ZGram -10/3/2002 - "Anybody wants to buy the Brooklyn Bridge?"
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irimland@zundelsite.org
Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:01:05 -0700
ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny
October 3, 2002
Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
As children we used to play a game the name of which I have
forgotten, where we would follow hints to find some secret hidden in
the basement. It was a game packed with suspense. Only one person
was in-the-know - the rest of us little ones were swarming all over
the place and into the darkest corners in search of the illusive
something.
The person who had done the hiding was standing in the glare of light
and calling out the cues - not very originally but nonetheless
effectively.
It went like this: "Cold...lukewarm...warm...warmer...hot...
hotter...hottest!!!
You get the drift. Often the cues were misleading and we were led
astray, but eventually somehow we realized that we needed to move as
a group and not scatter ourselves all over the place - and sooner or
later we hit the "hottest!!!" spot.
Reading this brief report made me think of that childish game and
surmise that the group calling out the cues might be the very one
that hid the secret to begin with. It doesn't take an Einstein to
come to that conclusion. To me, this brief news item is a
transparent road flare.
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The report says Israel was tracking the hijackers
By Rob Broomby
BBC correspondent in Berlin
The American intelligence agency, the CIA, could have prevented the
11 September attacks if it were not for systematic failures,
according to the German newspaper Die Zeit.
Just a month before the deadly attacks, the paper said, Mossad handed
over to the Americans a detailed report naming several suspects they
believe were preparing an attack on the United States The paper has
uncovered details of a major Israeli spy ring involving some a 120
agents for the intelligence service Mossad operating across America
and some masquerading as arts students.
The ring was reportedly hard on the heels of at least four members of
the hijack gang, including its leader Mohammed Atta.
But the Israeli agents were detected by their American counterparts
and thrown out of the country, it says.
The US authorities said then that they were students whose visas had expired.
Report dismissed
Just a month before the deadly attacks, the paper said, Mossad handed
over to the Americans a detailed report naming several suspects they
believe were preparing an attack on the United States.
But it contained no specific indications as to the objective and it
was not treated seriously.
The paper also claims that the CIA failed to inform the German
authorities that Ramzi Binalshibh, a key logistics man for the
attacks, had attended a high level meeting of al-Qaeda activists in
Malaysia over 18 months before 11 September.
Without that information the Germans could not prevent him
re-entering the country and contacting the Hamburg cell that was
planning the hijackings.
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