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Dr. William Pierce
6/30/2002 (11:21)
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Mossad and the Jewish Problem
By Dr. William Pierce

Hello!

For several years I have been warning in these broadcasts about the
growing infiltration and subversion of American law-enforcement agencies
by Jewish pressure groups. This process, which has been going on at a
significant rate for more than two decades, accelerated during the
Clinton administration, especially after the Oklahoma City bombing in
1995, when Jewish groups put themselves forward as 'experts on
terrorism,' based on their experience in repressing Palestinians and on
their undercover snooping into dissident groups in the United States.
They offered training seminars to the FBI and other Federal police
agencies, to various military units, and to state and local police
agencies.

'We will show you how to recognize terrorists and potential terrorists
and how to deal with them. We will tell you about these dangerous
dissident organizations, these 'hate' groups, and we will help you to
prevent another terrorist bombing, such as the one carried out by
Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City,' the Jewish groups told the police and
military agencies. The most visible of these groups was the
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, but as we will see, there also
were other, less visible Jewish groups at work.

Never mind that Timothy McVeigh had not belonged to any dissident group
but had acted solely as an angry individual determined to send the
government a message that its behavior in massacring the members of the
Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas, would not be tolerated. Never
mind that the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish groups offering
their services really were pushing the military and law-enforcement
agencies to shift their emphasis toward the investigation and repression
of dissidents and the enforcement of a brand-new category of laws --
so-called 'hate crime' and 'speech crime' laws -- rather than toward the
prevention of terrorism.

Never mind those things; it was the Clinton era, and Bill Clinton had
brought more Jews into the government than any previous President. Jews
were riding high in the Clinton administration, from Monica Lewinsky to
Madaleine Albright. When the Jews wanted something, the Jews got it, and
smart bureaucrats, including those in the military and law-enforcement
agencies, knew better than to ask questions.

Bill Clinton's extraordinary partiality to Jews lasted right up to the
moment he left office, with a vastly disproportionate number of the
last-minute pardons and commutations of sentences he issued on January
20 last year going to Jewish criminals. The most notorious of these was
the international Jewish super-swindler Marc Rich, who was able to
persuade the head Jew in the Anti-Defamation League, Abe Foxman, to
intercede with Clinton on his behalf.

All of this partiality has served Mr. Clinton well. In his first year
after leaving office, he received $9.2 million in speaking fees, most of
it from Jewish organizations. He received $400,000 last year from one
Jewish organization alone, the Jewish National Fund, for three speeches.
More than nine million dollars for some 70 speeches during the course of
a year. Fascinating, isn't it? You can find more information on Mr.
Clinton's career as a speaker to Jewish groups for huge fees in the June
18 issue of the New York Times, if you look carefully enough.

Well, that was Bill Clinton, a Democrat and a flamboyantly crooked
lawyer from Arkansas who appealed to the lowest elements in the
electorate and had a love affair with the Jewish mass media. Most voters
hoped for more from George Bush and the Republicans. Unfortunately, what
we've gotten is more of the same. In fact, Jewish infiltration and
subversion of our military and law-enforcement agencies has proceeded
even faster since Mr. Bush took office. Bush certainly doesn't need the
money from speaking fees, but he nevertheless has given virtual run of
the government to Jews. Under Mr. Bush as under Mr. Clinton, what the
Jews want the Jews get, and no one in the government has the courage or
the integrity to challenge this situation.

We talked last week about the FBI turning loose 200 Israeli espionage
agents it arrested in the United States last year and about its refusal
to arrest the anthrax terrorist, who killed five people and terrorized
the whole country with his mailings of anthrax-infected letters. In the
anthrax case the FBI still is putting on a big show of trying to find
the perpetrator. FBI spokesmen claim that more personnel and resources
are allocated to catching the anthrax terrorist than to any other case
except the 9/11 attack itself. I claim that this is all a fraud: that
the FBI knows who the perpetrator is but has orders not to arrest him,
because he is a Jew who carried out the anthrax mailings in an attempt
to cast suspicion on Muslims and generate public hostility against
Israel's enemies. If this became public knowledge, there would be a
substantial drop in support among ordinary Americans for Israel and for
Mr. Bush's current war in the Middle East.

