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Posted on 03/04/2002 5:15:00 AM PST by RCW2001
US breaks up major Israeli spy ring US authorities have broken a network of Israeli spies living in the United States who were burrowing into the justice and defence departments. Intelligence Online, a French website specialising in intelligence matters, said it had exclusive access to a US justice department report that showed "a huge Israeli spy ring operating in the United States was rolled up by the Justice Department's counter-espionage service" last year. Around 120 Israelis were arrested or deported as a result of the top-secret operation, which it said had began in April last year and was ongoing. The website said the ring was active in the states of Arkansas, California, Florida and Texas, and was made up of around 20 cells of between four and eight members who were aged between 22 and 30 and had recently completed Israeli military service in an army intelligence division. It named several Israelis alleged to be the espionage operatives, including three of 13 Israeli "art students" it said were arrested in the Texan city of Irving on March 26 and 27 last year. Intelligence Online editor-in-chief Guillaume Dasquie told AFP the network had been trying "to penetrate justice department and defence department systems" through drug-fighting agencies such as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which has access to files from other US departments. "The DEA plays a central role in counter-espionage because of its internal security service, the Office of Security Programs, which was the first to notice the unusual behaviour of young Israeli nationals among its agents," Dasquie said. His website said the network's objectives included some of the most sensitive sites in the United States, such as the Tinker Air Force Base located close to Oklahoma City. It said the US Air Force had requested the help of the Justice Department last May in the investigation against the Israelis. Dasquie said US investigators were concerned by indications that some of the alleged Israeli spies had been based in the same US cities as people suspected of having helped in the logistics of the devastating September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. For instance, it had been established, he said, that a dozen Israelis, including the alleged surveillance leader, had been based in the Florida town of Hollywood between January and June last year. US authorities have arrested another dozen people "suspected of being tasked with the logistics of preparing the September 11 attacks" in the same area, he noted. Dasquie stressed, however, that the "troubling" coincidence was still only one theory being looked into and that there was not enough information to determine whether Israel's Mossad secret service had been aware of the preparations for the September attacks. "It has to be verified if these teams were in the same place at the same time before hypotheses are built up," he said.
March 04, 2002, 01:33 PM TABRIYYEH
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Anyone know of such a 'statement'???
Fox News Recycles Bogus anti-Israel Story
'In a deeply flawed report aired December 11th on Brit Hume’s Special Report, Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron alleged, without naming a single source, that some of the roughly 60 Israelis arrested in law enforcement sweeps since the September terror attacks are suspected of being intelligence operatives engaged, among other things, in spying on Arabs living in the United States.
Cameron also alleged that US intelligence officials believe some of the plotters involved in the September 11 attacks were based in California and were being watched there by Israeli agents, and that Israel therefore “must have known” of their plans, but nonetheless failed to issue any warnings to the US.
These charges are arrant nonsense unworthy of the usually reliable Fox News. This is especially true because Cameron was well aware that similar allegations against detained Israelis have been shot down as baseless by no less an authority than Attorney General John Ashcroft.'
Do you have quotes to back up this claim?
Given the idiotic, chaotic, and despotic state of ALL the American intelligence services, it is entirely possible that young Mossad agents are placed here as a sort of final test before getting their real spy papers.
Hey, if they screw up here, what's the big deal? Pass the pretzels.
Precisely. Also, there is no reason to antagonize our Arab allies, as tenuous as the alliances may be, as we pursue our war against the real enemies of America. It is not in the interest of the US to declare war against the entire Arab world.
So one wonders why Israel, and Israeli zealots who are attmpting to work Americans into an anti-Arab lather, are doing everything in their power to place a wedge in the relationships we have with Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Iman, Kuwait, the new government of Afghanistan, etc.
I think I know the answer, but I'll let you come to your conclusions as to why the Israelis are seeking a Christian/Jew alliance against Islam rather than letting us pursue strategic extraction of known enemies.
"The only good Muslim is a dead Muslim."
You have to get with the program. Now that we're at "war" it's perfectly ok to disparage anyone who disagrees with us including Americans.
Attorney General John Ashcroft dismisses a newspaper report that federal agents were searching for six men carrying Israeli passports. (Reuters - Israel Insider)
'U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft dismissed a newspaper report that federal agents were searching for six men with Israeli passports who had been carrying material about a nuclear power plant in Florida and an Alaskan pipeline. "To the best of my knowledge that's a story and nothing more," Ashcroft told reporters. "I don't have any reason to believe it to be true."
He was referring to a report in The Miami Herald, which said agents were searching for the men, who reportedly had been detained in the Midwest but later released. "We have absolutely no information at this point in time to substantiate that story," said Russ Bergeron, spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Ashcroft also refuted claims in the story that he and FBI Director Robert Mueller were "furious" that the INS had allowed the men to be released. "As a matter of fact, I hadn't even known about the situation until I read about my response in the newspaper,'' Ashcroft said.'
Hmmmmmmm...yet this nation hears very little from the American Arab community, from the Arab 'leaders in the form of condemnation of the worldwide Arab terrorism activities. Why is that?
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