Did They Know?
Instant Messages To Israel
Warned Of WTC Attack
Odigo Clarifies
Attack Messages
4000 Israelis worked at
World Trade Center/ Only one Israeli death
Suspected Israeli Spies Held by U.S.
Instant Messages To Israel Warned
Of WTC Attack
By Brian McWilliams, Newsbytes
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A.,
27 September 2001, 11:48 AM CST
Officials at instant-messaging firm Odigo confirmed today that
two
employees received text messages warning of an attack on the
World
Trade Center two hours before terrorists crashed planes into the
New
York landmarks.
Citing a pending investigation by law enforcement, the company
declined to reveal the exact contents of the message or to
identify
the sender.
But Alex Diamandis, vice president of sales and marketing,
confirmed
that workers in Odigo's research and development and
international
sales office in Israel received a warning from another Odigo
user
approximately two hours prior to the first attack.
Diamandis said the sender of the instant message was not
personally
known to the Odigo employees. Even though the company usually
protects the privacy of users, the employees recorded the
Internet
protocol address of the message's sender to facilitate his or
her
identification.
Soon after the terrorist attacks on New York, the Odigo
employees
notified their management, who contacted Israeli security
services.
In turn, the FBI was informed of the instant message warning.
FBI
officials were not immediately available for comment today.
The Odigo service includes a feature called People Finder that
allows users to seek out and contact others based on certain
interests or demographics. Diamandis said it was possible that
the
attack warning was broadcast to other Odigo members, but the
company
has not received reports of other recipients of the message.
In addition to operating its own messaging service network,
Odigo
has licensed its technology to over 100 service providers,
portals,
wireless carriers, and corporations, according to the company.
Odigo is online at http://www.odigo.com .
Reported by Newsbytes, http://www.newsbytes.com .
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© 2001 The Washington Post Company
Odigo
Clarifies Attack Messages
By Brian McWilliams, Newsbytes
NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A.,
28 September 2001, 4:19 PM CST
An official at Odigo today made a more substantial comment on
warnings the instant messaging firm received prior to the September
11
terrorist attacks.
The company's vice president of sales and marketing
acknowledged
that messages warning of attacks were received but would not
comment
on the contents of the messages. He had replied to a question
about
whether he could confirm that Odigo had received messages
warning
about the World Trade Center attacks.
A sender in the alt.politics.bush newsgroup had written on
Tuesday
that Odigo workers received messages two hours before the Twin
Towers attack on September 11 predicting the attack would happen.
The
incident was also the subject of a report in the Ha'aretz daily
newspaper in Israel, which on Wednesday quoted Odigo CEO Micha
Macover as saying that "two workers received the messages
predicting
the attack would happen."
Odigo Vice President of Sales and Marketing Alex Diamandis told
Newsbytes Thursday that he could not comment on the text or
origin
of the message, but said that the sender of the instant message
was
not personally known to the Odigo employees. Even though the
company
usually protects the privacy of users, Odigo recorded the
Internet
protocol address of the message's sender to facilitate his or
her
identification, he said.
The Odigo workers, based in the company's research and
development
and international sales office in Israel, were signed on to the
same
Odigo messaging server used by worldwide users of the company's
free, Odigo-branded messaging software, Diamandis said today.
Diamandis today in a telephone interview also said the warning
message did not identify the World Trade Center as the attack
target. Diamandis declined to reveal any other information
contained
in the message, including whether the warning named the targets
for
the attack.
"Providing more details would only lead to more conjecture," he
said.
He did confirm that soon after the terrorist attacks on New
York,
the Odigo employees notified their management, who contacted
Israeli
security services. In turn, the FBI was informed of the
instant-message warning.
The Odigo service includes a feature called People Finder that
allows users to seek out and contact others based on certain
interests or demographics. Diamandis said Thursday that it was
possible the attack warning was broadcast to other Odigo
members,
but the company has not received reports of other recipients of
the
message.
In addition to operating its own messaging server network, Odigo
has
licensed its technology to over 100 service providers, portals,
wireless carriers and corporations, according to the company.
Odigo is at http://www.odigo.com .
Reported by Newsbytes.com, http://www.newsbytes.com .
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Reposted 16:37 CST
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BUSINESS/WTCINVESTIGATION/PHOTO)
© 2001 The Washington Post Company
4000 Israelis worked at World
Trade Center/ Only one Israeli death
by
David Duke
The Washington Times ran a story on September 10, 2001 about a
68-page study issued by the U.S. Army School for Advanced Military
Studies (SAMS). The study, issued by the elite Army officer’s
school, detailed the dangers of a possible U.S. Army occupational
force in the Mideast. Here is article’s comment about the study’s
view of the Israeli Mossad:
Of the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, the SAMS officers say: "Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act."