The big question is, why would the FBI go along with such a coverup?
Even with orders directly from Attorney General John Ashcroft or from
George Bush himself, any FBI official who went along with the coverup
would be taking a huge risk. Why do that for the sake of Israel? Who
would protect the FBI people involved if the coverup got blown? The
'partnership' between the Anti-Defamation League and the FBI that both
ADL National Director Abe Foxman and FBI Director Robert Mueller have
been bragging about doesn't seem enough to account for such a flagrant
dereliction of duty on the part of the FBI. Surely, someone in the FBI
would blow the whistle.

Actually, someone has blown the whistle, but you'd hardly know it from
reading the news. Of course, there's been much coverage of one recent
FBI whistle-blower, Coleen Rowley, a special agent in the FBI's
Minneapolis field office, in connection with FBI officials ignoring
reports she sent to Washington headquarters last August -- that was
before the September 11 attack -- about a suspected terrorist, Zacarias
Moussaoui, who was attempting to learn to fly 747 jets. But there's been
very little coverage of another FBI whistle-blower, Sibel Edmonds, and
the coverage of her far more alarming revelations has been quite
cryptic, to say the least.

There was a story in the Washington Post ten days ago, on June 19, about
several FBI whistle-blowers, one of whom was Sibel Edmonds, who worked
as a translator of wiretapped messages in the FBI's Washington, DC,
office. Despite her name, Edmonds is, in fact, a Jewess. But she is a
rare Jewess, without a very strong sense of loyalty to her tribe.
Indeed, an alarmingly high percentage of the FBI's wiretap translators
are Jews, and nearly all of them who translate Middle Eastern languages
are Jews. Most of these have a much stronger sense of their Jewishness
than does Edmonds, as Edmonds found out when they tried to recruit her
into the Mossad, Israel's super-secret agency for espionage, terror, and
assassination.

The Washington Post story relates her account of the recruitment
attempts in cryptic language that clearly is intended to avoid
mentioning the words 'Jew,' 'Israel,' or 'Mossad,' lest our gallant,
little democratic ally in the Middle East or its partisans in this
country be cast in a bad light. I'll now read to you the relevant
portions of that June 19 story in the Washington Post. I quote:

'That whistle-blower, Sibel Edmonds, 32, a former wiretap translator in
the Washington field office, raised suspicions about a co-worker's
connections to a group under surveillance. Under pressure, FBI officials
have investigated and verified the veracity of parts of Edmonds' story,
according to documents and people familiar with an FBI briefing of
congressional staff. . . . The FBI confirmed that Edmonds' co-worker had
been part of an organization that was a target of top-secret
surveillance and that the same co-worker had 'unreported contacts' with
a foreign government official subject to the surveillance . . . .

'The FBI said it was unable to corroborate an allegation by Edmonds that
she was approached to join the targeted group. Edmonds said she told
Dennis Saccher, a special agent in the Washington field office who was
conducting the surveillance, about the co-worker's actions and Saccher
replied, 'It looks like espionage to me.' Saccher declined to comment
when contacted by a reporter.

'Edmonds was fired in March after she reported her concerns. Government
officials said the FBI fired her because her 'disruptiveness' hurt her
on-the-job 'performance.' Edmonds says she believes she was fired in
retaliation for reporting on her co-worker.

'Edmonds began working at the FBI in late September [of last year]. In
an interview she said she became particularly alarmed when she
discovered that a recently hired FBI translator was saying that she
belonged to the Middle Eastern organization whose taped conversations
she had been translating for FBI counterintelligence agents. Officials
asked that the name of the target group not be revealed for national
security reasons. . . .

'Edmonds said that on several occasions the translator tried to recruit
her to join the targeted foreign group. 'This person told us she worked
for our target organization,' Edmonds said in an interview. 'These are
the people we are targeting, monitoring.'

