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| Al-Manar reported the 4000 Jews story first... |
| 2001-09-20 |
Beirut's al-Manar newspaper, in an attempt to link the multiple terrorist attacks on the United States to Israel, published a report that "four thousand Israelis" worked at the two towers of the World Trade Center, yet, the paper continues, none of them turned up for work on the day of the attacks. Indeed, "No one talked about any Israeli being killed or wounded in the attacks." Quoting unnamed "Arab diplomatic sources," who spoke with Jordan's al-Watan newspaper, the Israelis who worked in New York were tipped off to the impending terror attacks by "hints from the Israeli General Security Apparatus, the Shabak." That "fact" aroused "unannounced suspicions on [sic] American officials." Seeking further support for their claims, al-Manar reported on articles from the Israeli Yediot Aharonot and Ha'aretz about the cancellation of Prime Minister Sharon's trip to the East Coast of the US and about five Israelis detained for "puzzling behavior" in the aftermath of the bombings. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |