis was intercepted on a ramp near
Route 3, which leads directly to the Lincoln Tunnel.
But the Jerusalem Post, Israeli National News (Arutz Sheva) (18
a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/forget.html">http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/forget.html> ), and Yediot America, (19
a href="http://www.gothamgazette.com/citizen/jan02/7.shtml">http://www.gothamgazette.com/citizen/jan02/7.shtml> ) all reported, just as clearly and
unambiguously, that a white van with Israelis was stopped on a ramp leading to the
George Washington Bridge, which is several miles north of the Lincoln Tunnel.
It appears as if there may actually have been two white vans involved, one stopped on
each crossing. This would not only explain the conflicting reports as to the actual
location of the arrests, but would also explain how so many credible eye-witnesses all
saw celebrating "middle-easterners" in a white van in so many different locations. It
also explains why the New York Post and Steve Gordon (lawyer for the 5 Israelis)
originally described how three Israelis were arrested but later increased the total to
five.
Perhaps one van was meant to drop off a bomb while the other was meant to pick up the
first set of drivers while re-crossing back into New Jersey? If a van was to be used as
a parked time-bomb on the GW Bridge, then certainly the drivers would need to have a
"get-away van" to pick them up and escape. And notice how the van (or vans) stayed away
from the third major crossing -the Holland Tunnel- which was where the police had
originally been directed to by that anti-Palestinian 9-1-1 "mystery caller". A classic
misdirection play.
From there, the story gets becomes even more suspicious. The Israelis worked for a
Weehawken moving company known as Urban Moving Systems. An American employee of Urban
Moving Systems told the The Record of New Jersey that a majority of his co-workers were
Israelis and they were joking about the attacks.

The employee, who declined to give his name said: "I was in tears. These guys were
joking and that bothered me." These guys were like, "Now America knows what we go
through." (20 a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/sears.html">http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/sears.html> )

A few days after the attacks, Urban Moving System's Israeli owner, Dominick Suter,
dropped his business and fled the country for Israel. He was in such a hurry to flee
America that some of Urban Moving System's customers were left with their furniture
stranded in storage facilities (21 a href="http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ca/press/storage.htm">http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ca/press/storage.htm> ).


Suter's departure was abrupt, leaving behind coffee cups, sandwiches, cell phones and
computers strewn on office tables and thousands of dollars of goods in storage. Suter
was later placed on the same FBI suspect list as 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta and
other hijackers and suspected al-Qaeda sympathizers, suggesting that U.S. authorities
felt Suter may have known something about the attacks. (22
a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/israeli_spies_911.html">http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/israeli_spies_911.html> )

The Jewish weekly The Forward reported that the FBI finally concluded that at least two
of the detained Israelis were agents working for the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence
agency, and that Urban Moving Systems, the ostensible employer of the five Israelis, was
a front operation. This was confirmed by two former CIA officers, and they noted that
movers' vans are a common intelligence cover. (23
a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/ketcham03072007.html">http://www.counterpunch.org/ketcham03072007.html> ). The Israelis were held in custody
for 71 days before being quietly released. (24
a href="http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123885&page=1">http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123885&page=1> )


"There was no question but that [the order to close down the investigation] came from
the White House. It was immediately assumed at CIA headquarters that this basically was
going to be a cover-up so that the Israelis would not be implicated in any way in
9/11." (25 a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/israeli_spies_911.html">http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/israeli_spies_911.html> )


Several of the detainees discussed their experience in America on an Israeli talk show
after their return home. Said one of the men, denying that they were laughing or happy
on the morning of Sept. 11, "The fact of the matter is we are coming from a country that
experiences terror daily. Our purpose was to document the event." (26
a href="http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123885&page=1">http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123885&page=1> )
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How did they know there would be an event to document on 9/11? It doesn't take
Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots of the dancing Israeli Mossad agents - here's the
most logical scenario:
1. The Israeli "movers" cheered the 9-11 attacks to celebrate the successful
accomplishment of the greatest spy operation ever pulled off in history. 2. One of
them, or an accomplice, then calls a 9-1-1 police dispatcher to report Palestinian
bomb-makers in a white van headed for the Holland Tunnel. 3. Having thus pre-framed the
Palestinians with this phone call, the Israeli bombers then head for the George
Washington Bridge instead, where they will drop off their time-bomb van and escape with
Urban Moving accomplices. 4. But the police react very wisely and proactively by closing
off ALL bridges and tunnels instead of just the Holland Tunnel. This move inadvertently
foils the Israelis' misdirection play and leads to their own capture and 40 day torture.
5. To cover up this story, the U.S. Justice Department rounds up over 1000 Arabs for
minor immigration violations and places them in New York area jails. The Israelis
therefore become less conspicuous as the government and media can now claim that the
Israelis were just immigration violators caught in the same dragnet as many other Arabs.
6. After several months, FBI and Justice Department "higher-ups" are able to gradually
push aside the local FBI agents and free the Israelis quietly.

