The Menorah As Mossad Symbol

I was extremely outraged when I saw the Mossad's symbol and logo on website next to the Mossad Agents Arrested story. http://www.rense.com/general17/mossadagentsarrested.htm As a Jew, I never knew that the Mossad even had a logo and symbol. I felt that the logo on your website was an example of fascist propaganda against us the Jews degrading our heritage. I saw it as the a good example of Hate Crime against us and very racist and anti-Semitic.

Before writing you an angry letter, I did a search on the Internet, and to my horror I verified on many other websites that this is the real logo and symbol of the Mossad. I am enclosing a more clear Mossad symbol which I found on the Internet. The reason that I was horrified was the logo which is absolutely supporting most of the stories that I heard recently about the Mossad, and as a Jew, I refused to believe it before.

Top: "kee betachbulot ta'ase lecha milchama"

Translation: "With clandestine terrorism we will conduct war"

(Note - This totally contradicts the Jewish ethics I learned at home, and reminds me precisely of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion")

Bottom: "Ha'Mossad Le'modiein"

Translation: "The institute for the collection of Information"

As a Jew who supports Israel, I am deeply ashamed that the Mossad has chosen to use the symbol of the State of Israel in the middle of its logo. The Menora (lamp) and the leaves are also a part of our Jewish heritage around the world, but, now that the Mossad has been implicated so seriously with the 911, Lockerbie, ADL, Drugs, Foster, and today with the Mexican Government bombing, I will remove the Menora from my house.

Sincerely yours, Shulamit Levy Florida e Menora from my house.
http://100777.com/node/view/431

I AM DEDICATING THIS THREAD TO THE MOSSAD WHOSE NUMEROUS OPERATIONS (TRICKS) NOW HAVE YOU AT WAR AGAINST ISLAM.



Top: "kee betachbulot ta'ase lecha milchama"
Translation: "With clandestine terrorism we will conduct war"

Bottom: "Ha'Mossad Le'modiein"
Translation: "The institute for the collection of Information"

Melbourne Independent Media Center
Original article is at http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2004/07/74554.php

New Zealand Has Solid Evidence of Mossad death Squads killing Austalian tourists
by Bev Taylor Thursday July 22, 2004 at 01:16 AM

New Zealand Has Solid Evidence of Mossad death Squads operating in S.E Asia that have Killed Australians

I am an Australian that worked for a major NGO in Cambodia my exposure to the mossad murder squads operating in the S.E. Asia came about thru the acquaintance of a fellow Australian.

I met Brian at the boarder town of KIoh Kong. Brian was young man from Sydney that had just finished school with an English Major and had come to Australia to teach English for a year we talked in length about how he had lost his entire family in an accident his desire to help the impoverished Cambodian people.

Brian was leaving for Srey Ambel the next day on a small boat to teach at a small local school that he had arranged thru a Cambodian friend he had been corresponding with for a few years.

BRIAN NEVER ARRIVED

A few weeks latter I was in the Srey Ambel area and went by to visit Brian. He had never arrived, and was not replying to e-mail from me or his friend at the school he was to teach at, his friend at the school said maybe he had decided to travel around for a few weeks, but no one knew.

I MET THE MOSSAD AGENT ZEV BARKAN

Two weeks later while I was in Phnom Penh, I was at a restaurant on the riverfront, I met a man there that introduced himself as Brian, using Brian’s name and background story but it was a deferent man. I tried to get as much information out of him without letting him know I had known the real Brian after our conversation I went strait to the Australian consulate they told me they would look into the report.

THE NEW ZEALAND SECURITY AGENT

The next day I was talking to a Diane, NZ women that I had known for some time that worked for a different NGO. Diane was very alarmed when I told her of what had happened and said I was in great danger and told me to meet her later that day in the Toul Tom Pong Market.
There I was met by Diane and a man I will refer to as Tom that Identified himself as a NZ security Official.

“These mossad run gangs like to throw there victims off of tour boats they do a lot of operations off the southern coast of Thailand and Cambodia” Tom said, as he showed me documentation of 8 people whose bodies where found that ‘disappeared’ like Brian, 5 where Australian.

Tom also showed me some photos of 5 more mossad agents suspected of involvement in the disappearances.

One I identified as the man I met that was using Brian’s Identity, it was a photo of Zev Barkan.

“This is a real bad guy, vicious. He’s killed a few of the victims himself witnesses have said he likes to personally throw them over board while the boats are moving and then turns around and run the victim over, chopping the victim up with the prop” Tom said
As he showed me photos and documents that connected Barkan and 4 other mossad agents to terrorist training camps in southern Thailand
And documents linking them to armed terrorist actions in southern Thailand along with documents that linked telecommunications and money wire transfers originating in Israel.

Tom informed me that NZ security Operations have evidence that some Australian Officials are involved in a cover-up of these mossad operations for political reasons that reach up to the highest levels of the Australian Government.

“This guy is an Australian official we linked to Barkan, we have evidence he was involved in the terrorist training camps but not the murders Barkan is in hot water with him because of the murders but he is involved in the cover up of the murders and that why you are in so much danger, now they are committed into covering the murders up” Tom said, as he showed me pictures of Barkan meeting the man at the Australian consulate I had made the missing person report to.

Tom informed me I was in grave danger because of my visit to the Australian consulate, and if I did not Leave Cambodia immediately I would be dead before the end of the week.
Tom arranged for me to fly out of Cambodia to NZ on a small NZ government plane that night.

And now I find myself in NZ living in a safe house not knowing when it will be ok to return to my life. I am writing this in a hope it might save someone from the fate that Brian suffered.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/print.php?id=74554


Agents of the Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service, regularly use foreign passports to mask their identities, and New Zealand passports are prized because they are considered "door-openers" due to New Zealand's reputation for neutrality, and do not arouse suspicions, particularly in the Arab world.

The Daily Star
Saturday, July 24, 2004
'Mossad fiasco' in New Zealand should ring alarm bells

By Ed Blanche
Special to The Daily Star

BEIRUT: Intelligence operations, by definition, are always murky, opaque and hard to pin down, but one could be forgiven for tracing a link between the July 15 conviction in New Zealand of two alleged Mossad agents for trying to illegally obtain the passport of a bed-ridden disabled man and the assassination of Hizbullah official Ghaleb Awali in Beirut's southern suburbs last Monday, allegedly by Israeli-run agents.

