The neoconservatives took care of exploiting politically and militarily the 9/11 events, but could not, by themselves, pull the operation. An operation such as this requires, outside of government, the technical participation of powerful people, super-sayanim so to speak. Sayanim (“collaborators” in Hebrew) are Jews living outside Israel and known to the Mossad as potentially ready to give a hand, in the form of an unlawful action, without necessarily knowing the entire operation. According to the renegade agent Victor Ostrovsky (By Way of Deception, 1990), there are thousands of sayanim in the United States, especially in New York, the capital of Jewish Americans. Larry Silverstein, the WTC leaseholder, appears as the archetype sayan of September 11th. He is a leading member of the United Jewish Appeal Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, the largest American fundraiser for Israel (after the U.S. government itself). He is also an intimate friend of Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom he converses by telephone every Sunday, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The head of the New York Port Authority, who granted Silverstein the lease on the WTC, is none other than Lewis Eisenberg, another member of the United Jewish Appeal Federation and former Vice-President of AIPAC. Complicities must also have existed in the airports and airlines involved in the attacks. Both airports from which flights AA11, UA175 and UA93 took off (Logan Airport in Boston and Newark Airport near New York) subcontracted their security to International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS), a firm based in Israel and headed by Menachem Atzmon, a treasurer of the Likud. A serious investigation would likely expose other accomplices; on September 27th, 2001, the Washington Post reported:“officials at instant-messaging firm Odigo confirmed today that two employees received text messages warning of an attack on the World Trade Center two hours before terrorists crashed planes into the New York landmarks”. The first plane hit the WTC “almost to the minute”, confirmed Alex Diamandis, Vice-President of Odigo, headquartered in Israel. Even more disturbing is the behavior of the American branch of Zim Israel Navigational, a maritime shipping giant 48% owned by the Jewish state (occasionally used as a cover for the Israeli secret service), which moved its offices from the WTC, along with its 200 employees, September 4th, 2001, one week before the attacks —“like an act of God, we moved”, said the CEO Shaul Cohen-Mintz when interviewed by USA Today, November 17th, 2001.



On the ground, a large team of highly trained Mossad agents and other Israeli intelligence would have been necessary for the technical implementation of September 11th. Francesco Cossiga, President of Italy between 1985 and 1992, said in 2007 to the newspaper Corrieredella Sera, that it was well known in informed circles in America and Europe that the September 11th attack “was planned and executed by the American CIA and Mossad with the help of the Zionist world in order to blame the Arab countries, and to persuade the Western powers to intervene in both Iraq and Afghanistan”. Alan Sabrosky, a professor at the U.S. Army War College and the U.S. Military Academy, published in July 2012 an article entitled “Demystifying 9/11: Israel and the Tactics of Mistake”, where he showed his conviction that September 11th was “a classic Mossad-orchestrated operation” carried out with the complicity of the U.S. government, in order to lead the United States into a “war of civilizations” against the enemies of Israel — which is to say, against the Arab-Muslim world as a whole.

Suspicion of Mossad guilt does not only stem from the reputation of the world’s most powerful secret service, which a report of the U.S. Army School for Advanced Military Studies (SAMS), quoted by the Washington Times, September 10th, 2001, described as “Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act”. The Mossad involvement, together with other Israeli elite units, can be demonstrated by several little known facts. Few people know, for example, that at the time of the attacks, the American federal police were busy dismantling the largest Israeli spy network ever caught on U.S. soil. In March 2001, the National CounterIntelligence Center (NCIC) posted this message on its website: “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 [Israeli] students selling or delivering artwork”. The NCIC states that“these individuals have also gone to the private residences of senior federal officials under the guise of selling art”.Then in the summer, after a number of incidents of this type in its premises, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) compiled a report which would be revealed to the public by the Washington Post on November 23rd, 2001, followed by a Carl Cameron’s four-part documentary broadcast on Fox News from December 11th, 2001. On March 14th, 2002, an article in Le Monde signed by Sylvain Cypel also referred to the report, shortly before the French magazine Intelligence Online made it fully accessible on the Internet. The DEA report listed 140 Israelis, aged between 20 and 30, arrested since March 2001. Organized in twenty teams of four to eight members, they visited at least “36 sensitive sites of the Department of Defense”. Many of them were identified as members of the Mossad, and six were in possession of phones paid for by a former Israeli Vice Consul. The report concluded that,“the nature of the individuals’ conducts […] leads us to believe the incidents may well be an organized intelligence gathering activity”. Sixty arrests have occurred after September 11th, bringing the total number of Israeli spies arrested to 200. Those who were subjected to a lie detector test failed. However, thanks to a decision that would come from the Attorney General John Ashcroft, all were eventually released.

