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Rumsfeld
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The Cemetery at Basra
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Exile on Bliss Street: The Terrorist Threat and the English Professor
Jeremy Bigwood
The Toxic War on Drugs: Monsanto Weedkiller Linked to Powerful
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Jeffrey St. Clair
Forest
or Against Us: the Bush Doctor Calls on Oregon
Cynthia McKinney
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David Krieger
So Many Deaths, So Few Answers: Approaching the Second Anniversary
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Julie Hilden
A Constitutional Right to be a Human Shield
Dave Lindorff
Marketplace
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Standard Schaefer
Unholy Trinity: Falwell's Anti-Abortion Attack on Health and
Free Speech
Catherine Dong
Kucinich and FirstEnergy
José Tirado
History Hurts: Why Let the Dems Repeat It?
Ron Jacobs
Springsteen's America
Gavin Keeney
The Infernal Machine
Adam Engel
A Fan's Notations
William Mandel
Five Great Indie Films
Walt Brasch
An American Frog Fable
Poets' Basement
Reiss, Kearney, Guthrie, Albert and Alam
Website of the Weekend
The Hutton Inquiry
August 22, 2003
Carole Harper
Post-Sandinista
Nicaragua
John Chuckman
George Will: the Marquis of Mendacity
Richard Thieme
Operation Paperclip Revisited
Chris Floyd
Dubya Indemnity: Bush Barons Beyond the Reach of Law?
Issam Nashashibi
Palestinians
and the Right of Return: a Rigged Survey
Mary Walworth
Other People's Kids
Ron Jacobs
The
Darkening Tunnel
Website of the Day
Current Energy
August 21, 2003
Robert Fisk
The US
Needs to Blame Anyone But Locals for UN Bombing
Virginia Tilley
The Quisling Policies of the UN in Iraq: Toward a Permanent War?
Rep. Henry Waxman
Bush Owes the Public Some Serious Answers on Iraq
Ben Terrall
War Crimes and Punishment in Indonesia: Rapes, Murders and Slaps
on the Wrists
Elaine Cassel
Brother John Ashcroft's Traveling Patriot Salvation Show
Christopher Brauchli
Getting Gouged by Banks
Marjorie Cohn
Sergio Vieira de Mello: Victim of Terrorism or US Policy in Iraq?
Vicente Navarro
Media
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Website of the Day
The Intelligence Squad
August 20, 2003
Robert Fisk
Now No
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Caoimhe Butterly
Life and Death on the Frontlines of Baghdad
Kurt Nimmo
UN Bombing: Act of Terrorism or Guerrilla War?
Michael Egan
Revisiting the Paranoid Style in the Dark
Ramzi Kysia
Peace
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Steven Higgs
NPR and the NAFTA Highway
John L. Hess
A Downside Day
Edward Said
The Imperial Bluster of Tom Delay
Jason Leopold
Gridlock at Path 15: the California Blackouts were the "Wake
Up Call"
Website of the Day
Ashcroft's Patriotic Hype
August 19, 2003
Jeffrey St. Clair
Blackouts Happen
Gary Leupp
"Our Patch": Australia v. the Evil Doers of the South
Pacific
Sean Donahue
Uribe's Cruel Model: Colombia Moves Toward Totalitarianism
Matt Martin
Bush's Credibility Problem on Missile Defense
Juliana Fredman
Recipe for the Destruction of a Hudna
John Ross
Fox Government's Attack on Mexican Basques
Sasan Fayazmanesh
What Kermit Roosevelt Didn't Say
Website of the Day
Tom Delay's Dual Loyalities
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Uri Avnery
Hero in War and Peace
Stan Goff
The Volunteer Military and the Wicked Adventure
Cathy Breen
Baghdad on the Hudson
Michael Kimaid
Fight the Power (Companies)!
Jason Leopold
The California Rip-Off Revisited: Arnold, Milken and Ken Lay
Matt Siegfried
The Bush Administration in Context
Elaine Cassel
At Last, A Judge Who Acts Like a Judge
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Judy Miller's War
Harvey Wasserman
The Legacy of Blackout Pete Wilson
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Brian Cloughley
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William S. Lind
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David Lindorff
Where's Arnold When We Need Him?
