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> That's before the false-flag inside job ...
US arrests 200 young Israelis in spying investigation
By Ben Fenton in Wa****ngton
(Filed: 07/03/2002)
UP to 200 young Israelis, some of them former members of military
intelligence units, have been arrested in America in the past year, a
leaked
government re****t disclosed yesterday.
Some had used cover stories to gain access to sensitive government
buildings
and the homes of American officials. The re****t said the actions of some
of
the Israelis, most of whom had outstayed tourist visas, "may well be an
organised intelligence-gathering activity".
None of the Israelis, about 140 of whom are believed to have been detained
before the September 11 attacks, has been charged and most have been
de****ted, according to the US government.
A spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Yaffa Ben-Ari, said it was
"nonsense" that they had been spying on America. There has been no formal
American allegation of spying by Israel although Tel Aviv has launched
espionage operations against its principal ally in the past.
The leaked re****t was compiled by the Drug Enforcement Administration
after
some of its offices were allegedly targeted by Israelis posing as art
students. "That these people are now travelling in the US selling art
seems
not to fit their background," the DEA re****t said.
On Oct 31, the FBI and Immigration and Naturalisation Service officers
arrested about 60 young Israelis in San Diego, Kansas City, Cleveland,
Houston and St Louis. All had been selling toys at kiosks in shopping
centres across America and the FBI is re****ted to have been investigating
this as a front operation for espionage activities.
Before that date, about 140 young Israelis had been detained, some for
long
periods, by the FBI and other federal agencies.
There is no evidence linking these arrests to the September 11 attacks
although some intelligence commentators have pointed to allegations that
Israel may have been shadowing Arab militants in America without sharing
its
knowledge with Wa****ngton.
The DEA re****t said most of the students questioned by American
investigators acknowledged having served in units of the Israeli armed
forces specialising in military intelligence, electronic signals
interception or explosive ordnance.
It added that one person questioned was the son of an Israeli general,
another had served as the bodyguard to the head of the Israeli Army and a
third served in a Patriot missile unit.
Young Israelis are required to serve in the military and there is a long
tradition that after completing their national service they take advantage
of their freedom to go out and see the world.
In 1984, Jonathan Pollard, a US naval intelligence officer, was sentenced
to
life in prison for spying for Israel.
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