Several direct links have been established between the “Israeli art students” and the attacks of September 11th. First, espionage does not seem to have been their primary mission, when one considers the training received by some in the Israeli army, according to the DEA report: “A majority of those questioned has stated they served in military intelligence, electronic signal intercept, or explosive ordnance 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 mission unit”. Another, Peer Segalovitz, under-officer in the 605 Battalion of the Golan Heights “acknowledged he could blow up buildings, bridges, cars, and anything else that he needed to”. It may be that this espionage activity — as ostentatious as it was unproductive, apparently — was really a secondary cover behind their primary cover as “art students”, the art-student cover being not intended to deceive anyone but rather to make the spy cover look credible. The fact that espionage was specifically targeted at the Drug Enforcement Agency could also be only a ploy intended to divert any investigation down a wrong path.

Despite these efforts, a clear link between the “Israeli art students” and September 11th could not be completely concealed: of the 140 fake Israeli students identified before the attacks, more than thirty lived in or near the city of Hollywood, Florida (140,000 inhabitants), exactly where fifteen of the nineteen alleged Islamist hijackers had regrouped (nine in Hollywood, six in the vicinity). One of the “art students” arrested, Hanan Serfaty — actually an Israeli intelligence officer through whom passed at least $100,000 in three months — rented two Hollywood apartments close to the apartment of Mohamed Atta. What were the relations between the Israeli spies and the Islamist terrorists? The explanation relayed by the press is that the first were there only to monitor the second. Thus Israel comes out only slightly tainted, since a spy agency cannot be reasonably blamed for not sharing information with the country it is spying, even if it is theoretically a friendly country. At most Israel can he be accused of “letting it happen”, which guarantees impunity.

An honest reflection, however, forces one to consider a more likely explanation for the strange closeness between the supposed members of al-Qaeda and the Israeli agents: the first had been not only watched, but manipulated, funded and finally eliminated by the second, in a similar manner as Oswald by the CIA. An article in the New York Times on February 18th, 2009, established that Ali al-Jarrah, cousin of the alleged hijacker of Flight UA93 Ziad al-Jarrah, had spent 25 years spying for the Mossad as an undercover agent infiltrating the Palestinian resistance and Hezbollah since 1983. He is currently in prison in Lebanon. Recall also that the “Mohamed Atta” in Florida was a fake. The real Mohamed Atta, who called his father after the attacks, was described by his family as reserved, pious, not solicitous of women and having a fear of flying. He had had his passport stolen in 1999 while studying architecture in Hamburg. The false Mohamed Atta in Florida was living with a stripper, ate pork, loved fast cars, casinos and cocaine. He got drunk and intoxicated and paid for the services of several prostitutes in the weeks and days prior to September 11th, along with four other suicide bombers who had similar behavior — incompatible with the Islamic preparation for death.

