Stephan Fuchs – Die Stadtberner Rechtsaussen Partei SD (Schweizer Demokraten) hat sich gestern mit einer Interpellation an den Gemeinderat gewandt. Darin fragt die Partei, ob dem Gemeinderat bekannt sei, dass ein Hauptquartier des US-amerikanischen Geheimdienstes CIA geplant oder bereits in Betrieb sei. Mit dem parlamentarischen Vorstoß reagiert die SD auf die aktuellen Berichte der Presse. Den Berichten zufolge soll die neue US-Botschaft in Bern als Europa-Zentrale des CIA dienen.
Mit Recht wäre eine solche Entwicklung haarsträubend für Schweizer Interessen. Die Schweiz ist neutral. Sie darf unter keinen Umständen die Machenschaften einer klandestin operierenden Geheimtruppe tolerieren. Brisant: die Schweizer Spionageabwehr ist entweder zu nichts Nutz, oder infiltriert. Aus Insider Kreisen wissen wir, dass die Schweizer Abwehr sehr wohl an der Reling zu stehen weiß.
Eierattacken auf Schweizer Soldaten
Die amerikanische Festung an der Sulgeneckstrasse wird von Schweizer Milizsoldaten bewacht. Am 4. September, kurz vor 22.00 Uhr, fuhr an der amerikanischen Botschaft in Bern ein Auto vorbei. Die Insassen warfen Eier in die Richtung der Soldaten, die vor der Botschaft Wache schieben mussten. Die Armeeangehörigen alarmierten die Polizei, die nach wenigen Minuten eintraf. Die Eierwerfer konnten aber flüchten. „Solche Attacken sind Einzelfälle“, sagt Armeesprecher Christoph Brunner. Er vermutet hinter dem Angriff keine politischen Absichten. „Es ist ein dummer Nachtbubenstreich“, sagt Brunner. Die Armee nehme den Vorfall zur Kenntnis, gehe aber der Sache nicht weiter nach.
Stephan Fuchs – Bereits im zweiten Weltkrieg war Bern Stützpunkt für amerikanische Schlapphüte. Damals residierte Allen W. Dulles, der pfeifenrauchende Oberspion des amerikanischen CIA Vorläufergeheimdienstes OSS an der gemütlichen Herrengasse, nahe am Berner Münster. Von Bern aus wurden die Treffen Allan Dulles mit Emissären der Naziführung, etwa mit SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff im Rahmen der Aktion „Sunrise“ durchgeführt. Jetzt sind sie wieder da, die Schlapphüte.
Die neue amerikanische Botschaft an der Sulgeneckstrasse 19 ist ein Hochsicherheitstrakt. Handys verboten, Taschen verboten, Rucksäcke verboten. Meterhohe Umzäunung, abgedunkelte Fenster: Geheimhaltung pur. Als die Schweizer Boulevard Zeitung BLICK im September 2006, mit Hilfe eines Nachrichten Heute Autoren einen CIA-Spion enttarnte, fanden die Journalisten heraus, dass er offiziell in der Berner US-Botschaft als „zweiter Sekretär für politische Angelegenheiten“ gearbeitet hat. Mittlerweile ist „Tom“ in Berlin. Die Botschaft in Bern ist, wie jede US-Auslandsvertretung auch, ein CIA-Stützpunkt. Jetzt wollen Recherchen zeigen, dass der US Geheimdienst mit Bern größeres vorhat.
Bern soll eine Koordinations-Zentrale werden. Die Botschaft an der Sulgeneckstrasse soll das Verbindungsbüro auf dem europäischen Festland werden. Offiziell wird der Ausbau nicht kommentiert – weder von der Botschaft noch von der Staatsschutz-Abteilung im Bundesamt für Polizei. Auch der Sprecher des Außenministeriums EDA will „im Moment keine Stellung nehmen“.
Bislang wurde die CIA-Tätigkeit in Europa von Stuttgart (D) aus koordiniert. Dort befindet sich das Hauptquartier der US-Streitkräfte in Europa (Eucom). Die Verschleppung von Gefangenen nach Guantánamo wurde in Stuttgart organisiert. Nach den Terroranschlägen am 11. September 2001 suchte die CIA die Nähe zum Militär. Jetzt entdecken die amerikanischen Spione offenbar die Vorteile der Schweiz wieder neu. „Für die CIA ist die Diskretion des hiesigen Finanzplatzes ein wichtiges Argument für den Umzug“, sagt ein Geheimdienst-Insider.
In der Tat war Genf bereits seit den afghanischen Mudschaheddin im Kampf gegen die Sowjets ein Eldorado für geheimdienstliche Operationen. James R. Fees koordinierte von dort aus ein Spinnennetz an Tarnfirmen die zum Kauf von Waffen gebraucht worden waren. Wir freuen uns auf interessante Artikel.
World Content News – Der Schweizer Ingenieur Friedrich Tinner und seinen beiden Söhnen Urs und Marco arbeiteten für die CIA und kassierten für ihre jahrelange Zuarbeit bis zu 10 Millionen Dollar. Dies enthüllte gestern die „New York Times“. Und die brisanten Akten hat die Schweiz nicht wegen der Gefahr vernichtet, dass Pläne in die Hände von Terroristen fallen könnten, vielmehr wollte man dadurch verschleiern, dass die Tinners CIA-Agenten waren. Die Beseitigung von Beweisen sollte eine Anklage gegen die Tinner-Familie zumindest erschweren.