Osama bin Laden was immediately blamed for the 9/11 attacks even though he had no
previous record of doing anything on this scale. Immediately after the Flight 11 hit
World Trade Center 1
CIA Director George Tenet said "You know, this has bin Laden's fingerprints all over
it." (27 a href="http://www.billstclair.com/911timeline/2002/abcnews091402.html">http://www.billstclair.com/911timeline/2002/abcnews091402.html> )
The compliant mainstream media completely ignored the Israeli connection. Immediately
following the 9-11 attacks the media was filled with stories linking the attacks to bin
Laden. TV talking-heads, "experts", and scribblers of every stripe spoon-fed a gullible
American public a steady diet of the most outrageous propaganda imaginable.
We were told that the reason bin Laden attacked the USA was because he hates our
"freedom" and "democracy". The Muslims were "medieval" and they wanted to destroy us
because they envied our wealth, were still bitter about the Crusades, and were offended
by Britney Spears shaking her tits and ass all over the place!
But bin Laden strongly denied any role in the attacks and suggested that Zionists
orchestrated the
9-11 attacks. The BBC published bin Laden's statement of denial in which he said:


"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; to the people who want to make the present century a century of conflict
between Islam and Christianity. That secret government must be asked as to who carried
out the attacks. ... The American system is totally in control of the Jews, whose first
priority is Israel, not the United States." (28
a href="http://www.public-action.com/911/oblintrv.html">http://www.public-action.com/911/oblintrv.html> )

You never heard that quote on your nightly newscast did you?

[A] number of intelligence officials have raised questions about Osama bin Laden's
capabilities. "This guy sits in a cave in Afghanistan and he's running this operation?"
one C.I.A. official asked. "It's so huge. He couldn't have done it alone." A senior
military officer told me that because of the visas and other documentation needed to
infiltrate team members into the United States a major foreign intelligence service
might also have been involved. (29
a href="http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?011008fa_FACT">http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?011008fa_FACT> )

Bin Laden is not named as the perpetrator of 9/11 by the FBI:


When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Laden?s Most Wanted web page (30
a href="http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm">http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm> ), [Rex Tomb, Chief of
Investigative Publicity for the FBI] said, ?The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on
Usama Bin Laden?s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting
Bin Laden to 9/11.? (31 a href="http://www.teamliberty.net/id267.html">http://www.teamliberty.net/id267.html> )
"So we've never made the case, or argued the case that somehow Osama bin Laden [sic]
was directly involved in 9/11. That evidence has never been forthcoming" - Dick Cheney.
(32 a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060329-2.html">http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060329-2.html> )

To date, the only shred of ?evidence? to be uncovered against bin Laden is a barely
audible fuzzy amateur video that the Pentagon just happened to find "lying around" in
Afghanistan. How very convenient, and how very fake. (33
a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/osamatape.html">http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/osamatape.html> )
There is no evidence, be it hard or circumstantial, to link the Al Qaeda "terrorist
network" to these acts of terror, but there is a mountain of evidence, both hard and
circumstantial, which suggests that Zionists have been very busy framing Arabs for
terror plots against America.

"I think there is very compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorists were
assisted not just in financing -- although that was part of it -- by a sovereign foreign
government ... It will become public at some point when it's turned over to the
archives, but that's 20 or 30 years from now" - Senator Bob Graham. (34
a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/congress/july-dec02/intelligence_12-11.html">http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/congress/july-dec02/intelligence_12-11.html> )

If the sovereign foreign government mentioned by Senator Graham was an enemy of the
United States the "compelling evidence" would not be kept secret for 20+ years.
One final point; at 09:40 on 9-11 it was reported that the Democratic Front for the
Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attacks (35
a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/features/oneyearon/timeline.html">http://www.rte.ie/news/features/oneyearon/timeline.html> ). This claim was immediately
denied by the DFLP leader Qais abu Leila who said it had always opposed "terror attacks
on civilian targets, especially outside the occupied territories." (36
a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/09/11/trade.centre.reaction/">http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/09/11/trade.centre.reaction/> )
Why would a Palestinian organisation comprising of less than 500 people (37
a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine> ) make
the suicidal move of immediately claiming responsibility for the attacks?


