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Re: The 9/11 Investigations

Postby Canuckster » Fri Oct 05, 2018 1:51 am

How long to figure this guy is going to live?
People say they all want the truth, but when they are confronted with a truth that disagrees with them, they balk at it as if it were an unwanted zombie apocalypse come to destroy civilization.

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Postby Masato » Wed Oct 17, 2018 8:41 pm

So I ordered Christopher Bollyn's 3-book series. Most excellent stuff, IMHO he has basically solved a majority of serious 9/11 dots.

People can argue all day over collapse physics etc, but Bollyn has put together such a solid case full of real names/connections/documents/logic that I really doubt anyone could challenge his conclusions.

He has several videos out there covering the basics of his books, I highly suggest everyone watch a few.




Here is an article, not by Bollyn but covering many of the same findings:

https://lipstick-and-war-crimes.org/nev ... l-did-911/

Here are some Cliffnotes I made on the article (not of Bollyn's book, which has even more info detailing this compelling explanation for 9/11):

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ALL of these people in key positions relating to 9/11 are Jewish/Israeli/Zionists;

WTC in Private Hands:

Larry Silverstein
- obtained a 99 year lease on the entire WTC complex 24 July, 2001
- scored $4.5+ Billion in insurance money as a result of the destruction of his complex|
- personal friends with Zionists Rupert Murdoch, Ariel Sharon, Netanyahu

Frank Lowy
- owned the shopping concourse area called the Mall at WTC
- member of the Golani Brigade
- member of Hagganah, a Jewish terrorist organization
- funded and launched the Israeli Institute for National Strategy and Policy
- close friends with top Israeli officials such as Ehud Olmert, Ariel Sharon, Bibi Netanyahu, and Ehud Barak

Lewis Eisenberg
- head of the Port Authority of New York
- authorized lease transfers to both Larry and Lowy (^^)
- partner in the Jewish bank Goldman-Sachs
- member of the Planning Board of the United Jewish Appeal/United Jewish Federation

Ronald Lauder
- billionaire (Estée Lauder Cosmetics)
- chairman of NY Governor George Pataki’s commission on privatization
- key individual who lobbied for the privatization of the WTC
- key individual who lobbied for the privatization of Stewart Air Force Base (over which the flight paths of flight 175 and flight 11 converged)
- active in the following organizations:
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Jewish National Fund
World Jewish Congress
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Anti-Defamation League
Jewish Theological Seminary
- elected president of the World Jewish Congress on 10 June, 2007
- founder of a school for the MOSSAD in Herzliya Israel called the Lauder School of Government Diplomacy and Strategy


WTC SECURITY:

- Security of WTC was contracted to KROLL ASSOCIATES (after the 1993 bombing), owned by Jules & Jeremy Kroll (both Israeli Zionists)
- Kroll Associates was awarded this from the Port Authority of New York [Owned by Rockefellers]

- Managing Director of Kroll was Jerome M. Hauer, who set up Giuliani's office of emergency management( OEM) in Silverstien's WTC Building 7
- Hauer's mother was Honorary President of the New York Chapter of Hadassah, the Daughters of Zion movement (one of the central Zionist orgs involved in the creation and maintenance of the State of Israel)


AIRPORT SECURITY:

- Security at ALL 3 AIRPORTS of alleged hijackings were run by ICTS International / Huntsleigh USA
- ICTS International / Huntsleigh USA was owned by Ezra Harel and Menachem Atzmon at time of 9/11 (Both Israeli Jews)
- ICTS International was the security org that allowed the 19 alleged arab hijackers on board 4 different planes
- in charge of airport security when the shoe bomber, Richard Reid, allegedly boarded a plane with a shoe bomb
- in charge of airport security when the Underwear Bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab allegedly attempted to bomb Northwest Airlines Flight 253
- a few hours before the Patriot Act was passed, it was edited to make foreign companies in charge of security on 9/11 immune to lawsuits. This would prevent American courts from demanding that ICTS provide testimony or hand over the missing surveillance videos from the airports.


Israeli Intelligence and P-tech

- National security computerized systems that orchestrated the scrambling of jets in the event of national emergencies such as multiple hijackings were running on Ptech software
- Ptech clients includes: the FAA, N.A.T.O, United States Armed Forces, Congress, Dept. Of Energy, Dept. of Justice, FBI, Customs, the IRS, the Secret Service, and even the White House
- Marketing Manager of PTech was Michael S. Goff (Zionist/Jewish)
- Goff also worked for Israeli database company Guardium, funded by MOSSAD


Rabbi Dov Zakheim and Systems Planning Corporation:

- Rabbi Dov Zakheim was the appointed Undersecretary of Defense and Pentagon Comptroller from 2001-2004 (George W. Bush administration)
- As Pentagon Comptroller, Zakheim is responsible for the disappearance of $2.6 TRILLION, announced by Donald Rumsfeld on 10th September, 2001.
- Coincidentally, the specific section of the Pentagon that was “hit” or “blown up” contained the bookkeeping for these missing funds

- Co-author of the PNAC paper on rebuilding America’s defenses
- PNAC paper advocated the necessity of a "Pearl Harbor-like incident" to mobilize America

- Dov Zakheim ran System Planning Corporation (SPC)– remote airplane control technology
- SPC Corp provided the the technology that allows planes to be remote controlled should the pilots be incapacitated or the plane hijacked

- Zakheim's subsidiary, Tridata Corporation, oversaw the investigation of the first “terrorist” attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 (This would have given them intimate knowledge of the security systems and structural blueprints of the World Trade Center.)


Cover Up : 9/11 Investigation in Zionist Hands:

- Michael Chertoff:
- In charge of the Criminal Division in the Justice Department on 9/11
- later, Director of Homeland Security
- holds dual citizenship with the US and Israel
- prosecuting judge in the first terrorist attack on the WTC in 1993
- let hundreds of Israeli spies who were arrested prior to and on 9/11 go back home to Israel
- His family is one of the founding families of the state of Israel
- mother was one of the first ever agents of the Mossad
- father and uncle are ordained rabbis and teachers of the Talmud
- wife, Meryll Chertoff, was a regional director of the ADL
- would become head of Homeland Security and invest in company that built airport scanners

Richard Pearle:
- Chairman of Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board
- expelled from Sen. Henry Jackson’s office in the 1970s after the NSA caught him passing highly classified documents to Israel

Paul Wolfowitz:
- Deputy Defense Secretary, GWB Administration
- member of the Defense Policy Board in the Pentagon
- Key member of PNAC

Douglas Feith:
- “Dual Citizen” of US-Israel
- Headed reconstruction in Iraq
- Effectively in command, with Wolfowitz, of War Department on 9-11; Undersecretary of War for Policy
- created the “Office of Special Plans” shortly after 9/11 - source of all intelligence accusing Iraq of developing WMD’s /having ties to Al Qaeda
- Fired from National Security Council in 1976 due to suspicion of passing classified documents to Israel.

Eliot Abrams:
- Key National Security Council Advisor
- Associated with Zionist/Pro-Israel think-tanks: AEI, PNAC, CSP, and JINSA
- Convicted of lying to congress in the Iran/Contra Affair but was later given a pardon by Bush

Marc Grossman:
- “dual citizen” of US and Israel
- Under Secretary for Political Affairs on 9-11

Ari Fleischer:
- White House spokesman for Bush on 9-11
- Fed all Iraq WMD lies to the press
- “dual citizen” of US and Israel
- connected to the extremist group called the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidics



- ALL appointed chief judges were Zionist Jews:

- Alvin K. Hellerstein:
- involved in several high-profile 9/11 related cases
- wife is a former senior officer & current treasurer of AMIT, "world’s leading supporter of religious Zionist education and social services for Israel’s children and youth,

- Michael B. Mukasey:
- oversaw the litigation between Larry Silverstein and insurance companies after 9/11
- prevented full inquiry into the Five Dancing Israelis
- later appointed attorney general by President Bush

- Kenneth Feinberg:
- set up the victim’s compensation fund ($7 billion) to victims’ families in exchange for not demanding legal investigation of 9/11

- Sheila Birnbaum:
- appointed ‘special mediator‘ of the legal suits filed by the 3% of families who decided not to be bought off
- all of the cases/trials were squashed

Israeli Influence of 9/11 Commission/Investigation:

Philip Zelikow:
- appointed the executive director of the 9/11 commission
- Bush Admin insider
- worked with Condoleezza Rice on the National Security Council 1989-91
- 1996-98 Zelikow is director of the Aspen Strategy Group which also included people such as Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz
- 1995, Zelikow and Rice wrote a book together
- named under George Bush Jr to a position on the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board [PFIAB]


Benjamin Chertoff (cousin of Michael Chertoff):
- wrote the 9/11 hit piece in Popular Mechanics debunking ‘9/11 conspiracies’

Stephen Cauffman:
- Leader of NIST coverup of WTC 7 destruction, which maintained that fire brought down WTC 7

Alan D. Ratner:
- Director of Metals Management and the SIMS group
- responsible for quickly scooping up the WTC steel rubble and shipping it off to Asian smelters
- sold over 50,000 tons of crime scene evidence steel to a Chinese company at $120 per ton


Who was Bush Jr's Speech-Writer?