Ironically, within 24 hours of the story’s publication, the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon was attacked. Could the
“ruthless and cunning Mossad,” as the U.S. Army officers describe
it, covertly have been behind the attack?
The Mossad is the most ruthless terrorist organization in the
entire world. It is also one of the largest and most sophisticated
intelligence organizations. No other nation comes even close to its
scope and power in the Mideast region. It prides itself on
infiltrating every sizable militant Palestinian and Arabic
organization on earth. Knowing these facts, there can be little
doubt the Mossad has deeply penetrated one of the oldest, largest
and what is considered the most dangerous Arabic terrorist
organization on earth; bin Laden’s al-Qaida.
Furthermore, the FBI and the CIA have clearly stated that the
attack on the WTC and Pentagon was a huge covert operation using an
international network of at least a hundred terrorists, spanning
three continents. Could Mossad agents in al-Qaida as well as the
rest of Mossad’s vast network of thousands of infiltrators and
informants, not have known about the most extensive and ambitious
Arabic terrorist operation in history?
It is, of course, extremely difficult to prove the precise role
of a secretive, foreign intelligence organization, such as the
Mossad, in a terrorist act; they don’t brag about their exploits on
the Internet. But, powerful evidence is mounting that Israelis had
foreknowledge of the September 11th attack on America. And, if
indeed they had foreknowledge of these murderous acts of terrorism
– and then had the cold-blooded mentality not to warn the United
States because they saw a horrendous massacre of thousands of
Americans as good for Israel - it follows that they would have felt
no restraint from actually instigating and covertly aiding this
terrorist plan through their own agent provocateurs. Let’s look at
the hard evidence indicating the Mossad had foreknowledge of the
September 11 attack.
Evidence of Mossad Treachery in the WTC
Attack
The day after the attack on the World Trade Center, the
Jerusalem Post, the most respected and famous Israeli newspaper in
the world, reported that 4000 Israelis were missing in the attack
on the WTC. The Foreign Ministry compiled the number from Israeli
relatives, who in the first few hours after the attack, contacted
the Israeli Foreign Ministry and gave the names of Israeli friends
and relatives who worked in the WTC or who had business scheduled
in it or its adjacent structures. Even without seeing the article
in the Jerusalem Post, logic alone would tell you that there would
be many hundreds, if not thousands of Israelis in the World Trade
Center at the time of the attacks. The international Jewish
involvement in banking and finance is legendary. For instance, two
of the richest firms in New York are Goldman-Sachs and the Solomon
Brothers; and both firms have offices in the Twin Towers. Many
executives in these firms regularly commute back and forth to
Israel. New York is the center of world-wide Jewish financial
power, and the World Trade Center is at its epicenter. One would
naturally expect the Israeli death toll to be catastrophic. The
Jerusalem Post certainly thought so on September 12, 2001. Here is
the beginning of its article:
Thousands of Israelis missing near WTC,
Pentagon
The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem has so far received the names of 4,000 Israelis believed to have been in the areas of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon at the time of the attack. (The headline and first sentence of the Jerusalem Post article) (33)
When George Bush made his speech before Congress, it turns out
that he made a significant error other than saying that the WTC
attackers did it because they “hated freedom.” Bush made a point to
say that in addition to thousands of Americans, 130 Israelis died
in the WTC. The implication was to say that Israel shared in our
suffering, and that we and Israel are in this thing together. Upon
hearing the number of 130 Israeli dead, it seemed suspiciously low
to me. If 4000 Israelis were at the WTC and the WTC death toll was
about 4500 (about 10 percent of the 45,000 people normally in the
buildings at that time), the Israeli toll should have statistically
been around 400 and not 130.
As a place for doing business and for employment, the world Trade
Center was not a minimum wage or a MacDonald’s kind of place; it
had highly paid, high tech and high level jobs and executive
positions primarily in international finance, banking and stock
trading. I asked myself how there could be only 130 Israelis dead,
while there were an estimated 199 dead from Columbia and 428 from
the Philippines?
In previous articles I wrote on the September 11 terror, I did
not allude to these suspicions, because I have always taken pride
in not writing anything I could not firmly substantiate. But, while
researching this article on Israeli terrorism against Palestine and
America, I discovered the most shocking fact I have ever run across
in all my years of research and writing. I discovered a simple fact
that has enormous ramifications in regard to the September terror
attack.