'Edmonds would not identify the other translator, but the Post has
learned from other sources that she is a 33-year-old U.S. citizen whose
native country is home to the target group. Both Edmonds and the other
translator are U.S. citizens who trace their ethnicity to the same
Middle Eastern country. Reached by telephone last week, the woman, who
works under contract for the FBI's Washington field office, declined to
comment.

'In December, Edmonds said the woman and her husband, a U.S. military
officer, suggested during a hastily arranged visit to Edmonds' Northern
Virginia home on a Sunday morning that Edmonds join the group. 'He said,
'Are you a member of the particular organization?'' Edmonds recalled the
woman's husband saying. ''It's a very good place to be a member. There
are a lot of advantages of being with this organization and doing things
together' -- this is our targeted organization -- 'and one of the
greatest things about it is you can have an early, an unexpected, early
retirement. And you will be totally set if you go to that specific
country.''

'Edmonds also said the woman's husband told her she would be admitted to
the group, especially if she said she worked for the FBI. Later, Edmonds
said, the woman approached her with a list dividing up individuals whose
phone lines were being secretly tapped: Under the plan the woman would
translate conversations of her former co-workers in the target
organization, and Edmonds would handle other phone calls. Edmonds said
she refused and that the woman told her that her lack of cooperation
could put her family in danger.

'Edmonds said she also brought her concerns to her supervisor and other
FBI officials in the Washington field office. When no action was taken,
she said, she reported her concerns to the FBI's Office of Professional
Responsibility, then to Justice's inspector general.

''Investigations are being compromised,' Edmonds wrote to the inspector
general's office in March. 'Incorrect or misleading translations are
being sent to agents in the field. Translations are being blocked and
circumvented.'

'Government officials familiar with the matter who asked not to be
identified said that both Edmonds and the woman were given polygraph
examinations by the FBI and that both passed.' -- end of quote --

I'm sorry that the cryptic language made that report more difficult to
understand than it otherwise would have been: a certain unnamed 'Middle
Eastern country,' an unnamed co-worker of Sibel Edmonds who is a native
of that unnamed Middle Eastern country, an unnamed 'target organization'
in that unnamed Middle Eastern country, and so on. The Washington Post
tells us that the cryptic language is necessary 'for national security
reasons.' That's certainly a phony excuse. Do you really believe that
the folks in the Israeli Embassy reading this article can't figure out
who is being talked about? The real reason for not mentioning names is
not to keep the Mossad from finding out that they're being investigated;
it's to keep any Sally Soccermoms or Joe Sixpacks who might stumble
across the story on their way to the comic strips or the sports pages
from getting a clue as to who's really calling the shots at the FBI
these days.

Let me just run over the scenario again. After the Oklahoma City
bombing, during a time when the FBI was being criticized for letting the
bombing happen, Jewish groups promoted themselves as 'experts' on
terrorism and offered to train FBI agents and other law-enforcement and
military personnel. One of these Jewish groups was the Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith, a group heavily involved in illegal activity and
with longstanding ties to Jewish organized crime figures, such as
international super-swindler Marc Rich and Las Vegas gangster Moe
Dalitz. Another of these Jewish groups was Israel's espionage and terror
organization, Mossad, which specializes in the assassination of Israel's
enemies in other countries, using letter bombs, car bombs, exotic
poisons, and trained hit-men armed with silencer-equipped submachine
guns.

The impropriety of FBI involvement with either of these Jewish
organizations should have been obvious, but in the Clinton era no
bureaucrat in Washington dared say anything critical of Jews or Israel.
George Bush has a different style, but no more scruples than Bill
Clinton. By the time he became President the corruption had proceeded so
far that it was easy for him to decide to join it instead of trying to
lick it. And early in his administration another major terrorist event
-- that of September 11 -- gave Jewish groups another rationale for
strengthening their 'partnership' with U.S. law-enforcement agencies.
With Anti-Defamation League agents working on the outside and redefining
the types of criminal activity with which the FBI should concern itself,
and Mossad agents working inside and preempting for themselves all
investigations of interest to Israel, including all investigations of
Israeli espionage, it is no wonder that the FBI's efficiency, morale,
and prestige have plummeted, and things that would have been unthinkable
a decade ago -- such as refusing to prosecute the members of the largest
espionage ring ever broken up in the United States and engaging in an
internal coverup of the anthrax terrorism case -- could occur.

