ZGram - 12/23/2001 - "Raimondo: The Secret War"

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Copyright (c) 2001 - Ingrid A. Rimland

ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

December 23, 2001

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

This one is a brand new essay by Justin Raimondo, a young man who was the
first, to my knowledge, who alerted the intellectual Internet community to
the significance of the Four-Part Carl Cameron/Fox Report about the Israeli
involvement in a vast spy ring on American soil, the likes of which this
country has never yet experienced.

Justin Raimondo has impressive credentials.  He is the author of
"Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative
Movement" (with an Introduction by Patrick J. Buchanan), (1993), and "Into
the Bosnian Quagmire: The Case Against US Intervention in the Balkans"
(1996). He is an Adjunct Scholar with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, in
Auburn, Alabama, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Libertarian Studies, and
writes frequently for "Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture".  He is
the author of "An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard".

Justin Raimondo is a prolific writer.  He has on his website a number of
columns shortly before and since 9/11 that are a treat to read - and that
show how this young man's eyes are slowly being opened to a danger that is
not new to Revisionists, men and women who have delved into the roots of
previous wars and who have found the same dark forces operating here as
there and now as then.

Here is the latest Raimondo summary:

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 December 21, 2001

 THE SECRET WAR

 Pre-9/11, we fought a covert war on American soil - against Israel

 You really have to hand it to the Israelis: they are nothing if not
blatant. Their response to Fox News reporter Carl Cameron's devastating
expos* of Israel's massive spy operation in the US can hardly be repeated
with a straight face. Mark Regev, a spokesman at the Israeli embassy in
Washington is quoted by the Jerusalem Post as saying:

 "The report on Fox News contains no quoted source, it has in no way
demonstrated anything more than anonymous innuendo, and should be regarded
accordingly. Israel does not spy on the United States of America."

 Gee, Mark, does the name Jonathan Pollard ring a bell?

 SUICIDAL TENDENCIES

 Naturally, the law enforcement sources who utilized Cameron's
investigation to voice their concerns didn't dare allow their names to be
used: as Cameron related in his report, any question regarding the
possibility of Israeli spying in the US is "career suicide" for those who
dare raise it. Question: is it also career suicide for journalists to raise
it?

 I have seen a few news items reporting on the Cameron expos*, but, given
the implications and scope of what we're talking about here, the answer is,
apparently, yes. For Cameron and Fox News are not merely saying that the
Israelis have been conducting a "sprawling" spy operation in the US,
involving the massive penetration of our communications systems and
government agencies. As Cameron so diplomatically put it in the first
segment of his four-part investigation:

 "There is no indication that the Israelis were involved in the 9-11
attacks, but investigators suspect that the Israelis may have gathered
intelligence about the attacks in advance, and not shared it."

 A GUILTY SILENCE

 In other words: Israel's passive complicity made the worst terrorist
attack in American history possible. One would think that the sheer
enormity of such a charge would provoke a storm of outrage from Israel's
many defenders in the media: the columnists, the think-tankers, the
publicists who dote on Ariel Sharon's every word. But, no: instead, there
is an ominous, one might almost say a guilty silence.

 THANKS BE TO GOOGLE!

 It's frightening, really, when you think about it. Here, after all, is a
reporter's dream: a heretofore-undiscovered angle on the biggest story of
our time. Yet no one will touch it. Why? It couldn't be because you'd need
an army of researchers: you don't. All that's necessary is internet access,
and, of course, the miracle of Google: anyone can go to google.com and type
in the appropriate words and phrases, such as "Israelis detained," or,
better yet, "Israeli art students" along with the word "detained." Go
ahead: do it, and see what happens=C9.

 ARTISTIC ASPIRATIONS

 Okay, so you did it and came up with a whole slew of news stories,
published mostly in local newspapers, telling different variations on a
single, very bizarre story: In locations as diverse as Dallas, Saint Louis,
Kansas, Atlanta, New York, and Findley, Ohio, groups of young people
describing themselves as Israeli art students suddenly descended on federal
office buildings and no less than 36 Department of Defense facilities. They
seemed particularly active in the state of Texas: in Dallas, one "student"
was found wandering the halls of a federal facility with a floor plan in
his hands. Say, what?

 Starting in the third week of January, reports began to pour in to the
National Counterintelligence Center (NCC) about "suspicious visitors to
federal facilities." The NCC's bimonthly report for March 2001 states:

 "In the past six weeks, employees in federal office buildings located
throughout the United States have reported suspicious activities connected
with individuals representing themselves as foreign students selling or
delivering artwork. Employees have observed both males and females
attempting to bypass facility security and enter federal buildings."

