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MONICA LEWINSKY: MOSSAD INTELLIGENCE AGENT
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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2007 9:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

endo wrote:
But it's not out of the realm of possibilities.

Much like how the UFOs built the pyramids with the help of an army of Big Foots?

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And I can see where the prejudice may come from. But it's not anti-semetic.

So, um... anti-woman then? Cuz that'd be a much better prejudice.

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Having an active imagination is very important in that line of work.

As well as posting on message boards it seems
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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2007 2:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What, some moonbat/conspiracy theorist have a new book for sale... Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2007 5:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="endo"]
Adventurer wrote:
Do I think this thread is kind of anti-Jewish? Yes, I do.


Okay, don't contradict yourself now.....

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I don't discount the Mossad, and there are Jewish spies in the government, and yes, Israel does spy on the U.S.
There are so many Jews in the East Coast. I have no problem with questioning whether the Mossad spied on the U.S. The U.S. spies on Israel and vice versa. It is fair to bring up the Mossad, AIPAC, but bring up stuff where there is some data.


Here's where I don't follow you. You acknowledge that Israel does likely spy on its closest ally on the planet, the US. And we have seen proof of that in the past so it is a reality.

Why would you spy on your supposed best friend?


[The world is not Shangri La. The United States probably spies on Israel.
Haven't you heard that the U.S. spied on allies when it came to voting regarding the Iraq War? So, basically, the U.S. spied on its friends. Israel does a lot of it, because it is paranoid about its survival. I don't like it, and the U.S. must ensure no one spies against it.

I do think it is anti-Jewish of the bard to go on without enough to connect the dots to put Monica Lewinsky with Benjamin Netanyahu. It is a possibility, but he is thinking of the possibility because she is Jewish. It is true Jews sometimes work together for Israel against U.S. interests. I am not denying that.

However, jumping without anything to connect the dots on Monica and putting her in bed with the Likud Party doesn't make sense. No proof has been found to connect Monica to the Mossad.
What the bard is repeating is what many Arabs repeat over and over. She is simply guilty because he is Jewish. I might have been harsh, but it is too quick to make a woman guilty of espionage just because she is Jewish.


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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2007 7:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

twg wrote:
Much like how the UFOs built the pyramids with the help of an army of Big Foots?


Come on man, don't scew the argument with crap like this.

UFOs, pyramids, big foots, that's a whole other thing and essentially nonsence in regards to the discussion at hand.

The idea that the woman blowing the then most powerful person on the planet may have been a spy is not. Again, I'm not saying it happened and I have no evidence to provide you, but to compare it to the supernatural shows how you're attempting to discredit another persons questions (not belief on my part remember) by clouding the argument.

Does that make any sense?
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PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2007 7:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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The world is not Shangri La. The United States probably spies on Israel. Haven't you heard that the U.S. spied on allies when it came to voting regarding the Iraq War? So, basically, the U.S. spied on its friends. Israel does a lot of it, because it is paranoid about its survival. I don't like it, and the U.S. must ensure no one spies against it.


Great, everybody spies on each other. I knew that, but with that logic why can't you at least put it in the realm of possibilities that Lewinsky may have been a mole?


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I do think it is anti-Jewish of the bard to go on without enough to connect the dots to put Monica Lewinsky with Benjamin Netanyahu.



Why is it anti-Jewish?


See man this is what bothers me.

First let me put this out there:
(1) I never heard of the possibility that Lewinsky was a Mossad agent before this thread began.
(2) I have absolutely no proof to show you.
(3) I actually think the chubby woman was simply attracted to a man in power and decided to blow him several times.


However, I will not totally discredit the notion that Lewinsky was working as a spy because:
(1) Israel has been caught in the past spying on the United States.
(2) Israel is still likely to this day spying on the US.
(3) Clinton was at the time President of the United States.
(4) Clinton was also involved heavily in sensitive peace discussions with the Israelis and Palestinians.
(5) The state if Israel has in the past used US citizens (of Jewish background) to spy on it's own country.
(6) Monica Lewinsky wears a barret and that in my opinion is a dead give a way that she's a spy. Laughing



For those 5 reasons, I will alllow myself the possibility that Lewinsky may have been a spy.