Agents of the Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service, regularly use foreign passports to mask their identities, and New Zealand passports are prized because they are considered "door-openers" due to New Zealand's reputation for neutrality, and do not arouse suspicions, particularly in the Arab world. They provide visa-free access to many countries, including the United States. A New Zealand passport is also a ticket to British residency, which could provide a European Union passport. These would be invaluable for Mossad agents hunting terrorist targets around the world.

The Mossad agents who tried to assassinate Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal in Amman in September 1997 carried Canadian passports, as did the assassins of three Palestine Liberation Organization colonels in Limassol, Cyprus, in 1987. Three of the six Mossad operatives who set up the assassination of senior PLO figures in Beirut by Israeli commandos on April 13, 1973, used British passports to enter Lebanon. The list is endless.

Ariel Kelman and Eli Cara, arrested in Auckland on March 23 in an undercover police operation, were both sentenced to six months' imprisonment and ordered to pay 50,000 New Zealand dollars ($32,800) each to charity. They could have been imprisoned for five years. New Zealand's prime minister, Helen Clark, declared "these men were acting on behalf of Israeli intelligence agencies" and said she had "no doubt whatsoever" that the men were intelligence agents.

Two other Israelis who fled New Zealand remain at large. One, Zev Barkan, a former Israeli Navy diver identified as the ringleader who uses a Canadian passport, was alleged to have links with criminal organizations in Asia to obtain stolen Australian and Western passports.

Clark's government broke off relations with Israel when it refused to apologize. Foreign Minister Phil Goff rejected Israel's explanation that the passport was intended for use in the war against terrorism. "I can't justify the act," he said, "among other things, because the passport might have been used for an assassination in a third country. ... We don't think this was an isolated act."

One must assume two things: that the Mossad is making similar efforts to obtain genuine passports from other countries because these are more foolproof for undercover agents than forged passports, and that Lebanon, which the Israelis and Americans believe is full of bad guys, is one of the targets.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered an all-out offensive against Islamic terrorists in November 2002 after the suicide bombing of a Jewish-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, and a simultaneous attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner with missiles. Sharon's appointment a few weeks earlier of General Meir Dagan, who had ruthlessly crushed Palestinian militants in Gaza in the 1970s when Sharon was military commander there, as Mossad's director, indicated Sharon wanted the service, which had over the years lost much of its vaunted undercover capabilities, to go on the warpath again.

Since then, Dagan has been restructuring Mossad to take the war to Israel's enemies. Hizbullah, whose guerrillas drove the Israelis out of South Lebanon in May 2000, figures high on the agency's hit list.

Israeli leaders have publicly warned that Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah is in the crosshairs. The Awali killing in Hizbullah's stronghold in south Beirut triggered clashes with Israel on the border. Hizbullah accused Israel of the killing. No one can say for sure who was behind the bombing.

But in mid-May, Hizbullah's counter-intelligence unit and Lebanese security claimed they had rounded up an Israeli spy ring that planned to assassinate Nasrallah, whose predecessor, Sheikh Abass Musawi, was assassinated in a helicopter gunship ambush in South Lebanon in February 1992.

In August 2003, Hizbullah operative Ali Hussein Salah was killed in a car bomb explosion in Beirut. But it seems that Salah, who also worked as a driver at the Iranian Embassy, was not the intended target; a senior Hizbullah figure was apparently supposed to have been in the car.

Some intelligence specialists view the November 2002 attacks in Mombasa, believed to be the work of Al-Qaeda, as a move by Osama bin Laden to enter the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Israeli officials in recent weeks have alleged that Hizbullah is financing suicide bombings carried out by Palestinian extremists and has been funneling weapons and explosives into the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The Israeli military claimed in May it had thwarted an attempt to smuggle a "large delivery" of Katyusha rockets plus anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles from Hizbullah and its mentor, Iran, through tunnels running from Egypt into the southern Gaza Strip.

This week Brigadier General Yossi Kupperwasser of Military Intelligence said Israel should brace for Iran giving Hizbullah chemical weapons that could be passed onto the Palestinians.

Hizbullah, the Israelis say, has been building links with Hamas of late and that Abdelaziz al-Rantissi, the Hamas leader assassinated by Israel on April 17, had invited the Iranians and Hizbullah to help his movement, a role that Hamas' co-founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, assassinated on March 22, had long resisted.

In part, Rantissi's reported effort resulted from a severe drop in Hamas' funding from abroad because of an international crackdown on terrorist financing.

According to the Israelis and Americans, Tehran has been backing Hamas' smaller twin, Islamic Jihad, for several years. Israel claims to have arrested several Al-Qaeda emissaries in the West Bank and Gaza since 2002.

Hizbullah is also alleged to be cooperating with Al-Qaeda. Given that Hizbullah is Shiite and Al-Qaeda's network is essentially Wahhabi Sunni, for whom Shiites are heretics, there is certainly room for doubt about that. But war makes for strange bedfellows: both loathe the Americans and would like to see them humbled. Shiite Hizbullah's alleged links with Sunni fundamentalists in Palestine, if correct, would point to an alliance between sects who have feuded since a religious schism in the seventh century. Bad news for the Israelis and the Americans, who can be expected to respond to such a threat.

The incident in New Zealand appears to be the latest in a long string of high-profile botched operations by Mossad over the last few years, indicating that Dagan is still having to wrestle with organizational problems and poor operational performance. But what happened in Auckland should be ringing alarm bells in Lebanon and the Muslim world.

Ed Blanche, a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, is a Beirut-based journalist who has covered Middle Eastern affairs for three decades. He is a regular contributor to THE DAILY STAR
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article....rticle_id=6579


Phone call that connected spies
By Natalie O'Brien, Investigations editor
24jul04

WHEN police searched the numbers recorded in Sydney travel agent and suspected Mossad agent Eli Cara's mobile phone, they found an entry for a man called "Moses". Dialling the number, they heard it ring in an interview room metres away -- where they were questioning a second Israeli known as Uriel Kelman.

Despite the audible connection both men flatly denied to the New Zealand police that they knew each other. Cara and Kelman had been arrested as part of a sting on a false passport racket. The police record of interview reveals how the men desperately tried to distance themselves from each other.

But months later they both pleaded guilty and were jailed last week for six months for their part in an organised racket illegally acquiring a New Zealand passport.

Instead of gradually fading from view, the case, and the mystery surrounding it, has only deepened. There have been claims of international espionage, subterfuge, disappearing witnesses, illegal passports and the involvement of Australia and Israel's peak intelligence agencies ASIO and Mossad.

The New Zealand Government has claimed Cara and Kelman were Mossad spies. There was more intrigue yesterday when it was revealed that a third man -- Zev William Barkan, 37, the alleged mastermind of the passport scam -- had a history as a former Israeli diplomat.

A spokesman for the New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff told The Weekend Australian that Mr Barkan, who fled just before Cara and Kelman were arrested in March, worked at the Israeli embassies in Brussels and Vienna from 1993 to 2001.

Cara and Kelman were caught when Auckland police laid a trap to catch a man believed to be Mr Barkan posing as "Mark Smith", a wheelchair-bound cerebral palsy sufferer wanting a passport. Mr Barkan had fled.

Then came another unusual twist. During the court hearings, a man named Michael Zandvoort gave a police statement saying he knew Kelman, but by the name of "John".

The Weekend Australian has been unable to find Mr Zandvoort. He isn't listed in the New Zealand phone directory. The only Zandvoort is a wheelchair-bound woman, who believes she too may have been caught up in a fake passport scandal.

She told The Weekend Australian her passport was stolen after a trip to Australia. Soon after she discovered the document was missing she began getting telephones calls for a Mr Zandvoort -- whom she had never heard of.

"I don't believe he exists," she said. "I am the only Zandvoort in New Zealand.

Australia became caught up in the widening diplomatic row when police discovered Cara had travelled at least 24 times between Sydney and New Zealand, telling people he was a travel agent. The New Zealand authorities alerted ASIO, which raided Cara's rented home at Turramurra, on Sydney's north shore.

Cara, his wife and children had moved to the quiet leafy suburbs in 2000. The family slipped quietly into life among the tight-knit Jewish community.

But Cara's claim he was a travel agent didn't check out. Inquiries revealed he was not licensed to act as a travel agent nor did he have a registered business.

Eastward Bound, the Israeli-based company he claimed to represent, was not part of the travel agents compensation fund -- a statutory requirement.

The Eastward Bound agency in Haifa didn't appear to know that it even had a Sydney branch. The manager refused to return calls to The Weekend Australian. One staff member did know Cara had been an employee of the firm in Israel some time ago.

Israeli journalists have discovered that Cara came from a modest area north of Tel Aviv, which is well known as home to former defence force and Mossad agents. His mother, Zehava Werner, has been quoted as saying her son had gone on a "mission" to Australia.

Cara's colleague, Kelman, it has been revealed, last worked for YTS, an Israeli firm specialising in bugging devices and surveillance equipment. Kelman worked there until 2002. Co-founder Doron Stempler told The Weekend Australian he was shocked to hear Kelman named as a suspected Mossad spy.

Lawyers this week lodged an appeal for behalf of Cara and Kelman against their convictions. Barrister Grant Illingworth QC told The Weekend Australian he had never asked his client about the Mossad claims because it was irrelevant. But Israeli commentators have no doubt that the men are Mossad. AAn editorial this week in the widely-read Haaretz newspaper urged the Israeli Government to apologise for the scandal.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...229580,00.html

Fourth "Israeli spy" a Kiwi academic
Francis Till

Current affairs and entertainment broadcast programme Holmes on Friday revealed the identity of a man it said was the mysterious fourth suspect in the drip-fed passport affair, Anthony (Tony) David Resnick.

Mr Resnick is 35-year-old family man and former St John Ambulance paramedic -- and a native New Zealander who spent 13 years in Israel, at least part of them as an ambulance worker.

During the opening segment of the half-hour show, presenter Paul Holmes fronted a story reported by Robyn Janes that said Mr Resnick was a "person of interest" to the police and that he had left the country without warning on the 24th of March and had since resigned from his job.

Ms Janes said that unspecified sources had told the Holmes programme that police had executed a search warrant on Mr Resnick's office at Auckland University of Technology, where he had been working for the last several years as a lecturer. The Resnick family home, where he lived with his wife and children, is now empty, the Holmes programme reported, and Mr Resnick's father said he had been in contact with his son but did not indicate where his son might be.

The New Zealand Herald said Mr Resnick had gone to Israel, but did not substantiate that claim. It somewhat oddly identified Mr Resnick as "a practising Jew," and said he had been a member of the Jewish Council in Auckland.

According to the Herald, Mr Resnick was "a respected and well-liked paramedic with the St John Ambulance in Auckland before taking a job as a lecturer in the division of healthcare practice at AUT two years ago."

Stephen Goodman, president of the Jewish Council in Auckland, told the Herald he would be "very surprised" if Mr Resnick were involved in the passport affair.

Neither the Herald nor the Holmes programme revealed the source for conclusions that Mr Resnick was the fourth man and police told the Holmes programme that no comment would be forthcoming "on any specific matter" pertaining to its investigation of the passport affair.

The disappearing Zandvoort and other odd twists

But purported plot kingpin Ze'ev Barkan and his alleged sidekick Tony Resnick are not the only figures to have vanished from the scene.

The Weekend Australian said a police witness in the case against Eli Cara and Uriel Kelman, identified in the New Zealand press as Michael Zandvoort, may have been using a fabricated identity.

The Weekend Australian said it had been unable to locate Mr Zandvoort and that when its reporters had spoken with a woman by that name, they discovered she was wheelchair-bound and had lost her passport in Australia. The woman told the paper that shortly after that she had started receiving phone calls for a Mr Zandvoort, someone she had never heard of.

"I don't believe he exists," she told the Weekend Australian. "I am the only Zandvoort in New Zealand."

A quick search of Telecom's online white pages reveals that there are several listings for Zandvoort in New Zealand, however.

Still, the Weekend Australian said the woman "believes she too may have been caught up in a fake passport scandal."

The same story includes a new twist on the role of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) in the affair.

Early versions of the story included speculation that the ASIO had tipped New Zealand intelligence and police officials off about a purported Israel spy ring, but the Weekend Herald says it was the other way around.

According to the Weekend Australian, at some point after Mr Cara's arrest New Zealand authorities alerted ASIO, which subsequently raided Mr Cara's rented home on Sydney's north shore.

The Weekend Australian has contended that Mr Cara's claim to have worked for an Israel-based travel agency, Eastward Bound, is dubious since no such agency had filed required business papers in Australia. It said the Haifa headquarters of the agency "didn't appear to know that it even had a Sydney branch" -- but also said that the agency had not returned calls and that Mr Cara's employment with the agency while he was in Israel had been substantiated by a third party.

It also says the community in which Mr Kelman lived in Israel, a young and family-friendly town of 17,000 named Shoham, is "well known as home to former defence force and Mossad agents." It does not reveal sources for that claim.

The story partly repeats an earlier, undocumented assertion that Mr Cara's mother, Zehava Werner, has said her son (and Mr Kelman) were on "a mission" to New Zealand about which she knew little.

The Weekend Australian said Israeli commentators "have no doubt that the men are Mossad."

Not proof, just smudge

Yesterday, The Age clarified the significance of government revelations that Mr Barkan, the alleged mastermind of the purported passport scammers, had worked in Israel embassies in Brussels and Austria.

Closing a story on an alleged visit to New Zealand by a "senior Mossad regional representative" based in Singapore, it quotes Foreign Minister Phil Goff as saying that Mr Barkan's work as an attache in those embassies did not constitute evidence that he worked for an intelligence agency and was not the basis for the belief by the New Zealand government that the four-man ring was a state-run operation.

"That [the embassy work] gives some indication of the man's background. It is not in itself proof that he was in the employment of the Israeli secret service, and that certainly isn't the information on which the Government has based its belief that these people were in fact employed by the Israeli secret service," he is quoted by The Age as having said.

Not so bad after all?

The Age cites limited circulation newsletter TransTasman as a primary source for the widely-circulated tale of a visit from a senior Mossad agent on a "please explain" summons from government and says the newsletter claimed the official was summoned for questioning only days after the the initial arrests.

According to TransTasman, it said, the Mossad official was questioned by "senior public servants, security service officials and police offices."

"While not disclosed in court the carpeting is understood to have been designed to ascertain whether the Israeli intelligence service was focusing attention on New Zealand, or trying to access New Zealand passports for use in other parts of the world, on the basis New Zealand's benign security reputation might lessen scrutiny by border agencies," it quotes TransTasman as having said.

The TransTasman reported that the official did not admit that the men were Mossad agents but, according to the New Zealand Herald, the report suggested there was "a private understanding, if not admission, that the offenders were operatives."

The Herald said the visit was by a group, identified the visitors as "regional Israeli intelligence officers," depicted them as "anxious," and said the goup was "likely to have included defence officers based in the Israeli embassy" in Singapore.

The Age reports that the TransTasman concluded: "The nature of the charges faced by the two convicted Israelis indicates officials concluded Mossad's actions were directed at passports only."

There was no mention of earlier assertions by the prime minister that the men had not been charged with espionage activities because: "It may well have been hard to be able to supply the evidence for allegations of espionage as defined under the law."

24-Jul-2004
http://www.nbr.co.nz/print/print.asp...=5&cname=Asia+

Claims Mossad tried to hush fraud
Jul 27, 2004

The Prime Minister refuses to comment on claims that the Israeli secret service, Mossad, approached the Security Intelligence Service in a bid to hush up passport fraud involving two men suspected of being Israeli agents.

Eli Cara and Uriel Kelman are serving six months jail for passport fraud.

Two other men are suspected of being implicated in the fraud; one a former Israeli diplomat and the other a former New Zealand ambulance medic.

An Israeli newspaper, Sunday Haaretz, claims Mossad asked its New Zealand counterparts to help cover up the matter but Helen Clark prevented that from happening.

Clark, who is also the minister responsible for the SIS, says she is aware of the speculation but never comments on intelligence matters.

Clark has asked Israel for an apology over the passport fraud but says she has received none.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_national...%3fformat=html


No apology from Israel in spy case
Jul 16, 2004

Israel said it will do everything it can to restore diplomatic relations with New Zealand but stopped short of apologising after two alleged Mossad agents were jailed after pleading guilty to belonging to an organised criminal group and attempting to fraudulently obtain a New Zealand passport.

Eli Cara and Urie Kelman, who are widely believed to be Israeli spies, received a six month jail sentence after being caught trying to obtain the false documents using the identity of a wheelchair bound cerebral palsy sufferer.

But three months after Prime Minister Helen Clark asked for an explanation and an apology, she has not received one.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry issued a statement.

"Israel regrets the current state of the traditional and friendly relations between both countries. Israel values its relationship with New Zealand and will do anything it can in order to return those relations to their prior state," the statement said.

The spy scandal was widely reported around the world from Canada to Qatar .

The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that Australia is stepping up its investigation into Israeli espionage activities following the New Zealand case.

The paper said it is unknown if a raid on a house in Turramurra, NSW was related to the hunt for the alleged Mossad ringleader, Zev William Barkan.

But according to former Mossad chief Danny Yatom, such scandals are no gauge of the agency's real feats.

"Mossad is one of the best intelligence agencies in the world," Yatom said. "Yet even the best agencies are bound to suffer mishaps. Because of the secret nature of intelligence gathering, most... achievements are never made public."

Clark said there were very strong reasons to think Cara, 50, and Kelman, 31, were acting on behalf of Israel's intelligence services. She imposed diplomatic sanctions against Israel and suspended high-level contacts between the two countries.

In the High Court in Auckland, Kelman covered his face with his hand and sat stooped in the dock with his head down for the entire two hour sentencing. The court heard the charges had caused him great distress. His lawyer, Grant Illingworth QC, said the widely publicised allegations that he is a Mossad agent had never formed part of the crown case.

The court heard Kelman is a single man who has a maths and physics degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Among the many letters of reference was one from a Rabbi of his local synagogue. But Kelman entered New Zealand on a Canadian passport.

For nearly an hour, the court was presented with submissions from Cara's lawyer Stuart Grieve QC, who read out testimonials about his good character. Grieve said there was nothing suspicious about Cara's 24 visits to New Zealand since 2000. Grieve said the suggestion Cara was an Israeli spy, meant there was a real and ongoing risk to him and his family.

