[A-List] Israeli "intelligence"

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News direct from Paul Wolfowitz's man in Scotland. Only the Israelis
could come up with a scheme that links together all *their* enemies in
one huge dastardly plot. And in whose interest is it for Pakistan's
"shadowy ISI" to "establish" links between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Since when
was the ISI a reliable source?

Israeli intelligence warned US days before attacks

IAN BRUCE
The Herald, 31 October 2001

      ISRAEL'S military intelligence service, Aman,
      issued an urgent warning of an impending
      terrorist "spectacular" against America, several
      days before the suicide bombers flew
      passenger airliners into New York's Trade
      Towers and the Pentagon on September 11.

      Aman had no details of the targets, but picked
      up enough indicators of major terrorist activity
      from a combination of informants and electronic
      eavesdropping to send out an alert, which also
      covered US interests in Britain, France and
      Germany.

      Much of the Israeli intelligence centred on Imad
      Mughniyeh, head of the Iranian-backed
      Hizbollah movement's foreign operations
      section, and on Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri, the
      Egyptian-born terrorist mastermind reputed to
      be Osama bin Laden's chosen successor.

      The Israelis say they have evidence linking both
      men to agents representing SSO, Iraq's foreign
      intelligence service, and believe Baghdad has
      provided finance and logistical support to them.

      Links between the terrorist network and Iraq
      have been established by Pakistan's shadowy
      ISI agency and by the Czech Republic's
      counter-intelligence service.

      Salah Suleiman, an Iraqi SSO agent, was
      detained on the Pakistan border last October
      after a series of trips into Taliban-controlled
      territory to meet bin Laden. After interrogation,
      he was deported.

      Iraqi agent, Ahmad Khalil Ibrahim Samir Al-Ani,
      has been expelled by the Czechs for "conduct
      incompatible with his diplomatic status". They
      had been monitoring his activities after a tip-off
      from Israel that he was planning to bomb Radio
      Free Europe, a station financed by the CIA that
      broadcasts to Iraq and Iran. Baghdad regards
      the broadcasts as "an act of aggression".

      During the surveillance, they photographed
      Al-Ani with Mohammed Atta, the al Qaeda agent
      believed to have flown the first plane into the
      World Trade Centre.

Full article at:
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/31-10-19101-0-24-15.html