On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Hakki Alacakaptan wrote:
> The DEA report 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. (...)
Hakki, every single Israeli kid goes in the army, and every good student goes into one of these units. It's probably what you or I would sign up for in their place if we were forced to take a job in the army right after high school and we lived in a milieu in which patriotism was still rife. They are more interesting, have more status, and involve less physical work. Just what A students gravitate towards. And explosive training attracts kids that like to make things go boom legally. So if you take this background as evidence of being a spy, you'll have to think that all smart Israeli kids are spies, and that all post-army vacations are spy trips.
But I will now read all the reports that your colleagues have proffered. And if you could do me a favor and repost the ones that you consider most convincing in case I missed one of them, that would be great.
Michael