F. Tinner: Millionen von der CIA kassiert
Die „New York Times“ berief sich in ihrem Bericht auf fünf aktive und ehemalige Offizielle der Regierung Bush. „Wir waren sehr erleichtert dass die Akten zerstört wurden“, so ein Geheimdienstmitarbeiter. Die Beziehung zwischen der CIA und den Tinners war „sehr bedeutend“, so Gary Samore, ein Mitarbeiter vom Nationalen Sicherheitsrat.
Bethesda Metro Center: „Big Black River“ residierte in der 7. Etage
World.Content. News hatte bereits am 6. Juni dieses Jahres die CIA-Tarnfirma in Bethesda, Maryland enttarnt, die mit den Tinners zusammenarbeitete und ihnen ihren Sold oft in Bargeld auszahlte, das die Agenten in Koffern mitbrachten. Es handelt sich um die inzwischen aufgelöste Firma „Big Black River Technologies„, die ihren Sitz in einem Business-Center angemeldet hatte.
In dem Enthüllungsbericht wird – wie schon früher – betont, dass sich die CIA durch die „Kooperation“ mit der Tinner-Familie erstmals Einblicke in das Schmuggel-Netzwerk des paktistanischen Atomwissenschaftlers Abdul Qadir Khan erlangen konnten. Auch hätten die Schweizer dazu beigetragen, gefälschte und fehlerhafte Pläne nach Libyen und Iran zu schleusen, um die Nuklearprogramme zu sabotieren.
Als „Erfolg“ wird eine Lieferung gewertet, dass bei einem darauf basierenden Unfall in der iranischen Nuklearanlage Natanz im Jahr 2006 mindestens 50 Zentrifugen explodiert sein sollen.
Diversen anderslautenden Berichten zufolge sollen jedoch die geringfügigen Abänderungen so stümperhaft gewesen sein, dass der Iran den Fehler schnell entdeckte und korrigierte und erst dadurch in den Besitz einer theoretisch voll funktionsfähigen Bombe gelangte. Gleichwohl berichteten gleich 16 amerikanische Geheimdienste Ende letzten Jahres in ihrem NIE-Bericht: „Teheran hat wohl bereits 2003 sein Atomprogramm auf internationalen Druck hin eingestellt.“
Nicht nur WCN stellt inzwischen die These auf, dass es der CIA wohl nicht in erster Linie darum ging, durch die Unterstützung der Tinnerschen Schmuggel-Aktivitäten die Lieferwege heraus zu bekommen und dass das Auffliegen der Lieferungen an Gadaffi durch die Beschlagnahmung des Schiffes „BBC China“ alles andere als geplant war.
Vielmehr scheint man in den USA selbst einen schwunghaften Handel mit nuklearen Komponenten und Plänen zugelassen zu haben und hätte damit klar den Atomwaffensperrvertrag unterlaufen. Dies lässt sich jedenfalls den Anschuldigungen der früheren FBI-Übersetzerin Sibel Edmonds entnehmen, die ehemaligen Regierungsbeamten vorwirft, Beihilfe zum Einschmuggeln von ausländischen Agenten in das US-Atomwaffenforschungs-Labor von Los Alamos geleistet zu haben.
Sibel Edmonds: „We have the facts“
In der Öffentlichkeit bekannte US-Offizielle wurden demnach im Jahr 2000 bestochen, von einer Luftwaffenbasis in Alabama Nukleargeheimnisse zu stehlen. In den Aufnahmen eines abgehörten Agenten hört sich das so an: „Wir haben ein Paket, und wir verkaufen es für 250.000 Dollar.“ Untersuchungen des FBI sollen behindert worden sein, Sibel Edmonds will reden, darf aber nicht.
Im Fall des Frachters „BBC China“, der im Oktober 2003 auf dem Weg von Malaysia nach Libyen in Italien abgefangen wurde, soll der Tipp angeblich von der CIA gekommen sein. Es ist aber genauso gut denkbar, dass der malaysische Premier Abdullah Badawi den Frachter auffliegen ließ, als er erfuhr, dass einer seiner Söhne am Schmuggel beteiligt war und er ihm dadurch eine Lektion erteilen wollte, wie Insider-Quellen behaupteten. Vielleicht sollte die Lieferung ja ursprünglich in Libyen ankommen, bis leider Badawi dazwischenfunkte.
Nächstes Indiz: Am 30. Mai hat Abdul Khan, der in Pakistan unter Hausarrest steht, in einem bei der britischen Tageszeitung Guardian erschienenen und heimlich zustande gekommenen Interview sein Geständnis von 2004, zu dem ihn Pakistans Präsident Pervez Musharraf angeblich gezwungen hätte, widerrufen und den Westen – Geschäftsleute und Geheimdienstler – für den weltweiten Handel mit verbotenen Nuklearerkenntnissen verantwortlich gemacht. Muss man nicht glauben, aber die Medien hatten weltweit von dieser Stellungnahme null Notiz genommen.
Und auch nicht ohne: Der pakistanische Autor Shyam Bhatia, ein enger Vertrauter der im Dezember 2007 ermordeten Oppositionsführerin und frühere Premierministerin Benazir Bhutto behauptet, diese hätte bei zwei offiziellen Staatsbesuchen in Nordkorea 2003 höchst persönlich Baupläne für die Bombe in das kommunistische Land geschmuggelt, die sich auf mehreren CD’s befunden haben sollen.