Do I have proof? No.

It's just a suspicion of mine based on the state of Israels past actions.

Just a suspicion.


But does that suspicion make me anti-semetic? Anti-Jewish?

No, absolutely not.

Perhaps it makes me a nut, but I'm not anti-semetic. Give me a break and save the anti-semetic, anti-Jewish card for when you can legitimately use it.
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PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2007 1:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I knew there was a good reason for the term "moonbat" coming into the popular lexicon. Utter bollocks, this thread!
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PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2007 4:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="endo"]
Adventurer wrote:
The world is not Shangri La. The United States probably spies on Israel. Haven't you heard that the U.S. spied on allies when it came to voting regarding the Iraq War? So, basically, the U.S. spied on its friends. Israel does a lot of it, because it is paranoid about its survival. I don't like it, and the U.S. must ensure no one spies against it.


Great, everybody spies on each other. I knew that, but with that logic why can't you at least put it in the realm of possibilities that Lewinsky may have been a mole?


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I do think it is anti-Jewish of the bard to go on without enough to connect the dots to put Monica Lewinsky with Benjamin Netanyahu.



Why is it anti-Jewish?


See man this is what bothers me.

First let me put this out there:
(1) I never heard of the possibility that Lewinsky was a Mossad agent before this thread began.
(2) I have absolutely no proof to show you.
(3) I actually think the chubby woman was simply attracted to a man in power and decided to blow him several times.


However, I will not totally discredit the notion that Lewinsky was working as a spy because:
(1) Israel has been caught in the past spying on the United States.
(2) Israel is still likely to this day spying on the US.
(3) Clinton was at the time President of the United States.
(4) Clinton was also involved heavily in sensitive peace discussions with the Israelis and Palestinians.
(5) The state if Israel has in the past used US citizens (of Jewish background) to spy on it's own country.
(6) Monica Lewinsky wears a barret and that in my opinion is a dead give a way that she's a spy. Laughing


First of all, who cares if she is thin or chubby? Over a third of American women are probably chubby. John Edwards' wife is chubby. Many of your relatives and mine might be thin or chubby. It rains in London. Irrelevant. Clinton thought she was attractive. He helped her get a job. Those are the facts we have. Produce for me ties to right wing groups in Israel not simply a religious affiliation.

Jews have spied for Israel. So should a thread be created about Lewinsky just because she is Jewish? That doesn't make sense. If one is discussing Pollard and people like Abrams that's a different story. What is the point of speculating for the sake of speculating just based on the fact that she is Jewish? It sounds like a fishing expedition based on someone's ethnicity without proof.

If you produce ties to AIPAC, the Likud Party then I'm all eyes, so to speak. It does not relate to Israel spying on the U.S. That has happened. It is not a secret, and your comment about a woman wearing a berret means she is a spy sounds ridiculous, I am sorry to say. Come on, man. I am all for flushing out pro-Israeli agents in the government if they have questionable ties or affiliations, but this is not the same thing, because I don't see such talk about Lewinsky.

I mean how about a serious thread with some real meat?
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PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2007 6:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Adventurer wrote:
First of all, who cares if she is thin or chubby? Over a third of American women are probably chubby. John Edwards' wife is chubby. Many of your relatives and mine might be thin or chubby.


Chubby girls are inherently insecure and as a result they're a more than ready to please when they find someone interested in them.

I'm just saying.........


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Jews have spied for Israel. So should a thread be created about Lewinsky just because she is Jewish? That doesn't make sense.



If a high ranking Senator was found to be having a "relationship" with a Russian buisness woman, wouldn't it be fair to at least question the possibility that she could be a "dove" working for the KGB?

Again, Israel has in the past used US citizens (American born and bred) to spy on their own country. That's a fact you cannot dispute.

And often the easiest way to a mans mind is through his dic$. The Russians were great at this during the Cold War.

So when you put the two together, it's not necessarily unthinkable to believe that there may have been something more begind the Clinton/Lewinsky scandle.

This line of thinking is not anti-semetic or anti-jewish. This is the biggest problem I have with you Adventure. You played that card when you shouldn't have.



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Come on, man. I am all for flushing out pro-Israeli agents in the government if they have questionable ties or affiliations, but this is not the same thing, because I don't see such talk about Lewinsky.

I mean how about a serious thread with some real meat?



Fair enough. You're correct. My limited suspicions have no meat and as a result much of my argument is fairly weak. I understand that. Just take it easy on the anti-card.
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PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2007 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Endo, the OP's posts I am sure you've seen before. Perhaps, it was harsh of me to label the post as prejudicial against Jews. I do not like the quick use of such a label, myself. However, there is not even circumstantial evidence to connect Monica who had an abortion at the time of her affair with Clinton, people found no ties to any right wing Israeli groups connected to Netanyahu. There would have to be some kind of trial. Being Jewish while working or driving while black seems prejudicial. No one is saying that there aren't Jewish spies. Of course, there are those who believe they must save Israel and by spying on the U.S. they are doing some greater good. That is not what the OP is saying. He is saying she is a Jew, so I think she must be a spy.


http://amconmag.com/2007/2007_05_07/article.html

Read this link.. It talks about evidence regarding such spies. Being an official while being Jewish doesn't cut it.
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PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2007 8:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Adventurer wrote:
That is not what the OP is saying...


Adventurer: Bulsajo detested Igotthisguitar -- especially the latter's antisemitism and neverending, overlycynical conspiracy theories.

He began this thread to parody and ridicule Igotthisguitar a year ago. It was funny then. ROFL-funny, in fact. Now, however, one year later, it seems to have come alive again, and for reasons I cannot understand. Why did this thread come back? Even more confusing, people seem to take it as a serious thread and are discussing it.

Very strange and, in fact, entertaining. You are chasing your tail in circles on this one, dude.

In any case, you wanted to know what "OP" intended. This is your answer: stop for a moment, go back to page one, and take a good look at the original post and its immitative style, note the hippie song -- and the twisted evil icons were my idea, by the way. I take full credit for their being there. Idea
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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2007 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gopher wrote:
Adventurer wrote:
That is not what the OP is saying...
Adventurer: Bulsajo detested Igotthisguitar -- especially the latter's antisemitism and neverending, overlycynical conspiracy theories.


Here Gopher ...

Anti "semite" this:

Israeli Spy Ring in the USA Exposed Wink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dUoydYdOBQ&mode=user&search=
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PostPosted: Sun May 13, 2007 12:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have irrefutable prroof that Monica Lwwinsky was not an Israeli spy.

1. She is just two but ugly to be a spy.

2. Rnese thinks it if probable.

Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Sun May 13, 2007 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

contrarian wrote:
I have irrefutable prroof that Monica Lwwinsky was not an Israeli spy.

1. She is just two but ugly to be a spy.

2. Rnese thinks it if probable.

Rolling Eyes


I have "irrefutable proof" that Contrarian is just another one of Joo's socks / alter-egos.

1) He can't spell worth a damn.

2) He blames all the world's problems / every evil under the sun on poor Jeff Rense Wink
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PostPosted: Sun May 13, 2007 1:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sigh!!

The first refuge of a born loser like Guitar - attack a typo.

Poor Jeffy. That Anti-Semtic piece of pond scum deserves what he gets.

Shocked
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PostPosted: Sun May 13, 2007 1:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

igotthisguitar wrote:
Gopher wrote:
Adventurer wrote:
That is not what the OP is saying...
Adventurer: Bulsajo detested Igotthisguitar -- especially the latter's antisemitism and neverending, overlycynical conspiracy theories.


Here Gopher ...

Anti "semite" this:

Israeli Spy Ring in the USA Exposed Wink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dUoydYdOBQ&mode=user&search=



Another Igotthisguitar conspiracy theory falls.

http://www.911myths.com/html/israeli_art_student_spies.html

Israeli intelligence operatives spied on the alleged 9/11 hijackers for months prior to the attacks.

