During questioning, they described being questioned again, related to their allegedly being members of Mossad. "And at that point, we were taken for another round of questioning, this time related to our allegedly being members of Mossad." They explained they come from a country that experiences terror daily and that their purpose was to document the event: "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." The statement notes the outcome: "The five Israelis were detained for ten weeks and finally deported on immigration violations after the FBI cleared them." The account describes a sequence from detention to deportation after FBI clearance.
Speaker 0: 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.
Speaker 1: The five Israelis were detained for ten weeks and finally deported on immigration violations after the FBI cleared
Speaker 0: them.
The five dancing Israelis were said to be seen videotaping and celebrating the attack on the World Trade Center. At 09:11, the FBI sought five Middle Eastern men; two are Mossad agents, and the other three are described as sub agents, operatives working with Mossad. They were arrested in New Jersey on 09/11; their van tested positive for explosives, they had box cutters, thousands of dollars, and multiple passports in their socks. They told police they were by the World Trade Center this morning, and later returned to Israel after about two months in a Brooklyn lockup; the three younger guys admitted, "our purpose was to document the event." The man who ran the show is Yair Lapid. About 4,000 Israelis were believed to be in the area; only three or four Israelis died. Odigo warned two hours before, "08:45," in Hebrew via a buddy system; those warned stayed home.
Speaker 0: Now the five dancing Israelis. These are these are also a very interesting thing. On 09:11, I was driving through Pennsylvania. We had been in New York City that morning, and we were we were coming back to Chicago. We we couldn't go to Washington.
And Ted Koppel came on the news about noon and said that the FBI was looking for five Middle Eastern men who were seen videotaping and celebrating the attack on the World Trade Center. I thought that's interesting. That was first time Middle Eastern had been mentioned. I told my wife, they could be Israelis. The Israelis in Middle Eastern.
And lo and behold, that's what happened. The next day, it turned out these men were arrested in New Jersey. They were arrested on 09/11. And two of them the two on the far right are actually Mossad agents. And they're known to US law enforcement as being agents of of Mossad.
The other the other three these three here are basically sub agents, operatives working with. And they were arrested in New Jersey and they they they pulled over and they they were pulled over. They had been they had been videotaping and filming the World Trade Center burning. And as they did so, they were clicking their lighters and giving high fives and things like that. And they were they were observed by a lady in New Jersey who called the FBI, called the police, and then the New Jersey police caught them.
And they had, like, multiple passports stuck in their socks, and they had thousands of dollars stuck in their socks, and they they their van tested positive for explosives, and they had box cutters. They and they told they told the police that, yeah, we were by the World Trade Center this morning. We were there. And what happened is then they went back to Israel after being held for about two months in Brooklyn in a lockup, and they went on TV. And the three who were not Mossad agents, the the three younger guys admitted.
They said in in Hebrew, our purpose was to document the event. Now he should've the the interviewer might have asked, well, who sent you there to do that? But he didn't ask the question. The man that ran the show is is Yair Lapid. He's the became the finance minister shortly after that.
But this is this is Israeli Israeli audience watched this whole show. They Israelis all across the country heard this in pure Hebrew and understood. Well, these guys were there. They knew, you know, they were doing their job. Now another point is that thousands of Israelis were reported to have been at the World Trade Center that day.
It it's a is a Jerusalem Post article, and it says that the foreign ministry in Jerusalem has so far received the names of 4,000 Israelis believed to have been in the area of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon at the time of the attack. Now that's how many people called in. How many families called in and said, I'm worried about Shalom. I'm worried about this guy. I'm worried about that guy.
My son is there. My husband is there. But what happened of of those 4,000 people who were supposedly there, only three or four died. Three or four Israelis died in the whole operation. Well, how did they, you know, how did how did they avoid harm?
Well, what what clearly happened also is that there was an instant messaging service called Odigo, an Israeli instant messaging service that sent out a warning two hours before nine eleven happened, warning people not to go to the World Trade Center that day because there would be a catastrophe there. And the the vice president of the company said that the the prediction, the time was exact to the minute, so 08:45. Right? And the message was sent out on a platform that you could receive through your Blackberry or your Blueberry or your cell phone or your Internet, whatever. And so all platforms, but it was sent out in Hebrew and it was sent out using a buddy system where you can say, I'm gonna send this message to all Israelis on the system who's obviously speak Hebrew.
Boom boom boom. And by using by choosing those parameters, everybody on that whole network who shared ODIGO would got the message and they didn't go to work. They didn't go to the World Trade Center that day. They did something else. Like Larry Silverstein, went to the doctor.
Like like Al Franken, they they stayed to visit their mom. Some other guy, they went water skiing. Did anything else, but didn't go to work that day.