David Frum
- Bush’s personal Speechwriter
- the man behind the “Axis Of Evil” label
- co-authored a book with Zionist Richard Perle, entitled: 'An End To Evil: How To Win The War On Terror'
- called for regime change in Iran & Syria

PRIOR KNOWLEDGE:

- Israeli instant messaging company, ODIGO, admitted of instant messages warning of an impeding attack 2 hours prior to the first plane hitting. Several high profile Jews have also subsequently admitted to receiving the ODIGO message
- Only 3/4000 Israelis (not merely american jews, but Israelis) working in the WTC/Pentagon area died on Sept 11
- Odigo has offices in New York and in Herzliya, Israel. Herzliya is the location of Mossad HQ.
- On Sep 10, 2001, the Tokyo branch of Goldman Sachs warned its American employees to steer clear of American buildings
- ZIM, an Israeli company, vacated its office in the North WTC tower a week before 9/11, breaking its lease.


The Five Dancing Israelis:

- Sivan & Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Schmuel, Oded Ellner & Omer Marmari, all Israeli citizens, were detained by NYPD on 9/11
- police/FBI field found maps of the city with certain places highlighted, box cutters, $4700 cash stuffed in a sock, and foreign passports in a van
- bomb sniffing dogs were brought to the van and that they reacted as if they had smelled explosives
- released and sent back to Israel
- Later appeared on an Israeli talk show and claimed they were in NYC that day "to document the event”

Truck Bomb Destined for George Washington Bridge

- a white van with a bomb was stopped as it approached the George Washington Bridge on 9/11
- Authorities suspect the terrorists intended to blow up the main crossing between New Jersey and New York
- Suspects were Israeli

Mural Van:
- white van parked near the twin towers on 6th and King Street had a mural painted on the side that literally depicted a jetliner crashing into the twin towers and exploding.
- police audio transmission indicates that the two suspects in the van started to run away when the van was stopped and were apprehended shortly thereafter in some sort of struggle.
- five employees that were taken into custody were all former members of the Israeli Army
- Israelis were held in custody for 71 days before being quietly released.
- police recording also indicates that the mural van subsequently exploded following the detainment of the two suspects

- All of the white vans were working for the ostensible moving company Urban Moving Systems
- Urban Moving Systems was under direction of Dominic Suter, an Israeli Spy who immediately fled to Israel after the attacks
- left Urban Moving System in a hurry, cleared out his New Jersey home, put it up for sale and returned with his family to Israel


Israeli 'Art Students':

- Israelis posing as art students selling their art [actually made in China], – were suspected of spying for Israel
- detained by the FBI and later deported to Israel on account of visa violations
- FBI first took notice of them in January of 2001
- detailed DEA report documented 180 cases of Israeli art students infiltrating DEA facilities. It provided names, drivers’ license numbers, addresses and phone numbers of the Israelis.
- 5 of the 'Art Students' had residence in Florida, only blocks away from Mohammed Atta's residence
- Others in Texas had residences close to other alleged hijackers
- 6 of the students had mobile phones that had been purchased by a former Israeli vice consul in the U.S.
- All shipped back to Israel post-9/11 no questions asked (during a time when security/suspected terrorists was at an all-time high)

- On December 13, 2001 the EIR’s Washington Bureau Chief Bill Jones asked Colin Powell, There were 60 Israeli citizens who have been picked up in the post- Sept. 11 sweep, many of whom, if not all of whom, are connected to Israeli intelligence. Are you concerned about such intelligence operations on U.S. soil, and have you taken up this issue with your counterpart in Israel?

Powell responded: I’m aware that some Israeli citizens have been detained, and I’ve been in touch with the Israeli government as to the fact that they have been detained, in making sure that they have rights of access to Israeli diplomatic personnel here in the United States. With respect to why they are being detained, and the other aspects of your question, whether it’s because they are in intelligence services or what things they were doing, I will defer to the Department of Justice and the FBI to answer that; because, frankly, I deal with the consular parts of that problem, not the intelligence or law-enforcement parts of that problem.


Mohammed Atta Leads Directly To Jewish Crime Network

- Less than one week before 9/11 several of the hijacker ‘patsies’, including Atta, boarded a Sun Cruz Casino Boat in Florida.

Who owned these casino boats?