This is a depressing situation -- and as I have warned repeatedly, an
extremely dangerous situation. We are in grave danger of losing all of
our remaining liberty and soon thereafter becoming extinct as a people,
as a race. There certainly is no hope at all of rectifying this
situation from the top, through the elected politicians and the top
bureaucrats. Did you hear George Bush make his pronouncement on Monday
about the conflict between the Jews and the Palestinians? Yasser Arafat,
the elected leader of the Palestinians, must go because he has been
'tainted by terrorism.' Anyone who, like Arafat, has condoned terrorism
is unacceptable as a negotiating partner for the Israelis and must be
replaced by someone who has clean hands. Really! I can imagine all of
the Jewish leaders, including that 'man of peace,' as Bush calls him,
Ariel Sharon, rolling on the floor with laughter during Bush's
statement. I would not be surprised if it were Sharon himself, the
Butcher of Beirut, the mass murderer of Palestinian women and children,
the preeminent terrorist and war criminal in the Middle East, who wrote
that statement for Bush.

George Bush is a man utterly without honor, without principles, without
a shred of genuine patriotism or racial loyalty. As long as the Jewish
media continue to give him good press, he is perfectly content to be
Ariel Sharon's step'n'fetchit and to say and do whatever he is told to
say and do. Underneath Bush is Attorney General John Ashcroft, a nutcase
religious fanatic whose historical role model is Tomas de Torquemada and
who believes that the Jews can do no wrong because that's what it says
in the Bible. And then there is FBI Director Robert Mueller, a pitiful
specimen of an unprincipled career bureaucrat indeed, a man who is
completely unperturbed by the ongoing Jewish subversion and takeover of
the FBI.

Our one basis for hope is the fact that the takeover is not yet
complete. If it were complete, there would be no debate, no
investigation by some FBI agents of the Mossad, no newspaper articles
with cryptic language like the one I read to you from the Washington
Post. The fact is there are many FBI special agents who are not happy
about what is being done to the FBI. And there are hundreds of thousands
of perceptive and intelligent White Americans who also are not happy.
Unfortunately, very few of these people have the courage to do or even
say anything about what is happening.

And there is one other factor besides a lack of courage, although it is
a related factor, and that is the inability to address our problem in a
truly fundamental way, a truly radical way. There are many patriotic
Americans who would be alarmed to learn that a foreign espionage
organization, the Mossad, has infiltrated the FBI and is able to subvert
the FBI's operations, but there are fewer patriotic Americans willing
and able to draw the necessary conclusions about the overall role of
Jews in America. They see the problem as simply a problem with the
Mossad. They resist tying the Mossad problem to the Anti-Defamation
League problem and to the problem of Jewish influence in the government
generally. They resist seeing the connection between the problem of
Jewish influence in the government and Jewish influence in the mass
media of news and entertainment.

They resist seeing these things because to see them, to examine them, to
think about them and draw conclusions from them, is to become
anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic. And they have been so strongly conditioned
against that for so long that they simply can't deal with it. Many who
are brave enough and honest enough to speak out about a Mossad problem
cannot even think about the much larger Jewish problem of which the
Mossad problem is only a relatively small part. And as long as we refuse
to think about the problem, as long as we are afraid to think about it,
we cannot hope to solve it.

And really, we'd better begin thinking about this problem very soon.
Time is running out for America and for our people.

Thanks for being with me again today.
reply by
Nazi Watch
6/30/2002 (11:49)
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Pierce is a fascistic Nazi scumbag.

What else do you expect to hear out of his mouth?
reply by
Jew-watch
6/30/2002 (12:39)
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Hey, Arse-hole watch.
Shame the Nazis didn't get hold of your parents, then we wouldn't have to listen to you!
reply by
R. Zuercher
6/30/2002 (13:07)
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Thank you Dr. Pierce for another eye-opener to an unsuspected brave American people, of who most are still wandering in the dark. But person by person, the Americans are waking up now, thanks to people like you, who stay on alert for a great many of us, to maybe prevent the worst.

