Posted on 10/31/2001 8:49:58 PM PST by American_Patriot_For_Democracy
The FBI is conducting a manhunt for six men carrying Israeli passports who are suspected of plotting terror attacks in the United States - and who were released by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service after having been under arrest, according to the Knight-Ridder news service.
The six were arrested over the weekend in a state in the Midwest while traveling in two cars, and were found to have photographs and information about a Florida nuclear reactor and the Alaska pipeline, the news agency reported. There are three nuclear reactors in Florida. They also had "suspicious equipment," including box-cutter knives similar to those used by the hijackers on September 11, Knight-Ridder said.
But the six, who were decribed as having Israeli passports and a "Middle Eastern look," were released after INS officials decided that their passports and visas were valid. According to the Miami Herald, the INS released the men without consulting the FBI - or reporting the arrests. When FBI director Robert Mueller heard about the incident, he was "furious."
However, the newspaper also quoted the INS as calling the report that it had allowed the release of the six "unconfirmed." And a spokesman for the company operating the Alaskan pipeline, which carries some 17 percent of all the oil in the U.S., said he did not know of any threat to the pipe.
An Israeli embassy spokesman in Washington said he knew about the affair from the newspaper, but American authorities had made no formal contact with the embassy about the matter.
If you actually read the article you'll see that they took it directly from the now defunct Knight-Ridder wire.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, you moron.
1) Arab terrorists who stole or forged Israeli passports???
2) Israeli agents provacateur???
The middle east is a snake pit of intrigue that few westerners can really ever understand.
Offer him some pork rinds, if he accepts, you have narrowed it down.
I was a journalist before I retired and I learned that some low-level person who works for a government agency can pick up a rumor off the internet, he can casually mention it to a reporter friend of his, and a careless reporter will sometimes report the rumor as coming from an “un-named government source”. I’ve seen this happen several times.
By the way, some of those same rumors are also on Michael Rivero’s website. Remember him? He used to spread his anti-American propaganda right here, and I fought him diligently for several months. He claims the Israelis and the CIA were behind the 911 bombings. I don’t think Rivero is an Arab. I think he is some kind of leftist or Marxist who will publish any lie to harm our government and our country. He’s currently supporting the Taliban on his website.
On another Arab website yesterday, there was a long story about how Israeli agents were flying the hijacked airplanes by remote control when they crashed them into the buildings. The funny thing was that the Arab who wrote the article said that Arabs weren’t “smart enough” to pull off the hijacking. He said only Israelis were “smart enough” to do it, so apparently some Arabs realize that the Israelis are smarter than Islamic Arabs.
You clever dog.. There's no foolin you, is there?
No.
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