Und es soll keiner behaupten, die atomaren Zünder, die die USA 2005 an Taiwan lieferte, wären ein Versehen gewesen. Auch China sollte offensichtlich in den Genuss von Bauplänen kommen, wenn man dem versierten Reporter von der Zeitung „Blick“ glauben darf, der den Schweinekram von den vernichteten Akten in der Schweiz als erster ans Tageslicht zerrte.
Noch ist der größte Skandal in der Geschichte der USA noch nicht einmal scheibchenweise aufgedeckt. Wenn Tinner reden würde, vielleicht als Kronzeuge, und wenn man Sibel Edmonds anhören würde, wüssten wir vielleicht mehr.
Infantry weapons included some 800 Mortars, 150 SA-7 grail MANPAD Systems, several thousand RPG Anti-tank Rocket Launchers and a small number of Anti-tank missile systems. Reasonably well equipped with modern small arms.
The 1st and 2nd Infantry Brigades along with the Independent Tank Battalion and most of the front line artillery units are no longer combat capable. There have been very significant losses in weapons, ammunition stocks and damage done to the military infrastructure
Artillery Brigade HQ Gori
Artillery Regiment HQ Gori
Artillery Regiment HQ Khoni
Equipment included around 150 towed 122mm & 152mm Artillery; 90 assorted self-propelled 122mm, 152mm & 203mm Artillery and 200 Mobile 122mm Multiple Rocket Launchers
Independent Air Defence Battalion HQ Kutaisi
Equipment included around 100 towed/static AA Artillery and some SAM including SA13 Gopher mobile missile systems
Significant quantities of new offensive military equipment; large stocks of ammunition and spare parts for a protracted campaign have been acquired since 2004 when preparations for a major military operation against South Ossetia, Georgia and were working closely with the Georgian Armed Forces. Since the signing of the 1999 GUAM agreement, Georgia has been the recipient of extensive US military aid.
Barely a few months ago, in early May 2008, the Russian Ministry of Defence accused Washington, „claiming that [US as well as NATO and Israeli] military assistance to Georgia is destabilizing the region.“
The Russian Defense Ministry said there were plans to deliver to Georgia 145 armored vehicles, 262 guns and mortars, 14 combat aircraft including four Mirazh-2000 destroyers, 25 combat helicopters, 15 American Black Hawk aircraft, six surface-to-air missile systems and other arms.“ (Interfax News Agency, Moscow)
US troops and civilian contractors, who he said were stationed in the area around Tblisi“ (AFP, 9 August 2008).
In fact, US-NATO military presence in Georgia is on a larger scale to that acknowledged in official statements. The number of NATO personnel in Georgia, [text missing]
Tblisi announced the opening of a second military base at Gori which would also „comply with NATO regulations in terms of military requirements as well as social conditions.“ (Ria Novosti, 26 May 2006).
The Gori base has been used to train Georgian troops dispatched to fight under US command in the Iraq war theater.
It is worth noting that under a March 31, 2006, agreement between Tblisi and Moscow, Russia’s two Soviet-era military bases in Georgia – Akhalkalaki and Batumi [text missing]
[Text missing] Israel, from the Czech Republic – six MLRS RM-70.
What is more, from Ukraine and the Czech Republic, Georgia has bought 86 T-72 tanks, 52 infantry combat vehicles BMP-2 and 30 armoured carriers BTR-80, as well as self-propelled howitzers 2S3 “Akacia”. A part of the tanks is modernized to level SIM1, i.e. is provided with navigation receivers, connection systems and termovisors to detect the target in complete darkness. Over 400 recently bought trucks KrAZ and Japanese pick-ups Toyota Hilux supply Bulgaria and licensed in the times of the Soviet Union.
Ukrainian Defense Ministry confirms weapons supplies Georgia
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has confirmed statements by the South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoyty that Ukraine supplied weapons to Georgia. Commenting on the issue, the Moscow-based Nezavisimaya Gazeta reminds its readers about an article that was published on the Russian Defense Ministry’s website in May. The article titled „On Foreign Military Aid to Georgia“ unveils how many and what types of weapons Georgia received from Ukraine.
Mikhail Pogrebisnky, the head of the Center for Political Studies and Conflictology in Kyiv, remarks in this connection that there is common international practice to refrain from arms supplies to regions fraught with potential military conflicts. In the analyst’s opinion, Ukraine sends weapons to Georgia in order to create problems for US.
A subsidiary of BAE Systems Ltd, will supply anti-tank weapons to the Georgian army. The weapons that will be supplied is Bill 2 ATGW, the NLAW light anti-tank weapon and the anti-tank artilly shells, Bonus and Excalibur. The anti tank weapons are to delivered to the Georgian army during the 4th quarter 2008.
The commander of the Georgian Land Forces, LTC Alexander Osepaishvili, says that „the new anti-tank weapons will significantly increase the capabilities of the Georgian army. The new weapons are for self defence only and are not to be regarded as offensive“.
An obstacle has been that the weapons are developed and produced in Sweden by BAE Systems AB Bofors and Saab Systems AB, but by supplying the anti-tank weapons through BAE Inc in the US, the Swedish government approves to the sales.
Offensive military training with large numbers of armoured vehicles, artillery and ground attack aircraft has been carried out regularly since June 2005.