While both men admitted the charge, of belonging to an organised criminal group and trying to obtain a false New Zealand passport, they claim their involvement was limited.

Justice Potter said the offending of Cara and Kelman was very serious, and called into question the integrity of the New Zealand passport system. She said it was difficult to know why anyone would want a false New Zealand passport unless it was to be used in a way ancillary to other offending and that offending is likely to be serious or perhaps very serious.

It is believed this is the first time agents of a foreign spy agency have been brought before New Zealand courts since the French bombers of the Rainbow Warrior were deported in 1985.

Both Cara and Kelman will be deported from New Zealand immediately when they are released from jail.

They will be given credit for the two weeks they have already been in custody and should be free in 10 weeks time.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_national...%3fformat=html


Now HERE is a government with guts!
NZ cuts ties with Israel over spies
July 16, 2004

NEW Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark has imposed diplomatic sanctions on Israel after two suspected Israeli spies were jailed for passport fraud.

Ms Clark said the actions of the Israeli men were unacceptable and had breached NZ sovereignty and international law.
"New Zealand condemns without reservation these actions by agencies of the Israel Government," she said.

Sydney-based Eli Cara, 50, and Uriel Zoshe Kelman, 31, were jailed for six months after admitting trying to unlawfully obtain a New Zealand passport.

Ms Clark said that the NZ Government had "very strong reasons" to believe the two men were acting on behalf of Israel's intelligence services.

Their actions had seriously strained New Zealand's relationship with Israel, she said.

Earlier this month, Cara and Kelman pleaded guilty to participating in an organised crime group by trying to unlawfully obtain a NZ passport.

New Zealand has imposed a number of sanctions on Israel, including blocking any requests for Israeli President Moshe Katsov to visit.

The NZ Government has suspended high-level visits and exchanges with Israel and cancelled planned foreign ministry talks later this year.

Approval for appointment of a new Israeli ambassador has been delayed and Israelis visiting NZ on government business will now have to apply for a visa.

The claim Cara and Kelman were Israeli spies did not form part of the prosecution case.

But Justice Judith Potter said: "It's difficult to see why anyone would want a false New Zealand passport unless it was intended to be used in a way ancillary to some other offending. That offending is likely to be serious or perhaps very serious."

Cara, 37, moved to Sydney with his family in August 2001, and when arrested had claimed to be a Sydney-based travel agent. His defence counsel said that there was no evidence to suggest that Cara was anything other than a genuine tour operator.
http://news.com.au/common/printpage/...150024,00.html

The Mossad agents caught staeling passports in New Zealand were using passports from Canada, breaking Israel's promise to Canada not to use Canadian passports for illegal activity.

Last update - 05:52 01/08/2004
Canada now probing NZ affair
By Yossi Melman

The Canadian authorities are looking into the fact that a Mossad agent arrested in New Zealand used a Canadian passport to enter the country, as reported in the New Zealand Herald yesterday and confirmed by the Canadian Foreign Ministry in Ottawa.

The report said the probe began after the New Zealand authorities established that Mossad agent Uriel Kelman had used a Canadian passport and they passed this information to the relevant Canadian authorities. Kelman and Elish Kra were sentenced two weeks ago to six months in jail for trying to forge the New Zealand passport of a disabled man.

Kelman used his Canadian passport to enter New Zealand in 1999 and remained there for eight months, during which time his passport expired. He was granted a new passport by the Canadian diplomatic delegation in Wellington.

A Canadian investigation revealed that Kelman, who was born in Canada, used his own passport, to which he was entitled, to travel to New Zealand. The new passport with which he was furnished was also a legal and valid passport to which he was entitled. The Canadians are trying to establish why, if he was a Mossad agent, he did not use his Israeli passport.

When Kelman returned to New Zealand at the end of 2003 and in March 2004, shortly before his arrest, he did use his Israeli passport. The report says Kelman was serving in the Israel Defense Forces in 1999.

A Canadian spokesman said that, if it transpired Canadian citizens use their Canadian passports while serving in the army, "we would not like this."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects...?itemNo=458465

AL FIdirus is afraid of the Mosad--that is a good thing!

I fear only our Creator.

Which creator? There are so many to chose from!

WAM: Busted! Mossad Exposed
Mossad Exposed In Phony 'Palestinian Al Qaeda' Caper
By Michele Steinberg and Hussein Askary

The United States government has been provided with concrete evidence that the Israeli Mossad and other Israeli intelligence services have been involved in a 13-month effort to "recruit" an Israeli-run, phony "al Qaeda cell" among Palestinians, so that Israel could achieve a frontline position in the U.S. war against terrorism and get a green light for a worldwide "revenge without borders" policy. The question: Does the United States have the moral fiber to investigate?

Evidence of the Israeli dirty tricks burst onto the public scene on December 6, when Col. Rashid Abu Shbak, head of the Palestinian Preventive Security Services in the Gaza Strip, held a press conference revealing the details of the alleged plot, as his agency had put the pieces together.

The revelations undermine the "big lie" that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has used to justify new brutal attacks on Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and other occupied areas. Sharon claimed on December 4 that Israeli intelligence had "hard evidence" of al Qaeda operations in the Gaza Strip. Now, the top Palestinian leadership has shown the United States and other nations how Israeli intelligence entities were creating that al Qaeda link!

American leader Lyndon LaRouche, a Democratic Presidential pre-candidate in 2004, commented that these revelations, if confirmed, could be "of strategic importance" in stopping the American, British and Israeli warhawks pushing for a Middle East war, beginning with an invasion of Iraq. A war would justify the Sharon government's plan to annihilate the very idea of a Palestinian state.

LaRouche warned that if institutions of the American Presidency and the international community successfully block an American pre-emptive war on Iraq, the biggest danger would be that a "mega-terror" attack, blamed on Palestinians, or an "Iraqi-linked" al Qaeda, would be staged by Israel's ruling Jabotinskyite fanatics, to put the war back on the agenda.

News about the Mossad-run attempt to create an al Qaeda cell came when well-informed intelligence sources based in Washington had already told the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) that there are many doubts about the Mossad's hasty declaration that "al Qaeda" had been responsible for the November 28 attack on a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, where three Israelis were killed, and the failed rocket attack on an Israeli chartered jet that was departing from Mombasa airport.

