I have never seen that before. If I am reading that correctly: it is interesting that Israel was doing the work on US soil, giving the FBI/CIA a heads up about a potential large scale terrorist attack against the US and then the FBI/CIA seemingly do little to stop what eventually becomes 9/11 later that year. The FBI/CIA then obfuscate where their intel came from.
throwawayQuwcy · 10m ago
"Why the Israeli government decided not to
share with us all the critical information they had, and
the extent of that information, is a subject for the public
inquiry. They may have thought some sort of warning
prudent in the event their surveillance activities later
became a matter of public knowledge. But any energetic
Israeli effort to assist the United States in preventing
the attacks would not have served their strategic interest,
in view of the disastrous effect those attacks were likely
to have on the relationships between the United States and
the Arab world."
neuroelectron · 1h ago
Interesting. I wonder what part of their work required them to shut off parts of the WTC and remove a window.
EGreg · 12m ago
I remember seeing Fox News segments about how Israeli spies probably knew something like 9/11 was going to happen, but didn't inform the Americans.
Direct quote around 4:30 but it's all interesting.
adamrezich · 1h ago
Man, this makes me really miss Actual Journalism.
anonymousiam · 28m ago
I've seen lots of negative comments (and negative moderation) on HN toward content sourced from Fox News and The Washington Times (and other "conservative" outlets). This article seems to claim that those two employed the only journalists actually pursuing this story, and that other outlets (such as The Washington Post) were actively trying to discredit or sabotage their work.
I'm in the small minority that only gets news by reading, and the stuff I read comes from many different politically biased views. Do this for a while and you'll see that the bias is always present (one way or the other), but the news stories themselves still usually have (at least some) merit.
adamrezich · 7m ago
Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but I simply found it startling that the article was so well-written, and well-researched, given that my only exposure to Salon has been since the “bloggification of news”, which has seen them become just as much of a shitrag as everyone else these days. But this guy put some serious time and effort into researching this story, and then further time and effort to coalesce it into this article. Boy would it be nice if we saw more Actual Investigative Journalism like this, these days!
jd3 · 20m ago
> What is especially remarkable, however, is how quickly the Fox News report appeared and then vanished. Internet sources say that when someone stumbles upon evidence of a possible conspiracy, such as the ones noted above, most journalists say it’s nothing but trouble to pursue it. Even if leads are developed, editors tend to ignore them. Some make it clear that such leads can hurt the writers professionally. Eyewitness reports regarding the Israeli peddlers from authoritative sources, however, make the story of the Israeli squads impossible to dismiss.
This is the first time I hear about this. Was there any coverage of this in mainstream media at that time?
nickdothutton · 37m ago
There was coverage but there were too many scattered points to draw an arc and from memory… most journos quickly gave up and moved on to the next thing.
arp242 · 27m ago
The aggressive counter and (baseless) accusations of antisemitism might have something to do with that.
comrade1234 · 38m ago
Well, yes. This very article. Which I remember reading in 2002. I think it was covered elsewhere too.
https://www.yale64.org/news/shea.pdf
There was a 4-part series, here are all the parts I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euoHYWD5C_U
Direct quote around 4:30 but it's all interesting.
I'm in the small minority that only gets news by reading, and the stuff I read comes from many different politically biased views. Do this for a while and you'll see that the bias is always present (one way or the other), but the news stories themselves still usually have (at least some) merit.
https://www.wrmea.org/2002-may/israeli-trainees-and-mossad-a...