Jack Abramoff
- entertained the Arab patsies aboard his yacht
- Bush Admin insider having been on the Transition Advisory Team assigned to the Department of the Interior in 2001


Netanyahu's Comments on 9/11:

- publicly stated that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were “good” for U.S.- Israeli relations, and would generate “immediate sympathy” for the Israeli cause of ethnically cleansing the Palestinians
- told an audience at Bar Ilan: “We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq,” Ma’ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events “swung American public opinion in our favor.”

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Postby Masato » Mon Jan 07, 2019 2:55 pm

So those AE9/11 Truth guys have not stopped and have made it to a Grand Jury

If this is not some empty distraction operation, its pretty cool.

AE911 stands for Architects & Engineers for 911 Truth. They are focusing ENTIRELY on the physics of building collapse, especially WTC 7. Now they get to plea their case to a real Grand Jury about whether or not explosives should be suspect in the collapses that day.

Of course no MSM org is covering the story, I've heard it boasted that RT is the only major org reporting on it.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/911-final ... d_articles


Federal Grand Jury To Hear Evidence That 9/11 Was A Controlled Demolition
https://www.activistpost.com/2019/01/fe ... ition.html

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The 9/11 truth movement has been active and persistent for over 17 years, and while mainstream media won’t touch the story, and while most Americans refuse to even consider the possibility that the attacks were an inside job, the actual evidence supporting controlled demolition theory is so convincing that a legitimate federal grand jury investigation will address this very question.

Thousands of architects and engineers, pilots, security professionals, journalists and concerned citizens have been demanding that the federal government release the truth about the attacks, all noting that there is overwhelming circumstantial and scientific evidence proving that the World Trade Center towers, including building 7, were brought down by a pre-planned controlled demolition.

The evidence for this is exceptionally captivating, and The Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry has successfully submitted a petition to the federal government demanding that a grand jury consider this possibility. Finally, the U.S. Attorney has issued a response, agreeing to ‘comply with the law’ and open a grand jury investigation. This could mark the most substantial progress to date in the fight for 9/11 truth.

The Lawyers’ Committee’s April 10th 52-page original Petition was accompanied by 57 exhibits and presented extensive evidence that explosives were used to destroy three WTC buildings. That evidence included independent scientific laboratory analysis of WTC dust samples showing the presence of high-tech explosives and/or incendiaries; numerous first-hand reports by First Responders of explosions at the WTC on 9/11; expert analysis of seismic evidence that explosions occurred at the WTC towers on 9/11 prior to the airplane impacts and prior to the building collapses; and expert analysis by architects, engineers, and scientists concluding that the rapid onset symmetrical near-free-fall acceleration collapse of three WTC high rise buildings on 9/11 exhibited the key characteristics of controlled demolition. The Lawyers’ Committee’s July 30th Amended Petition addresses several additional federal crimes beyond the federal bombing crime addressed in the original Petition. The Lawyers’ Committee concluded in the petitions that explosive and incendiary devices preplaced at the WTC were detonated causing the complete collapse of the WTC Twin Towers on 9/11 and increasing the tragic loss of life.

This famous video of the free-fall collapse of WTC building 7 has haunted the internet for years, demanding justice. In it, you can see a virtually unharmed building being brought down in a matter of seconds, exactly like a professional controlled building demolition.


The following interview with the founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth goes into great detail about the criminal nature of the cover up of the truth about these attacks:

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Postby Masato » Fri Sep 18, 2020 7:21 pm

So the 'Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth' just had a huge conference /update on their work a couple weeks ago:

Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Justice Rising | 9/11 in 2020

The conference went from Friday, September 11, to Sunday, September 13, marking the 19th anniversary of the day that changed our world so profoundly.

Friday Videos:


Saturdays videos:


Sundays videos:


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Postby Masato » Mon Sep 12, 2022 3:14 pm

bumping this thread, we just passed the anniversary.

Never forget.

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Postby Masato » Sun Sep 18, 2022 5:36 pm

New 9/11 Pentagon footage?


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Postby Masato » Mon Sep 11, 2023 12:43 pm

Anniversary of 9/11

I will never forget.

That is the event that opened my eyes/redpilled me or whatever you want to call it.

Nothing but lies.

An amazing day.

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Postby Lester Burnham » Mon Sep 11, 2023 6:26 pm

The Iraq war woke me up. The lies were disgusting.

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Postby Masato » Wed Sep 13, 2023 2:13 pm

Lester Burnham wrote:The Iraq war woke me up. The lies were disgusting.