Several Battalions of Special Operations Forces have received significant training and large supplies of modern military equipment from the [text missing]
(Unconfirmed presence of 5 Su-17, 4 Su-24, 12 MiG-25, 18 MiG-21 and numerous Su-25 airframes at the TAM Tbilisi Aerospace Manufacturing (Tbilaviamsheni” former Soviet GAZ-31 factory), though at least one MiG-21UM was in flying condition. However this facility which produces the upgraded Su-25 Ground Attack fighter with technical support from Israel was heavily bombed on several occasions during the conflict and significant damage resulted)
onlineredaktion – Der kroatische Geheimdienst „Security and Intelligence Agency“ (SOA) startete am 30. Juni 2008 eine eigene Website. Der Dienst will damit die Arbeit der Schlapphüte besser Verständlich machen und ein bisschen Öffentlichkeitsarbeit betreiben.
Der Geheimdienst wurde im Jahre 2006 per Gesetzesbeschluss aus den beiden Diensten Counterintelligence Agency (POA) und der Intelligence Agency (OA) gegründet.
Die Hauptzentrale befindet sich in Zagrab und unterhält zehn regionale Zentren. Hauptaufgabe ist die Gewinnung,Verarbeitung und Analyse von Informationen, aber auch Kriegsverbrechen gegen die kroatische Befölkerung will geandet werden. Boss der Geheimen ist Tomislav Karamanko. Wer sich fit genug fühlt, kroatischer Bürger ist und etwas besonderes kann, dem könnte durchaus noch ein Job winken.
Ohne Amis, geht es aber nicht. Wie Heise Online berichtete, hört der Dienst für die CIA den Balkan nach Terroristen ab. Die Zagreber Schlapphüte verfolgen Kommunikation über Mobilfunk, Internet und Festnetz insbesondere im benachbarten Bosnien-Herzegowina, wo die US-Behörden Kontaktleute der Organisation des Terroristenführers Osama bin Laden ausgemacht haben wollen. Die Geheimdienst – Site erklärt denn auch, wesshalb es so ungemein wichtig ist Telefone abzuhören.
cooperativeresearch – Following Henry Kissinger’s resignation as 9/11 Commission chairman the day before (see November 27, 2002), presidential aide Karl Rove calls Thomas Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, to ask if he is willing to be considered as chairman of the Commission. Kean, who does not know Rove well and has been out of politics for some time, is surprised that he is being considered for the job.
He is even more surprised that it is Rove making the call, especially given Rove’s reputation as the brain behind the rise of President George W. Bush. However, he says that he may do the job, if chosen. Kean will later speak to the president’s chief of staff Andy Card about the job, and formally accept it in a call from President Bush. Rove will later say that he thinks it was he who first suggested Kean as chairman, but will add that he regrets this, due to later battles with the White House. Card will also say he thinks he was the first to suggest Kean.
Chris McGreal – Facility 1391 has been airbrushed from Israeli aerial photographs and purged from modern maps. Where once a police station was marked there is now a blank space. Sometimes even the road leading to it has been erased. But Israel’s secret prison, inside an army intelligence base close to the main road between Hadera and Afula in northern Israel, is real enough. For 20 years or more it has been housed in a large, imposing, single-storey building designed by a British engineer, Sir Charles Taggart, during the 1930s as one of a series of garrison forts designed to contain growing unrest in Palestine. Today, the thick concrete walls and iron gates are themselves protected by a double fence overseen by watchtowers and patrolled by attack dogs.
Unlike any other Israeli prison, the International Red Cross, lawyers and members of the Israeli parliament have been refused access. One leftwing MP, Zahava Gal-On, describes Facility 1391 as „one of the signs of totalitarian regimes and of the third world“. The Israeli government declines to discuss the secret prison other than to issue a standard response: „Facility 1391 is situated on a secret military base. The base is used by the security services for various classified activities and thus its location is kept confidential.“
But it is not just human rights lawyers and leftwing MPs who have a problem. Ami Ayalon is a former head of Israel’s intelligence service, the Shin Bet. He was told about 1391 but says he refused to have anything to do with it. „I knew there was a facility not under the responsibility of the Shin Bet, but under the responsibility of the military. I didn’t think then, and I don’t think today, that such an institution should exist in a democracy,“ he says.
World Content News – Unfassbar: Das Umzugsunternehmen Urban Moving Systems, dessen Mitarbeiter am 11. September 2001 dadurch auffielen, dass sie die brennenden Türme des World Trade Centers filmten und dazu jubelten und tanzten, erhielt drei Monate vor den Anschlägen von der US-Regierung offenbar eine Zuwendung von einer halben Million Dollar, dies weist jedenfalls die offizielle Website einer Watchdog-Organisation namens FedSpending.org aus.
Der Inhaber der mutmaßlichen Mossad-Tarnfirma wurde nach den Anschlägen vom FBI ob des seltsamen Verhaltens zunächst „befragt“ (He was stripped to his underwear; he was blindfolded and questioned for 14 hours), setzte sich aber anschließend nach Israel ab. Dominik O. Suter wurde daraufhin weltweit unter diesen Merkmalen gesucht:
312 Pavonia Ave. Jersey City, NJ 07302;
15000 Dickens Suite 11 Sherman Oaks, CA
DoB:1970, SSAN-No. 129-78-0926
und
Levinson, Ornit / alias Suter, Ornit
28 Harlow Crescent Rd., Fair Lawn, NJ 07410;
312 Pavonia Ave., Jersey City, NJ 07302;
15000 Dickens Ste 11, Sherman Oaks, CA
DoB:1970, SSAN-No. 122-78-0232
Ob das eine oder zwei verschiedene Personen sind, ist unklar.