Finally, the Mossad is linked to September 11th by an event that, if known to Americans, would be sufficient to convince them of Israel’s guilt. It was reported the day after the attacks by the journalist Paulo Lima in the regional newspaper of Bergen County, New Jersey, The Record, based on “sources close to the investigation”. Immediately after the first impact on the North Tower, three individuals were seen on the roof of a van parked at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, “celebrating”, and “jumping up and down”, taking pictures with the twin towers in the background. The suspects then moved their van to another parking spot in Jersey City, where other witnesses saw them deliver the same ostentatious celebrations. The police soon issued a BOLO alert (be-on-the-look-out): “Vehicle possibly related to New York terrorist attack. White, 2000 Chevrolet van with New Jersey registration with 'Urban Moving Systems' sign on back seen at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ, at the time of first impact of jetliner into World Trade Center. Three individuals with van were seen celebrating after initial impact and subsequent explosion”. Shortly after the collapse of the towers, other calls reported the suspicious behavior of individuals, who happened to be the same ones. One of the anonymous calls to the police in Jersey City, reported the same day by NBC News, mentioned “a white van, 2 or 3 guys in there. They look like Palestinians and going around a building. […] I see the guy by Newark Airport mixing some junk and he has those sheikh uniforms. […] He’s dressed like an Arab”.

If police hadn’t spotted the van eight hours later, the story probably would have circulated around the world under the title: “The Arab Dancers”. As it turned out, the five young men questioned in the van were Israeli: Sivan and Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari. Before a question was even asked, the driver, Sivan Kurzberg, burst out strangely: “We are Israelis. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are your problem”. The Kurzberg brothers were formally identified as members of the Mossad. Police sources interviewed by Paulo Lima were convinced of Israeli involvement in the morning’s attacks: “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 the 579-page FBI report on the investigation that followed (partially declassified in 2005), box-cutters like those claimed that the hijackers had used were found in their van. Even more disturbing, “the vehicle was also searched by a trained bomb-sniffing dog which yielded a positive result for the presence of explosive traces”. The five Israelis officially worked for a moving company (a classic cover for espionage) named Urban Moving Systems. An employee of the company told The Record that the majority of his colleagues were Israeli and that they were happy upon hearing of the attacks: “I was in tears. These guys were joking and that bothered me”. On September 14th, after a visit from the police, the business owner, Israeli-American Dominik Otto Suter, fled the country for Tel Aviv. The five “dancing Israelis”, also known as “the highfivers”, were detained 71 days in a Brooklyn prison, where they first refused, then failed, lie detector tests, before being quietly returned to Israel under the minimal charge of “visa violation”. The information disclosed by The Record was verified and completed by investigative sites like Wayne Madsen Report (September 14, 2005) and Counterpunch (February 7, 2007). It was also reported in some mainstream media like the New York Times (November 21, 2001), the Washington Post (November 23, 2001), The Forward (March 15, 2002) and ABC News (June 21, 2002), but in a curtailed way that minimized its significance: the apparent foreknowledge of the event by the suspects was ignored, as were their “Islamist” disguises. Nothing more was given on their behavior than the explanation they themselves gave: they simply rejoiced “that the U.S. would now have to commit itself to fighting terrorism and that Americans will now have an understanding and empathy for Israel’s circumstances”.

These facts give a new meaning to the words of 9/11 Commission member Bob Graham, in an interview with PBS in December 2002, that there was “evidence that there were foreign governments involved in facilitating the activities of at least some of the terrorists in the United States”. Graham, of course, was referring to Saudi Arabia. Why would the Saud family have helped Osama bin Laden after stripping him of his Saudi nationality and putting price on his head for his attacks on their soil? Graham's response, given in July 2011, is “the threat of civil unrest against the monarchy, led by al-Qaeda”. This ridiculous theory has only one purpose: to divert suspicion away from the only “foreign government” whose links with terrorist suspects are out in the open: Israel (an enemy of Saudi Arabia, as it happens). In asserting further that the Saudi connection was stifled because of the friendship between the Bushs and the Sauds, Graham and his neoconservative friends are using George W. Bush as a fuse. The strategy works, since the 9/11 Truth Movement, under the slogan “9/11 was an inside job”, pursues Bush with hostility while hardly breathing a word on Israel. Again, we see the art of Machiavelli at work: accomplish your dirty ends through the actions of another, then turn popular vengeance against him.