That was when it became clear to me that the mainstream media was not the Ron Burgundy I thought it was, lol

It was so obvious they were ALL obviously colluding to push/contain a very specific narrative, even though it made no sense. Just outright lying all day all night, blacking out all kinds of important evidence and questions without shame.

Seeing the hegemony in the media was more frightening to me than the attacks themselves.

A true mass brainwashing/mind control operation, infecting almost everyone.

22 years later it's still freaky to contemplate imo

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Postby Masato » Wed Sep 13, 2023 2:17 pm

THE DANCING ISRAELIS: FBI DOCS SHED LIGHT ON APPARENT MOSSAD FOREKNOWLEDGE OF 9/11 ATTACK

https://www.mintpressnews.com/newly-rel ... ks/258581/

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NEW YORK — For nearly two decades, one of the most overlooked and little known arrests made in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks was that of the so-called “High Fivers,” or the “Dancing Israelis.” However, new information released by the FBI on May 7 has brought fresh scrutiny to the possibility that the “Dancing Israelis,” at least two of whom were known Mossad operatives, had prior knowledge of the attacks on the World Trade Center.

Shortly after 8:46 a.m. on the day of the attacks, just minutes after the first plane struck the World Trade Center, five men — later revealed to be Israeli nationals — had positioned themselves in the parking lot of the Doric Apartment Complex in Union City, New Jersey, where they were seen taking pictures and filming the attacks while also celebrating the destruction of the towers and “high fiving” each other. At least one eyewitness interviewed by the FBI had seen the Israelis’ van in the parking lot as early as 8:00 a.m. that day, more than 40 minutes prior to the attack. The story received coverage in U.S. mainstream media at the time but has since been largely forgotten.

The men — Sivan Kurzberg, Paul Kurzberg, Oded Ellner, Yaron Shimuel and Omar Marmari — were subsequently apprehended by law enforcement and claimed to be Israeli tourists on a “working holiday” in the United States where they were employed by a moving company, Urban Moving Systems. Upon his arrest, Sivan Kurzberg told the arresting officer, “We are Israeli; we are not your problem. Your problems are our problems, The Palestinians are the problem.”

For years, the official story has been that these individuals, while they had engaged in “immature” behavior by celebrating and being “visibly happy” in their documenting of the attacks, had no prior knowledge of the attack. However, newly released FBI copies of the photos taken by the five Israelis strongly suggest that these individuals had prior knowledge of the attacks on the World Trade Center. The copies of the photos were obtained via a FOIA request made by a private citizen.




According to a former high-ranking American intelligence official who spoke to the Jewish Daily Forward in 2002, the FBI concluded in its investigation that the five Israelis arrested “were conducting a Mossad surveillance mission and that their employer, Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, NJ, served as a front.” At least two of the men arrested were determined to have direct links to the Mossad after their names appeared in a CIA-FBI database of foreign intelligence operatives. According to one of their lawyers, one of the men, Paul Kurzberg, had previously worked for the Mossad in another country prior to arriving in the United States. Another of those arrested, Oded Ellner, subsequently stated on Israeli TV that the five Israelis had been in New York at the time “to document the event,” meaning the attack on the World Trade Center.

The FOIA release of the photos is notable because responses to prior FOIA requests to the Department of Justice, which oversees the FBI, had previously claimed that all of the photos taken by the Israeli nationals had been destroyed in January 2014. The photos themselves are heavily redacted, making it impossible to see the Israelis’ facial expressions. However, previously declassified yet heavily redacted FBI reports state that the Israelis are “visibly happy” in nearly every photo, even when the burning towers are in the background. The photos released are also not original copies and instead appear to be photocopies of photocopies of the original pictures. In addition, of the original 76 pictures developed by authorities from the camera in the Israelis’ possession, only 14 were released.




Based on the impressions of the French website Panamza and subsequently MintPress, three of these photos — despite the heavy redaction and poor quality — appear damning. Since 2001, even though the photos were never released until now, it had been known that one of the Israelis arrested — Sivan Kurzberg — was seen in a photo “holding a lighted lighter in the foreground, with the smoldering wreckage [of the twin towers] in the background,” according to Steven Noah Gordon, then-lawyer for the five Israelis, as cited in a New York Times report from November 2001.

The picture of Kurzberg with the lit lighter appears to be photo #5 in the new FOIA release. Yet, the picture released includes a visible date of September 10, 2001, the day before the attacks, as do two other photos — images #7 and #8 in the collection — whereas all other photos with dates show only the month and the year (9 ‘01). The FOIA release did not provide any information as to the apparent discrepancy in dates.

