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By Douglas Westerman*
30 July 2006
Douglas Westerman shows how terrorism and "false flag" operations have been used regularly by Israel since its creation in 1948, from the poisoning of Arab wells to possible implication in the 9/11 attacks.
Israel and its supporters invariably justify military action by claiming that it is only "defending itself against terrorism". The truth is more complex, as Israel has employed offensive terrorist tactics regularly since the nation was founded in 1948.
Uri Mileshtin, an official historian for the Israeli armed forces, states that, back in 1948, when Israeli forces first moved into Palestine, they dumped typhus and dysentery bacilli into the local village wells.
In 1954, Israeli agents working in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including a United States diplomatic facility, and left evidence behind implicating Arabs. The ploy would have worked, had not one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to capture and identify one of the bombers, which in turn led to the rounding up of an Israeli espionage ring. Some of the spies were from Israel, while others were recruited from the local Jewish population. Israel first claimed that there was no spy ring, that it was all a hoax perpetrated by "anti-Semites". But as the public trial progressed, it became obvious that Israel had indeed been behind the bombing. Eventually, Israeli's defence minister, Pinhas Lavon, was brought down by the scandal, although it appears that he was himself the victim of a frame-up by the real authors of the bombing project, code named "Operation Susannah".
This is not the only example of a "false flag" operation designed to trick the United States into attacking Israel's enemies. According to Victor Ostrovsky, a Mossad defector living in Canada, Ronald Reagan was tricked into bombing Libya by means of a radio transmitter smuggled into Tripoli by the Mossad, which broadcast messages designed to fool the United States into thinking Libya was about to launch a massive terror attack on the West. On the basis of this bogus evidence, the US bombed Libya, killing Gaddafi's daughter
In October 2001, two men were caught with C-4 explosives, hand grenades and a high-powered gun, trying to enter the Mexican Parliament Building. The story was headline news in Mexico, and the incident also appeared on the official site of the Mexican Justice Department. CNN briefly mentioned a "breaking story" about a "foiled terrorist attack in Mexico", promising further news, but never mentioned the story again. One of the terrorists was a Mossad agent, the other a Mexican Jewish person. Israel put very heavy pressure on Mexico to secure their release. The men had fake Pakistani passports on them.
During the 9/11 attacks, multiple witnesses observed a group of men with what appeared to be radio-controlled detonators videoing and celebrating the 9/11 Attacks. These men were apprehended and held for several months, then released. They were Israelis, not Muslims. Some of these men later appeared on Israeli talk shows, denying that they celebrated but admitting that "they were sent over to document the event". These men were caught with some suspicious paraphernalia, cash, etc. When questioned they told the police, "We are your friends, we are not your problem, the Palestinians are your problem."
Many Muslims have been held for a lot longer at Guantanamo on much flimsier evidence than this.
An additional witness who was the lone American employee of Urban Moving Systems, a removals company in adjacent New Jersey (all the rest were Israelis) reported that they were also celebrating the 9/11 attacks. After 9/11 they left the country so quickly, that other removals companies had to come in and finish their deliveries
The FBI lists Bin-Laden on its wanted poster for the 1996 attacks only, not the 9/11 attacks, because they say they have insufficient evidence linking him to 9/11. They do admit that there is evidence connecting Israelis with the 9/11 attacks, but say that the information is "classified."
The FBI also found that a group of Mossad agents was shadowing the 9/11 hijackers in Miami; they rented the apartment next door. Also, seven supposed hijackers are still alive, having been victims of identity theft.
Right during and after the 9/11 attacks, the New York City 911 emergency dispatcher received an anonymous phone call saying that "a group of Palestinians in a white van" were observed. The caller stressed that they "were dressed like Arabs" and used the word Palestinians. Evidently Mossad tried to create a link.
After the 9/11 attacks, a group of Israeli soldiers over in Palestine baited a group of Palestinian youngsters with sweets and jokes, and got them laughing. Then they videoed this behaviour, sent it to the US news media, and stated that the Palestinians were "celebrating the fall of the Twin Towers." The fraudulent nature of this footage was not revealed in the main stream media.
Osama Bin Laden initially denied any knowledge of the 9/11 attacks, and many foreign intelligence experts, and also some domestic ones, feel that the later tapes and videos in which he confessed are fake. There is ample evidence for this (he is left handed, the "confessor" is right handed, he is rather morose, the "confessor" is haughty and jubilant, etc.)
At any crime scene, there are four things to look at: motive, means, opportunity and presence at the scene of the crime. Israel alone fulfils all four conditions.
Their own prime minister said that the attacks were "very good" for Israel. We would go to war with Muslim terrorists, build huge bases in the Middle East, and their security is assured. The most likely scenario that the evidence supports is that Israel infiltrated the hijacking plot very early on, then placed explosives in the Twin Towers to insure that the plot succeeded.
As our [i.e. the USA's] "friends", Israeli agents could operate with impunity inside the US, entering and leaving the Twin Towers at will. On any given day, there were generally several hundred Israelis in the building. Most, I am sure, were legitimate business people with no knowledge of the impending attacks. But among them were some Mossad people.
The notion that al-Qaeda was responsible is a convenient urban myth without much evidence to back it up. It is very appealing if one clings to the simplistic, "us versus them, good guys versus bad guys" mentality. The reality is more complex. al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, the Israeli armed forces, Mossad and the US military all have something in common: they all kill innocent bystanders. Then they justify what they do, while condemning similar behaviour in their adversaries. In terms of the number of innocent people killed, the US military has killed and injured far more innocent people than the others combined.
It is difficult to say whether the 9/11 attacks were planned by Mossad at the national level, or if a group of agents were involved as part of an international group. Some foreign intelligence sources say that that the 9/11 attacks were planned by a non-Muslim group in the UK. Several of the identity thefts of the supposed hijackers took place in England. It is hard to conceive that Bin-Laden would have directed and planned identity thefts in England from a cave in Afghanistan. It sounds more like a foreign intelligence operation. A number of foreign intelligence experts, and even some with the CIA and the FBI agree that much of the evidence supports the notion of involvement by a national intelligence service.
Besides Mossad, the British Secret Intelligence Service MI6 and the Deuxieme Bureau (French Intelligence) also reportedly had advance knowledge of the 9/11 operation. This suggests that a major intelligence service was heavily involved.
During World War II, the head of British Security Coordination operations in the US, Sir William Stevensen, often marvelled at the gullibility and naivete of Americans. Some things haven't changed since then.
The scenario that the evidence best supports is this: Israeli agents became aware early on of the hijacking plot, as evidenced by their shadowing of the hijackers in Miami. As one of our "friends", and with several hundred people from Israel working in the Twin Towers every day, they had easy access and were able to place explosives in the buildings, and bring them down. It is likely that their agents were responsible for parking the van, and placing a Koran inside it. When I first heard about the van with the Koran, it sounded much too contrived. It is more plausible that the Koran was placed there by those who wanted the 9/11 attacks to appear as if they were associated with Muslims. Americans are so well trained that this point, that any terrorist act can easily be pinned on Arab terrorists. Just blow up a building, park a car outside and leave a Koran on the front seat.
The operation was a spectacular intelligence success for Mossad. The US went to war in the Middle East. With our navy and bases peppering the entire region, Israel's security position is much improved.
*Douglas Westerman is a free-lance journalist and the author of "Cancer and AIDS patients: how they are getting well with alternative therapies". He lives in Los Angeles.
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