(Source: FBI Suspect List, 22.05.2002)
„Das Ereignis dokumentiert“: Auftritt im israelischen Fernsehen (Quelle: ralph-kutza.de, related Video hier)
Über das fröhliche Treiben der arabisch gekleideten Israelis berichtete der frühere CIA-Agent Philip Giraldi erst kürzlich:
„The celebration came 16 minutes after the first plane struck, when no one knew that there had been a terrorist attack and the episode was assumed to be a horrible accident.“ (Quelle)
Das FBI hatte in diesem Zusammenhang drei Tage nach dem 11. September für den Flughafen Newark einen Großalarm ausgelöst:
„About a dozen plainclothes officers, including investigators from the Bergen County Sheriff’s Department, entered Urban Moving Systems at about 8 p.m. and began snapping pictures. “ (Quelle: AP)
Die fünf Mitarbeiter des Unternehmens wurden mehrere Monate in zwei Gefängnissen in New Jersey festgehalten und anschließend abgeschoben. Sie sollen sich illegal und ohne Arbeitserlaubnis in den USA aufgehalten haben. Man geht davon aus, dass sie für den israelischen Geheimdienst Mossad spionierten.
Die US-Regierung blockte bisher alles ab, was im zeitlichen Umfeld des 9/11 mit möglichen israelischen Aktivitäten zusammen hing. Fox News musste einen Beitrag wieder aus dem Programm nehmen, der sich damit befasste, der Artikel wurde aus dem Web entfernt (Archivierte Version hier).
Jetzt jubeln und tanzen die Kritiker in den USA, die der offiziellen Regierungsversion von Anfang an keinen Glauben schenkten.
Bei der Zuwendung handelt es sich um ein Darlehen, bei einem Auftrag hätte angesichts der stattlichen Summe ein Umzugsunternehmen eine recht schweißtreibende Arbeit hinlegen müssen. Die nicht gerade niedrige Finanzspritze an ein Unternehmen, das von seiner Zunft nach den Anschlägen auf die schwarze Liste gesetzt wurde, ist erst vor kurzem von einem aufmerksamen Websurfer entdeckt worden.
Zudem sind zu den gestifteten 498.750 Dollar noch weitere 166.250 Dollar unbekannter Herkunft geflossen, was insgesamt ein hübsches rundes Sümmchen gibt: 665.000 $. Wurden die restlichen Gelder etwa gar von der CIA transferiert, deren Boss an 9/11 während einer Unterredung mit dem ziemlich suspekten pakistanischen ISI-Geheimdienstchef Mahmud Ahmed nach dem Bekanntwerden des Attentats demonstrativ die Türen auf Durchzug stellte?
Dazu kommt: Möglicherweise ist der Chef der Umzugsfirma, Dominik Suter, bereits 2003 unter seinem Aliasnamen problemlos wieder in die USA eingereist, als neues Domizil für seine Umtriebe gründete er diesmal eine Reinigungsfirma (Florida-Filing hier).
Sitzen die wahren Urheber der Anschläge in der US-Regierung? Wie wohl man mit Anschuldigungen sehr sorgfältig umgehen sollte – dieses Indiz scheint eines bedrückendsten zu sein, wenn es für diese Zuwendung keine befriedigende Erklärung geben sollte und es bleibt zu hoffen, dass dieser Skandal in der medialen Öffentlichkeit nicht unter den Teppich gekehrt wird.
Free Bees – 9/11 ’s a lie: Jetzt jubeln und tanzen die Kritiker
Der Geheimdienstexperte Wayne Madsen hat in dieser Sache seit Jahren recherchiert. Seine Erkenntnisse seien hier in aller Ausführlichkeit dokumentiert:
U.S. government funded Mossad 9/11-related moving firm
A Weehawken, New Jersey-based moving company, linked by the FBI and CIA to the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, received $498,750 in assistance from the US federal government in 2001, according to FedSpending.org, a web site operated by the federal spending watchdog organization, OMB Watch.
On August 7, 2005, WMR reported on details about Urban Moving System’s involvement in the events of 9/11 in a special report:
„. . . suspected Israeli intelligence activity surrounding 9/11, including the arrest by New Jersey police near Giants Stadium of five Israelis who were seen celebrating, high-fiving, jumping up and down, and videotaping the collapse of the World Trade Center, was reported by the media. A New Jersey apartment resident named Maria, who declined to give her last name, told ABC News about several Israelis she saw celebrating the attack on the Twin Towers in her parking lot. The Israelis were later linked to an Israeli-owned office moving company called Urban Moving Systems headquartered in Weehawken, New Jersey at 3 West 18th Street. Another Urban Moving office was located on West 50th Street in Manhattan. Urban Moving’s owner, Dominik Otto Suter, fled to Israel shortly before he was to be re-questioned by the FBI. One of the five Israelis had a ticket for Bangkok and was due to fly out on September 13. The New York Department of Transportation revoked Urban Moving Systems’ license after it was discovered that its Manhattan business address was merely a post office box.
