Israel, Sunday, September 21, 2003
Israel's
Odigo Says Workers Warned 2 Hours Before
911 by Yuval Dror ODIGO, the instant messaging
service, says that
two
of its workers received messages two hours before
the Twin Towers attack on September 11 predicting
the attack would happen, and the company has been
cooperating with Israeli and American law
enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find
the original sender of the message predicting the
attack. Micha Macover, CEO of the company, said
the two workers received the messages and
immediately after the terror attack informed the
company's management, which immediately contacted
the Israeli security services, which brought in the
FBI. "I have no idea why the message was sent to
these two workers, who don't know the sender. It
may just have been someone who was joking and
turned out they accidentally got it right. And I
don't know if our information was useful in any of
the arrests the FBI has made," said Macover. Odigo
is a U.S.-based company whose headquarters are in
New York, with offices in Herzliya. As an instant messaging service, Odigo users are
not limited to sending messages only to people on
their "buddy" list, as is the case with ICQ, the
other well-known Israeli instant messaging
application. Odigo usually zealously protects the privacy of
its registered users, said Macover, but in this
case the company took the initiative to provide the
law enforcement services with the originating
Internet Presence address of the message, so the
FBI could track down the Internet Service Provider,
and the actual sender of the original
message. 
David Irving
comments: IS THAT ALL? As our
"related stories" links show,
this story showed up a couple of
years ago. It's interesting that it's
back. Seems that it's a story that just
won't go away.
Are some folks trying
to explain it away, after reading all
the comments on the Internet?
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Washington
Post: "Instant Messages To Israel Warned Of WTC
Attack"-
Ha'aretz,
Sept 26, 2001: Odigo says workers were warned of
attack"
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FBI
probing 'threatening' message, firm
says
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Nhu
Hung Bui writes from Montréal, Canada,
with an urgent query about how many Jews died in
the WTC collapse
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What
did the Mossad know in advance about September
11 (and not pass on to USA allies?)
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Were
Israelis warned not to go to the WTC on
9-11?
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Reader's
Letter: But the death of three Israelis in a
building complex of such high Jewish profile as
the World Trade Center still seems to me to be
disproportionately low
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Mike
Lilly has checked over the WTC death lists so
far available, and Israelis are statistically
under-represented
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Israeli
death toll on Sept. 11, 2001 rises to five,
including plane passengers (5)
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Israeli
WTC firm Odigo confirms: two of its employees
received warnings via "instant messages" two
hours before the attacks
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Israel's
fury at Fox TV's hints about Sept.11, 2001:
first bubbles surface in outraged JTA
dispatch | Israel
dismisses report it didn't share WTC attack
data | Israeli
agents and the Golden Gate
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