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There is a second piece of evidence that suggests Israeli operatives were spying on al-Qaeda in the United States. It is writ in the peculiar tale of the Israeli "art students", detailed by this reporter for Salon.com in 2002, following the leaking of an internal memo circulated by the Drug Enforcement Administration's Office of Security Programs. The June 2001 memo, issued three months before the 9/11 attacks, reported that more than 120 young Israeli citizens, posing as art students and peddling cheap paintings, had been repeatedly �- and seemingly inexplicably -� attempting to penetrate DEA offices and other law enforcement and Defense Department offices across the country. The DEA report stated that the Israelis may have been engaged in "an organized intelligence gathering activity", but to what end, U.S. investigators, in June 2001, could not determine. The memo briefly floated the possibility that the Israelis were engaged in trafficking the drug ecstasy. According to the memo, "the most activity [was] reported in the state of Florida" during the first half of 2001, where the town of Hollywood appeared to be "a central point for these individuals with several having addresses in this area".

In retrospect, the fact that a large number of "art students" operated out of Hollywood is intriguing, to say the least. During 2001, the city, just north of Miami, was a hotbed of al-Qaeda activity and served as one of the chief staging grounds for the hijacking of the World Trade Center planes and the Pennsylvania plane; it was home to fifteen of the nineteen future hijackers, nine in Hollywood and six in the surrounding area. Among the 120 suspected Israeli spies posing as art students, more than thirty lived in the Hollywood area, ten in Hollywood proper. As noted in the DEA report, many of these young men and women had training as intelligence and electronic intercept officers in the Israeli military -� training and experience far beyond the compulsory service mandated by Israeli law. Their "traveling in the U.S. selling art seem[ed] not to fit their background", according to the DEA report.


http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2007/080307Israel.htm





Our take....


The common suggestion here is that some (or perhaps all) of these art students may have been Mossad agents, who tracked the hijackers around the US. But if this were the case, then wouldn�t you expect the �students� to try and avoid the attention of local authorities? The reality was very different, as the DEA report quoted above states:
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In January, 2001, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Office of Security Programs (IS), began to receive reports of Israeli art students attempting to penetrate several DEA Field Offices in the continental United States. Additionally, there have been reports of Israeli art students visiting the homes of numerous DEA employees. These incidents have occurred since at least the beginning of 2000, and have continued to the present. The number of reported incidents increased in November/December 2000, and has continued to date. These incidents have involved several other law enforcement and Department of Defense agencies, with contacts made at other agencies' facilities and the residences of their employees. Geographically, these incidents are very widespread, ranging from California to Florida. The majority of the incidents have occurred in the southern half of the continental U.S. with the most activity reported in the state of Florida. Since April 2001, the number of reported incidents has declined, however, the geographic spread of the incidents has increased to Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Los Angeles.

The activities of these Israeli art students raised the suspicion of IS and other field offices when attempts were made to circumvent the access control systems at DEA offices, and when these individuals began to solicit their paintings at the homes of DEA employees. The nature of the individuals' conduct, combined with intelligence information and historical information regarding past incidents involving Israeli Organized Crime, leads IS to believe the incidents may well be an organized intelligence gathering activity. It is believed by IS that these incidents should not be the basis for any immediate concern for the safety and security of DEA personnel, however, employees should continue to exercise due caution in safeguarding information relating to DEA investigations, or activities.

DEA Orlando has developed the first drug nexus to this group. Telephone numbers obtained from an Israel Art Student encountered at the Orlando D.O. have been linked to several ongoing DEA MDMA (Ecstasy) investigations in Florida, California, Texas, and New York. The Orlando D.O. has opened an investigation that is being coordinated with DEA HQs.

In general, these individuals appear to be organized in teams of 8 to 10 people, with one person described as the "Team Leader". They are usually encountered in pairs or individually carrying a makeshift art portfolio. Several times, they have, been seen or admitted to being dropped off in an area by the Team Leader, who returns later to pick them up. The females are usually described as very attractive, and all are generally in their early to mid-20s. Most admit to having served in the Israeli Military. This is not surprising given the mandatory military service require in Israel, however, a majority of those questioned has stated they served in military intelligence, electronic signal intercept, or explosive ordinance units. Some have been linked to high-ranking officials in the Israeli military. One was the son of a two-star general, one served as the bodyguard to the head of the Israeli Army, one served in a Patriot missile unit. That these people are now traveling in the U.S. selling art seems not to fit their background.