Sharon and the other Israeli leaders aspire to fulfil 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." (38
a href="http://www.workers.org/ww/2003/palestine0109.php">http://www.workers.org/ww/2003/palestine0109.php> )

The implication of Palestinians in the 9/11 attacks would have handed Zionists a golden
opportunity to achieve the above because all Palestinians would have been labelled
terrorists.


"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about
evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information." US official quoted in
Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring
a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/spyring.html">http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/spyring.html> .
"By way of deception, thou shalt do war"
Motto of the Mossad


See also:
Federal Assistance to Recipient URBAN MOVING SYSTEMS INC
a href="http://www.fedspending.org/faads/faads.php?&recip_id=903577&sortby=u&datype=T&reptype=r&database=faads&detail=0">http://www.fedspending.org/faads/faads.php?&recip_id=903577&sortby=u&datype=T&reptype=r&database=faads&detail=0>
2002: Police Seize Rental Truck With TNT Traces Driven By Israelis
a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/arrested_israelis2.html">http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/arrested_israelis2.html>
Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel
a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/975574.html">http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/975574.html>
Zionist Circles Benefit From WTC Collapse
a href="http://www.americanfreepress.net/Censored/26_Zionist_Circles_Benefit_From.htm">http://www.americanfreepress.net/Censored/26_Zionist_Circles_Benefit_From.htm>
Israel and 9/11 - Index of What Really Happened
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January 2000 (B): A DEA government document later leaked to the press [DEA report, 6/01
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/dea0601.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/dea0601.html> ] suggests that a large Israeli
spy ring starts penetrating the US from at least this time, if not earlier. This ring,
which will later become popularly known as the "art student spy ring," is later shown to
have strange connections to the events of 9/11. [Insight, 3/11/02
a href="http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/207209.html">http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/207209.html> ]


February 6, 2000: India's largest newsweekly reports that it appears a recent Mossad
attempt to infiltrate al-Qaeda failed when they were stopped by Indian customs officials
on their way to Bangladesh. These 11 men appeared to be from Afghanistan, but had
Israeli passports. One expert states, "It is not unlikely for Mossad to recruit 11
Afghans in Iran and grant them Israeli citizenship to penetrate a network such as Bin
Laden's. They would begin by infiltrating them into an Islamic radical group in an
unlikely place like Bangladesh." [The Week, 2/6/00
a href="http://www.the-week.com/20feb06/events2.htm">http://www.the-week.com/20feb06/events2.htm> ] If this shows that Mossad was trying to
infiltrate al-Qaeda, did they make other attempts that succeeded, and if so, is this how
they learned enough to know where to trail al-Qaeda in the US via the "art student spy
ring"?


April 19, 2000: USA Today states that "Israeli crime groups ... dominate distribution"
of Ecstasy. [USA Today, 4/19/00
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2000/usatoday041900.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2000/usatoday041900.html> ] The DEA also states that
most of the Ecstasy sold in the US is "controlled by organized crime figures in Western
Europe, Russia and Israel." [UPI, 10/25/01
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/upi102501.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/upi102501.html> ] According to DEA documents,
the Israeli "art student" spy ring" has been linked to several ongoing DEA [Ecstasy]
investigations in Florida, California, Texas and New York now being closely coordinated
by DEA headquarters." [Insight, 3/11/02
a href="http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/207209.html">http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/207209.html> ] In addition to
9/11 connections explored later, was this spy ring meant to obstruct DEA prosecution of
Israeli organized crime?


December 2000-April 2001: According to later German reports, "a whole horde of Israeli
counter-terror investigators, posing as students, [follow] the trails of Arab terrorists
and their cells in the United States ... In the town of Hollywood, Florida, they
[identify] ... Atta and Marwan Alshehhi as possible terrorists. Agents [live] in the
vicinity of the apartment of the two seemingly normal flight school students, observing
them around the clock." Supposedly, around April, the Israeli agents are discovered and
deported, terminating the investigation. [Der Spiegel, 10/1/02
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/derspiegel100102.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/derspiegel100102.html> ] However, 80 additional
agents are apprehended between June and December 2001 [Fox News, 12/12/01
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/foxnews121201.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/foxnews121201.html> ] and even more have been
uncovered since (see May 7, 2002
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelineafter2001.html#a050702">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelineafter2001.html#a050702> ). Did the
surveillance of Atta and others in fact end in April? Other reports have implied the
story and connection (see March 5, 2002
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelineafter2001.html#a030502spyring">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelineafter2001.html#a030502spyring> ).
Supposedly, the Mossad waits until late August 2001 before informing the CIA what it
learns, and the CIA doesn't take the warning seriously (see August 23, 2001
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelinebefore911.html#a082301mossad">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelinebefore911.html#a082301mossad> ).