Searching through hundreds of articles trying to track down the
true Israeli death toll, I found a New York Times piece that
clarified the precise number of Israelis who died in the World
Trade Center attack. It turned out that of the 130 Israelis
President Bush claimed had died in the World Trade Center, 129 of
them were still alive. Only one Israeli had actually died. I was
incredulous. “Good God,” I said to myself, “only one Israeli!” Here
is the pertinent excerpt from the NY Times:
But interviews with many consulate officials Friday suggested that the lists of people they were collecting varied widely in their usefulness. For example, the city had somehow received reports of many Israelis feared missing at the site, and President Bush in his address to the country on Thursday night mentioned that about 130 Israelis had died in the attacks.
But Friday, Alon Pinkas, Israel's consul general here, said that lists of the missing included reports from people who had called in because, for instance, relatives in New York had not returned their phone calls from Israel. There were, in fact, only three Israelis who had been confirmed as dead: two on the planes and another who had been visiting the towers on business and who was identified and buried. (New York Times, Sept. 22) (34)
The very low death toll of 130 suggested that a number of
Israelis at the Trade Center had been warned before the attack.
When I found out the truth that only one Israeli had died, there
could be no doubt that there had been a prior warning for many
Israelis. Having only one Israeli casualty among the 4500 dead at
the WTC is simply a statistical impossibility. Even if the Israeli
Foreign Ministry and the Jerusalem Post had grossly overestimated
the number of Israelis in the World Trade Center by say 3,000 (400
percent), there still should have still been 1,000 Israelis there
at the time of the attacks. Again, even if only a few hundred
Israelis were present at the time of the attack, only one Israeli
death occurring there is statistically absurd. Either September 11
had to be a big Jewish holiday, or a number of Israeli citizens had
some advance warning of the impending attack.
Prior Warning to Israelis
The next thing I researched was to see if there were any
confirmed warnings to Israelis prior to the attack. I quickly found
an article in Newsbytes, a news service of the Washington Post,
titled “Instant Messages To Israel Warned of WTC attack.”(35) The
Israeli daily, Ha'aretz, also confirmed the prior warnings to
Israel and confirmed that the FBI is investigating the
warnings.(36) The articles detailed that an Israeli messaging firm,
Odigo, with offices in both the World Trade Center and in Israel,
received a number of warnings just two hours before the
attack.
Instant Messages To Israel Warned Of WTC Attack
Officials at instant-messaging firm Odigo confirmed today that two employees received text messages warning of an attack on the World Trade Center two hours before terrorists crashed planes into the New York landmarks.
But Alex Diamandis, vice president of sales and marketing, confirmed that workers in Odigo's research and development and international sales office in Israel received a warning from another Odigo user approximately two hours prior to the first attack. (From the Washington Post’s Newsbytes)
So now we have powerful and convincing evidence from impeccable
sources that Israel had foreknowledge of the attack. First, without
a prior warning, there could not have been only a single Israeli
victim at the World Trade Center. Secondly, there is clear
confirmation that a company with offices in both Israel and the WTC
received warnings immediately prior to the attack.
Who would have warned Israelis of the impending attack, if not
Israel’s Mossad? The fact that Israel’s government had prior
knowledge of the pending attack and had warned potential Israeli
victims, but then deliberately let thousands of Americans die –
makes the Israelis just as responsible for the carnage as the Arab
attackers of the WTC.
What's good for Israel is bad for
America
You can be sure that joy rose in the hearts of all Israeli
terrorists as they witnessed the smoke plume from the twin towers.
The FBI even arrested five Israelis on a rooftop nearby the twin
towers, videotaping and cheering the entire event.(37) They knew
that American and world resistance to Israel’s Supremacism and
terrorism plummeted right along with the collapse of the towers of
the World Trade Center. Perhaps the most telling statement was when
a NY Times reporter questioned the former Israeli, Benjamin
Netanyahu, a man every bit as radical as Ariel Sharon. Here are the
words of the excited former Israeli Prime Minister:
Asked tonight what the attack meant for relations between the United States and Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister, replied, "It's very good." Then he edited himself: "Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy. (38)
The World Trade Center Attack was obviously very good for
Israel; in fact, Israel is the only nation who benefited from it.