Never mind the names they call you! And they are getting nervous by the day, for they know the time is running short and they are being pressed to finalize their evil task, before their traitorous acts are all exposed, case by case.

Their struggle to prevent the masses from understanding their game is in full motion now. And we know that they have put a “Contingency Plan” in place, just in case their Dam of lies will break, because they cannot afford to have their evil mission fail, too much efforts have been made since they landed in New York so many years ago.

It therefore is yours and others, who understand today’s political mechanisms and see through the play, absolute responsibility, to wage awareness amongst the uninformed!

Thanks again Dr. Pierce

My kindest regards to all

R. Zuercher


Ps. If we are “NAZI’S”, they are INTER-NAZI’S, because they want it all!
reply by
Nazi-Watch
6/30/2002 (13:46)
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Zeucher -the scumbag fascist who pretends to not be a nazi when it is obvious that is exactly what he is.

Your polite speech doesn't disguise your disgusting fascist beliefs little zeucher.
What are you doing off Stormfront.com?
reply by
truth
6/30/2002 (14:36)
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announcing the anthrax to be the works of a jewish extermist is not that far more damaging than arresting head of JDL with pipe bombs in his house aimed towards los angelos arab community.. the zionist/ultra capitalist lobby has more than enough power in the media to wash it all out!!!! and after 1000 hours of focused tv/ news papers articles the effect on american people will be negligble.!
The examples of similar acts by the israelli government ( not just a fanatic) is too many to enumerate.
Since your theory depends on assuming the entire FBI apparatus is that tightly controlled ( not to even leak such story ) and to assume that the entire FBI does not have ANY ANTI JEWISH red necks is pure idiocy in my opinion ...
EVEN if after that russian spy fbi agent the rules of who has access to what have been changed.. there has to be some jew haters in there somewhere with enough access.. and neither bush jr nor ashkroft can afford that scandle !!!!!!!! and you know they are loyal to there own image more than any thing.!
reply by
Jews biggest murderers in history
6/30/2002 (14:56)
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There are millions of Nazis, and this century Jewboys they are gonna be waking up.
reply by
Science Fan
6/30/2002 (15:01)
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Nazis suck.

reply by
Jew baiter
6/30/2002 (15:21)
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Not as much as Jews 'suck' the life-blood out of everyone,everything.

Besides your comments are not your own they are induced by the Jews.
If the Jerws told you to love Bin Laden tommorow, in six months time you all would.

Morons and Suckers the lot of ya!

Go and watch some T.V (The Zionist controlled mind narrower)
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R. Zuercher
6/30/2002 (15:24)
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And when their agitation gets desperate, when all you hear is them cursing you and all you read is their 2-liners of denial and lies, no rational argumentation, don't even hide their traitorous acts anymore, then you know that we’ve made progress, made them feel real uncomfortable. Because exposure to them is like light to a rat and they need the cover of darkness!

And rats in disguise, we find all over in high places, where vital decisions will be made, for they cannot be without power, must attain it all. Though, with their deceiving, hypercritic characters, they are true artists in achieving power, yet once they are in power, are not able to apply their might, for they think they are invincible and every time they fall.

Just look at their through fraud acquired State! Everything is done in secrecy and yet so obvious for all to see, just to show off power. But without this only friend they have, who in reality is them themselves again,
their state would be nothing but another desert strip on the face of the earth, for their only skills are to cheat and let other people do their work for them. You will never see them with a shovel in their hands and they will never appear on a work sight, before the work is not done, work that they will broker off, leaving the crumbs to the worker himself.

And when their stepped on, are found out, with what evil they do, are screaming 'bloody murder' and resort to calling us names, then we all know, the time is near, before they run again!

And I could go on and on, but I hope with this and what has been said above, the visitor of this site will get the drift.

Thanks one more time to Dr. Pierce!

