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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: frankw1900 who wrote (13362)12/9/2001 10:23:40 AM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Then the US has one very big bone to pick with Israel, doesn't it?

Well, I've discussed my views on this at length previously.

But in a nutshell, I've compared such a scenario to Churchill's awareness of the Japanese plan to attack Pearl Harbor, due to Britain's ability to break both their naval and diplomatic code. There would have been little chance they didn't know.

As for Israel, they did provide a measure of warning, but were not specific. They merely stated that there were approx 200 Al-Qaida members operating in the US planning a large attack. Thus, they did provide a measure of "warning" to the US.

But for them to provide more specificity might have actually compromised whatever source they had in place obtaining such information, and would be unwilling to share such a source with the US for their own national security reasons. (US and Israeli intelligence are naturally distrustful of one another when it comes to sharing the identity of their most valuabe field operatives).

And it would not be in their national interest to warn the US. They would desire another "Pearl Harbor" paradigm that would irrefutably bring the US in on their side of this war against the extremists.

But I reject the possibility that the WTC attacks were part of a complex covert operation where Israelis may have penetrated Al-Qaida to the extent that they could task their assets to conduct specific terrorist attacks.

Hawk
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