If you have doubts about the spying maybe these many links would change your mind.
http://www.firefox.1accesshost.com/cameron.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A3 879-2001Nov22¬Found=true http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744&contrassID= /has%5C http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/11/23/News/News.38640.html http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=75266&contrassID= 2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAQS1FAGYC.html http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=271607
And finally the 60 page document that the DEA agent leaked to Intelligence online was just leaked to Anti-War.com
http://antiwar.com/rep/DEA_Report_redactedxx.pdf
Enjoy
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pollak" <mpollak at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 6:23 PM Subject: RE: al-Qaeda and Taliban
>
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
>
> > > Allies and espionage
> > >
> > > It is rather strange that the US media seems to be
> > > ignoring what may well be the most explosive story
> > > since the 11 September attacks -- the alleged break-up
> > > of a major Israeli espionage operation in the USA.
> >
> > Food for conspiranoia indeed, isn't it odd that the only U.S. network
> > that has covered this is Fox, and then they pulled their own web pages?
> > Google don't lie.
>
> And it has also been noted that Le Monde, the one intellectually
> respectable European paper to highlight this story recently, recently
> bought the internet intelligence service (Executive Intelligence Review)
> that originally pushed the story, so venality might have played a role in
> their editorial decision.
>
> Personally, based on my knowledge of the life-cycle of young Israelis, I
> found the story the US put out when they were kicked out of the country
> completely convincing, and I've yet to see a good reason why it should be
> called into question, to wit: they were neither spies nor art students.
> Rather they were involved in a very common art scam where they bought
> commercially produced art for $10 a shot and sold it on the street for
> whatever they could get under the pretense of having being a struggling
> artist.
>
> All Israelis have to do compulsory army service, and it drives most of
> them crazy, of course. So before or after college they typically make a
> trip as far away from Israel as they can get (except, amusing enough, it's
> usually the same far away places that their friends went, because most of
> them are also provincial. So there are now well-worn trails where Hebrew
> is spoken in the farthest reaches of Peru, Thailand and India.) Before
> this trek takes place, however, they have to make enough money to finance
> it, which is usually done in America. (And some of them decide they
> prefer doing their wild oats sowing here, anyway.) One familiar method is
> to work for on the Isaeli moving companies in New York, live 6 to an
> apartment, and build up a wad of cash to blow in Thailand. Another is
> this art scam, which makes less, but which also takes a lot less out of
> you and let's you live touristy places rather than New York.
>
> Anyway, it looks like what happened was some of them were in Florida. In
> itself, that's not so weird -- there is literally a half a million
> Israelis in this country, and a lot of them like the sun. And they were
> acting suspicious, and they were networked all over the country (they're
> all kids the same age, making the same trip in the same country in the age
> of email, and trading notes on the art of scamming on top of that), so
> they got picked up. There was clearly suspicion on the part of the FBI, I
> don't think there's any doubt about that. But the odds seem to be that
> these guys were basically in the same boat as young arab middle easterners
> on September 12th -- wrong place, wrong time, tiny venal sin made them
> look suspicious, and they got fucked. Immeasurably less fucked than if
> they'd been Arabs, no doubt about that. But fucked nonetheless.
>
> Of course I probably have an iron clad reputation as a softy when it comes
> to conspiracies. But I'll be happy to alter my opinion if someone can
> give me a good reason why thinking they were spies is more plausible.
>
> Michael
>
>