While this could be explained away as the camera in question being programmed with a slightly inaccurate date, that doesn’t seem to be the case for two reasons. First, only three out of the 14 pictures appear to carry that date and, second, previously declassified FBI reports report an eyewitness adamantly stating that Sivan Kurzberg had visited the Doric Apartments on September 10, 2001 at around 3 p.m. with at least one other man, with whom he was conversing in a foreign language, and had identified himself as a “construction worker” to a tenant (page 61 of declassified FBI report).






In addition, the FBI report noted that a van from Urban Moving Systems, the company that employed the five Israelis at the time of their arrest, was present and was involved in moving a tenant out of the complex on September 10 and that the movers all had foreign accents. Thus, images 5, 7 and 8 may have been taken at the same complex a day before the attacks.

This raises two possibilities. First, that there are two images of Kurzberg with a lit lighter in front of the towers, one taken before the attack and one taken at the time of the attack, and that the FBI released only one of them. Second, that Kurzberg took the picture with the lighter only the day before the attack and his lawyer misrepresented the contents of the photo to the New York Times. Given that the background of the photo — particularly the state of the towers — is indiscernible in the recently released photo, it is difficult to determine which is the case.






However, other analysts have interpreted the photos quite differently. For instance, Ryan Dawson, formerly of Newsbud, cited the police report that details the clothing of some of the Israelis at the time of their arrest and used that to link identities to the redacted faces in the pictures. He believes that the Israeli holding the lighter is not Sivan Kurzberg, but his brother Paul. Meanwhile, the person who filed the FOIA request that resulted in the picture’s release, who wished to remain anonymous, thought that Omer Marmari was more likely to be the man with the lighter.

Both have stated that all pictures were likely to have been taken on the day of the attacks. One reason given for the appearance of the date of September 10, 2001 in only some of the photos is due to the heavy editing, which rendered it invisible in the remaining photos. Dawson asserted that the incorrect date was due to the Israelis’ panicking when they were pulled over and attempting to edit the date and hour on the camera upon the arrest in an effort to hide the evidence. Another explanation put forth is that it was the result of a camera configuration error.

Given the highly redacted and edited nature of the pictures, what is most notable of all is the fact of what is not seen (i.e. edited out) in the photos. Clearly, there was an interest in preventing the public from seeing the state of the towers at the time of the photos were taken and also in preventing the public from seeing the facial expressions of the Israelis, despite it being known from the FBI report that they are “visibly happy” and “jovial.” The state of the towers being edited out is particularly telling.

As to whether any of the Israelis knew of the attacks in advance, the relevant section of the FBI report that asks “1. Did the Israeli nationals have foreknowledge of the events at WTC and were they filming the events prior to and in anticipation of the explosion?” is notably redacted in its entirety, suggesting that the FBI did not determine the answer to that question to be an emphatic “no.”






ONE OF THE 9/11 LOOSE-ENDS COVERUPS?

If images 5 and 7 were indeed taken the day prior to the attack, the question then becomes why the FBI officially concluded that the arrested Israelis had no prior knowledge of the attacks? One report from ABC News dated June 2002 suggests that the Bush administration intervened in the investigation. That report states that “Israeli and U.S. government officials worked out a deal — and after 71 days, the five Israelis were taken out of jail, put on a plane, and deported back home [to Israel].” If the Bush administration had cut a deal with Israel’s government to cover up the incident, it certainly would not have been the first time a U.S. presidential administration had done so on Israel’s behalf.

Further evidence that higher-ups in the administration intervened is the fact that then-Attorney General John Ashcroft personally signed off on the detainees’ release. Upon his entering the private sector as a lobbyist and consultant in 2005, the Israeli government became one of Ashcroft’s first clients.

A cover-up certainly seems to have happened to some extent, between the destruction of records of the investigation and the fact that official conclusions of the investigation do not add up. In the latter case, the FBI — in a file dated September 24, 2001– officially stated that they “determined that none of the Israelis were actively engaged in clandestine intelligence activities in the United States.” However, that conclusion was directly contradicted by U.S. officials a year later and by the fact that Israel’s own government subsequently acknowledged that the five Israelis had indeed been involved in “clandestine intelligence activities in the United States.”

In addition, the new FOIA release of the photos suggests that another FBI conclusion — that “none of the pictures developed from the film found inside the 35-mm camera depicted the twin towers prior to the attack” — was inaccurate. This may explain why the images released via the recent FOIA request were heavily edited leaving details in the background greatly obscured, making it impossible to determine whether the photos were taken prior to or during the attacks based solely on the state of the towers.






