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08.09.03, 15:42
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What Did Israel Know?
But the most remarkable warnings of all come from Israel. The issue of
Israeli foreknowledge of 9/11 is highly controversial. The story is too
complicated to go into detail here, but a number of respected publications
(for instance, Fox News, 12/12/01, Forward, 3/15/02, ABC News, 6/21/02,
Salon, 5/7/02, Ha'aretz, 5/14/02, Le Monde, 3/5/02, Reuters, 3/5/02, AP,
3/5/02, AP, 3/9/02, Cox News, 3/5/02, Guardian, 3/6/02, Independent, 3/6/02,
New York Post, 3/6/02, Jane's Intelligence Digest, 3/15/02) have written
about an Israeli "art student" spy ring operating in the US for several years
before 9/11. The name "art student" is used because most of these scores of
spies were posing as college art students. There have been suggestions that
some of these Israeli spies lived close to some of the 9/11 hijackers. For
instance, a US Drug Enforcement Administration report from before 9/11 noted
that Israeli spies were living in the retirement community of Hollywood,
Florida at 4220 Sheridan Street, which turned out to be only a few hundred
feet from lead hijacker Mohamed Atta's residence at 3389 Sheridan Street (see
the DEA report, 6/01). Israeli spies appear to have been close to at least
ten of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers. [Salon, 5/7/02] In fact, Forward, the
most widely circulated publication in the US targeting the Jewish audience,
has admitted the spy ring existed, and that its purpose was to track Muslim
terrorists operating in the US. [Forward, 3/15/02]
Some have claimed that the existence of this spy ring shows that Israel was
behind the 9/11 attacks, an argument that is beyond the scope of this essay.
But if the mainstream media is to be believed, Israel gave the US several
specific warnings of the 9/11 attacks. In the second week of August 2001, two
high-ranking agents from the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, came to
Washington and warned the CIA and FBI that 50 to 200 al-Qaeda terrorists had
slipped into the US and were planning an imminent "major assault on the US"
aimed at a "large scale target" [Telegraph, 9/16/01, Los Angeles Times,
9/20/01, Ottawa Citizen, 9/17/01 Fox News, 5/17/02]. Near the end of August,
France also gave a warning that was an "echo" of Israel's. [Fox News, 5/17/02]
In October 2002, the story broke in Europe and Israel that on August 23,
2001, the Mossad had given the CIA a list of 19 terrorists living in the US.
The Mossad had said that the terrorists appeared to be planning to carry out
an attack in the near future. It is unknown if these are the same 19 names as
the actual hijackers, or if the number is a coincidence. However, the four
names on the list that are known are names of the 9/11 hijackers: Nawaf
Alhazmi, Khalid Almihdhar, Marwan Alshehhi, and Mohamed Atta. [Die Zeit,
10/1/02, Der Spiegel, 10/1/02, BBC, 10/2/02, Ha'aretz, 10/3/02] These are
also probably the four most important of the hijackers (and two of the
pilots). From them, there were many connections to the others. The CIA had
already been monitoring three of them overseas the year before, and two,
Alhazmi and Almihdhar, were put on a watch list the same day the Mossad gave
this warning. [AFP, 9/22/01, Berliner Zeitung, 9/24/01, Observer, 9/30/01,
New York Times, 9/21/02]
Such detailed warnings of exact names fit in well with the reports that
Israeli spies were tracking the hijackers for months before 9/11. Yet, as
Jane's Intelligence Digest put it, "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..." [Jane's Intelligence Digest, 3/13/02] The spy ring
story did get a little coverage in the US, but more recent stories claiming
that Israel knew the exact names of at least some of the hijackers hasn't
been reported here at all. Perhaps the story is too controversial for the US
media to touch?
