[News] Right-wing article about Israelis Contracted for US border controls

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Fri Oct 6 16:31:58 EDT 2006


The American Free Press is a successor to The Spotlight, which was 
the publication of the right-wing Liberty Lobby. That being said, the 
information contained in this article can be found, albeit in less 
detail, from other articles in documents not intended for the general 
population including a long piece on the web site of the Heritage Foundation.

<http://www.rense.com/general73/iwn.htm>http://www.rense.com/general73/iwn.htm
Israelis Win Contract
To Secure US Borders
By Christopher Bollyn
American Free Press
10-5-6

   On Sept. 21, Michael Chertoff, the secretary of the Department of 
Homeland Security (DHS), announced that a consortium headed by the 
Chicago-based Boeing Company had won a multi-billion dollar contract 
to install sensors and radar along the U.S. border. The deal, the 
first part of a multibillion-dollar government plan designed to 
reduce illegal entry along the Canadian and Mexican borders calls for 
cameras, sensors and even unmanned planes.   When Chertoff was asked 
why DHS had chosen the Boeing-led group he declined to comment. The 
reason for Chertoff's silence, however, is telling: the Boeing team 
includes an Israeli military subcontractor which will play a key role 
in "securing" the U.S. border.   Of interest is the fact that 
Chertoff's Israeli mother played a key role in creating that country 
in its infancy.   The Boeing team, which will implement the DHS 
program called the Secure Border Initiative (SBI) along the northern 
and southern borders of the United States, includes a Merrimack, 
N.H.-based surveillance technology firm called Kollsman Inc., a 
wholly-owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems Ltd. of Haifa, 
Israel.     The Israeli-American team includes Unisys Corp., DRS 
Technologies Inc., L-3 Communications Holdings Inc., Lucent 
Technologies Inc., Perot Systems Corp. and the Israeli-owned 
Kollsman, which makes the thermo-imaging cameras used to monitor 
Israel's borders.   As Chertoff announced the awarding of the 
contract, estimated to be worth some $2.5 billion, he was giving a 
very lucrative and sensitive contract to an Israeli company with 
close ties to the Israeli military. The contract reportedly does not 
have a set value. Payments will be announced as parts for the system 
are ordered.     The work will be done in phases, with the first 
piece being a 28-mile stretch near Tucson, Ariz., Chertoff said. This 
first phase will cost $67 million, he said. Boeing's proposal 
includes some 1,800 towers along the borders with cameras developed 
by Israel's Elbit Systems Ltd. which can reportedly spot people up to 
9 miles away.   Elbit Systems says it is "the prime contractor and 
systems integrator for the Israel Police Border Control System, a 
computerized system for registration and control deployed at every 
Israeli border crossing.     "Elbit Systems has developed and 
integrated multi-layered solutions incorporating cutting-edge 
biometrics, optical ID and RFID [radio frequency identification] 
technologies. Our perimeter security solutions have also been adapted 
for energy infrastructures and offshore installations," the company's 
web site says.   "We are looking at a technology that is advanced and 
can pick a face in the crowd," Wayne Esser, capture team leader of 
the Boeing team, told Washington Technology.   Elbit provides 
Israel's military with a border security surveillance system with 
integrated sensors, radars, a "smart fence" and cameras.   TIES TO 
ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE   Kollsman is not the only player on the Boeing 
team with ties to Israeli military intelligence. As AFP has reported 
previously, Unisys Corp., chaired by Lawrence A. Weinbach, has 
integrated Israeli security software into the computer products it 
sells to the U.S. government and other clients. Software from Check 
Point Software Technologies of Ramat Gan, Israel, for example, is 
integrated into Unisys products.     Elbit Systems is directed by a 
high-level board that is comprised of former Israeli major generals, 
colonels, ambassadors, and former chiefs of Israel's largest banks 
and companies. The company's only non-Israeli director on its board 
of 18 members is Timothy Taylor, the British-born president and CEO 
of Elbit Systems of America. Taylor speaks to the U.S. media for the 
Israeli-owned company while the former Israeli fighter pilots and 
generals run the company from Haifa.   SBI is a Chertoff initiative 
that is meant to be "a comprehensive plan to control our borders and 
stem the flow of illegal immigration. "What we are looking to do is 
build a virtual fence," Chertoff said. "We want to know when anybody 
or anything is crossing the border."   While the Israeli press was 
quick to report that an Israeli company was part of the SBI border 
security program, Chertoff failed to mention it. "Elbit System's 
subsidiary Kollsman announced it would supply technology to identify 
threats, deter and prevent crossings, and apprehend intruders along 
U.S. borders," Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported.   Huntleigh U.S.A., 
another Israeli-owned security company, provided passenger screening 
at Boston's Logan Airport on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. 
Huntleigh, which is wholly owned by the Israeli company International 
Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS) apparently failed to 
intercept the Arab terrorists who hijacked the two planes that hit 
the World Trade Center, according to the government version. Now, the 
same administration that failed to stop the terror attacks of 9-11 is 
hiring an Israeli-owned company to help protect the entire U.S. land 
border.   Christopher Bollyn is a much-traveled international 
journalist currently based in Chicago, serving as Midwest bureau 
chief for American Free Press. He has written extensively on a wide 
variety of subjects including the controversy surrounding 
computerized voting systems, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the many 
unanswered questions surrounding the 9-11 terrorist attacks.   Lest 
we forget - Israeli security companies had the contracts for the 
security at the airports where the alleged 'Arab terrorists' were 
allowed to pass through to board the 911 flights. -ed



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