ZGram -10/3/2002 - "Anybody wants to buy the Brooklyn Bridge?"

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

October 3, 2002

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

As children we used to play a game the name of which I have 
forgotten, where we would follow hints to find some secret hidden in 
the basement.  It was a game packed with suspense.  Only one person 
was in-the-know - the rest of us little ones were swarming all over 
the place and into the darkest corners in search of the illusive 
something.

The person who had done the hiding was standing in the glare of light 
and calling out the cues - not very originally but nonetheless 
effectively.

It went like this:  "Cold...lukewarm...warm...warmer...hot... 
hotter...hottest!!!

You get the drift.  Often the cues were misleading and we were led 
astray, but eventually somehow we realized that we needed to move as 
a group and not scatter ourselves all over the place - and sooner or 
later we hit the "hottest!!!" spot.

Reading this brief report made me think of that childish game and 
surmise that the group calling out the cues might be the very one 
that hid the secret to begin with.  It doesn't take an Einstein to 
come to that conclusion.  To me, this brief news item is a 
transparent road flare.

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The report says Israel was tracking the hijackers

By Rob Broomby

BBC correspondent in Berlin

The American intelligence agency, the CIA, could have prevented the 
11 September attacks if it were not for systematic failures, 
according to the German newspaper Die Zeit.

Just a month before the deadly attacks, the paper said, Mossad handed 
over to the Americans a detailed report naming several suspects they 
believe were preparing an attack on the United States The paper has 
uncovered details of a major Israeli spy ring involving some a 120 
agents for the intelligence service Mossad operating across America 
and some masquerading as arts students.

The ring was reportedly hard on the heels of at least four members of 
the hijack gang, including its leader Mohammed Atta.

But the Israeli agents were detected by their American counterparts 
and thrown out of the country, it says.

The US authorities said then that they were students whose visas had expired.

Report dismissed

Just a month before the deadly attacks, the paper said, Mossad handed 
over to the Americans a detailed report naming several suspects they 
believe were preparing an attack on the United States.

But it contained no specific indications as to the objective and it 
was not treated seriously.

The paper also claims that the CIA failed to inform the German 
authorities that Ramzi Binalshibh, a key logistics man for the 
attacks, had attended a high level meeting of al-Qaeda activists in 
Malaysia over 18 months before 11 September.

Without that information the Germans could not prevent him 
re-entering the country and contacting the Hamburg cell that was 
planning the hijackings.

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