March 23, 2001: The Office of National Drug Control Policy issues a National Security
Alert describing "apparent attempts by Israeli nationals to learn about government
personnel and office layouts." This later comes to light through a leaked Drug
Enforcement Agency (DEA) document called "Suspicious Activities Involving Israeli Art
Students at DEA Facilities." A crackdown ensues and by June around 120 Israelis are
apprehended. More are apprehended later. [Read the document here: DEA report, 6/01
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/dea0601.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/dea0601.html> ]


June 2001 (G): A 60-page internal memo on the Israeli "art student" spy ring is prepared
by the DEA's Office of Security Programs. [Read the memo here: DEA report, 6/01
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/dea0601.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/dea0601.html> ] The memo is a compilation of
dozens of field reports, and was meant only for the eyes of senior officials at the
Justice Department (of which the DEA is adjunct), but it is leaked to the press around
December 2001. The report connects the spies to efforts to foil investigations into
Israeli organized crime activity involving the importation of the drug Ecstasy. The
spies also appear to be snooping on top secret military bases. For instance, on April
30, 2001, an Air Force alert was issued from Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City
concerning "possible intelligence collection being conducted by Israeli Art Students."
Tinker AFB houses AWACS surveillance craft and Stealth bombers. By the time of the
report, the US has "apprehended or expelled close to 120 Israeli nationals" but many
remain at large. [Le Monde, 3/5/02
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/lemonde030502.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/lemonde030502.html> , Salon, 5/7/02
] An additional 20 or so Israeli
spies are apprehended between June and 9/11. [Fox News, 12/12/01
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/foxnews121201.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/foxnews121201.html> ]


August 8-15, 2001: At some point between these dates, Israel warns the US that an
al-Qaeda attack is imminent. [Fox News, 5/17/02
a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53065,00.html">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,53065,00.html> ] Two high ranking agents from the
Mossad come to Washington and warn the FBI and CIA that from 50 to 200 terrorists have
slipped into the US and are planning "a major assault on the United States." They say
indications point to a "large scale target", and that Americans would be "very
vulnerable." They add there could be Iraqi connections to the al-Qaeda attack.
[Telegraph, 9/16/01
a href="http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/16/wcia16.xml">http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/16/wcia16.xml> , Los
Angeles Times, 9/20/01
a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-092001probe.story">http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-092001probe.story> , Ottawa Citizen,
9/17/01 a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/ottawacitizen091701.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/ottawacitizen091701.html> ] The Los
Angeles Times later retracts the story after a CIA spokesman says, "There was no such
warning. Allegations that there was are complete and utter nonsense." [Los Angeles
Times, 9/21/01 a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-092101mossad.story">http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-092101mossad.story> ]
In light of later revelations of a Mossad spy ring trailing numerous Muslim terrorists
in the US, it is easy to see that Mossad would have known this info. Could this be later
disinformation by the Mossad to spin the spy ring story and blame Iraq for 9/11, or it
is another smoking gun showing extensive US foreknowledge?


August 23, 2001: According to German newspapers, the Mossad gives the CIA a list of
terrorists living in the US and say that they appear to be planning to carry out an
attack in the near future. It is unknown if these are the 19 9/11 hijackers or if the
number is a coincidence. However, four names on the list are known and are names of the
9/11 hijackers: Nawaf Alhazmi, Khalid Almihdhar, Marwan Alshehhi, and Mohamed Atta. [Die
Zeit, 10/1/02 a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/diezeit100102.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/diezeit100102.html> , Der
Spiegel, 10/1/02 a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/derspiegel100102.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/derspiegel100102.html> , BBC,
10/2/02 a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/2294487.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/2294487.stm> , Haaretz, 10/3/02
a href="http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=215843&contrassID=1&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0">http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=215843&contrassID=1&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0> ] The Mossad appears to have learned about this through its "art student" spy ring (see for instance, March 5, 2002 a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelineafter2001.html#a030502spyring">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelineafter2001.html#a030502spyring> ). Yet apparently this warning and list are not treated as particularly urgent by the CIA and also not passed on to the FBI. It's not clear if this warning influenced the adding of Alhazmi and Almihdhar to a terrorism watch list on this same day, and if so, why only those two. [Der Spiegel, 10/1/02 a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/derspiegel100102.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/derspiegel100102.html> ] Israel has denied that there were any Mossad agents in the US. [Haaretz, 10/3/02 a href="http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=215843&contrassID=1&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0">http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=215843&contrassID=1&subContrassID=0&sbSubContrassID=0> ] The US has denied knowing about Atta before 9/11, despite other media reports to the contrary (see January-May 2000 a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelinebefore2001.html#a0100atta">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelinebefore2001.html#a0100atta>
).


