Cloudcroft chief stops Israelis with suspicious cargo

May 21, 2003: Cloudcroft chief stops Israelis with suspicious cargo Another story of a mystery truck, Israeli drivers with bad papers, and nobody will say what was in the boxes inside the truck itself. The Israelis, instead of being held for questioning, are handed to the INS to be sent back home to Israel. See this story on any networks yet?

Flashback: The Israelis arrested with an explosives-tainted truck in Washington State

Flashback: The woman who provided an alibi for the above two men splits town!

Comment: Both Irv Rubin and Robert Goldstein were caught with actual explosives and plans to bomb religious facilities and a congressman's office, yet in neither case were the men described as terrorists, members of "sleeper cells", or were their acts described as "terrorist" attacks. Why?

 I READ the story about the Israelis in the rental truck stopped in Cloudcroft. I just finished talking to the reporter who wrote the article. When I told him about the previous incident maybe a year and a half ago he was quite interested.

The incident occurred in Washington or Oregon near a naval station. Police stopped a truck about midnight for speeding. The occupants were two Israeli men. One had an expired visa and the other had apparently entered the country illegally. The truck (rented) was empty. A bomb sniffing dog was brought in and it alerted on the truck. Tests were positive for two different kinds of explosives. At this point the FBI became involved and the story was suppressed.

This was before I started reading your site, but it is the kind of story you would have covered. Do you remember it? Do you have a copy of the article?

 Yes, I ran the story at the time, and you are correct on all the details, but there was one other wrinkle. The two Israelis with the explosives-tainted truck claimed they were delivering furniture but like the two Israelis arrested in New Mexico, could not provide an address. Then, a woman came forward to say she was recipient of the furniture the two men had delivered to her home. This was reported in the press and the whole story dismissed as being of no consequence. Then, about a week later, a reporter went to the address the woman claimed she lived at to do a follow-up story and discovered that the woman had left town. This is a pattern similar to that of the man who owned the moving company used as a cover by several arrested Israeli spies who simply abandoned his entire business on 9-11 to return to Israel.