There was no identification of the bombers within the first five days of the incident, the sources pointed out, yet Sharon's government ministers went on an immediate propaganda rampage announcing worldwide revenge. Authorities in Kenya also denied the al Qaeda link. But the usefulness of blaming al Qaeda, for the Israeli right, was palpable, when Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the Kenya attacks "a golden opportunity" to prove to the United States that Bush's war on terrorism, and Israel's war with the Palestinians is the same thing. Netanyahu's faction has violently rejected the Palestinian Authority's revelations, and so far, the American and European press have followed suit, despite the dramatic nature of these charges, and the documents that the Palestinians have provided to the international press.

Chronology of the Revelations

On December 7, the British news service, Reuters, the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, and Qatar-based Al-Jazeera TV network, all reported that the Palestinian Authority had accused the Mossad of creating a phony al Qaeda cell in the Gaza Strip. Ha'aretz reported, "the head of Palestinian Preventive Security" in the Gaza Strip, Col. Rashid Abu Shbak, said on December 6, "that his forces had identified a number of Palestinian collaborators who had been ordered by Israeli security agencies to 'work in the Gaza Strip under the name of al Qaeda.' He said the investigation was ongoing and evidence would be presented soon." Al-Jazeera TV added that the Palestinian authorities had arrested a group of Palestinian "collaborators with Israeli occupation" in Gaza, involved in the operation.

Reuters' reporter Diala Saadeh, under the headline, "Palestinians: Israel Faked Gaza al-Qaeda Presence," quoted a number of Palestinian Authority (P.A.) senior officials, including President Yasser Arafat, who told reporters at his West Bank Ramallah headquarters, that Sharon's claims of al Qaeda operations in Palestinian territories "is a big, big, big lie to cover [Sharon's] attacks and his crimes against our people everywhere." P.A. Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo detailed the case:

"There are certain elements who were instructed by the Mossad to form a cell under the name of al Qaeda in the Gaza Strip in order to justify the assault and the military campaigns of the Israeli occupation army against Gaza."

Palestinian officials promised to provide detailed evidence, and did so on December 8, in a press conference addressed by Colonel Shbak, and by Palestinian Minister for Planning and International Cooperation Nabil Shaath. Shbak told the international representatives that, "Over the past nine months, we've been investigating eight cases in which Israeli intelligence posing as al Qaeda operatives recruited Palestinians in the Gaza Strip." Colonel Shbak said that three men were under arrest, and 11 had been released.

He explained that those released had voluntarily provided information going back to May 2002, about the contacts that had been made asking them to operate as an "al Qaeda" group. The alleged al Qaeda recruiters were traced to Israeli intelligence, said Colonel Shbak. He detailed incidents, some of which were described in official documents, of cell phone calls and e-mails, where Palestinians were asked to "join al Qaeda." Shbak said, "We investigated the origin of those calls, which used [wireless phone] roaming, and messages, and found out they all came from Israel," reported the publication IslamOnline. He said that the potential "recruits," had been given money and weapons, "although most of these weapons did not even work." He also noted that the money for these targeted Palestinians "was transferred from bank accounts in Jerusalem or Israel."

Minister Shaath announced at the press conference that the P.A. had "handed ambassadors and consuls of the Arab and foreign countries, documents revealing the involvement of the Israeli intelligence in recruiting citizens from Gaza Strip in a fake organization carrying the name of Qaeda." He said the ploy was intended "to create a new excuse to escalate the aggression on Gaza Strip."
http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=5156

Bravo Mossad---too bad Al Firdus doesn't live on the Westbank--here come the bulldozers!

(yawn)

Jihadi Troll....hero of the splodeydopes.

Don't feed the troll.

-z

Sex, Lies, and Terrorism - Another Israeli Espionage Saga Developing
By:Justin Raimondo, Antiwar.com on:16.08.2004 [07:01 ] (135 reads)
August 16, 2004

How did Golan Cipel become New Jersey's 'anti-terrorism' czar?

The self-"outing" of New Jersey Governor James McGreevey and his involvement with Golan Cipel, described as a 30-something Israeli "poet," soon degenerated into one of those the-personal-is-the-political soap operas Americans seem to revel in. After hearing McGreevey's now famous "I am a gay American" speech, some gushed that this put him right up there with rising Democratic star Obama Barack. Gay rights groups were quick to hail McGreevey or spilling his guts to the nation. No sooner had the Gay Guv finished filling us in on the details of his trauma-laden childhood and the burden of a life lived in the "closet," when every cable news station booker was dialing Arianna Huffington's number. Her image flooded the airwaves, and, as she intoned knowledgeably and interminably about the travails of a wife who has been left for a man, it seemed somehow appropriate that Arianna is one of those women who might be plausibly mistaken for a drag queen. The amalgamation of "news" into entertainment never seemed more vivid. But as I half-listened to the former Gingrich groupie-turned-limousine-lefty bibble on in heavily-accented psycho-babble, she suddenly blurted out the truth:

"As the day progressed, it became clear that this was a story unfolding on so many levels only a Shakespearean drama or a Verdi opera could do justice to it. There was the personal, the political, possibly the legal, and who knows what else to be revealed by the time we get to Act Five."

Act Two unfolded soon thereafter. Cipel denied being gay, and denied having consensual sex with McGreevey: he issued a brief statement through his lawyers that used the word "victim" at least three times. The McGreevey camp struck back, claiming that Cipel had demanded $50 million as the price of his silence, later lowering the price to $5 million, and then a mere $2 mil, with the negotiations continuing right up until minutes before McGreevey went before the cameras.

Amid the voyeurism and vulgarity of this media circus, and hints of more revelations to come, I had to laugh out loud at Arianna's remark that the hiring of Cipel "only makes sense as a taxpayer-funded cry for help."