September 4, 2001 (D): Zim-American Israeli Shipping Co. moves their North American
headquarters from the 16th floor of the WTC to Norfolk, Virginia, one week before the
9/11 attacks. The Israeli government owns 49 percent of the company. [Virginian-Pilot,
9/4/01 a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/virginianpilot090401.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/virginianpilot090401.html> ] Zim
announced the move and its date six months earlier. [Virginian-Pilot, 4/3/01
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/virginianpilot040301.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/virginianpilot040301.html> ] More than 200
workers had just been moved out; about 10 are still in the building making final moving
arrangements on 9/11, but escape alive. [Jerusalem Post, 9/13/01
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/jerusalempost091301.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/jerusalempost091301.html> , Journal of
Commerce, 10/18/01
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/journalofcommerce101801.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/journalofcommerce101801.html> ] The move leaves
only one Israeli company, ClearForest, with 18 employees, in the WTC on 9/11. The four
or five employees in the building at the time manage to escape. [Jerusalem Post, 9/13/01
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/jerusalempost091301.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/jerusalempost091301.html> ] One year later, a
Zim ship is impounded attempting to ship Israeli military equipment to Iran; it is
speculated that this is done with the knowledge of Israel. [AFP, 8/29/02 (B)
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/afp082902b.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/afp082902b.html> ] Given the Israeli government
ties, the Odigo warning (see September 11, 2001 (C)
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelinebefore911.html#a091101odigo">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelinebefore911.html#a091101odigo> ), and the
Israeli art student spy ring (see December 2000-April 2001
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelinebefore2001.html#a1200spyring">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelinebefore2001.html#a1200spyring> ), some
have speculated that the move was more than just lucky.


September 10, 2001 (B): An Army School of Advanced Military Studies issues a report
written by elite US army officers, which is made public just prior to 9/11. The report
gives the following description for the Mossad: "Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has
capability to target US forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act."
[Washington Times, 9/10/01
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/washingtontimes091001.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/washingtontimes091001.html> ] After 9/11 and
revelations of a large Mossad spy ring operating mysteriously in the US, some suggest
that the Mossad did in fact do just that on 9/11.


September 11, 2001 (C): Two employees of Odigo, Inc., in Israel, receive warnings of an
imminent attack in New York City around two hours before the first plane hits the WTC.
Odigo, one of the world's largest instant messaging companies, has its headquarters two
blocks from the WTC. The Odigo Research and Development offices where the warnings were
received are located in Herzliyya, a suburb of Tel Aviv. Israeli security and the FBI
were notified immediately after the 9/11 attacks began. The two employees claim not to
know who sent the warnings. "Odigo service includes a feature called People Finder that
allows users to seek out and contact others based on certain interests or demographics.
[Alex] Diamandis [Odigo vice president of sales and marketing] said it was possible
that the attack warning was broadcast to other Odigo members, but the company has not
received reports of other recipients of the message." [Ha'aretz, 9/26/01
a href="http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744&contrassID=/has%5C">http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744&contrassID=/has%5C>
, Washington Post, 9/27/01 (C)
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/wpost092701c.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/wpost092701c.html> ] FTW
a href="http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/02_11_02_lucy.html">http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/02_11_02_lucy.html> Odigo claims the warning
did not specifically mention the WTC, but the company won't say what was specified,
claiming, "Providing more details would only lead to more conjecture." [Washington Post,
9/28/01 a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/wpost092801.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/wpost092801.html> ] Odigo gave the FBI
the internet address of the message's sender so the name of the sender could be found.
[Deutsche Presse-Agentur, 9/26/01
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/deutschepresseagentur092601.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/deutschepresseagentur092601.html> ] Two months
later it is reported that the FBI is still investigating the matter, but there have been
no reports since. [Courier Mail, 11/20/01
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/couriermail112001.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/couriermail112001.html> ] Could the message
have been a mass e-mail sent to a large group? Could this be related to the "art
student spy ring"? Did the o!
riginal
senders directly inform the FBI as well, and if not, why not?


September 11, 2001 (G): The 9/11 attack: four planes are hijacked, two crash into the
WTC, one into the Pentagon, and one crashes into the Pennsylvania countryside. At least
3,000 people are killed. A more detailed timeline focusing on the hours of this attack
appears on a separate page a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/dayof911.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/dayof911.html> .