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This Grid Should Not Exist
Don Moniak
"Unusual Events" at Nuclear Power Plants: a Timeline
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David Vest
Rolling Blackout Revue
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Adam Engel
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Jim Lobe
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Tony Benn's Greatest Hits
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Joanne Mariner
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Donald Worster
The Heavy Cost of Empire
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Ralph Nader
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August
25, 2003
Israeli Outlaws in
America
The
Case of Rafi Eitan
By KURT NIMMO
Is Rafi Eitan in the United States and if so why
hasn't the FBI arrested him?
Eitan is the former chief of Mossad operations
in Europe and the man who recruited the U.S. Navy counter-intelligence
specialist Jonathan Pollard to spy on the United States. As well,
Eitan once headed the top-secret science and technology spy unit
known as Leshkat Kesher Madao, or Lekem (supposedly dismantled
following Pollard's bust).
According to Richard Sale (Pollard Recruiter
Resurfaces in U.S., UPI, July 31, 2003) and federal law enforcement
officials, "Eitan has, for the last year or so, been traveling
to the United States on an Israeli passport, but using an alias."
Eitan apparently landed at Columbus,
Ohio, and then moved around the Midwest on a prolonged road trip.
Eitan "the stinker" has been photographed in the company
of "known dealers who belong to a ring dealing in the drug
ecstasy," one federal law enforcement official told Sale.
Last year two major Israeli Ecstasy traffickers
were extradited to the United Sates, much to the displeasure
of the Israeli government. The DEA claims "Israeli organized
crime figures" control around 70 percent of the worldwide
market in Ecstasy. "The FBI is looking for evidence that
Eitan is, or has been engaging, in questionable activities related
to this ring," a federal law enforcement official told UPI.
For his part in the Pollard spy scandal,
Rafi Eitan was promoted to a senior position with the largest
state-owned business enterprise in Israel -- the Israel Chemicals
Company. He received the job based on the recommendation of Ariel
Sharon. "It's generally agreed that Eitan was to take the
brunt of blame for the [Pollard] mess," a former official
close to confidential details of the case told UPI. "In
return for his silence, Sharon would make sure he got a good
job." In 1987, Eitan boasted to an Israeli newspaper that
all of his actions had been undertaken with the knowledge of
his Israeli superiors.
But Eitan was not the only Israeli to
be rewarded for snooping on America. Aviem Sella, an Israeli
Air Force expert in nuclear targeting and delivery of airborne
nuclear weapons, was Pollard's handler. When Pollard was arrested
for passing satellite photographs and weapon systems data to
the Israelis, Sella hurried back to Israel, and was soon promoted
to Brig. Gen. in Israel's Air Force. "This raised such an
outcry of protest in the United States that Sella was quietly
moved to the Israeli Defense Force Defense College," writes
Sale.
Apparently, spying on the United States
is relatively easy for the Israelis. According to a 1979 CIA
report (quoted by Michael Saba, Pollard in Perspective): "The
Israeli intelligence service depends heavily on the various Jewish
communities and organizations abroad for recruiting agents
and eliciting general information ... Israeli agents usually
operate discreetly within Jewish communities and are under instructions
to handle their missions with utmost tact to avoid embarrassment
to Israel." Pollard, who studied politics at the Fletcher
School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University after graduating
from Stanford University, was one such "asset" in the
American Jewish community.
Is it possible Eitan is working "discreetly
within Jewish communities" in regard to drug dealing as
well -- or did the FBI simply hallucinate the whole thing? And
if the FBI indeed knows the whereabouts of Eitan, why haven't
they arrested him? He is, after all, a wanted man in America.
According to Carl Cameron of Fox News
-- in a series of reports that have subsequently disappeared
from the Fox News website -- in 1997 the Israelis organized "cocaine
and ecstasy trafficking, and sophisticated white-collar credit
card and computer fraud... the bad guys had the cops beepers,
cell phones, even home phones under surveillance. Some who did
get caught admitted to having hundreds of numbers and using them
to avoid arrest." An investigation revealed the Israeli
crime network possessed "extensive access to database systems
to identify pertinent personal and biographical information"
of law enforcement officers.
How did a network of drug dealers get
this sensitive information? "When investigators tried to
find out where the information might have come from, they looked
at Amdocs, a publicly traded firm based in Israel," Cameron
reported. "Amdocs generates billing data for virtually every
call in America, and they do credit checks."