Israel’s fifty-year record of unrelenting terrorism became
completely overshadowed by the horror and the visual magnitude of
this one spectacular terrorist attack. When the Jewish-dominated
American media repeatedly showed a few, long-suffering Palestinians
celebrating the attacks, Palestinians became unfairly painted as
behind the Trade Center terror, even though every Palestinian
organization condemned it, and not a single Palestinian was proven
to be involved.
Of course, it was America that suffered most of all, with almost
5000 dead, a wrecked economy, and the worst restrictions against
Constitutional liberties in American history. The Lavon Affair, the
Attack on the Liberty, and the spying of Jonathon Pollard, and the
murder of 5000 Americans on September 11th -- were all good for
Israel, but terribly bad for the United States.
When will America come to finally understand that what is good
for the terrorist state of Israel is destructive and even deadly
for the United States of America.?
33
Jerusalem Post.
(2001). Thousands of Israelis missing near WTC, Pentagon. Sept.
12.
34 Lipton, Eric.
(2001). Estimates of toll may be too high. New York Times.
September 22
35
McWilliams, Brian. (2001) Instant Messages To Israel Warned Of WTC
Attack. Newsbytes. September 27.
36 Dror, Yuval. (2001). Odigo says workers were warned of
attack. Ha'aretz. Sept 29.
37 Melman, Yossi. (2001). 5 Israelis detained for `puzzling
behavior' after WTC tragedy. Ha’aretz. Oct. 14
38 Bennet, James. (2001). Spilled
Blood Is Seen as Bond That Draws 2 Nations Closer. NY Times.
International section. Sept.
12.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40679,00.html
Suspected Israeli Spies Held by U.S.
Wednesday, December 12, 2001
By Carl Cameron
WASHINGTON — Some 60 Israelis, who federal investigators have said
are part of a long-running effort to spy on American government
officials, are among the hundreds of foreigners detained since the
Sept. 11 terror attacks, Fox News has learned.
The Israelis, a handful of whom are described as active Israeli
military or intelligence operatives, have been detained on
immigration charges or under the new Patriot Anti-Terrorism Law.
Federal investigators said some of them failed polygraph questions
inquiring about alleged surveillance activities against and in the
United States.
There is no indication the Israelis were involved in the Sept. 11
attacks, but investigators suspect that they may have gathered
intelligence about the attacks in advance and not shared it.
A highly placed investigator told Fox News there are "tie-ins," but
when asked for details flatly refused to describe them. "Evidence
linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified, I cannot tell you about
evidence that has been gathered. It is classified information," the
source said.
An Israeli Embassy spokesman offered categorical denials, and said
any suggestion of Israelis spying on or in the United States is
simply not true.
But Fox News has learned that one group of Israelis spotted in North
Carolina recently is suspected of keeping an apartment in California
to spy on a group of Arabs who the U.S. authorities are investigating
for links to terrorism.
Numerous classified documents obtained by Fox News indicate that even
prior to September 11, as many as 140 other Israelis had been detained or
arrested in a secretive and sprawling investigation into suspected
espionage by Israelis in the United States.
Investigators from numerous government agencies are part of a working
group that has been compiling evidence in the case since the mid-
1990s. These documents detail hundreds of incidents in cities and
towns across the country that investigators say quote "may well be an
organized intelligence-gathering activity."
Investigators are focusing part of their efforts on Israelis who said
they are art students from the University of Jerusalem or Bezalel
Academy and repeatedly made contact with U.S. government personnel by
saying they wanted to sell cheap art or handiwork.
Documents say they "targeted" and penetrated military bases, the Drug
Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigations,
dozens of government facilities and even secret offices and unlisted
private homes of law enforcement and intelligence personnel.
Another part of the investigation has resulted in the detention and
arrest of dozens of Israelis working at kiosks in American malls,
where they had been selling toys called "Puzzlecar" and "Zoomcopter."
Investigators suspected a front. Shortly after the New York Times and
Washington Post reported the detentions of Israelis on immigration
charges last month, the carts began vanishing.
Why would Israelis spy in and on the United States?
A General Accounting Office investigation referred to Israel as
Country A and said, "According to a U.S. intelligence agency, the
government of country A conducts the most aggressive espionage
operation against the U.S. of any U.S. ally."
A Defense Intelligence report said Israel has a "voracious appetite
for information."
"The Israelis are motivated by strong survival instincts which
dictate every facet of their political and economic policies," the
DIA report said. "It aggressively collects military and industrial
technology and the U.S. is a high priority target.
"Israel possesses the resources and technical capability to achieve
its collection
objectives," the document concludes.
URL...
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