Wonder if Israel is planning another 9/11 in Australia?
(Remember the Israel/Jewish spy cells discovered immediately after 9/11? Some 200 Israeli Jews were arrested working from dozens of Israeli espionage cells.)
Huunt for Israeli spy's in Austrailia
Another Illegal act by a rogue nation.
The nation's spy-catchers are investigating a suspected Israeli spy ring in Australia.
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation has been investigating the suspected cell for up to a month.
Two Israeli citizens appeared in an Auckland court on Friday charged with passport fraud.
One of them, Eli Cara, claimed to be a Sydney travel agent. He has travelled to New Zealand 24 times since October 2000.
Cara, 50, and Zoshe Kelman, 30, faced three charges after being arrested in a police sting operation late last March.
Another Israeli, Zev William Barkan, 37, escaped from NZ. A fourth man is believed to be in hiding.
The men are suspected of being Mossad agents, who allegedly were gathering fake NZ passports.
Fake passports are used by intelligence bodies to help their agents travel undercover.
Mossad, the Israeli secret service, has been accused previously of illegally using Canadian passports.
A spokesman for Attorney-General Philip Ruddock confirmed yesterday that ASIO had been investigating the matter.
He said ASIO had been in touch with its NZ counterparts.
He said the two Israelis had applied for a passport using the birth certificate of a person with cerebral palsy.
NZ police staged a surveillance operation of the site where the passport was sent on March 23. The two Israelis were also staking out the site, but were then arrested.
Cara was sitting in a cafe, while Kelman was arrested walking away after throwing his mobile phone into a bush.
After the pair was released on bail, Cara denied being a Mossad agent when asked about his arrest.
Intelligence sources told the Sunday Herald Sun that the NZ arrests would have set off alarm bells at ASIO headquarters in Canberra.
If Israel had gone to the trouble of setting up a genuine business in Sydney as a front for spying, then that would be an extraordinary step, a source said.
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