At 3:31 P.M. [on September 11] the FBI issued a nationwide alert called ‚Be On Lookout‘ or ‚BOLO‘ for the Israelis. Drafted by Special Agent Dave O’Brien, it read:
‚Vehicle possibly related to New York terrorist attack. White, 2000 Chevrolet van with New Jersey registration (JYJ 13Y) with ‘Urban Moving Systems’ sign on back seen at Liberty State Park. Jersey City, NJ, at the time of the first impact of jetliner into World Trade Center.‘
The WMR report on Urban Moving Systems continued:
„After the van was traced to the Israeli moving company, the BOLO went out for the arrest of the vehicle’s driver and passengers. An East Rutherford policeman directing traffic away from the closed Lincoln Tunnel on Route 3 East noticed the van was driving slowly on the service road toward the tunnel. The tag of the vehicle was only off by one letter from what was contained in the BOLO (JRJ 13Y) and the front New Jersey plate had been removed. It is very possible that to confuse the police, the Israelis were using NJ plate JRJ 13Y as the rear tag on two white vans – the one sighted in Liberty State Park and the other in Maria’s apartment building parking lot. In fact, local police reported a number of white van sightings during September 11, with a number of them phoned into the police. Maria told ABC News she phoned tag number JRJ 13Y to the Jersey City Police after seeing the Israelis driving in a white van celebrating the first plane’s impact, while Liberty State Park witnesses said the same tag number — JRJ 13Y — had been passed to the police and FBI after a white van with ‚celebrating Arabs‘ had been chased from the park by the park’s chief ranger after the first plane impact. It was clear that officials of New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection in Trenton, which has authority over the state’s parks, ordered Liberty State Park officials not to talk to the media about September 11 and the Israeli van.
The East Rutherford Police report on the Israeli van states:
‚Officer assigned to Special Detail on Route 3 was rerouting traffic on Highway 3 East to Hwy 120 and 3 West. Lincoln Tunnel was shut down and officer was diverting traffic. Officer notified by dispatch of a National Broadcast to be on lookout for 2000 Chevy Van White, NJ tag JYJ 13Y. 3 to 4 occupants. Officer noticed van traveling at slow speed east toward Lincoln Tunnel on the Service Road with 2 occupants visible. Officer informed sergeant of possible match. No front license plate but JRJ 13Y tag may have one letter off from National Broadcast. Sergeant told officer to stop vehicle because van seen in Liberty State Park at time of first impact. Driver did not exit vehicle. He fumbled with a black “fanny pack.” Officer removed driver and van was searched. County bomb squad and FBI notified. FBI Newark ordered occupants to be held for prints because occupants were seen in Liberty State Park at time of first impact. 5 individuals were detained. Vehicle registration and insurance card were obtained. Officer spoke to FBI Special Agents Robert F. Taylor, Jr., Bill Lloyd, and Dave O’Brien. Prior to transportation to NJ State Police Barracks at Giants Stadium, driver said, ‚We are Israelis, we are not your problem. Your problems are our problem. Palestinians are the problem.‘
After the Israelis were arrested they misrepresented their location to one of the arresting police officers, Scott DeCarlo, claiming they were driving on West Side Highway in Manhattan when the planes struck the Trade Center. Dogs provided by the Bergen County Police K-9 unit alerted to the presence of explosives in the van. The nearby Homestead Studio Suites Hotel was evacuated for several hours. Asked about the Israelis in the van being present at Liberty State Park at the time of the first World Trade Center impact, one East Rutherford officer responded, ’sure they were there.‘ Another confidential source told the Bergen County Record, ‚There are maps of the city in the car with certain places highlighted . . . It looked like they’re hooked in with this. It looked like they knew what was going to happen when they were at Liberty State Park.‘ According to several Weehawken neighbors of the Urban Moving Systems warehouse, the FBI, upon searching the the warehouse, discovered fertilizer, other chemicals for making explosives, pipes, caps, and traces of anthrax. After anthrax was discovered, investigators wearing hazardous material suits went through the warehouse. Residents around Urban Moving Systems who had connections to the local police also reported that helicopters with infrared radar swooped in over the warehouse on several occasions.
According to the ABC 20/20 report and echoing the East Rutherford police report, the van’s driver, Sivan Kurzburg, told DeCarlo, ‚We are Israeli. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are the problem.‘ The Israelis also reportedly told police they were tourists. When the FBI developed the photos taken by the Israelis of the World Trade Center carnage, one photo depicted Kurzburg flicking a cigarette lighter in a celebratory manner with the burning buildings in the background.
On the morning of September 12, the FBI canvassed the residents of the Israelis’ apartment building, The Doric, in Union City. They asked the residents if they could identify photographs of the five Israelis. The three Newark-based FBI agents on the case were Robert F. Taylor, Jr., Bill Lloyd and Dave O’Brien, the same agents who questioned the van drivers arrested in East Rutherford. All have subsequently been transferred from the Newark Field Office. A Union City off-duty policemen, saw three suspicious people at Union Park next to the Doric Temple at the corner of 9th Street and Palisades Avenue in Union City. The three, who matched the description of other Israeli false flag‘ teams, were filming New York City’s skyline before the first plane hit the World Trade Center. The officer also witnessed the three high-fiving each other. The officer chased the celebrants on foot but was unable to apprehend them. The officer later reported the three headed into Jersey City by car.
Another van carrying explosives was stopped by police on an approach ramp to the George Washington Bridge from the New Jersey side. Police suspected the perpetrators were trying to blow up the bridge.