“TOURISTS” WITH CASH-STUFFED SOCKS, BOX CUTTERS, AND EXPLOSIVES?

Beyond the photos and observed activities of the so-called “Dancing Israelis,” it is worth revisiting several other suspicious circumstances linked to their arrest that clearly show that the men in question were hardly the “tourists” they had claimed to be. One often cited example is the fact that one of the men, Oded Ellner, had a “white sock-like sack filled with $4,700 in cash,” as well as maps of the city with certain places highlighted, and box cutters. In addition, the van in which the Israelis were arrested was “oddly” lacking “equipment typically used in a moving company’s daily duties,” according to the FBI, and residue of explosives was found in the van.

Of the explosive residue, the declassified FBI report states:

A search of the van and individuals was conducted at the time of the vehicle stop. The vehicle was also searched by a trained bomb-sniffing dog which yielded a positive result for the presence of explosive traces. Swabs of the vehicle’s interior were taken, and those samples were sent to the FBI laboratory for further analysis. Final results are still pending.”

In total, the FBI reported that four items related to explosives were found in the ban and are labeled in the report as “Fabric Sample (Explosive Residue),” “Control Swabs – SA [ – ] Gloves,” “Control Swabs – (Bomb Suits),” and “Blanket Samples For Explosive Residue.” In addition, a VHS tape and some still photographs found in the van “were sent to Laboratory Examiner [ redacted ] (Explosives Unit).”

In addition to the strange nature of some of the Israelis’ possessions in the van and on their person, the company that employed them — Urban Moving Systems — was of special interest to the FBI, which concluded that the company was likely a “fraudulent operation.” Upon a search of the company’s premises, the FBI noted that “little evidence of a legitimate business operation was found.” The FBI report also noted that there were an “unusually large number of computers relative to the number of employees for such a fairly small business” and that “further investigation identified several pseudo-names or aliases associated with Urban Moving Systems and its operations.”

The FBI presence at the Urban Moving Systems search site drew the attention of the local media and was later reported on both television and in the local press. A former Urban Moving Systems employee later contacted the Newark Division with information indicating that he had quit his employment with Urban Moving Systems as a result of the high amount of anti-American sentiment present among Urban’s employees. The former employee stated that an Israeli employee of Urban had even once remarked, “Give us twenty years and we’ll take over your media and destroy your country” (page 37 of the FBI report)





The FBI returned to search the premises of Urban Moving Systems a month later, but by that time found:

The building and all of its contents had been abandoned by…the owner of Urban Moving Systems. This [was] apparently being done to avoid criminal prosecution after the 09/11/2001 arrest of five of his employees and subsequent seizure of his office computer systems by members of the FBI-NK on or around 09/13/2001.”

The company’s owner — Dominik Otto Suter, an Israeli citizen — had fled to Israel on September 14, 2001, two days after he had been questioned by the FBI. The FBI told ABC News that “Urban Moving may have been providing cover for an Israeli intelligence operation.” Surprisingly, since at least 2016, Suter has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he works for a contractor for major tech companies like Google and Microsoft. According to the public records database Intelius, in 2006 and 2007 Suter also worked for a telecommunications company — Granite Telecommunications — that works for the U.S. military and several other U.S. government agencies.

In addition to Urban Moving Systems, another moving company, Classic International Movers, became of interest in connection with the investigation into the “Dancing Israelis,” which led to the arrest and detention of four Israeli nationals who worked for this separate moving company. The FBI’s Miami Division had alerted the Newark Division that Classic International Movers was believed to have been used by one of the 19 alleged 9/11 hijackers before the attack, and one of the “Dancing Israelis” had the number for Classic International Movers written in a notebook that was seized at the time of his arrest. The report further states that one of the Israelis of Classic International Movers who was arrested “was visibly disturbed by the Agents’ questioning regarding his personal email account.”

A CROWDED DANCE FLOOR

While the case of the “Dancing Israelis” has long been treated as an outlier in the aftermath of September 11, what is often overlooked is the fact that hundreds of Israeli nationals were arrested in the aftermath of the attacks.

According to a FOX News report from December 2001, 60 Israelis were apprehended or detained after September 11, with most deported, and a total of 140 Israelis were arrested and detained in all of 2001 by federal authorities. That report claimed that the arrests, ostensibly including the “Dancing Israelis,” were in relation to an investigation of “an organized [Israeli] intelligence gathering operation designed to ‘penetrate government facilities.’”