McGreevey hiring his boytoy as the state's anti-terrorist chieftain less than a year after 9/11 no doubt makes sense to Arianna, and to the millions of romantic fiction fans for whom nothing is impossible when it comes to love. But for the rest of us, the question is obvious: if McGreevey had to give his boytoy a job, why appoint him to the crucially important post of anti-terror czar? Why not give him a cushy office job in some obscure state agency? Certainly that would have been less obvious, and, as it was, McGreevey did his best to render the appointment invisible. As the New York Times reports:

"On Jan. 24, 2002, with great fanfare, Mr. McGreevey announced the creation of an office of counterterrorism and appointed Kathryn Flicker, a respected assistant attorney general, to the post.

"But in late February, reporters discovered that there were two Homeland Security officials. Mr. Cipel, who listed Mr. McGreevey's largest contributor, the developer Charles Kushner, as the sponsor on his visa application, and was paid $30,000 a year for a public relations job with Mr. Kushner's company in 2000, had actually been hired, with no fanfare, on Jan. 15, a full week before Ms. Flicker."

To characterize McGreevey's actions as "a taxpayer-funded cry for help" is one way of looking at it, but a simpler explanation is that he made the appointment because Cipel requested it. But why would the 35-year-old Israeli citizen, whom McGreevey had met on a trip to Israel in 2000, want it in the first place?

Certainly Cipel made an effort to block anybody else from getting the job, as the local New Jersey media reported:

"Sources close to the task force said Cipel also played a key role in persuading McGreevey not to tap former FBI chief Louis J. Freeh to head the state's Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force, which was created in October. Officials who served in the administration of former acting Gov. Donald T. DiFrancesco said Freeh had agreed to take the unpaid post if McGreevey approved. McGreevey declined to comment on Freeh. Several Democrats said Cipel had argued strongly against the choice, pointing out that the former FBI director would be a part-time volunteer when the governor wanted a full-time terror czar."

Whether Cipel asked for the job, or not, McGreevey very much wanted him to have it, as Sandy McClure of the Gannett news agency first reported in December of 2002:

"Using the terrorism attacks of Sept. 11 to justify the hiring, the governor's chief lawyer wrote a letter to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service on McGreevey's inauguration day, telling the federal agency that New Jersey wanted Cipel to coordinate increased security with all branches of government and that Cipel had the necessary 'substantial experience' in public security."

If McGreevey was trying to hide his sexual identity, this was clearly not the way to do it. The appointment led to an outcry among Republican legislators, and a series of revelations, including this excerpt from a letter to the INS from the governor's chief counsel, Paul Levinsohn, describing the nature of Cipel's work on behalf of the Israeli government:

"In particular, his experience as chief information officer, consulate general of Israel, involved responsibility for developing and maintaining the country's terrorism portfolio, keeping government authorities abreast of terrorist activities and threats, maintaining a database of such activities and coordinating that information with data obtained from other agencies."

This doesn’t sound like an "information officer" to me: it's a job description more suited to an intelligence officer.

With all the emphasis on the Gay Governor as a personality, and the sex angle, Cipel has remained a bit of a mystery. Before he resigned under the glare of public scrutiny, in 2002 – while still retaining his 6-figure salary – McGreevey and his cohorts defended the appointment as entirely appropriate. Confronted with questions about why Cipel was named to the crucial post of homeland security czar for the state of New Jersey without undergoing a routine background check, McGreevey replied:

"I didn't feel that kind of check was necessary. I know Golan and have worked with him closely. He's a super-bright and super-competent individual who brings a great wealth of knowledge on security.'"

Alright, then, let’s do our own background check on Mr. Cipel, made possible by the creators of Google.com. Who the heck is Golan Cipel, anyway?

Most news reports refer to him as "a former sailor and a poet," buttressing the boy-toy-with-expensive-tastes character who plays such a key supporting role in the story of the Governor's Coming Out party. Oh, those sailors! But the truth is more prosaic, and more political. Cipel, far from being a boytoy, is a rather plain young man who looks more like an insurance salesman than a gigolo – and sounds more like a propagandist for Ariel Sharon than one of the boys on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. While the record of his public utterances is slim, Cipel's remarks to a Jewish congregation in New Jersey were reported, under somewhat trying circumstances, by the New Jersey Jewish News:

"Making a rare public appearance before a Jewish audience since leaving public life amid questions over the propriety of his hiring by New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey, former state homeland security adviser Golan Cipel spoke about Israel’s security situation March 21 at Congregation Anshe Chesed in Linden.

"However, there was some confusion about how public his appearance was to be. Although the synagogue had announced Cipel's speech with a press release and invited NJ Jewish News, Cipel interrupted his lecture to ask a reporter from the paper to leave.

"Until that point, Cipel had been describing the plight of Israelis living under terror and the world's biased response to Israel."

Cipel went on to complain that the world

"’Treats us with a double standard.’ He compared the way world governments and the press reacted to the recent terrorist attack in Spain to reactions to attacks in Israel. 'There was no question in Spain it was a terrorist attack. When it comes to Israel, there's always a question,' according to the media. Cipel launched into discussions of the Israeli security fence and terrorism after casual references to his recent and controversial public career. He referred to inaccuracies in the press and articles he had read about himself that weren’t true before asking NJJN to stop reporting on the speech and declaring that his comments were not 'on the record.'"

In his capacity as an "information officer" at the Israeli consulate, from at least February 1996 until April of ’99, Cipel made appearances at the events of such groups as American Veterans of Israel's 1948 war, and also churned out an enormous volume of propaganda. He thereupon returned to Israel, where he served as a parliamentary aide to a Labor member of the Knesset, and was a public relations officer for the city of Rishon Letzion, where he met McGreevey at a reception.

Cipel was brought to the U.S. under the auspices of Charles Kushner, McGreevey's chief fundraiser, whose gigantic real estate holdings made him the rising star among Democratic party moneybags. Cipel's job for the state Democratic party, doing Jewish outreach for the McGreevey campaign, pulled in a paltry amount of money, but Cipel's salary was generously supplemented by work for Kushner as a "consultant."

Kushner is quite a character. Under investigation for tax evasion and election code violations, he recently made headlines when he sent his sister a tape of her husband having sex with a prostitute. The sister had been cooperating with prosecutors looking into the real estate mogul, and Kushner, a noted philanthropist, exacted retribution. Rumor has it that Kushner sought a pardon, apparently unsuccessfully, from the Governor he thought he owned. When the pardon wasn’t forthcoming, the threat of a suit by Cipel and his lawyers began to loom large: there has been speculation in the media that Kushner may be behind the Governor’s recent troubles, and this is fueled by the question of who’s paying the apparently penniless Cipel’s lawyers, as well as the latest reporting:

"Yesterday a McGreevey administration source said Cipel also had sought the governor's influence in getting a New Jersey license for a New York-based Jewish college.