September 11, 2001 (W): Five Israelis are arrested for "puzzling behavior" related to
the WTC attacks. They are arrested around 4:30 P.M. after having filmed the burning WTC
from the roof of their company's building near Liberty State Park, then shouting in what
was interpreted as cries of joy and mockery. They were spotted by a neighbor who called
the police and the FBI. The police tracked them down in a van with the words "Urban
Moving Systems" written on the side. [Bergen Record, 9/12/01
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/bergenrecord091201.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/bergenrecord091201.html> , Ha'aretz, 9/17/01
a href="http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=75266&sw=mockery%20">http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=75266&sw=mockery%20> ]
One man was found with $4,700 in cash hidden in his sock, another had two passports on
him, and a box cutter was found in the van. [ABC News, 6/21/02
a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/DailyNews/2020_whitevan_020621.html">http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/DailyNews/2020_whitevan_020621.html> ] Investigators
say that "There are maps of the city in the car with certain places highlighted... It
looked like they're hooked in with this. It looked like they knew what was going to
happen." [Bergen Record, 9/12/01
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/bergenrecord091201.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/bergenrecord091201.html> ] One of these
Israelis later says, "Our purpose was to document the event." [ABC News, 6/21/02
a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/DailyNews/2020_whitevan_020621.html">http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/DailyNews/2020_whitevan_020621.html> ] The FBI later
concludes at least two are Mossad agents and that all were on a Mossad surveillance
mission. The FBI interrogates them for weeks. [Forward, 3/15/02
a href="http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.03.15/news2.html">http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.03.15/news2.html> ] They are held on immigration
violation charges and released 71 days later. [ABC News, 6/21/02
a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/DailyNews/2020_whitevan_020621.html">http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/DailyNews/2020_whitevan_020621.html> ] Their names
are later identified as Sivan and Paul Kurzberg, Oded Ellner, Omer Marmari and Yaron
Shmuel. [Forward, 3/15/02 a href="http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.03.15/news2.html">http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.03.15/news2.html> ]


September 11, 2001 (BB): Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when asked
what the 9/11 attacks mean for relations between the US and Israel, replies, "It's very
good." Then he edited himself: "Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate
sympathy." [New York Times, 9/12/01
a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/international/12ISRA.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/international/12ISRA.html> ] A week later, the
Village Voice states, "From national networks to small-town newspapers, the view that
America's terrible taste of terrorism will finally do away with even modest calls for
the restraint of Israel's military attacks on Palestinian towns has become an instant,
unshakable axiom. ... Now, support for Israel in America is officially absolute, and
Palestinians are cast once again as players in a global terrorist conspiracy." [Village
Voice, 9/19/01 a href="http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0138/solomon.php">http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0138/solomon.php> ]


September 14, 2001 (approx.): According to Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker, a few days
after 9/11 members of the elite Israeli counter-terrorism unit Sayeret Matkal arrive in
the US and begin training with US Special Forces in a secret location. The two groups
are developing contingency plans to attack Pakistan's military bases and remove its
nuclear weapons if the Pakistani government or the nuclear weapons fall into the wrong
hands. [New Yorker, 10/29/01 a href="http://www.newyorker.com/PRINTABLE/?FACT/011105fa_FACT">http://www.newyorker.com/PRINTABLE/?FACT/011105fa_FACT> ]
There may have been threats to enact this plan on September 13, 2001 (see September
11-16, 2001
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelineafter911.html#a091101extended">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelineafter911.html#a091101extended> ). The
Japan Times later notes that this "threat to divest Pakistan of its 'crown jewels' was
cleverly used by the US, first to force Musharraf to support its military campaign in
Afghanistan, and then to warn would-be coup plotters against Musharraf." [Japan Times,
11/10/01 a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/japantimes111001.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/japantimes111001.html> ] Note the
curious connection between Sayeret Matkal and one of the 9/11 passengers on Flight 11
(see September 11, 2001 (X)
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelineafter911.html#a091101gun">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelineafter911.html#a091101gun> ).