The report also added that most of those arrested, in addition to having served in the IDF, had “intelligence expertise” and worked for Israeli companies that specialized in wiretapping. Some of those detained were also active members of the Israeli military; and several detainees, including the “Dancing Israelis,” had failed polygraph tests when asked if they had been surveilling the U.S. government.






A key aspect of that report, compiled by journalist Carl Cameron, also states that federal investigators widely suspected that Israeli intelligence had prior knowledge of the September 11 attacks. In the report, Cameron stated:

The 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 the evidence that has been gathered. It is classified information.’”

One exchange between Cameron and host Brit Hume included in the report is particularly telling:

HUME: “Carl, what about this question of advanced knowledge of what was going to happen on 9/11? How clear are investigators that some Israeli agents may have known something?”

CAMERON: “Well it’s very explosive information obviously and there is a great deal of evidence that they say they have collected. None of it necessarily conclusive. It’s more when they put it all together a big question they say is, ‘How could they have not known?’ — almost a direct quote, Brit.”

However, it is essential to note that Israeli intelligence did attempt to warn the U.S. government at least twice beginning in August 2001 as did the intelligence agencies of many other countries, including France, the UK, Egypt, Russia and Jordan. Yet, no people connected to any other intelligence agency other than Israel were caught celebrating the attacks as they took place in the area nor were accused by mainstream media of operating a large spy ring within the U.S. at the time. One theory to explain this discrepancy is that the Mossad elements of which the “Dancing Israelis” and other alleged Israeli spies could have been part of a specific section of Israeli intelligence that were acting independently as a rogue agency. Such a possibility is not unusual given that divisions of or groups within the CIA have been known to “go rogue” on several occasions.







9/11 AS A BIG — AND ACKNOWLEDGED — ISRAELI WIN

If the “Dancing Israelis”, and more broadly the Mossad and the Israeli government, had foreknowledge of September 11, why would they remain silent and not attempt to warn the American government or public of the coming attacks? In the case of the “Dancing Israelis,” why would Israelis celebrate such an attack?

One of the detained “Dancing Israelis,” Omer Marmari, told police the following about why he viewed the September 11 attacks in a positive light:

Israel now has hope that the world will now understand us. Americans are naïve and America is easy to get inside. There are not a lot of checks in America. And now America will be tougher about who gets into their country.”

While Marmari’s statement may suggest one reason some of the “Dancing Israelis” were so “visibly happy” in their photographs, there are also other statements made by top Israeli politicians that suggest why the Israeli government and its intelligence agency declined to act on apparent foreknowledge of the attack.

When asked, on the day of the 9/11 attacks, how the attacks would affect American-Israeli relations, Benjamin Netanyahu — the current Israeli prime minister — told the New York Times that “It’s very good,” before quickly adding “Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy.” He then predicted, much as Marmari had, that the attacks would “strengthen the bond between our two peoples, because we’ve experienced terror over so many decades, but the United States has now experienced a massive hemorrhaging of terror.”

Netanyahu, in a candid conversation recorded in 2001, also echoed Marmari’s claim that Americans are naïve. In that recording, Netanyahu said:

I know what America is. America is something that can easily be moved. Moved to the right direction. … They won’t get in our way. They won’t get in our way… 80 percent of the Americans support us. It’s absurd.”

In addition, also on the day of the September 11 attacks, Netanyahu — who at the time was not in political office — held a press conference in which he claimed that he had predicted the attacks on the World Trade Center by “militant Islam” in his 1995 book, Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorism. In that book, Netanyahu had posited that Iranian-linked “militants” would set off a nuclear bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center.

During his press conference on the day of the attacks, Netanyahu also asserted that the 9/11 attacks would be a turning point for America and compared them to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Netanyahu’s statement echoes the infamous line from the “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” document authored by the neoconservative think tank, the Project for a New Ameican Century (PNAC). That line reads. “Further, the process of transformation [towards a neo-Reaganite foreign policy and hyper-militarism], even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor.”

Then again, years later In 2008, the Israeli newspaper Maariv reported that Netanyahu had stated that the September 11 attacks had greatly benefited Israel. He was quoted as saying: “We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq.”

Indeed, it goes without saying that the aftermath of 9/11 — which involved the U.S. leading a destructive effort throughout the Middle East — has indeed benefited Israel. Many of the U.S.’ post-9/11 “nation-building” efforts have notably mirrored the policy paper “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” which was authored by American neoconservatives — PNAC members among them — for Netanyahu’s first term as prime minister.



That document calls for the creation of a “New Middle East” by, among other things, “weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria” and “removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right.” As is known now, both of those main objectives have since come to pass, each with strong Israeli involvement.



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