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Investigation of Israeli Men on 9/11
Cuando esta mujer veía arder las Torres Gemelas desde su apartamento en Nueva
Jersey, vio a tres hombres encima de una furgoneta
posando para
fotografías con las torres ardiendo de fondo.
Y podía ver que estaban, como, felices.
Saben, ellos, ellos, ellos estaban… No me parecían conmocionados.
Saben, no parecían conmocionados. Me pareció muy extraño.
La testigo llamó a la policía, que detuvo la furgoneta horas después y
arrestó a cinco hombres. Resultó que los cinco eran
israelíes. Fueron entregados al FBI.
Fuentes dijeron a ABC News que, durante una consulta en bases de datos de seguridad nacional,
algunos de los hombres figuraban con vínculos con la inteligencia israelí.
En el FBI, eso hizo sonar las
alarmas. El FBI necesitaba respuestas a tres
preguntas importantes.
¿Quiénes eran هؤلاء hombres? ¿Qué los llevó a
ese estacionamiento la mañana del
11 de septiembre? ¿Y tenían conocimiento previo
de lo que iba a suceder ese día?
Dijeron que trabajaban para una empresa llamada Urban Moving.
El FBI obtuvo una orden de registro para las oficinas de la empresa.
Dos SUV fueron cargados con entre nueve y
12 cajas y computadoras.
Poco después de los arrestos, las oficinas de Urban Moving fueron
simplemente abandonadas. Casi todo quedó allí.
En la cárcel, los cinco israelíes fueron interrogados repetidamente y sometidos a pruebas con detector de
mentiras. Stephen Gordon era su abogado estadounidense.
Les preguntaron si alguna vez habían sido
contactados por o contratados por alguna
comunidad de inteligencia no estadounidense.
Aunque aún hay cierto debate entre los funcionarios de inteligencia estadounidenses, muchos
Los investigadores creen que algunos hombres formaban parte de una operación israelí
destinada a vigilar organizaciones benéficas islámicas radicales que
apoyan a grupos como Hamás, algo que los abogados de los cinco hombres
y el gobierno israelí niegan rotundamente.
Y en ese momento, nos llevaron a otra ronda de
interrogatorios, esta vez
por nuestra supuesta pertenencia al Mossad.
Lo cierto es que venimos de un país
que vive el terror
a diario. Nuestro objetivo era documentar el suceso.
Nuestro objetivo era documentar el suceso.
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Original transcript (English)
When this woman was watching the Twin Towers burning from her apartment in New Jersey, she noticed three men on top of a van posing for pictures with the towers burning in the background. And I could see that they were, like, happy.
You know, they, they, they were... They didn't look shocked to me. You know, they didn't look shocked. I thought it was very strange. The witness called police, who stopped the van hours later and arrested five men. All five, it turns out, were Israeli. They were turned over to the FBI.
Sources tell ABC News during a check of national security databases, some of the men were listed as having had connections with Israeli intelligence. At the FBI, that set off alarm bells. The FBI needed the answers to three important questions.
Who were these men? What brought them to that parking lot on the morning of September 11th? And did they have any advance knowledge of what was going to happen that day? They said they worked for a company called Urban Moving.
The FBI obtained a search warrant for the company's offices. Two SUVs were filled up with between nine and 12 boxes and computers. Not long after the arrests, the offices of Urban Moving were simply abandoned. Almost everything was left behind.
In jail, the five Israelis were repeatedly interrogated and given lie detector tests. Stephen Gordon was their American lawyer. They were asked questions if they had ever been approached by or hired by any non-United States intelligence community.
While there is still some debate among American intelligence officials, many investigators believe some of the men were part of an Israeli operation aimed at monitoring radical Islamic charities that support groups like Hamas, something lawyers for the five men and the Israeli government strongly deny.
And at that point, we were taken for another round of questioning, this time related to our allegedly being members of Mossad. The fact of the matter is we are coming from a country that experiences terror
daily. Our purpose was to document the event. Our purpose was to document the event
