The White Van
Were Israelis Detained on Sept. 11 Spies?
June 21 — Millions saw the horrific images of the World Trade Center attacks, and those who saw them won't forget them.
But a New Jersey homemaker saw something that morning that prompted an investigation into five young Israelis and their
possible connection to Israeli intelligence.
Maria, who asked us not to use her last name, had a view of the World Trade Center from her New Jersey apartment
building. She remembers a neighbor calling her shortly after the first plane hit the towers.
She grabbed her binoculars and watched the destruction unfolding in lower Manhattan. But as she watched the disaster,
something else caught her eye.
Maria says she saw three young men kneeling on the roof of a white van in the parking lot of her apartment building.
"They seemed to be taking a movie," Maria said.
The men were taking video or photos of themselves with the World Trade Center burning in the background, she said. What
struck Maria were the expressions on the men's faces. "They were like happy, you know … They didn't look shocked to me.
I thought it was very strange," she said.
She found the behavior so suspicious that she wrote down the license plate number of the van and called the police.
Before long, the FBI was also on the scene, and a statewide bulletin was issued on the van.
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