00:00A number of foreign governments may have had foreknowledge of 9-11, but the Israeli government stands out in particular.
00:06And here's why.
00:07On the morning of 9-11, a group of five Israeli nationals purported to have witnessed the initial explosion of the World Trade Center and were seen to be celebrating the event.
00:17At the time, the celebrations received quite a bit of mainstream media coverage.
00:20Fox News has learned some U.S. investigators believe that there are Israelis, again, very much engaged in spying in and on the U.S., who may have known things they didn't tell us before September 11th.
00:32It's striking to see operatives from a supposedly allied country celebrating the mass murder of Americans.
00:37But it is true that some in Israel saw the attack as a good thing for them.
00:41A September 12th, 2001 article in The New York Times quotes now Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responding to the 9-11 attacks.
00:49Quote, it is very good, before adding, well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy.
00:56Netanyahu predicted that the attack would strengthen the bond between our two peoples because we've experienced terror over so many decades.
01:03But the United States has now experienced a massive hemorrhaging of terror.
01:06According to FBI documents, the Israelis caught celebrating the 9-11 attacks had videotaped the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and may have possessed foreknowledge of the same.
01:17When the Israelis were arrested in New Jersey, they were carrying box cutters, multiple passports, thousands of dollars in cash, and photos of themselves smiling with the World Trade Center burning in the background.
01:29The Israelis are always for the Israelis first, last, always.
01:34They don't like the United States except, for the most part, our money.
01:40And yet, our National Security Agency is producing information for them but not shareable with its own people.
01:49Go figure.
01:50According to FBI records, polygraph tests administered by the FBI suggested that they did not have foreknowledge of the attacks but did engage in deception and were likely involved in illegal foreign counterintelligence.
02:02They were spying in the United States.
02:04The leader of the group, a man called Dominic Souter, fled to Israel on or around September 14, 2001, immediately.
02:10And he was later included on an FBI anti-terror watch list distributed to European allies in May of 2002.
02:17Most of the Israelis were held in FBI detention for two and a half months before they were deported for visa violations, a common way to expel foreign intel assets from allied countries.
02:27The Israelis pride themselves on having infiltrated every Arab intelligence service, every terrorist group.
02:36Did the Israelis know about 9-11 and not tell us?
02:39One memorandum submitted to the 9-11 Commission presented substantial evidence suggesting that numerous art students from Israel, who were in fact Israeli intel assets, have been strategically located across the United States.
02:52It's hard not to notice that they lived near the future 9-11 hijackers.
02:57There were groups of Israelis traveling around the country as artists, sketching things, happened to be one time around Cape Canaveral, I remember, and other places where there were certainly things to paint and sketch, but also noticeably near military installations or some other kind of installation in the government.
03:21So I think that's an open question yet.
03:23The so-called Israeli art students centered their operations in Hollywood, Florida, and northern New Jersey.
03:29Those are the exact locations of the hijackers before the attack.
03:33According to the memorandum, quote,
03:35According to The Forward, a Jewish publication, quote,
03:49The Israeli government acknowledged the operation and apologized for not coordinating it with Washington.
03:56Within a week of the attack, Israeli intelligence officials claimed they warned the United States about large-scale terror attacks on highly visible targets in the United States.
04:05But the specifics of those warnings have never been made public.
04:08There's no evidence they happened.
04:10In fact, in the whole time I worked in counterterrorism from 92 till 2004, I never saw one piece of information from the Israelis that was really worth anything.
