http://www.atlanta.creativeloafing.com/2002-03-20/fishwrapper.html
This one comes from the oldest Jewish publication in the US the FORWARD
http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.03.15/news2.html
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm/include/detail/storyid/207226.html
Also, keep in mind that Israel has a history of spying on the US. The most celebrated case is that of Johnathan Pollard. So it is not entirely farfetched that Israel was spying on the US once again.
Naji
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pollak" <mpollak at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 9:28 AM Subject: RE: al-Qaeda and Taliban
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> 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
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>