September 14, 2001 (K): Dominick Suter, owner of the company Urban Moving Systems, flees
the country to Israel. The FBI later tells ABC News that "Urban Moving may have been
providing cover for an Israeli intelligence operation." Suter has been tied to the five
Israeli agents caught filming the WTC attack. The FBI had questioned him around
September 12, removing boxes of documents and a dozen computer hard drives. But when
they returned a few days later, Suter is gone (see September 11, 2001 (W)
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelineafter911.html#a091101spy">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelineafter911.html#a091101spy> ). [Forward,
3/15/02 a href="http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.03.15/news2.html">http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.03.15/news2.html> , New Jersey Department
of Law and Public Safety, 12/13/01 a href="http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ca/press/storage.htm">http://www.state.nj.us/lps/ca/press/storage.htm> ,
ABC News, 6/21/01
a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/DailyNews/2020_whitevan_020621.html">http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/DailyNews/2020_whitevan_020621.html> ]


September 29-30, 2001: Police in the Midwest stop six men carrying suspicious
documents. They possess photos and descriptions of a nuclear power plant in Florida and
the Trans-Alaska pipeline, and also have "box cutters and other equipment." All six have
Israeli passports. They are let released the same day after their passports are shown
to be valid, but before anyone interviews them. The FBI is reportedly furious about
their release. [Miami Herald, 10/3/01
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/miamiherald100301.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/miamiherald100301.html> , Knight Ridder,
10/31/01 a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/knightridder103101.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/knightridder103101.html> , London
Times, 11/2/01 a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/londontimes110201.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/londontimes110201.html> ] The
six men may have been Mossad agents. In addition to snooping on the DEA and Muslim
terrorists, some Mossad agents in the "art student" spy ring have been caught trying to
break into military bases and other top secret facilities. [Salon, 5/7/02
] Perhaps they were gathering
information, not planning a hijack?


October 16, 2001 (C): Two men, Moshe Elmakias and Ron Katar, are arrested after being
found with a detailed video of the Sears Tower in Chicago. In addition, a woman named
Ayelet Reisler is found with them, carrying conflicting identification information. They
are arrested for illegal dumping, using a van with the name Moving Systems Incorporated.
The video contains extensive zoom in shots of the Sears Tower; it is not known when the
video was filmed. [Philadelphia Mercury, 10/18/01
a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/mercury_101801.html">http://www.zwire.com/site/mercury_101801.html> ] Given the moving van cover (see
September 11, 2001 (W)
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelineafter911.html#a091101spy">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelineafter911.html#a091101spy> and [DEA
report, 6/01 a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/dea0601.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/dea0601.html> ]), and the Jewish
names, it is likely these three are part of the Israeli spy ring. Could they have been
videotaping the Sears Tower on 9/11 in the expectation that it would be hit by a plane?
Had Flight 93 not been delayed 40 minutes on the runway and stayed on course, it would
have been near Chicago at the same time as the other attacks, and it turned towards
Washington 20 minutes after the FAA informed the military that the plane had been
hijacked.


November 20, 2001: The five Israelis arrested on 9/11 for videotaping the WTC attack and
then cheering about it (see September 11, 2001 (W)
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelineafter911.html#a091101spy">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelineafter911.html#a091101spy> ) are
released and return to Israel. Some of the men's names appeared in a US national
intelligence database, and the FBI concluded that at least two of the men were working
for the Mossad, according to ABC News. But the FBI says that none of them had any
advanced knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, and they were released as part of a deal between
the US and the Israel government. After their release they claim to have been tortured.
[Forward, 3/15/02 a href="http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.03.15/news2.html">http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.03.15/news2.html> , ABC News,
6/21/02 a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/DailyNews/2020_whitevan_020621.html">http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/DailyNews/2020_whitevan_020621.html> ]


November 23, 2001 (B): The Washington Post reports, "At least 60 young Israeli Jews have
been arrested and detained around the country on immigration charges since the Sept. 11
attacks, many of them held on US government officials' invocation of national security."
An INS official who requested anonymity says the use of the term "special interest" for
Israelis being held in Cleveland, St. Louis and other places means the case in question
is "related to the investigation of September 11th." [Washington Post, 11/23/01
a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A3879-2001Nov22&notFound=true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A3879-2001Nov22&notFound=true> ] Could this be more "art school" spy ring
activity?


December 12-15, 2001: Fox News broadcasts a remarkable series about the Israeli "art
student" spy ring. The report mentions that at least 60 more Israelis have been detained
or arrested since 9/11. "There is no indication that the Israelis were involved in the
9/11 attacks, but investigators suspect that the Israelis may have gathered intelligence
about the attacks in advance, and not shared it." When a government source is asked if
the Israeli spies knew about the 9/11 attacks before they happened, he responds "The
principal question is 'how could they have not known?'" "Investigators within the DEA,
INS and FBI have all told Fox News that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying ... is
considered career suicide." A highly placed investigator says there are 'tie-ins'
between the spy ring and 9/11. But when asked for details, he flatly refuses to describe
them, saying, 'evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you
about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information.'" The report also
reveals that Amdocs, an Israeli company, is recording virtually every phone call in the
US and could be passing information on to the Israeli government (similar claims were
first raised in 2000 [Insight, 5/29/00
a href="http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/160595.html">http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/160595.html> ]). Fox News
suggests they might be using this position to impede the 9/11 investigation. [Fox News,
12/12/01 a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/foxnews121201.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/foxnews121201.html> ]


