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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (9737)	1/26/2005 6:43:52 AM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Israeli espionage operations conducted in the U.S. are not unknown. There is the infamous case of Jonathan Pollard, whose betrayal of U.S. secrets led to the execution of an unknown but not small number of American agents inside the Soviet Union during the Cold War era. There is the more recent case involving the America Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and a Pentagon analyst by the name of Larry Franklin, in addition to the Fox News reports of December 2001, by Carl Cameron, which detailed an extensive Israeli spy network in this country and began with this startling assertion: "Since Sept. 11, more than 60 Israelis have been arrested or detained, either under the new PATRIOT anti-terrorism law, or for immigration violations. A handful of active Israeli military were among those detained, according to investigators, who say some of the detainees also failed polygraph questions when asked about alleged surveillance activities against and in the United States. "There is no indication that the Israelis were involved in the 9/11 attacks, but investigators suspect that they Israelis may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance, and not shared it. A highly placed investigator said there are 'tie-ins.' But when asked for details, he flatly refused to describe them, saying, 'evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information.'" It turned out 200 Israelis were caught up in a post-9/11 sweep and later deported. Some were detained for months and underwent intensive interrogation. I have covered this neglected aspect of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath extensively in this space, and even written a short book on the subject, but never have I said or meant to imply that the Israelis were directly involved in terrorist activities, including the 9/11 attacks. I have only been willing to go as far as Cameron and Fox News did, back in the winter of 2001, to the effect that the Israelis knew a lot more about the events leading up to 9/11 than they ever told us. antiwar.com