Their stories are remarkable only in their consistency. At first, they will state that they are art students, either from the University of Jerusalem, or the Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem. Other times they will purport to be promoting a new art studio in the area. When pressed for details as to the location of the art studio or why they are selling the paintings, they become evasive. Some claim to be the artist who painted the artwork, others claim they promoting the work of others or of Israel. Information has been received which indicates the art is actually produced in China. When told that they cannot solicit on federal facilities, they will claim that the paintings are not for sale, but that they are soliciting interest in the paintings, either for an art studio or for a future art sale.

An incident report by DEA Tampa has revealed much information relating to these individuals. DEA Agents at the Tampa District Office questioned the Team Leader of a group of 9 individuals at length, The Team Leader stated he purchases the paintings for $8 to $10 dollars from an individual in the Hollywood/Ft. Lauderdale, Florida area. The paintings are then sold for $50 to $80 dollars. (Other offices have reported the paintings selling for $150-$200 dollars.) The individuals come to the U. S. on tourist visas, and finance their stay here by selling the paintings. The Hollywood, Florida area seems to be a central point for these individuals with several having addresses in this area.

There have been incidents where criminal and/or suspicious activity has been associated with these individuals. Two were arrested by FPS in Plantation, FL with counterfeit Social Security Cards. Baton Rouge, LA discovered a small amount (personal use amount) of marijuana in the residence of one group, and some of the individuals interviewed by DEA/Tampa admitted to smoking marijuana. Criminal records checks have revealed some arrest history on persons associated with these groups. Passport irregularities have been reported. A review of their passports shows travel to several other countries, to include Thailand, Laos, India, Kenya, Central and South America, Australia, Germany, Amsterdam, and Canada. One individual presented a Canadian citizenship card along with his Israeli passport. A report from EPA/Denver involved a female art student going to the house of an EPA Special Agent to sell art, and returning later to photograph the house. There is a report of one of these individuals being seen diagramming the layout of a federal facility. This information has not been directly reported to DEA, and has not been confirmed by first-hand observation.

When encountered at residences, some of these individuals are persistent in trying to get inside the home. Some have asked to use the telephone when leaving. Some employees have reported that they came only to their house, while others have reported that the students approached the entire neighborhood.
http://cryptome.org/dea-il-spy.htm




Carrying drugs. Passport irregularities. Pestering DEA agents. Perhaps �diagramming the layout of a federal facility�. How does any of this relate to an attempt to monitor Al Qaeda agents? It makes little sense to us.

Still, let�s excuse that. Perhaps only some of the students were Mossad agents. Maybe they were performing several missions, which of course would make them even more important in intelligence terms: that would make sense.

Except there�s a problem with that idea, too. If this really were a major Israeli spying ring, then why would a former Israeli intelligence agent draw US attention to it? (Our emphasis):
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125. On December 12, 2000, Shay ASHKENAZI, male, Israeli, DOB: 11-12-74, Israeli Passport number 6847902, arrived at the SEA TAC International Airport via Northwest Airlines flight 33 from Tel Aviv, Israel. He was referred for secondary inspection by the I&NS Inspectors. As reported by I&NS Intelligence officer Omar N. Nuri, ASHKENAZI stated he was a former Israeli intelligence officer, and was now traveling to "enjoy life". He claimed to have been in the U.S. in April 2000, when he was involved in a car accident in South Carolina. The purpose of this trip was to finalize the case with his attorney and to receive medical treatment. ASHKEHAZI volunteered information that a fraud scheme involving Israeli nationals was taking place in the U.S. He stated that young male and female Israelis are being recruited in Israel to enter the U.S. with B-1/B-2 tourist visas and be employed as door-to-door salesmen of paintings that are shipped to the U.S. from Israel. He claimed that one of the individuals involved in this is "Mikaeel" (sic) and is present in Texas operating this business. (See above paragraphs regarding Michael CALMANOVIC). He stated the Israelis usually operate in Texas, New York, Atlanta, Georgia, Washington, and possibly other states. ASHKEHAZI stated another person involved in this is "GERUD" (LNU), residing at 27461-150th Avenue SE, Kent, WA 98402 with telephone 253-638-8143. ASHKEHAZI was admitted into the U.S. following the inspection.
http://cryptome.org/dea-il-spy.htm