Kind regards to all

R. Zuercher
reply by
Analyze
6/30/2002 (18:38)
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Whether you like it or not....it's Dr. Pierce's first amendment right to speak his mind.

But to the Zionazis, any politically-incorrect freedom fighter is either anti-semitic or a Nazi!

If Zionist Pro-Israeli corruption didn't exist in this country (tearing down the fabric of America), then Dr. Pierce may have not existed either.

Once there is no more Jewish Defense League in the U.S., there will be no need for an American Defence League!

Once there's no more Zionist Imperialism, then there will be no anti-semitism!


Kapeesh....
reply by
ADAM
6/30/2002 (18:51)
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HEY JEW BAITER; SOON YOU WILL FIND OUT WHO IS THE REAL SUCKER!!
NO CRY BABY THEN!
reply by
John Calvin
6/30/2002 (19:28)
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http://www.natvan.com/
reply by
Groan
6/30/2002 (19:29)
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If there were no more Jews in the world you little faggots would create them in order to carry on your obsessive paranoid delusions.

Spare us your lectures. You have already been outed as the pathetic little altar boy craving, Hitler-luvin, jew-hating bastards ya know ya are.
reply by
Analyze
6/30/2002 (19:50)
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Stop whining pain-in-the groin!
reply by
*Peter and the Zionazi's*
7/1/2002 (1:17)
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Interesting!
The more the ugly face of Zionism is exposed for all to see, the more they scream anti-semite/nazi and jew baiter. Like little Peter's all crying wolf,wolf,wolf. Keep it up Zionazi's,we love you for it. You will cry wolf once too often,then what?
reply by
Where did you go, my lovely !
7/1/2002 (13:49)
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If there were no more Jews....We would breathe a big sigh of relief.

reply by
truth
7/1/2002 (18:20)
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BABA WAWA'S WHITEWASH
Israeli spies cheer as WTC burns – not that there's anything wrong with that, says Barbara Walters



It was eerie to actually see the scene of a story I have written about on more than one occasion, to see and hear the people I had only read about and, vaguely, imagined. On Friday night, the ABC News program 20/20 broadcast 'The White Van,' which told the story of 5 young Israeli men apprehended in New Jersey hours after the World Trade Center was hit. They had been observed on 9/11 watching the burning of the World Trade Center from their vantage point in Liberty State Park, New Jersey, photographing each other as they rejoiced against the backdrop of the WTC aflame in the distance. Writing on March 15, I envisioned the scene, described in news stories and conjured in my mind's eye:

'As smoke billowed up into the pellucid sky, obscuring the sun, they laughed and joked and took pictures of each other against a backdrop of unspeakable horror. Outraged witnesses called the cops, who swooped down and picked them up. These Middle Eastern-looking men,' as witnesses described them, turned out to be Israelis: they were found with box cutters in their van, $4,000 in cash, and multiple passports. The van was registered as the property of 'Urban Moving Systems.' Police interrogated them for hours, and transferred them to a maximum security facility. A raid on the Urban Moving Systems warehouse (whose owner, Dominik Suter, has since fled to Israel) yielded computers, documents, and other evidence – of what?'

That's why a shiver of deja-vu passed through me as I watched the 20/20 news report. Listening to the New Jersey housewife who spotted the cheering Israelis from her highrise apartment, watching the baffled look on her face as she described the young Israelis:

'They were like happy, you know … They didn't look shocked to me. I thought it was very strange,'

It was like seeing a made-for-tv movie adaptation of a novel I'd read many times. Familiar but strangely truncated in certain key areas, abbreviated to conform to the supposedly short attention span of its audience, and, in true Hollywood style, not only bowdlerized but completely vulgarized. The result is a fairly interesting story studded with nuggets of new information, and saddled with a tacked-on – indeed, downright counterintuitive – moral at the end, as intoned by Baba Wawa:

'I hope we've put all these woomers to west.'