But it seems Amdocs was not only involved
with Israeli drug dealers. "More than two dozen U.S. intelligence,
counterintelligence, law-enforcement and other officials have
told Insight [magazine] that the FBI believes Israel has intercepted
telephone and modem communications on some of the most sensitive
lines of the U.S. government on an ongoing basis," write
J. Michael Waller and Paul Rodriguez. "The worst penetrations
are believed to be in the State Department. But others say the
supposedly secure telephone systems in the White House, Defense
Department and Justice Department may have been compromised as
well. The problem for FBI agents in the famed Division 5, however,
isn't just what they have uncovered, which is substantial, but
what they don't know yet."
Amdocs "helped Bell Atlantic install
new telephone lines in the White House in 1997... [and] a senior-level
employee of Amdocs had a separate T1 data phone line installed
from his base outside of St. Louis that was connected directly
to Israel... investigators are looking into whether the owner
of the T1 line had a 'real time' capacity to intercept phone
calls from both the White House and other government offices
around Washington, and sustained the line for some time, sources
said. Sources familiar with the investigation say FBI agents
on the case sought an arrest warrant for the St. Louis employee
but [Clinton] Justice Department officials quashed it."
Waller and Rodriguez quoted one senior
government official as saying: "It is a politically sensitive
matter. I can't comment on it beyond telling you that anything
involving Israel on this particular matter is off-limits. It's
that hot."
Apparently, the Justice Department and
the FBI have a lot to hide, if we are to believe Jeffrey Steinberg
and Edward Spannaus. According to these two journalists, the
Israelis are behind a
"massive ecstasy trafficking operation,
delivering hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal drugs,
manufactured in the Netherlands, to cities across the United
States. The drug trafficking operation is also engaged in black
market diamond smuggling, using Hassidic Jews as couriers...
Portions of the funds garnered from the illegal operations, according
to sources, are funneled to offshore bank accounts of Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Some of these dirty funds were reportedly
diverted to Sharon's election campaigns. This Israeli mafia apparatus
receives technical support via a number of Israeli communications
firms, that subcontract with major American telephone companies
and government law enforcement agencies... Every time the DEA,
FBI and Los Angeles Police Department task force infiltrated
an agent inside the Orgad ring [Israeli Jacob 'Cookie' Orgad
was arrested by a joint anti-drug task force in April 2000],
his or her identity was blown within a matter of days. Every
time a court ordered wiretap was put in place, the target immediately
'began behaving like Mother Teresa,' according to a source familiar
with the case."
On August 16, Steinberg commented on
Eitan's alleged resurfacing in the United States. "Eitan
is making these high-risk journeys, U.S. and Israeli sources
report, because he is directing plans for a major terrorist attack
on American soil -- a new 9/11 -- to be blamed on either Muslim
or Latin American terrorists... sources -- both Israeli and American
-- have warned that Eitan is putting the finishing touches on
such an operation, which coincides with Vice President Dick Cheney's
aggressive promotion of the idea that the United States is facing
an imminent new 9/11 attack. Cheney launched this propaganda
offensive at his July 24, 2003 speech at the American Enterprise
Institute in Washington, and he has been stumping the country,
ever since, asserting an imminent terror attack."
Regardless of the validity of Steinberg's
terrorism claim, one has to ask why the FBI hasn't arrested Rafi
Eitan. There is, after all, an outstanding federal warrant for
his arrest, so why is he allowed to make road trips across America?
Is it possible the FBI has orders to
keep their hands off Eitan? "One of the people who have
been recently pulled out of mothballs is (Sharon's) old pal Rafi
Eitan," reported the Israeli newspaper Maariv in March 2002.
Is it possible Sharon sent Eitan to America?
Sharon knows who calls the shots in Washington.
"I want to tell you something very clear," Sharon reportedly
told his foreign Minister Shimon Peres in October, 2001 (according
to Israel radio Kol Yisrael), "don't worry about American
pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish people control America, and
the Americans know it."
Most Americans may not know it, but apparently
the FBI does.
Kurt Nimmo
is a photographer and multimedia developer in Las Cruces, New
Mexico. Visit his excellent online
gallery Ordinary Vistas. Nimmo is a contributor to Cockburn
and St. Clair's forthcoming volume, The
Politics of Anti-Semitism.
He can be reached at: nimmo@zianet.com
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