According to Jersey City police sources, another FBI agent, Monica Patton, investigated the activities of Israeli ‚movers‘ and four of the hijackers, Mohammed Atta, Marwan al Shehhi, and two Saudi brothers – Waleed M. and Wail Al-Shehri — at the same video rental store in Jersey City. One of the videos the Saudi brothers rented was an HBO documentary on the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Another video they rented was ‚The Towering Inferno.‘ The video storeowner said his video rental records were later stolen after the FBI interviewed him and he told them about the Saudis’ rental history. The Al Shehri brothers also purchased phone cards from the video store for special use in calling Dubai. The Jersey City intrigue does not stop with the Saudis and Israelis. Jersey City Police also reported that the business card of a Jersey City municipal government social worker had been found on Timothy McVeigh after his arrest for the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
After serving two and a half months in prison and after a barrage of official complaints from the Israeli government, the five Israeli ‚movers‘ (Kurzberg, his brother Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Elner, and Omer Marmari) were released over the objections of the CIA and permitted to return home. However, when Jersey City police checked the Israelis’ van they found $4,700 hidden in a sock, two foreign passports and a Stanley-knife box cutter (the same brand used by the 911 hijackers). Paul Kurzberg, refused for ten weeks to take a polygraph and then flunked it when he did. His lawyer said his client once worked for Israeli intelligence in ‚another country.‘ Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert interceded twice with his good friend New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to have the Israelis released. On September 14, 2004, the five ‚dancing Israelis‘ filed suit against the United States in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn for wrongful arrest and imprisonment.
A number of interesting facts are stated in the Israelis’ complaint. It states that some of the Israelis were classified as being ‚of high interest‘ to the government’s terrorism investigation, ‚Witness Security‘ and/or ‚Management Interest Group 155.‘ They were ‚housed in one of the most highly restrictive prison settings possible, the Administrative Maximum Special Housing Unit (‚ADMAX SHU‘) of the Metropolitan Detention Center (‚MDC‘).‘ The government was also interested in the Israelis’ possessions. The complaint states the government ‚confiscated personal identification, money, and valuable personal items‘ from the Israelis. In addition, the government searched the homes of the Israelis and confiscated additional personal items.
One intriguing complaint was that the U.S. government detained the Israelis precisely because they were Jewish Israelis. The court filing states: ‚Defendants and others have also engaged in racial, religious, ethnic, and/or national origin profiling. Plaintiffs’ race, religion, ethnicity, and/or national origin played a determinative role in Defendants’ decision to detain them initially, to subject them to a blanket non-bond policy, to subject them to punishing and dangerous conditions of confinement, and then to keep them detained beyond the point at which removal or voluntary departure could have been effectuated . . .‘
Silvan Kurzberg was required to provide a blood sample while in prison, an indication that federal authorities may have had some DNA evidence they wanted to match. At the time of their arrest, all the Israelis had plane tickets back to Israel. When they were first detained, the Israelis were not permitted to meet with a Rabbi. Later access to a Rabbi was granted under ’severely limited‘ circumstances. Prayer books and a bible given to the Israelis by the Rabbi were inspected by prison guards. During their first two weeks of detention, the FBI prohibited the Israeli Consul in New York from meeting with the Israelis.
One of the most astounding claims of the Israelis was that the FBI, Bureau of Prisons, and Immigration and Naturalization Service did not understand the difference between Arab Muslims and Jewish Israelis. The complaint states: ‚The plaintiffs are Jewish Israelis, not Moslems, but due to the similarity of language and the geographical location of Israel in the Middle East, and the ignorance or lack of understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the fact that Israel is an ally of the United States, the defendants mentally placed the plaintiffs in the same category as Moslems, and discriminated against them the same way.‘
At around noon on September 12, 2001, Roy Barak, a former Israeli paratrooper, and Motti Butbul, both employed by Urban Moving Systems as drivers, were stopped by police near York, Pennsylvania. They were en route from Chicago to New York City. Police discovered Barak had an expired visa and Butbul had no work permit. FBI agents were soon on the scene and grew suspicious when a box cutter was found inside the truck. The FBI polygraphed Barak and showed him a picture of his five colleagues arrested in New Jersey and asked him why they were smiling. Barak responded that they were not smiling. The FBI thought Barak was a possible terrorist and a Mossad spy. The FBI was particularly interested if someone sent Barak to the United States and if, at the time, he held a security clearance in the Israeli army. Barak spent his second week in solitary confinement without a television, radio, or any books.
Vince Cannistraro, the former operations chief for counter-terrorism for the CIA, said that a search of the CIA’s national intelligence database turned up some of the names of Israelis arrested in New Jersey. He said a number of people in the U.S. intelligence community concluded that Urban Moving was a Mossad operation and the Israelis were pursuing Islamist radicals in the New Jersey-New York area and particularly in Patterson, New Jersey. Pauline Stepkovich, who lived across the street from Urban Moving, told ABC News that FBI agents removed about a dozen boxes and computers, enough to fill up two SUVs. Cannistraro told ABC News that the FBI was concerned that the Israeli movers had some advanced knowledge of the 911 attacks but failed to warn the United States. ‚The fear of some of the FBI investigators in this particular case was that this group had some advanced knowledge of what was going to happen on 911. And once they understood there was an Israeli connection–an Israeli intelligence connection–they became very disturbed, because the implication was that the Israelis may have had some advanced knowledge of the events of 911 and hadn’t told us,‘ Cannistraro said. Israeli intelligence foreknowledge about the 911 attacks was confirmed by two senior-level intelligence officials at the CIA and FBI.
In Washington, Israeli embassy spokesman, Mark Regev, dismissed the espionage charges, claiming the excitement of the Israelis seeing the World Trade Center collapse was due to ‚youthful foolishness.‘ A lawyer for one of the Israelis said his client denied celebrating the terrorist attack on the Trade Center, however, after the FBI developed their film it clearly showed three of the Israelis on top of the van ’smiling and clowning around‘ with the buildings burning in the background. The evidence bolstered what Maria and Pat told the police and proved that the Israelis lied to the police when they claimed they were in Manhattan during the attack.
