Re: Of course, his conclusions are pretty naive. I seriously doubt the Israelis warned the U.S. The 5 Israelis who were filming and celebrating the WTC attack are proof of their desire to see this attack go through.
Indeed, why would Israeli intelligence tip off the FBI about a low-key, REGULAR hijack setup devised in part by Israeli intelligence?? Besides, the whole scheme was compartmentalized both at the tactical level and staff level. I mean, the Russians didn't give the French and the Israelis advance notice of their plot to kill Massoud on Sept 9th.
That's why I think the whole story about that Israeli spy-ring is both an intimation to Israel and, somehow, a diversionary subplot... By releasing that kind of anti-Israel infos, the US is making clear to Israel that even Israel won't be immune from retaliation. After all, the only foreign leader who stands head and shoulders above all others is British PM Tony Blair --"our true friend" as Prez Bush put it-- not PM Ariel Sharon...
Altogether, it's a diversionary subplot artfully spinned by the FBI since it's very likely that the actual Israeli operatives wouldn't have been so stupid to monkey around in Manhattan's outskirts on Sept 11th... Moreover, a story about Israeli/Jewish agents spying on the US is no newsbreak! And, as you pointed out, the whole yarn winds up with a rather bathetic conclusion: the Israeli spy-ring was secretly tailing M. Atta and his gang because it suspected they were Bin Laden operatives, yet selfishly "failed" to warn US intelligence... How does US law call that again? Reckless endangerment? Correct? And what sanction does it call for? A slap on the wrist?
As far as I'm concerned, I'll stick to my Russian/French/Israeli theory: 911 was a cointelpro conspiracy that was initially devised as a low-key terrorist strike against the US. Tajik warlord Ahmad Shah Massoud was the linchpin between the Russian supremo and the Arab manpower... When he got killed on Sept 9th, his hijack cells in the US understood that they just got screwed --in less than 24 hours, however, they whipped up a Plan B. So, they scrapped the plan to hijack international flights --too risky-- and switched on domestic ones (hence Moussaoui got left holding the bag... and his useless Boeing-747 license).
Of course, you might still gainsay that they could just quit the whole boodle and do a runner. Well, problem is that they ain't your usual terrorist gang: they were Muslim warriors and probably swore by Allah and his prophet Muhammad that they were gonna carry on their mission to the end --even if it meant suicide/martyr. Besides, they surmised that the people who killed Massoud were all the more able to dispose of them in the future... they'd have no place to hide.
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