We don�t just have the word of one man that such a scheme existed, either. A similar pattern of �art students� selling art for �wildly inflated� prices appeared in Canada, apparently starting in 2002, eventually resulting in arrests a couple of years later. But for �working illegally�, not espionage:

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While officials in the United States are busy grappling with the question of whether Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin passed sensitive information to Israel and compromised national security, authorities in our neighbor to the north are trying to tamp down speculation that a platoon of goateed and dreadlocked Israeli art students who infiltrated Canada may have been working as spies...

The students and their handlers, Guy Grinberg and Jackie Yakov Senior, were charged earlier this month under Canadian law with working in the country illegally, and faced no other charges, said Robert Ferguson, director of immigration enforcement for the Canada Border Services Agency in Canada. A similar operation gained widespread media attention amid allegations of espionage when it surfaced in the United States in 2000.

In the most recent case, government authorities in Canada have insisted that all the evidence collected indicates the young, self-described �art students� � all of them Israelis in the country on visitor�s visas � were involved in something far more prosaic than espionage: the importation of tragically bad, dirt-cheap paintings from the Far East that were then sold at wildly inflated prices door-to-door in some of the more upscale neighborhoods in western Canada. In some cases, the paintings sold for more than 100 times their value, prompting authorities in Calgary to issue a warning to the public to be wary of art fraud, said Detective Frank Cattoni of the Calgary Police Department. The alert made no mention of espionage.

�We have no� information in our possession other than to indicate that they were selling art� and that�s how our department dealt with it,� Ferguson said. �Basically, they were seen as working illegally.�
http://www.forward.com/articles/espionage-ruled-out-in-case-of-bad-art
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Had Mossad simply recycled the same cover story that they�d used in the US, even though it had received so much attention? That would seem to be unwise. Perhaps the story could be reworked, accepting that some of the Israeli art students in the US were involved in an art fraud, but there were Mossad agents along as well, using them as cover...? It doesn�t seem like the best cover, to involve yourself with a group that could draw so much attention, however if we want to keep this story going then it�s the best explanation available.

And of course there�s also the ever-popular �too many coincidences� argument, which in this case points to the locations of the �art students�, and how closely they were located to the 9/11 hijackers:
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One "art student" was a former Israeli military intelligence officer named Hanan Serfaty, who rented two Hollywood apartments close to the mail drop and apartment of Mohammed Atta and four other hijackers. Serfaty was moving large amounts of cash: he carried bank slips showing more than $100,000 deposited from December 2000 through the first quarter of 2001; other bank slips showed withdrawals for about $80,000 during the same period. Serfaty's apartments, serving as crash pads for at least two other "art students", were located at 4220 Sheridan Street and 701 South 21st Avenue. Lead hijacker Mohammed Atta's mail drop was at 3389 Sheridan Street--approximately 2,700 feet from Serfaty's Sheridan Street apartment. Both Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, the suicide pilot on United Airlines Flight 175, which smashed into World Trade Center 2, lived in a rented apartment at 1818 Jackson Street, some 1,800 feet from Serfaty's South 21st Avenue apartment.

In fact, an improbable series of coincidences emerges from a close reading of the 2001 DEA memo, the 9/11 Commission's staff statements and final report, FBI and Justice Department watch lists, hijacker timelines compiled by major media and statements by local, state and federal law enforcement personnel. In at least six urban centers, suspected Israeli spies and 9/11 hijackers and/or al-Qaeda�connected suspects lived and operated near one another, in some cases less than half a mile apart, for various periods during 2000�01 in the run-up to the attacks. In addition to northern New Jersey and Hollywood, Florida, these centers included Arlington and Fredericksburg, Virginia; Atlanta; Oklahoma City; Los Angeles; and San Diego.