Much of the ABC report confirms my basic contention, and the contention of many others, that there was indeed, as Fox News reporter Carl Cameron puts it, a 'vast Israeli spy operation' in the US in full operational mode prior to 9/11, engaged in watching the pro-Arab support network that operates in many major American cities.

What the 20/20 report amounts to is the Israelis' second line of defense, which basically boils down to this: well, yeah, they were Israeli spies, but they were just here defending Israel's interests and had no pre-knowledge of 9/11. In the process of spinning this new rationale, however, we have a series of damning admissions, as spun by ABC terrorism 'expert' Vince Cannistraro, a 'former chief of operations for counterterrorism with the CIA.'

The arrested men's names were found in a search of a national intelligence database. We are also told by Cannistraro – as if we don't already know – that Urban Moving Systems was probably a Mossad front. Duh-uh! Gee, I guess that's why, shortly after the cops raided their New Jersey office, the Urban Movers got a move on, with owner Dominick Suter fleeing the country. The purpose of this spy nest, we are told in a reassuring tone, was

'Launching an intelligence operation against radical Islamists in the area, particularly in the New Jersey-New York area.'

20/20 runs this 'sure they were spies, but…' explanation up the flagpole in the hope that, awed by Cannistraro's 'expertise' and connections, everyone will salute:

'Under this scenario, the alleged spying operation was not aimed against the United States, but at penetrating or monitoring radical fund-raising and support networks in Muslim communities like Paterson, N.J., which was one of the places where several of the hijackers lived in the months prior to Sept. 11.'

The problem with this fallback story is that penetrating or monitoring New Jersey Muslims and having foreknowledge of 9/11 are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, such surveillance – to the degree it was successful – would have increased the likelihood that the Israelis would gain some knowledge of the 9/11 plot. If not all the details, at least a strong indication that 9/11 was bound to be a special day – one they would celebrate, shamelessly and carelessly, in full sight of others, unable to restrain their joy at the sight of the WTC emitting a black cloud over Manhattan.

A September 14 New York Times round-up of the nationwide investigation into the terrorist attacks seemed to imply not just foreknowledge, in the case of the 5 Israelis, but some form of collaboration:

'In New Jersey, where officials believe that the hijackers received assistance from accomplices, Sherri Evanina, a spokeswoman for the FBI. in Newark, said that five men were detained late Tuesday after the van in which they were driving was stopped on Route 3 in East Rutherford. She said witnesses had reported seeing the men celebrating the attack on the World Trade Center earlier in the day in Union City. 'They were seen leaving the location after they were celebrating,' Agent Evanina said. 'They were watching the entire event from their location.''

If the best comedy is unintentional, then 'The White Van' is chock full of yucks. The following had me rolling on the floor:

'For the FBI, deciphering the truth from the five Israelis proved to be difficult. One of them, Paul Kurzberg, refused to take a lie-detector test for 10 weeks — then failed it, according to his awyer. Another of his lawyers told us Kurzberg had been reluctant to take the test because he had once worked for Israeli intelligence in another country.'

For the FBI, it seems, deciphering anything that isn't completely spelled out for them is well nigh impossible. So he wouldn't take the test for weeks, then took it and failed and then denied working for the Mossad – in this country, at any rate. As John Stossel, Barbara Walters' 20/20 colleague, ceaselessly reiterates: 'Gimme a break!'

Why, in this case, is it so hard for the FBI to discover the truth – when they're being practically hit over the head with it? It's pathetic, really, to contemplate the utter cluelessness of our chief federal law enforcement agency, and the reporters who take their denials seriously. As 20/20 reports:

'Despite the denials, sources tell ABC News there is still debate within the FBI over whether or not the young men were spies.'

No wonder Mohamed Atta and his fellow ghouls managed to sidestep our Keystone Kops so easily. If these jokers are still 'debating' the obvious, then our government officials are right when they tell us that another massive terrorist attack is 'inevitable.' With these retards on guard duty, I'm surprised it hasn't happened already.