"Adding another twist to the case, administration sources said that in recent days, Lowy had asked for more than money to forgo a lawsuit. Cipel's lawyer also asked for help in winning a license for Touro College to build the first private medical school in New Jersey, said a top-ranking administration source who spoke on condition of anonymity. Among the board members of Touro College, a Jewish institution based in New York, is Charles Kushner …"

While the Democrats were quick to return Kushner's recent contributions, the multi-billion dollar real estate empire he presides over is bound to survive his legal problems – as will his political influence in the Democratic stronghold of New Jersey. The only question now is whether he has video of Cipel being "sexually harassed" by McGreevey.

New Jersey state officials, Democrats as well as Republicans, had long been mystified by the apparent hold Cipel had over Governor McGreevey, and early news accounts are filled with hints of a "special" relationship: heck, the guys over at Free Republic outed McGreevey two years ago. But the homosexual angle is hardly the whole story. The national security aspect of this episode ought to frighten the heck out of anyone who believes that government efforts to fight terrorism on the home front are in any way reassuring. How naïve can you get?

But it also ought to raise a few questions beyond when is the Gay Governor is going to start dating again.

New Jersey is key terrain in the real war on terrorism: Flight 93 from Newark to San Francisco was commandeered by the terrorists on 9/11 and crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after passengers rushed the hijackers. The anthrax letters were mailed from New Jersey. Newark has recently been put on orange alert as the U.S. braces for a pre-election terrorist strike.

So let’s forget the gory details of McGreevey's sex life, and focus on the question of why did Cipel lobby so hard to get the job of New Jersey's shadow terrorism czar, nixing Louis Freeh and hiding behind Kathryn Flicker’s skirts? It seems like only yesterday that McGreevey was still defending Cipel, and New Jersey media reported:

"When the FBI issued a terrorist alert last week, it was apparently Cipel who first contacted McGreevey, not New Jersey's newly appointed terror czar, Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Flicker.Even before McGreevey's election in November, administration sources said, Cipel toured the state – visiting refineries, nuclear plants, bridges, and seaports – to make an inventory of security needs. McGreevey said Cipel has already offered ‘invaluable insights’ into a variety of security matters, both large and small. ‘He's someone who thinks with a different set of eyes, and that is very hard to find,’ McGreevey said."

So this guy was out there "inspecting" nuclear plants – if that doesn’t set off alarm bells, then we might as well pack it in, because we're all doomed.

As an Israeli citizen, Cipel couldn’t have access to classified materials – except through the "back door," so to speak, via McGreevey. Did McGreevey balk at the arrangement, and transfer Cipel to another job? That, at any rate, is when their "relationship," whatever it was, apparently began to go sour.

If Cipel maintains that he consistently refused McGreevey's advances, then how can he explain the series of jobs the Governor found for him after he left public service? If the sexual relationship was nonexistent, then what power did Cipel have over the Governor? In any case, he exercised that power in order to penetrate the U.S. counter-terrorism apparatus – on whose behalf is not altogether clear, but Israeli organized crime and the Mossad are among the prime suspects. After all, it would hardly be the first time the latter used sex as a lure: isn't that how they got Mordechai Vanunu?

http://antiwar.com/justin/

Moscow may be looking at Israeli connection to plane sabotage

This airliner bombing points to Mossad!

Chechens want independence - not a war

Background

Chechens can't stand the Jewish intrique ever since the Bolsheviks slaughtered their people in 1918

The Chechen are Sunni Muslim – in 1991 they wanted independence from Russia. The Russian people are on the verge of giving them independence.

In 2002 a group ' claiming to be Chechen rebels ' took 50 people hostage in the Moscow opera house - the rebels wanted a peace comittee to stop the war - the Russian KGB, under orders from the Oligarchs, released an hallucinogen gas killed the hostages.

Airport security in Russia would have made extremely hard. The arabs are being closely monitored and could not have pulled off such a twin-bill with this much dexterity Insiders are saying Israeli terrorists perpetrated these bombings.

What better way to keep the American people and the European countries involved in the so-called War on Terror, than by the horrific downing of more aircraft.

If it was the Chechen rebels doing this, they would be fools to turn what little sympathy they now possess from the Russian people into an implacable hatred. Only the Israelis and American neo-cons in Washington benefit from this mystery-tragedy ... no one else does.

The bomb points to Mossad

Initial tests have shown that small amounts of an explosive called hexogen were found on fuselage debris of the Sibir Airlines jet - far too sophisticated for the rebels. Moscow is said to be checking on Israeli passengers David Cohen and Eli Yaakovashvili .

Israel Is Spying In And On The U.S.?
By:Broadcast: FOX News, Via Information CLearinghouse on:28.08.2004 [17:50 ] (59 reads)
Monday, December 17, 2001

These items have since been removed from the FOX News web site:

BRIT HUME, HOST: Last time we reported on an Israeli-based company called Amdocs Ltd. that generates the computerized records and billing data for nearly every phone call made in America. As Carl Cameron reported, U.S. investigators digging into the 9/11 terrorist attacks fear that suspects may have been tipped off to what they were doing by information leaking out of Amdocs.

In tonight's report, we learn that the concern about phone security extends to another company, founded in Israel, that provides the technology that the U.S. government uses for electronic eavesdropping. Here is Carl Cameron's third report.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CARL CAMERON, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The company is Comverse Infosys, a subsidiary of an Israeli-run private telecommunications firm, with offices throughout the U.S. It provides wiretapping equipment for law enforcement. Here's how wiretapping works in the U.S.

Every time you make a call, it passes through the nation's elaborate network of switchers and routers run by the phone companies. Custom computers and software, made by companies like Comverse, are tied into that network to intercept, record and store the wiretapped calls, and at the same time transmit them to investigators.

The manufacturers have continuing access to the computers so they can service them and keep them free of glitches. This process was authorized by the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA. Senior government officials have now told Fox News that while CALEA made wiretapping easier, it has led to a system that is seriously