The Jewish weekly newspaper, The Forward, reported that a top U.S. government official told it, ‚The assessment was that Urban Moving Systems was a front for the Mossad and operatives employed by it… the conclusion of the FBI was that they were spying on local Arabs.‘ ABC 20/20 host Barbara Walters commented on how the story of the Israeli movers was received in the Arab world, ‚The story is that Israel knew more than it would like to admit about the terrorist attack in this country. It’s a rumor, but in some Arab countries–including Saudi Arabia, which I visited earlier this year–even educated people told me that they believe it is absolutely true.‘
Perhaps the young Israelis were only mirroring the feelings of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who when asked how the 911 attacks would affect U.S.-Israeli relations, said, ‚It’s very good… Well, it’s not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy for Israel from Americans.‘ Bergen County Police Chief John Schmidig was not as serene. He said, ‚We got an alert to be on the lookout for a white Chevrolet van with New Jersey registration and writing on the side. Three individuals were seen celebrating in Liberty State Park after the impact. They said three people were jumping up and down.‘
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September 14, 2005 — Is Urban Moving Systems chief back in US? There are indications that Israeli national Dominik Suter, the former head of Urban Moving Systems in Weehawken, NJ is back in the United States, this time in south Florida and may be using his actual name. An informed source claims that Suter is working for an aviation-related firm in south Florida. The firm is reportedly involved in parts locating for the aerospace and aviation industries.
Suter ran the Weehawken, NJ-based moving company on 9-11 when a number of Urban Moving Systems vans were spotted around north Jersey before and after the hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center. One Urban Moving van was seen at Liberty State Park in Jersey City as the first plane hit the towers. The five occupants, all Israeli nationals, were seen videotaping and celebrating the attack and were dressed in Arab clothing. The five were later arrested near Giant Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. One of the Israelis told police they were at Liberty State Park to „document the event.“
Mysterious 911 moving van operator reportedly back in the US
After the Israelis were detained for several months in Brooklyn as terrorist suspects, they were quickly deported to Israel. After the FBI questioned Suter on September 11, he fled the United States on September 14, 2001. The FBI was due to question Suter again before he fled the country. Later, Federal law enforcement agents discovered pipes, caps, explosive chemical materials, and traces of anthrax at the Weehawken warehouse. Suter’s name and those of some of his moving employees turned up in a CIA database of foreign intelligence agents. Suter’s name also appeared on an FBI 9-11 terrorism suspect list. Suter’s year of birth is listed as 1970 with a social security number of 129-78-0926. His addresses before 9-11 are listed as 28 Harlow Crescent Rd., Fairlawn, NJ 07410; 312 Pavonia Ave., Jersey City, NJ 07302; and 15000 Dickens, Suite 11, Sherman Oaks CA. If Suter has been permitted to re-enter the United States, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security and its chief Michael Chertoff have a lot of explaining to do.
Wayne Madsen is an investigative journalist, nationally distributed columnist, and author who has covered Washington, DC, politics, national security, and intelligence issues since 1994. He has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, CAQ, Counterpunch, and the Intelligence Newsletter (based in Paris).
Cooperativ Research – Double agent Ali Mohamed is living openly in Sacramento, California. His computer and telephone are being monitored by the FBI. On August 9, two days after the African embassy bombings, he told the FBI on the telephone that he knows who the bombers are but he will not reveal their names. On August 12, one of the bombers, Mohamed al-Owhali, is secretly arrested in Kenya and immediately begins confessing what he knows.
Somehow al-Qaeda operative Anas al-Liby learns about al-Owhali’s arrest, even though al-Liby is living in Britain, and later that month he calls Mohamed. The call is monitored and FBI agent Jack Cloonan will later recall, “Anas says to [Mohamed], ‘Do you know that brother [al-Owhali]? ‘Cause if you do, get the fuck out of there.” Mohamed makes plans to escape the US, but strangely he decides to respond to a subpoena and testify in New York City before he goes. He will be arrested there on September 10, just after testifying. [Lance, 2006, pp. 297-298] Remarkably, even though al-Liby worked with Mohamed and others on the embassy bomb plot in Kenya, he is not arrested and continues to live in Britain. His residence there will not be raided until May 2000, and by that time he will be gone (see May 2000). It will later be alleged that al-Liby is protected because he worked with British intelligence on a plot to kill Libyan leader Colonel Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi.
World Content News – Die Gebrüder Tinner werden verdächtigt, Atombomben-Wissen an Libyen verkauft zu haben. „10vor10“ berichtet nun aber, dass die Ingenieure ihr Wissen auch an den Iran weitergegeben haben sollen. Laut Geheimdienstquellen des Nachrichtendienstexperten Erich Schmidt-Eenboom sollen die Baupläne an den Iran von der CIA und anderen westlichen Geheimdiensten manipuliert worden sein. Auf diese Weise sollte der Atombombenbau der Iraner kontrolliert und auch durch den Einbau von Fehlern sabotiert werden. Die Schredderaktion des Bundesrates sei dann auf Druck der CIA erfolgt. Die Manipulation sollte so nicht auffliegen. (Quelle: news.search.ch)
Worüber in den bundesdeutschen Medien wieder mal absolute Funkstille herrscht:
War auch der BND in die Schmuggelpläne eingeweiht oder gar involviert? Man weiß es nicht, bisher gibt es keine relevanten Erkenntnisse. Dafür ist es wesentlich leichter die (inzwischen nicht mehr existente) CIA-Tarnfirma aus einem Vorort von Washington zu knacken, die die Familie Tinner laut einem Medienbericht mutmaßlich für ihre Zwecke angeheuert haben soll.
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