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Is Media Manipulating ?
September 20 (PNS) Pakistan News Service published a story on Sep 19th, 2001
that FBI detains 5 Israelis for having connection with WTC incident.
Apparently, it received enormous response from our readers all over the
world calling it a bias and false propaganda. Is it really ?
This whole story was originated and published in an Israeli Daily News
Paper, HAA'RETZ�English Daily by Yossi Melman (see below).
Evidently there are lot of other questions related to recent attacks on WTC
which requires further investigation by media,which we are currently doing,
such as :
* Were the pictures of Palestinians Dancing on the Streets of 1991, when
Iraq sent Scud missile on Israel and in jubilation Palestinians came out on
streets and started dancing. We have received thousands and thousands of
comments that it was CNN's false Propaganda.?
* Who were the people who first captured the attack on World Trade Center
Building Number One on video. It was reported on western media that a Film
Crew was busy in shooting a movie on the 14th street and after hearing a
sound they focused the camera towards Twin Towers. Nevertheless, the world
saw the images that the whole video was being made before even the Plane
crashed into the building? There are few reports that the Film crew was also
taken into custody by FBI. But there are growing concerns about that
particular flim crew and from which Studio they belonged to and in general
who were those people filming the whole tragedy on camera ?
* Israeli Prime Minister had postponed its due visit to New York - Why ?
* Abdulrehman al-Omari, the Saudi pilot named by the U.S. as one of the
suicidal hijackers is very much alive in Jeddah and has contacted the U.S.
Embassy there. Does it not prove beyond any shadow of doubt that the
hijackers were travelling on fake documents ?�
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Israeli Daily News
Monday, October 01, 2001 Tishrei 14, 5762
Israel Time:��(GMT+2)
5 Israelis detained for 'puzzling behavior' after WTC tragedy
By Yossi Melman
Five Israelis who had worked for a moving company based in New Jersey are
being held in U.S. prisons for what the Federal Bureau of Investigation has
described as "puzzling behavior" following the terror attack on the World
Trade Center in New York last Tuesday. The five are expected to be deported
sometime soon.
The families of the five, who asked that their names not be released, said
that their sons had been questioned by the FBI for hours on end, had been
kept in solitary confinement for three days, and had been humiliated,
stripped of their clothes and blindfolded.
The mother of one of the young men explained the chain of events as she
understands it to Ha'aretz:
She said that the five had worked for the company, which is owned by an
Israeli, for between two months and two years. They had been arrested some
four hours after the attack on the Twin Towers while filming the smoking
skyline from the roof of their company's building, she said. It appears that
they were spotted by one of the neighbors who called the police and the FBI.
The mother said that the families and friends of the five in Israel had
known nothing of the men's whereabouts for a number of days.
"When they finally let my son make a phone call for the first time to a
friend in the United States two days ago, he told him that he had been
tortured by the FBI in a basement," the mother said. "He was stripped to his
underwear; he was blindfolded and questioned for 14 hours. They thought that
because he has citizenship of a European country as well as of Israel that
he was working for the Mossad [Israel's secret service]."
Seven FBI agents later stormed the apartment of one of the Israelis,
searched it and questioned his roommate. The Israeli owner of the company,
who has U.S. citizenship, was also questioned. Both men were subsequently
released.
The families here complained that the Israeli consulate in New York and the
situation room set up by the Foreign Ministry there to locate missing
Israelis had done nothing to help their sons. The Foreign Ministry told the
families that the FBI had denied holding the five and that the consulate had
chosen to believe the FBI, the mother said.
The five were transferred out of the FBI's facility on Saturday morning and
are now being held in two prisons in New Jersey by the Immigration and
Naturalization Services. They are charged with illegally residing in the
United States and working there without permits.
The Foreign Ministry said in response that it had been informed by the
consulate in New York that the FBI had arrested the five for "puzzling
behavior." They are said to have had been caught videotaping the disaster
and shouting in what was interpreted as cries of joy and mockery.
The bombing and attack on WTC was one of the worst crimes the whole world
witnessed and watched on media. Now it's media's responsibility to not to
mislead anyone, and in particular the American nation, which has suffered a
lot. Thousands of people have died and now it is time to bring the actual
culprits and criminals into the court of justice.
Pakistan News Service is a reliable news service which has never practised
yellow journalism. PNS was established on August 14th, 1991 on the
independence day of Pakistan, in California USA. Our utmost goal is to
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