Israeli "art students" also lived close to terror suspects in and around Dallas, Texas. A 25-year-old "art student" named Michael Calmanovic, arrested and questioned by Texas-based DEA officers in April 2001, maintained a mail drop at 3575 North Beltline Road, less than a thousand feet from the 4045 North Beltline Road apartment of Ahmed Khalefa, an FBI terror suspect. Dallas and its environs, especially the town of Richardson, Texas, throbbed with "art student" activity. Richardson is notable as the home of the Holy Land Foundation, an Islamic charity designated as a terrorist funder by the European Union and U.S. government in December 2001. Sources in 2002 told The Forward, in a report unrelated to the question of the "art students", that "Israeli intelligence played a key role in helping the Bush administration to crack down on Islamic charities suspected of funneling money to terrorist groups, most notably the Richardson, Texas-based Holy Land Foundation, last December [2001]". It's plausible that the intelligence prompting the shutdown of the Holy Land Foundation came from "art student" spies in the Richardson area.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2007/080307Israel.htm



However, exactly how �improbable� these coincidences might be isn�t entirely clear.

The first problem is that the DEA report details many locations where the Israeli students lived, travelled to or had attempted to sell art. All these, in fact:
Quote:


Albuquerque
Arlington, TX
Atlanta, GA (possible)
Baton Rouge
Birmingham, Alabama
Chatanooga
Chicago (possible)
Colorado Springs, CO
Columbia, Maryland
Columbus, Georgia
Dallas
Denver
Duarte, California
East Paolo Alto, CA
Edgewater, New Jersey
Encino, California
Euless, Texas
Flower Mound, Texas
Fort Myers
Fredericksburg, VA
Fresno, CA (possible)
Gainesville, FLA
Heathrow, FLA
Hollywood, FLA
Houston, TX
Irving, Texas
Jersey City, NJ
Kansas City, MO (possible)
La Jolla, CA (possible)
Lexington, Kentucky
Little Rock, Arizona
Los Angeles
Maitland, FLA
Memphis, Tennessee
Miami, FLA
Midwest City, OK
Montgomery, Alabama
National City, CA
New York City
New Orleans
Northeast Albuquerque, New Mexico
Phoenix, Arizona
Plantation, FLA
Richardson, Texas
Richmond, VA
Sacramento, CA (possible)
Salt Lake City, Utah
San Antonio, TX (possible)
San Diego, CA
San Francisco, CA
Southfield, Kentucky
Springfield, MO (possible)
Seattle, Washington (possible)
St Louis, MO (possible)
Studio City, CA
Tamarac, FLA
Tegucigalpa
Tempe, Arizona
Topeka, KS (possible)
Wisconsin
Witchita, KS (possible)
http://cryptome.org/dea-il-spy.htm



(�Possible� indicates the claim is based on statements from a suspect and may not necessarily be true. If you�re interested in particular locations then please, go read the original report.)

This isn�t surprising, as the DEA lists 125 potential suspects who had been travelling all over the country. So surely, if you correlate these addresses with 19 alleged 9/11 hijackers, and other potential suspects, who were also moving around the country, you�d expect the occasional overlap.

As an example, the above quote makes much of one such overlap:

Quote:

Israeli "art students" also lived close to terror suspects in and around Dallas, Texas. A 25-year-old "art student" named Michael Calmanovic, arrested and questioned by Texas-based DEA officers in April 2001, maintained a mail drop at 3575 North Beltline Road, less than a thousand feet from the 4045 North Beltline Road apartment of Ahmed Khalefa, an FBI terror suspect.



But fails to point out the many other Calmanovic addresses:

Quote:
Quote:

106. CALMANOVIC, Michael, NADDIS - Negative. W/M, Israeli, DOB 09/06/1-975, POB: Israel, registered owner of TX: L44-CVD, add: 3575 N. Beltline Rd., Apt. 316, Irving, TX., alt. add: 312 Rochelle Rd., Irving, TX, alt. add: 1103 Hidden Ridge #3018, Irving, TX alt. Add: 1913 Estrada Parkway, Irving, TX 75061, alt. add: 11012 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, CA 91604 Tel: (214)882-5196, alt, add: 319 S. 177 Place, 4201, Seattle, WA 98148 Tel: (206) 244-7705, Tel: (214) 882-5196 / (214) 837-3574 / (469)446-1248 (214) 837-5996 (214) 876-1235 (217) 837-2056 former Israeli electronic intercept officer. Arrested by I&NS on April 4th, 2001, Posted $50K bond, (Identified in paragraph 46)




And even if you believe that�s still �too much of a coincidence�, there�s another issue here that�s being carefully avoided. Consider this quote from earlier:
Quote:


One "art student" was a former Israeli military intelligence officer named Hanan Serfaty, who rented two Hollywood apartments close to the mail drop and apartment of Mohammed Atta and four other hijackers. Serfaty was moving large amounts of cash: he carried bank slips showing more than $100,000 deposited from December 2000 through the first quarter of 2001; other bank slips showed withdrawals for about $80,000 during the same period. Serfaty's apartments, serving as crash pads for at least two other "art students", were located at 4220 Sheridan Street and 701 South 21st Avenue. Lead hijacker Mohammed Atta's mail drop was at 3389 Sheridan Street--approximately 2,700 feet from Serfaty's Sheridan Street apartment. Both Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, the suicide pilot on United Airlines Flight 175, which smashed into World Trade Center 2, lived in a rented apartment at 1818 Jackson Street, some 1,800 feet from Serfaty's South 21st Avenue apartment.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2007/080307Israel.htm




The DEA report (paragraph 76 onwards) explains how Serfaty was picked up and questioned by DEA agents on March 1st, 2001, at which point they discovered that he had these Hollywood addresses. And these are as documented above, but the problem is that Atta wouldn�t move into Jackson Street for another two months

Quote:

The Miami Herald
September 13, 2001 Thursday FINAL EDITION

HEADLINE: INVESTIGATIONS IN FLORIDA

...Agents searched a house at 1818 Jackson St., hauling away several bags of material. Mohamed Atta had apparently lived in an upstairs unit in May and June. Authorities also visited a Mail Boxes Etc. on Sheridan Street. A fellow student pilot who roomed with Atta in Venice listed that address on his pilot's license



Clearly Serfaty wasn�t following Atta, then. What�s more, no evidence has been presented to show that Serfaty was still renting these apartments by the time Atta arrived. Another section in the DEA report showed one group of Israelis didn�t react well to being arrested, leaving their addresses in a hurry:
Quote:

49. Based on investigative leads developed by I&NS S/A R. Marra and R. Martini, the Rochelle Plaza Apartments, located at 312 Rochelle Road, and the Hidden Ridge Apartments, located at 1103 FEdden Ridge, both in Irving, Texas, were identified as possible residences used by CALMANOVIC. On April 14, 2001, I&NS and FPS S/As interviewed Ms. Mary Stanton, Property Manager for the Rochelle Apartments. Ms. Stanton stated that CALMANOVIC had rented five (5) apartments in the complex, and that these apartments were occupied by 25 Israelis. Ms. Stanton stated that all of the Israelis left suddenly and vacated the apartments on the week of March 26/27th, (the time of the arrests of the 13 other Israelis). Ms. Stanton stated she believed CALMANOVIC was still in the Dallas area, as he had recently called regarding his security deposits. Copies of the lease agreements and copies of Israeli passports were provided by Ms. Stanton.
http://cryptome.org/dea-il-spy.htm



In any event, there are similar problems with claims relating to the other alleged hijackers. While several lived in Hollywood, for instance, we believe they all arrived after Serfaty�s March 1st arrest, showing that he wasn�t following them. To be fair, the complete timelines are murky, relying on newspaper reports of variable quality so there�s plenty of scope for error, but keep that point in mind anyway. And don�t be impressed by apparent coincidences about where art students and alleged hijackers lived, until the issue of when has also been addressed to your satisfaction.



The real conspiracy is that Igothisguitar is a neo nazi out to spread misnformation.


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