December 16, 2001: Fox News removes its series on the "art student" spy ring (see
December 12-15, 2001
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelineafter911.html#a121201cameron">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/main/timelineafter911.html#a121201cameron> ) from
its website after only two days, in response to pressure from the Jewish Institute for
National Security Affairs (JINSA), the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Committee for
Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) and others (see for instance,
[CAMERA, 12/12/01 a href="http://world.std.com/%7Ecamera/docs/alert/cameron.html">http://world.std.com/%7Ecamera/docs/alert/cameron.html> , CAMERA,
12/13/01 a href="http://world.std.com/%7Ecamera/docs/alert/fox2.html">http://world.std.com/%7Ecamera/docs/alert/fox2.html> ]). CAMERA for instance,
suggests the reporter "has something, personally, about Israel... Maybe he's very
sympathetic to the Arab side." [Salon, 5/7/02
] The head of the ADL calls the
report "sinister dangerous innuendo which fuels anti-Semitism." [Forward, 12/21/01
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/forward122101.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/forward122101.html> ] Yet there doesn't appear
to be any substance to these personal attacks (and Forward later reverses its stance on
the spy ring [Forward, 3/15/02 a href="http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.03.15/news2.html">http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.03.15/news2.html>
]). Fox News also never makes a formal repudiation or correction about the series. The
contents of the series continues to be mostly ignored by the mainstream media, but it
makes a big impact inside the US government. For instance, an internal DEA communiqué
from December 18 mentions the Fox report by name, and warns of security breaches in
telecommunications as described in the Fox report. [Salon, 5/7/02
]


Intelligence Digest, 3/15/02 ] March 6,
2002: A Washington Post article completely denies the existence of any Israeli spy ring.
A "wide array of US officials" supposedly deny it, and Justice Department spokeswoman
Susan Dryden says: "This seems to be an urban myth that has been circulating for months.
The department has no information at this time to substantiate these widespread reports
about Israeli art students involved in espionage." [Washington Post, 3/6/02
a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/wpost030602.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/wpost030602.html> ] The New York Times fails
to cover the story at all, even months later. [Salon, 5/7/02
] By mid-March, Jane's, the respected
British intelligence and military analysis service, notes: "It is rather strange that
the US media seems to be ignoring what may well be the most explosive story since the 11
September attacks - the alleged breakup of a major Israeli espionage operation in the
USA." [Jane's Intelligence Digest, 3/13/02
]

March 11, 2002: A newspaper reports that the DEA study on Israeli "art students"
determined the "students" all had "recently served in the Israeli military, the majority
in intelligence, electronic signal intercept or explosive ordnance units." [Palm Beach
Post, 3/11/02 a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/palmbeachpost031102.html">http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2002/palmbeachpost031102.html> ]

May 7, 2002: In the middle of the night a moving truck is pulled over for speeding in
Oak Harbor, Washington, near the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station. The base is the home
of the advanced electronic warfare Prowler jets. A bomb-sniffing dog detects explosives
on one of the men and inside the truck. High-tech equipment is then later used to
confirm the presence of TNT on the gearshift and RDX plastic explosive on the steering
wheel. Both men turn out to be Israeli (one with an altered passport), and in the
country illegally. [Fox News, 5/13/02 a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,52681,00.html">http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,52681,00.html>
] However, later the FBI clears the two men, saying both the dog and the tests just
detected false positives from "residue left by a cigarette lighter." [Seattle
Post-Intelligencer, 5/14/02
a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/70305_explosives14.shtml">http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/70305_explosives14.shtml> , Jerusalem Post, 5/14/02
a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/Full&cid=1021378902350">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/Full&cid=1021378902350> ] The "art student spy ring" frequently uses moving vans as cover, and has been caught spying on the most top secret military bases. [Salon, 5/7/02 ] In a possibly related story, the Seattle FBI office that handled this case appears to have been broken into a few weeks later, and even a room containing evidence was penetrated. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 7/29/02 a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/80403_fbi29.shtml">http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/80403_fbi29.shtml> ] Does it not appear that the spy ring is still active, and the FBI is covering up for them and releasing them, no matter what they're caught doing?

[James H. Fetzer]

I have reposted all three parts and the links, which went missing before, are present in Parts I and II, if not III.

[James H. Fetzer]

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