Our tone-deaf 20/20 reporter, John Miller, blathers on, oddly oblivious to the jarring effect of a conclusion that seems to contradict much of what came before. Okay, so 'many U.S. government officials' concede the Urban Movers were Mossad spies, in the area on a specific mission, but don't worry, folks, because the FBI is telling us 'To date, this investigation has not identified anybody who in this country had pre-knowledge of the events of 9/11.' Note the curiously tentative nature of this disclaimer: to date, indeed….

The 20/20 technique is merely to drag Cannistraro out, who references mysterious 'sources' to conclude that those lost little Israelis were just having some good clean fun that day, protecting Israel against terrorism (in New Jersey!):

'The investigation, at the end of the day, after all the polygraphs, all of the field work, all the cross-checking, the intelligence work, concluded that they probably did not have advance knowledge of 9/11.'

Move along. Nothing to see here. Take it from me, the Expert. After all, would I lie to you?

The tale of the White Van, as told by 20/20, raises more questions than it settles. For what about those polygraphs? We are told that some of the Israeli detainees 'were given as many as seven lie-detector tests.' Why so many? The five were detained for over two months, 40 days of it in solitary confinement, time and opportunity enough for an awful lot of questions. Perhaps some of the answers contain a clue to help unravel the central unsolved mystery of 9/11, which is this:

How in Gehenna did a rag-tag bunch of Islamist nutballs, who were hoping to finance their terrorist plot with a US government loan, manage to pull off the biggest, deadliest, most spectacularly coordinated act of super-sabotage in modern history – without state support, all on their own?

The recent revelations by ex-FBI wiretap translator Sibel Edmonds of an unnamed 'Middle Eastern country' with agents inside the FBI obstructing, mistranslating, and misdirecting official investigations make the question of 'foreknowledge,' 'pre-knowledge,' or whatever you want to call it moot. As I pointed out in my last column, the Edmonds allegations raise the ante considerably, from passive foreknowledge of 9/11 to the sinister possibility of Israel's active facilitation. As Edmonds wrote in a March letter to the inspector general's office:

'Investigations are being compromised. Incorrect or misleading translations are being sent to agents in the field. Translations are being blocked and circumvented.'

It will take more than Baba Wawa and her babbling yes-man to circumvent the facts and 'spin' the Israelis out of this one. For what 20/20 conveniently left out was the entire context of the larger Israeli spy story, as uncovered by Carl Cameron in his 4-part series on Fox News, and since widely discussed both here and abroad.

We are supposed to look at five guys in a van, dancing for joy in the shadow of the burning WTC, in isolation, apart from the hundreds of Israeli 'art students' who took such an ardent interest in entering government buildings in the months and weeks prior to 9/11.

Most absurdly, we are supposed to ignore a Federal Bureau of Investigation riddled with spies who owe their allegiance to a certain 'Middle Eastern' country with an interest in compromising investigations, circulating misleading translations of wiretaps, and blocking what can't be botched. If all that is true today, then it was even truer prior to 9/11 – and now are you beginning to solve the central mystery of 9/11?

The intrepid reporters over at 20/20 look like they went to a lot of trouble to check out this story. They tracked down one of the original witnesses, went all the way to Israel to hear the young Israelis' denials, and hauled out ABC's highly-paid pet 'expert' to spin away the obvious. But, somehow, they failed to do the elementary sort of research that would've mandated only a trip to their local library. There they might have read this astonishing story that appeared in the [September 12, 2001] Bergen Record, which describes the 5 Israeli detainees picked up 8 hours after the WTC attack as 'carrying maps linking them to the blasts':

'[S]ources close to the investigation said they found other evidence linking the men to the bombing plot. 'There are maps of the city in the car with certain places highlighted,' the source said. 'It looked like they're hooked in with this. It looked like they knew what was going to happen when they were at Liberty State Park.''

Baba Wawa's whitewash won't wash. Those 'woomers' are still circulating – and with good reason. We won't know what really happened that fateful day until and unless Congress takes seriously its responsibility to investigate. For starters, let's take a look at those highlighted maps – and then drag the rest of Israel's spy operation out into the full light of day. Then and only then can we answer an increasingly important question about the background to 9/11: What did the Israelis know – and how did they know it?