11th April 2003
Israel and 9/11
by American Free Press Staff -- Source: www.AmericanFreePress.net Delicate Revelations
Whether Israel was directly or indirectly involved in the Sept. 11 [2001] terrorist tragedy--or otherwise had advance knowledge of the impending attacks--the truth is that American Free Press [AFP] has led the media in reporting news about this "delicate" subject that no other media voice would touch. Here's an overview of AFP's pioneering coverage by date of issue.
The "liberal" Village Voice reported on Aug. 3, 1993 that there was evidence suggesting the [Israeli] Mossad had foreknowledge of (or was involved in) the first WTC bombing in 1993 (Sept. 24);
While the major media insisted U.S. policy toward Israel had nothing whatsoever to do with the Sept. 11 [2001] terrorist attacks, a former American diplomat, Bruce Laingen, once held hostage by Islamic extremists, said quite the contrary (Sept. 24);
U.S. Congressman Jim Traficant (D-Ohio) was the only member of Congress to dare say, one day after the attacks, that U.S. foreign policy played a part in the tragedy (Sept. 24);
The FBI arrest of three groups of Israeli Jews--ostensibly employees of several moving companies in the New York area, suspected by the FBI of working for the [Israeli] Mossad--who were seen "acting suspiciously" and videotaping the WTC disaster from varying angles (Oct. 1);
The history of how Israel has staged assassinations and terrorist attacks and blamed them on "Arabs," "right-wing extremists" and others (Oct. 1);
The Washington Times reported--one day before the Sept. 11 [2001] attacks--that high-ranking U.S. Army officers believed that the [Israeli] Mossad "has the capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act" (Oct. 1);
How a former CIA analyst and supporter of Israel, George Friedman, said on Sept. 11 [2001] that Israel was "the big winner" as a result of the [9-11] tragedy (Oct. 1);
Well-known British journalist Patrick Seale charged in his book Abu Nidal: A Gun for Hire, that the world's then-best-known "Arab terrorist," was actually a surrogate for Israel's Mossad (Oct 1);
How Israeli-connected publicists, policy-makers and politicians on the receiving end of Israeli lobby funding are pushing for an all-out war against the entire Arab world and making false claims of Iraqi involvement in the Sept. 11 [2001] attacks (Oct. 8, Nov. 5, Nov. 12, Dec. 3);
In the new book Body of Secrets well-known journalist James Bamford released details of formerly classified documents proving that two high-ranking U.S. officials, Lyman Lemnitzer and Paul Nitze (hard-line supporters of Israel) once proposed staging terrorist attacks against Americans, blaming the attacks on Fidel Castro and sparking a U.S. war of retaliation (Oct. 8);
The Israeli military staged a phony "celebration" by Palestinian children supposedly gleeful over the Sept. 11 [2001] terrorist attacks and CNN reported it as "fact." (Oct. 8);
How Israeli financial interests stand to benefit from U.S. involvement in the war in Afghanistan (Oct. 8);
How Newsbytes, an affiliate of The Washington Post, reported that the Israeli office of Odigo, an Internet software company, received instant messages warning of an attack on the World Trade Center two hours before the [9-11] tragedy (Oct. 15);
Amazing details about the fact that seven of the so-called "hijackers" are actually still alive and had nothing to do with the tragedy (Oct. 22); [Read: http://www.InformationTimes.com ]
Vicious attacks by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and leading voices on the Israeli lobby dissatisfied with the course of President Bush's war on terrorism (Oct. 22);
How Israeli intelligence has financed "Islamic fundamentalist" and "Arab terrorist" groups to advance Israel's strategic aims (Oct. 29);
Evidence--including testimony by firemen--that bombs exploded inside the World Trade Center, contrary to the official U.S. government story (Oct. 29);
How a company connected to a top-level CIA official, A. B. Krongard, was involved in stock dealings that could be connected to foreknowledge of the impending terrorist attacks (Oct. 29);
Evidence that a so-called "letter" written by one of the purported hijackers of Sept. 11 [2001] is a forgery (Oct. 29);
While Israel is said to be America's best Middle East source on [Usama] bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network and regularly supplies human intelligence, or "humint," to the CIA, the question remains as to why Israel's top-notch intelligence experts were officially "unaware" of the impending Sept. 11 [2001] attack (Nov. 12);
The remarkable assertion by a Saudi newspaper, Okaz, that the announced decision by President Bush to call for the creation of a Palestinian state suggests his administration actually knows that Israel was behind the Sept. 11 [2001] tragedy (Nov. 26);
The revelation by former [Israeli] Mossad officer, Victor Ostrovsky, that the Mossad plotted to kill former [U.S.] President George H.W. Bush for being a "threat" to Israel (Dec. 3);
The charge by a top Pakistani intelligence official that Israel hates both President Bush and his father, suspecting them of being allied financially with Arab interests, and that this was why Israel orchestrated the Sept. 11 [2001] attacks (Dec. 3);
The arrest, in Mexico, of Israeli terrorists who were involved in an attempt to blow up the Mexican Congress (Dec. 10);
The sudden, costly departure from the World Trade Center just weeks before Sept. 11 [2001] of the American division of Zim Israel, the Israeli shipping giant founded by longtime Israeli Mossad figure Shaul Eisenberg and the unusual circumstances involving the lease on the WTC held by an Australian Jewish entrepreneur (Dec. 10);
That [U.S.] Attorney General John Ashcroft--known for his long and close relationship with Israel and its American lobby--released at least one Israeli-Jew who had twice flunked FBI lie detector tests when asked to explain his activities with both the Israeli Army and with Israeli intelligence (Dec. 17).