 INVASION OF THE 'ART STUDENTS'

 The NCC described these people -- supposedly working for an outfit known
as "Universal Art, Inc." -- as "aggressive" in attempting to gain access to
federal facilities, and reported that two had been arrested for having
counterfeit work visas and green cards. Then this stunner: "These
individuals have also gone to the private residences of senior federal
officials under the guise of selling art." Now wait just a friggin' minute,
dude =D0 stop right there!

 OMINOUS PORTENTS

 Okay, so we're talking about some nine months before The Day, and
mysterious "art students" are following high government officials home =D0
that is, when they aren't trying to break in to Defense Department
facilities, staking out DEA offices, and hanging around the federal
prosecutor's office in Dallas. We've already had numerous terrorist scares,
at this point: remember the New Year's hysteria, and there were all those
frantic warnings by various "anti-terrorist" commissions and study groups.
The NCC report posits the existence of two groups of "art students":

 "One group has an apparently legitimate money-making goal while the
second, perhaps a non-Israeli group, may have ties to a Middle Eastern
Islamic fundamentalist group."

 So, this was the first ominous sign of the terrorist onslaught to come =D0
or was it? The NCC's speculation that these "art students" were Bin Laden's
boys turns out not to have been correct. They were Israelis, alright,
except for a few Latin Americans. Not only did they carry forged
immigration papers, in some cases, but also at least one we know about
failed a polygraph test when he denied spying for Israel.

 CELLMATES AT LAST

 With some 140 picked up before 9/11, and some 60-plus afterward, we have
no idea how many of these "art students" were sent back to Israel to pursue
their "studies." All we know is that those let go were kept for months, and
others =D0 according to Fox News, those identified as Israeli agents =D0 are
still in custody, perhaps sharing a nice cozy cell with detainees from Arab
countries. I'm sure they have a lot to talk about=C9.

 HOW ODD

 The Arab detainees, as we have seen, have been the subjects of a national
controversy between civil libertarians and the Bush administration. We have
John Ashcroft denouncing those who would spread the "false fear" of a
police state as "aiding the terrorists," while on the other hand
Arab-Americans and the ACLU are rallying opposition to the round-up. But
when it comes to the Israeli detainees, there is no controversy, virtually
no mention of it in the national media, no nothing. Jewish groups are not
rallying to the defense of these poor defenseless "art students," held
without bail and without lawyers, for the most part, in very uncomfortable
and worrisome circumstances. Doesn't anybody find this odd?

 SUCKER PUNCH

 What's significant about this story is, first, that it amounts to the
biggest spy operation in the US since the days of the Cold War, and,
secondly, that it provides some context for understanding the mystery of
9/11. To most of us, that horrific event was a bolt out of the blue, with
no prelude, no precedent, and no way to anticipate that the best days of
our lives could turn into the worst. But the view from inside the US
Government must have looked a whole lot different, i.e. far more
threatening. Yet the threat seemed to be coming, not from Bin Laden, but =D0
incredibly =D0 from the Israelis, who, not content with having gained access
to our phone system and federal wiretaps, were penetrating American
military and government targets. Law enforcement authorities were in the
midst of a massive crackdown on the Israelis, when, suddenly, they were hit
=D0 from the other direction.

 IN THE DARK

 We are being kept in the dark about so many things, these days, but this,
it seems, is too important to be kept secret for long. If we are going to
be asked to give up our liberties, our peace of mind, and even our lives in
an apparently eternal "war on terrorism," then Americans at least have a
right to know who their enemies are. Yes, we know the evil Bin Laden is
responsible for the murder of 3000 innocent people =D0 but we still don't
know how they managed to pull off such a well-organized and spectacular
display of murderous skill, unassisted by any state sponsor.

 A CAROLINA COVEN

 Much has been said =D0 but nothing proved =D0 about the alleged role of Ira=
q
in all this. But to anyone who has seen or read through parts one, two,
three and four of the Fox News investigative report, it seems clear that
the most active state intelligence agency in the US prior to the twin
towers attack was not the Iraqis, but the Mossad. Carl Cameron informs us
that a North Carolina Israeli spy coven is suspected of renting an
apartment in California "to spy on a group of Arabs who the United States
is also investigating for links to terrorism." What were they doing =D0 and,
most importantly, what did they know about the planning and execution of
the 9/11 atrocity?

 DEMAND AN INVESTIGATION

 In the months preceding 9/11, a secret war was being waged on American
soil, a silent struggle from coast to coast =D0 not an undercover battle
between us and Muslim terrorists, but one pitting US law enforcement
agencies against one of our closest allies. Make of that what you will. For
until the US government comes clean, and Congress investigates, we'll never
even have a chance to start asking the right questions.

  (Source:  http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html)

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Thought for the Day:

"Yet still we hug the dear deceit."

(Nathaniel Cotton)